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oneadhdwitch · 5 months

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Tales of Gotham

There are many stories from my city and the neighbouring towns that can be quite comical. One of these towns is known for having very stupid people in it. The reason behind this is that during the reign of King John, he was meant to pass through Gotham on his way to Nottingham but the towns people did not want this to happen; and so they made themselves seem incredibly stupid when his scouts checked the route.

Through this many tales came about the place and I wanted to share one in particular that made me giggle.

The Men of Gotham and The Cuckoo

The men of Gotham noticed that whenever a cuckoo came to town, Summer would be right behind it. They decided that when the cuckoo would next visit, they would trap the bird in hopes that the summer would stay with the bird.

Once the cuckoo came the men got to work, building a fence around the tree in which the cuckoo sat. The men of Gotham were extremely proud of themselves until the day came that the cuckoo flew over the fence and left the village.

The men kicked themselves, promising that the following year they will build the fence high enough so the bird cannot escape.

#Gotham #English #Gotham Tales #English Tales #Nottinghamshire Tales #Folk Tales #King John

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atlafan · 1 year

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#I’m not even leaving an option for none #reblog if you didn’t read any I guess??? shame on your English teachers though #I say that as if I actually read any of these cover to cover lmao #I think the only ones I actually read cover to cover were lord of the flies #of mice and men #wide sargasso sea #night #the canterbury tales #I wish I could make more answers the options should be limitless

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the-evil-clergyman · 1 year

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Illustrations from The Fairy Book by Warwick Goble (1913)

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lionofchaeronea · 3 months

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A Crowned Merman, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

#art #art history #Arthur Rackham #genre art #genre painting #fairy tales #watercolor #pen and ink #British art #English art #19th century art #20th century art

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illustratus · 26 days

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A Saint, from the 'Jackdaw of Rheims' by Briton Rivière

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am-i-the-asshole-official · 8 months

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Am i the asshole f'r getting mine own neighbour burn'd at the stake?

i wenteth to the farm'rs marketeth lasteth weekend, and hath bought mine own goat - daisy. I intend'd to selleth the cheese yond the lady maketh. Mine own neighbour claim'd yond t wast in fact h'r goat yond wond'r'd off of h'r landeth, and the lady wouldst liketh t backeth.

i didst not wisheth to shareth the cheese, and toldeth h'r to leaveth me beest.

i didst some bethinking, and realis'd the lady may has't been a beldams! how didst the lady knoweth yond daisy hath appeared at mine own doth'r lasteth weekend? daisy wast a gift from god, i sayeth!

i rep'rt'd h'r to the church and yest'rday the lady wast burn'd at the stake.

though i feeleth guilty. P'rhaps i wrongly accus'd h'r? h'r 16 children art v'ry upseteth (though, those gents shouldst beest greatly joyous as those gents receiveth half a bean m're f'r dinn'r) and i am not making much wage on the cheese.

so. Am i the asshole?

#aita #am i the asshole #joke aita #btw my apologies to anyone who's clutching their head reading my attempt at antiquated dialect #what do you even call that. i know it's not middle english cause that's canterbury tales

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pemberlaey · 3 months

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(some of) my literary roman empires

benedick’s “you” —> “thou” switch in 4.1

the extended portrait metaphor in pride and prejudice

may welland

the repression of female emotions in victorian fiction

henry’s “a country dance as an emblem of marriage” speech in northanger abbey + the way that 19th century dance scenes prefigure marriage in general

the moment in jane eyre when mr. rochester asks jane if she finds him handsome and she says “no, sir”

victorian floriography

ophelia’s final scene

ww1 solider poetry (sassoon, owens, rosenberg, brooke etc.)

the ambiguity surrounding bertha mason

juliet’s “O romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou romeo?” breaks from iambic pentameter because the name romeo has too many syllables so the problem is literally his name

éponine thénardier (just everything about her but especially the “i am the devil” scene)

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 10 months

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Ann Macbeth, "Once Upon a Time" (1902)

via ninaclarebooks on instagram

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aregebidan · 2 months

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“who are you? i don’t even know your name” “don’t be in such a rush. you will give me a name someday. and i live in terror of that day” / “i’m afraid to turn around. not of your anger, though. i’m afraid i’ll see nobody” / “go on dreaming. when you dream about my likeness you create it” / “when you loved no one you never thought of death” / “give her proof of her love” “shall i?” “kill her before she sees you” “no!” “then kill yourself” “how?” “let her go”

literally who is doing it like them. no one. no one. no one.

#panna a netvor #turn my ashes into a fucking. dvd of this cinematic masterpiece #what if the beauty and the beast had reverse pygmalion and galatea but also reverse orpheus and eurydice—#—and also just the most banger lines to ever fuck the mind of man even in their depowered slightly clunky youtube english subtitle form #to understand the script in the original would be too much for me. i’d drop dead on the spot. i’m completely serious #what if. creation myth love story death tale gothic thriller. and there was exquisite music and a bird guy with an evil internal monologue #whose only wish ever was to be rewritten revised killed off and resurrected and irrevocably changed by love……oh i’m going insane #film

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wedarkacademia · 2 years

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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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piroshky · 1 year

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The Tales of Foggy Albion, Vladyslav Yerko, 2003.

#ukrainian art #ukrainian illustration #fairy tale illustration #british folklore #english folklore #childrens illustration #fantasy illustration #knights #castles #horses #art #illustration #my post

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 1 year

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904) "Cinderella" (c. 1899) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Located in the Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England

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howmanyepsofmlseason6areleft · 1 year

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Miraculous Ladybug Season 5 google drive link (to be updated by yours truly!)

So this has been a long time coming!

So you guys know I like to post drive links separately for episodes as they come out, but for a while I’ve had the idea to make a folder and upload the episodes to drive so that it’s easier for people to access. And thanks to the anon who reminded me of that idea, I decided to finally go through with it!

So the way this works is that the folder will contain the English Dubs of all episodes + subs of episodes not yet dubbed, and once every episode is dubbed in English it will be only a English dub folder! I’m thinking of also making a separate folder for the French Dub, but I’ll let you guys know when that happens! I’m adding this post to the pinned post, and this will be reblogged every time a new episode airs + is added!!

Anyway without further ado, here it is! Let me know if there are any problems, and enjoy!

[Credits to Miraculous.to for uploading the episodes + subbing them! That website the fastest way to get episodes and I downloaded all the vids on this drive link from there !!)

(P.S. Try not to share this link too much! Sharing w friends and mutuals and reblogging this on tumblr is 100% fine + encouraged, but don’t repost this link on Twitter or Instagram anything like that. It increases the chance of it getting taken down + could cause issues and I’m not ab to deal with all that lmao)

#ml season 5 english dubs #ml season 5 English subs #miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #ml news #miraculous #ml episodes #miraculous: tales of ladybug and cat noir #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #tales of ladybug and cat noir #ml season 5 #miraculous ladybug: tales of ladybug and chat noir #mine

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the-evil-clergyman · 10 months

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