#WWII remnants

[mishkakagehishka]

I wish i at least rbed those asks so i can have them on this blog i remember i think one of them forgot to toggle anon on bc they were Brave but then blocked me immediately after.

#they were really funny. but you can still see remnants of me and a few of my mewchies arguing in the replies #altho well my replies are gone... :( #and i went INTO the wwii history in there smfh

[elbiotipo]

I really don’t mean to come across rude as I know it’s the popular assumption, but WWII was in no way an annihilation of fascism. Look at Franco in Spain, or many nations in South America, look at modern movements across the world especially Europe and the US. WWii being an end to fascism is a rewriting of history which has been massively promoted by the west in particular so I totally understand the sentiment but it’s not true at all

Yes, I understand, but those were bare remnants of what could have been. The human suffering that would have happened if the Nazis or Imperial Japan had won is incalculable. It's true that the Allies were a bunch of hypocrites (all of them) and that we are always in danger of the revival of fascism even today, but the defeat of Nazism and Japanese imperialism is to me an unquestionably good thing, perhaps the only good result of everything that happened, which was otherwise one of the worst tragedies of history.

We should, with the right nuance of course, remember and even honor the sacrifices that were done for the defeat of fascism, and especially done by the Soviets and Chinese who are often overlooked in the usual Anglocentric (NATO centric?) view of history.

[uncanny-tranny]

There's something so insane to me about being able to create and recreate vintage or even ancient music, clothes, fabrics, building architecture, anything, really.

I watched this video about a lady who knit a WWII-era vest, and it was really unique, because the cable work would eat up yarn, when there were shortages of fibers. This pattern would have likely been used by people to send overseas to soldiers, and now it's being created in a time where this war has been over for generations. What were the people making this pattern thinking of? What about the people making the vest? Could they fathom a world where world wars didn't happen back to back? Could they imagine what peace felt like, or did it fade like a distant memory, a faint friend? All we have now are the remnants of their efforts, a "simple" vest that would warm the bodies of countless people the knitter would never have imagined were here on earth with them.

We're reaching across time to learn about other people - we're reaching our hands out just to grasp anything tangible. And when we've take hold of something, all we can do is say I love you I love you I love you

#positivity #art #i also come across this absolutely stunning woman who collects vintage pieces from the '50s and it's just. it's mind boggling #or how we've found ancient sheet music and have recreated its contents #do you ever think about how we're time travelers #do you ever think about what might be recreated of us in the future #this isn't about nostalgia baiting but about how we learn and process the ways that people in the past lived #you don't have to feel nostalgic for WWII to be intrigued by this (it would be very concerning if one WAS nostalgic for WWII) #i just. i die a little inside because i know i will never know everything... #...i will never know every lottle thing about people in the past especially... #...and i am never completely satisfied because only a very selective amount of things are preserved and remembered... #...i wonder then what 'forgotten' people thought and felt and how they lived... #...especially as individuals or as a small clan of family and friends. i want to know them intomately - as if i myself have become emeshed.. #...does this make sense. i don't just want to know about nobles and kings and the wealthy... #...i want to know what the lacemaker for a king felt making lace for the royals... #...i want to know what the rice field worker thought about when the fields were flooded and they swatted a bug away from their skin... #...i want to know what a mother of a small child thought when churning butter - her baby cooing and making a mess... #...and it sucks sometimes to know that we're time travelers but in a very narrow sense. but i still love what we have got... #...don't get me wrong i love it. but i still grieve that we have lost a lot of history - a lot of people... #...or maybe we have only lost them in the sense that we just haven't located and found them *yet* #anyway i've watched that video multiple times now and i just go absolutely animalistic thinking about it #all of this is complex and i have Plenty of thoughts about that. but at least to me this is what i've seen a lot - a lot of love #and isn't studying this - recreating it and analyzing it - isn't that a form of love? #am i... a nosy person..........

[fictionalafvsmybeloved]

the tank from fallout 4 (in the future could you enable media in asks? i plan to sling some very obscure vehicles your way.)

Alright, Sorry this one took me so long to get to (and media should be enabled, just don't spam too many pictures)

Now, bear witness to the monstrosity that is the Fallout 4 tank!

In the vast wasteland of post-nuclear Boston you can find many remnants of the Pre-War military, and this is one of the two types of armored vehicles you'll come across.

So this is based on the aesthetics of many late WWII-early Cold War American tanks and prototypes, with no clear inspiration taken from any one vehicle (that I know of)

So, let's start with the quad-tracks why don't we?

They're bad, really bad. Not only do they lack any drive sprockets, but the road wheels are to close together and they aren't even in-line with each other. This just increases the width of the tank with out any sort of benefit. This thing also weighs sixty tons, so even with the nuclear power-pack (also a bad idea) it's probably not going anywhere fast (and forget about soft terrain).

Now I don't know much about the armor on this, other that it's riveted armor, which fell out of use during WWII. Riveted armor isn't good, repeated hits (even sustained heavy machine-gun fire) can loosen the rivets and cause them to fall out or go ricocheting through the tank.

And things aren't any better in the turret. It has a pair of 140mm guns (I'll go into detail on why double-guns and quad-track are bad ideas in another post) and rail-mounts for machine-guns on the commander and loader's hatches, but no co-ax MG. This leaves gaps in the tank's defenses and give it a cramped turret. The turret can't even rotate 360 degrees, it's blocked by all the greebles on the engine deck.

I can't see a single sight or periscope on this ugly thing, not even in the commander's cupola. It might be totally blind.

There are at least two crew members, a commander and a gunner. There might be more but I have no idea where they would sit, hopefully not in the turret, there's barely any space inside it left.

Now about those greebles... There are to many, and most of them don't do any thing or actively inhibit the tank. That big thing hanging off the left side of the engine deck is a system of heat sinks for the nuclear power pack. It does at least have plenty of miscellaneous hatches in some useful places.

A nuclear power-pack is a very bad idea. Almost any damage too it will cause it to start leaking radiation or meltdown.

FINAL SCORES

Credibility: 3/10 - Dahir Insaat Animation

Coolness: 3/10 - WarThunder Sad Eyes Tank

BONUS: I'll have to add the bonus later when Nexus mods is back up

#noncredibledefense #noncredible defense #ncd #tank ratings #tanks #fallout 4 #Fallout

[wood-row]

thinking very medic thoughts. i just think hes very interesting

i mean. grew up in germany. survived WWII (proud jewish medic believer) mad enough to make DEALS with the Devil. i think he has some crazy stories. nothing fazes him.

I think he was a lanky boy, awkwardly so. Like a tree, with his mothers long face, but his fathers eyes; steel, bleak, especially on such a young boy.

He tells Misha stories over beer and strategy maps, cozied up in the main room long after the lights go off. outside, It snows, remnants of home; he watches over Heavy's shoulder as it moves along the floodlight.

"I was eighteen, when glass flooded the streets." There's an expected heaviness in his voice, clinging to the air. Misha finds himself lost in those faraway eyes.

"My family, we ran to the countryside. We had connections there, that could get us over the river. The Germans followed us, like dogs"

Misha's eyes flick to Ludwig's arms, the way that he rarely sees him out of uniform. There is a scar that he knows intimately, hidden just beneath the collar of Medics sleeve. The teeth there still look fresh, raw.

"We were laid up in fishing boats for days, crammed beneath the floorboards. Still, they hunted us. We ran again. Some into the river; some, straight into the bullet."

Misha wishes he would stop talking. Curses the victory gardens still kept in the townsfolk's windows. No distraction can keep him from the sight of Ludwig, running on legs he hasn't quite grown into, tearing through brush and wood. It is a desparation that Heavy understood. Goulags and sled dogs and Red.

"They carried me away. To this day, I do not know why. I wish they had killed me then, so I might be buried with my father and mother."

Ludwig pauses to sip his drink, blink away the tears and steady his breath. Outside, the snow persists, like ash.

Minutes pass, and Misha leans forward.

"Well, how did Medic survive?" he asks, even as he watches Ludwig rise from his chair. He seems in a hurry, suddenly, looking ill. He sets his glass on the side table with a thud.

"my friend," he says,

there's a quality in the room that sucks the air out of it. Heavy wonders, perhaps, if this is what that boy had felt. Painfully out of breath but yet gulping for breaths of air, despite the sting. persistence, despair,

hopelessness.

"I didnt."

#tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #headcanon #yappin

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The Old Brick Tavern of 1804 operated as an inn for 25 years, was a hospital, WWII barracks for soldiers, and now is a unique and one-of-a-kind single family home. Located in Lancaster, Massachusetts, it has 5bds, 2.5ba. $745K I don't care for the reno- what do you think?

This is nice, but on the right, they made an open entrance and didn't add molding.

Original floors, stair railing, but the walls were redone and painted in bright, colorful hues. Looks like some walls were removed. This is a Federal style home, I would have to use authentic colors.

If they took down walls, which I think they did, they left some of the beams. Not sure I like what they did.

There's a mix of every era here. I don't think I like the wallpaper border and bright green. It looks like the new doorways can be noticed b/c they didn't put any matching molding up.

Closeup of the beams they chopped off.

So, this is what they opened? I don't like the kitchen open like this in an historic house.

Not impressed with the kitchen reno.

Office area here in the kitchen.

Home office off the kitchen.

An original hearth.

New family room addition. I can see part of an exposed brick wall.

The main bedroom is very large and has a fireplace, but I'm sure that it's been expanded.

This room is nice- you can see that the fireplace is original and so are the beams.

It's weird, though, how they left random beams that just stop at the new walls.

Cute half bath.

Another room w/an original hearth. I wonder what's under that wall- could there be remnants of the original fireplace?

I guess they don't use this entrance.

Here's a nice pergola. At least it has greenery to block the sun- I could never understand the purpose of open pergolas.

They also built a large deck on the back of the house, and put in a nice pool.

Looks like they haven't renovated the uppermost floor yet.

Notice the 2 solar panels. I don't like this reno job. Not a bad price, but I would pass.

https://www.coldwellbankerluxury.com/property/5-old-union-tpke

#historic home #federal style home #historic home renovation #houses #house tours #home tour

[lonestarbattleship]

January 28, 2024 Update from the Battleship Texas Foundation

"DRY DOCK TOURS

Ryan leads the first Battleship Texas Dry Dock Tour of the day!

You can now sign up for the Dry Dock Tour on February 10th, 2024. Limited spots available. To sign up, visit:

https://battleshiptexas.org/plan-your-visit/

The ship's main and foremast can be seen here.

A Dry Dock Tour makes a stop at the ship's bow!

Steel repairs have been completed on the hull of Battleship Texas.

Above the boot top (above the black band) the ship has been painted Navy Blue 5-N. This color was matched from existing examples found aboard (both internally and externally) the vessel.

The ship was painted in the Measure 21 camouflage scheme prior to deploying to the Pacific Theater during World War II. At this time Battleship Texas is the ONLY museum ship painted in this camouflage scheme and only one of two battleships in their WWII measure.

The ship’s hull has been coated with PPG SIGMASHIELD 880 GF. Historically the ship would be coated with an anti-fouling coat that is red in color, but that coating is no longer needed as the ship is not in service.

The new hull numbers have been extensively researched so each number is not only the correct font, but applied in the appropriate position as it was in 1945. The numbers have been applied to both bow and stern.

Looking forward on the ship's starboard side.

This used to be one of the many openings for a 5"/51 cal. gun.

Yes, the rest of the ship will receive a new coat of paint once repairs conclude.

Repairs and restoration of the ship's aft fire control continue. The windows, removed several years ago, will be reinstalled.

Looking down on the ship's smoke stack (left) and aft fire control (right).

The ship's main and foremast can be seen here.

Looking down on the navigation (below) and flag bridge (above). Several repairs to the deck were made on the superstructure.

The foretop!

Repairs made to the ship's signal bridge uncover remnants of the cage mast that used to be there.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

WHAT’S NEXT? - Battleship Texas will remain at Gulf Copper Shipyard for the time being. Additional steel work, removal and replacement of the ship’s deck, and superstructure/aft fire control restoration will continue.

SPLASH! - The ship will be put back into the water in mid to late February 2024.

KEEL BLOCKS - Yes, the keel blocks supporting Battleship Texas can be moved. Each block is moved so the area atop of them can be blasted, repaired (if need be), and coated.

WHAT ABOUT THE RUDDER? - The rudder will remain where it is. Funding is best spent elsewhere.

WILL THE SHIP RUN AGAIN? - No, the ship will never be able to run under its own power again.

TOURING? - The Battleship Texas Foundation is working on new touring opportunities before the ship reopens.

REOPENING? - There is a lot to be done before the ship is ready for touring at its new home in Galveston, Texas. Reopening is projected to happen sometime in 2025 or 2026.

Thank you to the Birdsall family for the generous gift to the Battleship Texas Foundation! We look forward to hanging this piece somewhere everyone can enjoy it. Live, Laugh, And Flood your Torpedo Blisters.

To donate to the preservation and operation of Battleship Texas, please visit: https://battleshiptexas.org/

Support Battleship Texas by making a purchase through the ship's store: https://store.battleshiptexas.org"

Posted on the Battleship Texas Foundation Group Facebook page: link

#battleship Texas #Battleship Texas Foundation #Update #USS TEXAS (BB-35) #USS TEXAS #New York Class #Dreadnought #Battleship #Warship #Ship #Drydock #Dry Dock #Galveston #Texas #repairs #Gulf Copper #Restoration #January #2024 #my post

[burberrycanary]

What's your sticky spot for the old Hollywood fic? It's so interesting to me where things get stuck.

Thanks for the ask! And also for the incomparable @booksandabeer, who asked after this as well 😘

I can’t let this Stucky Old Hollywood idea go—the aesthetic alone! 

I’m not an AU writer so the only way I could do this concept is as canon divergence where the Barnes family moves to Los Angeles rather than Brooklyn when Bucky is a kid—and Bucky becomes a child star. So Steve and Bucky don't meet.

I’ve been slowly working out the concept and completing the foundational research, but lately I’ve fallen into a really meta place around the question: would Bucky still have been drafted? 

The quick version of the historical context is that, unlike later drafts and most iconically the Vietnam draft, WWII-era conscription was conducted by local boards that assigned each registered man a lottery serial number (not the same as an army serial number) after all the completed registration cards were shuffled.[1] Bucky would have registered in October 1940 under the Selective Training and Service Act[2] and could have been called up in any of the three drafts: 29 October 1940, 17 July 1941, 17 March 1942.[3] If Bucky was in a different part of the country—and in consequence subject to a different local board’s instance of this random number assignment process—odds are he would have been assigned a different random lottery serial number, which means he could have been selected in an earlier draft, the same draft or not at all. And there’s no logic for how he would have ended up with the 107th.

And here’s where it gets meta. Because narratively Bucky is drafted to be a foil for Steve, who can’t join the military despite desperately wanting to. And Bucky becomes a POW to motivate Steve into the action that transforms him from a performer to a combatant, thereby achieving Steve’s—and the narrative’s—vision of idealized masculinity. And Bucky falls off the train to push Steve into more radical action against Hydra, which culminates with him putting the plane into the water. Bucky isn’t doomed by the narrative. He’s doomed by Steve’s narrative. In the original work, the pre-TFATWS MCU, Bucky’s suffering only has narrative meaning because of its effect on Steve. And you can argue that things only occur in a story if they have narrative meaning. 

Without having to be a plot device and motivator for Steve, Bucky is theoretically relieved of the narrative requirement of being a POW. He wouldn’t have to fall off that train.

But, at heart, fanfiction is a rejection of this model of narrative meaning. As soon as you create a Bucky-centric reading or write a Bucky-centric version of canon, then his suffering has the potential for intrinsic narrative meaning. And Bucky’s story of victimization and heroic resilience speaks deeply to a lot of people, myself included. Bucky lacks the protagonist’s halo of always beating the odds, of the doors always closing just after safely jumping through, of being able to close that gap and grab the hand reaching out for him, and of being looked for by friendlies and discovered as still alive in the cold. Of course, if Bucky was a protagonist, the serum would have kicked in faster; he would have broken his own restraints; he would have rescued himself and the remnants of the 107th. 

But that’s not Bucky’s narrative function. 

Bucky is so fascinating to me because his story doesn’t follow the pattern of male-hero-protagonist. He has a sympathetic villain’s narrative arc but then refuses to become a villain. So, in this revisionist analysis, Bucky is doomed and saved by his own narrative. And this is why I’m leaning toward Bucky still being drafted, even if his experience of the war plays out differently, but not making him a POW so long as the part of Bucky’s story that's about being controlled and dehumanized by larger forces can be transferred to a different part of the narrative. 

I’ll sign off with this piece of inspiration about Mickey Rooney, an iconic child star of the era:

Mayer naturally tried to keep all his child actors in line, like any father figure. After one such episode, Mickey Rooney replied, "I won't do it. You're asking the impossible." Mayer then grabbed young Rooney by his lapels and said, "Listen to me! I don't care what you do in private. Just don't do it in public. In public, behave. Your fans expect it. You're Andy Hardy! You're the United States! You're the Stars and Stripes. Behave yourself! You're a symbol!”[4]

Sources:

1. World War II Selective Service Draft Registrations

2. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940

3. Wood, Richard G., comp., Records of the Selective Service System, 1940-47 (PI 27); National Archives (NARA), 1951.

4. Wayne, Jane Ellen (2005). The Leading Men of MGM. Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 246

#stucky #stucky meta #bucky barnes meta #thanks for the ask! #bucky barnes #bucky barnes needs a hug #old hollywood au

[kazesauce]

TWD:DD Rewatch Recap Ep 1

I'm rewatching the first season of TWD: Daryl Dixon to look for anything that stands out now that we know all the characters and how the season ends. The first episode has a lot, so this will be long. Strap in or scroll on.

Isabelle and Laurent

The series opens with a semiconscious Daryl floating on the life boat and hearing Judith say "You deserve a happy ending, too". We hear this again later when Daryl is waking up from having his burn treated. Laurent says these exact words to him the first time they meet. Knowing now that Isabelle made Laurent draw the picture of the man on the beach, I'm wondering if she overheard Daryl mumble those words in his sleep and told Laurent to say it.

At no point did it seem like a romance was being set up between Isabelle and Daryl. She tied him to a bed “for his own safety” and lied to him multiple times. She locked him out of Father Jean's office after lying about the radio being in working order, saying Daryl could use it when he was better. Daryl is in a nearly constant state of being battered and concussed, so he was in perfect shape to talk on a radio. Isabelle only went into the room when he was taking a bath because he fell asleep and nearly drowned himself. She was inspecting him and making note of his scars as an indication that he was experienced and strong. She got incredibly uncomfortable when Daryl called her out for her suicide scars because it's a remnant of her pre-nun life that she was trying to hide from him.

Isabelle was useful in this episode. She scared off the woman and her grandfather by firing a warning shot from her rifle, cauterized Daryl's burn and saved Daryl from Codron with the battleaxe Daryl used to save her earlier. I don't know why this Isabelle was immediately replaced by a woman that bragged about not being able to learn how to change a tire.

Codron

His entire crusade against Daryl is based on lies that woman told him. She killed Codron's brother and claimed Daryl tried to rob her and her grandfather when they were the ones that tried to rob Daryl. Granted, Daryl would have killed Codron's brother if she didn't intervene, but she was still the one that killed him.

Codron spent a third of his screen time in tears and was the recipient of Mother Superior's speech about how the souls of the wicked and the hungry can be redeemed. He was never going to stay a bad guy.

Genet

I couldn't pay attention to this scene for the life of me the first time I watched this episode. I can follow along now because I know who the important people are. Daryl single-handedly destroyed their experiments and nearly started a mutiny. This scene establishes that Genet prefers not to kill people that upset her. She seems to prefer psychological and physical torture based on future episodes.

Codron said he wanted to take Laurent and make him a soldier for Genet. That's a dark concept that was never revisited, thankfully.

General Observations and Parallels

Daryl told Isabelle “It's not my fight” when she was trying to convince him to stay in this episode. Daryl told Losang “Pouvoir. It isn't my fight.” in the final episode after Losang tried to convince Daryl to stay. Pouvoir des vivants is the slogan of The Cause, which The Union of Hope is warring with. It's the only French word Daryl has said the entire series and he said it to someone he knows is a native English speaker. That feels intentionally confrontational to me.

The Grandfather tried to convince Daryl to travel with them by referencing WWII and France and the US being allies, and Daryl was not swayed. Now we know why.

There were a couple references to Isabelle not always being a nun like showing the scars of her suicide attempt and her saying to Mother Superior that she wasn't always a believer.

The building with the burner walkers had “Pouvoir des vivants” spray-painted outside. Now we know those burner walkers are the result of experiments being conducted by Genet's group.

Walker Quinn can be seen in the full season trailer at the end of the episode. I guess they didn't care about spoiling that since the character hadn't been introduced yet.

Daryl took the knife with the knuckle guards from the armory at the abbey and kept up with it the entire season. There's no denying the similarity to Carol's signature knife, so I'm certain Daryl was thinking of Carol when he took it. The fact that Daryl kept up with it the entire season even though he lent it to other people and had it ripped away from him multiple times is a subtle nod to the unbreakable bond he shares with Carol.

Unanswered Question - What Happened to Father Jean?

The only question I have after watching this episode is what happened to Father Jean? He was around Daryl's age and his walker looked fairly fresh. No one says what happened to him or even directly says that he died. The nuns kept his walker locked away in the belief that souls of the wicked and the hungry can be redeemed. I have a theory that he took his own life. Isabelle says that the tube in the radio broke about a month ago and they haven't been able to replace it. Father Jean was marking locations on a map with radio frequencies and handles. Maybe after painstakingly searching the radio waves for years trying to find safe passage to The Nest, the radio breaking was the last straw for him. Isabelle said “hope fades slowly, then all at once.” She would know based on her own history. Maybe Isabelle was so desperate for Laurent to reach The Nest because they lost their priest to hopelessness and were starting to flounder. I don't know if we'll ever find out what happened to Father Jean, but I hope so.

#twd daryl dixon

[short-wooloo]

I think what mando s3 is doing with the New Republic right now is worse than the sequels

A frequent complaint of the sequels is that it undermines the works and accomplishments of the heroes in the ot

I understand why people feel this way, but I don't completely agree with this, I feel that the heroes’ efforts are not erased because they still bought the galaxy almost 30 years of peace, freedom, and democracy, and the heroes would still inspire and teach a new generation to stand up against tyranny

(also the way the NR is destroyed is objectively out of the box, because who honestly would have guessed that an imperial remnant faction would be capable of building and using a new version of the death star to decapitate the NR?)

I think the sequels do have quality that salvages them, especially if more focus is put on it, a message about vigilance, that evil and tyranny are not beaten once and will never rise again, it takes effort and work to keep evil down, that fighting evil is not just about beating it, but holding it back, surviving so that you may keep fighting evil, and showing a new generation how to carry on that fight

And as someone who read about WWII and the rise of the nazis/fascists in grade school only to see nazis and fascists make a comeback and be accepted as legitimate ideologies just a few years later, I think that's an important message

But this mando s3 is saying "the new republic is just as bad as the empire/first order, the heroes of the ot didn't build a system that was unfortunately brought down, they built a system just as bad as what came before"

in summary

the sequels say: “the heroes tried their best, they unfortunately failed, mostly because the bad guys went and did something unpredictable, but what the heroes built was still able to last a little while and the heroes were able to teach a new generation to carry on their work”

mando s3 says: “the heroes didn’t accomplish anything, the system they built is no better than the previous one”

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #mando critical #star wars sequels #sequel trilogy #the mandalorian critical #anti mandoverse #the new republic

[azspot]

If I were to chronicle every city, every village, every innocent life scarred by the relentless American bombardment since WWII, pages would run out before their conscience does. From Hiroshima's ashes to Korea's burning towns, Vietnam's napalmed children, Laos and Cambodia's secret scars, the shattered remnants of Yugoslavia, the blood-soaked sands of Iraq, Afghanistan's mournful mountains, Libya's toppled streets, to Syria's gasping wounds, and beyond. How many more must suffer before the world says 'enough'?

Sony Thang

[look-sharp-notes]

Meeting on the Elbe - On April 25, 1945, near the city of Torgau on the Elbe River, troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the USSR Army met with troops of the 1st US Army. As a result of the meeting of the Allied forces, the remnants of the German armed forces were split into two parts - northern and southern. #Corcoran #WWII #Corcoran Boots #Jumping boots #parachute #Landing boots #Brown #vintage #heritage #Men’s boots #Legend #History #History foto #82nd Airborne Division #Airborne #Jump Boots #Landing Boots #Military Boots #Legend WWII Boots #Meeting on the Elbe.

[spiri-a]

Y’all wtf I just finished Hungry Hearts Neo I can’t believe this shit is over

What do I do with my life now

I am filled the beautiful tragic baggage of three games worth of characters and I don’t know how to handle it

———

Okay but seriously the Hungry Hearts trilogy is some of the BEST mobile games I’ve played in a while. I normally don’t like idle games but the pure heart, serenity, and general world of the trilogy is something that just always makes my day better. I was never too miffed to let granny rest for a while and come back later to serve and listen to my customers once more like I usually am with the nature of idle games.

The ways character’s stories intertwined with each other, the lessons they learned, the insight that was brought to them before your very eyes, the heartbreaking and heartfelt realizations, the specialized food requests filled with earnest and meaning, Grannys OWN narratives and conflicts she works through, SO FULL OF LOVE (seriously, this game made me cry several times)

Not to mention the art style that stays consistently GORGEOUS every game, the music although simple remains classy and calming, the food looks like the tastiest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life

As a child of an Asian household, who has been privy to SEVERAL of the dishes shown in the games throughout the years, the food brought an immense amount of nostalgia with it as well. Every dish I cooked, I could almost taste the very thing on my tongue, the pork cutlet dishes and spam musubi being two of my highlights as well as two of my favorite dishes in real life (which, obviously).

Yes there were ads that got on my nerves sometimes, but I honestly didn’t mind too bad (I loved these games enough that I didn’t mind gritting my teeth for a few seconds to support them). Also the ad rewards of either a rush or max energy refill was 100% worth the quick ad watch.

I learned to adore each and every character within the three games, their stories slowly unraveling with each and every meal. I of course adored the characters that kept coming back, like Mr Jizo, Officer Hiro, lovely little Mabo (who we watched grow up with tears in our eyes), and Dr Mondo (who was missing from the second game which was agonizing to me while playing it).

My favorite characters being probably Dr. Mondo, Mabo, Slick, Scarlett, Grimm, Sapphire, and Fudeko (apparently my type is hot women in colorful dresses and suspicious men along with a small child and tragic backstory doctor thrown into there for fun)

The perfect model of a quaint little town (or at least quaint little section of town) in 1970s Japan a few decades post WWII (in some customer stories, you find remnants of the effects of WWII on Japanese citizens), the games have the perfect vibes DOWN TO A TEE.

Overall though, I love the Hungry Hearts trilogy SO DANG MUCH and it makes me so sad to see so little love for the games online. Seriously, if you love calm vibes, heartfelt storytelling, gorgeous art, and even if you don’t love those things, PLAY THESE GAMES ❤︎❤︎❤︎

Also here’s my gallery of ending screenshots:

#hungry hearts diner #mobile games #idle games #cooking games #japanese games #favorites of all time

[thechanelmuse]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Reparations

“We’re coming to get our check.”

Talk that talk, King. The debt been owed to the descendants of Black Americans for American chattel slavery, Jim Crow, domestic bombings, and all of its present genocidal remnants. We’ve been used as a launchpad for immigrants & their descendants to come here with governmental programs, safety, and bootstrap set asides ready while we’re pushed down further at the bottom in our own home. Countless foreign aid for everybody else’s house like it’s the world’s government while we’re told to wait or given the lip in our homeland from people who willingly moved here. Just like them “old stock” and their descendants who were exclusively rolled out the Homestead Act, New Deal, GI (WWII) Bill, tax breaks, and other thieving discriminatory programs/laws.

Real talk. We were supposed to be dead and extinct a long time ago. They bombed us, but we’re still here. Torched/flooded/eminent domained our properties, and turned our communities into lakes, parks, pathways for bridges and gentrification hubs. Still here. Stole our wealth. Still here. Medically experimented on us. Still here. Pushed heroin & crack into our neighborhoods as confessed by then-presidents. Still here. They subject us to an ongoing slow genocide. Bitch, we still here.

The only reason why this land hasn’t imploded with all the trauma, barbarism and evil it’s witnessed is because it knows its children are still here. Our feet still kisses the ground.

This is a new generation. The centuries-deep interest is up and counting. They gon cut these lineage-based federal and state checks with protective policies and our stolen land to boot...soon. Our grandparents and great-grandparents, first, will be seeing pure, non-loopholed, legit reparations paid to them in their lifetime. Bootstraps, my ass. They gon give us back our multiple boots. Gimme all my straps.

[spacetimesally]

Liberated by Allied Forces from vile nazi scum, a stronghold city celebrates the riddance of their festering occupiers, but when Sally catches wind of a remnant faction in hiding and plotting, she rounds up a posse and goes rat hunting in, "One Order: All Nazis Die"

Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series…

[Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series - 'Spacetime Sally: Allied Forces' is WWII dieselpunk inspired take on 'Spacetime Sally' in which Captain Sally Hannigan is an unstoppable nazi-stomping force to be reckoned with.

With Hitler’s regime lurching closer to space dominance, Sally joins the Allied Forces looking to crumble the Axis Powers. From the darkest corner of the tiniest European village, to the edge of space, no nazi is safe from Sally. More Timelines/Lifetimes here.]

#scifi #retro futurism #wwii #dieselpunk #retro futuristic #art #artwork #ai artwork #ai art #vintage style #vintage fashion

[lonestarbattleship]

August 4, 2023 Restoration work on the Battleship Texas

"I am 'declassifying' Hunter Miertschin's 'Top Secret' picture from a few weeks ago.

Atlantic Theater Map Declassified

On behalf of our crew, our colleagues at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's (TPWD) Cultural Resources branch, and OnAim Conservation, I am pleased to announce that the stabilization, conservation, and partial restoration of the Atlantic Theater Map in the Captain's Cabin is complete!

This map of the WWII Atlantic Theater was painted on a bulkhead in the Captain's Cabin after September 1944 (based on references in the map). It shows the ports of call Texas made during WWII (white dots with anchors in them), where she performed shore bombardment (noted by little explosions), national capitals (yellow triangles), and a few surprise discoveries as the map was conserved.

The 1966 newspaper photo of Chief McKeown, with the map in the background. This is the only known photograph of the map prior to it being painted over.

Sometime after 1966 (which is when the only known historic photo of the map was taken), the map along with the rest of the Captain's Cabin was painted white. That act was not great, but not terrible either. What was truly terrible is a window was cut into the bulkhead right in the middle of the map sometime in the late 1970s, after the map and compartment were painted white. We believe that because the map had been painted over and the loss of institutional knowledge of the map, those who made that decision did not know it was there.

Fast forward to around 2000 when the map beings to reveal itself as the white paint begins to flake off and the map is rediscovered during the planning for the Captain's Cabin restoration. When the Captain's Cabin was restored, the window was welded up and the map was partially uncovered exposing the Mediterranean and most of Europe. In 2009, I discovered the 1966 picture of Chief McKeown with the map in the background, which spurred a lot of excitement about what possibly survived. However, due to budgetary constraints we were not able to perform any real conservation treatments to the map.

This is the map in 2002. You can see Italy, Southern France, and the Mediterranean emerging. At left you can see the frame of the infamous window.

The map sat partially uncovered and untouched until last summer. In partnership with TPWD Cultural Resources we hired OnAim Conservation to stabilize the remaining paint on the bulkhead, just prior to the tow to Galveston. This initial step preserved what remained and protected it from any vibrations from the tow and/or shipyard work. It also set the stage for uncovering the rest of the map and recreating the missing sections.

This is the map in 2011. During the 2002-2003 Captain's Cabin restoration, it was partially uncovered. But work stopped out of fear of damaging the map further.

All through July 2023, the incredibly talented husband and wife team of Zak Miano and Ariane Roesch (who own OnAim Conservation), with the expertise and hard work of artist and conservator Bob Pringle, performed the tedious work of uncovering the map by removing the remaining white paint, revealing that much more of the map survived than anyone thought. They also discovered that whoever painted the map, had painted the State of Texas in Africa in burnt orange!

This is the map as it appears today. The gloss is from Damar varnish that was used by OnAim to protect the paint and bad lighting.

Europe afte the remaining remnants of white overpaint was removed and the the destroyed sections of Spain and North Africa were recreated. You can see the explosions where the ship did shore bombardment at N. Africa, Normandy, and Southern France.

We made the decision to use French Morocco as Morocco was a 'protectorate' of France and French Morroco showed on a lot of 1940s maps.

Once the map was uncovered, OnAim added Kati Ozanic-Lemberger to the team to recreate the destroyed section and features of the map. In consultation with TPWD Cultural Resources, it was a unanimous decision to touch up the paint of the surviving sections of the map, fill in and blend in missing areas within surviving sections, and recreate the large missing sections. We made this decision for two main reasons, 1) it would preserve the existing map longer 2) it would allow us to tell the story of what happened to this map. The artistry of OnAim is phenomenal in how they blended the recreated areas of the map with the original, infilled and blended missing patches, and emphasized the surviving features that were being last. The map blew me away, but the skill of these folks was just as impressive.

The big surprise: TEXAS!

The Eastern seaboard of N. America, with all of Texas's Dec 7, 1941 to September 1944 ports of call. Another discovery OnAim made was the remnants of 'North'. THis do not show in the 1966 photo, Referencing period maps, we opted to infill the missing sections of 'North' and create 'North Atlantic Ocean'. As that seemed the most logical as to what was there -there was no 'South'. Because this was largely on the destroyed section we would not be harming the original map.

The faded areas are what survived of 'North'. The more solid and brighter blue is what was infilled. Same with the gray for the oceans.

I also want to add that Ariane, Kati, Bob, and Zach were working directly under the work going on the Signal Bridge. They performed their magic while having to deal with the sounds of needle guns, grinders, hammers, et al, right above their heads and occasionally getting smoked out from welding and cutting smoke that would get sucked into Captain's Cabin. How they kept steady hands and focus amid the normal cacophony of a shipyard environment is astounding.

Custom matching and blending colors

The detail work....

Bob and Katie recreating the destroyed section of the map.

The on OnAm team: Kati, Ariane, Zak, and Bob

As to the future of the map, we plan to have it on exhibit in the Captain's Cabin shortly after we reopen and are planning to incorporate it into an AR experience."

Posted by Travis Davis on the Battleship Texas Foundation Group Facebook page: link

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