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I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from

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For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

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who is blasting linkin park at work the only other coworkers at the office are like 40+. Incredible

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A German Standoff is when you are standing opposite of each other at a red traffic light and there are no cars in sight but nobody wants to be the first to commit an Ordnungswidrigkeit

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Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

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Bothering the beast

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Moth Dress by Cat Johnson Photo credit: Christina Solomons 

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4chan got hacked so I guess tumblr won the war - didn't foresee that tbh

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i finally got around to making this post lol

@batmanisagatewaydrug's book bingo is exactly what i needed to get back to reading more (thank you!)

here's what i read so far:

short story collection: "The Summer Palace" by C.S. Pacat sequel: i read the whole "Captive Prince" trilogy by C.S. Pacat. just putting the trilogy as a whole into this square lol

talking about both squares together bc it's all capri haha i had heard a lot about these books and from what i remember there was a lot of discourse i … was pleasantly surprised. i mean … yeaaah, it's "trigger warnings - the trilogy" and i was really curious how Pacat was planning to pull off this whole slow burn enemies to lovers thing and just reading the first book i thought: no fucking way is this ever going to work but it does (for me!) there's tons of politics and strategy. no srsly. politics is the main plot! i reread the first book after finishing the last one and it's so cool to have the whole context and everything. the first book is quite different knowing what you know about all these characters after finishing the trilogy.

fantasy: "King of the Dark" by Ariana Nash

first one in a trilogy. not going to talk bout this before finishing the rest of the books. but i'm intrigued!

manga: "Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan" Vol.1 by Hirohiko Araki

it's a spin-off from part four of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. and it's about Rohan. you either love him or hate him. it's a collection of (horror) one-shots about Rohan's travels. you see, he's a mangaka and wants his works to have more realism. sooo he wants to draw inspiration from other people's lives. sounds quite normal, right? but Rohan is Rohan. he's unhinged, he's petty and his ego is HUGE. the stuff he experiences or hears about? it's wild. hot take (?): Rohan is one of my favourite characters in JoJo and it's always fun to see him pop up in stuff

non-fiction: "Den Bach rauf" by Robert Habeck. wasn't sure which square would be the most appropriate for this one. but it's non-fiction about politics and i learned some new stuff *shrug*

"den Bach runtergehen" is a German idiom (that's the word for it, right???). literally, it means "to go down the stream". you use it when stuff just goes downhill. but this book is called "den Bach rauf", soooooo we're going up! okay. let's start. Robert Habeck is a politician (Alliance 90/The Greens). He was the last government's vice chancellor … you know … the government that fell apart (unfortunately!) this book came out january this year, quite shortly before our elections in february. it's about the last few years. about what happened. what went wrong. what he (and his family! or just people he met) had to deal with. like … i think it's quite clear that conservatives and especially the right were (and still are) afraid of him and his party. there were sooo many hate campaigns and every little thing the greens said or did would be picked apart and looked at in the worst light possible. stuff would be taken out of context etc etc. it was wild. but this book isn't just dwelling on the past. it offers a positive outlook for the future, away from all that fear-mongering and all the hate. it offers strategies that focus on sustainability, social justice, and modernising the economy. it's quite hopeful! it's the kind of book i'd want his political opponents to read. but i really doubt they will. which is quite the shame. shit, this got long

romance: "Counting Rainbows" by Emily Bähr a book i picked up in a sale if you like your books to have a lot of plot this one isn't for you. it's aaaall about the two main characters Cameron and David (or Toast, as his friends call him). it's fine, i guess. took me quite some time to get into this book and tbh i only finished it bc Toast's struggles quite resembled some of my own and i wanted to see how he'd deal with them haha

and the newest one: published before 1950: "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis") by Franz Kafka. i know it's a short one bc it's a novella but it counts!

first of all, i read it on my nintendo ds haha

tbh it's not the first time i've read this story. last time i read this was in what … 2010? i only remembered the beginning of the story and that i liked it and now that i'm older i look at it differently than i did back then i still like it! and i was curious to see what people had to say about it sooooo i looked up the Wikipedia page and the interpretations and some of that stuff is wild haha but let's forget about other people and their interpretations and let's look at how i see this story now

spoiler warning for those who haven't read it yet, i guess?

i think it's about a person's worth in this capitalistic shitshow we're living in like up until his metamorphosis, Gregor's role was to provide money for his sister and his parents he worked and worked and even after waking up and finding himself changed, his first thoughts were about getting to work! but he can't. and that changes everything. his family treats him differently. he's stuck in his room all day. and he's the one who is dependant on them. Grete, his sister, is his caretaker. and she's really thoughtful at first. but she also see this as her chance to finally be someone in this family. everyone treats this as a temporary issue at first but the longer it takes the worse everything becomes. Gregor is more and more isolated, no one really takes into account what might be best for him (they never even try to communicate with him. they just assume he can't understand them anymore right from the beginning of the story and no one ever makes an attempt to find out if that's true) and the few times he tries to somewhat communicate what he wants it all just goes downhill his sister becomes more and more neglectful, his room is used as storage space and everyone's just … resentful. they don't see him as Gregor anymore. he's just a burden everyone wants to get rid of and so he dies of starvation, unwanted and alone it's horrifying and it really reminded me of the current political climate about the shit people say about others who are unable to work about how they see them as a burden on society and about how they want to punish them for it if you cannot work, you stop being a person

aaand that is also way longer than intended, could have been its own post haha

the next book i'm about to read: "exit RACISM" by Tupoka Ogette

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Hallo???? Vladi??? Entschuldigung bitte???? Was passiert hier???

Auch agsbahau das #kommissar 😭😂

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pscentral event 09: comfort | comfort movie. ❤️

GONCHAROV (1973).

— dir. Martin Scorsese.