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Neuer Diskurs (cursed):
Ist das Tragen von Lederhosen und Dirndl als Nicht-Bayer kulturelle Aneignung? Let's discuss.
#kam mir so in den kopf#ich mein. ich komm nicht aus bayern und hab mit der kultur da so gar nichts zu tun#wär es cultural appropriation?#andererseits ist bayerische kultur nich marginalized..#anyway just a very cursed thought. feel free to disregard this#german stuff#i speak
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Maybe draw Ganondorf from your au?
i was sincerely hoping someone would bring up sof so i could show off all the designing ive been doing in my free time LMAO here's ganon as of rn :)
#design subject to change but not for much longer because im almost at the point where i have to make him appear in the comic lol#asks#loz: sword of fate#also he's just ganon in sof not ganondorf! dorf as a suffix is. well it's used for villages in german according to my very brief research#but yknow japanese writers i will cut them some slack. anyway since he's the first ganon i thought removing the suffix would be appropriate#like it was added onto the name in later generations or something. you get what im saying. this makes sense#anyway design things i want to point out. the mask gets flipped after link cuts it open during a miniboss fight which serves as the first#reveal that ganon is like. his age. a kid. + by the time link sees him next he's put it back together upside down.#the flipped shiekah eye is a symbol in itself obv but the 3 dots r also supposed to sort of evoke the triforce when it gets flipped#hence why the one on top (power) is white while the others are fully filled in!#and the horns when flipped are supposed to resemble boar tusks a bit irt later incarnations lol#color symbolism in his design also--as the story goes on he becomes more generally desaturated and the hair turns bright red which becomes#his dominating color. one of the first things to go as he begins to spiral are the blue elements of his outfit bc he's losing wisdom!#anyway. i put too much thought into this LMAO <3#skribbles
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With the help of a few friends I've added Fin Fin to Lemmy's version of /r/place!
This sprite is based on these beautiful sprites made by bennyspriteslittleguys!
#fin fin#fin fin on teo the magic planet#fin fin teo the magic planet#fin fin teo#finfin#lemmy#/r/place#canvas#appropriately right next to the giant german flag
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Wie zum Teufel sind wir immer noch auf 1 bei den Trends?
Leute, habt ihr überhaupt geschlafen???
#okay ich hab auch schon jedes neue fic auf ao3 gelesen#aber trotzdem#wow (very affectionately)#lessa says#spatort#tatort#tatort saarbrücken#apologies to my non-German speaking followers#we will return to the regularly scheduled content ... eventually#we only get new material once a year#and it has to be celebrated appropriately
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rewatched design for living and trouble in paradise and AUGH they are such good films
#design for living#trouble in paradise#is tied with the seventh seal for my favorite film#ernst lubitsch#miriam hopkins#she's not a great actress but she's so fun to watch#ditto about#herbert marshall#and while we're at it#kay francis#but given good scripts and direction and appropriate roles they could make magic#(also stealth jane darwell)#(she's in the end credits for design for living and i was like wait what)#(i haven't seen all his films so i can't swear to it but trouble in paradise is arguably the one time charlie ruggles was actually funny)#also i love how lubitsch is like if you don't know italian french german and spanish#you'll get by watching this movie but those bits are not for you
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got an appointment this afternoon ordinarily i wouldve spent the entire day sitting there waiting to leave but i wrote down the time i want to get ready and the time i want to leave & that helped a lot
#tiddytaco#i drew a pitcher played mindcraft and made a collage#& also made a gorgeous sandwich .#my Scheduled Time That I Have To Get A Shower kinda gets in the way but itll get in the way no matter when it is#but after this i dont have any more scheduled plans for break#first half of break i had plans#between cleaning & cooking for easter#and doing some yard work we needed to do (moving a huge rock to a more appropriate location)#and then yesterday we helped my german teacher & his husband clean out their burned down apartment#but after today im in the clear as far as Planned Tasks go
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Czechoslovakian field uniform, early 1950's
#Ostwind Projekt#Czechoslovak Socialist Republic#Small Arms#captured equipment#Sa 25#Sa vz. 48b#samopal vz. 48b#I really like this one it's one of my favs from grozny#I love when early east bloc militarizes re-appropriated and thus re-contextualized vestigial german gear#or at least that's what I think is going on with the helmet cover that looks like the SS dot pattern
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the terror has me itching to fall into another rabbit hole about victorian racism because they absolutely nail the despair james would feel at "not being even English" but I need the details of what the Victorians were thinking about the Brazilians specifically. It's already pretty wild that James ends up embodying the English fear of miscegenation of all things, which right now I can't remember if it's openly addressed when it comes to Francis and Sophia or it's only implied (I am aware about the essays on how the Irish are an inferior race of "white gorillas", I don't believe for a second Sir John wasn't) but the ties to a different colonial empire...they had a caste system too, to add to the mindfuckery.
#like james' mother could have not even been white. that's the level we are at. he doesn't know either.#the terror#antiqua ponders how the terror masterfully uses gothic tropes which were appropriate for the time#european racism is so fascinating to me and victorian racism in particularly because it tends to be my field of study#and also because you read things like wilkie collins being accused of corrupting the public by being a francophile#i found an essay about anti german sentiment propagated by the stereotype of germans loving sausages too much#like sometimes it's fucked up shit like matthew arnold pontificating on the inherent inferiority of the celtic race and how england needs#to conquer them for their own good#and some other time it's room with a view where they go to italy and faint when they see italians#where is that post about lovecraft's nightmares being to be in an elevator with an irishman
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#cringe#furry#larpers#mental illness#posers#indo european#germanic#turbo cringe#cringe overdose#furrism#degenerate scums#found#telegram#appropriating shamanism#cultural appropriation#plastic aura#tw plastic aura#ancient esoteric tradition
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#got to go to a hobbit themed wedding yesterday and wear my grandmas german dress!#it was a vibe#and super fun to have an appropriate place to wear it!
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figured out i can use the german subtitles on english-language shows i’m very familiar with for examples of specific syntax. put on i think you should leave on account of i’ve seen it a ton of times. it has occurred to me that faithfully translated, itysl would NOT be the best model for correct syntax or natural-sounding speech, however whoever wrote these subtitles has no aptitude for comedy or absurdism so it works just fine
#like they don’t even bother with ‘you gotta walk to the food store? you gotta walk to the house?’#it’s just ‚ihr müsst überallhin laufen‘ which. boring#don’t tell me you couldn’t have come up with an appropriately grammatically incorrect german equivalent#of ‘i can’t know how to hear any more about tables’#‚ich will nichts mehr über tische hören‘ was NOT the best you could do#if *i* were the german translator for this show i would have so much fun with it#the job is wasted on this boring bastard whoever they are#//#i think you should leave#itysl driver’s ed#eta they translated dining room/dying room in the ghost tour sketch as esszimmer/stresszimmer#…at least they tried?
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#itll be fine itll be fine im techincally good at maths itll be fine#but istg the moment i start learning and actually preparing for exams an appropriate amount they just hit me in the face with a brick#was like that for biology history and german too#not physics though but i didnt really study for physics so its out of the rule#another one for the void
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Do you think I'm stupid like fucking obviously people will have disagreements on what dies or doesn't constitute appropriation (particularly members of the same group regarding outsiders) but it is literally not up to people within the outside group who are being appropriated from to decide what is or isn't appropriation from a culture they don't belong to dvg gb
#also that person was German & I literally do not need to listen to a white German whitesplaining to a whole Indian about appropriation#when Germany is cultural appropriation central when it comes to Native Americans#to the point that dressing up and rping as Natives is a whole fuckin hobby in Germany. shut the hell up
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im gonna say it
some people cannot fucking behave
#ender.txt#a seething mad 'you lost the war!!' is not an appropriate response to a german ironic joke post#like in any world#get a grip
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so like. lately I've been feeling like there's some kind of Thing living in this house with me, like a spirit or creature or something, and i feel like it's been here a long time bc of how long things have been going missing in this house with no explanation. and i noticed when i got really badly sick i lost something and it made me like. sob uncontrollably bc it was important. and then i started Finding things in odd places. so i started thanking the mysterious entity. and now I'm finding More Stuff more often. and like i feel strange for believing in this entity bc I've always been told believing in pagan things is childish (??????) and feel awkward thanking it but also i Want To bc it's polite. anyway i wanna like. leave a little offering or something but don't know what would be appropriate bc i also dont know what entity this is
#first thought is like. house fairies#I've always thought it was something fae related i think?#but like i. don't really know a lot about real fairy folklore bc of all the Media I've consumed#i don't really know what's accurate and what isn't#like sometimes fairies are depicted as extremely powerful and like. human sized#sometimes they're just tiny little trickster guys#and also i don't know what folklore like. applies to me if that makes sense?????#im White™ and whatever culture my ancestors had was scrubbed away to force jesus in instead and i don't know how much my blood matters#I'm mostly german and welsh and was raised like. loosely catholic#and the word appropriation has been watered down so much by The Internet that i can never tell if I'm Doing That anymore#I'm just scared to do literally anything bc what if someone says i am#but also i feel very very drawn to certain myths and stories and entities and feel like letting that go would tear me apart in a way#like I'd just lose something and there'd be a hole that couldn't be filled by any other belief#I've TRIED to fit in other beliefs but they just don't click#i dunno. im scared of doing something wrong but it feels like home to me#anyway i want to leave an offering to this Entity in my house to thank it for returning some things#but dunno what i could use#do you think a fairy would appreciate lactose free vanilla coffee creamer. we dont have normal milk#i also wonder if candy would work. i have a ton of chocolate and caramel#though i also wonder if the Entity is stealing candy from the jars on my windowsill#i wouldn't mind that i don't mind sharing
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340: Various Artists // Two Tribes
Two Tribes Various Artists 2019, Agogo (Bandcamp)
A double-LP mixtape/compilation from Hannover electronic label Agogo Records, Two Tribes “makes an effort to give insight in how [sic] musicians living in Europe today incorporate and transfer musical traditions particularly from the African continent into their oeuvre” (per the liner notes). Ostensibly, everyone here is either a musician living in Europe with African roots of some kind, or is a European musician collaborating with Africans, though in some cases what you get is just a Euro DJ using a few “tribal” sounding drum stems.
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I had a lot of fun listening to the most ‘70s sounding funk stuff here and trying to guess how white the musicians were, but I was underprepared for the intensity of unpasteurized Funky Continental Guyness I was exposed to. Winners included guitarist Petri Kautto of Finnish-Beninese Afro-jazz combo Trio Toffa (pretty good), who strongly resembles Bill Nighy wearing a bucket hat with fake dreads attached to it, and Berlin’s slavishly authentic Afro-funk group Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers, who look like the S-Bahn Bloodhound Gang.
Petri Kauto of Trio Toffa
Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers
The compilation has what strikes me as a downright quaint (and very German) attitude towards the notion of cultural exchange that runs the risk of being pilloried for appropriation, but I’m sympathetic to it. Certainly, a collaboration like that between Zimbabwean mbira player Jacob Mafuleni and French DJ Gary Gritness that is neither explicitly “African” or “European” is by nature a more truly cross-cultural enterprise than Onom Agemo’s reverent homage or German DJ Elias “Agogo” Foerster’s vaguely Books-ish chops of African beat and vocal samples, but whatever. Influence is impossible to strictly regulate, and I don’t know that it’s even desirable to. White guys nerding out and riffing on the music of the cultures their governments currently oppress isn’t a problem—that their governments are oppressing those cultures, and that the scenes they operate within often have the taint of trickled down racism despite their utopian values, is. One hopes that Agogo and these musicians are cognizant of these challenges, even as they radiate a genuine and laudable affection for African music.
It’s worth noting that, while the European club sounds represented range from ‘90s style techno and 2-step to more modern forms of minimal house and bass music, the African face of the coin is almost exclusively defined by the funky ‘70s and ‘80s sounds that drive record collectors into quasi-sexual spasms. Being one of those guys, I don’t mind it aesthetically, but it’s interesting that the most contemporary-sounding piece is the 15-minute minimal house track “Just in a Moment to Find a Way to Sun Day” by Ivorian-born Hamburg DJ Raoul K. The centrepiece of K’s track sounds to me like a synthesized mbira, but he doesn’t feel the need to flag his music as African—perhaps because he actually is a young guy of African descent. Instead, he puts on a master class in using simple shifts in rhythm and dynamics to keep a room vibing in near perpetuity.
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Anyway, as a mix, Two Tribes contains a lot of fine music and flows nicely. I dig Andrea Benini’s Francis Bebey-esque “Jawa” and the K track in particular, but nothing aside from Selma Uamusse’s anime-sounding “Mozambique (Ao Sul Do Mundo)” actively irks me. I’ve listened to Two Tribes a lot more than many other records in my collection that dig deeper, or make more powerful statements, because in the end, I just like the way it sounds.
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#agogo#afrobeat#house music#electronic music#afro jazz#fusion#andrea benini#gary gritness#raoul k#trio toffa#jacob mafuleni#blay ambolley#the sorcerers#healing force project#selma uamasse#david hanke#cultural exchange#cultural appropriation#music review#vinyl record#african music#german music
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