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Hey, so I have decided to make a side blog, @historynerdj2writing. Here, you will find my writing projects, both in the form of fanfic, and of more serious topics (not politics, don't worry).

This will also (hopefully) serve as a portfolio of my writing.

So, feel free to take a look.

#creative writing #writer tumblr #writer #writing #archive of our own #portfolio

theworldatwar

Canadian soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa keep watch as medics treat a comrade - Caen, Normandy, France, 1944

#world war two #ww2 #1940s #worldwar2photos #wwii #history #ww2 history #world war 2 #1944 #wwii era #canadian #canadian history #normandy #caen

jomeimei421

Collei’s revenge

#genshin impact #collei #tighnari cameo #collei is sumeru’s protagonist idgaf #fanart #genshin fanart

nosimpincurly

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

catherinebunnington

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

theworldatwar

Footage restored and colourised of the Allied landings at Normandy on D-day - 6th June 1944 CREDIT : Ricks Film Restoration

#world war two #ww2 #1940s #worldwar2photos #wwii #history #ww2 history #ww2history #1944 #wwii era #Juno beach #canadian #canadian history #canada #d day #operation overlord #normandy #liberation of France

hiseyeisonthesparrow

"hahah we should speedrun mormon temples" yes please! what if they LET US IN!!!! and what if we did it really slowly because we wanted to see EVERYTHING THEYRE HIDING. and what if the people who worked there EXPLAINED EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THERE??? oh wait. that exists. it's called an open house. you can just show up and walk through. what crazy secrets those morms are keeping............

historynerdj2

Heck, at Temple open houses, the stake and wards of the area would probably actually want you to invite people to take a look around the temple.

#i will go and queue #mormon #church of jesus christ of latter day saints #lds church #scientology

j-the-latter-gay-saint

haha do you ever stop and remember that there's a whole entire musical dedicated to mocking your religion that's been running continuously on broadway for half your life and nobody in the world thinks twice about it lollllll 😜 it won nine tony awards 🤪

hiseyeisonthesparrow

AND IT'S SUPER RACISTTTTTTT 🎉🎉🎉

brothermouse

The worst part about it being racist (aside from, you know, the racism) is that it's actually trying to be anti-racist. It just crit fails so hard it ends up being super racist.

The goal of it is to have audiences laugh at the way white American Christianity views and treats outside groups, especially those in non-white countries, and then walk away thinking "oh jeez, I do some of those silly things myself. Better fix that!" Instead, by choosing Mormonism as their "stereotypical white church" they solidly prevent any mainstream Christian from seeing themselves in the story. It then becomes "look at how ridiculous those Mormons (who I already hate) are! Glad I'm not like them at all!" And they walk away feeling superior and never once looking inward except to say how much better they are than the pretend Mormons on stage. So already it encourages the exact type of bigotry and self importance that it wants to discourage.

And then! It only depicts people of color as ignorant, violent, and diseased. You know, like a racist would. Now you COULD argue that it's supposed to be from the racist white character's perspective so of course they would appear that way. But here's the thing, narratively that only works if you, at any point say, "hey, actually this stuff isn't true". Otherwise, you're just doing racist shit.

And here's the rotten cherry on the whole shit cake: fans keep saying "yeah it's offensive, but the music is so catchy!" You know what else had catchy music? Blackface minstrel shows. Shit's still racist.

So to recap: the show that's supposed to be anti-racist is so bad at being anti-racist that it encourages bigotry, spreads racist stereotypes about a REAL country that REALLY exists, and the best defense of it has been used since the civil war. Like, I know that Mormonism doesn't have the best track record when it comes to racism, obviously, but we've NEVER fumbled it that badly.

#i will go and queue #mormonism #mormon #book of mormon #book of mormon musical #racism #fuck racism #church of jesus christ of latter day saints #lds church

kiurona

#maomao #lohen #the apothecary diaries #genshin impact #poison

heartslabyuls

My biggest flex is that I drew Riddle and Freminet together over two years before it was announced Paul Castro would voice Riddle

i have more of them, they’re just not as simplified as this so bad anatomy is more obvious…

#twisted wonderland #twst #riddle rosehearts #genshin impact #freminet #genshin freminet #twst riddle #fanart #art

laxsara-deactivated20210802

the meaning of life is summed up in the story elmer bendiner tells about how when he was a pilot the second world war, his plane was hit with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire from the nazi forces but the crew survived. and how everyone was saying it was a miracle until they investigated the shells that got in the fuselage and found there was no explosive charges in any of them. in one they found a note scribbled in czech, written by the person who had been forced to manufacture the shells, and it just said ‘this is all we can do for you now’.

laxsara-deactivated20210802

every time i see someone acting tough online about how harm reduction is pointless and in some convoluted way worse than doing nothing i think about that person in some soul-destroying nazi factory in occupied czechoslovakia removing all of the explosive charges from their anti-aircraft shells and writing a note that they must have known would probably never be read, just to say ‘this is all we can do for you, and we’re going to do it’. they are trying to make us kill you and we refuse. i do think that maybe it’s all going to be okay.

headspace-hotel

Don’t make me cry when I’m in the car with my family

herprivateswe

An ANZAC soldier in his trench looking out over Anzac Beach, 1915.

#history #ww1 #great war #first world war #british army #anzac #world war i #world war 1 #AIF #australian imperial force #Anzac beach #gallipoli

trans-girl-nausicaa

generally speaking, the cooler and better your offline political activities are, the more important it becomes that you do not post about it on your personal social media acconts

afurioushawk

the-orion-scribe

Do... do they know what happened to the majority of Siberians during Soviet rule?

actuallyjamesagarfield

That account is either a paid shill or really fucking stupid

strawberry-wizzard

There's a type of leftist who has an infatuation with Russia because they were communist at one point, and they apply that infatuation to all to all Russian action backwards and forwards in time. They do this despite Russia not being communist anymore and doing horrible things while they were.

Even self-described anarcho-communists get in on this. You'd think they would hate the USSR just as much as they hate the US because they were just as imperialist as and more authoritarian than we ever were.

rametarin

I'm 42. This bullshit has ALWAYS been hanging over conversations about Russia. Western Leftists would stan Russia as this beacon of tolerance and multiculturalism and forward thought (largely during the era of the USSR) and it was a time where there was DEAFENING SILENCE about Russia's real history, to say nothing of the crap that was hidden in the SU until after the iron curtain came down.

They would talk about how the US still has people hanging black men (this is a long running platitude in the SU) and Russia never did that.

Funnily enough, Russia also appeals to the white supremacists with the idea Russia is some last bastion of non-woke civil rights which don't hate white people. Truth is, Russia as a country and the ruling population, hate western europeans and western european cultures. They see them as weak and vulnerable. Not, "real" cultures, at all. Any religion that isn't Russian Orthodox is just barely allowed to exist.

Russia has an entire network of bullshit artists that get to those upper echelons of leftist thought and shape opinions in social hierarchies, and then it cascades down from those. From academia, down to children's summer camps, privileging people that agree with their takes and socially punishing people that disagree.

qsycomplainsalot

Russian multiculturalism in effect, 1580-1778

#history #soviet russia #soviet union #russian #russia #fuck russia #russia is a terrorist state

turtledahturtle

friendly reminder that mormonism is not a cult

thank you! :)

#your standards of cult describe literally any religion <3 #i dont mean to be mean at all i just hate being told my religion is a cult when its not #i understand that cultural pressures exist but thats different from a religion itself #tumblrstake #lds church #church of jesus christ of latter day saints #please theres nothing i believe more than that everyone deserves to be loved can i receive that same respect for believing in a religion #if anyone has questions regarding it i will gladly answer

pinnipetal

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

dualcasterjay

and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!