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theygender · 11 months
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TLT fans: did you guys know about the real Wake? I hadn't heard about her until we covered World War II in my world civ class this semester
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) was a covert operative who was at the top of the Nazi's most wanted list in WW2, nicknamed "The White Mouse" for her ability to repeatedly evade capture. She was born in New Zealand with Māori heritage, grew up in Australia, and joined the Resistance after traveling to Europe and witnessing the harsh treatment of Jews in Vienna by the Nazis
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Wake worked in the Pat O'Leary Line escape network until her Resistance organization was compromised by the Germans in 1942. After that she fled on foot across the Pyrenees—with several close calls that she escaped by flirting with German soldiers—and made her way to England to join the Special Operations Executive. She was part of a three person team codenamed "Freelance" which parachuted into occupied France. During this operation she got stuck in a tree after her parachute became tangled in its branches. The local Resistance leader who found her reportedly said “I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year" to which she replied "Cut out that French bullshit and get me out of this tree"
While working in the Freelance operation Wake once biked 500 km (310 mi) without stopping in the span of 72 hours across Nazi territory to retrieve a new radio and codes after her team's were destroyed in a Gestapo raid. Without this feat, Freelance would not have been able to communicate with London and there would have been no more supply drops to support their Resistance organization. During the war she was also part of a raid which destroyed the Gestapo headquarters in Montluçon, in which she reportedly killed a Nazi sentry with her bare hands to prevent him from raising an alarm
Wake's fellow operatives described her as "a real Australian bombshell. Tremendous vitality, flashing eyes. Everything she did, she did well. She was an excellent shot, excelled at fieldcraft and put the men to shame by her cheerful spirit and strength of character." "She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts. Then she is like five men." "We both came to the conclusion that she was 10 times the man I would ever be"
By the time of her death in 2011, Wake had been awarded the George Medal by Britain; the Medal of Freedom by the United States; the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre (x3), and the Légion d’Honneur by France; and the Badge in Gold by New Zealand. Due to a complicated relationship with Australia, she originally refused to accept any awards from the Australian government, saying that they could "stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts." In 2004, however, she accepted the honor of Companion of the Order of Australia as well
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silurisanguine · 10 months
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6 characters that inspired and continue to inspire my OC Zofie Orel.
Catwoman, Lydia Frye, Nancy Wake, Lorraine Broughton, Rita Vrataski and Yennefer of Vengerburg
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higherentity · 2 years
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playitagin · 1 year
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1944-Nancy Wake parachutes back into France.
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 Nancy Wake Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
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cinema-tv-etc · 2 years
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Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Was The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
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Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy
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Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted During World War II, Nancy Wake bravely fought against the Nazis in war-torn France. Pursued by German spies, Wake took a stand for the French resistance. This is her story. Directors Mike Smith Starring Rachael Blampied, Owen Black, William Kircher
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Nancy Wake SOE courier in France
Nancy Wake SOE courier in France
Nancy Wake GM, Officer of the Legion of Honour (France), Medal of Resistance (France), Medal of Freedom (USA). SOE agent aka Helena Andree and called the White Mouse by the Gestapo in France who failed to catch her) Alan Malcher
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harringroveera · 3 days
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Steve wakes up and feels weird. His bedroom isn’t his bedroom anymore. He takes another look.
It is his bedroom. Of his parents’ house back in Hawkins. He is back in his old bedroom. The house is empty. Everything looks odd.
He turns on the TV. Will Byers has gone missing. He stumbles outside the door and picks up the newspaper. November 6th, 1983.
He’s gone back in time somehow. 15 years backwards. To the first day it all started.
Steve crumbles the newspapers in his hand and decides this time he’s going to fix everything.
Including saving his soulmate from his death 13 years ago
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thekeythief · 2 years
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"You still with me, Nance?" 🥺🌈💕
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George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Nancy Lee Andrews, Olivia Harrison, Friar Park's caves, 1978
Been going through my archives and came across some images of dinner with George and Olivia at Friar Park and fun in the cave. 1978
via Nancy Lee Andrews instagram
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artiststarme · 6 months
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Happy Halloween!
The first Halloween they have after the events of Spring Break is the best Eddie had ever had. He’d always loved Halloween with its mystery and secrets, the hidden horror found in the films, and the candy everyone passed out to the kids. He loved watching the kids of the trailer park dress in their second-hand costumes to pretend to be fairies, princesses, and pirates like he too had once before. But before 1986, he’d always been alone. He would smear makeup on his face and run door to door in the early evening before anyone else was out then he’d saunter home and hide from the bullies outside with a lap full of candy and the small TV screen playing a horror flick. 
Halloween of 1986 though brought a new opportunity. Eddie could put on a mask and cease to be the boy that everyone in the town despised. He would no longer be a “known” killer that mothers pulled their children away from. He wouldn’t be the idiot that flunked out of high school after three tries. He wouldn’t even be the freak that people sneered insults at. That Halloween night, Eddie was able to just be himself with his friends. 
He and Steve weren’t dating at that point, but he could feel they were close. Eddie saw the way his eyes never strayed quite too far away from him and felt how his hands reached for him whenever he turned away. It wasn’t different on Halloween. 
Eddie’s face was covered with black and white paint and his hair was let loose on his back, the curls unruly and full. He was masquerading as a member of KISS, the only metal band that Steve could stomach to listen to for any period of time. Above all though, he wasn’t Eddie Munson. 
Steve dressed as Ferris Bueller wearing a costume eerily similar to Tina’s Halloween Party several years prior and matched with Robin who went as his best friend Cameron Frye. The kids dressed in random costumes that meant little to Eddie beyond recognition that they were having fun. 
The whole Party went door to door in Loch Nora for the full size candy bars then around the Wheeler’s neighborhood for some of what Dustin called, “the cheap shit”. When the night was over and most of the houses were out of candy to pass out, everyone headed back to the Byers’ house for the sleepover of all sleepovers. They carved pumpkins and ate pie, they made pumpkin seeds and cookies, they almost gave Hopper a heart attack when they started a food fight that wrecked the entire dining room (Eddie started it but he’s taking that with him to the grave). 
When the kids were too tired and the girls had retreated to bed, Steve led Eddie out to his car where they watched the stars and smoked some cigarettes. They ate all of Dustin’s candy and traded secrets under the gaze of the brightened moon. Eddie’d long forgotten about his face paint up until the point where Steve’s lips met his in a light kiss that shot electricity through his bones. They kissed and hugged until their noses were cold from the chilly weather and they had no choice but to head back inside. 
It was the best night of Eddie’s life. 
The morning after was not. He woke up with a bruising jolt from Steve’s elbow making contact with his jaw. His stomach hurt from the excessive consumption of sweets and his lungs were tight from the chain smoking. Most of all though, his head hurt from the loud raucous of the kids finding his facepaint all over the lower half of Steve’s face. 
He dealt with the outraged confusion of the kids, the stern ‘talking-to’ (more like screaming match) from Hopper for defiling his adopted son, and even the not so subtle looks from Robin and Nancy. Everything was worth it in the end when Steve carefully wiped off the makeup on Eddie’s face with nimble fingers and gentle swipes until all that was left was some slight staining of skin and his lips meeting Steve’s. 
Halloween of 1986 was the best of many moments to come. It turns out that for Eddie, ‘86 was his year after all. 
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My favourite part of Steve driving Robin everywhere is the fact that he’s been doing it for most of a year before he even finds out she can’t drive
He doesn’t question why she doesn’t get a car. He doesn’t let her bike or walk to school even though Family Video isn’t open yet and he doesn’t need to be up. He doesn’t even wonder about it without saying anything
He’s just like we’re besties, of course we go everywhere together and almost a year later Robin’s like ???? I assumed you knew that was why I need rides??? Why did you never ask if you didn’t know, you absolute dingus???
My second favourite thing is that in season 3, Robin had the conversation about how Steve was such a douche in high school and how he’d always come in late to the class he didn’t even remember them having together and Steve went from that being one of the major negatives about him that made Robin think he was such a self-absorbed asshole and Steve didn’t try to defend it at all, he just mentally went okay, well I’m going to care more about getting Robin to school on time than I ever cared about getting myself there on time
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mosquito-queen · 2 years
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max wake up, i don’t like this
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malmagicstar · 2 months
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im shaking(/pos)
yk why
cause of LESBIANS.
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Near-future, black mirror esque AU in which Nancy, stressed college student with loads of childhood trauma, gets recommended by her psychologist to get an emotional support robot. That's what they're called, yes. They're sold to very lonely people to pretty much look after them emotionally. Nancy has always hated the idea, and doesn't really like androids or robots of any kind. Plus, she thinks it's quite sad that she's so lonely she needs an android to keep her company. She also couldn't possibly afford it.
Her friend Steve, though, who hasn't seen her in a year despite living 15 minutes away (she has a tendency to isolate herself and use her studies as an excuse), got her one. It's a second-hand unit, a slightly older model that's seen several repair shops in the past, but it works, and it was half the price of a new one. He shows up to her apartment with the box, looking smug and proud of himself. If anything, Nancy feels insulted.
She doesn't touch the box for a few weeks, and doesn't get rid of it either, because her studies take her so much time, she can't bring herself to keep her apartment clean. When her mother visits and sees the mess she's living in, with a perfectly functional android willing to help her, she finally caves, and as soon as she's alone, she decides to see if this thing can at least help her clean up.
It surprises her that it looks so... human. Its skin is soft and warm, with all the natural imperfections of a human's skin. Same as her hair. She's dressed in old worn-out clothes, and she curls into herself, in fetal position, inside the box. Only the button under her skin on the back of her neck reveals her as an android. Nancy reads the instructions, presses there for 10 seconds, and waits.
Or she planned to wait - eight seconds in with Nancy's fingers pressed on that spot, and the android's eyes flew open. She cried out, screambled out of the box and looked around, breathing heavily and hugging herself. Her eyes fix on Nancy, look her up and down with a frown, and asks:
"Who are you?"
Nancy opens her mouth to reply, then looks down at the instructions, hoping they'd say something about this kind of scenario, and that her new robot didn't go rogue and try to kill her.
"Wait, are those my instructions?" The robot asked. She looked down. "I really don't mean to complain about my living situation going from extremely fucked to simply fucked, but that is not my original box. Mine was smaller, and it had a bunch of little dots on the side. Did they sell me again?"
The instructions said nothing about this possibility, so Nancy decided it was time to improvise.
"I... my friend got you at a garage sale, I think."
"Oh. Well, that is low, even for me," the robot said. She rubbed the back of her neck. "Should my neck hurt this much?"
Nancy blinked.
"Shouldn't you know that?"
"Honestly, I don't even know what levels of pain are normal for me. It always hurts just a little bit somewhere, like, right now, my whole spine really hurts." She laughs. "At least I think it's supposed to feel like pain? I don't think we're wired to feel pain, exactly, I mean, that would be just sadistic. Talk anti-natalism to me. But I swear this spot right here just feels really really bad. Or maybe it's anthropocentric to... perceive it as pain, don't you think? It's very existentialist, actually, the whole... perceiving thing - I bet Berkeley wrote something about it, at some point, but I haven't read him in ages."
"You read books?"
"What? Oh. Oh, uh... I - I think I'm offline? Like, I don't have access to the database, so I kinda have to do it the old-fashioned way if I want to learn somethin," she said. "It's cool, though! I like reading a lot."
"...Okay. So, um... here it says your model is..."
"Robin," the android said. Nancy looked up.
"I'm sorry?"
"That's my name," she said. "I came up with it, I - I thought it sounded nice. Do you like it?"
Nancy stared at this... thing, a million thoughs coursing through her head. The first one was a newfound understanding of her low price.
She made a movement with her head that could be understood as both a shake and a nod at the same time.
"Yeah, yeah, sure" she said, brows knit together. What the hell did Steve get her into? "It's... nice."
"Oh, thank God, because Mom and Dad hated it."
"Mom and...?"
"My first owners - Richard and Melissa, I always called them Mom and Dad. They... they, uh, they hated that, too."
Jesus Christ.
"So... Robin," Nancy said. "I was wondering if you could help me put away some of my things while I study."
"Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure." She stood there, eyes wandering, around, until they fell on Nancy's bookshelf "Holy shit, you have Dostoyevski! Is it in Russian?"
Nancy blinked, opened her mouth, took a step back and shook her head. Robin was already striding towards her bookself, tracing the spines of books with her fingers.
"Actually, why don't you read after you clean this up?"
Robin turned to see her, eyes wide and a growing smile, like a kid in a candy shop.
"I - I can read all of this?"
Nancy was going to kill Steve.
She shrugged and shook her head.
"Sure," she said. "After you clean this mess."
"Aye aye, cap!" Robin chirped, making a quick salute with her hand and getting to work.
Nancy was, for certain, going to murder Steve for making her responsible for this... thing. There was something wrong in her system, and that was very much obvious. She looked down at the instructions manual - surely there would be a way to turn her off for the night. She wouldn't want Robin to murder her in her sleep, or worse - wake her up at 4 am to talk about books.
Or she could just tell her to shut up. She was a robot, anyway. It's not like she could feel anything.
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love-byers · 2 years
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“Not Hopper, not Mike, you.” (long post)
i’m probably the last person to realize this, but i HAVE to talk about it. get ready for elmax despair. 
so, el gets a makeover in every season. 
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season 1: mike dresses el up and puts makeup on her
she started out with no sense of self. she was wearing her hospital gown, then the the benny burger’s shirt, then mikes clothes, and then she gets her iconic wig and dress.
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season 2: kali gives el her iconic bitchin’ makeover
while living with hopper, el was wearing hand-me-downs and probably anything he could find for her in general. then el goes off with kali and kali tries to get her to join their little group, but el declines and decides to go home
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season 3: max takes el shopping and encourages her to find the style she likes
el was once again wearing hopper’s hand-me-downs. then max gives her advice about mike and tells her she needs to find what she likes. 
“How do I know...what I like?”
“You just try things on. Until you find something that feels like you.”
“Like...me?”
“Yeah. Not Hopper, not Mike, you.”
(i’d like to remind you that that quote plays during the flashback sequence in s4 when el is reviving max)
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s4: when el is taken for the nina project, they once again strip her of her identity. they shave her hair and take her clothes, she only wears her hospital gown and the plain clothes they give her.
the clothes el wears at the beginning of s4 aren’t like how she dressed in s3, but i’m not gonna go right out and say she stopped being herself. i think the stylists wanted to show the byers’ influence on her via her hair and clothes, since they seem to be hand me downs and such. but that doesn’t mean el doesn’t dress how she likes. but, this could be representative of el’s separation from max, who is the one who brought el into herself. el didn’t have hopper, mike, or max to influence her. and the big makeover is what happens when el is reunited with brenner. it’s fr heartbreaking to see them take el’s individuality that she’d been developing for years at this point since her escape from the lab. 
in season 1, el starts out in her hospital gown. that is not her whatsoever. she’d been derived of any sense of self her entire life. mike makes el feel pretty, and el’s confidence dips when her wig gets messed up. mike assured her she was still pretty, but i for one don’t think el feeling dependent on a change entirely orchestrated by mike is very romantic. (not coming for mike, this isn’t about the characters as people it’s about the narrative). i’d also like to point out that the dress mike gave her was nancy’s. so el really wasn’t being herself. 
in season 2, there really isn’t room for hopper to take el out and find whatever she likes, but still, how el was dressing and styling herself wasn’t her, it was hopper. kali had good intentions, but that still wasn’t el. kali was pretty much dressing el up and pushing her into what she thought el needed. el looked badass as hell, but that was kali, not el. 
in season 3, max is the first person to guide el into confidence and style on her own terms. she doesn’t bust out the hand me downs and the makeup, she encourages el to find what she likes. literally, for the first time in el’s life, someone want her to find a sense of self and individuality. it’s so beautiful and one of the reasons why el’s relationship with max is so key to the plot. 
in season 4, obviously, el’s identity was forcibly torn from her again. it’s heartbreaking. 
my point here is that throughout el’s makeovers, max is the first person to encourage her to be herself. max doesn’t give el clothes or do her makeup, she takes el to the mall and tells her to try a bunch of stuff on until she finds something that feels like her. (the fucking sweetest thing i’ve ever seen). 
el losing max isn’t just heartbreaking because they’re best friends, it’s because max was truly the first person to give el freedom of expression. el has been dependent on someone every season up until s3. first mike, then hopper, and then she blossoms into her own person unlike we’ve ever seen before. and it’s all thanks to max. 
in s5, i think we’re going to see el have yet another makeover, but it’ll be done entirely by herself. max taught her how to find herself in s5, but max isn’t available right now. but now el knows what to do, she knows how to find what she likes. 
im annoying so of course i’m going to find a way to make this about byler. 
i’m going to make a big post about this, but for now i’ll summarize:
el and mike are not going to be an endgame couple. el is not going to end the show in a relationship. that is not what her arc will be about, and it’s never been what her arcs are about. her endgame is going to lie more with found-family and her best friend, max. what i’ve talked about in this post proves that even further. i know i talked about hopper not giving el a sense of self, but el’s conflict over individuality was never keyed in on hopper like it was mike. hopper is her dad, they’ve had piles of development and it overshadows his influence on her style unlike mike. 
as of s3, mike and el have only really known each other for like...8 months. they knew each other for a week, then didn’t see each other for a year, then immediately jumped into a relationship. we literally didn’t see them on screen together until the last episode of s2. there really isn’t that strong of a reason to like their relationship if you look at it for what it is. like i said, this isn’t an attack on mike, but his effect on her in s1 didn’t encourage her individuality. and that wouldn’t be as of a big deal if el’s entire plot in s3 was finding herself. 
(meanwhile mike makes will feel like he isn’t a mistake for being who he is and their entire thing is basically being themselves together no matter what anyone else thinks. they grew up together and love each other for exactly who they are. and when mike tried to be someone else, it formed a rift between them)
in conclusion, el is not going to end the show in a relationship where there’s more stuff like this on their record than cute/well written things. thats not to say i don’t like mike and el’s relationship, i do. mike taking her in is fucking adorable. he took care of her and gave her the name el, he introduced her to eggos, and lots of other things. i adore them as best friends with a very special bond who love each other, not as a romantic couple. there’s a reason why every single season, el’s arc is about discovering herself and mike’s is about will. 
to put it in perspective:
jancy’s arcs every season aren’t necessarily all about each other, but their storylines are intertwined. they’re a team. and while they’re working as a team, their romantic arcs develop. same thing with joyce and hopper. same thing with lucas and max. this is not the case with el and mike after s1. el and mike don’t see each other until the last episode of s2. el’s arc in s2 is about finding her mom and kali, not mike. mike’s arc in s2 is about being will’s boyfriend being there for will and working through the mind flayer issues with him. el’s arc in s3 is about finding herself with max. she and max also work out the billy/heather mystery together and their friendship develops more with it. (meanwhile mike and will were having dramatic boyfriend fights in the rain and mike was outside will’s house with a boombox). el’s arc in s4 was about getting her powers back and finding out the truth about her past. mike’s was about WHAT? not being able to say i love you to his girlfriend and fixing his relationship with WHO? will byers. he and will were a team in s4, and their relationship arc developed with it. 
YOU PEOPLE IN DENIAL NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES TO WHAT THE WRITERS HAVE CREATED
MILEVEN IS BONES . THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN BONES
BYLER IS ENDGAME
in conclusion: el’s relationship with max is a thousand times more appealing and well written than mileven, and it’s on purpose. because el’s endgame won’t be about mike or a romantic relationship, it’s going to be about her family and max, the only person who ever enabled el to be herself. 
max and el have one of the best relationships on the show and i swear to god if max doesn’t fucking wake up and go on that movie date and have a sleepover with el i swear to christ i am going to end my fucking shit 
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musicalchaos07 · 1 year
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Byler and Jancy running into each other late at night in the Byers kitchen like
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