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hexquestt · 2 years

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Anyone else grow up having to move house every 2-3 years since they were born so tlyou never manage to make lifelong friends so when you do finally settle in one place you don't know how to maintain friendships and just assume they're supposed to last a couple of years before you lose contact so you don't truly try to make deep connections with people so it'll hurt less when you inevitable have to leave them. But now you're an adult in a position where you're supposed to be making lifelong friendships and you don't know how to do that so all of your closest friends only exist online but you don't have any real close friends in real life or is that just me?

#this isn't actually a sad post #just something I've been thinking about #my dad was in the RAF so we moved every 2-3 years #I was born in england #moved to the states for Kindergarten #moved back to england at this 1 place for about 3 years #then moved 1 last time to another place in england #but it was towards the end of primary school #and I was the year above most of my friends I made #so they didn't go to secondary school at the same time #so it was like another move #and then I didn't go to the same college as most of my secondary school friends #and then I did another year at a diff college cause I changed what I wanted to do #and then I went to university #and then I had a brain aneurysm at the start of the 2nd year #and now I'm back but all my classmates are people 3 years younger than me and my former classmates all graduated #but I've actually been taking time to get closer with someone from that other college I went to who's at the same uni as me now :)

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ashleyeveerson · 5 months

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Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

#this tv show has consumed my every thought #it's like tumblr catnip #go watch it #it will eat away at your brain #there's also a butch lesbian butcher #an autistic manga loving weirdo (my beloved)#and a badass psychic who's also a mess #WHAT MORE COULD YOU POSSIBLY WANT?#updating the post bc the reblogs lead me on a WILD wiki rabbit hole about the eras of England #okay so Edwin is born in 1900 which means he was born 1 year before the end of the Victorian era (1837-1901) so technically he's a victoria #baby who lived his childhood in the Edwardian era (1901-1910) and his teens in the pre/start of WW1 era (started in 1914)#until he was killed :( in 1916 #so my boy here lived though MANY historical events and time periods #shout out to my victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink #history is very fun and this is why i love this website bc where else would i have to do research for my blorbo?#I do however find it very funny if Gaiman named him Edwin in honour of the Edwardian time period he grew up in #I love that man and it wouldn't surprise me if he turned out to be a history nerd (affectionate) like the rest of you #dead boy detectives #edwin payne #charles rowland #crystal palace #niko dbd #dbd #please feel free to dm me about history i adore it

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cfffrk · 1 month

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#jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr #just little babies✨️✨️#I read a fanfic where Bertie's family moved to India at some point (exept for aunt Agatha so she was estranged from the family)#and then when Bertie was born his parents move back to England with him and Bertie's older sister stayed there and got married #just a nice idea from fic :]

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olympeline · 21 days

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Some talented author needs to write a fic or a comic needs to be made or something about the Italy brothers meeting the other young European nations after Rome conquered them.

I mean, to Feliciano and Lovino their grandpa is just that: Grandpa Rome. A figure of kindness, stability, and paternal love. Someone to play with, ruffle their hair, pick them up when they’ve fallen and scraped their knees, crack funny jokes, and tuck them in at night. They’ve probably heard of his greatness but it’s more an abstract concept to them. Vague and far away beyond the city’s marble walls. Little kids don’t know much about the jobs their parents or guardians have out in the “real world.” The twins are sheltered in every sense of the word.

Then, one day, grandpa starts bringing others like them back to their house. Strange, scruffy children with odd clothes, garbled speech, tear stained cheeks, and wide, frightened eyes. Grandpa Rome is smiling as he lifts them off his horse and tells his grandsons he’s brought new friends to live with them. New little brothers and sisters to play with. Hispania, Gallia, Britannia, the list goes on. One by one, Rome brings them all back to the capital. New friends for his boys to look after. Look after and teach. They’re silly and backward and don’t know how to live well or even speak properly yet. What grandpa calls “barbarians,” poor things. But they can learn if they watch how it’s done in Rome, yes? Grandpa’s good boys will help them learn to be good too.

Feli and Lovi eagerly agree. They love grandpa and want to make him proud. But these odd children are so strange and difficult. For a start, they can’t even look at grandpa without cowering. Some of them hiding their faces and bursting into tears when he so much as enters a room. Feli is disheartened, Lovi is angry, both are confused. Why would anyone be afraid of their grandpa? Grandpa is kind and brave and his laugh fills the room: merry and infectious. Everyone in Rome loves grandpa. What is wrong with these strange, backward children that they act like he’s some terrible monster to be afraid of? Some of them start to come round eventually. Start to become more affectionate to Rome and maybe even begin calling him “grandpa” too. Yet, under it, conflict. Under the newfound love, a guilt and self-loathing that the twins can’t understand. Even sweet natured Feli starts to feel a little resentful at how ungrateful they are. Grandpa has adopted them and made them Roman, the best thing in the world to be. Everyone says so. Even their sort-of brothers and sisters have to admit there’s nothing in their lands that can hold a candle to the splendours of Rome at its peak. So why are they still being difficult? Why do they keep trying to run away so grandpa has to ride out and bring them back, over and over? Why won’t they love grandpa the way he loves them?

Young and innocent, the twins never noticed the bruises and bloodstains. Never questioned the whip marks. Never saw the chains.

#hetalia #hws roman empire #hws italy #hws romano #hws france #hws spain #hws england #aph roman empire #aph italy #aph romano #aph france #aph spain #aph england #my posts #yeah I know canonically the young nations were only born later #but i like this better 👍

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notso-daily-six-writing · 9 months

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Future au

Mary (16): *trying to annoy Anne* hey Anne, how old is your girlfriend?

Anne (26) : like, 42. Why?

Mary: Damn. She’s so old she could be my mom.

Anne:*drags Lina out* that’s because she is your mom.

Mary: MOM?!

(For legal reasons, they have only been dating for a year. For my safety purposes, this is a joke. Please don’t kill me)

#six the musical #six incorrect quotes #six the musical incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #anne boleyn #catherine of aragon #aragon x boleyn #aralyn #catalina de aragon #mary i of england #this is also their historical age difference btw #considering Lina was born in 1485 #and Anne is born around 1501 - 1507 #I’m just making it as small as I can

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tuituipupu · 4 months

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this is so niche to me i had to make my own meme

#feeling so mentioned rn #me doing a pole reveal in the discord but I don’t speak polish so 👍🏼#käärijä #context: my grandma was italian she married my polish grandad.#i was born in england innit.#personal

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nico-di-genova · 5 months

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Bridgerton strollonso idea is winning.

#add it to the fics to write pile I guess #playing around with the idea of him being the bridgertons cousin #Lawrence lived in Paris #moved to Canada when Lance was born #when he passes away and leaves behind less money than was #expected #lance travels to England to live with his cousins #and find a wealthy family to wed into #instead he falls for the Spanish lord Alonso #also Lance gets along with the horses better than he does people #but out of all the bridgertons he’s most chill with Benedict #strollonso #bridgerton strollonso au

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lady-lilly-gray · 5 months

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look at my child my prince my beloved he's baaack

#still waiting to see who's voicing him in english 👀👀#also y'all know why i'm including the ch 16 cover in this post #also if anyone knows /how/ i gaslit myself into thinking his mother was canonically from england lmk #i can find the part of the manga where ciel mentions that neither he no agni speaks with an [indian] accent #but i thought there was some other mention of his mother being born in england or smth somewhere #that being said i don't make a habit of rereading the indian butler arc so i could be forgetting something #shut up lilly #let's chat #soma asman kadar #kuroshitsuji #black butler #black butler season 4

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milky-choccy · 28 days

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Miku but she's every English gal I encountered

#this is mot my artstyle btw i just felt silly and experimented #it looks like trash but it is true English ppl look like trash #jk jk i was born in England don't come at me #hatsune miku fanart #hatsune miku #vocaloid #miku worldwide #worldwide miku #english miku #i 4got how English ppl looked like

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wonder-worker · 6 months

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people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?)#Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it.#obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!”#is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying.#Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..)#ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians)#Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties?#why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism')#after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

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0mega-x · 1 year

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Some nations and their birth/death date

- Britannia : born around 800BCE (beginning of British Iron Age); died around 500CE, but she had been getting weaker ever since Rome's forces left.

- Rome : born in 753BCE (Rome's fonding); died in 476CE, for obvious reasons

- Gaul (celtic) : born around 700BCE (between the Halstatt and La Tène cultures); died not long after the Gallic wars in 52BCE

- Germania : born around 750BCE (Nordic Iron Age) died not long after Rome's fall

- Frankish Kingdom/Empire: died in 843 (Treaty of Verdun), son of Germania

- Burgundian Kingdom/State: died in 1482 (end of the Burgundian War of Succession), daughter of Germania

- Frisian Kingdom: died 1523 (end or Frisian Freedom after a failed Frisian rebellion), son of Germania (and is either the biological or the adopted father of the Low Countries (or at least the Netherlands))

- France: born shortly before the Gallic Wars, son of Gaul

- England: born around 500 CE (first Anglo-Saxon kingdoms), he would fully become his "own" in 927 with the Kingdom of England, son of Britannia

- Spain: born somewhere during the Roman era, son of Rome

- Portugal: same as Spain, but earlier, son of Rome

- Netherlands: born shortly before the Roman conquest of Gaul (Belgae), son of idk who yet

- HRE: born in 486CE, when the Franks beat the Soissons Domain; died 1806 for obvious reasons, son of the Frankish Kingdom

- Middle Francia/Lotharingia: born in 843CE (Treaty of Verdun); died either 958CE (division of the Kingdom of Lotharingia) or 1190CE (Lower Lotharingia lost its territorial authority), daughter of the Frankish Kingdom

- Austrasia & Neustria: born in 511CE, died in 751CE, those boys were literally twins and they started the tradition of ✨️fratricide✨️ in the family (later carried on by France killing HRE), sons of the Frankish Kingdom

- Prussia: born 1226CE (creation of the State of the Teutonic Order)/born 1th century CE if we consider him an Old Prussian (Baltic tribe), son of how do I know

- Germany: born...1806(Confederation of the Rhine), 1815(German Confederation), 1866 (North German Confederation) or 1871 (Proclamation of the Reich)

Or he's HRE according to some... I don't know he's complicated...

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the-casbah-way · 1 month

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What’s your opinion on the English

#this is a JOKE no one come for me #i hate England as a State in terms of what they have done and what they stand for #i hate posh english people for the way they treat me and scottish people in general on an every day level #but the I Hate The English doesn’t literally mean i hate english people. it’s like saying you’re gay when you’re bisexual #it’s enough to get the point across without dealing in semantics #@ normal english people i love you come here #but also i don’t usually feel the need to say all this. it’s probably obvious #like i’m not trying to be dramatic but england has had a far more profound impact on working class scotland than people fully understand #i felt it in my every day life all the time as a kid and i was born way after most of it happened #so i don’t need to add a disclaimer to every silly throwaway Fuck The English joke i make. in my opinion #anyway sorry anon i hope this answers your question

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coindraws · 9 months

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Hello besties

First things first, happy new year! I've been super busy ever since I've started my master's degree in France, (still waiting for my bachelor's degree to get sorted out by the unis.........) so I haven't been able to be online much.

I also haven't really drawn anything in a month, simply because I've had so many things to do irl

Either way, I'm currently chilling with @cheeseballs-sao and I'm going back to Germany on the 4th and then I'll have to be in France again the next day. Hopefully my life becomes less stressful during my second semester 😭 It's definitely better than the 3 semesters I did in France during the bachelor's program but it's still very exhausting, lol

Been waiting for the office which approves the state scholarships to get back to me since September, they've just ghosted me and I kinda need money 😐 been living off of my savings for 4 months and I don't want to wait any longer tbh

Either way, onto an easy 2024 hopefully 👌🏼 I don't have the strength for another turbulent year

#laber net #Border force in England wouldn't let me into the country for an hour at the airport #why is my life like that 😭😭#pls Bafög i hate you but I need you #my first mistake in life was not being born into generational wealth lol #Love how I can't leave problems that should've been solved a long time ago behind #like the scholarship money and my goddamn bachelor's degree #too tired to complain but yeah

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carmineline · 3 months

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YEAAAAAAAAA IT STILL DIDNT GO HOME

#I love you 56 year international loss streak #I love you England never winning the euros #I love you england havent won the World Cup since before my parents were even born #euro 2024

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omgwhatchloe · 3 months

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Do y'all irish people hates english people like in derry girls ?

this is such a layered question i am not qualified to answer

#ask #why would you ask me this #im only 75 percent irish #i was born and raised in north yorkshire england😭#ireland #irish #england #english #someone else please answer this #im only 14 i know barely anything

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8aeddel-vriska · 1 year

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I'm winning at being a SIGNALIS fan since I'm remembering that I have a German last name.

#sorry to be like that spongebob image and going 'signalis fan seeins a german person' but this game has made me like my last name a bit more #i've more or less considered myself german in terms of heritage since iirc my dad's side of the family came from there #although i think my mom's side is either like #french or english #hell my dad travelled to england a lot growing up since my grandfather was a pastor there #so it could have been entirely possible my dad met a british woman and 'i' was born in england instead #dark thought.#valtalks #signalis

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