#lieutenant blake

[theoceansbeyond]

Doodle

[kenobihater]

happy fog of war friday

[thewizardofschnoz]

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[morganaconda]

[howlingday]

The White Fang Headquarters, deep in the Menagerie jungles...

Adam: DAMMIT! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! We're using the same production methods she did!

Sienna: IT'S NO USE! All of our blind tastings prove hers are superior!

Adam: HOW ARE HERS BETTER?!

Banesaw: I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! (Throws off mask) I'D RATHER DIE THAN DRINK SUBSTANDARD ALCOHOL!

Ilia: Should we apologize and beg the brew-master to come back?!

Adam: DON'T CALL THAT SICK PERVERT BY THAT TITLE! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Adam: Fine! I may have overreacted a bit by banishing her from the islands for life and nearly killing her, but I will not apologize! We of the White Fang NEVER apologize! EVER!

Ilia: ...So, where did she run off to?

Sienna: (Sighs) Last I heard, that weirdo bought some place on the mainland. She mumbled something about "the true balance of all blends" using "the purest of natures of whites and reds".

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Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived bitterly in exile after being ostracized from my island home...

But now I see that my banishment was a blessing in disguise. Beyond my prison of jungle and sea and sand, I finally see the truth.

Good wine is grown under an open sky, but a perfect wine is made with fertile soil, open and free air, with much sunshine and much rain. It is nurtured, crafted, and brewed with dignity, respect, patience...

Yang: How's he harvest this year?

...and love.

Blake: The grapes are beautiful, just like you, my love.

Sun: Aw, they're so cute...

Jaune: Right? I wonder what kind of wine these ones will be.

New Isekai...

I Was Exiled From A Terrorist Organization For Loving A Human Woman, So I Recruited Her Mercenary Troupe of Blond Warriors And Built A Legendary Vineyard Harem, And Now My Wine Is So Good The High Leader Is Begging For Me To Come Back, But It's Too Late Because I'm Already Living My Best Life.

[thebisexualagendasblog]

1917 + text posts, part 2

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[morganmerylhodgepodge]

Lieutenant Carter Blake

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[airyairyaucontraire]

Highlights: he was 63 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army before joining the Air Force as a civilian employee

He met someone online who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine and she coaxed him into giving her classified information about the Russia-Ukraine war

Sample of their conversations:

[theoceansbeyond]

For my fellow M*A*S*H personnel, here I share my ultimate funny (?) poster(s) and details with y’all. Enjoy!

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[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

22/01/2024

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 western film produced, directed and starring Kevin Costner.

The film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Blake, who also wrote the screenplay, won seven Oscars, including best film and best director. In 2007 it was chosen to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in 75th place in the ranking of the best one hundred American films of all time.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar is an officer of the Union Army garrisoned at St. David's Field, Tennessee. The man, following a serious wound that would condemn him to the amputation of a leg, seeks death in front of the Confederate lines, but his extreme gesture breaks the stalemate between the two armies facing each other a few dozen meters away, resolving the battle in favor of the Northerners. His act being recognized as that of a brave man, he is treated, receives a commendation and is granted the possibility of choosing the place of his future destination; the lieutenant asks to be sent to a garrison on the western frontier, on the edge of the Nebraska prairies.

Arriving at Fort Hays, Kansas, Dunbar is sent by the mad commander of the garrison, Major Fambrough, to Fort Sedgwick, the most remote outpost. The suicide of Major Fambrough, committed just after Dunbar's departure, and the assassination of Timmons by a group of Pawnee Indians, which occurred on the way back, determined the subsequent oblivion of Fort Sedgwick by the rest of the army. John spends the first month working to get the outpost back up and running and writing his diary, in which he records everything that happens to him; only his horse Cisco and a wolf with whom he becomes familiar day after day keep him company and to whom he gives the name Two Socks because of his white paws.

[littleblackqrow]

@slaughtermachine​  (🍷)

“Actually, I came to see how you were holding up ‘n if you needed anything,” Qrow said blandly, even though his expression was puzzled. Qrow hadn’t been near the man; why would his semblance have something to do with this? 

While it was obvious that Qrow was concerned about his sometimes bartender’s health, his stance was almost too loose. He leaned against the wall at a respectable distance, hands shoved in his pockets. Almost casually, he remarked, “I also needed to follow up on just what you were doing to get shot. Cant be too careful, if someone’s going around shooting unsuspecting folk.”

[hiraganasakura]

I'm rewatching RWBY and I just finished V3 and like. I'm having so many thoughts about Ruby

She was an eager student, yearning to follow in her mother's footsteps and help others, who got accepted into Beacon Academy two years early. But she felt worried that she'd be singled out; she wants to be normal among her peers, not anything special. "I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees," she says to Yang.

Then she's thrown into the position of leadership despite her young age and relative inexperience, and while she takes it in stride she's incredibly hard on herself in the process. "We need to put our teammates first, and ourselves second," she says to Jaune.

And just when she grows comfortable in her skills and her position as team leader, everything falls apart. Beacon falls. Penny and Pyrrha die horrifically right before her eyes and she's left behind to blame herself. Yang loses her arm — and a part of herself. Weiss is snatched away by her father, Blake runs away. Ozpin has vanished, his lieutenants left to pick up the pieces of the broken, ruined Vale. Most of the ppl that Ruby has come to count on, just... gone. And then immediately after she wakes up from all that, Qrow dumps on her that, congratulations kid, you have silver eyes which basically means you're destined to save the world, have fun! "Then what can I do? If I'm so special, I can help, right?" she says to Qrow.

It's no wonder she got such a martyr complex, no wonder she threw herself so heavily into the identity of a hero, no wonder she fell to pieces and grew consumed by guilt and grief and self-loathing later in the show. She just wanted to go to school and learn how to protect ppl. And then she couldn't even protect the ppl who mattered most to her, not out of some failing on her own part, but bcus she is a child, a child with way too much on her shoulders. And it's just gotten worse. Now she's expected to save the whole world, all bcus she inherited her mother's eyes.

The weight of the entire world upon the shoulders of a grieving teen girl.

How would that not be too much for anyone to bear?

[howlingday]

Saturday Morn-YANG

Yang: (Kicks down door) Why, hello~! I'll have the yakisoba, and the lady will have the sashimi.

Blake: Yang!

Yang: I'm hungry, dangit!

White Fang: (Bark, Growl)

Yang: Yah! Hoh! Karate! Hat- Hey!

Lieutenant: (Picking up Yang)

Yang: Hey, Arnie~! Nice Verminator costume! "I'll be back!"

Yang: (Tossed) Hey, hey, HOT SOUP!

Blake: (Winces)

Yang: (Dazed) Ooh, pigeons~! We can't afford doves...

Yang: (Shakes head, Jumps) Alright, tough guys! Let's turn up the heat!

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Yang: (Investigating a haunted cabin) Yeah, because this place has all the warmth of a Yogi Bear holiday special.

Hound: (Smashes through door)

Yang: (Shrieks)

Hound: (Stalks closer)

Yang: Mom, you promised me you wouldn't drink tonight! (Jumps away)

Hound: (Smashes through wall)

Yang: How can I talk to you when you're like this?!

Hound: (Thrashes)

Yang: (Whoops, Runs)

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Yang: (Tied up) Hey, hey! Watch the hair!

Adam: Ha ha ha ha ha! Ah, nothing like a luau with a roasted dragon~.

Yang: ADAM!

Adam: Hmhmhm. Now I have you. And you will never survive the Albain Brothers. Dragon Stew, anyone? AHAHAHAHA!

Yang: (Stares in horror at boiling pot)

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Yang: What? It worked for the Kansas City Chiefs!

Credits roll

[rwac96]

Farmer Au prompt

Weiss in an effort to expand her horizons stays with Jaune on his family’s farm over break. She comes to deeply enjoy a variety of aspects of farm life; especially ‘rolling’ in the hay.

A small, relaxed sigh escaped Weiss Schnee's lips, as she reached out towards the leaves of a turnip. Using both hands, the white-haired girl pulls the vegetable from the soil, placing it in a basket filled with others. The Team RWBY Lieutenant has been staying at Jaune Arc's childhood home/family farm over the break. It was either spend her Summer with Jaune, who admittedly from the both of them, started off on the wrong foot, or return to her father. Evidently, Weiss chose the former, since Ruby returned to Patch, Blake decided to take a boat to Menagerie, and Yang was doing community service back in Vale. That last part was something Weiss made a mental note of not dwelling over.

As for Jaune's team, Nora and Ren, due to their home being long destroyed by a Grimm attack decided to stay at Beacon, while Pyrrha returned to Argus to visit her mother. Weiss made a lot of assumptions about Jaune's home life, but the people seemed more welcoming. But, the current climate in the Summer was unbearable for her. That fact is evident as her face is covered in beads of sweat. As she plucked the last turnip, shaking the basket lightly.

"That should be that," the singer said with a relieved smile, "I suppose this isn't too bad."

THA-THOOM!!!

Then, she became soaked by an instant downpour of rain after a crack of thunder. Her relieved, victorious smile turned into an annoyed frown. "Dammit," she sprints towards the barn, the closes building to avoid the elements.

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"There," Jaune drapes a blanket onto the middle Schnee child, "you good?" He exhaled, plopping down onto a stack of hay next to her.

"Yeah," she nodded, leaning her head against the lone Arc son. "I have to say, this place, it does have its benefits." She gives him a warm smile with a quick wink.

[yatima]

A propos of nothing in particular I wanna talk about Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake from my other favorite TV show, M*A*S*H. Henry was based on a historical person who seems to have been pretty shitty, and in the sitcom he starts out as a terrible leader and kind of a hateful jerk. Over time, though, he demonstrates competence, shows real growth and, thanks to a terrific performance from a gifted actor, becomes a beloved character.

In the final episode of the third season, Henry gets his much-wanted honorable discharge from the Army and is given a hilariously chaotic send-off from his unit in Korea. Just as we think he's going to be safe for the rest of his life in Bloomington, Illinois, Radar comes into the OR and speaks the words that are engraved on my HEART: "Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."

My God. People were SO MAD at the showrunners. Henry worked so hard! He went through so much! He deserved an endless retirement full of fishing! He didn't deserve a random awful sudden death! We loved him and how he interacted with all the other characters and we missed him for the rest of the show!

My God if the rest of that show wasn't immeasurably changed and improved. After Henry died for real, everything had stakes. Profound tone-shift from wacky hijinks to still incredibly funny but character-driven and insightful. Frank and Margaret went from flat caricatures to - well, at least in Margaret's case - one of the best and most complex women on TV at the time. (Team Let Frank Be Trans can still win.) The shallow nihilism that the early seasons shared with the novel and the film was replaced by a hard-earned melancholy that set the comedy in high relief. Henry's death underscored one of the most memorable exchanges in the show, that came two entire seasons later:

Hawkeye: War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

M*A*S*H isn't just a show about war. It didn't just define the modern workplace comedy, it did so by making the point that the modern workplace is where most of us viewers spend our lives trying to reckon with the violent empire in which we are embedded. At its best, M*A*S*H showed us that the resistance lives and endures in pockets of unconditional love and mutual aid.

Henry wasn't being punished for anything, and his death wasn't a statement on the part of the writers that people like him don't deserve to live. The writers loved Henry too. People, unfortunately, die. We are all going to die (cue Sufjan Steven's Fourth of July), some of us old and surrounded by people who love us, and some of us way too young and unfairly and not infrequently as a direct consequence of the aforementioned violent empire. The randomness and cruelty of it is what makes love and resistance so utterly necessary and beautiful.

Rest in peace, you lovable jerk.