Pilots of the "Night Witches", female Soviet pilots who fought against the Nazi invaders, WW2, 1942

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1725535/pilots-of-the-night-witches-female-soviet-pilots-who-fought-against-the-nazi-invaders-w

I am so damn proud of my daughter. I mean, I often am, but right now for a specific reason. They made a presentation for 8th grade social studies ("anything about WWII") that focused on female Soviet snipers and the Nachthexen (nightwitches), women who flew beat-up, decades-old, flimsy planes on extremely dangerous missions in German territory and bombed the shit out the Nazis. The Nazis gave them the name, apparently, because (to quote my kid): "Sometimes the only sound of their planes, flying only a few feet off the ground in near total darkness, was a soft whooshing that reminded the Nazi soldiers of witches' brooms. Also, you know, men. women. They're scary so all we can think of is witches."

They went far beyond "here are some facts." They made me and their mother (a history prof) choked up when they gave us a preview presentation.

Yay awesome kids!

Note 1: Their teacher saw me today and came to tell me how excellent the presentation was, and that it prompted him to go read up on soviet women in the military.

Note 2: Other notable topics of presentations by other kids apparently included "Tanks" and "Hitler: the Musical"

#ProudParent #kid #TheKidsAreAlright #history #wwii #nachthexen #nightwitches

On the 2nd place of my Top 5 gaming experiences of 2024 – Night Witches TTRPG by Jason Morningstar!

https://anttiki.github.io/Top-5-2024-Rank-2/

#TTRPG #TTRPGs #nightWitches #pbta

Stumbling randomly thru my RPG folders I found a character sheet/playbook I made for Night Witches.

Inspired by El Lissitzky's "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" constructivist propaganda.

I'm still very proud of it.
#TTRPG #PbtA #NightWitches #art #charactersheet

#RPGaDay2023 a game I wish I owned.

Hmm, I fairly recently managed to get my hands on a physical copy of #NightWitches (which was surprisingly hard to get here without paying a forty in shipping) that was the last one I had a yearning to own.

Maybe I'll cheat a little and go for the deluxe edition of 'Horror on the Orient Express' luxury KS edition..

Today I watched 붉은 돼지(Porco Rosso) by Ghibli. I will play #FlyingCircus RPG... I love airplane, not war actually. ;)

#nightwitches is also a great feminism Airplane RPG.