Her story goes mostly how the Disney version went, except she didn’t go to war as a quest for self-discovery or because she felt as though she couldn’t make her parents proud. The sole and only reason she disguised herself as a young man was to take her Father’s place in the war.
So when she told her parents that she wanted to this, they were like wtf no you’re a girl and it’s chaotic out there. And you know what she did? She put on male clothes and challenged her own Father to a duel. Her dad was like ‘who the hell are you’ but accepted. When Mulan won and revealed herself as his daughter, he was like wOAH okay you can go. Basically she made sure to get her parent’s consent before going, so not only are her parents awesome, she was decent enough to not leave them hanging for 12 years.
Yes, she was at war for 12 years, but she not in fact meet a handsome general. Instead she BECAMEa general. Eventually the war was won, and the Emperor was so impressed by her he wanted to wed the Princess to her. It was only then that she revealed she was in fact a woman. Then she accepted the rewards and went right back home to her normal life.
There is now even a crater on Venus named after her.
This is a way better story than the Disney version.
Before the Gregorian calendar was established, the first day of the new year was April 1st, because of spring. When the new calendar was put into place, people who continued the old calendar were mocked because they still celebrated the new year on April 1st.
This puts a whole new spin to Steve mentioning that his barbershop quartet was dead.
OH, SHIT
Wow, yeah, gallows humor here. I cracked the fuck up.
HEADCANON ACCEPTED SO FAST WE’RE OFFICIALLY SHARING BRAINS LMAO
Bucky’s epic facepalm when he hears it for the first time, Tony’s white face when he hears it. Bruce also has gallows humor (one of his faves is “we few, we band of buggered”), and thus just laughs. Natasha is all SMH, and not sure about Phil and Clint…
Now back to your regularly scheduled head canoning…
BAHAHAHAHA Bucky facepalmed and then joined in, because he knows the harmony. Sam just about DIED laughing but yeah, he can sing that song too, yo - it’s one of those things that have been passed on since forever. Thor thinks it is a delightful war song and will learn it later. Clint knows the song too and joins in.
So Steve has a new barbershop quartet and Natasha thinks they’re all ridonkulous.
Poor, poor Tony…. it doesn’t help that Rhodey knows that song too! :P
“Barnum knew the power of mystery. An unemployed man came to his museum and asked Barnum for a job. Barnum handed the man five bricks and instructed him to solemnly place the bricks in various places around the outside of the museum. As he went from spot to spot, he was to replace
the brick at each spot with another one that he was carrying. He was to
answer no questions, speak to no one, and seem to be deaf and dumb. Once
an hour, he was to enter the museum, walk right next to the ticket
taker, seem to pay the fee, and then proceed through the museum and out
the door. A crowd began to form, watching the man and wondering what he
was doing. Many of the crowds followed him into the museum just to see
what was going on. In fact, the police had to ask Barnum to stop the
man, because the crowds that he was creating were stopping traffic.” [x]
Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful.
Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.
for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever
pilots (◡‿◡✿)
girl pilots (◕‿◕✿)
girl pilots killing nazis ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* \(◕ヮ◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
But, remember, women never did anything in history.
I’m reblogging this again. Always reblogging. Always
And the Nazis called them “Night Witches” because you couldn’t fucking hear them. They basically appeared out of the night as if they were flying on brooms and dropped bombs.
