#Robert Peel

[lordcastaway]

obsessed with the line-up

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1845 – The arrival of the potato blight in Ireland is reported in the Dublin Evening Post.

To this day, all over Ireland the landscape bears mute testimony to the events that occurred in the horrific period from 1845–1852. Starvation graveyards offer silent tribute to the millions of Irish men, women, and children buried in unmarked mass graves. Thriving villages were replaced by heaps of moss-covered stones. Although historians have not agreed on the numbers who perished, most…

[slocum-dodson]

These are the people protecting the settlement from monsters. Officer Rodney Jones and his Gauss Rifle, the breaker of men. Then there's Special Officer Jane Kline, she wields the flamer that will cleanse England of the enemies of Slocum's Joe.

[insidecroydon]

Philp gets a Tory top job to provide a never-ending punchline

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on a Parliamentary appointment that has had Westminster watchers rolling around in laughter Gis a job. Any job: the spirit of Yosser Hughes lives on, as Chris Philp selfies with Kemi BadEnoch on Saturday Chris Philp, the Croydon South Conservative MP notorious as “the nose in search of a bum”, has finally landed a prize for all those hours spent prostrating…

[catgondoliere]

John Linnell (English, 1792-1882)

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt (1838)

[eraserheadbabies]

some more horror movie goosebumps covers

[ddesole]

SKELETON CREW 1.06 "Zero Friends Again"

[witchrealms]

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[janusfranc15]

I went ‘oh. Yay?’ To an immediate ‘Oh Dear.’

Not fun northern fact

The modern Conservative Party was founded by a northern Robert Peel from bury Lancashire

[youjustdontunderstandmymusic]

hideo kojima being a cool guy he is: a series

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

10 Favorite Horror Performances (in no particular order)

A last minute Halloween tag I made up weeks ago, but only posted now

Tagging: @jamieleecvrtis @thiagodasilva @kitc0nn0r @avnj0gia @honeyglazedbabe @powerbottombrucespringsteen @kermitlesbian @dickprints @okmochi

And anyone else mostly because tumblr won't let me tag certain people

[nirvana-collector]

INCESTICIDE

[atopvisenyashill]

apologies if you're not american, but i was watching a youtube video about the kennedy family and their various misfortunes and it just made me think about a twentieth century AU of jaehaerys and alysanne's family. if you didn't know, joseph p. kennedy was jfk's dad and ever since his first son was born, he was pushing for one of his kids to become the first catholic president of the united states. he had nine kids with his wife and pushed all of them to successful in one way or another.

most horrifyingly, joseph had his eldest daughter, rosemary, lobotomized because she was born with an intellectual disability and while she was at a convent, she had snuck out a couple of times and the nuns feared she engaged in pre-marital sexual activity. the lobotomy took away rosemary's ability to speak or walk and joseph had her carted away to an institution and never visited her. rosemary's siblings wouldn't know about the lobotomy until 20 years later. that entire story just made me think of gael, daella, and saera all at once.

Okay first off, i am an american, i wouldn't say i know a LOT about politics but there are a few eras I've read a few books on and gone on wiki spirals over because they're interesting to me personally, and second of all, I THINK ABOUT ROSEMARY KENNEDY AT LEAST TWELVE TIMES A DAY.

I have like, a whole rant that revolves around her that I will spare everyone but omg. Her story is like, breathtakingly horrific, and she isn't the only person to be subjected to this sort of behavior as a form of social control; a lot of women were lobotomized by their fathers and husbands for "unruly" behavior that usually amounted to them either having some sort of mental illness (like bipolar disorder or depression) or were just like, regular horny 20 year olds. The Kennedys in general are insane and I will admit to finding them a bit fascinating because the entire concept of Camelot was essentially just some rich american family attempting to remake the concept of Divine Nobility in the usa? Insane behavior especially when you look at contemporary royals who are often miserable as fuck on an emotional level (which monarchy is it where they're so strict about marrying they're practically gonna die out soon icr but it's like...these people are INSANE why would you want to emulate them, emulate some rich people who don't regularly get guillotined at least damn). But anon, if you're interested in this, one of the podcasts i listen to, behind the bastards, has a two parter on the guy who invented lobotomies and just did a two parter about the kennedys (with a focus on rfk jr, but he went into the kennedys in general). the lobotomy one is real good it made me want to throw up a bit lol.

ANYWAYS. I definitely agree that the Kennedys are a really good modern example of the Jaehaerys & Alysanne era Targaryens. Like, a patriarch attempting to make himself and his family into legendary heroic myths while they're still alive, willing to feed as many children as necessary into the meat grinder if it means getting a leg up, the public having this beautiful idyllic image of them but its all this fake, hand crafted image to hide this incredibly sinister reality. can't have your girls exhibiting sexual agency, but can't let them exist without Serving The Family as baby making machines either, so you punish them for having sex when you don't want to, and when their bodies fail because they're too damn young to have kids, you punish their mothers for grieving. you force your wife to have more kids that you won't take care of, you punish your wife for not wanting to be parted from them, you punish your wife for not wanting them married young, you ensure your sons will never lift a finger to help their sisters, and you play god with your own family and then rage at them when they don't act like puppets on a string for your benefit.

[crimeronan]

I taste racism from robert. not even LOOKING at ruby bc she's just the help. also love love love how ruby and sol can trust each other more bc ruby has a secret that if she had to, winnie could hold over her head (she won't, because ruby is genuine) unlike she perceived she couldn't with devin

robert is.... a piece of work, yeah. sol was wise to look for an older man who'd be willing to keep her safe as a means of escape from the light temples but, you know. "guy who's looking for a much younger foreign wife who's super submissive and obedient" is not.... exactly.... an archetype with a lot of winners.

robert also has his positive qualities! such as not being a sadist. and not wanting his wife to be unhappy. he's not exactly willing to compromise on things like, uh, letting her have any freedom or autonomy whatsoever, but he will find her a friendly foreign lady so they can chat about their weird bumpkin culture! or whatever!

and yes yes YES re: secrets. sol is technically, at that point, in a position of enormous social power over ruby. being the wife of a rich guy who runs a lot of tachni's shit. ruby could use robert to hurt her, but sol can use a whooole lot of things to hurt ruby.

she doesn't WANT to hurt ruby. but it means something that she Can. and more importantly, it means something that ruby knows sol is enormously wealthy/powerful/etc, and is still like, "hey. something's fucked up here. do you need help?? i can get you help."

[zippocreed501]

Jordan Peele

Robert Eggers

Ti West

A new wave of horror directors. The genre is...no, not safe in their hands...but more edgy. They've pushed horror cinema beyond the limits of the hackneyed cheap thrills of the jump-scare and given it weight, given it a bite that attacks the sensibilities of the viewer as well as the nerve.

I'm not casting shade on the films, directors and screenwriters of the past, far from it. (Del Toro and Carpenter will always be favourites of mine). I just pleased that the three directors above are taking the genre in a different direction.