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My German 🇩🇪 Masterlist

Resources:

Some other German tumblr blogs for German learners

German Sign Language Resources

Vocab, grammar, idioms:

A little text style guide

LGBT+ Vocab

Idioms: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10

German idioms with colours 🎨🖌️

Some funny German words #1, #2, #3

Fun German animal names

Movies, TV shows, books, music:

Movies/TV shows:

German TV show, movie, & book recommendations for German learners

Fairy Tale Films

German Comedy Show from the 90s: "Kentucky Schreit Ficken"

Some classic German TV shows I watched as a child & teenager

Books:

German TV show, movie, & book recommendations for German learners

German comic books / graphic novels

Books about German folklore, myths, and legends

German Publishers & Book Shops

Some classic German literature recommendations

Some disturbing German children’s stories

Music:

German-speaking Singers / Bands

German folk music / traditional children's songs

German Culture & Other Stuff:

German School & Education System

The Berlin Wall (1961-1989)

20 German culture things

German bread

The "Nürburgring"

German food, desserts/sweet snacks & cakes

German currency before the Euro (€): "Deutsche Mark"

Biggest ethnic groups in Germany

German sausages

Some content creators who show what it's like living in Germany

1st of May celebrations in Germany

How to become a beekeeper in Germany 🌸🐝🍯

The German font "Sütterlin"

German Comedy Show "Knallerfrauen"

Some Iconic German Characters

Supplemental ID for trans people in Germany 🏳️‍⚧️

Germans have two different names for dandelions

German ‘Kraut’ & ‘Kohl’

European Bisons (aka. Wisents)

The famous German pirate / buccaneer Klaus Störtebeker 🏴‍☠️

Typical German sweets & candies

"Rettungsgasse"

Coat of arms of Germany and its federal states

Turkish-German culture 🇹🇷🇩🇪

German Seasons:

Early spring in Germany

German Shorthand / Stenography:

Learning stenography: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

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A Sabre with a gilt bronze hilt made for Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria,

OaL: 39.6 in/100.6 cm

Weight: 3.5 lbs/1.6 kg

Netherlands, ca. 1560, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

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sorry for finding it hot when people's hair goes grey. as if im wrong

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Sometimes it's not rpf. Like it literally happened.

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Sneaking into the monastery every night to shave the monks tonsures slightly bigger

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Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

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Yeah i feel a little poisoned But i keep on rocking

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A beautifully gilt Eared Dagger with an intricately carved bone grip, Italy, ca. 1520, housed at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.

The text which can be seen on the dagger's ears is the second verse of Psalm 31 (30), which reads IN TE DOMIN[E] SPERAVI / ET NON CONFUNDAR IN [AETERNUM] “In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded”.

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Studies of Roan antelopes (Hippotragus equinus) by Georges Frédéric Rötig (1873-1961), watercolour/pencil, 25 x 32,5 cm.

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Hey hey !

I finally reached the end of a new 40-page sketchbook, so I put the pdf on itch.io, if you're interested ! (for a small fee, because your local cryptid has to eat...)

(and now, cheers - back to comics !)

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Random dragon redesign studies. Skyrim dragons hate to see me download a scientific paper called "posture, locomotion, and paleoecology of pterosaurs" but I think I'm winning. I need to make them look less clumsy somehow after all, but also weird and terrifying.

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Karel Dujardin (1626-1678). The Three Swine Near The Hedge. Engraving.

National Gallery of Victoria

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When I'm having trouble with an illustration, then I worry that everyone can tell, like you can feel the anxiety radiating from it. But looking at this WIP in the bright light of the morning... it's fine, I'm doing fine haha.

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Patreon print for this month! Join here.

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he is burning