#miiitary

[mariajmajesty]

If other band members can have months to themselves and not "rush to the miIitary asap" having their albums spaced out I see no reasonable reason why FACE got 10 days without any freedom to have more music videos or time. Unless pjm2 is coming but lol..not holding my breath after everything I have seen this past month when it comes to Jimin and the way his work is being handeled.

And that's all I'm going to say about this

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can i confess something

despite being online when the terms pr/sh/p and ant/ were conceived bc i was in mostly oc circles i had no idea that fandom at large became so polarized until relatively recently and think the whole thing is stupid

like

i sincerely hope that ka/sh/n implodes those terms permanently bc not only are they not helpful at all they lead to a lot of assumptions over the character and morals of strangers

i noticed bc someone straight up was like “it’s like a philosophical thought problem; is it still okay to ship them if we didn’t know they were cousins for 20+ years?” and other people “uhhh i swear i’m not pr/sh/p but i’m gnna ignore the canon and au they’re not related!!” and i’m just sitting here like

.. do you see how fucking dumb those terms are and how much stock people put in to their media consumption as a reflection of their morals and how that just Doesn’t Work 😭 ?????

like YES i will avoid certain ship content i don’t like; i’ll block accounts that center on characters i don’t want to see; i DO NOT engage with people who like certain media that i think is cringe — but i can do all of these things w/o attacking them which i think is what a lot of people need to learn idk..???

do i think certain people are freaks?? yes!!! duh!! but i feel like esp w/ eng speaking fandom spaces no one minds their own business or truly curates their own space or they think curating their space means controlling who their mutuals follow or engage with

like.

unless it is someone who’s TRULY horrible then it’s not my business?? like i think there’s a difference between your mutual following someone who draws r18 of a ship you don’t like and your mutual following an outed predator or whatever and in that case i’m not picking a fight w/ them i’m just blocking and moving on

i’m getting off track but i HATE the terms pr/sh/p and ant/ bc they’re completely disregard the fact that people can think for themselves and again impose very polarized morals on people who are NUANCED and probably dgaf if i’m gnna be real 💀

idk it reminds me of the person who pissed me tf off bc they were like “brav/rn seems cool but uhm the miIitary??? 🫤🫤🫤” and implied that anyone who watched it was endorsing pro-miIitary propaganda when the show isn’t even about that at all they just want to virtue signal and say i’m smart for not falling for …. nonexistent propaganda ???

in the end it really isn’t that complicated and it isn’t anyone’s job to curate your space for you. block and mute content and accs who post things you dislike. you don’t have to fight about it. maybe stop defining others and yourself based off what you’re shipping or consuming like idk!! the block feature is quick easy put the pr/sh/p ant/ terms away

i just think it’s crazy like i blinked and the etiquette of just blocking or ignoring content you dislike was replaced with

whatever this is

and i’m sorry but i think it’s hilarious that it took something like this to fully expose how pointless those terms and that attitude in general are

[kitwilsonsass]

also in b4 someone tries to pass 'no g u n s... except for the miIitary'

[goldammerchen]

still unhappy with this post but i don't want to edit it further. here some barely coherent extra thoughts—note: i'm fucking sick.

(...) but reverted into being a soldier, and they're not supposed to think;

...but they obviously do. is easy for soldiers or anyone following orders to just say "i did what i was told", and social experiments have found out that most people will just do, that, washing their hands out of responsability. after all, we teach kids since the beginning to obey, right? yeah, but this is also bullshit. anyone is capable of evil, soldiers during war or unrest times feel justified (that's why the miIitary shouldn't exist but that's just my opinion) (i know is not that easy)...

why making only one brother the "stick in the mud"? other interpretation would have had both being like that. i guess hima always put emphasis in pru "doing whatever he wanted", by what the bios say. but the blind obedience that followed whoever was in charge, the miIitarism, the hierarchy, was pru.ssian (btw ever read about the Captain of Köpenick?)

i kinda lost my train of thoughts. back to the military, and to the time of those uniforms, while hima started the webcomic with the stories about the itaIian military (he.tare/useless-itaIia-hetaIia), and it started as a comedy with often sexual humor, that didn't limit itself to only ww.ii even back them, well. i think all he.ta people would be heta.re—good-for-nothing, irresponsible, often caring more about saving their own skin, never doing enough at the time—so, the 'uwu poor guys' doesn't completely convince me when is taken more seriously (like yes their position would suck, being always managed, but, hima nearly always made them soldiers; govts special immortal dogs). i think they would a bunch of entitled people, also capable of good (guardians), but terrible, more or less, some more than others, depending of the period/power...

what else? the "poor germ.ans it was all hitIer" drives me insane, same with the "one branch was evil the other was just soldiers"

"Most people dislike wars and feel the world would be a better place without them. Yet contempt for cowardice seems to move them on a far deeper level. After all, desertion (...) is probably the greatest threat to wars of conquest. (...) Yet even those who claim to hate war often feel uncomfortable celebrating desertion."

[dougielombax]

All those terminally divorced middle aged freaks and grifters crowing on about “miiitary aged men” among immigrants and refugees in Ireland would never, EVER themselves volunteer to fight if Ireland was invaded.

(And they know it. Whether they want to admit it or not remains to be seen.)

They’d either get on a plane and run away to Australia (and never come back) or collaborate with the invaders.

Just saying.

(Also before any shithead armchair colonel wants to ask if I’d fight, look at my political ideology and work backwards from there, figure it out your own damn self!)

[deblala]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/brazil-world-cup-fans-chant-lula-thief-belong-jail-miiitary-coup-looms/

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Summon Away | Writing Update

Hey People of Earth!

The day has come! I am finally writing an update on the fifteenth and final chapter of Moth Work, which I wrote about a month ago! 

Summon Away is probably the shortest in the book at just over 1800 words, and also one of my faves because it’s so?? tender?? I wrote it in one sitting and couldn’t have asked for a better end to this book. Here’s a scene breakdown:

Scene A:

Harrison sees Lonan for a soft moment early in the morning, free of the stress of Eliza lmaooo. They have a super tender moment, however there’s this strange tension to the point where we know something isn’t exactly right.

Harrison moves the scene along by saying he’s going to grab a pack of cigarettes from a gas station down the road. From the context, we can probably tell this is true, except he ain’t coming back. Probably the most sweepingly dramatic moment I’ve ever written and I’m here for it loool. This is my soap opera moment where Harrison essentially leaves Lonan to have his new relationship with Eliza, despite his concern, because he’s gotta make a decision that’s healthiest for him and that’s called character development folks!!

Did I break my own heart breaking up my OTP :) yes!!!

Scene B:

This is a really short half scene where Harrison locates his mother who doesn't live far from Eliza’s apartment.

Scene C:

Harrison and his mother sit outside on her balcony and he reflects on his decision to split (literally a trend that all my Fostered characters are yeeting away from each other oops) while watching people below engage in some form of a relationship with one another. So much drama!!

The chapter gets its title from a Nothing But Thieves song (why would it not at this point), Tempt You (Evocatio). I was struggling to title this chapter because I needed something that fit the vibe, and had actually tried to use the concept of an evocation to title a chapter for this book previously to no avail. However, after revisiting the Wikipedia article for an evocation, I came across the definition of “summon away”:

The Latin word evocatio was the "caIIing forth" or "summoning away" of a city's tutelary deity. The rituaI was conducted in a miIitary setting either as a threat during a siege or as a result of surrender, and aimed at diverting the god's favor from the opposing city to the Roman side, customariIy with a promise of a better-endowed cuIt or a more Iavish Tempie.

I thought this concept of “summoning away” sounded slightly contradictory (the word summon brings images of a coming forth of some sorts, while the word away sounds like the opposite at least to me am I making this more *metaphorical* than it is perhaps) and I really thought the chapter strangely fit the above definition, hence my choosing!

Excerpts:

This is kind of torture because I dearly miss writing the boys interacting as they’re not with each other in Feeding Habits the angstttt:

“What is that?” Harrison asks, pulling back a barstool with one hand, while pointing at the mug with another.

Lonan glances up, and the two mutually analyze each other. Lonan’s puckered skin, how morning makes his eyelashes papery, like wings. He wonders what Lonan sees in him—for a moment, it’s all he wants to know.

Lonan knuckles the mug over and Harrison picks it up like he’s holding an eyeball. The tea is hot, though Lonan hasn’t seemed to mind, and its flowery perfume burns Harrison’s throat. Lonan pulls the mug back to him when Harrison’s done, and takes another sip.      

“I still have no idea,” Harrison says, and to his shame, studies Lonan’s face for a bite wound.

“Earl grey.”

“Sounds fancy.”

“It expired four years ago.”

Harrison gasps, and Lonan almost smiles. And for a moment, Harrison almost forgets where he is. What happened at this counter just a few hours prior. With Lonan, it almost disappears. They could be back at the cabin, needling through the woods on that first day they tried to get rid of the dark room. They could be in the water, shielding, yet simultaneously pushing each other under. They could be dancing to no music in a tiny bathroom or driving for carless miles in the tarnish of rain. 

This is my very overt metaphor that I bullshitted to title this novel that ended up working being very overtly injected into this book !! :))) but imagine this part with a sepia filter and it’s actually a silent film with captions oh:

“I found this article,” Lonan says, and turns the paper over. It’s not very long, just a small corner of the entire page, but Harrison sees the title, all bolded, Summer’s Dreaded Pesk: 10 Facts About Moths. He leans in closer to read it.

The facts are almost all useless to him—that moths like sweet things, that there are thousands of species, that many don’t eat, but what sticks out to him is the last: how they’re attracted to light. Harrison skims the text with his fingernail, reads something about light traps, and tries not to think of how unfortunate it all is—to move toward light and then stop moving altogether. 

He knows whatever he will say will keep him here, in this sun, on this barstool, reading the newspaper about moths, sitting next to Lonan, drinking his tea, never knowing what flavour it is. Harrison inhales, and on his exhale, unclasps the chain and drapes it around Lonan’s throat.

When the angel hits Lonan’s chest, a sound comes out of his mouth that Harrison thinks is almost animal. Harrison’s hand lingers on the back of Lonan’s neck when he clasps it, feeling the pulse of Lonan’s heartbeat, even from all the way up here.

Lonan clutches the angel when Harrison pulls back, and he doesn’t let go, even when Harrison rises.

“I’m going to grab a pack of cigarettes,” Harrison says. “Is there a gas station around here?”

“Just up the road.” Lonan’s brows furrow.

“Do you want anything?”

“I don’t think so.”

Harrison nods. Then he steps back, away from the kitchen, and slips his shoes on, one by one, more carefully than he’s ever done before. He knows Lonan looks at him. He knows what’ll be in his eyes if he looks up—and so he doesn’t. Harrison checks his jacket pocket for his car keys, and when they jangle, he turns toward the door.

“How long?”

Lonan’s voice makes him jump.

“Pardon?”

“How long will you be gone?”

Harrison frowns. “I’m just grabbing a pack of cigarettes.”

So Harrison’s reaction to everything being white and gold is my reaction to modern decoration loool this is just CNF at this point:

Harrison buys the pack of cigarettes. And then the gum. And then he finds his mother.

She isn’t hard to locate. A quick question at the checkout counter, and he finds out the apartment complex near the public garden is only a fifteen-minute drive away.

It’s just as he pictures it. A white building, with a white lobby, the bricks white, the carpets white, the tables white. In little places, there are bits of gold, in place he doesn’t think gold should be—lining the keyboard the security guard types at, on the edges of every window so it’s only visible when the sun flashes.   

And at last, here’s the final paragraph of the book!!! angst!!

His mother reads. Harrison watches. A father and son down below, who take turns walking their golden retriever. A food stand vendor that hands a stack of checked tissues to a mother wrangling four small children. A couple who take photos in front of a fountain, how he can almost hear the mechanical click of their camera from fifty feet up. Something stirs inside of him, at the thought of Lonan back in that golden apartment, and he only realizes what it is much later, when his mother is heating up something spiced and leftover in the microwave. The feeling like being buried alive and wanting to do it again just so someone can pull you out. A loneliness he sucks on until his mouth sores. 

And there it is!! This book has been so much fun to share with y’all! Thanks for reading these updates and for all the love for this novel. I haven’t written anything for book two in a while, and am now feeling nostalgic to do so, so keep an eye out for more Moth Work related endeavors! For now this is the end!

--Rachel

[s-lay-ing]

I was going to say "the second kyungsoo is discharged from the miIitary this blog will be on full ksoo lockdown, you've been warned" but then i thought Bold for me to assume we'll immediately see constant ksoo content after he's released i mean even the exos who haven't enlisted yet have been kind of quiet so :-)

[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

There was infinitely more evidence of Benghazi than Russiagate

there was a bigger scandal in how the USA unilaterally destabilized the country itself beyond the guidelines of “no-fly zone” that the UN granted the coalition.. like, the airstrike on gaddafi’s convoy fleeing sirte.

republicans decided to shit bricks over an impossible situation that was a byproduct of that for impotent political circus

both are to distract relative parties with trumped up non-issues that are so intractable and cyclical that endless fuel can be puton it without it ever leading to anything.

benghazi was a shit issue and it only got any traction becuase in the end, it just served to make the USA’s miiitary industrial complex even greater.

[waggle100]

Again, I will emphasis. I hate the new Gronk commercials. Not because I want to endorse the military per say but because I find the attempted humor in the commercials hugely disrespectful. There are certainly enough corrupt military to be hesitant but there is also the ones that do it for the right reasons (or enough of them) to still warrant the respect of the services allotted to them. It makes zero sense to play these ads that more likely further alienize the “good” portion of the miiitary. 

[attorneyandlawyer]

THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN PRESSURES ON NIGERIA'S DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS: 1995-1998

THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN PRESSURES ON NIGERIA’S DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS: 1995-1998

THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN PRESSURES ON NIGERIA’S DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS: 1995-1998

Abstract:

The study’s main thrust was the analysis of the impact of the limited economic sanctions imposed against Nigeria because of the obnoxious policies of the Abacha military government. In addition, the study found out who really suffer the impact of sanctions. It is the ordinary people and not the miiitary top…

[s-lay-ing]

Minho is going to be discharged from the miIitary on my b*rthday, absolute proof he's the Iove of my Iife

[thkuyeshua]

I'm Guessing That's Not An OFFICIAL MiIitary Vehicle #Shorts 🟠⚪🟣The NPC ...

🤔here is the Truth about everything: Please watch The Fall of the Cabal Parts 1-18 on BitChute or Odysee & truthgnosis.com🇺🇸🙏😇

[thkuyeshua]

We Need A MiIitary TribunaI for General Milley #Shorts 🟠⚪🟣The NPC Show

🤔here is the Truth about everything:  Please watch The Fall of the Cabal Parts 1-18 on BitChute or Odysee🇺🇸🙏😇

[thkuyeshua]

BlDEN Is Setting Up Our MiIitary For Failure #Shorts 🟠⚪🟣The NPC Show

🤔Here is the Truth about everything:  Please watch The Fall of the Cabal Parts 1-18 on BitChute or Odysee🇺🇸🙏😇

[s-lay-ing]

Okay but the general consensus is that maybe that's how sment is planning to welcome minseok and ksoo from the miIitary ????