Shut Up M'dudes, It's A National Holiday

i dont think this should need to be said but i feel like it's time for a periodic reminder that if your feminism/politics are exclusionary of sex workers and kinksters or other vaguely defined "weird people" you're a shithead and i have no interest in having you around. you cannot build a just society primarily built around the exclusion of specific groups, that just makes you a fascist. same thing goes for prison abolitonists who still want to reserve the right to kill certain "gross" or "wrong" people rather than actually investing in rehabilitative community justice.

i think my fav german idioms are “es zieht wie hechtsuppe”, “da brat mir einer nen storch!”, “holla die waldfee”, “perlen vor die säue”. most of them are untranslateable but i’ll try.

es zieht wie hechtsuppe = literally: It drafts like pickerel soup. Meaning: There is a strong draft in this place. Ex. “Close the window, es zieht wie Hechtsuppe in here!”

da brat mir einer nen storch! = literally: Someone should roast a stork for me now! Meaning: That’s incredibly surprising. Ex. “Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt split up? Da brat mir doch einer ‘nen Storch!”

holla die waldfee = literally: Wowsie the forest fairy. Meaning: That’s surprising and slightly unbelievable. Ex. “You managed to drink one liter of gasoline? Holla die Waldfee.”

perlen vor die säue = literally: pearls in front of the sows. Meaning: something is wasted on people who can’t appreciate it. Ex. “No wonder the Kingergarteners didn’t appreciate your brilliant lecture on Nietzsche’s morality. Da hast du Perlen vor die Säue geworfen.”

that’s just all. so nonsensical when you stop to think about it… they all have linguistic explanations (hechtsuppe comes from a yiddish word, for example) but they’re just… hilariously dadaistic. (and perlen vor die säue is just too cool)

every episode of merlin is like

morgana: the best way to kill arthur is to make him piss rocks. here i have this magic snake where anyone who is bit will piss rocks! he’ll never see it coming

arthur: i am pissing rocks

gaius: merlin is at the tavern

merlin: i have found a special flower that only opens when you recite a spell at it and it can be used to cure rock pissing disease. enjoy this tea i’ve made, arthur!

arthur: i have stopped pissing rocks thanks to the bravery of my knights. the moment they captured this random soldier who brought the snake to camelot, i was drinking my tea and i quit pissing rocks.

morgana: thwarted again! if only emrys didn’t know every detail of arthur’s life that only his servant would know!

Ich habe so oft diese kurzen Filme gesehen und wollte das jetzt mal selbst ausprobieren haha🫣😂 ich hoffe, dass es ganz in Ordnung ist

Shhh they are on their first date

Also:

“this ship isn’t canon” to YOU. I, however, am delusional

musical lines so sad i’ll never recover

- “you knew all along i couldn’t do it.. vote for myself.”

- “in their eyes i see you alexander, i see you every time!”

- “say hi to god.”

- “always be seventeen!”

- “but i hope my son will know, he’ll never be alone.”

- “touch me when will enough be enough see!”

- “some girls fight hard, some face the trial, some girls were just meant to smile.”

- “abuela? daniela! call 911!”

- “it took a horrible accident for me to realise how goddamn wonderful everything is.”

- “atleast she had the guts to not pretend to be my friend!”

- “i thought my life had meaning.. turns out it didn’t! oh well!”

- “and the captain is pointing.. well who made her captain?!”

- “i did exactly as you said, pa.”

- “i guess this adventure is a little to big for me.”

- “paciencia y fe!”

- “we had a life. she didn’t. i’d take my seventeen years over nothing.”

what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…