PART 6
of the dfk 2023 audiobook translation
@cnka
Martina: „…Can I borrow your phone really quick?“
Jo (confused): „Hm?“
Martina: „Mine’s broken.“
Narrator (audiobook):
Doctor’s daughter? If Jo knew…
Martina borrowed the phone to make a call. I wonder who she’s calling?
Oskar: „Thaler?“
Narrator (audiobook):
Exactly! Martina is calling her brother, who is at the moment clumsily trying to make himself fried eggs.
Martina: „It’s me!“
Oskar: „Martina?!“
Martina: „How are you?“
Oskar: „Good…“
Oskar is putting the frying pan with the messed up eggs into the sink and letting water run into it.
Martina: „Are you sure? Can you manage?“
Oskar: „Yeah… It’s just boring without you.“
Narrator (audiobook):
The burnt eggs in the pan, which he douses with water, say something else.
Martina: „Are you alone?“
Oskar: „Yeah, Mama is on late shift again…“
Oskar is stepping out onto the balcony.
Oskar: „And? How is it on that giggle mountain?“
[Note: He says „Kicherberg“ here, which is a wordplay that I can’t translate. The words „Kicher“ and „Kirche“ sound similar. „Kicher“ means „giggle“ and „Kirche“ means „church“. „Berg“ is the mountain]
Martina: (laughs) „You mean Kirchberg. Well, it’s all very different from back where we live. It’s nice there too, but it’s just more rural here. Small houses…“
Oskar: „Since when do you like where we live?“
Narrator (audiobook):
Jo steps out of the room into the corridor.
Martina (hastily): „I need to go now, Oskar, bye, love you!“
She hands the phone back to Jo.
Jo: „You need a phone here. That’s our only connection to civilization.“
SCENE CHANGE. We now see Matze and Uli’s room.
Narrator (audiobook):
Matze and Uli share a room. Uli is in the process of creating a map of the old city wall of Kirchberg, with the title;
Uli (whispers): „The legend of Kirchberg!“
Matze, angestrengt schnaufend: „…19! …20!“ (pants)
Narrator (audiobook):
…while the strong Matze is busy doing his fitness exercises on the floor.
Uli: „Now?“
Matze (panting): „Can you help me with the Sit-Ups really quick?“
Uli: „Yes.“
Matze: (breathes out deeply)
Narrator (audiobook):
Uli gets up from his desk and holds down Matze’s feet while he does his stomach exercises, pulling himself up to his knees with the power of his torso.
Uli: „One. Two. Three. Four…“
Matze: „I’m gonna train until I’m invincible as a boxer! Fast like Ali, elegant like Maske, effective like the Klitschkos!“
Matze lets himself fall on his back with a huff.
Uli: „Invincible. Can you teach me that too?“
Matze: „What?“
Uli: „Well, how to defend myself.“
Matze: (sighs) „Uli, I’m taking care of you! Okay?“
Uli: „Yeah… There’s really just nothing I’m good at. Except studying.“
Matze: „I wish I was as smart as you.“
Uli: „And I wish I was as strong as you.“
Matze smiles.
Matze: „…By the way… what are you doing in the holidays, you don’t… happen to be here?“
Uli: „Nah. That’s pretty soon! My grandparents invited us to Sylt. Um. And I thought you’d be in your father’s boxing camp?“
Matze: „Yeah… I don’t really know if that’s for me yet. They’re all just amateurs…“
Matze stands up and walks over to the wall where his training plan hangs.
Narrator (audiobook):
Matze studies the training plan hanging on his wall. Maybe he’s taken on a little too much?
As the night falls, Justus Bökh goes around to check wether all students are in their rooms. He starts with Matze and Uli.
Knocking. Door opens.
Bökh: „Good evening, you rascals… Everything alright here?“
Narrator (audiobook):
The two mumble an answer.
Bökh: „Full sentences, please.“
Matze: „Everything alright…“
Uli: „…Herr Bökh.“
Bökh: „Exactly. Herr Bökh.“ (takes a breath) „Good.“
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I see a lot of meta talking about how the John Verses are John telling the story of the leadup to the apocalypse with the most sympathetic biased self-justifying gloss to make it sound like nothing was his fault, and I guess that's why so many readings go for a hardline worst-faith interpretation of them, but.... I don't really see it.
When he tells about how he murdered everyone who had a gun, he could have played up the self-defense angle. He could have claimed he was scared, and he did it to protect everyone. He could have emphasized that he was killing cops, instead of emphasizing the civilians. He could have stuck with the story he told at the time, that he freaked out and made a mistake and hadn't meant to kill them all. He doesn't. He admits to mass murder, and he admits to having done it because he was angry. And he admits to still not regretting it one bit.
The story John tells just doesn't paint him in the best possible light. He does include all of the justifications he used at the time, he does explain why on earth any of this ever seemed like a good idea to anyone, and he does want to be understood, but he doesn't really try to sell it as having been right.
I really don't see the verse chapters as being John's justification. They're his confession. That's why they feel so good to condemn.
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Can someone please either validate me or send me to the Corner of Shame? This is very silly but I'm wondering.
So. I was talking to my sister the other day about movies and such, and she told me of one she recently watched with this one actor. And I casually mentioned how much I hated him. Not in a "he's a bad actor" or "he's a bad person" way. Nothing to do with whether I find him attractive or not. Just in a "he looks the most punchable guy on earth and I have this irrational rage against him" way, to the point that I just can't watch movies with him without being annoyed.
My sister looked at me like I was crazy because, "what do you mean you hate the guy". And I told her yeah? That's normal? Don't you have at least one person you can't stand for no reason?
Sister was like 😬😬😬 No??? Which is wild to me, because I could easily name 50 (which I did - not 50 but we were getting close to 20 before i got too annoyed lmao).
Now she thinks I'm slightly insane (/j) (I made myself angry and may have referred to a few individuals as "stupid" and "obnoxious"), and I kinda don't believe I am the only person alive who feels this way. But also she's an incredibly empathetic extrovert, while I'm a very low empath socially anxious creechur so. There's that?? I guess ?? Idk.
Can anyone relate to this? Or am I the weird one?
Also wait. Little disclaimer: I am not generally a violent person AT ALL. Do i get annoyed and angry easily? Yeah. Do I feel like bitch slapping someone right across their stupid face? Yeah, sometimes, sure. Do I do something about it? Not really.
I can be real bitchy and extra sarcastic and petty SURE, but that's the most I'll do if I am legitimately angry. Mostly I just go to my room and cry 🥺 (crying when angry yes it me). So yeah. Before yall think I have unsolved anger issues.
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garp during the god valley incident: hey guys new son just dropped
[ID: A colored digital drawing of Monkey D. Garp and Monkey D. Dragon from Shōnen Jump series One Piece by Eiichirō Oda. It's encased within a polaroid frame as if captured in the moment and a real in-universe photo during the God Valley incident, with the words "Adoption Day!" written near the bottom. The bottom of the polaroid is slightly burnt.
Garp stands closest to the camera while grinning triumphantly, while Dragon stands in the back with a slightly raised eyebrow and doubtful expression; both are visibly roughed up and bleeding. Fire engulfs the entirety of the background, though the two do not seem to care.
Garp is wearing the white shirt and tie combo he wore during the God Valley incident. Dragon is wearing his signature green cloak, although it rests more on his shoulders, revealing a plain yellow t-shirt and blue jeans underneath. End ID.]
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DIVORCE BABES DIVORCEEEE DEKUUUU SO ANGSTY so good MY GOODNESS I love it ahhh the inner turmoil poor reader being left alone
IN A HOUSE YOU BUILT TOGETHER, the same one you’d thought you’d grow old in, with extra bedrooms and a pretty backyard🥺… suddenly alone in the extra large bed Deku picked out to help his back, alone in your bathroom with two sinks and extra wide shower that still has his conditioner sitting there, rotting there, in the corner.
Do you box up his stuff immediately? Do you keep it exactly where it was left, his shirts next to yours in the same dresser?
You know he’s not coming back, you don’t even want him to if he was this willing to give your life together up, but part of you still isn’t convinced that is it: the end. Surely he’ll at least return for his favorite mug, his workout equipment, his All Might figurines-
(But he doesn’t. Not for years at least, not until you’re finally trying to heal and move on and stop shaking at the sight of his name in the news. You’d have always rather he left you at the altar than abandon you the way he did, at least then you could convince yourself it wasn’t your fault—which is what he tells you when he finally does came back and you’re collapsing on the floor.)
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(And if you have a child, the way you have to put this all aside just to care for them, putting the only effort you have left into raising an entire human not to be as naive and stupid as you.)
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