#Roundhead

[labrador44]

oliver cromwell

[pinnonhatchfarms]

Lacy Roundhead | Pinnon Hatch Farms | www.pinnonhatch.com

[gamecockyy]

Comb & waddles or traditional gamecock look? I'm all in in the gamecock look!

[sabonginternational]

he Roundhead Gamefowl: A Quill of Feathers in the Tale of Philippine Cockfighting

Dive into the mystical realm of the Roundhead Gamefowl, where each feather tells a story, and every crow echoes through the centuries of Philippine cockfighting history. Let this post be your quill, inscribing the enchanting narrative of a breed that dances between tradition and triumph.

📜 Chapter I: "Feathering the Origin Story" Begin the journey with the enchanted pen of John Madigin, an American cockfighter whose strokes of brilliance birthed the Roundhead. Explore the artistry behind the creation, where grey and red intertwine to form a mythical gamefowl, a living embodiment of strength and tenacity.

🕰️ Chapter II: "Time-Traveling to Colonial Cockpits" Close your eyes and transport yourself to the dawn of the 20th century. Feel the echoes of American colonialism as the Roundhead alights on Philippine shores, unintentionally sowing the seeds of a tradition that would captivate generations.

🌌 Chapter III: "Cockpit Constellations: A Champion Emerges" Navigate through the cosmic cockpits scattered across the archipelago as the Roundhead evolves from being a celestial breeding star to a constellation of championship brilliance. Each feathered battle becomes a celestial dance, a testament to the breed's cosmic endurance.

🎨 Chapter IV: "Feathered Strokes: Traits in Technicolor" Peer into the palette of the Roundhead's distinctive traits through kaleidoscopic illustrations and vivid strokes. Let the colors unfold the ferocity, tenacity, and endurance that make the Roundhead a mesmerizing masterpiece in the canvas of Philippine cockfighting.

[asha-mage]

Their is always this moment in "Arthur returns" fics where the subject of how government has changed comes up and Merlin invariably goes "Oh yeah we have this thing called democracy now and it's really good haha" and each time I can't help but be taken back.

Cause look. I love Merlin but that boy is a hardcore, dyed in the wool Royalist if there ever was one. He believes in his King so much that he waited for more then a thousand years for the crisis bad enough that it would call Arthur back from Avalon to reclaim his throne, never doubting that he would return and he would fix everything when he did.

Merlin 100% believes in the institution of absolute monarchy as a result of Arthur. He would still be bitter about the Magna Carta in the year 2023 and have a dart board somewhere with a picture of Cromwell taped to it. He would be disgusted by the office of sovereign being reduced to figurehead celebrity and is convinced their hasn't been a proper sovereign since Anne Stuart. He calls the Hanovers "those posers from the continent". He likes the Windsors a little bit better but not much: George VI and Liz II won some points in his book for their services in World War 2, but he detests the advent of the modern "celebrity royal" for degrading the dignity of the crown to new lows.

Everything wrong with England and Britain, in his mind, is the fault of Parliament who he still sees as a bunch of unruly Barons and angry Roundheads squandering the nation's future to stay in power.

(If anything Arthur "I want what's best for my people always" Pendragon is the one much more into the idea of democracy and parliament, and would crush Merlin's hopes of simply dissolving to body by instead reforming it to make it more fair.)

[illustratus]

Oliver Cromwell Questioning a Prisoner by Ernest Crofts

[st-just]

My hot vexillological take is that important symbolism in flags is overrated by several orders of magnitude. Make something distinctive and decent-looking and then backronym your way into what each part means afterwards if you actually care.

[mushroomgay]

Blue roundhead (Stropharia caerulea)

These are more photos sent to me by a friend. They're gorgeous, and one of the very few blue-ish fungi that grow in the UK (or worldwide, that I know of, though my knowledge is very localised!). This obviously makes them an easy spot, and gorgeous to observe.

[clove-pinks]

Me thinking of this image: "Oh yeah the English Civil War mods vs. rockers" :)

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #108 : blue roundhead! (stropharia caerulea)

the blue roundhead is an agaric fungus in the family strophariaceae :-) it grows as a saprophyte in meadows, roadsides, hedgerows, gardens, & woodchip mulch in both europe & north america !!

the big question : can i bite it?? nah, it is inedible.

s. caerulea description :

"fruit bodies have conical to flattened caps measuring 2–7.5 cm (0.8–3.0 in) in diameter. they usually have a low, broad umbo. the colour of the cap depends on its age, ranging from pale blue-green to yellowish-bluish green. there is often a whitish zone around the margin, which invariably has bluish-green tints. when moist, the cap is sticky with a cuticle that may be readily peeled; dry caps are smooth & shiny. gills are initially pale purplish-brown, becoming darker brown in age as the spores mature. they have an adnate or sinuate attachment to the stipe. the stipe has a short-lived annular (ring) zone."

[images : source & source] [fungus description : source]

[raineszramski]

An early holiday sketchbook drawing of Jamie and the Doctor. This was inspired by a scene in the Mark Gatiss Second Doctor novel, The Roundheads, in which the Doctor puts a holly wreath on his head and is described as looking like "some ancient woodland spirit come to life."

[pastel-clown-friends]

Commission for the amazing and lovely @dykemisspiggy !! Have this little guy!

Emergency Commissions are still open! Please dm me if you are interested!

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[dalesramblingsblog]

Not being familiar with Cromwell's nickname - all I learned about the English Civil War growing up came entirely from Horrible Histories and, at university, every lecture on Thomas Hobbes - it has taken me until now to realise that the christening of the Daleks as Ironsides in Victory of the Daleks is probably yet another manifestation of Mark Gatiss' obsession with the history of that period.

Cute, honestly, and probably the best thing about that episode.

(Also 400th post alert wahoo!)

[maddie-grove]

I’m not totally sure that my “heroines are usually on the losing side of wars in historical romance” theory is sound. I think there are certain wars that lend themselves to a particular gendered narrative, where the hero is on the side of the victors because he is Strong and Not Vulnerable and sometimes On the Right Side of History, and the heroine is on the Romantic and Noble but Archaic side. The obvious (offensive) example is the Civil War romance that has a Confederate heroine and a Union hero; others include Viking hero and Saxon heroine during the Danelaw, or Roman hero and Briton heroine during the first century BCE. However, there are complicating factors:

A lot of wartime romances involve a heroine (or, I think, somewhat more rarely, a hero) who’s not straightforwardly invested in the conflict. A lot of protagonists get blackmailed into spying or come from Roundhead/Jacobite/Loyalist families or are just trying to get by. The outcome of the conflict isn’t that meaningful to their characters.

Sometimes the hero is on the Romantic Noble Archaic Losing side and the heroine represents Conventional Society. This is a different complicated fantasy.

Some victories last longer than others. It may not matter in the Roman centurion/Briton princess romance that the Roman Empire is going to fall 500 years later, but it does kind of dilute the dynamic if the English are only gonna hold on to Normandy for a few more decades.

[howtotrainyourhiccup]

maybe one of the funniest moments to me in the httyd franchise is when ruffnut calls astrid “that roundhead” AFHSDHKDKS