Uhhhhh I've Been Really Into All Quiet On The Western Front Lately

Never seen an anime protag who's so purely earnest about protecting life like Edward Elric is. Sure, some other protags might have that as a faint undercurrent to their writing, but there is nothing faint or vague about it for Ed. He's so wholly upfront and genuine about protecting people and keeping people safe. He's so earnest about the value that life has, whatever form it may take (see: his fight in the 5th laboratory). It's honestly pretty incredible that Ed can see and believe in the beauty in life when his life has been anything but beautiful. His past is nothing short of horrific, yet he still believes life is so unfathomably precious and that it should be celebrated. I've never seen an anime protag who's so blatant about it. Ed does it so well.

In the fall of 1943, a group of Italian doctors (left to right)—Giovanni Borromeo, Adriano Ossicini, and Vittorio Sacerdoti—got together to come up with a fake disease called Syndrome K.

Their goal was to save the Jewish people of Rome who had fled to their hospital seeking protection by spreading rumors of a deadly, disfiguring disease that was so contagious that the Nazis would want to be nowhere near the vicinity of the patients.

Concocting a fake disease also allowed the Italian doctors and hospital staff to easily distinguish actual patients from the Jewish people who were seeing refuge. “Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish. We created those papers for Jewish people as if they were ordinary patients, and in the moment when we had to say what disease they suffered? It was Syndrome K, meaning ‘I am admitting a Jew,’ as if he or she were ill, but they were all healthy ... The idea to call it Syndrome K, like Kesselring or Kappler, was mine," said Ossicini in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa in 2016.

"Kesselring" was a reference to Albert Kesselring, the Nazi commander who was in charge of the occupation of Italy. "Kappler" was a reference to Herbert Kappler, a Nazi police chief in Rome who was responsible for the killings of 335 hostages (including 57 Jews) during World War 2.

There were special rooms designated for those infected with Syndrome K and Jewish children were encouraged to cough to discourage Nazi inspectors from entering. “The Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits,” said Vittorio Sacerdoti in an interview with BBC in 2004.

fuckin humilliating to get killed by a spy and see him do his gay little walk in the death cam

i have to draw these guys any chance i get now that I'm working lest I go insane

with the new tf2 update announcement i wanted to draw my favorite type of killcam moment

North American P-51 Mustangs of the 506th FG aboard USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) being carried across the Pacific Ocean, circa February to March 1945. They arrived in Guam on March 17.

"The two Mustangs in the foreground are P-51D-25-NA, s/n 44-72666 (assigned 457th FS, 506th FG, shot down July 28, 1945 over Japan) and P-51D-20-NA, s/n 44-72603 (a former 369th FS, 359th FG ship reassigned to the 457th FS, 506th FG). They were first assigned to Tinian then moved to Iwo Jima after its capture."

wawstl: link

Greek soldiers prepare shells for their artillery to target enemy positions - circa 1941, location unknown

A German Panzer II Ausf. C tank crosses the Pineios river - Thessaly, Greece 1941 Note the Gebirgsjäger (mountain soldier) hitching a ride at the back

the grind of sexualizing that old man never stops.

The magic trick

inspired by a reddit thread