#to show the truth of war

[apoemadaykeepsthehoesaway]

Preface (Unfinished)

-Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion, or power,

-

except War.

Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry.

The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.

The Poetry is in the pity.

Yet these elegies are not to this generation,

This is in no sense consolatory.

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They may be to the next.

All the poet can do today is to warn.

That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

If I thought the letter of this book would last,

I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives Prussia,— my ambition and those names will be content; for they will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders.

[reality-detective]

Ukraine accuses Russia of false flag attack on Sudzha gas metering station in Kursk Oblast.

Ukraine on March 21 accused Russia of deliberately attacking the Sudzha gas metering station in Kursk Oblast in an attempt to pin the blame on Kyiv.

Russian media earlier claimed Ukrainian forces had struck the key gas transit facility, which plays a crucial role in Russian gas exports to Europe.

Ukraine is a hell hole for the 'Swamp' and they want a World War... Russia is NOT the problem here. Ukraine bombed their own people in Donetsk and the whole Donbass region during the fake Biden administration with US military supplied weapons. 🤔

[the-senates-one-fear]

Imagine Dedra and Syril telling the story of how they met and got together

Imagine being the person receiving that story

[pansexualhousecat]

sometimes i think people forget/don't understand that ambessa (and noxus of course) is a colonizer.

ambessa was literally saying that she would "give" mel the throne to a whole nation they just killed and colonized and people seem to forget that.

i hope the noxus series that we'll (hopefully) have won't dance around the colonizer aspect of noxus like the centrist shit they did with piltover and zaun sigh

[lightineventide]

"Is there no one who can help us? Is there no one?!"

[nitanael]

I need to stay on Twitter to keep up to date with all the news, but how much I sometimes hate this platform and the people who’s there... this hate towards Freya and Owen because of their "team ape/team people" comments is simply disgusting. People are such narcissists. Can't they have their own opinions? They didn’t say anything problematic, but everyone laughed at them, saying “that’s what happens when actors talk about something other than their work” GO AWAY FROM THEM, GET A JOB!!!

Don’t you hate people? I do. As Freya said: sometimes we get together that’s cool and seems optimistic, but in the end we ruin everything. The worsts living creatures on Earth I’m not kidding, LOOK AT THE OCEANS, WARS, FORESTS, ANIMAL TESTS, POACHERS, etc.

I stand with my children!!!

[merrysithmas]

me enjoying dinluke: 🥹

me with the rest of modern star wars:

[alullinchaos]

finding out that Brandon Sanderson himself ranks Way of Kings as one of the books you should wait to read until you're familiar with some of his other work is hilarious because it basically got dropped into my lap one day and I went "big fantasy book! yay!" and never looked back

[mimir-anoshe]

Save what we love. #RenewTheAcolyte

Renew it Disney you cowards.

[nellasbookplanet]

Sorry but my thoughts are still on the nature of death in dnd (and other fiction where resurrection is possible), specifically on the implications it has on worldbuilding.

Resurrection magic existing kind of makes for cultural issues that have no parallel in our world. Some of it compares - such as the inherent class divide and tensions when the rich and powerful can literally buy their way out of death (a class divide is a class divide, this just digs the chasm deeper, which I'd love to see explored more in media btw) - but the implications on grief and acceptance are on another level. In our world, there is no bargaining with death. So much of our lives is spent coming to terms with the fact that we will all die one day, and mourning and moving on whenever death strikes near us. We experience stages of grief like denial and rage and bargaining but in the end there is no escaping it, no matter how hard you work or beg or rage. Clinging on can only hurt you. It's pointless. All you can do is move on, and it is so hard.

But if death is conditional. Impermanent. Something that can be defeated with money or power or faith. How do you ever move on. On a societal and cultural level, there should be entire rebellions based around who has access to resurrection. Powerful people offering resurrections as incentive would be all over the place, with desperate people selling their souls and freedom and entire lives to save a loved one. Would soldiers fear dying, seen as disposable, or would they fear being brought back again and again to die eternally on the battlefield?

But on an individual level. Is acceptance of the inevitability of death even possible when it’s no longer inevitable? If you decide that no, you can not give up everything to go pursue resurrection of your child, will you hate yourself? You could save them. Why aren’t you? Why aren’t you doing everything in your power? How much do you hate the people who have this power but won’t offer it freely? If you yourself are brought back from the dead and find out most of your loved ones just, let you go, would you hate them? Would you feel abandoned and betrayed? If you’re watching from the afterlife and see your loved one, who’s been working to get you back, decides to accept your death and move on because they have found new love, would you find a way to fucking haunt them? Oh, you think I only lived for you? That I don’t want life just because I can’t have you, too? How selfish is that. But how selfish would it be to bring someone back only to salve your own feelings of guilt, whether they want to or not? Would there be an entire industry of mediums based on people needing to ask their loved ones if they wish to remain dead or not? How much more powerful would hate and love and hubris be in this world, lacking the absolute limit of death?

[captainfreelance1smadartlab]

Pistachio Wave

I recently decided to make another Vaporwave video, which I made by editing clips from Dinosaurs only Two Parter 'Nuts to War' and I simpled and remixed from The Muppet Show's rendition the song 'Why Can't Be Friends' by the band WAR; All and All I Think I did a good job capturing the mood well with Vaporwave style.

[atopvisenyashill]

i love when people are like “oh i definitely think bloodraven’s methods are evil but i do think his goals are noble” no i’m saying i think his goal is evil he just doesn’t realize exactly how evil or he just doesn’t care. i think he’s bran’s evil mentor and the turning point in both of their stories will be whether bran ~accepts the pomegranate seeds~ or whether he rejects them. bran is fleeing that cave no matter what he chooses, but he will choose and brynden is gonna have an opinion on that choice!!

[mann-walter]

I want to start this off by saying that I’m a big fan of Optimus Prime and Transformers; Prime as a whole. I loved them then, I love them now. But there is something that tickles me until today about the two. Yes, this is where I’ll be discussing what I hate most about the series in general and Optimus in particular: his lack of action against Megatron.

For all of us that have watched Prime in its entirety or majority, it became clear rather quickly that Optimus was cast as this saintly model all creatures should be striving for and should admire. He was wise and refrained from frivolity, calm even in the toughest of times, brave, selfless, strong, gentle, and forgiving. On the surface, one might conclude that his only fault was mortality.

But what if I tell you that all of these qualities, in certain times, can turn into deadly vices?

Now, after you’ve accustomed yourself to the show, I think you’d notice another thing about Optimus: why hasn’t he tried to kill Megatron?

We know that most of his decisions were built upon ideals: that violent resolutions should be a last resort, that death is unconscionable, that every being deserves a second chance, and that everyone has the capability to change. But, apparently Optimus had never heard that there is a season for everything. There’s a time to kill and a time not to. With Megatron, it certainly was a time to kill. Not out of revenge, but in order to prevent more destruction, to protect those that can’t fight for themselves.

It is darkly funny actually that after eons of war, after Megatron had made a living hell for so many Cybertronians (the only group of people Optimus is legally obligated to protect), committed so many crimes, he’d be swinging so many times if he were a human, Optimus decided he had had enough and was now out for blood because Megatron unintentionally (although he was all jolly about it) hurt a human boy. It’s actually a very interesting aspect of his character, how he held on to his ideals so tightly that he’d sacrifice so many lives for it. Alas, it was never acknowledged as such by the writers. There actually were dissenting opinions in-universe, usually coming from Ratchet—and weren’t they very valid points—but at the end Optimus was always portrayed as the correct one, that his decisions were all good.

Speaking of Optimus and his ideals, I now really wish they had ventured into those darker implications of Optimus stubbornly, even fanatically, holding on to them. It could’ve been a really great nuance to his character: sometimes, a hero’s sins can have roots in his own goodness.

[news4dzhozhar]

[loveinsomesacredplace]

Taps the invisible neon sign - season 3 of the summer i turned fandom avoidant is going to be rough for people who love Belly, and want good things for her irrespective of which man she chooses at the end. I’ve made my preference for which man I want her to choose, obviously - but the heart of this tumblr is, and always will be team Show! Belly first.

She is my favorite, she will always be my favorite, I think shipping by moral purity is stupid, love triangles, even shoddily constructed ones are supposed to be messy, blaming the bulk of the issues the characters have on Belly, and tying her value only to the man without delving into anything else about her is a limited and sad way to build a romance heroine, and I can’t ship a ship if I don’t love both the characters, and the fans who don’t and loudly proclaim the man to be their fave by a far shot are not fans I understand.

Sorry I couldn’t be your writer, show Bells!

The thing is, joking aside - I don’t need Belly to be anyone’s fave because she’s mine, and the energy I bring to the function is an early 00s fan of deemed flawed/unlikable female characters that a lot of people don’t like.

[awesomecooperlove]

She lives in a $26 million dollar

beach house in an all white elitist community. 😂

😂🤣