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bantarleton · 4 months
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British Guardsmen (from left to right, Grenadier, Coldstream and Scots Guards) during the late nineteenth century.
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rocklover719 · 4 months
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thezoraprince · 10 months
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Raising a Zora - Bazz x reader
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“bro im so pumped i will singlehandedly supply AT LEAST a week of reqs for rainy days don't try me to start us off: sidon (and bazz 😌) fatherhood momence :) assuming we've adopted bc i still haven't worked out my zora anatomy hcs lol. ofc by the time the kid is school age poor y/n is gonna be like 50 but you can either ignore that or work it in as you please! i'm curious ab ur take on zora childhood milestones etc :)” - @mantaphase​
and i’m back with a Bazz headcanon!! i will NEVER get tired of writing for him <3
enjoy!! <333
(Sidon can be found here)
Bazz loves the idea of having children with you
he’s dreamt about it for such a long time
but he knows that Zora/Hylian reproduction wouldn’t work
you two talk about it daily
“You know I want nothing more than to have a family with you, right?”
you two decide adoption is the best route to go
and you’re both so happy with this decision
you both adopt a Zora egg
and it’s the smallest one you’ve ever seen
you’ve never seen Bazz be so gentle with ANYTHING
and here he is, cradling this egg with so much love
you’re sure to place it in water for when it hatches
and Bazz is always checking in
about a month of so after adopting, the egg hatches
Bazz squeals with delight
he’s so attentive
even when he’s supposed to be working, he’ll come home and check in with you and the baby
“How can I not come see my little family in the middle of the day?”
after he arrives home, he’s sure to tell you all about his day
he even has stories ready for your little one
it’s the same for about a year or two
and everyday, he has more exciting stories
once your child reaches the metamorphosis stage, Bazz stays home from work to help around the house
he knows how insane things can be 
and mainly because he did help take care of Dunma when Rivan needed help
it happens so quickly
and soon enough, you’re teaching your baby to walk, talk, etc.
Bazz is adamant about taking the baby to work with him when he does surveys
that way you can get a break
and so he can teach your little one some really cool Zora Guard stuff
it’s nice to get a day to yourself
he comes home with your little one smiling fin to fin
“Guess what we learned today?”
he sets [them] down, and [they] stumble over to you
“I’m sorry that we were away when [they] took their first steps. I wasn’t expecting it so soon.”
“It’s alright, Bazz. We can’t control these things. I’m just happy you’re both safe and sound here at home now.”
Bazz hugs you tightly
years go by
nothing seems to change except their coordination and skills
Bazz takes [them] on surveys quite a bit
and he’s always trying to teach [them] guard techniques for fighting
these two bring you nothing but pure joy
and you can’t wait for your little one’s next stage in life
once [they] hit age 20, [they] start school
Bazz picks them up EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
with the exception of the times he cannot seem to get out of work
he’ll bring [them] to work as much as he can
and your little one ends up having the WHOLE Zora guard helping [them] with homework
the Big Bad Bazz Brigade bringing up yet another child together 
Dunma and your child definitely bond over this
and you’re so thrilled to have an entire community to help you if you need some time to yourself
it’s chaotic
but your little family is so perfect
and you wouldn’t have it any other way
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jcsmoothie3 · 6 months
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intheshadowofwar · 9 months
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21 June 2023
You’re In The Army Now
London 21 June 2023
It was an early start today - I was out the door just after 7.30, catching the Victoria Line to Oxford Circus and the Bakerloo to Paddington. It was already very busy, but there was a laurel at the end of my journey to make braving rush hour a little bearable. It look me a little questioning of staff before I knew whether or not my journey was in vain - it wasn’t - and then I proceeded to sit on Platform One for an hour because I’d massively overestimated how early the train would enter the station. And what locomotive, pray tell, would I go to all this trouble for?
If you know your trains, you could probably make an educated guess.
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Built a century ago this year, No. 4472 - ahem, 60103 Flying Scotsman needs absolutely no introduction. Today she is the Kardashian of locomotives - she is famous for being famous. Unlike the Kardashians, that fame is well earned - namesake of the famed Flying Scotsman express, first non-stop run from London to Edinburgh in 1928, first (sort of) authenticated 100mph by a steam locomotive in 1934, one of the first privately preserved steam locomotives. She toured the United States (even though we don’t like to talk about how that one nearly ended) and Australia, making the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive ever between Parkes and Broken Hill. To her detractors, she’s the ‘flying moneypit,’ bankrupting every owner since 1963. To her fans, she’s the most famous steam locomotive in the world, Sir Nigel Gresley’s masterpiece. And at long, long last, I have seen her in steam.
Basically, do you know how monarchists get really excited about seeing the King? This is my version of that.
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After her departure at 9.40, I headed on the Circle Line to Sloane Square, walking through Chelsea and past the famed hospital there to the National Army Museum. The NAM is basically the cooler, hipper IWM, in my opinion. It perhaps benefits from a narrow subject matter; specifically Britain, and specifically the British Army. Without becoming too complicated, it does a much better job at contextualising its exhibits than the IWM, without shying away from the controversies and horrors of war. Do you think, for example, that the Australian War Memorial would stock a book about the massacre of Surafend, in the way the NAM stocks one on the British organised mass slaughter of Amritsar?
When I talk about museums, as you probably know by now, I like to mention an exhibit that struck me, and the exhibit in question at the NAM was more recent than you might expect. While I could discuss the saw that amputated the Earl of Uxbridge’s leg again - the fact that it still exists makes me very happy - I’ll instead mention a ruined L85 rifle from the Middle East, which was recovered from a vehicle destroyed by an IED - none of the passengers survived. Jay Winter has said that if one shows a weapon in a museum, they ought to show what it does. Here, in this ruined weapon, we see both at once. We don’t need to see the blood and bones of the soldiers; from this broken rifle, we can fill in the gaps as to the horrific power of explosives ourselves.
Also, the NAM cafe does a mean scrambled eggs.
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After the Army Museum, I headed back to the tube and caught the Circle Line again to St. James’ Park, where I walked to the Guards Museum. This is a small museum that people don’t really know about, and that surprises me as it’s literally right across the road from Buckingham Palace - it’s in Wellington Barracks, where the guards march from during the Changing of the Guard.
The Guards Museum is a very old-school and classic museum; a British Army regimental museum in the same old style that I love so very, very much. The museum is both wide in scope and intimate in subject matter - this isn’t the story of the army or the wars it fought, but the part played by the five regiments of the Foot Guards - the Grenadiers, the Coldstream, the Scots Guard, the Irish Guard and the Welsh Guard. For the majority of the British Army’s history, there were only the first three - oddly, the ‘1st’ (Grenadier) Foot Guards are actually the youngest, but as they were Charles II’s personal guard, they got to be senior after the Restoration in 1660.
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There were a lot of very interesting things in this museum, but I’m going to highlight something very boring instead. There’s a shako worn by a soldier of the Coldstream Guards in the late 1820s - it’s called a bell-top shako. Guards shakos from this period are very rare, because they were introduced in 1829 and dropped in 1831, when all of the Guards regiments adopted the bearskin cap of the Grenadiers. In fact, this shako was so rare that I didn’t actually know it existed - I’d assumed that the bearskins were adopted soon after Waterloo, but it seems the Coldstream and Scots Guards kept the shakoes of the regular infantry for just a little bit longer. This is a completely, utterly useless factoid, but I find it absolutely fascinating.
Across from the Guards Museum is the Guards Chapel, and to the uninitiated it looks strangely modern. Surely regiments as old as the Guards ought to have a similarly old chapel, right? Well, they did - until the morning of 18th June 1944, when it suffered a direct hit from a German V-1 flying bomb in the middle of a morning service. 121 were killed, and over 140 injured. The new chapel is not only a memorial to the men of the Household Division (the Foot Guards and the Household Cavalry), but to those killed in the bombing. I was initially the only visitor, and by the time I left only a small group of Americans - who I will say were very respectful - had joined me there. Dozens of regimental colours from throughout the Guards histories hang from the walls. I almost felt like an intruder in another family’s mausoleum.
I’m not religious, but for some reason I was moved to light a candle.
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I walked from there, back past Buckingham Palace and down Lower Grovesnor Place, to a small memorial on the side of an intersection near Victoria. This is a curious little monument - it’s explicitly a memorial to the Great War, yet the Tommy on top is joined by a pair of riflemen from the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars respectively. This is the memorial to the Rifle Brigade, the progeny of the famed 95th Rifles of Wellington’s time (although a number of Rifle Brigade battalions could trace their heritage to the 60th Rifles as well.) After the Second World War, it was adapted to commemorate the riflemen lost in that conflict.
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I visit a lot of memorials because I think they are interesting, or because I simply find them in the wild. I hunted down this one because it was important to me personally. This isn’t because I think the 95th were cool or because I watch a lot of Sharpe, or because green is my favourite colour and riflemen wore green uniforms. My nan had two uncles, one who fought in the First World War and one who fought in the Second. Both were riflemen - the first of the ‘Hackney Rifles’ and the second of the 7th Rifle Brigade. The first was wounded at Third Ypres, although I’m not certain how severely. The second still lies to this day in Florence, lost in the attacks on the Gothic Line in September 1944. It’s silly, and probably vulgar, but I’ve always seen the Rifle Brigade as ‘ours.’ I probably confused a lot of London commuters by pointing at a random monument in the middle of the city, repeating over again - ‘that’s us. That’s us.’
Yet it is us. The memory agents, the people who lived through the First World War, are all dead. The people who lived through the Second will still follow. It is now up to us to interpret their memory, their experiences, their histories and their stories. We have a responsibility to them.
Like it or not, this is us.
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I then wrecked this profound emotional moment by having a big fanboy moment over a Routemaster bus, and then I walked back to the hotel. After a brief rest, I reunited with my mum and stepdad, who had been very kindly invited by my professor to join the group at the garden party of the Britain-Australia Society at the Royal Over-Seas League’s London HQ. It was all very sophisticated, with a lot of the great and good - and Joe Hockey - present, but I think it just didn’t quite gel with me. We stayed for a socially acceptable amount of time, then went back to Victoria Station and grabbed some McDonalds before parting.
We will reunite in Paris, but there’s a long road ahead to get there…
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bikerlovertexas · 4 months
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askvectorprime · 1 year
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Dear, Vector Prime.
Is there any Cybertronian who shares body-type with Malgus cluster Sky Garry?
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Dear Garry Guesser,
There have been a few users of the 07150-025-01301 body type, which was notable for its large cargo space, put to use in the Great War for carrying materiel—and unfortunately, many of them perished doing just that.
Broadside was a soldier under Impactor Major, and was one of the last to fall during their legendary last stand, using his body to shield a young Springer's life.
Waverider had served onboard Mu Supreme, under Cloudburst Minor. He and his team were last heard of diving into a black hole in an attempt to escape the Decepticon Heavy Brigade. They were assumed lost, but recently a distress call was picked up on their personal comms frequency, talking about a "Dead Universe" filled with horrors.
The greatest loss was not to death or oblivion, however, but to defection. Astrotrain, formerly a loyal member of the Elite Guard, defected to the Decepticons out of frustration with being used as a cargo hauler. He became a brutal member of the Decepticons, eager to work out his anger issues upon any who stumbled across his path.
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eldridgecandell · 6 months
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During the Second War, Miles Ward and Eld Candell rode together during a few missions with the 5th Mounted Blunder Brigade. They weren't called that because of mishaps or mix-ups in their missions but were one of the first to receive black powder weaponry from dwarves of Dun Morgh.
Eld along with Reece Langston had been the first to volunteer during a rescue mission into the heart of the Hinterlands to free a captured Wildhammer clansman. Miles Ward having joined a newly commisioned covert group within the burgeoning Alliance was given his first command with the mission called Operation Blue Feather. With a few others, six men and Ward had entered the troll territory in search of the captured thane. Sadly the mission turned out to be a bust as the dwarf had already tried to escape three times and paid for it with a healthy dose of wyvern poison. A mangled corpse was also the disturbing prize.
But for what they had lacked in rescuing the thane they had come upon a nest of gryphon eggs taken and a matriarch as well that the squad was able to free. A harrowing escape on gryphon back led to a marginal heroes welcome among the tattooed master of flight.
Candell, Langston, and Ward would part as comrades but definitely would end up in different parts of the world before establishing any further of a relationship. As the riflemen returned to their company and quieter days while Miles continued into a world of espionage and intrigue among SI:7.
@damien-ward
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pedroam-bang · 4 months
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Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
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comradecowplant · 1 year
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Grown adults who call themselves progressive arguing in 2023 over whether it's cool to call everyone they don't like the r slur, millionaire socialist streamer cries about how the transes are a bunch of bullies for asking people to not give the the biggest living face of the anti-trans movement more money, the internet was a mistake & I honestly have no hope for the western left ("""""left""""") 🙃
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hazmatunit · 11 months
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LA 1992, California Army National Guard 49th Military Police Brigade Impression.
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bantarleton · 2 years
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The Crimean War monument dedicated to the Brigade of Guards in Whitehall.
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ziggythump · 1 year
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|Walter for Walter|
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thezoraprince · 10 months
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Captain - Bazz x reader (18+)
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“NSFW but do you feel like Bazz would enjoy being called “Captain” in bed or would that accidentally set the man into work-mode lmao” - @rocklover719​
this is very obviously an 18+ post, so... view at your own risk (minors dni with this one)
oh my god i am cACKLING!!!!!! this man would be in so much shock, but... i think it would boost his ego for sure ;)
enjoy, my sweet friend <3
y/n - your name tw: ‘adult’ content (obviously)
it seems Bazz finally has some free time
and he’s spending that time exactly how he should…
lounging around with you
he’s a different person when he’s off duty
he’s softer
relaxed even
he lustfully eyes you as you sit next to him, pulling you in to lay on his chest
his heart beats in your ear
and it feels like home
“Oh, how I’ve missed spending this much time with you.”
his hand reaches for your inner thigh
and you can feel the heat rising in your face
Bazz chuckles as he watches you blush
“Does someone like that?”
he places slow, soft kisses all over your face
you can feel his smile against your cheek
and wow does it make you feel good
“Y/n?”
“Hmm?”
his breathing grows heavier
“If I carry you, would you—”
and you nod before he can finish his question
he’s quick on his feet
he swoops you up in his arms and practically runs to the bedroom
and you’re giggling with glee
Bazz gently lays you down, hovering over you with anticipation
“Do you know just how badly I want you, my darling?”
you nod
“Are you sure about that?”
“Yes, Captain.”
he’s shocked by your comment
and you can’t help but to snicker as he takes a step back, eyes wide open
“Y/n!”
“What?”
he purses his lips together
and you can see the pink tint on his cheeks deepening color
the man is trying so hard to hold himself together
“I— that was—”
he exhales deeply
“I’m sorry. That REALLY caught me off guard. But um… I did quite… like that.”
“Oh?”
Bazz looks a little embarrassed after confessing
but he nods with a shy smile
“Well, I’ll be sure to remember that… Captain.”
you give him a wink
and that sends him so far over the moon
he’s desperate for you
“Y/n?”
“Yes?”
he leans back in, pressing himself into you
he’s looking at you with so much desire
with such hunger
“Mind if I... do a quick survey?”
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royalpain16 · 2 years
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The Brigade of Guards brooch
Her Royal Majesty has worn this brooch at Trooping the Colour for years, and there's a special reason that she continually pulls it out. According to Marie Claire, the accessory combines the badges of the five regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies—Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish, and Welsh Guards—who each rotate in trooping their colours during the annual parade. In the oval that encloses the five badges, the latin phrase “Quinque Juncta In Uno” (translated to “five joined as one”) is included, and the top of the accessory is adorned with a sparkly crown.
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Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Brigade of Guards brooch throughout the years.
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lethotep · 2 years
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It's kinda fun being the experienced person on the team with a few young newbies. Mainly because you get to watch them realise that working in a library is less ~calming~ book recommendations and quiet people studying, and much more absolutely batshit insane wild shit that we do not have the training for and need to adapt to on the fly while remaining calm and level headed
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