I'm reading "Heart of Darkness" thinking how the African natives must have felt. Their lands probably meant everything to them. All their history, their memories, their stories and lives had taken place there. It was home... Then like demons Europeans arrived... It must've felt like the apocalypse

*pushing the kitchen chair around to reach the top shelves* this flat is not very hobbit friendly

Good morning! Finished reading Anne of Green Gables yesterday and since then this is where I have been mentally

War and peace: The youthful, the beautiful, the majestic, most gentle emperor Me: ....is he? *quick google search* I mean... there is a pleasant expression on his face but idk. He just looks like a decently pleasant but ultimately average man to me?

oh chrimmus tree! oh chrimmus tree! I can't wait to climb onto thee!

The squires had never seen this many women in camp before. Girls were bringing in the laundry bags, pouring them out to sort clothing into piles for laundry, fixing and discarding. Women were sitting together, chatting while fixing holes in stockings, breeches and even saddle bags and backpacks

Of course, a skilled healer knew that by reversing their healing magic, they could slowly deplete somebody of their Mana until death was imminent. The Gentle Death was all together not talked about but used when a patient lingered in severe pain with no chances of improval such as wounded soldiers

All I could imagine upon reading the words "French pancake" was the French army screaming "Vite! Literally! Donnez-nous des crêpes!" (Hurry, hurry! Give us the crêpes *as cannon fodder) .w.

We had a guest speaker from the US today who talked about Disney appropriating culture, folklore and fairy tales. It was such a good lecture, I felt sad when it was over :)

'War and peace' is really testing my meagre French skills, my goodness.

Sometimes I feel like i say dumb white ppl things, small ignorant things showing my whiteness and privilege, I guess and then I grow angry with myself like: "why am I saying this?! I *know* x,y,z and I should be better than that" and I suppose i just have self loathing times today

Sometimes when I'm home in the village I look about at these brilliantly green meadows, at these gently rolling hills, at the rivers with water shimmering like steel in the sun. I never get tired of that sight. It makes me glad to be alive and to be able to experience such beauty

Welcome to day 19,000 of feeling tired because crusty old men with ego issues are in power and we have to be scared of ww3 every day simply because one of them might have their feefees hurt one too many times. How do you do? ✌️

So, the EU is currently a nut inside a nutcracker operated by a wannabe Napoleon in Moscow and a wannabe Shitler in Washington. Nice.

On land her body was, slow, but with unwavering patience she reached her goal. There was a small hollow spot between two rocks. She supposed that the flyers had made their nest there at some point. From it she pulled that object which had fascinated her. Drawings. There even was one of a mermaid

The mermaid slowly made her up ashore, sand rubbing against her elbows. She was wary, though not too conscious of her surroundings. After all, this island was little more than a rock protruding out of the stormy sea. Never before had she seen any legling here. Her tail was a shimmery yellow.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Ok, as a German, it gets a bit bamboozling when it comes to the differences between British and US formatting, punctuation, etc. For me, I learned British English at school but then later it got jumbled up with American media consumption and American teachers so that now I throw it all together...

Wait is it rude to say waiter/waitress instead of server

Finished knitting my scarf yesterday

Over on my end, I caught the sniffles, so I will take it easy today and tomorrow. How is everyone else today? :)

Wtf is wrong with him

I saw that I had picked up a German version of Toni Morrison's Beloved from the village library, so I'm going to DNF Gone with the Wind and read Beloved instead

I started reading Gone with the Wind but tbh my heart has not been really in it. So much of it reads like rich white ppl romanticising the Southern US and the whole plantation life, when all of that is wrong, built on stolen land by slaves stolen from their homelands. Does it get better?

German schools teaching English: In sentences the correct order is place before time. You have to remember this. My linguistics book: actually, no. Native speakers do not give a shit about this. Me:

Your wifey baked you a cake

Do you guys like Langston Hughes' poems? I'm trying to make a tbr for a poetry and I am mot all too familiar with famous pints yet

Finished reading Crime and Punishment, the fifth book this month

I don't even live in the US bur when we talked about US literary history and discussed all these brilliant writers and poets, I can't help but feel saddened. How did we get to thid point?

My dad made this cute snowman put of wood. Today I finally found the energy to paint him

what do you mean fortnight is a compound of fourteen and night

Dostoyewski's Crime and Punishment is such a wild roller coaster ride, I am fascinated

I'm looking up to the night sky right now, seeing a golden crescent moon. A chilly winter wind timidly caresses my cheek. God, how beautiful the world is and what a gift it is to be alive

The English language leaves me with the impression that it's actually many languages stacked on top of each other, wearing a trench coat and all of them are fighting who should sit at the top

Question for my moots, which news site do you deem most reliable/trustworthy? I'm trying to expand my sources from where I get my information. French sites are welcome as well

Throwing Ukraine at Moscow's feet will do nothing to appease the warmonger in office. A German newspaper remarked that Chamberlain attempted a similar appeasement plan by giving half of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, trying to prevent a larger conflict. WW2 still began a year later. I agree with them.

My trans friends deserve to grow old. So fucking old they'll have deep laugh and smiling wrinkles and hair so white the snow would look grey next to it. They deserve to love and be who they are without fear of anyone persecuting them. Their lives have meaning and value. The world is better with them

I keep a notebook for quotes and poems that I love :) I write them down myself too

German chancellor: *talking the biggest shit while being completely unapologetic**rhetorically skilled as wet toast* German newspapers commenting (paraphrased by me lol): shutting up is free, mr chancellor

*reaching doctor baker's explanation* WAIT WHAT

*reading Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca**reaching the twist* OK I DID NOT EXPECT THIS

What do you guys think about the romantasy genre? Is it smth you like reading?

"What happened, nobody knows. Some say the Gods grew angry at the Mages becoming lazier as the Golems did all work and decided to punish them. Others argue that the Mages stopped thinking, causing their Mana to congeal and thus start the cataclysm. The city and its vast knowledge were lost forever."

"There is a myth about lost a city inhabited by Mages who had created a realm so advanced they stood out among the rest. This city was famous for its Golems which were said to be so skilled they could write books themselves. One night however it happened: The entire population turned into statues."

Mwe? Already morn? Well, I'm not going anywhere today. I finished my hw yesterday so I can take it easy

Good morning nerds!! How are you doing today? How is the situation? Do you have plans for the weekend?

*nature documentary voice* and here we see the Ly after her succesful hunt, happily carrying home her prey. A feast of mental stimulation will illuminate her lonely train travels. A single Ly will commute up to 4 hours in one day filled with determined perseverance in order to pursue her education

don't tell them but sometimes I will plant a flower in Animal Crossing next to another that was on its own, just to give it a little friend