#WWI

[my-darling-boy]

Lads be honest would you let her heal your trench foot yes or no

#drawn for my friend while they were sick #healed them instantly #wwi #world war one #great war #my art #wwi art

[my-dear-private]

Singer Sargent inspired

#my face #my body #wwi #john singer sargent #vintage gay

[theworldofwars]

Lieutenant J. B. McDowell, British official cameraman, filming the town of Amiens with the view of the Cathedral, 7 April 1918.

#ww1 #history #world war one #the first world war #1917 #wwi #canadian history #the great war #world war 1 #historical photos #ww1 art #ww1 history #ww1 poetry #ww1 fiction #military history #great war #british army #amiens

[victusinveritas]

#whose line is it anyway #ryan stiles #gavrilo princip #wwi

[thatscarletflycatcher]

TIL AFTER THE US JOINED WWI THERE WAS A TREND TO RENAME SAUERKRAUT LIBERTY CABBAGE GUYS THE FREEDOM FRIES ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL THIS SHOULDN'T BE FUNNY WHY IS IT FUNNY.

#wwi #languages #english

[yeoldenews]

Absolutely magnificent creature.

(source: Sears catalog, Fall/Winter 1918.)

#so shaped #cats #stuffed animals #wwi #1910s #sears catalog #toys #history

[madnessofmen]

French and British soldiers sharing a light at Étaples, c 1915.

#wwi #for Firmin :3c

[charlesoberonn]

The Grim Reaper doesn't come for the dead. That's a myth. He doesn't wear a robe either. Nor does he carry a scythe.

The Grim Reaper comes for the living. He wears the uniform of a private, ill fitting on a young man who's barely past boyhood.

The Grim Reaper comes for mothers. And when he comes every mother on the street steps outside to watch him go, dreading that it's her door where he's gonna stop.

The Grim Reaper is trembling and shy. It never gets easier. All those eyes on him.

The Grim Reaper doesn't carry a scythe. He carries a mailbag. And in it are a hundred letters. Each stamped with the Royal Army Seal.

The mother cries. She refuses the letter. But the Grim Reaper will not be denied. He is not the instrument of death. Only its herald.

The Grim Reaper has no time to stay. There're so many letters yet to deliver today.

The year is 1915, and the Grim Reaper knows that tomorrow will be a busy day as well.

#writing #death #grim reaper #ww1 #wwi #world war 1 #history

[catsofyore]

Little girl and patient friend. Taken in France during the reconstruction period after the devastation of WWI - ca. 1917 - 1924. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #cats of yore #WWI #France

[captain-price-unofficially]

“The evolution of the fighting man” between 1914 and 1918.

#wwi #home front

[fictionadventurer]

I'm haunted by the beautiful potential in an Edwardian-era Persuasion.

A setting just after WWI, another time of major social upheaval--blurring class barriers, new ideas about gender roles, further crumbling of the aristocracy

Sir Walter blindly clings to the old order, barely thinking about the war except to lament the impossibility of getting good servants these days

Elizabeth Elliot styles herself as a bit of a women's rights activist, claiming this is the reason she remains unmarried

Anne would have served as a nurse if her father had allowed it, but of course he couldn't permit an Elliot of the Elliots to undertake such ugly work, so she stayed at home quietly undertaking the usual home-front charitable work

This war deepens the story's melancholy. There's not the same sense of the men returning home as conquering heroes. The world is changing, but is it worth what we've lost? Can we have hope for the future when all our optimistic dreams led to such slaughter?

The best way to retain some of Wentworth's glamour is to make him a flyboy. However, given their short life expectancies, I'm not sure how realistic it is to have him and several buddies survive the war.

A "band of brothers" in the trenches is also a decent analogue for their relationship

Harville's injury meant he was invalided home fairly early. Benwick's probably a wartime poet suffering from shell shock that only got worse after his fiance died in the influenza epidemic.

Louisa and Henrietta are of a slightly younger generation that hasn't been quite as scarred by the war. Their relative innocence makes them refreshing to a war-weary returning soldier

It's possible Wentworth is so shaken by Louisa's accident (and thus needs Anne to take charge) because it sparks some kind of PTSD flashback. (Though that may not be the best direction to take the character).

There's just so much potential to explore the layers--old wounds and new possibilities, finding ways to heal and grow and rebuild after pain and loss

#persuasion #jane austen #au #wwi

[my-darling-boy]

Best part of the Sabaton Great War film that played in museums by FAR was the night trench scene opening up on a lone French soldier checking to see if anyones around and then whipping out and DEVOURING a 3 foot long baguette

#I saw it at the York Army Museum #my friends on either side of me looked over at me and I had my head in my hand silently in practical tears #bless ‘em it was fantastic #trench chat #< ​finally changing my new text post tag btw #wwi #world war one #great war #sabaton

[nick--knack]

*wakes up at 2am in a cold sweat* A7V toaster

context:

#this tweet has randomly resurfaced in my memory once again and i had to draw something about it #my art #tank #tanks #ww1 #wwi

[theworldofwars]

Propaganda made by the allies of WW1 of what could happen to the United States if the Central Powers won.

#world war one #first world war #wwi #canadian history #canada #war history #world war #ww1 #world war 1 #world history #great war #The First World War #The Great War #1918 #1917 #1916 #1914 #1915 #germany #german army #historical photos #history #British history #british army #military history #cgwc #remembrance day #canada remembers #november 11

[rockyp77mk3]

#WWI #History #US Army

[k-wame]

HUGH DANCY as Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett 2015 · Deadline Gallipoli · S1·EP1 · dir. Michael Rymer

#hugh dancy #deadline gallipoli #perioddramaedit #tvedit #ellis ashmead bartlett #actor #ellis ashmead #men #periodedit #perioddramagif #perioddramasource #world war 1 #wwi history #wwi #beautiful men