#german convention

[zoyalaisobachka]

I brought the wrong shirt for my Nico cosplay to MagicCon bahaha 🤣

[ayumi-honda]

🚘😎🌼🖤🌼😎🚘

Today in features that never made it into the Good Omens book/series: 60s female presenting Crowley, the Citroen 2CV and the mention of "psychedelic black" as revealed by @neil-gaiman in tumblr asks and the Script Book for season 1.

This largely self made cosplay "premiered" at the Proud Nerd Con in Goch and is based on a mix of 1960s fashion research and incredible fanarts of our favourite grumpy demon. The car belongs to hannah._.horror 🚘

Free background from freepik.

[ribbittrobbit]

Elorri Indararitz (they/them), Wood Elf Barbarian + Druid, Aguefort Senior.

another fh oc bec my brain is absolutely rotted waiting for the finale, a tribute to all the super cool punk basque kids i went to uni with who were super chill but also look like they could kill you and no one would find the body.

also tbh this was me trying to have an OC that is not just me as a wizard (like my fhsona or the wizard sorrow who are pretty much identical lol)

[doomdoomofdoom]

Thinking about how Germany passed their highly anticipated new trans law less than two weeks after weed became legal

[transtalesofdoom]

Name Change Episode IV: A New Law

So as of today, Germany's got a new law on the books! It'll take effect in November of this year. The so called "Selbstbestimmungsgesetz" (literally "self-determination law") will allow trans people to change their legal names and gender much, much more easily.

Here's a "quick" summary of my understanding:

There is a 3 month waiting period between your request for a name/gender change and the change actually taking effect. (As such, you may already file your request in August to have it kick in simultaneously with the new law.)

Requests must be accompanied by a statement that you understand what you are doing and what consequences this will have.

Kids have to be in agreement with their parents to file a request. If they disagree, a court will decide whether the request can be granted or not.

Adults cannot change their name and gender again for a year. Children are exempt from this waiting period.

If you revert to a previous gender, you must also revert to the names you had at this point. (ie, if I were to detransition, I would return to my birth name. I would not be allowed to choose a new female name.)

You may request new versions of all sorts of official documents to have them updated with your new name and gender, obviously at your own cost. The old versions will remain on file where applicable.

Being nonbinary does not exclude you from laws using gendered language (ie "no man or woman shall commit arson" would still apply if you are legally neither)

Revealing or uncovering a person's former gender without their permission is punishable by fine (although you can probably only take legal steps if this was done with intent to harm you).

If you are legally nonbinary, you may request a gendered passport under a few restrictions (This is necessary if you are travelling to countries where only binary identities are acknowledged and/or you might fear prosecution)

The law only covers the legal, bureaucratic aspect of a name and gender change. It does not settle any medical or social aspects. As such, there's quite a few... "shortcomings":

Trans people, or generally gender-nonconforming people, can be barred from gendered spaces at the owner's discretion. (They may or may not have legal options to fight back, but at that point the discrimination already happened)

There is no clear stance on sports. Both inclusion and exclusion seem allowed. (Again, that's not what the law is for, but codifying that exclusion may be allowed is still yucky.)

In case of crisis or war, changes will still be granted, but ignored in regard to the draft etc. Trans women requesting a change during or less than two months before a war would therefore be considered male and drafted.

Overall, it's about five steps forward and one step back, and that's a lot more than we usually get. We can also consider ourselves very lucky that the final version of the law does not include the paragraph in which any name/gender changes were automatically transmitted to law enforcement. You can imagine how that would go.

If I may drop my long form serious tone for a moment:

AAAAAAAAHAKJD OH MY GOD IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED I CAN CHANGE MY NAME THIS YEAR ALREADY HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD HJBSAKJDSADVADAS

Thank you.

[melonalemonade]

Gonna post this here too because I’m desperate 😔 man I just wanna go to dokomi

Reposts are greatly appreciated <3

[anyanary]

I never post about cons on here, so I decided to drop a little update! I’ve applied to a few others but I’ll be updating as I receive responses (mostly Austrian and Croatian cons)

[archduchessofnowhere]

Letter from Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria to her niece, Countess Théodolinde of Württenberg (née Princess of Leuchtenberg):

Munich, 20 April, 1846

... I would not have thought of taking on a sub-governess, as I have an excellent nanny for the younger girls, with whom my Charles [Karl Theodor] is still with; but Hélène's character makes me wish to separate her from her sister Elise [Elisabeth]; without being mean, she has nevertheless influenced her sister, who is much gentler and of a very conscientious nature, but the elder one undermines her, and I am convinced that it is necessary to separate them as much as possible. My intention is: that the governess should manage the education, but so that she can take care of each one separately, I would like to take Mlle Richelle for fear of detouring from one to the other during this time. Also to take charge of French entirely, and to convey the lessons of M Zesage [?]. These are my intentions, but I can't make up my mind until I've heard back from the lady to whom I'd like to entrust my daughters. In the meantime I forgot to mention the reason for all these changes, which is that Miss Nembald is marrying Count Spreti, and will be leaving my daughters in the course of the summer! Thank God I always have good news from Louis [Ludwig Wilhelm], who is in such good hands! It's a great reassurance, and the 5 [children] I have left give me, as you can see, no shortage of work. For my Charles, I have the good fortune to have an excellent nanny capable of teaching him German, French, arithmetic etc. like a man, and who imposes more on him than a governor ever did on his brother, because he loves her very much - but it is not a small thing to rule this world! because other than that I have 2 teachers attached to our house who follow us on the campaign, one teacher of religion and the other, universal, for everything, because he teaches everything we can ask including Greek and Latin, for the boys and music. I kept him when Louis left, as he had only been with us for a few years. If he had had him earlier, he would have taken his education in a different direction, which would undoubtedly have been more successful...

[colinodonoghue]

Colin interacting with Kiera the German Shepherd! [source]

[takaraphoenix]

Oh the joys of traveling with Deutsche Bahn.

Suddenly you're in fucking Karlsruhe because your train ran 30 minutes late before it even reached its first fucking stop so now you're missing your connection and are instead redirected to a different fucking city to change into another different train!!

Prayer circle that I'll actually reach fucking Wiesbaden ANY time today. Please.

[gracevandiensource]

GRACE VAN DIEN and DACRE MONTGOMERY at the German Comic Con, via Grace’s twitter hello from the upside down ✨

[zoyalaisobachka]

46 Days until MagicCon and meeting 4/6 of the crows (again) and Luke and Sujaya, I'm slowly getting a bit excited!

[destructive-delight]

oooooh my god, just translate the stupid fucking rpg terms.

[morleybobsource]

New photos of Bob from German comic con 2023 (x)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

thinking about the fact the Frankensteins named their son William. did they want their son to have a fancy foreign name? did they want him to be a specialest little boy with a name like an English king? did they name him after Shakespeare?

[aliksims]

And of course it wouldn't be the Holidays without a few extra Holiday-themed decor recolors (goodness knows there's enough in the catalog). First is this lovely tiny candle stand. The tiny wooden arms on the right were super annoying to track down and NOT recolor, but I did it because I love you. And me.

This comes in all 110 colors of the AKS Object Rainbow 4 (1). A few colors/actions are borrowed from others; each individually packaged recolor file is labeled with the original creator, palette, and name, but it’s all abbreviated so check the included documentation to fill in the missing letters.

If you would like all 110 recolors individually packaged, you can download them here: http://simfil.es/4302905/

If you would like all 110 recolors in 1 package, you can download it here: http://simfil.es/4302906/

The preview picture, swatches, and color info are included with both downloads. I own nothing so you can’t sell it. :)

(1): https://aliksims.tumblr.com/post/713353318051856384/