god it all just remains so incredibly funny
Capitalism kills. Shareholder economics is going to starve us all to death.
so many spam bots.
it’s been two years, but i think that an icon like her deserves to be known about by more people.
her name was freddie oversteegen and she, at the age of fourteen, along with her older sister truus who was 16 and their friend johanna “hannie” schaft who was 19, was a part of the netherlands most famous all female resistance cell which was dedicated to fighting the nazis and dutch traitors.
among other things, they are known to have blown up bridges and railroads, smuggled jewish children from concentration camps and, as the tweet mentions, seducing nazis and then shooting them with guns that they had hidden in their bike baskets. freddie is quoted as having said that they “had to do it.” and that it was a “necessary evil, killing those who betrayed good people.”
though freddie and her sister truus were both lucky and survived the war, hannie schaft wasn’t. at the age of 24, hannie was caught and around three weeks later was executed by nazis, only 18 days before the netherlands were eventually liberated. she was shot with one only wounding her, and, before the final shot, hannie is quoted as having told the executioners: ik schiet beter, which translates to “i shoot better.”
though she didn’t survive, hannie is recognized as a national icon and a face of the dutch resistance, with her story even being retold in a movie from 1981 called “the girl with the red hair.” along with this, truus also founded the national hannie schaft foundation in 1992, on which freddie served as a board member.
freddie, at the time of her death, was 92 years old and the last surviving member of the resistance cell, with truus having died two years earlier at the age of 92.
though these women and all that they did played an important part in the dutch resistance, they are often overlooked in history outside of the netherlands. it’s important that they are remembered and that their work to save people isn’t forgotten. it’s incredible what they did, especially given how young they were, and they deserve more recognition than what they’ve gotten.
“I shoot better” Holy shit an icon
This is the face of ANTIFA!
Freddie Oversteegen (6 September 1925 – 5 September 2018)
May all their memories be blessings ❤️
Indiana Jones + whip
King by Florence + The Machine
Art by Edmund Blair Leighton
OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH
This is Happening (1x07)
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
one week until ten years of Spiders Georg
dying
That means you’ll get to meet him soon!
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law S01E08 (2022)
Matt being the worst at secret identities in both identities here O.O
catholicism’s only true purpose is to serve as a backdrop for sexy vampire aesthetics
She’s mad at me for eating my breakfast instead of giving her attention
Well this is an absolute banger.
john green is back on tumblr so heres some things we’re NOT gonna do okay.
we are NOT going to make jokes about the time he got bullied off here the first time. it was fucked up then and its fucked up now. (that includes jokes about the infamous cock post. you would think it goes without saying but apparently not :/ )
we are NOT going to bully him. its mean and he’s here for a good time same as everyone else. cyber bullying is still cyber bullying if someone is a well known author.
okay? okay.
Release them then