Quetzals by N Kayurova

"-I've never seen enemies, only red sun and fog haunt us. -Maybe, we are looking in the wrong way."

2024 Size Drive 24: Although this is non-canon, let's avoid the cannon

The Cinderella Story is something like the Thanksgiving Story in this world (suure, we all came on the Mayflower). Though trust me, "what's your claim to legitimacy?" "Oh my great-great grandfather got turned into a horse once" is not the worst one out there, especially back then. The version of Cinderella the mice know is somewhere in-between Perrault's (where we don't even know they have mice until the fairy godmother asks her to check the mouse trap) and Disney's (where Cinderella interacts with the mice constantly). There is an element of truth in it though! The rat army is just mad I'm blocking the tracks. Normally the problem is a badger falling asleep on them, but me? I'm allowed to be here!

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Talks about the importance of fusiliers and fusees in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

Senegalese riflemen on the top picture, Scottish riflemen on the bottom picture.

(Scottish picture colourisation by WWI Colourised Photos)

Welcome to the Finals and thank you for your patience!

Your favourites both start by an S: Senegal and Scotland, both parts of a bigger empire, made it to the very end of the tournament. Here they are both showcased in their 1914 uniforms, one a tad more colourful than the other.

A lot has been said about these soldiers in the previous post, but thankfully for us, they were allies during the war, though they perhaps have never met.

Vote away! May the best uniform win!

Unironically Turnip28 chokehold on my brain i’m so mad i missed out on the kickstarter for official minis bc they look so so good and now i just have to make shitty equivalents myself out of minis i would otherwise never fucking buy

Some nice light reading about Lithuanian paramilitary organizations past & present

⟡ Ivanets Ivan, An Unknown Rifleman, ???

Am I the only one who absolutely adores the voice of the MERC Captain / The Massive?

Oh yes. The PrivSec Riflemen share the same voice as well..

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More peeps for me to simp for, I guess 🙃

Yknow what the British Legion uniforms from the revolutionary war and the 95th rifles uniforms were way better than the red ones

women seem to have a relatively prominent role in the oun which the author is unfortunately not talking about :/

i dont know if eighteenth century rifles in the west indies were this good yet but this sure is cool!!!!!

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Student debt also largely didn’t exist in America before the Reagan Revolution. It was created by Republicans here in the 1980s — intentionally — and if we can overcome Republican opposition, we can intentionally end it here and join the rest of the world in once again benefiting from an educated populace. Forty years on from the Reagan Revolution, student debt has crippled three generations of young Americans: over 44 million people carry the burden, totaling a $2+ trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except the banks earning interest on the debt and the politicians they pay off. But that doesn’t begin to describe the damage student debt has done to America since Reagan, in his first year as governor of California, ended free tuition at the University of California and cut state aid to that college system by 20 percent across-the-board. After having destroyed low income Californians’ ability to get a college education in the 1970s, Reagan then took his anti-education program national as president in 1981. When asked why he’d taken a meat-axe to higher education and was pricing college out of the reach of most Americans, he said, much like Ted Cruz might today, that college students were “too liberal” and America “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity.” It was the 1980s version of today’s “war on woke”: Reagan hated college students. On May 1, 1970, Governor Reagan announced that students protesting the Vietnam war across America were “brats,” “freaks” and “cowardly fascists,” adding, as The New York Times noted at the time: “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement!” Four days later four were dead at Kent State, having been murdered by National Guard riflemen using live ammunition against anti-war protesters. Before Reagan became president, states paid 65 percent of the costs of colleges, and federal aid covered another 15 or so percent, leaving students to cover the remaining 20 percent with their tuition payments. It’s why when I attended college in the late 1960s — before Reagan — I could pay my tuition working a weekend job as a DJ at a local radio station and washing dishes at Bob’s Big Boy restaurant on Trowbridge Road in East Lansing.

The real reason Republicans oppose efforts to cancel student debt - Raw Story

Indochina on the left, Belgium on the right.

Our Indochinese riflemen return! Though they wore many uniforms, they are back here with the most characteristic one of WW1, borrowed from the African army and its mustard colour. They however kept their salacco hat, protected by a beige fabric to cover its colours and bearing the metallic anchor of the colonial troops. They wear the standard leather equipment set of the French army and carry the special M1902 'Indochinese' rifle which was made shorter than the standard issues, as Indochinese soldiers were on average shorter than a metropolitan Frenchman.

Cue the Belgian Askari, this time in a more standard uniform as well, and making them look quite like their German rivals. Wearing British web equipment, he also sports a cloth badge on his fez cover which corresponded to different units but unfortunately, History lost its particular assignation.

Sources: Pierre-Albert Leroux and Osprey Publishing.

Today's warmup, referenced from @adorkastock

I've finished my Sharpe rewatches, so I'll get back to more typical content soon, but I just think it's great how even though Sharpe and Boromir are both proud, strong soldiers, you'd never mistake one for the other. Boromir has a huge, soft heart and is revered throughout two countries, but tends to be an outsider within the Fellowship. Sharpe has a massive chip on his shoulder and is reviled by many in the army, but is respected by his small group of riflemen. They're background differences, but they come through in the writing and Sean's portrayal of them both.

Yeah, Sharpe would have carried Pippin and Sam through the snow on Caradhras, but he wouldn't have joked with them to put them more at ease. He'd have left that to Harper. Yeah, Boromir would have been outraged at the Prince of Orange's orders at Waterloo, but he wouldn't have lined him up in his sights. He'd have left that to Gimli.

I ask only for the strength to defend my people, you goddamn twat

For as much as I've heard about Mothman on this, the monsterfucker site, until just now I had no idea Mothman was from Point Pleasant, West Virginia? Formerly regular Virginia, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, where Mason County raised Captain John Wilson's Company of riflemen attached to the Second Regiment and First Brigade of Virginia troops, in the war with Great Britain in 1812-1815? Do you think Mothman was aware of the War of 1812 on the northwest frontier? Was Mothman sympathetic to the Shawnee village that came before the settlers of Point Pleasant? Was Mothman aware of General Harrison's call for troops in Marietta? What is Mothman's stance on the competing British, U.S., and Indigenous stakeholders in the conflict