#catterick

[unreesonable]

Shall we have a little clip of Reece lipsyncing to Morrissey, projected at a Morrissey gig?

Go on then. As a treat. (From Morrissey's Leeds show, 6th Mar 2020, originally shared by Adrian Jennings on Twitter)

[local-blog-for-local-people]

Happy Birthday Reeson Wayne Shearsmith

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[fandomsmeantheworldtome]

Reece Shearsmith in the series Catterick

[haras24]

🎶 boy don’t pretend that you don’t love the pain🎶

Dedicated to one of our favourite murderous bastards 💖

[catboyrightsdefender]

why is this the funniest picture ever

[neuroticclover]

"Alright, Chris? You're lookin' good, man. You've hardly changed at all apart from the beard, like." "I kno', I cut most it off." "Snip snip, yeah."

a young Carl and Chris Palmer from Catterick

[vicsaysuvavu]

Guess who got bored and made the Palmer brothers :D (the closest I could anyway)

[unreesonable]

[local-blog-for-local-people]

🔥🤘🦇🎲

The vibe I got from these leaned towards Tony from Catterick

Send me an emoji (or a set of emojis) and I'll make a gifset of the character that reminds me the most of that emoji 

[news-buzz]

The tiny but beautiful UK village so quaint locals have their own accent | UK | News News Buzz

Accents help create a strong identity for any locale. But in one gorgeous UK village in the heart of North Yorkshire, the local lilt is a bit of an anomaly – as it gets its influence from all around the world. Catterick Garrison is the largest garrison in Europe and home to the British Army’s biggest training establishment. It spans more than 20,000 acres and has a population of 13,000. Its…

[foxeia]

Lena Catterick

[catboyrightsdefender]

this is the most ive ever related to a fictional character

[txttletale]

is there any more reliable fact behind what people some trans people say about like cults of cybele

yes! the galli, their practice of self-castration, and their feminine dress and presentation are very well attested by many sources: among them catullus, ovid, varro, livy, and polybius, off the top of my head.

of course, we have no actual accounts from the galli themselves: we can only speculate as to what their subjectivity wrt gender might have been, let alone to the myriad different relationships any individual gallus might have had. however, we can at least know that their presentation was feminine by choice: there is archeological attestation for honorific monuments and art depicting galli in feminine dress, often commissioned by galli themselves, and for them being buried in it. so unlike elagabalus, who in his commissioned statues and coins is always depicted purely masculinely we do have some definitinve information about how the galli at least purposefully presented themselves to the world.

attitudes to them shift throughout Roman history and from source to source, from mild curiosity, to contempt, to violent hatred--we don't, unfortunately, have a lot of writing about the galli in and of themselves--many of their mentions are cautionary tales, a 'what not to do' guide for aristocratic roman men seeking to avoid effeminacy or gender deviance. different authors describe them in different ways: varro calls them 'half-men' (semiviri), while catullus' attis says 'ego mulier' (i, a woman) but also 'ego epherbus, ego puer' (i, a young man and a boy) in her lament over the loss of access to the world of manhood her devotion has resulted in.

but yeah, there is absolutely a gigantic body of evidence for the existence of the itinerant priesthood of cybele being a known and constant part of Roman life, for their having flouted gender roles, practiced self-castration, and adopted feminine presentation, clothing, and appearances of their own accord. take from this what you will! i certainly think that in the project of attempting to locate transfemininity throughout history, it is certainly a more fruitful and worthy ground than the lurid tales of elagabalus and his Big Dick Surveillance Squad.

some recommended reading if you're curious:

“Fabulous Clap-Trap”: Roman Masculinity, the Cult of Magna Mater, and Literary Constructions of the galli at Rome from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity, Jacob Latham

Transgendered Archeology: the Galli and the Catterick Transvestite, Renato Pinto & Gretel Luciano

Looking for eunuchs: the galli and Attis in Roman art, Shelley Hales (in Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, ed. Shaun Tougher)

[queerasfact]

Queer as Fact Returns: New Episodes from June 1st!

After a long hiatus due to a series of personal factors, and a lot of hard work behind the scenes, Queer as Fact are ready to return with new episodes!

We will be releasing episodes in blocks of 4 episodes at a time, with the first block coming out on the 1st and 15th of June and July. We'll be sharing more information on the stories covered in those episodes over the coming days and weeks, but for now, some housekeeping:

1) We'll be leaving Twitter, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone aware of how bad Twitter has become over the past year.

2) We've created accounts on Instagram and Bluesky in order to better connect with more of our wonderful listeners like you!

3) We've made some updates to our website, so if there's anything you want to know about us or our podcast, check us out there.

4) For those who aren't aware, Queer as Fact has a Patreon account, for if you'd like to support the podcast financially. We've actually been back online over there for a few months now, preparing for our full re-launch and dipping our toes back in the water with some delightful bonus episodes on Ötzi the Iceman and The Catterick Skeleton, so check us out there if that interests you.

Other than that, we really appreciate all the messages of support we've received over the past six months, it's been a huge boost to morale in what unfortunately continues to be a pretty trying period for various reasons.

With a great deal of excitement,

Alice, Eli, Irene & Jasmine.

[usafphantom2]

Norwegian Erik Haabjørn in his Spitfire of 332 (Norwegian) Squadron with the squadron mascot 'Spit' at Catterick in April 1942.

@ron_eisele via X