#british secret service

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974, Guy Hamilton)

10/23/24

[thebarroomortheboy]

NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) | dir. Carol Reed

[anthropologistfromentropy]

What do y'all think of the theory that the British secret service was involved in Rasputin's murder?

Like the agent Oswald Rayner admitted to his cousin he was involved, translated Yusupov's first book and burned all his papers before he died. The other agent Stephen Alley was literally born in Yusupov's palace as his father was Yusupov's tutor.

It's definitely very sus. At least I'm 100% sure the attempted cyanide poisoning was made up for an entertaining story, it's just too unrealistic soap opera drama lol. And there was no cyanide found in the autopsy.

[chieftyphoonchaos]

Ilsa's work permit

[drymushroomfics]

•○•♡•○•Fanfic Masterlist•○•♡•○•

A/n: Still in the process of uploading all of these so not everything has links yet

○Sandor Clegane

• Fraye Hill of House Lannister

• Too Many Questions

• Reminiscing

○ Rory McCann

• Boat Ride

• A Gift

○Colin Firth

• Proof

• Time

• Thanks, Stan

• Lust For Life

• Hope Springs

○Kingsman

•Eggsy's Plan

• Reciprocated Feelings

• First Words

○Till Lindemann

• Changes

[illustratus]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

Sir Hilary Bray explains: “Have a look at this: arms of Sir Thomas Bond. Baronet of Peckham. Died in 1734. Argent on a chevron sable. Three bezants. Good motto, eh? “The world is not enough.”

[trexalicious]

The ILBW told People Magazine the following about Archie: 'We always tell him: "Manners Make the Man".' Besides being rather weird to say to a toddler, she didn't even get the quote correct! William Horman's quote from 1519 is 'Manners maketh man' like in the Kingsman The Secret Service movie...

[brinleyparke]

I added several new prompts, including 2 crossover prompts.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[lordansketil]

Every time I have to write my OC Gwendolyn Hunt after taking a break for a while I reread 'Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency' because it never fails to make me seethe with rage and indignation. Such a good antidote to any temptation to romanticise the period.

[clemsfilmdiary]

GoldenEye (1995, Martin Campbell)

9/6/24

[leafatlaw]

hmm okay so jay and the ferins in a modern au. The obvoius choice would be keeping her being navy, with maybe her family all going to the same fancy military school. Or worse making the ferins cops. But see neither of those really make sense in translations. The navy in riptide is above the law or are the law, theyre like top of the ladder(unsure who governs them?where do they derive their authority from?) so neither navy or cop make sense, theyre not that powerful.

so what im thinking is in a modern au the ferins would be a politician family, or maybe lawyers.

[crossingxheart]

on one hand I am not sure if my current state of emotion is because the audio drama is really THAT good or if my standards are just focused purely on the fun factor but Wow I am shaken to my very core

[sufficientlylargen]

#Writing#Fanfiction#I'll never forget when I had to think about what noise it makes when someone's throat is slit and blood rushes through#It was during my brief career as a (poorly) paid proof-reader#The author had written that it made the same noise as a vacuum (via @asmuchasidliketo)

This makes me think of that anecdote about Peter Jackson having specific ideas of what sound it should make when Saruman gets stabbed in Return of the King, and Christopher Lee coming to him and saying "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back? Because I do" and so apparently the noises he makes in that scene are pretty authentic.

[qqueenofhades]

I really really REALLY need to see more people makimg the connection between trump and his russian handlers tbh.......like i know we've somehow gone through the looking glass of putin apologia but that piece abt the NYT you just posted, the bots, the interference: in the bag for trump? Yes. But i dont believe its due to his or even republican power or popularity or forcefulness.......this is a man with so much debt and kompromat thats only getting worse!! Not to sound kwazy BUT WE ARE BEING FULLY INFLITRATED and at the risk of conspiracizing i think the russians are ALSO behind the Times's demise along with so many other information centers etc. Like i KNOW these leftists love him but like. Wouldnt they care a LITTLE abt being manipulated like this???

Trump is 100% an active, willing, and eager Russian agent. That's not even paranoid conspiracy theory, that's just the only reasonable interpretation of the facts:

NOT TO MENTION that in the next two years after the Helsinki conference where Trump kowtowed to Putin in every way, the CIA admitted to losing huge and unusually high numbers of classified informants around the world (not CIA agents, but people secretly working for the American government in often-hostile countries):

Once again, this all happened when Trump was in office, when he was actively handing over CIA intel to the Kremlin against the wishes of the entire national security establishment, and which other experts have suggested was directly as a result of Trump handing over the identities of American informants to Russia, including those stationed in Russia itself:

Now, I could go on, but you get the point. Not to mention that Trump just lost a major UK-based lawsuit against Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who was the first to provide documents linking Trump to Russia in the controversial "Steele dossier":

And now: Trump is deeply in hock for hundreds of millions in legal fees and punitive judgments that are only increasing by the day, he somehow just came up with $90 million to appeal the judgment against E. Jean Carroll (nobody knows where he got this money either), and Russian state TV spends all their time openly salivating for Trump's return to the presidency (so he can hand over Ukraine and the rest of NATO and, as he literally said, "let Russia do whatever the hell they want.") I know we're largely numb to all the awful treasonous shit that Trump does, but like. This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is just what's going on in plain sight, and while the Online Leftists have recently become so stupid that I honestly can't tell if it's just terminal brainworms or active Russian psyops, it's strongly indicated that it is in fact a mix of both:

So, like. Just some food for thought.

[amanufacturedheaven]

Rare Language Learning: Polari

If you have ever used the words:

- Naff

- Butch

- Camp

You have unknowingly been speaking the sociolect known as Polari, the language of queer people primarily used in the 30s to the 70s. Polari is now an endangered language, as labelled by the University of Cambridge

Something of note: Many resources out there imply (or state) that Polari was a language invented and used solely by white cis gay men, which is decidedly untrue. Many words of Polari come from drag culture, lesbians, and the Romani people and their language. The use of ‘the language of British gay men’ may be a more palatable title to the general public, but it is not to me. I did my best to curate a variety of resources, but unfortunately much of queer history has been lost many more decades than I’ve been alive, if you have any other resources for studying Polari I would love to read them, message me or leave a link in the replies.

Articles

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays ⚢ Out Magazine

Polari: The code language gay men used to survive ⚢ BBC

Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers ⚢ National Museums Liverpool

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari People ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

The secretive gay language that gave LGBTQ people a voice ⚢ GAYTIMES

A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men ⚢ The Conversation

Study Material

The Polari Bible ⚢ Internet Archive

Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ⚢ Internet Archive

Sociolinguistics / Polari ⚢ StudySmarter

FlashCards ⚢ Quizlet

New Polari Translator ⚢ LingoJam

Polari: A sociohistorical study of the life and decline of a secret language. ⚢ Dissertation, University of Manchester

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

Simon Bowkett: a short blog in Polari for LGBT+ History Month ⚢ Civil Service LGBT+ Network