Shannon

♡: light rain, mountains, Manchester, ancient and medieval history, fantasy, seeing the world

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Emilia Clarke attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

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Falling stars in bathroom

[unicornempire]

Well this is just freakin’ gorgeous, that’s all I have to say about that.

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Jackie ‘fight me  (ง'̀-‘́)ง ‘ Burkhart

[dontthinkonithermione]

Maybe Foreign Language Wouldn’t Be So Foreign

Based off of this text post for @emettkaysworld + @bumblebeebats

Hermione: It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek.

Hermione: “Expelliarmus”?

[its-a-grey-warden-thing]

This boy will be the best goddamn Grey Warden we’ve ever seen

[pixalry]

Tattooed Disney Princesses - Created by Tim Shumate

Available for sale as t-shirts, prints, or stickers at his TeePublic Shop.

Snow White | Fearless | Once Upon a Dream | The White Rabbit | Royalty | No One’s Slave

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This tweet is from 2016. Today, it was announced that Ryan is voicing Detective Pikachu.

IT’S LIKE HE WAS TELLING US SOMETHING ALL ALONG.

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Reblogged because it’s relevant

[dailymarvelqueens]

When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I’d say I’ve definitely progressed since then in terms of style.

[olivesaverin]

What do we owe each other?

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Let’s Dance with the Dark

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This was the first work I completed for my solo exhibition, Flood. The whole idea behind the show was to explore emotional states. The water in all the works is a metaphor for our inner workings: our thoughts our feelings and emotions. They’re unpredictable and chaotic, yet continuous and endless like the waves. So to try fight against them, is like trying to hold water with your bare hands. But, what if we surrendered ourselves to these floods of emotions? What if we let all of those feelings flood in, and simply go with the flow. To feel fear, to feel calmness, to feel love. To feel it all completely, but know that it’ll be okay.

Let’s Dance with the Dark was about fear and doubt, how it can weave itself all around you and cripple you until you’re powerless. But there is comfort in knowing that even through all the fear, you’re not alone.

[samsfenders]

queer eye (1x02): saving sasquatch

[mjalti]

that’s easily a Jesus cameo

[valtsv]

no nonsense november. everyone just be fucking sensible for once.

[valtsv]

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Source

[dat-soldier]

back the fuck up

[sonnetscrewdriver]

There’s another story that I like about a Chinese general who had to defend a city with only a handful of soldiers from a huge enemy horde that was in all likelihood going to steamroll the place flat within hours of showing up.

So when said horde did arrive, they saw the general sitting outside the city’s open gates, drinking tea. The horde sent a couple of emissaries over to see what was what, and the general greeted them cheerfully and invited them all to come and take tea with him.

The horde decided that this was a scenario that had “MASSIVE FUCKING TRAP” written all over it in beautiful calligraphy and promptly fucked off.

Whoever that general was, he was clearly the Ancient Chinese equivalent of Sam Vimes.

[dat-soldier]

did he just invite us over for tea nah man i’m out

[catgoblinchelly]

This just keeps getting better

[sleepyferret]

I fucking love history.

[konec0]

ok but tbh that story misses a lot of the subtlety of the situation like ok

so this story is the Romance of Three Kingdoms, and essentially takes place between Zhuge Liang, resident tactician extraordinaire, and Sima Yi… OTHER resident tactician extraordinaire.

The two were both regarded as tactical geniuses and recognized the other as their rival. Zhuge Liang had a reputation for ambushing the SHIT out of his opponents and using the environment to his advantage, thus destroying large armies with a small number of men. Sima Yi (who kind of entered the picture later) was a cautious person whose speciality was unravelling his opponent’s plans before they began. So it was natural that the two would butt heads; however, since Sima Yi tended to have more men and resources, he started winning battles against the former. Which, y’know, kinda sucked.

On to the actual story: Zhuge Liang is all like “shit i gotta defend this city with like 10 men.” Literally if he fights ANY kind of battle here, he WILL lose; his only option for survival is not to fight. And that’s looking more and more impossible until he hears that his rival is leading the opposing army. And then he gets this brilliant idea. He basically opens all the gates, sends his men out in civilian clothes to sweep the streets, and sits on top of the gate drinking tea and chilling out and basically makes the whole thing out to be a trap

When Sima Yi comes he’s all like “yo come on in bro”

and Sima Yi is like “yeah he’s never been that obvious about his traps before. this is definitely a bluff” and he’s about to head in when he realizes

wait. he knows that i think he’s bluffing.

and so he gets it in his head that maybe, just MAYBE, Zhuge Liang has this cunning plan that will wipe out his army - recall that he has a pretty good handle on what his rival is capable of. And after a long period of deliberation (which is just like “he know that I know that he knows that etc.”), being the cautious man he is, SIma Yi eventually decides to turn his entire army around and leave.

Zhuge Liang later points out that the plan was based specifically on the fact that he was facing his rival; if it had been anyone else, there’s no way it would have worked. A dumber or less cautious person would have simply charged in and won without breaking a sweat. 

and that’s the real genius here: it was a plan formed entirely just to deceive one man, and it worked.

[uovoc]

Zhuge Liang is the most brilliant, sneaky-ass bastard in history. One time his side’s army was out of arrows, which pretty much meant they were screwed. So Zhuge Liang goes and does the logical thing, which is build a fuck ton of scarecrows and put them all on boats. Then he makes the men hide in the boats and sail them out on the river.

Well, that day was super foggy (which Zhuge Liang had predicted. Did I mention he was also a freakishly accurate meteorologist?). So the enemy across the river sees a fleet of boats armed to the teeth with what appears to be half an army of men. They panic! and start firing arrows like crazy. 

Zhuge Liang lets this play out for a while, then he’s like, ”Ok guys that’s enough.” They calmly turn the boats around and go back to base, where they dismantle the scarecrows and pull out all the enemy’s arrows.

Zhuge Liang is legend.

[optimysticals]

I love this post. It just keeps getting better. Like seriously, I would have adored learning about this in World History.

[futureevilscientist]

If you want to see this in cinematic glory, watch Red Cliff.

Especially since it makes Zhuge Liang look like this:

Red Cliff is 50% bloody battles and 50% eye candy and about half of that eye-candy is due to Zhuge Liang

[burntcopper]

I fully support watching Red Cliff; it’s gloriously silly entertainment during the battle scenes.

[inquisitorhotpants]

Guess what just got moved to the top of my watch list?? :D

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don’t forget the ROTK story of Zhang Fei standing alone and yelling so fiercely at Cao Cao’s oncoming army he scared them away AND scared their leader to death: 

“Zhang Fei bellows a challenge at the enemy and shocks Xiahou Jie to death. Cao Cao’s soldiers also observe that the woods behind Zhang Fei are clouded in dust and believe that there is an ambush, so they retreat without a fight and Zhang Fei destroys the bridge and retreats as well. Zhang Fei had earlier ordered his men to tie tree branches to the tails of their horses and ride around in the woods, churning up dust to create an illusion of an ambush.” ( x )