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empiredesimparte · 1 year
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7, 21, 67, 86, & 98 for ... the family—louis, hortense, and their parents (including the recently deceased one, rip)
Thank you for the ask, nexility! I'll answer even for our late emperor then 😉
Does your oc collect anything? What about of knowledge or facts? How big is their collection?
The greatest collector in the family was Napoléon IV, undeniably. I think his daughter, Hortense, will probably take over from him with her natural curiosity. Napoléon IV collected Greek antiquities, especially the artefacts of Alexander the Great. He had a large collection which he displayed in all the galleries of the imperial palaces. I think it was important to him to show his collections to all visitors, and he generally liked to display his culture on the subject. Hortense will be a more humble and generous collector, I think. She is particularly interested in the artefacts of the great ladies of Francesim (the former queens, mistresses, court ladies of Francesim's history).
Emperor Napoléon V, Louis, and his mother Marie Joséphine, were much less interested in collecting. Louis has a rather simple and admiring passion for his Napoléon ancestors in general, and owning a few artefacts pleases him to the point of buying them at auction. But he is not a "passionate" collector as his father may have been. Marie Josephine is not materialistic at all, she has no attraction for collecting and generally thinks that art or artefacts should be accessible to all.
Is your oc expressive, or would they rather conceal their emotions? What are their typical expressions like ?
Not surprisingly, all the Simparte's hide their emotions. I would say that the most expressive is Louis (Napoléon V). He's the most impulsive, and he doesn't like secrets.
Here's an expression for each character:
Napoléon IV : "One must heal the wrongs, never avenge them." That's his favourite quote, I think he used it all the time Napoléon V : "I almost waited" or "a picture is worth a thousand words". Hortense : "Are you sure?" or "You can do it", she is very supportive Marie-Joséphine : "My God", I think she sighs a lot 😅
How many people does your oc prefer to be around? A crowd, a few friends, or all on their own?
Napoléon IV : A crowd Napoléon V : A crowd Hortense : All on their own Marie-Joséphine : A crowd
What would someone assume about your oc based on their appearance? Would those assumptions be correct?
Napoléon IV : Something difficult to express in the sims game, beyond the physical appearance: he had a strong Belgian accent that never left him. I think that's what always attracted mockery and satire. Napoléon V : I think you could call him "Prince Charming" by his physical appearance. I'd say that's pretty true. Hortense : A neat young woman but a bit cold. I think this is rather false, it's mostly due to her introverted and uncomfortable character in society. Marie-Joséphine : I think the former empress from the outside appears to be a very protective, gentle person. She has some of that of course, but she can become a ruthless lioness to protect her children or her family. Marie may seem a bit snobbish, too, but I think that's not the case. She has always been very attentive to everyone's needs, it's the French protocol that is snobbish especially towards women.
Is your oc the type to have a lot of fairly good friends, have a small group of close friends, have one or two best friends, or have no friends at all? Who are they closest to?
Napoléon IV : He had political allies, but no real friends in the sense that he never confided in anyone. Napoléon V : Louis has many close friends to whom he confides, and he likes to be the center of their attention - which is rather easy given his position. Hortense : Hortense does not confide much, like her father. Louis is her greatest friend. So she has the same friends as her twin brother, Hortense is very self-effacing behind Louis. Nevertheless, she will start to be more independent from Louis since she is seeing Oliver (hello @officalroyalsofpierreland). Marie-Joséphine : She has close friends with whom she confides about everything and nothing, but her best friend is a French actress. In her youth, the former empress would have even had a romantic relationship with this woman, according to some paparazzi media!
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newluddite · 6 months
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Nazis and other stuff.
In Canada there is a major kerfuffle about the speaker of the parliament doing an honor to a 98 year old Ukrainian man who fought Russians in WW2 and was a hero. The speaker resigned and apologized.
His mistake was pretty serious. I mean who was fighting Russians in WW2? It was the Nazi Germans. As an educated man the speaker should have tweaked to that. This guy was fighting on the side of Nazis.
There are several back stories here and I think they are important. The president of Ukraine was in town and made a speech in Parliament. That is why and when the honor was given to the old Ukrainian soldier guy. Ukraine is at war with Russia because Vladimir Putin accuses their government of being Nazis because they dare to oppose him. Everyone has heard that.
Back when the war started I did a rant explaining why Ukrainians HATE Russians. Between WW1 and WW2 there was genocide in Ukraine propagated by the Soviet Russian government. So even if Russia conquered Ukraine they would be an occupying power in a hostile country.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
When the German Army rolled across the Soviet Union in 1941 an early goal was to conquer the area that was Ukraine and access the land and resources. Many Ukrainians considered them liberators and joined German military formations organized by the Waffen SS. Yes those guys. The SS often recruited from local populations. Some of these people were conscripted or joined voluntarily, but there is no doubt they fought for the SS. Another country aligned with and fighting against Russia with the Nazis was Finland. They also hated Russians.
Nobody is accusing Finland of being Nazi, but they had their own army and were not under the orders of the SS. So there is that.
Eventually as the fortunes of war turned this Ukrainian Division restyled themselves as a new national army and dropped the SS thing. Thousands retreated across Europe to escape capture by Russian Troops and certain death. The old man in the Parliament gallery was one of those. He was a teenager when they surrendered to the Western allies. He probably was not a Nazi, but hey I don't know for sure.
Now it gets personal.
I had an uncle long dead who was an MP from Alberta. He was ethnic Ukrainian as am I obviously. He worked with the Canadian government to immigrate and settle a lot of these former soldiers. Many were admitted and settled in Canada and even the USA.
They were investigated in 1950 for possible involvement in atrocities and crimes. This was repeated in 1986 and there was no evidence of such crimes by them uncovered then. So it is very likely that this old man was not a Nazi sympathizer, or involved in any crimes as a soldier under SS command.
I have a bit of a problem with if what my uncle did was really a good thing. I know many of my relatives from that era were antisemitic. My grandfather was, but I do not know how much. He wrote stories where Jews were villains. I cannot say if that played a part or not. I grew up differently. However it is not certain that any of these former SS troops were actually Nazis.
Hell the American Military grabbed lots of rocket scientists from Germany back in that era. The man who designed the rocket that put men on the moon was in the Nazi party. His rockets were being built by slave labor during the war, but he was OK. Ferdinand Porsche was a Nazi but people still bought his cars. My Uncle saved lives. If they had been sent back to Soviet Territory death and torture was assured.
So I think it is important to recall the reason many young men joined an invading army, even though that army represented one of the most horrific episodes of human history.
Stories are never one dimensional.
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totentnz · 4 years
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here is a completly unnecessary rant:
if you sims build is pretty but not functional? fuck you
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laviedavantgarde · 2 years
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Franklin sporting NASA clothing because he loves to stargaze and learn about outer space.
Lamar knows how much Franklin is pissed that Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore, so he gets a shirt that says "Pluto Solidarity."
Franklin smiles, and asks him:
"Did you get anything for yourself, dog?"
"Yeah Frank! Check this out!"
Lamar shows Franklin his own planet themed shirt, but it says "I love Uranus." Lamar grins slyly.
Franklin shakes his head. "That don't surprise me, L. Not at all."
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*Gives air kisses to the sky* For Solo, Ogg, and Luke.
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My sexuality is 20 something Trevor with long hair 😩
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GTA V Fandom on Tumblr be like:
Main Campaign: ~Trikey~
GTA Online: Pavel and Grognak the Destroyer: Attorney at Law
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GTA V Characters Playing The Sims
Inspired by the post that talked about Tracey playing The Sims while Michael and Amanda argued downstairs.
Michael: Plays with a premade family, and tries to juggle their lives. Attempts to steal other Sims' possessions. Doesn't understand that a Sim's cooking level is based on their experience, so kitchen fires happen a lot and one or more of his Sims dies by fire. Will have to sell a window to be able to afford pizza because that's all his Sims eat and he splurged his Simoleons on something expensive, but useless.
Franklin: LOVES the pet expansion packs and tries to make Chop into a Dog Sim. His Sims reach the top level of their career choices, and spends time making his houses look sleek but lived in. Is disappointed that cars don't exist in The Sims 4, so he prefers The Sims 3. Doesn't play with cheats because he wants to earn money by climbing the ladder. Makes a female Sim that resembles Tanisha and makes his Sim have a romantic and loving relationship with her.
Trevor: Uses the Extreme Violence and Drugs mods for TS4. Tries to kill every Sim that he can and collect gravestones. (Think CallMeKevin from YouTube.) Takes pictures of his slain Sims and puts the photos on his walls as ~art~. He makes Sims look exactly like real life people he knows and lives vicariously through them because he wants his Sims to have good relationships with others. (Is a total reflection of his actual desire to be close to people.) Definitely uses cheats.
Lamar: Bought the base game and all of the packs on Origin for full price unironically. He downloads Chop to play with on TS4 Gallery. His favorite pack is the Get Together one so he can make Sim versions of the Chamberlain Hill, Ballas, and Vagos gangs to fight each other. (Has the Extreme Violence and Drugs mods to enhance the gang activities.) He simps for the female Sims he creates and has his Sim WooHoo with them. Uses cheats for Simoleons really. Makes his Sim super popular and attractive.
Lester: Owns the entirety of The Sims franchise, even the original CD's of the game. Definitely uses mods and is a modder himself with the newer Sims games. Knows the Sims lore pretty extensively and is bit of an elitist about it. Enjoys the challenges where you leave your Sims alone for a period of time to see what happens. He loves the fact that he is in complete control over their lives.
If you have any more GTA V characters headcanons about them playing The Sims franchise, I'd love to read what you're thinking! These five guys were the easiest to flesh out.
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catgirlcommie · 3 years
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there are several floors that have very little to no entities/danger that i could imagine madoka perhaps Tolerating (or homura tolerating due to their relative safety).
level four has a lot of people + is generally safe. has very few entities. a lot of almond water (which seems to not only work as normal water but also iirc is meant to help retain sanity/keep someone calm).
level 10 is just pretty much an infinite foggy wheatfield. the wheat is edible + there's almond water there too. it also has a little (safe) town.
level 11 is just a pretty normal looking + safe cityscape. all entities in this level seem to be passive? as in, it turns normally hostile ones totally harmless.
level 27 has a hotsprings + no entities.
level 31 is a roller rink. also safe, the only entities there are docile.
level 39 is a forested area that has a "hypnotizing" calming effect, but this is said to be easily avoidable. it also has food + water.
level 48 is a beach with a forest + no real danger. no hostile entities. classes as "habitable".
level 57 is a safe art gallery. not much in the way of food/water though.
level 60 is basically a normal laundromat.
level 63 is popular due to it being very peaceful. it also has the effect that if you were to fall down (like off of a bridge) it isn't fatal. also has meditation areas?
level 79 is a watchtower thing on a field. if you clip through the floor, you just end up back on the level, so it's pretty safe. no danger of entities, also functions similarly to a house (has a kitchen, bedrooms, etc).
level 83 is a submarine underwater. pretty safe.
level 86 is an office building but has no entities. those that are there are like on level 11 + are passive.
level 88 is safe, but would probably be considered "boring". has supplies though.
level 89 is a 40s style ice cream parlor. pretty safe, has other people there.
level 90 is just a house. no entities, seems to be implied that it's sorta custom built?
level 98 is a street with a diner.
(note: this is just from levels 100 + below, + i tried to pick ones without any real danger. like if there were no entries but a major Bad Thing, i didn't put them).
oh some of these actually dont sound half bad djhsdjshhdsj especially if you are actually traveling the backrooms
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idk if u saw a tiktok of a girl that meet louis in 2015 in chicago when he made the 28 tattoo and the Penguin on his ass with danielle brothers (lol larries explain that pls) he met a girl in a bar when he was there and she mad a tiktok about it and she said HE told her he was there to see a girl and her family but it was not for her to say anything about it cause he was not dating danielle publicity at that time like how is this a stunt? the girl never said anything about it and later that week he hang out with danielle friends and they finally told the public about their relationship like that’s not even how beards or PR work. look at zayn and gigi getting papped every week and their relationship is pretty real just like their daughter. the big problems with larries is not understanding celebrities use their REAL relationship as Pr too
Mmm. 
I think the thing about a lot of the ‘stunts’ is that they aren’t stunt-like. 
I’ve said this before, but for a ‘beard’ Eleanor sure seems to have a lot of access to Louis’ life. She’s out there apparently picking up his dogs daily and apparently invading Harry and Louis’ domestic life, even though she represents ‘the evil’. And she sure gets taken on a lot of holidays that she often doesn’t even get photographed at, like how we were told by a fan that she was definitely in Jamaica with him but its not like that was all over the press. Or like how ‘beards’ are supposed to be high profile, public, dates to events but Eleanor has only been on like...one red carpet with him. Or how she has been spotted with him candidly around the place with no paps around so...why was she even there in the first place if she’s just there to be a ‘beard’? 
And Camille. The one Harry went on holidays with which no one saw anything of. The one where 98 percent of photos we have of them are candids taken in random places, because apparently Harry took her to the art gallery and walked down the street with her and took her to private events, none of which had a media presence, in the hopes people would take a grainy photo. They spent a shit tonne of time together and almost none of it was mainstream media bound. 
People want to say that these relationships were ‘stunts’ for whom? Stunts for the mainstream media who barely talked about them? Stunts for the main fan base, none of whom believed in ‘larrie’ anyway? Stunts for the ‘larrie’ fan base, the 6%, who clearly weren’t going to be deterred? Why would they spend so much time with these people when there’s no guarantee of being seen as a ‘stunt’?
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urirealvibekiller · 3 years
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˚   .    ♡ this is an idol life ship for @thechoppersan​ !! sistah nana !! i love you loads and loads okay :(( <3 hope you enjoy this ehehe !! 
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˚   .    ♡  your entertainment company 
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˚   .    ♡ your pre-debut days 
you were scouted at the sm town concert in brazil. you were a little bit skeptical and unsure at first because it is such a big decision and although they were offering you a place among their trainees, it wasn’t guaranteed that you would debut so you had your doubts but ultimately, you decided to give it a chance. 
of course there were some challenges at first such as the language barrier, rigorous training, and your naturally shy personality. but that didn’t last long; you made friends with fellow trainees and the place practically became your second home. 
you’re a fast learner and a hard-worker so you adjusted to everything and everyone was impressed with how fast you learned the language and how diligently you work everyday. 
you trained for four years before debuting. 
˚   .    ♡ your position(s), role(s), and what you’re known for
you are the lead vocalist, lead dancer, and visual of the group. 
you’re also known as the quiet one of the group as well as the fake maknae. however, you’re the fake maknae because of how young you look and initially, fans mistake you as the maknae. your group members don’t ‘baby’ you or anything though. if anything they respect and adore you. 
you’re also known for your artistic abilities 
you’re playfully dubbed as snsd taeyeon’s sister (i had to, i’m sorry ahahah), which makes sense since you guys are from the same company and look similar.  
you actively participate in the songwriting process.
˚   .    ♡ your group 
there are four members in the group, including you. 
your group was hyped both by the company and by fellow artists even before the actual debut. 
your group members (in order of age) includes:
soo-ah (’91-liner) is the oldest and the leader. she’s from seoul, korea and she trained for six years before debuting. she’s the main vocalist and lead rapper. she’s the official mom of the group and is known for her cute nagging. she’s a great leader and can be strict during practice or serious times but is also so loving and kind-hearted.
yume (’95-liner) is the main rapper and the face of the group. she’s japanese and is from osaka, japan. she’s the mood-maker and social butterfly of the group. she trained for five years before debuting. she’s actually one of your first friends when you first joined as a trainee. 
ella (‘98 liner) is the main dancer, sub-vocalist, and maknae. she’s korean but she lived in england for five years with her uncle’s family before moving back to seoul after passing the sm global auditions. she trained only for six months before debuting. she can speak english fluently. she’s the savage one of the group - definitely the ‘evil maknae’ but she also has the kindest and softest heart. extremely funny. she’s kind of a tsundere but she genuinely cares about others. she just shows it in her own way. 
your group has a very tight relationship and bond which contributes to your team work. you guys are basically sisters. you, soo-ah, and yume actually have been best-friends since your trainee days and they were your first friends. ella did join you guys the latest but you guys welcomed her with open arms and she fit right in and pretty much immediately feels at home with you guys. 
˚   .    ♡ your group’s concept 
your group has a girly and innocent concept, similar to most songs done by apink (used to be my ult group omg i miss them). your debut song similar to nonono by apink and it quickly became a hit and became one of your most popular songs along with another title track which has a similar tune to mr.chu by apink. 
in the recent years, the girl-crush or darker concepts have become more popular so a lot of fans think that your group has a nostalgic feel and gives a taste of a more classic form of kpop with a modern twist which is absolutely loved by fans.  
˚   .    ♡ your female best-friend 
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hyuna || you and hyuna are an interesting duo, especially because you guys have a contrasting public image in a sense that she is known for her sexy image and you’re known for your innocent image. but you guys also have such a beautiful friendship and have more similarities than what is seen on the surface. 
you guys met at an award show where you guys met in the bathroom actually. you talked for a while and actually hit it off and ended up exchanging numbers and the friendship quickly blossomed from there. 
you guys are extremely supportive of each other and are each other’s biggest fans. she posts a lot of pictures of you guys together on her instagram. you guys even have also do instagram lives together, just talking and being yourselves which the fans love to watch and witness. 
˚   .    ♡ your male best-friend
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baekhyun || you guys are so similar yet so different and that’s what makes your friendship so precious. you help each other grow and become better versions of each other. 
you’re actually really good friends with all of exo through him; you’re especially close with chanyeol, kai, and sehun, you guys are basically a squad at this point. 
you have a lot of duet ballads together on sm station. 
some fans like to ship you guys but there is nothing but platonic love here. 
there are actually some funny rumors about you two. 
the funniest is that he’s only close to you because you look like taeyeon and he’s trying to replace her with you. :)) you, your group, baekhyun, exo, all sm artists, lee soo man, and the whole kpop industry finds it funny okay. it is very hilarious. 
˚   .    ♡ your boyfriend
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taeil || i mean you might be tired of being shipped with him at this point ajhsk YOU GUYS ARE JUST perfect. 
you guys have been pretty good friends since your pre-debut days. you become closer after being paired together for a couple cover song which was a special stage for inkigayo. 
working together with him and all for the performance, you guys bonded on a deeper level than you guys ever did before. you talked about really deep stuffs like your careers, your thoughts on certain issues in the industry, your plans for the future. 
since then you guys have been really close friends. 
as you gradually grow feelings for each other, you guys have this skinny love. everyone around you knows you and taeil have a connection that is more than just platonic and even both of you can feel it but you just didn’t really verbalize it. maybe because you have been friends for such a long time it was harder to admit romantic feelings. 
when he did finally ask you out, everyone was like not surprised but absolutely elated. 
you guys dated privately for a year before you decided to publicly announce the relationship on your first anniversary. 
the support from the fans is immense okay. you both quickly become the nation’s sweetheart couple. 
˚   .    ♡ miscellaneous 
you also professionally pursue art as more than just a hobby. 
some of your drawings are featured at some of seoul’s art galleries. 
xuimin used to have a crush on you (again i had to oops) but he never said anything because it was around the time you still had the dating ban. but you guys are good friends now. 
you guys won the award for best new artist at MAMA. 
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thank you for requesting nana !! have a beautiful night sisturrr 
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wolfhuntsmoon · 5 years
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Sarah Rogers pt 2: or, how baby!Steve imbibed a fuck-you attitude with his mother’s milk
Okay, so after looking at Sarah’s backstory, how she met Joseph and had Steve and decided to go to America, I couldn’t stop thinking about: what next? The MCU wiki is VERY thin on the ground with detail, and she’s so interesting! Plus, this is, like, one of the most criminally underdeveloped sources for Steve Rogers’ character, as I mentioned in pt 1. So, what can we reasonably source from the time to fill in the gaps?
So: I said in my previous post Sarah likely arrives in January/February of 1918. This is because in those days, travel times were long, conditions were VERY poor and you did not want to be heavily pregnant on a cheap ship to America with the conditions on board. Plus, in those days there was no guarantee a ship company would even sell you a ticket if you were visibly pregnant. It did happen, but was risky for the company, so you could never be sure. Sarah would have left asap once she made a decision. 
The journey itself would have taken about 3-4 weeks. First she would have had to travel to London, because nothing would have been leaving to America from the French or Belgian coastline, as a) most of it was too close to the war and b) the bits that weren’t wouldn’t have been profitable. Travel to London from Passchendaele would have taken a few days to a week, given the mud and absolute priority troops and military materials were given on all journeys. This map here shows it took between 7-10 days to arrive in New York from London (by ship, no flights until the late 1920s/1930s) in 1914 before the outbreak of the war. I mentioned how at this point the German U-boats were basically sinking anything they found not flying a German flag, which made this journey pretty hazardous, even with the newly introduced (and very effective) protection of the convoy system. If Sarah was travelling on a fast convoy (less likely as they were primarily for troop ships) it would have taken about a week. Slower moving convoys carrying mostly cargo might have taken 2 weeks, even 2 and a half weeks if the weather was bad. Convoys, by the way, were where groups of ships were clustered together and escorted across the Atlantic by a combination of naval ships bristling with every explosive known to man, and navy ships disguised to look like harmless merchant cargo ships but ALSO bristling with every explosive known to man, to prevent U-boats sinking them. And also attack U-boats when they turned up. Not if. When. As you may be imagining, these journeys often contained lots of Things Going Boom and people Dying in Unpleasant Ways. Sarah would have been told by literally everyone she knew that this was a stupid, near-lethal decision, and that she should just NOT. But Sarah being Sarah, ignored this in the pursuit of what she felt was right and best for her and her baby... that doesn’t sound familiar at all, does it?
Okay, so she’s made it through the journey to the iconic Ellis Island. The next problem was that Immigration to the USA was incredibly curtailed by 1918, compared to the levels of immigration to the US prior to WWI beginning. In this, Sarah was lucky. Prior to WWI, on average between 1900-1914 about 1 million immigrants arrived into the US each year. In 1918, roughly 110,000 did - Sarah being one of them. I’ve said before that she would have had an easier time getting passage on a ship in the first place because she was comparatively better off on a nurse’s wage and was a middle class professional. More than that, most travel was reserved for the military - and Sarah likely had connections, being the wife of an American soldier, which made it easier for her to gain passage on a ship. (More on this later.)
Her status and profession is also very important for explaining how Sarah gained entry to the US, because by the end of WWI, the open door policy of the 19th and early 20th century had been solidly shut. The open-door policy had essentially allowed anyone who could pass a very basic medical and legal check free entry to reside in the USA, and the Ellis Island museum has a very good description of just how cursory these checks were - they were nicknamed the ‘six second physicals’. 98% of immigrants passed straight away, and a only a very small percentage of the remainder were put on a ship back to their country of origin. But by the outbreak of WWI, politicians and the public had become uneasy about this. Mostly due to racial concerns - Chinese immigration was the first to be restricted in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act. Japanese immigrants were targeted in 1907 and all Asian immigrants in 1917. (I see a lot of posts on tumblr talking about how immigration restrictions in the US began by denying Jewish refugees entry in the 1930s, which... is wrong. So, so wrong. But anyway.) Here is a contemporary cartoon showing a pretty good summary of attitudes to immigration by the time Sarah would have been travelling:
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(The 3% refers to immigration restrictions put in place by Congress AFTER the war, btw.)
But the US wasn’t just worried about one continent’s people! Or even ‘just’ non-whites! Oh no... they were also VERY worried about the ‘wrong sort’ of white immigrant too. Namely, anyone from southern and eastern Europe, and the Irish. 
The discrimination against the Irish is an interesting one, because on the face of it, the Irish were the kind of immigrants the US wanted - north and western Europeans. But here’s where eugenics and pseudoscience come along and fuck things up for a lot of people. Part of the reason why the US was suspicious of southern and eastern Europeans was political - that they harboured a tendency towards violent revolutions, communism and anarchy. The Irish, after the violence of the 1916 Easter Rising and the fact that a not-insignificant number of violent revolutionaries tried to facilitate a German invasion of Ireland (and then unionists ran guns during the war through Kriegsmarine U-boat dropoffs on the Irish coast in... defence???? Idk either.), came to be included in this politically radical group. That’s the first strike.
The second strike came from the fact Irish had the British working against them. In those days, British media and culture really set the tone for the rest of the world. Remember, the US was not a world superpower yet - this is when Britain is at the height of its power, ruling 20% of the world’s people and 25% of its land surface by 1924. Britannia really did rule the waves, and much of the world’s culture, at this point. Hollywood, and American ‘soft power’ had yet to develop into the behemoth it is now. British culture persistently depicted the Irish as subhuman, ape-like, feckless, uncivilised and dangerous, as you can clearly see here:
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The top one is from 1866, and the second one from 1849. Both were cartoons published in Punch Magazine, which was the pre-eminent social and political publication that EVERYONE read in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It also played a huge role in shaping social attitudes, and you can see more of its, and others, views on the Irish in these excellent galleries. The rest of the British media was the same - almost universally negative views of the Irish, which filtered across the Atlantic over time. And seemed to be vindicated by events like the 1916 Easter Rising, and before that a long running number of secret societies the British kept discovering, plotting revolution against their rule. The whole ‘kiss me I’m Irish’, dying the Hudson green on St Patrick’s day, ‘omg I love an Irish accent’ thing? Didn’t happen until the latter half, or really the last quarter, of the twentieth century. The Irish were pretty much persona non grata when Sarah was alive. Part of the explanation for this came from the idea that the Irish were a part of a lesser race, their Celtic origins leading to a lack of judgement, predisposition to alcoholism and hotheadedness, and passionate outbursts which meant you needed to treat them more like children. Conveniently enough for the British, this explanation meant you didn’t need to treat your subjects like equals, deserving of the vote, or indeed with anything except violence and condescension. Ha. Funny that.
But anyway, back to America.
Third strike: the Irish were Catholic, as Sarah would have been. Only the very richest in society were Protestant, because they were descended from British settlers. Both the British and the US governments of the time viewed Catholicism with deep suspicion, partly for historical reasons (Martin Luther, 1517 and all that jazz) but ALSO because the Catholic Church remained a vastly powerful institution which could and did command the loyalties of people more than the national government, and this represented a dangerous fifth column within the nation state. Most of north and western Europe was Protestant, unlike the south and east which was predominantly Catholic (with the exception of France. But hey, they’re the French. No big.) so the Irish being 99% Catholic was yet another reason they got lumped in with the other ‘undesireables’. 
Not a small part of this was caused by the fact that the Irish had been immigrating to America in vast numbers ever since the Great Famine (aka the Potato Famine/Blight) to the tune of and average of c450,000 Irish per decade between 1850-1900. That is... a LOT. Like, New York’s population in 1890 had only just hit 2.5 million! Ireland’s population TODAY is 5 million! So by the end of WWI, there was already a sense that Too Many Irish were here, particularly since the Irish tended, like most immigrant communities, to move into certain areas in large numbers via family groups and connections. Sarah would have been no exception to this, which I’ll explore more in pt 3 later. It was a very common practice in this period for a man to go to America and work, then bring his family and extended family over. Or for young relations to go and live with family already in America if there was no work in Ireland - which there wasn’t, the Irish economy being subsistence agriculture and not a lot else. 
All of this together means that when Sarah arrives in Jan/Feb of 1918? She’d get a pretty rough welcome at Ellis Island (still used for incoming immigrants until new legislation establishing a visa system in 1924 went through and basically made it redundant.) and beyond.
Below is a pic of an Ellis Island arrival card, just because it’s cool:
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These tightened restrictions resulted in not just health checks, but intelligence tests and ‘mental fitness’ tests, which if failed, could result in the immigrant being sent back to their country of origin. However, Sarah would have made it through okay, because she had good English, her profession and likely her marriage cert and references from Joseph Rogers’ commanding officer to speed her passage. She may even have had family connections already in New York or America, but for the reasons outlined in my previous post, probably wasn’t in contact with them. Or if she did contact them, was likely to be ignored and ostracised. Because patriarchy, yay.
But ironically? Getting into America was the easy part. I know, I know, unbelievable, especially when you consider she was PREGNANT during this. I mean, can you imagine enduring morning sickness and all the other joys of pregnancy on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic in WINTER, in danger of sinking from a U-Boat torpedo at any moment? Can you? Can you??? Sarah Rogers came up against an immense set of obstacles just to get into America and just fucking ploughed through them like they were tissue paper. Which explains a LOT about Steve Rogers, that’s for sure.
Join me next time for pt 3, where I explore Sarah’s living and working situation after she arrives and we all learn to be even more in awe of how fucking metal she was.
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🌼Get To Know Me Tag🌼
Thanks @satans-helper for tagging me!!! This is gonna be a long one so if anyone feels it’s necessary, please tell me to shut up! oke doke les do it❤️
1. What’s your middle name?
Olivia!
2. How old are you?
20, very cool and very funky years..
3. When’s your birthday?
January 8th
4. What’s your zodiac sign?
Capricorn 🐏 also an Aries rising, Libra moon if anyone cares lol
5. What’s your favourite colour?
Rn it’s yellow!
6. What’s your lucky number?
Ok I rlly gotta pick one soon cuz I just don’t have one lol
7. Do you have any pets?
Used to have a chubby brown lab but she was an old girl:( BUT recently I have fed a stray cat enough for him to come back everyday so he is now mine by Ricky Law™️
8. Where are you from?
Toronto, Canada baybee
9. How tall are you?
5’5
10. What shoe size are you?
7 and a half? I think?
11. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
Not that many like 5 tops lol
12. What was your last dream about?
Last night I dreamt about going horse back riding?? I woke up like ...she’s a horse girl, I knew it..
13. What talents do you have?
I can draw/paint?? Also I’m a pretty snazzy photographer
14. Are you psychic in any way?
I’m definitely intuitive...I’ve experienced some very strange coincidences in my life...
15. Favourite song?
Jimi Hendrix’ Voodoo Chile
16. Favourite Movie?
Moonrise Kingdom
17. Who would be your ideal partner?
*stares in Josh Kiszka yearn*
18. Do you want children?
Erm not sure yet
19. Do you want a church wedding?
Lol I want whatever the opposite of a church wedding is..
20. Are you religious?
Nope.
21. Have you ever been to the hospital?
Yes. I’m so clumsy I am a danger to myself at this point...
22. Have you ever gotten in trouble with the law?
No I’m literally a baby chicken and will cry if u raise ur voice at me
23. Have you ever met any celebrities?
Not formally? I’ve seen a lot of random celebrities just walking around tho cuz I live in a big city
24. Baths or showers?
Showers, practically but I love me a good bath now and again
25. What color socks are you wearing?
Im not wearing any ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ;-) Sam Kiszka tease ;-) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
26. Have you ever been famous?
One time my painting was put into a community art gallery and they took my photo for the local newspaper except they made the centre fold of the page fold into the picture around my face so it got all distorted and it was like when Mike Wazowski was in the Monsters Inc commercial...
27. Would you like to be a big celebrity?
Not rlly..
28. What type of music do you like?
Rock, folk and indie but I will listen to anything
29. Have you ever been skinny dipping?
Yes. Me and my friends do it every year as a cottage tradition!
30. How many pillows do you sleep with?
3...I need to be snuggled AND supported
31. What position do you usually sleep in?
I don’t sleep unless I curl up into the smallest ball possible like a friggin cat
32. How big is your house?
She smol
33. What do you typically have for breakfast?
Literally just coffee most days. I love anarchy
34. Have you ever fired a gun?
Nope. Don’t have the desire to either.
35. Have you ever tried archery?
I have not but I’ve always wanted to!
36. Favourite clean word?
Cozzy
37. Favourite swear word?
Cunty but like as an adjective
38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep?
Not rlly sure...probably only a day. I’m a very sleepy person
39. Do you have any scars?
Yep
40. Have you ever had a secret admirer?
If I told you, they wouldn’t be secret ;-)
41. Are you a good liar?
No not at all. My face gives it away so badly
42. Are you a good judge of character?
I like to think so. My first impressions of people tend to be true.
43. Can you do any other accents other than your own?
Ya but not well ahsgag
44. Do you have a strong accent?
I don’t think I do, but my family from the states always says we have the stereotypical “Canadian accent”.
45. What is your favourite accent?
I loooove Irish accents. I find them very pleasing to hear!
46. What’s your personality type?
INFP-T to be precise
47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing?
My prom dress I think? I got it a Free People for 90$ and at that store, that’s a steal...
48. Can your curl your tongue?
Yeth
49. Are you an innie or an outie?
If this is referring to my belly button then, innie
50. Left or right handed?
Right handed
51. Are you scared of spiders?
Ew ya
52. Favourite food?
Ok my fave food is also my fave foreign food and it’s Indian!
53. Favourite foreign food?
^
54. Are you a clean or messy person?
messy...ITS CAREFUL CHAOS OK?
55. Most used phrase?
I really am not sure...
56. Most used word?
probably ‘like’. Yes I’m gen Z, yes I have trouble articulating my thoughts. And what about it???
57. How long does it take you to get ready?
I need at least an hour...I like to plan
58. Do you have much of an ego?
I don’t think so??
59. Do you suck or bite lollipops?
If you bite lollipops, you’re in jail now, I don’t make the law.
60. Do you talk to yourself?
Yes, I’m the funniest person I know.
61. Do you sing to yourself?
Yes, funny you ask, I’m not only the funniest person I know, but also North America’s greatest entertainer!
62. Are you a good singer?
No! But I will preform for myself and the spiders living in my room. Yes, we exist!
63. Biggest fear?
Losing the people I love, being trapped.
64. Are you a gossip?
No yuck i hate it.
65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen?
this is too broad and difficult but The Witch. It’s spooky and dramatic.
66. Do you like long or short hair?
I don’t rlly have a preference...
67. Can you name all 50 states of America?
Probably if I try really really hard lol as a Canadian, this is a good road trip game
68. Favourite school subject?
Art or English!
69. Extrovert or introvert?
Introvert
70. Have you ever been scuba diving?
No but something about makes me anxious
71. What makes you nervous?
I would really love to find something that doesn’t make me anxious. Let’s start with that.
72. Are you scared of the dark?
No! I find it comforting sometimes actually
73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes?
Depends. I hate confrontation so I only do it if it really matters...
74. Are you ticklish?
Ok I wanna know who isn’t! Like whomst is not ticklish??
75. Have you ever started a rumour?
I hope not...I would feel very stinky
76. Have you ever been in a position of authority?
If by authority you mean telling my sister to get out of my unassigned-assigned spot on the couch even though my voice cracks a little as I do it causing her to laugh even harder, than yes.
77. Have you ever drank underage?
Yes. *police sirens grow closer*
78. Have you ever done drugs?
I have done a weed or 2. Yes
79. Who was your first real crush?
My neighbour lol
80. How many piercings do you have?
3! My ears and also my cartilage! Used to have my septum, but it caused me too many problems so i let it grow over :(
81. Can you roll your R’s?
Ya!
82. How fast can you type?
So fast *spongebob voice* wanna see me do it again?
83. How fast can you run?
I would probably be the first to go in a horror movie
84. What colour is your hair?
Dark brown
85. What colour are your eyes?
Brown
86. What are you allergic to?
Nothing substantial.
87. Do you keep a journal?
Ya I do!
88. What do your parents do?
My mums a school secretary and my dads a fraud investigator
89. Do you like your age?
U know what, ya..I can’t complain.
90. What makes you angry?
Injustice and rudeness
91. Do you like your own name?
Ya I don’t mind it
92. Have you already thought of baby names if so what are they?
I mean I have names that I like but it’s not something I write down so I always forgot lol
93. Do you want a boy or a girl child?
I really couldn’t care less
94. What are your strengths?
Physically, I’m a sack of bones with the upper body strength of a new born baby but I like to think my sense of humour makes me tolerable *finger guns*
95. What are your weaknesses?
I am one frightened human bean.
96. How did you get your name?
Tru story: throughout my moms whole pregnancy, everyone including the doctors were convinced I was gonna be a boy because they could never get a clear look at me in the ultra sounds so my parents had only picked out boy names until I was born to which they changed their choice of “Eric” to Erika :))
97. Were your ancestors royalty?
Not at all lol
98. Do you have any scars?
Did I already answer this one? I think I did?
99. Colour of your bedspread?
White with pink floral pattern! (From ikea lol)
100. Colour of your room?
It’s an off-white
Ok I wanna tag these lovely beans @pe2chie @turntonightfirelight @camomillacatalina @witchgoddess @blackdressedtinyone 💗💗💗
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Schitt’s Creek post season 1 AU
98% certain I won’t write this, but. At the end of Season 1, Johnny does sell the town, and David does go back to NYC, and Stevie does come with him. They do get a two-bedroom in Manhattan, but the sale of the town does not fully restore their former wealth, so David is on some level aware that he has to make a living, so he signs a lease on a gallery space, thinking this is how he’ll make money. His mother reveals that they were helping him with his galleries before, but he has already signed the lease, and he’s convinced he can do it, but the gallery does not go well, and he gets terrible business advice from people who want to exploit him. Stevie gets a job in a hotel.
Then Stevie’s aunt dies and she finds out her aunt still left her the motel, so she has to go back to Schitt’s Creek to take care of business. But she doesn’t have anyone to help her, and it’s overwhelming and confusing, so she gets this business consultant to go through all the documents with her. And he is super sassy and great at finances and kind of appears to be at loose ends, so she asks him to work with Ray to help her sell the motel. So she comes back to her apartment with David but stays in touch with this guy who updates her on the status of the motel; his name is Patrick, and she actually talks to him a lot. David teases her and calls him her boyfriend.
Then Patrick finally get a buyer for the motel, and Stevie keeps putting Patrick off, because she has all these doubts. The Roses sold the town, but are they really happier? Is she really happier, here in NYC? And if she sells, she’ll never have a home to go back to, and she’s not sure this is what she wants. So she keeps delaying and delaying and Patrick keeps calling and calling. And finally Patrick being Patrick flies to NYC to meet with her and talk to her and find out what’s wrong and get her to sign the papers. And he’s staying in like, idk, a very sketch air B&B; the flight out here was already more than he should have spent, and Stevie tells him he has to stay with them, and David is very annoyed about it. And while Patrick is there, he sorts out that Stevie doesn’t want to sell, and he offers to manage the motel for her, and she says, “Okay, why don’t you manage David’s gallery because he’s awful at it?”
And David is like EXCUSE ME but. Patrick is very smart and sensible and wears ugly clothes and is from a small town so might not be as terrible as all the other people trying to exploit him; also he was really good to Stevie and people who are good to Stevie get a lot of points. Patrick points out he will be in Schitt’s Creek managing the motel and so cannot manage David’s galleries and also he knows nothing about art galleries. But um, that ceramist he’s showing sells lots of her pottery online and none of her sculptures are selling; why isn’t David trying to sell things people actually use? And David tries to explain the difference between craft and art and Patrick is like okay, cool, I only know stuff about profit margins not art so look I’m no help to you, and David is like, wait I want profit margins. And Patrick is like okay, then you need to sell those crafts, and David is like all right I don’t want to but I need business advice. So Patrick says okay.
Then David and Patrick have a long distance business relationship with emails and texts and skype and phone calls, and it takes a lot lot lot longer for the kissing to happen because long distance. Actually I mean Patrick probably started dating Ken because Ken was cute and interested and there, and Patrick feels like he might be gay so he might as well try even though he’s turned off by Ken’s shoes. And at one point Patrick mentions dating Ken and David like . . . loses his mind, because if he had known Patrick was gay he would have DONE something and Stevie is like what would you have done and David is like HIM I WOULD HAVE DONE HIM and Stevie is like you are so eloquent.
 There is a lot more to this story about how Patrick guides David’s business in the direction of a boutique with high end crafts and wellness products made by rural artists but also for some reason there’s this whole other thread about how the gallery is not really workable as boutique real estate but David wants to keep the gallery space and use it as an event space, because he always wanted to do an event business because he’d be so good making beautiful events but would really fail on the business end, and Patrick is like okay, we can do this we should get your sister in on this, and David is like my sister is in Hanoi wtf can she do, and Patrick is like social media and David is like but why my sister, and Patrick is like, because she’s an influencer? And he puts together this whole market plan, and he meets with Alexis and she asks how Schitt’s Creek is, and he mentions Ted, who is still broken-hearted, but trying to move on.
And the event business involves hosting some events as examples of the kind of events they could plan/have in the event space, and it involves some old connections the Roses have and they end up pretty successful because David is in fact really good at planning parties. So the business kind of starts to get noticed? And they do get some clients but they have to keep up like a steady stream of events and can’t fill them all in so they’re having some events that are literally, just, cobbled together with what they have, and Patrick plays his guitar at one, and Stevie does standup at another, and David is mortified at the idea of both of these things and they are both really good and Stevie gets noticed, like get noticed in a big way, and I think Stevie might become, like, a star? But I’m not sure about Patrick, he’s fallen in love with David by that time and broken up with Ken and all he wants is to make every single one of David’s dreams come true, and Ray is doing pretty well with the motel back in Schitt’s Creek and Patrick feels like he should move to NYC so he can be a part of David’s business.
I think the reason I’m not going to write this is I don’t know where to go from here. Like, Patrick doesn’t really like Manhattan; he feels rushed and overwhelmed, and David is still not quite the person he becomes in canon. Possibly they date long distance and neither of them like it, and Patrick is willing to move for him but David knows Patrick doesn’t like it, and David doesn’t actually like it either. What if, actually, they end up living in Brooklyn (which David disses SEVERAL times in canon) where it’s maybe still too huge and fast-paced but Patrick feels like they can actually at least afford a little place and they try it and David realizes he would go anywhere with him, live anywhere with him, and meanwhile Alexis has made marketing into a real career.
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How to Create a Gift Certificate Program
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It's that time again - you're starting off a new year and thinking about your business goals for the year. One of those goals will most likely include an intention to bump up your business a little and bring in some more revenue. One promotional idea worth exploring is a gift certificate program. Retailers almost always have a gift certificate system in place, but a lot of service businesses don't.
Why not? The answer I hear most often is "I haven't got around to it yet!" So I'm going to share a couple tips to get you started.
What kind of gift certificates do you want?
There are 2 basic types. It's really nice to have both:
The paid-for kind of gift certificate is purchased by one of your customers for another person. Not only is it a way to serve new customers, it's a way to serve your current ones. People love sharing experiences, and when you create a really positive one for the recipient, the gift giver will feel great about it!
Another type is the free gift certificate. That might be a gift from you to a current customer, a promotion to attract new ones, or a thank you gift for the people that help you throughout the year.
Tracking your gift certificates
The simplest way is to create a paper log-book or Excel spreadsheet. Besides recording the purchase date, amount, recipient's name, and redemption date, also include the purchaser's name & contact information in case you are must issue a refund as per some state laws.
Showing the dollar value
If you're in a service business, most people buying gift certificates are paying for a particular service they want their friend to have. In this case, it's really nice to write that on the certificate itself, for example, "Good for a 60-minute Reiki session." But what if you raise your prices later or the recipient wants something different? It's smart to put the dollar value on the certificate, in a very small discreet way.
On free certificates, you might want to show the dollar value so people understand its worth, but write "no cash value" very small so that there's no confusion about it being refundable for money.
To present or not to present?
Businesses often stipulate that the certificate "must be presented at time of service." That policy does help prevent fraud, but you can't enforce it without getting the customer really upset. This is where your tracking system is truly necessary. Don't be surprised when 98% of gift certificate holders come in without the paperwork. Trust me on this one. It's better to be elegantly prepared.
Expiration dates
In most states, it is illegal to put an expiration date on gift certificates that were sold for money. If you feel anxious having unused certificates floating around without expiry, you may put a "must be redeemed by" date on them, but here's the rule: when the expiry date passes, you must refund the purchaser in full. Only after you're refunded the purchaser in full can you void the certificate.
The no-expiration rule does NOT apply to free certificates. Since no money has changed hands, the expiration date is up to you.
Refunds
You can pretty much create whatever policy you want, as long as you have one. You can offer cash refunds, "store credit only" refunds, or a combination. For example, if you sold an hour massage certificate for $100, but the redeemer only wants a $65 pedicure, your policy will determine whether they get cash back, credit towards future services, or if they can use the difference to buy products or put it towards the tip.
Do keep in mind that if you should happen to go out of business, you are required by law to issue cash refunds to the purchasers of all unused gift certificates. That's why you need to keep records.
You will need to check with your particular state for any area specific laws that may govern your area. A good place to begin this search is with your state's Department of Consumer Affairs.
How to design your gift certificates
There are 3 basic ways you can create your certificates. I'll start with the least expensive ones first.
Do-it-yourself gift certificates from your computer The most affordable way is to use a program like Microsoft Word or Publisher. If you aren't sure how to start from scratch, there are free templates you can download and customize at the Microsoft Template Gallery.
Alternatively, most office supply stores have pre-printed gift certificate stationery for sale. You can format them with your computer, or even hand write them if you've got nice writing.
Pre-printed gift certificates
Just like ordering pre-printed checks, you can order pre-printed gift certificates. These cost a little more, but they can look really nice with your logo or embossing done on nice paper. A company called Gift Central even sells tracking forms you need, if you're not sure how to do it yourself.
Credit-card style gift certificates
If you've got a bigger business with a POS checkout system, these are pretty cool. It used to be that only huge retail stores had this type of certificate, but now anyone can sell them. Because they look like a credit card, people understand that they must present the card to use it, and it makes "store credit only" refunds really easy to manage.
Make it special
Whatever kind of certificate you use, make it look as attractive as you can. It should fit the style of your business, and its perceived value should match the gift. So if you've got a $200 gift certificate for example, it 상품권 현금화  should be on nice paper, in a nice envelope, or maybe even a gift box.
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on the subject of Jack’s cabin ( please do not reblog!!!! )     
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       okay this is gonna be a looong post because i’ve got annotations and everything lmfao. so i’m finally putting together a guide to Jack’s cabin on the Pearl. this is mostly what it looks like post-CotBP, once Jack has retaken his ship from Barbossa, but I imagine it’s also safe to assume that this is what it looked like prior to the mutiny as well. 
       during TPOF, structurally speaking it would of course look the same, but it would be much more colourful, because it’s noted in the novel that Jack painted his cabin a loud mixture of periwinkle and rose in order to resemble a Caribbean sunset ( therefore it’s a fun thing to look at this photos and imagine how different the walls etc must have looked while Jack was a merchant captain sailing under the EITC ). when the Black Pearl ( which was then called the Wicked Wench ) burned, Jack had the entire hull repainted black in order to hide the scorch marks, and that’s my theory on why his whole cabin takes on such a gothic feel in the films. Davy Jones did also make some alterations to the ship when he raised her from the depths -- including adding the figurehead at the bow. I want to say that some of the gothic imagery on the walls of his cabin was also an addition tbh ( such as to the right of Barbossa in the image below )
       so, trawling through screencaps, I’ve found the two best images that show Jack’s cabin, and show it from two viewpoints -- towards the stern windows ( so as you enter the cabin through the door ), and what I’m gonna call Jack’s POV, looking towards the door. there’s only one part of the cabin that is not visible to us as the audience at any point, and that’s Jack’s POV of the port ( left ) side of his cabin ( labelled 3 below ). i’ve numbered the particular aspects of his cabin I want to talk about:
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        ( forgive the ugly colour, this is what we have to deal with since both scenes are in the bloody dark thanks gore lmao. you can find full-size versions of the images here and here ). I’ve coloured them so that they could easily be a part of the same scene ( and I’m 99% sure they were filmed at the same time ), but just bear in mind that the top image shows this part of Jack’s cabin in the aftermath of the kraken attack in DMC, so there’s a damaged wooden mast to the left of the image and ripped curtains ( label 2 ). I’m using a DMC image of the rear of Jack’s cabin because that shows it in pristine condition, before the kraken smashes those lovely stern windows lmfao.
         1) okay so number one is arguably what prompted this whole post, and that’s the antechamber you can see behind Gibbs. it’s difficult to tell that there’s an archway behind him in that photo, but when you compare it to this beautiful daylight photo we have of Pintel and Ragetti stood outside of it during the kraken attack in DMC, it becomes a lot easier to visualise. the wooden figurines either side are the same in both photos, but this one also shows us a bluey-green privacy curtain, a lantern, a candle and what looks like another curtain or piece of fabric in the antechamber itself ( plus another window, which is one of the ones on the left-hand side of this photo -- also, note the matching wooden figures either side of the door to Jack’s cabin ). 
        unfortunately, it’s out of focus and Ragetti and Pintel are blocking what’s actually inside but, while TPOF claims this to be where Jack’s private head is ( the ship equivalent of a toilet lmao ), my headcanon is that this is where his bunk is. reason being is that there is absolutely no sign of a bed in Jack’s main cabin, and the curtains and candle you can see inside seem more characteristic of a bedroom than anything else. so, this is where his spacious double bed mentioned in TPOF is actually kept. also, the room is pretty large -- label 2 shows where the door to Jack’s cabin is, and you do have to take several steps once you’re through the door in order to actually enter his cabin properly ( I’ll talk more about this in my next point ), so I’d say it was a pretty roomy space tbh
        2) this is the entrance to Jack’s cabin, and as I said above, once you’ve entered through the door, you have to walk several paces and then down two steps before you’re properly in his quarters. also, you can see in the photo the remains of a curtain ( also remember the part in the bloopers where Kevin kept getting caught up in it? ). you can see in the beautiful Pintel and Rags photo that, before the cabin was ravaged by the kraken, it was a curtain of the exact same pattern as the one in his bedroom antechamber. this therefore means that you wouldn’t automatically see Jack as soon as you entered the cabin unless the curtain was drawn back
        3) okay this refers to the hidden part of Jack’s cabin that I have yet to find a single image of during the entirety of filming back in 2005 lmao. now we can guess what’s there based on the images we have of the other three quarters of his cabin, because if the room was uniform, then there should be another antechamber on the port ( left ) side to match the one containing Jack’s bunk on the starboard side. the description of his cabin in TPOF also confirms this:
On either side of the cabin were bulges that overhung the hull below, called the quarter gallery. The quarter gallery on the port side housed a small enclosure fitted out with shelves and drawers, known as the captain’s pantry.
        so this is where Jack keeps his own private stock of rum and food, which he would be entitled to being the captain of the ship. 
         4) the fucking cannon lmfao. so this is another point where TPOF isn’t wholly accurate to the films, because in the novel it’s claimed that Jack doesn’t have a cannon in his cabin ( until he moves one in temporarily during his battle against Borya ). but looking closely behind Barbossa, you can see that there’s a gun port too, which means that this is clearly where the cannon is supposed to be. you can also assume, then, that there is a matching cannon on the opposite side of the ship ( because there’s always gotta be an even number of guns on a ship ). so Jack doesn’t just have one cannon in his quarters, he has two. are they regularly used? i doubt it. but they’re there lmao
          5) the skylight. now we can’t see this in that particular screencap, but we can sort of see it behind Gibbs in this promotional shot, just behind the bell ( this one from DMTNT, shockingly, also shows it ). TPOF also mentions it, and if you want a fun angsty fact, while Jack was trapped inside of the burning Wicked Wench’s cabin, this skylight collapsed due to the flames, the glass fell on him and that was what eventually knocked him out:
The deck jumped and lurched. Everything slid around again, including Jack. He fetched up against the door, and the chest slammed into him. A tongue of flame erupted through the door, and suddenly his left sleeve was on fire. Yelling, gasping, Jack tried to beat out the flames with his right hand.
He heard another hideous groan, and glanced up, just in time to see the overhead skylight collapsing, coming down on top of him.
         6) I haven’t got much to say about this, aside from the fact that that’s his desk, and in both scenes showing his cabin, it’s constantly full of trinkets and maps and papers. I’m also 98% sure it’s a lot smaller than the long dining table Barbossa has in the same cabin in CotBP ( when he dines with Elizabeth ), so it’s safe to assume that Jack replaced it once he regained control of his ship. it’s also extremely difficult to see what is behind Jack in that lower photo, even while ramping the brightness of the image up, but you can see his globe, and I’m sure Jack also owns a bookcase with titles by his favourite authors.
         7) and finally, those beautiful windows. these are what should flood Jack’s cabin with light during the day and, as was shown in CotBP ( here and here ), the ledge beside the windows is wide enough for someone to sit on it. you can also see in the first photo ( and it’s further confirmed when looking at the stern of the Pearl from the outside ), that there are in fact not three windows, but nine, if you include the three on both the starboard and port sides of the stern.
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Since its inception, Fox’s Gotham has delivered when it comes to little winks, nods, hints, and Easter Eggs about the Batman universe. Some are good, some are not so good, and others were about as subtle as a trainwreck. After all, why did Oswald Cobblepot hate being called “Penguin” way back in the pilot? Why did Edward Nygma mostly ask question or speak in riddles when he worked at the GCPD? Why did Selina like to be called “Cat?” Heck, we even met Dick Grayson’s parents. Okay, admittedly, these aren’t the best or even fair examples since I’m mostly cherry-picking from the first few episodes of the first season.
And since the season has progressed, the series has gotten better at setting up the future of this world, helped by the fact that rather than hinting at it, many of Batman’s future rogues gallery have already become villains by the time we reach the Season 4 finale. This applies to Bruce as well, since as far back as the Balloonman episode, he’s received inspiration about vigilantes who take the law into their own hands- vigilantes who are admired by some of Gotham City’s citizens, even though this means operating outside of the law.
With the final season of Gotham coming soon and promising to show Bruce Wayne’s transformation into Batman, one would think that the series is set to showcase more Easter Eggs. And series lead and James Gordon actor Ben McKenzie confirmed this during an interview with ComicBook.com at New York Comic Con, where he said that there will most definitely be Easter Eggs for fans of the series and the Batman mythology:
“I’m not sure how much I can say about them but they definitely will be there. I will put it this way, a lot of the questions we get asked at comic cons like ‘when you gonna do this, when you gonna do this.’ Well, right now! Right damn now we’re gonna do them because we don’t have anymore time.”
Ben McKenzie also stated that the integration of these Easter Eggs will feel organic rather than shoehorned in or throwing a Bat-Easter Egg at the wall to see what sticks:
“I don’t think we’re just throwing things at the wall we’ve created- I think John Stevens and the writers have created a pretty great- not just template in No Man’s Land for sort of all hell to literally and figuratively break loose but also a plan throughout those 10 episodes to sprinkle in all those things the fans want to see in a way that pays off. A way that doesn’t just seem like lip service that actually feels like it’s part of the 98 episodes we would’ve done in the course of five years.”
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