#Victorious Century

[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[cozylittleartblog]

i now understand how certain people felt when harpy eda was revealed 😳

prints here

[the-golden-vanity]

I think the thing I like most about The Sea, as, like... a setting or a concept, is that in its vastness, its untameable nature, its unknown secrets, you have a lot of historically documented events that sound more like tales out of mythology and folklore.

Take, for instance, the fate of the Victory Expedition of 1829.

The Victory expedition was a private polar expedition led by veteran British explorer Captain John Ross. Twenty-three men set sail for the Canadian Arctic on the steamship Victory, but when the ship became trapped in the polar ice, there was no way to free it. The crew spent four years in the frozen north, surviving on rations from the wreck of a previous polar exploration ship.

Eventually, twenty survivors packed their belongings into small boats and hauled them over ice towards open water. And in that open water, there was a ship, the whaler Isabella of Hull.*

The Isabella's crew couldn't believe their eyes, because, as they told the Victory's survivors, "Captain Ross has been dead these two years."

And if that wasn't strange enough, the (very much alive) Captain Ross of the Victory had, on a previous Arctic expedition, been captain of the Isabella.

*Side note: the more I read about the Age of Sail, the more I realize that wherever official Explorers™ from a given Western nation go, their whalers have already beaten them there. Sometimes that's even the reason the explorers were sent.

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Victory's upper gun deck: thirty 12-pounder cannon, photo by Maritime Photographic

[vintage-russia]

Glory to the Soviet troops who hoisted the banner of victory over Berlin!

Brandenburg Gate,Berlin (1945)

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Violet Bridgerton's pink pelisse in 2x04

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Victory

Artist: Mathieu Le Nain (French, 1607–1677)

Date: circa 1635

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

[tragediambulante]

Ingegno or Amor victorious, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1694-99

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations - all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[daguerreotyping]

Ambrotype of two boxers about to engage, c. 1850s

[cute-as-buttons-moved]

76 YEARS AND WE'RE STILL GOING!!!!!

[blueiscoool]

Ancient Roman Gold and Garnet Ring with Victorious Horseman Roman, 1st century A.D.

[deadqueernoldor]

Thinking thoughts about those from Cuivienen and how they later treated the Valar, especially after Cuivienen was destroyed.

I imagine a foundation of sorrow and a layer of betrayal and pettiness. They had promised safety. And how did it turn out? Kin of Tata and Tatie their first leaders, slain in Valinor by the Dark Hunter from which the Valar promised protection in Valinor.

And then, the War of Wrath comes and with it the destruction of Cuivienen.

If any of those were re-embodied in Aman, I wonder if they make it a point to always turn their back to Valar and Maiar. I wonder if they only speak in the tongue they had first devised all those millennia ago and spoke in Cuivienen before time and different kindreds changed the tongue, not Sindarin or Quenya from the Great Journey's time or later. I wonder if they sing songs in their ancient tongue, songs about the beauty and unsullied health of Cuivienen every time any of the Ainur are near.

I wonder if the Valar feel any shame when those who they once looked upon in wonder and love gaze back at them with indifference or disgust.

[artandthebible]

Jephthah Meets His Daughter

Artist: Hieronymus Francken III (Flemish, 1611-1671)

Date: By 1661

Medium: Oil on copper

Jephthah Meets His Daughter

Jephthah served as a judge over Israel for six years following the leadership of Jair. His account is recorded in Judges 11:1—12:7.

Later, the Ammonites came against Israel in war. The Israelites sent for Jephthah, asking for his help. The elders of Gilead offered to serve Jephthah if he helped them defeat their enemy. Jephthah accepted their offer and then sent a message to the Ammonite king in an attempt to avoid war.

The Ammonite king rejected Jephthah’s message, and war was inevitable. Jephthah made a vow to God, saying, “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering” (Judges 11:30–31). Jephthah then defeated the Ammonites and returned home to Mizpah (Judges 11:32–34).

When Jephthah arrived at home, his daughter, an only child, was the first to come out of his house (Judges 11:34). Jephthah evidently expected an animal to exit, but this unexpected event caused him to tear his clothes in mourning. When he told his daughter of his vow, she surprisingly accepted the consequences, only asking for two months to mourn beforehand (Judges 11:37–38). The event was so well-known among the Israelites that it became a custom for the daughters of Israel to mourn the event each year for four days.

[ltwilliammowett]

The two oldest commissioned ships of the World - USS Constitution (227 years old) and HMS Victory (259 years old)

[mc-critical]

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