#Legends Of Liberation

[sunny-days-and-warm-mournings]

An Emperor and his General, who escorts him, take a walk.

[youhavethewrong]

Finally started playing Wind Waker~! Such a charming game, it hasn’t aged a day ❤️

[girlkissergideon]

every avantris enjoyer knows that each and every PC is queer. god bles

[isabeauwolf]

Deadpool Dabi fanboy is back - as if the first one wasn't enough.

I ain't complaining!

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Liú Tao 劉濤

For the variety show 王牌對王牌

Bringing back my Nirvana in Fire 瑯琊榜 FEELS! Mù NíHuáng 穆霓凰 !!!

(Which reminds me that her character in the Advisors' Alliance is the mother of both Xiao ShùnYáo and Tán JìanCì's characters!)

[wilcze-kudly]

I like Mako and Bolin's grandma but i just have this gut feeling that she would be ecer so slightly homophobic.

Which, in my opinion makes Wuko hilarious, because grandma Yin ADORES Wu. Idk i just think it would be really funny to see her internal conflict over her grandsom dating a guy, BUT the guy is also the specialest boy in the world.

[chase-omega]

The reason why Zelda getting her own game is NOT "woke" is because people have been actually asking for it. This isn't something some lefty CEO thought of one day to pander to the wokies, this is something people on BOTH SIDES of the political spectrum have been ACTUALLY ASKING FOR. It is as simple as that. It is not just feminists or SJWs who wanted this game. A large chunk of the Zelda fanbase have wanted this game for a long time. Now can all of you chuds please just lower your pitchforks and torches? I promise you, not every instance of a female or non-white person being the protagonist is some sort of woke agenda. This isn't some anti-men game, Link is NOT portrayed as a bumbling weakling in this game. There is a very big difference between having that stuff to pander, and having that stuff just because it seems like a cool idea. If you cannot tell the difference, you need to rethink your entire worldview.

[scotianostra]

On December 25th 1950 four young Scots liberated the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.

Here is a report from The newspaper The Guardian of the story that was enfolding.

“Scotland Yard had no further news last night of the Coronation Stone, the Stone of Scone, or the Stone of Destiny as it is variously called. There is "absolutely no trace” of it, but the police are still busy all over the country - especially on northward routes - looking for it. The stone was stolen in the early hours of Christmas Day from Westminster Abbey.

One theory is that the thieves - or from the point of view of certain Scotsmen, “liberator” - hid in a chapel overnight in readiness for their coup. They had first to prise the stone out of its housing under the Coronation Chair, which is behind the high altar. Then the stone - which weighs four hundredweight and measures roughly 26 inches by 16 inches by 11 inches - had to be carried round to the Poet’s Corner door where, presumably, it was loaded into a car. The police are looking for a man and a woman in a Ford Anglia car which was seen near the abbey in the small hours of the morning.

Descriptions of them have been circulated, and the police say they speak with Scottish accents. It is taken for granted that the stone has been stolen by Scottish Nationalists. The stone, which is rectangular and is of yellowish sandstone, has two rings let into it and normally lies behind a grille under the Coronation Chair. In 1940 it was buried in the abbey and the secret position marked on the chart which was sent to Canada for safety.

It is believed to have left the abbey only once, when it was taken across to Westminster Hall and used for the installation of Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1657. It has been “attacked” before and was once slightly damaged (in 1914), when a bomb was placed under the Coronation Chair during the woman suffrage agitation. Twenty-five years ago, Mr David Kirkwood was given permission to bring a bill for the removal of the stone to Holyrood Palace, but the bill went no farther.

The Coronation Chair is the oldest piece of furniture in the abbey, and has been used for 27 coronations. It was damaged by the removal of the stone; part of it was broken and a strip of wood from the grille was found lying on the floor. Scotland Yard sent a number of CID men, including fingerprint experts, to the abbey and have circulated a description of the stone.

There is no official confirmation of a rumour that a wristwatch was found near the Coronation Chair, but it has been stated that freshly carved initials “JFS” have been found in the gilding on the front of the chair. It seemed evident that the intruders were amateurs, for they made little attempt to hide their tracks. Whether or not they will make straight for Scotland with the stone is doubtful, though one Scottish paper said this morning that the stone might already have crossed the border.

It should not prove a difficult object to hide once it can be taken out of the car which is carrying it, and the police of the two countries are likely to find themselves with a difficult job - not so much in finding the culprits but in finding the stone. If anybody is brought to court either on a charge of stealing or of sacrilege, the case should produce some fine legal and historical points.“

In addition to numerous road blocks, a special watch was kept at docks and airports, while hundreds of CID officers checked hotels and B&Bs in the North of England. Following the delivery of an anonymous petition promising the “return” of the Stone – on condition that it would remain in Scotland – to a Glasgow newspaper, Special Branch officers soon started making enquiries about student political bodies at Glasgow University.

The liberators were indeed Scots, four students from The University of Glasgow, from the University of Glasgow (Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Kay Matheson and Alan Stuart, travelled to London, entered the Abbey in the small hours of Christmas Day and nabbed the Stone from beneath the coronation throne. They dropped it by accident and it broke in two. They loaded the Stone into their car boot and brought it back to Scotland – despite roadblocks and police searches.

The four became notorious for the daring heist and in Scotland they achieved nigh-on hero status, while in contrast the English were somewhat bewildered. All four of the group were interviewed and all later confessed to their involvement with the exception of Ian Hamilton. The authorities decided not to prosecute as the potential for the event to become politicised was far too great.

At the time, the leader of Scottish Covenant Association, Nigel Tranter commented

“This venture may appear foolish and childish on the surface, but it will have the effect down South of focusing attention on Scotland’s complaints. It takes a lot to get any news of Scotland’s national existence into the English Press, and this sort of thing is the only type of Home Rule story that gets a break in the English newspapers.”

Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Lord of Scone, the spiritual home of the stone waded in with how he would be “extremely reluctant” to hand the Stone “to the English authorities,” assuming it should be returned to his property at Scone Palace. “In view of the fact that the Stone undoubtedly pertains to the line of Scottish kings, it belongs to the King as King of Scotland, not as King of England,” he said. “In the future the Stone should be kept at Scone or Holyrood instead of Westminster.”

Despite their best efforts, the authorities on both sides of the Border were unable to trace the Stone, at least until April 1951 when – draped in the Scottish Saltire – it was ceremonially deposited at the site of the high altar within the ruins of Arbroath Abbey. The Stone was accompanied by two unsigned letters, one addressed to the King, the other to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, described as “successor to the Abbots of Scone” and therefore the Stone’s “natural guardians”.

It would be a further 43 years before a UK Government agreed that the Stone. when not required for use in such ceremonies, I covered this in depth on St Andrews Day.

Church-bells across Scotland didn’t ring out in celebration – as portrayed in the 2008 film, The Stone of Destiny – yet Ian Hamilton and his friends nevertheless showed how what had seemed permanent and immutable could be changed.

The Stone of Destiny will again be on the move and will be the centrepiece of a new £26.5m museum, in Perth. Construction work on the new museum at Perth City Hall is due to start in February, with it scheduled to open in 2024. The third pic shows an artist impression of how it might look.

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[readyforevolution]

NBA legends Julius Erving and Michael Jordan🏀👌🏽

[morgenstern16]

You know, out of all the final dungeons in Trails, the Liber Ark has by far the best vibes. A lot of final dungeons in Trails are some kind of creepy dark castle/ruins but the Liber Ark has this serenity that nothing else in the series comes close to.

You walk through beautiful greenery and go through pristine houses and walk down clean pathways, which look they've only seen a bit of wear, not the literal centuries they've been gone. You really get the sense that this was literal paradise (at least for a while before things went to shit) for the ancestors of the Liberlian people.

There's this sense of wonder as you explore the city, but at the same time it feels very alien to the setting. You feel just as out of place as Estelle and the rest of the party do when you're exploring it, but at the same time there's a sense of familiarity to a 21st century player in terms of the technology that Estelle's party wouldn't get. It combines to create this uncanny valley sort of effect where you can see how this all came about but it clashes so much with the late 19th century to early 20th century level of tech that you've been used to seeing in the Sky games.

The music is absolutely beautiful as well, but as you listen to it you can hear a bit of the Aureole motif (at least I think that's the Aureole motif, I'm not a music nerd), which by this point you've come to associate with danger and threat.

All of this comes together to make a final dungeon that's both gorgeous but also deeply unsettling at the same time in the best way possible. I'll be honest, most of the final dungeons in Trails just have one image each in my mind but I feel like I can remember a lot of the twists and turns in the Liber Ark ages after I've gone through it because it's just that memorable.

[syd-beads4evac]

still working on restocking 🇵🇸🍉 fringes, but here's some other beadwork available in my shop! 100% of sales will help my sister's friend Hanaa evacuate her family!

[Image ID: six images showing pairs of beaded earrings. rhombus-shaped earrings of a pink Barbie logo on a white background; pink My Melody earrings; long fringe earrings with white, pink, gold and black pattern; earrings of Hello Kitty with a red bow, yellow shirt, turquoise overalls and pink outline; two pairs of Zelda-inspired fringe earrings, one made with thistle and  white-opal-bronze-lined colored beads with gold accents, the other transparent dark purple and light purple beads with gold and opal accents; beadwork recreation of small dark blue and yellow coffins from Dragon Quest 11 with stainless steel studs . / . End ID]

[mantarobin]

uhmmmm rr eplilouge doodles and seer being a silly goober. rr!seer going through it as his only familiarity destroys him and sl!seer being a goofy birdie. I love them both

[reno-matagot]

Well, but it’s my Antinous under the ocean! Nice surprise from the muses...

Ivan Bilibin The Little mermaid • 1920

[timeturner-jay]

Okay, but did anyone actually play the Fire Temple the intended way instead of just cheesing it to hell and back?

I played the first puzzle as intended, got extremely annoyed at how tedious the mine carts were to use, and then just climbed around inside and outside the buildings and found creative spots to use Ascent, and never touched another one of the puzzles again. 😌 Open-concept dungeons, my beloved. They made it so easy.

At one point I even found a tiny spot where they had missed Ascent-proofing the bottom of a lava room - and Link dove up not through and out of rock, but just out into the middle of a lake of lava. It was hilarious. Wish I had taken a screenshot.

(I'm still not done with the game btw, so please don't discuss any other parts of TotK here. I'd rather avoid spoilers.)

[aktinopterygia]

i just think it's unfortunate how atla's political argument was about fighting imperialism, but lok's was about maintaining the status quo and essentially being a cop, equating (caricatures of) communism and anarchy with fascism and theocracy/religious law. + plot decisions that made no sense, like toph choosing to be a police officer, and also this out-of-the-blue conflict between benders and non-benders as systemic oppression (?????) which was never a thing in atla, and if you wanted to talk about oppression and political conflict the choice was right there: the fire nation. the show could have explored how the rest of the world dealt with war trauma, like, in korra's time there definitely would have been people still alive that remembered when the fire nation burned down their village etc. How would the world handle sharing space with fire benders post-war? that would have been interesting. the impact of that whole ass war into the next generation. but no, we had to villainize leftist movements seeking equality and social justice and equate them to fascism. also the way this show glorifies the police, good god...

it wasn't a bad show, and I did love many of the characters and the steampunk setting and the art, it's just sad that those choices were made and that clearly no research was done on political science and ideology before making such bold statements about it. it feels very arrogant.