[ SECRET POST #6814 ]

Sep. 1st, 2025 05:48 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6814 ⌋

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Prompt 2593: Levels

Sep. 1st, 2025 10:34 pm
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Today's prompt is: levels



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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 2 by Grrr and Irinbi

The isekai continues. Spoilers for the first one ahead.
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Prompt 2592: Space

Aug. 31st, 2025 11:39 pm
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Today's prompt is: space



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Recent Reading: Siblings

Aug. 31st, 2025 01:06 pm
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This review will be briefer than I wish, because I’ve got two fingers taped up (injury) and it makes typing a pain. This morning I finished book #12 from the “Women in Translation” rec list, which was Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated from German by Lucy Renner Jones.

This book was published in 1963, just two years after the Berlin Wall went up, but takes place in 1960, before the Wall. It’s a book about three siblings, but really it’s a book about Germany’s future. The core of the novel is the relationship between the protagonist, Elisabeth (“Lise”) and her brother, Uli; and their views on the German state.

Lise is an adamant supporter of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; aka communist East Germany) and communism as a whole. She views it as her generation’s chance to right the injustices of a capitalistic world. Uli, on the other hand, while supportive of communism, resents the GDR for what he views as a lack of opportunity and its petty politics. At the start of the novel, Uli has decided to defect to the west, and Lise and her partner Joachim are trying to convince him to stay.

Throughout these efforts, the shadow of their eldest brother Konrad hangs over them—Konrad has already defected, years earlier, and is firmly settled in West Germany, though not without struggle.

This book is very politically philosophical. As mentioned, it’s about Uli and Lise (and Konrad), but it’s really about the future of Germany. Not yet 20 years out from the end of WWII, this is not an easy question (and there is a lot of finger-pointing to go around about who did what for the Nazis while they were in power). The book definitely leans in favor of supporting the GDR. While Uli and Konrad have their gripes about it, these are generally cast, through Lise’s viewpoint, as self-centered, or fig leaves for their real issue, which is that they cannot let go of a capitalist ownership mindset. Even where she acknowledges their complaints as valid—such as Uli’s frustration at the stunted opportunities for anyone who is not a Party member—her attitude is essentially that they need to tough it out for the sake of making the communist experiment work, or that it’s a reasonable trade off to avoid what she sees as the cruelties of capitalist West Germany.

It's the closest I’ve ever come to reading a pro-communism book (even Soviet authors I’ve read have been pretty staunchly against the Party, a la Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna), which made it interesting in that respect, as well as in how it addresses the ways the split of Germany affected individual Germans and German families.

However, the prose is very “tell not show” and this, combined with the highly philosophical nature of it, kept me at arm’s length from the characters and their lives.

Nevertheless, it’s fascinating from a historical perspective.


[ SECRET POST #6813 ]

Aug. 31st, 2025 03:06 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6813 ⌋

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more voters needed

Aug. 30th, 2025 05:16 pm
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Hi, just a reminder that this is the last day to vote in Challenge 196: Rainbow Pass-It-On 3 - Voting.
There are almost 100 great icons to choose from and as of now some colors are tied and a few are very close, so more voters would be great!
Thanks in advance. 

Prompt 2591: Frame

Aug. 30th, 2025 10:27 pm
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Today's prompt is: frame



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[ SECRET POST #6812 ]

Aug. 30th, 2025 02:13 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6812 ⌋

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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #974 ]

Aug. 30th, 2025 02:08 pm
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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #974 ]




The first secret from this batch will be posted on September 6th.



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The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 1 by Grrr and Irinbi

An isekai.

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[ SECRET POST #6811 ]

Aug. 29th, 2025 06:41 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6811 ⌋

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Prompt 2590: Accessory

Aug. 29th, 2025 10:27 pm
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Today's prompt is: accessory



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