People like my story!

I've posted a fanfic story both in my journal and in the labyrinth_ community. And I got three positive comments so far. This is sooo cool. I'm wiggling around in my chair with the most stupid grin imaginable on my face, singing "people like my stoory, people like my stoory" all the time.
I have been writing stories for several years now, mostly fairytales, and Labyrinth fanfic. But I never dared to put them out in the open for others to read. For a long time, I thought I was the only person who does that. At least I didn't know anybody personally, even though I had the feeling somebody must be out there.
It were the Labyrinth fans I found on the web who showed me I'm not alone, and I'm not totally weird with my love for something that is generally considered a children's movie. Reading some stories I thought "Hey, mine are not bad, either." This short story I wrote in a very short time. I had an idea, and while writing, it kept developping. I was very happy with the result and posted it before I lost my enthusiasm again. Great to see that others share my feelings about the story. Thank you to chimchimery, irishtempest and rottenpunk.
So now I feel brave enough to register on Fanfiction.net and publish my story for even more people to see.

In the news today

In Paraguay, over 280 people were killed in a supermarket. A fire broke out and the owner, afraid of plundering , closed all entrances. (edit: not plundering, but looting. angharad was so nice to correct me. I really appreciate that.) There weren't any fire extinguishers, apparently, so there was no way people could save themselves. The owner is imprisoned now. What kind of person is that? Did he think at all about what would become of the people locked in there? Anything people might have stolen were just things! And what is the difference in getting stuff stolen or burned, anyway? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Going into town today, I saw a car on the other side of the road. At first it looked just like any other accident, but then I saw hat the car had been burning. I wonder whether the driver got out on time. As far as I know, cars don't catch fire that easily. Not like in the action movies. So this is even more strange, as there was no other car in sight that could have been involved in the accident. The road was pretty straight there, too. Nothing special, in good condition, no heavy rain or any other kind of bad weather. It is scary to see that and not knowing what caused it.

This morning I was really upset hearing what our so dear chancellor said on his trip to Poland. He basically said that we were responsible for the war, and that all the other people were victims. OK, first, I don't agree on that question of responsibility. The way the first WW ended, it is pretty obvious from today's point of view that peace couldn't last long. Yes, the Germans did elect Hitler and yes, Hitler decided to attack Poland. But there were other things happening before that, leading to the situation. The Germans didn't just vote for Hitler becasue they didn't have anyhting else to do on a nice Sunday afternoon. They were desperate and humiliated. Hitler promised them a solution for all their problems, and such simple things as work and food. He used the basic fears of humans to reach his aim, and there are politicians today who do just the same. I'm not going to mention names, the former German minister of Justice lost her job because she did. And we don't know how many people read this. *Waving hello to everybody at the CIA*
The other thing: is a dead Polish citizen worth more than a dead German? To me, no matter what their nationality is, they are all humans. They probably had a family, they had friends and people who cared about them. Having the German chancellor say something like this is an insult to all who survived the war and have lost loved ones. The civilians who died in Dresden in 1945, was their death not that bad as that of people in Warsaw, or maybe Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Then Schröder said he'd give up all claims of restitution of property of the Germans who have been driven out of the former East German territories at the end of the war. Who is he to do that? How nice of him to give up on rights that aren't his anyway. It's not his property he's giving away there. And don't tell me that that Polish and the Russians have put the farms to good use and it would be mean to ask them back, because they didn't. Most of the farms that have been in very good condition in 1945 are mere ruins now. And the people there just go "Oh well, it was all very nice when the Germans were here, but for some reason it all fell apart later. You German, would you like to come back?" whenever a German journalist travels that area.
Let's pretend for a moment that all the Germans living in what is now Poland and Russia were indeed big Nazis and killed every Jew, Sinti, Roma, homosexual, Russian, Polish... they could find. A convicted criminal does not lose his property. He is imprisoned and serves his sentence, and when he is set free again he can come back to his house and his land. Or if he's sentenced to death, his property falls to his heirs. So even if the landowners in East Prussia were all murderers, that still doesn't give anybody the right to take away what is theirs.
There are organizations trying to get some of the land back, land that isn't used by the current owners. But these people don't want to give it up, they are content to just own it. And politics get in the way, too.
I'm sick and tired of hearing the Germans apologize over and over again. That way, we'll never be able to start an open discussion about the war, the Nazis and what led to both. We'll just keep saying the phrases we learned, without really meaning them. And that way, we might likely end up where we've been before.