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sing me silence, my soldier / sing us gently into death...
#em draws stuff#em is posting about sharpe#sharpe#daniel hagman#rifleman harris#once again I've drawn something where the pose is borrowed off archaeological excavation photos - this one is the lovers of modena#to make a long story short I got real sad and wanted to draw them a bit more of a goodbye. a quiet moment and a gift to see them off.#see the previous post in my sharpe-watching tag for a longer thought-scramble to go with this thing#reached the end of the drawing process and had to ask 'why does this feel familiar' before remembering the emotional experience I had#some years ago while reading 'the apparitionists' and also the formative time that was ken burns' the civil war... anyway. that aside.#this was going to be printed out for dorm decor but I think I could not look at this every day it would be far too much#I could have had my pick of appropriate folk songs for the caption lyrics but no this is a modified version of something from seawife#o'er the hills and o'er the main through flanders portugal and spain. y'know. y'know.
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People on this website will be like: "In a gay ship you don't need to have a feminine one and a masculine one! No need for sub/dom dynamics! No need for strict top/bottom sexual positions!"
And you think to yourself yes. Indeed. We are finally accepting that gay people are as varied as any other person because we're all human!
But then the bottom line of the post is something along the lines of "they can both be real men and masculine and muscular and hairy and do fart jokes and maybe have a beer belly" and you're just like oh. This is just one of those posts that doesn't view not-idealised men as men. You don't view "girly guys" as just guys. You're being progressive by saying men... get to be men. You're being progressive by getting mad at... men being depicted as feminine, rather than being progressive by just stating you don't need to enforce stereotypes onto a gay (fictional) couple.
Which btw I agree. Unfortunately it still needs to be said that gay men can be masculine. But there's a difference between that and you just being shocked at the notion that, idk, two guys who pass as women on a good day can be in love with each other and be, indeed, a gay couple and not lesbian lite.
#hope this post doesn't do numbers because I don't feel like elaborating l#I just hate how tumblr has slowly become a hell space removed from reality#where for some reason priveledged little people believe feminine gay men suffer no discrimination#and guys wearing makeup are accepted by society#you and I live in different worlds#some of you talk as if big hairy men aren't... the norm#as if muscular sweaty guys with a beard... aren't the masculine ideal#maybe it's the ideal and norm in portugal and not in the usa and that's where my confusion comes from#idk#but it's jarring going from the real world to Tumblr sometimes#some posts just look like they were written by people who have only interacted with fandom shut ins via discord in the last two years#garrett.text
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Now I was confused with why André is in Portugal. Could've just been a weekend away (which is an André thing to do). However, then seeing Jake Dennis' insta story with him also near Lisbon playing golf and his gf practically having identical pics to Dré, it all seems too coincidental to me...
But then it clicked. Which Formula E driver said on their stories a few days ago that it's Wedding Week?? None other than Portuguese, AFDC!!
#so they must be invited to dacs wedding#i mean im not to sure about where everything in Portugal is#but isnt lisbon not to far from where dac lives?#i may have dug to much into this and andre is just going to some classic car show 😭
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gunna be real my mother in law crossed some lines today that i dont even know how to come back from. how do i make 10k in the next 6 months to pack up and leave actually though.
#i wish we could just. go straight to portugal. or wherever my husband wants us to go i guess.#im so sick of living with her. she really convinced me shed changed but that wasnt fucking true!#and now were in a situation where shes taking 450 of the 470 we make every week and saying WE are financially abusing HER#and that SHE is cutting US off at the end of our lease and leaving#and its like. so#its so#i cant even put into words how stupid that is#she is the most insufferably cruel and pointless person ive ever known and shes gunna take nearly every penny we make and then say that??#she said it on the way home from ME BUYING ALL OF OUR GROCERIES. she staid in the CAR she didnt even have to WALK AROUND#my husband gave her his ENTIRE paycheck yesterday. YESTERDAY#oh im so fucking#like what do we do when she leaves if we have 20 dollars between 2 grown adults a week. what are we supposed to do with that#theres no way we can make a down payment on anywhere or move our stuff or like. idk. fucking eat#mind you she is making 90k a year. like. i just want to tack that little bit of context on.#stupid shithead nightmare woman im so over this. im so OVER being so broke and so tired and dealing with how mean she is every single day#I WANT OUT BUT THERES NOWHERE TO GOOOOOOO
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In truth, his conduct is more than foolish, and I can only explain it by the influence of a much too hot climate.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1809 in Schönbrunn, about Soult’s alleged attempt to make himself King of Portugal, according to Brun de Villeret’s “Cahiers”.
#napoleon: there must be a reason why all the guys i send to portugal go crazy#must be sunstroke#napoleon's marshals#jean de dieu soult#and then he became so hesitant that he actually read the evidence against soult to berthier and eugène and wanted their opinion#lmao#i can just see eugene going wtf? who? where? why me?
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#I want to be excited to go to Bordeaux#and I am#but I’m also really anxious#I have to make three flight transfers#(grad school city) -> London -> Madrid -> Bordeaux#which makes me terrified my luggage is going to get lost#and if/when I get there#apparently there’s a transportation workers’ strike#so I have no clue if I’ll be able to take the tram from the airport to where I’m staying#it’s an archive I’ve never used#and my French reading is really good. I can do books and sources and all of that#but it’s been so long since I’ve actually spoken French in any sustained way#plus I spent so much of the summer in Portugal speaking Portuguese#I’m nervous I won’t communicate well and will make a fool of myself with the archive staff or in a shop#intellectually I know that’s not the end of the world#but it’s still humiliating#my time of the month also decided to show up today#which is making me extra nervey and miserable#I know the best thing I can do for myself is take it one step at a time#but that’s easier said than done#not the stones#me stuff#I’m probably going to end up doing orals reading on the flight b/c I can never sleep on planes
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#putting this in the tags bc I need to get this out but also feel kinda guilty about it so I don’t wanna scream it in a post#but I feel soo irrationally pissed at my friend#bc she’s one of my best friends and I love her but I haven’t heard from her all summer except for the like four times she answered my#messages only to immediately ask me something in return#it took her two weeks to reply to a meme I send her only to immediately follow up with ‘het remember how you said your parents wanted to#hire my band’#‘ahaha summer is so busy I’ve read all my books anyway you told me I could borrow this one book?’#last was ‘heyy sorry for not replying haha anyway im bored next week wanna go on a trip’#to which I replied ‘yeah I would love to but I have my internship starting next week remember’#and its like I don’t mind that she doesn’t answer my texts like god knows I hate texting#but its really starting to feel like our relationship is fully based on her needing me for something#which I have felt before but I kinda dismissed it as me thinking it was always me who had to take initiative which was disproved when she#asked me to meet up a few times but thinking back it was always like ‘hey let’s meet up for coffee’ and then when I arrive having literally#left the library where I’d been studying for only ten minutes bc otherwise i wouldn’t see her.#she’s like ‘oh I don’t want coffee anymore but I need to go to the supermarket wanna join me?’#which I always did bc I wanna spend time together and it’s cheaper for me than getting overpriced coffee but!!!!#anyway I’m feeling this now bc while she hadn’t answered my ‘sorry can’t go on a trip’ text I did just see that she’s currently in portugal#with another friend#which is like??? so she just found someone else to relieve her of her boredom and so she didn’t need me anymore so why answer me right??#anyway it’s probably not that bad and I will talk to her about it when I see her again which will probably be in a month I guess but for now#I don’t wanna ruin her trip
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#on Wednesday i have to talk abt myself for departmental seminar for like 4min. all the new grad students have to#like where ur from. what u do. what u do in ur freetime and i can guarantee that at least 80% will b like#i like to hike and b outside!!! with outdoors-y pictures. and i like to b outside but mostly i like to consume media and draw#so im like do i put myself on blast for drawing by showing something ive drawn? i dont particularly want to#i probably will tho. im tempted to try to draw this insane thing. it will b cool if i can do it but i have like 3 presentations to get ready#this week so i probably wont have enough time to do it unless i stop sleeping or stop being depressed#god it woulf take so much time i dont have. but it would b cool. it would b a fucking insane thing to show to my departure tho lmao#which kinda makes me wanna do it. like my advisor wont b there so he wont be there to go: ...is that along [insert sampling location]?#and i dont have to b like yes that is in fact a petrified angel laying in [insert sampling location]. i assure u im extremely normal and#this has no reflection on my state of mind lol. also showing a bunch of Evolutionary Biologist religious imagery seems insane#which again makes me wanna do it lol. well see. ill probably just put up that drawing of a cat in a poolside chair that i took in Portugal#ay ay ay. so much to do. relax they say. take care of urseld they say. and yet the list of things i have requirements to get done is ever#expanding. so it goes. maybe ill draw my angel anyway#unrelated
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No reason why Mirandese shouldn’t be a co-official language in Portugal already.
#yeah there's another language in portugal other than portuguese in case you didn't know#there's even 3 subdialects of it!#its an astur-leonese language as opposed to a galician-portuguese which is where portuguese comes from in technical terms#for the record mirandese is only co-official in the miranda do douro region not the whole country#and 2 other regions#like people travel. there are mirandese speakers outside of terra de miranda#there was a voting recently on this to grant legal status of a protected language but it was voted against. like why. for what reason#i'm one of those tugas who thinks we should learn mirandese in schools as a mandatory second language#the language itself is quite interesting#they only found out about it in the 19th century because of the hidden locations of these villages#imagine you randomly go to a nearby village and find out they speak another language#m.text
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I am not as sick any more but I am just really really tired a lot of the time. And also my brother took the car for a week or two and my mom was at a writing festival so I have been sitting in the house for a week now and I am CLIMBING THE WALLS at this stage.
#text post#I wish I lived in a country where you could just leave the house and walk somewhere#like a store. or a coffee shop#Just being able to close your front door and go somewhere mundane on your own feet#I miss that about my college time more than anything else when I was studying abroad#Also I need to try and decide if I should pursue looking into Canada as a permanently place to live#or Portugal which I know nothing about#and I don't really know how to figure out which would be best#Anyway still a little sick but getting better but I have been indoors too long
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I think Americans would benefit from having naked statues in their streets and naked people on paintings in every schoolbook related to history/art. I think it would make them more qualified to talk about nudity in art without frying other people's brains.
#also can we talk about feet for a second. why. why is it that every time I see some fanart#reposted to pinterest#where a character is barefoot there's always weirdos in the comments going 'put those grippers/clappers' away#like. why are YOU making it weird. have you never seen feet before? never been to the beach?#you sound like victorian men glimpsing at an uncovered ankle#what the fuck#but this post was brought by mr noticing a stark difference in how younger usanians respond to nudity in art#like... it's not inappropriate for a minor to see a naked statue#here in Portugal we see naked statues simce we're babies#bonus points for the little boy who once copied a statue of a naked little boy pissing water onto a fontain and did the same thing#mother was horrified but it was funny#anyway I assure you the statues didn't traumatize anyone#same with paintings#nudity censorship in art is flabbergasting to me
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My wife and I have been burned too many times by historical fiction writers taking a sudden left turn into Richard III/Elizabeth of York territory that we're both just, coiled springs whenever they're in the same room around the time of Anne's death.
Author: -brings up that time Anne and Elizabeth wore matching dresses-
Us: Bitch you better not...
#richard iii#i still feel betrayed by that one novel that was half set in an alternate present#based around the upcoming coronation of richard iv#and which had richard survive bosworth and marry joanna of portugal#only to have it be a super unhappy marriage because he and elizabeth were pining for each other#and then joanna died or something#and richard and elizabeth got married and had a bunch of kids#it had sounded like an interesting premise but then it sprung that pairing on me#so i flicked through it to confirm it was going where i thought#and then never actually read it#because ew
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Alfama District of Lisbon: Guide for Traveling in 2024
One of the Lisbon neighborhoods you should definitely visit on your 2024 trip is Alfama: the oldest and most authentic neighborhood in the city. Read here everything you need to know about Alfama-from its rich history to the best places to eat, drink, and soak up the culture. And then there's why you should put this on your list.
Overview of Alfama: the oldest district of Lisbon
Why Alfama Should Be on Your Agenda
Traditionally, the Alfama quarter is called the soul of Lisbon. Indeed, only a few quarters survived from the 1755 earthquake, and it maintains all its medieval charm, narrow streets, and Moorish influences. This district has such a special way of showing its historical depth: along its narrow streets are alleys, tiny squares, and historic buildings.
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A Short History of Alfama
Alfama through the Ages: From the Moors to Today
Alfama was originally settled by Moors. Its history is very deep. Alfama is derived from the Arabic word for "hot springs" - "al-hamma." The district has developed through history but retained all its Arab origins in its architecture and design.
Alfama: Portuguese History in Cultural Significance
Alfama is rich in tradition, especially with regard to Fado, or Portugal's soulful and melancholic music. Stepping through Alfama feels as if walking in a living museum-to witness history and tradition blend into the present-day life of the Portuguese.
Alfama's Narrow Streets, exploring
What makes Alfama special?
Alfama does come alive, however, in its labyrinthine streets best discovered on foot. Cars cannot make their way through these narrow lanes, so put on your good walking shoes and get lost in the charms of the district.
Stunning Buildings and Old Structures
The architecture of Alfama is always a hodgepodge of Moorish, Gothic, and Baroque styles. Large swathes of buildings are covered with beautiful pastel-hued Portuguese ceramic tiles, or azulejos, which give the quarter a special flair.
Secrets of Alfama: hidden corners
Alfama is full of mysteries except from the best-known attractions. Discover some tiny cafés, local artisan shops, and hidden views from which to enjoy a wonderful city panorama.
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Main Attractions in Alfama
São Jorge Castle: the Historic Wonder
This confers fantastic views over the city, dominating Lisbon's skyline; originally a Moorish creation, this has become one of Alfama's more famous landmarks.
Miradouros: The Best Viewing Platforms in Alfama
There are, of course many beautiful miradouros - scenic viewpoints in Lisbon. Alfama contains two of the best examples: the Miradouro de Santa Luzia and the Miradouro das Portas do Sol-a must-see for views over the River Tagus and the red rooftops of the city.
Lisbon Cathedral: Transition of the Gothic to Romanesque Style
The Lisbon Cathedral is actually one of the oldest religious buildings in town. It reflects the differing architectural styles-a reflection of the history and diversification of the city.
The Fado Houses: Experience the Traditional Portuguese Music
Born in Alfama, a traditional Fado house is the only place where everywhere is likely to live up to its promise. Spend an evening listening to soulful sounds and savor Portuguese cuisine in local haunts like Clube de Fado and Tasca do Chico.
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What to Eat in Alfama
True Portuguese Gastronomy in Alfama
From fresh seafood dishes to traditional hearty stews, an impressive variety of Portuguese dishes exists in Alfama. High-class restaurants and small local taverns complement each other.
Popular Alfama Restaurants
For a truly unforgettable dining experience try Restaurante Santo António de Alfama or O Pitéu da Graça, which serve the finest in Portuguese cuisine.
Best Places for Local Food
To sample something seriously local, venture out to the smaller eateries, like Pastéis de Bacalhau, where you might even get to taste Portugal's most famous codfish cakes.
Best Time To Visit Alfama :
weather and seasonal highlights
Spring or early autumn would probably be best to visit Alfama because the weather is warm enough to be pleasant and enjoy some discoveries; summer days get horribly hot, and winter is usually pretty mild but a lot with rain.
The Lisbon Festas: June Vibrancy of Alfama's Festival
If you arrive in June, don't miss Festas de Lisboa, that very warm festivity which invades the streets of Alfama with music, stalls with food, and parades for Saint Anthony.
How to get to Alfama:
Transportation tips for travelers
Alfama is pretty accessible by Lisbon's world-famous Tram 28, which winds along the narrow streets of this district. And, of course, quite fine just to walk about. Just be prepared for some pretty steep hills!
Trams, Walking Tours, and Access
If walking is not up one's alley, no worries: the tedium of several walks and tuk-tuks will be rich in history and several secrets about Alfama.
Where to Stay in Alfama
Top Hotels and Accommodations
With all types of accommodations, from the highly luxurious to comfortable guesthouses, Alfama has it all: Memmo Alfama Hotel allows beautiful views, while in Alfama Patio Hostel, the offer is many times cheaper.
Sweet guesthouses and boutique hotels
Boutique hotels like the historic charm of Solar dos Mouros can offer an ever-comforting place for a far more personalized experience.
Safety Precautions for Every Visitor in Alfama
Cross Safely Through the Narrow Alfama Streets
Generally, Alfama is safe, though, like most tourist destinations, they do have a problem with pickpocketing, and it's worse in crowded locations.
Also see, 8 Reasons to Visit Portugal in Winter – Does it Snow?
Shopping in Alfama
Local Artisan Shops and Souvenirs
Alfama is indeed full of unique shops where one can find all these handmade crafts, traditional ceramics, and authentic Portuguese souvenirs to bring back home.
Nights in Alfama
Top Bars and Nighttime Entertainment
But aside from this, Alfama is a place of much history. The best places for a nightlife include: enjoy Ginjinha in some of the local bars or live Fado performances in Alfama.
Experience Fado in Night
For an unforgettable night, visit any of the Fado houses, such as Mesa de Frades or Parreirinha de Alfama, and listen to their absolutely soulful sounds of pure Fado.
Cultural Heritage at Alfama
Do's and don'ts when visiting Alfama
And visiting the Alfama district is not acceptable to offend locals. They greet them with a "Bom dia" (Good morning) and never make noise in residential areas.
Sustainable Tourism in Alfama
How to be a Responsible Visitor in Alfama
So sustainable tourism would maintain the beauty of Alfama. One should use environmentally friendly accommodations, patronize the local operators, and avoid crowding those hotspots.
Conclusion
This is a mystic, historical, and cultural district, so expect some unique memories. You will either enjoy electric views from the miradouros, absorb the fado music, or discover secret streets within Alfama. Don't forget to add it to your plans for 2024 in Lisbon!
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Portugal: Week 1
#because my life is just a comedy of errors#I went out Saturday night after having stayed in all day (except to go to the gym) because it was so hot and world youth day was making#everything insane#I ordered Goan food from a place 20 minutes from where I’m staying#walked to pick it up#and as I was heading back#I saw all these old ladies gathered by the side of the road chattering with each other in Portuguese about the pope#I didn’t really know what was happening but I decided to hang out for ten minutes to see what would happen#and lo and behold the pope came right by us#not the stones#me stuff#portugal#lisbon#there aren’t many good food pics#because I was barely eating last week#(b/c heat and jet lag)#but my goal this week#other than getting archive work done#is to explore the city more
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Y'all ever see someone claim something about a country's culture and the person doesn't necessarily seem ill intentioned but you just have to cringe real bad because they clearly don't know what the hell they are talking about?
I don't even remember the context I saw this in but sometimes I remember that time I saw a (non-Portuguese?) person claiming Portuguese people aren't racist against Brazilians.
IIRC they were saying this in comparison to another ex-colonial country to claim that other country had a stronger racism problem
#my mind#fyi there IS anti-brazilian racism in portugal#it's just a really weird type of racism where Br aren't actually a race so what Pt boomers are most racist about is their dialect/accent#and sometimes there's news about how oh this kindergarten only has brazilian educators so the kids go home speaking with a br accent#and portuguese boomers get absolutely ass blasted about it#and there's some rhetoric about them stealing our jobs too#tldr me when I see a person that has clearly never had to listen to their conservative relative rant for half hour about the#brazilian immigrants ruining our children's minds with their disgusting inferior accent
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