The Very Model of a Modern Major General

History enthusiast, reader of fiction but mostly just watches BBC dramas

[quietparanoiac]

Father was very formal. He liked to be in charge and to be respected, but he was very kind of heart.

Ghosts (BBC), 3x05

[disappointedart]

berthold&bertram- part ten

(another part of Berthold's backstory- based on Jojo Rabbit (which is an amazing film, and I highly recommend it).

tanks, planes and chaps with strong arms- just british army stuff.

[junefiress]

seeing countless “cap killed himself” posts n theories is kind of tiring almost so lets move on from that to he slipped on an orange peel and his head hit the ground so hard it was an instant KO

[quillandrapier]

"I should have gone through life half awake, if you had the decency to leave me alone."

I drew The captain as the cover photo of the 1972 penguin paperback version of Maurice as I feel it would be a book that would speak to him as much as it did to me

[penny-anna]

ok this is probably not an original observation but. the captain's name is obviously richard.

there they are... dick n fanny

[historicalsnail]

That is so fair, mate.

[nocontexthorriblehistories]

me leaving a party early

(vid of Ben from Jim’s twitter today 💕)

[scarytat]

Oh no… I’ve just realised that this is what the cap being sucked off is going to look like…. 

[historicalsnail]

He’s just gone off to Gay Heaven™.

[majorgeneralcantsing]

nah the kids on tiktok (who weren’t even old enough to watch horrible histories when it aired) are now sexualising the songs, genuinely cba anymore

[majorgeneralcantsing]

I understand to an extent that there will be an inevitable sexualisation of people in the public eye e.g. actors, but when these actors have a relatively smaller fan base compared to hollywood actors (like the idiots) and they do interact with fans on social media, it seems to me that a line is crossed when people (usually minors) make no effort to hide that sexualisation of them or keep it in a separate online space. People are so turned on to this problem when it’s men sexualising women but not so much when men are being sexualised. It makes me uncomfortable that minors are calling these actors “DILFs” or similar things, knowing 1) they have young children and 2) there is a real possibility that they will see these comments. People on tiktok seem to be joking about how Ben saw all their sexual comments on the live chat yesterday and even rejoicing in it, and I just hope that those comments didn’t make him uncomfortable.

[majorgeneralcantsing]

Just want to say that I agree so much with all the tags in everyone’s reblogs, and I’m glad to finally find some normal people in this fandom lmao

[majorgeneralcantsing]

I understand to an extent that there will be an inevitable sexualisation of people in the public eye e.g. actors, but when these actors have a relatively smaller fan base compared to hollywood actors (like the idiots) and they do interact with fans on social media, it seems to me that a line is crossed when people (usually minors) make no effort to hide that sexualisation of them or keep it in a separate online space. People are so turned on to this problem when it’s men sexualising women but not so much when men are being sexualised. It makes me uncomfortable that minors are calling these actors “DILFs” or similar things, knowing 1) they have young children and 2) there is a real possibility that they will see these comments. People on tiktok seem to be joking about how Ben saw all their sexual comments on the live chat yesterday and even rejoicing in it, and I just hope that those comments didn’t make him uncomfortable.

[majorgeneralcantsing]

[inkyfishesii]

LIKE MAH SWAMIN PEUL

[idiottweets]

Series 3 Bloopers!

[majorgeneralcantsing]

This has given me so much serotonin it’s unreal

[majorgeneralcantsing]

In need of a friendship group that will learn the RAF dance with me 💔

[historicalsnail]

The Captain’s obituary ending in “He never married“.

Everybody knows what it means. The Captain doesn’t.

[plq-to]

Dip (and I cannot emphasise this enough) it again

[the-20th-century-girl]

(X)

Bonus:

[mere-gossamer]

“Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks For washing me cleaner than I have been Since I was born into this solitude. Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon: But here I pray that none whom once I loved Is dying to-night or lying still awake Solitary, listening to the rain, Either in pain or thus in sympathy Helpless among the living and the dead, Like a cold water among broken reeds, Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff, Like me who have no love which this wild rain Has not dissolved except the love of death, If love it be towards what is perfect and Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.”

— Edward Thomas, Rain