Denn wir sind alle and'rer Welten Kind

[sovay]

For Leap Day, rushthatspeaks made a point of asking me to marry him, to which the answer was—as always—always.

Please enjoy this now more than hundred-year-old queer anthem. I don't know how I can keep forgetting that Ute Lemper was Ceres in Prospero's Books (1991).

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[theseatheseatheopensea]

<3 <3 <3

"Das Lila Lied"! Have you seen "Anders als die andern"? They go together in my mind! <3

[sovay]

"Das Lila Lied"! Have you seen "Anders als die andern"? They go together in my mind!

I have! (It had Conrad Veidt: how could I resist?) They go together in the mind of the composer who put up the translation, too. He assumes the phrase originated with Magnus Hirschfeld and that sounds appropriate to me.

*hugs*

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I have! (It had Conrad Veidt: how could I resist?)

A good point! <3

They go together in the mind of the composer who put up the translation, too. He assumes the phrase originated with Magnus Hirschfeld and that sounds appropriate to me.

Definitely! I think it's so lovely that the song was dedicated to him. It has such a poignant message that goes hand in hand with the one in the film! <3