#descriptions of war

[eldritch-ace]

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

happy wash your fucking water bottle wednesday

[raccmeta]

theeee messiest heroes of olympus doodles ever but i wanted them out there

[exutrio]

orym and dorian in c3 x 120: "the red end"

[margaretkart]

There was something really captivating about Alcibiades when i first learned about him reading about the Peloponnese war. On a first glance it'll sound even funny how many times he would switch sides. Which resulted in many enemies and almost zero trust from his peers.

Personally i was questioning often the reasons why he would do it and then in the symposium doing such profound speeches about love, then his relationship with Pericles, Socrates and his close people in general.

From even the little information about him picture very much a very complex person who lived his life the the fullest until the end and most certainly left a mark many unfortunately now ignore.

[syn0vial]

yes, yes, boba fett finds it strange and uncomfortable when people can see his face and this is one of the major reasons he almost never removes his helmet (in the expanded universe anyway), but another factor that i think isn't explored nearly enough is just how much his helmet shapes how he sees the world. it grants him 360° vision, lets him interface with his weapon systems and slave I, and automatically dampens loud noises and dims bright lights. imagine going through the vast majority of your life seeing the world through that lens and then suddenly taking it away. removing his helmet for any significant length of time likely isn't just uncomfortable for him but downright disorienting.

[afloweroutofstone]

In late 2023, I published the first ever survey of weapons companies advertising to policymakers in the DC subway system. Earlier this month, I spoke with Responsible Statecraft for a follow-up article which notes that the problem appears to have gotten even worse.

Leaving the [Washington National] airport I walked past ads for other Pentagon contractors and noticed that an in-airport playground that my kids have cavorted upon is sponsored by Boeing, whose weaponry has allegedly been used in numerous attacks that have killed children. And that’s an important distinction: these aren’t ads from companies that sell car insurance or beer, these are ads from companies that literally profit from war — and the threat of war — and get hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars every year to do it.

...So I contacted my former colleague Brett Heinz, who has done one of the only systematic analyses of Pentagon contractor ads in the D.C. metro system that I’m aware of — he spent dozens of hours riding the metro just to look at ads so, yes, he might be a masochist, but he’s highly knowledgeable about this topic.

“Oh, it’s gotten so much worse,” Heinz... explained in an interview. “The subway campaigns that I focused on are still common,” he added, pointing to recent ad campaigns by Amazon Web Services (AWS) — which were running as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was in town for President Trump’s inauguration — proclaiming to riders that “AWS is how taxpayer dollars go further” and “AWS is how intelligence stays a step ahead.”

“But contractors have also been trying new approaches,” Heinz added, pointing to the Anduril and L3 Harris billboard-sized ads that have been running on the side of D.C. buses for months.

...“The returns on investment here are massive: if a contractor's ad campaign has even a marginal effect in securing one single Pentagon contract, the company will make their money back several times over,” Heinz explained.

To that point, just since the Anduril ads began running in the greater D.C. area the company has been awarded more than $1 billion in a series of contracts from the Pentagon.

While the ad campaigns' direct impact on any of these deals would be hard to prove, there’s no question that ad campaigns by Anduril and other Pentagon contractors get the attention of D.C. decision makers. That’s exactly the point. According to Outfront, “transit advertising makes you a part of consumers’ day.” In the greater D.C. area those “consumers” can be Pentagon acquisition officials, members of Congress, and their staff that help determine how much taxpayer money the Pentagon spends, and even which companies — like Anduril — get it.

These ads, then, are better seen as lobbying by other means. And, while it’s technically illegal for contractors to use Congressionally appropriated funds “for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency,” transit ads have not been considered as falling under this limitation. And last May, a D.C. judge ruled that a WMATA provision barring “advertisements that are intended to influence public policy,” was a violation of the First Amendment, which now gives government contractors and others free rein to run issue ads in the D.C. transit system.

In short, residents and visitors to our nation's capital will be forced to wade through an even wider and deeper swamp of Pentagon contractor marketing that was made possible, to some extent, by the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars the Pentagon doles out every year.

[pacificwaternymph]

Bad Batch enjoyers right now.

[itspinkflowers]

Not too long ago I made a post about Zeb and his cute face, now let's talk about Kallus. I was rewatching Zero Hour like one does, when I decided I need to start taking screenshots of Kal's face.

Kallus just beat some stromtroopers up and entered an escape pod. These are the faces that he makes while he's activating the pod and sending a help request to the Ghost as Fulcrum.

He's focused, sure, but especially in that first picture he looks like a man who's feeling a mix of determined, hopeful and worried. I love how the light hits his face, he's literally going towards the Light ;__;

These are immediately after Hera takes him in the Ghost. His shoulders drop and he exhales a sigh because he did escape from the Empire, he's safe!

I love the contrast between him looking steadfast and brave and his relieved face.

[eldritch-ace]

When I’m bored, I draw a Luke (or an Anakin, or a Leia, or a Padmé)

[intermundia]

palai pote en kosmō prosōtatō hode mythos palai en kosmō prosōtatō etukhon. hēdē telos ekhei. ouden an tonde metaballein poioito. erōtos kai blabēs mythos estin, hetaireias kai prodosias, tharseos te thusias te kai tou oneiratōn olethrou. tēs amaurās diaforās metaksu tōn hēmeterōn aristōn te kai kakistōn mythos estin. tou teleos aiōnos mythos estin.

here's a version of the prologue of matthew stover's revenge of the sith in ancient greek, because he studied greek theater in college and decided that the fall of anakin skywalker deserved a tragic structure (and he was right).

[sunderwight]

(A venn diagram connecting Byleth Eisner, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Shen Qingqiu. The overlap between Byleth and Obi-Wan says 'mentor/dad tragically died in their arms', the overlap between Byleth and Shen Qingqiu says 'personally knows the creator god', and the overlap between Shen Qingqiu and Obi-Wan says 'has grown a beard'. In the middle is a solid paragraph of text that reads 'awkward 20-something coerced into mentoring the protagonist who they are shipped with but they're actually a natural teacher but they don't know it at first and if they had a time machine they would do so many things differently and also they're magic and sci-fi at the same time and they have a cool sword and-'. End of image description.)

Is this anything, or...?

[millidew]

little baby wisteria

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

atp phil’s like “ffs i wish i could hit you with a car then i wouldn’t have to be stuck with your annoying dramatic ass 🙄”

[galactic-rhea]

I damn you star wars, how is it that we don't have a image, or at least a physical description of vine tigers.

This is something very important, this is is because of ...important scientific reasons -coughs-

[krscblw]

just finished the poppy war and i HAD to draw altan