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Do you think I enjoy this?! Do you? There aren't enough of us left to be throwing lives away, but there is too much at stake not to take calculated risks! Eden doesn't understand that, you don't understand that!

Caroline Kaplan as Ava | Iron Lung (2026)

#Iron Lung #Iron Lung movie #ava iron lung #my best friend made this for me

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a character study of one carol sturka.

more under the cut. thanks for reading! i'll have this as a physical copy at ECCC. come talk to me about pluribus!!!!

#please read this #pluribus #carol sturka #zosia #helen umstead

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helen in norway with her lil overalls and hat with a bauble on it meanwhile carol is wearing her hard shell outer layers like she’s here to train k9s whining about how it’s cold as shit and she didn’t wanna come. cut back to helen who’s like aw sick the kEY has a fISH on it !! this is living. and shit they got booze too let’s partyyy. cut back to carol flopping on the ice bed trying to carve her last will and testament into it

#pluribus #the way i laughed

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Pluribus - 1x01 "We Is Us"

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Pluribus I We Is Us

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Carol: I must have every happy chemical flowing in my bloodstream. I keep thinking it's gonna go away, but then it doesn't... And I don't want it to.... Zosia: I'm glad. And it only gets better 😌 Carol: 🙂 Carol: Carol: Better? Zosia: 🙂 Carol: You're not talking about the Joining, are you? Zosia: 😬 Me: hey quick question did all seven billion of you graduate magna cum laude from the university of fumbling bad bitches

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck. Not bad luck. I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

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“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

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Him face

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Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

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Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)

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Reblogging him face again for good luck in 2025.

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Reblogging him face for good luck in 2026.

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“Okay, boys, I’m gonna have to stop you right there. As much as I’m enjoying your charming machismo, the moment we step onto the shooting range, we’re playing by my rules, okay? And what I say goes. Got it?”

Brenda Song as Kaitlyn Ka in The Quarry

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Young Warriors - John Lincoln Clem, The US Army's Youngest Sergeant

John Klem was born in Ohio in 1851. Young Johnny, who changed the spelling of his last name to Clem and adopted Lincoln as a middle name in homage to President Abraham Lincoln, is the US Army’s youngest ever sergeant, and the Civil War’s best known child soldier. John Lincoln Clem, as he came to be known to history, ran away when he was nine-years-old after his mother’s death, to enlist in the Union Army. He was rejected by regiment after regiment because of his age and diminutive size. However, as seen below, the kid was persistent.

A Child's Quest to Join the Union Army

Clem latched on to the 22nd Michigan Infantry regiment when it mustered in 1862, and followed them around. Eventually, the regiment's members relented, and allowed him to tag along as a mascot and drummer boy. The soldiers even voluntarily raised money to pay him the $13 per month monthly wage of a Union private. In 1863, Johnny was finally allowed to officially enlist.

At the Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, John Lincoln Clem earned his place in Civil War lore and legend. During the two-day-battle, the twelve-year-old displayed conspicuous courage, after riding to the front atop an artillery caisson. The child soldier fought with his signature weapon, a sawed off rifle that had been trimmed to fit his diminutive size.

John Lincoln Clem at the Battle of Chickamauga

The fighting at the Battle of Chickamauga between the Union's Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee was fierce. The rival forces went at each other hammer and tongs, in an engagement that produced the Civil War's second highest number of casualties, surpassed only by the three day Battle of Gettysburg. Amidst the clamor and clang of shot and shell, Clem impressed his comrades with his bravery and steadiness under fire.

The diminutive Clem proved his mettle and demonstrated in bouts of hand-to-hand combat that it is not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog. As Rebels and Yankees charged and counter charged each other and came to close quarter grips amidst the ferocious fighting that marked that battle, tiny Clem proved himself the equal of giants. During the course of the fighting, his army cap was pierced three times by bullets. Clem's courage at Chickamauga was not enough to ward off defeat, however, and the Union Army came to grief.

Cool and Collected in Combat

At the close of the Battle of Chickamauga on the afternoon of September 20th, 1863,, Clem was one of the thousands of defeated Union soldiers separated from their units during a chaotic retreat that was more like a flight than an orderly withdrawal. As he wearily lugged his sawed off rifle, Clem heard a horse approach from behind. When he looked back, the child soldier was confronted by a Confederate colonel on horseback, riding ahead of and urging along his pursuing Rebel soldiers.

When the Rebel officer saw a little boy in Union blue toting a rifle, he ordered the young warrior to "Drop that gun!" and surrender forthwith. The kid turned around, coolly raised his rifle, took aim, and shot the Confederate colonel off his horse. He then hauled off at a mad sprint through brambles and brush, until he reached the safety of Union lines.

The US Army's Youngest Ever Sergeant

After the Battle of Chickamauga, twelve-year-old John Lincoln Clem was officially promoted to the rank of sergeant as reward for his courage and coolness, both in combat and in the chaotic aftermath of the Union setback. That made him the youngest noncommissioned officer in the history of the United States Army. A distinction that the young Civil War hero holds to this day.

Clem's conduct was widely reported in contemporary newspapers and magazines, and he became a nationally-known figure. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury and future Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, decorated Clem for his courage. A popular Civil War song, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh", written by William S. Hays and published in Harper's Weekly soon after the Battle of Chickamauga, was reportedly inspired by Clem’s exploits.

A month after the Battle of Chickamauga, John Lincoln Clem was captured by the Rebels and became a prisoner of war. He was eventually released in a prisoner exchange. He returned to the ranks, and resumed the fight with the Army of the Cumberland. Clem was twice-wounded, before he was discharged from the Union Army in September of 1864.

After the war, Clem graduated high school in 1870. He rejoined the US Army in 1871, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant by President Grant. He married twice, raised a family, and served until 1915, when he retired as a brigadier general and as the last Civil War veteran still serving in the US Army. A year later, a special act of Congress promoted him to major general. John Lincoln Clem died in 1937, aged 85, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Some Sources & Further Reading

American Battlefield Trust – John Clem

Catton, Bruce – Bruce Catton’s Civil War: Three Volumes in One (1984)

Clarke, Frances M., and Plant, Rebecca Jo – Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era (2022)

History Halls – Sherman Made Georgia Howl, and Made South Carolina Scream

Keesee, Dennis M. – Too Young to Die: Boy Soldiers of the Civil War (2001)

Ohio History Central – Johnny Klem

Source: Young Warriors - John Lincoln Clem, The US Army's Youngest Sergeant

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I literally reblog this every time it comes up

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this is the best gifset that has ever happened on any show!!

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Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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i think taylor swift wishes she was bisexual because she knows it would make her slightly more money. whereas sabrina carpenter wishes she was bisexual so she could have sex with someone who looks exactly like herself. and ariana grande wishes she was bisexual because she did too many designer drugs on the set of wicked and now she has kin memories of being glinda for real