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seenthisepisode · 9 months ago

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“jensen wouldn't be able to differentiate between me and cas” misha my dude jensen is not even able to differentiate between dean winchester and himself so

#destiel sex scene would be actually a abirate cockles roleplay and cockles sex would be the first two people love quadrangle recorded in #the history of humankind #or even a fucking hexagon because jensen and misha are BOTH actors AND in universe characters (french mkstake verse BUT)#anyway. to understand how jensen's mind operates. oh what a wish #counterpoint : i do not wish to understand whats going on in misha's head ever. just be weird girl <3 #in the first tag the word is meant to say AN ELABORATE

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theorahsart · 2 months ago

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Is it normal for Peter Mcfee to e-mail people??

I'm totally reeling from him e-mailing me lol Its not a big email, it reads like a social media msg, I think hes just being a normal 70-smth man and probably doesn't see the difference between emailing me and replying to my shout out on social media

But to me.... its a big deal....to be emailed by Peter Mcfee.....my day has truly been made u_u

#sigh #what on earth #is the history world this small?#I see literally all of you historians even you who I talk to on Tumblr as like the coolest ppl ever #who are sm smarter than me and operating on a whole different level #yet here I am talking to you and y'all are emailing me lol #frev #french revolution

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lonestarbattleship · 2 months ago

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The damaged French Battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, during the first days of the U.S. campaign in North Africa.

Date: November 8-16, 1942

Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-19918

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glittergoats · 11 months ago

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I got really excited about Legends Z-A yesterday okay

#pokemon #pokemon legends arceus #pla #pokemon legends za #volo pokemon #avira (pla oc)#az pokemon #my art #they're on their french honeymoon #volo sneaking out to go try and harness zygarde's powers to destroy the world #avira: oh babe for our anniversary? you shouldn't have #they're having fun #im cringe but im free baby!#im operating on the theory this will be 1960s paris and not 1850s paris because i think thats more interesting but we'll see

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mantisgodsdomain · 5 months ago

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More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.

Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.

Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.

#we speak #conlang #bug fables #please excuse us if we're mangling the terminology here btw. we cannot for the life of us remember the proper terms for half of this #and every time we try to google things it winds up turning up nothing #probably because we're googling shit like “the term for the thing where self reference is different if youre a guy or a girl”#and like. “part of speech that you use to refer to other people that isnt pronouns or a name that has title associations”#if we reread some textbooks we will probably remember but unfortunately these are not our textbook reference posts #they are our “what if we told you about the cool ways that we did grammar in here” post #god we love grammatical grammar (<guy who doesn't have a strong enough sense of gender to remember der and die properly)#(because we are the specific type of speaker where we're half operating based on what Feels Right with the word and we are)#(so fucking bad at remembering how gendering words is meant to go)#(the secret reason we hate phonetics is because we have to contend with both figuring out how mouthparts would work and like)#(Working Out A Reasonable Collection Of Sounds To Have In Our Language. which means we have to actually like. name things)#(cruel and unusual that we have to make actual words rather than loosely tossing building blocks on the floor. honestly.)#anyways snakemouth den roach is one of those dialects where it's on the verge of becoming a language on its own #where it's very debatable on if it's Actually A New Language or just a very specific dialect of an old one because. well. boxes #picture it as like. trying to speak to someone who you Think is speaking french but they have an extremely thick regional accent #and they keep using like ten-syllable words that you probably don't know but that seem to refer to things that could be referred to #way more concisely?#and also rather than just le and la they have added an entire new lu to the mix and you are unclear if its the accent or a new word entirel #(note: we are not a specialist on french as we primarily know it in the “we've been around it long enough to vaguely know what's being said #way and are not currently caught up enough on whatever they have going on to know about any major grammar stuff going on over there)#(but we are terrible enough with remembering the grammar of the german that we do speak that we do not trust ourself to not be Worse there)

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thepastisalreadywritten · 7 months ago

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Commemorations Marking The 80th Anniversary of D-Day Take Place In Normandy

Prince William, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the Government of Canada ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Juno Beach on 6 June 2024 in Courseulles-sur-Mer, France.

Normandy is hosting a variety of events across significant sites such as Pegasus Bridge, Sainte-Mère-Église, and Pointe du Hoc, leading up to the official commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing on June 6.

📸: Jordan Pettitt - Pool / Getty Images

#Prince William #French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal #Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau #Juno Beach #D-Day #D-Day 1944 #D-Day80 #Normandy #France #Canada #UK #British Royal Family #war heroes #war veterans #military operations #history #World War II #Allied Forces

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okiankeno · 5 months ago

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french soldier FBI agent..... what if i. wrote................... fic.....

#amangela #GUYS I NEED TO STOP HAVING IDEAS #fbi agent sent undercover to france ig to investigate an operation owns a flower shop. french soldier comes and buys flowers every week and #fbi agent is like oh her lover must be so lucky. who's the lucky guy? and french soldier is like oh they are for myself! no one else #and fbi agent is like. oh sick shes single? i wonder if she likes girls #fbi agent asks french soldier on a date bc she wants to see her more #(french soldier actually came every week to buy flowers to see fbi agent bc hehe)#anyways devolves into fbi agent investigating the french govt for doing some unknown bad things (idk something) and french soldier is #involved somehow #what am i doing yall #fiery rambles

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frevandrest · 1 year ago

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Understanding 18th Century

There's a prevailing problem I've noticed in interpreting frev: people not really understanding that this was 18th century. Oh, they understand it on an intellectual level, but they still apply today's worldview to it. And you can't do that if you wish to understand wtf was going on.

(This is not about anyone here nor a shade at anyone in particular. Just a trend I've noticed, especially in bad takes).

All historical periods have this problem where people interpret things from the point of view of our own time. So that's hardly special about frev and 18c. But a tricky part is that 18c saw the development of things that we still use today (constitutions, voting system, etc.) that it may seem like it's more similar to our world than it actually was.

For example. The voting system. They had it and so do we. Except they were assholes who didn't allow women to vote. (Which is fair criticism, but people often forget that not all men had the right to vote either - so any criticism of exclusion should take that into account. Was it really about women per se, or about their ideas on who can and cannot make a free and rational vote? What is that they saw wrong about women and certain men voting? - Their attitude sure sucks, but if we ask these questions we understand better what was going on vs just going "sexist men", which only explains part of the issue). Or: journalism. They had political slander and so do we. But uuugh, their slander was so openly personal and often ridiculed someone's looks/sexual practices in supposedly serious political attacks - wtf was that? Or: trials. Of course we all know how trials are supposed to be done and what kind of arguments/evidence they should include. The fact they focused so much on character slander is incorrect and ridiculous, and...

Stop. Instead of assuming that they "did it incorrectly", think about: 1) how we do these things today is a product of decades/centuries of development; they didn't have that. They were only inventing it for the first time. 2) They did stuff according to their cultural beliefs. If they focused so much on character assassination as an argument, it means it was significant for their worldview.

You might not like it (and fair enough) but it's not possible to understand what was going on unless we understand how they thought and what they knew and what their worldview was. Which is not easy. It's not simply about knowing the state of scientific thought or what they believed about the world. Understanding how this affected the way they thought and how they interpreted things, or how they build meaning and conclusions - none of that is easy. But we have to question our assumptions, even if we're unable to see things from their pov. Because that's the only way not to arrive at wrong conclusions.

Similarly, many terms what they used had a different meaning to how they are used today (or, at least, they were understood in ways dissimilar to how we use them). Concepts such as despotism, tyranny, dictator, terror; also some seemingly easy to understand terms like "being a moderate" or even "patriotism". If we assume 18th century people used them in the same way that we do, we won't be able to understand wtf they are talking about.

#this is not about 18c or frev specifically #but it's a good example #many bad takes about frev include this lack of understanding #coupled with interpreting past with present #and it's bad #and hey it's not just about frev #royalism too #like i am not a fan of louis or marie antoinette but their actions too have to be interpreted from 18th century worldview #like of course they did stuff that they did #they fought for what they believed in their souls was the truth #natural hierarchies aming humans and the monarch's right to rule etc.#and many of people - not just rich and powerful- also believed that #i don't think any of that is good but it was a worldview they operated under #so to understand their actions we need to know that #or anyone's action #not to excuse it but to understand wtf was going on #because applying our understanding cannot explain it #frev #french revolution

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aquitainequeen · 2 years ago

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Ridley Scott: I made a film about two rival officers constantly duelling throughout and in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and now I've actually done a film about Napoleon!

Me: Great! Could you also do a film about Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, a vital innovator in European battlefield surgery and triage, often considered the first military surgeon; who pioneered the ambulance volantes ("Flying ambulances") to quickly transport wounded men from the battlefield, effectively creating a forerunner of the modern MASH units; co-led the team that performed one of the first accurately recorded pre-anaesthetic mastectomies in Western medicine; was spotted helping wounded men while under heavy fire during the Battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington who purposefully ordered for his soldiers not to fire in Larrey's direction; and when captured by the Prussians after the battle was about to be executed on the spot when he was recognised by one of the German surgeons, who pled for his life because he had saved the life of Field Marshall Blücher's son some years earlier?

Ridley Scott:

Ridley Scott: Um.

Me: Yeah. Didn't think so.

#Yeah; Baron Larrey was one of my dad's heroes #When we went to Père Lachaise Cemetery we went partly to honour his grave #ridley scott #Baron Dominique Jean Larrey #baron larrey #Dominique Jean Larrey #napoleon 2023 #the duellists #the duellists 1977 #check out the duellists; it's a REALLY good film!#Larrey did a lot of other stuff that I didn't mention; otherwise I'd just be vomiting the wikipedia page #He was a close favourite of Napoleon and went on the Egyptian campaign #he started a school in Cairo where he researched opthalmy (inflammation of the eye)#He made sure that all soldiers (not just French and their allies) were treated #The mastectomy was to treat suspected breast cancer #(unknown to this day if there actually was cancer but perhaps better safe than sorry)#and the patient was Frances Burney #who frankly deserves a film or tv series of her own #If you're up for it she wrote her own description of what the operation was like; which is there to read on her wikipedia page #Whether or not her breast WAS cancerous she lived another thirty years #Ironically her husband DID die of cancer #anyway #*jazz hands*

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carbone14 · 10 months ago

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Après son entrée dans Paris avec les troupes de la 2e Division blindée, Simone Segouin, résistante française dans les Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP), et deux de ses camarades participent à l'élimination des dernières poches de résistance – Libération de Paris – Opération Overlord – Août 1944

Photos Robert Capa

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Simone Segouin rejoint les Francs-Tireurs et Partisans en 1944 à l'âge de 18 ans sous le pseudonyme de Nicole Minet. Après de nombreuses missions en tant qu'agent de liaison entre Dreux, Chartres et Châteaudun, les FTP lui propose de prendre les armes et devient l'une des rares femmes à prendre part aux combats. Attaques de convois, de trains, de détachements ennemis et opérations de sabotage lui valent le respect au sein de la résistance.

Elle participe activement à la libération de Chartres et s'illustre le 20 août 1944 en prenant part à la capture de 25 allemands à Thivars, à 7 km au sud de Chartres. A cette occasion elle récupère un pistolet mitrailleur MP40 avec lequel elle pose fièrement lors de la venue du Général de Gaulle à Chartres le 23 août pendant sa tournée d'inspection des régions libérées.

A la suite de cette cérémonie, les différents groupes de résistants du département prennent la direction de Paris pour participer aux combats insurrectionnels. La plupart regagnent Paris et font la jonction avec la 2e Division blindée de Leclerc le 25 août à six heures du matin.

C'est la raison pour laquelle, un cliché de Robert Capa présente Simone Segouin aux côtés de deux de ses camarades face aux dernières poches de résistance allemande.

Sa conduite valeureuse dans la clandestinité et son action dans les combats de la Libération lui valurent le grade de sous-lieutenant.

Elle fût décorée de la croix de guerre par Charles Tillon, ministre de l'Armement et ancien chef des FTP le 24 mars 1946 à Chartres.