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Also, I need to come up with a name for my short story/novelists thing XD
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Aww yes, the one thing that never ends in historical fiction… research XD
Now you understand
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it’s wayyyyy too much fun for me though…I research for fun 😝XD
*Me using my fingers to count all the wonderful charries you’ve killed* Do you remember Fin?! XD
Sometimes part of redemption is sacrifice (*me being shocked by my own words* ooh that was good, I’ll have to remember that XD)
(that is good XD)
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How could I ever forget???😭😭😭😭
I love and miss Fin. 💔
I feel like I’ve heard of it, but I’ll try to watch it soon
*me adding it to the list of books and movies that people recommend* Everyone has one of these lists XD
I may have told you before, honestly…who knows how many people I’ve told XD
haha, ikr? 😂😝
Yes!!! I was discussing that with my Dad (my Mom’s huge into theology and my Dad is a huge fan of history) and how it’s so important to remember WWII and other history and learn from the mistakes our countries made
like Poland and France didn’t have a huge military because they thought there wouldn’t ever be another war, yet there was and they were left defenseless to Germany and Russian who had weapons way above most countries
Yep, 100% girl!!!
(speaking of all of this research, I’m listening to a WW2 podcast and they’re talking about Erwin Rommel, lol! he was one of the ones that led the Blitzkrieg on both Poland and France and is the most famous German WW2 General…really interesting, honestly…they’ve talked about his career, about how he went back home for a while to see his wife and kids, and how he struggled with a disease, etc. lots of interesting (and new) information for me XD)
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Also, I need to come up with a name for my short story/novelists thing XD
Don’t worry, it’ll come to you…I still don’t have a title for some of my characters’ books, lol!
It’ll come when you need it 😊
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How could I ever forget???😭😭😭😭
I love and miss Fin. 💔
I feel for you, I get way too emotionally invested in characters
(speaking of all of this research, I’m listening to a WW2 podcast and they’re talking about Erwin Rommel, lol! he was one of the ones that led the Blitzkrieg on both Poland and France and is the most famous German WW2 General…really interesting, honestly…they’ve talked about his career, about how he went back home for a while to see his wife and kids, and how he struggled with a disease, etc. lots of interesting (and new) information for me XD)
Wow you really weren’t kidding when you said you research for fun
JKJKJKJKJK
actually, I was having a conversation with a friend (adult) from church and when she went to Isreal she visited a holocaust museum on the last day, she told me a lot about it and it was really interesting to hear
It’s a interesting and sad time period to research but there’s always more to learn
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I feel for you, I get way too emotionally invested in characters
*sighs* I just wish his death wasn’t necessary😭💔😔😭
Wow you really weren’t kidding when you said you research for fun
JKJKJKJKJK
Well I wasn’t! 😝😂
seriously tho, super interesting…Rommel (following something that happened and a few months that he spent with his wife and son) had to make the choice to either 1: Get arrested, have his career ruined, and have his family hurt or 2: take his own life, be buried as a hero, and have his family stay safe…and he choose to save his family/career by ending his own life in 1944, kinda a tragic ending, honestly 😅
It was really interesting tho because they talked about that, even though he was on the wrong side of History, underneath, Erwin Rommel was a good human being…honestly, it was really interesting
XD
Look at me, ranting about WW2 stuff 😂
actually, I was having a conversation with a friend (adult) from church and when she went to Isreal she visited a holocaust museum on the last day, she told me a lot about it and it was really interesting to hear
It’s a interesting and sad time period to research but there’s always more to learn
I’d love to go to the Holocaust Museum in St. Louis…I did a virtual tour, but haven’t gotten the chance to go to the actual museum…it’s a lot closer than the National one and especially the one in Israel, and I still wanna go one day…
Indeed. Yes, a lot to learn, and especially a lot to learn from.
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seriously tho, super interesting…Rommel (following something that happened and a few months that he spent with his wife and son) had to make the choice to either 1: Get arrested, have his career ruined, and have his family hurt or 2: take his own life, be buried as a hero, and have his family stay safe…and he choose to save his family/career by ending his own life in 1944, kinda a tragic ending, honestly 😅
Kind of tragic?! that’s like the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard (or close to it)
It was really interesting tho because they talked about that, even though he was on the wrong side of History, underneath, Erwin Rommel was a good human being…honestly, it was really interesting
That’s honestly like the sad truth, everyone thinks they’re on the right side
Until they realize they’re not
I’d love to go to the Holocaust Museum in St. Louis…I did a virtual tour, but haven’t gotten the chance to go to the actual museum…it’s a lot closer than the National one and especially the one in Israel, and I still wanna go one day…
I went to the Henry Ford museum in Michigan (It’s incredible) and toured the village
There was even a cool area dedicated to the civil rights movement (which is another time period I like)
Museums are just fun, I really like the creation museum and the ark in Kentucky
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Kind of tragic?! that’s like the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard (or close to it)
Okay, yes, it’s more than “kind of” tragic.
very interesting tho.
They have another Podcast Episode that’s about a man whose Grandfather on his mother’s side was in the SS…and didn’t even know until he was older 0_o
That’s honestly like the sad truth, everyone thinks they’re on the right side
Until they realize they’re not
Yeah…very sad.
I went to the Henry Ford museum in Michigan (It’s incredible) and toured the village
There was even a cool area dedicated to the civil rights movement (which is another time period I like)
OOH, sounds really cool!!! 😁
Museums are just fun, I really like the creation museum and the ark in Kentucky
Yessss, I’ve been to both of those! XD I’ve been to the Ark more than once, lol
they’re both a lot of fun!!!
I love Museums in general tho…😂
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very interesting tho.
They have another Podcast Episode that’s about a man whose Grandfather on his mother’s side was in the SS…and didn’t even know until he was older 0_o
Wow, the guilt that must bring some people, to realize later that they were the bad guys
OOH, sounds really cool!!! 😁
It really is, I had no idea how much of a collector Henry Ford was, he has the chair Abraham Lincoln sat in at the movie theater, the bus that Rosa Parks sat in, about a thousand different cars, and just so many other cool things
Yessss, I’ve been to both of those! XD I’ve been to the Ark more than once, lol
I enjoyed the trip a lot, and I learned a lot from it too, but not going to lie my favorite part was the zipline, because if you go during December they have a special zipline that gives you a tour through the Christmas lights
it was so much fun!!
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Okay so I wrote this little snippet prologue thing
and uh… I’m sorry, it got depressing really quick
anyways, enjoy
Lena’s fingers tapped against the wooded table, anxiously waiting for the doctor to walk in. She glanced at her brother, who was sitting upright, looking calm and relaxed. Marek had always been the strong one, never shaking at or fearing what the world threw at him. But Lena knew it was an act, that Marek was just as terrified as her, their mother’s labor had been long and they could only hear the painful cries she made.
Finally, after what felt like days, the doctor and their father came through. A grim look on both of them. Yet Lena didn’t seem to care about their gloomy faces but instead about her sister.
“Can I see her?!” Lena asked, an excited smile crossing her face.
“Yes, but darling you must understand something, your sister was… born blind,” Filip’s voice choked, as he tried his best to hide his tears.
Lena shrugged. “So? What would that matter, she’s still my sister,” what Lena had hoped to sheer up her father only made him look sad.
Filip made a forced smile and then gestured to his children inside the room. Marek took one last glance at the two men, who looked like they were about to walk onto a battleground.
Once the door was closed, Doctor Klimek looked at Filip. “Shouldn’t the children know?”
“My wife wants her last moments with her children to be happy ones,” Filip said firmly, trying his very best to hold back sobs.
Klimek nodded, giving a faint smile to a good friend of his. He set his hand on Filip’s shoulder.
At the touch, Filip lost it, tears flooding his eyes. He sobbed quietly so his children wouldn’t hear him, but it was so very hard for him. He was losing Anna, his sweet beloved Anna.
~*~
“She’s beautiful!” Lena exclaimed, cradling her baby sister in her arms. “I don’t care that she’s blind, I love her no matter what,”
Anna smiled at her doctor, setting her hand on Lena’s cheek. “I am blessed to have two beautiful girls,” She then turned to Marek, who looked much worse than his sister.
After a bit of holding her, Lena set Alicja back in her mother’s arms. “Is there anything I can get you,”
Anna nodded. “Why don’t you go get the blanket that we bought for her the other day?”
Lena’s face brightened, running off through the door.
Anna turned back to Marek, gesturing him to come closer. “What is it?”
Marek looked down, refusing to make eye contact with his mother. “I know something’s wrong, what is it? I want to help if I can,”
Tears ran down Anna’s face, believing in God, death had never scared her, but now… the thought of leaving her beautiful children and husband was almost unbearable. “I know you’ll look after your sisters when I go, but please my darling, look after yourself also,”
Marek nodded, his face breaking into tears, he had a feeling that this was what was wrong, but that didn’t stop the overwhelming pain. Anna set Alicja in the crib beside her bed and then gestured her son into her arms.
Marek didn’t hesitate to run into her Mother’s embrace, letting out a few dreadful sobs. “I don’t want you to go! I want you to stay… with me,”
“I know,” Anna rubbed her son’s back, sighing. “Believe me I know,”
~*~
Lena’s black dress spilled over the small chair that sat in her parents’ bedroom. She cradled her younger sister in her arms, tears painting her reddened face. She pulled her sister closer, giving a faint smile. Alicja already looked so much like Mother, and she liked that.
“Mama loved you for all of the time she had with you, and I will loved for all of mine,”
Alicja didn’t really appear to understand what Lena was saying, but Lena didn’t care, she considered her baby sister a gift. She knew her mother wasn’t here to look after the small child, so from now on she would.
The funeral had just happened, and her father had been silent. Only giving a few small sentences to the family and friends that came. Her brother at only age twelve had experienced a great loss, yet he was trying to be strong for her and Alicja. And Lena… well Lena had fallen into a deepened silence, feeling that she still had so many things left to do with her mother that she now could never.
Things had changed for the Adamski family, a loss that would change them entirely.
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so sad!!! whyyyyyy??? whyyyyyy????
(also, okay, it’s helpful to know that Lena’s sister is blind and not Lena…I didn’t have that information before XD Lena doesn’t need to stay hidden then…but her younger sister does.)
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@smiley @euodia-vision *cough cough* I have a new WW2 book idea *cough cough*
I was kinda thinking about doing it for NANOWRIMO (and still MAYBE considering it), but I seriously doubt I could get this thing done in a month, lol! XD
So, the main theme is Courage/Standing Up For What’s Right.
It has 4 MCs (two male, two female) and follows their journeys to learning how to stand for what’s right.
This is the basic blurb, and then I’ll share the Aesthetics for each of the characters 😄
A Gestapo Officer, saving Jews and others from the SS’ clutches after he witnesses the brutal murder of a teenaged Jewish boy.
A German nurse, working at a hospital, who delves into resistance work to save the physically and mentally handicapped from the clutches of sadistic Nazi doctors.
A German Spy working against the Nazis, spying on high-rank Nazi officials and working closely with the Allies to put a quicker end to the war.
A Romanian Waffen-SS soldier who puts his life on the line to rescue innocent Jews from his fellow soldiers after witnessing the murder of hundreds of innocent Jewish civilians.
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And here are the aesthetics.
MC #1: Conrad Johann Wolf (Gestapo Officer)
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MC #2: Izabella Hildegard Wolf (German Nurse; Conrad’s wife)
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MC #3: Alice Ilina Wolf (Spy; Conrad’s younger sister)
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And finally…
MC #4: Cristian Matei Albescu (Romanian Waffen-SS soldier)
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