#during WORLD WAR TWO

[quillsink]

Struggling to stay alive another day was a form of resistance. Escaping from the ghetto or hiding in a bunker was resistance. Resistance was giving birth to a child in the ghetto, sharing food with others, praying in a congregation, singing in a chorus, studying the Bible, planting flowers in the ghetto, keeping a diary under the shadow of death.

— Chaim Lazar, a young resistance fighter discussing the hope and resistance of Jewish people forced into ghettos in Poland with terrible conditions under the Nazi regime during WW2

#this. god #this quote always fucking sears itself into my brain #so many of us #are filled with despair. completely hopeless #and we look back. to the not even so distant past! #this was the 1940s not even a century ago #and in some of the most terrible times. in sone of the most terrible conditions #in some of the most hopeless times possible #humans found HOPE #in the fucking NAZI REGIME #during WORLD WAR TWO #people found hope. #god. i hope i can find some too. i hope we all can #i hope this person survived the war #i hope they had a good life after this #aryan talks #w #on hope

[sesamenom]

Quick hand sketch that turned into elrond with athelas water

I always forget to draw him with it but I headcanon him having pretty bad burn scars on his right arm/side from the kinslaying

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #elrond #also hc that elros burned his left hand pulling elrond out of the fires #which is why elrond became a healer in the first place #even up to the third age he still has to rinse it w athelas water once in a while #bc maedhros' fire-fea may or may not have been making the fire a lot worse than it would have been naturally #hes not /actively/ influencing the fire but him just being there is not exactly helping the situation #elrond only really heals Shadow-wounds by the late TA #bc they have other healers for smaller stuff that dont necessarily need the attention of a part-maiarin legendary healer #and in the war of the ring theres enough people that he needs to focus on tending to the most grievously wounded #kind of like those super specialized surgeons #but hes actually better w burns #the first thing he healed was elros' burnt hand (with some help from maglors song he regained almost full use of it) #later he helped soothe maglor's silmaril burns #but during the war hes needed the most for treating the Shadow because hes like one of two people in the world who can properly use athelas #aragorn taking frodo to rivendell was basically like those cases when a patient gets helicoptered to a specific hospital #to see a specific surgeon about a really rare/difficult/dangerous procedure

[lafoget]

ok ok the more i think about what kind of grand finale to gotham war would suit me, the more i want prodigal son 2.0. bruce goes off to heal his mind BC HE REALLY NEEDS A VACATION maybe with selina while tim and damian become batman & robin duo and eiko stays in town as catwoman

#can you imagine a world where we're allowed to explore new dynamics for these two YEAH I CAN'T TOO *SIGH* #the last time they had a unique interaction that gave some development to their relationship before the fucking reboot! #all they have is routine insults during the another crisis #(oh well also tim crying when damian was dead🙄) #tim could finally establish himself as an adult inside the universe and for the reader #get a positive batman experience and a chance to step back from robin position and understand what he wants in the future #damian could see a different perspective on who robin is and let's be honest create a bond with another member of batfam #who isn't bruce DEAD ALFRED or dick #like during robin war for hot second dc tried to make duke&damian team something special but then they just gave up on it #it's been what 15 years since he became robin and he's still kind of on the periphery of batfam not really interacting with the others #damian wayne #tim drake #gotham war #batfam

[theoppositeofprofound]

Angband isn’t about personal torment and hands in guts, in my opinion. It’s about the exquisite impersonal bureaucracy! It’s about the grinding psychological terror, about knowing your enemy has time and power and the wisdom of ages on their side. This isn’t Sauron’s special torture times (as fun as that can be), it’s getting strapped to a rock for a decade and forgotten about for years in between. It’s mind-shattering servitude, thousands toiling beneath the earth, dying, being interred, in a lightless dark that drives elves mad. Curses! Writhing beasts! Fellow prisoners who are more than they appear! Less Saw trap and more full CIA blacksite; sensory deprivation, traitors in your midst, constant lies, the weird clinical coldness of an army dedicated to breaking people down and remaking the pieces.

#the silmarillion #Maedhros doesn’t get funky dungeon times he gets chained to a rock #Húrin does get some personal attention but he also gets chained to a rock and brain blasted #it’s a lot of ‘stay here and experience the horrors’ #Tolkien lived through and wrote during #two world wars and the Cold War #he was born in South Africa at the tail end of the boer wars #you know the situation that invented the term concentration camp #I think we can channel human horrors a bit more grand in scale than singular torture technician or lust fueled sadism #the man lived in times of terror! #and it was terror enacted by great dispersed forces and empires #Maeglin wasn’t in Morgoth’s guest room he was in gitmo and sadly he has psychological weak points

[grimbleshmubulous]

yay thats great ur able to tell the bad guy is bad and shouldn’t be emulated and like pick up on symbolism or whatever but have u tried analyzing media within the context of the real world. like how the time and place it was written in or the person who wrote it may have affected the views espoused in the book. how may have the author’s real-world biases affected the work. What facets of their views and personality can be seen through the writing and characters.

#text post #this is based off of me seeing somebody say the fucking. cats from lady and the tramp were not racist stereotypes. #because why would the movie released only 10 years after world war two during a time #of anti-japanese sentiment have racist caracatures of asian people. #slash sarcastic

[mossywizard]

Hey hey shadows who might take me maliciously. I don’t know a lot about the houthis. I know them for stopping the cargo ships going to Israel. I don’t like violence so anyone who’s trying to stop this attempt at genocide is gunna get a thumbs up from me. It’s not a stamp for everything they do or have done.

The more important factor. Is that my government would rather bomb those who are trying to stop a genocide, then to cease giving weapons to the slaughter. If you’re really scared of Hamas, you wouldn’t have funded them in the past and ignore the other Palestinian groups trying to speak for their rights.

#and my gov ain’t doing this cuz they care about Jewish people #it’s to have a military hold over the Middle East and it’s oil #if we cared about Jewish people we would have let more in during World War Two but we didn’t we rejected many who tired #and we still have families in cages at the boarder #we are not hero’s

[stone-cold-groove]

The ABC of saving gas.

#vintage illustration #vintage advertising #life during wartime #wartime advertising #gas rationing #wwii #ww2 #texaco #gasoline rationing #havoline #motor oil #world war two #gas rationing stickers #a cards

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?) #Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it. #obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!” #is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying. #Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..) #ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians) #Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties? #why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism') #after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

[fruggin-bitch]

Cassiopeia by Sara Bareilles is such a good representation of calypso in my brain

Anchored home in her interstellar sea

calypso, stuck on ogygia with no contact with the outside world, no real way to know about anything happening, nobody to talk to other than the occasional god visiting her and a random hero that gets thrown at her by the fates.

Then: a spark from a star shooting too close They both smiled; what a day to explode!

leo, arriving and spending nearly a month (ogygia time) together getting t know each other and falling for each other because they actually know each other, not becuase of a curse (that had already been broken by this time lol)

Come on, come on, collide Let's see what a fire feels like I bet it's just like heaven"

calypso, finally getting to feel for someone who loves her back. someone who died to keep a promise to her and break her free from her island.

#queue #not saying i love caleo #but it didnt come out of nowhere #in my opinion at least #those chapters took place over several weeks of them stuck together as the only two people on a small island #once they worked together they were friends and didnt even realise they has started to fall until he had to leave #yes theres the difference of calypsos age but this isnt about that #then once leo left he was pining after her and became attatched #she clearly was too once he rescued her #then #once they got to the real world in TOA they started to realise the differences between them but stayed together #for the same reason piper and jasons stayed together for so long #they needed someone to hold onto during their war #then they take a step back and reevaluate once everythings settled #calypso is rediscovering what it is to be a person whos not by herself all the time and she can find out who she is #leos finding himself after the horrors of everythign hes been through #its definitely not a healthy relationship but i can understand why rick wrote it #calypso pjo #leo valdez #heroes of olympus #caleo

[armagnac-army]

What are your opinions of both of you about the frioul guy?

EH DUROCS A DECENT GUY HES NOT ANNOYING OR STUPID AND HE MAKES SURE LEMPEROUR EATS AND SHTIS ON TIME

He is competent, unlike many around us. Before you interject, Marshal Lannes, you are also included in that count of competency.

I WASNT GOING TO SAY ANYTHIGN!!!!

Good.

DUROC ALSO APPEARED FROM A SHEEP I KISSED THE OTHER DAY SO CLEARLY MY KISS HAS MAGIC POWERS

And yet nothing has happened since. If your mouth did possess unearthly powers, you would think something would occur more than once. Not that I believe your crazed rantings on what actually occurred.

DO YOU WANT TO BE A TEST SUBJHECT SOULT

Absolutely not.

#(( finding contradictory information on whether french greeting kisses were reintroduced during the revolution or after the world wars )) #(( apparently lannes and soult are both from Two Kisses Zone )) #dispatches from the marshal #letters intercepted for the marshal's eyes #anonymous #guest starring the duke of dalmatia

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"A l'Ecole française d'été de McGill," La Presse. August 11, 1943. Page 3. --- Cet instantané a été pris pendant la collation des grades de l'Ecole française d'été de l'Université McGill, ce matin, au Royal Victoria College, rue Sherbrooke ouest. On voit M. LOUIS ALLARD, professeur émérite à l'Université Harvard, au moment où il remettait la Médaille d'argent du lieutenant-gouverneur à Mme Dora Helen Smyth, de Belleville, Ont., qui a conservé la plus haute note dans la section supérieure du cours de français. Dans le groupe des professeurs présents, on remarque, de gauche à droite: Mile YVONNE JUGE, Mile EDITH GARTLAND, M. LOUIS ALLARD, président d'honneur de la collation des grades; M. J. HOUPERT, M. J. DARBELNET, directeur de l'Ecole française d'été et du département français de l'Université McGill; Mme TOUREN-FURNESS et Me MADELEINE BODIER. (Cliché la "Presse".)

#montreal #mcgill university #royal victoria college #french school #french language instruction #two solitudes #elite canadians #anglo canadians #french canadians #canada during world war 2

[neversith]

anakin would be so happy to hear ahsoka is using the recordings he made for her!!!!!

#& you underestimate my power ( ooc ) #ahsoka spoilers #though since my mans is alive during ahsoka timeline in my canon #he could just.....train her :) she can just simply ASK #just saying :) #i am still figuring out their world between worlds thing for my canon but for that? THAT'S SIMPLE #he's just in retirement i think #he fought two different wars back to back he needs a break #he will help ahsoka and he will fight thrawn #speaking of thrawn........i have thoughts on Him as well

[carewyncromwell]

[Marvel AU] Jacob Cromwell/Duncan Ashe Moodboard

featuring Jacob as Steve Rogers “Captain America”  and Duncan as Bucky Barnes “the Winter Soldier”

“...Jacob...?”

“You know me now? Or do you?”

“...Your mother’s name was Lane. Your sister was Carewyn. You called her ‘Pip.’ ...You never shut up about her -- how much you missed her, how much you’d make her proud. You wrote her a letter every morning at eight, no matter where you were on the front -- even in a pitch-black tank with nothing but my lighter to help you see. ...You...loved her more than anyone...”

“Nice facts. Did you collect those from hacking security cameras, or interrogating other targets?”

“Oh, for fu -- Jacob, it’s me! I know the Soldier’s a good actor, and I’m pretty damn sure I know what S.H.I.E.L.D.’s told you about me. Master of disguise -- able to blend in like a chameleon, fluent in seven languages -- the ultimate assassin? ...That was me, but -- it wasn’t. It wasn’t really me. But right now, I...right now, this is me, Jacob. ...Look in my eyes. You know it’s me.”

“...If it is really you...then tell me why you saved me, from the river.”

“Wha -- oh, come on! I -- you know why! You have to know why. How could you not, when you let me just keep hitting you, over and over again -- when you must’ve known I wouldn’t actually be able to go through with it -- ?”

“I didn’t know that. You’re a genetically-enhanced assassin, Ashe -- I knew full well you could kill me, if you tried. ...I just knew I wouldn’t be able to hurt you. No matter what you’ve done, no matter what orders I was given -- no matter what you might do to me...I would never be able to hurt you, Ashe.”

“Jacob...”

“Ashe...I lost you once. I’m not going to lose you again.”

“...Jacob... ...You goddamn idiot...it’s all the same, for me.”

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #marvel #jacob cromwell #duncan ashe #I couldn't resist okay I love these two so much #both jacashe and stucky XDD #I see winter soldier!ashe being a lot more like a secret agent under his missions #able to disguise himself perfectly and infiltrate facilities to get at targets #and also rocking kick-ass fashion sense because honestly ashe is always more fashionable than jacob #but yes yay for closeted gay/bi ww2 soldiers #I see duncan having been a less willing recruit than jacob so jacob was all the more motivated to join the army after his bud joined #not only did he want to help people and make his family proud but now his first friend in the world is having to go off and fight alone!! #jacob was originally not picked for the army because I see him his mum and sister all being kind of small and weak #but jacob's brain and heart got him his chance with the SSR #dr. eskine *definitely* heard jacob talk about his precious little sister more than once and was very charmed #carewyn -- just a child during the War -- would've ultimately joined the SSR and become that universe's version of peggy #all in her brother's memory <3

[romulanslutempire]

When years later in my large-scale Star Trek: Strange New Worlds AU Ambassador Spock and Praetor Sera unify Vulcan and Romulus after forging a new lasting alliance and peace with Admiral La’an of the rebuilt United Federation of Planets, I will know peace.

#* #[ wipes away tears ] #they’ve come so far #star trek: au new worlds #i need a better title for this ‘verse — i have a couple of WIPS but until i choose one i’m just gonna keep tagging like this for ease #sera’s arc as a true daughter of romulus to a stain of disgrace on the empire to restoring her some of her honor with a short lived military #career during the federation-romulan war to being one of the last of her kind to working as a freelance agent from the seedy criminal #underbelly of m’talas prime to striking a deal with la’an for her shot at khan to actually becoming a valued member of the puget sound ii #to earning her redemption to being an integral part of the resistance and alien underground to defeating khan alongside her crew to #eventually being chosen to lead the romulan star empire renamed the romulan republic to entering unification talks with spock to being a #historical figure who helped reunite their two peoples and end the animosity with the federation is my favourite thing ever #star trek au #verse: destroyer of worlds

[mechanicaldivine]

have i ever mentioned my WWI light fantasy characters on here or is my Great War special interest a thing i need to subject all my followers to for the first time

#my ocs #ww1 oc #i have three historical fiction comics #one takes place in the 1920s #the second in the 1930s #and this one during world war one #and they all feature a mix of regular humans as well as humans with more animalistic features #like these two #because even though they’re historical fiction #i wanted to have some fun with a light fantasy class system and a few supernatural elements #also yes the one on the left is a ghost #his name is cormac and i love him very much

[breitzbachbea]

!!!

Oh boy, OC show and tell! My favourite thing!

Send me a !! and I'll introduce you to an OC of mine

I'd like to talk about Massoud Yusufi!

(Credit to @c0ffinated for the picture and all the following ones I will use. Massoud is on the right).

One of Roderich's right hands, together with Alois Huber (the blondie on the left).

Arrived in Austria as an Afghan refugee and was noticed by Roderich when he tried to get a job under the radar.

He bought a binder with the first money Roderich gave him and got a tattoo a week after. It's a loading bar in his neck that correlate to his transition milestones. (Binder: 25%, going on t: 50%, top surgery: 75%, bottom surgery: 100%).

He's a nerd for machines, both when it comes to software and hardware. He likes to teach himself about hacking as much as he tries to design mechanical contraptions. Sadly, he's a bit too overzealous and often tries to run before he walks, which has ended especially badly when Alois is reckless enough to let him design prosthetic leg prototypes.

He's 24 and speaks three lamguages: Pashto, English and German.

He's grayace, which makes his dating life as an awkward nerd who's trying so desperately to be always cool even harder. Massoud would love a cute and sweet partner, but he doesn't know how to flirt and no one else is of use. (No, not you either, Hugo. Hugo is my friend Jonah's OC aka c0ffinated.)

I'm pretty sure by now he is somewhere on the spectrum, because he often has trouble grasping relationships and the social norms around working together.

He broke his nose on his way from Afghanistan to Austria.

His glasses are purely aesthetic. He thinks they make him look better.

Caught in his own toxic masculinity. Always wants everything to go to plan and appear as cool and calm. Hates crying, because it's 'girly', but often does when he has an angry outburst. Got a lot to unlearn on what he's 'allowed' to do as a man and what not.

Team Austria actually has a very interesting combination when it comes to types of stubbornness, because you can have three duos: - Alois and Massoud with their toxic masculinity, each in their own way, while Roderich is very confident in his own while he bakes cake and dresses like a gay time traveler. - Massoud and Roderich with their pride and expectancy that the world works a certain way and that their good behaviour gets rewarded, while Alois is pragmatical about how the world works and doesn't give a shit if he has to get himself dirty to get the job done. - Alois and Roderich are both easily provoked/love to hold grudges, whereas Massoud doesn't really care for all the hereditary hate and pettiness.

Wipes the floor with his friends whenever he plays video games with them, but couldn't take his loss in Mario Kart against Omar, so much that he sabotaged his switch. It turned into somewhat of an international incident.

He has a lot of smart tech in his flat, DESPITE being aware of its flaws. I assume he got it all very early on in living on his own and didn't care enough for the downsides to turn down a cool gadget. He'll probably replace it with a system of his own creation as time goes on.

#beareplies #ilich #jonah got back onto tumblr and I got so excited I can tag him now properly whenever I post his drawings of my OCs #anyways. I love Massoud so damn much I love this nerd who's stumbling through the world with two other idiots. #I love his friendship with Alois I love his friendship with Roddy I love how absolutely BAFFLED he is by Hugois ... #he is like a baby duck tripping over his own feet. he isn't stupid and he isn't per se childish but he has so much to learn #storie nostre #massoud #alois #hugo #roddy #omar #also I would like to state that the mario kart race happened during a big international meet up and while the austrians and the greeks have #an okay relationship it turned into a proxy war between the austrians and the turks mostly expressed by Dilan cheering on her boyfriend #and alois cheering on his best friend and both of them being extremely vitriolic about it.