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[heythatsmyleg]

the thing that gets me most about gamergate bullshit is people acting like corruption in journalism is a new or amazing thing

in fact i’d probably argue that corruption and journalism go hand in hand

but, yeah, let’s not focus on that, just the fact that sometimes people pay to have better reviews. and that’s feminits fault or something.

[nox-candida]

Guh.  And she’s going to be in Doctor Who?  I can’t wait!

[criticsnotebook]

M. Tsai reviews “Pride” for Critic’s Notebook.

[lovethemovie]

Subway - 1985

[madashelltv-deactivated20180424]

A never-before-seen photo of Shaun with another more common photo of himself.

[ailsaavenue]

Peter Cook in the Establishment, 1961

[thearchbitchofcanterbury]

[thewindysideofcare]

Romeo and Juliet  RSC 1984

[helldivers-blog]

she is a guest of clan mackenzie

[terryboot]

Young Adult Programs from the 2000s aired typically at 5:30pm memes on facebook is gold.

[erikkwakkel]

Dog prints in medieval chained library

I made this image in the chained library “De Librije” in the Dutch city of Zutphen. Established in 1564, everything about this place is still precisely as it was, including the tiles on the floor. Remarkably, throughout the library there are tiles with a dog’s paw prints. These 450-year-old traces of a large dog come with a local legend. One night, a monk called Jaromir was reading in the library while enjoying a meal of chicken, delivered to him by some nuns. He was not supposed to do this: not only does one not eat in a library, but he was also going through a period of fasting. Then suddenly the devil appeared in the form of a dog, scaring the living daylights out of the monk. The devil ate the chicken and locked the monk inside as a punishment - as devils do. Knowing the story, it’s hard to ignore the prints when admiring the books. 

Pics (top my own): Zutphen, Librije Chained Library. More on the legend on the library’s website, also source for lower pic, here (in Dutch).

[scrupez]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ham-em-pton-ma]

Just a bit excited for this…

[mrfreddagg]

Have you read 'Daughters of Mars' by Tom Keneally? It is pretty much exactly Anzac Girls (So much to the point that I wondered about plagiarism) The series is based on a book called 'The Other Anzacs' by Peter Rees (which i'm yet to read) so it would be interesting to compare all 3 and see how much is actually original. In any case, read it because it is an amazing book!

I have not! In truth, I only got into the show ‘cos my friend’s teacher is the writer and (Edwardian Australia is a little too late for my historical fancy). But I most definitely will now.

Rees’s book is good so far, reads more like a paraphrased novel with ‘quotes’ but that could just be me. I know that some of Olive’s lines had been completely lifted from her personal letters; got a shock when I heard the exact words after just reading them the night before! 

[nobodylikesfruitcake-deactivate]

On the one hand, VERY rarely do you see a representation of the ‘other’ Anzacs in the public media sphere; be they women, indigenous, homosexual, or people of ‘non-Australian’ backgrounds. The fact that this series even got made and aired this close to the centenary of ww1 (where all Australian TV…

[mrfreddagg]

I whole heartedly agree with most of this and I felt the exact same way about how romantic love was being played mid series. I understand how marketing people incorrectly think ‘romance’ is the only way of gaining an audience but it took away from the real action at times. Unnecessary slo-mo for love scenes, the sappy music (okay moving on—-)

but! these last episodes have totally debunked that two type of women rule. Alice, Olive and Elsie were all different in how they approached romance and work. Sure at times, they favoured one side more than the other, Alice’s love bug phase springs to mind but I never got the impression that they were defined solely by that.

I like how the show balanced out the difficulty of priorities of a nurse at the time, married or unmarried.  Elsie, standing up to her husband so she could continue her work, Alice coming through her heartbreak and realising that although her pain was justified, it was her strength that was needed most. Hilda, with absolutely no romance, was not abandoned as a character because of it but was explored in other ways. They had friendships outside of romance, they had cats and jokes and moments that weren’t just about them being nurses or being wives. 

I was so impressed that the show managed not to belittle the nurses as ‘sappy girls longing for their diggers’ but had them shined in their respective talents and traits. My only complaint is that I would have loved to seen Marion Leane Smith, the only australian indigenous nurse to serve in ww1. If I remember correctly, she also served in France so…maybe, next time ABC. 

but like I said, I agree with you that ABC needs more of this. Seriously, a full female cast didn’t hurt the viewer figures now did it?  sorry for the ramblings

[nobodylikesfruitcake-deactivate]

You make a good point that the last couple of episodes do explore some diversity of character, I’ve only really binged watched the whole series on ABC iView so I haven’t had much time to reflect.

However, the main reason I watched them on iView and not tuning in every week was because I was wholeheartedly disappointed with the first episode. They writing was so flowery and the dialogue was very hindsight driven in terms of what we think they felt and what they’ve been recorded as feeling. In saying that, I thought this last episode was the best by far, it summarised what they were trying to do in this series quite well (and with a return to fact which as a nit picking historian, i do love) and sorta did the ‘if you didn’t get what we were trying to say, this is pretty much it’.

The omission of the indigenous nurse is a very relevant point though. When I first watched the series, one of the first things I noticed was their depiction of indigenous soldiers being amongst the men and talking to the nurses. Immediately my first thought was ‘WROOOOOOOOOOOOOONG’ just because of what I know about the racial climate etc. Then a couple of episodes later, the same guy reappears (without his mate, which broke my heart) and has a lovely little moment in the hospital. I think this is the ABC’s way at attempting racial diversity (and whitewashing a bit of the racial discrimination of indigenous people which we have a serious problem with because we do it all the time but let’s not get into this right now). Personally, I think a strong reason to leave out Smith was because at the heart of the series is the relationship between the girls. To have Smith in the mix would be to establish the discrimination that she undoubtable would have experience, which would perhaps make some of the girls seem villainous my our standards. Either that or just throw this portion of accuracy out the window for the sake of narrative, which could in itself be problematic and seen again as whitewashing. For me, I would have gone the first route and added in some character development as the girls realise that in some cases war transcends aspects of race. I dunno, that’s just me

At the heart of both our arguments, I think we can all agree that we loved the idea of the ABC exploring the neglected stories of the other anzacs, and they handled it okay, SO WE WANT MORE!! (and yeah this female cast was pretty banging, so let’s keep this up yeah?)

[mrfreddagg]

You're so right about that scene at the train station. Suppose they couldn't fit the context of almost two centuries' worth of racial conflict into a two second scene, nor address it in full throughout the series but but I really would have to loved to see it. If you're interested, NITV had some commemorative docs on indigenous soldiers, like two months ago. mainly second world war but still worth a glance!

[mrfreddagg]

Yessss, the ship is spreading. We need to start small and take over the world.

 we must convert them all. i’ll get on writing some dourie soon. got the inspiration.

[mrfreddagg]

peter cook? peter cookie??

Yes to all of those.

[crofesima]

Movies directed by Satoshi Kon (October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010)