#brave men

[scotianostra]

On June 6th 1944 Allied forces stormed the beaches of Northern France on what became known as D-Day.

There were no doubt many acts of bravery on that day when the tide started to turn against the Nazi regime that ultimately ended World War Two. I shall concentrate on one, but will also tell you about a German sniper that day and a wee tenuous brave Canadian.

‘Piper’ Bill Milllin landed on Sword Beach on the Coast of Normandy as part of the 1st Special Service Brigade in the second wave of the operation.

Pipers were banned from being on the frontline during the Second World War because of the number of casualties seen during the First World War. The enemy figured out that the piper helped boost morale to the Allied troops, and they were slaughtered because of this. This led the War Office to restrict their presence in camps as well as on the frontline.

Millin pointed this out to his Commanding Officer  Brigadier Lord "Shimi" Lovat  Fraser, hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser, who was a law unto himself. “Ah, but that’s the English War Office, Millin,” Lovat told him. “You and I are both Scottish so that doesn’t apply.”

As Bill Millin embarked from the landing craft and waded through chest high water making his way toward dry land, high above his head he carried his pipes, the only weapon he would need that day. Around him bullets flew, mortar shells exploded Bill_Millin1and his friends, comrades and countrymen died, but Bill carried onward.

It was what came next that made Bill Millin a legend! Lord Lovat, the Chief of Clan Fraser and Brigadier of the 2,500 commandos, instructed the 21 year old Bill Millin to fire up his pipes and play a tune to inspire the men. And with the five words ‘Give us “Highland Laddie” man!’, the Legend of ‘Piper’ Bill was born.

Amid the carnage and destruction Bill Millin played as he had never played before. While marching up and down the beach of Normandy, Millin played the tunes ‘Hielan’ Laddie’, ‘The Road to the Isles’ and ‘Blue Bonnets over the Border’, and at one point added ‘The Nut Brown Maiden’ for a redheaded French girl who had strayed out of her home.

The day would see Millin and his unit march four miles inland to a point known as Pegasus Bridge, which was a strategically vital point for the German 21st Panzer Division. D-Day was the turning point in the Allies’ battle against Hitler and ‘Piper’ Bill Millin stands a reminder of the bravery and sacrifice made by ordinary people in extraordinary times.

Facing the soldiers coming ashore that day was Horst Hrubesh, German machine gunner, he too can be seen as a hero of sorts, if you read the poem he penned, I will let you decide;

Scottish soldier play your pipes

Even though your in my sights

Just like me you have a wife

I aim above your head

For full five minutes i fire up high

Keep my bullets up in the sky

No mad piper, you will not die

I will not lay you dead.

Now at my Nazi captains call

He wonders why you do not fall

They drag me from my post in haste

Another gunner i am replaced

In a cell now i await

Whats sure to be a bloody fate

Jack boots stamp across the yard

By my cell with windows barred

Soldier friends i stood beside

Now gather in a long straight line

Blindfold no i did decline

To see their faces full of guilt

As they take my life for i shalt not kill.

Horst Hrubesh was German , but not a nazi, he paid the price for his act on D Day.

The third person to get a mention today is James M. Doohan who landed ashore at Juno beach. Later that day se would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.

Doohan was a commissioned lieutenant with the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and was tasked with invading an area of Normandy code-named Juno Beach. As the meme states, Doohan successfully led his men across the beach littered with anti-tank mines, and also managed to take out two German snipers:

Lieutenant Doohan was however not shot by a German sniper. He had been shot by a nervous, trigger-happy Canadian sentry.

Doohan said. "We landed safely, thank God, through those Y-shaped steel barriers you see in the film, tracer bullets, all that, none of our men hurt, and dashed 75 yards to the 7-foot tall dunes," Doohan said. 

"Crossed a minefield, found out about it later: It was meant to blow up tanks, and we weren't heavy enough. Moved up through a down - hardly a town just a village - called Graye Sur Mer, saw a church tower that was a machine-gun post, firing off to our left. 

Doohan took out the machine-gun post with a couple of shots. "I don't know if they were killed or wounded, but it shut them up," he said.  The Canadian soldier later said he didn't notice the gunshot wounds in his legs until he got to the medic who told him;

'You also have four bullets in your left knee.' I said: 'Well, I walked here.'"

#scotland #scottish #d day #world war two #history #piper bill millin #lord lovatt #James Doohan #Canadian #Soldiers #heroes #brave men #bag pipes

[bohemian-nights]

Don’t get me wrong because I love the show and the way they’ve handled things (for the most part), but two episodes is not enough to tell these men’s stories. A full mini-series on the Tuskegee Airmen is in order.

#brave men #the best of the best #fighting for a country that didn’t treat them right and still continues to not treat us right #and yet they wanted to make a difference #they did make a difference #they deserve more than two episodes #tuskegee airmen #mota spoilers #mota #👨🏽‍✈️👨🏾‍✈️👨🏿‍✈️✈️

[primalpleasure79]

#redhead #playing with fire #brave men

[chrisshields18]

Apple Podcasts.

Where, what you hear, creates change.

#apple podcasts #Coffee with pops #brave men #Speak up Speak Out #Well Versed Podcast #legacy #love #legendary #legends #nine plus nine #Redefining Christianity

[kammartinez]

#books #ernie pyle #brave men

[kamreadsandrecs]

#books #ernie pyle #brave men

[sarasade]

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

#Also I don't mean that you can always tell if someone is a transphobe or a TERF based on a couple of things they have said. #My point is that sometimes ok people can have very regressive ideas too. #This is not a call out post about how we should go around accusing anti-fujoshi people #todd in the shadows #hbomberguy #sarasade text #even I've got those “Fandom is mostly straight women fetishizing gay men” comments once and it begins to sound kind of passive-aggressive #when you're a bi woman. Lot of fandom stats at AO3 show that fandoms are montly bi women. who are these people calling straight exactly hmm #also straight women are completely ok leave them alone. I know I know Yes I'm so brave for saying this #cw: transphobia

[crionic-dubs]

#united kingdom #britain #dystopia #film #1984 #brave new world #children of men #never let me go #meme #v for vendetta #threads #threads movie #threads 1984 #film analysis #1k

[happy-xy]

Nicholas Hamilton BRAVE THE DARK (2023)

#nicholashamiltonedit #Nicholas Hamilton #Brave the Dark #men #guys #boys #gifs #mine #am i… am i going to hell for this

[a-door-to-somewhere]

Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it

#fanfiction memes #fanfic #fanfiction #funny #literature #english memes #literature memes #great gatsby #shakespeare #to kill a mockingbird #where the red fern grows #1984 #animal farm #pride and prejudice #frankenstein #brave new world #of mice and men #lord of the flies #the catcher in the rye #the scarlet letter #the odyssey #the picture of dorian gray #if youre reading this post your english fanfic assignments go go go #archive of our own #ao3 #a door opens up

[daenerysies]

“at least he FOUGHT in the war what did ur queen do hm sit on her ass and eat cake 🤓👆” buddy boy your king was turned into applebee’s barbecue in his very first battle and spent over a year high on the medieval equivalent of opioids only to be ambushed in his second battle and lose to a thirteen year old little girl on her equally baby dragon i wouldn’t be talking shit if i were you

#house of the dragon #fire and blood #rhaenyra targaryen #pro rhaenyra targaryen #team black #baela targaryen #baela the mf brave #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti aegon ii stans #anti team green #anti team green stans #he literally tore sunfyre to shreds all for the sake of his pride let’s be fr for one sec #rhaenyra knew her strength wasn’t in the battlefield #it’s even more embarrassing that he didn’t plan on fighting baela #he just wanted a victory tour for himself #despite his men being the one to secure dragonstone #dance’s biggest pussy don’t even #doomrotcyclicallosersadvictimmisunderstood i think you guys just like yapping 🤷‍♀️ #if i get one (☝️) ‘tag ur post properly!1!!’ i’m calling u a dumb bitch point blank

[2-eeillustration]

I finished the new Bravern show and after talking to a friend about Superbia I just had to doodle what his humansona would look like if he had one

#IDK what it is but im Really good at designing sassy old men 💅🏿✨ #very largely based off his Lulu but which version is a spoiler hehe #bang brave bang bravern #superbia #lulu #I also doodled a rendered version on top but decided to scrap it (maybe I'll finish it one dayyy)

[nicollekidman]

sorry y’all i think i officially cannot see this movie in theaters lmao

#literally have a knee jerk negative reaction to greta’s face now #they have their own speech they feel they can’t ever give??????? be SERIOUS men are GIVING THAT SPEECH #accompanied by violence usually #Men Are Included In Feminism 🥰🥰🥰🥰 so brave

[chrisshields18]

Great producing, lies, in the ability, to make the audience, feel part, of the, masterpiece.

#Christian Men’s Network #Podcast producer #legacy #love #legendary #faith #legend #grace #growth #american history #focus #Brave Men #it only gets better #there is more #we ain’t ever going to stop #producing #producer #music producer #the pen still works #coldest of all time #COAT

[foxglovevibes]

I have come to the controversial but very brave conclusion;

that THIS man swaggered,

so HE could strut 👀

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk-

#foxglovevibes #baldurs gate astarion #baldurs gate 3 #fable reaver #fable 2 #fable 3 #reaver #astarion #ONCE I REALISED I COULD NOT UNSEE IT SO NOW Y'ALL SHALL KNOW THE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE AS WELL #IF I'M GOING DOWN IMMA TAKE Y'ALL WITH ME 😂😂😂 #hot tea #hot take #controversial yet brave #why am i like this #bg3 #baldurs gate iii #reaver is 100% more ruthless than astarion though i gotta admit #i have a type #both of these men have a fucking chokehold on my chaotic bastard loving ass

[tiredyke]

i cant stand feminist discourse on this site because its like 90% "feminism means equality which means you can't say anything bad about men and you have to criticize women just as much as men because misandry is just as bad as misogyny" and these posts always get thousands of notes from other people who call themselves feminists likeee

#the problem isn’t that women are immune to criticism it’s that they get overly criticized and judged to a much harsher degree than men #and to hear people say that we need to criticize women more or ‘stop pretending they’re all innocent angels’ is fucking infuriating #considering women actually get burned at the stake for expressing negativity toward men while men get to make misogynistic remarks and jokes #and get crowned for being so brave and having such a strong moral compass that they aren’t afraid to stomp down on women #like the shit with amber heard. everyone is so quickly to turn on women and demonize them when they’re literal victims and uplift men who #abuse them #but sure men are demonized in society and don’t feel cherished enough and that’s a problem! /s #neon talks #misogyny