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[killlynx]

America Wizard art :DDD

after a battle

[thatssomegoodart]

i am far too obsessed with this series

America wizard characters, ft. my designs and headcanons for them

yea i'm currently rewatching America Wizard for the 16th time.

MUFFLES HEADCANONS

Nobody really knows what he looks like, not even Marsoc

I HC him as aroace

Also chaos incarnate

Throws hands first, thinks later

MARSOC is his only friend, and Muffles considers MARSOC a best friend

MARSOC HEADCANONS

He has far too many scars to list

This might be canon, although it's unconfirmed rn, MARSOC and Mindy are dating

Muffles is one of his best friends

Like every marine, he is chaos incarnate

He LOVES legos. Giving MARSOC large lego sets is of the ways Doc distracts him.

He is still part dead after almost dying to the fae

MINDY HEADCANONS:

Again, unconfirmed as of rn, but might be canon: she is dating MARSOC

She has no legs like she does in her debut episode

She usually wears a rag over her head, similar to Muffles

THOLDRINN / NORMIE HEADCANONS

Based on the "you look like a magician for a children's birthday party" quote from one of the episodes and the camo hoodie Fenrir wears for him, I HC that Normie has lighter green stars all over his cloak, i didn't add them because i'm horrible at drawing stars & was getting lazy at the time (i also can't draw bandages as you can tell)

He's usually the mediator of the group, although that won't stop him from wielding a fireball when in a situation (stay strapped or get clapped yknow)

I can honestly see him as having ADHD

I'm currently in the middle of drawing Doc, and am planning to draw Jason/America Wizard, Canada / Canadian Barbarian, and He Who Controls the Budget.

[foggyi]

[tacticalphotography]

[figures4fun]

Why can’t the branches of the military just get along?

[replaye]

MARSOC and Force wearing Multicam

[dewszt]

MARSOC

[casbooks]

Book Review: Tough Rugged Bastards

Just finished Tough Rugged Bastards by John A. Dailey and I have mixed emotions. There were some parts of this book that were written incredibly, but taken as a whole… overall, it wasn't. While the title states that this is the memoir of a life in USMC SpecOps.

The overwhelming fact is that you don't really realize WHAT the book is about until you're almost done, and you're left asking… that's it? It's not a memoir of a life, though there are elements of that. It's really just the story of how Det 1 came to be and their single deployment to Iraq. Which is fine! I love that as a topic! Except… it does such an uneven job covering that, that you literally learn almost as much, if not more, by a quick glance at the Wikipedia article about it.

The author is a GOOD writer, very deft with prose and storytelling, which comes across page after page. The problem is that he has a tendency to constantly digress away from the point of the story and wander all over time and thought without any sense of cohesion. He has the tendency to play loose and fast with time, ex: you're talking about his first days in the marines, and the next you're getting a lecture on ultramarathon running after his retirement, and it's such a jarring left turn that you're scratching your head wondering WHY, why is that here and not at the end? It starts off with a tale of Afghanistan and you're like GREAT! Let's hear more about that, but don't expect to because he'll only reference Afghanistan here and there, but not really discuss it. Same with his Embassy duties.

But the worst part is that he has a tendency to be hyper specific about things that could be talked about less, and tends to wax poetic and barely glance at things that should have been the crux of the book! You'll learn a lot about Stoicism and how to be a good instructor but when he talks about the battle of Najaf where "proceeded to demoralize the militiaman by "wiping out" dozens of enemy combatants, confusing them as to the point of origin of the unrelenting lethal fire… kept their marksman on their SR-25s around the clock" (per wiki) you really only get detail about the first shot fired, and then… nothing else really. You get some good detail about looking for 3 bombers, but it's really just a small part of the book when compared to how deep he goes into selecting gear and training and whatever else is on his mind at that moment. Especially about what it means to be a warrior. He goes deep into that multiple times, and what it takes to be a good Operator and a good this and that and that's fine, but when that is such a huge part of the book, and being in Iraq, Afghanistan, a scout sniper, a member of force recon, and the rest isn't, well there's a jarring imbalance. It's not his memoir, it's a good overview of how Det One/Raiders started, the schools, and his thoughts… with a couple of stories about the rest.

3 stars