Sigh In A Storm

"A fifth of the Polish population had been killed, the vast majority being civilians. Of those deaths, 3 million were Polish Jews, which accounted for 90% of the country's Jewish population" 90%. 90% of Poland's Jews were murdered, and today people who call themselves leftists say "go back to Poland"

they don't understand the real horrors of the Holocaust and how vast it was. they don't get it. they don't care about us at all.

SpeedBall (1&2) by The Bitmap Brothers in 1988 & 1990 was greatly inspired by RollerBall from 1975.

Other hilarious details:

1. The Witch King of Angmar is on this flight twice lmao

2. Love that two of Peter Jackson’s split-second cameos are on this flight

3. It’s so fucked that Frodo’s nowhere near Sam :( you just know his self-sacrificial ass volunteered to endure an ordeal because the airline asked him to move

Other:

Sitting in the middle of literally all of the Nazgûl would be the most unnerving experience possible but you know they would be quiet.

1. You are sitting next to a Balrog of Morgoth. It's uncomfortably warm smells of smoke. Looking out the window means you can't keep an eye on the entity of flame and evil. (I don't actually recognize the two sitting in front of you, so i can't explain why this would suck.)

2. You're sitting next to Treebeard the Ent. He's polite, but speaks veeeery slowly, trapping you in a conversation you wanted out of HOURS ago. Across the isle is a Couple who are doing a fantastic job pretending they're the only ones on the plane.

3. Sitting next to Frodo Baggins isn't so bad, he's polite and fairly quiet, but you soon learn that he's sitting spart from his friends, which is making him anxious. Worse, his cousins are across the isle - close enough that he can see they're getting into mischief, but not close enough to intervene.

Also, the guy right behind you keeps clearing his throat, making it impossible to sleep. You don't even want to TOUCH what's going on the dudes in front of you - their dynamic is best described as 'Jafar and Iago'.

4. Theoden, King of Rohan isn't a terrible neighbor, but Jafar and Iago are sitting behind you and you can't decide if they're doing a bit, or if there are genuinely people Like That. You're desperately ignoring the possibility they're doing a kink-thing.

The two short dudes sitting in front of you seem to be long-term acquaintances who had a falling out and had a falling out.

5. At first you think Eomer, Lord of the Mark is staring at you, but actually he's keeping an eye on his sister: not only is she in the isle opposite you, but she looks to be on the verge of murdering the- guy? Wraith King?? sitting by her.

Behind you, the world's pettiest divorced (at least you hope they're divorced) gays are STILL arguing about that damn ring.

In America, she adopted the name Eve Adams — a playful nod to her androgyny, invoking the biblical Adam and Eve — and wore men’s clothing.

“She was a vibrant activist, who was daring. She had an androgynous appearance, which immediately identified her as a lesbian,” said Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams. “Wearing pants for women was just unthinkable in the time period.”

Adams soon immersed herself in New York’s anarchist circles, befriending prominent Jewish anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. She worked as a traveling saleswoman for leftist publications including Mother Earth, activities that landed her on the Bureau of Investigation’s watch list during the First Red Scare.

In 1923, Adams published Lesbian Love, a collection of essays about the romantic lives of dozens of women in Greenwich Village. Katz described the book as far ahead of its time.

“The word “lesbian” was not used much. It was like a dirty word at the time, so you didn’t say it out loud,” Katz said. “Here she was, putting it on a book jacket.”

Two years later, Adams opened Eve’s Hangout in Greenwich Village. The underground tearoom became a rare refuge where lesbian women could socialize openly.

But the haven proved short-lived. In 1926, an undercover detective named Margaret Leonard visited Eve’s Hangout, where she met Adams. The following day, the two attended a play in Times Square together. Adams gave Leonard a copy of Lesbian Love — evidence of “obscenity” that prosecutors later used against her — and Leonard alleged Adams made sexual advances toward her during the taxi ride to the theater.

Adams was convicted and spent 18 months in jail before the United States deported her to Poland.

She settled in Paris, where she began a relationship with Jewish cabaret singer Hella Olstein Soldner. In 1943, the two women were arrested and sent to the Drancy internment camp. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz, where both were murdered.

Eve in Paris

Town scene in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany