#periodic propaganda

[periodictabletournament]

my science teacher's least favorite element is beryllium because it killed her dad

that's not one of the elements that usually kills people

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[cryptile]

Me when i can be trusted with a weapon

(lie)

[queerquaintrelle]

Sir??? Sir???

🥵🥵🥵🥵

[raymoo--hackery]

Stupid silly FDS edits :P

[mckinleygirl98]

(deep and advertisement voice)

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to get back at those HUNS!

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[servuscallidus]

just found a WWI podcast that lasted as long as the war holy shit. from 2014 to 2018 so it fits perfectly

[moonspirit]

disappointed papa armin

More like disappointed in (my) lack of papamin propaganda? Sorry anon, I'll get around to it, atm I'm so tired i can't even feel my extremities lmao.

On the whole tho, I think Armin as a parent would be equal parts lax and equal parts strict. The former because he'll probably want his kids (coughcough DAUGHTERS coughcough) to grow up as freely as possible, doing all kinds of stupid, kid things. The strictness would come as a kind of way to keep them healthily in check, like staying away from fistfights and avoiding unethical practices... (He's done enough unethical things to last generations, his children don't need to contribute 🥲 or something)

But he'd be pretty much chill and relaxed most of the time, humouring his kids' slightly fucked up interests like how interspecies mating works or some shit, welp. Getting him disappointed would be somewhat an achievement (and not a good sign).

Actually no, he'd get so sad he'd cry, and make everyone else cry because papamin is crying *sigh*

[aroacettorney]

"communicate or break up" is the known standard relationship advice that aros usually give to others when asked, and the fact that caseys go-to resolution for her own relationship problems is to communicate and solve misunderstandings while ludgers go-to resolution for his is to break up at the very first opportunity is very funny to me.

[cantsayidont]

I guess this is a matter of personal taste, but, apropos of BATMAN: TAS and its unwelcome latter-day revival, I *hate* "aesthetic" pseudo-retro settings. If you want to do a period piece, do a period piece, but don't half-ass it (looking at you, Mark Russell), and if you want to do an AU, give some real thought to where and how it diverged and what that affected. Historical fiction is a lot of work, but if you don't like it, no one says you gotta do it — if all you really want is to have some characters dressed in vintage clothes and driving old cars, just do that, rather than this noncommittal "It's like the '30s, or maybe the '50s, except there's no racism or sexism and the computers are from the '90s" bullshit.

Part of my problem with that kind of Aesthetic Nostalgia setting is that it ends up being a fairly short walk from nostalgic AU to people mistaking it for actual history to fashy RETVRN propaganda. This has happened before: For instance, rise of Reagan-era neoconservatism was closely tied to '50s nostalgia, as exemplified by the rediscovery (on cable and syndication) of '50s TV shows like FATHER KNOWS BEST and LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, where Black people didn't exist except maybe for the occasional funny maid and married couples slept in separate beds. This was fiction even when those shows were originally on the air, but the Baby Boom generation (the bulk of whom were very young children in the fifties) really latched onto the idea that fifties TV represented some kind of true depiction of a prelapsarian era of squeaky-clean Traditional Values, where LGBT people and people of color (particularly Black people) hadn't yet been invented (or at least Knew Their Place, Unlike Today's Decadent Corruption). We're still paying for that.

If your highest aesthetic aspiration is to outfit all the characters in your story in authentic 1955 Dior A-line dresses, go with g*d, but don't tell me your story is set in the '50s, or even the pseudo-alt-50s, if you're not willing to do the work.

[the-babygirl-polls]

Yotasuke Takahashi - Blue Period

Propaganda:

Art prodigee that doesn't want and have difficulty making friends. Definitely has gifted child syndrome and a few mental illness. He's also very agressive toward the main character and it's very gay

[periodictabletournament]

vibrating with sadness because uranium is only thought of the bad boy boom boom element… pre WWII and everything uranium was used as a colorant to dye cheap glassware, depression era glassware was mass produced and accessible to people even during the economic depression, and was often the only beautiful thing people could afford, it was even given out free at movie theaters! anyways it’s still just as beautiful now and I collect it and it’s marvelous behold

ooh glow-y

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

[outdraws]

the fact that, if life took it's natural turn, abigail would have been alive during the ww1.

thirty seven years old, at the start of the conflict. by then much would've changed. so much progress, not limited to the introduction of the automobile ( you can probably imagine how shocked she was when she first saw one. excruciatingly, hesitant and curious while being introduced into the cabin of one. it's an overwhelming experience for her )

she has learned to read and write by now and reads quite avidly in private. the news published would be an early morning preference.

by now jack is eighteen and still in school. he would manage to duck conscription, at least until 1817 when he's considered the appropriate age, or 1818 when the age range is lengthened. 18 to 45.

i can picture abigail volunteering to be a nurse; quietly assisting while also seeing the worst things the body can endure. re-aligning with some unspoken purpose.

while she wouldn't have come out of it more patriotic she definitely would have been glad to have met those that she did.

it's interesting to consider the trajectories her life has taken or could have taken. how easily it could have all ended when she was in her twenties. comparatively, this makes all the feuding and gunfights seem like an anthill in the world she now occupies.

( silly, fun idea incoming to couple with all this )

seeing this poster where she works and being reminded of someone she hasn't thought of in a long time, unexpectedly ...

belatedly commemorating being a year older than him now.

' last year, i was the same age as you when you left. ' ... ' rest easy cowboy. and thank you. '

[loremastering]

Only including those who are non canon to the books and featured most prominently, or whoever caught my eye ;)

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kim "Horangi" Hong-jin/König Characters: König (Call of Duty), Kim "Horangi" Hong-jin Additional Tags: Meet-Cute, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Dirty Thoughts, Wet Dream, Friends to Lovers, Developing Relationship, Sparring, Awkward Boners, Blood and Violence, Canon-Typical Violence, Gun Violence, First Kiss, First Time, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Scars, Branding, Making Out, Hand Jobs, Frottage, Crying, Aftercare, Post-Coital Cuddling, Literal Sleeping Together, Bruises, Scratching, Breakfast Summary:

Horangi is not sure how exactly he found himself in this position. But he is most certainly not complaining.

He knows how he started getting here. When König had introduced himself, the only thing his brain could think about was how tall the man was and how he’d had the obscene thought of wanting to climb him like a tree. He reminds himself that when it comes to anyone he works with, everything needed to stay professional.

Unfortunately, just like with gambling, he was dogshit at staying professional.

...

I fell down the COD MW2 rabbit hole after everyone on tiktok started babygirlifying them and now I have Körangi brainrot