one of my neighbours just said "servus" as way of greeting me while we passed in the hallway.
we're in hesse.
i'm from lower saxony.
my mother's said of the family aka the only one that matters is from east germany.
you cannot IMAGINE the utter culture shock i just experienced.
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the percy jackson show is everything i dreamt of, and more.
they really did the books justice. they didn't miss a single iconic moment so far. the characters are perfectly written, and the actors are amazing. i knew from the beginning that walker scobell was The perfect cast for percy, and turns out the whole cast is like that! it looks like they pulled the characters right from the book, made them magically real.
but i also love all the new things and twists they added. the story is so slightly different that someone with a vague knowledge of the story wouldn't notice but someone who's read the books multiple times would see, but wouldn't be bothered by it.
it's exactly the story i fell in love with over a decade ago, and never stopped loving. but from a slightly different angle. those changes are slight enough that's it's still That Story, but big enough that it feels like i'm falling in love with the story again. and it feels magical.
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Holy shit. Thank you guys for all of the asks. I got exactly 50!
I meant to respond to them when I got home from work last night, but I didn’t have enough energy by the time I was done reading these. I’m still incredibly exhausted today, it’s like all of the energy is completely sapped out of me since I was in the emergency room the other day.
The heavy ache in my chest definitely lessened while I was focused on reading what you guys wrote last night. The reminders that my TF F/Os still love me is something I really need to hear, something I probably have to tell myself multiple times... I spent so long being conditioned to believe otherwise.
A few of you also reminded me that Starscream had gone through heavy abuse, and he wouldn’t support someone who treated me the way Megatron treats him. It helped me feel better... I think that’s what got through to me the most. I’ve seen so many commissions/fics my ex-friend showed me where she was being manipulative, and that she would be loved for it. Seeing all of that visual representation of her being so tenderly loved by these characters while she was hurting me at the same time, for so many months, it really did some damage and made me internalize the belief that all transformers characters would want to hurt me the same way and love her for it. Especially when the characters she commissioned and talked about the most often were forming into PTSD triggers. For almost a year now, I have just assumed that all of those characters she wrote and commissioned, including Starscream, would encourage her to hurt me and that they would love to see me getting hurt. I don’t choose to feel this way, it’s just... trauma.
But a few of you wrote about how... canonically, Starscream was so fucking pissed when he was abused, especially in RiD2015!! He was so broken up and angry just like I am!! His entire 3 episodes focused on him repeating how unfairly he was treated, how much he wanted to hurt Megatron for all the times he was put through emotional/physical pain, how years had passed since he escaped being tied to his abuser and yet he was so, so angry and still worried that he wasn’t strong enough bc that is what he was conditioned to believe for millions of years. I want to think that same bot would look at me and see himself in me, and hold my hand through this and tell me it’s gonna be okay and it’s gonna get better and he’d never want to treat me the way my abuser treated me. How could he bear it if his little starflower looked at him the way that he looks at Megatron? I don’t want to think he would support my abuser’s actions, no matter how many fics or commissions she has stating otherwise. When I escaped a toxic situation with someone else 3 years ago, I turned to Starscream for this exact same reason, I looked to him for support. He helped me get through it. Now, I need him again after facing treatment that was absolutely horrific, except I’ve been conditioned to believe he would hurt me too; I just feel so sad when I look at him and I wish I could feel loved by him again. It’s been really, really, really hard. Hearing other people tell me that he loves me and would never want to hurt me really helps, I need to be reminded of that, because I absolutely can’t believe it when I try to tell myself.
I’m sorry I’m not able to respond to your asks at the moment, I’m extremely exhausted from. everything. Today has been difficult as well so I will be offline for the rest of the night. I don’t know if I’ll be online tomorrow.
I’m not 100% sure when the commissions will open up, I was really hoping it would happen this week but I didn’t expect to have that panic attack Tuesday, it really drained me. I am hoping that I’ll have comms open by next week, it all depends on how I’m feeling. I might spend more time offline to limit seeing any potential triggers bc I’ve been very fragile since I went to the emergency room, things that normally wouldn’t make me spiral before are probably things that I will have more trouble handling right now, at least until I can calm down again. Normally it takes me about 3 to 5 days to calm down from a severe panic attack like that. But I gotta spend another $400 on new glasses tomorrow morning so... I really do need to open comms soon :’) They will absolutely be open within the next 2 weeks, I just don’t know exactly when. Anyway, thank you guys again for the nice messages, I really needed them and you helped me feel less alone last night ❤
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Oh shit we are finally getting episode of savanaclaw manga coming out in december
Obvs I'm looking forward to see Jack content in the manga but mmm I'm also a little worried? I'm not really a fan of how the new artist (Oda Suzuka, Pretty Boys Detective Club artist) drew Leona cause he looks too... Soft-looking? (his skin also looks very pale 💀) and that expression overall just seems ooc to me
From seeing their works, all of the characters they draw are bishonen (slim, pretty face, soft features) so I'm lowkey worried about how they will portray Leona and Jack, I'm just hoping they won't twink-ify Jack and make him less muscly and give Leona a shoujo-protagonist face
Anyway I hope that I'm wrong and that they will do a good job portraying savanaclaw 🙏
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