#army culture

[bts-polls]

Day 4 of Bangtan-mas!

LAST CALL: How do you feel about referring to members posting n social media as 'coming home'?

[curio-queries]

Hi! Armys on Twitter are organizing an art project to welcome Hobi back and they're looking for participants!

It sounds really interesting. They will try to recreate the recording of the Equal Sign performance from Lollapalooza by redrawing/recreating frames from the clip and then creating a video out of them. They need a lot of participants! I thought you might want to join and also maybe spread the word among other armys on here, since they don't have a tumblr account. It would be such a beautiful gift for Hobi 💜

https://x.com/Equality_UandMe/status/1820112467177201855?s=19

Hi anon,

I purposely don't partake in the social media experience on TwiX. I will leave it to all who read this to decide for themselves if this is something you'd be interested in supporting.

For any that do decide to follow this link, I encourage you to make your own evaluations on the legitimacy of such a collaboration as well as the value of any time you may contribute. I'm sure there are wonderful projects being organized to gather love and support for our members and if participating in any of these brings you any peace or joy, then it will be time well-spent.

💜 BORAHAE!

PS, my recent poll regarding Hobi could absolutely use a few more votes. It's always sad to me when a singular member poll gets far fewer voters than the others.

Link here

[onlykenobimatters]

In which the kaminoans make a simple clerical error and hand Prime the wrong clone; Jango spends months doting on and loving his son only for them to come to him and apologize: they confused his unaltered clone with CC-2224. They take his son his Kote the clone from his arms and settle another little bundle there and it pulls loose the thought he’d been so desperate to never think: they’re just babies. Children. If there wasn’t something intrinsically different between them, then Jango had condemned children to death.

Jango can feel a massive headache coming on as he clutches the clone the child his son and wonders where he took a wrong turn in his life.

[thesilicontribesman]

Chesters Roman Fort Headquarters Courtyard and Roman Phallus Relief, Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

[curio-queries]

What a nice little story to stumble across. I may try to invest more time in finding positive posts to read. The current climate of my timeline here is less-than-stellar.

BTS fans win justice for translators at British Museum, there will now be policies to make certain they are credited for their work

[dream-in-seoul]

Ok let's get into it. If I see another tiktok where people bully a chubby girl for saying she likes some idol "because wtf she thinks, she is too ugly and he wouldn't ever like her" I will genuinely flip. Firstly, you don't know these people. You don't know what they like. They might not even be into women, and yet you are convinced that every attractive guy wants to date a supermodel?

Jackson Wang literally has a verbal fight with an interviewer who doesn't believe him he doesn't have a physical type and only goes of vibes and you guys will still get on socials and make videos about his ideal type being someone athletic because it's in his birth chart. Have you heard what he said? Hello?

Same for literally any other idol.

I hate to break it to you, but being skinny does not suddenly give you a chance with them. None of us have a chance and bullying people for their weight online will definitely not raise your chances because good portion of these idols would be disappointed if not disgusted by your behaviour.

Can we just enjoy our fantasies without attacking each other’s looks? Because at the end of the day, it is just a fantasy.

[noperopesaredope]

One of the funniest headcanons I include in my upcoming Coruscant Guard-centric Clone Wars fic is that while the clones will not crack under torture, when it comes to drama and whatnot, they will gossip with each other like crazy.

The CGs hear most everything happen in the Senate (partially because they were trained to be hypervigilant and aware of threats, partially because senators do not think they have free will and will therefore do the crazy shit in front of them) and they will spread that shit to other clones immediately. Eventually it will get to other units, and after perhaps a month or so, every clone in the GAR knows about so-and-so's absolutely wild sex life. They live for the gossip.

[lothcat-lothcat-lothwolf-run]

they (pong krell) hate to see a bad bitch (clones) winning (creating a culture and unique sense of self to combat the notion that they are purely disposable)

[ranahan]

There’s HUMINT (human intelligence), SIGINT (signals intelligence), MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence), etc. Let’s say the GAR uses those terms too.

I propose GAR lingo includes an additional term: OSINT, short for “osik intelligence”.

[swirl-web]

Oie divo tudo bem espero que sim, você poderia fazer um moodboard do Jordan powell porfavor no estilo dark agradeço desse de já. ♥︎

https://www.instagram.com/jordnpowll?igsh=MTkyNzJ5N2g5azE3Yg==

aqui está o moodboard do jordan powell.

perdão pela demora de entrega, espero que goste. ❤️🌷

[bts-polls]

Day 1 of Bangtan-mas!

LAST CALL: Will you be seeing Namjoon's documentary 'RM: Right People, Wrong Place'?

[2stepadmiral]

Maybe sort of a hot take? Satine Kryze was a terrible leader and kind of a petty tyrant. Like, look at what she actually did and how she did it and what the consequences were:

She committed effective cultural genocide against her own people by eviscerating a millennia-old culture/creed/tradition/religion, removing the at least 80% of it that she didn’t like and demanded that everyone else adapt it

Those who refused to relinquish their ancestral ways were exiled from their homeworld and even robbed of their cultural identity when she claimed that anyone who still practiced the warrior ways were not true Mandalorians

By enforcing this ‘my way or the highway’ policy, she created the environment where Pre Vizsla could form Death Watch and recruit all the followers he had out of the disillusioned she had branded as outcasts

By enforcing her strict pacifism, she disarmed her people and even her security forces, leaving the planet defenseless against both Death Watch and the Shadow Collective (imagine if the Yuuzhan Vong had invaded during this period)

Publicly belittled and insulted a high profile General in the Grand Army of the Republic/ Master and Council member of the Jedi Order in front of a number of Senators and her courtiers because he dared to point out that the Separatists might not let her remain neutral

Publicly stated that she didn’t want Jedi security present when traveling with a retinue of Republic Senators in the midst of a terrorism crisis that she was the main target of, in front of a number of people who would have been put at risk had she gotten her way

When Obi Wan pointed out that the Senators and likely her courtiers had requested Jedi security due to concerns for their own safety that she had disregarded, rather than acknowledging her thoughtlessness, she again insulted Obi-Wan and provoked an argument that she aggravated into a bickering session while Obi Wan tried and gradually failed at keeping civil

She seceded her world from the Republic rather than allow the slightest impression that she endorsed the Clone War (never mind that Alderaan and Naboo were prominent members of the Senate that opposed war and actively worked to end it peacefully and quickly without seceding), which forfeited the government aid Mandalore needed to survive in its damaged state and led directly to Prime Minister Almec having to use the black market just to keep the people fed

And in the end, all she accomplished was a maybe fifteen-twenty year period of relative peace before civil war broke out again, Maul took charge, the Empire forced fifteen years of relative obedience, and ultimately the planet was bombed and the Mandalorian people were decimated. The role of a good ruler or leader is to do what is best for your people, even if it’s contrary to your own preferences or interests, and Satine consistently made her own beliefs the order of the day, enforced from the top down. Had she moderated her approach, maybe tried to redirect the warrior tendencies into galactic peacekeeping, or advocated for a warrior second, hardworking builder/farmer/pilot/tradesmen helping to rebuild Mandalore first (sort of what Boba Fett did as Mand’a’lor in the EU), despite her personal disdain for violence and warfare, she could have been one of the greatest Mandalorian leaders who affected real change. Instead, she allowed her personal priorities to be the priorities of her regime and the guiding principle of her tyranny.

[cyberfartduck]

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Military Helmet, Trimontium Museum, Melrose

[savethegrishaverse]

Just know it's never a bad thing to let yourself enjoy something you're hyperfixated on. In the era of 'cringe culture', and when you can feel so busy you're bursting out the seams working hard to stay afloat, it is never a crime to indulge. You are allowed to write that self-insert omegaverse fic. You are allowed to spend hours drawing your favorite characters. You are allowed to read until three am and put off doing the dishes. Don't hold yourself back from joining that role-playing group. Don't hesitate to start putting together that cosplay. In the daily battle of keeping it together, you are allowed to do whatever you need to do to feel happy. You work really hard, and when you take a rest you should actually rest. And that means doing what makes you feel at peace.

You are allowed to love, and it is never a crime to express that love.

Edit, because a few tags point this out: definitely still take care of yourself! Take breaks, stay hydrated, and make sure to keep yourself safe! Just don't punish yourself for enjoying something just because of your own self-deprication. Don't let cringe culture or guilt about not constantly putting forth 100% effort stop you from finding your peace.

[tina-nina]

I needed more characters blatantly appalled by the regulators and going "yeah, we need to dismantle that brick by bloody brick" instead of "oh wow that's kind of wack, let's try and see where they're coming from."

I know where they're coming from. It still needs to be dismantled brick by bloody brick.