#ww2 pulp

[spacenoirdetective]

Frank Godwin

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Short S.35 Shetland I

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‘Demobbed!’

Original artist: David Wright

[stone-cold-groove]

American Sky Devils magazine - September 1942.

[jeandejard3n]

The Fate of Hans Landa

[rottenstrawberryash]

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ʚɞ Film and TV: diary of a teenage girl, the black swan, euphoria, the virgin suicides, pulp fiction, watching the detectives, pll, tvd, american psycho, my big fat greek wedding (1&2), cmbyn, esotsm, criminal minds, ahs, scream queens, priscilla, mota, baby, the devil wears prada, gone girl, htlagi10d, 10tihay, lady bird, the bling ring, the pale blue eye, corpse bride, little women, sisterhood of the traveling pants.

ʚɞ Songs: lana’s discography, come as you are, smells like teen spirit, devil’s advocate, chanel, heartbeat, angels, sexy to someone, peso, there is a light that never goes out +80s music, high fashion.

ʚɞ Artists: lana del rey, dominic fike, the smiths, nirvana, asap rocky, frank ocean, clairo, beabadoobee, laufey, arctic monkeys, the neighborhood, cigs after sex, mazzy star, tv girl.

ʚɞ Icons: luna blaise, blair waldorf, audrey hepburn, princess diana, margaret qualley, effy stonem, emma roberts, amalie star, eva meloche, enya umanzor, lily rose depp, amy dunne.

ʚɞ Books: wuthering heights, jane eyre,

ʚɞ Hobbies: i love baking, painting, reading, writing poetry, carefully curating my pinterest boards to fit my current aesthetic, watching movies

ʚɞ Nerdy Interests: history- ww2, mythology, the moon, stars and constellations, arguing about politics 🥰, reading thesaurus’s (odd but I like implementing new words into essays often bc I’m graduating soon and I need my teachers to say nice things about my intellect), ancient and prehistoric history, nature documentaries, languages

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[eclectic-sassycoweyes]

Heyho Mar! Nice ask week so I'll nicely ask you:

What is a favourite "gulity-pleasure" song? And what is one of your favourite movies that came out before 2000? Have a nice day/night :D

Hi Robin!!:D Thank you for this ask! You will get one back when my brain is hopefully less mush by the end of the week. I'm so glad you joined the fandom and the server I like having you around so much!!!💚

Hmmm that is good question! I think 'guilty pleasure' is such an interesting expression bc why should we feel guilty about something we enjoy? Anyway I think for me, the songs that are guilty pleasures are that because they are very emotional in this 'over the top'/epic or like, in a way that is considered 'easy to consume' way. I think this is because no matter how much I rationally think differently, my instinct is to not show people that I have human emotion HAHA. Also because society likes to tell us that 'easily consumable' pop culture made simply for pleasure and 'the feels' is somehow not cool or quality taste. I'm trying to undo both! Songs such as 'One', 'I surrender', 'Unbreak My Heart', 'Life For Rent', 'Jolene', 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright', a lot of the ballads by Roxette like 'Listen To Your Heart', are all on that list for me, like I would be embarrassed playing them in front of others but as I said I'm working on them not being guilty pleasures!! So thank you for aiding me in my process😅

Ohh as for movies that's a fun specific question too, it made me think of some of the movies that I was introduced to by my parents growing up that I still like (once again you get a whole list sorry):

Life Is Beautiful, Legends of the Fall, (like TK, I also maybe have had a bit of a thing for Brad Pitt..), A Few Good Men, Scent of a Woman, G.I. Jane, The General's Daughter (I am a pacifist but for some reason 3 military movies snuck in here? I promise they're at least kind of critical and I guess what drew me was strong women in a male dominated field..) American Beauty (I feel ambigous about watching this because of K**** S***** but it's such a good movie, same with The Usual Suspects), Erin Brockovitch is from 2000 but please let me have it (They're called boobs Ed!), Pulp Fiction.

Lion King and The Fox and the Hound were some of my favorite disnwy movies growing up ! I think Fox and the Hound would still make me cry.

And also a special shouout to on my favorite show which is from 1978. This gif contains my favorite character although I love them all, Maude, played by Malene Schwartz, the blonde one to the right:

She plays an anxious childish woman trapped by her role as a housewife to the head of the town bank who grows through challenges to be more independent and also to take responsibility and stand up for others and what's right. Some favorite quotes: 'I'm going to bed' (in the middle of the day because of some minor inconvenience), 'I can drive' (when the town's only jewish guy needs to be smuggled to Sweden at the beginning of WW2 and they desperately need someone to drive the car, and 'Much could probably be different. If we dare'. She makes the funniest most scandalized expressions😂

To sum up, I think a lot of good cinema came out before 2000 and I was generally raised by parents who had a love for movies and introduced me to a lot of 'classics'. Looking at them today, I still think they're damn good cinema although, while a lot of them discuss class and gender and is critical and about standing up against The Man (very on par for my socialist parents) I feel that I could have been introduced to more diverse representation and that is definitely what I'm drawn to watching newer movies and shows which is what I mostly watch now ehen I have time. Although this made me think that maybe I should look into actively expanding my older movies reperoire!

I also wish I had been introduced more to the classic musicals and such I feel so behind on catching up to queer culture sometimes. I just really learned what ‘Wicked’ was for the first time when I visited @heartstringsduet in Berlin and we went to see it😅💗

[qsycomplainsalot]

I want your take on something given your history-tied art (excuse spelling errors, my hands are very cold:) when does alt-history or general historical fiction writing become “inappropriate?” I’m not talking about political LARP but the portrayal and inclusion of real world historical figures. I like the web series “The Monument Mythos” which includes a President James Dean as a satire of cult of personality political worship of especially authoritarians. And my fav episode of Red Dwarf is the one where JFK was on the grassy knoll. However a lot of HOI4 mods (millions of people such as me suffer from Paradox Strategy Game ADHD thots and prayers) have these issues. Pre rewrite, The New Order (made by self identified leftists) wrote Himmler as a cackling fascist-style-posadist supervillain and Fuhrer Albert Speer as a liberal pro democracy human rights reformer. Even post rewrite issues still exist such as portrayal of politicians who were victims of the Lavender Scare now being perpetrators. I also feel Red Flood has a problem with a dictator Antonin Artaud who was portrayed as a futurist schizo madman when IRL I don’t believe he aligned with the futurists and his mental health issues only developed at the end of his life.

Well my stance on this is, if the message is interesting then at least that's a redeeming quality. Like sure you may be using actual historical people in a video game, but a video game can tell an interesting message just like a book can. Maybe flipping the historical narrative gives an interesting point of view. And then like in a lot of what you just described it's just pulp... which, I appreciate pulp, but when you're making a mockery of people linked with genocide I think it's disrespectful to the people still alive to remember it. Conversely it's very much less dicey to do that with older figures, BECAUSE the defining factor of whether you should or shouldn't is very much "does anyone care about this". If you make a cartoon supervillain out of a nazi that's bad and disrespectful of everyone still living in the aftermath of their actual crimes, but you don't have this problem with say Charlemagne or Gengis Khan destroying entire cultures centuries ago. No specifically with HOI I think the issue is that this game's modding community is a hotbed of people trying to make Germany win WW2, which is a huge red flag.

[markheinzelman]

Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavill is a WW2 pulp adventure that is an amalgamation of The Untouchables, The Rock, and, of course, Inglorious Batards. Can’t go wrong with that dynamic!

[nightbringer24]

1938: A Very British Civil War is a game setting that is both well supported for models in one respect, but also not well supported in another.

Basically: the models for the regular militaries, plus vehicles, as well as terrain is well supported. It's all basically early WW2 stuff, and also a selection of WW1 stuff too.. The irregular side is not well supported however.

There can be good stuff for the Interwar Period, Footsore Miniatures especially, but I find that a lot of the model companies that do have an Interwar Period range focus more on the campy, Pulp side of that era.

[spacenoirdetective]

Mort Kunstler, "Execution of Convoy PQ17" from "For Men Only", May 1960

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Type 97 Shinhōtō Chi-Ha

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‘Show off!’

Artist: Howard Connolly

Source: ‘International Mutoscope Reel Company’ (1941)

[stone-cold-groove]

Exciting Navy Stories magazine - April 1942.

[loopy777]

I just read your fic "Stainless Steel Sleuth" and I loved it. The ATLA series leans itself so well to noir themes and settings im surprised it isnt done more in the fandom. And the idea of setting it in the real world in a time period that would resemble the one in ATLA, what with the 100 year war being WW2 in a way, that was genius. We need more ATLA in the real world type settings. Have you ever though of like an idea for a "ATLA in the real world" story that was still somewhat following the plot of the show? You know like war and the avatar and whatnot.

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it, as figuring out how to translate the Fire Nation's war into something in the real world was the biggest headache for that whole project. XD

What's tricky about any attempt to translate AtLA to a real world setting is mapping the cultures. It's easy to make the Air Nomads into Tibet, and the Water Tribes have a variety of Arctic cultures that can be chosen as a reasonable representation (@mostly-mundane-atla has a lot great information blogged for that). But the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom can be problematic. For a WW2 setting, especially, it's tempting to make the Fire Nation into Japan and the Earth Kingdom into China. But I think the Fire Nation has too much Chinese influence for that to be satisfying, especially since Mai's character design draws so much from tropes of the 'Chinese Girl' and she's the star of that story.

Hence my vague compromise in the backstory where Ozai is leading his own rogue state that mixes followers from Japan, China, and other nations in the area. I did align him with Japan's imperial war of conquest, since they were the active would-be imperial power of the time, but otherwise did a very precise dance centered on Manchuria.

And I do, in fact, have another AtLA AU set in the 'real' world! Getting this Ask prompted me to port my Wild West AU over to AO3. That's a little less real, though, in that I use Steampunk technology and make the mythology around Geronimo into fact, but I still brought in as much history as I could. It was also easier to map, since it was all contained within American cultures. Despite being a short story (and a sequel), this one actually does directly adapt some of AtLA's plot, but mostly just the finale. That choice was a practical one, as it let me cram in the most amount of favorite characters.

It's entirely likely I'll do more writing in this vein, since I like modern history and I like playing in AUs, and I don't see any reason to rule out something with a more classical Aang-led plot. I would never just replicate the plot beats of the AtLA cartoon, but if we allow for something like my Traitor's Face fic where I allowed myself to do a lot of original storytelling, then that's entirely possible.

That said, neither of my 'historical AU' projects were meant to be 'historical AUs.' They ended up that way because I love drawing on history when I can, but I started with the intention of writing a Detective Noir and a Western, classical pulp stories whose look and feel carried down the ages from when those kinds of stories were first being told. I love pulp fiction (despite never seeing the movie "Pulp Fiction"), so that will probably drive my next attempt to bring AtLA into the real world.

Of course, I share that love with AtLA itself. "The City of Walls and Secrets" is fully a Noir tale, and everyone agrees "Zuko Alone" doesn't even try to pretend it's not a Western. So maybe I'll end up doing a 80's Coming Of Age comedy-drama just like "The Beach," although how I'd fit Aang's quest into that, I have no idea. ;)

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics:

1 thru 4. Modules in the 2006 Hollow Earth Expedition RPG from Exit Game Studio.

The Earth (is) Not Hollow.

Intro: "Hollow Earth Expedition" is a fast paced RPG that embraces pulp action & the weird pulp adventure genre.

There's mystery, exploration & plenty of cliffhangers here. And the main setting is an ancient land full of time lost dangers!

The rule there is that, though many enter this weird Inner World, few ever get out again.

This results in a realm that collects folk from all the ages. And, the many dangers thereof...

Plot: 1936 America is struggling thru the Great Depression. And the world's getting ready for WW2.

Nazis are busy collecting ancient artifacts, lost tech & hidden magics.

And you're lost in a Hollow Earth scenario! Facing you are hungry dinos, pirates, Roman centurions, mystical monks, carnivorous plants & more...

But, you can also go adventuring in the surface world, which has a different feel, tech, politics & other concerns.

Back in the Hollow Earth, time moves differently, resulting in a wide variety of entities to encounter.

Since the electromagnetic field doesn't work there. So, you can't trust your any compass!

Worse, with the molten core not moving, you can't rely on navigating by the sun.

It's always noon here...

The Inner World's geography is just weird. Land slopes upward, there's fern forests, lava lakes & other bizarre features.

There's no maps here & each entrance to the Hollow Earth leads to new, exciting lands. As if the interior of the world were bigger than its surface...

In the Inner World, everything's more extreme! There's higher cliffs, larger animals - even hardier people!

Criticism: "Expedition" is a well crafted & fast paced game. With a straight forward & simple playing system.

From character creation to combat, everything is built for speed & ease of use.

The high quality & atmospheric art is mostly in B&W. But, character pages are all in glorious color.

The only thing that I don't like, is that "Expedition" doesn't deal with magic systems, psychic powers nor weird science devices...

Pics:

1 & 2. A look at the RPG's interior B&W artworks.

3. Amazing cover for Timothy G. Beckley's "Our Hollow Earth."

4. Page for additional game material.

5. A clear cross section schematic for a Hollow Earth.

Game Mechanics: This RPG uses 2 die rolls, where even rolls count as a success.

Character creation involves spending points on Motivations, Attributes, Skills, Synergy, Resources, Flaws & Experience.

Actions come in Standard, Extended, Opposed & Reflexive forms. Difficulty & Range of Success have Minor, Major & Amazing ratings.

You're even rewarded for good story- telling, good roleplaying ideas & any- thing that makes playing the game more smoothly.

Every round & Special Action is made up of an Attack & a Move element.

Simple Combat maneuvers add spice to the game.

You'll need Allies to face giant apes, man eating plants, lizard folk, krakens, mammoths, etc...

Game Masters focus on the game's pacing, rewards, Cliffhangers & all the other game running methods.

You're also given detailed travel info and summaries on the state of major countries in this conflicted time.

Finally, after a sample adventure, there's an Appendix, Glossary & Index. This includes a list of source material & a detailed wrap up...