#well half german

[riddlerthethievingwarlock]

Peter Pettigrew Headcannons

Ok, hear me out. What if Peter lived in America until a few months before his first year at Hogwarts. Like- his mom was technically born and raised in Germany, but she was sent to Hogwarts for schooling cuz of WWII. And his dad transferred from Ilvermorny to Hogwarts half-way through 4th year. His parents moved to Oregon after graduation, then to SoCal when Pete was 6, and then to Britain. I feel like Peter had a really strong German accent when he was little that always came back when he was extremely agitated or nervous. In fact, he was so nervous about interacting with James and Sirius in first year that they had no clue he spoke fluent English, and Remus wasn't about to tell them. By the time second year came around, they realized he actually had a really American accent with only hints of german in there. Ofc, that was its own form of whiplash for them.

Also, he only knew English and German fluently, but he and his dad were language nerds, so he knew a lot of bits and pieces of spanish, french, Italian, Welsh, and just a lot of arabic curse words/phrases (don't ask). He knew enough to send Sirius a look of abject disgust (not in a homophobic way, in a "those are images of my bsf I never wanted in my mind, wtf dude" way) the one time he thought he could safely flirt (rather lewdly) with Remus in French.

[confusedmothboy]

hes 29!!! he shouldve been at the tavern!!!!

[mantisgodsdomain]

More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.

Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.

Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.

[vintagegermany]

Essen, Germany 1927

[unhonestlymirror]

Guys, who's gonna tell her?

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact who?👀

[dykesynthezoid]

Love my aunt but sometimes our eastern/central european heritage does seem to spontaneously possess her and make her do things like cook “stir fry” that is 70% green cabbage

[kaluawoo]

So I'm rewatching House MD for. Some reason. Idk I just accept this is where my brain wanted to go I guess.

Anyway I'm in the ep where Vogler first shows up and I remember recently seeing that "Hate when the fandom makes awful stuff up that a morally grey character did. Like free my man he didn't do that. He did do a bunch of other stuff tho" post recently (I swear I'm going somewhere)

So Cuddy and House have that convo about Medical Ethics. And Cuddy is completely right House violates those all the time. However, House's specific criticism was "we're pressuring patients into choices that are bad for them, good for us. We're gonna compromise patient care". Now you can argue about whether what House is doing is "good patient care" (y'know, being a dick to them, ignoring what they want, that stuff), but it is aimed at saving their lives and not at making money, so, that's absolutely not "Taking House's game and going Pro". That is, in fact, doing almost the opposite ("Making patients agree to treatments that will not help them" vs "Forcing treatment on patients that will make them better").

All of which is to say, I'm not active in the fandom, but I'd still wanna tag House in the above mentioned post but with "his boss and coworkers" instead of "the fandom" asdgasjkdh

[abrahamvanhelsings]

it's been a good few days since we made our (re)acquaintance with our good professor dr. van helsing, which means im going to do what i promised to do literal months ago and present my historical faceclaim: dutch reformed church minister (dominee) cornelis eliza van koetsveld (1807-1893):

one of the most well-known ministers of his era, he started out as a simple village preacher and ended up as court minister - he even baptised queen wilhelmina of the netherlands (1880-1962). he was also, like many dutch reformed ministers in the 19th century, a fairly popular author. it was relatively common for dutch ministers to write fictionalised accounts of their experiences, especially in the countryside, about the people and their habits, the day-to-day occurences, their own efforts to teach and guide their flock correctly and the difficulties they encountered. such accounts usually included some kind of social commentary (van koetsveld's later work was inspired by dickens) and moral lessons for the readers as well. van koetsveld's most popular book can be found here, though it is of course in dutch.

so why van koetsveld? going off his looks alone, when i saw his picture for the first time, i was struck by how in almost every single one of his portraits, he looks kind and caring and yet - there is something mischievous about him, like he's in on some joke or a little piece of knowledge that you, the onlooker, have not yet been made aware of. he looks like a knowledgeable elderly man who also knows how to have little fun - which, to me? is van helsing to a t. and it's not just in his face: his written work exudes the authoritativeness of the 19th century preacher but is full of witty comments and sharp wisecracks that still make me chuckle when i read them.

there is also something else that endears him to me, and that makes me think he's a good fit for van helsing: van koetsveld founded the first dutch school for special education of what we now know to be neurodivergent children, the 'hague idiot school' (1855-1920). the name of his institute doesn't translate particularly well to modern times, but it is important to view this in context: the children who attended this school were generally thought to be feeble-minded and therefore incapable of development, but van koetsveld disagreed with that sentiment. now i don't think van koetsveld would've believed vampires to be anything else but a baseless countryside myth, but his views on neurodivergent children show a certain open-mindedness, to think differently from other people, that is a core trait of van helsing too. (somewhat in that vein, for anyone interested, when the time comes, ill make a post on his conduct towards renfield)

tl;dr, when looking at his pictures i can easily imagine him doing any of the things we see van helsing do in the books: teasing seward, maintaining his gentle but firm bedside manner around his patients, getting up to the various nighttime shenanigans from the next few weeks, and van koetsveld's real-life temperament, as far as can be established, seems to collide quite well with the character of van helsing.

[lost-in-yahargul]

Might have made a friend due to the huge ass bloodborne embroidery on the back of my jacket, today truly is a win for little old me <3

[jessmac566]

YESS!! I'm so happy for both of them. Long time coming as well 🫶

[spacexbug]

[f1uckinghell]

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[vintagegermany]

Bernkastel-Kues, Germany 1920

[erovalkyrie]

HOLY BIMBAM

German Half Light goes "HOLY BIMBAM"

according to Wikipedia, HEILIGER BIMBAM can either convey "church bell sounds" as in "OH GOD", or "male genitalia funny", which is "OH BALLS"

that's it that's the post

[chaos-in-bright-pink-hair-dye]

Hii I am currently looking for some new comics to read so I was hoping Tumblr could perhaps have some recommendations?

I am very open to different genres etc, pretty art is definitely a big bonus :D

(For reference besides Ttlotfk and Tua I have read and quite enjoyed Blacksad, all the Witcher comics, Cyberpunk 2077 Comics, Doom Patrol, modern Venom comics, also quite a bit of shounen manga and I am currently reading Paper Girls so yeah a lot of different stuff lol)

Also since many comic books are hard to get in Czech Republic I would definitely prefer ones that are not divided into issues (or that are but a collected version has been released) and that do not have too many parts, sorryyy

And thank you greatly for any recommendations, I really appreciate it

[bistaxx]

Fucked up that mothers georg Em isn’t back for Mother’s Day