#word war

[tododekubigbang]

Check out the winners of our first word war and art contests!

👑Word War winning team = Team Minty Fresh🍃 👑Icon contest winner = Panda @stopforfanart

Shout-out to all these amazing artists who shared their works with us @arhoadsart @yeloraain @silverstring000 as well as all the wonderful writers who made it to the Top 10 Word Count Scorers list!

[cure-your-delusions]

Hey, I have an interesting question for you because I look for God everywhere and you seem like a cool atheist so I'm gonna ask you about it. Technically two situations: 1. Christmas during WW1: The German's approach the English and suggest they stop fighting for xmas. They even have dinner together. It's enough to have everyone humanize each other and now the higher ups have to move everyone around cuz no one will fight after this. If not God, what could inspire something like this?

thanks for the “cool atheist” :)

i know that story, which is really heart-warming (although they resumed fighting afterwards...). but how does that anyhow relate to god?

you fell for a classical god-of-the-gaps argument; you just put god in the place of something you wanted an explanation for and nicely fits your faith

if there is a god, why did he allow WW1 to happen in the first place? just to pull that trick on xmas?

how would you know it was the christian god and not the Flying Spaghetti Monster who made this happen?

are you aware that xmas was adopted from paganism (celebration of winter solstice) around 300 a.d.? if jesus actually lived (which i highly doubt), he most probably was born around september, but not in december. it was made up by christians back then

who says the soldiers were not all atheists?

what about the explanation that they were tired of fighting and welcomed any reason for a break?

please, before jumping to conclusion that fit your worldview, ask yourself what evidence is there for such a conclusion. what other explanations might be much more likely, etc. i feel the way you argue you are already blocking any rational explanation because you so much want the explanation to be your god

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that during WWI, cotton was in high demand for the manufacture of uniforms and explosives. For bandages, doctors turned to using sphagnum moss. It can hold up to 22 times its own weight in liquid -- twice as absorptive as cotton. The moss is also antiseptic, making the surrounding environment acidic (x)

[captainblackwolfblog]

MULHER-MARAVILHA

Sinopse e Elenco:

Em Mulher - Maravilha, treinada desde cedo para ser uma guerreira imbatível, Diana Prince nunca saiu da paradisíaca ilha em que é reconhecida como princesa das Amazonas. Quando o piloto Steve Trevor se acidenta e cai numa praia do local, ela descobre que uma guerra sem precedentes está se espalhando pelo mundo e decide deixar seu lar certa de que pode parar o conflito. Lutando para acabar com todas as lutas, Diana percebe o alcance de seus poderes e sua verdadeira missão na terra.

Patty Jenkins (diretora) Gal Gadot como Diana/Mulher - Maravilha Chris Pine como Steve Trevor Connie Nielsen como Hipólita Robin Wright como Antiope Danny Huston como Ludendorff David Thewlis como Sir Patrick Elena Anaya como Dr. Maru Lucy Davis como Etta

Geralmente quando assistimos filmes de super - heróis o que mais incomoda é a falta de ritmo e o tempo que se perde explicando detalhes praticamente desnecessários, isso é algo que não acontece em Mulher - Maravilha, o que deveria servir de exemplo para todos diretores que trabalham com filmes desse gênero. A história é bem construída, o processo de desenvolvimento de Diana de criança até se tornar adulta e por consequencia uma guerreira amazona leva o tempo certo, sem perder um detalhe e nem deixar nada de lado.

Não existem momentos mortos ou parados no filme, cada cena é interessante dentro do seu contexto e o filme apresenta um roteiro bem construido sem falhas. O filme tem uma força incrível e um ritmo que vai deixar o espectador interessado até o último momento. Conseguimos captar os conflitos da personagem, Diana vai aos poucos compreendendo o mundo novo em que está inserida, o filme mostra como o amor é a peça chave para elucidar a trama dela. Em um mundo em colapso e dominado pelo medo com tons escuros e de incertezas, é lindo como a super-heroína traz a luz, a empatia e o amor de volta ao debate.

Curiosidades:

- A Mulher-Maravilha foi criada pelo Dr William Moulton Marston e teve sua primeira aparição em All Star Comics de 1941, originalmente o alter-ego de Diana Prince seria suprema, com inspiração em Superman, no entanto os editores acharam o nome muito similar ao do próprio Superman e decidiram utilizar apenas Mulher-Maravilha.

- As Amazonas sofreram por anos nas mãos dos homens, foram estupradas, abusadas e muitas foram mortas. Após a revolução das amazonas liderada por Hipolita, Zeus e os deuses do olimpo criaram uma ilha paradisíaca no qual elas poderiam ficar longe do mundo dos homens.

- No inicio, a personagem usava uma saia ao invés do shorts e ao passar do tempo suas roupas foram ficando mais sexualizadas o que chocou o público na década de 50 e 60. A personagem já usou diversas roupas, como calças mas atualmente ela usa uma saia e shorts por baixo a mesma da atriz Gal Gadot.

- Mulher-Maravilha nem sempre foi considerada uma deusa, devido as suas primeiras origens ela ter sido filha do barro, apenas nos novos 52 quando Hipolita conta que ela é filha de sangue de Zeus de uma relação sexual ela passa a ser considerada uma deusa, matando Ares e se tornando a deusa da guerra.

-Diferente de muitos outros heróis, a Mulher-Maravilha não foi criada por um quadrinista, mas sim por um psicólogo.

"Não faço ideia de onde estarei amanhã, mas aceito o fato de que o amanhã vai chegar, e quando ele chegar, eu vou me erguer para enfrentá-lo".

[runawaydevill]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:

it goes on."

— Robert Frost

Image: Michael Nash, Warsaw, Poland, November 1946.

[derflauschigstefuchs]

Today I need to write about 8 more pages of an essay that is due in five days. To help me get words on paper I’m doing mini word wars with myself. To do this, I’m setting a timer for fifteen minutes at a time and then writing as many words as I can during that time. Join me if you want to! I’ll be including my results below.

First round: 339 words (for context most of my pages have around 400 words so If I keep that rate up I should have a draft after a bit more that two hours of word wars)

[thereisnoyellinginfantasycostco]

Word War #1

The Relics were powerful, they knew that going in. Harnessing the Light wouldn’t be an easy task, and what they were left with was seven relics; seven pieces of the Light Of Creation. Seven birds thought they could resist the fall, but they had fooled themself into a false sense of security.

First fell the twins. Taako was soon overtaken by pink tourmaline with barely a scream. His eyes were replaced with diamonds and his warm laugh replaced by cold silence. He left immediately after (Lucretia heard about Lucas Miller’s lab being destroyed by the rock, and she cried).

Soon after her brother fell, Lup wasn’t far behind. “I’m just putting it on” She reasoned with Lucretia. “I’ll take it off right after i save him”. Even as she let the lich go, she knew it was it. Lucretia knew it was it when she heard of a country springing up; formed of black glass and charred bones. She cries again.

Magnus, poor sweet Magnus, fell next. He reasoned with her too, “I just need to go back and make sure neither of them touch their objects! Everything will be fine!” His eyes shone with hope as he took the Chalice, but nothing changed for her. Things changed for Magnus, though. His form was stuck, eyes glowing gold, and form flickering in and out of resistance. Snippets of his voice could still be heard echoing “no, that wasn’t right. I just need to try one more time.” “one more time” “one more time.” Lucretia sometimes spends her time in the room where he disappeared, begging for him to give up and stop trying.

Barry was next, and Lucretia lost track of him. She knows that the first few years were him trying to capture Lup and Taako’s souls, and put them in something else. Lucretia isn’t sure what happened next, but after that he went radio silent. Two months after his disappearance, he resurfaced. Running a crazed quiz show out of a place he called Wonderland. (She sent her best teams there, they never returned). Lucretia mourned for her friend and her workers.

Davenport was next, with the Oculus. Able to make illusions real, he coped with his guilt in a way that Lucretia never allowed herself to: escapism. He gives himself back that year on the beach world, where everything was happy and relaxing. Davenport could replay it over and over again and no hunger would come, no Hunger would destroy his new perfect life. Lucretia spends most of her time near him, smiling fake (he can’t notice) and taking a doubles place (he won’t notice). Whenever she brings up something that was happening now (Barry’s show, Lucas’s lab, Magnus’s static), her double appears and he is distracted for her. Still, she’s thankful for the false peace he gives her.

She’s thankful for a non combat, non falsifying relic. And she leaves, leaves out of a need to protect and protect. She creates the moon base and doesn’t let anyone leave it, no really. They think they go on missions, but Lucretia can’t risk them dying, can’t risk them leaving. If they stay on the base, they stay safe and Lucretia won’t lose anyone else. She’ll have protected everyone now, and they will need her.

Merle was never completely gone, not until the end. After every single one of his children left, he leaves too. The Gaia Sash never worked much with him (he was too devot for his godly patron to let him be taken over), it merely worked on his outward appearance. It helped once. Once after Lucretia created a second moon and Davenport was merrily on it in his world. After Barry made his quiz show, and Magnus started his quest to fix it all, and Lup’s burning of her name into history, and Taako’s corruption. It helps by letting him stop. It helps by letting him meet the same fate of Hurley and Sloane, peaceful at last in a beautiful maple tree.

Seven Birds, Seven Relics. Seven Lost Heroes.

[rosefyrefyre]

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