#black death

[rherlotshadow]

'From 1348 to 1350 the Black Death killed roughly a third of England's population, and chronicles recorded that, after months of heavy rain, the fields of rotting crops were taken over by enormous, vivid fungi in red, purple and black. What a sight that must have been at a terrifying time.'

From 'The Secret Life of Fungi' by Aliya Whiteley

#fungi #black death #england #history

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in medieval England and instead of the Black Death everyone kept getting Gonorrhea so in the history books they called it “London’s Cheeks: The Clappening”.

#dream #medieval #england #black death #the plague #plague #death tw #medieval england #gonorrhea

[emilybeemartin]

A whopping, like, 2.6 people have expressed interest in my recent adventures in watching Bean films, which is all the encouragement I need to present to you:

An Incomplete Guide to Sean Bean Roles (Investigation Ongoing)

Our guy has a vast filmography, and I'm not even close to being halfway through it, but I've watched a lot of his significant ones in the past few weeks thanks to a perfect storm of illness, injury, and lapses in client work. Crucially, I have created superlatives for a variety of them and present them here for your benefit. Disclaimer: many of these films are violent! Or have butts and/or tits! Some have dick! Some have dated bits that didn't age well! So, if you have triggers or are watching with young viewers, do your research first! Also, these are just the opinions of one solitary millennial! Nothing is objective! Nothing is real! I care not!

Okay, CYA done, let's begin. I'll get the two most obvious ones out of the way up front, otherwise they'll dominate half the categories:

ACT I

Greatest Bean: Fellowship of the Ring. I've said it before and I'll say it again, he achieved more pathos with Boromir than a lot of his other roles have allowed for, and every note he hits just sings. No debate.

Best Bean for Your Buck: Sharpe. For the best confluence of quantity, quality, physicality, emotion, humor, and action, you can't beat Richard Sharpe.

Favorite Dramatic Bean: Time; he earned that BAFTA fr

Softest Bean: The first date scene in Stormy Monday, where Brendan shyly gets to know Kate, slow dances with her, lends her a shirt and strokes her back after she asks if they can just go to sleep instead of have sex.

Most Dashing Bean: Vronsky in Anna Karenina, that uniform cuts, damn

Swooniest Bean: I know I'm supposed to say Chatterley, and he is undeniably sexy as Mellors, but there are parts where his character is actually kind of off-putting. I'll lay a good chunk of the blame on the weirdly ominous score, the very of-the-time depiction of dubious consent, and Joely Richardson's tendency to look like she's having the worst time of her life while shagging the hot gamekeeper. No, I'm giving this category to Stormy Monday again. He's just so gentle and genuine in this one, without some of the obligatory "heartthrob" overtones of his nineties stuff. He never raises his voice at Kate or manhandles her. He really does feel like some kid who just wants to be sweet to his girlfriend.

Laddiest Bean: When Saturday Comes, specifically the strip club and bathtub scenes.

Favorite Sad Bean: As a collective, he has some great grief scenes in World on Fire, but! The railroad track scene in When Saturday Comes?! That was RAW.

Favorite Mad Bean: Black Death; there are plenty of movies where he doesn't smile at all, but unlike some others, his grimness and anger felt proportionate to the story, rather than just rage because he's good at rage.

Favorite Bad Bean: There are so many great Bean villains (Goldeneye, obvs), but I think my favorite is Patriot Games. Bonus points for all the different hairstyles he has in this film (long locks-shag-shag ponytail!-buzz-wet spiky buzz). Also HUGH FRASER AAAA

Favorite Dad Bean: Wolfwalkers, where Bill Goodfellowe literally turns his own convictions and beliefs upside-down in order to protect and support his daughter.

INTERMISSION

A note on GoT: I haven't watched it. When season one was first coming out, it was during a time where I really couldn't handle watching any kind of sexual assault onscreen, and while I have a higher tolerance now, I just... don't want to. I like seeing gifs of Ned Stark and appreciate that it's one of his great roles, but I just can't make myself take the plunge.

ilysm you grizzled dead wolf man

ACT II

Favorite Costumed Bean: Odysseus in Troy: curls, leather, thighs.

Favorite Un-Costumed Bean: He strips in quite a lot of his films, so let's give it to Lady Chatterley for sheer screentime, exertion, and the bonus of being naked and wearing a flower crown. Honorable mention to When Saturday Comes for the totally not homoerotic amount of butts and also dick in the locker room bathtub scene.

Hurtin'est Bean: Bravo Two Zero. Oof, don't watch this one if you have an aversion to seeing pain, although---you're a Sean Bean fan, and we all know one of his MOs is being GREAT at pain. This one was directed by Tom Clegg, who directed Sharpe. Also lol at the sickle-shaped wound on his shoulder, which is covering his 100% Blade tattoo (he gets a lot of sickle-shaped wounds on his left shoulder).

Best Inside References: The Frankenstein Chronicles, where he plays a former Peninsular soldier, and every reference to his service is a reference to Sharpe, including shots of his greenjacket, pistol, sword, and flogging scars. Honorable mention to The Martian for the Council of Elrond line.

Most Unsettling Bean: Cleanskin for moral grayness, The Frankenstein Chronicles for body horror

Most Inefficient Use of Bean: Black Beauty. Despite getting high billing he's only onscreen for about two minutes and I'm convinced the long shots are a body double. Criminal.

Biggest Missed Opportunity: We were robbed of a Sean Bean Odyssey. R o b b e d

Funniest Bean: Deploying Bean for comedy is woefully underused, but he made full use of his ~15 seconds in The Vicar of Dibley ("Spring" episode). He's also hilarious in Wasted, though I haven't watched the show, only the clips he's in on YouTube, where he plays a mock version of himself serving as a spirit guide for a stoner. IMO, though, Sharpe gives him the most room for humor.

Favorite Character Quirk: In World on Fire, when Douglas is having WWI flashbacks and really coming apart, he kept putting his hand to his mouth. My modern brain first read this as talking into a phantom radio, but of course that wasn't right, and then I realized--he was reaching for a phantom gas mask. CHILLS. AMAZING. (Honorable mentions to the Mouth Rub and the Tongue Thing [pictured above]).

Most Nostalgic Bean: National Treasure. The concept may be utter silliness, but you have to admit, this is a fun movie to watch.

Best Dismount from a Horse: Henry VIII, he goes pshwing out of the saddle

Best Swordplay: You may think there's no possible answer to this, but there is---two moments, specifically: the preparatory sword-spin he does at Balin's tomb just before the goblin attack in Moria, and the four lunges he does at 1:26:22 of Sharpe's Battle. It's just facts.

Prettiest Bean Film: Wolfwalkers, hands downnnn

Favorite Bean Death: All right, you knew we had to eventually end here. It's Boromir, obviously--- nothing tops that. But if we're looking at other roles, I think Patriot Games is my favorite, followed by Goldeneye.

So! That concludes this installment of Bean films, though I'll be continuing the labor, and I hope you will, too. What are your favorites?

#sean bean #fellowship of the ring #lord of the rings #sharpe #stormy monday #lady chatterley #patriot games #world on fire #goldeneye #bravo two zero #troy #wolfwalkers #black death #national treasure #anna karenina #time #gifs #flashing gifs

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

Listen.

LISTEN.

LISTEN.

#IM JUST SAYING THEY CAN CANONICALLY DO SHIT LIKE THIS #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #eclipse the darkling #archie sonic #black doom #black death #sonic x shadow generations

[mapsontheweb]

Europe 2nd plague map

#maps #europe #black death #14th century

[pragmatismandmagic]

Would love to study the sociological reason we all decided plague doctor's needed to be fashionable. It has no roots in actual history. Look at what plague masks actually looked like in Europe during the Black Death:

look at these silly little birds. These ugly ducklings. Why the fuck did they grow up to be sexy goth swans

You could make a historically accurate plague doctor costume out of a burlap sack and a graduation gown, and if you showed up to a Halloween party like that you would be cropped out of the Instagram pics for the night. Why did this happen???????? Where did you come from historically non-existent tumblr sexy-men plague doctors

#plague doctor #halloween costumes #halloween #Halloween #black death #bubonic plague #history #sociology #original

[ollyvoile]

Add your reasons, if you like!

Other people have added these:

• Yellow fever @notoverjoyed

• Scurvy @monitorchakas

• Lymph disease @wyrmalien

• Diphtheria ( I couldn’t fit this one)

• Malaria “ye olde marsh fever” @bombadilbaddie

• Scrofula “The King’s Evil” @hasturswig

Edit for all the people telling me “uhhh tuberculosis still exists”: I know! :) In fact, all of these sicknesses still exist. In the modern world we live in, however, most of these are only prevalent in developing countries, and certainly not to the extent they once were.

#medieval #disease #cholera #dysentery #typhus #typhoid fever #tuberculosis #TB #bubonic plague #black death #leprosy #leper #influenza #smallpox #syphilis #gonorrhea #chlamydia #diphtheria #diphtheria didn’t fit unfortunately #yellow fever #scurvy #lymph disease #plague #immunology #medicine

[humnooshop]

It's the Black Death European tour of 1347-1351!

The relaxed fit t-shirt and other products with this design are available on my Redbubble :)

#black death #the plague #medieval england #the black death #medieval #medieval history #medieval europe #plague doctor #plague mask #history #grunge #macabre #plaguecore #medieval core #middle ages #history side of tumblr #bubonic plague #grunge aesthetic #tees #graphic tees

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #health #england #black death #english history

[probablyasocialecologist]

Much is often made by people living now of how silly it was that medieval people didn’t manage to figure out that the Black Death was caused by the bacteria yersinia pestis. This is despite the fact that there were several often quite complex and intelligent suggestions of what might, in fact, be causing the plague. One of the most wide-spread explanations was probably miasma theory, which had been rather in vogue since your boy Galen had written about it back in the second century. Medieval people, of course, were mad for Galen, so it’s no surprise that they were quick to nod toward his theories in the midst of the plague. The Bishop Bengt Knutsson in Sweden remarked that bad air might cause plague, “as when we see a privy next to a chamber or any other particular thing which corrupts the air in substance and quality, which is a thing which may happen every day. … Sometimes it comes of dead carrion or the corruption of standing waters in ditches or in sloughs or other corrupt places, and these things are sometimes universal and sometimes particular.” Others in the German lands said that following an earthquake, a “corrupt and poisonous earthy exhalation [was released and]… infected the air in various parts of the world which when breathed in by people suffocated them and suddenly snuffed them out”. Others, like a physician in Montpellier, were even able to see that the plague had become air born, noting that “the air breathed out by the sick and inhaled by the healthy people round about wounds and kills them, and that this occurs particularly when the sick are on the point of death.” This isn’t a million miles off of actual factual germ theory, in that we do get sick from inhaling gross stuff, and from being around other sick people. It’s just that what makes us sick is usually odorless and also a tiny living organism that we can’t see. Interestingly a form of miasma theory being used to explain the prevalence of the Black Death also lives on and is repeated now in myths about the medieval period. I have repeatedly heard people now refer to the fact that “medieval streets were full of shit” to explain the spread of the Black Death. This is interesting because it is 1) not true – most medieval cities tightly regulated the disposal of human waste very strenuously and 2) would be irrelevant anyway even if it were true (it’s not) because that’s not how yersinia pestis travels. It needs to be introduced either through the skin via flea bites, or via inhalation because it has been breathed at someone – much as COVID is spread. So, shit in the streets (which again, I cannot stress enough, was not a thing) would just be gross – not an active way of spreading plague.

#medieval history #disease #conspiracy theories #black death #antisemitism

[vox-anglosphere]

Dode village was wiped out by plague, but her parish church survives

#Dode #Kent #Black Death #plague village #1349 #mediaeval #British history #ghost village #parish church #rural britain #UK

[yorksnapshots]

A very private residence.

On this ancient site (York, England) traces have been found of Roman, Pagan and Christian Saxon occupation. The surviving 12th Century Norman Chapel belonged to St. Mary's Abbey throughout the middle ages.

Victims of the Black Death were buried here in 1349. Declared redundant in 1973 the building was restored as a private residence in 1981 with no public admittance allowed to the historic hall or grounds.

#Chapel #Church #Churches #Tower #Building #Structure #Architecture #History #Historic #Plague #Black Death #Dark Academia #Aesthetic #Medieval #Homes #Houses #Photography #UK #England #Yorkshire

[ancientorigins]

Remarkable discovery in Nuremberg, Germany: Over a thousand skeletons from the Black Death have been discovered in mass graves under the city, revealing critical insights into the city’s history and the epidemic’s impact in Europe.

#Nuremberg #Black Death #Mass Graves #Archaeological Discovery

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

ok theory time (sonic x shadow generations)

since the black comet is gone and dooms original body is likely destroyed (the actual consciousness exists within dooms eye)

and the plot description says doom wants to take over the world, not destroy it

combined with this image

COMBINED with the fact that ian flynn is likely writing the shadow story, and ian flynn also wrote the shadow fall arc in sonic universe, which includes THIS

(note how both dooms eye and deaths eye turn REALLY big, how shadows eyes glow yellow when he's being forced into the illusions, and how in both instances shadows reality is distorted and memories are brought back)

my personal theory is that doom is gonna try to do the same thing, try and wear shadow down with his own trauma until he cracks, and he can use shadows body as a conduit to carry out whatever world takeover hes planning. but hey that's just a theory

#ramble #theory #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog 2005 #black death #eclipse the darkling #archie sonic #sonic x shadow generations #black doom #dooms eye

[mapsontheweb]

The spread of the Black Death in Europe, 1347-1352.

#maps #black death #europe #14th century

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) "Saint Rosalia interceding on behalf of the plague victims of Palermo" (1624) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, United States Rosalia (1130–1166), also called La Santuzza, or "The Little Saint," and in Sicilian as "Rusulia", is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, Camargo, Chihuahua, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, Zuata, and El Playon. She is especially important internationally as a saint invoked in times of plague. In 1624, a plague beset Palermo. During this hardship Rosalia reportedly appeared first to a sick woman, then to a hunter, to whom she indicated where her remains were to be found. She ordered him to bring her bones to Palermo and have them carried in procession through the city. The hunter climbed the mountain and found her bones in the cave as described. He did what she had asked in the apparition. After her remains were carried around the city three times, the plague ceased. Rosalia was then venerated as the patron saint of Palermo, and a sanctuary was built in the cave where her remains were discovered. Her post-1624 iconography is dominated by the work of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, who was trapped in the city during the 1624–1625 quarantine.

#paintings #art #artwork #religious painting #saint rosalia #anthony van dyck #oil on canvas #fine art #baroque #menil collection #museum #art gallery #flemish artist #history #plague #patron saint #female portrait #portrait of a woman #black death #cherubs #cherub #angels #christianity #catholocism #1620s #early 1600s #early 17th century