#the time was world war 1

[literallyjusttoa]

I’m in my feels about Leto rn.

She a mom!!!! You don’t understand she’s a MOM!!!! And she was left all alone after the titan war (most titans were banished to Tartarus) and then she fell in love with this guy with all these red flags but they were genuinely in love!!! They sang songs and talked about deep things and Leto and Zeus LOVED EACH OTHER!!!!! And then she was made to suffer so much for it but she never took any of it out on her kids, and then they were basically taken away from her by Olympus!!!! And she was alone again!!!! But she loves her kids so so much so she built a safe place for them on Delos to come home to!!!! And she knows she can’t protect her kids from the monster the man she loves has become but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t try!!!! Leto tries so hard!!!!! And both of her kids fucking love her with all they have!!!!!!! Family is so important to all of them despite the fact that one member has become a horrible dickwad!!!!! They love each other!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

#if you were ever wondering what I thought of Leto here you go #best woman in the world love her so much #fun fact one of the first things we know about Leto is that she convinced Zeus not to send her brother to Tartarus after the titan war #so 1. she has always protected her family like the QUEEN she is #and 2. there is a pattern of her having to persuade Zeus into not making horrible decisions #and in the beginning that worked #but as time has gone on and Zeus has become more paranoid and cruel #it works less and less because he’s not the man who would listen to her anymore #like … Zeus was probably the love of her life and he doesn’t even respect her as a person anymore #brb gonna go FUCKING CRY #Leto is not given much characterization in the books so I get to decide and I say she is Kind and always Trying and Incredible #trials of apollo #toa apollo #lester papadopoulos #pjo Leto #sunny speaks #long post

[greencarnation]

Printed some fliers and stickers to put up around town tomorrow. Remember that posting isn't the only way to spread awareness and build public consciousness in your area

#palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #its a shame theyre in back and white but there isnt a colour printer #but if anyone wants ive built this document of hundreds of our martyrs along with their names and stories in this sort of format? #i might make it a series on here as well. their stories should be told #to be honest making the document was very hard. every time i look at it i want to sob #how can the world hold this much grief? #and i don't even have 1% i think of the martyrs #30000 dead is unthinkable #collecting hundreds of photographs and writing out what i can find about them. looking at their social media their families social media #i don't know #i was going to share it on here anyway once my grandfather ass works out how to turn it into a sharable pdf #but ok just get a sharpie and write free palestine on the bus stop u dont even need printed stuff #politics #free gaza #genocide #stop the war #ethnic cleansing #south africa

[endlesslytired]

World Serpent/Flamechaser post! I realised I had a collection so I made this a post of its own.

Context for this last one - vvv

I made a new account bc my steam one has some really annoying limitations, but I was pretty deep in the main story and didn't do much Elysian Realm so I decided to actually do that properly this time. Insane place and Mei is taking no shit, I love it.

#ive only done chapter 1 fully and met morbin time but I'll get back to it when i actually do the main story again. #i think im on chapter 15 (plus the fu hua isekai chapters) when my old was like on 40 something + a bit of looking into later chapters #i miss my horb seele and project bunny and kira but my SS star wars griseo is slaying great while im trying to get garuda hua #honkai impact 3rd #honkai impact 3rd memes #hi3 sora #hi3 natasha cioara #hi3 raven #hi3 dr mei #hi3 kevin kaslana #hi3 raiden mei #hi3 elysia #hi3 pardofelis #(im so sorry. original image was mufasa dying in lion king so it fitted) #hi3 herrscher of corruption #hi3 villi-v #hi3 kalpas #hi3 fu hua #hi3 world serpent #hi3 elysian realm

[songmingisthighs]

reminder that mr. beast is the same age as kim hongjoong

#feels illeg0rl to know this #bc #mr beast looked like he's been through war #not the vietnam war #not the world war #season 1 or season 2 #the war back in roman times #and #kim hongjoong #istg #he #MAN #he looked he like was just hatched yesterday #i've known this fact for like half a year #still can't process it #suffer with me #smt tmi

[nozomijoestar]

Asuka is a tragic figure, a figure of mystery, a wild card, all because the only thing she wants in life is peace and quiet for herself and to feel in control- yet her secret heritage that may be hidden from her for her own protection and the reality that life is unpredictable and will go on with or without you keep ruining that delusion, that vision of how the world is meant to work to her, and she suffers regardless of what she wants, what she does, and how little she understands anything

She was born into a family preaching peace and balance and order while being a creature of violence, and puts a dozen mental locks and excuses over this truth to justify giving into her impulse for fighting by pretending she's justice when she does it

She keeps trying to build a place of safety but she's using sand and life is a wave that destroys, yet she stubbornly persists rather than give up, not drowned to the point of self centered suicidal loathing like Jin- there's contrast, where Jin is cloaked in death Asuka stubbornly clings to life and humanity as a normal person in a terrifying world

She's not a fucking narrative clone for Jun's own purpose, Asuka's purpose must be determined by Asuka herself

#tekken #Jin is born of two worlds Jun walks between two worlds Asuka is at the crossroads of two worlds #Jin is broken by it Jun traded part of her humanity to reconcile it and now Asuka has to accept it yet persist- she is always persisting #that's her strength that no matter what she's always still herself #'For being so very Y o u' as Lili told her bc she sees it #she's an interesting character BECAUSE she's not Jun and she's not Jin and she's not aligned with them entirely #stop waiting for her to be something she's not #also i think it's GOOD she doesn't know everything or everyone in her family bc that builds mystery and suspense #it gives everything a tension in the background for when the normalcy charade will be broken by the bigger family drama catching up w her #what's happening to the Mishimas should be something no one is dragged into yet the one family member who's the least connected #is going to run out of time at some point and get hit by that trauma anyway and she doesn't even Know it's coming for her eventually #isn't it fucked up. how everything catches up with you in the end #and you won't even understand it until it's too late ie. her involvement in T8 global war now #also a character that wants peace and order but actively pursues violence ensuring she will never truly have those things bc of her nature #AND she's already been traumatized by T5 Feng and T6 Jin that just makes her retreat to seeking comfort in detachment- in the familiar #which only prolongs her avoiding the world outside what she can control- and then Lili won't let her live in ignorance not to punish her #but bc she wants to help her bc the Mishimas have already put their claws in Lili- they won't catch Asuka off guard #what is it with people sanitizing the messiness and humanity characters represent in favor of 'If they just acted logically the way I want #then they'd solve the entire story 1 2 3 and we'll have everything wrapped up easy' THAT'S NOT A STORY THAT'S A MATH EQUATION #FEEL SOMETHING INSTEAD OF ALWAYS NEEDING TO SOUND SMART AND HAVE PERFECT ANSWERS YOU STUPID FUCKS #IN TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING HAVE A PERFECT SOLUTION YOU'VE LOST SIGHT OF WHAT'S IN THE TEXT #AND ALSO ASUKA BEING VIOLENT BUT STILL CARING ABOUT PEOPLE AND DOING GOOD DESPITE IT #and AsuLili is about two similar people who've been traumatized finding safety in each other once they put down the trauma responses #this is all in line with T8's tagline of Face Your Fate btw this is literally what was always coming finding you & you face it

[skoulsons]

me, the first 10ish hours of fallen order: I hate this game the controls are wonky and I’m fresh off of smps4 and am getting turned around and dying in stupid ways

me, the second I get the double blade: ive never struggled in this game once nor will I ever again it’s so easy

#im so glad you get it early because it has saved my butt numerous times already #I don’t hate the game itself but. coming out of Spider-Man into this is like two different worlds #it’s really great actually I’m enjoying the story a lot #cal and bd 🥹🥹 #bd 1 #cal kestis #jedi fallen order #star wars

[everygaara]

#overwatch esports team #naruto #vol 59 #ch 562 #gaara #onoki #tsunade senju #a #mei terumi #fourth shinobi world war: climax #onoki would be torbjorn #controversial but i think gaara would play zenyatta #tsunade is mercy cmon now #a is obvs a doomfist main #mei would be ashe maybe? #there 2 healers 2 dps and 1 tank #they all say my ultimate is ready at the same time

[batrachised]

The Curious Case of Walter Blythe

Where to begin with Walter Blythe?

Of all of Anne's children, the narrative repeatedly denotes Walter as an "other," so to speak. He stands out, particularly in contrast to his siblings like Jem. Where Jem is dashing, Walter is sensitive; where Jem is bold, Walter is dreamy; where Jem is brash, Walter is poetic. Jem marches off to WWI like the typical naively gallant soldier, while Walter, from the beginning, recognizes its cost and horror. Walter, due to these characteristics, can sometimes come across as a bit of a shrinking violet. Although he's intended to be sympathetic, child me didn't really appreciate him in comparison to the more practical and humorous characters. Now that I'm older, I recognize just how complex Walter is. Child me saw a dreamy, high-strung boy with nothing deeper; adult me realizes the rock firm sense of character underlying that dreaminess.

As we continue with the Anne series, we learn one of the reasons for LM Montgomery's emphasis on Walter: he dies in WWI. His last words to Rilla in the form of a letter stick with me:

Rilla, the Piper will pipe me 'west' tomorrow. I feel sure of this. And Rilla, I'm not afraid. When you hear the news, remember that. I've won my own freedom here—freedom from all fear. I shall never be afraid of anything again—not of death—nor of life, if after all, I am to go on living. And life, I think, would be the harder of the two to face—for it could never be beautiful for me again. There would always be such horrible things to remember—things that would make life ugly and painful always for me. I could never forget them. 

This closes Walter's intended narrative arc. From when he was a child, he had the shadow of death over him--LM Montgomery marks him as doomed in Rainbow Valley--and as an adult, he has to grapple with his fear of the war (a sensible fear, a moral fear that bestows his character with a rich legitimacy I failed to notice as a child) until finally, he accepts it in the above passage. It's a powerful yet heart wrenching acceptance, too, because the passage recognizes there is no happy ending for him here--even if he were to live, he'd suffer from PTSD for the rest of his life (yet another entry in my, "lm montgomery stories do have grit, you know" list).

So, what about Walter's unintended narrative arc?

Or perhaps intended, although LM Montgomery might not have had the vocabulary for it (we can never know). But what I'm referring to here is that Walter could be read as gay. This goes beyond the stereotypical dreamy sensitive man, to the fact that Walter never shows an interest in women at all. Even when his supposed love interest Una is discussed, it's in very tepid terms. After ignoring her and her interest in him for years, he remembers her the night before he dies and hopes all is well with her. Not the usual gushing passages we see from LM Montgomery.

For years, I absently understood this interpretation as reasonable but unintended--until I came across as fascinating academic article that discusses Walter in the context of LM Montgomery's other work, Walter's closet. The article begins similarly to what I've just stated:

Already, we see the themes broadly discussed. Walter as somewhat of a misfit, a social outcast of sorts, in comparison to his male peers of the day. The article expands on the contrast between Jem and Walter:

It also comments on Walter's flouting of gender roles and gender expectations. As the article describes, Walter has "a lack of masculinity" relative to the other characters. Now: this is stereotypical masculinity. Being loud and pugnacious does not make a man. But in LM Montgomery's times, it did. See the following:

it also shows the reaction of the other characters, a reaction that is--possibly--somewhat outsized to someone who simply likes poetry. The implication here is that like the audience, the characters also believe that Walter's characteristics mean that he could be gay.

So, so far we have evidence of Walter not fitting into stereotypical gender roles--but wait! That doesn't mean that he's gay. That just means that in LM Montgomery's time, gender roles were a very tight box to fit into, and so someone with less masculine interests could have a hard time and be viewed as an outcast, a "sissy," as Walter is called.

That brings us to the next point: although Walter's interest in poetry hardly means he's gay, his complete lack of interest in women could.

Here we see the phenomenon from earlier, where the character's reaction to something about Walter seems outsized for what the something is--as if the character knows something, or understand something, we don't.

Beyond the curious lack of interest in romance for a LM Montgomery character, there are also loaded statements that--to be fair!--could mean a thousand things, but in the context of what we've seen so far, seem pointed towards Walter's unique struggles as a non-masculine man.

The author recognizes that LM Montgomery could simply be writing against typical notions of manhood but once again, we hit the issue of Walter's asexuality. Perhaps LM Montgomery simply wanted to go against the grain there too, but the author notes the oddness:

and lastly, here we reach the part of the article that made my jaw drop. While it's impossible to know LM Montgomery's intentions, this example is what cemented my theory--just a theory!--that perhaps LM Montgomery deliberately based Walter on someone or someones she had observed in real life as a pastor's wife.

Now, here's the thing. We can't know whether Walter was intended to be gay, whether LM Montgomery simply wanted a foil to the typical masculine hero, whether he's simply LM Montgomery's pet idea of the ideal man, someone who is more emblematic than real. But to me, the evidence is there. It's not just the lack of traditional masculinity, it's the lack of romantic interest in general. It's not just the fretting over Walter's sensitivity, it's the implied slurs and worries over his salvation. It's not just the lack of romantic interest in general, it's the fact that LM Montgomery implies, even if accidentally, that someone--a boy--similar to him has a crush on him, or is at least, drawn to him.

My theory--and I have literally no evidence for this, to be clear, so I guess it's more something I wonder about--is whether LM Montgomery observed men like this in her work as a pastor's wife and wrote them into her stories. She claimed that she never based her characters on anyone real, but I think it's fairly obvious that her life on the Island, working with its residents, was a source of creative ideas for her. I don't necessarily believe there would be someone specific, but rather, as the passages above state, people with "tendencies" that she had observed over the years. Muddying the waters further is Walter's status as an emblem rather than a character. He doesn't come across as a real person in a lot of ways, unlike the rest of LM Montgomery's characters, which makes my idea much less likely.

If you made it to the end of this long post, I'd love (I mean it) to hear your thoughts!!

#anne of green gables #aogg #walter blythe #anne shirley #rilla of ingleside #rainbow valley #i told ya'll i have the RECEIPTS #when i first read this article i was shook bc i had always been like “ya you can interpret it that way” #but it was the first time I realized it might have some way have been deliberate #world war 1

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sixteen signs in Times Square were turned out by one small switch operated by the sign designer Douglas Leigh, March 1, 1942. The city had enacted a nightly dimout that was meant to protect New York from both air and naval attacks by disguising the recognizable skyline. There were no lights above street level, outdoor baseball games were banned, and Times Square was a “gloomy cavern.”

Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the Associated Press

#vintage New York #1940s #Tom Fitzsimmons #World War II #home front #dimout #wartime dimout #Times Square #March 1 #Mar. 1 #Douglas Leigh #Great White Way

[dougielombax]

I remember reading about the WW1 Xmas truce of 1914 as a kid.

Amazing, baffling stuff.

An incident which was beautifully recreated in the 2017 Doctor Who Xmas special, Twice Upon a Time.

One of a few moments in the series that moved me to tears.

(Not my clip, all rights belong to the BBC. Credit to the uploader on YouTube)

With the First and Twelfth Doctors both witnessing it.

Beautifully poignant stuff.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #first world war #world war 1 #christmas #xmas #christmas truce #1914 #history #doctor who #twice upon a time #Youtube #feel free to reblog #first doctor #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #david bradley #william hartnell #poignant as fuck

[iwillfuckingdoitdarling]

So I only learned recently that the RMS Carpathia was sunk by a German torpedo during WW1. Even more eerie is that she sank the exact same day that the Romanovs were murdered, July 17th, 1918. They’ve found her wreck off of the cost of Ireland, but no one has done a deep dive to investigate her since she was found in 2000. She’s only 500 feet under, so she’s easy to access…someone needs to start that mission!

#the Carpathia is one of those ships that should have been preserved and turned into a museum #by her sheer willpower to save the Titanic her engines were weakened #when time came for her to escape the Germans she was too crippled to go any faster #if nobody explores the wreck then she could be forgotten #I hope people take the time to look at her and give her the reverence she deserves #rms carpathia #cunard #Cunard line #oh also Cunard still exists and owns the Queen Mary 2 so the age of ocean liners isn’t really over in that regard #world war 1

[doctorwhobracket]

The End of Time (Part 1): It is Christmas Eve, and the Doctor is reunited with Wilf to face the return of an old enemy.

World War Three: Time is running out for the Doctor as Downing Street announces mankind's first Interplanetary War.

#doctor who #the end of time (part 1) #world war three #round 2

[beeapocalypse]

trying to craft a funger oc like aughhhh i can see him i can picture him in my head right now [image of the most off putting little man possible]

#he does not have a name yet but he DOES have a vague concept. author from the eastern union who got drafted into the military and-- #--met another guy during the 1 week he had b4 getting shipped out to basic training. they immediately develop a WAY intense relationship-- #--and constantly send letters to each other. author is a total chickenshit and comes to cope w the violence of war thru-- #--alcoholism and a complete retreat into his obsession w the other man. gets a couple wires crossed and has his lust morph into more + more #--violent fantasies that the other man plays along w bc its Fun+Wild (at its core its the authors desire for CONTROL. if hes the one-- #--bringing the pain then hes safe. even better if its with the single person in existence he feels like he can trust during that-- #--period of time). manages to live throughout the rest of the war and rushes back to his lover. spends a slowly degrading week w him where- #--the man comes to realize what he thought of as simple metaphor+exaggeration was TRUE desire from the author + the author flounders-- #--without the then expected+familiar terror day in and day out. culminates in the man demanding the author leave and never try to contact-- #--him again (saying their romance was wild and exciting and unlike anything hed ever experienced but the only good way it couldve ended-- #--was if the author died out on the front and forever left him Wanting without the actual reality of those desires realized) and the-- #--author either tries to shoot himself or the man (fails to do so. lol) b4 running off to the first train out of town. worlds messiest guy #ya it leans a bit into samarie territory but hes fun. his theoretical ending b would probably have smth to do w sylvian worship + marriages #even more vague idea for his moonscorched form is a sopping wet pathetic red wolf ('red wolf' being one of the mans terms of endearment-- #--thru their wartime love letters) w its legs tangled up in barbed wire so it has to drag itself around. red bc its incredibly-- #--thin skin (<-- do you get it .) splits and bleeds thru with every movement. a lot of whining and incoherent babbling as it hesitates to-- #--ACTUALLY attack anybody. should have some cock horror element but ive no ideas on that front LOL #skill ideas are persistence predator (more melee damage dealt the less mind hes got- a backstory choice where he focuses entirely on the-- #--love letters rather than splitting focus on his on-pause career with short stories) and an unnamed one playing into his terror/lust deal- #--where he gets a buff to either melee damage or speed when his phobia is active. want to come up with at least one more though #mmmaybe him being an author doesnt play that well into his concept as a whole but hes my strangeguy so whatever

[grandwretch]

I've been thinking a lot about Jake's role in the Animorphs, both as a leader and as a human being. And how so much of it is to tied to him being the most sheltered of the kids. Even Rachel, who had an equally privileged life, had to deal with her parent's divorce and helping to raise two younger sisters. But Jake had never faced a tragedy before losing Tom to the Yeerks.

Which is certainly interesting. It really makes him a great foil to Tobias, who has had the hardest life pre-crash. It also fits in well with the theme that Marco and Rachel represent, of the anger that having your shelter ripped away from you.

Jake was only able to become the leader because of that anger, which was much more fresh and focused than Rachel and Marco, and because he hadn't already spent years fighting it like Tobias (and presumably Cassie) have. Like... he's just finding out that life isn't fair. Right on the page. And he's making it Visser Three's problem. And that is so endlessly fascinating.

#shut up az #animorphs #in the early books its really interesting to see jake's innocence and immaturity #bc arguably marco is the most immature but marco is also the one who is keenly aware they're all going to die #jake still thinks of himself as a superhero for a long time because like. not a character failing. but because he is one. #like. normal people don't have their brothers mind controlled by a slug. that's comic book shit. #idk its hard for me to put into words but I think its fascinating that like. the other animorphs have dealt with real world problems Issues #and Jake jumped straight into comic book shit and thats why he's like That #like if you think about it. Ax's pre-crash backstory is literally Jake's if basketball was as important as Jake thinks it is in book 1 ch 1 #like replace basketball with war and they're parallels

[henrysglock]

“…the documentary will still, sooner or later, slip the limits of anyone of those genres. Where one might expect horror, the supernatural, or traditional paroxysms of dread and fear, one discovers disturbing sadness, a sequence on radioactive isotopes, or even laughter over a Simpson’s episode.” (3)

“…this short was not a continuous shot, prompting many to speculate that the eight minutes making up “Exploration #4” were in fact bits of a much larger whole.” (5)

“Then back to Navidson: “Nothing but this tape which I’ve seen enough times, it’s more like a memory than anything else. And I still don’t know: was he right or just out of his mind?” (5)

“Then a new voice: “I’m lost. Out of food. Low on water. No sense of direction. Oh god…” re’s something here. It’s following me. No, it’s stalking me. I’ve been stalked by it for days but for some reason it’s not attacking. It’s waiting, waiting for something*. I don’t know what…I’m not alone here. I’m not alone.” (5)

“What did Holloway mean by “lost”? How could anyone be lost in a house for days anyway***?…And again, was this artifice or reality?” (6)

“However, the most unnerving aspect about both pieces is their ability to convince us that everything really happened, some of which can be attributed to the verifiable elements (Holloway Roberts, Will Navidson, et al.), but most of which must be chalked up to the starkness of the production —— the absence of make-up, expensive soundtracks, or crane shots. Except for framing, editing, and in some cases subtitles, there is virtually no room for creative intrusion.”** (6)

#house of leaves #chapter 1 #* ‘Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over.’ #** This place and the people here are not what you think’. NINA tapes connection to Truman Show. #*** ‘hiding in the darkness’. The Creel house’s labyrinthine design. #references to Paradise Lost. Dante’s Inferno. Mention of John D. *Sinclair* #Another Sinclair (Lee Sinclair) #description of hallway weirdness (arguably too long to exist) = running past the same set of hallways multiple times in NINA #direct reference to War of the Worlds (ST4 inspo board)

[starrysharks]

i usually just post about reassassination and ultimate excalibur alongside less developed stories/universes but brother i have a LOT of stuff that i either hardly talk about or never talk about at all publicly ,,, mostly because they don't have any character designs done yet 💀

#like let me dump a few of the ideas that will probably never actually become real here: #1. story about two vampire hunter girls and one goes missing and the other has to go find her and fights various vampires along the way #(i actually did finish a few designs for this but scrapped it and now a lot of the plot aspects are in reassassination #such as a coven of 7 vampires based on the deadly sins - now the 7 assassins of the clear crucifix organisation in RAA) #2. darkstalkers-ish fighting game that i was really convinced i could make once i learned how to code - #- where the guardians of love and heartbreak fight to prove which love is real #there were multiple characters planned - puppy love which was like a cute girl with a big ass scary fuckin hellhound #sweetheart love who was a chocolate themed magical girl (her gimmick being that she could transform and her fighting style would change) #fake love who was like a scam love doctor old lady called dr.diva #pure lust who was a super tall vampire guy etc etc the list goes on #i kinda want to go through with that one. one problem! i cannot code fighting games #and the one that was pretty well developed - metallic miracle which had a pretty complicated story #basically the world is being attacked by alien creatures that can only be killed by children (never decided why tho) #so the fucked up government takes a bunch of 5-8 year olds and put them into comas and then turns them into cyborgs #to go on suicide missions to kill these aliens. mira's mother is the scientist who created the technology that can send them into comas #and keep their bodies moving n shit and she takes mira onto a different planet to try and save her but theyre found after a while #mira's mother is killed and mira is drafted in the kids v aliens war BUT she is immune to the coma technology #she fights fully aware of what is going on for around a year? and eventually the aliens are driven out and mira is super traumatised #and is one of the only survivors of this 'greater good project' - so they put her in a coma that actually works this time #and send her in a space capsule for years to give her some peace (didnt develop why shes in the space capsule) #anyway 50 years later mira is woken up and taken back to her home planet to help these other guys against smaller-scale threats #and the whole thing is about mira recovering from what happened to her learning to trust others and stuff #looking back the story is kinda edgy n doesnt really make sense and stuff but i think it could be interesting idk #is this oc rambling if its only in the tags? #whatever #oc rambling