Try your lingo, Tanya

frankie ❦ he/him ❦ ace + aro ❦ listening to my tunes

[gloomth-and-wanderings]

Ahoy there!

welcome to my blog!

he/him, call me Frankie or gloomth (if you're on les mis letters or whale weekly discord you might also know me as Walpole!)

my other haunts: I run @lmchaptertitlebracket, I'm bean_valbean on ao3, and I'm PlaidFrankie on letterboxd :3

(tags/more info under the cut)

profile picture is Joseph Cotten in Journey Into Fear with the hair of Enjolras from Les Miserables Shoujo Cosette edited on; header picture is Jonathan Richman from Live on Toppop 1978; blog title is a quote from hit film She (1935)

Some tags:

#my art is my art, #frankie's creations is other stuff I've made (with a sub-tag for just video edits), #frankie.txt is me yammering on. For a window into my brain check #so me and #i think about this all the time

Interests most prevalent here:

history/material culture (I tag by decade and year when I can)

Les Miserables

Star Trek

the X Files

the sea and the sky

old hollywood-era movies and old time radio, especially stuff with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, and Harold Lloyd

music, especially Talking Heads and Jonathan Richman

I speak English, but I am also learning Mandarin and would love to practice! 我的母语是英文，但是我也在学中文，所以我很想练习！

Feel free to send me asks!

I try to add alt text to my posts but if I forget make sure to let me know.

Currently reading: Correspondence of Horace Walpole, The Making of the English Working Class, The Other Side of the Sky, The Cheese and the Worms, The Flying Classroom, Maurice again

Currently watching: The X-Files (s5), Star Trek: Voyager (s6), Doctor Who (first doctor, s2), a lot of movies (on a Harold Lloyd glasses character binge at the moment)

[fangshazzard]

I bet raising your arm and summoning a weapon for you to grasp feels good as fuck

[52stations]

these days you cant even relate to morrissey because he was looking for a job and then he actually found one

[marthajefferson]

THE HUSSAR BALAD, Гусарская баллада (1962)

Larisa Golubkina as Shura Azarova Yury Yakovlev as Poruchik Dmitry Rzhevsky

[anglerfl3sh]

I was going to say more but this is fine I think

[columboscreens]

[beguilingcorpse]

and you may tell yourself: this is not my beautiful circus! and you may tell yourself: these are not my beautiful monkeys!!!

[glintglimmergleam]

gonna run for office on a platform of banning shaving razors. and yes it is 10 years in feminist gulag for anyone who disagrees.

#MAKE WOMEN HAIRY AGAIN

[yorhaw]

[power-chords]

[The Catalan Atlas] was created c. 1375 by Abraham Cresques, a member of the Jewish community on the island of Majorca. At the time there thrived on the island an active Catalan chart-making school, of which he was its best known member, having the title of ‘Master of Maps and Compasses’ to the royal family of Aragon in Spain. Abraham was not only a master map maker, but also an expert maker of a wide variety of nautical instruments, compasses and fine clocks, and he was fluent in a number of languages.

It is widely thought that he and his son Jehuda prepared the magnificent illuminated Catalan Atlas as a gift from the crown prince of Aragon to King Charles V of France, who was thirteen years old at the time. The Atlas is a masterpiece depicting a detailed late fourteenth century view of the known world, a visual encyclopedia containing extensive commentary in captions and images designed to encompass all known geographical, and historical human knowledge, a well-documented representation of the whole inhabited world as it was known in fourteenth-century Europe, all the way from England to China.

Of the extant medieval maps and portolans, the Catalan Atlas is one of the finest known examples. Similar in many ways to an illuminated manuscript, this map was drawn on fine vellum panels mounted on wood, with each sheet measuring 65 x 50 cm per panel, with the panels folding out like a screen. It was designed to be placed on a table or platform, and walked around rather than to be affixed to a wall.

It is embellished with vistas and close-up views, a wide variety of flora and fauna, ships and caravans. Portraits and heraldry further embellish the work with tales from Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, and the accounts of medieval travelers, obviously including Marco Polo. Information from other thirteenth century explorers such as Friar Odoric, a Franciscan traveler who journeyed in China for a number of years, was also used.

Countless vignettes are used to depict historical events, such as the visit of Marco Polo’s father and uncle to Kublai Khan in Chanbalik (Beijing). The first known representation of the Empire of the Golden Horde which dominated Russia for centuries is depicted on the Volga River. To the east a caravan thought to include Marco Polo and his family, shows camels laden with goods and merchants on horseback headed toward China via the Silk Road. The vignette details the camel drivers holding onto the camels’ tails, with one rider obviously asleep on his horse. It is the first known depiction of the Silk Road.

[...] The Catalan Atlas is crisscrossed with rhumb lines taken from portolans, and features one of the first known compass roses to be featured on a map.

[columboscreens]

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[duel-of-the-dolls]

Calico Critter Combat: Outfits (Final Round)

Which outfit is the best?

Yellow Dress and Accessories

Clown Costume

Remaining time: 6 days 11 hours

[literary-eclipse]

its so funny to me that every time theres a x files myth episode its like 'damn how could this get any worse' and then alex krycek shows up. every fucking time. dire situation? oh yup theres krycek. need help with something? youll never guess who the only one who can help is. someones blackmailing you? yeah haha its just krycek. guess who has the information you need? yeah you know. whos gonna show up and randomly help you? yeah hes gonna betray you seven seconds later too. oh you thought he died? haha nope theres the ghost of krycek. its always krycek. i remember watching the s8 finale and that car runs over someone and i was like 'lmao its probably krycek' AND THEN IT WAS. ITS ALWAYS KRYCEK. you cannot escape him. you can never escape krycek. villain (?) of all time.

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

im sorry his swag is just unparalleled i know i could never pull this off and yet i need every part of this fit

[mintsheri]

It's been a while since I've made any dungeon meshi or farcille fanart 😅 I've always wanted to draw a summer themed Falin and Marcille poster.