#Frederic II

[fanchlebu]

Study of Portrait of Frederick the Great by Wilhelm Camphausen. Colour pencils.

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dresses in art

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discord doods vol. 3 moist timeline edition ✨ tags below

Deacon Virgil and Cici @plaquerat

Guppy and Terzo/Teofila @tricksyfishyyyyy

Antifreeze @aweisz

Archbishop Armand @orioncorium

Betta, Sibling Rizz, Sausage, and Freder @sacred-coffin

[halobirthdays]

Happy birthday to Spartan Frederic-104!

Today is his -487th birthday!

As a Spartan-II, Fred has participated in hundreds of engagements against both the Insurrection and the Covenant. He is notable for his leadership skills and skill in close-quarters engagement.

Since the end of the Human-Covenant war, Fred is technically the commander of Blue Team, though out of respect and affinity, usually defers leadership to John-117 if he is present.

Fred is arguably the most socially adept member of Blue Team, being highly observant and better attuned to reading others, which is an asset to his leadership skill. This also allows him to form relationships outside of the Spartans, including his friendship with Veta Lopis. Like all of Blue Team, Fred is bonded to and deeply loyal to his team.

In canon (~2560), Fred is turning 49!

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[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Queen Margrethe 2. of Denmark abdicates

This has nothing to with TMNT, but since I'm Danish, this is a big deal to me.

Last night, during her New Years speech, the queen officially said she abdicates, reason being her health and age. I fully understand and respect her decision, but I will miss my chain smoking, hotdog eating queen.

From the 14th of January 2024, Denmark's reigning monarchs will be King Frederik 10. along side his wife, the soon to be Queen Mary.

Long live the Queen in all her future endeavors, and long live the future King.

[theoscarsproject]

Music Box (1989). A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

As a Jessica Lange lover and a courtroom drama fan, I was really looking forward to this one, but idk! It's certainly not her best performance, nor really a great entry into the genre. That's not to say that it doesn't have it's moments - the story of a lawyer defending her now-elderly father after he's been accused of commiting war crimes before she was born is an interesting one, but I don't think it ever decides entirely what it wants to be. It's part melodrama, part courtroom drama, part father-daughter story, part WWII story, part Hungarian immigrant story, and it doesn't really thread it all together in a way that really pulls you in.

Disappointing, because I think there is a good movie in here, but it just doesn't quite work. 6/10.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

3 August 2012 | Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Charlene of Monaco attend 64th Red Cross Ball Gala in Salle des Etoiles at Sporting Monte-Carlo in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (c) Frederic Nebinger - Pool /Getty Images

[onlyherefortheshowmances]

for any orchestral/classical music nerds out there that may wish to obtain busts of several famous composers (to include J. Strauss, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Handel, Bellini), here’s your opportunity to do such.

Please note that two of the busts are of Brahms but are in different styles. Most if not all have minor damage or markings that should easily be able to be fixed/corrected. I know these were all acquired second hand at various thrift shops in the Central PA area over the years, but I do not actually know much about any of them individually or collectively other than who they are of (I'm more of a music nerd than a collect busts of people nerd). This collection belonged to my ex-fiance who died in 2019 and I kind of inherited all the weird nerd stuff from his house, but I am now needing to seriously downsize so I am selling off quite a few possessions including these.

I will separate the collection upon request.

[girlactionfigure]

THURSDAY HERO: Barney Ross

Dov-Ber Rosovsky was a world-champion boxer and injured World War II hero whose fierce Jewish pride made him an icon to American Jews.

Dov-Ber was born in New York in 1909, the son of a Talmudic scholar who fled to America after surviving a pogrom in Belarus. Dov-Ber grew up in Chicago, helping out in his father’s small grocery store in a poor neighborhood and studying to be a rabbi.

His life was changed forever when his father was shot dead resisting a robbery at his store. Dov-Ber’s mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the kids were farmed out to foster homes.

Dov-Ber became bitter and angry. He turned his back on religion, changed his name to Barney Ross, and took a job working for Al Capone. Barney’s goal was to make enough money to buy a house and reunite his family. He soon became such an effective street fighter, however, that he gave professional boxing a try. Strong, fast, and determined, “Barney” became a world champion in the three different weight classes. He was known for his exceptional stamina and his street smarts.

In the 1930’s, when Hitler was rising to power, Barney Ross became a hero to American Jews by showing pride in his heritage and taking a public stand against Nazi Germany.  He was determined to end each fight on his feet to show that Jews fight and don’t go down. In Barney’s final fight, he defended his title against fellow three-division world champion Henry Armstrong. Barney got brutally pummeled and his trainers begged him to let them stop the fight, but he was determined to stay on his feet. He’d never been knocked out in his career and wasn’t going to start now. He retired from boxing in his early 30’s with a record of 72 wins, 4 loses, 3 draws, and two no decisions, with 22 wins by knockout. He achieved his goal of having no career knockouts.

After retiring from the ring, Barney/Dov-Ber enlisted in the US Marine Corps to fight in World War II. The Marines wanted to keep him stateside as a celebrity morale-booster, but Barney insisted on fighting for his country. He was sent to Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. During his time in Guadalcanal, Barney became friends with Chaplain Frederic Gehrig. Father Gehrig found an old pump organ on the island, and Barney was the only one who could play it. On Christmas Eve, before Barney and his fellow Marines were to go to battle, Gehrig asked him to play “Silent Night” and other Christmas songs for the troops. Barney happily obliged, finishing off the concert with “My Yiddishe Momma,” the song he used to play when he entered the boxing ring. Father Gehrig would later describe Barney Ross as a “national treasure.”

One night, Barney and three other soldiers were trapped under enemy fire. All four were wounded but Barney was the only one able to continue fighting. He gathered his comrades’ weapons and fought 22 Japanese soldiers, killing them all. Two of the American soldiers died, but Barney carried the third man to safety, even though the soldier weighed 230 pounds, while the wounded Barney weighed only 140! For his courage, Barney Ross was awarded a Silver Star and a citation from President Roosevelt.

Barney was hospitalized for his battle injuries, and the pain was so bad that he became dependent on morphine. After the war, he returned to America and opened a bar lounge. However, his drug addiction intensified as he turned to heroin, which was easier to obtain than morphine. Barney became hooked on heroin, an addiction that cost him $500 a day, as well as his marriage, his business and his life savings. Finally he hit rock bottom, and checked into a veteran’s recovery facility. He kicked his habit once and for all, and became a public speaker who educated high school students about the danger of drugs.

In the 1960’s, Barney made his living as a celebrity spokesman. After a brutal struggle with throat cancer, Barney Ross died in 1967 at age 57.

For his wartime heroism and for modeling Jewish strength and pride, we honor Dov-Ber “Barney Ross” Rosovsky as this week’s Thursday Hero.

[androxys]

Comic Ages: Quick Breakdowns for the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ages

If you're new to comic fandom, or even if you're not, you may hear people talk about specific "Ages" of comic books. If you don't know what that means, or what people mean when they talk about a Golden Age, this is a quick writeup meant to help you out!

This focuses on the Golden Age, the Silver Age, and the Bronze Age of comics. This is a DC focused writeup, though it's loosely applicable to Marvel comics too.

The Golden Age (1938-1950s)

DC Comics as we know it started taking form in 1937 with the debut of the Detective Comics title. Published by Detective Comics Inc. in partnership with National Allied Publications, the title was an anthology of various detective and mystery stories featuring characters such as Slam Bradley. Have you ever read the first dozen or so ‘Tec stories? Because I haven’t. I care much more about what came next. In 1938, All-American Publications began publishing Action Comics, debuting a character called Superman. Maybe you’ve heard of him. Soon after, in 1939, Detective Comics #27debuted the Batman. Arguably with Action Comics #1, though definitely by 1940, the Golden Age of comics had begun.

The original iterations of the Flash and Green Lantern—Jay Garrick and Alan Scott, respectively—were created in 1940. The savvy reader among you might recognize these two as belonging to the Justice Society of America, which had arrived on the scene by 1941. The JSA would be rounded out with Hawkman, Doctor Fate, the Spectre, Sandman, the Atom, and Hourman. Other characters created around this time include Green Arrow (1940), Wonder Woman, (1941), and Aquaman (1941).

You may notice that the Golden Age overlaps with World War II, and it definitely affected DC’s publication. The newly created figure of the superhero became a more starkly patriotic figure, often spangled in red, white and blue. Plots began to incorporate nationalistic themes, and heroes often fought spies, foreign agents, and saboteurs. Arguably, though, scholars argue that the war era was most important for how superheroes began to move out of a purely print medium to radio and film. (For additional reading on DC Comics and WWII, see the Freeman and Hutchens citations below)

As the 40s went on, however, interest in superheroes began to wane, and DC (though technically they weren’t yet a consolidated DC Comics) began to pivot to other themes, such as Western stories or science fiction. The end of the Golden Age, however, can arguably be traced to 1954 with Frederic Wertham publishing Seduction of the Innocent. Wertham’s book that claimed that comics were an active harm to children due to their depictions of violence and supposed (homo)sexual themes. Seduction of the Innocent led to Wertham testifying before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee, which in turn ended up leading to comics publishers adopting the Comics Code Authority, a sort of self-imposed regulatory authority.

I would personally characterize the Golden Age as having a sort of earnestness to it. Characters are being invented left and right, but the writers haven’t yet had enough time with them to shape them into the figures we now know them to be. In hindsight, a lot of these early stories seem... silly… Superman eating a pocket-knife in Superman #8 comes to mind. But even within the same issue as the goofy knife-eating, you see Superman working against foreign agents representing the real-world anxieties of the time.

The Silver Age (1958-1970)

After the establishment of the Comics Code Authority, the content of comics had to change. At the same time, DC Comics (though they still weren’t technically doing official business under that name) had a stable of characters begging for reinvention. In 1956, Barry Allen debuted as the new Flash in Showcase #4, and the Silver Age was off. Science fiction themes seemed to be all the rage for the Silver Age: Hal Jordan, the new Green Lantern, got his ring from a dying alien. Ray Palmer, the new Atom, was described as a genius inventor who created his size changing powers. Hawkman was brought back, no longer as the reincarnating pharaoh Khufu, but as a police officer from the planet Thanagar. The Martian Manhunter was more thoroughly fleshed out and elevated from a detective to superhero. As individual heroes were getting re-tooled, the concept of the Justice Society was updated in 1960 to become the Justice League of America, which debuted in The Brave and the Bold #28.

After establishing refreshed versions of some of their older heroes, DC decided that they wanted to begin to reincorporate some of their older characters into their modern publication. This effort began in 1961 with the spectacular “Flash of Two Worlds” in Flash #123, which featured Barry Allen, the Flash, teaming up with Jay Garrick, the Flash of the Golden Age. This issue established that the Golden Age characters all still existed, but on a parallel Earth that vibrated at a different frequency than the Earth of DC’s main heroes, which was designated Earth One. By using their powers, characters like the Flash were able to vibrate at the other Earth’s speed, crossing over. This concept would soon be expanded upon, leading to frequent crossovers between Earth One and Earth Two characters and teams.

Having two separate Earths, each with their own history, allowed DC to have multiple variations of the same characters, offering greater storytelling breadth. The Bruce Wayne of Earth Two, for example, had retired as Batman to become Gotham Police Commissioner, passing on the torch to his daughter Helena Wayne, the Huntress. Huntress would cross over to meet the Bruce Wayne of Earth One, the younger, childless Batman. DC would develop other Earths, such as Earth Three, with villainous versions of Earth’s heroes, of Earth Prime, with a single Superboy as Earth’s only superhero.

The Silver Age, as a whole, can be looked at as campier than other eras of comics thanks in no small part due to the regulations imposed by the Comics Code Authority. Stories tended towards science fiction and the fantastic, and creators were very interested in making pre-established concepts new again. Comics continued to expand through new mediums, often keeping with the tone of the time: the Adam West Batman TV show, for example, ran 1966-1968 and is a great example of Silver Age camp. While the Silver Age has an event that can be pointed to as a relatively agreeable indication of the era’s beginning, its end is slightly less clear.

The Bronze Age (1970-1986)

The Bronze Age of Comics came about during the 1970s, but it’s not easy to discern exactly when or with what event. Comic readers had been indicating a desire for darker or more mature stories. (In some ways, this desire can be considered as a reaction to the trend of the Silver Age as a whole. For further reading, I suggest The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, which dives into how Batman media specifically follows a tone-pendulum.)

Some point to the death of Gwen Stacy over in The Amazing Spider-Man as the event that heralded in the Bronze Age, others point to Jack Kirby leaving Marvel to join DC and begin the Fourth World. The Bronze Age was emboldened by the revision and weakening of the Comics Code in 1971, after Stan Lee published a comic about drug use without the Authority’s stamp of approval. The comic was a success, leading the code to reevaluate or be left behind.

In the realm of DC, Green Arrow’s joining the Green Lantern title in 1970 in what would then be Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 is generally considered a Bronze Age hallmark. The series focused on contemporary social ills, with its arguably most famous story tackling drug addiction in America. 1971’s Green Lantern/Green Arrow #78, “Snowbirds Don’t Fly,” depicted the teen hero Roy Harper's addiction to heroin and the other heroes’ reaction and response. In the Batman comics, Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams began a long campaign to bring Batman back to a more gothic, brooding figure with appropriately dark villains. O’Neil and Adams’ 1971 Batman #232 debuted Ra’s and Talia al Ghul, while 1973’s Batman #251 would see “The Joker’s Five Way Revenge” take the Joker from his Silver Age clownish portrayal to a more menacing, murderous villain.

As DC Comics approached 50 years of publication in 1985, they began to recognize that five decades had left them with quite a mess of continuity. There were the Golden Age heroes on Earth Two, the Silver Age heroes that had become the Bronze Age heroes on Earth One, and a plethora of alternate Earths and company acquisitions to make it muddier. To mark the anniversary and clean house at the same time, DC embarked upon the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, often referred to just as “Crisis” was a year-long maxi series running from 1985-1986. The plot involved the destruction of the DC multiverse, and resulted in the establishment of a New Earth with a new continuity. Nearly everything that came before was taken off the metaphorical table, and writers got to choose which pre-Crisis elements to re-canonize and which elements to create fresh.

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Happy Feast Day

Blessed Frederic Ozanam

1813-1853

Feast day: September 9 Founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

Bl. Frederic Ozanam was a French scholar that was challenged to put his faith into action and started the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He always respected and served the poor which taught him that “ …charity must lead to efforts to remedy injustice. Charity and justice go together.” said by St. John Paul II at his beatification in 1997.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/collections/all/all-images-bl-frederic-ozanam

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Gabby and Joe William Frederic Gabriel I and Kirk Douglas Woodgrave Gabriel II

[halopedia]

Lore — MORRIGAN-class Mjolnir

Created by Naphtali Contractor Corporation based on the sensors used by Jiralhanae Stalkers and Banished raiding parties, the MORRIGAN-class helmet was tested by Spartan-II Frederic-104 during its prototyping phase.

[cosmic--dandelion]

So how did we get from this

Dedicated to his Worshippers, George Frederic Watt (1817-1904)

To this?

A brief history of Mammon

Addendum Because We Can't Have Nice Things: this essay is in no way meant to be a "critique", criticism, or personal attack against Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel/Vivziepop as I am, in fact, a big fan of all three! I actually loved the newest episode and Mammon as a character. Seeing him in motion, I think he looks damned near perfect as a modern take on the King of Greed. I wrote this ONLY for educational purposes.

Mammon is a Chaldee (the Semantic language of ancient Chaldeans, the people of a small Mesopotamian country who were later absorbed by the Babylonians) or Syriac word meaning "wealth" or "riches".

The Worship of Mammon, Evelyn De Morgan (1909)

He is best remembered from the Sermon on the Mount from Mathew 6: 24 (King James version): “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

Some scholars believe Mammon might have been loosely based on Dīs Pater, originally a Roman God of mineral wealth and fertile lands who was later merged with the chthonic deities of the underworld Pluto and Orcus (because minerals come from underground). Pluto was depicted in the Divine Comedy as "wolflike demon of wealth"; wolves in the medieval times were symbols of greed. Others think he might have been an ancient Syrian god, though no trace of his cult or temples exists.

Mammon transformed over time from an abstract concept to major demon. This is thanks to later philosophers and theologians such as Saint Gregory of Nyssa, a third century Byzantine scholar, Archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom, and Peter Lombard, bishop of Paris from 1159 to 1160. His book of Four Books of Sentences (Sententiarum libri IV) was the standard theological text of the Middle Ages.

Mammon was assigned the sin of greed according to the Peter Binsfield classification of demons.

John Milton of Paradise Lost fame imaged him as a fallen angel. He is described as being stooped over (literally the "least erected" of Lucifer's demonic host) because he always has his eyes downward looking for gold and would rather use Hell's resources to finance his lavish lifestyle than wage war against Heaven.

In Edmund Spenser's 16th long poem, The Faerie Queene, Mammon is a “uncouth, salvage, and uncivile wight” who sets up his cave of riches right next to the entrance to the underworld. Subtle, huh? He tries to tempt Sir Guyon, the protagonist of Book II, with all his fabulous wealth, arguing that he could use it for good. (This is a religious-moral-political allegory about temperance, so you can guess how well that went.) He shows up again in Jacques de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal as Hell's ambassador to England. Yes, really.

Just like in Biblical times, reformists used Mammon as a symbol of exploitation and unfettered capitalism during the industrial age.

Fun fact: Mr. Burns lives at the corner of Croesus and Mammon street.

So how does Vivziepop's version compare to the historical Mammon? I dunno, he hasn't appeared in the show yet. It's not my favorite design, but I like the fact that half the fandom was expecting him to be the Big Bad of Helluva Boss, and he's a just big heckin' chonk who sort of looks like a demented Dr. Suess character crossed with a demonic air freshener. It's a silly design for a silly dude, but he could be more dangerous than he looks...

[markedbyindecision]

do u ever think about how many times and how many different ways Myka has lost H.G or she thinks she has lost her….

i - at the end of Vendetta, Myka sounds so fucking sad when she thinks that the Regents rebronzed H.G.

ii - then end of season 2 H.G. betrays Myka’s trust, and Myka has lost her as this new friend.

and then H.G. tries to destroy the world at Yellowstone and Myka is able to convince her not to, so yes H.G. still cares about Myka and so maybe Myka hasn’t lost her in that sense, but she loses H.G. in a different way, in the sense that H.G. no longer has faith in humanity. and ofc H.G. is physically taken away too to be locked up by the Regents.

iii - when Mrs. Frederic brings H.G. to convince Myka to come back to the Warehouse, Myka realizes H.G. is a hologram and like, in a way loses her again bc technically, once their conversation ends H.G. won’t really be alive if the hologram projection sphere isn’t “on”. and at that point Myka probably doesn’t ever expect to see H.G. again.

iv - and then when Myka meets Emily Lake, she loses her again bc it’s not her and at that point she actually wants to see H.G. (bc she doesn’t wait for Pete and is like “I’m going to go talk to her”) even despite what happened at Yellowstone, which majorly damaged their relationship and trust

v - and then Myka gets to talk to H.G. again but it’s to tell her that Sykes wants her for whatever reason and like, just as their relationship is starting to heal H.G. asks Myka to destroy her for the safety of the Warehouse. she can save the Warehouse and the world, but the cost is losing H.G. forever. “the price is too high”. before, H.G. chooses not to destroy the world through the decision of sparing Myka’s life. now, Myka chooses to save the Warehouse(/the world by extension?) by agreeing to kill H.G.

vi - and so they’re about to do that but then are interrupted so yay H.G. isn’t dead right? but then there’s the whole thing with the bomb and Myka has to watch as H.G. dies in another way. “every day people die and sometimes it’s people we care about and sometimes it’s people we love”.

vii - and then Artie sets time back with the astrolabe and then Mrs. Frederic sends H.G. away with the astrolabe to keep it hidden and then for some reason doesn’t communicate with anyone for months until Instinct which Myka calls her out for and she’s got this whole new life. a new family. just…out of the blue. when the Warehouse was her family, her life, her tether before. and sure, yeah, they’ll stay friends, but Myka has lost having H.G. in the Warehouse part of her life. which, as someone who cares so much about work (I mean oh my god in Buried when they’re all in their greatest fantasies and Myka’s is literally her in the Warehouse being given work), is most of it? they’ll stay a part of each others’ lives but they’re not in each others’ lives anymore, if that makes sense.

also Myka loses H.G. in the sense that H.G. chose this random Nate guy to spend her life with when she and Myka were clearly in love, but i digress.