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While I slowly start feeling at home in this corner of the internet, I haven't quite figured out how it all works. What to post about, what comments are appreciated, how to interact with communities etc. (am I overthinking this? probably. welcome to my head).

Thought of the Week:
I've discovered, once again, that when Germans find each other in an English speaking context, even if they start talking about a topic like German grammar or a crime show that's the German equivalent of Doctor Who (as in everyone has seen it at some point and it's running for ~50 years), we will stick to English. Not necessarily 'cause there might be people around for the conversation, who don't understand German, but rather because it would be weird.

What I haven't quite figured out yet is, why is it weird? Switching languages mid conversation is not that odd in multilingual spaces. English for a good part seems to be the lingua franca of the internet, so maybe that's it?

Here is a fic idea I had but don't feel like writing - feel free to use it:

The Untamed/Mdzs The Martian Fusion
This was inspired by another post (forgot by who, I'll link it if I find it) about Wei Wuxian working at Granny Wen's farm and my first thought was "He does have Botany Powers. You know, like Mark Watney."

Now this could be a) Wei Wuxian being left behind on Mars and essentially going through his Burial Grounds phase with some potatoes or b) let's change it up a bit and there already was a little colony on Mary and when the research team gets the order to leave because of the storm and leave the colonists behind, Wei Wuxian just can't.

With both options the Wen Clan or Jin Guangshan could be an antagonist, trying to save resources instead of wasting them on Wei Wuxian (and the others).

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Yeah....yeah no. People keep asking me why I'm not buying the German books, because look, they're there!

And I'm sitting here like...........no. No, I'd die of secondhand embarrassment. Yaoi manga was already bad, but at least I sort of knew the good translator.

Just no. Just the thought is. No.

But rest assured, I think everyone thinks of English as the porn language. This has, of course, partially to do with smut in your native tongue just being awkward, but even people who are very multilingual think that English is the porn language.

Well, yaoi usually has fewer discriptions and you can ignore the speech bubbles.
But when you rely on written descriptions, German erotic writing ... it's just not it.

And the sound effects aren't as cringe, yes.

Plus, yaoi manga doesn't have descriptions of....anatomy. Usually. At least not as much.

German erotic terms are just......no.

German erotic terms are just......no.

Yeah. No. I mean ... it's just horrible.

Fun Fact: due to Classical Archaeology I'm so used to the word phallus in German that I started using it in non-archaeology situations. It's not helpful.

carmenta recently said to me "I've learned to read over Schwanz without cringing" and while I live in awe......I don't think I'll get there.

An admirable skill! Sounds like a lot of practice was needed for this result.

I hadn’t read anything in German for so long that just starting the first book was sooo weird. Like, how does language work? Why does it sound like that? Is that a correct sentence? XD

The “flavour” and the ~~~vibes~~~ are all wrong! XD
At least I didn’t see any “Schwanz” in there, so thanks for small mercies I guess… (We do have "Glied" though, because of course we do. But uhh it could be worse...? XD)

It could be so much worse. I have a friend, who finds German erotica funny and likes to share scenes and sentences. It's so horrible.

Isn't German porn somehow famous anyhow? I seem to have heard that years ago, I'm not sure in which context that came up anymore.

Famous? In what way?

In an "anything goes" sort of way, since very few things are actually illegal here (as in, if it's legal to do between consenting adults, it's also legal to depict, while some things in other countries are legal between consenting adults but are banned from being depicted). Plus, Germany has one of the largest porn industries globally.

I didn't know that. But it makes sense. Well, good for the economy I guess?

Probably still recovering from Covid restrictions. ^^;;

XD That’s like that contest for the worst sex scenes in a published book, I always love to go through those because it’s so uplifting for me as a writer. I feel so insecure about writing more explicit scenes, but I’m definitely not that bad! XD

In German, it gets even worse because it feels like none of the terms really work, they all sound so wrong… XD

I recently read a cozy crime in German and....so many dialogue tags. Why are people using so many dialogue tags? It was weird, it pulled me completely out of it. I'm not sure if it was just this book or if it's a German problem.

I'm not sure Glied is....better, actually. My friend said that about Schwanz in relation to fanfic (for Tatort fandom, how we got there I'm still not sure), so in a more colloquial setting but. I'm not sure which is better. Both are bad, imo. It's just so...awkward.

I haven’t read anything in German besides MDZS recently… perhaps I should check it out again, just to see. XD But I guess that it must be a book by a German author, too… I do have some, I guess. XD

Yeah any term in German just sounds so weird. XD I think Schwanz is usually used for cock/dick, and Glied for member, so the ones that are a bit more … highbrow use that. XD But then you’re getting to Liebesessenz and stuff like that, and it’s just… cringe. Cringe so hard! XD

You could go to a library. XD

But yeah, also for me, if anyone would look at my shelves, they'd probably think I'm some kind of expat rather than a native German speaker. It's very odd.

Glied reminds me of Dr. Sommer. XD I also side-eye things like member pretty hard in fic, idk know. Maybe because it is a bit high brow? Liebesessenz........................omg. Nooooooooo. omg.