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Tianshu Zhang (Chinese, 1992) - Bedtime Story 4 (2022)

Discussion about Types of Guy in tabletop roleplaying groups is always "the Rules Lawyer", "the Method Actor" and never "Guy Who Always Plays A Human And Invents New Setting-Specific Slurs For Their Character To Call A Specific Type Of Nonhuman Characters" even though I see the last one a lot more.

prokopetz

At some point you've gotta sit a player down like "okay, in our fantasy game you played a guy who hates elves and made up new slurs for elves; in our transhuman cyberpunk game you played a guy who hates robots and made up new slurs for robots; I think your actual goal here is just to be a guy who says slurs".

rosieandthemoon

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

ai-slop-weather-report

Weather report for July 8th, 2026.

tylostoma

really enjoyed the picturesque drive home with my digicam

Virginia Woolf’s bedroom

puddox

escuerzoresucitado

Pedestrian traffic lights

sjorsdottir

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

translatingpoststogerman

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

robot-roadtrip-rants

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

gammadoppler

kids turning seven right now in this world lived through something beyond magical.

gammadoppler

if i turned seven this year and didnt get a six seven cake when my friends did i think i'd go evil and start throwing tables and shit

lonely-dog-draws

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?

aristocrating

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.