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My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

#misc #typical Kiwi house

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victor frankenstein had post partum depression

#frankenstein #oh hey I wrote a paper saying this lol

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The thing that gets me about modern blockbuster movies is that an amount of money goes into them that is beyond the human brain's ability to comprehend. An amount of money that could basically solve all problems for life for about 10-20 people. And then the movies are like, okay.

#misc #it drives me crazy that studios know this is a problem #it killed the studio system in the 60s and the main tentpole of film advertisement and everyone knows they're doing it again #but instead of taking a step back they've sunk so much into these expensive blockbusters (that no one putting the work in gets proper $ for #that if they don't make 2 billion dollars they've underperformed #it's just frustrating #take Loki for instance. The comics took the Marvel boom and used it to write smaller stories about lesser known characters #so Agent of Asgard gets to be total insanity with a very obviously pansexual genderfluid main character #that is also very well written and emotional and ends with the end of the world #Loki the show is too expensive to be actually inventive but everyone's sick of the same thing so it ends up as nothing #just cut the budgets and make more movies that can actually be something different #please

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Reblog and put in the tags your least favourite movie genre(s) and why.

#misc #I hate comedy films. They almost always overplay the bit and aren't funny #(ironically I adore the Carry On franchise but they actually work imo) #also don't tend to enjoy most romance films #though in all honesty I'm not much of a film buff in general

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Whatever political manoeuvres were set in motion during 1409, there is little hint that direct pressure was brought to bear upon the king. The efforts of those who aimed to enhance their status at the expense of Henry's Chancellor, and ultimately, if necessary, in defiance of the king himself, may only be discerned in a number of superficially unconnected incidents during the latter part of the year. At a meeting of the Council in August, for instance, there were signs that the Prince and the Beauforts were testing their strength by moving against the king's second and apparently favourite son Thomas, who had held the post of lieutenant of Ireland with a singular lack of distinction since 1401. Thomas, it seems, had welcomed the opportunity to return to England during his father's latest illness, and it became evident as 1409 progressed that he was being paid for duties which he was neither performing in person nor delegating to responsible subordinates. There had already been some unease in the Council about his reluctance to return to Ireland, and on 18 August it was proposed that he should be replaced as lieutenant by Sir John Stanley, the steward of Henry IV's household. It was further suggested that Thomas should receive a substantial pension to enable him to withdraw from his father's household and set up an establishment of his own. The Prince, it was recorded, agreed to speak to his father and brother about these suggestions. This last item on the record made it quite obvious that the proposals did not originate from either of the last-named parties, and carried the inference that both men might take a great deal of convincing.

Peter McNiven, Heresy and Politics in the Reign of Henry IV: The Burning of John Badby (The Boydell Press 1987)

#Thomas duke of clarence #house of lancaster #everything about Thomas and Ireland just sounds like a complete mess in every way #but also it's interesting that they were complaining about how much revenue the royal family were taking but also wanted to give Thomas #his own stipend #maybe that was why Thomas' marriage went through so quickly?

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Have you ever cried or been significantly upset at the death of a celebrity?

Yes (which one?), because I cared about them or their work

Yes, for practical reasons (ex. it was a politician with good political views)

Yes, but not because I cared about them (ex. their cause of death was a trigger for you)

No, but I would if certain famous people were to die

No, and I wouldn't even if a celebrity I liked died

No, because there are no celebrities I like/care about

Other (put in tags)

#misc #three times #the death of the voice actor for Robin Hood because I was just generally a mess at the time #Dean Stockwell for obvious reasons #and Atsushi Sakurai #both because he was very much still active and making music so it was losing an artist I liked and my favourite band in one go #and because Buck-Tick was all I listened to when my dad died and Atsushi died less than a month later #so I was extra not coping

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“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”

I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.

Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.

#misc #last year I helped a friend move this year she helped me move #listening to music while packing boxes at 2 am. How life should be #everyone who makes those kinds of posts must just be truly miserable

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wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

#the discourse #wake up babe a new tumblr ask meme just dropped

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the way people cannot take any negative thing happening in tv shows these days is genuinely frightening and incredibly tiring. sometimes characters die. sometimes bad things happen for the story to move along. unwillingness to deal with anything upsetting in the realm of FICTION (and by upsetting i don't even mean difficult themes but just basic storytelling stuff like a character dying) is how you get incredibly watered-down cookie cutter media that doesn't make you feel anything. "ooooh but escapism" you cannot avoid everything bad forever. and if a character death is something that will send you spiralling that is something with your mental health and not with the piece of media being made. from the bottom of my heart: grow up

#the discourse #honestly the whole 'fiction is escapism' thing really grates on me #like? No? Fiction isn't this special thing that is simultaneously detached from and superior to reality #people don't enjoy it because it's what they wished reality was #I honestly think the idealisation of it is why people get so angry about dark fiction

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formative part of your childhood and/or early internet usage?

or pick whichever one is your main one today. i'm not a cop, i won't know.

#misc #Club Penguin #I miss it honestly

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I’ve seen a lot of people say it’s probably unrealistic BJ and Hawkeye kept in touch after they came home, they might’ve tracked each other down once or twice but they were just bonded by a bad place and would want to move on…listen, I’m so serious when I say I don’t care. Literally don’t care that you know ppl who had army buddies they never talked to again, this is different dammit. You can’t just expect me to watch 8 seasons of these 2 being 100% inseparable and then tell me it was just trauma bonding. Like, it was more than that. They transcended the boundaries of a normal friendship, for better and for worse. I shan’t be convinced otherwise. BESTIE VIBES ONLY.

#Mash #yes BJ 'so eager to have a reunion he gets their families to do it for them' Hunnicutt is going to let them lose contact #He probably gets home and immediately starts a newsletter of what everyone's up to #Everyone's debating whether or not they would all keep in contact and I'm like right who gets invited to the reunions who goes #(aka would they invite Frank. Would he accept)

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bj hunnicutt + kids 

#Mash #he goes into paediatrics after the war #i won’t let anyone tell me any different tbh #<prev tags you are so right but also how dare you

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mash being surprisingly queer in the 70′s - 47/?

#mash

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#Mash #amazing

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It was Gaunt who arranged Henry's marriage. The object of his attentions was Mary, the co-heiress to Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, who had died at the age of thirty in January 1373, leaving no sons, two underage daughters, and a very substantial inheritance. The elder daughter, Eleanor (born in 1366), was married to Gaunt's brother, Thomas of Woodstock, earl of Buckingham, probably in 1374. What now happened to Mary (born in 1369–70) was naturally a matter of considerable interest to Buckingham. As long as she remained single, the entire Bohun inheritance would fall to him; were she to marry, he would be obliged to share it with her husband. Inconveniently, other duties now deflected his attention. On 3 May 1380, he indented with the king and council to lead an expedition to Brittany with a retinue of 5,000 men. During the following two months he did what he could to ensure that the Bohun patrimony did not slip from his grasp during his absence: on 8 May he obtained a royal grant of the custody of Mary's share of the inheritance during her minority; on 22 June Eleanor came of age and Thomas performed his fealty to the king for his wife's share of the lands. Shortly before leaving he even took the precaution of bringing Mary to stay with her sister at Pleshey castle (Essex), where he arranged for her to be instructed by nuns with the intention that she should join the order of St Clare. According to Froissart, ‘the young lady seemed to incline to their doctrine, and thought not of marriage’. Hopeful of having ensured the integrity of his inheritance, Buckingham shipped his troops to Calais and, on 24 July 1380, set out with his army on a campaign from which he would not return for nine months. No sooner had he done so than Gaunt made his move. Three days after his brother's crossing, he secured a royal grant of Mary's marriage, ‘for marrying her to his son Henry’, and shortly after this induced her mother, Joan countess of Hereford, to spirit her away from Pleshey and take her to Arundel, where the young couple were rapidly betrothed. They were married on 5 February 1381 in a service held at Countess Joan's manor of Rochford (Essex). The connivance of the king and council, who would have been aware of the blow this inflicted on Buckingham, is a measure of the financial and political leverage Gaunt exercised in Richard II's minority government. Gaunt attended and presented Mary with a ruby, as well as paying for the festivities; Henry's sisters, Philippa and Elizabeth, each gave their new sister-in-law a goblet and ewer. The king and Edmund earl of Cambridge (Gaunt's younger, and Buckingham's older, brother) may also have been there, for ten royal minstrels and four of Cambridge's minstrels received gratuities from Gaunt for enlivening the proceedings. There was nothing hasty or clandestine about the wedding.

Chris Given-Wilson, Henry IV (Yale University Press, 2016)

#Henry IV #mary de bohun #house of lancaster #re-reading this for the 18th time and today's new thought is that Thomas of Woodstock really sucked #like. Impressively #the bit about the wedding being too organised not to have been planned is interesting #I'm just going to imagine John and Joan getting up to a whole lot of scheming

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This is the kind of toxic masculinity i want to see

#funny

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So I got angry and decided more people need to know about this guy:

This, dear friends, is Wing Commander Ian Gleed, DFC, DSO, Croix de Guerre. He was a spitfire pilot in WWII in his early twenties and also pretty fucking gay. 

He was around from the very start of WWII, fighting in France, the Battle of Britain, and eventually the North African Campaign, where he was tragically shot down over Tunisia. 

Gleed published a memoir in I think 1942, before his departure for Tunisia, Arise to Conquer (I mean…really?) where his family were very surprised to discover passages about a girlfriend called Pam. When asked about this by his sister, Gleed told her he’d invented said girlfriend because readers ‘like a touch of romance’. Read, ‘the publisher was a bit worried by the implications my lack of girlfriend and circle of queer friends would have’. 

Implications which no one knew where 100% true. 

Ian was sadly KIA over Tunisia, but the truth was eventually revealed, decades later, by one of his boyfriends….

That blonde creature is Christopher Gotch, another spitfire pilot stationed at the same airfield as Gleed (Chris was also badass enough to age himself up on the RAF application form and get away with it, but that’s by-the-by). Chris talked about his relationship with Gleed in the 1990s. …

Now. 

How do you proposition another man in that day and age? According to Christopher, you sneak into their room, kiss them straight up, make an invite to your own room, and then tear off like an absolute cad, which is exactly what Gleed did. Being in his right mind, Christopher said ‘alrighty then’, leading to an 8 month relationship complete with having to hide naked in a cupboard to avoid being caught by the Group Captain.

…the more you read about Ian Gleed the better it gets, so just do. He had the cat from Pinocchio painted on his damn spitfire punching swastikas for heaven’s sake, so everyone would say over the radio ‘here comes Figaro’:

So, if you need an LGBT+ hero to cheer you up, check out my darling boy Ian Gleed. 

#queer history #someone get Ryan Cartwright to play him in a biography they look so alike #and also it would be a highly entertaining movie