#tw // war

[destielmemenews]

"The deal, coming after weeks of painstaking negotiations in the Qatari capital, promises the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in phases, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and would allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. It also would flood badly needed humanitarian aid into a territory ravaged by 15 months of war."

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[wolrith]

nothing like a ceasefire where hamas violates the agreement terms (not releasing civilians as agreed) on week two just so they can force four idf soldiers kidnapped from their beds, bleeding in their pajamas, to be paraded on stage drugged and at gunpoint wearing homemade military uniforms in front of hundreds of terrorists and jeering crowds, after 476 days of barely even seeing daylight

[cyucya]

Arrived in Kyiv to the Sound of Sirens

TW: [War, violence, death]

I just got to Kyiv, and within hours, the city was under attack.

Last night, Russia launched one of the deadliest assaults on the capital in recent memory. Missiles and drones struck multiple districts, killing at least nine people and injuring over 70, including six children.

Reuters article

Buildings were reduced to rubble, fires broke out, and people were trapped beneath debris. Rescue teams are still working tirelessly.

Kyiv Post article

It’s hard to put into words how surreal and terrifying it is to arrive in a city and immediately hear the sounds of war. This isn’t just news—it’s people’s lives, homes, and futures being shattered.

Please stay informed and support Ukraine however you can. Here are some reliable sources covering the attack:

Reuters: Drone, missile attack on Kyiv kills nine, injures more than 70

Kyiv Post: ‘Phone Calls Heard From Under the Ruins’ – Death Toll in Russian Missile Attack on Kyiv Rises to 9

The Guardian:Nine killed in Russian air attack on Ukraine's Kyiv

Post with helpful Links!

Stay safe, everyone. Let’s not become numb to this.

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Listen, y'all outside of the Israel/Palestine situation can have whatever opinions you have, but as someone who woke up at 7am by the sounds of sirens and who has friends and family living in the danger zone, I honestly don't give a shit, and no other israel or palestinian gives a shit either over what some dumb fuck on the internet who's never experienced war or even been in a bomb shelter has to say. I pray that my palestinian friends are safe, and that they will suffer as little as possible. People on both sides are DYING. You can have your bullshit, experienceless opinion all you want, but fact is people here are suffering, and you, person getting angry and writing shitty tumblr posts, are not.

Go to hell, people are dying and you making anti-semetic/anti-palestinian post is helping no one but your pathetic ego

Edit: there's were just attacks where I live (which is considered safe) and I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm terrified, for both sides. PLEASE if you're in Palestine/Israel dm/reblog/comment to let me know your ok. We need to support each other through this. This is going to cause us all so much trauma, and we need to hold each other's hands.

[achromant]

"And yet, their last words were full of loyalty to the legions that threw them to the ghosts. In the heart of the foefire, i swore to burn the citadel to the ground."

Baruhn's first and last mission in the name of the legions, just before joining flame.

He'd then, during a battle against Ebonhawke, meet the human girl Molly. And together, they would work towards peace between humans and charr. Baruhn did some mercenary work as an Ash spy during that time, mostly collecting intel on Iron by using his smoke shaman training, and later joined the Pact as commander.

[bytelezz]

TOUGH AS NAILS

Giant wall of text below! A loredump of Aerie and I's version of So-Lo in Boingoverse lore.

MASSIVE TW FOR WAR RELATED DISCUSSIONS

@gracestellaerie and I's lore surrounding So-Lo as a character revolves a lot about wartime trauma and the effects it has on the veterans that experience it. So-Lo was relatively young when he joined the armed forces, believing war to be this noble thing fought by the most valiant and brave of men. He wished to assist his country, because he was a patriot, most kids at the time were. How could you not when you were spoon-fed propaganda about the American dream since you were young.

Well, following his basic training and subsequent deployment to whatever nondescript war (Aerie and I like to joke/say that in our boingoverse, every modern war ever happened at the exact same time, so it was likely in either europe, southeast asia, or the middle-east. pick your poison.) So-Lo very quickly learned that war wasn't as it truly seemed. He knew it would be hard, yes, though the difficulty of it was vastly underestimated by it in his mind. It makes sense, he was a kid, most kids overestimate their strength and capabilities. And like those kids, So-Lo swiftly found himself overwhelmed and terrified at the violence and death surrounding him and his peers.

If you've ever watched 'all quiet on the western front' you can start to see the picture, a child essentially groomed into fighting a war meets more than what he bargained for. It was scary, truly scary.

He found himself with the blood of other men on his hands, kids who were also in the same place as he was, traumatized, and groomed by their perspective government. So-Lo killed 3 people up close by the time things were over with, each time, seeing the life drain from their eyes and he had no other choice but to defend himself and his peers from certain annellation.

When So-Lo returned home after around 3 years of combat, he found himself changed. A wide-eyed kid with hope and ambitions in his life, soon because riddled with trauma, injury, depression, and anger/dissatisfaction with the world around him. Who wouldn't? He became rather critical of his government and how they treated veterans after they fought. His welfare benefits weren't enough to keep him stable, and therefore he had to take a job immediately after he returned home instead of resting and seeking necessary council.

Often times, while filing away paperwork, he thinks of what could've been different. Dreams of the battlefield once more, despite not wanting to. A guilty pleasure of his, returning spiritually to the battlefield as he suffers by himself with zero assistance from those around him, and especially his government. Another tally in the war machine.

[rebelrayne]

Hamish having flashbacks of the war in Casa Amor not making it to the Villa AND losing raunchy races AGAIN.

[destielmemenews]

"Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s radiological, biological and chemical protections forces, was killed by an explosive device planted in an electric scooter.

Ukraine’s security services were behind the assassination, a source told CNN, calling Kirillov a “war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target.”"

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[cyucya]

Just a small note (TW: recent news, war, violence)

Hey everyone. I usually try to keep this blog focused on art and stories — a place to rest and enjoy fictional worlds — but I want to gently share something that’s been heavy on my heart.

Recently, there was a tragic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih here in Ukraine. Among the victims were several children. It’s not my hometown, but I live in Ukraine, and every time something like this happens, the fear and sadness just… settle deeper. I don't feel very safe lately.

I’m linking a news article below for anyone who wants to know more or stay informed. Please be warned — it contains graphic images and upsetting content. If you're sensitive to that, I strongly recommend not clicking.

Read about the Kryvyi Rih attack (TW: graphic content)

If you’d like to help or support Ukraine in any way, here are a few trustworthy links that are still active and helpful:

Come Back Alive (combat support)

United24 (government-run humanitarian aid)

Voices of Children (psychological aid for kids)

Please don’t feel obligated to engage, especially if things like this are difficult for you to read about. I just wanted to let you know what’s been weighing on me lately. I'm still around, and still working on art, but if I seem a little quiet or slower with responses, that’s why.

Take care of yourselves, okay? And hug someone you love if you can.

[ams-puppy]

would u believe me if i said this is selfship art...! welcome home from war, my dearest husband...

[fmluder24]

I am on my first rewatch of MASH and wanted to do a write-up about my favorite episode. I am a basic bitch, and for me, the best episode of MASH is “Dreams.” I might go so far as to say that it is the best twenty-minute episode of television that I have ever seen, and one of the best episodes of television of anything of any length or genre. It is a great character study and a beautiful look at how these characters are trying to survive their hellish circumstances. This is an analysis of each dream and what it says about the characters’ journeys. There are spoilers for the entire show ahead. And this gets long (4,398 words).

Margaret’s Dream: Performative Romantic Success as a Woman

Margaret falls asleep in her tent and wakes up in a wedding dress, leaving her tent to join a man who we have never seen before or since on a hill. It is evident from his clothing that it is their wedding day. They join each other on a bed, but to me these few moments of intimacy don’t feel sexualized or voyeuristic in a way they might have in the hands of another show. Instead, we are lost in the fantasy of Margaret having a happy, successful relationship with a man.

It is telling to me that the fantasy isn’t of some home life with a man, particularly with children. There is the common misconception that all female characters should want children or would have their arcs served by a detour into motherhood. We don’t see a desire to become a mother from Margaret. She makes the occasional comment about future children, but it is typically a matter of how she would want her future children to be viewed in terms of prestige. Really, her relationships with men are, in my opinion, a matter of craving social acceptance as a woman. That’s why I head-canon her as a closeted lesbian, or arguably a bisexual with some pretty severe compulsive heterosexuality going on, who has some off screen relationships with the other women in the camp.

But, I don’t think you need to think of Margaret as a lesbian to see how her romantic relationships with men tend to be sort of “acted out” in front of an audience in her head. With Donald, she is focused on bragging to everyone instantly of the man she has bagged, a successful one, who serves as a proxy for the professional success she learns to eventually allow herself to want. With Scully, she is initially interested in his rank as a soldier. Most of her one of relationships with men tend to revolve around what their rank in the army is, which I interpret to be her wanting to show off a man she has managed to achieve a relationship with, and a proxy for her own professional desires. Even her fling with Hawkeye quickly becomes a matter of her trying to figure out how to tell other people, and a matter of her remaking Hawkeye into her image of a more eligible, conventionally successful, man.

But what about Frank, you ask? Oh, Ferret Face. At first glance, it would seem that a secret affair she had with a colleague of the same rank would fly in the face of my read of her relationships with men as performative. I don’t think so. I think there is an element of loving the risqué side of a secret relationship going on. It’s something out of a cheap romance novel, and it is a script she is consistently trying to hammer Frank into complying with, despite the fact that he is obviously no Casanova. Furthermore, there is a reoccurring stressor in their relationship, that of Frank’s wife, who is clear evidence that Margaret and Frank’s relationship has no social validity. Margaret is constantly stressed out about being the runner-up, the other woman, the side chick, because that goes against Margaret’s desire to have these relationships and types of professional success that align with the kind of woman she is trying to tell herself she is. It is the professional success that she is trying to balance with her personal life that serves as the other reason she and Frank keep their little fling to themselves. She would not want her reputation in camp tarnished by being seen as fooling around like all the other people in the camp are doing, despite the fact that everyone sees through the pretense. The minute she finds an eligible match that she can brag about to other people in the form of Donald Penobscot, she drops Frank like he is nothing because there is little in the way of genuine affection in their relationship.

That is why Margaret’s fantasy is not of a family or even the domesticity of a marriage; it is off a wedding, of a grand ceremony where she can show off the ultimate symbol of her success. This fantasy is cut short when the nameless, generic man staring in it is pulled away into the war. She then immediately finds her marital bed full of groaning, dying, bloody men. The specter of constant suffering and death is invading even her escapist fantasy. Men, who she should at this point be pursuing as symbols of success and the ability to achieve the “right kinds” of intimacy with others, are replaced by men qua suffering victims who she is responsible for helping to care for. In the final shot of her dream, Margaret stands astonished and alone, her beautiful wedding gown stained permanently with blood. She is stripped of any relationships to other people, any fantasy of a successful romantic relationship with a man, left with the constant reminder of the violence and death that surrounds her in her real life.

B.J.’s Dream: Young Love Cut Short

B.J. is the next person we see dream, bowing out of the O.R. when his hands start to cramp, leaving Hawkeye to finish the surgery. We will come back to Hawkeye filling in for everyone later, when we get to his dream. It is now B.J.’s turn. He falls asleep on a gurney next to a wounded soldier and “wakes up” in a tuxedo, the hallway filled with dancing couples. The double doors open, and who should enter but Peg. The two dance their way into the operating room, where Potter interrupts them and summons B.J. back to his post. He reluctantly turns from Peg, takes up the scalpel, and begins to work still in his tuxedo. Peg exits.

I know a lot of fans get annoyed at the constant “family man with no family in sight” schtick that B.J. does in practically every episode. I don’t mind it. It feels real and like the real plight of the youngest of the surgeons, only 28 when he joins, a man pulled from a young family practically straight out of his medical training. He is not as young as some of the enlisted men like Radar, and is probably close in age to Klinger. He is still finding himself in a lot of ways, and is taken from a life he loves into something hellish. His obsession can feel a little “one-note” at times, but to me it is very real.

In his dream, he is taken from this rosy and romantic experience with Peg when they wander mindlessly into O.R. and Potter hands him a scalpel. Against his will, his dream life with Peg is cut short and he returns to the monotony of healing the violence that surrounds him.

Potter’s Dream: Feeling at Home in the War

Potter’s dream is the dream I have the least to say about, because it is the dream of the most well-adjusted character, and the most positive dream. Potter dreams he is riding a horse, playing polo with grenades thrown by enemy soldiers. Rather than being conventional bombs, the grenades explode into fireworks, these colorful and whimsical celebrations of military capacity. After this, he watches himself riding a horse as a boy, being called in by his mother for supper. He then is awoken by Klinger.

Potter’s dream is unique in that it is the only dream that has no component of angst or violence enter the fantasy. Even the grenades aren’t really grenades; they are easily solved with the swing of a polo mallet. His dream is whimsical and childlike throughout. This fits well with Potter’s character, as it is his third war. Whereas the other characters are frequently suffering due to their experiences in Korea, Potter is full of anecdotes that amount to him saying “this is nothing. Back in my day...” In a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, he is the grumpy, yet sturdy, avuncular figure who they can all rely on. He is able to compartmentalize the horrors of the war, such that when he sleeps, it is only the childlike wonder of yesteryear which comes to him.

Charles’s Dream: The Impotence of Talent

The next character whose dream we see is Charles. He lies down among the wounded, just as B.J. did before him. As soon as his head hits the pillow, the walls of the swamp fall to show the O.R. and the blanket is pulled away to reveal a magician’s costume. Charles performs a variety of tricks for an adoring audience of nurses and orderlies, chief among them Mulcahy and Klinger. Klinger passes around a top hat. They oooh and aaah and clap.

We see throughout the show different motivations for the doctors. Trapper and Hunnicut read to me as characters who grew up as bright low to middle class young men who wanted a meaningful career and professional advancement. Potter was likely in a similar spot. I think that tracks with the information we have about both characters and their interactions with patients throughout the show. Frank is pretty obviously a subpar medical professional out for money. We will return to Hawkeye later.

Charles— Charles gets something out of the technical prowess he has a surgeon. I don’t think he is a cruel or a cold person, but medicine doesn’t seem to be about other people for him. It’s about doing one thing very, very well, one after the next. His dream involves him doing just that— one trick after another, done very well.

Like most of the dreams we see in the episode, the bubble is broken when the violence of the real world starts to seep in. Potter draws back a curtain and a gurney wheels itself in, bearing a young man with a belly wound. Charles makes no move to help the young man, continuing his tricks more and more urgently. At one point, he even pulls a string of flags out of his ear, flags which can do absolutely nothing for the dying man. The crowd’s faces fall as they all start clearly wondering why Charles is not doing anything to help the man. We cut to Klinger’s accusing stare multiple times. I think it is interesting that Klinger figures so largely in Charles’s dream. I know they are a popular ship. I personally do not ship them, but I do think they have an interesting relationship wherein they, despite their clear differences in background and personality, seem to want approval or camaraderie from the other. In any case, the desperation of the scene continues. The crowd goes more and more disappointed and the man gets worse and worse until he dies. Charles eventually begins a tap dance, staring dead eyed into the camera and waving sparklers around. All of his skill is doing absolutely nothing to save the man in front of him.

Charles is an excellent surgeon from everything we’ve heard. He’s lived a blessed life, full of every comfort imaginable. But in this dream he is learning the two rules of war that Henry Blake told Hawkeye way back in Season 1—

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war. And rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is, doctors can’t change rule number one.”

Charles is very talented, but in the hell he is trapped in at the MASH 4077, that talent can only get him so far. He is stuck in an impossible situation, routinely asked to do the impossible. He feels the crushing weight of his impotence in this dream.

Mulcahy’s Dream: Ambition Sidelined

Mulcahy falls asleep listening to the confession of a young man, and the way we first transition into the dream is to hear the scrambled syllables of the boy confessing. He is trying to hold on to consciousness and listen, but soon the camera pans up to the bright light coming in through the window. I love the way that the show establishes that Mulcahy is falling asleep, as such a human and universal moment of confusion we’ve certainly all experienced.

The bright light coming through the window fades until we see Mulcahy, who has become the Pope, born on a palanquin into the mess tent. He stands in front of a cross, with a table and an open Bible in front of him. We see the feet of Jesus on the cross behind his head and to the left. The mess tent is packed, full of attentive and passionate attendees.

Up to this point, we see Mulcahy’s wishes and ambitions laid bare. Ambition is the great paradox of Mulcahy. He is a priest who has taken a vow of poverty and has committed himself to a humble life of serving others. He also deeply desires a promotion to Captain and an audience for his masses. He comments from time to time that his work is not treated as being as important as the work of the doctors, and he seems to envy the prestige and attention others in the camp get. In this dream, we not only see that he finally has the adoring attention and respect from the others in the camp that he has always wanted, but he has achieved the greatest promotion a priest could hope for. He is Pope!

The bliss of ambition and accolades is short lived. Blood drips from mess tent ceiling, staining the open Bible. We cut back to see that the feet of Jesus on the cross are no longer the feet of the statue, but rather those of a wounded soldier. Blood continues to drip. In the final shot of the dream, Mulcahy looks up to see that the mess tent is now an operating room, and the surgeons are back to their work of rectifying the damage of violence. Mulcahy is relegated back to the sidelines as the chaos surrounds him. As much as he craves the spotlight despite his priesthood, he is just another cog in a much larger war machine. The metaphorical suffering of the figure of Jesus Christ is translated into the very real suffering of very real wounded men.

Klinger’s Dream: Vulnerable and Far From Home

The next dream we see is Klinger’s, which is very brief. He falls asleep in the supply room, cradling bottles of blood to warm them to body temperature for patients. It’s such a small moment, but so indicative of the way Klinger is perpetually giving of himself for other people. The supply room becomes a train car, which transports him to Toledo.

Toledo figures large in the imagination of a show that never sees it. More than just where Klinger is from, it is a symbol of middle America, of all that the characters have left behind when they are drafted to fight in Korea. And we see Klinger has finally arrived at home. The fantasy is shorter lived than most. We instantly see that something is wrong— it’s the middle of the day and the streets are completely empty, covered in litter.

He is walking through the empty streets of Toledo when he stops at the fogged up window of a shop. He wipes at the window so he can see inside, where he sees Potter. Potter beckons him. He looks downward to see himself on an operating table. He looks back at himself in fear and despair.

Klinger’s dream is unique in that it is not about caring for the wounded. It’s not about being torn away from the life you want to care for other people, and either succeeding or failing as the case may be. His nightmare is about being one of the wounded. This is because Klinger, by dint of background, sees himself much more in the other enlisted men who did not have the good luck to be stationed at a hospital. It is a very real possibility that he may become so injured as to need medical care from the surgeons he works with, as happened with Radar a few seasons prior. He is one wrong step in a minefield or one sniper’s bullet away from death. Klinger does not have the same type of responsibility to the wounded that the doctors and nurses (and even to some extent Mulcahy) have. He carries litters, runs errands, gives blood and warms it up. We see the depth of his fear and vulnerability in this dream. That he might become one of the wounded himself, and might be completely powerless to help himself.

Hawkeye’s Dream: The Horrors of War Turned Inwards

Hawkeye’s dream starts up when he lays his head down in the mess tent, in front of the rest of the main cast after 33 straight hours of surgery. Up until this point, he has been covering for every one when they go to take a nap, putting off his own rest. He sits back up to find himself sitting with just Charles and a mysterious instructor figure that we have never seen before. The instructor demands that he reattach the limb of a soldier. Hawkeye pleads with the instructor, says that he doesn’t know how and that he was sleeping. The man demands that Hawkeye twist off his own arm. When Hawkeye still cannot reattach the boy’s limb, the man demands that Hawkeye twist off his remaining arm. Hawkeye cannot do this, so Charles reaches over and, without malice, twists off Hawkeye’s other arm.

So far in the dream we are seeing a few things that break up the pattern of how the dreams are going. First of all, this is the first dream that does not start off as a happy fantasy. It is an inversion of Potter’s dream. Potter’s dream is pure fantasy; Hawkeye’s dream is just a straight-up nightmare with no moment of escapism like what the other characters get. This shows just how mentally unwell Hawkeye is. He has nothing positive to try to escape into, foreshadowing his desperation to disassociate during the events that lead up to the finale. Secondly, aside from Potter’s mother calling him in to dinner, this is the first dream with dialogue. It makes the dream feel much more grounded in reality despite the unreality of the mannequin limbs.

Hawkeye, like Charles, is grappling with the impossibility of what he is being asked to do at the 4077. He is begging to not be put on the spot like this, almost pleading when he explains that he was sleeping. Hawkeye doesn’t seem to be after money like Frank, nor does he seem to enjoy his own technical prowess for its own sake. He is a warmer person than Charles, but at least in the context of MASH, seems to be keeping himself at an arms length from his patients. What does Hawkeye get out of being a surgeon? I think he likes being a hero, and more than that likes playing God. Hence episodes like “Preventative Medicine,” where he flexes his surgical skills to try to fix the world as he would like it to be fixed. This nightmare demonstrates his limitations as a person.

Why is Charles here and not someone else? Why is Charles the one that rips off his only remaining arm? Charles is Hawkeye’s rival in terms of surgical skill. If anyone could reattach a limb, or if anyone has a leg to stand on in terms of condemning Hawkeye’s lacking skills, it’s Charles. We don’t get Hawkeye ever saying anything about Potter’s surgical skills, but he outright tells B.J. in the finale that he looks down on him professionally speaking. That is why Charles, as Hawkeye’s surgical rival, is the one complicit in the condemnation of Hawkeye. However, Charles doesn’t say anything at all in the dream. He doesn’t even seem to gloat. He just mournfully removes Hawkeye’s arm. So despite their somewhat negative relationship, Hawkeye is not imputing to Charles any maliciousness in the dream.

After both of Hawkeye’s arms have been removed, we cut to him on a small, oarless row boat, floating through a lake that is full of mannequin limbs. The boat approaches the bank, where we see a very small Korean girl clutching her bloody stomach. Hawkeye hangs his head and looks away. Then we see him walking, armless, towards the little girl who is now lying on an operating table. A nurse hands him a scalpel, which he cannot take. This is Charles’s impotence under the conditions of the 4077 on steroids. He is literally powerless to operate on this small child. The helplessness is magnified when he hears incoming choppers and screams. The choppers are all too real and wake him from his sleep.

This is the only dream where the wounded includes a Korean. Furthermore, this is an innocent bystander, a small child. All other dreams about the wounded are about American soldiers ( or potentially some of the international allies, although they all appear to be white from what we can see on screen). There is a lot of room for very, very valid criticism of this show in terms of how little they did to portray Korea in a dignified and accurate manner. I cannot reliably differentiate Asian languages on the spot, but I’ve even heard they even had scenes where the extras are speaking Japanese and other Asian languages rather than Korean. What gave MASH its staying power for American audiences is that it, at bottom, is not about Korea. What condemns MASH as a relic of its time, and draws its most well-deserved criticism, is that it’s not about Korea!

All that being said, MASH is the most consistently anti-war piece of mainstream American media that I have ever seen by far. Certainly the most anti-war mainstream creation that isn’t a SFF work. The finale is still the most watched non-Superbowl broadcast in U.S. history. For this show to be airing during a very unpopular war, and for it to take moments to note the depth of suffering of innocent bystanders, means something. American culture is based on demonizing and dehumanizing people from other parts of the world, especially people in the Global South. The precious moments in MASH where we see the suffering of non-combatants are tiny glimpses of a world where Americans are made aware of the depth of suffering the American empire has caused worldwide.

I have grown up as an American in a post-9/11 world, and I think the instinct to criticize the American empire and the constant wars that prop it up was radically damaged by 9/11 and the uncritical patriotism it reinforced in the American consciousness. To watch something so committed to a condemnation of war, where war is worse than hell because there are no innocent bystanders in hell, is like watching something out of a parallel universe. The need to dehumanize the Other, especially the Other from the Global South, has really been on full display post- October 7th. The constant dismissal of the suffering of children and innocents in Israel, the West Bank, and particularly in Gaza is very difficult to watch.

Of course, there is room for criticism even in this moment in MASH. Why not show this moment with an injured adult or even an enemy combatant? MASH is capable of showing humanity to those groups as well, but perhaps it goes down easier to show a truly innocent young child. This is a heartbreaking foreshadowing of the events of the finale, where Hawkeye is ultimately complicit in the death of a baby. The narrative there does not exonerate Hawkeye, offering him only some slight expiation when he needs to operate to save another young child. I don’t know if these moments are enough to save the show from its critics. I don’t think they are. But they are refreshing moments of empathy in an otherwise jingoistic pop cultural landscape.

Conclusion

In the final scene, the characters stand to go off to bed, but Winchester mutters to himself “to sleep... perchance to dream,” and they all reach for more coffee to drown away the drowsiness. Perhaps the pain of dreams, the teasing glimpse of their deepest wishes, is more painful than even reality. These dreams are a reminder that, as Hawkeye says at the start of the episode, “they’ve tattooed our brains with this ugliness.”

Each dream during the episode gives us a wonderfully rich character analysis. We see what each character most desires and craves, only to see those desires corrupted and polluted by the circumstances the characters are trapped in. Some characters are doing better under the stressors than others. Potter’s dream is full of whimsy, while Hawkeye’s offers him no relief from what he is going through in Korea. Some dreams are full of the anxiety induced by trying to care for other people (Charles, Hawkeye), others are full of sorrow for the life that they are being drawn away from (Margaret, B.J.), and still others reflect a fear of the senseless violence of war (Klinger). Most prioritize the suffering of American soldiers, but Hawkeye’s gives the audience a needed moment of empathy for a Korean bystander. Each vision the characters have of themselves is broken open, until the characters fall apart under the stress of what they are going through. The wonderful character study, done down to each frame, makes this an exceptional piece of television that I could come back to time and time again to find new insights.

Thank you for reading. Reply/reblog with your favorite dream. :)

[vintagecandy]

✯✯✯ Joli Love war time promotional cover. ✯✯✯

[bloomingkyras]

Camilla Lindbergh Princess Of Swannie for @seyvia Fairytale Affair a BC Challenge (sims submission)

"A story of a Soul Healer.. Camilla Lindberg, Princess of Swannie."

Camilla was born with a specialties, that no one will be able to have which make her be able to "Heal Her Own Fiancé's Soul" to life but not into human but animals.

It's happen when Her Fiancé, Daniel Charls, Prince of Winona, Died in Military war in the year of unknown. The Soldier found his body in his campsite and by that time they know that he still alive cause he still breath and knowing "the news", Camilla world become messy, cause she just not lost her lover but their beloved horse too, a Military Horse, Dash, that was given by her on His 17th birthday.

Until she determine to use her Specialties to bring him back to life. But the King, Sir Carlos, forbid her to use it, cause It will have a negative impact, not just for them, but to the People of Swannie and Winona. Which will make all the Spellcaster lost their abilities, lost their magic and potion will not be be able to use. The only way was by using animal's heart. Camilla threatened her mother who was also a Queen of Swannie, if her father did not allow it, she would hang herself and use that power to get her fiancée back to life.

The King finally approve but His condition, was only using His power and Hers and If the 'time comes to take Dash Home" they have to release it, so she agree and they have to bring Her fiancée's heart and Dash's body somewhere unknown for "cultivation". Month pass by.. Dash finally a life but weak.. It's medicine was only Camilla. When ever Camilla have to do her "Service", Dash will become weak and make her have to bring him, anywhere she goes. Until the time for Dash to go HOME..Camilla refuse to letting him go, until she keep making it's coming back to life using her magic and it's give impact to herself which she almost blind.

Their "Guard" told her to stop. But Your Majesty, Sir Carlos, ignore. He said, what Camilla do was Love to her Fiancée. They said this is not LOVE but EGO. Love should not be treat like this, Love should be free not tied up. They should release Dash asap as possible, if not another war will come as the other world started to hear the rumor about this.

Ma'am Freeda, the Queen of Swannie, said the only way to make Your Highness, Camilla release Dash, was by making her out from Swannie or finding her new soulmate far from their own country.

Lucky for them, The Queen of Spellbyndell, had sent an invitation to all world and country, to participate in the fairy Queen of Spellbyndells challenges! Secretly, Sir Carlos ask his Assistance to reply the invitation and sent Camilla's entry to compete in the challenge and the reply letter from The Queen of Spellbyndell accidently hand on to Camilla who currently playing with Dash at its stable. And it's was the right time to convince her again to release Dash forever. And she will agree if Your Majesty, Sir Carlos help her to see Her fiancé for the last time.

Name: Camilla Lindbergh Princess Of Swannie she/her (20 YA) (spellcaster / soul healer *this occult form are only be seen in her own country)

Traits: I recently download more cas trait. but I only have her 3 traits that u mention and no romantic trait.

Aspiration: Appliance Wiz

she have some skill that already level 2 and 2 more skill have level 4.

I already set her like and dislike and also way of life from Lovestruck.

I'm sorry..I feel overwhelm and excited to dress her up, so she end up with a lot of cc. but feel free to change if needed. and that was the outfit that she and her people of Swannie wear. don't worry its not modern outfit but it call timeless outfit.

U can make some change on her to look more yours.

and that its. Fuh..that was a long journey and how Camilla the Soul healer, end up agree with her Dad, to compete in Fairytale Affair a BC Challenge. And I don't hope much. If Your highness, Camilla manage to go thru the next round which left 4 Princess, and I know it's not easy, it already make me happy. Thanks Seyvia, for this opportunity to take part in the BC and I'm already excited for what next from u. And also give me some tips regarding outfit too , this was the challenging part so far too. And have fun with my princess. :)

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[fromorigintofinality]

i dont post on here a ton but i gotta say the growing attitude on tumblr that voting in the US is somehow useless is really concerning.

just recently i saw this post that was basically making fun of people saying that voting was the way to change the system, and that's just.. wrong? like seriously, how do you think roe v. wade got overturned? its because despite everything, republicans are smart voters and know how to play the long game.

but leftists as of late have lost that quality i feel. instead of advocating for people to vote, they advocate for some "revolution" they think will solve everything. among the people in the post mentioned earlier being glorified as revolutionaries were mao zedong and stalin, and when asked why the poster was glorifying these horrific figures, they said, "yes. Mao freed my family and stalin defeated the fascists. Get with the program sugar"

do you notice anything about that? do you notice how it sounds like the way a child describes the world? "stalin defeated the fascists" like he's some hero who defeated the evil horde of thieves? the way things like the red guard, struggle sessions, all of that, are completely ignored on the side of Mao? how this person, despite having a trans flag in their pfp, is ignoring how the utterly homophobic state of the Chinese government at present is the fault of Mao? how they ignore horrific things such as the Gulag on side of Stalin? this person cannot think, and the only way they believe that the world can move forward is a revolution, and revolution's don't work when the people advocating for them do nothing.

maybe one could argue that this was just a one off type of thing, and that all of the thousands of people liking and reblogging this post are just weirdos. but whether or not thats true, this growing sentiment of praying to a revolution that will never come is indeed growing. and its not just like these people stay in their lane, they actively encourage and probably will cause people to not vote.

so i want to remind everybody. elections are not a moral choice. joe biden is complicit and actively funding a genocide, but not voting for him, third party or not (if you still think third parties are viable please look into the history behind them), will make it more likely that trump will win, and that things in palestine and other things that joe biden has failed in will get 1000x worse. candidates in elections are a bus stop to the real goal, and treating them as such is smart voting, republicans proved this with the overturning of roe v. wade.

please do not be selfish. this last bit may seem out of nowhere, but i need to say this. this type of thinking is selfish. it is selfish and almost impossible to detect as such for the people who believe in it. if you are the type of person who believes in this style of thinking, you have created a completely arbitrary moral code, and care more about your conscience than real political change. you believe yourself to have completely good morals that are universally good, and for the consequences of following these morals, you don't consider the real change that will occur, just your conscience and peace of mind. as for what happens because of that moral code, you will always find a way around looking inwards to how you contributed.

this election season may be the most important yet, please learn to take the practical route instead of the "pure" route.

[lordvonbunnyv]

A French soldier gives a shell-shocked trench engine a cigarette (colorized)

(circa 1915, photographer unknown. Donated to the Ulfstead railway museum by an anonymous donor.)

[destielmemenews]

"Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps."

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