No sleep for the Watcher

Dai' stiho! They/Them, Queer, Disabled. Mostly fandom, animals, aesthetics, politics, queer stuff, disability stuff, and whatever I am into at the moment. If you need me to tag anything just ask, I'm always happy to talk to people! 🛑Please do not follow if we are offline friends first without asking me first, and please do not follow me if you are a minor, thank you.🛑

[viktor-the-leshen]

[kira-serialfaggot]

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

he would not say that.

[alexiaroselikethewine]

I was there when he said it actually

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

"oh yeah even if your opponent has an unexpected advantage that completely turns the tides of battle (you thought they were unarmed when they aren't) you shook totally just keep going with your current plan, otherwise you're a coward"

he would not say that.

[alexiaroselikethewine]

you're just afraid of a big thick girlcock

[gnilliam]

[abalidoth]

Whether Sun Tzu would be into girldick is completely orthogonal to whether he would give bullshit bravado advice that will get you killed. He's the "logistics win wars" guy.

His ladycock advice would be more like "The wise general chooses an adversary who uses familiar techniques."

[fallenangelvictorious]

there is a lot we will forgive for girlcock on this site but misconstruing Sun Tzu is NOT on that list

[fear-is-nameless]

2 birds somehow got inside a place they shouldn't be & I FINALLY just caught the harder of the two but-

I don't think it appreciated my efforts.

(Yes both were released safely).

[fourofdaggers]

Feelings tonight

[creatures-in-posts]

Confirmed creature post

[stand-up-gifs]

He’s just mad because he can’t acquire all the apple juice that I’m acquiring. (x)

[jhlcolorizing]

The 105 days of battle of the Winter War ended on 13 March 1940 in a peace treaty signed in Moscow the previous night.

The peace treaty that concluded the Winter War was bitter for Finland. Finland was forced to cede approximately 11% of its territory and lease the Hanko Peninsula and its surrounding waters to the Soviet Union as a naval base. The ceded areas included large areas that had never been captured by the Red Army in battle.

Practically the entire population of the ceded territories was evacuated and relocated into the remainder of Finland. The evacuees totalled approximately 430,000 Finns.

The commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Mannerheim, issued the commander-in-chief’s order of the day No. 34 on 14 March 1940. Many of its expressions became famous, including the second paragraph:

‘You did not want war; you loved peace, work and progress; but you were forced into a struggle in which you have done great deeds, deeds that will shine for centuries in the pages of history.’

Pic : Evacuation of Hanko, 1940. •••••••• Talvisodan 105 päivää kestäneet taistelut päättyivät 13.3.1940 edellisenä yönä Moskovassa solmittuun rauhansopimukseen.

Talvisodan päättänyt rauha oli Suomelle katkera. Suomi joutui luovuttamaan noin 11 % pinta-alastaan ja lisäksi vuokraamaan Neuvostoliitolle Hankoniemen alueen lähivesistöineen laivastotukikohdaksi. Luovutettaviin alueisiin kuului suuria alueita, joita puna-armeijan joukot eivät olleet taisteluissa valloittaneet.

Luovutettujen alueiden väestö siirtyi käytännössä kokonaisuudessaan jäljelle jääneeseen Suomeen. Uudelleen sijoitettavien suomalaisten määrä oli noin 430 000.

Ylipäällikkö, sotamarsalkka Mannerheim antoi 14.3.1940 ylipäällikön päiväkäskyn numero 34. Sen monet sanonnat tulivat kuuluisiksi kuten esimerkiksi sen toinen kappale:

”Te ette tahtoneet sotaa, te rakastitte rauhaa, työtä ja kehitystä, mutta teidät pakotettiin taisteluun, jossa olette tehneet suurtöitä, tekoja, jotka vuosisatoja tulevat loistamaan historian lehdillä.”

Kuva : Hangon evakuointi keväällä 1940

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[ sa-kuva | fu_4019 ]

[captainlordauditor]

Conversation last night made me realize I never posted this.

[adrawatcher]

It seems many people are forgetting this is the Sharks Are Smooth As Hell website in their anger at people voting Walrus in the Fairy vs Walrus debate.

[wizardarchetypes]

first time I ever went to the animal shelter and picked out my own animal was surreal. we had so many animals growing up but we never picked out any of them. and sure that’s normal for cats. they just showed up and we adopted them. but it didn’t end there.

we had a ball python because my mom was on a walk with her friends, saw it on the ground (this was Ohio) said “woah! that’s not native!” and put it in her purse. we advertised but never found the owner so we kept the purse python.

we ended up with a corn snake during a hurricane because my mom went out to get one of the cats and the corn snake was so little it came blowing through the air like a branch and my mom reached out and grabbed it out of the air to save it.

actually the point of this post is lost because I typed this far and realized the universe was maybe just sending my mom snakes specifically.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

[diebymywords]

What happened to that post about giving a Dracula your blood? We need to bring back that incomprehensible king in these troubling times

[allosaurusrock]

This was supposed to be a super cute photo of baby peeking out from behind mom, but instead I ended up with a couple of the ugliest faces I’ve ever photographed. I love them so much.

[moishe-pipick]

[theygender]

So apparently they CAN automate my job 🤔

[wastehound-voof-deactivated2024]

Little old Italian lady: Do you have zucchini?

Me: Yes, right here.

Lady: Is how much?

Me: $2.99 a pound.

Lady: It's usually $1.49.

Me: Yes, in the summer.

Lady, pauses, then grabs two: I put it in a soup.

Me: Oh nice, what kind are you making?

Lady: You will not fantasize about my soup.

And then she walked away. "You will not fantasize about my soup" will be in my head forever. I love you, little old Italian lady.

[depsidase]

[notaplaceofhonour]

As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose Likud’s policies. Oppose its violence against Palestinian civilians. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

[adz]

one time this nondescript guy came into my dunkin donuts and ordered a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot, and for some reason that peculiar order stuck with me so much that when, seven months later, i saw him in the parking lot walking towards the door, i quickly made a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot. he ordered it and i was already holding it. 

i would describe his demeanor that second time as “incredulous”

[honeylemony]

What the fuck who drinks that

[adz]

it’s such a perfectly bonkers order because like, most unusual orders are maximalist and sugary but this one just combines the most basic drink with the most incongruous little add-on. it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him

[phage-necro]

this post always makes me laugh. this guy has the weirdest drink order and he probably never goes to this dunkin’ if it took seven months for the barista to see him again. so think about a coffee shop you go to so little you’re not even sure if you’ve gone there before and you walk in and the barista hands you the drink you were about to order before you even ordered it. he will remember that for the rest of his life

[adulthoodisokay]

“it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him” gets me every time.

[c4tto626]

writing something with two characters who use the same pronouns and fighting to balance using names vs using pronouns in a way that's both smooth to read and easy to comprehend

[surnumanaja]

Ma, eesti keeles kirjutajana: oskuse asi

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Minä, suomen kielellä kirjoittavana: osaamiskysymys

[pupucino]

translation: skill issue

[kevytmaitohorsma]

The Baltic Finnic people have spoken