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The Grim Reaper doesn't come for the dead. That's a myth. He doesn't wear a robe either. Nor does he carry a scythe.
The Grim Reaper comes for the living. He wears the uniform of a private, ill fitting on a young man who's barely past boyhood.
The Grim Reaper comes for mothers. And when he comes every mother on the street steps outside to watch him go, dreading that it's her door where he's gonna stop.
The Grim Reaper is trembling and shy. It never gets easier. All those eyes on him.
The Grim Reaper doesn't carry a scythe. He carries a mailbag. And in it are a hundred letters. Each stamped with the Royal Army Seal.
The mother cries. She refuses the letter. But the Grim Reaper will not be denied. He is not the instrument of death. Only its herald.
The Grim Reaper has no time to stay. There're so many letters yet to deliver today.
The year is 1915, and the Grim Reaper knows that tomorrow will be a busy day as well.
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1x01 / 1x09
#the terror#the terror amc#james fitzjames#SDLFKJASLDKFJ james saying the same thing about franklin and francis#except when he said it about franklin he was a different and more foolish person#believing the lie of franklin's beneficent paternalism#(WHILE FRANKLIN IS LITERALLY LOWERING DYING DAVID YOUNG INTO THE ROW BOAT FOR CONVENIENCE SAKE!!!!!)#and then in 1x09 seeing and recognizing and feeling the depths of francis' genuine kindness and love and care for these men#even these men who had done harm to him!!!!!!#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#do you ever think about how 1x09 is about LOVE and TENDERNESS and how it MATTERS even when DEATH IS CERTAIN#do you ever think about how franklin's paternalism IS the british empire!!!#and scream!!!!!#more than god loves them!! more than queen and country loves them!! sent to die for nothing!!! for a trade route that would never work!#and if they had survived and returned home england would've still killed them!!#would've demanded they lie about their experience court martial-ed for losing the ships sent out again to starve to death for a new venture#did you know that three of the shackleton expedition survivors got home through hell only to turn around and die for england in WWI!!!#this show makes me insane!!!!!!!
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"How fortunate we were who still had hope, I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die."
~ Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
#this quote is so angsty but i love it#vera brittain#testament of youth#quotes#literature quotes#literature#lit quotes#literary quotes#quotations#english literature#english author#british literature#british author#female author#world war i#world war 1#world war one#wwi#ww1#ww1 literature#wwi literature#classic literature#classic lit#classic literature quotes#classic lit quotes#death quotes#e
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Barely made it 5 minutes into Dead Boy Detectives before crying. I love Death of the Endless so much… 😭
#dead boy detectives#the sandman#death of the endless#really fitting to have it release on ANZAC Day and start with a WWI ghost
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#the great war#world war i#world war 1#wwi#ww1#world war one#war is a racket#war is a business#wwone#war#war photography#war profiteers#war propaganda#no man's land#death#death and destruction#rats get fat while good men die#war inc#no more brother wars#government corruption#politicians profit#government control#government cover up
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Men of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry), some of whom had been awarded the Croix de Guerre by France for their courage under fire, on June 11, 1918.
Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Colored Troops
Image description: A line of Black soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder in a grassy field. They are wearing World War I U.S. Army uniforms and narrow metal helmets.
Transcription:
SUBJECT: 165-WW-127-4 NUMBER EU
165 WW-127 4
Inter. Film Ser. Photographer
Rec'd June 11, 1916 Taken
DESCRIPTION:
NEGRO TROOPS IN FRANCE.
Picture shows a part of the 15th Regt. Inf. N.Y.N.G organized by Col. Haywood, which has been under fire. Two of the men Privates Johnson and Roberts, displayed exceptional courage while under fire and routed a German Raiding party for which the negroes were decorated with the French Croix de Guerre. it will be noticed that the men have taken to the French trench helmet instead of the flatter and broader British style.
#archivesgov#June 11#1918#1910s#World War I#WWI#military#U.S. Army#Black history#African American history#Harlem Hellfighters#369th Infantry#15th New York National Guard#Henry Johnson#Henry “Black Death” Johnson#Needham Roberts#who lied about his age to enlist and was seventeen at this time
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"Jiang Cheng is evil, because he acted like Wei Wuxian owed him something!"
He fucking did, tho?
Did you skip the fourth of the novel that spells out that Wei Wuxian fucking did owe Jiang Cheng something?
He owed him a goddamn ✨✨explanation✨✨ for suddenly going rogue, then seemingly insane, then murdering his brother in law and then losing his mind and their sister to the powers WWX assured everyone and anyone he could control 100% no biggie.
And that this is ultimately all Jiang Cheng wanted from Wei Wuxian? An explanation and an apology for being lied to and abandoned without a word? He wanted him to come back home, apologise to the dead, and explain himself.
How is that a hard concept to understand to some people?
If your friend keeps telling you "Hey, let's open up a bakery and I will do half of the work, and its gonna be great!" but then, once you open the bakery, the friend keeps skipping his part of the job and ultimately, without an explanation, goes to support your flagging competition while pissing off every other shop owner in the city - demanding an explanation is the least you'd do.
How the hell can you look at the guy desperate to ask "What happened to make all our lives go so wrong?" and think "Eugh, entitled!"
Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling are THE people deserving answers the most in the whole world post WWX's ressurection. He pretty much destroyed both of their lives - not on purpose, no, but inadvertently that's what happened. There was more people and interests at play, but the things that impacted these two the most were of Wei Wuxian's lies.
Demanding explanations is, really, the gentlest thing Jiang Cheng could punish him with.
#“Jin Ling forgave wwi Wuxian and now loves him and wants to be his baby” the man still murdered his father#jin ling ends the book conflicted and unsure what to think of him and wen ning#because they murdered his father for no good reason#redemption by death works when you stay dead#otherwise you better pull your sleeves up and get back to work#-__-#mdzs
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Once a soldier removed his helmet and kit harness in battle, he might be killed if his captor was in the heat and anger of battle or had a personal grudge. Usually his life would be spared. The lowered head, the anxious face, the upheld bible or crucifix were sufficient. Seeing a man recognizably human and not that stereotype of inhumanity which the front-line soldier usually projected onto his foe, a civilian response subvened.
— Denis Winter, Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War
#quotes#first world war#wwi#great war#ww1#denis winter#death's men#seeing a man recognisably human#military history
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Fritz Gareis (1872–1925), In Erwartung (In Anticipation), Illustration from Die Muskete magazine, 1916
#Fritz Gareis (1872–1925)#Erwartung#Die Muskete magazine#1916#grim reaper#angel#satan#memento mori#death#Illustration#antique#vintage#WWI era#the great war#the great war era#World War I#First World War (28 June 1914 – 11 November 1918)
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Letter from C.S. Lewis to his father, 1918
Lewis in a letter to his father dated 28 June 1918 – Letters of C.S. Lewis
As a parent I will never understand how CSL's father could decide not to visit him after he wrote him this letter.
The letter is heartbreaking, written in a manner more open and vulnerable than you would ordinarily expect from a former public schoolboy.
He practically begged his father to come visit. I'd imagine any parents of soldiers who died in the war would have given their right arm for a chance to visit their sons alive in London. The chance that CSL's father for some reason did not grab.
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Cover for “The Other Kingdom” by @banhus for the @endlessbigbang
Fic and Art on ao3
In 1916, Roderick Burgess successfully summons Death, and Hob Gadling wakes up in the trenches alongside three dead soldiers.
Bonus custom divider
#the sandman#endlessBB23#dreamling#hob gadling#dream of the endless#tw blood#tw death#trench warfare#ww1#wwi#big bang
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Inked (yet to be coloured) panel from Ottoway volume 2 of unnamed French soldier caught in barbed wire, pose taken from 'The death of Laocoön and his sons'.
#ottoway#ww1 fiction#my art#wwi#original comic#ww1#french soldier#barbed wire#the death of Laocoön and his sons#statues#ink drawing#digital
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"got a cameo for my bestest friend so this is clipped for personal reasons!
just incase u forgot who george was, a reminder.
on staying motivated, particularly in the arts.
a stanza from ‘The Sack of the Gods’, as recited by Death in The Case of Crystal Palace."
Do you have any favourite poems for you or Edwin?
"She with the star I had marked for my own - I with my set desire - Lost in the loom of the Night of Nights - lighted by worlds afire - Met in a war against the Gods where the headlong meteors glow, Hewing our way to Valhalla, a million years ago!
They will come back - come back again, as long as the red Earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?"
- The Sack of the Gods, Rudyard Kipling
#ru#rue#ruby#chippedredgems#wilfred the wwi ghost#death of the endless#this is a conversation between hob and death in the comics#rudyard kipling#the sack of the gods
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~ Wilfred Owens, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
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[ID/ Wilfred Owens poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
/end ID]
#tw death#tw gore#tw war#wilfred owen#poem#poetry#dulce et decorum est#wwi#ww1#world war one#world war 1#world war i#history#literature#lit quotes#literary quotes#literature quotes#literary quotations#british literature#british lit#english literature#english lit#english poetry#british poetry#war poetry#great war#the great war#20th century literature#20th century lit#classic lit
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An image from the 1917 silent Danish film PEACE ON EARTH (released in Denmark as “Pax Aeterna”).
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#this one is longer#i want to know what tumblrs favourite era is#history#polls#wwi#wwii#war of the roses#cold war#emu war#tudors#ancient greece#ancient rome#ancient egypt#stone age#victorian era#plague#black death#the bubonic plague#american revolution#french revolution#space race
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