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talknerdytome18 · 3 months

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Seeing all the shit regarding people's opinions on Seb after S4 that went down on Twitter just made me feel frustrated. Since I don't post on Twitter since I only use my personal account, I will just come on here instead.

You can dislike a character all you want. That's fine; I dislike many characters. Nobody is saying that you have to like a certain character; it's FINE to not like certain characters.

However, it is NOT okay to attack others who may like that character. It is NOT okay to erase the impact that character, especially with a character like Seb who is a part of the first openly gay couple in the HSM franchise. You can dislike Seb all you want; THAT IS FINE, but you DO NOT attack others who actually like his character. Stop calling Seblos stans losers all because you don't like Seb/think Carlos deserves better; we all know damn well that you never cared about Carlos until s4. I've seen your opinions about him TWITTER 🙄

Fandom is meant to bring people with the same interest together. People who may feel excluded may find comfort in fandom. By actively bullying others who have different opinions than you, that makes you a bully. You can go off and say "IT'S JUST A JOKE HAHAHA STOP GETTING UPSET", THAT MAKES YOU A FUCKING ASSHOLE. PEOPLE COME INTO FANDOMS BECAUSE OF THEIR COMMON INTEREST; THEY DON'T COME INTO FANDOMS TO GET HARASSED FOR THEIR DIFFERING OPINIONS. STOP WITH THE EXCUSES; I'M FUCKING SICK OF IT.

Seblos especially means a lot to many members in the fandom. To many, they have made many feel seen especially in a time where queer shows are being cancelled. Seblos was the first ship I had ever felt connected to and it makes me feel disgusted whenever I see people discrediting their impact all because of s4.

If you constantly make excuses as to why you're bullying others in the fandom, then you're just an awful person. You people are nothing but bark and no bite; you guys can dish it out all online, but are too scared to dish it out in person. This especially goes for a certain fanbase for a ship that, while is a beautiful ship, has the worst fanbase I've ever seen. I will not group all members as being bad as I've met some lovely shippers who have been kind and respectful. Why can't that be the same for Twitter?

All in all, this type of behaviour is fucking embarrassing. HSMTMTS is over and yet people are still arguing like children all because of Seblos being endgame. You can whinge all you about it, but you're not going to change it - they're endgame and that's that. You don't have a say and your non-existent spinoff will not change that.

You can be upset with the cheating storyline. Many Seblos stans are upset with it too, but it is not an excuse to harass us for still liking the ship.

You can dislike Seb. That is FINE, but it is NEVER an excuse to harass people who like Seb. This goes for anyone who likes a certain character (unless it's someone who is completely unredeemable).

This behaviour has gone on too long and was partially the reason why I deleted my fandom Twitter in the first place. Bullying others will never get you anywhere in life; stop excusing this behaviour all because it's a "joke" to you. It may be a joke to you, but it hurts for the person affected.

And if I, someone who has been trying to move on from HSMTMTS to AGGGTM, have to come here and say this, then you know that I'm pissed. I'm sick of seeing people feeling pressured to leave the HSMTMTS fandom all because some certain members with holier than thou attitudes think it's okay to harass others.

To anyone who has been bullied in this fandom/any fandom space for a silly reason, I am sorry that happened to you. You deserve much better. This blog sees your worth ❤️

Do better HSMTMTS fandom. - Em

#hsmtmts #seb matthew smith #seb x carlos #carlos rodriguez #seblos

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theliterarywolf · 10 months

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Not gonna lie, as much as Threads seems to be horrible, people on Twitter talking about how much better it is or how they NEED to use it just... annoy me

I've been in there in my own account for less then 2 months, and only follow like, 4 people, but it is the most toxic and annoying big website i even used, and i have been on Tumblr for YEARS. people just love to complain about everything, any sincerity is mocked and anything even a little "weird" turns into a harrasment campain. And since nobody uses hashtags or tags, you NEED to use the algoritm, and see even more people being awful. Really the only good part is the NSFW stuff being allowed.

And them i see people complaining or mocking tumblr... people are very annoying here too, but its like a few toxic bins next to Chernobyl itself

This is why, when one of my earlier posts about Threads was making the rounds and someone accused me of fearmongering, I was sitting here like 'come on, man!'

We all know that the major social media sites are predatory with the types of data they collect. Hell, even as I'm sitting at my laptop typing this response, there's a glowing link on the bottom of the Tumblr window that says 'Privacy Notice for California Users'.

It's the fact that Threads released with bare-bones to little UI elements compared to other social media sites in combination with the fucky-wucky elements of it being a Meta product (you're telling me that the Zuck couldn't have invested some money into QA before launch) as well as the forced Instagram/Facebook connection in conjunction with all of the privacy-botchery that makes people skeptical.

Because, yeah, let's call a spade a spade: Twitter itself is a cesspool that, in the months since Elon bought it, has been falling apart like one of the firefighters at Chernobyl.

And part of that is due to the botched way that things like 'For You' and Blue Checkmarks were handled.

Because, initially, For You legitimately was a benefit and introduced you to similar content to what your Twitter account was comprised of. However, now it just funnels unhinged discourse and Blue Checkmark accounts who KNOW that they would not have an audience if it weren't for the site forcing their batshit brainworms onto others.

Same thing with Blue Checkmarks getting priority placement (along with ads) under people's tweets.

It's one thing for these elements to be present on a site, it's another for that site to make it nigh-impossible for you to curate your experiences to avoid those elements. Because, let me tell you, I've been hearing from people on Twitter that 'oh, those Tumblr people are whinging about XYZ' and I'm just here like 'I! Am actually in those communities/fandoms and I have not seen the wank, so my curating and filtering must be working great!'

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golbrocklovely · 5 months

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I just need to rant quickly lol, but I’ve seen a few accounts on Twitter, not necessarily blaming Colby for reposing Ai art on it, but asking him to stop, because it “takes away from real artists” like I’m sorry but if Colby wants to like and repost Ai art then he can, people just like to whinge about everything

ehh, as someone who is an artist, went to school for it and all, i don't like ai art either. mostly bc it's ripping off other ppl's work and just mish-mashing it into whatever words generate. i'm gonna assume that colby just doesn't know it's not ai. especially since some of the ppl that are posting this art are saying in their captions "i worked a really long time on this" when it's like..... no, you didn't lol

but i don't think colby should be hated on for reposting ai art when there's a highkey probability he doesn't even realize it's not physically made by the person.

#ask #personal #colby brock #sam and colby #sam golbach

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dreadofthegrave · 9 months

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augh. whinging about life events

this is something that would be in a circle in twitter dot corn but i don't have circles here so i will simply put it under a readmore and assume that anyone who doesnt care will simply scroll by as i gen hope they will <3

anyways. last week was vacation and coming back from vacation i got thrown in the metaphorical frying pan. person who was supposed to be watching the house fucked off w/o telling us thursday afternoon (we came back sat night) leaving our cats and her cats (inc. a 5 month old kitten in a separate room) alone. which the other cats would have been fine alone for a few days but the litterboxes were full which makes me suspect she did not clean up before she left. kitten was left with no water and no food (she gave him food but he scarfed it down immediately. because he's A Kitten) and she had the audacity to try to lie to us!! about when she left when we straight up had proof from the security system logs that she was gone for longer than she said she was <3333

did i mention this girl is supposed to be living with us for a few more weeks lol lmao

we spent an hour and a half cleaning the house from the misc toilet and vomit stains around after having already driven a collective 7 hours home from our vacation spot.

we grilled her pretty hard after she came back sunday nite at like 9:30 pm and she kinda gave a half hearted apology and i emphasized that. i agreed to the kitten staying over (which she had thrown on me like. night before we leave) (she adopted the kitten the weekend we left for vacation) with the agreement that she would be taking 100% care of him which she was Not.

and then she fucked off again for all of monday. i think she stayed monday night but she was gone the next morning. she also sprang on me monday nite that "oh do you mind if i stay at my friends house the days i have work because it's closer to my workplace" (by a magnitude of like. hours) and i said yeah because it was LATE and i was WORKING the next day so i didnt have the energy to have a long conversation. i shouldn't have said yes.

she was gone all tues and wed. she didn't have work today so she should have come back to my house but she didn't because she was with her mom. didn't tell us that btw.

now it is thurs night she's probably going to arrive back way too late for me to have a conversation with her because i go to bed early. because i wake up early for work. my sister called her and had a long convo and i sent her a text message saying the kitten has to be gone by the end of this weekend because my sister and i have been taking care of HER KITTEN this entire week basically. when i already gave her a warning for being negligent with the kitten.

tired of hearing the kitten yowling the whole day because my sister and i are both busy and we can't play with him. me because i have my desk job my sister because she's prepping for her job starting next week. regardless ITS THIS GIRLS KITTEN NOT OURS THAT WE DIDN'T AGREE TO TAKE CARE OF

i haven't even broached the topic of payment because i expected to charge her rent for the couple of weeks she was living with us but since she's only been here like. a grand total of 8 hours (when she wasn't watching the house the week we were gone) should i just charge her for using our house as a boarding house for her cats. lol. lmao. im getting some payment out of this even if i have to bug her for it

all that aside. getting grilled at work for things partially my fault and partially not my fault and feeling indignant about it. got told i wasn't communicating well enough when i have been responding to every single silly little email that was sent to me so idk. maybe check your inbox then? anyways i have to finish a report tomorrow i've been putting off for. a disgustingly long time so this is a situation i put myself in but im still mad and stressed about it

good thing i talk to my therapist tmmrw because im just gonna be like hi :) the shit hit the fan my dude

oh as an aside my brain has been bad enough this week that i decided to take a break from twitter since i figured spending my limited free time endlessly scrolling through a collapsing social media site wasn't helping my brain trying to self-cannibalize. tumblr is. Okay. for now. debating filling my queue and leaving for x amount of time but for now i need some outlet

what else. had an onslaught of flies in the house this week. killed about 20 or 30 tuesday and wednesday. thankfully there seemed to be a lot less today so i'm hoping it was just a freak accident and not a serious problem. clothes dryer has been broken (still turns, but no heat) for three weeks now. repairman has stopped by three times with a fourth time coming. i'm about ready to pull the plug after the next time he comes and just buy a new dryer even if that's going to be $$$$ because... it's an old dryer. maybe its time is just up

didn't mean for this post to be so long LMAO if you made it this far you get a picture of harley (my mom's cat). i just gotta make it through this week [pained smile]

NINJA EDIT BECAUSE AS I WAS TYPING THIS UP THERE WAS A NEW KITTEN DEVELOPMENT. after i texted her she got upset enough to decide to drive to our house and pick up the kitten and leave which i mean. lol. lmao. i gave you a warning and you decided to still fuck off so that's not my fault at this point. she's still an hour away so i will probably be going to bed when she comes home. don't have it in me to have another 10pm serious conversation lol lmao lol

#living dead text

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ani-ki--blr · 1 year

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Attempt # I've lost track

Henlo.

This is the... fifth tumblr blog I've run now, I think?

Anyway I forgot the password to my other one and the phone number I had 2FA set up on it for hasn't been used since 2014 so I guess that account just exists somewhere but ANYWAY.

This is gonna be my non-shitpost, sort of FFXIV-centric but also miscellaneous Twitter replacement if/when that eventually blows up. Expect a huge backlog of screenshots, snippets of WoL musings, whinging about mods, et cetera.

Yee ha.

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csmeaner · 2 years

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Whenever I see Soyu-k anywhere, I want to vomit. She is a real piece of work if you don’t have your head up her ass or the ass of someone she’s fixating on.

If you have something she wants, she’ll be your best friend ‘til she sucks you dry. If you dare confront her about it, she’ll throw a fit. The size of the fit seems to depend on which way the wind’s blowing that day.

Soyu-k is a narc in more ways than one. If you say something mean about someone she’s sucking up to, for example, she’ll make sure lots of screenshots of that get passed around, even if you were just blowing off steam. Based on how she’s been since the Meredies days (where I also had to deal with her at times, please kill me), I wouldn’t trust Soyu-k with anything at all. So do not ever, ever, EVER say anything to Soyu-k that could possible become ammo. If it can be used against you, it will.

She’s also a huge clout chaser but will jump ship the minute things don’t look good for her. When Reagan Lodge got called out about a year or so ago, Jennadelle’s name was also brought up. Reagan, Jennadelle, and Soyu-k were actually quite a trio back in the day. Soyu-k tried to defend Jennadelle some.

A year later, when people noticed some very…weird stuff around Soyu-k’s twitter, she DFE, went private, and posted a journal on her account where she threw Jennadelle under the bus while claiming not to be a fascist or whatever, completely disassociated herself with her past bestie, etc.

Of course, that journal disappeared, like everything else potentially incriminating Soyu-k posts (or that might raise questions of, “why are you posting this and why are you so defensive about it?). Despite her whinging and self-victimization, Soyu-k knows exactly what she’s doing. That’s what makes her so ugly, malignant, and, frankly, unsafe.

(As an aside, take screenshots if you have to deal with this particular person. If I had the brains to do that from the start, I’d have enough dirt on Soyu-k to bury her.)

Soyu-k’s art looks distorted and joyless, because art reflects the artist, and "distorted and joyless” is exactly what Soyu-k is.

I’m only venting about this because I still have to deal with Soyu-k on the regular. She’s absolutely horrid and I wish she’d find some other place to shit up. And don’t worry, mod, she won’t be able to figure out who I am. First of all, she’s unlikely to see this. Second of all, she’s a total narc, and I’m very good at dealing with those. Third, I’m one of many who can’t stand Soyu-k but have to co-exist with her–so pick a name, Soyu-k, any name.

tl;dr Soyu-k is a POS

lmao soyu-k’s claim to fame is being a brown-nosing asskisser that will throw people under the bus without shame if she’s nice to you that means she wants something from you

#submission #soyu-k #general

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qnewslgbtiqa · 24 days

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We're trying so hard to feel sorry for martyrs to Easter Sunday

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/were-trying-so-hard-to-feel-sorry-for-martyrs-to-easter-sunday/

We're trying so hard to feel sorry for martyrs to Easter Sunday

Is it April Fools Day? Surely that’s tomorrow. Yet bible-bashing fools of the trumpian persuasion are whinging about Transgender Day of Visibility impinging on their Easter Sunday.

Climb down off your fcking cross (Don’t forget you can have your own Donald Trump branded cross for just $99.99 plus p&h. Buy two, and we’ll throw in a copy of Junior’s latest book, Faking Christianity for Profit and Easy Sex with Nativity Donkeys.)

Oh, we try so hard to feel sorry for you people. But let’s face it: You break a nail, squeal that the Rainbow Cult did it, and carry on like you’ve been thrown to the lions. (As in ferocious African animals, not the hapless scandal-plagued AFL team.)

What happened?

Easter Sunday

Well, this year, for the first time in yonks, the Christian celebration of Easter Sunday (the Resurrection) falls on March 31. The religious celebration does not have a fixed date. In Western Christianity, it can fall anywhere between March 22 and April 25.

But March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility and has been since 2009.

And oh how that makes, if not the Baby Jesus, little sooky baby right-wingers cry.

It being Easter, even Judas jumped in. Well – not the Judas. Just Trans Judas.

Caitlyn Jenner sobbed about Joe Biden initiating the day – which he did not. Methuselah did however issue a proclamation in support of the day, and of trans people.

“I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”

April Fools Day

So, did we mention April Fools Day?

Because that’s going to give them something to rend their garments over in 2029. Yep! In 2029, April Fools Day falls on March 31.

Cry you fools, cry. We couldn’t GAF.

You’ve rained on our parade too many times before.

Not today, Satan.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibilty.

We shouldn’t laugh at Caitlyn – but she makes it so easy…

Happy Easter… well… to everyone except Trans Judas.

Trans Judas claims to be the ‘adult in the room’.

Remember when Trans Judas ran for Governor of California… and lost.

Everything old is new again: Jenner liked Trump, then disowned him, then joined FOX News and now she likes him again.

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

#Caitlyn Jenner #transgender day of visibility

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juri-ism · 1 year

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I don't know how to properly christen this account. I think I'll just reiterate what I said in my first Tweet

The original ending to Evangelion was fine even though it had clear problems with budget and I don't understand where all the whinging comes from

Anyways I am/was @ juriloving on Twitter and thanks to the fallout of a certain weasel I've had to make emergency accommodations here. Anyone who is coming from/knows me from there I'll be pretty much doing the same garbage but with the occasional long form unhinged post that Twitter deprives me of and a lot of really verbose smaller posts since Twitter reigns in my tendancy for fanciful and unnecessary language.

If anyone has stumbled acrossed this hellscape by their own volition then I'm Juri-ism an odd woman with an obsession for Madoka and Project Moon. I also might post about Pokémon, whatever weird gacha I'm obsessed with, Vocaloid/Mili, Writing in general, Fire Emblem, or When They Cry stuff rarely. I really really like the character Juri Oba from the Madoka gacha game so she's the namesake of my accounts. I will try to reign in my immense urges to horny post but some might slip through the cracks so sorry in advance.

Now that all my introductions have been said here's to a prosperous account on here.

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amarriageoftrueminds · 3 years

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Steve & Bucky’s Medals

Steve

looks like he's got:

US pins (upper collar)

DUI pins (distinctive unit insignia, lapels)

Parachute badge (the little oval one)

Purple Heart (with gold oak leaf cluster)

American Defense Service (for chasing down the saboteur in Brooklyn?) *this one is a mistake!

Combat Infantryman badge (that’s the big blue one, but that's supposed to be on top! not bottom, as it’s considered the first and most prestigious!)

Distinguished/Presidential Unit Citation badge (R breast)

Bucky

should have:

US disc pin (R upper collar)

Infantry disc collar pin (L upper collar, crossed muskets)

DUI pins (distinctive unit insignia, lapels)

107th Regimental insignia badge (L bicep)

Combat Infantryman badge

if Steve's got a purple heart he'd probably have one too (minus oak leaf?)

maybe a red/white good-conduct ribbon

a Mediterranean theater ribbon (with a bronze battle star per campaign, and bronze arrowhead for amphibious assault landings at Sicily, etc.)

the same parachute badge

definitely some kind of marksmanship badge (below ribbon rack)

Distinguished/Presidential UC on R

Steve would also have a Medal of Honour or two somewhere; possibly only post-Valkyrie.

Further Info:

The fact that Steve has outlined letter US pins on his collar (as opposed to discs, like Bucky) shows he's an officer. (The What If animators stupidly gave Steve the same pins/uniform even though he’s just a private.)

The 2 gold bars on his epaulettes show that Steve is a Captain.

Bucky’s got his sergeant chevrons on his biceps.👆

(IIRC a deleted scene showed Dum-Dum with chevrons on his sweater sleeve, too? was he a sergeant?)

The long jacket seen in the pub is the dress uniform (a long cavalry-style jacket).

They’re supposed to have gold bars on the sleeve cuff, one for every 6 months spent deployed, and a diagonal below that, sloping the other way, for 3 years (but a lot of guys left these off because- well, they just did. Probably for practical reasons.)

Steve’s jacket is also darker because he’s an officer; in contrast, the standard issue pants for officers were lighter (a combination called the ‘pinks and greens’) but apparently they could wear matching pants if they wanted.

NCOs and enlisted men had matching lighter colour jacket/pants.

The short jacket Steve is also shown in (see above) is from later on in the war; it’s an ‘Ike’ jacket (after General Eisenhower), modelled on British service ‘battle dress’ uniforms, after the Americans realised the long cavalry-style jackets weren’t so practical in combat.

From wikipedia:

“However, development and approval by the Army was slow. Except for small runs of jackets made for soldiers in England, the U.S. Army did not provide the jacket as an issue item to enlisted soldiers until the war in Europe was almost over.”

So Steve probably has that jacket because he’s in England in Nov 1943.

What’s Missing:

Steve’s lower lapel pins, the DUIs, don't seem to match up to any RL unit so IMO they are meant to signify the SSR.

(Explaining why Bucky doesn’t have any in The Whip & Fiddle scene; he hasn’t become part of the SSR yet.)

Unlike the SSR pins, DUIs would usually be a bit bigger and more colourful, enameled, featuring your unit’s motto, but they weren’t issued so much later on due to metal shortages.

Typically you’d keep your original pins even if deployed to another unit. So, say, Jim Morita might have signal corps pins but still be deployed to an infantry regiment.

(Jim would have a pin on his L breast saying ‘Ranger’ too!)

Steve should also have a Mediterranean Theater ribbon, too.

Sometimes they would wear a former unit/combat patch on the R bicep (apparently a lot of US soldiers nicked the 'FRANCE' patch to wear, supposed to be for just the Free French guys, if they'd fought in France; so Steve and Bucky might have that too? Dernier definitely would! Maybe he’d give them to Steve and Bucky as a thank you? The other Howlies might have kept their previous unit patches, too.)

And they'd usually also have a big gaudy colourful embroidered patch, to show their current unit assignment, worn on their L bicep.

Picture something like this:

but instead the Howling Commandos have the little wings off Steve’s Cap stage uniform (or, alternately, the wings off the eagle in the SSR logo 👇, ugh) while Steve has a star. The wings kinda resemble the old Honda logo, so make of that what you will?? (Maybe Morita was a big whup in Japan after the war and it was inspired by him??)

NB:

Steve should have more medals by the end of the war -- and I’m betting other governments would award him things, too. But they don’t show that, only these. ^

Other medals he or the Howlies could’ve got range from: Army Commendation Joint Service Commendation medals (for being part of a joint Allied taskforce), more Purple Hearts, Silver Stars (3rd most prestigious; for actions over a brief period/couple of days), Bronze Stars, Army Distinguished Service Cross (2nd most prestigious). And these all could have bronze oak leaf clusters for each repeat award, or ‘V’ Devices added for valour.

Also, they might have the Meritorious Unit Commendation (MUC, pronounced ‘muck’) square embroidered patch (worn on the right lower sleeve, looks like a laurel wreath) for meritorious conduct in combat for over six continuous months.

Legion of Merit

Perhaps even another Medal of Honor (most prestigious, see below; basically if you can include the words "with no regard for his personal safety-?!” in the middle of a long description of some absolutely insane shit he did to protect his fellow men, take out an enemy gun single-handed, etc. then... yeah. Medal of Honor.)

Post-war, they’d all qualify for:

the World War II Victory Medal

American Campaign Medal

Army of Occupation Medal (for the Howlies who stayed in Europe.)

and POW Medals too, in the ‘80s.

Sidenote on Gabe and Morita:

If Gabe and Morita were in, historically, their most likely regiments their DUI pins (L) and embroidered left-bicep regimental patches ( R) would’ve looked like:

Which they might have kept in the form of their pins and/or patches but now worn on R bicep.

There’s a good chance that Gabe and Jim would be overlooked for their major medals because of racism, and only awarded posthumously or very late in life; unless Frenchy, Monty, and Dum-dum were able to exert influence in their favour.

(Bucky might get a POW M. posthumously, have it taken away because his conduct during captivity was deemed not ‘honourable’ post-WS, then re-rewarded if/when he was exonerated? 😵)

RIBBONS:

Purple Heart

(For sustaining an injury in combat (or dying). This shows us that Steve gets credit for injuries even if his serum has fully healed them! In the sunlit photo you can see Steve’s ribbon has a little gold oak leaf cluster on it; which means multiple commendations/PHs. It would be interesting to consider whether he might qualify for another for dying if, eg. his heart had technically stopped post-Valkyrie. If Bucky didn’t have a PH already, he would either have one awarded posthumously, or have a cluster added to his existing ribbon after being ‘KIA.’ Also you best believe Bucky had Opinions when he first saw Steve wearing an official ‘I have had my dumb ass injured multiple times, yay!!’ badge on his stupid chest.)

Good Conduct

(Something tells me Steve would never manage to get one of these, not in his whole damn life. 🤣)

European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

(These cover a lot of ground, including the Med and Normandy; iirc you’d have small bronze stars stuck on this ribbon; one per campaign you were in. Bucky’s first would’ve probably been Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. He would receive a bronze arrowhead on this, per two amphibious landings. These medals only started being a thing once the US got into Italy, so guys who’d already fought in Africa tended to look down their noses at the rookies coming in, being given an ‘Africa’ medal despite only having fought in Italy.)

American Defense Service Medal

This one is a mistake! (Steve shouldn’t have this, because it was only created to recognise those who served between September 8, 1939, and December 7, 1941 (when America entered the war). Steve didn’t even enlist until June 14, 1943! IMO, that yellow ribbon should be a red, white, blue n’ black American Campaign Medal, instead:

I think they gave Steve the yellow to suggest he was ‘deployed’ on American soil (and look! the figure’s got a round shield!) So they’d be counting his anti-sabotage action in Brooklyn, here.)

Medal of Honor:

(So important you get a whole damn necklace! It also comes with loads of special privileges, like: his name on the Medal of Honor Roll, an extra pension of $1,388 a month on top of what he’s already owed, clothing allowance, 10% bump in retirement pay, special lD cards, free flights, interment at Arlington National Cemetery (where the headstone would be gilded), free invites to all presidential balls and inaugurations, a special license plate, perks for next of kin, and the fact that all uniformed service personnel are supposed to salute him, even if they’re not in uniform and are of higher rank!)

Possible Badges:

Combat Infantryman Badge

(worn above ribbons on L. These have 1 star added at the top of the oak-leaf wreath per campaign, going up as high as a rare 4 stars. This starless version tells us Steve has only been in combat for one campaign, so far, which, along with the purple heart & presidential citation badge, tells you he did something damn heroic his first time out! I think Bucky’s and the Howlies’ CIBs would have more stars than Steve’s, because they’ve been in more than one campaign; they might have one for N. Africa/Italy, another for Normandy, etc. As the oldest, Dum-dum might have the most stars.)

Parachutist badge

(aka the ‘jump wings,’ this is a basic qualifications badge, not a combat badge; so it means Steve has completed basic parachutist school. Or, that he hasn’t, but the fact he did a combat jump anyway while rescuing Bucky means the higher-ups have had to award him one of these ^ or else admit he was AWOL and then have to court martial him. 😄 Knowing Steve he would start jumping without a parachute just to be a shit until they gave him one.

I can’t see it in the pics, but Steve’s badge should have a single bronze star on the shroud lines, to indicate a single combat jump. (You add more bronze stars on the wings per combat jump, switching to one big gold one on the ‘chute after 5). Reading between the lines, and given Steve has no eg. marksmanship badges, we can guess he did something damn heroic his first time out, in combat, and that it involved a parachute jump.

PB/JWs also have bigger silver stars added, above the ‘chute, as the qualification rises per certain number of jumps completed, in certain conditions such as eg. night time (up to 30 iirc), so might be different by the end of the war. Monty would have the Brit equivalent but probably of higher rank than the other Howlies, because he’s originally part of an airborne unit.)

Marksmanship

(worn on L pocket below ribbon rack, earned during Basic.)

These are for Riflemen.

This is going L-R in reverse-order of importance, depending on how well you qualify: Expert>Sharpshooter>Marksman. You can only have 3 of these badges, max, and you add another clasp/bar beneath it, on those rings (also to a maximum of three) one for each weapon you’re qualified in, even if you’re proficient in the use of way more than three weapons.

These aren’t badges you can just get and keep; you have to keep re-qualifying, and you can be demoted back down levels. Super-sniper Bucky would probably end up with quite a ladder set on his chest!

He might have a ‘Sharpshooter’ badge before Krausberg, but the next time he re-ups, post-serum, shoots all his qualifications up to get an ‘Expert.’

There’s a similarly set-up badge set for vehicles qualifications, with clasps for vehicle types. Dum-dum and Gabe might get one for tank-driving! 😅 )

*edit* IIRC the ‘expert’ rank was introduced later into the war, post D-Day, as a morale boosting exercise after the land invasion of Normandy cost a huge number of Infantry lives (relative to air and navy). Another reaction to this death toll was:

A note on black history: Starting July 1944, the European Theater’s Ground Force Replacement Command began converting soldiers from other specialties into infantry replacements -- including all-black regiments. By February 1945, 4,562 Black troops had volunteered (the 47th Retraining Battalion of the 5th Retraining Regiment), with the first 2,800 reporting for retraining in January and early February.

“Infantry commanders described them as outstanding riflemen and wished they could obtain more African American platoons. Their bravery under fire soon won them the respect of the white soldiers of adjacent platoons, some of whom remarked that they liked to fight alongside the Black platoons because they laid such a large volume of fire on enemy positions.”

ps. similar meta about Sam’s Medals here.

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eschergirls · 3 years

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From Jess Morrissette on Twitter:

"Firstly, spruce yourself up a bit. Perhaps your boyfriend's addiction to his PlayStation is a result of you letting yourself go." Cringe levels are off the charts for the "Stand By Your Man" and "Stop Whinging" letters from the June 1999 issue of PlayStation Pro magazine.

I just... what. I can't. Even. I don't... I just... WHAT

Transcribing this hammered home even more just how... bizarre the thought process behind answering this letter must have been? Like, that they published the response at all when they clearly don't take her seriously. They didn't have to. If they didn't want to give her a helpful response, they could have just ignored the letter. But they chose to devote magazine space to... mocking her letter? And they made it all about her wanting sex... even though she doesn't mention that as a concern in her letter... she's a woman, she must just want sexual attention, and that's her problem, not... all the other things she said in her letter that's a concern. And also the assumption that if her boyfriend is playing video games it's her fault for turning him off by being unattractive is just the icing on the horribad cake (way to talk down to your audience too, we all know gamers only game because they don't have a more attractive option of entertainment). Nowhere in her letter did she make it about gender or sex, but they decided to use magazine space to do both. It's amazing.

Also, please do not pack undies into somebody's lunch unless they explicitly ask for it, that does not sound erotic at all.

Due to the way it was formatted in the original, I edited the letter and response into a single image that was easier to read, transcription included below. Click on the link to Jess' Twitter if you want to see the original page. The text itself is unchanged.

(Excerpt from Letters section of Playstation Pro magazine, June 1999)

Transcription:

Stand By Your Man (Title of letter and response given by Editorial on the page)

Letter text:

I am writing for some help and advice... My boyfriend has had a PlayStation for about 18 months and recently also bought an N64. He lives with my family and for the last few months, we, and our friends, have noticed a considerable difference in his behaviour.

Every spare minute of the day he has, he spends playing games, sometimes for nine hours at a time without a break. He even went to the extreme of taking a week off work when Metal Gear Solid was released so he could play it constantly. He admits that he is addicted, and most of the people who know him think he is mentally confused, as most of the time he doesn't appear to know what he is doing and seems to be in a spaced out, confused state.

Are there any reports which might help me and, if so, could you give me some advice? I know you don't answer letters personally, but perhaps you could make an exception as I am very concerned about my boyfriend's health. I would be very grateful for any help.

Yours thankfully,

Annie Miles, Bognor Regis.

Response text:

It's unbearably tempting to take the piss out of letters such as this, but since you obviously write in all seriousness Anne, we'll help in any way we can.

Firstly, spruce yourself up a bit. Perhaps your boyfriend's addiction is a result of you letting yourself go. Buy a nice dress and some lipstick and brush your hair all nice. Pack your knickers in with his sandwiches when you send him off to work so he knows what to expect when he gets home. Tell him how you feel. Tell him you're a woman and you have a woman's needs - that you need a man and not just any man, but a man who can make you feel whole again like he used to do, a man who can set your thighs on fire with a single smouldering glance from his vibrant piercing eyes.

Bathe together. Take a holiday to Rome or Paris and revel in the erotic juxtaposition of sublime art and sweeping practicality of the architecture of a lost age. Dine on the foods of love, like oysters and spam. And if that fails, let him get on with it, get yourself some pornos and have a good diddle.

#random sexualization #playstation pro magazine #representation #general sexism #magazines #commentary #links

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theliterarywolf · 2 years

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I'm not exactly sure how Twitter migrants expect to survive here. Tumblr dosnt force you to fit your posts into a 250 character quote-bite, its not conducive to brigade reporting, the things they hate are already so deeply entrenched here that its going to be next to impossible for them to "root them out." Plus, no porn and an exceeding lack of celebrity official. My prediction is the majority of them will be so overwhelmed that they bite the proverbial bullet and about face back to their bird nests.

I'm pretty sure people flocking here or returning here from the past three years of being on Twitter after the NSFW Nuke are thinking that this hellsite is still 2010-2017 Tumblr: obnoxious callout posts taken as gospel, people stepping on eggshells, misinformation being spread and accepted as long as its quirky and/or belittles men somehow.

Brigade-reporting does still, unfortunately, work in some cases on here. But it's thankfully rarer than it used to be since staff has 18,000 fires going on in their offices at any given time.

Those of us who stayed or came back after a few months after the ban are too tired and old to go back to that era and, really, we can't. We're all Eustace in his recliner going 'Nope. Not getting out of this chair' and even discourse is moreso seen as just the way of the wind unless it's directly harming someone. So the Twitter refugees may as well stay where they are or move to DeviantArt.

I've thankfully only seen one or two of the creators I follow on the cancersite genuinely going on about 'ablublublu, Musky man going to ruin my cancerous bird site', though I do acknowledge how some of the more rational artists are saying 'well... shit, not only does Musk not care about artists in regards to art theft and infringement -- as noted by how he himself stole art and whinged about 'people crediting their art on social media is an eyesore' -- but he very well may make the NFT blight on here even worse'.

However, as I said, most of the people crying are mostly doing so because they feel as though the Tesla-man is going to make their current toxicity bite them in the ass with all the hubris of the combined Greek pantheon.

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100% agree with your theory regarding the pearl clutching this fandom is doing about last episode. They certainly wouldn’t have liked the Briarwood arc lol. I’ve been around since episode 2, C1, and while their was a BIT of backlash in Briarwoods (mainly on Twitter), it wasn’t near as much as this current campaigns whinging.

But I will also add: The fandom also seems to have particular instances of bellyaching about ‘morals’ and ‘standards’ when it comes to certain cast member’s characters. In particular Marisha and Liam always seem to get the brunt of the criticisms when their characters (from both campaigns) do something particularly questionable. Whereas others (eg Travis), seem to get a free pass (or significantly less criticism) when their characters commit heinous acts. I saw it in Campaign 1, and I’m still seeing it in Campaign 2. I don’t know whether there’s a correlation between those that complain and the significant amount of misogyny (Keke/Beau), Ableism (Caleb/Vax), homophobia/biphobia (Keke, Vax, Beau, Caleb) that runs rampant through the fandom. It’s just a shame that not only are the cast, and by extension their characters, are held to different standard by the fandom. But more so, when the fandom can’t seperate the player from the character’s actions. Good grief.

Ayyy! Old Hat! C1E25?E26? for me.

Yeah, after rattling around this fandom nearly six years makes you aware of this really fascinating hierarchy about which parts of the cast get more weird shit from folks than others. I couldn’t explain to you why these particular people cause that’s a really goddamn nuanced discussion.

Marisha is usually at the top. Liam’s usually always a close second. Sam and Mercer are pretty reliably in those upper middle ranks. Laura got a fair amount of guff in Campaign 1 that seems to have mellowed with a bit in Campaign 2. Taliesin is, of course, the perfect uwu child who can never do wrong in the eyes of the fandom and then waaaay down there is mythical group of people who give Travis shit.

#Critical Role #Anonymous

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webcomixwastaken · 2 years

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I’ve followed Lindsay Ellis's videos on YouTube for 10+ years. Even back in the dark NC days I was always struck at how she deftly combined thoughtfulness with humour and cleverness. Even with the bits that didn't age well -- not because of who she was as a person but because 2010 was SUCH a different time, genuinely, I can recall "jokes" and "facts" that my friends and I would say that none of us would even consider now -- she definitely stood out amongst her colleagues as someone with great talent and perceptiveness.

So discovering that she's no longer going to update her channel makes me say: GOOD! FOR!! HER!!! She deserves to walk away from this black hole of awfulness! She doesn't need to be screamed at all the time anymore!! Good for her!! She is free!!

I watched the Raya Twitter meltdown happen in real time and it was the most ridiculous shit I've ever witnessed. So much bad faith reading, so much blood in the water for the sharks to chase after. Even my own Twitter moots (from writing and book twt because that’s where I hang out on that site) were furious about The Tweet, but as I went down my feed I realised that a ridiculous game of telephone was going on. They were upset about a very legitimate issue but it wasn’t... at ALL what she was talking about. I know it’s unhelpful to say “if you watch her videos...” to get people to understand that she was talking from a craft/structure perspective or that her tone is always very snarky and dry since that’s not what Twitter is interested in. Twitter is where nuance goes to die.

From the moment it was announced, I thought that Raya and the Last Dragon looked mediocre at best and yes, derivative. But that's not bad, necessarily? People are always comparing things, and that's even how a lot of marketing works! In pitching or querying agents, you're often asked, nay, expected to provide comparative titles to show that you understand your audience. So when she compared a well known western-helmed Asian-influenced fantasy TV show to a new big name western-helmed Asian-influenced fantasy film why... are we... so shocked and angry? Personally, I feel like any racism involved in The Tweet is symptomatic of the system, how the west perceives and judges eastern stories, not Lindsay’s character.

And honestly? Since I’m not diaspora I do not give much of a shit for representation the same way overseas kids do. Like Lindsay pointed out, we are not monolith so I don’t like being told that something is an ~Asian~ universal theme. We are the biggest continent in the world and even my tiny ass city of Hong Kong has an ENORMOUS gulf of opinions of what defines us?? So as an Asian in Asia, my opinion of “wow, Asian rep in western culture” is mostly indifference with a side helping of annoying. Because it’s often reductive and token and I don’t see myself in them at all. And in these big budget animated films... I’m usually not very excited with how we’re depicted either. Do you really have to draw our eyes like that? I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and thinking, “What the heck are white people on about? My eyes are big and round. Most of my friends don't have tiny eyes either.”

Also, DISNEY DON’T NEED MY MONEY! It’s such a laugh that they made this movie claiming to uplift SE Asian narratives and culture and it wasn't even available in many of those countries. However, I can't say anything else because I'm not SE Asian. But that’s it exactly, I don’t have a dog in this fight. So I didn’t say anything!!

Sometimes I really think that people need to realise that you don't need to put out every single opinion you have on the internet. In fact, I remember thinking “oh no, Lindsay, please, just stop tweeting” but it was a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. If she tried to apologise, she was a whinging backpedalling phony. If she stayed silent, she is rotten to the core and doubling down on racism! If she explained herself, which she tried to do, it would just be more fuel to the bonfire of dogpiling and threats and tearing apart every shred of nuance that could possibly still exist on Twitter. And she KEPT on getting dogpiled and threatened and even under today's goddamn post announcing that there will be no more videos, she's STILL being pelted with petty, stupid attacks by the faceless keyboard warriors. Oh my god, stop and SHUT UP, you won.

So good for her that she's left, and good for her that she refuses to apologise because she doesn’t have to. It would not have been sincere, and she really didn’t do anything wrong. I really hope she continues to host Musicalsplaining with Kaveh because I dearly love the podcast, and maybe she's still got a contract with PBS Storied, but if she doesn't do either of those, it's absolutely in her rights to do so. She doesn't owe us anything. Perhaps she'll be able to devote her time to writing more books, or perhaps she'll just disappear from the internet forever and again... deserved! Whatever she wants! Good for her!!

Godspeed Lindsay Ellis, you are a genuine human being deserving of peace and I earnestly hope you get some after putting so much of yourself on the chopping block for nothing else but our entertainment. I'll always support you.

#Comix rants #and now I even I won't tag her directly for fear of more keyboard warriors #but LE's content is great and I will always go back to rewatch

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