GET TO KNOW ME!!! (after 3 months I started this blog but it’s never too late)
Giorgia ★ 16 ★ they/them ★ Italian
I play the drums, I love reading, writing short tales, history, music and London. Some characters I kin are Remus Lupin, Robin Buckley and Will Byers. Super queer ⚢🏳️⚧️
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Fandoms
THE MARAUDERS
Stranger Things
Lord of The Rings
Dead Poets Society
Harry Potter
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Ships I like
WOLFSTAR (my babies, I’m insane about them)
Jily, Dorlene (I support every Marauders era ship really)
Samfrodo
Aralas
Anderperry
Byler
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My music taste
I LOVE the Beatles.
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This is pretty much what defines me!! Feel free to dm me because it’s always nice too know new people!! 𓅓 ☮︎︎ ☆
body hair my beloved <3333333333333
i love you hairy armpits i love you chest hair i love you small scraggly beards i love you big bushy beards i love you mustaches of all shapes and sizes i love you leg hair i love you hairy thighs i love you pubic hair i love you hairy tummies i love you hairy forearms i love you hairy arms i love you body hair on anyone and everyone <33333333
In June 1987, a three-day concert was held in front of the Reichstag in West Germany with a lineup including David Bowie, The Eurythmics & Genesis. In November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. But why are the two events connected? Did a concert help bring down the Berlin Wall?
The fall of the Berlin Wall is one of the most famous and pivotal scenes of recent history - leading to the end of the cold war, the fall of the Soviet Union and becoming a symbol for freedom and the unification of people. To understand our concerts role, let’s have a quick recap of the history of the wall...
When Germany surrendered to the Allied powers in 1945, it was essentially carved up into zones which were occupied by the USSR, UK, US and France. Whilst Berlin was firmly located in the Soviet-controlled zone, it was also subdivided so that each of the Allied powers had a quarter.
The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. In 1961, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) began adding additional obstacles to the border, expanding the Wall into a complex multi-layered system of barriers. In the West, the border strip was referred to as the “death strip” because so many people were killed there while trying to escape.
Now we have a little context. Let’s have a look at the music. Bowie knew West Berlin well. Having lived there for three years in an apartment with Iggy Pop in the late 1970s, Bowie felt Berlin was a retreat from his rockstar lifestyle. During his time here, he wrote and recorded three albums that became known as the Berlin Trilogy. In 1977 Bowie recorded ‘Heroes’, the second in the trilogy in Hansa Studio 2. The studio was a former concert hall used by Gestapo officers during World War II as a ballroom and converted into a recording studio after the war. Located Five hundred yards from the Berlin wall, Bowie described it as the “hall by the wall”, and this location had a profound effect on the music. Bowies Music Producer Visconti recounted:
"Every afternoon I'd sit down at the desk and see three Russian Red Guards looking at us with binoculars, with their Sten guns over their shoulders, and the barbed wire, and I knew that there were mines buried in that wall, and that atmosphere was so provocative and so stimulating and so frightening that the band played with so much energy".
That year was a dark year for the Berlin wall as East German border guards shot and killed 18-year-old Dietmar Schwietzer as he tried to escape to the West and a few months later, 22-year-old Henri Weise drowned trying to escape by crossing the Spree River.
‘Hereos’ was an album drawn from the Cold War themes of fear and isolation that hung over the city. Its title track tells a story of two lovers who meet at the wall and try, hopelessly, to find a way to be together. Although this may have had a more personal meaning for Bowie, it became a symbol of the hopeless separation felt by Berlines.
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A decade later, in 1987, the Concert for Berlin was organised. By then, East Berlin had become much safer and wealthier but not freer. The Soviet leaders treated Western pop and rock as a threat that could spark a rebellion and destabilise the East. Despite this, a US-run radio station had become popular in the East and had permission to broadcast the entire show, and the show was situated close enough to the wall that it could be heard from the East side.
Six artists were invited to play. On the first night, New Model Army and David Bowie with his symbolic song ‘Heroes’. East Berliners crowded along the East side of the wall to listen. Before singing Hereos, Bowie began by telling the crowd, in German,
"We send our wishes to all our friends who are on the other side of the wall."
"We could hear them screaming and singing from the other side of the wall. God only knows how I managed to sing without sobbing, my heart was in pieces. I'd never done anything like it," Bowie would say.
sending a clear message that this music was for the East as well as the West. Bowie later said, "It was one of the most emotional performances I’ve ever done. I was in tears,”
The next night, thousands of East Berliners turned up again to listen to Bruce Hornsby & the Range and The Eurythmics. But it was on the third night as Paul Young and Genesis played that the police had enough. They cordoned off a street a quarter of a mile from the Brandenburg Gate, where 2000 people had headed to listen. The crackdown was violent, police dragged concertgoers along the road, used water cannons and arrested 200 people. East and West Berliners were outraged, with media from the West beginning to call to bring down the wall. Many saw this concert as the point that mood shifted against the state, feeling that the East German Authorities had turned a peaceful concert into a violent political act. East Berliners saw the wall with renewed outrage, and it began to be viewed as something less permanent than it had been thought of when Bowie had recorded ‘Heroes’ a decade earlier.
From 1987, public opinion had begun to turn sour, and by 1989, mass protests broke out across the country. This was because of many reasons, the dismantling of other communist states, lack of freedoms and a public appetite for democracy. In the end, the Berlin wall came down when East Germany tried to defuse the mass protests by making travel permits easier to obtain. This was incorrectly announced as an immediate effect and caused a chain reaction. People started gathering at the walls, and news reports announced that the gates were now wide open even though they were not. Although guards initially tried to allow people through in an orderly fashion, too many turned up, and the guards opened the border. People began to celebrate and dance on the wall and later that night tore it down.
So, The Berlin Wall was brought down by political changes, a botched announcement and a change in public opinion. It’s hard to measure social change, but I like to think that this concert did help people understand they did not have to be separate. After all, music brings people together, and in the end, it was the people that tore down the wall.
child regulus LOVING halloween because he gets to wear pants and a short-haired wig and being able to dress up as his favourite characters (who just so happened to be male) without his mother yelling in his ear about it being unladylike and never really understanding WHY he loved it so much
unfortunately the way i think about music was irrevocably altered the day i read tcoptp and the same with concerts the day i read black mass, so just know i apply that lens to every thought or conversation about music ever
let's make this a tag game!! (blank version is under the cut)
@poisonpupx , @finnyyyyie , @j3st3rpuppy , @christh3weirdo , @pealumi , @stagealien-ivan , @i-luv-multiple-ppl , @puppy-exe-download-failed , @the-lost-diary-of-a-teenage-girl /nf!! + open tags to anyone else who wants to do it ^^
ok wow this took a while, tysm for the tag!!! (also hell yeah wylan is so real)
tags: @kuniidealz @runasulienadanika @almondfish3042 @zariathechaosgremlin @gay-little-isopod @xxl1ving-d3ad-grrrlxx @edettethegreat @genderless-void-in-a-jar @norzyczki @sixeritwouldeatyoualive +anyone who wants to! (sorry if i didn’t tag you i have so many awesome moots, it’s a lot to keep track of)
uhhh katniss is on there twice because i was 2 people short so i added her again and dorcas 🎉 also like katniss is literally me so i wouldve put her on twice anyways
cupiosexual, nebularomantic, probably demiromantic, and panromantic ^^
I dont wear makeup tbh but foundation I like bc I can cover scars
uhhhhh idk. if I could be a thing / animal, id be a soda can or a wolf
october
yes !!!! snuggling is 100% for me I love it
I just wear whatever Im already wearing tbh
sharpeners
prolly my mcr shirt, my nirvana shirts, or my studded belt. probably my belt
my pookies mars and pollen ^^ I had a best friend I loved sm but she isn’t my bestie anymore, roughly two months ago she stopped being my friend and became my GIRLFRIEND !!!! ^^
not rlly tbh lol, my gf loves Stray Kids tho ^^
those rlly cute blues and greens ykwim ??
hair, eyes, and freckles. so cute bro id tap that in a flash
autumn is great, but spring is awesome too. soo…..autumn ^^
either salty af or bland, prolly popcorn
not much on a basis
nah lol
a little
pookie, babygirl, love, baby, babe, honey, etc. my gf calls me pookie and babygirl :3 :3
before me and my gf were dating, I had a dream we were like having a picnic and she had her head on my shoulder and it was….awesome.
no real clue, BUT the first crush I was ever aware of having was my friend THS and my second crush was my current gf
Smile by Raina Teleigmeir (idk how to spell it)
no lol
spirited away
I had a couple I made up in my mind last year and one was called Dahn / Dahd and he’d comfort me at night and stroke my hair like a dad would
rockmelon and grapes ^^
not yet, once had to give my friend a kiss on the cheek though for a dare
not often, no
my gf, rain, petrol, and blood
not sure. maybe my uncle daniel
Aidan gallagher, robert sheehan, Micheal cera, Billie Joe armstrong, and Elliot page
yes !! my dad has a bird and two whippets, and my mum has two cats
I dont like dresses :( :(
Sanrio ^^
I once had this awesome banana / vanilla one it was great
sometimes lol
homer
a bunch, but my favs consist of four bears and three Ikea aliens
Lillies, dandelions, and moonflowers
my black one with a white grid pattern
I primarily use he/him and they/them but im okay with it/its but preferably he/him
6. flannel bottoms (either blue and green or gray) and a random atrocious looking t shirt i probably picked at a thrift store
7. GEL PENS GEL PENS GEL PENS
8. dark brown (vintage) leather jacket (my most prized possession)
9. she doesn’t have tumblr
10. i don’t love it but i don’t hate it either
11. idk blue?
12. nose
13. autumn
14. idk any kind of fruit
15. 5/6 hours
16. yeah but i hate writing in it lmao
17. i’m decent
18. none
19. me and my pe teacher, drunk in the schoolyard, having a physical fight bc i kept rage baiting him and making fun of his accent (he lowkey kicked my ass BUT THE RAGE BAITING WOULDNT STOP) (damn i’m annoying)
20. girl in my elementary school. idk she had curly hair and she was very pretty
21. the gruffalo
22. no my skin is ass
23. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE!!!!! BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIMES!!!!!!!!
24. nope
25. mango
26. sure
27. does ff count?
28. coffee and petrichor
29. none
30. cate blanchett (#needthat)
31. 2 cats and a dog
32. i don’t
33. idk the grumpy bird one
34. plain with passion fruit syrup
35. sometimes
36. SAPPHO!!!! and catullus and horace (can you tell i study classics)
37. A LOT
38. …roses i guess
39. my aladdin sane mug or a pink one with lucy from the peanuts
5. it’s one of my favourite things in the world!!!!
6. most of my pajamas have sheep on them
7. notebook
8. my patchwork jacket
9. her name’s Martina <3
10. not really
11. lilac
12. freckles
13. autumn
14. chips
15. 8/9 hours per night
16. I do!!
17. I only bake muffins and they’re good but I don’t know
18. love / buddy
19. there was the plague and I was in the middle of a crowd, so I was scared to get infected. But then PAUL MCCARTNEY comes out of a house and he says that he has the power to save a few people from this virus. And he decided to save his family and ME, so I go with him in this house and there I find John Lennon and Paul’s son.
20. one of my classmates in primary school
21. Geronimo Stilton
22. nope
23. The Boy and the Heron / Howl’s Moving Castle
24. I don’t think so
25. apple
26. yes…
27. when I’m not too tired
28. coffee / aftershave
29. my third cousins!! <3
30. Mckenna Grace
31. no, but I consider my aunt’s cats as my own, Pilár and Lula <3
