Writing Research – World War Two

ghostflowerdreams:

World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It is generally considered to have lasted from 1939 to 1945, although some conflicts in Asia that are commonly viewed as becoming part of the world war had begun earlier than 1939. It involved the vast majority of the world’s nations —including all of the great powers —eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of “total war”, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the first use of nuclear weapons in combat, it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. [1]

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Justice & Crimes

ok ok james seeing silver naked for the first time (it’s not sexual)

hotniatheron:

Silver undresses around the men on the ship because it’s close quarters and they’re all men and who the fuck cares after weeks at sea. He’s never been shy about his body anyways.

This changes after they take his leg.

He finds a secluded place to change because he hates how the men look at his leg. The pity and the admiration. The fascination. The disgust.

So he hides. In the galley. In the storeroom. In the gunpowder stores.Changes quickly and quietly. Wipes himself down with a wet cloth when he’s afforded the luxury of time.

One night he’s clad only in his undershirt, sponging his legs in the storage room, when the door flings open and there stands the captain. Flint doesn’t notice him at first, going right to the bottles of rum, but then he turns and looks at Silver.

“Uh,” Silver says, frozen where he sits on a barrel of gunpowder, water dripping onto his leg.

“What the fuck are you doing?” Flint barks. “What if that water leaks into the barrel and damages the gunpowder?!”

Silver looks down, he hadn’t thought about that. Flint comes over to loom over Silver, crossing his arms as he looks down at him.

“What are you doing in here in the first place?”

He thinks about lying, for a moment, but he’s done enough of that lately.

“The men,” he starts. “They stare at me, when I change.”

Flint nods, pinching the bridge of his nose with his fingers. Then he turns.

“Get dressed. You can use my cabin.”

“What?”

“I won’t repeat myself,” Flint says, looking over his shoulder. “You only have to knock.”

Silver stays silent when Flint leaves, staring after him. The man confuses Silver. Sometimes he’s so predictable that when he strikes, Silver can follow his every mood. Sometimes he’s pure chaos, a storm that strikes and leaves Silver breathless in surprise.

This is a surprise that leaves him reeling and reassured at the same time. Then he looks down and realizes he’s dripped water all over the barrel. 

“Goddammit,” he curses. 

He may have to start lying again after all.

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dimplesflint:

The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining [Dobbs] would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason and there was reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. […] The more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever even knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well, so that you may use it… rather than it use you.

Source: dimplesflint

slverjohn:

so i published the first chapter of my ongoing kid fic, if anyone’s interested. 

it involves:

jewish silver, a tiny child, eventual silver backstory, domestic nonsense, the crew as a family, flint trying to be the Responsible Dad, me pretending that joshua never died, joji being a baby whisperer, etc.

Whoever you are (do most people have half a dozen different names? Does each name go with different subgenres?) , thank you for this wip, for the unfinished Beauty & Beast wip, and for everything you are planning to add to your store of fics.

Fictional Kiss Prompts

knifeofdaudwall:

So I borrowed a bunch of these fictional kisses from this post and made it up into a prompt list. Feel free to reblog of course!

  1. breaking the kiss to say something, staying so close that you’re murmuring into each other’s mouths
  2. moving around while kissing, stumbling over things, pushing each other back against the wall/onto the bed
  3. kissing so desperately that their whole body curves into the other person’s 
  4. throwing their arms around the other person, holding them close while they kiss
  5. hands on the other person’s back, fingertips pressing under their top, drawing gentle circles against that small strip of bare skin that make them break the kiss with a gasp
  6. lazy morning kisses before they’ve even opened their eyes, still mumbling half-incoherently, not wanting to wake up
  7. routine kisses where the other person presents their cheek/forehead for the hello/goodbye kiss without even looking up from what they’re doing

  8. being unable to open their eyes for a few moments afterward

  9. one small kiss, pulling away for an instant, then devouring each other

  10. staring at the other’s lips, trying not to kiss them, before giving in
  11. when one stops the kiss to whisper “I’m sorry, are you sure you-” and they answer by kissing them more
  12. a hoarse whisper “kiss me”
  13. following the kiss with a series of kisses down the neck
  14. starting with a kiss meant to be gentle, ending up in passion
  15. a gentle “i love you” whispered after a soft kiss, followed immediately by a stronger kiss

  16. when one person’s face is scrunched up, and the other one kisses their lips/nose/forehead

  17. height difference kisses where one person has to bend do wn and the other is on their tippy toes

  18. kisses where one person is sitting in the other’s lap

  19. kisses meant to distract the other person from whatever they were intently doing

  20. top of head kisses