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[colosseumofblahaj]

ME WHEN IT'S THE LONDON PODCAST FESTIVAL!

I had such a good time, I got to hand out bracelets and talk to people it was wonderful! (Sorry for the long post, but a lot of cool stuff happened)

Wolf 359!

Before it started, I got to hand out some bracelets to people I was sat near and got a wonderful sticker in return!

The Wolf 359 panel was so interesting, especially about how some of the characters were formed and what it was like working on it for such a long time.

I was one of the people called on in the QnA section (I asked what Alan's favourite track/piece was to compose and why) - I wasn't expecting it, but it was really nice to get picked. Alan Rodi's favourite piece to compose was the DSSPPM theme, because it's just a nice jingle and they could just repeat it (and that it was very different to the rest).

I got my collage signed, which was awesome - everyone thought it was cool, and Cecilia Lynn Jacobs told me to keep making them.

Whilst doing this, I got to give them each bracelets, along with dispensing some stickers which @rextrinsic very kindly trusted me with, as they weren't able to stay to give them out themself (everyone loved them, and told me to say thank you to you from them!)

Everyone liked my Wolf 359 shirt, and I got a photo with Emma!

ON TO WOODEN OVERCOATS!

The live show was absolutely banging - there were so many references, whilst it still being accessible to those who weren't as familiar with the series (my mother, who very kindly accompanied me).

I got surprised by the fact that we were able to meet the cast afterwards and get them to sign stuff, which was neat.

I still had some bracelets left so gave those out - everyone was really happy with the bracelets and seemed slightly surprised that people would give them some.

AND THEN I MET BETH EYRE MY ABSOLUTE BELOVED SHE'S SO SWEET

I gave her an Antigone bracelet and she said it was really pretty! I then told her that she was really cool and that she was the reason I got into voice acting - she then asked my name and said that I was cool because of that. We spoke briefly about Wolf 359, and then I asked for a photo.

I was fully expecting her to just stay behind the table that they were signing stuff on bUT NO - SHE CLIMBED OVER THE TABLE AND THEN ASKED IF I WAS OK WITH CONACT AND GAVE ME A SIDE HUG (I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE FLATTERED IN MY LIFE)

I'M NEVER GOING TO BE NORMAL AGAIN

AND AS ME AND MY MUM WERE LEAVING SHE SAID THAT SHE'D BE INTERESTED IN SEEING WHAT I DO

AAAAAAHHHHHH

[khazaddoom]

His dark materials is so funny. It starts out like “oh no, my best friend is missing! Let’s go on an adventure to find him!” and two books later they’re going “let’s start a multi universal war and kill god”. And they’re twelve.

[pippingender]

I love so much that Philip Pullman wrote a beautiful fantasy trilogy to say “organized religion is bad” and then came back 20 years later with a second trilogy to say “but you know what’s worse? capitalism”

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[thatwritererinoriordan]

The 3rd book of His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass. I don't wanna talk about that bench.

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

[itsbasil]

you put those tags on this post where they belong

[schistcity]

currently maybe possibly single-handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883

[schistcity]

@queenlua Happily! This is going to be long, so here's some set dressing first:

Eton College, for anyone unfamiliar, is a prestigious boys' school in England that has famously educated MANY MANY politicians, royals, nobility, and other assorted famous people. All you really need to know about it is that's it's incredibly posh and expensive and exclusive

The Eton Society (called “Pop” internally) is a self-selecting body of senior students at Eton that have historically held a decent amount of power at the school. If you’ve ever attended a school with a prefect system/house system etc you probably know a little bit about how obnoxious this kind of group can get. Now imagine they're all called Lord Godfrey Pickerington or something. Are you getting it? Is the set being dressed? Good.

Now that the scene is set, here’s our tale!!

I stumbled into Eton’s archives while doing research for a fanfiction and we’ll just leave that admission where it is!! It was in reading old issues of their student-run paper, The Chronicle, from 1883 that myself and @carebewear started becoming fixated on one guy in particular.

Cecil B. Gedge (from this point on known as Gedge) was a member of the Eton Society in 1883/84. He won a few Science awards during his time there (Biology!!) and seemed to like rowing during school sports events. He went on to become a barrister, which will make sense once you know more about him.

The best part of Gedge, though, is his appearances in the minutes for the Eton Society meetings. At least at Gedge’s time, the Eton Society seemed really fond of staging debates (more like loosely organised discussions) on a wide variety of topics.

Here are some of the riveting questions they discussed!

And my personal favourite: "Are Ghosts Real?"

(They were very divided)

Gedge first came to our attention in debate about the annexation of New Guinea, in which he apparently started an "abusive attack on the British army and missionaries":

Wow! Based Gedge!? He continues to spit period-typical truths about things like how we shouldn't tax bicycles actually because it would disproportionately affect poor people. YIMBY Gedge?? He would've loved light rail.

The final nail in our Gedge obsession was a debate on women's suffrage, in which Gedge vehemently advocates for women's right to vote and then gets no supporters at the end of the meeting. But I appreciate that he said it anyway and kept saying it. He is more persecuted that Christ, to me.

Here are some more, from anti-conscription sentiment to indirectly calling his classmates stupid to weirding everyone out by saying he wants to donate his body to science (his friend dissecting him for fun):

We started getting the feeling people might not have liked Gedge that much, mainly since one of the Society members wrote a poem about all his friends and Gedge isn't in it.

In 1884, there was some extended drama in the Chronicle where someone whom I groundlessly suspect was Gedge under a pseudonym ("A Socialist"), wrote to the editor complaining that the "debates" published by the Eton Society were "bad" (genuine quote) and that they should make a REAL debate society at the school that ALL boys, not just the self-selected seniors, could participate in:

To make a long story short most of the vocal members of the Eton Society threw up their hands at this and refused to do anything, basically boiling down to "Just because we're the prefects of the school doesn't mean we should have to actually DO anything!! Unfair!!" and also this quote which reads exactly like at least a thousand real tweets I've seen in my life

Liberal. Gedge, of course, was there giving practical suggestions, but the discussion was ultimately cut short because their principal died and they had to push a memorial issue of the paper. We have a working theory that the staff might've used that interruption as an opportunity to get the boys to cut it the fuck out.

Anyway it's a little unclear what happens to Gedge after that. He isn't credited as being in the 1884 Eton Society in the larger school register but it's unclear if that's because he wasn't re-elected or if he just graduated. Either way, he went on to become a barrister in London, which makes a lot of sense. Sadly though, he passed away in WW1, which we were really normal about

Thank you Lt. Gedge, for truly embodying the eternal spirit of an outspoken debate-kid, a friend to the lefties, a proto-yimby, a terminal back-talker, and the kid in a biology class that's a little too excited for the dissections. I hope your life, however short, was a rich and bright one. Thanks for the incredibly entertaining afternoon, brother 🫡

[corpsebrigadier-deactivated2025]

Love to be on a website where I can join such hit 2022 fandoms as “century old public domain novel being read very slowly” and “half-century old mafia film that does not actually exist.”

[brightlotusmoon]

[carpe-mamilia]

One million pounds to the writer of this caption in the Guardian please

[the-great-kraken]

newsreader just had to genuinely ask this man "why would an intergalactic warrior want to stand for election in clacton" unserious fucking country

[apollos-archief]

the insta user who came up with "refuse reform: recycle" as a count binface slogan deserves a nobel prize btw

[valicelavidad]

one of my favourite things in action point zero is when it cuts from greg to the party and bryony is outmogging the two fucking gremlins next to her. and then she says something batshit.

[growsdfborn]

she's so fun to draw guys ugh i love her

[milsandmoors]

Appreciation post for Ellie's SCREAM upon hearing the name henley. Relatable content once again queen

[waltzoftherapiers]

Teaching deceptions in stage combat class and one of the students goes

“This is some bugs bunny shit”

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[plague-vulture]

washing dishes is evil because you go "oh fuck there's so many dishes this is gonna take foreverrr" and then you enter the dish abyss and emerge with your abdomen somehow covered in water and your hands all wrinky and then you look at the clock and what felt like half an hour was actually 10 minutes

[punkrock-bottom]

[madlori]

so how am I ever supposed to quit this stupid website when there's just casual shakespeare jokes on the reg