#the english one is better imo

[razzafrazzle]

human marzi!! almost got the whole main cast designed now :o]

[image description: a page of drawings for a human design of marzipan from homestar runner, where she is depicted as a chubby woman with two prosthetic legs that is wearing a long corduroy purple skirt, a matching cardigan, and sandals. next to a fullbody drawing of her is a drawing of her original design, a drawing of her in a long purple dress, and a drawing of her in her sultry buttons costume, where she has black hair and sunglasses. end id]

[wonder-worker]

"Alice Perrers was perceived by her contemporaries to be an uncrowned queen and through an analysis of her activities it is clear she was able to utilise the practical benefits of queenship for her own ends. However, by taking on the mantle of queenship Alice fundamentally corrupted the sovereignty and kingship of Edward III. First, by her aggressively political behaviour she became the threat at the heart of the power structure that the gendered constructions of queenship were supposed to remove from a consort. Second, by taking on the practical aspects of queenship she inherently undermined the ideological role of queenship, both by the simple fact that she was a mistress and not a queen, and even more so because of her behaviour. The problems Alice caused and how she was perceived were amplified in contrast to the [...] demeanour of Philippa, who was widely respected and much loved by the people. Just as queens in their exalted position were ‘lightning rods’ for ideas about women and female power, so was Alice because of her proximity to the king."

-Laura Tompkins, The uncrowned queen: Alice Perrers, Edward III and political crisis in fourteenth-century England, 1360-1377 (Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013)

"Alice's expansion of her power through the office of queenship was problematic for a number of reasons. First, while the queen’s power was legitimised by her marriage to the king and her coronation, Alice’s power was not formalised in this way and consequently would have been regarded as illegitimate. Second, she was not the right type of woman to share in the king’s dignity. She was not noble, she was not chaste and she was not virtuous. Instead, she was a low-born London widow and a businesswoman. Consequently, we find Alice being discussed in the language and stereotypes of queenship, but in a rather negative light. For example, while queens are routinely described as noble, beautiful and virtuous regardless of what they actually looked like, Walsingham is quick to emphasise that Alice was of low birth, and that, almost implied as a consequence, she ‘was not attractive or beautiful’. While we do not know what Alice looked like it seems unlikely that Edward III would have taken and kept her as a mistress for so long if she had been physically repellent. Third, and most significantly, not only was Alice an inappropriate mistress exercising illegitimate power, but she also broke all of the gendered rules that queenship was constructed around, inverting the ideal form of queenship to her advantage."

[fefairys]

i watched both the dub and sub of dungeon meshi and cancel me if you want but overall i prefer the dub so far

[rosemirmir]

Still extremely funny to me how I went on rambling about how "gotchard is a good show actually" once while the show was still airing, and then the episode that came afterwards was the most mid one of the entire show

[aq2003]

rewatching ben whishaw's richard ii and yea i think the biggest difference between his and the rsc version is that he plays richard's flippancy/disregard for other people's lives completely straight and in a kind of sinister way while david plays it for humor

[touchlikethesun]

feels vaguely sinophobic to insist that the japanese dub for mdzs “fits better” but i don’t have all the necessary information and context to explain why

[the-busy-ghost]

Petty rant this morning- I can understand that somtimes even the nicest noises can be a nuisance, even painful, and believe me I have become cranky about all sorts of innocuous noises at the wrong time.

That being said, I have heard a surprising number of people complain about bellringers practising, when they moved into a house next to a mediaeval English church

[cosmicdreamgrl]

well. that was........everything i expected and yet i'm still massively disappointed

[comradecowplant]

I would like to thank The Morning Show for feeding the millennial sapphics who always thought Elle Woods should have been with the intimidating brunette woman, I feel seen & heard 😌🙏

[sollilua-2]

it's official: 2 months is the longest time i can pretend to be a extrovert 🔥💥💯💥🔥

[little-whats-her-name]

I'm sure I'm not the first Australian to reblog with this word...

GIRT

It means surrounded by, but for some weird reason we never use the word GIRT except when it's in our national anthem (🎶our home is GIRT by sea🎶)

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

[daz4i]

chat is this anything

(taken from "this is what it's like to be human")

[justvibingwhilecrying]

I’m gonna be real I didn’t know the plot of howl’s moving castle until like 2 years ago cuz we owned the Spanish dub

[icelogged]

everything is a lie [reading german and translating it to english (and spanish for my own understanding of the nuances and artistic aspects)].

the line is: “will ich menschlichen Geschlechten”. the public domain english translation reads “the race of man I would pursue”. [context: 1800s]

and for fun the spanish (that makes more sense to me but whatever) “Quiero sexos humanos”.

[demonking-propaganda]

13 spoiler-free reasons why you should read Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

...if you haven't done so already 👀 (With "spoiler-free" I mean I'm not describing plot points or characters, but under the cut I'll discuss the overarching themes, so be warned if that's too much for you. The first 7 reasons may be enough lol)

It's both funny AND wholesome. I literally can't read it without laughing out loud, and there are a bunch of chapters that make me cry every time I read them.

It's clever! The Japanese version contains several puns based on the kanji "魔" (read "ma", = devil, demon), starting from the title, but it's a recurring pun. The English translation adapts them pretty well. Plus, there are some of the best plot twists in recorded history (IMO). And the names and characteristics of most characters are based on real-life demonology.

It's queer AF. Like, really gay. There are explicitly homoromantic relationships and several nonbinary and gender non-conforming characters. One of these is the best unashamedly nonbinary character ever written. Plus, the manga premise can be seen as an allegory of hiding in the closet. The only thing that made me uncomfortable because of cisnormativity (boys in drag as a joke) is completely fixed in later chapters, and very well so.

It's feminist, without being preachy or paternalistic. Simply put, the women/girls are three-dimensional, complex characters, as the norm should be. And there are lots of them, without it being a harem (...the harem trope is actually used as a joke).

It's spooky and adorable, imagine Halloween vibes all year round. Both main and background characters are super diverse, and if you like monsters there is stuff for you.

Most characters are neurodivergent-coded. It's basically the autistic/ADHD manga.

The art is phenomenal. It's especially good to see the improvement of the art style over the years (the first chapter was published in 2017 and the manga is ongoing). Some panels are really breathtaking.

8. The story is about personal growth - like most shounen manga, fair enough. But the protagonist, Iruma, is so far from toxic masculinity I dare say he's the antidote to it.

9. It's also about found family, the discovery of unconditional love, and trust, and healing from familial trauma.

10. It's about finding a group of friends you belong to, and transforming your weirdness into a strength, identifying and cultivating what you're good at instead of fitting into a mold.

11. It's about the beauty of learning in your own way, and the importance of education and the shaping of future generations.

12. And the reason why I opened this blog: it's about fascism and fighting against it. I mean real fascism, as in "a powerful individual/group wants society to be hierarchical and oppress certain minorities, elevating a specific subset of the population based on intrinsic characteristics which are being misleadingly treated as merits". Ethno-nationalistic stuff. More specifically, it's about being a somewhat politically illiterate person, who learns about systems of oppression beyond personal injustices. It's about questioning what is the best way to arrange society.

13. Most importantly, this manga gives you hope about the future, something I find harder and harder to have. Hopelessness is dangerous - as people without hope stop fighting. This manga makes me actively feel better. Since it's ongoing I can't ensure it will always remain that way, but I've come to trust the author enough that I expect it to.

[hollow-keys]

Audio description: A clip from a Big Finish audio story told by Jamie. He says:

The Doctor waited until the guard's footsteps had died away before turning towards me with an indignant frown. "You're playing a dangerous game, Jamie McCrimmon. What are you trying to do, hmm? Get us all killed?"

"I can't just stand by and do nothing."

"Yes you can! That is precisely what you must do!"

"But we know what's going to happen. He's going to run away. We have to persuade him to fight."

"No, Jamie, we cannot- must not- get involved."

"The Doctor's right, Jamie," said Zoe reproachfully. "If the events of the glorious revolution are an established part of history-"

[Jamie cuts in.] "Do you even know why they call it the glorious revolution?" Zoe shook her head. [The Doctor responds.] "They called it the glorious revolution because virtually no one died. It was an almost entirely peaceful exchange of power. And because, Jamie- because King William was a much more popular monarch."

"In England!" I shouted. "No one died- in England! A peaceful exchange of power- in England! William was a more popular monarch- in England! The glorious revolution was only glorious for the English! And for the rest of us, in Scotland and Ireland, it was the beginning of a civil war. A war where thousands of men died fighting to free the country from a king who had no right to the throne. The English may forget all the years of bloodshed, but we don't. The massacre of Glencoe, The Battle of Boyne, Culloden, hmm! But now we've got a chance to change all that!"

i could title this “number one best most justified jamie mccrimmon anti-british moment” but it’s more than that… it’s also “number one most frustrating but wildly cathartic snapping-at-his-friends moment jamie ever has” <3