#Millitary history

[cameron-carpet-lola]

Chat it's French Sapper Friday

Happy french sapper(and lesbian sex) Friday

[shafran-saffron]

I get so irrationally happy any time I see fellow guys with long hair in a military setting!! They're all so cool

Also note that all of the examples here are from various insurgent groups.

Reason why non-state armed groups are better and more moral than state armies no 1192: They won't make you get an ugly ass buzzcut

[shkika]

Little messy animatic I started a while ago! I only added two frames really. I quite like it so far!

The song is from Squirrel and Hedgehog

[thesoulofseverussnape]

EVERY.FUCKING.DAY.

I go to sleep to a disaster and wake up to another

I never thought my life would come to the point where I'd get my news updates from fucking Supernatural memes but here we are.

Also why the fuck are we speed running history? Like i thought we were over that shit.

I honestly know too much about history to not be absolutely terrified of what's gonna happen next.

[karerasakunamisstrap]

At the risk of turning into some sort of blog about historical ships i want to talk about another ship that i'm certain Yoshikage Kira from Jojolion would serve on; The USS Plainview.

This Ship was the culmination of hydrofoil technology, where instead of floating on the water using a gigantic metal hull, the ship would have long extensions down into the water that would have enough force to- like a plane does with wings, gather enough water while moving to keep it entirely afloat on their own- while significantly above the water level. The hull of a ship is a lot less hydrodynamic than some small struts pointing down into the water, so a hydrofoil design allows a vessel to go a much extremely increased amount of speed.

the drawback, was that it only worked well on calm water. early hydrofoils were unstable, and with anything more than just a still lake would be completely unusable. with much longer arms which could rotate up to sit in the air out of the water, and an extremely powerful engine rerouted directly into the ends of those arms; the Plainview solved that problem by being both so far above the water that in even in rough sea waves, the foils could hold the ship up in the air, at speed, and also on top of that be an astronomical new development that could be completely unmatched by any other country... in this case specifically the USSR.

you see, the end of the formal cold war was half of the reason why these ships ended expansion into the navy. no need, and even if there was, at that time it would be against a whole different threat. The plainview spawned a class of speedy smaller ships, but they all ended up ending service not long after. The intended purpose of these was to hunt down far-flung submarines seen from a distance, (or something like that) and they just didn't have a purpose anymore in the changing warfare landscape.

anyway yes i still believe Yoshikage Kira would serve on one of these ships

[vikkicomics]

I made a 3D model of Königsliche Kriegs Akademie in The Sims. The lot wasn't big enough to make the whole complex so I just made what would be useful for bg's in a graphic novel.

[kieraoonadiy]

Some sewing, sewing history, and LGBT wartime history

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

Alexander the Great's conquest of Tyre

[zolgod]

Sward with Sun symbol

[damnedserenity]

I am calling it my Female fighters au and for the first character introduction we have: Fu Hao

Intro, R3, R4, R7

Historical facts:

•She was a concubine, priestess and general in the Shang dynasty having died in 1200bc

•She did multiple millitary campaigns defeating the enemies of the Shang dynasty most notably the Tufanh who fought for generations only to be defeated in one battle

•"Further campaigns against the neighbouring Yi, Qiang and Ba followed; the latter is particularly remembered for being the earliest recorded large-scale ambush in Chinese history. With up to 13,000 soldiers and important generals Zhi and Hou Gao serving under her, she was the most powerful Shang general of her time"- Wikipedia

•Her tomb was very extensive having 700+ jade objects, 500 oracle bones (from her role as a priestess) along with 6 canine and 16 human sacrifices

In RoR

•She takes the place of Lu Bu against Thor and while she loses her fight against him she still culminates both fear and awe in both humans and gods

•Her Volund is a battle axe, one of the many weapons she was buried with

•She is a very tall, well built woman with long hair kept in a pun (bun into ponytail) with clothing a mix of traditional Shang dynasty clothing and battle armour

•Her backstory includes her relationship with King Wu ding as they both cared deeply for eachother in life, there are records of him worrying for her health after having children and mourning her death

•When heading of her in involvement in Ragnarok he went to Brunhilde and tried to convince her to change her mind but was put off but Fu hao herself

•Her last thought before death was a memory of her husband and her racing in war chariots right after her return from battle

All in all she is a very determined and strong willed woman who earns her opponent's respect. Her main flaws tend to be insensitivity to other's feelings and short sightedness, the latter resulting in her defeat.

Ragnarok AU Round 1 Winner: Thor.

[anarchotolkienist]

Most American leftist interest in Ireland and in Republicanism isn't based on an analysis or understanding of the colonisation of Ireland, any understanding or interest in the goings-on of the people, any knowledge of Irish history or the importance of Ireland as a proving ground for British settler colonialism and, in recent years, a colonial region to practice millitary policing in urban areas. It's based on finally having a white anti-colonial movement to support.

[nervousbrunette]

🦇 the origins of the vampire 🧛

playlist of the post;

A/N: just wanted to be clear about the fact that im no historian or an expert. Some of this stuff can be outdated or wrong, im just a highschooler, who finds vampires fadcinating and i wanted to share stuff i already knew and stuff that i found out with you (the resources from which i drew the facts from, are in th end of the text, also im so sorry for any grammar mistakes ennglish is not my native language hope you enjoy!)

We are all familliar with a number of mythological creatures, werewolves, banshees, dragons, chimeras. We are all aware of the mythology behind the stories that we watched and read at a younger age or even watched in popular movies and tv shows of ; "The Vampire Diaries", "Twillight", "Van Helsing", and many more. The interpretation of these films and series had a huge impact on society but were they correct? Are they accurate to what "real vampires" were seen,as? Are vampires real?

To get a better and most spherical view of these specific mythological creatures we have to take a deep dive into their origins and how they occured. So what is a vampire? We cant possibly be 100% sure of what vampires are, because they have been interpreted in many different ways , some more realistic and other a little less, but the most essential characteristic for someone to actually be called a vampire is human bloood consumption. Although human blood consumption is a real medical term also known as Reinfields Syndrome (or even clinical vampirism) the syndrome stops at that, whereas vampires are known for other characteristics beyond their need to consume human blood, and although that differentiates from case to case every single characteristic hads been heard of by our culture at least once ot twice. Such charcteristics are; sensititvity to sunlight (in many cases sunlight means death), their ability to morph into a bat or, in more rare cases, a wolf. They have super strength and the ability to weaken the mind and control it, they also arent able to see themselves in the mirror or cast a shadow whatsoever.

The first person to have been accused of being a vampire in historical records was a villager named Jure Grando Alilović, (1578-1656), who was reffered to as a štrigon which was a local word of someone who was a vampire and a warlock. More specifically he died at 1656 due to an illness but came back from the grave one night as a vampire and terrorized the village, until his decapitation in 1672.

In media, the vampires were first introduced to the public by Bram Stokers, insect eating character, Count Dracula. According to Stoker, Dracula, wasnt supposed to be a face of fiction, it was supossed to serve to role of a warning; a warning of a very rare evil entity.

The history of vampires isnt really close to what media portrayes them to be, the characteristics arent as overdramatic as they are often portrayed as in media. Media always seems to exaggerate when it comes to giving the public a portrayal of something as symbolic as vampires (or anything of the supernatural beings in general) , and despite the fact that we dont usually pay attention to what the movies show us, it is no secret that the way media portrayes them to be, vampires are just thought to be a creature of fiction.

But according to countless websites, books, historical findings and resources, Count Dracula (as we know him), wasnt an original figure. Other than Alilović, there have been many sightings of vampires all throughout history, whether that be fake or actually true. The most popular one, and the one said to be the inspiration behind Count Dracula, is Vlad the Impaler or else Vlad the third, he was the prince (or millitary governor, according to the translation on the word "voivode") of Walachia. His cruel punishing methods made him well-known thoroughout the 15th century, in Europe.

But cruel punishments accured all throughout history, even in later years, so why was he any different? Well when 1448, he found out about the assasination of his elder brother and father, he began to embark on campaigns to regain his fathers seat and after eight years he was able to do so. He was known to leave his foreing and domestic enemies to bleed to death, in 1462 he left a fielf with thousand sof stabbed and wounded people to discourage the Ottoman forces. Later on, he was captured by the Ottoman forces, but was able to escape only to be imprisoned by Matthias the first of Hungary after coming to ask for his assistance. Vlad regained his throne in 1476, but was killed in battle the same year.

Theres only the thought that Stoker used the name Dracula, in inspiation of Vlad, but only the title not the actions that Vlad was guilty of.n. A certain amount of scholars have observed that Stoker’s conversations with the historian, Hermann Bamburger, could have provided him with information of Vlads violent bahaviour, but there is no upright evidence to support this.

Resources/facts drawn from:

[alltimefail-sims]

Lenore Elizabeth Barnes Submission for @simsinfinitylt's Adam

The Basics: -> Human; She/Her -> Bisexual -> Currently lives in Britechester - She's a student there, studying to be an archaeologist! (Majoring in Art History) -> Young Adult (irl probably 21)

Background below the cut! ↓

To put it bluntly, Lenore has always loved people: their kindness, their art, their imperfections, everything about them. She's curious about the world around her, a bit of a "Matilda" type in her childhood as she loved (and still loves) to read, learn, and soak up as much information as possible. She's always been quick to dismiss small talk and eager to try and understand big, complex things. People would coo over little Lenore, pinching her cheeks and calling her things like "old soul" and "wise beyond her years," but in all fairness, her high level of maturity might have just been a byproduct of being an only child surrounded solely by adults as opposed to children her own age. Lenore was an only child, homeschooled most of her life up until high school as her mom and dad both served in the millitary. Because of this, they never lived in one place for long: there was one year in Mt. Komorebi, three years in Windenburg (her favorite place she has lived to date), a year in Selvadorada, a year where she spent half of it in Del Sol Valley and the other half in Oasis Springs (that year sucked), and the list goes on. But after her father was discharged due to a near-fatal injury, they finally settled in Copperdale just long enough for Lenore to enroll in traditional high school.

In theory, the adjustment should have been tough - but Lenore, charismatic and kind, immediately flourished in the new environment. She wasn't popular, but she quickly got involved enough to be recognizable and well-liked by her classmates. She went to the social events, even the silly dances, and she made the best of those awkward years. Lenore didn't plan to peak though: she was just getting started. She knew that she never wanted instability again and that she would go to her dream college, live on campus, earn a degree, and create a life that full of adventure, discovery, companionship, and most of all...love.

The dream school is going great, but she's ran into some problems with the "love" part. She's come to find that making friends is a lot easier than dating... but she's working on it! She's still young, and who knows? Her perfect person could be out there looking for her, too...

PRIVATE DL

[crodur]

Ancient and distant dragons (part II)

Last time we saw what the Chinese, Sumerian and Slavic civilizations understood by ''dragon'', along with other groups related to those. So, let's see other examples of this idea, close coincidences and divergences!

I would talk in depth about the European dragon itself. However, and oddly enough, such mythical being is not entirely original, like the examples we're trying to gather, more like a very baroque conglomerate of influences that eventually came to be the winged lizard we all know. So let's talk, instead, about the roots behind it.

However, it's inspirations are quite curious. The European or Conventional Dragon, is a mixture of two different ''dragonlike beings'', both unaware of each other, as far as we know!

The first influence is, surprisingly the Sumerian Mušḫuššu we previously looked at. Told you that the idea of an animal with reptilian traits would stick around!

Second one is more obscure. It is believed the Dacian Drakon could be a major player. This creature has a very confusing genealogy, being on it's own the result of a lot of artistic depictions of beasts, streetching as far as the 8th century BCE, and for over a thousand years it suffered a great amount of changes, being consistently depicted as a mixture of a snake and another, different animal.

By the time the Roman Empire assimilated the Dacians (located where modern Romania is) at 2th c. AD and incorporated the creature into their own mythos, it was mostly a wolf headed, thick snake. It was quite important for the native Dacians, represented as a protecting spirit in both millitary vexilloids and wind instruments such as horns.

A ferocious Dacian Drako, engraved in the Roman Tracian column.

Those two creatures (Drakon and Mušḫuššu) loosely permeated, along with other influences such as local, folklore beasts of many sorts, and depictions of snakes as the root of evil (a consistent avatar of the Christian Devil, as soon as in the Genesis book of the Bible, but in many other occasions, such as Isaiah book [14:29]).

All those influences, after centuries of obscurity, were gradually sewn together during the Middle Ages (remember, most classical knowledge and folklore was reduced to residual traces during this historial period) into the big, bad dragon that the forces of good must defeat.

A winged snake, a somewhat popular heraldic symbol (this one in particular is from 17th century, though). A possible additional influence in this dense melting pot?

The slavic dragons we saw in the previous post most likely were a direct influence of this trend, one of the many types created by mixing chimeras and local beasts alike.

What we can safely say, is that the european dragons are a byproduct of many ideas of different ages and places colliding together. We all influence each other through the time!

Of course, there were many differing interpretations under the umbrella of dragonhood, here's a french one that incorporates particular body proportions, and devilish goat horns (from the 1410 manuscript The Crucifixion by a follower of Egerton Master). What an awe inspiring fiend!

But let's put the european ones aside, and take another loooong leap. How about... you guessed it...

Mesoamerica!

Mayas, Toltecs, and others do have, too, a remote tradition of dragonlike monsters who weren't mere beasts, but even reached the status of godhood!

The cosmology of many different groups in upper central america has in common the reverence of a being called ''the feathered snake'', adored since XV century BCE, and until the arrival of the Castillian crown, some 3000 years later. Wow!

The first peoples that depicted such a being were the Olmecs, considered as one of the first greater cultural identities in the Americas. Here's the first known feathered snake, in La Venta settlement:

A feather crested, giant snake with a man (who wears a fanged helmet), considered by some as his alter-ego. The bag the man holds appears to represent a ritual of sorts, and his earpiece implies high ranking status.

The Olmecs left, as we said, a long lasting legacy that affected cultures far away from their territories.

The serpent would later be adopted into the maya God Kꞌuꞌukꞌul Kaan (lit. Feathered Snake), represented in many royal steels (as we saw here) as the being that allows an ajaw (lord) to see his ancestors, and win their favor to be crowned. In the case of the Toltecs, it was named Quetzacoatl (both names sound vaguely similar)

A feathered serpent, found among the ruins of the maya Poqomam kingdom, with a human head pecking out, as per usual with maya iconography.

The Toltec, and later on Aztec Quetzacoatl, God of light, life, civilization and knowledge. Notice how this version was more birdlike, totally covered by feathers, but also with a mouth whose jaw contracted into a spiral, almost resembling a pair of twirled whiskers (not intended, but still curious).

That's some long lasting impression, to say the least!

In the following post, we'll see some more dragonlikes, also created fortuitously and with no connection with the rest of this really extended family. Remember that I only write small pieces of info, and usually I do skim over a lot when covering these topics, so if you want to know more, I encourage you to keep researching on ANYTHING that has caught your attention. (Or, well, ask me for an indepth post apart, which I would gladly investigate and redact).

Until next time!

[dr-malice]

UGH. Here is my lovely superjail oc and his lovely cat thing, whom I love.

And here is some lore😨

> Steven Katz

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> He is 53; his birthdate is 09/02/70

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> Posture- straight posture with a small limp at times

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> Something always carried/Weapon/Tools

> Wallet | snacks for stimpy | brass knuckles and or pepper spray

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> Skills

> Sniper/was (now prefers not to) | Therapist | Good at reading a room | Later in life human anatomy (future version)

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> Struggles

> Alcohol addiction, weed addiction several other addictions

> bipolar: Autistic

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> Strength/Talent

> helping others; can calm others down, has a calming demeanor

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> Hobbies

> history, guns, theories, learning about marine life, being with the doctor

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> Habits

> will fiddle with objects, often is blunt, has a strict schedule, has meltdowns

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> Pets

> Stimpy (skin cat with a human eye, human hands, and feet) is given to him by the doctor; Stimpy is the main thing that brings Steven and the doctor together. As when Steven had gone around to meet the other staff members at Superjail, the doctor had made a mutant cat. Steven is highly fond of cats. So since then, Stimpy has followed both men around.

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> Area of Residence/Environment

> superjail: his office: his room connected to said office: the doctor's area

> Home Description

> currently: queen size bed, red accents, green floor, and wall, faded, lava lamps (made by the doctor) , bong, metal slab, skulls, a singular sniper (A mix of the doctor's stuff and Stevens's stuff)

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> Job Satisfaction

> he is okay with it though Is often drained, hard for him to cope

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> Personality

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> a very timid man, although does have a few spouts of WOOSH (opposite of timid) ((as he is bipolar and now unmedicated))

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> Childhood Life

> He had a tough childhood, being born and raised in a farm household in Texas.

> • yeehaw but bullied for being gay at school, and once it reached home he was pretty much abandoned. As his parents were severely homophobic and honestly, just not good people all in all.

> -alcoholic mom and dad

> - James was his partner for many years till James's death. James was the only sense of security and safety Steven had known, hence his severe attachment.

> James and Steven both raised money to move elsewhere.

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> ~ by age 16 he moved to Vermont from Texas with money he had gotten from sales since he was 14 plus with the help of James

> (raised animals and other side jobs)

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> Important Past Event

> • Stevens's ex, James, was not a good person to Steven, overly controlling and bitter towards his work since he was in the military, served for 12 years before losing an arm discharge, and found out his husband cheated. He was upset yet couldn't leave. years later jailbot took care of him by "accident"

> The accident is when Jailbot bursts into Stevens's house to take them to be Superjail's therapist. Primarily for Jared. In the process of Jailbot coming in he had accidently killed James. Much to Stevens's dismay.

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> Best Accomplishment

> Finding stimpy and talking to the doctor

> His therapy degree

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> Worst Moment

> either the incident with his parents or James, maybe even when everything was taken away from him (first three weeks)

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> Failure in life

> getting no arm, not leaving James before said incident.

> Timeline :

> 1970 : He was birthed

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> 1983 Steven had realized he was gay and had gotten with James, who had kept their relationship a strict secret, would even be seen flirting w girls, but never stuck up for Steven (james was a year and a half older than he)

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> 1986-87 ; Officially disowned, left to Vermont with James (James had family there) to peruse more career options (age : 16)

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> 1988-89 : Steven had left to go to the millitary and had servered for quite some time as a marine. He was a sniper. James heavily disapproved of his job, But Steven thought it was the only option

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> 1990-2002 : Steven had been overseas most of this time with a few breaks inbetween

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> 2002 : Steven was discharged from the millitary due to loosing a limb (his left arm)

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> 2004 : Steven had finally gone to college to be a therapist

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> 2008 : He had finished college and became a therapist, which he was quite content with, aswell as he had finally gotten a prosthetic arm.

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> 2009-2013 : his career had blossumed, he had been a very well known therapist within the state of Vermont.

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> In 2014 : (when SJ was cannceled so the time line sorta lines up) This is when Steven had gotten snatched by Jailbot upon request of them needing a therapist/hr, James was killed on accident, woopsie

Steven Katz superjail

Steven Katz Superjail Oc

[st-just]

Further random tides of history thoughts

-Obviously not even slightly unique in this, but there's a really interesting break between the modern reactionary imagining of knights (selfless footsoldiers in the Army of Christ, etc), how they seem to have imagined themselves (piety still important, ofc, but also the paramount importance of personal honor as something maintained through private violence, etc) and what they actually basically were (landowners with manors and warhorses, primary occupations oppressing the peasentry and starting penny-ante civil wars. Though given how thin on the ground states were until the end of the period 'vendettas' is probably the better term tbh)

-This is kind of pleasingly isomorphic to how Imperial Japan utilized the image of the samurai in its propaganda vs. what samurai-as-actual-millitary-aristocrats were.

-Very unfortunate that Ferdinand and Isabela were, like, some of the worst people ever. The story of their engagement/marriage really does read like great raw material for a romance.

-handshake meme between the Knights Templar and the Swiss with 'going from a reputation of being terrifying bloodthirsty warriors to a stereotype of mostly just being rich bankers' (worked out better for one than the other ofc)

-[unrelated] the factoid that until the 16th century the Ottomans ruled over massively more Christians than Muslims and largely staffed the state bureaucracy with slaves from Christian communities and the (useful, important) fact that rather than some great foreign Other they were a pretty integral part of the European state system from the end of the Medieval period has the potential to be the raw material for some horrific cultural Christianity take, I just know it.