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you know, i was going through the fanart tag for like, fanfics i've written, and i'm just an extremely lucky person and very humbled, and you all are so amazing, even though i know many folks aren't on this tumblr anymore from back then

(all the people here now, you all are amazing too, but this is a nostalgia vibes post and not a right now vibes post, but know i feel lucky and humbled because of you as well)

anyway, i hope everyone's doing as well as possible.

i'm really grateful for fandom and the people in fandom and the people who were once in fandom who moved onto others things but still gave their time to it once. and i'm glad to still be able to enjoy it.

#personal #pia on fanfiction #do i have to tag this with anything else i got nothing except #there's a lot of people i love #and idk where they are or what they're doing anymore #and there's a lot of people i find really amazing or admirable or incredible #both right now #and back then #sure there were some bad patches but mostly #what i remember #is just how exquisite you all made this #with your magic

The stark contrast between the messages of In Flanders Fields and Dulce Et Decorum Est... how one poem urges the reader to take up the torch of the men who have died and carry on the fight, while the other actively dissuades the reader from war...

“Take up our quarrel with the foe:/To you from failing hands we throw/The torch; be yours to hold it high./If ye break faith with us who die/We will not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fields”

versus

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,/Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud/Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues—/My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori.”

Just. The change in tone throughout the war. Both of these were written during WWI; IFF in 1915, and DEDE in 1917-1918. Neither poem makes light of loss, but Flanders Fields describes the surroundings of the battles rather than the death and destruction of the soldiers themselves, while Dulce doesn’t bother pulling punches and describes in great detail what happens to soldiers in the trenches. Flanders Fields still had the spirit of the fight, urging new soldiers to take up the torch and continue the work of the dead. By contrast, Dulce downright rejects the spirit of war in the face of the horrors that are brought by war.

For translation, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” means something to the effect of “It is sweet and just to die for one’s country”.

Reading these poems rly puts existentialism in a new light man. Also one cannot read DEDE and leave without feeling at least a little horrified.

#Tw death #tw gore #To clarify I am not an existentialist #I think God put us here for a reason #but boy golly can i understand where those people were coming from #religion and trauma is a delicate balance #and back then #trauma really wasn’t understood like it is today #so these soldiers lived with all the horror and memories with little support #watched as killing after senseless killing happened around them #watched as their fellow soldiers died horrible #gruesome deaths #seemingly at random #and then it all happened again in WWII #those people probably had a frick ton of unresolved trauma with no healthy way to cope with it #or with no guidance on how to cope with it in a healthy way #war ruins more than the dead #even in the lives of the surviving soldiers and their families #war leaves its mark #my history teacher tells us stories of his father who fought in Vietnam and how he was always drunk after he got home. Always. For decades #and how much that damaged the relationship between his father and the rest of his family #realistically #that’s way more common than one thinks #and many of these vets don’t have access to or can’t afford mental health resources #or internet access #or a home #And of course the US government drops them like a sack of potatoes the second they get home #not to mention unlearning the conditioning of the army #just. all of it. all of it is fricking horrifying.#who the heck thinks of war as glorious

so i remember when i was little i was scared of ghosts, but now, if i saw one, i would be like

ayooo it's a fucking ghost what's up !?

and i'm not sure what that says about my mental health .

#and back then #ghosts were like #the classic floating sheet kinda thing #but now they're like #statue-y ancient greeks #who like libraries #basically me but dead #and greek #ghosts #ghost posts #ancient greece #romantic #old books #classics #academia #romantic academia #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic

wait what's up w nick kroll and his parents/dad

Nick Kroll’s father’s company was deeply involved in enabling Harvey Weinstein’s sexual violence, harassing the victims and silencing anyone who was involved in the investigation. There were two firms involved, the first called Kroll and then when Jules Kroll left Kroll he formed K2. K2 was deeply involved with the smearing of Ambra Guiterrez after Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her, including hiring people to basically make shit up about her sexual history.

Now obviously none of that is Nick Kroll’s fault. How he deals with the huge damage his father has done to women in his industry, both personally and professionally. is up to him. If he wanted to talk about it directly that’d interesting. But I don’t think he should bring up his father in cute little anecdotes about getting engaged on talk shows.

#I've heard him talk about it on podcasts #long before this #and back then #I think he had done a bad job of coming to terms with the harm his father would have done #but who knows where he is now #Anonymous

wakes up in cold sweat: what if the reason that patton replied to “how do you feel” with “I am the walrus” was that he was actually feeling really sad or something and he already then didn’t wanna admit that he had negative feelings so he just did what patton did best while sad; smile and crack jokes

#sanders sides #patton sanders #sanders angst #patton angst #I mean #everyone was analyzing that 'I'm gonna eat a second cookie now' line #and back then #let's be real #he was mostly the plucky comic relief #so being silly was just his thing #and he felt he had to be silly to be patton #oh god #go to sleep beam

I have literally only one regret in life (aside from not appreciating some good times I've had, enough) and it's being a fuckin dick to my friend and ex.

They were a great companion and I treated them like a douchebag and it's been like 9 years and I still think about it.

Jira, or HerrJira , I've been trying to search for you on the internet however I could but to no awail. I wish I could tell you that I'm so sorry for what I've done, not to make myself feel better, but because I haven't done it back when I should have and you deserve some closure. I hope you're alive and doing okay.