#hundred year war

[calamondinblooms]

I think it would be so interesting if Azula ever got the chance to speak with Hei-Ran. I think it would help her a lot to speak with someone who had such a strong connection to her nation and its traditions while also being close to people of other nations and backgrounds. They share a similar dedication and willingness to defend their own honor. I think it would be so interesting for Azula to be able to speak with someone who shares so many of her values while also coming from a time before the propaganda and international conflict of the hundred year war. I think Azula would have a certain amount of respect for her, considering her former position as Headmistress of the Royal Fire Academy for Girls, her reputation surrounding Agni Kai, and her clan’s reputation within the fire nation. I just think it would be nice for her to have someone to talk to that understood her feelings surrounding honor and patriotism, but that she could speak with more openly than she felt she could with the people who lived in her time and had the ability to influence her life.

[moonmausoleum]

The All Saint Day Hauntings at Château de Blandy-les-Tours

Step back in time and visit the historic Château de Blandy-les-Tours which is said to be one of the many haunted castles in France. It is said that the castle is especially busy on All Saint Day were the dead are walking the halls.

Step back in time and visit the historic Château de Blandy-les-Tours which is said to be one of the many haunted castles in France. It is said that the castle is especially busy on All Saint Day were the dead are walking the halls. Nestled in the Loire Valley, France’s Château de Blandy-les-Tours is a true gem of history famous for its towers. Dating back to the 13th to 14th century, this castle…

[lightdancer1]

One of the big differences between my ATLA stories and most:

Especially when set in wars is that I use two elements of real wars that are almost always omitted from military fiction for elements of realism and the grimdark comedic aspects that can and do happen in real life events, especially when far removed from them in time and space. The first is logistics. Unlike a lot of cases I put some serious thought into the logistical structures of various sides, as this is what often decides battles well before they're fought and all the other factors come in. A good logistics train can mean a side that technically loses battles will win the campaign and the war because the enemy falls apart.

A bad logistics train and a good fighting force is an army that marches far, wins itself to death, and then implodes with no real idea how and why that happened. The Fire Nation ultimately lopsidedly controls the sea war due to inventing Victorian-style armored ships complete with cannons (because while this isn't quite a thing in ATLA proper it's an element where on the high seas there's no Earthbenders to nullify this with good ol' dirt) against canoes and other kinds of ships.

It ultimately secures the land war by developing the logistical and communications apparatus in elite forces for a 20th Century combined arms war, against forces who range from tribal guerrilla raids to 18th Century logistics. More than a little of this is developed during the war, my Marauder Army is simply the Southern Raiders who switch their older red armor for black armor with golden pauldrons (that is admittedly a sartorial nod to the SS but they're literally armed agents of genocide....like the SS), the tanks and jet skis and the like allow the Fire Nation to become unstoppable in a fluid battle and yet its armies begin to exceed what it can really control or wield with what it has, creating a WWI pattern.

The second is propaganda for anyone and everyone and how wars and history are weaponized by all sides. The EK is fighting a major war, as my War of Air and Fire storyline illustrates in blunter terms in its westernmost provinces well before the genocide. In their view the war started with the seizure of Yu Dao and other coastal colonies and expanded from sporadic fighting to a continuous full-scale war. From the perspective of the Water Tribes the war starts with the Air Nomad Genocide.

For its own reasons under Fire Lord Sozin (specifically his Orwellian/40K influenced Night of Unremembering) the Fire Nation also elects to decide the world war began then, not with the earlier fighting against the Earth Kingdom. The Fire Nation also seldom admits it loses major battles, either doing its best to omit notice of major defeats or soft-pedal them or scapegoating individual commanders and pretending the defeat was the fault of a single individual when it wasn't.

This is what really happens with the Siege of Ba Sing Se, Iroh only learns of Lu Ten's death during the retreat, and it's not that the FN loses the Siege, it's that the EK not only won it but maneuvered events in the end to a point that it broke major elite forces of the Fire Nation to a point it began major recruitment of child soldiers to replenish its losses.

Everyone lies in wars. Military fiction seldom, outside of a few writers, really bothers to even acknowledge this or focus on it.

[guywithbeer]

If you want to watch Willy Wonka and Batman in the same movie watch 2019's THE KING.

Good movie with the barest hint of real history shining through.

#theking #timothéechalamet #robertpattinson #review

[illustratus]

Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops

by Jules Prater

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[ghost-orchids-storm]

Batcher had been properly trained to only bite any threats to her family. Crosshair, however, has not and constantly fails his training despite even Omega's best abilities.

[fedtothenight]

[snekdood]

so uh

for 1. most people are gonna take advantage of black friday and wont see your specific niche tumblr post, I hate to say it

2. the us isnt running out of money for war any time soon, so...

3. this is just antisemitism???????? all we need is some (((echoes))) around the us and israel and then I'd have no reason to suspect otherwise from op...............

[katsigian]

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[sunsetofdoom]

no no no you didn't hear me right I said do the Jedi have SECTS. shut up I SAID do the Jedi have SE-

[calamondinblooms]

Thinking about how Ozai left a good number of his troops in Ba Sing Se during the comet. Like do you think they were informed of his decision to burn the Earth Kingdom down? Or were they just told to defend the city? Would they have burned alive at the hand of their own ruler while following his orders?

[albertserra]

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Ref.

[lightdancer1]

In addition to wrapping up the 1940s arc in my ongoing Sandman story, finally started my 100 Year War trilogy:

This work concerns, at the broadest sketch, the Air Nomad Genocide and the onset of the Hundred Year War. It will be one of three such stories, each of which explores particular events in the war and how and why they happened. As this will be bluntly showing the scale and the nature of the Genocide and the planning that went into it, anyone expecting the canon romanticized Fire Nation is going to be woefully disappointed.

[m3dieval]

I love that Desmond Seward's A Brief History of the Hundred Year's War has helmet illustrations for each chapter and they change based on the era.

[illustratus]

The Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy

by Julian Russell Story