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eddardsharpe · 1 year ago

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#anything by #The Mechanisms #any window with a hammer is also an emergency exit.

so like. obviously it's an immensely tragic route to take but sometimes it's just so satisfying for a story to go "there's no happy ending this time. resistance is futile in this scenario. the 'good guys' can't win. this is a pointless last stand. so for their final act, our beloved characters are going to rock the antagonist's shit so fucking hard it makes you stare at a wall struggling to process what just happened and how you feel about it for hours afterwards."

#Before Frank Miller 300'd'ed it all up this is what stories and legends like Thermopylae were for #The songs they'd sing in old irish pubs both then and now #we'll get 'em next time. Someone will.#Some future will look back and this and say it mattered that people stood here and- knowing that they were going to lose and die-chose to.#Yiddish partizan songs #“Guerra y cuchillo” at Saragossa #Horatius at the Bridge #The Battle Off Samar #there has to be some kind of line between propaganda and a pride and willingness to sacrifice yourself for a country or an ideal #things like this matter. maybe the key is just not glorifying the wrong ones

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