#Martyrs' Memorial

[derkabobhall]

Evening stroll. (Oxford 2024)

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 28, 2024 - American military veterans burn their uniforms calling for a free Palestine, at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell in Portland, Oregon. [source]

[joacomaduro]

Martyrs' Memorial, Algeria

[attractthecrows]

let it also be said that I love the Mahariel + Lavellan worldstate. It's so haunted. You are Dalish, you are not a part of human culture, but by happenstance you're dragged into it and to the forefront of hell to save a world that hates and fears your people. You have no choice. You can never return to your home, to the familiar, to anything you've ever known. You will be an echo; Mahariel echoing Garahel, Lavellan echoing Mahariel. You're so proud of your Dalish heritage, but your identity doesn't matter at all. Doomed to be a martyr for a people that do not respect you and cannot understand you, while your clan mourns, lamenting that they cannot bury you, no life-tree to stand as your memory. You're a hero. You're already dead. You died the moment you left your clan.

[vox-anglosphere]

The fire was so hot that it singed the college doors 200 yards away.

Speaks for itself! 😊🌟🙏🏻

[pennywises]

THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME!

tag rules: select 13 horror films that at one point in time terrified the hell out of you (gifs optional)

tagged by: @animusrox

tagging: @losthavenmine @90scully @saw-x @stephendorff @dushku

@classichorrorblog @kizzyedgelll @rogerdeakinsdp @deadringers2023 @madeline-kahn

@j0el-miller @ethan-hawke @ricky-olson @ncutisgatwas @jodifosters and anyone who'd like to do this!

[antifainternational]

November 11, 2024 - “Carlos vive, la lucha continua! / Carlos lives on, the fight continues!” – Red pyrotechnics illuminated Madrid’s streets as hundreds commemorated the Spanish anti-fascist Carlos Palomino. At the age of 16, he was stabbed to death by a fascist on November 11, 2007 in Madrid. [video]

[daylighteclipsed]

Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again

[trickstersaint]

Hi! I've just stumbled across your 'patron saint'-quiz and I love it! 🖤 The way you put the answers to the questions is flawless, especially the 'heart'-question and the afterlife-question, not to mention the results! One gets the impression that you really put your heart in this quiz. My results are eerily fitting - same for a friend who I made take your quiz as well.👍 I'm wondering whether it is possible to read the other result texts somewhere as well? (Or would I have to play through the quiz again with some different educated guesses?) Thanks for creating this quiz and all the best for you. 🫂 Enjoy the day/night 🤗

hi!!!! so glad you like the quiz!!!! i definitely had a lot of fun making it, and it's been really fun seeing people's reactions to it too :)

happy to share the other results! putting them below <3

[cold--carnage]

tag game! tagged by @dogwing

tagging: @cockroachpr1nce @silly-putty-clay @bleach-drink @smittenseraphim @cathedrel @angel-cryptid and anyone else who wants to join!

[buccellato]

Thinking about the train hostage arc in the first Trimax book....and I have some thoughts on some of the takeaways I've seen (in other places).........

I'm ngl it kinda bothers me when people read into the train hostage arc in trimax as "Vash is 100% in the wrong, just like his brother", because that was very much not the intended reading...it wasn't just supposed to be a "look how flawed Vash's ideology is in practice" moment (that's the hospital yuri arc ❤), it was supposed to be a "look how hard it is in this world for Vash to abide to his moral code, and yet he still does it despite the negatives" moment. He wasn't exactly happy with the end solution and wasn't exactly fighting super hard to stop the father from shooting the accused killer—he almost let him do it, even—but he wanted to ultimately stop the cycle of bloodshed and was willing to make himself look like a jackass doing so. The arc is a narrative set-up for the penultimate conflict of the series; it's not so much about the merits of righteous violence vs. pacifism but rather setting the stage for a showdown between vengeance vs. absolution.

Now, would I do the same if I were in Vash's thigh-high boots? No of course not, fuck that one dude in particular lmao. But I don't exactly think Vash is weaker or unprincipled for choosing the option he did, either.

[galleryofart]

Martyr Hill

Artist: O Louis Guglielmi (Cairo, Egypt 1906-Amagansett, NY 1956)

Date: Circa 1933-1934

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, United States

DESCRIPTION

The eerie loneliness of Louis Guglielmi's painting Martyr Hill seems surreal. Yet the Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire, actually looks much as it does in this painting. Guglielmi, who spent many summers at the MacDowell artist colony in Peterborough, knew the place well. He altered the scene slightly but effectively to create an uneasy, melancholy mood reflecting the troubles of the time.

Sweeping diagonal lines draw the viewer's attention to the GAR Hall, with its spiky finials and a cannon aimed to menace the viewer. In fact, the cannon stands on the opposite side of the hall’s lawn. Guglielmi removed the windows from the hall’s side wall, creating the solid red parallelogram he placed very near the dark front wall of the house in the foreground. This causes the eye to lurch disconcertingly from foreground to background. Nothing in the painting casts a shadow—the buildings therefore look oddly insubstantial. The sculpted bronze soldier on the Civil War Memorial, his head bent in sorrow, underlines the lack of a living person in the scene. The Nubanusit River flows under a bridge and out toward the viewer, who is left with no place to stand.

[atomic-cat]

I went to see the haymarket martyrs' memorial

[demonzoro]

absolutely make no mistake i still think that in an au where nanami is a curse user, he would still oppose geto's ideology. not because of any moral ground he has over him but because geto's dehumanisation of non-sorcerers assigns evil to humans as part of their nature rather than active decisions and power struggles that nanami had become intimately familiar with. probably something they'd endless argue over between geto's recruitment attempts and nanami's reluctant reliance on geto's network/foothold

[dk-thrive]

One of those memories you can squeeze like a rag and watch details drip and pool…

That’s when everything became supersaturated. One of those memories you can squeeze like a rag and watch details drip and pool… How it felt like the perfect song then, even though we were together, the bud of us just starting to open. Something in the song’s plaintive yearning, that’s what it was, bone-deep yearning. We held the song’s preemptive nostalgia between us like a candle, swaying as its flame smocked the wick, our faces illuminated and flickering in it, that flame, yearning, idiot yearning, yearning so strong it bends you, buckles you, like waves or miracles.

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

[chaiaurchaandni]

martyred journalist rushdie sarraj's wife writes to her husband