#this isn't meant to be historically accurate btw

[lightprkdraws]

@hetaween-event Day 1: Cabin in the woods

These two images are part of a series of photographs depicting rural life in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. They became notorious in certain online spaces due to an urban legend tied to them: it is said that the couple depicted disappeared in the autumn of 1870 under mysterious circumstances. However, this is only a rumour, since neither of the two women have ever been identified. Additionally, people claim to see a giant human-like shape among the trees in the first photograph, which they believe is related to their alleged disappearance. However, this is most likely an illusion created by the strong shadows and poor quality of the image.

[burningvelvet]

to cope with my post-binge blues from watching black sails, i just finished the treasure island audiobook. it's my first time with any treasure island media - now i have to watch the muppets movie. any way here are my thoughts:

- i knew the character of trelawney had to be based on the romantic era edward john trelawny of byron/shelley fame and I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sources: WONG, AMY R. “The Poetics of Talk in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island.’" A Sandison Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism

- i know that black sails isn't fully intended to be a perfect prequel or meant to be taken as filling in all of the gaps to treasure island but i'm still going to compare & contrast the two lol

- billy spending his whole life obsessed with flint and having alcohol withdrawal induced hallucinations about him. OMG. and i'm shocked that they just casually dropped that he visited flint in georgia to get the map like did flint request to see him before he died, was it just about the map, or did he want closure about the whole thing, did billy seek flint out, why didn't they kill each other, how the fuck did that whole thing go? i need more information dammit

- saw another post on here talking about how in black sails flint has that speech about the drunk guy named flint asking his grandpa for rum before disappearing into the sea and then in treasure island we find out flints last words were asking a "darby mcgraw" for rum before he died SO IN THE BLACK SAILS UNIVERSE DARBY IS HIS GRANDPA and so im wondering DID FLINT 1.0 EVER EXIST AT ALL OR WAS IT SIMPLY FORESHADOWING ALL ALONG but at the same time it doesnt matter because the black sails creators said the ending is intentionally canonically up to interpretation and black sails canon and treasure island canon dont match up any way but still it gives us so much to think about bc we never canonically find out who the fuck darby is

- the doctor is the funniest character ever and him giving zero shits about billy or silver is hilarious LMAO

- rly enjoy the descriptions of the contents of billy's pockets and chest. i love old shit and that whole nautical aesthetic ugh. im currently wondering about the significance of the five sea shells billy had (jim wonders abt them too) if they were souvenirs from the island or what... but we never find out!!

- and what the fuck was up with those black spots I NEED ANSWERS! It worked on Billy but not Silver?

- having grown up on PotC i'm very enthused at the references (the song, the rum, "dead mens chest," etc)

- wish we saw more of jims mom, she was lowkey a badass for a moment there telling everyone off and willing to face the wrath of the pirates with her son lol

- love how the men just take jim on for his valour and then decide to make him a cabinboy and the mom just gets a replacement son to help her around the house lmaoooo i wonder if that was a common thing for single women to do though?

- long john silver has a sort of jekyll/hyde personality (btw the author stevenson also wrote jekyll/hyde for those of you who dont know!) - also why the fuck did they leave him to his own devices toward the end and not have a gun on him 24/7 like? i was also shocked that he didnt run off with all the gold only some of it. most chaotic character ever

- my biggest questions are why did black sails take out the alcoholism and the sea shanties? but importantly the alcholism - if they were going for gritty, as they were? flint and billy's alcoholism is integral to their characters (defines their characters actually) in the book as contrasted by silvers moderation & thats rly interesting. and the lack of singing is just boring - pirates rly did have sea shanties - however i can understand for time constraints per episode and whatnot them taking out the singing for practicality - but the alcoholism again is integral to those characters as well as being historically accurate and realistic & would have added a lot imo

EDIT: immediately after posting this i realized that since there are a few years between the treasure burial and flint's supposed death in georgia, he could have become a drunk in that time if we're creating a black sails to treasure island timeline, and billy wouldn't have become a drunk til later on since black sails is set roughly 20 yrs before treasure island.

HOWEVER - by the talks of it in treasure island, and all the pirates referring to flint as a drunk etc., it would still seem that flint was always that way when they knew him, prone to drinking... but at the same time i guess you could say all the characters are jollier than in black sails as indicated by their singing and their more stereotypical piratey ways.

however i still think the alcoholism & addiction theme would have added an extra layer to everything especially after flints sad drunk scene with eleanor. also in toby stephens deep fathoms interview he said flint is essentially like an addict when it comes to his delusion & desires. anyway i digress

transcript here, audio is on youtube: https://www.justsaypodcast.com/blog/2018/12/18/transcript-interview-with-toby-stephens-of-black-sails

[tyrannoninja]

Cleo and Amani Do a Selfie

Our Queens of the Nile Cleopatra and Amanirenas are posing for a selfie! Of course, this isn't meant to be historically accurate (unless you really believe they had smartphones back in the first century BC).

BTW, I used a website called Zeeob.com to generate the faux Instagram post.

[neechees]

Btw is thor being thicc historical accurate?

There isn't anything that directly says that he isn't, but we're told that Thor is big and strong, and "brawny". There's attestations of him that say he drinks a lot, eats a lot, is very strong, and is very manly. And I'd still say that this representation of Thor isn't necessarily "historically inaccurate" since our modern day perception of what "healthy" looks like is not the same as historic perceptions of it. In the first place, very often historically it was a mark of health, wealth and vitality if you were fat, because it meant you had a lot to eat during an era where many people could easily starve.

It is actually very hard to JUST have a lean figure, defined muscles, and with low fat count even if you are healthy, very active, and very muscular or otherwise strong, and most people who DO look like this have gotten that way on purpose (by doing things like a strict eating schedule and strict diet of very specific foods and very specific workouts to get rid of fat, or even surgeries like liposuction to get rid of it) for aesthetics sake, because our society is fatphobic, and a lean muscular look with no fat is the beauty standard. Most of the photos you see of men who look like they're made of pure muscle a lot of the time were severely dehydrated and hungry at the time specifically for the photo (because that defines the muscles more).

But you probably knew all that, but to get to the point with Thor specifically, I mention all this because in HIS case, a guy who's said to have a healthy appetite and a love for drinking and fighting AND is very very strong, in an era where you're likely to be considered healthy if you've got some weight on you (and therefore there is no pressure to get rid of body fat for aesthetics' sake), it's sill accurate. The dude is built like a strong man who weight lifts, who are some of the strongest people in the world, and who are.. fat. Here's a photo of Greek strongman Kyrlakos Grizzly, who's body type is strikingly similar to that of Thor's.

[jojo-ing]

I would've done this in the same post as the interaction analysis but tumblr wouldn't let me add more images so it's gonna be its own post.

This is about the many callbacks and references to Rins childhood in yashahime.

The kimono

We see Rin in the final act with new kimonos, given to her by Sesshomaru. We can assume she outgrew her old Kimono since 3 years had passed. She mostly wears the purple butterfly one (very reminiscent of the last kimono we see Kagura in btw) but she also owns a new pink one, yet we see her with the same orange/yellow kimono she wore as a child.

The frame

After Rin gives birth, she greets Sesshomaru and her face is eerily similar to one of the most used pics of her as a 8 year old child. I did overlay them to show you how similar they actually are. Her eyes are a bit smaller in yashahime as is her smile but she's almost an exact copy otherwise. This had to be intentional.

The second opening

The opening that is alledgely meant to be interpreted as romantic and tied to the kids shows moments of Sesshomaru with Rin where she is eight years old, one of those scenes is Sesshomaru holding Rins dead body in hell. If we supposedly have adult Rin why not use that, especially if this is allegedly showing the parents?

Rins speech pattern

Despite being grown Rin still uses the third person to talk about herself, something we don't see from other characters in the show. As far as I'm aware the third person can be used by adults in japanese but is mainly used by children. In other languages third person is often used by children who are too young to have a sense of self (Rin wouldn't be that age though, this tends to be around 2 years). Furthermore in the scene when Rin says she trusts Sesshomaru she's using formal speech, this could be historically accurate but since this isn't a thing with other couples in the show and we know that neither inuyasha nor yashahime aim to be faithful to history, it's very odd and shows their power imbalance.

Disclaimer: I don't speak japanese and this is what I've heard from multiple people, if you can speak the language and I've misinterpreted it please correct me.

edit: this post explains it really well!

[mspainttaz]

I am shocked to learn that a glaive ISN'T a big throwing star? I've never seen the movie Krull, but I had no idea a Glaive is actually just a big polearm. The way Justin describes it is what I understood Glaives to be (like a three foot bladed fidget spinner, which is also peak Taako btw). It's also the way Warcraft and Dota describe Glaive (Glaive Thrower and Huntress units in WC and Luna in Dota) but it shoots spells instead. It makes me wonder if Justin also thought this when he said "Glaive"

i agree it threw me too, but in the opposite direction because i already had an idea of what a glaive is and finding out that WASNT what Justin meant was a ???? moment for me

a quick search led me to this page here where im seeing that apparently, exactly like you said, theres a long history of glaive being used to describe the throwing star thingy in video games that starts with Krull’s use of it. the link says something about how this discrepancy has been confusing for a long time and it either comes down to, they used a cool sounding word for their fantasy film, or they used a french word that kiiiinnda meant what they were going for. either way the fantasy genre picked it up and ran with it.

its fascinating actually! and ill bet youre right that Justin was pulling off of video game and fantasy movie history when he referenced his cool new weapon; based on Griffins immediate reaction in episode 66, they both were drawing from their shared nerdy history jfdlasfjkl. 

im STILL a bit disappointed that glaive ISNT referring to the historically accurate “scary blade on a pole” weapon because that would be a very cool fighter-esque taako we would have gotten, (and im still going to headcanon him as having used one at one point) but the spell shooting knife star is so taako it hurts. i looked up videos of people throwing five bladed Krull inspired boomerangs and the idea of taako sending out spell versions of that over a raging battlefield has a dramatic flair taako canonically cannot pass up.

[mermaidsirennikita]

Hi, this is the same anon that mentioned your Victoria tags last night. I've noticed too that PBS isn't as hell bent on making Vicbourne a "item" like ITV did. I'm surprised that Daisy has been awfully quiet about it and that the Vicbourne shippers that I know (who had watched it during the ITV airing) are too. Before, there was Albert/Vicbert trashing going on. This time, its just silence. I hope that people are coming to their senses that Vicbert is and was going to be the heart of the show.

I should emphasize, idgaf about people shipping Vicbourne lest you're rude to others (which like... it's been a while since the show originally aired so that could account for the deadness but I did get a salty anon lmao) or you try and find historical basis for the fact that it was canon/Albert was an evil abusive husband/Victoria loved Melbourne forever and ever amen. Melbourne wasn't the dude the show portrays him to be, that's fine, let's move on. For the same reason, I'm uncomfortable with people acting as Albert and Victoria were exactly as they are on the show btw. Albert is a much more advanced man on the show; he's not as backwards, and neither is Victoria. I'm not going to act as if I want to see the show's version of Albert send Victoria passive aggressive notes on how to be a better person, just like I don't want to see Victoria fetishize "exotic" people onscreen like she totally did irl. This show is not meant to be historically accurate to a T.At the same time, it's not a Reign-level departure, so you didn't see Victoria and Melbourne have an affair. It's like Victorian England a la Pride and Prejudice. People don't need to come to their senses, imo--they just needn't be filling the entire tag with angst about a character who left the show 5 eps in lol. He's not going to be coming back on a real level, so if that is why you are watching, why watch? Why engage? I guess I just don't get that level of fangirling, but you do you. Again, it was really the fault of the show marketing Melbourne as A Thing, when he was really a stepping stone that helped Victoria get to the point in her life wherein she wanted to be with someone. He was a crush, and for a lot of people there's this sort of progression wherein you begin as a pretty non-sexual person, you have crushes that you think you want to be with but couldn't actually image having sex with (your friend's dad, a celebrity, someone who wouldn't actually touch you) and then you meet people that you actually want to love and have a sexual relationship with. This is all a very typical "coming of age" arc, especially in fiction wherein women are the main characters, so... I feel like ITV was pulling a bit of trickery with people because Sewell was well-known over the pond.Here, he's not as much of a draw and I just think that the audience PBS was trying to reach in America (young women, likely) is more likely to be pulled in by the romance they saw in The Young Victoria. They're looking for a canon romance of opposites-attract that they can root for, a la Matthew and Mary in Downton. (Until Downton FELL TO HELL.) Again, I think that's part of why they turned an 8 ep run into a 7 ep run--the first three episodes are kinda dull, we wanna get to the good stuff and the big romance.