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The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.
Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
#quotes#Giles Milton#Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History#thepersonalwords#literature#life quotes#prose#lit#spilled ink#black-pepper#england#humorous-quotes#spice-islands#spices
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
By Giles Milton.
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'...Sydney Newman, the producer who created Doctor Who, famously decreed that the show should not include any bug-eyed monsters. As he saw it, sci-fi was about more than outer space. “I love [sci-fi novels] because they're a marvellous way—and a safe way, I might add—of saying nasty things about our own society,” Newman said.
That was something many episodes of classic Doctor Who – those that ran from 1963 until the show was ‘rested’ in 1989 – did spectacularly well. These ‘pure historicals’, as they came to be known, featured no alien interference whatsoever, and instead saw the Doctor navigating more human machinations...
When the show returned in 2005, with a new Doctor and new production values, so too did the historical episodes, though in its latest iteration they tend to be tinged with the supernatural and otherworldly...
The Fires of Pompeii
Season 4, 2008
Who says: It’s volcano day in Roman city of Pompeii, but the volcano in question shows little sign of erupting. When the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) discovers that Mount Vesuvius is inhabited by magma-loving aliens bent on taking over Earth, he discovers that the historic eruption is no natural disaster at all; he has to be the one to cause the catastrophe that destroys Pompeii.
The real history: Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 – precisely when is a matter of debate, and our best testimony comes from letters written by Pliny the Younger 25 years after the fact.
What we do know is that eruption was cataclysmic, producing a cloud so thick as to blot out the sun. Within 24 hours, Pompeii and those who remained in the city were buried under three metres of ash and debris; on the second day of the eruption, Herculaneum was swallowed by pyroclastic flows.
Pompeii remained buried for some 1,500 years. Today, it provides a remarkable window into ancient Roman life.
There’s another very small piece of real history in the form of the sculptor Caecilius (played by future Doctor Peter Capaldi). He is based on a very real Roman who perished in Pompeii – and star of the Cambridge Latin Course, a figure familiar to anyone who learned high school Latin in the UK – the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus.
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Season 4, 2008
Who says: It’s 1926, and the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) invites himself to a dinner party in a country manor, where the guest of honour is none other than Agatha Christie. But when one of the guests turns up dead in classic Cluedofashion – offed with the lead pipe in the library, in case you were wondering – they find themselves investigating a whodunit with the queen of crime herself.
This being Who, the culprit is not of this Earth, but a giant shape-shifting wasp (perish the thought). In the denouement, Christie develops amnesia; the Doctor drops her off in Harrogate some ten days later, as history demands.
The real history: The Unicorn and the Wasp is Doctor’s Who’s answer to the mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance in 1926 – though she didn’t vanish from a dinner party. On 3 December, she kissed her child goodnight, got into her car, and drove into the darkness.
What followed was “one of the largest manhunts ever mounted,” writes Giles Milton, and the furore only grew after Christie’s car was discovered abandoned. Thousands of policemen were assigned to the case. The Home Secretary took a special interest. Fellow crime writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even tried to use his self-claimed supernatural powers to try and locate her.
“It was the perfect tabloid story, with all the elements of an Agatha Christie whodunnit,” says Milton, though perhaps it lacks the satisfying conclusion of a Poirot.
There would be no grand reveal: Christie was found in a Harrogate hotel 11 days later, under the name of her husband’s mistress, with no explanation for her whereabouts – she simply didn’t remember...'
#Doctor Who#The Unicorn and the Wasp#Agatha Christie#The Fires of Pompeii#David Tennant#Peter Capaldi#Sydney Newman#Giles Milton#Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Giles Milton „Berliński Szach-mat”
Oficyna Literacka Noir sur Blanc, 2023 Na konferencji w Jałcie Berlin, podobnie jak całe Niemcy, został podzielony. Mocarstwa szczegółowo ustaliły zasady funkcjonowania i zarządzania miastem. Ale to co ładnie wyglądało na papierze, w praktyce niemal w ogóle nie zadziałało. Dziś rozbieżności między politycznymi deklaracjami, a rzeczywistością mało kogo już dziwią. Sytuacja z Berlinem była jednak…
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Ever After High: Tea Party Dash VIP NPCs's sitting animations
been a while since I posted any TPD animations, so have these as a treat teehee
#ever after high#eah#b.txt#b.sprites#tea party dash#fairy queen eah#baba yaga eah#the evil queen eah#giles grimm#milton grimm#mad hatter eah#rumpelstiltskin eah#the white queen eah#jack b. nimble#<i'll be real i forgot this dude's name i had to look up in the wiki#i do this on my free time so srry if i haven't uploaded all animations yet ... will try to do so in the future#when i have more free time
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omg its the brothers grimm !!!!!!!! you know like from the fairy tales ??????
#YUNG LADS!#ever after high#eah#gum art#THIS COUNTS AS EAH:RIR SPOILERS BTW#im working on their backstory atm.......... oh my gawd#IM GOING NUTS I LOVE IT IM SPINNINF THEM IN MY HEAD#whic h is a ludicrous sentiment. regarding the brothers grimm but Mama SOMEONE HAS TO#they r so FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE SIBLINGS#and slow individual descents into madness that corrupt your bonds forever what who said that#giles grimm#milton grimm
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#ever after high#apple white#raven queen#maddie hatter#cedar wood#hunter huntsman#darling charming#daring charming#faybelle thorn#brooke page#milton grimm#giles grimm#adrien agreste#blondie locks#briar beauty#anti descendants
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Biden and Trump are so Giles and Milton coded, one is straight up speaking gibberish and the other one won’t stop lying, giggled when thought this.
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in ever after the grim reaper is actually the “Grimm reaper”. He’s Giles and Milton’s weird cousin
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ill say this giles grimm is a better man than I could ever be; because the first thing I would've done the second that babbling curse was broken would be to send my idiot brother to fucking jail or something for yk LOCKING ME IN THE BASEMENT FOR YEARS.
or at the least kick him really really fucking hard in the shins yk.
in an earlier post i mentioned how i'd like to see a full eah episode one day that solely consists of raven beating the shit out of milton grimm for 5 straight minutes but now I'm thinking that we get giles in on this too; I think it would serve as a form of therapy for the two of them, maybe even a strange, cathartic bonding experience.
#ever after high#eah#shitpost#eah shitpost#ramble#giles grimm#milton grimm#raven queen#headmaster grimm#fuck grimm#fuck milton grimm#like oh my god#i cannot stress to you how much I hate this man#giles let him off WAYY too easily#like throughout the entirety of eah#this man faced ZERO repurcussions#and discounting everythign else#NOT THIS??#HE NEVER FACED ANYTHING FOR THIS???#NO ONE BROUGHT THSI UP??#NO ONE WAS LIKE HEY WHY'D YOU LOCK YOUR BROTHER IN THE BASEMENT#wild ass show yk
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fuck it, heroforged minis of the grimm brothers character redesigns (not an aritist but I'm brainrotting on EAH)
Giles Grimm
I really want to take advantage of the 'missing estranged brother' vibe he had going on and make him the main threat in Thronecoming. Don't worry about the green glow, he's perfectly fine :)))
Milton Grimm
I'd likely keep his og design, this is just a little attempt at recreation in heroforge, that and idk i think it'd be nice to see someone use mobility aid, god knows the old man has been running a school full of teens for decades, that has got to do a number on the knees
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Headcanon Time!
Milton and Giles Grimm edition.
I think, now here me out, they are Narrators from the narrator high school that was revealed in TLOSH. The one made up of words. That one.
Now, I know, I know, I know. TLOSH uses mh gen 2 canon, and some people might not like the book BUT-
Milton is a former narrator that rebelled, he didn't want to watch passively as stories played out. He didn't want to be forced to read them for eternity to a faceless, nameless audience. Milton Grimm is above that. So, he finds out how to break away. He's a character without a story because he is supposed to be the one telling the stories.
Giles warns him about doing this. Tries to convince his younger brother not to risk it all only to be able to change the fate of stories and legends and tall tales alike. So, he follows his brother to Ever After.
Milton, in a way, becomes power hungry. He doesn't like the way certain stories have been. Example, the little mermaid dies in her story. All of a sudden Milton is able to change that. He can interact with the tangible world. He's able to change a lot of things.
Giles scolds him, and reminds him that narrators do not interact with the story. Milton chatisez him, telling him they're players of the same game now and can do what they wish. To prove his point he does something to the storybook of legends, making it what it is today.
And Giles threatens him.
Out of fear of the other Narrators, Milton locks him away in the basement.
Milton has always been jealous of his brothers ability to watch passively, deep deep down he wants to be a normal narrator but he isn't. He can't be. But with his brother locked away he doesn't have to worry about that. He can change things how he likes, and make stories in his vision.
Milton is essentially on a power trip. And he will stop at nothing, to get the power he thinks he deserves.
#ever after high#eah#headcanons#ever after high headcanons#eah headcanon#milton grimm#giles grimm#the narrators
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ITS THEM
#im rewatching eah to feel something and this realization hit me like a truck#for those of you who don't know ever after high (peak fiction)#the older brother (left) milton grimm sealed his brother giles underneath the school#because he thought giles' (good) actions would cause chaos#lucifer and belphie are like their lame budget versions /affectionate#from me#obey me#other
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Here’s some background:
So in the show, it doesn’t really make much sense how the main gang are the DIRECT descendants of all the fairytale characters, because, y’know, how did they advance in technology THAT FAST? So, my idea is, they are all descendants of the original characters, just, many many years down the line. However, their parents do all share the same names as their fairytale counterparts, for the sake of making sense and not getting jumbled up. So Apple Whites mothers name IS Snow White, but she is not the ORIGINAL Snow White, etc. etc.
Because she was raised by her overbearing mother, Apple is a sort of villain. Think of her as Regina George, but all the “royals” love her because she puts on a show of being kind, not because they fear her. Her wrath is focused on the rebels, trying to keep them in line to follow their destiny. Her clique consists of Briar Beauty (descendant of Sleeping Beauty), Ashlyn Ella (descendant of Cinderella), and Blondilocks (descendant of Goldilocks). Not all of them are villain esque, just Apple and Blondie.
Blondie is sort of like Gretchen from mean girls (“that’s why her hair is so big, it’s full of secrets”). In the show, she likes to report on her mirror cast, I will bring that into the rewrite (sort of), in that she has an anonymous blog, where she spills any secret she can get a hold of.
Briar is similar to how she is in the show. She loves to party, and she’s not sure about following her destiny. The only difference is, she’s a bit more ditzy. But again, she is good.
Ashlynn is also similar to how she is in the show. Kind, compassionate. She is also very intelligent. She is adamant that Briar keep her reservations about following her destiny between them, as she fears Apple will torment her for not wanting to follow her “destiny.” Ashlynn is still in a relationship with Hunter Huntsman (descendant of the huntsman from Snow White) but their relationship is kept even more under wraps, for fear of being ostracized from the royals because of Apple. The only reason she is really friends with Apple is to protect Briar, as they are best friends.
Milton Grimm, the headmaster of EAH, is more ruthless in this version. He and Giles are polar opposites. Milton is THE villain. Pressuring all the students to follow their destinies and striking fear into them if they don’t follow it. He is manipulative and wants Apples family to remain to be at the top of the social hierarchy, as Snow White (Apples mother), still owns many businesses and is very wealthy. She has bribed Milton for many favors in the past. I want to add many other ways to make him an evil tyrant but I can’t think of anything else, ideas would be appreciated!
Giles Grimm, Milton’s brother, is, again, Milton’s polar opposite. Similar to the show, he was trapped under the school by Milton and put under a curse to only speak Riddlish, as to not expose his secrets. His curse will not be broken as easily as it was in the show by the girls gathering pages of a counterspell, but much later it is eventually broken by Maddie and Raven.
Raven is GOOD. After her mother is locked in the mirror prison, she is raised by Cinderella (Ashlynn’s mother, not the original). Cinderella taught her to have courage and be kind (like the quote from the live action Disney film). No one knows Raven was raised by Cinderella, besides Ashlynn, of course, and Maddie since they are best friends. Obviously, Ravens friend group is made up of rebels, as all the royals are turned against her by Apple. Her best friend is obviously Madeline “Maddie” Hatter (descendant of the Mad Hatter), her other friends are Cerise Hood (Daughter of Red Riding hood and (secretly) the Big Bad Wolf), and Cedar Wood (descendant of Pinocchio)
Maddie is basically the same as she is in the show. I love her character so much. There’s nothing to change.
Daring Charming is similar to how he is in the show, except more extreme. Very self-obsessed and wants to keep the order (like Apple). Obviously they are together because they want to follow their destinies. (Sorry to the shippers of Apple and Darling, unfortunately at this point in the rewrite I have no idea how I will incorporate this as Apple is supposed to be obsessed with keeping her and everyone else’s destiny and I want to keep Darling good!)
Dexter Charming is still awkward as ever. He does still love Raven. I want his to eventually be in a relationship with her (in secret of course because of his brother and Apple) I’m not sure how else to develop his character, but I did want to include this
These are the character outlines I have *so far* I might write some scenes that happen throughout if anyone has any requests let me know! 🫶🏻
#ever after high rewrite#ever after high#eah#eah rewrite#apple white#raven queen#madeline hatter#maddie hatter#briar beauty#ashlynn ella#blondie locks#cerise hood#cedar wood#milton grimm#giles grimm#daring charming#dexter charming
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Lemme see if I’m getting this right
Giles missed the lesson and asked around for the homework / what other people were doing and copied it, Milton slapped his name on it as if it was a group project and then when he saw someone do it better than Giles he stole their paper
#mmk yup#this probably doesn’t make sense#but like yk how the og Grimm brothers just kinda#didn’t actually come up with any fairytales#and wilhelm didn’t actually write the stories just edited them#and then in eah Milton (who is wilhelm idc) takes credit for other fairytales#and acts like#the fairygodmother in Cinderella#and true loves kiss in Snow White#were his stories#when they were actually Perrault’s/other authors versions#eah#ever after high#milton grimm#giles grimm#wilhelm grimm#jacob grimm#brothers grimm
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apple white rant because i love ever after high and just reread the first book
it bugs me when people say they hate apple white because i feel like most of the time they don’t actually have an understanding of her character
her whole life she was told that the only way she could ever be happy was if she followed her destiny and signed the book. then she would be safe. the ways she went about it were very much wrong, but in many cases they weren’t really her actions but rather the actions of adults speaking through her.
also, even though she’s in a position of privilege, she has never held any power over her own life. in the books her and raven go on a quest to see what will happen if raven doesn’t sign, but it was manipulated by grimm to ultimately lead to a dead body as proof of their demise. the books do a really good job at showing the fact that she’s genuinely terrified for her life rather than her happy ending. it’s also specified in the books that she doesn’t think raven will actually become evil. she just thinks that raven will poison her and then continue with a life that will satisfy her (an over simplification but still)
a big part of the reason she’s so keen on having her story (outside of the grooming from all of the adults she trusts most) is bc when she was a kid she almost died and it solidified in her that the only danger she wants to face is the kind she knows she can survive, which does pose a threat of harm for others but it helps people understand her character a little bit more
anyway, in the first book she was more than willing to help raven find an alternative ending. insistent that she helped raven find a happy ending along side her before sealing their fates. even though she really wanted the fairytale ending, she broke rules and helped raven. their journey was corrupted by milton, though, and ultimately led to a dead body that claimed to have wished to sign the book.
she still displays selfishness throughout the series, but she’s a complex character and doesn’t deserve to be simmered down to a greedy, selfish, spoiled princess that’s mad because she won’t get a specific happy ending.
also her relationship with briar in the books is so cute
another interesting detail is before raven refused to sign, those not considered royal were called commoners instead of rebels
and it goes into better detail about what people see in the story book of legends and how they react to it
also apple can’t swim. idk if they mention that in the show
im such a freak about this series omg
#diggy#ever after high#ever after#fairytale#apple white#snow white#milton grimm#giles grimm#madeline hatter#mad hatter#maddie hatter#raven queen#evil queen#briar beauty#briar rose#storybook of legends#ever after royal#royal or rebel#sleeping beauty#the brothers grimm
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