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[annaofthenorthernlights]

A tailor made surprise

The new monthly Frozen magazine swirled in today and I had to copy-scan today´s story comic (and translated from german into english).

Have you ever wondered how Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf got their fancy outfits for Anna´s celebration at the end of Frozen2?

Find out with this absolutely lovely tale!

It´s a sweet hommage to friendship and love!

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

This novel was originally in German, so, it’s not surprising that most of it is set in Europe. The entire European electrical grid blacks out. A former hacker, Piero, is the one who starts investigating why, how, etc. But, instead of listening to him, those in charge don’t believe him, and instead he becomes a suspect. And, so, he goes on the run with Lauren, a CNN reporter. And then nuclear plants start leaking radiation, oh, and then the threat comes to the US shores too.

It was all thriller, wow, and it made me definitely think on just how many things in the room I was sitting while reading the book (on paper in this case, phew…) in some way or another need that crazy, crazy electricity. I, personally, think that humans are always adaptable, so, if something like the book started happening that the human race would end or anything, but, it would be hard. Want an intense book to make you walk around turning everything off to save power, ‘cause, ya never know, this is the book for you, heh.

You may like this book If you Liked: Aurora by David Koepp, Terms of Use by Scott Allan Morrison, or The Gatekeeper by James Byrne

Blackout by Marc Elsberg

[thecatwhosavedbooks]

The Forgotten Victory

The Polish-Soviet War of 1919/20 and the Emergence of Modern Eastern Europe

In the beginning, there is a world-historical collapse. In the end two rebirths. But first things first, from one end to the other.

The February Revolution of 1917 put an end to the centuries-long rule of the Russian Tsars. Nicholas II abdicated on March 2, after which a provisional government took office. It only lasted for a short time, because half a year later the October Revolution took its course and brought the Bolsheviks to power - because Germany had sent the professional revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin from his Swiss exile to St. Petersburg in April to decide the First World War in the east. Another professional revolutionary from Russia, the Pole Jozef Pilsudski, was imprisoned in Magdeburg in July 1917 by the Central Powers: Because Russia had imploded, cooperation with Poland had lost much of its importance.

In that summer of 1917 their greatest days lay before Lenin and Pilsudski. For Lenin they came in October, Pilsudski had to wait a year longer, because only the end of the war and the defeat of the Central Powers in November 1918 brought Poland's rebirth and a triumphant return to Warsaw. At that time, however, it was completely unclear what the state should look like, of which he was now the head, because there were conflicts with all the neighbors over the borders. In Moscow, the situation for the “Reds” was not much different: counter-revolutionary “White” units were harassing them from all directions. And even if it were possible to survive the attacks, there was still the question of the relationship with the new countries that were springing up like mushrooms on what was previously Tsarist territory - seven of them in the west alone: ​​Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania , Belarus, Ukraine and Poland.

Among them, Poland quickly proved to be the dominant player.

An army organized by experienced officers and a state system that arose directly from the structures set up by the Central Powers before 1918 permitted foreign policy action that went far beyond mere diplomacy. In the political debate, Józef Pilsudski prevailed against his rivals: Poland should be reborn as a country between the Baltic and the Black Sea and continue the glorious history of this Rzeczpospolita of the 17th century. In the early modern period it had been the largest state in Europe until Prussia, Russia and Austria divided it up in three stages in 1772, 1793 and 1795. Pilsudski raved about this old glory of bygone times, he dreamed of Vilnius and Lemberg, even Minsk and Kiev - and would actually conquer these cities within a few months.

As late as 1918, Poland, the Bolsheviks, Lithuania and the Ukraine were still fighting each other. It was not the defeated who fought here, but the winners. The fall of the Habsburg, Romanov and Hohenzollern monarchies made their nations and their political projects possible. But that is why the First World War in the East did not end in November 1918, but continued until 1921. The banners under which they fought were new. The soldiers stayed the same. Aside from a few enthusiastic volunteers, they were haggard men, grossly underarmed and weary from four years of war, exhausted like the countries and their people. But finally it was about their own cause, no longer about the conflict of outdated empires that had ruled the region for far too long. In this respect, 1918 was a turning point - and again represented a difference from the West, where the guns fell silent and the states continued to exist.

The year 1919 saw the end of Ukrainian statehood, saw Polish troops in Minsk, Vilna and Lviv, but only skirmishes with Soviet units. 1920 brought a war of movement on a front more than a thousand kilometers long. The Poles took Kiev - and thus contributed to the fact that many "whites" now closed ranks with the Bolsheviks to defend the fatherland. The Red Army then counterattacked, driving the Poles 500 kilometers west in just eight weeks. These were the last glory days of cavalry and the first harbingers of modern mobile warfare with tanks and aircraft. The fall of Warsaw seemed certain, and suddenly it was no longer inconceivable that Bolshevism would spread to Germany. But the decisive blow failed, Pitsudski just so managed a victory that would go down in history as the miracle on the Vistula. The Soviet dream of world revolution was over, Lenin had to develop the doctrine of “communism at home”.

And then a peace agreement in neutral Riga. No victory for Poland, much less land gain than hoped for, but no defeat either. The new republic had not become communist. But she stood alone against the Soviet Union, which was founded in 1922: there was no longer a Ukraine, Belarus was Soviet, and Lithuania was an enemy. The Ukrainian case was particularly tragic because there was a large anti-Bolshevik movement under Symon Petjura. Poland had made an agreement with ukraine, but ultimately for entirely self-interested reasons. When peace came, Pilsudski dropped his ally. Ukraine had been crushed between West and East. Even Lithuania, traditionally one of two parts of the Rzeczpospolita, was alienated from Poland, for the neighbor had conquered its capital, Vilna. The victorious hegemon found itself isolated in foreign policy.

In Moscow, after the Riga Treaty, the Bolsheviks were firmly in the saddle of a new Russian empire and plotting revenge, particularly the military leader blamed for the failure at Warsaw: Joseph Stalin. The actual commander-in-chief, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, was, therefore, able to return to Moscow as a shining hero, despite his failure. In the "Great Terror" of 1937, Stalin made him one of the first to be eliminated. The peace order represented a gigantic mortgage in every respect. Half of Eastern Europe had become the battlefield of a war that belonged as much in the 18th as in the 20th century. Hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers and civilians were to be mourned, vast areas devastated, and once again the Jews were seen - as they had been for ages - as the cause of all evil. However, anti-Semitism had been enriched by a further, decisive component: Jews were now also regarded as traitors to the people and supporters of communism. This later made the Holocaust considerably easier for the Germans, because other nations also regarded their neighbors as enemies.

The fragile peace in Eastern Europe lasted just 18 years. And it was Germany that ended it. The National Socialists admired Pisudski for his victory over Bolshevism and for his internal political assertiveness. But when Poland didn't want to be available as a junior partner against the Soviet Union, hatred resurfaced. Germany attacked on September 1, 1939, and on September 17 the Red Army also advanced into Poland. World War II far surpassed the horrors of the Polish-Soviet War. Its after-effects remained unmistakable. In a pact with Hitler, Stalin secured the part of Poland that the Soviets had had to cede in Riga in 1921. And in 1945 at Yalta, he did not deviate from this so-called Curzon line. He argued to Churchill that it was based on an Allied proposal made in 1920 and that Soviet Russia, then in its weakest hour, was forced to relinquish territory. The Kresy, those ethnically very heterogeneous and always contested regions between Poland and Russia, changed hands once more. The Polish-Soviet War still casts its shadow today. Moscow and Warsaw argue about the treatment of the soldiers captured at the time; Poland discusses national minorities and historical monuments with Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine; Poles disagree as to whether Pilsudski's actions against Soviet Russia did not strengthen the real enemy - Germany - and thus indirectly contributed to the defeat in 1939. At the same time, he is celebrated as the father of modern Poland and as the savior of all of Europe from Bolshevism. The “Miracle on the Vistula” is seen as a defense of Western Christian civilization and as another ignored Polish sacrifice for the West.

And so the events of the years after the First World War are still topical, perhaps even more topical than ever. Last but not least, today's conflict in and around Ukraine can be seen, with certain justification, as a continuation or a new edition of the fighting of that time: Even then there was a country divided between West and East that its respective allies made into a battlefield and so ultimately brought about the demise of its statehood. Whether that will happen again is hard to say. In any case, this book is not about the future, but about the past. It tells of a forgotten victory in this country, without which the history and present of East Central Europe cannot be understood.

Unlike so often in German historiography, the focus is not on Russia. Attention is primarily focused on Poland and Ukraine, and only secondarily on the other conflict parties in the Polish-Spjetian war. Crucially, for Russia, the conflict was just one chapter of the far larger civil war - and not necessarily the most important. The perception of the other participants could not have been more different - and it still is today: For them it was a question of to be or not to be, to exist as a viable state or just as a minority in another country. The clashes of 1919/20 are therefore part of the Polish and Ukrainian national identity.

[peachssodapop]

the mention of their different dialects and languages immediately had my enraptured

so here's a very quickly drawn comic based on I cannot seem to find a good german equivalent to silly

[sprachgefuehle]

The true danger of learning Spanish that no one ever warns you of is that you might end up speaking a dialect where they add the diminuitive -ito and -ita to every word because you might end up using that in other languages as well.

This post is sponsored by me, an adult in their late twenties, casually and without a hint of irony dropping into a conversation with other adults the sentence "I saw some birdies at the lakey" in German.

[solradguy]

''There sits Sigurd stained with blood; Fafnir's heart he roasts in the fire. I would call the prince wise and prudent if he himself ate that gleaming heart."

-Poems of the Elder Edda - tl: Patricia Ann Terry

[swordsonnet]

Hallo mein Name ist Ebenholz Dunkel'heit Demenz Raben Weg und ich habe langes ebenholz-schwarzes Haar (so habe ich meinen Namen gekriegt) mit lila Strähnen und roten Spitzen das bis zur Mitte meines Rückens geht und eisblaue Augen wie durchsichtige Tränen und viele Leute sagen mir, dass ich wie Alma Unterwindseite aussehe (A. d. A.: wenn du nich weist wer sie ist dann verpiss dich von hier!). Ich bin nicht mit Gerhard Weg verwandt, aber ich wünschte ich wäre es, weil er ein verdammt heißer Feger ist. Ich bin ein Vampir, aber meine Zähne sind gerade und weiß. Ich habe blasse weiße Haut. Ich bin auch eine Hexe, und ich gehe auf eine Zauberschule namens Schweinwarzen in England, wo ich in der siebten Jahrgangsstufe bin (ich bin siebzehn). Ich bin ein Grufti (falls das euch nicht klar war) und ich trage vor allem schwarz. Ich liebe Heißes Thema und kaufe dort alle meine Klamotten. Heute zum Beispiel trug ich ein schwarzes Korsett mit passender Spitze drum herum und einen schwarzen Leder-Minirock, rosa Netzstrümpfe und schwarze Springerstiefel. Ich trug schwarzen Lippenstift, weiße Grundierung, schwarzen Augenkonturenstift und roten Lidschatten. Ich ging aus Schweinwarzen raus. Es schneite und regnete, also war keine Sonne da, worüber ich sehr glücklich war. Viele Popper starrten mich an. Ich zeigte ihnen den Stinkefinger.

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[stupidhany]

Posting this cause tbh this needs to be posted in here

I'm thinking of scanning these some time soon

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

[keineahnung-ichhalt]

I'm currently replaying Ace Attorney in German and a really interesting thing they did in the translation is having Franziska use the informal you for everyone, even in court. This is really striking because she is the only character in the games so far to use the informal you, other than Maya and Phoenix with each other, and they've been friends for a year at this point, so that's to be expected. But they're in a courtroom, a very formal space, and they have never met before, so this is a situation where you definitely should use the formal you. By not doing so, she puts herself above everyone else and very clearly asserts her dominance. She's there to show them that she's better than them and she knows it. And as much as I like to criticise some of the choices made in the translation, this is such a great characterisation choice.

[lueddegen]

Two very unfortunate (or hilarious) things about the german version of the murderbot diaries is that not only did they manage to translate the title All Systems Red as Systemausfall (eng. system failure) when one future installation turned out to be named System Collapse, they also managed to turn Rogue Protocol into Exit Szenario (no need to translate) right before Exit Strategy came out.

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

First Version Zero, now this, I’m winding up in the weeds as I read these books. Oops. This is a Translation of Marc-Uwe Kling’s originally German language novel. And, the first of his books that has been translated into English. And, boy it’s a doozy.

QualityLand is a country on Earth. It’s run by algorithms. A universal ranking system determines the social advantages and opportunities for every person in QualityLand. It even matches people together (and does it more than once if your match changes. The algorithm is life isn’t a funny thing to say, it’s the truth in QualityLand.

TheShop, even knows what you want before you want it, and sends it to you. Of course, it would be a very boring book if something didn’t go wrong, and, it happens when Peter gets delivered something that he most definitely doesn’t want. And so he wants to return it. Uh, but, that would sorta break apart society entirely since, the algorithm is never wrong. I mean, who could have guessed that was where this was going.

The sarcasm of my previous sentence aside, this was funny (uh, in a very dark way, be warned), and like Version Zero, hit close to home at quite a few parts. It was a fun fun read.

You may like this book If you Liked: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Lovestar by Andri Snaer Magnason, or The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson

QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling

[faaun]

the way that diff languages sound r so fascinating they're all different and all so vivid

[cerise-on-top]

Hiiii :3 and could you do Kate laswell and könig with a reader who loved cuddles?

Hey there! Sure I can! But I don't write Laswell as very cuddly! But I made König's a bit longer to try and make up for it, hope that's alright!

Laswell and König with a Cuddly!Reader

Laswell: If you love cuddles then she’s the wrong person to ask for some, sorry. Sometimes she doesn’t mind them, sometimes she absolutely hates being touched. It’s very rare for her to initiate anything more than just a kiss to your cheek or a hand on your back for a short amount of time. Laswell genuinely is not a cuddly person, at all. Sometimes, on a good day, she might oblige if you ask her to. However, even then your cuddle sessions won’t be too long. And if I were you then I wouldn’t force her to cuddle you either, she’ll get snappy if you do. Your relationship is built on mutual trust and respect. You’re violating her boundaries if you force her to cuddle. Sorry, but that’s just how I’ve been writing her.

König: He’s not too fond of cuddles either, but he makes exceptions for his S/O. If you’re his S/O, that’s great! You can ask him for some cuddles and he’ll only very rarely say no to you. It’s usually when he’s busy that he’ll say no, but any other time? He’s free game. Again, you’re the only person he’s somewhat cuddly with. However, unlike Laswell, he sometimes will ask you for some cuddles himself. Sometimes even the big guy needs to hold someone, or even be held. I’ve said it before, but if you’re roughly the same size as him, or even taller than him, then he might hint at wanting to be held from time to time as well. But other than that, he’ll humor you. You can cuddle in any position you want, but he refuses to lie down on top of you. Even when you’re the same size as him, he won’t do it. König is aware he’s a very heavy lad, so he really doesn’t want to crush you. But if you wanna lie on top of him, then you can go right ahead, he really doesn’t mind. In those cases he actually quite likes it when you’re shorter than he is, because in that case you can lie on top of him in your entirety. He’ll wrap his arms around you, sometimes he’ll kiss the top of your head as well. Spooning with him is pretty nice. He’s a strong guy, and a warm one at that as well. Don’t ask him to cuddle you in summer, though, as he gets sweaty fairly easily and doesn’t want to gross you out. Besides, he also doesn’t want to sweat bullets just because you’re clinging to him. But you’re more than welcome to just plop down in his lap during any other season and nuzzle into him. He’ll call you “meine kleine Schmusekatze” or, if you’re being especially clingy, “mein kleines Schmusebärchen”. I think that eventually, when he comes home from an especially rough mission, he actually kind of looks forward to holding you. It’s not that unlikely that you might get hurt because of him, so it’s nice to get to hold you and make sure you’re safe within his arms. Sometimes, while you’re cuddling, he’ll tease you by speaking his dialect. He’s saying no mean things, though. It’s either how cute you are, how you can’t understand him, or just some random things he thought of at the moment. Even if you know German he’ll lay his dialect on extra thick so you can’t actually understand him.

[maochira]

THE WAIT IS OVER!!! I FINALLY HAVE THESE PANELS IN GERMAN AAAAHHH

"There the endorphines flow! Aaah, I'm coming! Oooh yeeees!" Also ich hab ja auf "ich spritz gleich ab!" Gehofft aber das ist auch gut

"RIGHT IN THE WOMB!" HAHAHA THEY USED THAT TRANSLATION FOR THE GERMAN VERSION LETS GOOO