Graeme Callister is a historian of the Napoleonic & Revolutionary era, and he says that Napoleon was above average height for the infantry, and average among the grenadiers.
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Watching Stampede with my family made me realize how genuinely insane I have turned thanks to it
Like wow the actual physical EFFORT it took me to not randomly start explaining the composition of a scene, the color choice, the framing, the voice directing and the choreographies of certain scenes, as well as some of the lore behind it I should not explain because spoilers.
No, sorry. I lied on my résumé . I can’t like anything a normal amount. I’ve liked this for less than 4 months and I’m very deep into the trenches. And it will unfortunately become everyone else’s problem as well, because this one will stick around for a long time.
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so am I the only one who ever thinks of the parallels between Damian and Barbara?
like obviously their situations are drastically different and the psychological effects it had on them are not comparable but they do still have some similarities that I think should be talked about more
(Batman and Robin (2009) TPB 1 (Part 2)) and (Batgirl (2011) #1)
They both get shot in the spine and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down (though Barbara’s recovery was MUCH longer than Damian’s)
(batgirls (2009) _TPB Stephanie Brown 1 (part 1)) and (Batman and Robin (2009) TPB 2 (Part 1))
they both are temporarily wheelchair bound
(Damian for a few weeks and Barbara for a much longer unspecified time period though is speculated to be around three years)
(Batman and Robin (2009) TPB 2 (Part 1)) and (Batgirl (2016) #26)
And then They both end up having spinal surgery to reverse said paralysis.
(Barbara getting an implant that connects directly to her brain and Damian getting his entire spine replaced)
I know a lot of people were upset when Barbara got the implant that let her return to being Batgirl (an upset that while I don’t share is still completely justified as it was %100 just a financial move to make more runs of the most popular Batgirl and had very little to do with Barbara’s actual character itself) but I still think the similarities in their experiences would be something the two of them could bond over and I think about it a LOT
idk I just think it’s kinda neat
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Dude its sad when people cant read . I know theres plenty of people who do respect these boundaries and are patiently waiting till they are an adult to interact with blogs theyve seen art from with those boundaries. I miss when the most wild thing a minor did online was swear and did an annoying fortnite dance or smthin. Thats infinitely better then stealin art and doing depraved ai bot shit
God yeah, absolutely! Props to the minors who are patient and actually pay attention to the bio/pinned post of a blog when it tells them not to interact, genuinely.
It really is a head-scratcher when I see stuff like this come up as when it concerns boundaries it’s meant to be DIRECT and trying to get around it is not a smart idea unless you want the person you’re testing your luck with to outright block you (it’s the internet equivalent of breaking into someone’s property or going into their house uninvited! That’s rude!!).
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I kind of feel like i was a person POC in my past life, genuinely. I may be white now but I always cry when I see examples of racism and I can’t watch TV shows where a Person of Color is discriminated against
this has been sat in my inbox for a month because like what do i say
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ok. so. about the passiflora of it all. if you are so naive as to think that that collector crowd have any actual genuine care about tobias and not simply the value of their collection, i just have to laugh. but sure, just for the heck of it, let’s break it down.
1. no one has ever been able to validate that tobias has EVER said anything about not wanting people to hear passiflora. this “statement” has only ever been circulated by people who own the record, with the compelling source of “trust me, bro”.
2. tobias himself uploaded passiflora to myspace back in the day - that’s how we have “house of affection” (which - coincidentally - have been sitting comfortably on youtube for years without any action taken from “tobias’ legal team”). it just didn’t gain any traction, and he eventually deleted it. he might find it a bit cringe (like he does with so far noir and y’all seem to be gobbling that one up regardless of how he feels about it) but it’s not like anyone’s exploiting him if they listen to it. if that were the case, wouldn’t the people owning a copy of it destroy it, to make sure not to traumatize tobias? or are they maybe not THAT concerned with his wellbeing after all…? which leads me to…
3. the huffing and puffing about respecting tobias’ wishes is especially rich coming from the same crowd where someone (we all know who) amongst other things have shown up to a copia m&g dressed up in tobias’ old jean jacket that i don’t even wanna think about how they got their hands on. tobias has, on multiple occasions, asked his fans for ONE thing. don’t break the fourth wall, i.e acknowledge that him and papa are the same person WHILE he’s in papa mode. he gets very self conscious and weirded out when his own image and person gets attached to ghost (especially the live shows) that way. there is so much of that man’s past (photos, notebooks, etc) that is now public information that he has had NO SAY WHATSOEVER in if he wanted seen by other people that collectors have gladly published online without any regards to what tobias may or may not feel about it. maybe he’s totally cool with it, but spare me the hypocrisy, please and thank you.
4. “tobias’ legal team have been notified”. no, someone messaged richie - head of tour security for the last leg of the impera tour - on tiktok. these are… two very different sentences with very different meanings.
5. tobias doesn’t lose any money if passiflora leaks because he was never going to release that album and make money of it anyways. do you also have this kind of energy for people listening to ghost’s cover of “it’s a sin” on youtube? you know, the track that was only supposed to be available for you if you purchased the prequelle exalted box? how about the people listening to “here comes the sun” who haven’t bought the super rare japanese single that had it as a b-side? the ONLY people losing money are the people who bought the cd, and guess what? it’s not as if ALL the value disappears. it’s still a super rare collector’s item. the meliora box sets regularly sell for like $500 even though you can absolutely listen to zenith online.
6. the threat of violence was unnecessary though, however much of a joke it was. it’s the internet, someone will always say something clumsy and dumb.
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