#firing blanks

[tomorrowusa]

British military intelligence reports that Russia is removing nuclear warheads from Soviet-era cruise missiles, substituting inert ballast for the warheads, and firing them at Ukraine. 

Essentially, Russia is so depleted in its weaponry that it’s firing blanks.

The unarmed missiles can still cause damage. Purists may not like this description, but a cruise missile is essentially a rather small jet with no crew. We saw what larger jets as weapons did on 9/11. Russia increasingly follows the terrorist playbook.

This peculiar use of cruise missiles is bizarre and shows how desperate Russia is getting.

One unintended effect of this is that it’s at least causing a marginal reduction in the number of Russia’s nuclear weapons.

Of course many Russian cruise missiles, armed or not, never quite make it to their intended targets.

#invasion of ukraine #russia #cruise missiles #depletion of weapons #nuclear warheads #firing blanks #uk defence intelligence #uk ministry of defence #крилаті ракети #крылатые ракеты #россия #россия - террористическая страна #владимир путин #путин хуйло #военные преступления #україна переможе #слава україні

[thebrainrotsreal]

A very, very diff take on Fright Knight for funsies! Made him a centaur 'cause I think it's pretty epic, actually.

#my art! #dp fanart #danny phantom #dp redesign #phanart #dp fright knight #danny phantom fanart #danny phantom fright knight #procreate #procreate art #character redesign #character design #fright knight #fanart #he is SMOKE AND FIRE AND VOID #face is blank void so hopefully add some intimation factor? cause ya never know what he's thinking + plus place for eye to rest #BEHOLD! an art tag for my art :]

[florencewellch]

Blank Space

American Music Awards (2014)

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #tscreators #dailymusicqueens #dailymusicians #userelena #uservalentina #usersar #usergabby #blank space #1989 #fire tw #**

[daenerysies]

“at least he FOUGHT in the war what did ur queen do hm sit on her ass and eat cake 🤓👆” buddy boy your king was turned into applebee’s barbecue in his very first battle and spent over a year high on the medieval equivalent of opioids only to be ambushed in his second battle and lose to a thirteen year old little girl on her equally baby dragon i wouldn’t be talking shit if i were you

#house of the dragon #fire and blood #rhaenyra targaryen #pro rhaenyra targaryen #team black #baela targaryen #baela the mf brave #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti aegon ii stans #anti team green #anti team green stans #he literally tore sunfyre to shreds all for the sake of his pride let’s be fr for one sec #rhaenyra knew her strength wasn’t in the battlefield #it’s even more embarrassing that he didn’t plan on fighting baela #he just wanted a victory tour for himself #despite his men being the one to secure dragonstone #dance’s biggest pussy don’t even #doomrotcyclicallosersadvictimmisunderstood i think you guys just like yapping 🤷‍♀️ #if i get one (☝️) ‘tag ur post properly!1!!’ i’m calling u a dumb bitch point blank

[whumblr]

Rise and shine

On how to get your Whumpee fully awake and ready for the day!

With a splash of (icy) water

Random acts of violence

Spooning :3 (arms tightening around them when they try to move)

Caretaker screaming

Gunshot :))

Tasing

Gradually choking

Delicious breakfast smells (that they aren't allowed to have)

Phone call (when they're not yet in captivity, they answer groggily and fly awake at the sound of a familiar voice)

Followed up another morning by: Kidnapping

Dragging them out of bed by the ankle, throat, hair, whatever

A slap

Gentle words, soft threats, promises about things that will happen to them today

Crack of the whip >:D

Or just don't. Let them sleep in and punish them for being late

#whump #whump prompt #whump scenario #implied captivity #captivity #abduction #angst #don't hesitate to add :D #sadistic whumper #my prompts #whump tropes #my writing #love the idea of a whumper just firing blanks and being all: breakfast's ready dear

[starrysnowdrop]

Lalapril 2024 🔥 Day 13: Blazing

Blazing Scarlet, fire within

Honor binds me unto errant kin

Yea, if here I find my end

Stay your tears, for we shall meet again

#lalapril #lalapril 2024 #day 13 blazing #ffxiv dancer #female lalafell #hali aloke #oc: drops of jupiter #i’ll be honest #I almost drew a blank on this one #because Hali is not at all a fire type #she’s literally the opposite #so I just decided to try and make her look cool in the DNC gear lol #not my best work but whatever

[some-pers0n]

WoF fans when the book for third graders that was said several times to be a fun little sidebook with a heavier emphasis on humour turns out to be a fun little sidebook with a heavier emphasis on humour (they are angry that it wasn't a 500 page encyclopedia with such dense worldbuilding that would make Tolkien cry)

#I LOVE THE GUIDE BOOK SO MUCH!!! #GrhhhHAHHH I wanna ramble about it in a seperate post but jajdirhdidb it's just really fun and nice #“But the worldbuilding is still lackluster” cope and seeth #Join me in the headcanon hellhole it's much more fun to fill in the blanks yourself #wings of fire #wof #wof memes #agttdw #a guide to the dragon world #sp-rambles

[fromtheseventhhell]

I don't think anyone who believes Arya is focused on revenge has ever actually read her chapters, it's just been one long game of telephone where people repeat a take they heard so they can pretend they know what they're talking about

#arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #and usually the evidence is that she's with the faceless men?? when it's been made clear she's with them because she has nowhere else to go #this isn't even subtext it's literally just what written plainly on the page but people still have trouble understanding it #Arya's focus has always been to return home and to her family and that hasn't changed + won't change in the future #if she truly wanted to hunt down the people on her list then why hasn't she ever thought about doing so?? #or thought that she wants/needs to stay with the faceless men so she can learn their skills to take revenge? #people act like we don't have direct access to the character's thoughts and try and fill in the blanks based on assumptions and vibes #I challenge anyone who thinks this to give me any actually evidence to prove that Arya is solely focused on revenge #need idiots who lowered the curve of their english classes to stop speaking on complex characters they can't seem to comprehend #like Arya isn't the one poisoning a disabled child cause she was told she'd benefit from it worry about that instead of speaking on her

[fireandslate]

Spring is on the way.

Looking to get into a new story to carry you into the new season? Maybe a longform dark fantasy web serial with magic swords, haunted forests, sexy demons, and the occasional splash of sapphic spirituality? One with over 325,000 words already online, and 3,000 more coming every weekend?

I write Blank Slate. It's about fire. Come check it out.

#blank slate #fire and slate #blank slate web serial #dark fantasy #writing #web serial #demon #mariead dawnsong #grannine #eris malarin #dermot slate #not aidan tho fuck that guy #druid #spirituality #philosophy #Raven Lake #Dawnsong #Valraven

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Always for Pleasure (Les Blank, 1978)  

#Always for Pleasure #Les Blank #quote #music #documentary #song #fire #1978 #new orleans #carnival

[yyuuraii]

mr callum cpk I Will Cry for real.

#cpk jumpscare #bros gonna show up on the server as the consequencer and dropkick the feds i think. in a very goofy and cartoonish way you can think of #WAIT I TAKE IT BACK. PIRATES SMP CPK WOULD BE FIRE AS FUCK #or just a completely new blank slate. i have IDEAS #qsmp #seapeekay #yyuu rambles

[copperbadge]

When I mentioned I was feeling a bit apathetic about my usual phone games and apps, therapist (I should give her a nickname of some kind) suggested rotating in a new puzzle or game for a dopamine hit, so I thought I might go back to "Diagramless" crosswords, which is where you do a normal crossword but without any of the dark spaces or numbers. I used to do the normal crossword but when you've been doing crosswords since the age of 15 they stop being very challenging after a while.

The problem is that because diagramless or skeleton crosswords are more difficult, they're not readily available, like I couldn't just go out and buy a book of them; there was one Chicago paper that would print them but they were cribbing the clues from the LA Times and anyway that only worked when I was stealing the paper from my workplace years ago.

My workaround was to create a 15-square grid in Excel, print that out, and do them by hand (more satisfying anyway) using clues from the LA Times crossword that I copy-pasted in. I stopped doing diagramless basically because just acquiring them was slightly more work than I wanted to be doing on a regular basis. (If anyone knows of a phone app that offers them, or a book of them I could buy, sing out.)

Anyway all was going well; above you can see the first two I did, and while I'm obviously rusty it's very satisfying to just do one, let alone complete them. I didn't bring very many with me while traveling but I was doing today's and something seemed...very off. It took me about four lines in and several headscratchers to realize that the puzzle clues were randomly and unusually for a 16 square crossword and I was trying to cram them into a 15 square grid.

Insert old joke here about "You aren't allowed to do crosswords anymore when you can do them entirely wrong" etc etc

Personally I blame Dan and Doug who designed it, and Patti who let it through, but on the other hand "Dan Doug and Patti" is a great name for a folk trio so I can't be too mad.

[ID: Several images of a printed 15-square grid filled out by hand with both crossword clue answers but also the squares and numbers that give the puzzle structure; the third image is only partially filled and clearly full of errors, and the last image is of the actual LA Times puzzle pattern, showing that there are 16 squares instead of 15. This never used to happen.]

#sam has adhd #crossword #crosswords #puzzles #god dammit LA times why don't you just offer an option to remove the numbers and blanks #daniel and doug I curse you to be unable to find good coffee for two days #patti i curse you to have bad coffee spilled on you at least once by dan or doug #not yet fired from therapy

[antianakin]

Some desperate Pro Jedi fans: Maybe the Acolyte WON'T be an anti Jedi dumpster fire that makes the Jedi out to be oppressive and elitist!

Leslye Headland: It's so hard being a Jedi critical Star Wars fan these days!

Leslye Headland: The Jedi in my show are going to be The Evil Institution, equivalent to the Empire or the First Order.

Leslye Headland: George Lucas intended for the story of the Prequels to be about how the Jedi caused their demise, but nobody seems to get that but me and Dave Filoni and Rian Johnson!

Me: lol. lmfao even.

#star wars #jedi #pro jedi #anti the acolyte #anti acolyte #acolyte critical #the acolyte critical #leslye headland critical #good luck with this one i guess #hope you're not TOO shocked when the show ends up an anti jedi dumpster fire that makes the jedi out to be oppressive and elitist #since - ya know - leslye has basically point blank stated that that's what the show is gonna be because that's how she interprets star wars #but sure #keep telling yourself her show won't somehow turn out to be exactly what she says it's gonna be

[dykedvonte]

Yes-Man resents a lot of things but I feel like he kinda liked Benny. It’s never implied Benny had the knowledge to continuously upgrade or update him after Emily so I like to think Yes-Man respected Benny enough to adopt some of his opinions willingly.

Like personality wise, Yes-Man is like if Benny was forced to be a kiss ass; he’s equally pointed and jerky even if unendingly helpful. No matter if you spare the Great Khans, Yes-Man dislikes them and is kinda violent about things. What this says about Benny and the way he talked about things behind the scenes is one thing but the other is Yes-Man ingrained it enough to keep it.

I can imagine Benny mentioning Vegas was for them and while Yes-Man is logical, as any machine would be, I think it’s sweet if the personable part of his programming was looking forward to running Vegas with his “creator”.

#Benny would be a bad dad but not a bad whatever he is to yes man #cause like Benny was like You’re it pal the key to a better swankier Vegas >:) and if I was yesman I’d be like yep #Benny is my dad and I can’t wait to shoot a khan and Mr house for our future #next post probably about the WGS cause god I love them for some reason #fallout #fallout new vegas #yes man #yes man fnv #benny gecko #benny fnv #also can we talk I about how violent the chairmen were when roaming the Mojave???? #like Benny is just like I stabbed a dude in the next is willing to shoot you point blank and swank mentions how they scalped people #which is a horrifying experience and not inherently lethal and they did that for fun like???? #and they are the less unhinged of the families as the WGS were eating people and seem to see it as an embarrassing past experience #and the Omertas being violent pimps who are planning to like violently overtake Vegas in a way that makes you want to root for Benny #like I know the only other options were the fiends and khans but lord house no wonder you can’t trust them with heavy fire power to guard #the streets like look at these track records #to think I thought Yes Man was gonna be my fav #maybe he will be I have not gotten far into end game quests I’m on a dlc run #fuck honest hearts and Dean domino

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Hey guys why is the fire emblem heroes subreddit trying to gaslight everyone into thinking Robin is a blank slate with no individual properties outside of Chrom and that no one associates Robin with Levin sword except Smash Fans

#both of these ideas…… are Incorrect #just because you can design Robin…… doesn’t mean they’re a blank slate…. #they have 10 million lines of dialogue and act without player input #feh #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #fe heroes

[fiercerainbowhusky]

Free to Use blank dragon base, you may edit this just don't remove my signature/watermark please.

#f2u base #wings of fire base #blank base