#Mary Thomas

[gacougnol]

Mary Thomas

Cyanotype with red ink

[julio-viernes]

La ELO en "Rockaria!", rock + aria de ópera, de eso va el "mostolito". Helo ahí. Muy agudo Yef Lín. "She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune. And Verdi's always creeping from her room". Toma ya. La soprano galesa Mary Thomas puso su voz en la grabación pero no sale en el vídeo. La canción fue parte del mejor álbum de Electric Light Orchestra, "A New World Record" de 1976, y el segundo single extraido del LP, entre "Livin´ Thing" y "Do Ya". Roll Over! Aquí Los Puntos hicieron "Tan Bonita Como un Rock", que es parecida pero más rápida y sin el elemento operístico.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

At Adelaide, Mary Thomas wrote of Kaurna people,

The greatest mischief they have . . . is a custom of burning the grass during the hot weather . . . Their fires on the hills are quite awful. We have frequently seen fires this summer which have reached for twenty or thirty miles in circumference, for they light them at distances so that they will enclose a large space,²⁶

and in 1844 George French Angas similarly described the Adelaide Hills:

They consist of tall primeval trees of a kind of eucalyptus, their erect and massive trunks blackened, in many places as high as fifteen or twenty feet from the ground, by the tremendous fires that sweep through these forests, and continue to blaze and roll along, day and night for many miles, in one continuous chain of fire. These conflagrations usually take place during the dry heats of summer, and frequently at night; the hills, when viewed from Adelaide, present a singular and almost terrific appearance; being covered with long streaks of flame, so that one might fancy them a range of volcanoes.²⁷

In such mature forest, fire 'fifteen or twenty feet from the ground' (4.5 to 6 metres) would not be thought big today, and in those same hills three years before Angas a reporter observed,

though the fire has evidently ranged fiercely in many places, yet it never seems to attack anything but the grass and the leaves of the lower bushes, leaving the trees unscathed, the larger ones being seldom found hollow and blackened as are those on the plains below.²⁸

At Albany in 1830, Scott Nind noted, 'The violence of the fire is frequently very great, and extends over many miles of country; but this is generally guarded against by their burning it in consecutive portions.'²⁹

26. Mary Thomas, The Diaries and Letters of Mary Thomas (1836-1866), ed. Evan Kyffin Thomas, WK Thomas & Co., Adelaide, 1925, p. 123, c/- Tom Gara.

27. George French Angas, Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand, vol. 1, Reed, Wellington, NZ, [1847] 1968, p. 43, c/- Tom Gara.

28. South Australian Register, 27 Mar 1841, p. 4, c/- Tom Gara.

29. Scott Nind, 'Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Sean River Colony) and Adjoining Country', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1, 1830-31, p. 28.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[francesanim]

BBC GHOSTS! I drew all the ghosties like 1 year ago, but first time posting it here! I love this damn show so much 🥺🥺🥺

[eldritchdemonfox]

why does everyone seem obsessed with making the batkid’s bio parents either an afterthought or worse than they actually are?

I mean, in some cases they did actually have bad parents, like Arthur Brown and David Cain

But like…

Duke’s parents are still alive, albeit comatose. He loves them.

Tim’s parents were not as criminally neglectful as fannon makes them out to be, and it really impacted him when they died.

Dick’s parents are the REASON he chose Robin as his name, and he still misses them.

While Willis Todd wasn’t a great father, he did at least want a better life for Jason in some cannons. And Catherine did the best she could. The only person really deserving of hate is Sheila. Fuck her fr.

Babs LITERALLY STILL HAS A DAD. WHO SHE LOVES. Justice for my man Gordon.

I mean CMON

[froggieetmblr]

Quick one to celebrate the final season:“)

[nortism]

bbc ghosts as “things to never say to someone who just came out”

[klazje]

i always feel like a gay little freak when i talk abt downton abbey irl to like. old women. they’re always like “oh…you’re favorite is thomas? the gay evil footman…?” YES THE CUNTY GAY EVIL FOOTMAN. god why is that so hard to understand.

[one-fancy-flapjack]

I've been making these and reading them with the character's voices for the last 30 minutes.

edit : You guys have no idea how heartwarming your reblogs are, seriously I had no clue that this shitpost would be so well received 😭love y'all, take care 👻🏠

[gacougnol]

Mary Thomas

Cyanotype with watercolour.

[almondcroissantsandink]

*Brady Bunches your BBC Ghosts*

[donpringle]

BBC Ghosts chaos

[spiderliliez]

They will live a blessed, privileged life, and depart the stage together. [+] CARLA GUGINO 🥀 [+] ..more on “The Fall of the House of Usher” 🎬

[playa-pariah]

Finally complete :’)

(There’s an Easter egg in each portrait ;))

[yaminerua]

Everyone’s favourite dysfunctional dead family

[baladric]

2023

1. RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT.

2. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD.

3. WE ARE ALL GOING FORWARD. NONE OF US ARE GOING BACK.