#st. james family

[endlessly-cursed]

WW1- Conrad St. James

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚."

Name: Conrad Gustave St. James

Nicknames: TBD

Birthdate: 20th of December, 1887

Zodiac Sign: Saggitarius

Personality Type (MBTI): TBD

Blood Status: Half blood

Nationality: French Canadian

Physical Appearance

Hair: Dark brown, almost black

Eyes: Dark blue

Height: 1.88m

Weight: 92kg

Body Type: Strong, well-built, lean and flexible

Skin Tone: Fair

Distinguishing Marks (scars, birthmarks, etc.): TBD

Background

Hometown

Conrad grew up in the French part of Canada, in the city of Quebec, where he grew up with a French immigrant mother and a Canadian father with French ancestry. He lived a comfortable life

Family

Mother: Roséline St. James, neé Delacour

From the famed Delacour family, she was constantly bullied at Beauxbatons for not being pretty enough, and always felt like a fish out of the water. After the political inestability drove her family out, they tried their luck in the French Canada and soon established themselves there. Roséline became a modiste and met her future husband through making a dress for her future sister-in-law

Father: Peter St. James

A well-known businessman, he seemed at first like the perfect husband and father... until Conrad followed him one night that he was out with friends to find him with another family outside the city in a small village. He was shocked and hurt, and immediately told his mother, who then dumped him on the spot and talked to the other woman, who was not aware. Things got worse when they found out she was a niece of the governor. The scandal went out when Conrad was just 19, and ran away to England, where he finished his degree in photography and journalism.

Eldest brother: TBD St. James (ancestor to the St. James twins)

Ilvermony

House: Thunderbird

Best Class: Charms

Worst Class: None

Boggart: Everyone at Ilvermony laughs at him for the scandal

Riddikulus: Their laughs are high pitched coughs

Patronus: TBD

Patronus Memory: Hearing Mystie laugh

Mirror of Erised: Having a normal life

Amortentia (what he smells like): Wood, pepper, recently baked baguette and expensive cologne

Amortentia (what he smells): TBD

Career

11-18: Student at Ilvermony

19-24: Student at Oxford College

24-26: Assistant professor in Eton college

26-31: Photographer and journalist during WW1

31-??: TBD

Personality & Attitude

Priorities: Getting away from the scandal, getting his way, keeping Mystie safe and finding himself

Strengths: Adventurous, smart, academically gifted, cunning, is capable of bending the law to his will and master manipulator

Weaknesses: Shy and reserved

Stressed: Around bombings, when somebody asks about his family back in Quebec

Calm/Comforted: Making photographs and baking

Favorites

Colors: Grey, royal blue, emerald green and golden

Weather: Drizzle in the night

Hobbies: Dancing, cooking and reading

Fashion: Conrad dresses fairly nice, not too ostentatious nor too poorly. He has an overall good sense of fashion

Relationships

Significant Other/Love Interest: Mysteria 'Mystie' Charmsworth ( @potionboy3 )

Mystie and Conrad met during a case in the Great War. They discovered they were similar and made a great team, and decided to keep working together, finding her entirely fascinating

[MORE TBD]

Friends: TBD

Rivals: TBD

Trivia

After finding out about the affair, in a fit of rage, challenged his father to a duel. However, his father knew nothing and, while throwing random spells he had heard from his wife, hit him in the face with a spell, which reduced his eyesight, which made him wear glasses for reading and studying

After the scandal was uncovered, Conrad locked himself in a room and started reading law books, and soon found loopholes on where and how to bend the law to his will

After his parents divorced, he sought revenge by disguising himself as a friend of his that helped with the affair and threw him off the bridge and ran away shortly after

Despite looking shy and reserved, he has a wild side where he can be pretty bold and daring, and can manipulate and lie his way through with hardly any scruples

He also has a strong temper he keeps most of the time, but can be quite explosive

#hp ww1 era #hp wwi era #oc: conrad st. james #mysteria charmsworth #st. james family #character sheet #oc profile

[thali-lemmonpie]

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY SO MANDATORY SPIRK ART FOR MEEE

This year I'm so busy that I had to keep it simple, so a little cute drawing of my family au that I have in my head for +5 years 🤗

This AU is yeaaars in the making and I'm not a 100% confident of it to write of draw about it (but i my birthday and I want to indulge myself) if you want to know more: under the cut

SO, in this AU Jim and Spock have a one night stand and Jim ends up pregnant, Jim goes to Spock but he doesn't let Jim have a say bcs he heard rumors (Spock is kind of an ass in the beginning)

bullet points bcs Idk how to write it all:

✨Jim gets so offended that he decided not tell him and go to the Vulcan embassy for help, there with time he meets T'Pol and T'Pau that are great help

✨Every event is pretty the same for the movie so I just make some sneaks here and there of his life with his baby.

✨Bones and Gaila are godparents of that baby (I don't have a specific name for her, like I'm between Alice or T'Shanik)

✨Spock gets involve after the events of the Narada, Amanda is still alive (bcs I said so), he loves her so much but Jim still wary of him but he lets him form a bond with her.

✨Everything is the same in Into the Darkness, Jim dies and resuscitates, here I diverge in 2 AUs one were Jim and Carol have David and one they doesn't and part ways in both (their canon event)

✨Spock really tries with Uhura (She loves the kid too), but in Beyond they just broke up.

✨Jim settles on earth and takes a teaching position while they are making the Enterprise-A, and Spock does too, they live in the same building or neighborhood.

✨They fall in love (with the help of their daughter and crew, bcs they are pretty dumb) and they get married and have another child, another daughter that is a menace, but she's an story for another day

That's pretty much the AU, very cliche and fluff and angst that I haven't written.

Wanna see my other Birthday spirk drawings?

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

#my art #star trek #s'chn t'gai spock #spirk #space husbands #james t. kirk #st #k/s #aos #family au #original character #love child

[geekysteven]

[Image description Wednesday Addams with a neutral expression labeled "captain Kirk's backstory" standing next to her smiling friend Enid labeled "Captain Kirk"]

#the addams family #wednesday addams #enid sinclair #james t kirk #james kirk #captain kirk #Star trek #star trek the original series #star trek tos #st tos #image described #described images #image description added #geekysteven

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The day Princess Anne was almost kidnapped on The Mall — 50 years on

On this day 50 years ago, 23-year-old Princess Anne found herself fighting off a gunman as her bodyguard and driver lay wounded beside her. Emma Loffhagen takes a deep dive into the disturbing day one of the most senior royals was almost kidnapped.

By Emma Loffhagen

20 March 2024

“Your daughter has been kidnapped. The following are conditions to be fulfilled for release.”

In March 1974, Ian Ball used a rented typewriter to haphazardly type a letter intended for the then-head of state, Queen Elizabeth II.

Ball, 26, a funeral home worker, demanded £3 million — to be paid in £5 notes — in exchange for the return of the Queen’s daughter, Princess Anne.

After becoming fixated with the 23-year-old princess, he spent two years hatching an elaborate plan to kidnap her.

Today, March 20, marks the 50th anniversary of Ball’s kidnap attempt — one of the most bizarre and disturbing episodes in British royal history.

A “loner,” Ball had been inspired to hatch his elaborate kidnap plot by the novel Day of the Jackal.

He wanted to follow in the footsteps of the book’s hero, the contracted assassin the Jackal.

“He was a very strange man,” Ball’s neighbour later said. “The only time he ever went out was when he went down to the launderette or went out for some food.”

It was thought that he had developed a “fixation” on the royal, whipped up by the widespread and lavish coverage of her wedding to Captain Mark Phillips the previous year.

As part of his plan, Ball had moved from his run-down flat in Bayswater to a lush rented house in Fleet, Hampshire.

It was only a few miles from Sandhurst, where Anne lived with her then-husband Phillips.

After a quick phone call to the Buckingham Palace press office, Ball knew which engagements and events Anne attended each week.

He rented a car under the alias John Williams, stocking the boot with Valium tranquilisers and two pairs of handcuffs.

On the evening of 20 March 1974, Anne was travelling back to Buckingham Palace in an Austin Princess limousine.

She had attended a screening of Riding Towards Freedom, a documentary by the charity Riding for the Disabled.

Captain Phillips, her bodyguard James Beaton, and her lady-in-waiting Rowena Jane Brassey, were also in the car driven by royal chauffeur Alexander Callender.

At around 8pm, as the group drove up The Mall, a white Ford Escort swerved in front of the limousine, forcing Callender to stop.

Then a 31-year-old inspector, Beaton, who had been Anne’s bodyguard for a year, got out to investigate.

“I thought it was somebody who wanted to be a pain in the neck,” he later said. “There was no hint of what was to happen.”

Suddenly, a bearded man with light red hair jumped out of the vehicle and pulled out two handguns, smashing the passenger window with the butt of one.

Beaton had not even had the chance to pull out his weapon when he was shot in the shoulder.

He then attempted to fire back at Ball — but missed. Upon a second attempt, his gun — a Walther PPK — jammed.

Ball turned to the passenger door behind the driver’s seat and started shaking it. Anne was sat on the other side. “Open, or I’ll shoot!” he shouted.

As the princess and Captain Phillips desperately tried to hold the door closed, Anne’s lady-in-waiting crawled out of the door on the passenger side.

Beaton got back in the car, placing himself between the couple and their assailant.

Ball shot into the car, and Beaton’s hand deflected the bullet.

He shot the bodyguard a third time, hitting Beaton in the abdomen and causing him to fall from the vehicle.

“I felt tired and very drunk, although I hadn’t been drinking,” Beaton later told police. “I just wanted to lie down.”

Callender stepped out to confront the gunman, but Ball shot him in the chest and he fell back into the car.

Pulling the door open, Ball grabbed Anne’s forearm as her husband held on to her waist.

“Please, come out,” Ball reportedly told the princess. “You’ve got to come.”

As the pair struggled over Anne, her dress ripped, splitting down the back, which she later recalled prompted her to “lose her rag.”

But, rather than panic, she had what she described as a “very irritating conversation” with her potential kidnapper.

Unbelievably calm despite the commotion, Anne famously replied: “Not bloody likely!”

In an interview with the late television presenter Michael Parkinson, she recalled:

“He [the gunman] opened the door and we had a discussion about where — or where not — we were going to go.

“I said I didn’t think I wanted to go. I was scrupulously polite because I thought it would be silly to be too rude at that stage.”

A nearby tabloid journalist, Brian McConnell, arrived on the scene.

Recognising the limo’s insignia, he realised the commotion must have involved a royal family member.

“Don’t be silly, old boy,” he told Ball. “Put the gun down.”

Ball responded by shooting him too and McConnell collapsed bleeding onto the road.

A man named Ronnie Russell drove past at this point.

He was on his way home to Strood, Kent, from working as an area manager for a cleaning company in London.

In a stroke of incredible luck, Russell happened to be a former boxer. He had cut his cloth at the Repton Club in east London, an infamous venue sponsored by the notorious Kray twins.

Jumping out of the car, Russell punched Ball twice in the head before leading Anne and her lady-in-waiting away from the attacker.

He later explained that he “did not like bullies,” which prompted his decision to intervene.

Despite being injured, Ball still shot the first police officer to arrive on the scene, Constable Michael Hills, 22, before running off.

Detective Constable Peter Edmonds, who answered Constable Hills’ radio request for backup, chased Ball down The Mall and through St James’s Park before tackling him on the ground.

At Ball’s Old Bailey trial in May 1974, more details came to light about the plot.

Ball kept his head lowered for most of the proceedings, only uttering the word “guilty” to confirm the charges of attempted murder and kidnapping.

In his pocket, detectives had discovered the kidnap note addressed to the Queen, which demanded the ��3 million ransom (the equivalent of £26 million today), a free pardon, and a plane to fly him to Switzerland.

He had planned to take the princess to a central London property he had rented under an alias.

In a police interview, Ball also said he believed Anne would be an easy target after ascertaining her whereabouts by phoning the Buckingham Palace press office.

“I had thought about it for years,” he said. “She would have been the easiest. I have seen her riding with her husband.”

Ball also showed no remorse for having shot three men on the night of the attempted kidnap.

“They were getting in my way so I had to shoot them,” he said. “Well, the police, that's their job. They expect to be shot. I took a chance of getting shot so why shouldn't they?”

He added: “I suppose I’ll be locked up for the rest of my life. I am only sorry I frightened Princess Anne. There is one good thing coming out of this: you will have to improve on her protection.”

Ball was diagnosed with schizophrenia following the trial and sentenced to a mental health facility under the Mental Health Act, “without limit or time."

He remains in the Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire to this day.

The facility has been home to a series of notorious criminals, including serial killer Peter Sutcliffe and London gangster Ronnie Kray.

Immediately after the attack, the royals ceased having only one protection officer.

When Anne visited Beaton in hospital, “she turned up with two policemen,” her bodyguard said. “From then on, that’s what it was.”

“I had nothing…There was no back-up vehicle,” Beaton told The Times separately.

“The training was non-existent; but then again, [we thought] nothing was going to happen. They are highly specialised now, highly trained.”

Beaton continued to work for Anne for another five years — before the Queen employed him.

After Beaton’s weapon jammed, the type of guns used by bodyguards were also changed: “The Walthers were got rid of overnight.”

Beaton was honoured for his bravery, receiving the George Cross — the UK’s highest civilian honour for gallantry.

Russell also received the honour. In a 2006 interview, Russell recalled what Queen Elizabeth said as she presented his George Medal:

“The medal is from the Queen of England, the thank you is from Anne’s mother.”

#Princess Anne #Princess Royal #Queen Elizabeth II #Captain Mark Phillips #British Royal Family #Ian Ball #Inspector James Beaton #Day of the Jackal #Buckingham Palace #Sandhurst #Riding Towards Freedom #Riding for the Disabled #Rowena Jane Brassey #Walther PPK #Alexander Callender #Michael Parkinson #Brian McConnell #Ronnie Russell #Repton Club #Constable Michael Hills #Detective Constable Peter Edmonds #The Mall #St James’s Park #schizophrenia #Broadmoor Hospital #George Cross

[hawkingsbarkins]

Family Video entrance, September ‘85

“Fourth try to rent The breakfast club but it’s always all out, so I’m just renting Goonies again,”

#stranger things oc #stranger things original character #james diary #st #stranger things season four #eddie munson #james munson #stranger things #80s grunge #corroded coffin #family video #the goonies #stranger things aesthetic #steve harrington #not my photo #spring aesthetic #aesthetic photography #aesthetic #small town aesthetic #grunge aesthetic #80s aesthetic #robin buckley

[newyorkthegoldenage]

It's no secret that the British Royal Family of the time loved Broadway musicals. During her visit to New York, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother got a chance to see The Pajama Game at the St. James Theater before the London production opened, October 27, 1954.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Marty Lederhandler #Queen Mother #Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother #royalty #royal visit #British royal family #Oct. 27 #27 Oct. #The Pajama Game #St. James Theater #vintage Broadway #theater

[flightlaw]

Ok, if you're in the US, go see the movie "Unsung Hero" this weekend

It's a film about family, about working against the odds, about music (but not a cheesy musical), and it's fantastic (I'd give it a 9.5/10, but maybe subtract the .5 because I'm ever so slightly biased towards the lead actor).

We need to hype it up, so the theaters know that we want this kind of film more often, GO SEE IT

#unsung hero movie #unsung hero #forkingandcountry #for king and country #fk&c #fk+c #for KING + COUNTRY #for KING & COUNTRY #movie #movie premiere #new movie #new film #film #joel smallbone #luke smallbone #Rebecca st. James #smallbone family #Helen smallbone #David smallbone #smallbone

[princessanneftw]

TUESDAY MAY 2

ADRIENNE ARSENAULT REPORTS: Princess Anne

Canadian Exclusive

In this new CBC NEWS EXPLORE series, go beyond the headlines to the heart of what’s happening with CBC News Chief Correspondent Adrienne Arsenault. In this episode, Princess Anne invites CBC News into her sitting room and opens up about her brother’s coronation, the monarchy’s future, and her grandchildren’s special connection to Canada . Available on CBC News Explore and CBC Gem on demand starting May 2.

#a new anneterview!!! #aww the annelets connection to canada courtesy of autumn #that’s at st james’s palace #exciting! #princess anne #princess royal #anne does stuff #anneterview #british royal family #brf #king charles iii #coronation

[henrysglock]

here's the full article ->

Thanks so much for this!! (And disclaimer re: this post...I'm not shooting the messenger. Nothing here is personal, so if I sound snippy it's not @ you, luxerit)

I have several thoughts, the first of which being: Maybe I'm being nitpicky, I have a tendency to do that...but where do they mention romance?

"This is first and foremost a story about Henry, a love story about Henry and this girl he meets..."

Yes, okay. A love story. A story about love. No one ever said it wasn't. In fact, the presence of love here is like. integral. Of course it's a love story!

That doesn't make it romance, though.

For example: just from the first page of GoogIe when you put "love story about a family"...

Does anyone want to tell me that these are romantic?

And not to tap the sign, but...

So...Yeah, I'm pulling the phrasing card on this article too.

Thanks again for providing the article!

#not to be that guy but...the amatonormativity brainrot is real. for a second i was concerned and then i remembered there are #love stories about families. #tumblr user james henrysglock remembers that stranger things is a love story right alongside the horror: more on this at 10 #asks #st: tfs

[zoya-withthepoodlesalready]

In case you couldn't tell Lorelai is my favorite character lol

#gilmore girls #luke x lorelai #lorelai gilmore #luke danes #my roman empire #do these scenes live rent free in anyone else's heads? #obsessed with the gilmore/danes/mariano/geller/gleason family #lane kim #dave rygalski #sookie st james #michel gerard #dragonfly inn gang (+ jackson) supremacy

[clockworkbee]

When Henry Strauss thought, “He loves his family, he does. He just doesn’t always like them.” and when Oliver Marks said, “I love her, just like I’m supposed to. I just don’t like her very much.” and Matthew Fairchild said, “I don't like Charles, but I love him. I can't help it. Odd how that works, isn't it?” and when Celia St. James said, “I love them, and I hate them. But that’s family, I guess.”

#that love for your family #henry strauss #matthew fairchild #small parallels #quotes #the invisible life of addie larue #chain of iron #oliver marks #if we were villains #celia st james #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #when they said

[klirk-hammurton]

Why is this man such a fine ass DILF

@dedicatedtopapahet @wonhakwoon @paulainchains @metallicasimp

#metallica #metallica family #met family #tallica #acillatem #5th member #james hetfield #the mighty het #papa het #d a d d y het #dilf james #jaymz #the master of puppets #st anger era #htsd era #death magnetic era #james you're such a fucking dilf #he definitely puts the d in dilf #he's such a fucking dilf #this man isn't a silver fox he's a full on white wolf #like gawt damn

[dave-nutstaine]

#this is so funny #music #metal #rock #metallica #justice \m/ #james hetfield #metallica family #lars ulrich #dave mustaine #kirk hammett #cliff burton #rob trujillo #jason newsted #st anger era

[hawkingsbarkins]

Family Video, August 17th ‘85

“Rented Indy again, I love Harrison Ford”

#stranger things #Hawkins #st #original character #not rp #I think #first post #family video #eddie munson #stranger things season four #James diary #pictures #stranger things oc #stranger things original character #the 80’s

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

Does anyone else imagine their favorite X-Men character yelling about literature, or is it just me?

#Pyro drunkenly banging his fists on the table and ranting about Jane Austen novels #in front of a bemused Iceman and Bishop #“It's not just about ROMANCE it's about MONEY and CLASS and INHERITANCE LAWS!” #“These women were trying to secure a future for themselves and their families and also not have complete shit husbands!” #this is really just a post about Pyro #he's a writer and he bantered with Stonewall about James Joyce he knows his shit #st john allerdyce

[found-family-tournament]

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 29 Group 145

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Groovy Train: Ebony, Pyjamas, Fleetway Super Sonic

Submissions are now closed!

Harry, Evelyn, Celia & Connor:

You really should read that very short and enticing book

Groovy Train:

After Fleetway Super sonic loses his memory he goes and looks for a job. He finds the groovey train which is run by Ebony and Pyajama. After the biohazard (not to be confused with the biolizard) attacks and they learn Super's past they give him a job at the Groovey train. Ebony and Pyajama bacislly become Super's moms who are doing as good of a job they can. They do their best to prevent Super from becomeing evil again. in the end they Super need chaos energy to live but it makes him become evil again and Ebony has to fuse Super back into Sonic. Its so tragic I love them <3

#tumblr polls #poll #polls #tournament poll #found family #found family tournament 2023 #tumblr tournament #tournament #Harry Cameron #Evelyn Hugo #Celia St James #Connor Cameron #The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo #The Groovy Train #Sonic the Hedgehog #Fleetway Comics #Groovy Train #Ebony #Pyjamas #Fleetway Super Sonic