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ashintheairlikesnow · 21 days
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deepfriedpaddymayne · 10 months
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girls when they remember that wilfred owen was killed in action A WEEK before the armistice was signed
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mr-oscarwilde · 1 year
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Happy birthday Wilfred Owen! (b. 18th March 1893) ↳  Know that since mid-September, when you still regarded me as a tiresome little knocker on your door, I held you as Keats + Christ + Elijah + my Colonel + my father-confessor + Amenophis IV in profile. What's that mathematically? In effect it is this: that I love you, dispassionately, so much, so very much, dear Fellow, that the blasting little smile you wear on reading this can't hurt me in the least. If you consider what the above Names have severally done for me, you will know what you are doing. And you have fixed my Life – however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.
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hogans-heroes · 2 days
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Master AU List 8/?
It’s the Roaring ‘20s and London is full of disillusioned veterans who have nothing to lose.
Or,
It’s the 1930s, and emerging from the Depression means rival mafias are vying for the power vacuum in New York City.
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-Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
His face was charged with beauty as a cloud
With glimmering lightning. When it shadowed me,
I shook, and was uneasy as a tree
That draws the brilliant danger, tremulous, bowed.
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So must I tempt that face to loose it’s lightning.
Great gods, whose beauty is death, will laugh above,
Who made his beauty lovelier than love.
I shall be bright with their unearthly brightening.
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And happier were it if my sap consume;
Glorious will shine the opening of my heart;
The land shall freshen that was under gloom;
What matter if all men cry out and start,
And women hide their faces in their shawl,
At those hilarious thunders of my fall?
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kxmpfflieger · 7 months
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things have been hectic but i finished the first batch of Where All Roads End refs :]
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rheasmusings · 8 months
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Someone, anyone, please please please read In Memoriam by Alice Winn. It's just fucking incredible and I'm going to be a zombie for the next few weeks since I've finished it. I'll be more coherent later but for now, just read it.
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melrosing · 9 days
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just finished in memoriam by alice winn and. I don’t think it was very good
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fitz-higgins · 1 year
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American moral reformers have experienced a lot of fails, but one of the most funny ones has got to be that time when they inadvertently encouraged more soldiers to seek gay men for sex while cracking down on female prostitution during World War One.
So, imagine: New York, 1917 & 1918. The city, being the major port, is filled with soldiers from all over the country. Some of them have never been in a city like this, and all of them are away from their families. And New York offers a lot of vices. 
Suddenly, moral reformers realise that these hordes of unsupervised young men spend their free time on all sorts of entertainment, but namely on prostitutes. Furthermore, god knows what they are up to in Europe (where gay subculture is much bigger than in the States, by the way). Something has to be done. It wasn’t just fears: it was an actual problem, and a big one. In just twelve weeks, according to the Committee for Civilian Cooperation in Combating Venereal Disease, there were 21,742 new cases of venereal disease reported. It incapacitated soldiers and cost the government to keep them in hospitals for up to eight weeks.
And so, the government and different civilian organisations, including YMCA (which inadvertently created gay colonies, but that’s a tale for another time), started a big campaign against venereal diseases. They educated soldiers about their dangers and enforced laws banning their main cause: prostitution. Well, female prostitution.
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You see, back then people did not really think that homosexual sex was dangerous. On the contrary, it was perceived as less dangerous, because of course only women could carry venereal diseases. And another interesting detail about that time is that working class men often had sex with fairies and still considered themselves straight. Fairies, or inverts, were the most visible part of New York's gay community: effeminate men who occupied saloons, dance halls, cafeterias and streets, often offering their services to men. As long as a fairy played the “female” role in intercourse and a straight man (who they used to call trade) maintained his masculinity by performing the “male” role, everything was fine and no one was judged or ostracised. In working class society, people tended to have a gender identity rather than a sexual identity. There was no division between heterosexual and homosexual men, but rather between masculine males (“normal” men, often including queers, homosexuals who also maintaned the masculine role, but weren't fairies) and effeminate ones (fairies), who were basically regarded as women and/or third sex combining both male and female elements.
Right, and here are soldiers listening and reading about how they should save their morality and protect their health, and how dangerous prostitutes and simply “loose” women are. The campaign rarely focused on sex without a condom: it was mostly about the dangers of sex with a woman. Soldiers processed all that, understood that they could catch syphilis or other diseases only from women… and went on to have sex with gay men. Who of course were very enthusiastic about confirming that, yes, any man would be absolutely safe with them.
Worth noting that fairies gradually became more available in New York and other big cities during the war. Prostitution was pushed underground, many establishments closed, and the police and civil societies constantly persecuted women who they thought were prostitutes. They did not touch men, however, and suddenly noticed “an apparent increase in male perversion” involving soldiers everywhere. Oops. Sailors meeting fairies wasn’t uncommon before the war, but now they could be seen walking arm in arm and kissing on more or less dark streets. It was just easier for men to find fairies than female prostitutes. Since it was basically the same for them, because the partner was feminine in any case, soldiers and simply working class New Yorkers moved from one option to another.
It was right after the war that the police and moral reformers actually paid attention to the “pervert problem” for the first time. Before that, there were only sporadic raids and arrests. Until the early 1920s, gay men were more actively and severely persecuted, but then focus shifted to other problems caused by Prohibition and for about a decade gay men enjoyed relative peace again.
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To His Love
He's gone, and all our plans Are useless indeed. We'll walk no more on Cotswold Where the sheep feed Quietly and take no heed. His body that was so quick Is not as you Knew it, on Severn river Under the blue Driving our small boat through. You would not know him now… But still he died Nobly, so cover him over With violets of pride Purple from Severn side. Cover him, cover him soon! And with thick-set Masses of memoried flowers— Hide that red wet Thing I must somehow forget.
— Ivor Gurney, 1917.
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prpfs · 4 months
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🏛️ Hello! Looking for 18+ rp partners as I'm an adult myself (in my 20s).
What I'm looking for is an historical mxm story, it could be ww1 or 2, victorian (these are what I'm in the mood for, but I'm open to other time settings as well). 🕊️ is welcome as well as other dark themes.
Lit/advanced lit. Discord only.
I only require you to be active (daily replies) and down to chat ooc, plan the roleplay together and exchange ideas and thoughts!
Just leave a like and I'll get back to you!
like if you're interested and op will get back to you
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Writing Tanya/Mary from Youjo Senki is very dangerous for me.
One moment I'm having lil blondie piecing together that she's accidentally overstretched her battalion and panics for once because her goal is right there(Mary) and taunting her, and next moment I'm researching historically accurate kits for U.S Marine Raiders in the school library and watching a 40 minute youtube video about their formation and history for Mary's background lore about her being an absolute girlfailure.
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seventhraggedtiger · 1 year
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i love boys so much
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mr-oscarwilde · 1 year
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He seems so gentle.
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lovecraftianbeing · 3 months
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STUPID HISTORY
On June 28th, 1914, the archduke of Austria "franz ferdinand" was attacked twice by the same man. The first attack was a homemade bomb made by Gavrilo Princip, Gavrilio hated franz ferdinand. He threw the bomb under his car but missed. Gavrilio ran away to a café nearby. A few minutes later, the driver of ferdinand's car took a wrong turn going down the street where Gavrilo Princip was eating a cheese sandwich. Once, gavrilio realized he decided to shoot Franz ferdinand with an FN 1910 semi-auto handgun. The death of franz sent Austria into war with others starting WW1. this brings us to a failed art student from Austria named adolf hitler. Hitler was an Austrian infantry. He was in battle when he met fave to face with an American. The American made a horrible mistake of letting him live. Years later and Hitler became the ruler of Germany. Once he became ruler, he created the nazis. Starting WW2, once WW2 was almost over, a gay American man named "Alan turing" created the first modern computer. Years later, the technology became public, and companies started to make home desktops. This lead people to discover communities such as weebs and furries. The growth of furrys led to a website named E621.NET, creating the first worldwide furry porn hosting website
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How Do I Love Thee?
-Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
I cannot woo thee as the lion his mate,
With proud parade and fierce prestige of presence;
Nor thy fleet fancy may I captivate
With pastoral attitudes in flowery pleasance;
Nor will I kneeling court thee with sedate
And comfortable plans of husbandhood;
Nor file before thee as a candidate….
I cannot woo thee as a lover would.
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To wrest thy hand from rivals, iron-gloved,
Or cheat them by a craft, I am not clever.
But I do love thee even as Shakespeare loved,
Most gently wild, and desperately for ever,
Full-hearted, grave, and manfully in vain,
With thought, high pain, and ever vaster pain.
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