#in a pic from 1917

[chere-indolente]

Half Moon Manicure Set

@therococoprometheus and I teamed up to bring you a set inspired by 1930's nail polish ads ! On my side of this collab you'll find cc nails perfectly suited for 20's, 30's and 40's looks. Check out @therococoprometheus's side here for nail and beauty related vintage clothes and objects ! More pics and download below

In the West, in the 19th and early 20th century, nails were usually cared for and tinted using faintly colored oils or powders that had to be buffed into the nail to achieve a slightly rosier and shinier look. At least by 1917 there was also "nail white", used to get a whiter nail end. Indeed the sought after look in the late 10's and 20's was a pink shiny nails with light contrasting sole and ends. The white nail ends as a beauty standart was pretty classist as it was initially a way to show you didn't belong to the manual laborers (...or at least give the appearance of it) who usually had to dirty their hands (and nails) at work. When liquid nail polish became more widely available in the 20's, this look was emulated by applying the polish solely to the middle of the nail in a crescent shape, and such giving us the half moon manicure an iconic style sported by about every fashionable lady from the late 20s to the late 30s. By the 40's, the half moon manicure started to decline in popularity, the most fashionable looks being either fully painted nails or a version of the half moon manicure with painted ends. By then longer nails were also more popular as can be seen on the likes of Rita Hayworth or Marlene Dietrich. Those nail polishes were quite shiny and a bit sheer so I tried my best to replicate these characteristics in my own cc. The color palette for these cc nails is also directly taken from old nail polish ads.

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These nails with their short and oval shape fit the style most popular in the 20s especially in their (20's) half moon manicure version. Though they could also suit later decade for a shorter more work friendly nail especially in the 40s and solid version.

3 versions : 20s half moon, 40s half moon and solids

for each : 1 bare swatch and 47 colored ones

only available for adults

male and female frame versions

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In the 30's longer and pointier nails became more fashionable and as such these long almond nails in their half moon versions would be perfect for a 30's look. They would also fit perfectly in the 40's in either their solid or 40's half moon version.

3 versions : 30s half moon, 40s half moon and solids

for each : 1 bare swatch and 47 colored ones

only available for adults

male and female frame versions

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Such long nails would not suit 20s or early 30's looks, but would be perfect for 40s or late 30s.

2 versions : 40s half moon and solids

for each : 1 bare swatch and 47 colored ones

only available for adults

male and female frame versions

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Short nails have always been around as they are quite practical at all times but I couldn't fit the half moon design on these in a satisfactory manner so enjoy these nails in a bare (timeless) and solid (40s and up) swatches.

1 bare swatch and 47 solid coloured swatches

only available for adults

male and female frame versions

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Download : dropbox — simfileshare

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Get therococoprometheus's part here

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[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actor Richard Madden born June 18th 1986 in Elderslie.

Richard was raised by his mother, Pat, a classroom assistant and his father, Richard, who worked for the fire service. He also has two sisters, Cara and Lauren.

His parents were “hippies”, he says, and their house was pretty open, with friends always piling in for big vegetarian meals. Madden spent a lot of time outside, in the woods behind their house. He has several injuries: he shows me where he shot his dad’s old air pistol and blew off part of his finger, then managed to wreck the same finger when he nailed a wooden plank to his skateboard, then crashed it, so apart from the Hippie parents it was much like most of our own days as bairns.

Despite growing up wanting to be an actor, Richard was very shy during his childhood. To overcome this, at age 11, he joined Paisley Arts Centre’s youth theatre program. In 1999 he was given the lead role as Sebastian Simpkins in BBC1’s children’s TV comedy series Barmy Aunt Boomerang, that’s him aged 12 in the first pic with co-star Toyah Wilcox.. By 2000, he’d made his feature film debut in the Iain Banks adaptation, Complicity.

After high school he was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland and in 2007, he graduated.

Less than two years later, Richard had a recurring role as Dean McKenzie on the 2009 BBC series Hope Springs. Soon after, he landed the role of Ripley in the 2010 movie Chatroom, a film about a group of teenagers who encourage each other’s bad behaviours after meeting online. In the same year, Richard played punk band Theatre of Hate singer Kirk Brandon in Worried About the Boy, a TV film about the life of British singer-songwriter Boy George.

In 2011 Richard landed his breakthrough role as Robb Stark in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. Also in 2011, he played gay paramedic Ashley Greenwick on the short-lived British comedy-drama Sirens. During hiatus from filming Game of Thrones in 2013, Richard was cast to star as Prince Charming in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.

Richard won his first Screen Actors Guild award in 2014 for the Discovery Channel mini-series, Klondike. He played Bill Haskell, one of two adventurers who travel to Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. He further enhanced his reputation as a good actor when he appeared in the BBC drama Bodyguard in 2018, the following year he played Lieutenant Joseph Blake in the film 2017 and was Elton John’s manager/lover in the biop of the star Rocketman.

In January 2019 Madden won a prestigious Golden Globe for his role as war veteran David Budd in the BBC show Bodyguard. He also appeared in the 2019 war movie 1917.

We last saw Richard in the movie, Eternals, which was okay, but nothing great, he is one of several actors being touted as the next James Bond,

Last year Richard starred in the Amazon Prime series Citadel, I've watcheit and was not really impressed with it,I think he does pull of the American accent well, but I noticed there have been people saying he doesnt, Madden revealed he spoke in the accent for two years straight to prepare for the series. The show has been earmarked for a second series. Richard is set to appear in the feature film Killer Heat next, it is in post production.

In July 2019, Madden received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. When asked about his personal life during a New York Times interview following speculation about his relationships and sexuality, Madden stated: “I just keep my personal life personal.”

Madden was recently named one of ‘Scotland’s Sexiest Men' following a new study that identifies the most attractive features for men, he has competition though, also in the running are Bathgate’s David Tennant and Glasgow’s James McAvoy,

Richard, quizzed on what he would like to do next he sad “I’d like to do something in comedy. It’s nice to not… I mean we go to work every day and we’re like, ‘You’re gonna die today,’” he said, adding that he wanted to “do something fun for a minute.”

[variousqueerthings]

Hiii! This question is kinda apropos of nothing but I’m curious: who is the person in your profile pic? Every time I scroll past it a little too fast I think it’s Alan Alda/Hawkeye haha

no worries (i think alan alda would be honoured, if i remember correctly, he mentioned meeting him once as a kid in his memoir). it's this fellow:

his name was conrad veidt, a famous german actor of the weimar republic, later escaped to britain and then the us to get away from the nazis with his jewish wife, Ilona Prager. he also starred in two pro-jewish films shortly after the nazis came to power in 1933 (the wandering jew, and jew süss, but i confess i haven't watched these yet, so i cannot say how well they aged) -- generally did a few films that were about Social Issues that came down on the side of the oppressed, including the woman's crusade, and the merry-go-round, as well as... (see below)

famous for some very important movies: 1. played the lead in the first movie to openly portray gay men (anders als die andern), which was produced by magnus hirschfeld and the institute of sexology in a bid to get support for legalising homosexuality -- it's free on youtube! also 105 years old, can you believe... 2. played the somnambulist in the cabinet of dr caligari, and generally was every vamp-girls/boys dream back in the day, playing in a lot of the german expressionist films and proto-horror films, and generally not afraid to play offbeat, uncomfortable roles that weren't about being an attractive leading man (eerie tales, the hands of orlac, waxworks, the man who laughs) 3. after he moved to the us, he was very happy to portray nazis to give them realism, and he plays major heinrich strasser in casablanca in 1942 (his second-last film)

i believe he was in a total of 115 films, but quite a few of them between when he started in 1917 and 1930 are lost (der januskopf, i think of you often....murnau, bela lugosi, and conrad veidt, in an adaptation of jekyll and hyde??? arghhh)

other fun facts, did occasionally crossdress and in fact this may have contributed a little to his first divorce, as his wife found him and a bunch of his friends wearing dresses one night after she came back from work -- notably conrad was in her new dress. she told a friend that this was the breaking point, but it may have partially been a joke. they did divorce though

was also at one point called the prettiest girl in berlin in print, good for him

was probably bisexual, although having said that i've actually never read why people think this -- so for now, he was a mensch and a great ally to a lot of people, a little on the queerer side in all things

i do follow a fair few conrad veidt blogs on here, but i don't talk about him often, it's one of those "am a fan, but keeping it mostly to the chest" kind of things with him -- however, as you can tell, very happy to give the Info when asked!

that's the man, the girl, the pretty boy: mr conrad veidt!

[opera-ghosts]

In May 1917 Richard Strauss conducted in Switzerland Concerts with Music from Mozart in Basel, Zürich and Bern.

Here we see the Poster that announced this Tour. Click on the pic and read the details.

[andromeddog]

the way your draw uniforms tickly my brain very nicely, they always look amazing! do you have a specific source for reference pictures or have you drawn them so often now you don't need them that much anymore? xoxox- struggling artist who can't find good refs

hehehehe anon i love talking about uniforms so this ask is a real treat… this may get long so it’s going under a cut

first of all thank u for noticing i do really try to make the uniforms as accurate as possible. i spend a long time trying to figure out what specific coat/gun/boot/helmet/whatever people are wearing and what its purpose is…. thats really just googling around and clicking on links until i find something. luckily for band of brothers/ww2 related stuff theres a lot of interest and you can often find ppl on forums from like 2003 discussing the minutiae of gear that will point you in the right direction. ww1 related stuff is a bit harder to come by but i bought a full illustrated book to help with that lol

as for straight up references- pinterest is one of my main resources!! there are lots of pics of the boys from bob if that’s what you are specifically looking for (some boards i like are here and here.) these can be hit or miss sometimes if you’re looking for ref of a very specific thing, because they don’t always capture the angle of that bag or clear shot of a belt that you need.

if that’s the case then i just… rewatch the show lol. i have it downloaded on my phone through the amazon prime app so if im drawing a scene or looking for very specific reference i will literally go frame by frame to get what i need. i cannot tell you how many times ive watched this series just looking for reference. so many. too many??? for this secret santa piece im doing i have watched the same 10 second scene so many times that i can see it when i close my eyes. the bad thing about that is you cannot take screenshots (fuck you amazon prime) and also, it’s rly easy to get sucked into the show and spend an hour just watching it bc it’s a damn good show. i think ive watched the breaking point like 20 times by now bc of this. this is insane idk if you want to do this but if you are looking for straight up accuracy then it’s not a bad option

also, and this is not specific to uniforms, if you draw something enough the pieces will start to stick in your head… this happened to me with 1917 and ww1 british kits lol. i drew them so much they just stuck. knowing what layers are under a jacket, where a belt sits and what’s attached to it, the specific shape of a helmet (fuck you stahlhelms fuck you m1s AND FUCK YOU BRODIE HELMETS) and shit like that just comes with drawing them a lot. and also watching how they fit and move on an actual person is why rewatching the show is good. researching stuff also helps but i know ppl don’t always want to spend hours doing that shit if you’re just looking for a basic reference. but i’m rly into uniforms so that is fun for me!!

i’m realizing this is a lot but…… i like uniforms! thats part of why i like military history shit. its fun to think about how all the gear interacts and moves with a person! how different each country’s uniforms are and how they carry everything they need on their backs and how they change over the years! i just think its neat!

[bonbalaur]

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Brühl-faced OC. I'm trying to return joy from painting, so here you have my stereotypical Brühlface in the same dies pose with not rendered arm because I couldn't care less for hands and arms by extension.

In his youth, this character is an early fighter pilot inspired by such a figure as Red Baron. A plane is carrying the Ukrainian People's Republic iron cross (1917-21 with a break for Skoropads'kyi), because in my fantasy-shmantasy setting I'm going for home aesthetics.

Also taking into account how f'ed up data scraping is nowadays, I'll start uploading lower res pics.

[some-cold-and-some-violence]

I keep knitting these 1917 sleeping caps. I finished one today (will post pics soon) and I'm already starting on another with some gorgeous green yarn from my stash. Working on a pair of wrist warmers from 1917 in navy blue patons patonyle too. Slightly disastrous.

I also found some decent-ish yarn for a cap/scarf combo thing from a Red Cross pattern book (khaki is bloody near impossible to find), some more green for ANOTHER bloody sleeping cap, and some grey merino 4ply for another pair of wrist warmers. I also need to get a move on with starting my knitted version of Croft's scarf from Aces High, and my 1940s RAF hat.

[blakegopnik]

THE FRIDAY PIC shows two drawings for magazine illustrations by Edward Hopper: One is for some unknown publication on Ibsen and  the other for an article called “What Trivial Doubts Can Do to You,” published in “Every Week” magazine, April 16, 1917. They are from the Whitney Museum’s collection of Hopper illustrations, a bunch of which are — IMHO — the most important (but not greatest, by a long shot) works in the Whitney’s “Edward Hopper’s New York,” a fascinating exhibition that closes in two days. 

Touring the show a while back, I came to a sudden realization: Hopper’s illustrations demonstrate that his greatness depends on appropriation, as so much of Western art did before and after him, from Leonardo, to Duchamp (whose urinal is also from 1917), to Warhol ... as I explain in my big new New York Times feature on the subject.

And no, I do not see appropriation wherever I look! Appropriation tends to happen at only a few moments of paradigm shift in visual culture, whereas all the rest of the time what gets made, no matter how great, is just “normal art,” created without any kind of borrowing from outside art’s domain. 

It just so happens that Hopper’s excellence does in fact rely on an import from outside.

What he does, in his most important paintings, is take the kind of imagery that he and others developed for the narrow, specific purpose of illustrating publishers’ texts, and then cut that imagery loose from its original function. As illustration, that is, Hopper’s imagery came with a caption, and a context, that spelled out why it looked the way it did — what an image was being used for: To show theatergoers grappling with the difficulties of an Ibsen play; to demonstrate the insomnia that comes with “trivial doubts.” Get rid of those captions and contexts — or rather, make “illustrational” paintings that never had them in the first place — and you get precisely the kind of mysterious effects that Hopper is famous for.

The Ibsen image, minus its title, is not that far from the 1927 oil painting “Two On the Aisle,” on loan to the Whitney show from the Toledo Museum of Art.

Hopper’s image of a man in doubt is a pretty good analog for “City Sunlight,” from 1954, which came to the Whitney from the Hirshhorn Museum.

The key to the strange power of so much of Hopper’s best work lies in the lack of any clear illustrational function, when the image itself, and our history with magazines, suggests that it ought to have one.

Shades of Warhol’s Brillo Boxes.

[ruhachari]

Setting up a new business in the village

Step 1. Restoration of an old house.

This is a continuation of a previous post "From Baku to Kish - moving from capital to a village"

It took my mother almost two years to settle in the village before she could finally focus on searching and buying a proper house that would be turned into a mini-hotel. Before that, she had to build an own house first. Maybe I would cover it later in the future..

On the presented above pictures you can see the process of the total restoration of a house in the heart of ancient Kiş village, Azerbaijan. Different parts of the house were built in the different times. As hard as it might seem to believe, the front side of the house was constructed around 1870s (it suffered from bad redesigned later), and the back side (on the right pic) decades earlier.

The relatives of the house owner told that initially the house was owned by two tall brothers who were runnig a small silk buisiness.

"The master makes embroidery on silk fabric. Şəki 1917"

For centuries the nearby town of Şəki used to be one of the tradepoints on a Great Silk road, so the whole region was producing silk and silk-made products. Those two brothers produced silk fabrics, and due to precautions they had secret wayouts in case of local qoçular (gangsters) would try to raid the area. After they both passed away, the house, as well big yard was divided between their respective families, so the house that we bought today, is much smaller from its original size. Nethertheless, it attracted our attention by its perfect location and remaining old deseign features.

During the restoration works, our main objective was preserving and bringing back old details of the exterior, but making the interior modern for a comfortable stay.

We have correctected the roof inclination, updated the metal coverage, and added the original roof tiles, which were previously taken off by the former owner. We have also preserved the original window frames and painted them in light blue.

Might be also hard to believe, but under the house (was a small cellar). As can be seen on the right photo bellow, we have made it bigger, and even served us as a cozy winter kitchen.

The works that started at the end of the last year were going non-stop up until April 2023 when we finally were able to open the place for the visitors. Despite all dificulties, we felt satisfied, as we were providing local workers with work in the jobless period of the year - Winter (as locals don't even paint the walls during that time). Not to mention our further comitment to promote local culture, art and history within our new boutique hotel. My mom is also collecting local hand-made carpets and fabrics to present them in the room units and in our cozy cafe, which is located at the back side of the building.

Additionally I would like to highlight, that wooden sinks, mirrow frames and cafe tables were made by the hands of the local craftsman.

There is a big way to go, as we have plans for futher development, but for now, we are focused on making the place profitable, so we would be able to complete the full project. The rooms are available for reservation on different platforms, such as Booking.com

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF 1960, AND REPORTEDLY THE FIRST THEATRICAL FILM JFK EVER WATCHED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on theatrical poster art for "Spartacus," the 1960 American epic historical drama film starring Kirk Douglas in the title role of the slave who leads a rebellion against Rome and the events of the Third Servile War.

PIC #2: 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), photographed during the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California. 📸: Elliott Erwitt.

OVERVEIW: "The very first movie President Kennedy watched while in office wasn’t at the White House at all. Instead, Kennedy had to slip out to see director Stanley Kubrick’s "Spartacus" (1960), which White House projectionist Paul Fischer didn’t have a copy of, on account of the film’s 70mm projection requirements. The White House theater’s projectors could only handle 35mm films.

Kennedy crossed a picket line to watch Spartacus on Feb. 3, 1961 at the Warner Theatre, not far from the White House, though it wasn’t over a labor dispute. The American Legion was picketing the film over the film’s writer, Dalton Trumbo, who was a Communist caught up in the anti-Communist fervor of Hollywood in the 1950s.

Kennedy went to "Spartacus" with a friend, Paul “Red” Fay, who the president knew through his service in World War II. Fay was tasked with buying the tickets so that nobody would know the president would be in attendance. But the theater’s management found out somehow, as Fay would recall years later in an oral history, perhaps because Secret Service had to ensure the theater was safe. The President and Fay arrived a little late to the screening, hoping to sneak in without being noticed, but it was clear everyone was waiting for him. They even stopped the movie and rewound it to start from the beginning, something Kennedy only learned about later."

-- FORBES, "Every Movie President John F. Kennedy Watched While in Office," by Matt Novak, published March 27, 2023

Sources: www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/27/every-movie-president-john-f-kennedy-watched-while-in-office/amp, 1stDibs, Swords and Sandals (blogspot), various, etc...

[mykingdomforapen]

For the fic writer game,#9 please?

Also it’s hard to pic a fav scene/title/line cuz I adore your fics and have for years (and maybe Hello Hurricane hit so hard I wrote it on my notebooks/shoes in my teen years) but the title In Her Garden Grew Hyacinths has really stuck with me and it sometimes sneaks up on me when I don’t expect it and idk why.

Thank you for asking, anon!

What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?

A handful of favorite lines and scenes over the +10 (!!) years of writing fanfic...Whether or not they're my best scenes, they're definitely the ones that have stuck to my own mind, whether it's because of fondness or because other people bring it up.

Vash and Nai's dreamscape sequence, particularly the last three parts from under the tree to the plummet in greater love has no one than this (Trigun Stampede)

The Avengers daisy-chaining into the River Styx, as Sam Wilson likes to put it, in May you bury me (MCU)

Ginnie telling Will Schofield she will be sent overseas into war in here be dragons (1917/Dunkirk)

Zuko and Katara sitting by the turtle-duck pond and then rushing to Azula in Lovable (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Favorite lines:

To be Sokovian was to spend your whole life burying, giving back to the earth that had fed and housed and protected you, and shall one day swallow you whole in one last loving gesture.

(irreplaceable) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

“Are you Kermit the Frog?” said Roy. “I–what? No!” “Then it’s none of your fucking business.”

(today is such a good day) Ted Lasso

Mikey would always say, oh, shit, wait, and run to the fridge to get something like powdered parmesan cheese or sundried tomatoes. Almost forgot–and he would spoon it onto Richie’s plate as if Richie didn’t already know enough that he was loved under this roof.

(finally) The Bear

Thor would have done everything to protect his people, and die for them, wherein lies the rub, because Thor is more useful alive than dead, and the sun shines brighter when Thor is alive rather than dead. If Loki could do anything that he would be proud of, it would be to keep Thor alive, even if Thor will spend the rest of his life cursing him.

(a land flowing with milk and honey) MCU

Also omg Anon!! Thank you so much for following my fics all these years....I'm so chuffed <3.

Fic writer ask meme!

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#5

The Hackett Family Tree that was on the wall in the house. Transcribed it out of it’s cursive to something more easily readable in case others wanted to know what the tree looked like lol. Only bit of info I wasn’t able to figure out was the line that was written under Nathaniel Hackett’s date of birth and death.

Transcript under the cut.

Jedediah Hackett (1681 - 1722) married Tempest Seimer (1692 - 1740) and they had one son, Nathaniel Hackett (1710 - 1765).

Nathaniel married Agnes Farthing (1717 - 1730) and they had three children. Two sons: Increase Hackett (1742 - 1806) and Secundus Hackett (1745 - 1750), as well as one daughter: Faith Hackett (1750 - 1830).

Increase married Hope Mather (1750 - 1810) and they had one son, Citus Hackett (1805 - 1856).

Citus married Mary Piggin (1810 - 1830) and they had one son, Azariah Hackett (1830 - 1905). He is noted as being Nathaniel’s great-grandson. All children after him are marked similarly now.

Azariah married Ellen Washington (1835 - 1913) and they had seven children, five sons and two daughters. In order they are listed as: Benjamin Hackett (1855 - 1870, great-great-grandson), Matthias Hackett (1856 - 1880, great-great-grandson), George Hackett (1860 - 1926, great-great-grandson), Suzette Hackett (1860 - 1880, great-great-grandaughter), Thomas Hackett (1872 - 1877, great-great-grandson), Annabell Hackett (1888 - 1939, great-great-granddaughter), and Septimus Hackett (1890 - 1944, great-great-grandson).

Septimus married Moira Jackson (1895 - 1955) and they had two children. One daughter: Leah Hackett (1915 - 1965, great-great-great-grandaughter) and one son: Francis Hackett (1917 - 1975,  great-great-great-grandson).

Francis married Louisa Clarke (1920 - 1985) and they had one son, Jedediah Hackett (1940, great-great-great-great-grandson).

Jedediah married Constance Guendy (1943) and they have three sons: Travis Hackett (1965, great-great-great-great-great-grandson), Christopher Hackett (1973,  great-great-great-great-great-grandson) and Robert Hackett (1976,  great-great-great-great-great-grandson).

Chris married Amelia Grant (1973 - 1999) and they have two children. One son: Caleb Hackett (1995, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson ) and one daughter: Kaylee Hackett (1999, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandaughter).

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#4

Just finished a run through of The Quarry, and I’m crying cause this was the pic they used for the final headline after the podcast finished

Bobby had a beard at one point????? A big, bushy, glorious one that has me sobbing in both fear and confusion cause I don’t know how I feel about it asdhasdashd

49 notes - Posted July 9, 2022

#3

Man I love this particular key art they used in the game for so many reasons. One of which is just the fact that the lightening in this is just gorgeous obviously, and the background of the moon behind the treehouse with that gorgeous starry sky. But the rest is just you can tell exactly what plans they had for the characters at this point and how things changed with all of them.

Like Jacob, Kaitlyn, and Ryan have little differences from how they finally ended up in the game. Their designs at this point were set in stone and I love that!

Apparently Dylan once had long hair and a manbun (plus he was apparently blond at one point????) and instead of the t-shirt it’s a jacket with patches on the sleeve, and it’s so different from what we actually got that it blows me away. Emma’s wearing a white tangtop with her hair down and shorts it looks like.

But the two that interest me the most are Nick and Abi. Mostly because I feel like they’re changes were decided on much, much later down the line. Like it’s hard to tell but Nick is clearly wearing glasses here, and we know from that unused drawing of Nick in Abi’s sketchbook that he was wearing glasses in all of them.

And Abi? Her outfit of that jacket, shorts, and knee length socks? Super familiar and absolutely jumped out at me right away because this picture of Abi that you can find in Chris’s office?

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#2

Oh shit, just realized that I never actually did post the pic that @wacem​ drew for me! So here it is, the last drawing I commissioned for my the last chapter of my fic The Final Days of Our Youth. Please send them all of your love cause oh my gods I still love this so much.

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[scotianostra]

On November 7th 1974 Eric Linklater, the novelist and playwright, died in Aberdeen.

Although born in Wales, Linklater always considered himself as an Orcadian. Indeed like many on the island Eric can claim viking heritage and his family has documental proof that goes back to the 15th century an 18 generations.

There is a great wee story about his Great- Grandfather that I am sure you will appreciate, he worked on the whaling fleet from Stromness. When given leave he’d walk 10 miles home to Harray. It’s said there were many ale-houses by the road, and he never did the journey in less than 3 days!

Educated at Aberdeen University, Linklater spent many years on Orkney, the birthplace of his father, and even commanded the Orkney garrison during the Second World War.

Linklater was initially rejected by the army because of his poor eyesight, but joined up in 1917, his poor eyesight however meant he was not meant to see any action, he was sent to a Yeomanry regiment stationed in the north of England.

I read he lied about his age to join up, he would have been around 17 at the time, it’s partly true,and if you look at the pic of him in his uniform he does look very young.I did manage to dig up the truth about the lie though . While in England he heard that they were sending a small draft to the Black Watch in France, he made a few adjustments to his own medical record (improving his eyesight and adding a year to his age) and, using his own authority as Orderly Corporal, added his own name to the list of those sent abroad.

From 1919 to 1925 he studied at Aberdeen University, first in medicine and then in English. Between 1925 and 1927 he was an assistant editor of the Times of India, living in Bombay. After a year working at Aberdeen University in 1927-8, he spent two years as a Commonwealth Fellow in the USA, at Cornell and Berkeley.

Eric Linklater began publishing prolifically in 1929: altogether he wrote 23 novels, 3 volumes of short stories, 3 autobiographies, 10 plays, and 23 books of essays and non-fiction, as well as the books mentioned above in the first paragraph. Juan in America and Private Angelo are perhaps his best-known novels. He loved the Icelandic sagas, and wrote his own: The Men of Ness: the Saga of Thorlief Coalbiter’s Sons ; later, in 1955, he published a book about the sagas, called The Ultimate Viking.

On 1st June 1933 he Eric married Marjorie MacIntyre, and after a period in Italy they settled at Dounby in Orkney; they had four children.

Between 1939 and 1941 Linklater commanded the company of Royal Engineers on Orkney. In 1941 he was posted to the directorate of public relations in the War Office, and from 1944 to 1945 served in Italy, where he acquired the experiences necessary for writing Private Angelo, which was dedicated to the Eighth Army. It was a book about courage, but it did not celebrate war. Angelo’s remark “I hope you will not liberate us out of existence” might well have inspired William Tenn’s celebrated science fiction story “The Liberation of Earth” . In 1951 he published a history of that part of WW2, The Campaign in Italy, and, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel he visited Korea.

In 1945 Eric Linklater was elected rector of Aberdeen University, and in 1947 the family moved to to Ross, and later to Aberdeenshire. From 1968 to 1973 he was deputy lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty.

Diana Gabaldon author of the Outlander books, told National Geographic: she researched for her series of books by reading a Linklater book. "I was reading a research book called The Prince in the Heather. She said. The account of Jamie Fraser surviving Culloden is partly based on a true story in the book where a Fraser of the Master of Lovat's regiment” took refuge in a farmhouse with 18 others and survived the slaughter.

Eric Linklater died in Aberdeen on this day 1974 and was buried in the Harray churchyard in Orkney. His widow, already an active political campaigner, moved back to Orkney, to serve as chairman of the Orkney Heritage Society. She helped to establish the St Magnus festival, and campaigned for the Scottish National Party.

Orkney makar George Mackay Brown wrote in the Orcadian, 14th November 1974,

“Orkney is a poorer place without him; even though for most of the year, he lived outside the islands. It is fitting that his dust should be brought back to lie in Orkney earth.”

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Folks, we don't usually continue into the comments, but we ask that you please read this in its entire "Forgotten No More - Commander James Jonas Madison, United States Navy" 100 Years Ago, Yesterday - (Mon) Dec 25 1922, the US Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. 38 year-old US Navy Commander James Jonas Madison (Pic 1) closes his eyes for the last time. You've probably never heard of him. You probably don't know he's another kid from Jersey... and you don't know that he's a Medal Of Honor winner. James was born in Jersey City on May 20th, 1884, and served on ocean liners. Shortly after World War I broke out, he entered the US Navy Reserves, and was commissioned a Lieutenant on May 8th, 1917; in December he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and given command of the 5,100 ton USS Ticonderoga (Pic 2), a German cargo ship siezed and pressed into US Service. A series of routine Trans-Atlantic crossings followed. Sep 22nd, 1918, she left New York Harbor and passed Sandy Hook for the final time. 8 days out, and straggling behind her convoy with engine trouble, she was jumped by the surfaced German submarine SM U-152 (Pic 3) who has sunk or damaged 19 Allied ships. For over 2 hours, they fight one hell of running gun battle at point-blank range. The Americans put up a terrific fight, but U-152 turns Ticonderoga into swiss-cheese, wounding or killing nearly all 237 men onboard, including Cdr. Madison. Gravely injured in the first salvos, he stays in command until the ship gets ready to sink from under him; he sits in a chair on the bridge when he can no longer stand. Finally giving the order to abandon ship, he collapses unconscious from blood loss and is hand-lowered into a life-boat. USS Ticonderoga goes to the bottom, taking 213 Officers and Sailors with her, the greatest loss of life for the Navy in the whole war. Only 24 men survive, including Madison. Hailed as a hero, he is promoted to full Commader in 1919, and awarded the Medal of Honor. (Full text of citation in 2nd comment) (Continued Below in 1st Comment) (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmp5woqNc_B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today a nice photo from the original New Victor Records catalog 1917. We see six great voices together on the way to the recording. Click on the pics and see witch two Opera pieces was recorded.

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PRINCES - ORGANISATION SYSTEMS

as students, the princes all have their own planning systems for school & life... wanted to flesh some of it out ☆

Notes:

LEON has a whole system;

bookkeeping is one of his hobbies. cannot leave his room without at least his main planner & commonplace book

system: main planner, commonplace book, goals/archiving book

uses a leuchtturn 1917 a5 daily planner in brown

every day is planned, hourly, to a T. the hour before he sleeps is usually devoted to planning the next day/bookkeeping (9pm) and sunday he just has 2hrs of planning the week ahead in the evening

along with 2 sage green hahnemühle "manuscript" notebooks for commonplacing & archiving. loves commonplacing/braindumping. he has lots of thoughts & ideas

it's very neat with tags at the sides in forest colours, all sorted out perfectly, but if u flip thru it at a whim, u can find random pages where he's just gone apeshit & it's just scrawls of intelligible german

uses a fountain pen to write

CHARLES is an enigma...

he plans digitally. he only uses a dated todolist app on his phone, that's it; think the app "tweek"

the app is organically coded & offline so it can't be rooted nor traced digitally in any form. cloud backup traces back to highly confidential US homeland state-of-art tech & is virtually inaccessible outside of charles' own phone

he's always on top of his todos

charles coded it years ago in a previous school-based extracurriculars course before momosu & has used it ever since

nobody has ever seen his todolists

he makes sure to change the subject if u ever do ask about the app

FELIX doesn't have shit lmao, but

he LOVES sticky notes!!! they're in neon colours all over his room with random reminders & sayings scrawled on em

carries a huge block of sticky notes in his schoolbag & js slaps them onto every surface within reach

there's a stack of sticky tags w/ reminders js waterfalling on the back of his phone case

CIEL is spontaneous asf!

can't & dislikes having to stick to one system. in his room on one of the walls there's a huge whiteboard installed & that's where all his stuff is written onto

whiteboard was installed after his antique wooden corkboard from a craft atelier in northeastern france

that he spent close to 5k to import into momosu

got infected by termites.

also uses notion on his phone purely for archiving -- just takes pics of his whiteboard to access during school hours

has a set of dry erase markers & eiffel tower magnets to use on the board as presents from charles

uses magnets to pin papers & fashion sketches

ALBERT is meticulous!!

huge, tome-like custom-made planner w/ leather cover w/ layout based off A4 leuchtturn weekly & inserts design from traveler's notebook company

planner is well loved. just takes the inserts out & places it on his bookshelf for reference whenever his planner gets too thick

it doesn't usually leave his room but its location within it is always changing

has a smaller field notes pocketbook that he keeps in his breastpocket for ideas & todos, gift from charles

used to use a fountain pen to write in it, but got annoyed bc he tends to leave it out & uncapped in a rush & comes back to a puddle of purple ink on his table. uses whatever pen he has on hand now