#hallucinatoryhollows

[voughtcorsair]

I still can't remember why I started following you or who you are, but I love to see your funky lil posts on my dash.

Anyway, what about ww1 do you find so fascinating? I've never been into wars myself, so I'm curious on the appeal and what specifically you're into about it. Is it the planes and stuff like that? Genuinely curious about what you personally like researching about this topic, I've never gotten to actually ask someone into the ww why.

thank you, that means a lot to me!!! sometimes tumblr makes ppl follow other people randomly so it means a lot that you've stuck around 💕 (im gatz and i post airplanes :-) )

my relationship to a lot of military stuff is really complicated but one of my great-grandfathers served in ww1 for germany and another in the usaaf in ww2 so i grew up with a lot of stories about them and i really want to find out more about their lives- the first one died when my grandpa was a little younger than me, but i heard a lot about him, and the second died when i was a lot younger and couldn't really conceptualize any of that stuff so i regret not asking him more questions.

i also ended up doing ww related stuff last year in school and there was some point at which that just clicked. i already had a lot of background information and i had read war novels before but literally it was like someone just hit me over the head and i went holy fuck! this is really interesting and i understand it! and i took a really really awesome ww2 class last semester and it was just SO interesting. as for aviation, i honestly prefer many airplanes pre-jet age... i've always LOVED aviation (again something i can't explain) and so learning about von richthofen and interwar/golden age of aviation and then corsairs my beloved ❤️ i love them. they're literally my best friends.

researching like...the causes of war, what happened during it, and the effect it had on people after is, imo, really essential to wholly understanding history. for example, wwi was the first example of mechanized warfare, and the immense tragedy and devastation and ugliness of it gave rise to the roaring 20s and there were SO many societal, political, and economic events that took place in such a short time that permanently altered human history and cultural beliefs. i think examining personal stories from wars is also invaluable because it gets really easy to just think of everything as statistics. but idk like the interaction between military and the contemporary culture as a whole is so interesting and there's so many consequences of these conflicts that you can trace directly to today. i think it's less of a traditional 'free serotonin' hyperfixation and more of something that's really challenging to learn about and examine which is a lot more engaging to me than regular idk fluffy stuff. No shade ofc im just kind of insane.

i also think that works of art produced as a direct result of the wars are really fascinating and many of them have influenced our present day culture. see all quiet on the western front, catch-22, the short timers (full metal jacket is much more influential but imo the book is better), and a lot of other books like this. additionally otto dix's der krieg series:

i don't know. i feel like this is Such a non-answer but the fact is that war influences all of our lives no matter what and it's genuinely really interesting to examine my personal connections, personal stories of people who were in them, and how it influences culture. and also airplanes - a lot of advancements in them were responses to what was needed in times of war which is why we went from the wright flyer to gotha g.v. and fokker dr.1s in the span of 15 years. i know some people are just interested in the technology and stuff which seems to be more common in a lot of online spaces but y'know. the human factor is really important. let me know if you have any other questions or want to know specifics!