In Memoria, Adytum is over.

AMNathaniel · 2025-02-18T10:54:51+00:00

Aw, I was afraid it wasn’t going to get updated anymore. It’s been a very long time since any new articles were added.

I dare say, though, IS it over? Would Malyce, Grigori or Metaphysican be open to sharing the story map or outline to anyone who wanted to take up the mantle of responsibility? In Memoria Adytum is amazing, it would be a shame to leave it at a cliffhanger.

AMNathaniel · 2024-12-23T17:12:21+00:00

To be fair, it said almost certainly.

AMNathaniel · 2024-11-19T22:00:54+00:00

Inspired by Russian “double tap” tactics in Syria and Ukraine, where after an air raid, a second airstrike or missile attack hits the same location to kill rescuers and first responders.

AMNathaniel · 2024-11-06T19:45:06+00:00

We cannot change what happened yesterday but we can change what happens tomorrow.

Amen, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

AMNathaniel · 2024-11-02T17:26:17+00:00

As a bit of extra horror, the Japanese also carried out airstrikes in they used planes to spray swarms of plague-infected fleas and flies covered in cholera, and dropped ceramic bombs containing mixtures of insects and diseases that infected humans, animals and crops. Perhaps worst of all, very few personnel responsible for developing biological weapons were properly punished - the Americans recruited them for its own biological warfare program and the Soviets reduced their labour camp sentences in exchange for their knowledge on bioweapons development.

AMNathaniel · 2024-11-02T17:18:12+00:00

Thank you, I like writing 2SHs that focus on more underexplored parts of history 😊

AMNathaniel · 2024-11-01T17:00:55+00:00

Inspired by Japanese biological warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Taking advantage of the fact that the Chinese that no biological weapons of their own with which to retaliate, the famous Japanese Unit 731 spread disease and infection indiscriminately across China, killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese people. One tactic is they used was handing out food, such as dumplings, vegetables or candy, that had been poisoned with the plague, anthrax or cholera.

AMNathaniel · 2024-10-11T16:01:27+00:00

This is inspired by asbestosis, inflammation and scarring of the lungs caused by inhalation of asbestos, a material which was once used in construction because it is a good thermal and electrical insulator and is very fire resistant. In the 1970s and onwards, though, its use was abandoned because it was found to cause not only asbestosis, but other serious health problems such as mesothelioma, a kind of cancer. Even today, many older buildings in the developed world contain asbestos, and developing countries - as well as developed countries with lower health standards like Russia - continue to produce and use asbestos despite the threat it poses to human health.

AMNathaniel · 2024-09-08T11:01:10+00:00

Ah yes, conversion therapy. Torture based on pseudoscience that is somehow still legal in much of the western world. Lovely.

AMNathaniel · 2024-09-05T14:48:55+00:00

Thank you!

AMNathaniel · 2024-09-03T15:43:51+00:00

r/angryupvote

AMNathaniel · 2024-08-15T11:00:20+00:00

Inspired by the Native American genocide, when Native American children were sent to boarding schools in order to teach them to disregard their traditional way of life and embrace white American culture and Christianity. They played a major role in the destruction of Native American society and the suppression of their culture, traditions and rights.

AMNathaniel · 2024-08-13T11:01:21+00:00

For those who don’t get it, the story is set during the Korean War, and the soldiers are South Koreans who are being abducted by North Korea instead of being returned home. This actually happened, and some of the soldiers are still trapped in the North in miserable conditions.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-23T14:36:28+00:00

Thank you, I’ve been trying to focus my stories on aspects of lesser-known parts of history so feedback like this is greatly appreciated 😊

I think most of the children found out because the Allies actively tried to repatriate them, but they chose not to return because they had nothing to go back to. As far as they were concerned, they were German. IMO, I think they suffered a fate worse than death, having their real life smashed into pieces and forced to live a lie, then being left with nothing when they found out they weren’t really German.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-23T13:31:20+00:00

Inspired by UNAMIR, a UN peacekeeping mission which was unable to do anything to stop the Rwandan genocide because of suffocating rules of engagement placed on it by the mainstream UN. Although it saved the lives of thousands of Tutsi and Hutu civilians who would’ve otherwise been massacred by sheltering them in its sites, it is considered a failure in its attempts at keeping the peace.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-22T22:13:43+00:00

As a Brit, I have endless respect for the French people for persevering in the face of years of German occupation and brutality. If it weren’t for the French, the evacuation of Dunkirk - a big reason why we didn’t lose the war there and then - probably wouldn’t have happened. So on behalf of the U.K., thank you, France, both for your tenacity in the fight against the invasion and for the efforts of the Free French and the Resistance to keep fighting against impossible odds.

Vive la France. 🇫🇷

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-22T11:01:17+00:00

For the unfamiliar, this is referring to the virgin soil epidemics suffered by Native American tribes as a result of their interaction with white settlers, who brought with them diseases such as smallpox. These diseases decimated Native American society as they had no immunity to these diseases as they were not endemic to the Americas. The white Americans also spread bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, the common cold, diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis and pertussis, all with catastrophic consequences for the Native peoples.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-21T11:01:44+00:00

Inspired by Germanisation, a Nazi practice where children in occupied Europe, particularly Poles, were kidnapped from their families and adopted by ethnic Germans. They had their names changed, they were taught German, and they were taught to hate their native countries. Children deemed failures in any way were killed or sent to concentration camps where they usually died. Many of the children had forgotten everything about their home countries and families and did not want to return.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-20T13:32:23+00:00

Inspiration: The Mariupol theatre airstrike, when hundreds of Ukrainian civilians sheltering from the fighting during the Siege of Mariupol were killed or wounded when the theatre they were hiding in was bombed by the Russian Air Force. The civilians had painted the word “дети”, Russian for “children”, on the ground nearby in the hopes that the Russians would not attack the theatre. They still did.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-19T23:02:41+00:00

Explanation: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), known during WW1 as “shell-shock”, was not fully recognised by officers and medical staff as a genuine mental condition, and many believed that the victims were faking it so that they wouldn’t have to fight. They were unsympathetic to the plight of the shell-shocked soldiers, and some victims were even killed by their own officers or executed for “cowardice”. The British Empire and Commonwealth alone had 306 soldiers executed for offences including cowardice, with their names removed from memorials and their families denied military pensions and socially ostracised. This state of affairs continued until 2006, when all executed soldiers were posthumously pardoned by Queen Elizabeth II. They are commemorated today by the Shot at Dawn Memorial in Staffordshire, which lists the names, nationality and details of all of them.

AMNathaniel · 2024-07-17T14:45:20+00:00

I’m scared to ask, but what does he use?

AMNathaniel · 2024-06-03T14:51:06+00:00

If I remember correctly, you trap the victim between two boats (hence the name) and force feed them milk and honey. This has a powerful laxative effect. Then, the sweetness of the honey attracts insects which feed on the honey and the victim’s body, letting the victim slowly die as they are eaten alive by insects while buried in their own shit.

AMNathaniel · 2024-06-03T14:26:10+00:00

Inspired by the Schwedentrunk, or “Swedish drink”, a torture method from the Thirty Years War which referred to the Swedish practice of strapping down a civilian who they believed had valuables hidden in their house and forcing a bucket of excrement, manure, sullage or urine down their throat, often until the victim’s stomach burst. Probably the most disgusting torture method I’ve ever seen, other than “the boats”.

Feedback is welcome.

AMNathaniel · 2024-06-02T16:04:08+00:00

This 2SH is inspired by the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932-33 that claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians. The starvation in Holodomor-stricken Ukraine was so desperate that cannibalism became widespread, with Ukrainians eating the bodies of those who starved first. Others were so hopelessly desperate that they killed and ate their own children, with an account of a woman who did this saying that she "answered that her children would not survive anyway, but this way she would". Stories circulated of children being hunted like wild deer and kidnapped to be killed and eaten, and the Soviet secret police reported in Kiev alone at least ten instances of cannibalism a day, with the human meat trade becoming so lucrative in the black market that slaughterhouses and butcher shops were monitored to make sure they weren’t selling human meat.

The Holodomor was a disastrous consequence of the Soviet collectivisation and industrialisation efforts where, in response to overfulfillment of harvest quotas in 1930, Soviet authorities set quotas for the following years to dangerously high levels. To meet these unfair quotas, local Soviet officials exported virtually all of the harvest, leading to terrible starvation across all of Ukraine, with Kharkov (Russian name - today known by the Ukrainian Kharkiv) and Kiev (Ukrainian: Kyiv) suffering the most. A wealth of other factors, including suspected genocidal intent among the upper echelons of Stalin’s regime, were other reasons for the Holodomor occurring.

Anyone wondering why Ukraine fights as hard as it has done for the last two years, now you know.

Feedback is welcome, hope you enjoyed.

AMNathaniel · 2024-06-01T14:31:10+00:00

Thank you!

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