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"Hail"??? Hail the implosion of Europe at the hands of Zionist, Imperialist elites that didn't pay my British-Sergeant-Great-Grand-Dad enough money to buy his kids a rug to sit on so he had to cut up his old tunic and sew one? We just be hailing the most epic fails of all time? A Megadeath event that Europe still hasn't recovered from yet??? Monthly reminder that making a German-sympathetic Wwi narratives available for English-Speakers is still incredibly relevant. Don't let the Jingoists win.

#ww1 fiction #wwi #on war #jingoism #epic fail

Being a Germanophile feels like caring for a child that almost everyone wants to kill.

#Germanophobia #Germanophilia

When someone says they support national service but then also says the state shouldn't support single mothers, you know you met a dumbass.

#on war

When you try to unpack your childhood trauma and realize it was intergenerational and can be traced back to wwi.

#ottoway #ww1 fiction #thoughts #on war

Meme time.

#meme #history nerd

We are pushed and pulled between what we have in common and what we do not have in common.

#thoughts

Otto and Edwin sketches for vol 3.

#ottoway #vol 3 #pre production #sketch wip #storyboard #wwi #ww1 fiction #otto odinkrik #edwin vipond

polsterreich

Nothing like some foreshadowing.

Originally unscripted, now they're pages 54-56.

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hyliabeilschmidt

Do you like historical uniforms? Historical fantasy? Drama about friendships, wars, espionage and betrayals?

I hope you will also like my passion project Polsterreich, after working on the plot and designs for over a decade, I pour a lot of time and love into every part of each page <3

Vincent on Albrecht sketch wip. I sketch them pretty often but don't always finish it.

#ottoway #ww1 fiction #historical fiction #oc #original comic #german #wwi #1900's #sketch wip #horse #vincent odinkirk

In my upcoming project Moth the main characters have more interactions with diverse cultures than in my previous projects; travelling through Asia and Africa on their way back to Europe, this is intentionally reminiscent of old school, and particularly pre-wwi adventure stories, and it had me pondering a question I hadn't tackled consciously; why do 'foreign' characters exist in in pre-wwi European fiction? In an adventure story it seems a natural aspect of the setting, I'll come back to this later, but I found myself wondering, what's the real purpose of a foreign or ethnic minority character in a homogenous setting, at a time when authors did not feel obliged to be inclusive? Many modernlings would have the misconception that the author wishes to make a commentary on the culture of the outsider character featured, but if this is the case then why do these characters so often feel poorly researched and left mysterious? Anything that features in a pure story is related in some way to the main character; the strange man with a strange way of doing things sheds contrast on what the main character thinks is ordinary; which is typically rooted in the culture of their own nation. So the purpose of the 'foreign' character is to highlight the discomfort and shock of the situation the main character is put into; and this is a trope of coming of age stories for obvious reasons. The inverse of this is when the MC becomes the adventurer and therefore the outsider; the MC is the bringer of oddities into the world and the social outlier; a social outlier in real life may find adventure stories more appealing than coming of age stories. An adventure story is one in which the MC explores and makes no attempt to fit in to their environment, while the coming of age story is about finding one's place in a society that seems harsher than what one perceived in the past. A story can do both of these at once but often one theme seems more apparent then the other; does your MC try to 'fit in' or not? In my Moth book the characters go through a series of environments and react differently to each one; but the young Siegfried Isenstein is certainly a character who prioritizes becoming a man and fitting into society, attempting to blend in to both Japanese and German societies, with much difficulty in both cases. Siegfried's idea of what is 'normal' is rooted more in Japanese culture than in German culture at the beginning of the series and this is primarily so the culture of 1900's East Prussia can be explained to him and to the audience at the same time. However Vincent Odinkirk provides an outlet for readers who don't attempt to fit in; he is introverted, blunt in direct contrast to Siegfried's bubbliness; and this is in an environment where men must rise in rank by attending social gatherings and pleasing, not insulting, their superior officers. In the first Moth book Vincent is a German officer deployed to Japan and plays the role of the outsider and explorer, he doesn't feel obliged to fit into his environment, but in the third and fourth books, Siegfried is a culturally Japanese character trying to assimilate into German society. If you've read this far I'm just gonna note that neither character is meant to represent a superior perspective or lifestyle; these comrades are opposites but see good in each other and balance each other out as they are both so eccentric and passionate they would become mad if they didn't have each other to consult. This has been a sort of dev-dairy ramble, Moth volume 1's script will be available in novel format on my Patreon this summer, probably.

#moth #historical fiction #story telling #creative writing #oc #vincent odinkrik #Siegfried Odinkirk #dev diary

thememedaddy

kat2107

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.