#The Auld Triangle

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#OTD in 1923 – Birth of poet and playwright, Brendan Behan, in Dublin.

Much of Brendan Behan’s work was autobiographical, showcasing working class, Republican Dublin. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. Born in Dublin into a republican family, he became a member of the IRA’s youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in the home, which…

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see ya, shane. rest in peace.

[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

Well, Well, Well

Sitting in bed at 3am theorising about Mafin's options this morning and one of them was "what if Jaime moved to Barça as well?". But I thought, nah they'd never go with that and if they did, he'd refuse.

Guionistas, colour me sorprendido 👏 didn't see that one coming!

I trust this carrot being dangled in front of us about as much as I have faith in Jesús' ability not to incur someone's wrath for more than 10 seconds.

But it was nice to finally see some joy for our girls instead of the stress of the last few weeks 😊🥰

[seiwas]

some of my fave bakugo fics in honour of bakuday 🥺 (most, if not all, of these are in ao3! which is why i'm listing them. other fave fics of mine that can be found on tumblr will be reblogged!)

you can find other bakugo fics i love in my tag: #katsu

i like to call myself wound but i will answer to knife - kirketeer enemies to lovers, requited unrequited love, kind of love triangle

surrender (whenever you're ready) - ofmermaids florist reader, canonverse, slowburn

on my way (to you) - ofmermaids 5+1, canonverse, time travel

and you take me the way i am - willowser assistant reader, slice of life, bakugo is bad at feelings

how to set fires - hawnks strangers to lovers, canonverse, food as love language

organic chemistry - kirketeer codependency and unlearning it, mutual pining, college au ish

here is my hand that will not harm you - natsuonii bodyguard au, mild violence, mentions of scars

in the dark of the morning, you promise me the sun - kirketeer character death (not the main characters), grief/mourning, slow burn

dry spell - willowser established relationship, semi-public sex, miscommunication

for auld lang syne - some-kindofgnome canonverse, near-death, drinking

you feel like home (you're like a dream come true) - willowser light angst, kind of exes to lovers?

i do not know if i should hold you or eat you - katsukiz hurt/comfort, soft sex

love to say this to your face: "i love you only" - willowser dragon king bakugo, arranged marriage, a little drunk

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A Hungry Feeling: @terrortracks 2024, Day One: Explorer of Choice

Irish & Irish Diaspora music for a sailor(?) from County Limerick(?)

the auld triangle, eating cake with friends on a fine spring evening the lag lay dreaming and the seagulls were wheeling high above the walls

The Old Main Drag, The Pogues where the he-males and the she-males paraded in style and the old men with the money would flash you a smile

Rolling Down To Old Maui, Morrigan and now we're bound from the arctic ground rolling down to old maui

The Granite Gaze, Lankum they stole the marrow from our very bones and we, in turn, turned on our own

Red Football, Sinéad O'Connor I'm not no animal in the zoo I'm not no whipping boy for you

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves, Gavin Friday for each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die

The Wake of the Medusa, The Pogues the casket is empty, abandon ye all hope they ran off with the money and left us with the rope

Eat Your Young, Hozier i won't lie, if there's something still to take there is ground to break whatever's still to come, get some

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Taim Hasniht Eustace bem-Redstaff, Knight of the Mekanika Impyrius, pilot of “A Beautiful Vision”.

Eustace is a Royal pilot, which means he takes great value in his names, given or taken. Taim is a title that most princes would turn their noses up at, though considering Redstaff’s position as a Serf-Knight, he’s lucky to receive a title at all. The “Bem” before his surname indicates that it’s not his surname at all, but rather provides that at some point during his tutelage as a squire, he served a Lord or Archlord Redstaff.

The tattoo on him mark his achievements— the Evil Eye on his throat says that the first time he was taken down, his mech was shot there. The Auld Triangle on his cheek is an old good luck charm, what used to be birthmark on the Old King Tai Aasan.

Taim Hasniht Eustace is not a typical Royal pilot at all— for one, he is missing his nose, wears glasses, and has several scars.

For two, he and his mech play defense, standing vigil near the back of a lance and praying for an enemy to come near, a role that no self respecting Prince or Princess would dare fill for fear of missing out on glory.

Eustace himself knows through trial and error that his position is the best— he gets to see action, he is deployed often, and it is where he has the slimmest chance to die.

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RIP Shane MacGowan

“A Pair of Brown Eyes,” “The Boys from the County Hell,” “The Broad Majestic Shannon,” “Dark Streets of London,” “Lorca’s Novena,” “The Old Main Drag,” “Sea Shanty,” “White City,” “Birmingham Six,” “The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn,” “Bottle of Smoke,” “Haunted,” “The Ghost of a Smile.” His voice on “Kitty,” “Dirty Old Town,” “Navigator,” “The Auld Triangle,” “The Irish Rover,” “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Misty Morning, Albert Bridge.” So many other songs he gave us, and who knew there could be such joy in such profound pain. Night, Shane.

Jonathan Shaw

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Tracklist:

Follow Me Up to Carlow • If I Should Fall from Grace with God • I'll Tell Me Ma • Weila Waile • Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore • McAlpine's Fusiliers • Ashley Falls • The Foggy Dew • A Pair of Brown Eyes • The Leaving of Liverpool • The Rocky Road to Dublin • Raglan Road • Auld Triangle

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The Lodger: A Tale of the London Fog

Alfred Hitchcock broke through as a filmmaking phenomenon with only his third feature, THE LODGER: A TALE OF THE LONDON FOG (1927, Max, Prime, YouTube—I recommend the restored print on Max). Although he used horror film techniques he had learned while working at UFA, the film isn’t really horror. Like the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel on which it’s based, it’s inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders, but there’s little time spent on those. Rather, Hitchcock explores the effect the murders have on London and on one household, where the owners (Marie Ault and Arthur Chesney) come to suspect their new lodger (Ivor Novello) may be a killer, here dubbed “The Avenger.”

When Hitchcock focuses on that part of the story, the film is terrific. A lot of the techniques that would mark his later works — unusual camera angles, little tricks to reveal a character’s thoughts, mordant humor that underlines the threat, giving special meaning to objects — are used masterfully here. The most famous Hitchcock touch is the chandelier over the family’s living room that sways when Novello is pacing the floor above. But there’s also great significance given to the front door through which he enters and later takes their daughter (June Tripp, billed simply as “June”) out for a walk in the fog.

Unfortunately, the film also features a love triangle, and that’s rather a drag, partly because the acting of two men in the romance, Novello and police detective Malcolm Keen, now seems dated. Novello, who was an accomplished playwright and composer as well as a star, may be uncommonly pretty (Who wouldn’t want to keep the home fires burning for him?), but he also seems to be acting to the back row of the third balcony rather than the camera. Keen doesn’t go that far, but he overplays his comedy and the character’s tendency to be uncommonly stupid and rude. You want to yell, “You dolt!” whenever he’s on screen, which I did a few times because I watched it at home, and the cat and dog didn’t seem to mind. In contrast, the three family members are a model of restraint. Auld in particular, manages to make even outmoded gestures like clutching her heart in surprise seem natural.

They are all, however, at the service of Hitchcock. The opening is one of the great sequences in his filmography. It starts with a blonde screaming before we discover her murder. The camera follows on-lookers responding to the rash of killings while also catching a theatre marquee advertising the show “Golden Curls.” We then follow a reporter calling in his story as it moves to teletype, editorial, the presses and the finished paper. Chesney picks up one of those papers and carries it home with him, moving the focus from the city at wide to one household. At 28, Hitchcock was already a master filmmaker thanks to the influence of the Germans under whom he had apprenticed and his wife, Alma Reville, who served as his second unit director and script supervisor. When the real masterpieces started arriving eight years later with THE 39 STEPS, it should have come as no surprise.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1923 – Birth of poet and playwright, Brendan Behan, in Dublin.

Much of Brendan Behan’s work was autobiographical, showcasing working class, Republican Dublin. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. Born in Dublin into a republican family, he became a member of the IRA’s youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in the home, which…

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The Auld Triangle (Irish Folk Song) Cover - Colm R. McGuinness

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The Auld Triangle

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Monday, January 1, 2024 8pm ET: Feature LP: Pogues - Red Roses For Me (1984)

Red Roses for Me is the debut studio album by the London-based band the Pogues, released on October 15, 1984. It was produced by Stan Brennan, who had managed the Nipple Erectors/The Nips and Rocks Off Records shop in London. “Transmetropolitan” 4:15“The Battle of Brisbane” 1:49“The Auld Triangle” 4:20“Waxie’s Dargle” 1:53“Boys from the County Hell” 2:56“Sea Shanty” 2:24“Dark Streets of London”…