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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the War Against Nazi Germany Donald L. Miller
#motaedit#mota#masters of the air#hbowardaily#hbowaredit#perioddramaedit#perioddramasource#appletvgifs#appletvsource#tvedit#tvgifs#austin butler#gale cleven#userbells#violaobanion#ronsparky#simizone#olympain#userstaud#*#so i finally have the book#and i come across this line right?#and it hooks into my brain until i can literally think of nothing else#extravagantly alive#like
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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.
#elizabeth woodville#nobody was doing it like her#I wanted to add more things (eg: propaganda casting her as a transgressive figure and a threat to established orders; the way we'll never#truly Know her as she's been constantly rewritten across history) but ofc neither are unique to her or any other historical woman#my post#wars of the roses#don't reblog these tags but - the thing about Elizabeth is that she kept winning and losing at the same time#She rose higher and fell harder (in 1483-85) than anyone else in the late 15th century#From 1461 she was never ever at lasting peace - her widowhood and the crisis of 1469-71 and the actual terrible nightmare of 1483-85 and#Simnel's rebellion against her family and the fact that her birth family kept dying with her#and then she herself died right around the time yet another Pretender was stirring and threatening her children. That's...A Lot.#Imho Elizabeth was THE adaptor of the Wars of the Roses - she repeatedly found herself in highly anomalous and#unprecedented situations and just had to survive and adjust every single time#But that's just...never talked about when it comes to her#There are so many aspects of her life that are potentially fascinating yet completely unexplored in scholarship or media:#Her official appointment in royal councils; her position as the first Englishwoman post the Norman Conquest to be crowned queen#and what that actually MEANT for her; an actual examination of the propaganda against her; how she both foreshadowed and set a precedent#for Henry VIII's english queens; etc#There hasn't even been a proper reassessment of her role in 1483-85 TILL DATE despite it being one of the most wildly contested#periods in medieval England#lol I guess that's what drew me to Elizabeth in the first place - there's a fundamental lack of interest or acknowledgement in what was#actually happening with her and how it may have affected her. There's SO MUCH we can talk about but historians have repeatedly#stuck to the basics - and even then not well#I guess I have more things to write about on this blog then ((assuming I ever ever find the energy)#also to be clear while the Yorkists did 'eat themselves alive' they also Won - the crisis of 1483-85 was an internal conflict within#the dynasty that was not related to the events that ended in 1471 (which resulted in Edward IV's victory)#Henry Tudor was a figurehead for Edwardian Yorkists who specifically raised him as a claimant and were the ones who supported him#specifically as the husband of Elizabeth of York (swearing him as king only after he publicly swore to marry her)#Richard's defeat at Bosworth had *nothing* to do with 'York VS Lancaster' - it was the victory of one Yorkist faction against another#But yes the traditional line of succession was broken by Richard's betrayal and the male dynastic line was ultimately extinguished.
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Concepting
#rain world#rw#looks to the moon#rw looks to the moon#rw lttm#the ad makes lines#I would've posted this earlier but then i didn't#don't think i executed the idea quite right but it comes across...
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Lol my neighbors knocked the power out
They were cutting down a tree and it fell on the lines connecting to their house
Hilariously its the same neighbors that had a tree fall on the lines the last time the power was out
#this is way funnier than when the power just randomly goes out back in Lawrence#i also wanna paint a little picture here cuz i dont wanna take pictures of my neighbors house#but its a little pointy house that looks like it belongs in the swiss alps#idk why i get that vibe from it but thats the vibe it has#they have chickens and i think one of the neighbors said they had a cow at one point#they have a very noisy rooster#we're technically not supposed to have roosters here but the neighborhood dogs are honestly just as noisy so no one gives a shit#the rooster is Extra Loud right now#he apparently is not a fan of all the activity happening around his house right now#the neighbor directly across the street from me has a chihuahua that is also Not Happy with all the activity#looks like they got the tree moved off the lines so now we're just waiting for the power company to come out and reconnect them
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THE BEST OF SHENKO 1/?
The end of the world has a way of reminding you of all the things you forgot to say do. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)
#mira makes gifs ✨#kaidan alenko#sophie shepard#EDI#shenko#fshenko#mass effect#mass effect legendary edition#dailygaming#OTP: you're real enough for me#i learned i am physically incapable of creating less than like 20 gifs at a time#but shenko stonks are up right now!!#gif’ing my favorite bisexuals gives me joy 🥹#even though ME2 is dry as shit for shenko content like it’s literally the sahara desert#like a whole ass 10 minutes max of cutscenes between shep and kaidan like come on#like 2 minutes in the prologue and like 8 minutes of cutscenes on horizon#and then an email and looking at the picture in your cabin before the suicide mission#i'm so sorry y'all ME2 shenko canon is absolute shit (besides kaidan being rightfully angry on horizon) which is why we ✨ignore it✨ 🥰#but i rant about ME2 VS treatment too much so i will not write another essay about it in the tags#i will say the EDI line isn't the exact quote from the game but i think about it a lot tbf#same with the quote i borrowed from anderson too lmao (which is also a tiny bit paraphrased)#i just love EDI asking shep for relationship advice when you get to follow shep and kaidan's relationship/struggles across 3 games#and anderson's quote about all the things you forgot to do in relation kahlee to is just *chef's kiss* when you think about shenko#like whether it starts in ME1 or ME3 shenko has some really fantastic moments across the series#two characters with strong morals who realize that they're falling in love and literally start to become each other's strength??#their soft place to land?? their support when they need it?? shenko will always have my heart#also the shenko quotes you get are the most fire thing in the world#you're real enough for me?? you make me feel human?? i want to be your strength- your soft place to land?? shenko you will always be famous#I FORGOT IM GONNA FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE CHANCE TO HOLD YOU AGAIN TOO LIKE??#but i’ll stop ranting now bc i do that wayyy to much in my tags lol. have a good day wherever you are! <3
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I need to be weirder about the scavengers and cannibalism...
#its been a long day... but im feeling better now. (thanks for the well wishes and such btw <3-)#(-sending my well wishes in return by tenfold bcs. damn. it seems stuff is really going around rn)#but yeah... just. augh. theres just smth about how the scavs sorta translate into more like. thriller-esque genres pretty well?#like. i feel somehow those themes compliment their characteristics? or could compliment their characteristics in a more rounded out way#sure. theyre generally a light hearted romp of absurdity with occasional themes of a not good not bad handling of 'mental health matters'#but they just really shine a bit in horrific circumstances. esp with the sort of absurdity they bring to the table#theyre odd people. even in the context of their generally weird and alien universe. and that right there feels like a trove of potential#its like. ok. the lost light crew? also odd. but thats a huge ship. full of people and variety and a sense of purpose and normalcy post-war#(normalcy being. whatever all those background folks were getting up too while plot happened around them. cruise ship stuff ig)#but in contrast. with the w.a.p crew. its an ark class ship with like. a handful of people. and a whole lot of junk and free time#both just cruising through space endlessly for years. one with hundreds of people. and one with like 6 people.#so both are technically isolated when theyre not making pit-stops planet or station side. but again. 100s vs 6 dudes.#think. top of the line cruise ship from hell with a small town sized populace vs a big shitty boat and 6 starving guys#both have the capacity to become case studies in madness. both could do really well thriller wise. but the scavs being a smaller group?#it only being the 6 of them emphasis the isolation perhaps. less variety. less change. same 6 people for 5(?) years#things could get weird fast. codependent mentalities. us vs them mindsets. an otherness about everyone else outside of their group#and then! then you add to the mix the fact that theyre eating/drinking from corpses?! *chefs kiss* awesome. love it.#non-stationary isolation + cannibalism. ough. perfect mix. a classic of maritime horror but in space! :D!#a big ship. small crew. living while knowing that as soon as you kick the bucket. your body is the meal. your body is the fuel.#no decorum about it. no faith. no belief. just perverse survival. bcs they might enjoy it. a bloody gluttony. with a bite. a sample. a taste#it takes seeing your buddy as a walking talking burger to another level. bcs every corpse you come across is also a burger. and a gas can#also fulcrum making candy out of corpses is so. particularly perfect when it comes to the horrifically absurd. just. smth about it. idk#but also also. the line. where was the line drawn for each of them? and when did they each cross it?#most of them dont seem like the type to jump head first into that. so how did they justify it to themselves? had they done it before?#and then. when did it become normal? a habit? smth enjoyable?#i might be running out of tags. but yeah. them being weirder. esp about each other and others.#nothing brings a group of people together like the overhanging knowledge that you sort of kinda wanna eat each other#(rlly wishing i could stomach realistic thrillers rn. but i just cant. gotta stick to written or artistic styles or risk panic attacks :/)#(ive tried a couple movies and shows now. and cant get through most of them. praise be synopses and peoples long rambles about them tho :D)#(nothing like reading someones passionate ramble about the meaning/symbolism of some gory nightmare without having to actually see it lol)
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knowing you is worth celebration
#i tried really hard with this one <:3#idk if it comes across but i was battling every line and shadow in this#i think i can do a Little better right now but not by much#i hope to improve more to the point where this looks lackluster#but right now it looks Good and im proud and happy :3#k#my art#gabe#gabriel von kiesling#fire and cloud#ocs#friends ocs#im so happie :3#demon#imp#humanoid
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the scene in epel's second birthday vignette where floyd gave him the watch absolutely ruined me btw. like ik not everybody headcanons epel as trans but as someone who does it just put such a fine point on his struggle with being seen as masculine, like a fancy wristwatch wouldnt particularly help him look strong enough to overcome his bullies or whatever its literally just. something a man would own. and he gets so overjoyed. because he consistently has to *prove* that he wants to be masculine despite his appearance; even more sensitive characters like deuce take a while to catch on to the fact, and then here he gets the watch as a gift & gets called handsome without asking for it. even though its a happy scene it fucked me up so bad 😭
#txt#THATS ANOTHER THING i think contributes to his starting to fit in at pomefiore that ppl rarely bring up bc its most clear in this specific#card's vignettes & homescreen lines: epel really does care about his appearance!! and we see him start to have more fun with it & experiment#with style more; but it doesn't come across during the main story when he's just in his school uniform that vil arranged for him#and like. if you had Only read the harveston event & the main story i can kinda see where the 'epel is innately okay with feminine stuff &#vil is right for suppressing his desire to be masculine!!' argument comes from#but like. even if his affinity for masculinity is at any point little more than a rejection of femininity. his budding interest in masculine#*fashion* shows that his desired gender presentation is its own fully formed thing and not just the absence/hatred of something else#ergo he fits pomefiores principles of beauty & pride#does this make any sense. tumblr tags are the worst place to write an essay
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I am enjoying red hood: the hill, but it's kind of driving me crazy how after they did all that shit in Gotham War, they immediately tried to sweep it under the rug with joker: the man who stopped laughing (even tho the issue wasn't really resolved over there), and now giving Jason a series set in the past so it doesn't have to deal with the fallout...DC please...
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#I heard someone say that the next installment of dc vs vampires is seemingly the last thing Matthew Rosenberg has lined up at DC#which is a shame bc after reading his red hood: gotham war tie-in issues i think he has a pretty decent handling on Jason#the complicated and oft times contradictory line he walks between what violence is necessary and what isn't#but his sympathetic elements and charm are still on display#sigh. i need to read task force z don't i#one day I'll read under the red hood in full to get a taste of full on villain!jason#if i stick w/ GA past the phsycial volume i own I'm bound to come across him again and see if ppl are being normal abt the mia thing#idk I think jason as a character has somewhat suffered due to the fact that his character development was very much connected-#-w the n52 reboot#which worked at the time but now that a lot of that continuity is being brought back#it's making ppl realise that we didn't get a true ''jason putting aside differences to try and work w/ the batfamily'' arc or moment#although I do remember him being anti-heroic in the final crisis tie-in?? with kyle and donna right????#i honestly think jason just needs a bit of tlc and introspection and this new storybeat provides a cool outlet for that#(someone talk to me about my red hood idea/pitch pretty pleasseee)#and definitely some cleaning up of his continuity (maybe after some more universe altering events. sigh)#but instead of hopping right on that when they have the opportunity we're getting an (admittedly fun) flashback series#in which jason is more of a co-star than headliner#bwahhh
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headcanon.
had Eöl not come into the picture, Aredhel would have married a Feanorian. This was not a surprising thing, in fact it was assumed by many that she had been in love with Celegorm. They were bosom friends, hunters of Oromë, practically inseparable in Valinor. However, they were far too similar in temperament in truth, a relationship of a romantic kind being suggested likely would have made them both laugh. They were soulmates, they would say, but far too wild to be lovers. But still, she would have married a Fëanorian. Maglor, Caranthir, and Curufin were all wed to others which took them out of the running-- though when pressed she would admit an attraction to two of them had circumstances been different. That would leave three options left.
The twins, and Maedhros. The twins she saw as too young for her and more like extra brothers, but Maedhros. . . who spent the most time with her family, and was friends with her brother. Who spoke with her of things she found interesting, and talked in turn of things himself. All the Fëanorians held a special place in her heart, but she had grown fondest of him. However complications arose first in Valinor with Fëanor and then in Beleriand. Fingolfin was handed kingship by Maedhros, who took his leave to guard Himring, and Aredhel never saw him again.
#:: headcanons ::#.... okay so this is purely from a canon...ish ... standpoint. Like i ship with both a mags and a curu.#I mean celegorm is also a high candidate for her to have married but also I've never been able to fully see it they seem too similar#Like they'd be idiots together if they actually did get together#And it's hard to see them *lasting*#Also like maedhros is right there and frankly much more Aredhels type#Do i play both? Yes. Yes i do.#Bottom line is Aredhel is highly attracted to feanorians like across the board#Except the twins...#They're baby#Is this partly because i was deep in mae feels and wished he'd at least had an option at love? Yes#LISTEN I'M JUST VERY EMOTIONAL SO I'M GONNA GO TO BED NOW#oh also do NOT come at me regarding them being cousins i have an argument all about the feanorians/fingolfinians/finarfinians lined up#From a genetic standpoint
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household enemy to the yyh watchthrough number one is the olympics. it's taken us a week to get two episodes into the gamemaster fight
#out of three. please the third episode's what makes it okay im fighting for my life out here#it is NOT for lack of trying on my part but theres only a brief window of time when the olympics is not happening#and as it turns out the watchthrough is Not my mom's first priority (how dare she etc)#i do feel slightly bitter that we've gotten through two eps of band o brothers in the same time#we are fighting for the same timeslots yet somehow the hour long show's gotten a leg up??#you don't have time for a 23 min ep but DO for a 60 min one?? explain the math to me please#idk how to explain the vague feeling of betrayal bc it Does Not make sense Nor matter in the slightest#but cmonnnn we were doing so well. and my little bro's starting up school again soon and my dad's gotta go back to work#sometimes eventually (<- hes on medical leave) and my grandparents are coming over next week We're Losing Time Soon#ughhh if i'd known the olympics were happening (<- somehow completely oblivious to this) i'd have accounted for#my mom getting whisked away by the land of synchronized divers and shot putters and whatever the hell#happens in the summer olympics (<- only pays attention to winter olys)#bc that always happens. and *i* have to go back to school in Some Amount Of Time Im Too Scared To Check (p sure it's late aug though) and#when that happens i'll (hopefully) be stuck across town which means we won't be able to do it any time besides the weekends#and i don't wannaaaaa#i know this is the least important problem anyone's ever had like i get that i know but#it's important to me that they sit down and watch this with me. and watching it pull apart and being#the one who's easily the most invested it makes me look all desperate when i ask them for their time and they can't give it#we can only pull this off neatly in the summer and we were so close and now we're losing it right at the finish line#i don't want life to get in the way of this little bubble i've fought so hard to make y'know#and it's childish and embarrassing and whatever but i just want them to have fun with me with this thing i care about a lot#but i can't do that bc my mom needs to watch the judo matches at Every weight class#even though she's recording a lot of them? i don't understand but whatever i know it's her thing im just moping about it ig#i want it to be as perfect an experience for them as possible and it's slipping away from me#and i don't wanna leave this project unfinished when i start school y'know. sighh#i think they might feel like i only want them around when we're watching stuff. whcih is weird bc that's like#The Singular Way we family bonded literally my whole life so idk why they wouldn't get that when reversed#but either way that IS how i wanna spend time with them. i want them to understand this thing that's become a part of me#and i wanna talk With them about it. and so far it's been fun in a way it's never been before. my mom at least seems to really like it#and i want it to Keep going well bc if we lose momentum im worried they'll start finding it tedious. sighh
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reblogged a post with this line (from marie howe's "the teacher") in february 2023 and said it was probably the question of the year...interesting to think back on now after feeling like some things have really settled into the best possible place w the 23 year old in the last week. i've been going back and forth on some things all year - what does it feel like to be in love vs not, does it matter, what are my motivations for doing x y or z, how do i feel about this or that, what does it mean to be happy and am i capable of actually feeling it, what does it mean to meet someone and have so many pieces of your life begin to revolve around them so quickly, and is that codependence or some kind of substitute for something, etc etc etc. basically just analyzed things to death and back over and over again every week of every month for nearly a year. weird bad times in a lot of ways, and i do feel kind of insane for it, but i finally concluded the other day that the semantics of all of it don't matter that much to me, and that some relationships and circumstances have multiple ways of being fulfilling, and the important thing is to pick a way and stop waffling and worrying about the others...
anyway i think this is probably the question of 2024 too, because i still haven't really answered it, but it feels much less fraught than it did a year ago. the feelings are separate from the actions, and the actions feel righter than ever.
#had a couple intense talks sunday that absolutely wouldn't have been possible a year ago and it was good but also my reaction monday was#that we need to go like. play air hockey and not almost cry in front of each other for like a month or two.#but it did actually like...idk. turns out some things actually fundamentally changed#the tone of this probably doesn't come across but i do feel really joyful reflecting on everything right now#a shift away from continually reblogging that lispector line about how painful love feels like happiness or whatever.#it's just good. we're important to each other and having that affirmed and finally getting that it's a level unlopsided importance has been#really...like the world shifted a little. i didn't really get it before#a tag
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i think i found amber’s tribute video’s thumbnail picture
#and i havent even RECORDED FOR HER IN S1 or S2#i hate to admit i was thinking ab her video being way down the line#and then i come across this scene right here and im getting so inspired#i love her#amber millington#house of anubis#hoa
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I swear to God, modern music production is so FLAT that it physically hurts to listen to. There's no spatial depth to it, no air, no sense of this music actually being performed in a real three-dimensional space. Please can we bring back breath and air and space in music production?
#i've been trying to translate this feeling into words for months and i know i still haven't succeeded#this post is a weak attempt at saying what i mean. but it doesn't achieve that goal very well#i just... i don't have any better words right now#does anyone else know what i mean?#when there's a beat of silence in the middle of a song these days#the silence sounds just as 'dead' as if the track had ended.#silence can be audible and almost tangible... you know?#it can have a certain dimensionality and realness to it#but all of that gets edited out of most music nowadays.#and another thing: i don't know if it's over-mastering or what#but the sound is often almost as dead as the silence#like a butterfly trapped flat under glass#every sound comes across as being exactly the same physical distance from my ears#the sounds are all lined up jostling each other elbow to elbow and competing for the listener's attention#instead of being spread out all over the room - each one coming from a different place#i remember when you'd have two speakers; if one of them was broken you could sometimes only hear some of the instruments#because the others would normally have come through the broken speaker only.#SPACE. distance. physicality. ugh i could helplessly repeat these words all day and still not be able to express myself#don't mind the ranting of a grumpy old codger i guess#about music#tag rant#cosmo gyres#personal#text#my apologies - this post is extra autistic#my neurodivergency really comes out in the way i experience music#musicblogging
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ya girl is going on vacation! That said, I won't be as active for the next week. Mwah!
#I'm headed to the land of the microwave#*whispers offscreen*#That's the U.S. right?#@pashminabitch#Watch how I come back afterwards with a tan line across my forehead
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And I look up to the sky And I know you're still alive But I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark
#my art#Star Madness (across the universe)#Star Trek PIC#Jean-Luc Picard#qcard#because that’s 100% what I’m referring to here#300th post and its Lord Huron and Star Trek lets fuckin GOOOO—#I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FROOOZEN PINES#IM GONNA FIND A WAY THROUGH THERE’S ANOTHER LIFE BEYOND THE LINE#I am a Lord Huron enjoyer/listener/fan first and an artist second. human comes dead last on my list and even then i dont want it there#Emerald Star by Lord Huron is ALSO made a fantastic tune for this piece#also-- a very good line came from Beverly in s3e3; “When the galaxy comes calling for you; you are not put-upon by it — you love it!''#and I was making this while I heard that and I was just. yeah.#SIDE NOTE; the fact that out of uniform he wears more neutral grey-ish and blues. he got to the calmer more subdued aura he rejected#in Tapestry eventually :’]#ignoring the fact he’s mostly wearing *black* in PIC right now if I think too hard about that I’ll explode#rea rambles in the tags#rea’s trash
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