Oh huh, I’ve been having to swallow air to try to generate a burp to try and bring along air that’s already stuck down there, I remember that from childhood. I think that’s related to the same loose seal to the digestive tract that causes acid reflux, maybe removing the weight of the belly made it an issue again.
there should be a manly news show where the anchors are two identical buff football players with blonde crewcuts and theyre reading off stories like “wimp crushed” and high fiving and laughing about it
Starting in 1986 two men committed a string of 26 bank robberies, amassing over half a million dollars in stolen cash during their three-year spree. Their crime spree was one of violence intertwined with a tender romance.
The two men would walk into a bank at separate times, one a few minutes after the other, the second man would pull a gun and fire a single shot into the ceiling to attract the attention of all the tellers and customers. The first man would then take charge of the situation and order everyone down on the floor, keeping them all at gunpoint while the second went to the bank teller.
After they had got the cash they came for, they would share a quick but passionate kiss, pictured above, as what police and case experts believe was a final goodbye, just in case one was killed by the police during their getaway. They would always do this, with security cameras catching the intimate moment before the two ran, often hand in hand, from the building.
The lovers were never caught, it’s believed that the two of them either died in an unrelated crime or moved on to other things as the laws surrounding bank robberies changed and sentences became longer. If anyone has any information please contact the New Jersey police or your local police department.
I was a student at a magic floating university in the sky and my roommate and best friend was The Noid. His pizza quest got him in trouble with the wizard mafia and they sent an assassin named Gundalf after us. He was basically just Gandalf but all his magic involved guns.
what the fuck does ‘known as the goblin’ mean in the context of ‘discovered’ here. did they just ask the next planet over what it’s called and the resident aliens were like ‘no idea dude he’s pretty quiet so we don’t know but we just call him The Goblin and it’s cool’
The term national socialism seems to have been invented by the French nationalist author Maurice Barrès, who described the aristocratic adventurer the Marquis de Morès in 1896 as the “first national socialist.” Morès, after failing as a cattle rancher in North Dakota, returned to Paris in the early 1890s and organised a band of antisemitic roughs who attacked Jewish shops and offices. As a cattleman, Morès found his recruits among slaughterhouse workers in Paris, to whom he appealed with a mixture of anti capitalism and antisemitic nationalism. His squads wore the cowboy garb and ten-gallon hats that the marquis had discovered in the American West, which thus predate black and brown shirts (by a modest stretch of the imagination) as the first fascist uniform.
this feels almost too on the nose to be a historical fact
What’s the source for this op?
sorry I didn’t mean for this to get passed around, it’s from Chapter 2 of Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
Oh man that reminds me of the most meta- thing I’ve ever seen.
0) World War II happened.
1) In postwar Japanese pop culture, “thinly or completely unveiled reference to nuclear explosion” is rivaled in thematic popularity only by “thinly or completely unveiled alternate-WWII in which Japan wins and is totally the good guys”.
Actually I’m almost afraid they finally got over this in the late-90s with the passing of a generation. I liked that, something somber and elegaic in the culture that wasn’t pure fanservice or third-generation commercial ripoffs. Anno and Miyazaki and remember when Final Fantasy had Cyan and the ghost train instead of a bunch of fucking EZ-Bake popstars?
2) Okay so there was this recent trend, they call “moe anthropomorphism” to represent things and concepts as cute girls, because obviously, Japan. It was particularly popular in terms of military hardware, because obviously, Japan.
3) Manga, etc., etc., so comics are a big thing in Japan, and part of the farm team for that is working on basically fanfic of established properties, they call it doujin, and like all fanfic, like most pulp, a lot of time it’s only good for the sex. Which is often violent and involves 13 year old girls, because obviously, humanity.
OKAY
4) So 1) and 2) combine to create Strike Witches - it was this series about a school/force of teenage girls representing various planes from all the nations of WWII, like they strap on these leg-things to fly around, and because they’re all allied together against an alien force literally representing militarism and war descending on the world even though no one particularly wants this militarism and war oh no, they’re just all brave and innocent warriors, and they might have to put on these leg things and fight the aliens at any time, they never wear pants so you can see their panties all the time, because obviously, Japan.
5) so 4) and 3) combine to make a hentai (“pervy”) doujin of Strike Witches. Which I read, to masturbate to. The first twenty pages of this doujin is mostly lesbian dominance, all of the girls breaking down and raping one of the more innocent characters, who was the Japanese one and I think a Mitsubishi Zero?
6) and then 5) combines with 1) again, which was already baked in, and the last 8 or so pages are the apocalyptic showdown with the aliens as seen from the Zero’s eyes. The American and British girls are out of the picture, dismissed in one panel. The French and Italian girls have surrendered and slunk away because they’re pussies.
The French and Italian girls have surrendered and slunk away because they’re pussies, but the two German girls went boldly into battle and lie bloodied and dying on the ground, this is the thing.
And so finally, the Japanese girl is fighting alone. She’s scared, she’s meek - she was the natural submissive for the first 20 pages, getting hazed by all the older nations^H^H^H^H^H^H^H girls but now it’s just her, now it’s her turn to prove her honor, and she jets out shrieking her vengeance, dodging alien missiles, coming straight out of the page…
And the next page is imitation newsprint, with a period photo-offset litho as the header. It’s an alien aircraft carrier, obviously American in design, with an exhaust trail streaking into one side of the island and a giant explosion blossoming out of the other.
And THAT is the most meta- thing I’ve ever seen.
(UPDATE for incoming 9/15/16: Takotsuboya’s “Witch-tachi no No-Pantsu”
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Actually while I am not an expert, to me that CV design looks Japanese, not American - the really minimal tower and exposed flight deck support pillars suggest it. Looks like it might be the Akagi, though it doesn’t have to be an exact replica or anything:
I would probably suggest there isn’t much to that, the author probably just pulled a CV reference image and Japanese google threw up a Japanese design; but its a fucking Strike Witches doujin, obsessive schematic detail is literally the point, there is no way its just a ‘whatever’ decision.
New headcanon is our lesbian sub-Zero was metaphorically saving Japan from its own militarism with a new ideology of moe hedonistic perversion.
@bookworm-blackshoe calling in a second opinion, what is our alien lesbian-hating CV
That’s almost certainly Akagi, yes. It gets sorta corrupted/assimilated by the aliens at some point and they have to fight it.
Also, they’re not personified planes, they’re animeified pilots. The American is literally big titty Chuck Yeager.
Friendly reminder that some of why I call myself “bisexual” and not “pansexual” is that’s just the 90s terminology I grew up with, but part of it is I understand “pan” as being like the “I understand trans women as completely equivalent to cis women” and that’s not at all where I’m at
Back when I was just a straight man trans girls just did not register as eligible to me. I was prepared to aver that I “had a cis fetish”, also trans men didn’t do anything for me either, even making the “misgender me with your dick” pitch
(From remembering Craigslist Casual Encounters, I actually took “pretend I’m a girl and give me your load” as a pretty authentic gay male thing)
But then Covid got into my brain; that personality was destroyed and the new one’s bi. And suddenly, trans men and women are registering as eligible.
So from this I can only conclude that whatever sexual IFF was reading both as some combination of man and woman.
