Alle Kunst ist der Freude gewidmet

Okay, ich mag die Hornblowerbücher ja wirklich, aber Forester ist wirklich schlecht im Schreiben von romantischen Szenen. Absolut furchtbar. Ich bin zwar grad nur bei "The Happy Return", aber wie er da Hornblower und Lady Barbara beschreibt und wie er sich für sie erwärmt. Alter. Nein. Das war furchtbar. Aber was solls. Ich lese die Reihe nicht für irgendeine Romanze sondern weil ich Seeaktion haben will. Und das kann er zumindest.

Aber.

Ich hätte Hornblower echt gerne eine in die Fresse gehauen als er angefangen hat Lady Barbara runterzumachen weil ~so gar nicht weiblich ist~ und einen Sinn fürs Praktische hat, OMG wie furchtbar. BAH. gut, ich gebe zu, dass ich Hornblower die ganze Zeit über weder wirklich gemocht noch nicht gemocht habe, aber jetzt... fällt es mir schwer ihn auch nur ein bisschen zu mögen.

Bush ist allerdings immer noch niedlich XD So putzig.

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Ehrlich gesagt mag ich den TV!Hornblower wesentlich mehr als den Buch!Hornblower. <<   8D (Von Pellew wollen wir mal gar nicht anfangen. Außerdem hatte ich bei der TV Serie viel mehr Mitleid mit Captain Sawyer. Im Buch war er einfach wirklich nur verrückt, aber in der Serie war er ein richtiger Gegenspieler. Und sein Ende war einfach nur... ;^; Wie er da mit Wellard stand... Und Captain Keene. Ihn mochte ich schon im Buch. Er hat mir auch Leid getan :( )

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

(Translation:

MeGusta-Chris: Could you peel another orange for me, Wolf?

Trollololol-Wolf: Of course, dear Chris!)

Nobody will understand this but YESSSSSS XD Lol forever.

Source here

WHY IS LEGO PIRATEN SO AWESOME? ROGER, YOU'RE ADORBS IN A STRANGE, PIRATE-Y, OLD-MANNISH AND GOLD-GREEDY WAY. YOU REMIND ME OF SCROOGE MCDUCK. CAMILLA, YOU'RE AWESOME AND A LITTLE TROLL 8DDDD ALSO, I LOVE HOW EVERYONE IS A CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT AND NOT SO NICE. ESPECIALLY THE NAVY DUDES. YOU'RE ALL BAD GUYS. I LOVE IT:

AND POLLY, YOU SNARKY PARROT. YOU ARE AWESOME. YOU ARE SO AWESOME THAT I IMAGINE YOU WEARING AN EYEPATCH LIKE THE CAPTAIN. AWESOMESAUCE.

ALSO, THE INTRO MUSIC MAKES ME SO RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY AND GIDDY 8D I MADE IT MY RINGTONE. PURE HAPPINESS. I THINK I NEED TO UPLOAD THE 6 EPISODES ON YOUTUBE. THE AWESOMENESS NEEDS TO BE SPREAD.

"zweckentfremden" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "to divert sth. from its intended use"

German is so much more awesome >8D We have so many lovely words.

Does this sentence make ANY sense grammatically?

Am I not worth enough to be fought for?

Because the English Grammar, it is deserting me ;A; (For context: Minna is asking Viggy if she doesn't mean enough to him for him to fight for their relationship. And I want to keep "worth" in it. Because.)

 

Self, stop it. You don't need even more historical figures to fangirl about. You already have Karl der Große, Friedrich Barbarossa, Friedrich II and Heinrich VII (or even all the Staufer). You do not also need to fangirl about Ludwig der Deutsche. XD So awesome~ Damn, I really do have to tell you the wacky and awesome anecdote about Ludwig der Deutsche I've heard in the lecture today. It's not as wacky as the one about Karl der Große and the monster nomming on his penis, but boy, it is funny as well. (I couldn't help but picture Ludwig as Hector. Fffffffffff, he would've reacted similar, I believe) But I have to look it up again since I didn't manage to write down everything.

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Also, I was hit by several relevations earlier. Please skip this if you're not interested in semi-coherent self-analyzing.

( Cut relevations )

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Okay, to make this post a bit more happy and lovely I'll ramble and squee about writing. Namely about writing styles since I've noticed lately that I've discovered a new "writing style" for me;

Playing around with tenses. By which I mean; I love combining present and past tense. Not just randomly, of course, but to write on different times levels. To show that something plays in the past in contrast to the "now" in the story, which would be present. To show that something is changing without being so obvious about it. Making flashbacks without having to indicate it in the text or without having to put everything in italics.

And the present tense is attractive because it gives (me at least) a feeling of immediacy and closeness. Past tense always feels a bit distant, as if I'm really just a viewer of the happenings from high above. In Present tense, however, I feel as if I'm really in the middle of the narrative. As if I'm experiencing everything at the same time as the character. And that is great. Not all stories are suited for such closeness, of course; I can't immediately tell why or which, but after writing a few sentences I know if I want the reader to be close or not.

Let me explain how that would look like with an example (the Lyon story for raphi): Lyon studies and the tense is past. It's the frame narrative. Then he falls asleep and the tense switches to present. Because the reader is with him in the dream. The reader can't see the dream from an outside position, they have to enter Lyon´s head to see the dream. And the logical conclusion is, well, that they are with him and experience it as Lyon does.
It's a matter of hovering over Lyon in the frame narrative and standing directly next to Lyon in the embedded narrative.

Of course, I don't know yet if everything works as I want it to work. I'll have to wait for reactions as soon as I'll be able to post it. (And the contest entry >8D It has tense switch as well. But there the switch is even less marked (the Lyon story still has "- -" to indicate the scene changes inside the dream) which is why I then need a guinea pig to test it 8D)

So, do you have any writing techniques you love to death? Or techniques you recently (or not so recently) discovered to be awesome and fun?

Dieter Nuhr is probably the most awesome cabaret artist ever XD I love him. His comments are always so fitting. (And he is really good at picking up "typical" German habits and making fun of them). Also, yeah, he is kinda hot. 8D *is shallow like that. at least for now* But the shiny internet (and love advice Moulder) are seriously distracting XD

Also, have been amusing myself with college!bros the last few days XD Unsurprisingly, it didn't turn out that cracky. Especially when it came to Viggy and Minna. Oi. Oh well.

I kinda want to write something in German again. I dunno why.