#iamthemaestro

[focsle]

Inked bust commission for @iamthemaestro of his character Percy. Thank you!

[cadmusfly]

(@thebaffledcaptain) 16 and 23 for history asks?

history asks

Thanks for the asks!

16. Do you own some historical item? ( coin, clothing, weapons, books, ect) If yes which one is your favourite?

Did you know you can just buy Royal Navy buttons off the internet? (Though these only do date back to the 1970s or something!)

It is my dream to own a replica or antique flintlock pistol but that's a little tricky in my part of the world. One day, though!

23. Favourite historical song / with such reference?

Non Napoleonic: Tough pick between Tricksy Pixie's Tam Lin and Stan Roger's Northwest Passage, with Unleash the Archer's cover also being an absolute banger

Napoleonic: We've paid in hell since Moscow burned...

But also ever since I put La Cinquième Demi-Brigade on my liked songs playlist I keep getting jumpscared by French Patriotism and its great

And also who can forget the Song of the Onion

[the-golden-vanity]

@thebaffledcaptain/@iamthemaestro tagged me to make a poll of my 5 favorite characters, and given the theme of my blog, I thought I'd keep it restricted to boat guys. Let's see what happens!

No-pressure tagging @matelothot,@georges-chambers, @clove-pinks, @bloomrebounds, and anyone else who'd like to do this.

Thanks, @thebaffledcaptain!

[iamthemaestro]

I've been struggling to compose anything at all lately but this came to me tonight while I was thinking about the Flight of the Heron, and I decided to just go with it for an hour or so... maybe some other Heron enjoyers will enjoy it too I don't know

[meerawrites]

Rules: seven comfort films, seven people.

Interview With The Vampire (1994).

Belle (2014).

This beautiful fantastic (2017).

4 way tie between Amadeus (1984), Marie Antoinette (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: curse of the black pearl (2003), and Barry Lyndon (1975).

Emma (1996 and 2020 versions).

Ram-Leela (2013).

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988).

Borrowed from: @nordleuchten. 💕

Tagging: @tricornonthecob, @xxgothchatonxx, @malicious-compliance-esq, @no-depression-for-vampires, @rmstitanics, @iamthemaestro, & @musicboxmemories ~ if you want.

[thebaffledcaptain]

Very much appreciating the Boops, lads—I am not sure that you can boop back from a sideblog but if you get one from @iamthemaestro know that your boop has not gone unrequited!

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

Tagged by @burningvelvet

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite!

I already know Frederic Pope is gonna come in last because like maybe two of you out there have even watched that movie, LOL.

Tagging: @iamthemaestro, @aranov, @nightfallwolfkin, @labelleizzy, and @allysah.

[some-cold-and-some-violence]

tagged by @curatedstupidity

tagging @gohoubi @mycological-mariner @iamthemaestro @pathfinderswiftpen and anyone else interested

[clove-pinks]

tagged by @theancientvaleofsoulmaking, thank you my friend!

Favourite colour: all shades of purple

Last song: MacDonnell on the Heights by Stan Rogers. 😭 (Someday... someday I will visit Brock's Monument and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonell's grave.)

Last movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Very underrated potc movie, Javier Bardem put his whole pussy into Capitán Salazar and deserved more screen time and a better ending,

Currently watching: Putting the Flint in Flintlocks. A really interesting short instructional video about sourcing and using flints for blackpowder/flintlock gun enthusiasts; practical tips and tricks and shows how the flint is set in the gun. How all your blorbos from c. late 17th century to the 19th century prepared their gun locks and maintained them. (You can get 50 shots from a flint in good conditions!)

Other stuff I watched this year: Les Mis the stage musical, in Chicago (A++ peak experience)

Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: idk, I always have quite the to-watch list going on.

Currently reading: endless academic papers, mostly

Currently listening to: PLÜM – To Stay

Currently working on: Finishing a project about the role of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic

Current obsession: Haunted by thoughts of Fort Meigs and (perhaps relatedly) how much I would love a pair of Napoleonic-era boot gaiters.

tagging @maudeboggins, @cadmusfly, @fleur-de-paris, @agnetaseafoam, @victoriansecret, @mooseofthesea, @sanguinarysanguinity, @kaxen, @rowzien, @meerawrites, @apurpledust, @linguisticparadox, @artgirlfunkel, @nebylitsa, @iamthemaestro, @suddenly-frankenstein and @suburbanbeatnik if you feel like doing it!

[focsle]

Hi there! I’ve been doing a little project on the carbon impacts of the whaling industry and decided to read the current entirety of Going To Weather in one sitting as inspiration… honestly, all you do fascinates me but I am particularly impressed with how many fully rigged ships you willingly illustrated for all that! I’m curious if there was a specific way you studied them in order to draw them or if it’s more just a culmination of knowledge? I wish I understood all those intricacies better myself but it’s hard to figure out where to start…

Oh this is very kind of you to say haha! That’s a fascinating project—I’d love to see it when you’re done if you’d like to share it!

The secret is…they are absolutely not correct hahaha. If a tall ship sailor looked at my ships they’d be like ‘that’s wrong’ which is always why I’m like ‘shhhhh don’t look too closely’. But ultimately my aim is to tell a narrative, not draw a sailing guide. Regarding all the intricacies, I’m absolutely not drawing every line because there are dozens of them and I don’t consider it that important in the grand scope of telling a story. Same goes for tv and movies set on ships—often times their rigging is very much reduced for the sake of the readability of a set. Still, I try to get things vaguely correct looking, as far as the general structure of things so here’s where that helped:

The best way to understand how a boat works is to actually go sailing. But that is certainly not accessible for people in general, especially when it comes to square rigged tall ships (though opportunities DO exist). I’ve never been on a square rigger! No idea how they work! Would like to dabble someday. I’ve only worked on a fore-and-aft rigged vessel which is quite different, but it still gave me more of an understanding of how the sails actually work and what the lines actually do. Reading and watching things paled to being able to stand there and follow the lines to see where they went, and haul on them to see how they actually functioned. So if you ever get the opportunity to do any kind of sailing, that’s the best way to learn about how a ship works. I’m not a sailor by any means, but in my first venture into this I did start to learn a lot that I couldn’t really get from reading about it.

Watching videos helps too, though it’s sometimes hard to find ones that aren’t about operating contemporary sailboats. I found this series helpful just to get a basic understanding of how a square rig works.

Looking up diagrams can help too. I sometimes find diagrams of all the rigging challenging to parse in a 2d space, but when it’s broken down into smaller pieces I find that quite helpful. The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever has a lot of granular diagrams that are very well illustrated that I found helpful.

Finding a good model ship is also a decent way of starting to understand it. It’s in a 3d space in miniature so you can see the full scope of it at different angles, which I think is more helpful than drawings. It might not be completely accurate or have every single line represented, but it’s helpful to see how the lines lead to get the basic shape of them. I have a dream one day to have a model of the Charles W. Morgan. But good ones run for….thousands of dollars. So I’ve got a little wooden one that was my grandfather’s, but it’s still helpful to have on hand.

I also like looking at the illustrations of ships that my Whalers of Olde drew in their journals. It’s, again, not an accurate diagram, but they lived on that ship and in that life day in and day out, so when they draw them they tend to get to the spirit of the thing. I use their drawings to get a sense of what parts they felt most important to render, to inform how I render my own ships to get the point across even if they aren’t a perfect reflection of how a ship works.

I’m sure other folks have a wide net of resources beyond this, but these were some of the things that were helpful to me! But I certainly don’t have a vast accumulation of knowledge about sailing and it’s very much ‘that’s good enough to get the idea across in a comic panel someone will look at for 5 seconds’ ha!

[neon-sunsets]

waiting for an eeg is just

[image ID: an edit of the “Borat 2 tonite” meme in which “Borat 2” has been replaced by “EEG” end ID{

(courtesy of @iamthemaestro)

[napoleonsloveletter]

Five Songs

Thank you for the tag @lady--lisa ♡ (I loved your list!)

strangelove - depeche mode

unhappy birthday - the smiths

pure morning- placebo

I can't hardly stand it - the cramps

churchyard - aurora

Tags: (no pressure of course) @unholy-roman-empire @vulpecoola @starsreside @silverfoxstole @girl-with-a-cup-of-tea @gigamuffin @with-nail @turniplover @sunmoonsurfing @whenthestonesrot @bonofucker @oftincturedwords @pathfinderswiftpen @rubycubix-alt @kigiom @cadmusfly @iamthemaestro @ego-sum-arbor @novaeve @digital999placebo @saint-briars @yowzeight @matchavanillalatte

[iamthemaestro]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Secret History - Donna Tartt Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Francis Abernathy/Richard Papen Characters: Francis Abernathy, Richard Papen Additional Tags: Mildly Dubious Consent, Drunk Sex, Gay Sex, Drinking, Hate Sex, not precisely but it's definitely toxic, some predatory rhetoric, Gender Fuckery, just a little bit, mild emetephobia warning, < author is emetephobic and was fine if that helps, Sexual Repression, repressed richard papen, Canon-Typical Behavior, as in dark and unhealthy and a little bit unhinged, Suicidal Thoughts, very light but better tag than no tag, Jealousy, Possessive Sex, just a bit, god this is so toxic I'm so sorry, POV Richard Papen, Canon Compliant Summary:

I sat back, breathing hard. I remember seeing him there on the floor, head lolling back, unable to draw my eyes from the pale expanse of his throat.

“Richard,” he slurred, not even picking his up his head to look at me, “you should fuck me.”

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In which Francis and Richard get very, very drunk.

spoiler alert they have toxic gay sex. I’m on a fic writing spree like you would not believe now that I have more time. they’re horrible. enjoy <3

[meerawrites]

Soundtrack tag

Genre consistency, beyond post-punk and new wave? We’ve never met.

Stand and Deliver - Adam & The Ants.

I wanna be in the Calvary - Seth Salton Watkins.

Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode.

Nocturnal Me - Echo & the Bunnymen.

House of the rising sun - Joan Baez.

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos.

I feel you - Depeche Mode.

Champagne Shit - Janelle Monáe.

Pistach - Willow Scarlet.

HUSH - theme from TURN: Washington’s Spies on AMC.

Tagged by: @beautyindiversity, @panthera-dei, @ainahwrites & @mjjune ~ thank you! ♥️

Tagging: @kaiarchives, @iamthemaestro, @malicious-compliance-esq, @musicboxmemories, @tricornonthecob, @biphes-hommel, @gerardwaygirlmoments, @arrthurpendragon, @enchi-elm. ♥️

[thebaffledcaptain]

For Shame, Ye Take No Care, Me Boys…

Lee (he/she), history and music composition student. Tortured composer, aspiring dandy, and redcoat fifer; possibly died back in 1778. Also found at @iamthemaestro, my main, where I sillypost about history (among other things), whereas this is the more curated sideblog, and runner of @redcoatsuggestions.

My main interests being (taglist):

Anything and everything 18th century/Georgian era

The American War of Independence

Historical reenactment

British military history

Age of Sail

Folk music & field music

Classical music & music history in general

Historical fashion/military uniforms

The Flight of the Heron

Transcription, mostly of old whaling journals

My content:

Sometimes I ramble about history in a way that’s actually coherent and researched. You can find those posts here.

I play a lot of folk music.

I am not normal about reenactment.

I draw soldiers sometimes.

I also run a largely inconsistent informational series on 18th century folk/field music, known as Music of the Revolutionary Century. The audience is very niche (me), but I do dedicate research to the tunes’ histories however I can and usually talk some music theory, if you too have highly obscure interests.

Hope you decide to linger with me for some time in the past :)

Some miscellaneous information:

For reenactment purposes, I am a fifer for a the US-based 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot—if you want to know more please reach out! I would love to have more reenactment mutuals. I post about it frequently; I have a lot of regimental pride.

For this reason among others I tend to lean more toward the British history of the American Revolution. Not a British apologist but I frequently joke that I am a bit of a redcoat bastard. Please do not take me for a monarchist. I do not control the special interests.

As I've gained a following and posted more original content I've been kind of cleaning up this blog. At one point it was for anything vaguely history related but now it's pretty much just informational stuff. The vast majority of fandom and silly history stuff goes to my main.

Bigots can and will be blocked.

As always I am not a historian; I generally try not to post about anything I haven’t put research into or couldn’t provide sources for, for but I am not a professional, so take anything I say with a grain of salt and feel free to enlighten me if I might have gotten something wrong.

And lastly—please reach out if you want to talk! I am constantly looking for more people to talk history with, I'm just very bad at reaching out myself lol. I am by no means an expert but I love answering questions when I can just because it gives me an excuse to talk, and I would also love just nerding out with equally passionate individuals.

Your most hbl. and obt. svt.,

The Captain

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

I am probably gonna unfollow and mute the 'W*tcher' tag this weekend while everyone is hashing their feelings out. I get it, I sympathize, I'm not thrilled by their decision either. It's just... collectively it's a lot right now and it's monopolizing my dash.

Anyway. Spouse has been up to his eyeballs on one particular school assignment for a solid week already and will be spending the weekend desperately trying to finish it before the deaadline. This is a little unusual for him, as he's really hardcore about time management. The fact that he's struggling with this one assignment makes me wonder how the other students in the class are doing with it.

He's had a lot on his plate this semester. I've been trying to throw out some ideas for us to get out and see the region this summer when he's not so utterly bogged down with school... so far the only one that has stuck is a vague plan to finally see Montreal. I would like us to also make it out to a Fort Ti event at some point--anyone got suggestions on which one we should try and see there this summer? (@iamthemaestro?) I wanted to do the F&I siege one but I don't think we can make that weekend.

Also, Andrew Appel just dropped a ton of videos on his channel and after all the Youtube discourse today my first instinct is to be like, "my dude, you can't just drop all your videos at once you have to space them out at regular intervals!" but I don't think he cares about playing the algorithm game, LOL.