#german things

[artistsfuneral]

[motomamithings]

If you arent German, you probably don’t know the pain and joy of watching one episode of toxic police yaoi once a year on public television

[smolfangirl]

Imagine sucking so much as a fellow politician that the guy known for having No Backbone™ snaps and develops one but specifically for roasting you on live television

[its-myonnie]

this rant is going to be pointless and entirely too long for anyone to actually read but i feel like every critter has one little scene or characterization detail that they've spent wayyy too much time thinking about, so like it or not - today y'all are gonna get mine. because i am confident that there is no one - and i mean not a single soul in this fandom - that has though about those goddamn enchanted, flavor-changing tea biscuits in yussa's tower from c2e48 as much as i have.

now, to preface this, a successful cultural reference, to me, has always been a little detail that, to people outside of the referenced culture, accurately albeit at a surface level signals that the character in question is indeed a member of this culture. but what seperates a decent from a well-made cultural reference, in my opinion, is whether or not the actual real-life members of the referenced culture can glean some sort of more deep-seated information about the character, based on what the presence of this specific little detail within them implies about who they are; it's a little peak behind the curtain for the very select few people that have the cultural understanding to know how to pull that curtain back, if that makes sense.

so when caleb widogast - a man from a fictionalized version of my own home, the central german countryside - eats a biscuit that is magically enchanted to change its flavor to whatever taste he likes best, decades of stereotypical representation of my culture in american media lead me to expect a successful but mediocre, predictable reference like bratwurst, sauerkraut or beer.

but that's not what happens, man.

instead, that fucking biscuit tastes like streusel. it's not just random internationally know german food item number 873 because haha get it he's german- no, it's goddamn streusel. it's the cheap ass butter-sugar crumble we put on top of some yeast dough to make a cake when we don't have the time and money for all that fancy buttercream and chocolate shit but still want our loved ones to have something sweet. it's as simple as simple gets. it's humble, it's uncomplicated, it's honest and you know what makes it even better? he doesn't even think of 'streuselkuchen'. it's not even the taste of a proper slice of the whole damn cake, it's just the taste of the topping that i know damn well his mama used to yelled at him for snatching off the cake while it was sitting on the windowsill to cool. you wanna know how i know that? because that's what mine did. and that is the power of a well-made cultural reference.

look, i know that there is no possible way for it to be that deep, i know it's just a silly one-off line that liam didn't intend for some weird german lady on the internet to read so much into, but what i'm saying is: i fucking double-dog dare you to name another character that is so well-written that their undying love for their family, the omnipresence of their childhood memories and trauma and their yearning to go back to simpler times can be palpably felt even in their damn bakery order.

[elenirlachlagos]

Choose one:

Sir Toby

Admiral Von Schneider

Mr. Pommeroy

Mr. Winterbottom

the Tiger

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Voting ended onJan 1, 2025

[itsme-the-villagekid]

Ich würde Donald Trump gerne meine Teilnahmeurkunde von den Bundesjugendspielen 2011 übergeben

[bayern-der-freistaat]

Scholz und Lindner breakup :(

65k enemies to rivals to coworkers to lovers to enemies again yaoi

[currentlylivingonaprayer]

A moment that always reminds me how german I am are car chase scenes in movies.

You're telling me driving 90 on an empty highway is fast. Dude, that is slow as fuck, especially with all the tension they always put in these scenes Smh