in berlin rn (when am i not)…….more berliner remus hcs? saw a variant of him on the u bahn the other day
ok good because ive been thinking about him 🫶 i have an ask somewhere in the drafts about modern au but
the things that our beautifully grumpy modern!remus would constantly bitch about (the general grime, the attitude, the like? random abandoned street furniture?) would be exactly the type of shit that little straßenratte remus would make a home out of in the 60/70s
his family is bavarian yes he was separated by the wall as a preteen etc etc but this matters bc i think he's like..... a massive poser?
you have to imagine this tiny farmboy drowning in a stolen men's xxl leather bomber very defensively trying to blend in at S036 and being so angry about it too
and he is hitting the schnauze EMBARRASSINGLY hard for the first year okay. he is producing the most aggressive "ICK" known to man
i get emotional thinking about the logistics of a little werewolf adopted by muggle teenage squatters & punks. they shove sozialistische deutsche studentenbund zines in his hands and spike his hair and he clomps around in hand-me-down boots three sizes too big
and yeah remus is a werewolf but i can't think of anyone more willing to deal with that than a codependent gaggle of self-proclaimed junkies who nurse friends through seizures and know all the abandoned factories to lock him up in?
and if he drags himself back to the squat needing stitches... he's not the only one? and maybe its unhealthy but they just ruffle his hair and laugh and call it lebenskunst and show him how to put cigarettes out on his own forearms without flinching and drag him to show after show after show after show after
and yes he still always feels like an Outsider
but maybe its only after a couple years of Hogwarts when he's 17 and less feral and his ribcage doesn't stick out anymore and he's taking sirius to the cheap schöneberg flat he's renting with galleons (that he earned!!) (!!!!!)
he looks around and sees it through somebody else's eyes for the first time and thinks that as shabby as it was he was never actually on the outskirts of his own life here? he was living it?
Prints in store
Evening Dress
1926-1929
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
doodle page 2. frankie + diane frankensteinn . morticians and their crazy scientists i stg……….
Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :
“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)
“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)
“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)
“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)
“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)
“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)
“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)
“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)
“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)
“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)
“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)
“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)
“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)
“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)
“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)
[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]
PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏
In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.
Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!
They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")
They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state
They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind
But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.
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