#charles pears

[thefugitivesaint]

Charles Pears (1873-1958), 'Diving Mermaids', ''The Tatler'', Vol. 103, #1341, 1927 Source

[illustratus]

An ocean racer running under spinnaker in the moonlight by Charles Pears

[venustapolis]

Sinking of the Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst, Dec 26, 1943 (Charles Pears, 1873 - 1958)

[herprivateswe]

© IWM ((Art.IWM ART 1045) A sketch by Charles Pears of a Sopwith Camel rising into the air after takeoff, with several huts in the distance.

[lxndonorris]

THE LAST ONE.....DEAD

[thunderstruck9]

Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935), Apples and Pears, 1933. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 10 x 13 3/4 in.

[hourcat]

piarles

[lemuseum]

[charlstache]

@checkeredflagsandshit reminding me of some PROPER hot moustache 😌

[weiner-enjoyer]

in the 1700s, just before the french revolution, the king condemned all depiction of himself in any press, or that which wasn’t commissioned by him directly.

one man, Charles Philipon, owned a newspaper called the Caricature. and as such, he drew a mighty disrespectful picture of the king. and he got jailed for about six months for it.

when Philipon stood trial, he used the rhetoric that if the judge could decide what the king looked like, then ANYTHING could be the king, and ANYONE could be jailed. to demonstrate this, he drew a picture similar to that above, explaining that if the judge decides the pear looks like the king, then all pears must be condemned as well.

this rhetoric was unsuccessful. after his time in jail, he commissioned another artist to refine the drawing and publish it.

to the king’s dismay, the pear-king evolution image became a meme, and people did in fact begin using pears to portray the king. pears were, in fact, condemned. but then the revolution happened, and nobody gave a shit about pears.

this, my friends, is Les Poires de Philipon, and it might be the funniest act of resistance there has ever been

[bstroobery]

Warning: fake blood

Starting now with AFF:PI! Prequel to the AFF.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

THE CORONATION OF CHARLES III : AN IRRESISTIBLE SPECTACLE

Nothing prepares you for a coronation — not quite, not fully. King Charles III had waited seven decades for his moment, he had rehearsed the ceremony in the days before, yet as he approached the doors of Westminster Abbey, his face betrayed his anxiety. He turned, he muttered, he fidgeted. For much of the two-hour service, his expression was, if not exactly a grimace, a study in suspense. 

When the two-kilogramme St Edward’s Crown was placed on his head, he closed his eyes sombrely. Queen Camilla braced herself similarly when her own turn came.The audience were unprepared for the coronation, probably more so. No one much younger than the 74-year old king could remember the last one, which took place when Winston Churchill was prime minister. More than 2,000 people filed into the Abbey, and their eyes seemed to widen at the plethora of colourful garments, the grandeur of the jewels, the assortment of the great, the good and the deserving. 

Observing the singer Lionel Richie sitting next to the former Australian foreign secretary Julie Bishop gave a sense of the strangeness of the occasion. There were roles for people with titles such as the Lady of the Order of the Thistle and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant.

It would be wrong to say that the British public had been gripped by the prospect of the coronation. Two-fifths thought it was a waste of taxpayer money, according to one poll. Two-thirds didn’t care about it very much or at all, according to another. After all, there had been a glut of royal pageantry in the past year: Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee weekend last June, followed by her funeral in September.Yet, as so often, royal ceremony proved almost irresistible. Foremost was the music, guided, we are told, by the king himself. Westminster Abbey is a fragmented building, where few seats have a direct view of the central space. It has been hosting coronations since 1066, which means that for many centuries, most attendees must have been craning their necks. Because of that, and because most of the congregation had to be seated for two hours before the main service began, the music mattered. The choir’s rendition of Handel’s Zadok The Priest, sung in the most sacred moment of the service as the King was anointed with oil behind a screen, was a triumph.

 When the congregation later responded with the words “God Save the King”, the noise reverberated deep into the stonework.

[Thanks you Robert Scott Horton]

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Ian Sanders  · So Charles III will be crowned on Saturday in a ceremony which will start at 11 a.m. BST and possibly go on until 2 p.m. This is a multi-faceted phenomenon and various opinions may be held about it all. 

I have my own - and no interest in trying to persuade anyone else to  adopt them.What I'd like to draw attention to is that a large number of power-possessing beings will be gathered in a powerful sacred place (Westminster Abbey), while many millions of people around the world will be paying attention (of sorts) to proceedings. 

Some of you will be familiar with the research done by the PEAR project and by the Global Coherence Initiative which suggests a greater degree than usual of cohesion in our collective consciousness at times of mass focus. This may be a good time to devote some time and effort to wishing the world well, whatever that means to you.

[venustapolis]

A Thunderstorm at Harwich. Submarines Leaving Port (Charles Pears, 1873 - 1958)

[tenth-sentence]

Even different varieties of the pear take with different degrees of facility on the quince; so do different varieties of the apricot and peach on certain varieties of the plum.

"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" - Charles Darwin

[singsweetmelodies]

KATIEEEE - IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! 🎈🎂🥳🎊🎉🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️

You make me as happy as a Pierre podium. As joyful as a speedy Ferrari pitstop. As excited as a @Calamars Sighting tag on the server.

I cannot even begin to tell you how much you mean to me. From the first message you ever sent me, I've known that you and I get each other. We just clicked, and that is rare in this life. I feel so lucky. ❤️

I hope this year is as special for you as you are to me. You deserve all of the love and happiness and good times - and I can't wait to see all that you achieve ❤️

I love you so much today, and always. Thank you for being my best friend.😚😚😚😚😚😚❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

And finally.... Pierre being sexy collage for your special day ❤️

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

HI TO THE LOVE OF MY FANDOM LIFE (AKA pierre gasly looking sexy 👌👌👌😘)

... i'm joking. YOU are the love of my fandom life. of course you fucking are 🥹 i'm just like... BRIONY 😭😭😭😭🥺 we're british; we're not meant to be good at emotions!!! but i will CRY this is so sweet 💙 as charles said to pierre, we know each other too well. this is PERFECT ❤️

ughhhh, i don't even know what to say to you except that i love you SO MUCH, and thank you for being my best friend, too. thank you so so so much!! I LOVE YOU LIKE PIERRE LOVES CHARLES <333 😘

[lxndonorris]

bffs