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Preach.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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A friend of mine said something insightful during a discussion about online drama and arguments.

"Agree to disagree is sometimes seen as a fence-sitter statement, but that is only by people that do not what a nuance is."

And I am only mad that I did not think of this first.

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Must be nice pretending a war doesn't exist because it suits them. Fuckers.

Oh god, so now people are actively denying the War in Ukraine because “they don’t show footage of it”

I thought it was a troll, but then I began to read people supporting him, with this comic getting posted

And alright, I get it, many Americans hate to see their government spend money on foreign wars, something they’ve been doing for decades now, but there’s no need to go full denier like this, it just makes you and your point seem incredibly Gamer Word(TM).

I mean for fuck’s sake, one of the most famous tank battle videos of all time, the Bradleys vs a T-90M, came out just a few months ago!

Memes were made and everything!

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A set of illustrations I made for a generous client who has been commissioning me these little scenes starring NCR citizens as part of his fanfiction project. Just finished the last one and supposed I'd share them here!

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

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Whatever the case, feel free to write long-winded explanations in the tags, I WILL read them!

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Women!!!

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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Alright time to get conspiratorial

I have a prediction on the Fallout show, season 2.

And that is based on Bethesda releasing more content for Fallout 4, and the Enclave returns (somehow). And I do suspect that the Amazon show will tie in on that, or Bethesda will make sure it happens, that the Enclave will play an important role in the next season.

I have a suspicion that the Enclave content for Fallout 4 is going to build up hype.

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A Finnish soldier poses with a destroyed Soviet ISU-152, 1944.

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All this about not getting to see John Lennon on twitter but I think the real tragedy is that Freddie Mercury never had an instagram