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Advent Calendar: Door/Türchen #4

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Sasha

Das Turnier hatte gut für Sasha begonnen.
Am ersten Tag wurde der Wettstreit mit dem Schwert ausgetragen und das war eine seiner stärksten Disziplinen und so war es nicht verwunderlich, dass er einen Gegner nach dem anderen aus dem Rennen schickte. Einige Male war der Kampf knapp ausgegangen, aber er hatte immer wieder die Oberhand gewinnen können. Bei einem Kampf hatte sein Gegner es geschafft ihm das stumpfe Schwert aus der Hand zu schlagen. Es flog ein gutes Stück und blieb wackelnd auf dem Boden liegen. Als sein Gegner gerade dabei war zum finalen Schlag auszuholen, rollte Sasha sich zur Seite, riss sein Schwert hoch über seine Körper und nutzte seinen Schwung um den andere zu Boden zu werfen. Als Zeichen seines Sieges hielt Sasha seinem Gegner die Klinge an den Hals und stieß dessen Schwert mit dem Fuß davon. Die Menge tobte und feierte ihn, aber er nahm das nur gedämpft wahr, denn sein Herz schlug wild in seiner Brust und sein Blut dröhnte in seinen Ohren.
Einen Kampf nach dem anderen gelangte er weiter und weiter an die Spitze der Kämpfer und gehörte bald schon zu den Teilnehmern des Finales, das zu Pferd im Lanzenstechen ausgetragen werden sollte.
Sasha ging nervös in seinem Zelt auf und ab. Als Felsling hatte er kaum Bezug zu Pferden. Für den Transport im Gebirge hatten sie Mulis, Esel oder Stiere, aber selten Pferde, denn diese waren nicht für die steinigen und zerklüfteten Wege geeignet. Außerdem wurden die Tiere nur im Notfall geritten und in der Ausbildung lernte man es meist gar nicht erst. Sasha hatte also hier das erste Mal auf einem Pferd gesessen. Die anderen Krieger meinten, er wäre ein Naturtalent, aber er fühlte sich mehr als unwohl auf dem Rücken eines der Tiere. Am Vorabend des Turniers hatte er noch einmal mit seinem Pferd trainiert und er wusste, dass das Tier seine Nervosität in sich aufgenommen hatte, auch wenn es zu versuchen schien ihn zu beruhigen.
„Herr, Ihr seid der Nächste“, berichtete ein Knappe.
Sasha bestätigte die Information mit einem Nicken und folgte ihm dann nach draußen, aber nicht ohne noch einmal über das Wappen auf seinem Wappenrock zu streichen um sich so ein wenig Mut und Ruhe zu verschaffen. Bevor er sein Pferd bestieg strich er auch ihm über den Hals.
„Wir schaffen das“, versuchte er sich selbst und dem Tier einzureden, dann führte er es am Zügel auf den Turnierplatz und stieg auf.
Ein Knappe reichte ihm einen Helm und nachdem er ein letztes Mal durchgeatmet hatte, setzte er ihn auf. Die Lanze wurde ihm als nächstes gereicht und sogleich machte er sich auf zum Anfang des Kampffeldes. Ein hölzernes Gitter trennte die Reitbahnen und sein Gegner sandte ihm einen letzten Gruß, bevor er sein Visier schloss. Sasha tat es ihm gleich und beide warteten gespannt auf das Startsignal. Die Fanfaren ertönten und die Reiter spornten ihre Pferde an und senkten ihre Lanzen, um den anderen vom Pferd zu stoßen. Sasha befürchtete gleich im ersten Kampf zu fallen, aber er hatte seinen Gegner überschätzt. Während Sasha’s Stoß den anderen am Brustkorb traf und aus dem Gleichgewicht brachte, traf der andere ihn lediglich an der Schulter. Sasha konnte sich schnell wieder fangen, während der andere im Regen der Lanzensplitter zu Boden ging. Einen Moment lang konnte Sasha nicht begreifen, was gerade geschehen war, umso größer war seine Freude, als die Menge anfing zu jubeln und der Gedanke sich festsetzte. Er hatte gewonnen! Er war nicht im ersten Kampf vom Pferd gefallen!
Erfüllt von diesem Sieg kämpfte er sich durch weitere Gegner. Er kam gut voran, doch dann kreuzte sich sein Weg mit einem der Krieger, die ihm diese Art zu kämpfen beigebracht hatte. Es war nicht einfach, aber im dritten Versuch gelang es Sasha den anderen vom Pferd zu stoßen. Doch sein nächster Gegner wartete bereits auf ihn.
Der Krieger kam von außerhalb und war einer der anderen Favoriten. In den ersten zwei Runden konnten sich beide gerade noch auf den Pferden halten.
Der letzte Stoß war hart gegen Sasha‘s Brust geprallt und er hing nur mehr schlecht als recht auf seinem Reittier.
Mühsam hievte er sich hoch und nahm die neue Lanze entgegen, um in die nächste Runde zu reiten.
Seine Hand zitterte und mit ihr die Waffe, aber er wollte nicht aufgeben, nicht so kurz vorm Ziel.
Aber all seine Entschlossenheit nützte nichts.
Der Stoß seines Gegners erwischte ihn heftig mitten in die Brust.
Der Aufprall ließ ihn die Zügel loslassen und er verlor den Halt.
Die Menge hielt den Atem an als er hilflos, wie eine Schildkröte auf ihrem Panzer, auf dem Boden lag, die kaputte Lanze ein paar Schritte neben ihm. Sein Pferd stampfte vor ihm unruhig auf den staubigen Boden.
Er hatte versagt.
Hektisch kamen Knappen auf ihn zu und halfen ihm hoch, während das Volk seine Stimme wiedergefunden hatte und den Sieger bejubelte. Sasha wurde zu seinem Zelt geführt und ließ sich auf einen der Stühle fallen.
Er hatte versagt.
Er hatte Schande über sein Volk gebracht.
In Scham vergrub er das Gesicht hinter den Händen als Tränen sich ihren Weg aus seinen Augen bahnten.

Hinter den Kulissen

Ihr habt euch also dafür entschieden Sasha’s Geschichte zu folgen, bei ihm geht es weiter im 7. Türchen.

Wenn ihr in der Zwischenzeit bei den anderen vorbei schauen möchtet, dann versteckt sich Mina hinter dem 2. und 5. Türchen und Damian hinter dem 3. und 6. Türchen.
Ich hoffe euch gefällt die Geschichte bisher.
Da ich euch nicht mit Regel-Erklärungen langweilen wollte und vieles schon durch Filme und Serien bekannt ist (BBC Merlin z.B.), habe ich mich dafür entschieden nur das wichtigstes vom Turnier zu erzählen. Wer trotzdem was dazu wissen möchte, darf sich gerne bei mir melden. 🙂
Bis Morgen,
PoiSonPaiNter
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Sasha

The tourney had started well for Sasha.
On the first day the contest was held in swordplay and that was one of his strongest disciplines and it therefore wasn’t surprising that he removed one opponent after the other from the competition. A couple of times it’s been really close, but he still managed to regain the upper hand. In one fight, one of his opponents managed to knock his dull sword out of his hand. It flew a few paces and landed wiggling on the ground. When his opponent was just striking out for the final hit Sasha rolled to the side, hoicked his sword high above his body and used his momentum to push the other to the ground. As sign of his victory Sasha put the blade at his opponent’s throat and kicked his sword away. The crowd went wild and celebrated him, but he only dully registered it, due to his heart beating wildly in his chest and his blood booming in his ears.
One fight after the other he continued higher and higher towards top of the fighters and he soon belonged to the participants of the finale, which would be carried out on horseback in a joust.
Sasha nervously walked his tent up and down. As Stoneling he barely had any connection to horses. For transport in the mountains they used mules, donkeys or bulls, rarely horses as they weren’t suited for the stony and cliffy paths. Additionally did they only ride the beasts in emergencies and in their training they rarely even learned it. During his stay here Sasha had therefore sat on a horse for the very first time. The other warriors commented that he was a natural, but he felt more than queasy on the back of one of the beasts. On the eve of the tourney he had trained once more with his horse and he knew that the beast had absorbed his nervousness, even if it seemed that it tried to calm him down.
“Master, you’re the next”, one of the squires told him.
Sasha acknowledged the information with a nod and followed him outside, but not without running his fingers across the coat of arms on his surcoat once more to gain some courage and calmness from it. Before he mounted his horse he also stroked its neck.
“We can do this”, he tried convincing himself and the beast, then he lead it by the reins to the tourney field and mounted it.
A squire gave him a helmet and after taking one last deep breath, he put it on. Next a lance was given to him and at once he went on to the beginning of the battlefield. A wooden fence parted the two riding lanes and his opponent send him a last greeting before he closed his visor. Sasha did the same and waited tensely for the starting signal. The fanfares rang out and the riders spurred their horses and lowered their lances to push the other one from their horse. Sasha feared he’d fall right in his first battle, but he had overestimated his opponent. While Sasha’s thrust caught the other one in the chest and made him lose his balance, did he in turn only receive a blow against his shoulder. Sasha was able to catch himself swiftly, while the other one fell down in a flurry of lance splints. For a moment Sasha could not conceive what had just happened, all the greater was his joy when the crowd started cheering and the thought fastened. He had won! He didn’t fall from his horse in the first match!
Spurred from his victory he fought through several more opponents. He made good way but then his paths crossed with one of the warriors that had taught him about this way of fighting. It wasn’t easy but in the third try Sasha managed to unhorse him. But his next opponent already waited for him.
The warrior had come from outside of town and was one of the other favourites. In the first two rounds both of them barely managed to stay on their horses.
The last thrust went hard against Sasha’s chest and he hung more than he sat on his mount.
With a lot of effort he lifted himself up and accepted the lance to ride into the next round.
His hand shook and with it the weapon, but he didn’t want to give up, not this close to the finish.
But all his resolution was for naught.
The thrust of his opponent hit him hard in the middle of his chest.
The impact made him drop the reins and lose his balance.
The crowd held their breath as he laid on the ground, helpless like a turtle on its shell; the broken lance a few steps away from him. His horse stomped impatiently on the dusty ground before him.
He had failed.
Fast the squires came to him and helped him up, as the crowd had found their voices again and cheered for the winner. Sasha was led to his tent and dropped down onto one of the chairs.
He had failed.
He had disgraced his people.
In shame he covered his face with his hands as tears made their way from his eyes.

Behind the Scenes

So you decided to follow Sasha’s story, this one will continue behind the 7th door.
If you want to see what the others are doing in the meantime can you find Mina behind the 2nd and 5th door and Damian behind the 3rd and 6th door.
As I did not want to bore you with rule-explanations and a lot is known through movies and series (like BBC Merlin), did I decide to only tell you the most important stuff of the tourney. Feel free to ask if you want to know more. 🙂
I hope you like the story so far.
See you tomorrow,
PoiSonPaiNter
© For the story by me. Do not use or repost either without my permission.

What’cha Watching Wednesday #7

I didn’t really feel like watching any series and focused more on old movies in the past months, but I still want to present you the seventh instalment of the What’cha Watching Wednesday, which again obviously covers more than one week.

WWWWhat is this about?

Every other Wednesday evening I will publish a post in which I collected the thoughts I had throughout the week(s) while watching the latest or any episode of a series or maybe even a movie.

Depending on how my time allows it, the comment will also be for those that I watched that day.
You’re warned: There will be Spoilers.

Let’s start

Supernatural – Season 2, Episode 15: Tall Tales (Watch Date: 11.06.) and others

While writing my Season summary for Season Three, I came across the Trickster again and decided to re-watch his episodes(, but I didn’t feel like changing the title much more than adding „and others“ as I had included a date on the other episode). I really enjoyed this character and his episodes were quite fun in a weird way. He really had had potential, but then again, so did many characters on the show…
I just really like the struggle the Trickster/Gabriel portrays, he claims to not want anything to do with Lucifers and Michaels fight, yet he does everything in his powers that Sam and Dean accept their roles in it and shows them time and again that some things just need to happen. He’s great and as I’ve discovered recently a lot of fun to write, which might explain that my simple One Shot idea kind of turned into two Multi-Chapter stories…

Incidentally I couldn’t get myself to watch The Hammer of the Gods, I just couldn’t…apart from the fact that there is so much wrong with that episode, did I just not want to see the outcome of it again…

I also watched several other episodes, though I can’t remember which ones, Season Four/Five stuff with Lucifer, Chuck and the Horsemen I believe. I also took some suggestions from wrencollins in this matter and just watched whatever I felt like.

Outlander – Season 1, Episodes 1-7 (Watch Date 6./7.6.)

As it was about to air in German television I felt like checking this one out. We’ll it is an interesting concept, the characters aren’t bad and somewhat interesting, but as you can see from the watch date, have I not gotten myself to continue since June…

My dad has probably seen more episodes in German than I have in English…

Sense8 – Season 1

I let myself be goaded into watching another series again. And I do not feel bad about it.
This show is incredible.
Actors from the actual countries the story plays in, with the actual accents, filmed in the actual locations. Really great.
And the switch between the Sensates, when they changed the perspective in a conversation or one took over and handled the situation of the other, was quite interesting, especially in the finale. I really liked the finale, though I’m afraid it’s hard to top.

I can’t even say who my favourite character is, I kind of liked all of them…Riley and Capheus are just incredibly adorable and cute, Lito and Will have quite hilarious moments, whereas Sun and Wolfgang show their badassery and Nomi and Kala, just show off their smarts, not to mention Freema Agyeman and Naveen Andrews, who made for interesting side characters.
I like the whole pretext of the show, its realization, the characters, pretty much everything…I can’t wait for Season 2 to be completed.

I am fairly certain that I might have a separate post for my Lost in Translation-series about Wolfgang – even though I have to say that they picked one of the most horrible sounding names here…
In German Wolfgang is fine, but in English? Just no. This is one of those names that, as a German, you don’t want to hear pronounced in an English way…

Speaking of translations…well…let’s say: I didn’t watch it directly on Netflix, therefore a lot of stuff is lost to me, as it did not have the translations with it, especially the Sun-focused episode, which was a pity.

Orange is the New Black – Season 3

Same problem as above, a lot of it was lost, as I didn’t have any subtitles. This was quite frustrating in the background episodes for Gloria, Chang and Leanne.

The overall storyline of this Season was a bit disappointing and boring – especially everything that concerned Piper. I just can’t stand her.
I really enjoyed the looks at the different inmates pasts again, I feel like this is always the most interesting part of the show. It was also fun to find out that another character spoke German, even if it was an Amish variation of it, that I didn’t really understand – though I believe it was the bad quality of the stream and my head still being stuck in English-mode…
The thing that bugged me most was probably Red. She was one of my favourites in the previous Seasons, but now, I’m not so sure any more. I also didn’t really understand the whole thing with Norma

So in conclusion: This Season wasn’t as good as the others, but it was still fun.

Merlin – different episodes

I felt like watching a bit Merlin again and I think Gwayne and Servant of two Masters are my most watched episodes of the series by now. Another one is The Once and Future Queen that I this time even watched in German with Fairy during my recent stay at her place. I just love Merlin’s rant in that episode and wanted to see how it was done in German. This show is just always fun to watch.

Lasko – different episodes

For every non-German: Lasko – Die Faust Gottes (The Fist of God) is a German show from 2009/10 about a secret organisation of fighting monks (Pugnus Dei – hence the title) that fight another secret organisation Ares and other people who want to do nasty things to those who can’t defend themselves. As this show was produced by a station known for its love of scripted reality and casting shows, you might imagine the seriousness of the production. Lasko is a totally ridiculous show, with the titular character constantly loosing his Habit to fight the foes showing off his muscular chest. He has a chubby side-kick that is good for quips and wordplays and there are so many tropes and what not, that it gets fun to watch because of its terribleness.

The show started shortly after we started writing Warlords and Fairy and I made it a tradition to watch each new episode together and discuss it directly via ICQ. We had a lot of fun doing that and we still have fun watching the show now and giving off the same comments we used to make. We just love Gladius. 😀

Buffy – different episodes

Just as the ones above: I just felt like watching some episodes of Buffy and I do believe I even caught some I haven’t seen back when it was still on television. Well, it’s also interesting to re-watch it in its original language and not in the translated version I grew up with. Does anyone else consider Tabula Rasa one of the shows most hilarious episodes? 😀

Different movies

As I said in the beginning did I feel more like watching movies than series in the past few months and I came across several quite interesting pieces and some really weird choices…
As I don’t want to go into that much detail I’ll simply make a name-dropping description here and say a few things about them.
One last comment before I start: When I consider actors to be interesting, I like to check out their other work, so some of the choices came from that perspective and I probably forgot to add some of them.

Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) and Castiel (Misha Collins) in the same movie? Of course I had to check out Moving Alan, though I’m not entirely sure, what exactly I watched there… It is a weird mixture of Weekend at Bernies and other things I cannot name, just with two girls, a dead-turned-paralysed husband and an insane actor in the middle of the desert… it’s just weird…

Not much better is Par 6, another of Collins‘ older movies about a family obsessed with golf, though it has some more fun scenes than the other one. Downside for me: Their accents were hard to understand sometimes.

As it was in his imdb list as well I took a look at Girl, Interrupted, his role here was only a minor five seconds part and the focus was on the main characters played by Winona Rider and Angelina Jolie. I don’t really like Jolie as an actress, but in this role she was quite creepy, well, the whole film is strange and creepy, but still interesting.

What I, however, noticed is that Collins‘ minor or side character roles seemingly often include being the love interest or some kind of random hook-up for one of the main character. Which is kind of best shown in Over Her Dead Body, were he really is just that – same in Girl, Interrupted. Makes you wonder about his role in Supernatural… 😀
Anyway, that movie was quite fun, the idea wasn’t new – ghost fiancé stalks her ex and tries to convince him to not fall in love with another girl -, but doing the whole thing through a medium made for some quite funny scenes. And Paul Rudd did a good job at playing the confused and torn ex, but I think I have yet to see him in a role that I didn’t enjoy watching, which is in stark contrast to Jason Biggs, whose role choices I do often question, guess someone just has to do those things as well…

One of my, if not the, highlight/s of this watching streak was 3 Blind Saints, with Richard Speight Jr. as main character. This movie is hilarious and if you haven’t seen it, you should totally check it out – if you did, you should watch it again. It has a lot of slapstick and situation humor, but here are some of my favourites:

  • Several people try to get an out of jail free card, by claiming that they were saved by God – one of them is an atheist
  • The main characters end up having to pretend to be ministers in the local community with the atheist having to fill the role of the pastor.
  • Some very strange argumentations and utterly ridiculous prayers and sermons.
  • A very strange meeting with God
  • A couple of guys in drag – one of them unwilling to shave off his beard – trying to get a confession out of a bad guy, with a kink for girls in short skirts, who knows its them in drag and plays along.

I watched it for a second time on Sunday and I could watch it again, it’s just so much fun. It’s far from being perfect and has a lot of flaws (e.g. a missing and re-appearing beard/stubble), but it’s just one of those funny feel-good movies.

I grew up with the Harry Potter movies, so when I got the chance to pick up Driving Lessons
with Rupert Grint, I didn’t hesitate long. This movie has an interesting take on different things: The protected life of an only child, the downsides of growing old alone, growing up and being an artist. It’s a nice watch. Emma Watson’s The Secret Life of a Wallflower on the other hand took a more depressing turn. It shown some light on different usually left out problems (depression, suicide, homophobia, …), but it felt like they still left out things that would have made it more clear and more rounded. That’s a bit disappointing for an otherwise good movie. Though I somehow can’t remember the ending or I am at least not sure that what I remember is the ending…

On a similar depressing note was Coming Down the Mountain with Nicholas Hoult, but here I really liked the conclusion, even though some of the things that happened throughout the movie were quite creepy. It’s an interesting take on the struggles to live with someone who suffers from the Down Syndrome.
For some reason I decided to watch What’s Your Number? with Chris Evans and I’m still not entirely sure why I did. The movie isn’t totally bad, but it has some quite strange moments. Though not as bad as Totally Blonde, where my memory kind of betrayed me… I remembered it as a fun movie with singer Michael Bublé, but it turned out to be something entirely different and I’m not sure how I made it through the movie, as some decisions by the main character were utterly frustrating to say the least. Speaking of frustrating main characters: The Devil Wears Prada. I really don’t get the appeal of these kinds of movies where a woman with a totally okay style and personality changes everything in order to become the „better“ person for someone else (here: her boss) and loses herself in the process. Not my type of movie, but I like Anne Hathaway and Glen Close and felt like watching this again…

Tumblr is a great what-to-watch source when it comes to their favourite actors. So I checked out The Losers, with Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Idris Elba in main roles. It turned out to be one of the DC-adaptations that I actually enjoyed. It was fun, had some good action and a lot of logical flaws, but still a nice watch.

Before we went to Fairys place we stayed at her parents place and watched a French/German version of Beauty and the Beast from 2014 with her boyfriend and Fissel (her sister) that just aired on television, though we kind of missed the beginning of the movie, twice. We still had a lot of fun watching it and commenting on different things, but the whole experience could be summed up in this quote from Fairy, that we put on our Facebook-Page:

The movie is fun, but I don’t think it was planned to be a comedy.

More quotes (including stuff about beagles and rose tendrils) can be found there, though they are in German, if you’d like a translation, let me know.
We did consider, however, if we should record ourselves watching movies, so that other people can be part of our ridiculous conversations. 😀 Would anyone be interested in such a thing?

I also re-watched the Underworld movies with Unmei. We are three movies in and the fourth, The Awakening, would then be new for me as well. In the first three films it is nice to follow the different connections among them, but we kind of had large pauses between watching them, so some things weren’t that easy to recognize. It doesn’t matter how often I see these movies Lucien is still my favourite character of the four parts. Still, I don’t get how Michael Sheen could agree to betray the Lycans and become a sparkling vampire. o.O

Also on Speights list I found Noobz a movie about a Gaming Tournament and it’s participants. It took me a while to recognize Jon Gries beneath that god awful mullet, but it was indeed him who had a very strange and short conversation with Speights character and later on a tiny bit larger role in the overall storyline…
The movie is a very strange look on gamers and they used a lot of stereotypes and weird characters, but it still was somewhat fun. The effort in showing this kind of subgenre reminded me a bit of Knights of Badassdom, which is way more fun as it has a quite awesome soundtrack, that Noobz can’t compete with by having only two rock numbers. Still, when it comes to movies/series depicting gamers and nerds do I prefer Felicia Day’s The Guild and Zombie Orpheus‘ The Gamers– series. They feel way more accurate and genuine than the other stuff out there, which is kind of obvious as they are made by and for gamers…

Well, I didn’t only watch old stuff, I was also in the cinema a couple of times.
At first I thought I wouldn’t manage to see Mara und der Feuerbringer (Mara and the Firebringer), due to some scheduling issues in the marketing, but then I found out that it was screened in Greifswald and I took Schmusi and Anna from the HGWAnime with me to see it and we had a lot of fun. Finally a German Fantasy movie that isn’t as stoic and flat as German movies tend to be, has interesting characters, an interesting plot and funny dialogues. With songs like Echter wahrer Held/True Genuine Hero by Schandmaul it also has a nice soundtrack. Schmusi first thought it was Jan Josef Liefers doing the singing until I told her it was the singer of one of the bands that first got me hooked on Metal. 😀
Anyway, if you get the chance: Definitely check this one out!

I also saw Melissa McCarthy’s latest flick Spy and laughed a lot, though we were wondering if the age level was appropriate for that movie, as it did have some nasty sequences. I went to check out Mad Max: Fury Road after all the praise it got on Tumblr and I wasn’t disappointed. The strange and staccato like cut of the movie was a bit confusing, but it was still fun to watch. More fun, however, was Ant-Man that I originally didn’t even want to see, but went along when Fairy and her boyfriend asked if we’d go and see it. After the changed tone in Age of Ultron this one was more focused on the humour than the seriousness of it all. I don’t regret seeing this one after all.

What were you watching?

What episodes (or movies) did you enjoy/dislike throughout the week/month?
Anything you’d recommend checking out?
Let me know in the comments below!

Final Words

We’ll see when I’ll write another one of these…

PoiSonPaiNter

On a Side Note

As I haven’t really published anything here in these past few weeks, I felt like I should at least write something to explain this lack of content – or maybe even use this headline in the future to just rant about things.
Anyway, the lack of posts isn’t due to lack of ideas, far from it.
I believe, I could fill more than a month with The Wesen of Grimm alone.
Beside that, is my imagination working as well as it hasn’t had in quite some time. I have a rough versions of several stories or story-parts, but there is one minor problem:
I have them handwritten and I’m too lazy to type them…
Well, at least I managed to motivate myself to finish On the Run (German Story) and The Legend of the lost Keys (German story) in time for their release for Your Picture – A Story.

What else have I written?

You see, my mind was busy these past few weeks, but I didn’t get around or felt like typing any of it. Still, I prefer to write things by hand. I can’t really explain why, but I guess I just like crossing out stuff and not being dependant on technology. Back when I was still writing with a fountain pen, I also liked the way it cast its shadow on the paper…
Though, if any of you know an App or Program for a tablet that manages to turn terrible handwriting into computer readable words, I’d be more than happy to hear about it! A program like that would save me a whole lot of time…
As for the What’cha Watching Wednesday: It’s not that I didn’t watch anything either, but I didn’t really know what I should write about the series I’ve seen and apart from them I mostly watched old movies with certain actors and I still haven’t figured out how to include those things…
Either way, I’m not sure how often I will update the site during the next few weeks. On Wednesday I’m off to the Rockharz again with Anice, Black Kat, Babsi and others and two weeks later I’ll be visiting Fairy, Nazgul and maybe Icewolf, as a mini- Journey through a bit of Germany. Fairy and I will also be at the Noch ein Bier Fest (One more beer feast) by Sabaton, which will be a lot of fun…
Wish me luck that I can think up another Weekend Guess in time for my departure, as I already had trouble with the last one.
See you around
PoiSonPaiNter