#chain of freedom

[odinsblog]

The Baltic Way, or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom") was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989.

Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR. The central government in Moscow considered the three Baltic countries constituent republics of the Soviet Union.

The 1989 event was organised by the Baltic pro-independence movements: Rahvarinne of Estonia, the Tautas fronte of Latvia, and Sąjūdis of Lithuania, to draw global attention by demonstrating a popular desire for independence and showcasing solidarity among the three nations. It has been described as an effective publicity campaign, and an emotionally captivating and visually stunning scene.

The event presented an opportunity for the Baltic activists to publicise the Soviet rule and position the question of Baltic independence not only as a political matter, but also as a moral issue. The Soviet authorities responded to the event with intense rhetoric, but failed to take any constructive actions that could bridge the widening gap between the Baltic republics and the rest of the Soviet Union. Seven months after the protest Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare independence.

After the Revolutions of 1989, 23 August has become an official remembrance day both in the Baltic countries, in the European Union and in other countries, known as the Black Ribbon Day or as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.

👉🏿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

#politics #baltic way #estonia #russia #latvia #lithuania #interesting #chain of freedom #baltic states #molotov ribbentrop pact #world history #tankies #putin apologists #stalinists #russian colonialism #russian imperialism #russia is a terrorist state

[olifdraws]

Nightmare

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl narinder #cult of the lamb narinder #the one who waits #decided to finish up one of my wips #this turned out better than expected :D #does narinder dream of toww? being imprisoned for 1000 years is a very long time #does he have nightmares of being back in the afterlife? sealed and chained and that his freedom is merely a dream?

[my-fancy-hat]

Something familiar about violence about pain about cruelty

#chainsaw man #chainsaw man spoilers #this can be read in so many fucked up ways #this is freedom! now he lost everything that chained him to normalcy #denji laughing bc he finally has a pretext to transform. in exchange of his home and pets/family #and nayuta is horrorized by him. god #lowkey reminded me ere/n laughing at s@sha's death

[p4nishers]

thinking about the relationship between mightily oats' "the worthwhile [words] don't burn" and constable dorfl's "the words in the heart cannot be taken"

#especially the journey both of them had to go through to get to the point of saying that. like the whole of carpe jugulum oats was so TORN #and before that too about what words could you believe and who could you really trust on their word about om and the prophets and he went #out of his way to look up records disproving what the book of om said bc he KNEW nothing they said could be believed and just all the pain #and all that doubt he went thru and the part where he questioned om's 'infinite compassion' as he prayed bc really what compassion? #how many people prayed at the stake just like he was doing in that moment? how many people had to live with the silence of their god just #like he did? but still when his book of om – that he clung to the whole book for reassurance – burned he said the worthily words don't burn #the worthily words are in the heart and in the mind and not feed into his mouth by old man who just #made things up to justify their actions. he had all the words he needded the whole time and holiness was always all around him. he just had #to look #and dorfl being created with words in his head that dictated his every move . words that chained him. then he and the other golems created #'king' for themselves in the hope he'd lead them to freedom but they put too many words in his head and he failed and carrot gave dorfl his #own freedom and his own words and that lead to dorfl destroying his well child basically and destroying himself in the process but the word #in his heart his OWN words remained and they were able to rebuilt him and vimes give him a voice and his words and belief remained in him b #they were always his #god. sorry for the ramble im severally unwell about them #mightily oats #constable dorfl #carpe jugulum #feet of clay #gnu terry pratchett #discworld

[beanghostprincess]

I will always be angry at the fact that we didn't get a scene between Sanji and Yamato after all the damn parallelisms their stories have

#shitty dads who don't support their identity and dreams #horrible fathers that literally chained them and threatened to go BOOM on them #awful parents who locked them up #shitty fathers in general ??? #also their whole thing about finding freedom ?? their dreams ?? c'mon #sanji's issues with gender expression and yamato being literally trans #they could've been besties i'm devastated #one piece #black leg sanji #yamato

[nanaosaki3940]

Korean Manhwa Men (of modern setting genre) I'm Currently Addicted To...

Doo-joon Kang from Positively Yours

Park Yoonsoo from Olgami

Cha Gyeol from The Reason I Decided To Die

Choi Chan from Psychometer Fragmented Memories

Taegyung Seo from Fly Me To The Moon

Lee Dohoon from Food Chain

Baek Siyoon from Free In Dreams

Go Eun-Hyuk from Operation Name Pure Love

Kwon Beomjin from Just Twilight

Baek Shiho from Extroversion Of An Immortal

(From left to right) Ryu Kang Hyun from Divorce Is Easy, But Love Is Hard Cha Yiheon from Love Class Ki Yoon-Gi from Please Teach Me, Senior

Just now I noticed something... I certainly have a thing for black-haired male leads lmao!!! 😭😭😭💕💕💕

(My taste in men is quite problematic since half of them here are red flags, but don't worry as red is one of my favorite colors 🚩🤩😘😅)

#manhwa #korean manhwa #romance manhwa #manga #anime #positively yours #olgami #extroversion of an immortal #divorce is easy but love is hard #love class #please teach me senior #operation name pure love #operation name true love #free in dreams #dreaming freedom #fly me to the moon #the reason i wanted to die #the reason i decided to die #my reason to die #food chain #psychometer fragmented memories #baek shiho #baek siyoon #cha gyeol #park yoonsoo #kang doo-joon #go eun-hyuk #taegyung seo #choi chan #just twilight

[raayllum]

—cut lines from 5x08, Finnegrin's Wake

#rayllum #tdpedit #tdp #graphics #rayllumedit #theme: freedom #5x08 #personal fave #my edits #arc 2 #captain hostage exchange canon #tag ramble #like i get why this line was cut (& think it was the right call) but holy shit the Dichotomy this sets up #in an episode so surrounding themes of freedom & chains & control and the fucking pawn callum intro #like we knew finnegrin had decided rayla was callum's weakness and was going to fucking. #press on that wound as punishment but like the constructed binary of #'keep rayla and be weak/chained down and controlled' OR 'be willing to lose her and be Free' #and we all know what callum chose. and what he'll keep choosing #like yeah it's. it's Over. he's dooming the world for her next season #this line alone + the intro is like. all the proof i need at this point cause Holy Shit

[tiny-huts]

HE REALLY IS LIKE. GOOD FOR HER. KILL GOD

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #laezel #on a more creative note #I think hes starting to see part of himself in her but wont admit it on pain of death #he was so CONCERNED when she was in the machine #its about breaking chains #its about finding freedom

[molinaesque]

On the topic of Raphael and him "being bad in bed".

Okay I'm only ever going to talk about this at length once and then never again. I've been avoiding talking about it until now because bringing it up always just seems to keep this topic in circles and it becomes an endless pit of nothing.

First of all, I know most of the time (like maybe 70% of the time) it's for the lolz. I get it. Hell, Raphael fans will be the FIRST to quip about this.

BUT

For those taking it seriously one way or another... It becomes such old hat VERY fast.

Those who use it as a jab towards Raphael havers are... Kinda dumb. Because it's like... Okay, and? You act as if somehow negates the entirety of his character somehow just because "HAR HAR HANDSOME DEVIL MAN IS BAD AT SEX" and it's so... vapid and boring? Also it seems a lot of people keep thinking "bad at sex" = JUST that he finishes too fast and nothing else but they seem to forget that the player character came up with that insult on the spot (rather than seeing it as a commentary about his pure selfishness and where it stems from). Haarlep is also a bias source. There's a semblance of resentment from them AND they're a damn incubus. EVERYONE'S terrible in bed in comparison (have you seen Tav? Little shit just lays there like a sack of potatoes during the Haarlep scene). This isn't me saying "Oh it means Raphael is terrific in bed because Haarlep's word cannot be trusted". HELL, no. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm saying "okay... What can I glean from that set of information?"

I feel like this goes for Raphael havers too who have this conversation. I feel like many tend to fall into this trap of odd desparity when they realise that "oh no our magnificent hot man is bad at sex" and somehow treat it as if it's forever a caveat and somehow negates the ENTIRETY of Raphael as a complex character. My first reaction when I got this information during House of Hope was laughing and then going "mmm that's so interesting and adds such a great layer to this already amazing character. Where else can I take this to". In fact, House of Hope as a quest does SO much in adding all these tidbits that make Raphael not just another boring, all knowing, god like, ineffible character. It made me love and appreciate his character even MORE. instead of going in circles and lamenting in how this is somehow "the worst thing ever", I think it's way more fun to explore it and delve into where the root of his narcissism and self esteem issues come from. The dichotomy and complexes of his character. There's SO much to talk about there and yet we're still just stuck on "haha devil man is a bottom and bad in bed" (which is another ridiculous thing btw because people seem to misconstrue bottoms as JUST being submissive. Y'all need to be more open minded 😂).

Apologies if this came off as ranty/condescending maybe. But it's coming from someone who's just minding her own business but have to see a variation of that line CONSTANTLY in the notes/tags on my art/gif posts and as I said... It gets so old REALLY fast. Like please be more imaginative than this, I beg of you. 😭

#bg3 raphael #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #I'm definitely missing on some thoughts here but I'm typing this while starving and tired #Aaaand I won't talk about it at length ever again because again #It's SO boring as a topic holy god #The dude is a goldmine of endless directions and topics and themes #We could talk about his childhood - his existential crisis of his upbringing and being half mortal and devil #We could talk about about his obsession with absolute control and freedom and power and want of that in the hells #We could talk about the myriads of ways he and Tav could continue their odd relationship if they went Team Raphael route #We could talk about his diaries #We could talk about his endless dichotomies and why it makes him such a well rounded character without giving away too much #We could talk about his obsession with the arts and literature and how much of a nerd he is for it #But no #All we talk about is his goddamn prowess in the bedroom... And that's a damn shame #Bg3 thoughts #There's the new goddamn Chains of Asmodeus out too... There's SO much we can talk a out concerning Raphael and all that new info #Come on now

[y-rhywbeth2]

*You've butchered so many before - each death a gift to your Father. But this one, you will take from him. This one is just for you.*

I'm not saying that keeping Durge from dying/committing suicide is a bad thing (especially because their afterlife was not going to be an improvement), but if you lean into the options that portray them as suicidal, and then we get to Bhaal giving them the option of service or death (the only real choice he's ever given them) and Durge makes their choice - and judging by the Prayer for Forgiveness, death is something they've wanted for a long while.

This death, this choice, is for them.

And immediately somebody takes their decision away from them.

For the millionth time.

Jergal wasn't in the wrong, but my Durge still isn't speaking to him. (And yes, that's technically from the Chosen of Bhaal post-final battle thing but it's relevant.)

#Teeechnically you are not taking your death from Bhaal in the rejection scene because he is killing you; but the spirit of the thing's there #You're still fucking up his plans with your choice #Suicide ideation may come hand in hand with resenting those who chain you to life #Unfortunately Durge; freedom to make your own mistakes has some limits #Astarion: freedom to make my own choices means letting me kill 7007 people #Durge: freedom to make my own choices means letting Father kill me #Everyone go to therapy #/durge #babbling #edgelord hours

[braceletofteeth]

“Is this how you we are supposed to be living?”

(insp.)

#kinnporsche #vegaspete #vegas kornwit theerapanyakul #pete phongsakorn saengtham #gifset #* #dailyvegaspete #// #I considered many characters and ideas when I got the theme Restraint/Freedom out of my last poll #there was a lot that could be done focusing on self-restraint but I also wanted to work with physical restraint (e.g. handcuffs) #so naturally it got me thinking about the safehouse #but thinking about the safehouse I remembered that Vegas was also trapped in there with Pete #he was born in the prison that was his family and in addition to that his father had him in a chokehold #a grip that Pete relieved a bit when it was just the two of them #with him it wasn't as bad as before #so if he could decide on the matter certainly Vegas would have preferred to keep Pete #but the night the hedgehog died he didn't immediately put Pete back in chains once he got free #he might even have left the key for him to free himself on purpose #he gave Pete every chance to escape the house. to escape him. #to leave like everyone else and save himself from ending like that poor hedgie #dead on Vegas' arms (hands) while he cried helplessly. because that's what happens every time and he can't escape the cycle once it begins. #he keeps trying only to fail again and again. he can't escape himself. #but Pete could. Pete could have run away and never looked back. #and Vegas would have let him. he would have understood. #he would have done the same. he would have run away and escaped it all if he could. #he too ached to be free

[ridaine]

Like Father Like Daughter

#dnd #dungeons and dragons art #dnd art #dnd oc #drow #half elf #Freyja #evantide #Alrith #tfw to avenge your father's stolen freedom you sell your soul #and end up accidentally repeating what he did #The difference is Freyja wholeheartedly believes she's in control #Hence why I drew her grasping the barb as it spears her hand #and that she has the chains wrapped around her other arm #Basically she sold her soul to avenge the ones who hurt her father #which is the opposite of what he would have wanted #All he ever wanted was his daughter to grow up and live a normal peaceful life #but he's blissfully unaware she's following in his footsteps #She doesn't actually have any freedom but she's so convinced she does because she chose part of it #She chose to sell her soul and will keep selling parts of herself for power #it's getting a little nervewracking #worried about the things my own pc is gonna do

[vypridae]

headcanons for gogol in love?

ohhh he'd HATE being in love so much because he'd see love as a chain to the earth. he'd see love being a cage that isn't as easy to escape from as he wished it was, he would hate how much he'd need to be with whoever he's fallen for, how much he might start relying on them, he'd try to do anything he can to rid himself of that love but he wouldn't be able to and then he'd end up just accepting it.

once he accepts it he'd act like nothing is different. he'd try to keep himself from being too clingy (he would be so clingy to whoever he falls for lets be so so real rn), he might be a bit clingier but it'd seem relatively the same. he'd never want to confess, he's too against the commitment that would come with a relationship so he waits until they reciprocate, no matter how long it might take, but if whoever he likes does end up confessing, then i mean, who is he to deny them?

also im going with my silly hc that he loves cooking and he would LOVE to make food at random for who he's in love with, he'd make sure they take care of themselves and would surprise them with food or somethign to drink or something, make sure they take breaks (because he himself cant stand sitting in one place for that long so how in the hell can other people?)

he'd think about whoever he's fallen for constantly and he would definitely hate that, they occupy his thoughts so much he cant feel as free as he wishes he could anymore, and he hates that he loves that feeling.

#this only went a little angsty #im obsessed w the concept of nikolai not wanting to fall in love because its a chain keeping him from his freedom #sorry if this isnt what you wanted AHJASHFJASJKFDG im Not Good At Headcanons #sorry if none of this makes sense either i threw this together within like 15 minutes with markiplier playing tsp on in the background #xanbox #xanthinks #bsd #bungo sd #bungou sd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #nikolai gogol #gogol nikolai #bsd nikolai #nikolai bsd #bsd gogol #gogol bsd #fyolai #siglai #nikozai #nikolai x reader #idk this works with every nikolai ship or x reader tbh

[allyriadayne]

Alicent Hightower and Tyland Lannister, the last two members of the Greens left alive after the death of King Aegon II.

Rhaenyra Targaryen's son took the throne as Aegon III Targaryen in 131 AC. [...]. She once terrified her granddaughter by suggesting she slit Aegon's throat. Since Alicent refused to be reconciled, Ser Tyland Lannister, the Hand of the King, ordered her confined to Maegor's Holdfast.

Alicent remained in her chambers for the last year of her life. Her only company was her septa, serving girls, and guards. [...] She died in 133 AC, during the outbreak of the Winter Fever. (x)

In early 133 AC, when it was discovered that Winter Fever had broken out across the city and the realm, Tyland ordered the gates of the city and the Red Keep closed, to prevent the disease from spreading. But as the Winter Fever was nearing its end, Tyland himself fell ill. He died after only two days, in the presence of Septon Eustace and King Aegon III, who took his hand as Tyland took his last breath.

Tyland is not remembered fondly, partly due to his physical appearance after being tortured and partly due to his actions during the Dance of the Dragons. Some blacks hated him for having urged King Aegon II Targaryen to put Aegon the Younger to death and some greens hated him for serving Aegon III faithfully in the aftermath of the war. (x)

#alicent hightower #tyland lannister #house of the dragon #hotdedit #houseofthedragonedit #gameofthronesdaily #gotedit #alicenthightoweredit #hotdcentral #i'm filling the tyland tag if it is the last thing i do in fandom #this time with :) sneaky tylicent :) #alicent x tyland #tyland x alicent #the gifs kind of have a progression from alicent in freedom to alicent in chains/locked up; but tyland's are just where he's hand lol #if you think about it it's really fucked up how out of everyone who was obsessed with alicent it's tyland the only Normal Guy who actually #locks her in a tower and it's basically her jailer as hand of baby aegon #also just because; alicent is the only one who remembers how tyland was before the disfigurement :/ #he goes to her to pretend he is jason's twin again; she indulges him because she can also pretend she is queen and her children are alive #yes i'm delusional and so what :) #mariana does things #photoset #*hotd

[satoshi-mochida]

Some indie game recommendations from ones I’ve played or know enough about them to suggest them to others(mostly in no particular order), Part 5.

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9

Chained Echoes

Stray

A Short Hike

Unpacking

SUPERHOT

Dead Cells

House Flipper

Sifu

CrossCode

Advent Crossroad

Spooky’s Jumpscare Mansion

SEASON: A letter to the future

Coffee Talk

Heart Fragment

Donut County

World of Horror

Freedom Planet

OFF

Aragami

Cuphead

Evil Tonight

Vigil: The Longest Night

Find Love or Die Trying

Potionomics

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Rise of the Third Power

Dark Nights

False Skies

ASTLIBRA Revision

Rain World

Queen Beast(despite how it’s listed on Steam, it doesn’t seem to be that type of VN, according to it’s VNDB page’s contents)

LiEat

Noel the Mortal Fate

Katana Zero

Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

Mythic Ocean

Vengeful Heart

#Indie Games #long post #Chained Echoes #Stray Game #A Short Hike #Unpacking Game #Super Hot #Dead Cells #House Flipper #Sifu #CrossCode #Advent Crossroad #Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion #Season: A Letter to the Future #Coffee Talk #Heart Fragment #Donut County #WORLD OF HORROR #Freedom Planet #OFF Game #Aragami #Cuphead #Evil Tonight #Vigil: The Longest Night #Find Love or Die Trying #Potionomics #Alba: a Wildlife Adventure #Rise of the Third Power #Dark Nights #False Skies

[rukafais]

thinking about how kimmuriel is first introduced as this extremely vicious weirdo who barely emotes at all and generally does it to scare people and then he keeps laughing around jarlaxle and shit. jarlaxle rubs off on him and reveals another facet of him even as he irritates the shit out of him. its very important

#legend of drizzt #do u see my vision. stares into the distance #im still thikning about that bit in sellswords where kimmuriel is like yeah its fucked up isnt it now put your societal chains back on #there is no freedom.......only survival....