"Wait" and "hope".

Call me Kettle. They/them. Australian. Age of Sail/Royal Navy, Aubrey/Maturin, Jeremy Brett, Granada Holmes, history, literature, random fandom. | my Linguistics blog | my Mission Impossible/Benthan blog | my WWE blog Formerly kettlehewer and nauticalphasmid.

[s-u-w-i]

Just Stephen braiding Jack's hair, featuring the famous floral dressing gown ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

[tunisian]

the floor is baklava

[redcoatsuggestions]

hey sorry but your boyfriend took the king's shilling last night. yeah. he's enlisted now. we're sending him o'er the hills and o'er the main. to flanders portugal and spain yeah. the king commands and we obey. you know how it is. sorry.

[maturinsane]

aubreyisms my beloved

[requiem-on-water]

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

BABYLON 5 1993 – 1998・4x03 The Summoning

[escuerzoresucitado]

[everythingfoxes]

[foxpost-generator]

it fucken WIMDY

[foxpost-generator]

girk at my work discovered my terrible secret

[bribun96]

“girk at my work”

[psilocervidae]

“girk at my work”

[electronicgallery]

Stephen Slaughter (British, 1697–1765). Two Women Gathering Fruit, ca. 1750. 

From the Fashion Institute of Technology NYC:

"We assert... that this [portrait] depicts a Black sitter treated as equal to a white sitter in an 18th-century continental European context. A similar piece dating to the 1760s of gentlewoman Dido Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray is also lauded as such, but this painting may actually be more representative of an equal or near-equal relationship. While Dido’s painting feeds into old tropes of servant-and-master portraiture . . . this painting avoids almost all of them. And uniquely, the Black sitter in this image is looking at the viewer while the white sitter is looking over at her rather than also confronting the viewer. The agency and perspective in this painting seems to be the possessions of the Black sitter. Both women are holding fruit, rather than having one gift it to the other as a sign of bounty and subservience (Waterfield 144).

"[The Black woman] also is the one with more lavish lace and jewelry – usually a symbol of greater standing – and the only indication of exoticism is her small matching turban. Everything else she wears is just as fashionable as what her companion wears, if not more. This is rare; Black women and servants usually are dressed more simply in comparison, or dressed entirely in fantastical clothing that resembles Ottoman Turkish or Asian styles (Waterfield 144).

"While the Wadsworth has chosen to confine this painting to the genre of master-and-servant portraiture, we venture to say that it is a more unique and respectful depiction of a Black sitter than the famous double portrait [of Belle and Murray] and gives life to research proving that slavery and servitude were by far not the only lot of people with darker skin tones in the 18th century (Bindman 12). Other respectful depictions of Black people around this time in Europe existed in life sketches and genre paintings.

"While we do not know the names of either woman in this painting, they join ranks with such distinguished people as Ignatius Sancho and the Chevalier Saint-George, who were formally painted as respected Black individuals in this century."

[vastwinterskies]

good thing they didnt have Grindr during the age of sail imagine coming into range of the enemy and in the tense quiet before the storm all your officers' phones go off

[acethembo]

"Mr Pullings, hard a' larboard and silence that Grindr alert, if you please. You too, Mr Allen. And you, Mr Nagel. And you, Captain Howard. And- Really, Stephen?"

[vastwinterskies]

#belay those boners boys we have to outmanoeuvre them (Tag by @peresephoknee)

just as they say:

'hard to starboard!' ☝️

[thisisfinestudios]

Fucking hate it when I sign up to be this guy's ship surgeon and his first lieutenant recognizes me from the Devil's Sacrement. Fml. SMH my head.

[ravioliet]

yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend

[ravioliet]

they're not "dating" they're not "a couple" they're intrinsically connected and intertwined with each other for eternity. they're bound together like the stars. get with the program

[sirobvious]

Some days I feel like I’m 29 feet away from a Japanese radish

[factbot]

[despazito]

the second radish is 29 feet away

[tranarchist]

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

this is legitimately the funniest post on this site

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[kamil-a]

I NEED A SICKO… im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight

[cyanocittae]

my friend keeps sending the groupchat voice notes of her eating bussy and calling it "asmr"..... bro go study for your physics exam 😭

[cyanocittae]

hi sorry uh. incredible miscommunication on my part lmfao.

my bad yall