(I Have Questions)

ellis, they/them, 20s//mostly (but not limited to) theatre

[default-cube]

who up wasting their only shot at life through complete and utter inaction

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[walkingcontradiction42]

Ich hasse es so wie wir als Community immer nur relevant für die Politik sind wenn wir für deren Fremdenhass instrumentalisiert werden können. Wie sollen wir vernünftig trauern wenn man gleichzeitig weiß, dass in ein paar Wochen wahrscheinlich wieder mehr Leute abgeschoben werden um uns zu "schützen"? Als wären die queere Community und Vielfalt Gegensätze. Als wäre es nicht die Union selber die den meisten Hass gegen uns schürt. Als wären wir letztes Jahr von Merz nicht noch als Zirkuszelt bezeichnet worden.

[justannoyingbear]

Aufgrund ihrer fortgesetzt beschissenen und menschenfeindlichen Politik wurde einstimmig beschlossen*, der CDU/CSU die Buchstaben C, D und S abzuerkennen. Bei der nächsten Wahl treten sie als U/U an.

Aus den beschlagnahmten Buchstaben basteln wir uns einen CSD.

*Ich habe das beschlossen. Einstimmig.

[all-chickens-are-trans]

to all my queer friends, everywhere but especially in Germany and Berlin, please take care. of yourself, of each other. don't let the doom and fear take you. grieve. but hold on tight. we've still got each other and they can't take that away from us.

[samirasystole]

being a queer german person and seeing the news fail to verbalise that the CSD attack in berlin was motivated by homophobia feels really crazy. i don't give a fuck where this person is from, the person who did this was homophobic and wanted us dead, and that is what we should be talking about. extremism has become far too normalised in this country and beyond. for one fucking second, talk about how normalised homophobia and is, talk about what a sad day it is for queer folks, about how we deserve to feel safe and that homophobia has no place in this country. can you actually care about us for once. stop using us to fuel your islamophobia or hatred of immigrants.

[clementine-kesh]

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

[deutsche-bahn]

Teetrinker 1 & 2

[deutsche-bahn]

Mein Deckfarbenkasten von Pelikan fragt sich jeden Tag, warum er nicht an irgendnen Grundschüler verkauft werden konnte und stattdessen für sowas herhalten muss

[nedlittle]

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

[mawofthemagnetar]

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[hollowboobtheory]

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

[hollowboobtheory]

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

[hollowboobtheory]

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

[hollowboobtheory]

peer reviewed

[hollowboobtheory]

[voydhymn]

having many trinkets and books is so cool and fun until you realize you have to dust them

[myboobsaresentientbeeings]

"den Umständen entsprechend" is one of my favourite german phrases of all time. Ich sag dir nicht was die Umstände sind, wenn du die nicht kennst ist das dein Problem. ultimate boss of nuance. "it is what it is" but 10 times more german. Ich geh mich jetzt den Umständen ersprechend aus dem Fenster werfen

[gandalfsbignaturals]

isnt it really cool how your memories can just physically attack you at random

[ceruleanheaven]

life is so awesome if we ignore all that

[eingedeutscht]

Das Leben ist so geil, wenn man die Gesamtsituation ignoriert

[lomy-bloom]