#recruiting drive

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“BRAMPTON MEN MAY STUDY GUERRILLA WARFARE TACTICS,” Toronto Star. April 1, 1942. Page 8. ---- Win-the-War Committee Will Question Citizens About Training ---- PLAN WIDE CANVASS ---- Brampton, April 1 - "Are you interested in taking a course in guerrilla warfare?" This is one of the 29 questions embodied in a questionnaire drawn up here last night by the Brampton Win-the-War committee. At the special meeting under F. W. Wegenast, head of the enrolment committee, it was decided to canvass the entire town on the questionnaire in the near future.

"This is the most intensive questionnaire drawn up for use in this country so far," he said. The questionnaire asks capabilities. education, profession, and religious denomination of every citizen, with a view to utmost preparedness in the area in the event of military. labor. or other emergency. C. V. Charters and T. H. Moorehead were named a committee to investigate means of conducting the canvass and to recommend a date for the effort.

A suggestion that those interested in guerrilla warfare tactics be sounded out, came from Dr. R. J. Hiscox and met with full approval of the meeting. A question recommended by Rev. A. N. Miller stressed the local housing problem, and was also included among the 29 queries is one asking "Can you drive a car, truck, motorbike, steam or diesel engine, tractor, drive a team of horses, ride a horse, operate a dredge, or fly a plane?"

"No country has used to much imagination in what people should be prepared to do in the event of necessity." Mr. Wegenast emphasized. He referred as an instance to the capture of Rudolph Hess by a Scottish farmer armed with only a pitchfork. "That farmer wasn't expecting Hess, or he would have been more adequately prepared for him," the chairman added, warning against non-preparedness.

With a view to locating potential scouts and guides through the canvass. the meeting fully approved the question, "Are you familiar with the topography of any section of Peel county?" in line with the committee's desire to help cope with the district farm labor shortage is the question inquiring into the agricultural experience of citizens.

[trynot-moved]

@prequelsnet PREQUELS APPRECIATION WEEK: DAY 2 – ANTAGONISTS

[batsplat]

some casey + vale text posts 4 u (1/?)

[total-drama-brainrot]

Island Assistant Noah AU, Noah stays Chris' Assistant all throughout Island + Action + World Tour... How would this version of Assistant Noah react to Alejandro's flirting?... Would Alejandro be amused, when he later learns that Noah got himself eliminated ON PURPOSE in Season 1, and Noah became 'Chris Mclean's Assistant' as a punishment? 😎

Well, honestly I imagine most versions of Noah would react to flirting with the same level of scepticism and mistrust- he's not exactly a catch, and he's aware of the fact. Having someone as conventionally attractive and evidently conniving as Alejandro display interest in someone as not those things as Noah is would be a major warning flag for anyone with any semblance of sense.

Of course, Alejandro's interest was initially a ploy to try and weasel out information from Chris' personal assistant- someone who's high enough in the pecking order of internship to at least have some rudimentary knowledge on the oncoming challenges, but unimportant enough to fly under the radar when it comes to helping the competitors- but after Noah's initial refusal, Alejandro finds himself genuinely interested in him, at least in the same curious way a scientist regards an outlying factor in their studies. Mostly because Alejandro's very much so not used to being spurned, so Noah's blatant dislike of him is enough to fuel his curiosity (similarly to how Heather's hostility to him piqued Alejandro's interest in canon).

So he goes out of his way to bother Noah at any given opportunity. Not that it's hard; due to Noah's job he's practically always somewhere on the jet, since it'd be pretty hard to, you know, personally assist someone without being in their vicinity. Noah's disgruntlement with the constant flirting isn't quite enough to warrant him putting in the effort to avoid Alejandro, however, so the two of them consequently end up spending a lot of time together. Most of which is Alejandro trying and failing to fluster Noah, or otherwise pry competition-valuable information from him. Or, as their conversations become more frequent, he tries to get Noah to disclose something about himself that isn't already apparent- to very little success. Alejandro does find out that Noah's oddly touchy about his position as Chris' PA, though, and stores away that little tid bit of information to exploit later.

Alejandro inevitably finds himself almost enamoured by Noah's caginess and his dry wit. He's surprised to find that he actually enjoys Noah's company, even when it doesn't offer him any of the advantages he initially sought out the assistant for, which is such a novel concept for him. So of course he resolves to spend more time around Noah, to try and figure out what this feeling is, and if it'll affect his stance in the competition- not at all because he wants to spend more time around the cynic, obviously.

And he inevitably becomes more and more comfortable around Noah's stoic bluntness, so much so that he starts showing hints of his true colours around Noah. To the point where the bookworm's initial distaste for Alejandro begins to thaw under the warmth of his actual personality, instead of the coldness of his "perfect Burromuerto" mask. (This is the part where mutual feelings begin to blossom, if you couldn't tell.)

Alejandro ends up spending more time with the off-screen assistant than he does with the entirety of his actual team, which grates on the producer's nerves since they don't have a lot of non-challenge footage of their main antagonist (outside of his frequent use of the confessional, that is). So, he's asked to spend less time around Know-it-all Noah and more time around his actual team, so they have some footage to work with, as Noah's PA contract prevents them from using "unnecessary footage" of him on the show; since he doesn't interact with anyone during challenges or plot-relevant moments, the editors are practically forbidden from using any of the footage Noah is in. Alejandro reluctantly complies.

And it's during this enforced bonding time with his team that the topic of Noah comes up. Owen's the one who initially comments about Alejandro spending a lot of him with his "little buddy", which absolutely doesn't (does) spark an ember of possessive jealousy within Alejandro, prompting him to ask how Owen's so familiar with Noah if he's not even supposed to interact with the contestants. Owen reveals that Noah was a contestant, at least for a little bit, before he was eliminated early in Island.

Alejandro's interest in Noah and the mysteries around him skyrockets. As a former contestant and, apparently, someone who's familiar with pretty much all of his competitors, Noah has even more potential to supply him with valuable information that would assist him in winning the million. He later chases down the cynic and confronts him about his extremely limited time on the Island, to which Noah is initially evasive about, before he- in a ticked off outburst, since Alejandro just won't drop the subject- admits that he got himself eliminated on purpose and working as Chris' PA is pretty much just his punishment for doing so.

And Alejandro's curiosity turns into confusion. Why would Noah intentionally have himself eliminated from the competition when a million dollars is on the line? Noah quickly corrects him that, in the first season, the prize money was a measly 100k, and then proceeds to explain exactly why and how he got himself booted from Camp Wawanakwa- Alejandro watches the annoyance on Noah's face gradually soften out into a smug sort of pride as he recalls his past endeavours. Then that pride is quickly wiped away by a bitter sourness as Noah recounts how his stunt essentially trapped him under the employment of Total Drama, namely Chris McLean.

But Alejandro's still caught up in the glimpse he got of Noah's scheming potential. The glee he saw in the other's eyes as he explained how easy it was to rile up his former teammates enough to vote him from the island, how just a few carefully worded comments were all it took to grant Noah an extended vacation at a five star resort.

Dots are connected; Alejandro suddenly understands why Noah's so resistant to his manipulative efforts, why Noah always seemed to clock exactly what he was attempting to do and shut it down with cold indifference or a snarky comment. The pessimist before him was his equal, at least in terms of strategy. Though how he applied his trickster mindset was a little unconventional. The archvillain is more than intrigued by now, he's utterly smitten... with the idea of having Noah as his "right hand man". Nothing more.

Alejandro's left to wonder just how much more he could accomplish within the confines of the jet if he had Noah's brilliant mind assisting him in his schemes.

[lixenn]

what is KHR?

I see my liege couldn't satisfy your thirst for knowledge Anon but never fear, for Lix is here with answers! (I'm mostly winging this btw, I can promise you there are probably lots of other people who could give you an essay breaking down khr but you came to me so I will try my best)

KHR stands for Katekyo Hitman Reborn. From the wiki: It's is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Amano. The series was first serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump on May 31, 2004 in Japan, where it ended on November 12, 2012.

The story is about Sawada Tsunayoshi, a japanese middle school student who lived a fairly normal life (if one filled with bad grades, no friends and clumsiness) until Reborn knocks on his door proclaiming himself Tsuna's new home tutor.

Plot twist: Reborn looks like a baby and calls himself the world greatest hitman.

Second plot twist: Reborn was hired to make Tsuna into a mafia boss because Tsuna is the last heir of the Vongola Famiglia the most powerful Mafia family in Italy.

Sounds cracky? Honey, this series lives of crack. It's starts off as a gag manga but in the later arcs it gets more and more serious while still holding up the undertone of absolute ridiculousness we all know and love.

Imagine if you took the mafia and just made it as Anime as possible while sprinkling in the Gay™️and you basically get khr.

Example for KHR craziness out of context:

The power system is rainbow coloured flames (gay...)

A five year old (a real one this time) has a bazooka which allows him to travel through time.

Apart from Reborn there are 5 other superpowered infants running around each with their own animal companion.

Two words: Weapon. Jewellery.

One antagonist can see through the multiverse and is obsessed with marshmallows.

Another one is obsessed with throwing things and his second in command (gay again....)

The mafia police is made up of spiteful zombies with a tophat fetish.

And that's not even scratching the tip of the iceberg Anon! KHR is filled with insanity and chaos, with stupidity and mayhem.

Honestly, KHR is a gigantic mess, but it's our mess, so we collectively bid sanity goodbye and just walk backwards into hell.

[spyres]

thinking about pmd2 hero being weird about the meals at the guild at first. they're so used to having to eat small and rationing food because food was limited with it only being able to appear in dungeons in the future and those were always dangerous to traverse, especially as a human. it became second nature to them so it affects them even after losing their memories. it's just the natural way of things.

partner and chimecho take note that hero is skinnier and smaller than pokemon of their species usually are (which is especially apparent with munchlax) and that they seem to leave a big portion of their dinner behind. they try to encourage them to eat more, with partner reassuring them that it's okay and chimecho trying out different meals in case it's a diet restriction. seeing that it's okay, hero slowly starts to eat more and more off their plate until they able to finish it off. they become a healthy weight and have more energy, and partner chimecho are both relieved and also incredibly proud of them.

[bugbuoyx]

Other trans people are not your enemy.

This goes for both trans women & fems and trans men & mascs. There are popular trans women twitter accounts telling young trans women that trans men do not care about them and simultaneously denying trans men face any transphobia, there are popular trans men on tumblr telling young trans men that trans women do not care about our oppression, pointing to the lack of talk about murdered trans men as proof.

And some of these points are fair, we should listen to each other more about our struggles. But you are making that difficult. Do you think a trans woman wants to listen to someone who accuses all trans women of hating trans men and not caring about our struggles? Do you think trans men want to listen to someone who says tells people that trans men are future terfs and will never care about trans womens struggles?

Are we not all just sides of the same dice? Are we not all facing oppression from transphobes? Terfs write books about how trans men are mutilating themselves and articles about predatory trans women in bathrooms, republicans fund legislation targeting trans surgeries and hormones, which affects all of us.

And even if we did not face the same struggles, why are we divided? Again, are we not all the same, simply trying to be ourselves in our own bodies? We can each talk about our own struggles, the difficulties we face and the joys we experience without the opposite being true of the other, infact more often than not it's extremely similar and I think we'd benefit from listening to each other more.

[enterprise-bee]

my husband and my friends have now both been victim to my latest star trek worldbuilding question: where the fuck are all the petty officers please why is every low-ranked extra an ensign this ship cannot POSSIBLY be staffed with only officers that makes no sense o’brien is a chief petty officer that means there have to be more right like they should be the majority of guys on this ship right where are they ensign is a commissioned rank PLEASE,

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"IN SEARCH OF A SCRAP: Albert Riordan, centre, and his son, George, left, discuss recruiting with Capt. D. H. Ross of the Veterans' Guard of Canada, Father and son joined for active service on the same day. Their home is at 469 Toronto st." - from the Winnipeg Tribune. August 6, 1942. Page 17.

[seoafin]

just saw a tiktok justifying the fbi having a booth at animecon at it was a bunch of drivel about how most intelligence officers and fbi operatives are complete weebs and she ended it with "in conclusion join the fbi for your anime waifu and mommy misato" like im not even going to go into detail how fucking stupid it was all i need to say is that i would serve crack before i serve this fucking country

[andi-o-geyser]

hey quick question is playing slow ride by foghat before confronting your homoerotic rival gay or not. no reason why im asking just curious. 

[spotlightstudios]

Part of me thinks I should make a Honkai StarRail oc. The smarter part of me is bonking that other part with a hollow cardboard tube.

[humandisastersquad]

the urge to leave my current shitty job with shit management and inept coworkers vs my dislike of change and the job hunting process in general and what if the next job is somehow Even Worse

[this-should-do]

i might need to go on suicide watch or something, for my own safety, im not doing well but i want to make it anyways but i dont trust my brain at the moment to stay on track

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

Thinking abt the YA getting stranded in the DCU (interdimensional fugitives? The mother parasite part 2?) and the Batfam keeping tabs on them because where the FUCK did they come from

Anyway one of the Batboys tailing Kate (she doesn't notice obvs they are PROFESSIONALS) only to wind up face first against a brick wall or with a sword at their throat.

And at first I thought "not Damian obviously she'd have the sword too high" before I realized how absolutely hilarious this would be. They've been parkouring on the roofs of Gotham and Damian knows if he turns right up ahead he'll be able to cut her off--

Before skidding to a stop right before a sword touches his neck. He's mad, and impressed, and also pouting.

"Why are you following me?"

Damian blinks wide innocent eyes at her. "I thought we were playing the game tag. Why would you draw a weapon on me, a sweet innocent child? What harm could I possibly do to you?"

Damian is not scared btw he has five different ways to disarm her and take control of the situation and he hasn't even really started thinking about it. So he's mostly just seeing what she does.

"You're full of shit," she says, sheathing her sword. Damian's a little disappointed, he kind of wanted to take a closer look at it after disarming her. "I know murderous eleven year olds, and you are a murderous eleven year old."

"I'm ten, actually."

"My bad."

She smirks at him. Smirks! Age related flattery, done on purpose. Perhaps she's smarter than he initially thought.

"Why are you carrying a sword?"

"Why are you doing parkour on rooftops?" She shoots back.

"Why are you?"

"I asked you first."

"I asked you second."

They glare at one another. An impasse.

"Why'd the other ones send you?"

"Other ones?"

"Yeah. The tank, the pretty boy, and the coffee one. They're all older than you."

"I don't know who you're talking about."

"Mmm-hmm." The sound buzzes through her lips, disbelieving. "The fact that you surveil in what are basically shifts is just a coincidence. Naturally."

anyway Damian might actually disarm her at some point. they may rescue some kittens. By the time Bruce gets to the emergency vet, Kate has taught Damian what "ride or die" is and they're besties for life

[slutty-wizard-council]

Applications are open for the slutty wizard council!

Reblog this with your wizard title, why you think you should be in the slutty wizard council, and a word you like (might or might not be a safeword and we like to keep people guessing)

Or, since really the thing we're the most adamant about is consent, if you want to join, you're part of us. You can claim to be in our ranks, no matter what, privately or publicly, because we allow you and what matters is that both parties want and allow it.