#all things england

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican?? #they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard' #you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious) #(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics) #(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights) #('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it') #(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???') #(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

[pygian-weapon]

DO NOT COMPARE CAESAR TO ELON MUSK HE DOESN'T DESERVE THAT we can come with a Bastille day tumblr celebration or smth, but Caesar was killed by a bunch of old rich men lmao (and his adopted son, et tu brute - cit. Jared Padalecki). this isn't exactly a win for the working people.

Yeah yeah he did war crimes and got too drunk on power, but at least he didn't have an hentai addiction is what I mean

#was looking through the tag and got a bit alienated #you're telling me the first thing you associate with him #isn't that time a guy tried to prove he was conspiring by reading a secret letter he got in front of the whole senate #and it turned out it was not a secret message #but the guy's sister sending him a sext? #this is all Shakespeare's fault and this site skewing towards usa and England #Anyone's first introduction to Julius Caesar should be through Asterix & Obelix #ides of March

[july-19th-club]

house md wildest show on earth. a main character outright assassinates a known dictator, a moment that would be the very beginning or the mid-series crisis in any other show - an act which creates a power vacuum in a foreign nation already filled with child soldiers and genocide, and it's literally only brought up again throughout the season because that guy's wife divorces him over it. and occasionally to explore his relationship with who he is as a person and a catholic after having deliberately taken a life for what he calculates as the greater good, but mostly it's about his divorce

#i no longer think wilson is the most divorced guy ever #sure he's been divorced more TIMES than chase #but the things he's been divorced OVER are way more normal #it is so nuts like . chase. bobbie. rob. bobert. what happened next. in the country i mean #like the president is dead. does his regime crack down extra hard on the ethnic cleansing? #does the power vacuum give the opposition a chance to step in? #how much of what the president said about the people he's wiping out having been in a similar dictatorship in the past is true? #does the nation descend into civil war? is the president's death the excuse the us or england or whoever is waiting for to step in #and assume ad hoc governance thus destabilizing the region even more? #all because one guy in one hospital decided the math was in favor of his killing a guy if that guy was going to order more killings? #absolutely NEVER explored. yeah do no harm and the morals we share with our partners are important #but christ alive. the aftermath of the assassination could be a whole show in and of itself and im pretty sure it just never comes up #house is a show #house md #q

[novuit]

I couldn't stop thinking about @kittspirals' highschool au for MONTHS.

#sorry I butchered the school uniform #hetalia #hws england #hws france #hetalia england #hetalia france #This is the only way I can say this true story. It was hilarious. #All these stories were from english class so I have to bend the rules a tiny bit and assume the french has the same language thing #I don't know if I should tag this as fruk or not #but it's tagged as fruk so. fruk. #I love this au btw #have i mentioned that

[bonefall]

it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness

Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.

They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?

This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.

I just...

OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.

But it did not stop.

THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.

And yet... it continued.

They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.

A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;

Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.

I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."

Sometimes, even, in "groups."

Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."

Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗

DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous

Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.

#bone babble #Fennelposting #Obviously the answer is 'theyre incapable of THINKING' but like... they do know snow has a line right #In the book. He figured out. A word. Through observation. #He says 's'all right' because he knows it calms ppl down #He did not need to hear the magic words 'You can make noises at others to influence them' #Like a fucking tutorial tip #Im going to start keeping a JOURNAL of ''times people have been weird about snowkit specifically'' #Ableism #cw ableism #I could also link to the pawspeak thing so it's all in one place #I wrote this last night and put it in the queue and I laid awake thinking of this... #What do they think happens when someone goes to another country where things aren't written/spoken in a language they know? #Do they think they wouldn't be able to figure out anything? Do they think the tourist would just perish #Would they collapse in the streets of Berlin sobbing? #Happened to me. Went to England and they called it a Car Boot Sale instead of a Flea Market and I died to death #AND if I did make that guide please tell me if there's any other weird misconceptions you need to see in it #I know that ONE of them is going to have to be that. like. deaf people make noise. #theyre actually quite loud because they don't know they're making noise #and people with hearing loss do not suddenly forget how to speak. #and people born deaf dont talk like cavemen #cw body horror #tw body horror #EDIT: OOPS sorry I have such an astonishingly tolerance for body horror I did not realize that counted as body horror

[portraitoftheoddity]

My mother's family is an old, rural northern New England farm family, and when my maternal grandparents were first married, they moved in together in my grandfather's family's farmhouse that was over 200 years old and one big hodegpodge of centuries-old building code violations held together with twine, duct tape and prayers. And with this farmhouse came a farm with some assorted animals.

Including a decent-sized paddock of sheep.

Now, every winter, they lost some sheep. Some to sickness, some to cold, some to coyotes and other predators. But in the winter up here, the ground freezes solid for months, so there wasn't much they could do to bury the carcasses. Instead, Gramps would carry them out to the far corner of the field and stack them up in a pile against the fence to freeze solid, until the thaw came in spring and something could be done.

Over the course of the winter, snow would fall, and the grisly dead-sheep-pile would be covered in a nice concealing blanket of white.

For a while.

There's a moment, that my grandmother would retell from this early era of their marriage, that has been crystallized in my family with repeated retellings: One balmy March morning, Gramps stood in the kitchen, looking out through the window over the sink while sipping his black pour-over coffee (brewed strong enough to kill God). My Gramps was a man of few words, but when he did talk, it was low, slow, and to the point. Looking out over the field and its diminishing snow pile, he calmly observed to my Gram:

"Spring's a-comin'. Snow's melting off the sheep."

...And to this day in my family, some sixty-odd-years later, we still joke that the snow is melting off of the proverbial dead sheep when the first spring thaw hits and the crocuses start to peak up with the first signs up spring.

#lena's art thing #cw animal death #lena's personal crap #anecdotes #I need you all to read those words in the most unfathomably thick new england accent

[cuubism]

saw a post the other day, can't remember if it was tumblr or reddit, but it was like 'picky eaters are always characterized as only eating fries and chicken nuggets. what about us picky eaters who only like things like sushi and tiramisu, we exist'

anyway that's human dream

#'hob did you get the--' 'the yogurt brand that's inexplicably 15 times more expensive than any other? yeah i did' #'yes i made your omelette with the 30$/pound truffle cheese. i'm aware you won't eat it with any other' #he likes high quality ingredients and does not like things that feel 'heavy' or have a lot of grease or lots of simple carbs #probably doesn't eat much meat either. these are my headcanons #hob's grocery cart is all organic fruit imported dark chocolate and That One Sorbet that's 10$ a pint #'here's your locally grown organic lychees My Liege' #don't ask how hob obtained such a thing in england XD #he had to learn how to make thai food at home bc keeping dream in stir fried basil (from That One Five Star Authentic (tm) Restaurant that' #40$ a plate) was getting expensive #it does help that dream is more willing to expand his horizons if it's something hob made #dreamling #dreamling headcanons

[crossedwithblue]

random thought bc I've been listening to Six on repeat: the queens claim that the only reason they're remembered is because of Henry, but would Henry be one of the most iconic and well-known English monarchs if not for them?

#like his defining trait is sorta 'bloke who had six wives who he treated pretty badly all told' plus the whole church of england thing #which arguably would have happened anyway in some sense since protestantism was sweeping europe but is generally credited to him wanting #a divorce whether thats accurate or not #yes he was quite charismatic etc but there were plenty of others who were too or at least interesting #like nobody talks about the guy who was Probably murdered in a framed hunting accident #or the one who was executed by having a red hot poker rammed up his arse #or the one who dies after gorging himself on strawberries and eel pie iirc #ok fine maybe i only remember the memorable daeths but you get the point #the six wives are what made henry viii significant is what i'm saying #via shitposts #six #six the musical #tudors #tudor queens #catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anne of cleves #katherine howard #catherine parr #henry viii

[ifindus]

what dish from another country do you think norway loves? 🧑‍🍳

This is definitely not influenced by any of my own preferences 👀 But anything with seafood is a win with Norway, and I can see him going back and forth between seafood paella and fish n chips as his fave foreign foods ✨

#hetalia #aph norway #hws norway #aph spain #aph england #hws spain #hws england #thanks for the ask!! 🥰🥰🥰 #not me going through my 145 asks to finally answer some of them #been sitting on this one for a while #I was in Spain last year and all I wanted was paella #even bought a key chain with paella on it #I fucking love paella #and same with fish and chips?? #such a simple thing but I HAVE to get it every time I'm in the UK #when I lived in Orkney I went to a chippy on a Friday and thank fuck Norwegians eat dinner earlier than others #because when I got my food the line was down the block #and it was some of the best fish and chips I'd ever had 😩 #Okay I realize now that paella and fish n chips are some of MY fave foreign foods #but I stand by my decision because Norway would have a weakness for seafood as well #and these are the most basic of seafood

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Rarity poses with fungi.

In Tavistock, in Devon, England.

#my little pony #g4 #rarity #fungus #fungi #tavistock #devon #england #this was originally posted on this day in 2014 #but the original on site was deleted by Tumblr for being adult content! #good thing all my stuff is saved externally

[moghedien]

once again need all the "medieval fantasy" fans out there to understand that by many historical opinions, the War of the Roses began AFTER the medieval period

"medieval" is a whole lot older than most of yall realize and i'm begging yall to look at a timeline before you start calling things "medieval fantasy"

#the War of the Roses is like either the first time after the medieval period #or the last thing in the medieval period depending on who you ask #for context that means ALL of Tudor England took place AFTER the medieval period regardless of which take you believe #shakespeare was AFTER the medieval period #all of Protestantism in general is AFTER the medieval period

[anglerflsh]

Made it work again. A win for the love fiddling with old technology crowd

#[.txt] #yea I'm sitting on the floor. this thing was so dusty i couldnt get it on a desk #no clue what the frequencies not on the fm do because it's all static #may still be broken may be that they're just not used #point being MAN my A* in electronics for that semester in england paid off

[mostlyanything19]

One fun fact about me is that I played the demo of The Beekeeper's Picnic by @beekeeperspicnic and it's brought me nearly to tears several times just out of pure like. sentimentality?? affection for these two men and this very specific little world they inhabit? my foolish heart that's been stuck on Sherlock Holmes for going on ten years now? idk man idk

#what i'm saying is i'm so happy people are making things like this game it is so sweet and i love it #moments include: holmes and watson's little conversations in baker street when you look at things. #just kinda being in baker street generally. and then imagining moving away and leaving this long long chapter of a life behind #holmes' little comments on stuff like the solar system in his attic #the moment when you realize holmes will go and watson will (for now) not follow #the echoing of other times they've been apart and all the reasons for it #watson coming back to england and coming straight to holmes' door - he's got a knack for this after all. the aftermaths of wars. #the moment when you re-enter the attic in sussex and see all the portraits on the wall and the light shining in and the bees and the /life/ #and what's in the morocco case these days #and the sweet ending #gosh #other holmes #p #the beekeeper's picnic

[needcake]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Hetalia: Axis Powers Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: England/Portugal (Hetalia), Wales/Portugal (Hetalia), France/Scotland (Hetalia), England & France (Hetalia) Characters: England (Hetalia), Portugal (Hetalia), Wales (Hetalia), Scotland (Hetalia), France (Hetalia), Female Ireland (Hetalia), Northern Ireland (Hetalia) Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Modern Era, Miscommunication, Personal Growth, Adulting is hard, Romantic Comedy, (maybe not much of a comedy) Summary:

Arthur didn’t need dates, or boyfriends, or long-term stable relationships. He didn’t need a handsome bloke on his arm to take to meet his siblings, and he absolutely didn’t envy his brother and sister for having that. No, in fact not only did he not need a boyfriend, he didn’t even want one. His life was perfectly fine as it was.

#engport #portwales #scotfra #hws england #hws portugal #hws wales #hws scotland #hws france #hws ireland #hws northern ireland #hetalia #a wild fic appears #fake dating #miscommunication #all the fun things! #finally dusting off some wips #can I finish this one? maaaaaaybe

[scoops-stevie-archive]

steve harrington whose family is originally from massachusetts but nobody knows, until eddie is the one to figure it out when steve gets a cocky little smirk on his face when he's flirting with eddie at work

#cj talks #steddie #i love all the hcs of steve not being from hawkins #that think joe keery does with his jaw sometimes? the thing that make him distinctly look like a new englander? that one

[goldenstarprincesses]

There is one thing and one thing only that Matthew holds resentment towards his brother about 

It's not about Alfred being the world's only superpower. Not about Alfred's wealth. Not about Alfred clearly being Arthurs preferred son. Not even that Francis has historically always seeming gravitated towards being Alfred's mentor. All those things he can live with or has learned to live with.  

The thing that he holds the most resentment about? Alfred uses 5 in 1 Irish Spring and Dial bar soap yet has prefect hair and skin. All while Matthew spends thousands of dollars every year on expensive hair care and skincare products in the never-ending battle to get his acne prone skin and fly-away soft curly hair under control.

And to make matters worse, the Dial soap is actually a new addition to Alfred's routine. He was finally convinced to stop using homemade wood ash soap in the late 70s.

#or is this all a lie that he lets Matt think? and he really gets treatment from some state of the art Hollywood esthetician #once Alfred showed up a meeting in the mid-1980s with longer then normal hair #his curls were on full display until Matt grabbed him and was like “cut it. Cut it now. long curly hair MY thing. It's all I have you dick #and since then Alfred has never let his hair out of the army regulated cut lamo #hws america #hws canada #alfred f jones #matthew williams #historical hetalia #hws england #na bros #hws #aph #hetalia