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for everyone who needs this reminder SOMEONE LIKE YOU (2001)

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tumblr tuesday: hyrule compendium

The world is healing, Rauru is great, your art blocks are being cured, and no one, absolutely no one, is thinking of the Zelda x Link ship name being Linda instead of Zelink. Tears of the Kingdom is here, and mentally, we're all in Hyrule for the foreseeable future. Here's some fanart for your heart containers.

(Please, proceed with caution. There are mild spoilers for the game ahead!)

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FFXVI - Eikons Keyart

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Darren Criss | 2023

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Sorry for disappearing, it will happen again

(but not before I post my latest fic)

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03x01 // 03x200

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@epersonae​ :D

Infodumping time! :D :D :D :D

Okay, so it has been acknowledged on all fronts that OFMD does really well at dealing with a world steeped in colonialism, especially when it comes to Ed and his mum’s implicit backstory, Jim’s history and family background in St. Augustine, plus the various tidbits we get about Frenchie, Oluwande and Roach and the other one-episode characters like Abshir and the Arawak people.

Now let me explain why I also got so excited about the British characters we have in the show, entirely based in the context of colonialism and the British class system.

The show is set in 1717. By this point, Britain is the ‘united’ Kingdom with England having laid claim to Ireland and Wales for years and finally hooking Scotland with the Act of Union in 1707, after the disaster of the Darien Project - another story another day - utterly bankrupted Scotland.

In 1689, there was the Glorious Revolution, wherein William of Orange came over from the Netherlands (at the request of the mostly English aristocracy) and punted James II/VII (II of England, VII of Scotland) off the throne. Civil wars of various shapes and sizes happened for the next 40+ years, but especially in parts of Ireland and Scotland.

So let me tell you that when I realised this crew of pirates had both a Northern Irish and a working class Scots character in it? I screeched. Especially a Scots character using the Scots language, which never appears anywhere except Scots media? Not least because many, many pirates who were working in the Caribbean at that time were dispossessed Irish and Scotsmen, especially following the most recent Jacobite rising in 1715. (Also, speculation abounds that historical Stede was actually a Jacobite sympathiser since he named his second ship Royal James, but that’s another story for another day)

I’m not as familiar with the Irish history, but I know that with the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century, Irish Catholic families were forcibly displaced to make room for Protestant families from Britain, who got all the valuable/usable land, while the Irish Catholic population were taxed to the hilt and driven to live on poorer land plus the horrors of the church schooling system, where the kids were taken from their families to be assimilated.

Sound familiar? Ireland is where Britain honed its colonisation blade to the point that in 1745, the Scots nobles were calling it “the Irish system” when they decided it would be a useful thing to use to subdue “the superstitious savages” in the Highlands to turn everyone into only-English-speaking protestant automatons (Again, Buttons speaking Scots had me screeching! It doesn’t happen! Not in American shows! And yet!!!). It was later rolled out across the British empire.

So yes. This has been happening for centuries and one of the regular solutions to deal with people who were protesting against children being taken/all their food being taxed away/any vague sound of dissent or rumblings of ‘Papishness’ was cause for Banishment. The Good Old British solution to any problem in the 16th-18th century: kick them out the country to one of the countries that we need filled with white folk or enslave them in a plantation. 

It’s very telling that in British politics, the insults that the London-based politicians used for each other were to call each other Irish bandits (Tory is apparently an English bastardisation of the Irish word “tóraidhe”, which means outlaw) and Scottish cow herder (likewise Whig was mockingly derived from “Chuig an bothar”, the call of the cattle drivers)

So within a historical context, Buttons and Wee John ending up in the Caribbean wouldn’t have been unusual. It was very common to the point that there was an entire Jacobite/anti-England faction of pirates in Nassau (ie. the Republic of Pirates). There’s also a reason that a lot of plantations ended up being owned by Scottish ex-aristocracy - many were stripped of lands/titles because of the Jacobite risings and ended up in the Caribbean (And made their fortunes, then bribed their way back to their titles because of course they did. Bastards).

I do wish we’d got more information about Ivan and his background. At the time the show is set, Britain was tromping over and around south Asia with the East Indian Trading Company (also known as the Giant Company of Thieving Bastards Here To Steal Your Cool Stuff) which had been spreading its influence throughout the region since the 1600s and by the 1700s, were the main European power in the area. There are records showing connections between south Asia and St. Helena in the Caribbean from as early as 1684, so it isn’t impossible that someone from the area that is now Pakistan couldn’t have ended up working on trading ships to the Caribbean.

And then we have Lucius and Izzy, our two white English crew.

I have so many feelings about the class subtext that is slathered all over the show and I need to mention that before I move on to the boys.

Stede is technically upper class because of his wealth but when you see him with any of the other English characters who are upper class by birth and breeding, he is seen as secondary to them. The way Badminton and his officers treat Stede demonstrates this. If he was the firstborn son of someone with any title/lineage and had inherited said title, there would be some level of class-bias and respect shown because one has to follow the social code. However, the son of a man who bought his way into land and respectability? PFFT. No.

When his father says “Mary has acreage” and tells Stede “you didn’t earn it”, it speaks measures: Bonnet Senior is new money with no property or title and is still angry about “rich boys”. He’s rich himself, yes, but he wasn’t born to it. He didn’t inherit it and he begrudges the fact his son will have it handed to him. (Take Antoinette’s comment to Siegfried on the party ship - “just inherit it like a normal person” - this is how the gentry talk about wealth)

Also, re. Stede not having an English accent, while his father does - I like the implication that Stede is first-gen colony baby. His dad came out to make a fortune, which is why he still has his English accent, but Stede was only in England for school, which is why he doesn’t have the accent.

So yis, in that line, Stede is upper class by property, but not by breeding. He’s “not some derelict. He has money” and that’s all that he had going for him. When he talks about the party he describes it as “posh knobs hob-nobbing with other posh nobs” and later tells Frenchie he never really fit in at those kind of dos. His father may be a land-owner, but that’s only a few steps above “tradesman” to the born-and-raised aristocracy.

Then we have Lucius. He’s absolutely not working class. At a guess, I’d say some kind of merchant level because his family would have had to be financially sound enough to afford to give him an education that involved calligraphy and have a reason for him to be able to read and write exceptionally well. One of the options is that he was trained up to be a clerk, someone who does all the writing and book-keeping.

And then we have Izzy. I can’t avoid the fact that Izzy’s social context is important because Con is famous in his field for playing working class northern characters. He’s won awards for it. 

Before I start munching on this particular chew toy, a quick recap: for people unfamiliar with the British Isles, there is a big social divide between the north and south of England. North England was where so much of the big industry happened back in the day (mines, shipyards, factories, mills et al), while London and the south were seen as the political hubs.

When said industries went under, let’s just say it was the north that dealt with the brunt of it and are still dealing with the repercussions of decisions made by the governments in the south. (Yes, this is a quick and very generalised recap, but it’s 9am on a Sunday morning and I have no brain for getting into the collapse of the industrial revolution + the successive mess of stuff that followed)

So Izzy. Izzy is one of Con’s juicy working class northern lad creations. He’s not got much in life but he’s clawed his way into a position that should merit some respect and some appreciation. He has worked hard to get where he is and is determined to maintain what he has got.

And if we are to take his accent as we take Buttons and Wee John, he’s from Liverpool, which was becoming one of the biggest ports in England at the time on the north west coast of England. Because it expanded so rapidly from the late 1690s, the majority of people in the Liverpool area were probably working in/around/associated with the port.

My dad’s side of the family are northern (north-east, though) and working class and one thing I can very clearly remember about the older generations was that they thought hard work was the way to go because that was how things had always been done: you work hard, you get what you earn and you get on with it. Education was a luxury most people couldn’t afford because you had to work, because if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. (I could also go on and on about how certain generations there thought reading made you “soft” but that’s a whole other kettle of fish)

Izzy really embodies that ethos, especially when he’s faced with a crew who don’t seem to even be doing the bare minimum of work. His hostility is understandable when he has been working his arse off and, in his own words, “barely ekeing by” while these people are acting like they’re on a holiday cruise. His comment on the library - the “perverse misuse of space” about something only rich people had access to - and pushing Lucius into doing some physical labour when Lucius is the equivalent of a secretary is Izzy expressing his frustrations with it all. This life is the one he knows and he knows how it’s meant to work but Stede has come along, saying “what if it wasn’t like that?” and Izzy isn’t a fan.

I know I’m probably reading a lot more into it than there really is there, but given how much David Jenkins has spoken about Con’s audition performance and development of the character shaping the scripts, I can’t help feel that it’s important, especially given how deftly they handled so many of the other aspects.

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this might be a too much to ask, but can we get the names of the sims you posted? they are all very beautiful and amazing ❤❤❤❤

I can definitely answer that for you! I'll have to answer under read more because it's gonna be a long post. I don't know if others wanna go through that on their dash lkhaldf So click on the read more link below! 😉⤵

1: Don Lothario (he/him) 2: Johnny Zest (he/him) 3: Yesenia Baugh (she/her) 4: Penny Pizzazz (she/her) 5: Dina Caliente (she/her) 6: Nina Caliente (she/her) 7: Paolo Rocca (he/him) 8: Marcus Flex (he/him)

9: Eva Capricciosa (she/her) 10: Jade Rosa (she/her) 11: Dominique Rojas (he/him) 12: Michael Smith (he/him) 13: Salim Benali (he/him) 14: Roman Conner (they/them) 15: Maria Conner (she/her) 16: Estevan Moya (he/him)

17: Jacinta Banks (she/her) 18: Seraphina Carrasco (she/her) 19: DeMario Humphrey (he/him) 20: Iniya Advani (she/her) 21: Jules Dupree (he/him) 22: Tatum Long (he/him) 23: Sabrina Ernst (she/her) 24: Lukas Power (he/him)

25: Thorne Bailey (he/him) 26: Octavia Moon (she/her) 27: Clio Bailey (she/her) 28: Dorian De La Cruz (he/him) 29: Zola Fiorello (she/her) 30: Giovanni Fiorello (he/him) 31: Jared Q Grimes (he/him) 32: Jordan Mayer (she/her)

33: Dante Lothario (he/him) 34: Bruna Lothario (she/her) 35: Johnson Ready (he/him) 36: Martin Wall (he/him) 37: Candy Behr (she/her) 38: Yuki Behr (she/her) 39: Adriana Lothario (she/her) 40: Nicolo Lothario (he/him)

41: Dirk Dreamer (he/him) 42: Aubrey Epperson (he/them) 43: Sean Sullivan (he/him) 44: Holly Vinedal (she/her) 45: Raj Khemlani (he/him) 46: Lacey Stiles (she/her) 47: Kalista Kalid (she/her) 48: Olivia Stewart (they/them)

49: Moose DuBros (he/him) 50: Brock Hackett (he/him) 51: Haven Upton (she/her) 52: Jasna Upton (she/her) 53: Carley Otto (she/her) 54: Moshe Starks (he/him) 55: Cherish Gann (she/her) 56: Willow Crawley (she/her)

57: Dudley Landgraab (he/him) 58: Mimi Landgraab (she/her) 59: Hank Goddard (he/him) 60: Pauline Wan (she/her) 61: Nancy Landgraab (she/her) 62: Geoffrey Landgraab (he/him) 63: Malcolm Landgraab (he/him) 64: Brytani Cho (she/her)

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if y’all read my tags you’d know that I have had a massive pileup of drafts because I’ve been too lazy to tag things correctly

LOOK HOW GOOD I DID!!!

after weeks of working on tagging over a thousand drafts, I finally have almost everything sorted!!! most of the 44 drafts left are notable moments commentary posts that have been in there for like two and a half years (oops lmao)

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this is me btw

this is the wizard behind this blog

all of that deep, interesting analysis you like to read? it’s all me, baybee

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i need preseason hockey bc i am genuinely afraid that on october 10th me and the girlies are going to be at ppg paints watching hawks @ pens and i'm literally not going to remember how the game works. catch me in a fleury jersey on the day saying now who's that fellow standing off to the far end all by his lonesome. how come his stick looks like that why is his gear so puffy

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Not intimidating, but certainly impressive. Keep up the good work!

Yay! Yes ma'am O7

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good news: began the full process of outlining Eryn's full story as a fully fleshed out piece instead of the snippets I've been doing

bad news: jesus christ there is so much

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Darren Criss | 2022

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not me accidentally upload the previous post early WHILE IM WRITING JABSDFLKAJS

dang you keyboard shortcut i was trying to remove some space wheezeeee