#tw ww2

[7-crows-in-a-trench-coat]

you ever just think about how luz and co. saved the world in their halloween costumes? like. she stopped belos while dressed as azura. image telling people that you killed wizard hitler in adora cosplay

#the owl house spoilers #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #adora #she ra #luz #luz noceda #luz toh #watching and dreaming #toh finale #toh season 3 #toh belos #belos #tw ww2

[sharenadraculea]

So, I‘m thinking about Azula, Mai and Ty Lee (but mostly Azula) and how they are treated by both canon and the fandom as one does and remembered a scene I once saw in a ww2-documentary as one does. So if you would allow me to go on a tangent:

One of the last surviving recordings of Hitler is him handing out medals to child soldiers in Berlin. And it‘s these tiny children -Hitler has to bend down to be on eye level with some of them-, maybe twelve or fourteen year old, in uniforms that are too big, in a ruined city, pretending that they are adults and trying to be proud about getting these medals. A child that was twleve or fourteen in 1945 would have literally no memories from before the Nazis took over. They would have had no real chance to get away from the brainwashing. They spent the last five years living through a global war and their country was clearly loosing when they got those medals. The red army were nearly at Berlin or allready there -I can‘t remember when the recording was done exactly- and there weren‘t enough adults to throw at the enemy, so little kids were forced to fight a fight they could not win.

And in my opinion this is much more how especially Azula should have been portrayed: a brainwashed child with no knowledge of how the world was before the fire nation was before they started commiting genocides, forced to fight in a global war by a horrible dictator and told that this is good and that she is good for doing the fighting. Not a complete monster that was born evil and should just be killed.

She is a fucking child for heavens sake!

#atla #avatar the last airbender #princess azula #azula #rambeling #tw ww2

[thranduilland]

Expanding on the idea of 'Hob as Curiosity of the Endless' that I had the other week.

Hob as Curiosity of the Endless, but he had his own run in YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS ago with an amateur magician who was also a fanatic puritan trying to trap Desire (in an attempt to destroy them) but got Curiosity, instead. The spell went super wrong and that facet of Curiosity ended up 'dying' and being reborn in Hob, who was supposed to become the new Curiosity on the night 7 July 1389 when he was supposed to have a near-death-experience that severed the last of the spellwork on him to wake him up to his new existence.

Instead, he had a near-Death-experience of a different sort and became 'immortal' instead. Destiny is still sulking about it but no one has visited him long enough to ask why since it happened so... Without that eye-opening, life-changing push to break the spellwork, the potential for Curiosity remained slumbering inside of Hob, though it started to wake with every year that went by. He still needed something BIG to shatter the last of the spellwork, but nothing that happened was really big ENOUGH, so he continued on with an unexplained, insatiable desire for the next new thing, good or bad or middling. If there was something to be created, he wanted to know about it and he wanted to see it!

1916 rolls around and Hob is starting to struggle. World War 1 has changed the face of warfare so greatly that even he's not sure he'll know himself when it ends. He's pushing on, working through it, just getting things done... then June 10 1916 rolls around and Hob wakes up from an odd dream about a cult, his stranger, and magic to find that he feels... different. The last of the spellwork has fallen away, but Curiosity is sluggish to assert himself, to bring his memories to bear, so Hob moves on with his life as he always has. The odd dream forgotten to the sound of early morning gunfire and men dying horrible deaths...

Unknown to Hob, with Dream locked away, humankind has forgotten how to dream and Curiosity is picking up the slack. But where Dreams and Nightmares might once have helped influence how a person might go about their curiosity in the Waking world, now only the burning question of 'what if-?' remains. The more the Dreaming decays, the stronger Curiosity grows, and humans suddenly make leaps and bounds they never dared to make before. The curiosity had always been there the question of 'what if-?' but before dreams and nightmares tempered the enthusiasm for the projects and they often ended up invented or coming about in ways different than initially intended.

Tangled in with all of this, of course, is the fact that Destruction is also absent. No one to rein everyone in when the scale of atrocity rose too high. Curiosity was there pushing and pulling and trying to wake themselves up, trying to find themselves in this world that they know but that is unfamiliar to them all the same. What if-? What if-? What if-? Desire nudging and cajoling people along to the answers, pushing and prodding until we ended up with Nuclear Weapons, holocaust, inhumane experimentation on a scale that beggars belief. Untampered greed and unsatiable curiosity. Humans pushing, humans pressing, humans asking 'what if-? What if-? What if-?' and never stopping long enough to consider the consequences, never stopping to consider the 'shoulds', the 'could's, the 'whys', only the 'what if-?' but never what comes next.

Curiosity finally stirring enough within Hob to take note of things. Of Destruction and Dream's absence and the impact they themselves are having on everything. To finally start to merge their thoughts in with Hob's, slowly, so Hob won't suddenly lose his damn mind, but quickly enough that Hob might start to rein things in... just a little, just enough for everything to not be so horribly unbalanced. Just enough that maybe people will ask 'what if-?' and wait a moment to think through the consequences before leaping to an answer. Just enough that people might consider ethics and morality before leaping whole-heartedly into anything... enough that Curiosity's struggling and overworked siblings, Convalescence and Contemplation, might finally be able to bring some measure of order back to things...

The process is still going when 2021 rolls around and Dream finds Hob sitting at the New Inn grading papers. Dream doesn't notice the Endless being lurking in the back of Hob's mind, peering at him through Hob's eyes. And Hob doesn't notice there's anything amiss, either... until a few months have gone by and the last of Curiosity finally settles within Hob, they finally become one and the same... Hob suddenly understands why he's immortal and why he's never been able to stop asking 'why?!' and 'what if-?' and why life never got boring or too hard, even when he was at his worst...

The next time Dream meets with Hob, he almost doesn't notice anything is wrong, almost. But there's just... something not right about Hob but he can't quite put his finger on what it might be... but when he asks, Hob just smiles at him like the cat that got the cream and doesn't answer, instead launches into a story about the latest inventions... but Dream just can't shake that something has changed, he doesn't know what, but he's determined to find out...

#Curiosity of the Endless #Dream of the endless #the Sandman #tw WW2 #and all that entails #Dreamling #Hob Gadling #to fic later

[sims-half-crazy]

The sound of Lena's frustration could be heard throughout the apartment. The newspaper had been violently discarded and now rested on the floor. Gordon found Lena gesticulating at some argument she was having internally. "What's wrong?"

Lena turned toward him and she erupted in a semi-coherent stream of anger and fear about the goings on in Poland. Gordon tried to reason with her. "You've been in contact with your family recently, haven't you? Maybe they got out?"

"I don't know! I hope they did, but I don't know!" Lena cried and balled up her fists. Emotion taking over and leaving her with ought to do but cry and rail at the injustices of the world. When words failed him, Gordon did the only thing that always seemed to work - he gave his wife a hug and let her cry all over his shoulder. When she'd calmed down, he picked up the discarded paper and read what had upset her so.

#Gosnoll ancestry #ts4 decades challenge #sims4 #sims 4 #sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 historical #ts4 historical #decades challenge #simerican #GA Gen 4 #Gordon Gosnoll #Lena Lewandowski #GA 1930s #tw war #tw ww2

[chaberkowepole]

Isn't it funny how both Eastern European and Ashkenazi Jewish people, whenever they speak about their oppression get to hear "but you're white" and "the time when your ethnicity was racialised and considered subhuman to the point you were put in death camps was forever ago so it doesn't really matter now stop bringing it up"

Said by western/goyim progressives, like now after the Kanye West talk show appearance to Jewish people specifically when they express their worry

Just say you don't care about us and go, stop hiding behind faux racial progressivism you're not fooling anyone

#Antisemitism #Tw shoa mention #Tw Holocaust #Tw ww2 #eastern europe #tw kanye west

[shut-up-rabert]

We all speak about the bad things that Nazis did and even the shit that went down in communist Russia to some extent but ig the hell that was Japanese Imperial Army gets a pass.

#tw ww2 #world war two #imperial japanese army #nanking #nanjing #Its the same as talking about war torn middle east because US or the terror that it exports to others but NEVER about the Yehzidi community

[sourxcinnamon]

Motylki aktywne na marzec reblogujcie! Chcę wiedzieć kogo obserwować! 🦋🩷

#ana tricks #anatumblr #ana meal #ana bllog #ana rant #ana trigger #tw #tw restrictive ed #tw disordered eating #tw ed diet #tw ana diary #tw weight #tw weighloss #tw ww2 #tw weed #tw wl #motylki any #bede motylkiem #będę motylkiem #jestem motylkiem #motylki blog

[fivefeetfangirl]

91w has me stalking my high school history teacher so I can ask him about a very specific ww2 documentary he showed us

#he was very stalkable lmao found his number immediately so im considering sending a text but its also so embarrassing hdkjskfh #the only thing i remember from the documentary was that hitler spied on stalin to check if he was a jew so they took pictures of stalins #ears cause apparently if your lobe is connected to the side of your face youre a jew according to the nazis #91w #tw ww2

[zoobiefish]

Let’s have a little chitchat, shall we? To everyone saying “My Child Lebensborn” is Nazi propaganda….. BRUH, HAVE YOU PLAYED THE GAME???

The children you raise in the game, Klaus and Karin, are unaware of how they came to be; how they were born from a Nazi program and fathered by Nazi soldiers. They haven’t a single fucking *clue* what a Nazi even is until the game prompts you to explain it to them—and the way you explain it to them portrays Nazis in a very negative light (as it should). Klaus/Karin is *devastated* when (s)he finds out about this. It’s just another layer to their trauma and horrible self image.

The purpose of the game and main message of it is that the impacts of Nazism affected innocents on both sides; both the children of Nazis and those the Nazis were hurting. The lebensborn children never asked to be born. They never asked to be brought into existence the way they were. And they certainly do NOT take pride in their heritage. They are innocents that sadly had to endure the punishments for their parents sins. The game overall is about hatred, and that even when hatred feels justified, it causes more harm than good to people who don’t deserve it. Yes, absolutely and undeniably the Nazis were evil and repugnant beyond measure. But by dumping the hatred on the innocent children who were unwillingly brought into the world by them, you only continue the cycle of hate and trauma that the Nazis put in place to begin with. That’s the message the game is trying to convey: That hatred is a vicious cycle of pain, destruction and trauma.

I never took away anything from this game that was like “Fuck yeah! Fascism!,” quite the opposite actually: What I took away from the game is that just as everyone is capable of hate and cruelty, so too are we all capable of empathy and kindness. Before you call this game fascist propaganda, I suggest you actually play it. It may just surprise you.

Also, if anyone lays a hand on my precious baby Klaus, you’re gonna lose your breathing privileges.

#tw trauma #tw fascism #tw abuse #tw nazi #tw nazism #tw antisemitism #tw lebensborn #tw ww2 #tw general #my child lebensborn #videogames #indie games #lebensborn #my child: lebensborn #mcl klaus #mcl karin #klaus #karin

[krakenshaped]

always fell free to talk for hours abt godzilla 1954 and its impact on film making history!!!!!!

PLEASE I COULD TALK ABOUT THE GODZILLA FRANCHISE FOREVERRRR

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR DISCUSSIONS ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE NUCLEAR BOMBING OF NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA AND BRIEF MENTIONS OF IMPERIALISM

I haven't watched every film yet but Godzilla 1954 is a classic and a cultural cornerstone in filmmaking history both in its use of special effects and its commentary on the threat of nuclear power.

Now talking about Japan in the war is tricky, as they have both done and been a victim of heinous acts. Their war crimes are absolutely abundantly endless and the things they did as an axis power goes beyond horrendous, including the treatment of POWs, women in their colonies, their association with the nazi party and involvement in their horrid experiments. Its important when talking about Japan as a nation during WW2 and the events after it it to not forget about how horrid the acts of the Japanese military were during this era despite the tragedy.

To say that the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a painstaking blow is an absolute understatement. More than 70,000 innocent people died and it has left an unhealing scar on the nation. In a way, Godzilla 1954 was created not only as a reclamation of tragedy, but also as a symbolic representation of the nuclear strikes and a warning against nuclear war personified through this unstoppable, destructive, inescapable beast that ultimately was triggered by man to begin with. The symbol of a giant lizard awakened because of weapon testing only to near enough be a downfall to the entire island is a warning to the consequences of nuclear weapons, and how if a country attempts to use such a violent force to assert their dominance, they can only expect to be met with their own demise when that uncontrollable power eventually turns on them. You could even argue that there are parallels in the movie between the Japanese testing military weapons only to provoke a sleeping beast who otherwise had no involvement (causing the creature to wake and begin its rampage) to Nagasaki and Hiroshima being a very cruel retaliation to Pearl Harbour. Either way, it pushes it's anti-war narrative very clearly though the insistance that if the military were not engaging in war and testing these weapons none of this would have happened - perhaps a hindsight perspective on Japan's imperialism and how greed, corruption and a hunger for power can cost an entire country.

Some of the most iconic shots from this movie are Godzilla seemingly emerging from nowhere, crawling into Tokyo and instantly wrecking havoc. The military attempts to fight back, but nothing can stop this unfathomable tyrant. He destroys countless building, breathing forth beams of pure energy that melts and sets ablaze anything it touches.

In short, this creature is terrifying. So terrifying that the only way to kill it is with an even bigger superweapon - a device that cuts off oxygen. A device to frightening that it was hidden because the man who invented was afraid of how it would be used in warfare and the threat of mass production of it. The harsh lessons learned from the second war and the plea for a warless future is stitched into every small detail of this movie, and in the end this film becomes a piece that, through its impact on pop culture, is a constant yet iconic reminder of the dangers of nuclear weapons and of warfare in general. All while staying lighthearted enough to be enjoyed at surface level as just a movie about fire breathing dinosaurs eating buildings.

But moving away from the writing of the movie and onto cultural impact, Godzilla 1954 is one of the very first Kaiju movies, starting the Kaiju boom and influencing other kaiju franchises and shooting the genre to popularity, inspiring both Eastern and Western cult classics. Similarly Godzilla made a major impact in special effects and I just LOVE the scene work in Godzilla. The fact that the set team had made literal miniature sculptures of Tokyo and put a guy in the suit to stomp around the models and destroy it.

Which is like. The best thing ever.

The use of camera work and the set pieces not to mention the genius acting of every actor involved (especially the man who played godzilla and his convincing performance which made me think Godzilla was some kind of puppet for the longest time) make a movie that has aged really well for the era. The technique above in question is called suitmation and it was pioneered by the Godzilla team and is pretty much the godfather of modern cgi. When I put myself in the shoes of someone watching the movie for the first time on release in theatres, I can imagine how scary it would have been at the time. My Nana watched it when she was young and SHE remembers how much it frightened her. The amazing performance along with the genius direction makes it overall an incredibly fun movie. EVERYONE should watch Godzilla 1954 at least once. Not to mention. The sound work? The soundtrack? The main theme being so urgent, iconic and instantly recognisable, like a siren that's something coming, the roaring and the sound sourced from bombs as mentioned from my friend above being used for footsteps.

Godzilla is a work of art. Godzilla forced a new industry, fresh from the war, to innovate and try new things. To push the boat, get creative with effects (similar effects being seen in work like sailor sentai and ultraman) and ultimately lead a new future for filmmaking and live action work as a whole - inspiring cult classics like Jaws (1975) and Jurassic Park (1993). Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla - King of Monsters (2019) is quite literally the if you don't love me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best because we would NOT have beautiful awe-inspiring cgi we have today without the groundwork set by suitmation set work and classics like showa era godzilla.

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Tldr. Godzilla has cemented itself in our pop culture as an anti-war anti-nuclear warfare and the themes and lessons taught through the first movie are more relevant than ever today which is why everyone should be watching this movie rn and why hollywood should adapt these anti-war themes in their current era of godzilla movies.

Dinosaurs rock. Watch King of Monsters and 100% watch Godzilla 1954 ✌️ also sorry if I got anything wrong, I haven't watched Godzilla in a while and I'm a little rusty on my war knowledge. Additionally sorry if anything I said has been insensitive, naturally these topics are incredibly difficult to talk about. If I have said something out of order I'll take this post down immediately. I'm sort of just rambling off the cuff and only googling things to make sure I get release dates and names right so maybe I'll write a more in depth analysis after I rewatch the movie and do some research on the production

#tw #tw war #tw war mention #tw nuclear warfare #tw japanese warcrimes #kraken rambles #man i love kaijus #tw ww2 #long #tw imperialism mention #kraken talks about kaijus

[isoskdjslal]

Britain in Ww2

#countryballs #my art sketch #tw ww2

[daily-lego-sets]

LEGO System:

Concentration Camp

Set: 6772

1996

April Fools!!!

#fun fact this is a real thing #kinda #this is real but wasnt made by lego #it was made by the artist Zbigniew Libera #lego just blindly gave them the peaces to make it #april fools #tw nazis #tw nazi #trigger warning nazis #trigger warning nazi #tw ww2 #trigger warning ww2 #trigger warning concentration camps #tw concentration camp #tw auschwitz #trigger warning aushwitz #tw war #tw implied death #tw death #tw murder #lego #lego builds #lego sets #aushwitz #lego system #lego concentration camp

[sims-half-crazy]

#Gosnoll Ancestry #tw ww2 #tw war #ts4 decades challenge #sims4 #sims 4 #sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 historical #ts4 historical #decades challenge #simerican #GA Gen 4 #Gordon Gosnoll #Lena Lewandowski #GA 1940s

[ichig0tchi]

Hey since Oppenheimer is opening the discussion around the bombings of hiroshima and Nagasaki can we please tag these things with ww2 or something because reading that shit unprompted on a Friday evening can be a huge bummer for Japanese people with generational trauma

Like yeah it's probably good to talk about it and whatever but as far as I'm concerned as a Japanese American, that era was beyond fucked and I don't like having to think about it. Some of us were sent to internment camps for our race, and those of us who got out of it will never be accepted by the people who did. There's a whole internal discourse judging which families suffered the most and it ripped out community apart. Our relatives died young from radiation complications and there's nothing we could do about it.

So can you PLEASE just tag that shit so we don't have to see it if we aren't emotionally up for engaging with the way our innocent children melted in the streets? Thanks.

#ww2 #tw #tw ww2 #Oppenheimer #nuclear bombs #it is literally so tiring seeing people constantly debate about it when we havent even finished mourning

[jdbsubsbs]

Ok so like I went to the pjo wiki to read ab ww2 because I felt like they mentioned somewhere that Hades like supported the Axis powers and it said that his children did but I swear to god it said somewhere in the books that hades himself was on the side of the axis powers but maybe I could be remembering that wrong but either way that’s like fucked up that hades was just like “boys will be boys uwu” while his children were running around being fucking fascists like what and if he did support the axis that makes hades like canonically the worst and it bothers me that they mention it once and never again it’s not even retconned it’s just quietly swept under the rug like Nico literally was alive during ww2 in Italy and they fled to America because of like the dictator half siblings were fighting for like I get the gods can’t directly interact with their children and can’t like strike them down lest they start a war but Jesus Christ man control your fucking children

#percy jackon and the olympians #hades #pjo #rambles #tw ww2

[wecandoit]

TW : swastika, nazis

Oh and swastika appropriation from various ancient culture and completely basterdization by the nazis. And should those culture continue using the symbol that was a deeply ingrained part of their culture. It's a really multidimensional topic doncha think

OMG yes this is something I've been intrigued by for a long time, bc how do they decide that one event in history defines the existence of a symbol or artifact, disregarding any and all historical and cultural meaning other than that? where do you draw the line? idk food for thought ig

#tw nazis #tw ww2 #tw swastika #anon #ask #angel anon #tysm again!!! #studyblr #political