#military tw

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a secret military run organization that experimented on teens and tweens and broadcast their screams in Red Rooms. My karate teacher, my color guard captain, even my own mother didn't believe me. There was also a TV show based on the organization.

[compassionatereminders]

No but like, I can't believe I met up with a wholesome sounding Tinder dude who said he "loved his volunteer work" and was "very dedicated to making a difference for society and helping people" just to then discover that he meant like. With a machine gun. In the military. No sergeant you are NOT getting a second date!!!

[gyllenhaalstories]

“ I don’t remember any of it. I only remember... The Interpreter. ”

Jake Gyllenhaal as John Kinley in THE COVENANT (2023).

[svejarph]

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This movie takes place in 1940s British Isles while occupied by Nazis. I tried my best to crop out as much as I can.

tw: eating, guns, illness, military, nazis, shaky camera, war, water, waves

[jaceeverett]

TASK #23 THANKFUL

I'm thankful for my life.

Despite the fact that we have no relationship, I am thankful for the fact that my parents brought me into this world, that they loved each other enough to decide to have children, that they gave me three siblings who are my family. I'm grateful that their families settled in Merrock, that they called this place their home so that I can call it home, too, and build my life here.

I'm thankful for the lifelong friends that I made in the military. For the lessons that it taught me, the man that it shaped me into being today. The discipline and in some ways, the compassion. The fact that I know how to make a bed better than anyone else that I know, too, that helps. I'm thankful for the friends that I still talk to, and the ones that I pray to at night, who are no longer with us. And, today especially, all of the veterans who came before me and came after me, and will always come along.

And I'm thankful to Maine. For the forests and the landscapes, for the wildlife and the quiet nights and the cool, crisp air that has comforted me a dozen times over when I've needed it the most. I'm grateful for Annabelle Lee and the home she has given me for years, and the Jeep that gets me from point A to point B.

Every morning, I am thankful for the air in my lungs and the thump of my heart against my rib cage. I am thankful to be alive.

[anti-ao3]

no and israel isn't just attacking gaza, they've been attacking lebanon and they just attacked the capital of syria, damascus. but you barely see any western newspapers talking about that

[dollarstore-kins]

Undyne icons with a navy/army vibe requested by 🌊 Anon!!

-Mod ET

[merrock]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

face claim: Jonathan Daviss

full name: Briggs Atlas Halim

nickname(s) / goes by: Briggs, Halim

pronouns & gender: he/him, cis man

sexuality: demiromantic

birth date: May 9, 1996

birth place: Merrock, Maine

arrival to merrock: Born here! 

housing: Rural Countryside

occupation: Case Work for Department of Social Services; Future Pastor

work place:  Department of Social Services so likely works out of a Merrock governmental building

family: He has an unknown biological family. He also has adoptive parents and adoptive siblings.

relationship status: single

PERSONALITY

Having faced challenges throughout his life, Briggs is resilient. He sees obstacles as opportunities to grow and is adept at adapting to changing circumstances while maintaining his calm and faith. A part of him has never quite felt like he belonged so he has always worked a little harder to try and fit in. There is nothing he wants more than approval from his adoptive family. They’ve never given him reason to feel any different than their biological children but he still feels lesser than at times. A part of that is because he a part of him has always questioned where he came from and why his biological family did not opt to keep him. He firmly believes in there being a purpose for everything and is content to trust in that plan. He is a natural leader but is more inclined to be a follower. He is humble and not above doing the hard work to get a job done. He enjoys engaging with diverse groups of people, sharing his experiences, and learning from others. He enjoys an active life style dividing his time between his spiritual studies, mentoring people in the community or just enjoying community events. He prefers a nerdy night of video games or D&D to drinking or partying. 

WRITTEN BY: Kris (she/her), EST.

BACKGROUND / BIO

triggering / sensitive content warning: military, combat.

The first three years of Briggs life are a mystery. He doesn’t know much about his biological family aside from the fact that he was born in Merrock and adopted into a local family. He always felt like the odd duckling out, knowing that he didn’t biologically belong to them but his adoptive parents were good to him and he had a decent relationship with his adoptive siblings.

In school, he was book smart. He did well in his classes and generally got along with people around him. People assumed he would be athletic and he was encouraged to try out for sports but they weren’t really his thing. While he did play some basketball, he was never that great and spent most of the time warming the bench. He was far better at nerdy things, preferring to hang out with the D&D crowd over the athletes, even if he would have been included.

At the age of eighteen, he decided joined the military serving in the Army. He enjoyed the routine and fellowship that came with basic training. While he wasn’t as skilled as some of his peers, he did the absolute best he could and gained respect of his peers for being someone they could trust. He spent most of his military career in Kuwait. Most of his service was spent during humanitarian work instead of combat. He was fortunate in that. Through the years, he saw plenty of others pass through who were not as fortunate as he. He also saw a lot of horror with refugees fleeing combat zones. These experiences were formative to the person he has ultimately become.

After spending several years abroad and the expiration of his service tour, he decided to return home. Feeling inspired by everything he’d seen abroad, he felt a calling to turn to a higher purpose. He enrolled in seminary school and has been studying to be a pastor. While he is working through school, he is working case aide for the local Department of Social Services, providing support and guidance to families in need.

[gizm0-gadgetz]

Man

I come to school again finally and I'm stuck in a military explanation class

Like

Fuck off ya wouldn't accept me even if I wanted to

[ulyflynn]

🌹 — roses in bloom!

🌹 — roses in bloom! for a headcanon about a time my muse gifted or received roses/flowers of some sort, and what that meant to them.

"I bought Edie's mom flowers on Christmas Day the first one I was invited to as her boyfriend to say sorry for Christmas Eve. We didn't really do holidays in the trailer growing up so I think it all got a bit overwhelming for me. I ended up getting into it with Edie's oldest brother Bruno, who rightfully dragged my ass outside when I told him it would a better Christmas the year after because he'd probably be coming home from active duty in a box and no one would have to hear his whiny bitch voice correcting me on how I talk. He should have kicked the shit out of me in the front yard for that, but Goldie and Javi wouldn't let him."

"Spent the whole next morning looking for somewhere that was open so I could get the fucking flowers. I don't like flowers so they were probably shitty ones but Goldie's too classy to say that. Still let me come to dinner that day too and let me keep dating her daughter. She's always been real good to me when she didn't have to be." @edietello

𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 ;  𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 …  ( 𝒓𝒆𝒅 )

[schakira]

the crazy thing about being a gay in the closet during my (obligatory) military service is just... hearing all the dumb shit cishet men have to say. i've adopted the habit of just nodding and smiling and joking around because going against these twats will make me a thousand times more miserable than i already am here. but. like. dude? do they really need to talk about burning lgbt flags? to insult and torture the few gay guys that are out? to insult trans people out of nowhere with venomous hatred? to talk about women as if they were less than, as if they were objects? is it at all necessary to be that shitty of a human being? surely i'm not surprised this way of thinking still exists (i'm not that naive) but my very point here is that all this hatred seems so... performative? like "look guys. i am not like them. i do not align myself with them. so i will perform until you recognize me as one of you, and not one of them." we got you the first time. the repetition is unnecessary. to me, this just reeks of weak-willed behavior. to live in dissonance with the normal and natural world that surrounds you, living in a delusion of what should be is just... crazy behavior to me.

[compassionatereminders]

Quite interesting what the American election might mean for Europe, because if Trump wins he's walking out of NATO and while Russia has some respect for EU + the US as a combined force, the military power of the EU alone is honestly not super impressive. (Not that I generally consider the US, the American military, military power in general or even the EU a force of good. All of the above institutions are worthy of criticism/not objectively "good")

[gyllenhaalstories]

“ Do you think if I could be free of this debt... I wouldn’t be? You think I have a choice? There is no choice. ”

Jake Gyllenhaal as John Kinley in THE COVENANT (2023).

[svejarph]

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tw: baby, childbirth, drinking, flashing lights, flickering lights, hugging, illness, military, police, pregnancy, shaky camera, smoke, smoking

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

just finished a conversation with an army recruiter, messages are separated by a paragraph change.

*basic military recruitment spiel*

I'm going to be real with you. I spent 3 years trying to get on SSI for my serious physical disability with no luck. I watched the absolutely terrible handling of the pandemic that caused thousands of unnecessary deaths, the pointless deaths and displacements of my innocent neighbors in the Middle East by US forces, and the military try to deny US citizens their right to peaceful protest during the BLM protests. I would rather die someday in a way that benefits no one than die doing anything for the U.S. government. There's a reason y'all don't have my personal email and phone number and it's because I denied providing it and signed a form saying I didn't want to be contacted. Do not contact me again.

No problem. A simple “No Thank You” would have sufficed. However, I do respect your opinions, because it is your right to have them. However, what I respect the most are my brothers & sisters in arms that have pledged their lives to defending your right to have your opinion. So, before you stand on your soap box and preach to me, you should possibly look at things from both sides, & give respect to the ones that have made it possible for you to have your opinions. I’m trying to be as respectful as I can, but in simple terms, we don’t need you or anyone else that feels that they are above us in some way. But like I said, that is your right to feel that way, & my brothers & sisters in arms will continue every day to defend your right to feel that way. I hope that you are feeling ok with your disability and I hope that everything has worked out financially for you with your SSI. Good Luck with everything in your future. And that’s me being real with you. Have a great day.

you seem like you genuinely care about people's rights, and I do actually appreciate that. I hope that one day you and your brothers and sisters who are like you find a cause that truly fights for them to devote your time to.

this is why I signed paperwork saying I didn't want to be contacted because I'm incapable of letting injustice go and I will start fights with random active military members if given the opportunity. I just fucking hate the audacity to contact people my age as it the government hasn't be actively torturing us and the rest of the world our entire lives. I was born like 4 months pre-9/11, I have never known a world in which the US military was good or actually fighting for anyone's rights. I have so much more I want to say but if I can't say it safely then I just want to be left alone.

[anti-ao3]

As someone who loves Fantasy as an artistic genre, I do not know if most people know that genres by themselves do not exist in vacuums, and there is a difference between exploring serious adult topics with honest sensitivity and being-dark-and-edgy for shits and giggles.

Yeah, I'm not entirely familiar with the fantasy genre, but I have heard about harmful stereotypes, such as goblins being money-hungry creatures, which alludes to antisemitic beliefs (H/arry P/otter notably does this but I think other fantasy media might have adopted it as well, though correct me if I'm wrong). Considering a lot of these stories try metaphors for marginalization, usually by creating a fictional group, they definitely don't exist in a vacuum. I can think of SO MANY examples here - from the top of my head, I think of Fullmetal Alchemist and the Ishvalans, and also the Liorans in the 2003 adaptation. Both these groups are brown people who live in the desert, victims of oppression and genocide.

(I almost forgot to mention Game of Thrones, but I refuse to ever interact with it.)

It's what I've said before, fiction is not detached from reality. It doesn't exist on its own. Someone - one person or more - creates it, based on what they learned, and they still send a message even if it's not the intention. Again, they don't always agree with their characters, but some usually make that clear, like Vladimir Nabokov about the main character of Lolita. I've seen time and time again the argument that fiction "doesn't have to teach anything", but more often than not, the creators do end up saying something. I say this as an artist and a writer. Although it's not fantasy, I think of The Last of Us originally being inspired by Israel and Palestine, and the creator is clearly a Zionist who wanted Palestinians dead for killing an Israeli soldier. I read that it's more obvious in the second game. Hell, what about Marvel movies? I learned from Pop Culture Detective that the military is the one that approves their movies, and many other action movies like Independence Day and Top Gun. The military holds a lot of power over fictional movies and videogames. I would say the police does, too.

Sorry for going a little off-topic, these are the examples I could think of since, again, I'm not very familiar with fantasy media. Regardless, I agree with you. Feel free to talk more about this topic if you want!