#ahead by a century

[stars-in-the-storm]

The Anne With an 'E' intro will always hold a very special place in my heart.

#anne with an e #anne of green gables #green gables #anne shirley #anne shirly cuthbert #marilla cuthbert #matthew cuthbert #diana barry #gilbert blythe #ahead by a century #amybeth mcnulty #avonlea #light academia #dark academia #romantic academia

[pixiedust111]

Ahead By A Century (4K subs + International Men's Day Tribute)

It had to be published ahead of the actual date 😂😂 hehe!

#pixiesdiary #tangled #frozen #frozen 2 #olaf's frozen adventure #eugene fitzherbert #flynn rider #kristoff #Rapunzel #elsa #anna #olaf #amv #music video #edit #crossover #men's day tribute #ahead by a century #tragically hip #Youtube

[jakobian5150]

Many faces of Anne Shirley Cuthbert

#anne shirly cuthbert #Anne #anne shirley #anne of green gables #anne with an e #road to avonlea #amybeth mcnulty #ahead by a century #Spotify #ginger #ginger girl

[canisalbus]

You mentioned before that the people who would have access to Machete's bedchamber would likely already know about Vasco. How did that come up in your mind? Did they get caught in the act or was the subject broached with enough trust? How did those people handle it? Sorry if this is a bit vague but I thought about it today and I'm very interested. :)

I think it just has to be the case, I can't imagine how they could manage to hide the fact Vasco is bunking with him from everyone, for years and years. Machete doesn't live alone, he has staff and servants who do his housekeeping and run his errands. Even if Vasco didn't stay there for any extended periods of time and snuck out the back door to avoid attention, I'm assuming at least the people who do his laundry and change his sheets would eventually detect that some sort of funny business had happened. But the number of people who are in on it is still very very small and tightly controlled. His assistant Vittorio definitely knows and helps to manage this situation, so does his personal doctor, and on top of that maybe a handful of most trusted high-ranking emplyees, which he has vetted extremely carefully and pays handsomely for their discreetness and prudence.

#or something along those lines surely there has to be a way for this to work people have had secret affairs since the beginning of time #if you hire someone #or more likely promote someone you know who has worked for you for years and has proven to be trustworthy and unlikely to betray you #and there's a very high risk that that person will find out your secrets it's better to bring them to their attention yourself #in a controlled setting ahead of time #instead of waiting to see if/when you're caught and not knowing how they will react #right? #and his private quarters are indeed private you don't go snooping in there without a good reason and an official permission #answered #anonymous #Vaschete lore #Vasco hanging around there often probably isn't an immediate red flag it's a big house and people can have friends and guests #plus at the time it was generally more common and accepted for two men to be close friends and openly attached to each other platonically #it's sunday morning and I'm awake trying to piece together the practical logistics of #maintaining an undercover long term relationship between two 16th century statesmen

[liesmyth]

would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!

Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote

#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist

By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).

I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.

[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]

Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.

John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.

#on a more hashtag meta level #John is why I’m personally uneasy about any analysis of the series that tries to interpret TLT through racial allegory lenses #especially when it’s weaponised for discourse purposes #You can write meta about John’s war crimes without comparing him to white imperialism #Or you can go ahead and do that anyway but I highkey disagree that it’s a fitting metaphor or in any way deliberate on Tamsyn’s part #and I think the implications are unfortunate to say the least #That said I AM extremely interested in the ways John relates to the culture he left behind #and why he made the choices he did when it came the moment to reshape humanity’s cultural consciousness after the Resurrection #but that’s on a character level! #I don’t think we can apply twenty-first-century social / identity labels to the series as a whole #especially a series where the author says 'I imagine X character as Y but it doesn't raelly matter' #and it doesn't influence the canon directly in any way #SORRY THIS IS LONG! #anonymous #ask #ejg #tlt thoughts #elle tlt posting #tlt

[jstor]

This is your sign to go ahead and buy the $7 coffee you've been craving. Happy National Coffee Day (U.S.) from all of us at JSTOR!

"The Woman taking Coffee." Louis-Martin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793). From the Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access collection, free and available to all on JSTOR.

#read as: this is MY sign to go ahead and buy the $7 coffee i've been craving #jstor #research #print #france #18th century #coffee #art #cleveland museum of art #etching and engraving #national coffee day

[ltwilliammowett]

Full speed ahead, by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

#naval art #full speed ahead #19th century #age of sail

[wafflesrisa]

Why are they cancelling concerts and sporting events? Musicians and gig and shift workers are literally living hand to mouth right now and they’re cancelling their income in some “grand show of grief”?

Where’s their grief when these workers’ children don’t have enough to eat? Absolute bull.

#queen elizabeth #queen elizabeth ii #British royal family #uk politics #politics #i cannot believe this bull #no matter what you think of the queen it’s atrocious that her death is causing more pain and suffering #more than what her family and governments already cause in the bloody centuries beforehand #ahead of a winter in which cost of living and energy prices are skyrocketing as well #how are these workers supposed to eke out a living

[rosepompadour]

I’m absolutely nothing without you - just the doll that I should have been born.

Zelda Sayre in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1918

#absolutely heartbreaking because she could have been so much MORE without him #zelda you are ahead by a century! #zelda fitzgerald #f. scott fitzgerald #literature

[galufs]

this is what their dynamic feels like to me

#one day i will get the hang of how to draw their (god-tier) amano designs but for now have this #okay listen their world(s) didn't get the italian reinassance or the pop culture of late 20th century #but what it DID get is a talking turtle who would fucking hate bartz for saying this so the joke still kinds of land. maybe #final fantasy #final fantasy 5 #final fantasy v #ahead on our way #doodle tag #my posts

[stairset]

The thing about the whole Star Wars canon vs legends debate is that they're both stupid but most legends fans refuse to admit that it was also stupid cause of nostalgia goggles so every time canon does something stupid you see a bunch of people be like "see this is why legends was superior" and then they start talking about something from legends that was just as stupid if not even stupider.

#at least now palpatine only came back in a clone body once instead of multiple times and it took him over 30 years instead of less than 10 #and at least now the new republic's successor state won't be formed by merging with the imperial remnant #which is treated like a good thing for some reason #and at least now the sith aren't still around for more than a fucking century after the ot #and next time someone whines about a character surviving a serious lightsaber injury go ahead and remind them about galen marek or k'kruhk #and that's not even getting into the superweapons #star wars #shut up tristan

[widowshill]

It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her. Jane Eyre, XVI.

764 / one flea spare, naomi wallace / 370 / 742 / 1192 / one flea spare / 69 / 44 / 617 / 78

#''Collinsport: come for the good jobs‚ stay because you want to fuck your boss.'' as eloquently put by tumblr user tortoisesshells #social climbing mostly done um. horizontally <3 #compilation tag #➤ edits & art. ┊ the evans cottage art gallery. #i just think about the naomi wallace passage A LOT. with the judith quote and the more than a fisherman/just a governess quote. #liz who has no intention of marrying bill. carolyn who has no intention of marrying joe. roger who has no intention of marrying vic. #the 18th and 19th century crew actually did somewhat better at that. ang busted her ass for that ring. #(and i'm not exactly to quentin and daphne yet so i'm. getting a little ahead of myself here. but i can't exclude her fellow governess #with the hots for her boss.)

[sesamenom]

some funny snippets of a tentative timeline for the reverse gondolin au

#silm #silmarillion #not art #reverse gondolin au #Gondolin-born Prince Elrond is a bit more active in numenorean politics #primarily attempting to keep them from self-destructing #numenor still Falls after sauron establishes his weird morgoth death cult #because having numenor around in the TA means there wouldn't be a war of the ring in the first place #but like 60% of them are still Faithful #they establish themselves in Imladris under Tar-Miriel & Elrond (Tar-hanotur? Tar-airatur?) btw #Prince Elrond is quite fascinating to write #also yes annatar is literally booted out under lomions advice #celebrimbor still struggles with his overly-trustingness #luckily for everyone lomion has no such reservations #lomion: tyelpe i know you dont trust yourself on this but. you trust me right #tyelpe: of course #lomion: okay then somethings up with that guy. get him out of your house asap #tyelpe: thanks will do #debating whether to kill off celebrimbor here? if he does die it would be in battle next to lomion so sauron doesnt learn of the Seven #also this tyelpe & lomion have been actively using the Three in battle since FA 500something #they're pretty experienced at the magical siege warfare stuff #so maybe celebrimbor makes it out alive but injured? #okay imagine a white council w assorted wizards; galadriel; cirdan; elrond; the numenorean king in imladris; lomion; and celebrimbor #i feel like lomion and tyelpe balance each other out well enough (lomion is still quite pragmatic but less actively distrusting than maegli #and tyelpe is constantly making an effort to be Wise and Understanding #he doesn't trust himself on big decisions bc of the whole feanorion baggage. but he does trust his bff lomion #so their dynamic is kind of like 'tyelpe has a Good Idea; lomion Validates his Good Conscience and figures out how to execute it' #btwn making the Three a few centuries ahead of schedule and them balancing each other out galadriel-and-celeborn-style they're kind of op #idk how sauron amasses that much power in the SA/TA of the au-verse

[canisalbus]

you say machete has to be closeted then why's he always wearing them little heels

Maybe he thinks he's a tiny bit nicer looking in them.

#no in fact he's just a little ahead of the curve let me try to explain #again I'm not a historian I'm just sharing what I've read I might be misremembering stuff so don't quote me on this #high heels became extremely fashionable in the early 1600's probably just a few decades after Machete's time #and they were originally worn by men #because they were inspired by Persian riding boots #if your shoes had heels you'd have easier time keeping your feet in the stirrups (think of cowboy boots) #Europeans saw them thought they looked snazzy and they became wildly popular in noble circles fairly quickly #for some hundred years or so high heels were the epitome of class wealth power and status and they were essentially genderless #remember that concepts of masculinity and femininity are fluid and change over time #things that were seen as manly a few centuries ago may seem downright effeminate to a modern viewer #it's all matter of perspective neither is objectively more correct than the other #they started to separate into men's heels and women's heels around mid 1700's iirc but the changes weren't massive even then #and only truly went out of vogue when the French Revolution hit in 1789 #and people all across the continent were suddenly put off by everything that reminded them #of the frivolousness and extravagance of royalty and aristicracy #so in his canon timeline I don't think people are looking at him and going “hmmm that's pretty gay” #because heels hadn't become gendered yet #maybe he likes how they accentuate his already tiny paws and make his legs look even longer than they are #he's interested in fashion or at least likes to dress nicely in high quality garments #he tries very hard to look his best despite never really feeling comfortable in his skin #he was a real shrimp as a kid and even though he eventually grew up to be a beanpole he might still find the extra height appealing #no one's going to look down on him ever again #I admit the way I draw them is a lot more modern than the true historical style at the time but not outrageously so #artistic freedom and all that in the end I'm not aiming for 100% accuracy #modern au Machete has no excuses though he's just a little bit fruity #if the guy feels empowered by wearing little clip cloppers let him #answered #anonymous #Machete

[batteryrose]

some ikeprinces body hc featuring: godawful underwear

(+ my oc Adam because uh. he's just always here.)

Keith:

- he's definitely supposed to be the big soft guy character can you even deny that. Can you

- he's big and strong and mean and he's the little spoon

- he's also prettiest boy number one

Chevalier:

- you see. once I entertain the idea of someone being trans I can't let it go

- he doesn't bind because uhhhh who's gonna care

- does his strength need any elaboration at this point

- LARGE dick

Nokto

- mayhaps we have a. skinny legend?????

- he's got that twink charm that the old noble ladies Apparently likes. And the homosexuals

- he can't fight he doesn't work out he can't do anything. None

Adam (OC)

- big naturals (thighs and ass)

- he's strong without trying I guess. But he can't land a punch if his life depends on it

- he's been walking so many miles. So many

- prettiest boy number two

- SMALL dick

I dont take questions

(this post is inspired by @m-mmiy 's body hc)

#I'm joking about the question okayyy go ahead #I'm so tired drawing this is such a bad idea #The underwear is meant to be those. 18th century breeches and stockings. I don't know if that's right #ikepri #Ikepri oc #Ikepri nokto #Ikepri Adam #Ikepri Keith #oc #Art

[sassmill]

“If a lot of men get killed at one go, does it make the killing of one man less of a crime? I don’t know, Andy, I don’t know. I’m only twenty and they say today the world is ours, but Pa was twenty once and felt the world was his, and long, long ago Mad was twenty too, laughing at applauding audiences, smiling from picture postcards, and when I am as old as she is nothing will have changed…”

Daphne du Maurier, Rule Britannia (1972)

#think about the context of this woman writing this right #she was born in 1907 #so by the time she was 20 she had lived through one world war with the next right on the horizon #as well as at this point witnessing the effects of so many other 20th century conflicts #she’s 65 at this point and this is what she sees ahead for future generations #which I’ve no doubt others saw coming as well but just like everyone for USUK in the book is acting #I’m sure plenty read this and thought but that could never happen not now not here not to us #but look where we are today #look at the genocide being enacted in Palestine #I want people to read this book in 2024 and think hard about it #because the events of the book are happening to white people in England right #I’m not at all trying to say she described anything on the level of the real world atrocities currently happening #but the slowly building anxiety of ‘but what could really happen they won’t do that’ #then overnight all these new restrictions and retaliation #phones cut power cut water cut travel ban #just because it’s happening to people far away from your life #doesn’t mean it could never happen #you wouldn’t see it coming or think it was all that bad until suddenly it was too late #obviously I am reaching to apply this book to today but I think it could make certain people reexamine their mindset #daphne du maurier #rule britannia #quote #this book is making me think so much about imperialism and occupation and military states and civilian cruelty #through such an interesting lens considering what I know of Daphne du mauriers life up to the point she wrote this #this was her last novel #and it’s so different from her other novels #like this to me is her equivalent of a Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur’s court #except it’s just the ending where everything becomes terrible so fast