#philip did THAT

[philibetexcerpts]

“On the night of 28 March 1941, as darkness fell off the coast of Cape Matapan, at the southernmost point of the Peloponnese, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, in his flagship, HMS Warspite, was leading his battleships – including HMS Valiant and HMS Barham – towards three Italian cruisers. ‘My orders,’ Prince Philip noted in his log, ‘were that if any ship illuminated a target I was to switch on and illuminate it for the rest of the fleet, so when this ship was lit up by a rather dim light from what I thought was the flagship I switched on our midship light which picked out the enemy cruiser and lit her up as if it were broad daylight.’ Then the fun started: ‘She was only seen complete in the light for a few seconds as the flagship had already opened fire, and as her first broadside landed and hit she was blotted out from just abaft the bridge to right astern. We fired our first broadside about seven seconds after the flagship with very much the same effect … By now all the secondary armament of both ships had opened fire and the noise was considerable. The Captain and the Gunnery Officer now began shouting from the bridge for the searchlights to train left. The idea that there might have been another ship, with the one we were firing at, never entered my head, so it was some few moments before I was persuaded to relinquish the blazing target and search for another one I had no reason to believe was there. However, training to the left, the light picked up another cruiser, ahead of the first one by some 3 or 4 cables. As the enemy was so close the light did not illuminate the whole ship but only about ¾ of it, so I trained left over the whole ship until the bridge structure was in the centre of the beam … she was illuminated in an undamaged condition for the period of about 5 seconds when our second broadside left the ship, and almost at once she was completely blotted out from stern to stern.’

It was at this point that ‘all hell broke loose, as all our eight 15-inch guns, plus those of the flagship and Barham’s started firing at the stationary cruiser’. Through the noise and the pounding – ‘the glasses were rammed into my eyes … flash almost blinding me’ – Philip kept his searchlight on target. ‘More than 70% of the shells must have hit,’ he recorded, with justifiable satisfaction. ‘When the enemy had completely vanished in clouds of smoke and steam we ceased firing and switched the light off.’”

Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth

[whisperwillyou]

I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol

Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished

Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌

[lollitree-art]

You said we were friends! We pinky-swore!

[wittebanged]

disgusting disgusting old man

[anona1-mous]

Saw your reverse au thing and wanted to ask, instead of just kikimora on the door, its steve

i laughed my ass off due to the absurdity of drawing tube steve

[koddlet]

the mind electric // a TOH animatic

flash warning!

[personthattoleratesme]

I can’t believe they tried to make us think they were swingers for a while, their jealous asses could never

[rosietrace]

Shipping Eloise and Cressida Cowper was not on my 2024 bingo card

But am I complaining??? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NOT

[pinksilvace]

[futurama-in-color]

FUTURAMA 1.01 - Space Pilot 3000

[sillylittlecapcutuser]

Graves sometimes forgets that Ghost didn’t have a good relationship with his family

[yank-a-ton]

[tinkcrfluff]

if you're not giving eloise a girl BRING BACK THEO

[squibo]

[anglerflsh]

I'm sure someone pointed this out but it's the same pose

[roberrtphilip]

There's an awkward "first date" silence between them, the kind that suggests there isn't going to be a "second". Giselle tries her best to keep the conversation going.