#this war shit is ridiculous.

[supertaliart]

A continuation of my previous Skywalker Twins comic - feat Yoda part 3

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[meyerlansky]

#hboww2rewatch timestamp roulette: MASTERS OF THE AIR, PART TWO ↳ rank has its privileges, boys.

[frostycatblr-fandom-files]

Nothing "former" about that ARC trooper status. I have spoken.

[deeepnest]

they are my roman empire actually. i have a dream where heimdall is a normal human being and he and atreus have a sibling-like relationship of some sort. it haunts me.

[goatsghost]

i know this old news by now, but the fact that this issue could’ve been so cool if they actually took all the batkids’ strengths seriously and hadn’t taken out the two most op bats out in one punch — they really missed out on some amazing fight scenes

[princelancey]

Lance is such a let bygones be bygones kind of a guy, we should embrace that energy more often in sports tbh, it's never that serious

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I saw a counterargument of the Wish movie that said something along the lines of, "The movie isn't Citizen Kane, so what?" Imagine typing and posting this absurd ass take and thinking it's a legitimate argument against those who criticize it. Considering that this is an animated movie released on their 100th anniversary, the fact that they delivered a "meh" at best movie should upset you when looking at Disney's movie catalog and their impact on the field of animation. If you don't hold Disney to a higher standard, they will keep putting out mediocre content, but unfortunately, too many Disney fans are sellouts to this company. Y'all wanna get mad at people for being too rough on and critical of modern Disney, but they earned this shit 100%. They became so arrogant and loved the smell of their own butthole a little too much that they did not foresee their inevitable eventual fall at all.

[therebelcaptain]

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

thing I am normal abt #1: the simile Homer chose to describe Odysseus at the end of the 5th rhapsody of the Odyssey

(translation by Emily Wilson)

[dukeofthomas]

I will forever maintain that Jason would've been fine and Not a vigilante without Bruce making him Robin

[shinobicyrus]

Reblog if you're a threat to humanity.

[wolfieisacat]

i am convinced that most of the people who are like "rape fics are DISGUSTING!!! HOW COULD YOU ROMANTICIZE REAL TRAUMA LIKE THAT" aren't victims of SA of any kind like. like they've never been raped. because most of the people who are victims of that kind of thing who have an opinion on rape fics (that i've read from) are like "yeah it's cool"

[vault81]

finally got the achievement for killing all the high dragons in inquisition

[slythereen]

i’m sorry WHO backed up the pack????

[reigningmax]

Have you seen this website? https://redbullgivesputinwings.com

I simply don't understand how you are not tired of copy and pasting the SAME MESSAGE so many times now to any blog that shows positivity towards Max.

Max is not responsible for where Redbull the fizzy drink is sold. Nor does he have the power to stop it from getting sold anywhere. Redbull athletes are EVERYWHERE, and not a single one is going to slam the company that's giving them a chance at achieving their goals. This is sports, not the UN, it's not happening.

If you're gonna go full tumblr girlie social justice warrior about Formula 1, then bud I have news for you about every single sponsor of these teams. Monster energy drink is still sold in Russia. Petronas had a hand in literal civil wars and multiple international crimes, Aramco is owned by Saudi princes who are literal murderers, and the list continues.

This is a shitty sport built on shitty politics and not a single person involved is a good person. No one. I know all of you Westerners love to only care about human rights in the west, but instead of being SO mad about an energy drink sold in Russia, maybe look at the big bads in the middle east and north Africa too! What do you think you sending us all the same fucking link over and over is gonna do huh????