[allthingsroleplay]

troy baker for an alicia vikander and a tLoU inspired plot on a wwii site.

http://fromtheeast.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=3080

[atrarchive]

a charlie cox & lee pace for a felicity jones on a wwii site-

http://fromtheeast.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=208

[eoe-rp]

we’re open!

Welcome to Guernsey!

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[stellaluna112]

The issue isn’t about making a historical board. By all means, do history, that’s cool. The issues lies in the haphazard romanticism of one of the darkest periods of history and telling people who are upset that they are wrong to feel so.

You cannot dictate how a person feels.

The staff have literally said they want to explore the savior and triumph; go look up the white savior trope. The entire way that this staff has been handling things goes to show just how absurd and off kilter this thing is.

You want to explore the dark themes? Okay. Then let’s see your “inspo” tag on your tumblr filled with the ACTUAL content of what happened. Not just the happy white woman in black in white or men looking at a map that you’ve been posting.

Let’s see the bodies of all the lost. Let’s see the torture. The starvation. The burning. The people ripped from their homes.

Explore dark themes all you want, but don’t hide behind “it’s just for fun!”. You want to talk about it, then do it. I’ve seen the term erasure tossed around to try and defend your actions, so let’s practice what you preach. You want to be “inspired” by the darkest time of history, then show it instead of trying to glamorize it to get your “nazi-loves-a-Jew” feels.

[frankflanflakes]

We have not said anyone is wrong for feeling anything. Merely tried to explain our views and why we are sticking to them. We haven’t tried to dictate anything, except maybe that we not be called ‘genocidal trash’ anonymously. Because nothing says bravery like being incapable of attaching your name to your hate.

I believe the exact words she used were ‘triumph of the people’ possibly ‘our people’ - it’s nearly three in the morning and I cannot be arsed to look it up. Either way, when you consider our staff is much more diverse than you seem to be able to grasp, it’s definitely not what you’re making it out to be. And taking it out of context is unfair, because she was using it to basically say that the Nazis weren’t the good guys. And they aren’t going to win or be glorified. Which apparently had to be said in the first place. So much so that here I am repeating myself.

The dark themes was perhaps a misstep in speaking, but again - as we’ve mentioned, we’re set in occupied Guernsey in September 1942, not occupied Germany [which based on some of what we’ve heard, seems to be a matter of confusion]. I can go over the whole history of the isle with each and every one of you, if you’d like. But there were no camps on Guernsey. Starvation didn’t start until D-Day, when the supply lines became cut off. Deportation has just begun, which was an important catalyst for the island because it sowed the seeds of an actual rebellion as opposed to the passive aggression of the majority of the population. The Jewish islander population when the Germans arrived was less than twenty, as they evacuated most to Britain before the occupation. However, they wouldn’t take non British citizens, so the refugees that had made it all the way to Guernsey from France were abandoned to the Germans. There was actually a point during the slapdash evacuation that Britain told them to stop evacuating entirely. They left these people behind. About 2,000 islanders, between Guernsey and Jersey, would be deported to German camps before they were through. Most never saw their families again. 

Consider we’ve been criticized for advertising in a public space with an ad that has no discernible image of war in it. So now we’re supposed to shove the horrific war images in people’s faces... because what? To prove a point? We aren’t a graphics site. We’re a collaborative writing site. None of the above is shied away from in the text. Which is what we are being attacked for anyways. So the phrase ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ come to mind. And at the end of the day, the small handful of people condemning us mostly don’t want us to exist at all simply because of our setting of WWII. And there’s nothing to do about that except disagree and move on.

At this point, that’s exactly what we’re doing.

[frankflanflakes]

Our intentions with this site, which most of you have never seen the full plot of, is not to glorify anyone. WWII was full of a lot of good guys, a lot of bad guys, and a lot somewhere in between. It was full of a lot of victims, a lot of survivors, and a lot of oppressors. The world then seems so far removed from our own due to the massive amounts of life lost and life completely butchered in the name of 'progress'. But it is not. People existed here. People died here. People we knew, and people we loved. Some we've come to identify with time, some who've faded into the background noise of the overwhelming amount of suffering.

We exist to explore the world they lived in through a collaborative effort. All of them. Which can be a complicated moral issue for some, but we've never hidden what sort of site we are. We do require that our members be at least eighteen years of age, and will hold them to a certain standard of knowledge and sensitivity surrounding the topic.

But for some of you, that's not enough. And while I can understand your feelings, I don't share them. And neither do our followers, or our staff. We are committed to the site and the historical setting. As you've mentioned, you'll have a problem with us existing as long as we exist so there's not much to say on it at this point. Any vitriol launched our way is simply that, and we won't tolerate hate or harassment lobbed our way. We will not give you a platform for your anger or outrage. You have your own space for that, and we can respect that. We ask that you respect us in a similar way.

If you'd like to talk, I have aim. You can send me an ask and I'll give it to you and we can have a conversation about it.

[frankflanflakes]

emmeline evard | alias: alice smith | fugitive | unemployed

22 year old french/american girl.

her father left their family when she was young to move back to the isle, his birthplace. leaving her and her mother behind.

she grew up quite poor. didn't really mind until her mother got sick.

the war exasperated things. medicine was harder to get access to. her mother died six months ago.

she met up with henry shortly after, and his trip to the isle gave her the idea to come find her father. she's a tag-along.

he tried to get rid of her. no dice. but together they helped each other get here. against some pretty shitty odds.

girl can't swim. that's how shitty the odds were.

she's kinda got something like feelings for henry. she doesn't know what to make of it. but she hasn't really left his side since they made it onto the island.

currently living in the woods and finding food where they can. it's been a bit rough. they're looking for a vacant house to quietly take over.

girl has attracted a bit of unwanted attention from a soldier. she can't quite shake him. [look out for my request!]

she needs things. all the things.

she's kind of a snarky beyotch in the best way.

friends who notice her plight and are helping her out. enemies that notice she seems out of place and try to convince the soldier to investigate her. she needs all the things.

[lowercasekae]

“he’s more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — emily brontë, wuthering heights

[frankflanflakes]

character ideas

[a french/english girl who’s father left her mother for the isle over two decades ago. her mother died recently and, with the help of a deserter, she’s made her way onto the isle illegally to try to find him.]

[a journalist who works for a heavily censored paper overseen by the germans. she’s being scouted by an illegal newspaper, but is afraid to put her sick mother in harms way.]

[a nurse that was prepared to go to the front when the occupation hit instead.]

[one half of a really twisted set of twins dragged here by their SS father to live cooped up in at an estate.]

[a naive, quiet, sickly girl who came with her family to join their officer father. her hobbies are befriending people she shouldn’t and ballet.]

[frankflanflakes]

“Well- now, I just wanted to ask-”

“No. No asking. I’m telling you. Go sit, soldier boy. Over there. By yourself.”

[frankflanflakes]

name: allie timezone: est favorite dance move: the sprinkler. or the basic polka step. anything that will generally take me around in a circle. favorite disney villain: maleficent. probably. i mean, it’s kind of hard not to love angelina jolie. gif:

[eoe-rp]

[camillasmcaulays]

[follow]

[allaboutaliciavikander]

Alicia Vikander in The Edit Magazine! Link to the interview; http://www.net-a-porter.com/DO/en/magazine/310/8

[antigonick]

You do this, you do. You take the things you love                                             and tear them apart.

Richard Siken, excerpt of A Primer for the Small Weird Loves (via ahneboleyn)

[clintsbrton-moved]

happy 44th birthday, idina menzel! → may 30, 1971

“we have this strength inside of us and yet we are taught to always sort of keep it down. i sort of found in my life that i’ve taken a step back and made myself smaller in order to try to fit in. and that hasn’t worked. and we have to learn to kind of embrace what makes us unique, and embrace our strength and then if people don’t like it, fuck it.”

[stephensttrange]

Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life’s problems.

[maggieoconnell]

Lee & Kara, every season → Season 2 I’m your friend. I love you.

[atrarchive]

our nuclear war turned into our nuclear winter.

http://theterminusproject.tumblr.com/