Anon, my friend, they’re amazing. I love them. Even as I find and write for other OTPs, Sterek will always hold a very special place in my heart because they’re what brought me here in the first place. I mean
OMG, I literally just got on tumblr for the first time this weekend and already the first two pages of my dash were full of angst-y Sterek stuff ;___;
Well, fear not, I have (finally) arrived to save you from this doom and gloom 😀
For my darling Bubbles, because she kept prodding me to finish this (well, not this exactly, but the main thing) and because I know she loves my kisses ^_~
2. Track of the Lorenbahn from the Hallig Oland to the Hallig Langeneß shortly before high tide
3. Hallig Südfall at high tide
4. The famous postman Diede Nissen bringing post to the Halligen of Lageneß, Oland and Gröde
All in all German boost 92 islands, most of them located in the North and Baltic Sea, 19 of them are inhabited,10 of them are so called Halligen.
(Sea level … aerial view of Norderoog, one of the 10 Halligen Islands off the coast of Germany. Photograph: Alamy)
Surrounded as they are by water, people naturally think of the Halligen in the Wadden Sea as islands. But from a strictly geological point of view, they are stretches of low-lying land often flooded over by the tides. The name Halligen derives from the Frisian word “Hal” for salt and “lig” for lying flat.
Few people inhabit the islands on a permanent basis, and only on select Halligen. Hooge – the second-largest Hallig after Langeness – boasts a size of about 6 square kilometers. Strolling along the 11 kilometer-long (7 mile-long) outer dike, a visitor can walk Hooge’s perimeter in three hours. The mainland stretches eastward, and to the south, neighboring Pellworm Island with its church steeple seems close enough to touch.
(Higher ground … on the Halligen Islands houses are built on manmade mounds to keep them above the waterline.)
Hallig Langeness and the islands of Föhr und Amrum are north of Hallig Hooge – to the west, there’s nothing but the North Sea waves rolling in.
Actual North Sea islands like Sylt or Amrum rest on firm rock.
The Halligen, however, were formed by a major storm tide that separated large parts of the western coast from the mainland in 1362.
This landscape of tidal flats hasn’t changed much since it was hit by the last big storm tide in 1634. The constant threat of storm tides is a fact of life for Hooge residents even today. Their houses are built on ten man-made hills, known as “Warften.” When tides are high and the Hallig is flooded, they still jut out of the water.
(Hallig Hooge)
Low and high tides, coming and going, in and out – the ocean’s eternal cycle plays a major role on Germany’s Halligen – in real life as well as in legends.
According to one tale, the bells of Rungholt, a town that sank in the 1362 storm tide, can be heard during a full moon – rung by Ekke-Nekkepenn, a goblin who lives at the bottom of the North Sea. Local residents erected a small statue in the creature’s honor on Hallig Hooge where Ekke-Nekkepenn, they say, still plays tricks on people today. After all, life on the Halligen might just be too quiet otherwise.
(The The Kapitän Tadsen Museum on Hallig Langeness)
my new roommate’s best friend literally says “we’ll just go out for one drink” on a weeknight, goes to a club, has ONE drink while everyone else is getting to it, and then tells everyone when it’s time to go home so they can actually make it to class in the morning and I’m genuinely terrified by the amount of self control she has
saying you’ll just have one drink at the club on a school night and then following through and getting up for class the next day demonstrates the exact level of resolve it took to amputate your own arm on an 18th century battlefield
schnapskatze 