ChakkyCharizard

I used to actually be really involved on here. But now I just kind of login when I want to post art, upload, and close the tab. So just be aware that it's probably not the best option for getting ahold of me anymore.

She does commissions and shit, and her artstyle's really pretty and good; it'd be really cool if y'all could go and buy her stuff.

felielle.deviantart.com

Though my grandmother is yet to remember where she put my great-great grandfather Schanzenbach's memoir, she did find several photographs and postcards penned by him among my recently deceased great grandmother's things. The oldest one is dated 1918. The newest, a photograph of him with my baby great-uncle, is from 1945 or '46. She sent them over about week or two ago, and I finally got to see them today!

imgur.com/a/nCL7I

I don't know much about my great-great grandfather. His last name was Schanzenbach, and, as I've discovered from the postcards; his first was Christian. He was native German, so naturally fought for Germany in the first World War. He was apparently caught up in a mustard gas attack and had respiratory issues for the rest of his life because of it. He was captured and sent to a POW camp somewhere.

I would love to be able to read these postcards. However, they were all written in led pencil, and some words have faded away to the point of barely ghosting the paper's surface. The markings in general are quite light. And that's only one problem-- ehm...

You see, grandpa Schanzenbach never learned a word of English-- his wife was the one who learned! Any and all documents written by this man will be in German. And most of these postcards are in a fancy cursive script to boot! In other words, not only can I not read them, I double can't read them.

If anyone is a German speaker, can decipher the incoherent scribbling that is cursive, and is willing to help a girl out by translating, hit me up.

EDIT: Looking back through these, I've realized the picture in which he is shown second from the right, he's wearing a US uniform...interesting. Maybe the details have been a bit mixed up over the years. Cursive readers, tell me, are the postcards even in German?

Prisoner by ShuujinP, with vocals by Kagamine Len and Rin singing harmonies in the background. It tells the story of an Auschwitz prisoner who fell in love with the terminally ill daughter of an SS man. Absolutely heartbreaking, and absolutely beautiful. The key change and final repetition of the chorus is what really gives me chills.

Fun fact; the man ripping up his letters is the father of the girl he loves.


(Low quality, but with English subtitles)



(Higher quality, but with no English subs)



(High quality and with English subs, but on NicoNico. GAH!)
www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm51172…

Miku - Slowly driven insane with paranoia as Ritsu taunts her with stalking
Rin - Becomes so obsessed with besting Miku she completely throws away her morality, and is also way too attached to her brother
Len - Snaps after losing Rin, hunting down and killing Ritsu out of blind rage, also way attached to his sister
KAITO - Was never mentally stable in the first place; a hardcore sadist with a cornucopia of horrible things to do to his female prisoners for pleasure
Luka - Has severe abandonment issues brought on by the neglect of her father as a child, will do anything to be respected
Ritsu - Had her sass and will to live beaten out by KAITO, driven insane by his and later Miku's treatment of her
Teto - Snaps in a very similar way to Len, hunting him down and doing the exact same thing to him as he did to Ritsu
Ruko - Was never mentally stable in the first place; a sadomasochist who tortured animals and purposefully cut herself up as a kid
Defoko - Slowly sank into a deep depression after months of KAITO's questionable interrogation techniques, eventually killing herself out of guilt he convinced her she should have
Genderswapped Yufu - Snaps after losing the last thing he had, his sister; lashes out at Miku after months of wanting to get revenge on someone, ANYONE...
Gardenia - Slowly got crazier and crazier the longer Rin kept her in isolation
Riku - Anxiety-ridden mess