#Ragaeli

[laughterlust]

Ragaeli truly believes the best way to face one's fear is to laugh at it. Because Gargalesis in itself is a natural instinctive response to something that the body perceives as a frightening potential threat: Tickling. It's literally programmed in the brain to let out nervous laughter in response to something that makes us feel uncertainty.

So, to him, the very embodiment of these types of emotions, it's only natural to want to help people face their fears through laughter; whether it be tickling, or riffing horror movies together, or running them through a gauntlet similar to a Halloween scare-house while he goofs off to help bolster their courage.

This is why his ultimate goal is to overthrow Eldrich; to bring Nightmares down a new path that will ultimately lead to a much more symbiotic, affectionate, playful dynamic with humans, rather than parisitic.

Of course, the more devilish, power-hungry side of him, and the fact that he has literally been driven mad by his hunger for laughter and obsession with tickling, wouldn't at all mind plunging the world into adrenaline-induced, tickling-centric Nightmarescape for all of humanity and Nightmare-kind to live in a twisted paradise of endless laughter~

❌🔞MINORS AND NO AGE IN PROFILE DNI. This is a NSFW blog, you will be blocked on sight.🔞❌

[kakashi-fangirl-ita-blog]

Director said "take five", but Himaruya heard "change lives"

LIVES WERE CHANGED WITH FRANCE'S NEW LOOK OMG HOW IS HE SO BEAUTIFUL

And EXCUSE MEEEE can we talk about THIS FRUK MOMENT?!?!?! France leaning backwards to look for England's approval, England looking at him WITH THAT SWEET SMILE AND FRANCE BLUSHING??????? AAAAAAAAA

[yep-ishouldbesleeping]

Cinematic parallels?

[mistressemmedi]

Handcuffing your coworker and then proceeding to kiss his wife on national television. Just normal Italian things

[mcchi-ken]

gentlebeard big bad dump n#1 because i need to clean up some space in my pc and these two take up like 12 gb also if you saw this like 5 months ago no you didnt bc tumblr flagged it for nudity 🫡

+ bonus doodle

[mensministry]

"Ayurveda," Raga Svara, Rajkot, India

Shanmugam Associates

[sabelsstaci]

[cantofamelico]

buongiorno <3

[too-antigonish]

Endeavour and Fascism

There's a thread of history running through Endeavour that's been on my mind a lot recently. It's a somewhat unified arc that runs through 3 episodes: Coda, Colours, and Raga. I was curious to learn more and did some research.

It's probably nothing new for folks in the UK, but for most of us in the US, it's not something we learned about in school.

So here goes...long post...

S3E4: Coda

We get the first glimpse in in Coda when Thursday comforts Trewlove with the offer of a cigarette as she copes with the murder of a fellow officer:

THURSDAY: All right? TREWLOVE: They just shot him. Like it was nothing. THURSDAY: Here. For the nerves. Keep the pack. Stick 'em behind your notebook and nobody'll know. TREWLOVE: Thanks. THURSDAY: Tip my old governor gave me. Sergeant Vimes. Cable Street. “No Pasarán!” All right? Let’s have that jacket buttoned up, then. TREWLOVE: Sir.

It's such a little exchange, but it delights me in so many ways. There's the sweetness of the interaction between Thursday and Trewlove. There's the irony in hindsight of his "thoughtfulness" in helpfully encouraging her to smoke. There's the nod to Terry Pratchett's Discworld with the references to both "Sergeant Vimes" and "Cable Street." And finally there's the nod with “No Pasarán!”  to the actual Battle of Cable Street that occurred in the East End of London in 1936.

A nostalgic reference to “No Pasarán!” is actually a bit ironic coming from a former Met officer. As the unfortunate party charged with keeping the two opposing sides "peaceful," the Met faced some of the worst violence on that day. However, Fred Thursday would not have experienced it as a police officer.

We know from the episode Home that he didn't join the police until two years later, in 1938. We find out in Cartouche though, that he did grow up near Shadwell Basin—about a ten minute walk from where the main showdown in the Battle of Cable Street occurred—so there's a good chance that Thursday would have witnessed the events of that day and maybe even participated.

Here's my understanding of what happened: The British Union of Fascists—a group openly aspiring to create a British  state in the style of Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy—attempted to stage a march through the middle of London's East End. Their leader was Oswald Mosley, a horrible but charismatic minor aristocrat with a Hitler-wannabe-mustache, his own cadre of paramilitary "Blackshirts," and—unbeknownst to him—a major problem in his ranks with deep infiltration by Special Branch. 

Why the East End? It was the poorest area of the city and thus home to the most recent immigrants—in particular, the UK's largest Jewish population—many of whom had escaped rising persecution elsewhere in Europe. At the same time, the East End was also home to the Londoners hit hardest by the rising unemployment of the 1930s.

Mosley's rhetoric had finally become openly and unapologetically anti-Semitic in 1935 and the idea that Jewish immigrants were the ones responsible for stealing jobs from the "native" British was a simplistic explanation offered by the BUF that unfortunately resonated with many East Enders. So ultimately, the East End was home to both the main target and the BUF and some of its biggest supporters.

In October of 1936, Mosley planned for his Blackshirts and their supporters to march through the heart of the East End. Determined to both defend themselves from threats of violence and stop the march from passing through their community, Jewish leaders and others mobilized, successfully recruiting thousands of their East End neighbors and others allies to assist.

© Jewish East End Celebration Society

On the day of the march, despite a massive police escort, the BUF was turned back repeatedly. The slogan of the day, borrowed from the Republican fighters in the Spanish Civil War was, "They shall not pass" or "No Pasarán!” 

Eventually, things came to a head at the junction of Cable Street and Christian Street. Multiple barricades were erected and the BUF marchers were pelted with rotted vegetables and the contents of chamber pots. It became a pitched battle at one point. Unable to break through the East End, Mosley was finally forced to relocate his followers to Hyde Park.

© Copyright Jim Osley Detail from a mural painted on the side of the former St George's vestry hall

S5E4: Colours

The Battle of Cable Street was a humiliation for the fascists and for Mosley, a victory for the Jewish community and their allies. Sadly, the happiness was very short-lived. Mosley was able to frame Cable Street in the press as an attack by the left on his right to free speech.

There was an immediate increase in support for the BUF in the greater London area, particularly in the East End, and an increase of violence against Jewish people in the UK.  Oswald Mosley himself travelled  to Germany only two days after Cable Street. There he married socialite Diana Mitford in a secret ceremony at the home of Joseph Goebbels with Hitler attending as the guest of honor. 

Mosley and Mitford CC-BY-2.0

However, the increase in support that occurred right after Cable Street was brief in itself. As the threat of Nazi Germany became more apparent in the UK, the popularity of the BUF declined. Once the war began, the Mosleys were interned under a provision that applied to active Nazi sympathizers.

Post-war, Mosley attempted to once more find a place in politics but fortunately never moved beyond the fringe. He and his wife became prime movers in advancing various Holocaust denial theories and later espoused rather unpleasant opinions on topics such as the forced repatriation of immigrants and mixed-race marriages.

If this all sounds familiar, it's because it all crops up in the storyline of Colours where the character of Charity Mudford, Lady Bayswater is a stand-in for Diana Mitford.  RL's dialogue very much captures the sheer banality of the real Diana Mitford's  evil:

BAYSWATER: I can't change the past. If Winston hadn't been so eager for office, all the unpleasantness might have been avoided. My husband had Hitler's ear. We could have persuaded him. Softened his resolve. He wasn't immune to reason.  THURSDAY: Charming conversationalist, no doubt. BAYSWATER: Actually, he was a very good mimic. Terribly witty. MORSE: Sir, is it time for that telephone call? To the station? I can take it from here. THURSDAY: The unpleasantness, as you call it, cost me six years of my life, and untold millions a great deal more.

S7E2: Raga

But we're not quite done yet. The BUF had a successor. The National Front was founded by a former member of the BUF who then joined forces with John Tyndall, the leader of the Greater Britain movement which had a big anti-immigration focus.

As with Jewish immigration a generation earlier, heavy South Asian migration to Britain in the 1970s made it an easy target for those seeking to pin all of the nation's economic and social problems on "outsiders."

The National Front eventually came out with an agenda that called for the revocation of citizenship for all non-whites in Britain and forcible repatriation to their "native" countries. NF rallies were frequently accompanied by violence whipped up by the kind of rhetoric we hear in Raga where the character of Gorman serves as a stand-in for Tyndall and his ilk:

THURSDAY: Well, we're very concerned about young Pakistani lads getting knifed on the street. GORMAN: Terrible. But I can't say that I'm surprised. You cram all of these incompatible cultures together on one small island, of course it's gonna lead to blood. And worse. MORSE: Sounds like a threat, Mr. Gorman. GORMAN: It's just an observation. If the police can't keep the streets safe and defend the indigenous population against outsiders, well, no wonder people take it into their own hands. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a seat to win.

If anyone sees anything that I've gotten wrong here, please let me know. This was my first time reading through any source material on this whole topic and it's complicated (and depressing as hell).

I haven't got any pithy, final point to make except to say that there are certain ideas that seem to cycle back with horrible regularity every time certain conditions are in place. They're wrong. They're simplistic. They're hateful. And they need to be stopped every time.

[lattebiscotti]

you’re on a B17 with a beautiful boy and he won’t tell you that he loves you but he will tell you he would fly on the last B17 with you and only you. and he would also be your best man at your wedding and tell you he should’ve married you instead

[laughterlust]

And following your latest post (the one, where you say you're okay with raunchy/NSFW questions for your OC's), I've got one for Inzi: Inzi, out of Kenni, Kama and Rags, who's your favourite Ler and why?

Inzi: O-Oh jeez, where do I start, heh... ^///^; well, they're all really good at what they do for different reasons...

Ragdoll knows I'm not really into the scary horror aspects of his play style. A lot of the creepy environments are more up Mina's alley. That being said, he knows I can handle his intense tickling, and really likes pushing my limits. He likes indulging my more...erm... masochistic tickle fantasies >///> Using false safewords, being tickled til I pass out, overstimulation... He's proud of the fact that he's the only person that's ever been able to make me safeword. Heck, I'm kinda proud of that, heh~ Kama... Lord mercy... He'll go right for the biggest erogenous zones and just; Not. Stop. He's so sensual, and commanding, and such a terrible tease >////< but he's almost as much of a lovebug as Kenni, so it's really, really nice~

But when it comes down to it... I still can't help but be the most drawn to Kenni. He's such a sweet, compassionate soul, that I see reflected in my own. I aspire to be even more like him. We're both huge cuddlebugs, so that's a plus. And just... those feathers... -shivers- H-He knows how weak I am to them and it's not fair >////<

(Truth be told I really wanted to draw up a new sketch of Kenni and Inzi for this ask but kept drawing a blank, and then ended up getting sick this past week. So I'll just share this older pic, which I'm still happy with. Mans is lost in the sauce)

❌🔞MINORS AND NO AGE IN PROFILE DNI. This is a NSFW blog, you will be blocked on sight.🔞❌

[kakashi-fangirl-ita-blog]

I just realized that Qifrey sleeps in the same position of when he was buried alive :(((

[frammenti--di--cuore]

vorrei bloccare il tempo, tornare indietro e vivere in quei momenti che mi hanno ricostruito il cuore da zero.

le bozze, zoe

[arcanespillo]

Prisma s2 —NEON

[mistressemmedi]

Seriously though, where did he learn that word? Did he hear it? Did he stumble upon it while using the internet unsupervised? What's with the obsession? Who shows up to a meeting and says [and I quote] "there is an air of faggotry in the Vatican"??? 💀

[okhumbug0]

fav genre of photo fr (george harrison with sitar).