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#made in the british isles
freja-with-a-j · 1 year
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This is what people mean by British public opinion 💀💀💀
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They did prince Harry DIRTY 💀💀💀
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sehkelly · 4 months
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thesixthduke · 1 year
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yurithenasia · 1 year
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If you vote please reblog
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hetagrammy · 1 year
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This might be controversial, but I've never had this idea of Britannia as being a particularly warm maternal figure. Like, I think she definitely loved her kids, but she was more concerned with their survival than with letting them be children if that makes sense. Her way of showing love was trying her damndest to protect them, and to make sure they could survive on their own after she was gone. It was less explicit "I love you"'s and more compliments on their progress or stern scoldings when they'd gotten themselves into danger. The British Isles Siblings are hard pressed to remember the last time their mother hugged them or sang to them, but they remember her pressing a blade into their hands, kissing their foreheads, and telling them to be brave. They know their worth because of her, but what tenderness they gained they learned elsewhere.
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windandwater · 11 days
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Isle of Portland, Dorset: Portland Bill Lighthouse
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apotelesmaa · 6 months
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it cracks me up so much how soul eater takes place in nevada that will never not be funny
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Yes Atushi Ohkubo this *is* what Nevada looks like you’re right on the money.
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gr1d · 4 months
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The inherent problem with Norway and Oslo specifically is that everyone has their shit together and it throws my exceptionally spread out and ungathered shit into too sharp relief
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debating sending my (scandinavian) medieval literature prof a mail to ask for some sources, so that I can write historically accurate fanfiction
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mariocki · 2 years
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Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 210/?
Elton John - Made in England (1995)
"If you're made
In England,
You're built to last;
You can still
Say 'homo'
And everybody laughs.
But the joke's
On you,
You never read the song -
They all think they know,
But they all got it wrong."
#favourite lyrics#elton john#made in england#1995#bernie taupin#the second single from John's album of the same name saw him move away from the romantic ballads and more delicately furnished#love songs that had dominated his style for the last few years and return to the heavier pop rock sound that had first won him acclaim more#than two decades before. in style and execution it couldn't be much further from the album's first single‚ Believe‚ but it's testament to#John's versatility as an artist (and the confidence his fanbase had with that) that both songs performed very well in the charts on both#sides of the atlantic (Believe did a little better in both areas but Made in England was a modest hit in its own right)#released at the very height of britpop‚ the song could easily be confused for a celebratory paean to his home country (and the artifice is#certainly intentional) but all it takes is (as he sings himself) to 'read' the song to see through that#and to catch the very caustic criticism of a land which had variously celebrated and condemned him (and still flip flops tbh)#in particular John had had (and again‚ still does have) a difficult time with the uk paparazzi; a few years earlier he'd successfully#sued The Sun for libel and won a considerable settlement (then the largest in British history) over a series of smear articles which#published outright lies about the singer (The Sun has always been and will always be a shameless rag). having more or less#concentrated his professional efforts in the US at this point it's perhaps unsurprising that John would find his thoughts drifting homeward#and yet tinged with bitterness at the ill treatment he'd received there‚ as well as the homophobia he'd experienced (90s britain wasn't so#very enlightened as it considers itself now (har har): section 28 was in full force‚ the age of consent for gay sex was still higher than#that for heterosexual sex‚ Jersey and the Isle of Man were only just decriminalising homosexuality‚ Justin Fashanu committed suicide and#Elton's friends‚ contemporaries‚ fellow artists and fans were dying of AIDS. is it any wonder he was angry? I'm sure he still is and with#good reason. while the whole pop music scene was falling over itself to prop up 'cool britannia'‚ Elton raised one eyebrow and said#really?#and I'll always love him for that
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