#destruction of history

[53v3nfrn5]

Aftermath of the Gulf War in Al Ahmadi Kuwait (1991) photog. Steve McCurry

#tw war #gulf war #kuwait #1991 #steve mccurry #photography #war #destruction #90s #1990s #90s nostalgia #world history #history

[diioonysus]

tragedy in art

the execution of lady jane grey by paul delaroche (1833)

the fall of babylon by john martin (1831)

ophelia by sir john everett millais (1852)

the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum by john martin (1822)

princess tarakanova by konstantin flavitsky (1864)

the episode of the yellow fever by juan manuel blanes (1871)

les saltimbanques by gustave dore (1874)

ivan the terrible and his son ivan by ilya repin (1885)

the course of empire, destruction by thomas cole (1836)

the plague of ashdod by nicolas poussin (1630)

#art history #history #the execution of lady jane grey #paul delaroche #the fall of babylon #john martin #ophelia #sir john everett millais #the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum #princess tarakanova #konstantin flavitsky #the episode of the yellow fever #juan manuel blanes #les saltimbanques #gustave dore #ivan the terrible and his son ivan #ilya repin #the course of the empire destruction #thomas cole #the plague og ashdod #nicolas poussin #art #vintage art #vintage

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

#-> myra text #political critique #that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation. #it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country. #but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs. #did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years. #biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling) #i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever. #they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot. #these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas #as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather #wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from #the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point. #absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit #calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is. #sanghi bs #india #hindutva

[agentark]

trying to enjoy my silly little time traveling sci-fi show while clara and the doctor say the most devastating things to and about each other every other episode like my god

If the Doctor is still the Doctor, he will have my back.

Clara, I'm not your boyfriend. // I never thought you were. // I never said it was your mistake.

Please, just...Just see me.

Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?

Clara, I'm terribly sorry, but I'm exactly what you deserve.

There was one other man. But it would've never worked out. He was impossible.

When do I not see you?

Die with whoever comes after me, you do not leave me.

I don't care about your rules, or your bloody survivor's guilt. If you love me in any way, you'll come back.

Immortality isn't living forever, that's not what it feels like. Immortality is everybody else dying. She might meet someone she can't bear to lose. That happens, I believe.

I let Clara Oswald get inside my head, trust me, she doesn't leave.

Longest month of my life. // It could only have been five minutes. // I'll be the judge of time.

I will die, and no one else here or anywhere will suffer. // What about me?

Everything you're about to say, I already know. don't do it now, we've already had enough bad timing.

Don't run. Stay with me.

I was lost a long time ago, she was saving you.

If you think because she is dead I'm weak, then you understand very little. If you were any part of killing her and you're not afraid, then you understand nothing at all.

The day you lose someone isn't the worst...it's all the days they stay dead.

I'd know you anywhere.

What were you bargaining for? // What do you think? You.

If she says so.

I had a duty of care.

People like me and you, we should say things to one another.

Look how far I went, for fear of losing you.

You said "memories become stories when we forget them." Maybe some of them become songs.

hand in unlovable hand

#also of course any iteration of 'my clara' #or that line in before the flood where bennett is like 'youre just doing this to save clara' and the doctor is like 'yeah? and?' #like even w/ 11 we start to see just how far the doctor will go for her but 12 really drops the pretense that he cares about anyone but her #just finished a rewatch of Clara's episodes and feeling the entire spectrum of human emotion about them #may I one day experience a love half as insane as theirs #clara jumping into his time stream means they have 900+ years of inextricably linked history whether they know it or not like.... #yeah i'd be unhinged about you too #everyone say 'thank you missy' for bringing these two together and nearly causing the destruction of the universe #doctor who #clara oswald #doctorclara #I'm not ready to start Bill's episodes what happens to her makes me physically ill #twelveclara

[intuitive-revelations]

FLUXES [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "DOCTOR, The"

[Image description, courtesy of @quailfence: a series of pictures of text, alternated with screencaps and gifs from Doctor Who.

1: Text: Fluxes: [Celestis: Engineered Participants/Technology] Individuals transposed backwards in time but not too far in space, using a very high chaotic limiter setting and tied to their home period by a thread of biodata

2: The Eleventh Doctor stands in the future corpse of his TARDIS, looking and a pulsing stream of light that has replaced the console. He says, "That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe. My path through time and space."

3: Text: He raised a finger. 'Look. There.

Now she could just make out the thread in the moonlight. It was just a faint reflection, maybe a foot or two long, about a metre off the ground. A taut strand of spiderweb hanging in the air, not attached to anything.

'What is it?' Fitz asked.

'It's only partially rotated into three dimensions,' he said. He pushed his finger right through the glimmering line, without affecting it. 'That's why it looks one- or two-dimensional. The rest is still perpendicular to what we can see - woven into higher space, or the time vortex…'

'Yes,' said Fitz, 'but what is it?' 'It's what your friend mistook for a ley line.' The Doctor was scuttling around the silver thread, peering at it from every angle, getting more and more agitated. 'It's part of the fabric of space-time itself. What DNA is to your genetic code, this stuff is to biodata. And it's all just exposed here now. Personality, history, memory, perception, all vulnerable…'

'I'm going to have to ask you again, aren't I?' said Fitz.

The Doctor said, 'It's me.'

4: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth doctors in the TARDIS. 14: "But you're fine?" 15: "I'm fine, because you fixed yourself. We're Time Lords, we're doing rehab out of order."

5: Text: The subject is turned loose in his or her own history, and the limiter setting allows tiny actions taken by the future version to have considerable effects on the past version. The biodata link then transfers these changes to the future version, which alters it, and thus alters the changes made to the past version. Therefore, the individual's history is kept constantly in flux.

6: The Fugitive Doctor says, "Let me take it from the top: Hello, I'm the Doctor."

7: Text: Let me finish. Think back to that time when you went to see your previous selves.

8: Ten, Eleven, and War talk to each other. Ten: "You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?" Eleven: "We change history all the time. I'm suggesting far worse."

9: Text: 'Maybe there's no one home on Gallifrey,' said the boy softly. There was just the one of him.

The Doctor looked at him, cupping the small white cube in his hands. The boy said, Maybe they all left. Or maybe the whole planet's being destroyed, and undestroyed, and destroyed, and you just caught them at the wrong moment.

10: The TARDIS by the ruins of Gallifrey

11: Text: 'It's impossible,' said the Doctor. 'It's impossible for my people. Our past is unreachable. What's written can't be unwritten.'

'Who said your history can't change?'

Another boy answered, 'Someone from his history.'

And another: 'Maybe it's the second-biggest lie in Time Lord history.'

12: Dhawan!Master tells Thirteen, "You are the Timeless Child."

13: Thitreen stares at a ruined house. Swarm whispers in her ear and tells her, "All the memories you've lost, all the people you've been. It's all in there, contained within that house."

14: Text: And it was like the Doctor's home. As if his ship understood the loss of the House and had compensated to fill the emptiness. Shadowy corridors, alcoves and stairways, a secret at every turn. Like being in the Doctor's head. Like his life, for that matter, the details of which were strewn like flotsam across the floor.

15: Text: 'Sweet,' said the little boy. 'That's my favourite of your origin stories, too.'

The Doctor opened his eyes. He had been laughing, he realised, he felt that lightness in himself. The boys had all moved away, behind him, leaving him facing the empty dark of the warehouse.

'What do you mean?' he asked. His voice sounded very small.

'Is this the version where they banned all mention of his name, and yours, for consorting with aliens? Or the one where he got every record of himself deleted from the files?'

'Feel free to believe either of them,' snapped the Doctor, 'or both of them, or neither of them. If you're curious about my past, I want there to be as many wrong answers as possible.'

16: The Eighth Doctor tells someone, "I'm half human. On my mother's side."

17: Text: 'Well he's a hybrid, you know that. A Gallifreyan not born of Gallifreyan, the one who unites the two races and brings good old human niceness into their alien society. Aliens need that, y'know.'

'A human hybrid? She saw the contempt in his curling lip. 'Pseudoscientific nonsense. There's no evidence,' he repeated.

'He's allowed to be different. He's got a prophecy and everything.'

18: Lady Me says, "By your own reasoning, why couldn't the Hybrid be half Time Lord, half human?"

19: Text: Someone giggled. 'Let's play pin the tale on the donkey.'

'Maybe you didn't use to have a father.'

'Maybe you're living in the middle of a time war. Maybe there's an Enemy out there -'

The Doctor shouted, 'I'm not listening!'

'- who's rewriting you when you're not looking!'

'Maybe you weren't always half human.'

'But now you've become always half human.' 'Maybe you weren't always a Time Lord.'

But now you've always been a Time Lord.'

'Maybe you originally came from some planet in the forty-ninth century. Fleeing from the Enemy who'd overrun your home -'

'I said I'm not listening! Laa laa laa laa laa -'

'- and you've just been written and rewritten and overwritten, ever since.'

'Pin the tale!'

'How d'you know it's not true?'

'How could you know it's not true?'

The voices crowded in. 'How would you know, huh?'

'How would you know?'

'How would 'How would you 'How 'How would you know? you know? you know? know?'

'Why would I care?' shouted the Doctor.

The boy fell silent.

20: Lady Me asks, "Am I right? Is it true?" Twelve replies, "Does it matter?"

21: Text: However, the one group from the Homeworld which has excelled at flux-engineering is the Celestis.

22: Two asks the Time Lords, "Now then… what about me?"

23: Tecteun tells Thirteen, "Which is ehy we engineered the Fluyx: Shut the universe down and you within it."

24: Text: Even Mictlan itself can be considered a kind of enormous flux, an endlessly-shifting realm so cortosive to the rest of history that its heartland has to be kept on the outer skin of the universe

24: The Fourteenth Doctor tells Donna, "I invoked a supersition, at the edge of the universe, where the walls are thin and everything is possible."

25: The space station from Wild Blue Yonder

26: Text: There are suggestions of a stable middle-ground between the two fates, in which the physical matter of the flux is lost but the meaning of the subject/ victim is retained, a series of memetic connections with no flesh to support it. Yet this entity exists only on a purely theoretical level, relying on the perceptions of others to survive at all.

27: The Twelfth Doctor walks up to the TARDIS console. He says, "Can't wait to hear what I say." Glancing at the viewer, he adds, "I'm noting without an audience."

28: Text: You know what Sam represents. If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? Stop me if I'm getting too abstract here, but if a Time Lord saves the world and nobody witnesses him doing it, does history care? She's your witness. The thing you need to make you whole.

29: The First Doctor looks at the viewer and says, "Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!" End description.]

[Plain text: Fluxes [Celestis: Engineered Participants / Technologies] Example: "Doctor, The". End plain text.]

@dw-described

#Doctor Who #DW Meta #DW Theory #First Doctor #Second Doctor #Eighth Doctor #Tenth Doctor #Eleventh Doctor #Twelfth Doctor #Thirteenth Doctor #Fourteenth Doctor #Fifteenth Doctor #Martin!Doctor #Tecteun #The Division #The Flux #Faction Paradox #Doctor Who EU #The Book of the War #Unnatural History #just some random thoughts #linking together some of the parallels and headcanons over the years into a chain #actually was spurred by me thinking about the 'destruction of the universe' line in Class and connecting it to the Flux #but had to cut it #as well as a lot more #due to the 30 image limit #so consider also the Solitract; the Great Old Ones from the previous universe; the Doctor as a 'virus'; “once upon several times” etc. #DW Spoilers #Doctor Who Spoilers #for Tennant and Gatwa together

[rocknrollflames]

GNR News

Who will attend?

#guns n roses #gnr #guns n' roses #izzy stradlin #slash #steven adler #axl rose #duff mckagan #gilby clarke #rock and roll #rock and roll legends #rock n roll #rock n roll history #rock and roll history #appetite for destruction #grammy hall of fame #izzy stradlin is the death of me

[amielot]

H-he likes to hang out under piers and eat Boardwalk food :3

he’s got the brawn of a lobster and the punch of a mantis shrimp.

he has lil’ animal friends

It’s Destruction

from The Wine-Dark Sea @moorishflower @teejaystumbles

songs that compel me 1   2   3

#The Sandman #siren au #destruction of the endless #The wine dark sea #dreamling #its in the background #destruction owns a longboard #at some point in history all the endless + Hob are all at the exact same marina #and its just that scene from The Emporers New Groove #with yzma and kuzco at the restauraunt #i know what i did #the art tag

[screamingfromuz]

the "decolonize Palestine" bullshit is just making this whole thing last longer. you are calling for ethnic cleansing of a native population. you are calling for a destruction of 4000 years of Jewish existence, and most importantly, you are spewing a narrative that leads to the death of thousands. "Decolonize Palestine from Jews" is a fucking bullshit lie.

you are supporting a fucking lie. Delegitimizing the Jewish connection to the land and changing fucking history is causing active harm.

YOU ARE LITERALLY ENCOURAGING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS IN THE GUISE OF OBJECTING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS.

and for the fucking brain dead, the only fucking solution is not eradicating Palestinian presence or making millions of Jewish refugees, it is creating a place where both peoples get to live together in safety.

That piece of "Israel is just a European colonial settler imperialistic state that stole Palestine" bullshit is just that, bullshit. Palestine was never an independent state, the Palestinians never had a fucking state, get it through your fucking mind. Should they get a state? SURE! did they refuse one again and again because the idea that Jews will have their state was considered unreasonable?

YES!

Did Jordan an Egypt prevented Palestine from becoming by annexing land between 1948-1967?

ALSO YES!

is there a fucking imbalance?

YES

are the Palestinians just innocent victims of the big bad Zionists?

NO!

Palestinians are part of this story, and if they will not take accountability for their behavior in the last 106 years, nothing will be solved!

the only fucking solution is for both sides to take accountability! AND I MEAN IT!

This is not a fucking colonizer vs. colonized situation! this is two natives fighting over who gets to live in the fucking house!

NON OF IT IS FUCKING OK!

#israel #palestine #gaza #decolonisation #decolonise palestine #decolonization #decolonize palestine #fucking idiots #ethnic clensing #rewriting history #twisting history #i/p #israel hamas war #calling for destruction is easy #making peace is harder #Jews are native to Israel #get the fuck over yourself #victimhood complex #if you would have just agreed to the fucking partition plan in 1948 all of this would have never happened! #but nooooo #you had to try and genocide the new Jewish state and fucking failed! #stop trying to eradicate Jewish presence in the fucking region

[petitelappin]

Sketchbook as of late.

I'm very slowly and agonizingly trying to teach myself game design to make an 18th century point and click adventure, and also continuing to transition.

#my art #sketchbook #sadies day job #history #the game is going to take place in boston on the day of the destruction of the tea but its not /about/ that #you are trying to get errands done while history is happening and everyone in town is going through their own shit #im still trying to figure out the exact tone im going for and also how weird i wanna get w Time #i know i want it to be Weird and very Specific #like some parts will be very well researched accurate info. like x guy is at y place doing z thing that we know happened #and others are looser more vibes based like at one point john peters the grocer will ask you to deliver a love letter to #phillis wheatley even though we dont know when they actually met or began courting #and some is like. the tavernkeepers a guy i know irl named sean and im keeping his anachronistic aviator frames

[lem0nademouth]

i need leftists to cope with their post 9/11 + Iraq/Afghan wars Islamophobia guilt in a way that doesn’t involve erasing the fact that, like it or not, Islam is a proselytizing religion that has fueled centuries of colonization, genocide, and imperialism. idealizing Islam as a purer, better alternative to Christianity is in itself Islamophobic, and it also ignores the many communities who have suffered at the hands of Islamic imperialism. it is possible to not be Islamophobic while acknowledging that.

#tonight on posts i might get cancelled for #i’m just so tired of people pretending that Islamization wasn’t destructive #and that Jews living under Muslim rule didn’t suffer #part of my family is Turkish #lived there during Ottoman rule #it wasn’t a good time! #and then there’s the Spanish Inquisition which. i simply cannot get started on rn #point is framing Islam as an uwu peace and love religion with no history of violence and conquest is wrong and orientalist!

[admiralnelsoniii]

The P-36 Peacemaker. I've actually been fortunate enough to see her in the flesh and let me tell you, you cannot grasp just how damn big this aircraft actually is until you experience it!! At Columbus Air and Space Museum we walked around forever, seeing everything knowing this gargantuan plane was there but we just couldn't find it!! Then, we looked up..... the entire museum, every other plane, display, or exibit was UNDER her! It's impossible to take all of her in at once because she stretches over the horizon! Seriously, It's unbelievable just how massive this thing is. Check it out if you have the opportunity. It's something I'll never forget!

#p36peacemaker #bomber #strategic bomber #ww2 art #ww2 #history #wwii #art #artwork #warbird #warship #fighter #panzervor #post war #mutual destruction

[uncanny-tranny]

Something that was truly helpful in the way I perceived substances and destructive behaviours was this video that essentially said that you see the problem as the substance or behaviour, but they see that as the solution. It really clicked something in my brain - especially as somebody who has done self-destructive behavioural things. It suddenly made sense why I saw that as the solution and outlet to my problems, when in reality, it was a very temporary relief that added to my pain in the long-run.

I think it's helpful to meet people where they're at - if they're addicts or engage in self-destructive behaviours. Because you'll be in a different situation than they are, you will perceive their issues in an entirely different context than they - don't treat them like they have no sense about them because you're perceiving their situation in a different way than they are.

#mental health #mental health support #addiction #addiction tw #self harm #self harm implied tw #sh tw #if this doesn't make sense i can rephrase this but it's important to me #i'm not an addict but i have had a storied history in solving my problems in destructive and oxymoronic ways

[scrapironflotilla]

Destroyed crucifix at Brie, March 1917.

#ww1 #world war 1 #battlefield destruction #history

[asherisawkward]

I feel as though the crew needed to read on dictatorship and colonialism so they can better portray them in the show I feels as thought it a tell don’t show type of phenomena, the isles became a utopia when Belos is gone and no one was upset their ruler was missing, the rebels didn’t provide evidence that Belos was planning a Genocide, and Philip was able to one-handily conquer the isles with the guise of wild magic being dangerous because why?

A lot of different stories have trouble portraying the power struggle and difficulties that arise as a result of a strong government with tight control of the people being removed.

In Avatar the Last Airbender, they did an incredible job of portraying the loss of culture and distinct boundaries due to the colonial behavior of the Fire Nation and even the way it affected the livelihood of towns and cities under it. They didn’t have time to also depict the way that the political structure would shift to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. This has led to a feature generally referred to as “The Good Successor” or something similar. The basic premise is that there is a descendent of the big bad who assisted the heroes and will take over after the fall of the aforementioned villain, allowing for a more satisfying resolution with less worries about the future while it’s implied that changes will happen after. In the example I used, Zuko would be this character.

The Owl House….did not do this. They don’t talk about the various ways that cultural traditions and history were erased by Philip’s actions and control of the government. From what we saw of Elsewhere and Elsewhen, he didn’t need to change much, anyway. The Isles already conform to the European and Colonial behaviors imposed by most wide-spread colonial empires, so there doesn’t appear to be a great loss of information history or culture, although there were mentions on the restriction of knowledge. They don’t mention any of the ways that the dissolution of the Covens affected the Isles or even what they did to counter that. It feels unrealistic and, quite frankly, lazy. Bad things don’t just go away because the person with the most power does; actual changes need to be made.

#The Owl House #TOH #Philip Wittebane #Emperor Belos #Destruction of history and culture #Dissolution of imperial powers and structures #TOH criticism #TOH critical #Avatar the Last Airbender #ATLA #Fire Nation Empire #Effects of colonization and imperial control #Prince Zuko #transition of power

[ausetkmt]

#Chancellor williams #the Destruction of Black Civilization #Black History #Black Historians

[claraameliapond]

Lauren Booth: "Now here's another proof that the Zionists do not belong there. If you go there and you feel this, much less if you feel you own the land, could you destroy 750,000 ancient olive trees? Could you absolutely decimate an are where ancient stones where prophets are and where profits have walked? No. Not if you believed in any way in a love for that land. The Zionists are alien bodies, are viruses in a beautiful body - they're a virus because a virus kills. A virus does damage. And people are going to freak out : 'oh my god, you're calling them viruses ' but - show me what good they've done for the land of Palestine. ..."

She's completely right.

You can't claim to have a spiritual connection to the land, that land and it can only be that land, because of the spirituality connection, and then destroy it.

If you base your entire claim on the land on a spiritual value, you render your entire claim void the second you don't respect that land that you claim is yours through a spiritual connection. The second you destroy its native plants and habitats, native animals, ancient buildings and architecture directly connected to that spirituality you claim is so sacred, and is the whole reason for this, you reveal yourselves.

The ancient buildings, architecture, the land and nature on it, the very things that are the cultural history of that spirituality that should by definition be sacred to you, the second you disrespect and destroy that, you expose the truth of your intentions. And what this has always been about.

Decolonise Palestine now

Full interview

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Decolonise Palestine #Israel is a terrorist state #Zionists #Zionism #colonization #war crimes #ethnic cleansing #Genocide #Lauren Booth #Land #Palestinian Land #Illegal invasion #Illegal occupation #Illegal settlement #Illegal Israeli expansion settlements #Destruction #Cultural imperialism #Cultural history #Religion #Youtube