Lightning and thunder

| CZ | Christine | early 30s | Currently: mix of fandoms | Prequels Defense Squad

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[trickstertime]

Huh? What's this?? Something is on this 5c coin???

ENHANCE

[simplesandwichies]

incredible things happening on jeopardy

[lightningthor]

Hold the damn door, there's gonna be Eurovision Asia?? Why not Asiavision

[mortalityplays]

Americans will see someone express mild discomfort that they teach their children obliterating two civilian cities in the most horrific manner humanity has yet devised was a defensible wartime strategy and be like "to be fair,"

[ninefoldrin]

Fun fact! The Japanese were literally trying to surrender and were going through the Soviets (the US' allies throughout WW2) to negotiate but were only really holding out because they wanted assurances that America wouldn't execute the emperor (go figure, the leader didn't want to die because he said he gave up). America wasn't actually planning to execute him, but refused to accept anything less than unconditional surrender, and that was a condition. Regardless of conditions, Japan was going to be surrendering the moment the USSR invaded, which was planned to happen imminently. America knew this. America knew that once the USSR entered the war with Japan, they would have a seat at the negotiating table.

Anti-communist sentiments were already strong in US leadership. The US didn't want communists gaining any more ground on the world stage and nuking Japan was a way to kill two birds with one bomb: end the war before the USSR entered and show the USSR that the USA could wipe out any of their cities in the blink of an eye. People sometimes try to argue that the second bomb had to be dropped because Japan didn't surrender after the first, but Japanese leadership didn't even meet to discuss the first bomb until shortly before the second dropped. At that point, losing an entire city had little effect on leadership. They already had entire cities leveled with conventional weapons. They hadn't yet processed that Hiroshima was leveled by a single bomb. It didn't matter though. The fact that they delayed at all gave America an excuse to prove to the USSR that they could do it again. The US obliterated two cities in Japan ultimately as a shot across the bow for the USSR.

What popular history likes to gloss over is the chain of events that lead to Perl Harbor. The US initially supported Japan (along with selling resources to all sides in the European war), even as Japan committed war crimes across China and Korea. The US had good relations with Japan at that point and saw Japan's invasion of China as a way to get a foothold in a country that had a history of being restrictive of foreign trade. Japan didn't roll out the red carpet for America though; they realized that they had something that the USA wanted and planned to use that to their advantage in global politics and trade. In response, the US stopped selling steel to Japan for their war effort. US leaders/strategists were very aware that cutting Japan off from resources they'd been relying on for their war would invite retaliation, and thus Perl Harbor happened. The US only ever cared about gaining greater access to markets and labor and was willing to fight a war over it, but in such a way that Japan would make the first move.

The US might have ended up on the right side of WW2, but not for the right reasons. The war in Europe was already going in the allies' favor and the entrance of the US only really expedited the war, but it gave the US a seat at the table when deciding what happened after the war. It let the US build military bases in Europe and bring more US businesses into Europe. The US suffered the least from the war and was able to take advantage of the fact that they didn't need to rebuild entire cities like every European country did. it was politically and financially beneficial to the US to join the war late on the side that was already set up to win, especially with a little extra push.

And for the future, the US had a chance to show the world that they weren't afraid to wipe out entire cities with a single bomb. They didn't care about the children incinerated at school, or the handful of survivors who would die because of the radiation. There was no reason for the US to obliterate two cities in a single moment. The US could have chosen to end the war by then but refused to accept any conditions of surrender. The US only used those bombs to show the world how heartless they could be, and then spent decades feeding the public propaganda about how it was necessary so that no one would question why they would ever be willing to do something so horrific.

[vivvy-of-the-lake]

you try to tell yankees that dropping atomic bombs may not have been absolutely necessary and they'll start picking up the same talking points about every japanese citizen during wwii being a fanatical suicidal lunatic, as if they're picking up where they left off with 1945 levels of racism

[baileybasses-archive]

GO YOON JUNG AS JIN BUYEON Alchemy of Souls | Part 2

[historicalasiandramas]

I originally hated the Crown Prince but I realized that he's just a cringefail bisexual being held hostage by evil people

[thememedaddy]

[falafels]

fighting for my fucking life in the work gc because nobody else has curly hair. freaky ted why have you done this to me.

and that marg was good because my boss made a comment i didn’t care for on the monday of that week so i overserved everybody by at least a shot to haemorrhage stock. there was no skill involved i out enough tequila in that to end Your bloodline freaky ted

[redpandarascal]

Freaky Ted is living up to his name.

[raptorcivilization]

Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980's. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay

[raptorcivilization]

Male/male 1 is when the larger male gator topped, male/male 2 is when the smaller male topped

[werewolf-girlfriend]

[tiredandjaded]

average ao3 "sort by categories" result

[my-dailydreams]

[memecucker]

[ethicalcannibalisms]

blue eye samurai + text posts (part 4/?)… MIZU x TAIGEN EDITION BABYYY here have some food <3

[frostwhip]

"Steve left Bucky but Bucky would never have left Steve"

STEVE WOULDNT HAVE LEFT HIM EITHER THEY WERENT EVEN DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE THEY WERE DOOMED BY MARVEL EXECS WHO COULDNT HANDLE PEOPLE CALLING CAPTAIN AMERICA GAY. DONT TRY TO ACT LIKE CIVIL WAR AND ENDGAME STEVE WERE THE SAME GUY WE WERE LIED TO.

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER |  3.02 “Dead Man’s Party”

[ckot]

Well since i last drew him like.. 7 years ago? That will do. His face is complicated for me to get used to, same as it was with Astarion. Will take practice for sure. Also played around with some new brushes i got. Aaand i have love/hate relationship with colored and complicated lighting. I like it a lot, but at the same time i allllways end up doing billion version and being unable to choose one v_v So i chose two

[jabbadeeznutts]

flirting in front of your wife? really anakin?

[nyanakin]

right in front of her salad really guys