#Because Vietnam

[rooster-does-art]

Chasseurs Tagals and the First Vietnam War

Often forgotten in history is the Cochinchina campaign of 1858 to 1863, which was the first major confrontation between Western nations and a Vietnamese state. Sparked by the executions and arrest of European missionaries and converted Christian natives in Vietnamese territory, the French Empire, along with Spanish Empire, decided to intervene and prevent further prosecution.

With the garrison in Philippine colony being the closest force Spain had to Vietnam, it was from here the Spanish contingent would be taken from. The Governor-General of the Philippines would assign the 1st King's Regiment, the 2nd Queens Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment of Ferdinado VII to Vietnam. All three units would be officered by Europeans, with native Filipino soldiers composing the main fighting force.

Dubbed by their French counterparts as Chasseurs Tagals (Probably because most of the soldiers came from the Tagalog region of the Philippines), these troops would serve in the occupation of the Tourane's forts and participate in the capture of Saigon, the main port in the Cochinchina area.

In the battle for Saigon, the Chasseurs Tagals would make a name for themselves, as they stormed the citadel of Saigon, being some of the first troops atop its walls.

After the siege, these Filipino troops would assist in the occupation of the port city, garrisoning fortifications and patroling the nearby countryside.

By 1862 a peace treaty would be signed by the French, Spanish, and Vietnamese state. Under the agreement, the Cochinchina provinces would be annexed by the French, while the Spanish would receive a monetary compensation worth 4 million dollars.

The Chasseurs Tagals would remain in Cochinchina to help maintain control over it against rebellions. However, by 1863 the Spanish contingent would be withdrawn and the Filipino troops would return back to the Philippines.

A century later, Filipino troops under the Philippine Civic Action Group - Vietnam would return to the country and participate in another Vietnam War.

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Depicted here is a patrol from the 3rd Regiment of Ferdinado VII. FairChild (@temper-temper) as a Sergeant leads a patrol composed of Zaffre Blue (@techbro-arts) and me.

#Silver Wing #FairChild #temper-temper #Zaffre Blue #techbro-arts #Art #Random Art #MLP #My Little Pony #Pegasus #History #Cochinchina Campaign #Philippine History #Vietnamese History #Chasseurs Tagals #Okay temper I knew I had to add you in the piece #Because Vietnam #Okay its a different Vietnam war to what you know #But I think you'll find it very interesting #Also techbro thanks for letting me steal your OC again #I'll eventually draw more art of your OCs than you will

[aero-sense]

After gaining a little more information about Omashu from the games, I'd like to go into the South Asian/SEA references of the city.

The common headdress for men in Omashu are turbans. They wear it the same style of the Cabbage Man which @atlaculture has matched it to a Khăn Vấn, a vietnamese turban:

The turban does have a similar shape, but depending the style, the Khăn Vấn can be wrapped like a headband that shows hair in the back, unlike the Omashu turbans that wrap completely around the head. Turbans have a long history that spans many cultures and religions, so here are some other turbans I thought looked similar:

These are the Sikh turbans, also referred as a Dastār. This particular style shown in the example is called the modern Dumalla. I thought the wrapped style was similar to the turban design in the game.

Another kind are the Islamic turbans found in South and South East Asia, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. The turban can come in different colors and patterns (I found only white ones for the examples, but I've seen green, yellow, and checkered before).

The women in Omashu also wear head coverings and this one in particular reminded me of the hijab style I've seen Indonesians wear.

Another cultural reference @atlaculture covered is how King Bumi's rock candy he encased Sokka and Katara with is like the rock sugar used in Asia. The method of developing rock sugar, or Misri, was invented in India and is the oldest refined form of sugar. It's used as candy or a sweetener for milk and tea. In Karnataka, it's served with water for guests in the summer.

Lastly, Bumi's name has ties to South and South East Asia. @cyndaquillt has already done a wonderful post going into Bumi's name from a South Asian view:

Bhumi (भूमि, pronounced bhoo-mi) is a Sanskrit word that means ground. The root of the word is Bhu (भू) which means earth.

There's also @ririsasy additions, that Bumi is the Indonesian word for Earth. In Indonesia, Bumi is a name usually given to males, while Bhumi is a name commonly given to Indian women, and is the name of the goddess of Earth in Hinduism.

There's many overlaps between these cultures and more, but overall Omashu leans towards a more South Asian/SEA setting than East Asian compared to the rest of the Earth Kingdom. Any additions or corrections are welcome!

#some of these references are a biiit stretched #because of atla's pan-asia setting #but whats so fun is the mix of culture #that occurs in real life as well #and i really like the idea of Omashu being south asian/sea inspired #to give the EK some variety #like how some of the villages zuko and iroh go to resemble korea or vietnam #atla #atla the game (2006) #king bumi #game sense

[soursoppi]

been wanting to do some Chinese Zodiac-inspired MDZS art!

will be doing them in rows of 4~

Row 1: NHS/Cat - JGY/Mouse - NMJ/Ox - JC/Tiger - LXC/Rabbit

Row 2 >> | Row 3 >>

#Nie Huaisang #Jin Guangyao #Nie Mingjue #Jiang Cheng #Lan Xichen #MDZS #Mo Dao Zu Shi #Zodiac Series #the cat isn't actually an official animal of the zodiac #but it's part of the popular folktale/myth for it #the story between the cat mouse and ox actually parallels the relationship between the nie bros and jiggy pretty well hehe #worth a read if you've got some time #you can find it on wiki #also yes i'm aware vietnam switches out the rabbit with the cat #not what i'm doing here however! #also just that bit of Okami inspired #because i really love that style so good #will be turning them into washi eventually if it all goes well haha

[inkwingart]

Framed by bright pink lotuses and a blue and gold border reminiscent of light glistening on water, this Vietwardian muse embodies the northern highlands of her homeland. She is dressed in a sheer black áo tứ thân with the neckline unfastened to reveal even more of her carmine-red áo yếm. Instead of a traditional sash, the waist of her tunic is taken in by rows of smocking worked in marigold-yellow thread. The bands of geometric embroidery in teal and carmine on her skirts and sleeves, paired with her scandalously closely-tailored trousers and silver crescent-shaped hoop earrings, echo the iconic styles of the Hmong. Her hair is wrapped in blue linen and coiled around the crown of her head. She holds a nón quai thao behind her head like a massive halo. The outside is painted teal, while the underside is gilded from edge to edge.

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Do not edit or remove my caption, crop, edit, or repost on any platform.

This is the final Vietwardian print design and the one that gave me the most trouble. I couldn’t figure out a good pose, and when I did, i couldn’t get the hands right. And then there was the hat and all those concentric-ish ellipses. And I made a silly mistake and realized much too late to fix it….you would’t even notice if I didn’t say anything. Too late now, and much too tired.

#my art #illustration #vietwardian lookbook #historical fashion #art nouveau #the lotuses are bright pink bc that’s how they are in vietnam #in fact the real flowers are closer to magenta. #i took liberties with toning them down a little because magenta would not work with anything else and also i hate magent

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

I got the Ace Attorney Apollo Justice Trilogy for my birthday and I forgot how much of the game was like

Witness: “I went to the store on Tuesday.” Me: “sounds about right-“ Phoenix: “Objection!!! There’s a flaw in that statement. How could the witness be at the store on Tuesday… if SHE WAS IN HER LIVING ROOM!?” “Wait what-“ judge: “well Mr. Wright. If you can, you must prove the witness was indeed in her living room instead of at the store, otherwise I will send everyone in this courtroom into the incinerator.” “What!? How- how can I?” And then I look in my evidence and it’s like: my attorney badge. A photo of a cat. A used coupon. Two pieces of tinfoil wrapped together to look like a phone. A photo of my client stabbing a knife into the victim’s chest. A photo of the witness at the store dated on Tuesday. A stepladder.

#ace attorney #ace attorney phoenix wright #ace attorney apollo justice #phoenix wright #apollo justice #I know I said I’m playing the Apollo justice trilogy and then used Phoenix as the defense attorney #it’s because this is in reference to my Vietnam flashbacks to the Phoenix wright trilogy since i just started this one #so this is more to that than it is the current one lol

[wearepaladin]

“One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something and the difference between doing nothing and doing something is everything.” --Father Daniel Berrigan

#Paladin code #daniel berrigan #note: the man in question with eight others was a catholic priest who burned draft documentation for the vietnam war #for this he was the first priest to be in America’s most wanted list #because as he noted he’d rather burn paper than children #so Rest In Peace you legend

[get-more-bald]

being a tf2 fan has you searching shit like "us draft 1968" "us military drafts" "wars united states participation" "vietnam war drafts"

#its about fucking scout yeah #BTW EDIT. im talking about the vietnam war here #is he a draft dodger? did he not get picked? where do his dog tags come from? #did he get drafted but not sent to the battlefield? #also. ww2. which of the mercs fought. #spy. probably fought. maybe (probably) not on the front lines #heavy. im saying he didnt fight because he ran from a gulag and the lived in siberia. #soldier. we all know. #medic. IF he fought then probably def not on tbe front lines but im more inclined to say he didnt fight #as in he ran to switzerland or america or smth. for my personal reasons #demo. good question actually. im saying he didnt fight #a) would he be of age to fight? b) would he qualify for medical reasons? c) would his moms influence exclude him? #this shit is gonna get me googling scotlands involvement in ww2 #i want to say he didnt fight #engie. hm. did engineer from hit game team fortress 2 fight in the second world war. #i want to say he didnt but he probably (realistically) did #(except its tf2 universe so. whats realistic. is ww2 even canon in tf2 universe.)(lets assume it is as canon as it is irl) #if pyro fight they werent in the military they were just there for some reason. happy to be included in any bloodshed #sniper (by comics canon) is i think too young to have fought. also hes australian. #this shit is gonna have me googling australian involvement in ww2 #holy shit #delete later

[absolutebl]

#because i made the image and i lazy #current bl watch list #also I'm not watching anything from vietnam at the mo so I don't need to augment #Thai BL #Japanese BL #live action yaoi #Korean BL #BL watch list #finall BL watch list 2022 #the last one of 2022 #what a year this has been

[terrence-silver]

80s Terry vs LA Nightstalker Richard Ramirez!

I can imagine that Terry would have all the best security systems for the time and realistically no ones getting in… but, for fun’s sake, what would Terry do if Ramirez broke in and tried to burgle the house, even try to r@pe/kill beloved in their bed?! I need to see Terry being violently protective of beloved please 🙏🙃

It's interesting when you think about the fact that historically, Richard Ramirez was taken under the wing of his older cousin who was a Green Beret in Vietnam who used to show him wartime images of torture and gore involving Vietnamese women caught on photography he took and who (possibly) served as an early bad influence on him and then years later on a dark night out in LA, Ramirez just coincidentally, seeing how Karma can be really funny like that, breaks into the mansion of another Green Beret from Vietnam who's more than willing to kill to protect what's his and ---- whoops. We can imagine the rest.😬

#but yeah sorry anon #i won't write it because it's an actual real life serial killer #but BUT!!! i will write something in the vein of terry silver being violently protective of his beloved when an unnamed assailant breaks in #so there's a comfort #terry silver #kk3 #cobra kai #tw; the night stalker #tw; richard ramirez #terry silver x reader #terry silver x beloved #tw; vietnam war #tw; serial killer

[sixth-light]

absolutely ridiculous deep-cut piece of speculation for fantasy nerds of a reasonable vintage: it is entirely plausible, publication timing-wise, that Mara of the Acoma could have been an inspiration for Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag. discuss (or don't, it's the weekend)

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #daughter of the empire #tuon athaem kore paendrag #my more genuine take is that Feist & Wurts were approaching Kelewan in a very similar way to how Jordan approached Seanchan #but because they were taking from some of the same sources in particular the context of the Vietnam (and Korean) Wars #still: the timing works out. let me dream

[good--merits-accumulated]

going back to my roots (epistolary historical aus that are just ridiculously fluffy. overly so.) this time anderperry version!

#it's like. vaguely 1960s because the one headcanon i will ALWAYS advocate for no matter what #is that Meeks worked at CERN as a researcher #but also not very 1960s because “ridiculously fluffy” and “Vietnam War” are not two phrases i should set next to each other #i may just set this in a nebulous handwavey latter-half-of-20th-century space tbh #anderperry #dead poets society #tristan writes

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not really any manner of orator, and I average out at the amount of knowledge that passes my feed. I just... you know, recognize that. the US authorities and the bulk of celebrities who played into it to keep their job did those same things to us in the 60s and 70s. it's the same playbook, it's the same colonialism, it's the same human toll.

#idk. the news is fucking horrific. and then you go online and see the perpetrators act all uwu and lie to your face #it is. idk vietnam managed to exist as a country after 75. and I grew up thinking such level of cruelty is something of the past #if not because the forces behind it have grown kinder then because they've learned their lesson #they have. they've improved on their PR for a while. we just managed to outpace that machine for a moment #with handheld recording devices and the internet. #you know now where I stand if there were any chance it wasn't clear before. what the israeli defense force is doing is genocide. #given - once again - that I'm not any kind of speaker I have mostly just been moving resources around on here #but I still felt like I should at the very least make it very clear that no matter what we do live in that same world #and we should not fucking forget. because the ones who benefit from these conflicts would like for us to #they wanted badly for people in the US to forget vietnam. us living here fucking remember.

[kulay-ng-banaag]

HWS SEA but make it HetaDND

Enjoy these rough sketches because I will literally not come back to them until December. 🥲

(From Back —> Front, L —> R)

VN: Bumped into a couple of Quora answers that discussed archery practice, which got me thinking about Viet as a mounted archer, and I immediately thought of the elephants that the Trung sisters & Ba Trieu rode on. So Ranger: Beastmaster — also what if the elephant was from Thai? 🫣💘 Easily a tank through her mount, but can fight well as a DPS (think OW D.Va). ID: The thing is he has the fighting style of a Warlock(: Genie?) but the character of a Paladin(: Oath of the Ancients). He’s giving CR Fjord. 😭💞 For sure, TANK. TH: He’s just a Monk. Debated on his subclass for a long time because he’s a war freak charge-into-the-frontline kind of fighter. Way of Mercy is ironic but I love the imagery of the Merciful Masks (except he gets the khon styles). Way of Shadow — it’s on one possible etymology of Siam (Sanskrit, “dark”). Easily a DPS type. MY: Druid: Circle of the Moon for the Wild Shape into a Tiger, and as of typing this I just realized the moon motif. Mostly support, but upset him just enough and he’ll easily switch gears. PH: Bard: College of Swords for the two-weapon fighting style aka arnis/kali/eskrima. Personally, he’s more DPS than support, though as a latter Dirge Singer & Siday fit the bill. SG: See, the first thing that came to mind was the RO Alchemist class for the Homonculus feature — hence, his companion Fishball. Obviously there’s Artificer: Alchemist for that, but also it would be cool if Fishball is just a “chibi” form of his patron of a water dragon— Warlock: Fathomless. Not to mention Singa would have both high INT and CHA — alas, he’s a Support guy.

(more notes under the cut)

I jokingly called this AU as Dungeons & Drawing Circles, but truth be told I’m not restricting it to being after DND, let alone 5e. Now I’m just throwing hands and calling it a fantasy RPG AU, although out of familiarity, I do refer to DND 5e often. The classes I highlighted above are just there for where I got the inspiration.

I’ve had the occasional “oooh I think [character] would be a [class/es]” hc over the years, but I ended up expanding on the AU as a means of coping with the early months of ECQ. Now there’s so many plot bunnies that I’d summarize as: your og main 8 unwittingly team up for a quest and, over time, they hit a point where they realize that they cannot fight the BBEG alone (or at least just the 8 of them), so they travel around the world recruiting allies a la Suikoden 108 Stars of Destiny.

It’s even got a literal history timeline where preceding events (and characters!!!) are involved with the BBEG and ultimately why the main 8 came together. Think playing a later game in a series where you not only get to meet the playable characters from earlier games, but you get to recruit them.

And I just wanted to draw cool fantasy looks, haha! Nevertheless, nothing is final — especially when I've clearly taken inspiration from some indigenous groups. It's why I shelved this for so long because I need to do more research and it's just not something I have a lot of free time for.

#hetalia #hws philippines #hws indonesia #hws vietnam #hws thailand #hws malaysia #hws singapore #hws sea #fantasy au #fantasy: hetadnd #no reblog because i hate showing sketches <3 #posting here because this is a concept blog after all

[vibinwiththefrogs]

I have spent most my life up to a couple years ago just working to get into college and now that I'm in college I'm just so jaded about it all. Because while I love academics and theoretically I love school, every day at my school and other schools I see how school administrations make it hard for minority students, how free speech is squashed despite them claiming to be beacons of it, how research conducted at universities gets privatized and put behind pay walls or used for war. Idk it's the last day of school for this semester and I've been following all the protests and encampments, and I do see the good people who ARE in university staff. But also, all I can see now is bare connections to capitalism and state violence.

#an encampment wouldnt happen here because our school is like 90% white mostly rural and conservative #but I've just been thinking about it and other Georgia university system schools yno? #is there truly public research? #i feel like there isn't because you always need a donor or funds from somewhere yno #I've been thinking about Vietnam and agent orange too and agrichemicals in general and how they're used #I've been thinking about the agrochemical company nearby that my professors keeps mentioning is israeli owned #and idk yno? all kinds of swirling thoughts

[pequodyaoi]

buttons.. for my website.. feel free to use and rescale and do whatever

#dep qua #88x31 #a secret: these are actually 188x66. because they looked like shit when i resized them down ToT #vietnam #cambodia #EUNUCH #i thought the EUNUCH one was funny.sorry. #lol wat if i did 3k themed ones #web stuff #flashing colours warning #flashing warning #webcore #neocities #88x31 buttons

[madame-helen]

#it really happened lol #because of a map #meme #memes #shitposting #shitpost #humor #funny memes #funny humor #funny #barbie 2023 #oppenheimer #oppenbarbie #japan #vietnam #satire #irony