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[didanawisgi]

NATO's Tanks To Roll Towards Russia, Putin's Surprising Reaction To The ...

[semioticapocalypse]

Lee Miller. Elizabeth Cowell wearing a Digby Morton suit. London. 1941.

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[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"How fortunate we were who still had hope, I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die."

~ Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)

[entropyvoid]

Honestly with all the overlap between sci-fi and fantasy fans, I’m really surprised that “high fantasy in space” isn’t more of a thing.

There are some things generally assumed by most to be sci-fi that I’d personally label space fantasy, like Star Wars, where the high tech is just there as a backdrop to a classic heroic story of good guys vs. bad guys, who are definitely doing magic (by using the force). The point of Star Wars isn’t the tech or anything, it just happens to be a tale told in space. It contrasts pretty starkly with something like Star Trek, where the vast majority of episodes revolve around exploring whatever scientific or philosophical concept the writers thought would be kinda neat that week, using established characters as a vehicle for said exploration.

I think one of my favorite things about Honkai Star Rail is that it freely and unabashedly mixes sci-fi and fantasy. It just goes “You are a walking neutron bomb. Also turns out your bestie is from a self-reincarnating race of dragon people with powerful water and illusion magic. They live on this big, planet-sized ship that’s dedicated to hunting down this one cosmic horror that cursed all the ship’s inhabitants with immortality, under the banner of this other cosmic horror that exists solely to kill the first cosmic horror. Let’s go on vacation to the theme park planet, the actual resort is technically an Alice-in-Wonderland style dream triggered by the same kinda cosmic-horror-gifted bomb as you. Your new friend is a meme. By the way, did we tell you about the one time this super-genius harnessed the power of *imagination* to build a death ray that instantly obliterated a bunch of planets? That was kinda fucked up, huh.” Sometimes Star Rail tries to give explanations for its tech in a way that seems believably sciencey. Sometimes shit’s just straight up called magic or it’s from some deity or another and none of the characters present have a good understanding of why, so you all just go about your bullshit. It makes it work within the context of its established universe.

Cosmic horror in general is often (but not always) found in sci-fi, but where the point of sci-fi is to expand on and detail a concept in a believably scientific way or explore the impacts of a scientific thing, the point of cosmic horror is that there is a Thing that is beyond human understanding or comprehension. Sci-fi is a fun thing to insert it into, because the more scientifically sensible and well-understood elements of the world you have, the more jarring that becomes.

Then you’ve got things like Dungeon Meshi, which exists in an inverse of something like Star Rail: it takes a very Tolkien-inspired Dungeons and Dragons-esque setting, and then details it in a very scientifically sensible way. There is magic, and there are these fantastical monsters, yes, but the monsters are parts of their own delicate and intricate ecosystems, they are edible, and they have very particular nutritional values and ways you can cook them! The protag’s biggest strength lies in him being a nerd about monster biology. Magic, too, by the end of it, ends up with a plausible enough explanation as well. And the explanation is a cosmic horror! In this way, Dungeon Meshi, despite being built entirely off of very easily recognizable and classic fantasy tropes, is probably more accurately classed as sci-fi.

I just love all of it. Can I get like 50 more of these fucked up lil mixtures of science and magic please?

[grihvqnz4v]

[goblin-enjoyer]

a comic based of a very good tumblr post I saw.

link under cut

[the-robot-bracket]

New list of the Top 30 most submitted robots:

1. GLaDOS - Portal (9 times)

2. Zane - Ninjago (8 times)

3. Data - Star Trek (8 times)

4. Five Pebbles- Rain World (8 times)

5. Wheatley - Portal (7 times)

6. WALL-E & EVE - WALL-E (7 times)

7. K1-B0- Danganronpa (6 times)

8. Pixal - Ninjago (6 times)

9. CAR-11E - Hi-Fi Rush (6 times)

10. Mettaton - Undertale (5 times)

11. Starscream - Transformers (5 times)

12. Emma Matthews - Hatchetfield (5 times)

13. Calculester Hewlett-Packard - Monster Prom (5 times)

14. Frobo - Amphibia (5 times)

15. P03 - Inscryption (5 times)

16. R2D2 - Star Wars (5 times)

17. Gir - Invader Zim (5 times)

18. Fresh Cut Grass - Critical Role (4 times)

19. Echo - Ninjago (4 times)

20. Look To The Moon - Rain World (4 times)

21. Aegis - Persona (4 times)

22. Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid (4 times)

23. Baymax - Big Hero 6 (3 times)

24. Wubbox - My Singing Monsters (3 times)

25. Jenny - My Life as a Teenage Robot (3 times)

26. Boyd - Ducktales 2017 (3 times)

27. Drossel von Flügel - Fireball (3 times)

28. K9 - Doctor Who (3 times)

29. Hal 9000 - A Space Odyssey (3 times)

30. Karen - SpongeBob (3 times)

The Top 20 most submitted fictional universes:

1. Portal (95 times)

2. Ninjago (26 times)

3. Transformers (14 times)

4. Star Wars (13 times)

5. Rain World (13 times)

6. Star Trek (12 times)

7. Danganronpa (9 times)

8. Doctor Who (8 times)

9. WALL-E (7 times)

10. Hi-Fi Rush (7 times)

11. Undertale (6 times)

12. Detroit Become Human (5 times)

13. Hatchetfield (5 times)

14. Monster Prom (5 times)

15. Critical Role (5 times)

16. Amphibia (5 times)

17. Inscryption (5 times)

18. FNaF (5 times)

19. Persona (5 times)

20. Invader Zim (5 times)

[deadpresidents]

Vice President Harry S. Truman playing the piano as 20-year-old actress Lauren Bacall looks on at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1945. Later in life, Truman would tell a biographer that: "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician -- and, to tell the truth, there's hardly a difference."

At roughly the exact same time, approximately 5,259 miles away from Washington, D.C., the big three Allied leaders of World War II -- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (whose health was rapidly failing) -- were wrapping up their monumental summit at the Yalta Conference in Crimea to discuss plans for the post-war division and occupation of a defeated Nazi Germany.

Two months later, on April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt was dead and Truman succeeded to the Presidency after his brief Vice Presidency. Before April was over, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were also dead, the United Nations had been officially established, Allied troops began finding and liberating concentration camps, and the war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany in early May. All of these remarkable historic events occurred within a matter of weeks, and sometimes just a few days or even a few hours apart.

[short-wooloo]

its 2023, which means these:

are 15 years old this year

feel free to add any others you can remember!

[blueiscoool]

Eleanor Ardel Vietti: She was America’s First Woman POW in Vietnam — And was Never Found

In the dense jungle terrain in Darlac Province, near the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, American doctor Eleanor Ardel Vietti had found her calling to heal.

Yet that same calling led her to become America’s first female prisoner of war in Vietnam. To this day, Vietti remains the only American woman POW whose fate remains unknown.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, 1,244 Americans are still unaccounted for in Vietnam. Fifty-nine civilian women were killed during the war.

Called to service, Vietti, alongside the Christian and Missionary Alliance and tribal nurses, worked to treat those afflicted with leprosy within South Vietnam’s largest ethnic minority, the Montagnards — a French phrase for “mountain people.”

Within Montagnards communities the rates of the disease could reach a staggering 30 percent, among the highest in the world.

However, amid escalating tensions between guerrilla factions under Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnamese forces and their foreign advisors, the U.S. State Department cautioned all American expats to leave the country.

Targeted attacks against the Montagnards were also on the rise, but despite that and government warnings, Vietti and other missionaries — notably, Daniel Gerber, a member of the Central Mennonite Committee, and Rev. Archie E. Mitchell — believed they were in no inherent danger and continued their work within the Leprosarium compound.

The night of May 20, 1962, was one of the last nights Vietti and the two men were ever seen alive.

That evening 12 armed guerrilla fighters descended on the colony, tying up Archie Mitchell and Gerber, and ordering Vietti out of her house. Vietti and the other two captives were bound and taken away. With no ransom demands ever made, it remains unclear why the three prisoners were taken.

Mitchell, incidentally, was the lone survivor of the 1945 Japanese balloon-bombing attack off the coast of Oregon that killed his first wife, Eloise, and five neighborhood children. The Japanese strike was the only successful enemy attack on mainland America during World War II.

It seems likely that the Viet Cong raid was aimed at obtaining hospital equipment, with Rev. T. Grady Mangham, director of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, telling the New York Times in 1962, “I rather think they were in need of medical supplies.”

Since that evening Vietti’s status remains “Unaccounted For,” with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency concluding, “The three missionaries were forced to march south, and were eventually executed while in Viet Cong custody. The exact locations and circumstances surrounding their deaths are unknown.”

Rumors remain about their status, with jungle tribesmen through the years claiming that they spotted a white woman with two white men. These assertions have never been substantiated.

Since 1994, the official position within the U.S. government has been that no American captured during the war remains alive.

By Claire Barrett.

[didanawisgi]

Wicked Globalists Are Causing Starvation and Poverty Under the Guise of ...

[semioticapocalypse]

Sam Hood. Soldier and dog. Departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East. Sydney. January, 1940.

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[emlos]

i want all non east-europeans to die

and the fucking memes?? are you people braindead??

this is fucking tasteless, people are dying, morons

[fluffypotatey]

I wonder if there’s a part of Eurylochus that resents Polites

[tetragonia]

uhm okay but why is he kinda..... 😳😳

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[my-sane-world]

How lovely the world would be if we all love others like how Diana loves Anne