rosastudy

18 // she/her // dutch // trying my best

[david-sharkthot-webster]

Band Of Brothers in Paris 

Tweeted by Doug Spain 

[david-sharkthot-webster]

Just some cute things that happen

- Shane’s (Doc Roe) face when Doug Spain joins in

- Ross Mccall (Liebgott) yelling Currahee

- Matt Settle pulling a Speirs and stealing Frank Hughe’s (Guarnere) cigarette

- Singing happy birthday to Eion Bailey (Webster) and Shane not knowing who they’re singing to even though Eion is right behind him

- Matt settle grabbing Eions hair 

- Tab and Ramirez “I knOW”

- Doc, Muck, and Luz bouncing together

- Matt Settle stealing DALE DYES CIGARETTE

- The real Babe and Guarnere joining

- The real Babe leading them in song

[aurevoir1997]

here's the link to light a candle. each new light is for a different person -- their name, birthdate and place (if known), and age upon death will be presented to you before lighting.

[boyplushie]

[ID: a tweet by @jewish_activist that reads "Today is Yom Hashoah, Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. If you would like to light a digital candle in memory of a victim, click the link below. (They) are hoping to have 6 million candles lit by the end of today, but currently there are less than 700k." Attached to the tweet is a link to illuminatethepast.org. /end ID.]

[excompany]

hi pals! i have complied an epic list of war/war-related films and series that i have either watched or want to watch. given current circumstances, i hope this finds you in good health and will help you combat boredom at home. i will try my best to let you know where you can watch these, but if not you might just have to do a little digging yourselves! just a heads up, some titles are super war concentrated while others briefly mention the war, but are still what i consider to be “war-related”, and i will try to let you know which ones are, so don’t be mad at me :) 🎞=movie //📺=show // 📽=miniseries or limited series 

world war i

🎞 1917

🎞 war horse

🎞 beneath hill 60

🎞 passchendaele

🎞 all quiet on the western front

🎞 testament of youth (amazon prime)

🎞 private peaceful

🎞 the lost battalion (youtube)

🎞 they shall not grow old

📽 gallipoli (amazon prime)

📺 the crimson field (bbc one)

📽 ANZAC girls (amazon prime)

📽 our world war (bbc) (SO GOOD PLEASE WATCH SOMEHOW)

📽 the passing bells (bbc one)

📺 parade’s end (crave tv)

📽 when we go to war (amazon prime)

interwar

📺 babylon berlin (german)(netflix)(takes place during 1929 germany, with slight relations to WW1, but not about war)

world war ii

🎞 saving private ryan (amazon prime)

🎞 unbroken

🎞 hacksaw ridge (netflix)

🎞 dunkirk

🎞 jojo rabbit

🎞 the boy in the striped pajamas

🎞 fury (netflix)

🎞 inglorious basterds (netflix)

🎞 stalag 17 (youtube)

🎞 midway

🎞 pearl harbor

🎞 under sandet (land of mine)(german)

🎞 au revoir les enfants (french)(youtube)(takes place during WW2 but not explicitly about war, still very good)

🎞 thin red line

🎞 atonement (amazon prime)

🎞 where hands touch (amazon prime)

🎞 schindler’s list

🎞 the book thief (war-related)

🎞 warsaw 44 (polish)(amazon prime)

🎞 life is beautiful (italian)

🎞 enemy at the gates (amazon prime)

🎞 glorious 39 (amazon prime)

🎞 ashes in the snow (amazon prime)

🎞 europa europa (polish)

🎞 kamienie na szaniec (stones for the rampart)(polish)

🎞 the longest day

🎞 a bag of marbles (french)(war-related)

🎞 monsieur batignole (french)(war-related)

🎞 empire of the sun

📽 les grandes grandes vacances (the long long holiday)(french)(war-related)

📽 catch-22 (hulu)

📺 world on fire (bbc one/pbs)

📽 the pacific (crave tv/hbo)

📽 band of brothers (crave tv/hbo)

📽 generation war (german)

📺 x company (netflix—canadian)(cbc)

📽 SS-GB (bbc one)

📺 land girls (bbc one)

📽 the plot against america (crave tv)

📺 bomb girls (global)

📽 résistance (french)

🎞 swing kids (war-related)

postwar

📺 the man in the high castle (amazon prime)

🎞 the aftermath (amazon prime)

🎞 a royal night out (kind of war-related, takes place on VE Day)

!Tip: try searching the name of the movie + google drive, it should work about half the time. ex: war horse google drive

[giflounge]

1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.

[skypig357]

Blessed post. Good kitty

[wizardmoon-deactivated20190222]

i want someone to read that headline in an old timey reporter voice

[surprisekitty-deactivated202007]

Okay fun fact: cats were actively deployed to trenches and ships to help deal with rodent infestations in both world wars, and they had the curb cutter effect of keeping the men’s spirits high.

One cat, Simon, was given the rank “Able Seacat Simon” after dutifully killing rats and mice that were destroying the HMS Amethyst’s food supplies. The ship had come under fire during the Chinese civil war and many of its crewmen had died. The cat had been gravely injured, too, but he picked out the shrapnel himself – seriously – and went straight to killing the rodents that were overrunning the ship. He unfortunately passed from his injuries two weeks before he was scheduled to receive the Dickin Medal. To this day, he is the only cat to receive this award.

[petermorwood]

Here’s another WW1 trenchcat, who would have been ratter, mouser, companion and gas warning - not AFAIK by dying, like a canary, but since cats reacted to the smell of gas long before it was strong enough for humans to notice, the troops had a bit more time to get their masks on, and the cats went into gasproof boxes.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of No Man’s Land…

Meet Percy, mascot of HMLS (D20) “Daphne” (His Majesty’s Land Ship, i.e. a tank) with Lt Drader. It’s nice to know that both survived the War, and Percy retired to live out his peacetime life in the Drader family home.

(Here’s a video clip; given how noisy, hot and smelly early tanks were, Percy seems remarkably unfazed.) 

A US Army tank cat, Mustard of the 321st, with a Renault FT light tank and its driver Sgt Postal…

A Royal Artillery kitten (the battery mascot)…

Pincher of HMS Vindex on what looks like a Sopwith Pup scout…

Togo, ship’s cat of HMS Dreadnought (though I’ve also seen “HMS Irresistible”)…

Ship’s cat of HMS Queen Elizabeth atop 15″ main battery…

And speaking of big ships and big guns…

“Make nice all you like, Human. I despise you. I wanted a billet on a battleship, not this tinpot destroyer…” (Ching, of HMAS Swan.)

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing I’ve noticed while running an online shop is that Americans never include their country when writing their address.

I don’t mean when filling in online forms, bc that’s obviously a required element. but when emailing me for address changes for orders, they never include a country in the updated address. but I always know the country is the United States of America because literally nobody else around the world would do that.

[whomst-am-i]

Seriously? Why would you include it though? It’s extraneous information like ofc its the us

[pangur-and-grim]

there are 195 countries in the world

[fagknowledge]

But we also always have to include our states, which if you get confused what country “California” is in, that’s kind of on you.

[chaotic-carnifex]

If you get confused what country “Hessen” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Karnataka” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Kärnten” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Bahia” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Manitoba” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Colima” is in, that’s kind of on you.

… yeah, checks out /j

[effyeffa]

feminine urge this masculine urge that let’s stop being weird about gender online for a second and focus on what’s important

[effyeffa]

the european urge to eat a whole loaf of bread

[comfortfrogblog]

[franzkafkagf]

not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

[xoxokimbo]

remember to breathe

[studyblr]

me: ah yes! let’s start doing this cool thing, and this new hobby, and this book, and this movie, and languages, and —

me, 2 days later: bed

[f0mo]

okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable and sleep has made you forget all your worries and you go back to sleep feeling as content as ever.

[spacesapphist]

museum studies goofs, 2/?

[madnessofmen]

creepy and wet major alignment chart

edit: added a few more majors

[happyheidi]

‘Rear Window’ by Jordi Huisman

[historicity-was-already-taken]

This weekend I was schmoozing at an event when some guy asked me what kind of history I study. I said “I’m currently researching the role of gender in Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich,” and he replied “oh you just threw gender in there for fun, huh?” and shot me what he clearly thought to be a charming smile.

The reality is that most of our understandings of history revolve around what men were doing. But by paying attention to the other half of humanity our understanding of history can be radically altered.

For example, with Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich it is just kind of assumed that it was a decision made by a man, and the rest of his family just followed him out of danger. But that is completely inaccurate. Women, constrained to the private social sphere to varying extents, were the first to notice the rise in social anti-Semitism in the beginning of Hitler’s rule. They were the ones to notice their friends pulling away and their social networks coming apart. They were the first to sense the danger.

German Jewish men tended to work in industries which were historically heavily Jewish, thus keeping them from directly experiencing this “social death.” These women would warn their husbands and urge them to begin the emigration process, and often their husbands would overlook or undervalue their concerns (“you’re just being hysterical” etc). After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, and after even more so after Kristallnacht, it fell to women to free their husbands from concentration camps, to run businesses, and to wade through the emigration process.

The fact that the Nazis initially focused their efforts on Jewish men meant that it fell to Jewish women to take charge of the family and plan their escape. In one case, a woman had her husband freed from a camp (to do so, she had to present emigration papers which were not easy to procure), and casually informed him that she had arranged their transport to Shanghai. Her husband—so traumatized from the camp—made no argument. Just by looking at what women were doing, our understanding of this era of Jewish history is changed.

I have read an article arguing that the Renaissance only existed for men, and that women did not undergo this cultural change. The writings of female loyalists in the American Revolutionary period add much needed nuance to our understanding of this period. The character of Jewish liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century is a direct result of the education and socialization of Jewish women. I can give you more examples, but I think you get the point.

So, you wanna understand history? Then you gotta remember the ladies (and not just the privileged ones).

ask historicity-was-already-taken a question

[roachpatrol]

Holy fuck. I was raised Jewish— with female Rabbis, even!— and I did not hear about any of this. Gender studies are important. 

[kogiopsis]

Why Gender History is Important (Asshole)

[treewizarded]

“so you just threw gender in there for fun” ffs i hope you poured his drink down his pants

[notyourdamsel-in-distress]

I actually studied this in one of my classes last semester. It was beyond fascinating. 

There was one woman who begged her husband for months to leave Germany. When he refused to listen to her, she refused to get into bed with him at night, instead kneeling down in front of him and begging him to listen to her, or if he wouldn’t listen to her, to at least tell her who he would listen to. He gave her the name of a close, trusted male friend. She went and found that friend, convinced him of the need to get the hell out of Europe, and then brought him home. Thankfully, her husband finally saw sense and moved their family to Palestine.

Another woman had a bit more control over her own situation (she was a lawyer). She had read Mein Kampf  when it was first published and saw the writing on the wall. She asked her husband to leave Europe, but he didn’t want to leave his (very good) job and told her that he had faith in his countrymen not to allow an evil man to have his way. She sent their children to a boarding school in England, but stayed in Germany by her husband’s side. Once it was clear that if they stayed in Germany they were going to die, he fled to France but was quickly captured and killed. His wife, however, joined the French Resistance and was active for over a year before being captured and sent to Auschwitz.

(This is probably my favorite of these stories) The third story is about a young woman who saved her fiance and his father after Kristallnacht. She was at home when the soldiers came, but her fiance was working late in his shop. Worried for him, she snuck out (in the middle of all the chaos) to make sure he was alright. She found him cowering (quite understandably) in the back of his shop and then dragged him out, hoping to escape the violence. Unfortunately, they were stopped and he, along with hundreds of other men, was taken to a concentration camp. She was eventually told that she would have to go to the camp in person to free him, and so she did. Unfortunately, the only way she could get there was on a bus that was filled with SS men; she spent the entire trip smiling and flirting with them so that they would never suspect that she wasn’t supposed to be there. When she got to the camp, she convinced whoever was in charge to release her fiance. She then took him to another camp and managed to get her father-in-law to be released. Her father-in-law was a rabbi, so she grabbed a couple or witnesses and made him perform their marriage ceremony right then and there so that it would be easier for her to get her now-husband out of the country, which she did withing a few months. This woman was so bad ass that not only was her story passed around resistance circles, even the SS men told it to each other and honoured her courage. 

The moral of these stories is that men tend to trust their governments to take care of them because they always have; women know that our governments will screw us over because they always have. 

Another interesting tidbit is that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that Kristallnacht is a term that historians came up with after the fact, and was not what the event was actually called at the time. It’s likely that the event was actually called was (I’m sorry that I can’t remember the German word for it but it translates to) night of the feathers, because that, instead of broken glass, is the image that stuck in people’s minds because the soldiers also went into people’s homes and destroyed their bedding, throwing the feathers from pillows and blankets into the air. What does it say that in our history we have taken away the focus of the event from the more domestic, traditionally feminine, realms, and placed it in the business, traditionally masculine, realms?

[historicity-reblogs]

Badass women and interesting commentary. Though I would argue that “Night of Broken Glass" includes both the personal and the private spheres. It was called Kristallnacht by the Nazis, which led to Jewish survivors referring to it as the November Pogrom until the term “Kristallnacht" was reclaimed, as such.

None of this runs directly counter to your fascinating commentary, though.

[wtfhistory]

READ THIS.

[the-waters-and-the-wild]

If anyone has books or articles related to these accounts or ones like them, please let me know. These stories need to be told. 

[historicity-was-already-taken]

@the-waters-and-the-wild hi! I’m (OP) actually writing a book on these themes. If you’re interested in learning more or helping me out with access, please check out this page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/women-in-the-warsaw-jewish-underground-project#/

Women in the Warsaw Jewish Underground Project

Help me pay for the translators, books, reproductions of archival materials, and editors I need. | Check out 'Women in the Warsaw Jewish Und

[patroclusdefencesquad]

we went feral over the amazing devil lyrics, now we're feeling tender and yearning

my entire life it's running away too fast, watching everyone I've ever loved walk past // never really quite getting the knack of knowing no one will not ever come back for you

but I held your hand, as you shook in the middle of the night // without waking you said, not yet not yet

love run // for all the things we wish we'd done // run from all you know that's coming // run to show that love's worth running to

she laughs as though she's not heard the joke ten thousand times before // and he adores her

and he holds her close // just to keep the world at bay

I've seen enough, he says, I know exactly what I want // and it's this life that we've created, inundated with the fated thought of you

dear heart, it's me // it's me // you don't need to pretend to be someone you're not

with you I could summon the gods and the stars

and now at the end, at the end of all things // I'm not going to scream, beat my chest at the wind // I'm doing fine

'cause when it's cold, I'll wrap my scarf around you // and when it's hard, I'll place your head into my hands

you're the thigh high hemline I just can't stop staring at

you're not flawed darling, you're just a little under-rehearsed

and now, even though you're mad, and these memories won't stay, that's okay // 'cause now I get to meet you for the first time every single day

you're the one who asked me if i'm feeling okay // I said I'm fine // it's just a sitting down in the shower day

[rosastudy]

scrolling through my blog and coming to the bi-yearly realisation that i cannot stick to any schedule/promise i have made on this blog ever.

other side of this thrice-cursed coin: getting hella motivated to start posting again