#roderick williams

[countesspetofi]

3 Poems by Walt Whitman: No. 2, A Clear Midnight

A Clear Midnight

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars.

--Walt Whitman, 1881

[bodybybane]

Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/29/baritone-roderick-williams-interview-oxford-international-song-festival-

[spiderliliez]

Madeline and Roderick 🌹 Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)

[+] ..more on “TFOTHOU” 🎬

[mindisinmars]

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT ILL NEVER BE A TEENAGE BOY IS HARDER THAN IT SEEMED ❗❗❗

[milesworld96]

back on my shit yalls, these are so fun to make

[thevondoom62]

Not only does it look slimming, the black suit makes stains and damage less visible!

[blizzardsuplex]

A collection of random snippets from Roderick Strong's LiveJournal, 2004-2005

So, unlike people like Punk or Joe, he never used his LJ extensively; there are still some fun/interesting posts from 20 to 21-year-old Roddy, though. Screenshots under the cut (with alt text and occasional commentary):

[the way he types always makes me laugh. So many exclamation points...]

[More exclamation points. Also, didn't know he worked CZW.]

[first time he worked IWA...wild.]

[first PWG match! Also him going out with Steen, Generico, and his "best buddy" Shelley, LMAO]

[Jamie Gibson becoming ROH champ, Punk leaving the indies, Roddy debuting the trunks, and them going to The Weiners Circle, which is thankfully not NSFW to read about.]

[Watching the Joe/Kobashi match backstage must've been wild. Also aww his mentor match!]

[ribbedpleasure]

venn diagram with fnaf labelled on one side, tfothou labelled on the other, “old men fucking” in the middle

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[your-fave-isdoomedbythenarrative]

The entire Usher family in Netflix’s TFOTHOU is doomed by the narrative (yes, including Lenore)

The Usher Family from The Fall Of The House Of Usher is doomed by the narrative and trying to escape.

[cryingadenium]

Characters from "Tunnels" part 1 When will I make the second part? Who knows...

[comicwaren]

From Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #015

Art by Federico Vicentini, Federica Mancin and Bryan Valenza

Written by Cody Ziglar

[reppyy]

[doyouwanttoseeabug]

oh OOOOOOH their deaths mirror each other. Tamerlane and Leo are both driven to what looks like suicide chasing hallucinations around an apartment that architecturally represents their psyche (as they destroy it), shortly after leaving/planning to leave their loving partner. (Both of them invite her in, at first. Both of them want her there. But now she's in the mirrors. She's in the walls.)

Vic and Camille are both killed/driven to death by Vic's experiments, their rivalry leading to both their deaths (Camille to prove it doesn't work, Vic to prove it does), immediately after they get left by people they are using in professional/personal ways - Camille hires Toby and Tina to sleep with them, Vic dates Ali to get her to work with her on the heart mesh.

Perry and Frederick both die in the same warehouse, looking at the ceiling, waiting for death to come to them - Perry with a look of ecstasy, Frederick in terror. Both of them are in that warehouse because they've been humiliated by Roderick and are now determined to prove themselves. Both get led here by drugs. Both involve the mutilation of an innocent, Morrie. Both of them see Verna not as another character, but something like her true self. And there's the parallel between all the mercy that Verna offers Perry - the most she offers any of them, other than Lenore - and her glee in explaining to Roderick exactly why he deserves to die like this.

And then you get the final pairing/quartet of deaths - Eliza Usher + William Longfellow vs Madeline and Roderick which is obvious but oh my god. oh my god you guys. Eliza's wall of crucifixes and clinging to Christian faith and the sanctity of pain as a way of hoping for reward after death vs Roderick putting Madeline through the agony of vivisection to 'honour' her + grant her Egyptian immortality. Both William and Roderick eat their young. Fuck.

[victusinveritas]

Fusilier Windsor was charged with "unacceptable behaviour", "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order." All information below from Wikipedia:

A Canadian animal rights group protested to the British Army, stating that he was merely "acting the goat", and should be reinstated. Three months later, on 20 September at the same parade ground, Billy regained his rank during the Alma Day parade which celebrates the Royal Welsh victory in the Crimean War. Captain Simon Clarke said, "Billy performed exceptionally well, he has had all summer to reflect on his behaviour at the Queen's birthday and clearly earned the rank he deserves".

Billy received his promotion from the colonel of the Royal Welsh Regiment, Brigadier Roderick Porter. As a result of regaining his rank, he also regained his membership of the corporals' mess.

Billy is not the first goat in the army to have troubles. At one time a royal goat was "prostituted" by being offered for stud services by the regiment's serving goat major to a Wrexham goat breeder. First charged with lèse-majesté, the goat major was ultimately court-martialled under the lesser charge of "disrespect to an officer" and reduced in rank. The goat major claimed he did it out of compassion for the goat, but this failed to impress the court. Another royal fusilier goat earned the nickname "the rebel", after he butted a colonel while he was stooped over fixing his uniform's trouser-strap. The incident was described as a "disgraceful act of insubordination.

At the time of posting, William "Billy" Windsor is honorably retired and residing in a Bedfordshire Zoo. He's outlived Queen Elizabeth II. So there's that.

Another regimental goat: Taffy IV, of the 2nd Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, was on active duty in France during World War I, participating in the Retreat from Mons, the First Battle of Ypres and other famous battles. He was awarded the 1914 Star.

[blizzardsuplex]

"Let me see if it will not fit me."

[all art is concept art for Disney's Cinderella (1950) by Mary Blair. the rest. from top to bottom: William Shakespeare, Othello, act 2, scene 3 || Roderick Strong on the Meep Meep Podcast, 09/29/2021 || Roderick Strong on the Dad Edge Podcast, 04/22/2024 || roderickstrong on Twitter, 08/14/2018 || roderickstrong on Twitter, 10/04/2019 || Chris Lindsey on Facebook || Fleetwood Mac, You Make Loving Fun]