#were so british

[monarch-of-weird-girlboy-nation]

OK @auroraofthesun1 came to the conclusion after searching up bird ages:

Based on the system of infants, junoirs and then progressing to secondary school then 6th form we have in britain

Ages 3-6: hatchlings, learns no majic

Ages 7-11: nestling, only learns Basic Majic (so controlling light and darkness)

Ages 12-15: chick, learning light, dark and spellwork as well as potions

Ages 16-18: fledgling, learns advanced majic, prepping for a job

Graduation: full bird. Leaves education to pursue further education or leave school.q

[minionsuncle]

Blarmy!

[kidovna]

manifested mileven at the snowball in 2016, so now I’m manifesting byler at senior prom🪻🌻

[mctwinkdom]

Light speed doesn't even come close to how fast this group probably talks

[dragonflavoredcake]

I thought it'd be fun to make a map of where all the Hermits live irl and until now I didn't quite realize how much of the server is either British or American

[zimtlees]

Helllooooow...Coi-coi asked me in the askbox to draw Orel in the Magical Mystery tour👴🏻👴🏻🦴🦴🦴💥💥... But I had more than that about The Beatles...(some are old rawr)🐶🐶🙏

and little pingo tingo ringo dingo👴🏻👴🏻🦴🦴🩸🩸💥💥hes saying haiiiii

[anyroads]

British people: these avocados must go they're past their prime please won't someone eat them

The avocados:

[thomascromwelll]

Fabien Frankel and Matt Smith React to House of The Dragon scenes — x

[notbecauseofvictories]

I watched the 1973 film The Slipper and the Rose last night, and it was a largely charming, if slightly anemic, adaptation of Cinderella---right up until you get to the song sung by the many servants hanging around the castle. I won't bore you with details, but can be summarized as basically: "We accept our lot in society/ all of us are born into the role we were always intended for/ there are no exceptions/ la dee dah folderol etc."

(The fact that the prince listens to this elaborate number and "fixes" the situation by knighting his man-at-arms, then leaning back in his chair like he has solved monarchy is....well, it's a choice.)

Anyway, this was enough to immediately poison the rest of the movie for me, and the only excuse I could come up with is that prince's man-at-arms has realized that a) his boss is unhinged, and b) will only learn a lesson if there's a literal song-and-dance number involved. Therefore, I think you could fix the whole movie by throwing in some scenes where the man-at-arms figures this out, and convinces the whole palace staff to join him in this insanity.

"Listen, people!'' he could bellow into his makeshift megaphone after the juggling servants drop yet another platter. ''I know this is absurd. I know you all have actual jobs to do. But our noble prince dragged me out to the royal crypt so he could complain about his family and we could literally dance on their tombs. That's who we're dealing with here! If we do not get this choreo right he will never give us health insurance. Do you want that? No? Okay then---and FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT---"

(Afterwards, when the newly promoted man-at-arms gets back to the castle, he finds the entire staff standing in the kitchen. They were waiting for him. They do not look amused.)

[viquipo]

First one started off as a legitimate drawing but I gave up so fucking hard anyway hi again camp here and therers

[leonisandmurex]

The Duchess of Cambridge Jamaica 2022

[antigonenikk]

not speirs looting all that shit because he had a newborn child back in london and was worried his wife wouldnt be able to survive on his salary alone………

[ijustthinkhesneat]

I’m an Alfred/Martha/Thomas truther. Like Alfred is a baddie in his 80s you all know he must have been a slice back in the day. And it is canon Martha and Thomas were smoke shows.

Like let hot people get it. Let hot men kiss while their wife turns mobsters kneecaps into flour with a baseball bat.

[oifaaa]

Would you rather be british or french

Haven't I answered this before? French the foods nicer the weather's better and it's still apart of the eu

[hakogyi]

in light of the kaishin cousins reveal, i have a theory you guys might not like

[autismmydearwatson]

Still more important is the realization that all those generations of British people (largely men), who were educated in the classics, were being taught to understand and sympathize with the Greeks and Romans. When thinking of the long confrontation between the Celts and Romans, therefore they instinctively sided with the Romans. They would have all read Tacitus' warning: "Remember, they are barbarians..." For the Romans were seen as the bearers of civilization and the ancient Britons as the uncivilized.....

All manner of pressure was brought to bear to ensure that British schoolboys empathized with Rome. From the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, every educated person was required to learn Latin. Caesar and Tacitus were among the very first authors which all those pupils were obliged to read. Yet no one taught them anything about the Celts, let alone a Celtic language. Even today, when the teaching of classics in the United Kingdom has sharply declined and Celtic studies receive a measure of official support, for every British schoolchild that learns even a little about the native Celtic heritage, there are a hundred that still learn about the heritage of Rome.

A whole literary genre was devoted to strengthening the bond of identity between the modern Britons and the Ancient Romans. Any number of books and poems have been written to invite the reader to stand in Roman shoes, to put oneself shoulder to shoulder with the legions in the eternal struggle of civilization against barbarity.

-Norman Davies, The Isles