#2014 skeleton war

[lenasai]

i can’t believe splatoon made the skeleton war real

[capnhap]

🎺💀🎺 TooT TooT TooT🎺💀🎺 The Skeleton Army Sends Their Regards

fantastic

[floral-hex]

I wonder if any of my mutuals are doing nanowrimo this year. Is that still a thing that people do?

[gatorsnot]

sorry comrades, consider me a casualty of the skeleton war as the enemy is currently using my ribcage as a xylophone

[galoogamelady]

Dunno if this is something you've been asked before but how does our favorite post apocalyptic beanboy and his most excellent gal celebrate Halloween in the Commonwealth?

It's been a long time since we talked about this in detail (probably in 2014-15?) but I think we established that many traditional American holidays were lost in the Great War (people were more concerned with surviving, obviously). A lot of these celebrations were kept alive by Vault residents however. Buttons does his best to inspire his fellow Arefu settlers to celebrate Halloween to some extent and Meg plays along, even if it makes no sense to her. The budget Brahmin has to be my favorite Halloween post so I did a quick redraw:

Buttons had a couple other Halloween costumes since 2014:

Butt-O-Ween skeleton

Slutty Molerat

Hancock (aka raunchy mayor)

GTA Online Buttons is a sexy cat every year

[voidofryu]

Urgent Relief ... 🚨

My heart aches for my little sister Nour🥺

My sister needs you, yes she needs your donation. You are our last hope. She is tired and has an open heart condition and her condition is getting worse because of the war. My sister is unable to breathe normally. She needs an urgent operation. She can barely live. Donate and save my sister Noor. She is on the verge of death. Before the war, she used to take an injection every day at a price of $100 per day. But now, for 11 months, she has not taken an injection. She is on the verge of becoming a skeleton because she has a growth deficiency. I will leave the talk to your humanity. You must donate. Every dollar saves Noor. 💔🥺🙏

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4qzqg-help-a-family-from-gaza

Please donate🙏🙏

Vetted by : @el-shab-hussein, 90-ghost, sar-soor, ibtisams

This is Ibtisam's go fund me for her and her family. Please do your best in donating, sharing, or even engaging with this post so that it gains traction. It doesn't take much. Firstly, you can click on the link, and it will take you to the campaign itself. There, you can either press the donate now button or the share and copy link button to share the link to the campaign all around. You can also like and reblog this post so that more people can see this. Please help these Palestinian families find the peace and freedom that they need.

Ibtisam Al-Habil has been suffering in 2014 when her husband was martyred, and she was left alone with her seven children and her daughter, Nour, who suffers a Congenital Heart Disease. When her children grew up, Omar, her son, studied at Al-Azhar University in the Faculty of Nursing. With a "son of martyr" grant, he was able to study for his medical degree and become a doctor. They supported each other to provide the necessities of life for her children and provide treatment for her young daughter, Nour.

On October 7, the genocide began.

Because of the selfish Israeli occupation, they were displaced to the shelter schools after their house, and neighbourhood were completely destroyed. Then, the occupation bombed the school, but they miraculously survived and went to Al-Shifa Hospital under the bombing. They slept on the sand without a cover. Eventually, they were forced to flee on the morning of the 14th November to the safe area in the south of the Gaza Strip in Rafah.

On the morning of the 16th November, the martyrdom of Omar occurred. He went to get firewood to cook food when the place was bombed. His little brother was injured and had more than a hundred stitches. His eardrum was punctured, and the tendons in his foot and hand were cut, and his body was filled with shrapnel.

Ibtisam and her children were left without support and without shelter. They are currently living in a school.

Please help this family in getting the freedom and peace that they need.

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸 ❤️

[continuants]

i can't believe it's been ten years since the skeleton war

2014 Top Posts:  Skeleton War

[wanderingnork]

Horror Movies: Something Old, Something New

Five double features, each matchup featuring a similar theme, plot, or style--but separated by at least twenty years.

Matango (1963, 1h 30m) and Gaia (2021, 1h 30m): Matango is the story of a group of boaters shipwrecked on a strange island infested with bizarre mushrooms. Based on a 1907 short story called The Voice In The Night (read it on archive.org here) and directed by Ishirō Honda, one of the directors and writers of the original Godzilla, it's spine-tingling tale. Gaia takes place in a South African forest, where a pair of forestry service employees discover that the forest is alive in a whole different way than they thought. Both stories deal with fungus, changing human bodies, and ecological disaster. You may want to avoid mushrooms and blue cheese for a bit after these.

The Red Shoes (1948, 2h 15m) and The Red Shoes (2005, 1h 45m): Both of these stories take their title and overall themes from the same Hans Christian Andersen story. You can read the story here. Separated by nearly sixty years and multiple continents--since the 1948 film was made in England and the 2005 film was made in South Korea--they're well worth comparing. Two different times and cultures tackle the same story, and come out with stories that are fully distinct yet strikingly similar.

Ghostwatch (1992, 1h 30m) and Late Night With the Devil (2024, 1h 30m): On Halloween night in 1992, on live TV, a BBC documentary crew enters a haunted house to witness a haunting, only for everything to go horribly wrong--or at least that's the premise of Ghostwatch. The BBC created its mockumentary using its established TV personalities and other added elements of realism, resulting in a War of the Worlds type of national panic. It's never been run on any UK TV channel again. Late Night With the Devil takes a similar spin, although it doesn't present itself as happening today: it's a documentary of events occurring on live TV in 1977. Despite that, watch the plot beats. See if you can spot Ghostwatch. I was able to predict almost the exact plot of the film once I realized what was going on (although it didn't detract from my enjoyment at all).

The Thing (1982, 1h 50m) and 30 Days of Night (2007, 1h 50m): Two different takes on "stranded in an icy polar wasteland," one taking place in Antarctica and the other in Alaska. In the first, the monstrous chaos comes from a shapeshifting alien, while in the second, it's vampires. However, as different as its monsters are, 30 Days of Night pays plenty of homage to The Thing. From helicopter sabotage to prevent escape to a striking shot that evokes the theatrical poster of The Thing, 30 Days of Night shows where it came from. TW for dog death in both movies.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963, 1h 45m) and Bonestorm (short film from VHS: Viral 2014, anthology runtime 1h 20m): Okay, so Jason and the Argonauts isn't exactly horror. It's a retelling of the myth of the same name, with Jason and his crew of heroes sailing to find the Golden Fleece. As much as it is heroic fantasy, it's also full of monsters--stop-motion hydras, harpies, and more created by the legendary Ray Harryhausen. The grand finale is a battle against a group of animated skeletons, which you can watch here. Fifty years later, the makers of Bonestorm revisited the same idea, as a pair of skateboarders battle cultists-turned-skeletons on a trip to Mexico.

Food for thought: Whether or not the more recent filmmakers were aware of the older movies is uncertain, but what can we as viewers draw from these strikingly similar works? Do the old-school effects hold up next to their modern counterparts? In the Matango/Gaia and Red Shoes double features, different cultures are also in play. What's the impact of that on the stories? What does it say about horror that we keep going back to revisit the same themes and stories?

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[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

just keepin' track of my fave tumblr holidays, don't mind me

miscellaneous:

any thursday the 20th (this one too)/thursday the 4/20th

yesterday was tuesday, but today is tuesday too

will the wise wednesday

february

3rd: VANILLA SWEEP (2023)

13th: galentine's day

14th: dean and cas' wedding anniversary (2021)

also 14th: nick valentine's day

march

10th: mario day

14th: pi day

15th: the ides of march

27th: that one post that says 'tomorrow's halloween!', ''it's'tomorrow is march 28th', 'TOMORROW'S HALLOWEEN', then has that gif of ben wyatt getting hit with a skeleton

31st: i didn't think march 31st existed

april

1st: mishapocalypse (2013), boop day (2024)

2nd: dashcon announcement post (2013)

13th: neil banging out the tunes (2006)

also the 13th: homestuck day (2009)

25th: the perfect date

30th: it's gonna be may

may

4th: star wars day

5th: revenge of the fifth

june

16th: those are his hooves you bitch (2014)

19th: don't hug me i'm scared

july

2nd: tumblr code (2012)

12th-13th: dashcon heritage posting (2014)

august

all month: start of spookyposting

1st: spn end!verse/croatoan date (2014)

september

all month: slightly more spooky/fallposting

18th: castieliversary (2008)

21st: do you remember?

27th: someone sewed a fried egg to a t-shirt

october

all month: halloween!!!

3rd: "on october third, he asked me what day it was" (mean girls) and 'don't forget 3.oct.11' (fma:b)

9th: happy leif erikson day!

13th: TREAT YO' SELF (2011)

19th: none pizza, left beef-iversary (2007)

21st: the day marty mcfly goes to the future (2015)

24th: the day frodo wakes up in rivendell (10 am)

november

1st: "there's only 365 days left 'till next halloween!", "364!"

5th: destiel is canon (destielputinelection day, 2020)

also the 5th: remember, remember

11th: barack obama signs 'thanks, i stole them from the president' into law (2012)

december:

21st: the day the would should have ended (2012)

24th: 'cause there's only one more sleep 'till christmas

[robobee]

posting about trc aftg and vicious... what is this, 2014... gonna bring up the skeleton war next

[calico-mart]

this ask is like so old and i am so high that i genuinely thought i got sent back in time for a second

IM READY HOW DO I JOIN

welcome, soldier. drop and give me 20 (bones)

[starsandspacefog]

✨ INFO DUMP INCOMONG ✨

So spoilers for undertale!

SOOOO in the undertale community, making super complex AUs us a big thing lol XD

For context! Undertale is a game where there were two races, humans and monsters, and they had a war. And the monsters lost, and got sealed underground (in a mountain!) By a magical barrier!

You play as FRISK, a fallen human child who explores the underground. And can either spare or kill monsters—Both have vastly different endings.

WEELLLL the currant AU I'm working on is called LemonareTale! A post pacifist (an ending where you spare EVERYONE and free them!) Where Frisk, Sans, and Papyrus (the two guys are skeleton brothers!) Open up a lemonade stand on the surface!

The AU tackles some pretty heavy topics ^^' but like many AUs, kine focuses mostly on Sans!

Thank you for listening 🥰

YOUR TURN >:) /nf!

ngl that sounds like so much fun if I can find the game I'll play it

OH SHIT MY TURN UH

Ok so the latest hyperfixation that's not tmnt is usagi yojimbo and I am LOOSING MY MIND OVER THIS SILLY RABBIT

essentially it's 16someting Japan (there's elements from all across the 1600s so it's not rly a specific year but it's fine bc it's super well reaserched and most of the comics have authors notes and refrences in the back it's WONDERFUL) ok but the mc is miyamoto usagi, samurai who lost pretty much everything and is now just floating thru the world as he meets other ppl and plays a part in their stories while not rly having a story of his own anymore. It crosses over a lot with tmnt which is super fun and how I got into the comics. It's been running since like the 80s and so there's A LOT and I've been reading them in more or less chronological order, I think I'm up to the 2014 publications now.

Wow that was super badly written lmao ty for the infodump <33

[giratinazero]

ngl I do miss like 2014 tumblr vibes. where is the skeleton war

[lilaccccc]

we should pretend its 2014 and start posting about the skeleton war again

[maoistyuri]

Hello my friend, My sister nour needs you, yes she needs your donation. You are our last hope. She is tired and has an open heart condition and her condition is getting worse because of the war. My sister is unable to breathe normally. She needs an urgent operation. She can barely live. Donate and save my sister Noor. She is on the verge of death. Before the war, she used to take an injection every day at a price of $100 per day. But now, for 11 months, she has not taken an injection. She is on the verge of becoming a skeleton because she has a growth deficiency. I will leave the talk to your humanity. You must donate. Every dollar saves Noor. 💔🥺🙏

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4qzqg-help-a-family-from-gaza