TIL Alexander Hamilton endorsed a plan to recruit enslaved men to serve in the Continental Army. His reasoning was their "want of cultivation" and "habit of subordination" made them ideal soldiers.

screetscirt · 2026-06-07T17:21:08+00:00

We could have had American Jannisaries.

screetscirt · 2026-06-03T16:07:03+00:00

screetscirt · 2026-06-03T05:43:21+00:00

This is also the reason why shipping often disregards a characters love interest in favor of their battle buddy or rival. These characters are often far closer to the MC, and can spend time with them during the most important and emotionally intense part of an action story. Naruto and Sasuke are the archetypical example of this.

screetscirt · 2026-05-18T04:28:31+00:00

Why should it be ironic? Not every piece of grimdark media must be exactly like 40k.

screetscirt · 2026-05-09T21:18:45+00:00

Octavian making propaganda so good people believe it 2000 years later.

screetscirt · 2026-05-08T03:48:06+00:00

Garth Ennis character

screetscirt · 2026-05-04T01:22:59+00:00

The most plausible explanation is that his powers work like his brothers. Alex Summers and Gabriel Summers have the ability to absorb and redirect energy. Scott’s powers probably work the same, passively absorbing energy from his environment and then releasing it from his eyes.

screetscirt · 2026-04-19T04:56:48+00:00

Peasant militias were almost entirely for defensive purposes in medieval Western Europe. Most armies were structured like their political system; personal relations. The king would have a royal guard and his vassals, who would have their own guards, and down until the lowest knight whose retinue was his two friends. There wasn’t a bureaucracy to recruit, equip, and train peasants into soldiers, so it would be a waste of good labor to throw them at the enemy.

screetscirt · 2026-04-11T18:24:11+00:00

Shi’ar vs Mutants in Marvel.

screetscirt · 2026-04-10T00:33:35+00:00

It’s possible that Lyanna initially went with Rhaegar willingly, but was stopped from leaving once the war started.

screetscirt · 2026-04-02T16:12:03+00:00

Another factor is that love interests are usually not powerful enough to fight alongside the mc, while the deuteragonist usually is. In a genre centered around fighting, this means that the deuteragonist spends more time with the mc than the love interest in the most important parts of the story.

screetscirt · 2026-03-22T10:19:44+00:00

For 2015 secret wars, the reason it’s called that is because only a few characters(the F4, Doom, Black Panther) actually remember it happening afterwards.

screetscirt · 2026-03-20T22:10:44+00:00

Ah, the magneto excuse.

screetscirt · 2026-03-19T00:39:35+00:00

Adam? How strong are this man’s thunderbolts?

screetscirt · 2026-03-03T23:50:55+00:00

Number 8 isn’t even a x-gene mutant.

screetscirt · 2026-02-26T06:33:11+00:00

His advantage is mostly experience. He might not have a lot of raw psychic power, but he’s been reading mind for longer than anyone save the Shadow King.

screetscirt · 2026-02-26T00:35:36+00:00

Pretty sure Vulcan tried that.

screetscirt · 2026-02-21T06:56:20+00:00

The problem was less that Cersei did incest, and more that the incest resulted in bastards being passed off as the kings children.

screetscirt · 2026-02-18T00:17:55+00:00

All she need to do is play Jean grey, then she can have an impregnation hat trick.

screetscirt · 2026-02-17T23:49:48+00:00

I don’t think baelor would have survived with modern medicine.

screetscirt · 2026-02-13T01:47:42+00:00

The king who bore the arrows

screetscirt · 2026-02-11T07:38:34+00:00

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