#animals in war

[virtie333]

[jeff-rees-jones]

Today in the UK it's 'poppy day' or memorial day when we remember the millions of soldiers who died in the 1914-18 war, now known as the first World war. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of November everything comes to a standstill for a one minute silnece.

I took part in a service and spoke on behalf of the conscripted animals...

They were with the British Expeditionary Forces from the very start.

They were with the British Expeditionary Forces at the very end.

They served at the Front, in the rear and in the support lines.

They stumbled through the hell of no-man's land, closely following every British and Commonwealth push.

In the mud, rain and terror of the trenches they supplied their comrades with food, water and ammunition, even though they themselves were starved, soaked and exhausted.

In each year of the war they died in their hundreds of thousands.

They were the war horses.

The light draught horse and mule played a role that is often overlooked by commentators and historians of the Western Front, but without them the ability of the British Army to cross Europe would have been almost impossible.

Taken from the fields, cities, factories and coal-pits of Britain and from the rolling plains of America and Canada, the light draught horse was press-ganged and shipped off to a terrible world just as unfamiliar to them as it was for their conscripted human counterparts.

The light draught horse and mule, however, went on to prove their worth time and time again, indeed, their numbers with the British Expeditionary Forces in France alone rose from 25,000 to over 475,000 by the autumn of 1918. On all fronts a staggering one million plus horses and mules were listed in service with British and Commonwealth forces by the close of war.

On the Western Front over 256,000 horses and mules had already died.

In December 1918, the victorious British Army marched in parade ground order over the Rhine into Cologne, and fittingly, their horses and mules were there too.

These animals that remained in the British Army's service were the fittest and the best available.

But for all their help and heroism, the 'standard' and 'poor quality' animals were either auctioned off at rock-bottom prices or sold... to French butchers.

Every November 11th, those who care, remember the great sacrifice of the men and women who fell, were maimed or participated in what has become known as the Great War.

90 years after the war ended a monument was finally placed in london's Park lane to honour all of the animals who took part and lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of pigeons and dogs too and of course the eight million horses and countless mules and donkeys, we remember them. x

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[blueiscoool]

Safe and Sound

Under the protection of the Ukrainian Aarmy. Shared love and warmth.

📷 Eugene Lata

[booksinpiles]

[heartiella]

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[i-am-aprl]

For 153 days, we’ve seen Palestinians taking care of not only fellow humans by sharing food with each other, helping save people from under the rubble, carrying random bloody strangers to hospitals, and lending a helping hand at any given, but we’ve also seen them, constantly, taking care of animals during the genocide.

[spectra-bear]

Sometimes something simple could be really special, after all.

[salmonpiffy]

Damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing

[wishingsparkjar]

For the Transformers 40th anniversary, have a collab with studio TRIGGER and Bump of Chicken

[thecutestgrotto]

Tumblr Boops

[miraluking-respectfully]

MEAN TO HIM!!!

[folklorespring]

If you want to support Ukrainians, DO NOT donate to Red Cross. Can't speak about their work in other countries, but they're useless in Ukraine. The only trustworthy international organisation I can think of is World Central Kitchen.

Donate to World Central Kitchen

And it's even better to donate directly to Ukrainian organisations. Here are a few good legit places:

hospitallers.life - "Hospitallers", Ukrainian paramedics on the frontlines

savelife.in.ua - "Come Back Alive", assistance to the army

prytulafoundation.org - "Prytula Foundation", assistance to the army, humanitarian causes

starenki.com.ua - "Starenki", helping elderly people

everybodycan.com.ua - "Everybody Can", helping disabled children, elders and hospitals

uanimals.org - "UAnimals", saving animals

[captain-mozzarella]

Obi and his padawans :3

I wanted to redraw this but I thought it would be more fun if I did a continuation instead :))))

My original file was apparently too big X)

[capsyst]

And here it is! My first fully completed Procreate Dreams animation. I used audio from one of Technoblade’s more famous rants during his Potato War series. I love Technoblade and miss him every day, so I hope that I was able to capture the magic of his energy in my animation.

I animated the roughs and drew the backgrounds in Procreate, but then I imported that into Dreams to do all the cleanup. It runs at 24 fps, but there’s a lot of variations to spice it up in there.

I wanted to really challenge myself so there’s a LOT going on in this short 9 second clip. There’s a camera move with multiple layers to achieve a subtle parallax scroll, there’s two lighting changes with one being a completely animated shadow layer, and there’s a warp effect on the curtains for when it opens and closes.

There’s still a lot that could be cleaned up. Some of the linework is a little more jittery than I would prefer, and the coloring process was awful. Every color was its own separate layer, which was exhausting to do. I really hope i can figure out a faster and easier way to do the coloring process because that took me over a week to complete! Yikes!

Overall I’m extremely proud of my work here. I’ve been working on this 9 second clip since Dreams released and I really wanted to showcase to everyone just how powerful Dreams is. I know a lot of people were complaining about it when it released and I wanted to do something to help reorient people’s expectations. I genuinely cannot believe that I did all of this on my iPad!

If anyone has any questions or would like to see a breakdown of this animation, please feel free to contact me!

And remember… Technoblade never dies!