Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
One of the more important things to consider about any historical work is the audience it was published for. The Art Of War was aimed at fancy nobles high on philosophy with little practical military experience who were nonetheless leading armies.
Sun Tzu, after desperatly trying to explain extremely basic logic to a bunch of upper-class twits, basically sat down and wrote the most elaborate “As per my last email” ever
the art of war is tedious and irritating when you read it as like, immortal prose by the most brilliant man ever to kick ass. but it’s incredibly fucking funny when you realize that sun tzu had to write every single one of those entries because someone somewhere did not know this ahead of time and made a really, really expensive oopsie doodles.
This is so timely that I’m rebageling it on main.
I had to.
Drawings from last night’s campfire!
Excerpt from ch 17 of Never Look Away, aka the Beach Scene.
idk what manga y’all were reading, but this is what I remember happening
not me tumblring the little Vashwood fic I wrote for @mamodewberry – it’s 4k, rated E for read the tags, and probably just the start of our foray into Trigun –in the middle of the night.
Vash and Wolfwood are on their way across the desert to inspect a Plant and stop for the night. After dinner and drinks, they get into an argument that gets a little… heated with their feelings.
