#washington post being washington post

[tallmadgeandtea]

[culperscomet]

ben tallmadge nation, im sure these past two weeks have been interesting so to speak. in the last few days we suffered our tragic end. maybe it was perhaps inevitable, however, we fought valiantly to the very end. despite our tremendous loss, all is not over for the cause…

BECAUSE WE GOT A NEW BOYFAILURE ON OUR HANDS!! OHH YEA BABY THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR! WOOOO 🎉💞

[samuelroukin]

SAMUEL ROUKIN as Captain John Simcoe in TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES (2014—2017) Episode 2.08 "Providence"

[mopopshop]

getting all my final thoughts out rn🤗

slim, austin, and aaliyah need to get better rn bcs i love seeing them play

emilys actually smiling in a post game video so WAR IS OVER BITCHESSS

aa is killing it like usual

karlie was showing out too this game, ate😝

overall love this team so mf much and they just need to keep this momentum going

[punkitt-is-here]

For the people who want me to make Applejack christian conservative jokes I will not that's CRINGE!!! this ain't pony.mov or some shit I still want these characters to be reasonably within their actual personalities. The only reason people want that is because they associate people who are southern US with being shitty old religious racists!! That shit is simply not true. Plus it's such an overdone joke!! It wouldn't even be funny!

[tblsomedoodles]

Just me back on my rvb bullshit in the form of some rare pair cuddles.

I drew Simmons being clingy last time, so now it was wash's turn. and i was actually brave enough to start posting the fic for these two as well, so have that link too.

[tvckerwash]

thoughts on wash's fighting style and his position in pfl because I can (utc because it's really long lol):

wash is very unique among the freelancers for a variety of reasons, one is that he doesn't specialize in one specific area of anything, he's a jack of all trades who is able to fill in for other freelancers if necessary. for example in s9 when york was supposed to be unavailable for lock picking/infiltration duty, carolina immediately went to wash (and we are ignoring that york is not shown to be good at lock picking!) if she trusted wash to fill in for their specialist in one area, I feel it's not a stretch to imagine that he can do so in other areas as well.

need a snipper but north and wyoming aren't available? wash can cover. need someone to get into the enemies' computer systems in place of ct, south, or york? wash can cover. need someone for stealth or reconnaissance in place of florida? wash can cover. etc etc.

wash's combat style reflects that jack of all trades, master of none thing very well too, as the way that he fights is very grounded and pragmatic when compared to the rest of the freelancers. a lot of people like to portray wash as less skilled than the other freelancers, but in truth I believe that wash being able to keep up and compete with the other freelancers despite his lack of dramatic flare is a show of just how competent and skilled of a soldier he is. wash is so good at doing what he does that he doesn't need all that extra bullshit to get the job done. sure, he might not look as Cool and SexyTM as the others while doing it, but completing the mission and surviving to live another day takes precedence over all else.

another way of looking at it is that wash fights in the same way that the odst's do, that is to say that he fights like a human who cannot plow his way through the battlefield in the same way the spartans can. wash's style of fighting is one that employs careful planning and targeted hit and run tactics—this is most obvious in recovery one and s6 whenever he's fighting against the meta.

I also feel it's important to note that wash is not a cqc fighter, he can handle himself if he gets into a cqc situations but his primary weapon is the battle rifle—which is a mid/long range weapon. if I'm being honest wash's way of fighting makes waaaaaaaaay more sense if you look at him not as someone who is trained to primarily fight against other humans, but as someone who is trained to fight against 8ft 2 ton aliens with plasma weapons that can slice through the hulls of UNSC battle cruisers (ships designed to travel through space!!!) like a hot knife cuts through butter and have the technology to raze entire planets to the ground in a matter of minutes.

I also personally believe that wash has the most military experience out of all the freelancers right behind florida, wyoming, and maine (who I hc as a spartan iii). we know that wash did his basic training in the leonis minoris system (a canonical halo system) and that system had two of the three planets glassed by the covenant in 2537, and wash directly references these events in the washed hands interview in the fan guide and the way he says it implies that he likely completed his basic training that same year. now I have some grievances with the timeline given in the book when it comes to the events depicted in the freelancer saga because it's just kinda weird, but everything prior to that bit is actually fine (though I hate the way that they decide to number the timeline lmao).

now in halo canon the human/covenant war ended in 2552, and according to the timeline in the rvb fan guide that was 1 year after alpha was sent to blood gulch. project freelancer is first cleared for funding 7 years BBG (before blood gulch), and recruits the 50 freelancers 5 years BBG. doing some math we can determine that pfl was cleared for funding in the year 2544, and the freelancers are recruited for pfl in 2546. so assuming wash finished his basic training in 2537 that would mean that he was in the military for 9 years before he joined pfl, and while wash is addressed as a corporal (e-4) in the washed hands interview he was most likely demoted to that after he was court martialed, and he was possibly going to be dishonorably discharged from the military because of his disorderly conduct.

using the current standards used by the us marine corps when it comes to rank progression, wash was most likely a sergeant (e-5) who was very close to being promoted to a staff sergeant (e-6). wash as a sergeant would've essentially been the assistant manager/co-leader of the platoon he was in while his staff sergeant was the manager/leader, and that would explain why he was able to even get into an argument with his CO in the first place. I believe wash held a similar position in pfl, as it's kind of implied that he did some management stuff in pfl (talking with internals/upper brass, him feeling comfortable with openly questioning carolina about whether york should be allowed on the sarcophagus heist, and of course he shows the ability to direct and somewhat lead south in recovery one, and him leading church, caboose, and the reds in s6, and him taking charge of the meta in s8).

even if wash wasn't a sergeant as a corporal he would've been in a position to be the leader of a fire team, so basically wash isn't some rookie who had no clue wtf he was doing as many in the fandom like to characterize him; he is an experienced and battle hardened soldier by the time he joins pfl no matter how you look at it.

to put all of that into context, carolina is born 29 years BBG, which would be 2522. so during pfl she's in the 24-28 range and she wouldn't have joined the military until 2540. I actually personally head canon that wash is the same age as carolina, but that he illegally enlisted at 15 because of a crappy home life, but ignoring my head canon and assuming that he joined the military at 18 instead, he would've been born in 2519.

[mikadll]

me (public transit chad) pointing and laughing at the oldheads on copium who think the eisenhower interstate system is worth a damn (seething carcels) while i ride the bus, the only limousine i need in my life

[soupbitch-moneybitch]

i actually take it back. no one should read the tolling bells by @edsbacktattoo bc it will make tears inexplicably come out your eyeballs, even tho you're a strong, independent woman who doesn't show emotional vulnerability for normal mentally well reasons, and this will inevitably lead to a headache, and then you will spend the next several hours complaining to anyone who will listen that you have a headache, did you know i have a headache? my head really hurts, you guys

anyway, definitely don't read this, it may irrevocably alter your immortal soul in a way that is potent and yet indescribable with the words available to you in the english language. (idk about other languages, i haven't tried)

also, it might give you a headache. did i mention that part already? just sayin'

[hidingoutbackstage]

To me Washington looks like Avan Jogia when he went blond

[larsnicklas]

some call him... the YAPtain...

[osmiabee]

what the bally fuck is this "very demure very mindful" shit popping up everywhere. can we all PLEASE go back to slutting it up and farting max volume?!? I hate it here.

[major-comet]

was just thinking about restoration again. idk still tagging for rvb finale spoilers i guess? i talk about wash and carolina a lot pspsps

what the fuck was up with the treatment of matt hullum’s characters

- sarge dies partway through (i expected it so i don’t feel too strongly about it one way or another. at least not at this particular moment, check back in a week and my answer may be different lol)

- doc was actually dead the whole season and wash misses him so badly and feels so guilty about his death that he’s been talking to the ghost in his memory the whole time. (frank dufresne im so sorry that you had to be one of rvb’s biggest punching bags right up until the very end)

- maine of course is never physically there (other than as like a weird force ghost at the end), but his presence is felt throughout the whole thing - except wash never gets to actually interact with meta!tucker (or. tucker at all, actually.), and carolina only does with her fists, so what’s the fucking point of it all. why invoke that memory if you’re not going to do anything interesting with it?

the memory of maine, wash’s friend, who even in the height of sigma’s control still managed to take small mercies on wash. not killing him at the end of recovery one and even leaving him the healing unit. not taking the chance to kill him while he had time stopped. wash’s friend that, after he was just a shell of his former self post-emp (the emp that wash triggered), he used like a tool/weapon/dog to hunt down epsilon and the reds and blues - the same ones who would later go on to become wash’s new family.

tucker got the killing blow on maine. tucker stabbed him, which drowned him, and then he wound up in maines shoes - physically and mentally, donning his armor and finding himself in the same position with epsilon!sigma that maine was in with the original. the weapon that wash wielded against the reds and blues being turned back against him in the form of tucker, now wielding the very sword that killed maine against his friends.

the memory of maine, carolina’s friend who wound up irreversibly harmed because carolina gave him the ai explicitly created for her. he was consumed by the creativity and ambition shed by the alpha at the thought of her being killed because he messed up - because he couldn’t save her. the manifestation of alphas love and care for carolina was responsible for the majority of her friends getting killed or at least seriously harmed.

all of that, and they don’t do anything interesting with wash and carolina having to reckon with the same thing happening to someone they care about again.

- and this is way more petty and i feel weird ending with it after all that, lol, but wyoming doesn’t even get to be a goddamn force ghost. he’s the only one who doesn’t get to be a force ghost. fucking florida apparently haunts wash’s memories more than wyoming does. trust me i love florida, i really do. but unless there’s a scene i don’t remember in season 17, wash and florida never Spoke on screen, due to florida being silent in the freelancer flashbacks in 9-10 until his captain flowers reveal. they all got to be in carolina’s true warrior test, why couldn’t wyoming join the empty chairs at empty tables party in wash’s head? fucked up, if you ask me

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Weird question time! Or more specifically, time for a weird question I’ve asked before Was the high school you went to all one building, several buildings you had to walk between with no covered walkways, or several buildings but with covered walkways between them? And where was the school (not specifically)/what weather? I grew up in southern California (where it is usually hot and rarely rains) and it never occurred to me a school could be all in one building until I saw my cousin’s high school in Oregon (where it is frequently cold and rains a lot)

[whenyoulosesmallmind]

Nicklas Bäckström + Alexander Ovechkin ― Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale, Eugenio Montale (trans. William Arrowsmith)

[marnz]

Summer time. Sunshine. Fresh produce. All the fruit you could ever want. Cool evening breeze. Kayaking weather. Crunchy salads because everything’s ripe. People sunbathing in the park. Brunch with friends outside. Smoothies and avocado toast and reading in the sun. Everything’s green green green. Love is real and abundant in this world.