Robots are rude

[harrypotterhousequotes]

HUFFLEPUFF:

“Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you”

–Rick Astley (Never Gonna Give You Up)

[cloud-etudes]

Marvel Movies ranked by if there are trains in them

Iron Man- 0/10. No trains. 

The Incredible Hulk- 1/10. No trains, but a verbal reference to the subway.

Iron Man 2- -100/10. No trains, negative 100 points for a cameo by train-hater Elon Musk

Thor- 0/10. No trains in space :(

Captain America: The First Avenger- 7/10. Cool train heist scene, and monorails go by at the World’s Fair

The Avengers- 3/10. A freight train goes by at the beginning. Cap tells the police to get people into the subway, giving hope for more train content that goes unfulfilled. The only scene of Cap riding the subway was deleted.

Iron Man 3- 0/10. No trains.

Thor: The Dark World- 10/10 THOR RIDES THE TRAIN

Captain America: The Winter Soldier- 0/10. No trains.

Guardians of the Galaxy- 0/10. Still no trains in space :(

Avengers: Age of Ultron- 6/10. Okay action scene involving stopping a train. 

Ant-Man- 9/10. Fight scene involving Thomas the Tank Engine!!!!

Captain America: Civil War- 1/10. Cap and Sharon meet next to high-speed rail tracks but no trains go by. 

Doctor Strange- 6/10. Subways go flying by in the mirror dimension!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2- 0/10. Still no trains in space :(

Spiderman: Homecoming- 10/10! Peter “Numtot” Parker rides on the train several times and also crashes a car for good measure

Thor: Ragnarok: 0/10. Someone better get some trains in space real soon 

Black Panther: 7/10. Cool Wakandan tram goes down the street, and the finale involves a vibranium train!

Avengers: Infinity War: 6/10. Cap emerges from behind a moving train!!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: 0/10. No trains.

Captain Marvel: 11/10 THERE ARE TRAINS IN SPACE!!! TRAINS IN SPACE!!! THERE ARE FINALLY TRAINS IN SPACE!!!! also she rides a train on earth too!!! Carol Danvers: queen of public transportation and my heart

Avengers: Endgame: 0/10. No trains.

[atalana]

So, out of interest, I paused the scene where Leonard looks through Hargreeves’ book, and I found this

The text reads:

“[illegible] Incident 06/16/01

I found that number four was simply not progressing in his abilities to conjure the non-living. He seems to not want to embrace this power. I sped up that ability tonight by locking him in the mausoleum overnight. Hypothetically he is seeing gore and death, but to be affective he must become desensitized to this.

Notes from incident: Klaus resistant -More fearful than I’ve ever seen him -Trying to squeeze himself through gated bars. Appears to be seeing if he has another super power he doesn’t know about. -0:36 Appears to have made first contact with dead spirits. -[covered, time] into exercise, #00.04 seems [the rest is illegible]”

Takeaway from this: -Hargreeves says “non-living” when he could just say “dead” -He also can’t spell “effective” which I wouldn’t normally point out but I hate the man so he’s fair game -The use of #00.04 instead of just #4 suggests Hargreeves had plans for way more than seven children -Klaus says he locked him in a mausoleum at 13 but he was 11 here so it happened more than once -Klaus trying to see if he had a different power is both adorable and horrifying given the circumstances -I am actually going to murder Reginald Hargreeves -”Klaus resistant”, yeah, no fucking shit (though he used his name here which is, interesting) -Seriously, protect this child

[taytei]

do you think that haggar’s shiro spy cam ever has bad connection and buffers at the most inconvenient of times?

yes, i am in fact implying that keith and lance are being pining and disgusting in front of shiro and haggar tunes in weekly  for that shit

also click on the pics for higher resolution, tumblr hates art

[roseivyrue]

KLANCE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED HOLY SHIT

[profmeowmers]

My bros I have been doing a lot of reading about Wacky WWII Hijinks lately and I want to tell you a story because I love it okay

once upon a time there was a dude in Spain named Juan Pujol Garcia. Pujol was a chicken farmer. Pujol hated him some goddamn fascists.

See Spain had recently ended its civil war, with the fascists taking power. So when WWII broke out in Europe, Spain technically remained neutral but in practice was buddy buddy with the Nazis. Juan Pujol Garcia thought this was pretty bullshit

so soon after war breaks out Pujol travels to his local British embassy and goes “hey I wanna spy on the Nazis for you”

“who the fuck are you?” say the British, and kick him out

but Pujol is not deterred! He still wants to dunk on some fascists, so now he goes to his local German embassy instead. “hey” he says, “I wanna spy on the British for you, I sure do hate them”

“yeah okay” say the Germans “that seems pretty legit”

and just like that Pujol now officially works for the Abwehr, the German intelligence agency. They hand him some spy gear (invisible ink and such) and instruct him to travel to Lisbon, and from there make his way into the UK. So Pujol heads to Lisbon, and a little while later writes to his German handlers telling them he’s made it to England

Pujol had not made it to England. He had, in fact, made it to the Lisbon public library, where he checked out a number of English guide books and set about just wholesale making shit up

this is slightly complicated by the fact that, for example, he completely did not understand British currency and all his expense reports were basically gibberish. He also reported things like bribing Scotsmen, because the people of Glasgow would “do anything for a litre of wine” (an actual quote) because, hey, people in Spain like wine so that’s probably the same right?

Here is where it starts to get really crazy, because the Abwehr loves this. “wow this dude is a great spy” they say, because apparently none of them had ever been the England either. In fact, they are so pumped about this new awesome spy that the British start to get worried

you see, by this time the British had cracked German’s supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and were totally dunking on the Nazis by reading basically all of their ~super top secret~ radio transmissions. And, crucially, they’d become so good at breaking and reading traffic that there were literally no German spies in England. The Germans would set up a spy drop (usually dropping dudes in by parachute in the middle of the night), the British would intercept the message and then just scoop the dudes up as soon as they landed in a move that must have been SUPER embarrassing to the spies

so there are no German spies in the UK because they’re all sitting in a prison run by MI5 (although some are being run under supervision as double agents, feeding Germany bullshit). But suddenly MI5 is picking up all this traffic from the Germans talking about their super great spy- a spy the British do not have in their jail

“oh shit” says MI5, and starts rereading all the transmissions they have to and from this mysterious super spy.

“hey wait” says MI5, upon actually reading the shit the spy was sending. “someone is playing silly buggers, pip pip cheerio”

At this point, Pujol, still in Lisbon, had actually been approaching the British embassy again, repeatedly, but apparently “I am literally an Abwehr agent and would like to offer you my services” wasn’t interesting enough, because he was repeatedly turned away, again. It wasn’t until MI5 started asking around that one of the embassy staff was like “oh yeah we know that guy”

so in 1942 the British finally make contact with Pujol and he officially becomes a spy for MI5. They move him to London and assign him a case officer so he can start making up even better bullshit

and he does. Once actually in London, Pujol reports to the Abwehr that he’d recruited a whole slew of informants- from a bunch of Welsh Aryans to disaffected army officers. He ends up with a network of 20+ sub-spies, all feeding him information from around the UK

none of these people actually exist

Pujol just straight up invented like 20 people, keeping careful track of their fake personalities, names, and activities. With the help of MI5, the information he sends becomes even better- a mix of true but ultimately useless facts and actually important intel timed to arrive in Germany just slightly too late to be of any use. He and his “spy network” become the Abwehr’s most trusted agents

Pujol, now codenamed Agent Garbo (for his acting skills), ends up playing a huge role in the run-up to D-Day, where the Allies mounted a huge intelligence campaign to convince Hitler that the planned site of attack was going to be Calais and not Normandy (this was Operation Fortitude and you should absolutely look it up for more Wacky WWII Adventures). Obviously you know how this ended

crazily enough, the Abwehr never figured out that Pujol was a double agent. After the war he received both the Iron Cross Second Class (which require personal authorization from Hitler), and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (from King George VI)

unable to resist being totally fucking ridiculous, Pujol turned down MI5’s post-war offer to continue spying, but this time against the USSR. “no,” he said “just help me fake my own death and then I’m moving to Venezuela”

and that’s exactly what he did. Juan Garcia Pujol died in 1988, at the age of 76

[glitterary]

Okay I’m just editing my reblog to add this picture of Juan Pujol Garcia because I feel that it adds so much to the story to picture him doing ALL THE ABOVE with this expression:

What a legend.

[resmeae]

Thank you Jess for this extremely important addendum.

[gl00myharvester]

he’s my hero and also adorable

[prudencepaccard]

This is…holy fucking shit, I have no words for how much glee this story brings me. It’s like Mother Night but not soul-crushing

[useless-catalanfacts]

He was Catalan and his real name was Joan (not Juan) Pujol i Garcia.

After the fascists won the Spanish Civil War, Spanish names were mandatory, since the Catalan language and culture were completely banned by the fascist regime, but he referred to himself as Joan. So let’s refer to him as Joan as he would have wanted, and not use the name that the Spanish fascists imposed.

Here’s an interesting interview with him from the year 1984 (in Catalan)

[marauders4evr]

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

[stltzfs-deactivated20200309]

Oh my word

You can hear it

[the-real-ted-cruz]

WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT

[caseydambro]

au where team voltron meets alternate team voltron where keith is missing instead of shiro.

[ruderobots]

This needs to happen @/dreamworks

[john-laurens]

Rewritten Hamilton lyrics round 4 - “Satisfied” edition.  AKA the one you’ve all been waiting for.

Weiterlesen

[amphibious-thing]

The Importance of ‘Dear’ as a Noun 

What does the language in Hamilton’s letters tell us about his relationships?

Using the letters Hamilton wrote that are on Founders Online I’ve been examining at how he uses the word “dear” (as well as variations “dearest”, “dr” and “chere”). Founders Online has over 7000 letters and out of those he used “dear” (or a variation) in approximately 1300 of them.

Dear as an adjective

Dear as an adjective was used commonly in the 18th century. It is a pretty versatile word. Men were commonly addressed “dear sir” or “my dear sir” this doesn’t necessarily reflect any particular affection. Hamilton uses “dear sir” or “dr. sir” in 928 of the letters, he address a range of people as such, including George Washington, his good friend James McHenry, his boss from St Croix Nicholas Cruger and Thomas Jefferson.

It was also quite common to use dear before a name or title. He addresses John Laurens as “My Dear Laurens”, Richard Kidder Meade as “My Dear Meade”, Baron von Steuben as “My Dear Baron”, Marquis de Lafayette as “My Dear Marquis”, William Duer as “My Dear Duer”, Susanna Livingston as “My Dear Miss Livingston”, his son Philip as “My Dear Philip” ect.

He might use dear in conjunction with a nickname/pet-name to show affection. He frequently addresses McHenry “My Dear Mac”. In one letter he refers to Laurens as “my Dear J”. He uses a few variations with Eliza including “My Dear Betsey”, “my Dear girl” and “My Dearest Angel”. When their son James was sick he refers to him in a letter to Eliza as “our dear sick angel”, and when John Church was sick he is “our dear lamb”.

He would also use “dear” in conjunction with the relationship he had with them. For example he refers to a range of people as “My Dear Friend” including but not limited to John Laurens, Lafayette, James McHenry, Richard Kidder Meade, Gouverneur Morris and Angelica Church. He also refers to Angelica Church as “My dear Sister” or “My Dear Sister in Law”. His daughter Angelica is addressed as “my dear daughter” ect.

Dear as a noun

The best way to explain the difference between dear as an adjective and dear as a noun is to look at Hamilton’s December 6th 1787 letter to Angelica Church. This many of you will recognise is the letter that inspired the Hamilton song Take a Brake. For those who aren’t familiar with the historical letters here is a rundown of what happened:

In her October 2nd letter to Hamilton Angelica writes:

Indeed my dear, Sir if my path was strewed with as many roses, as you have filled your letter with compliments, I should not now lament my absence from America…

Notice the comma between “dear” and “Sir”. Now this may be a mistake on Angelica’s part but Hamilton latches onto it, he writes:

You ladies despise the pedantry of punctuation. There was a most critical comma in your last letter. It is my interest that it should have been designed; but I presume it was accidental. Unriddle this if you can.

Basically what Hamilton is on about is that she wrote “my dear, Sir” rather than “my dear Sir”. In the phrase “my dear Sir”, “dear” functions as an adjective, a descriptor, he is a Sir who is dear. Thus the phrase “my dear Sir” doesn’t have romantic connotations to it, as seen above it was communally used to politely address someone. However the comma changes this, the phrase becomes “my dear”, “dear” in this instance functions as a noun, he is her dear, this makes it romantic.

Hamilton finished his letter with a flirtatious “Adieu ma chere, soeur” which translates to “Goodbye my dear, sister”. Note the comma.

The entire premiss of this flirtation is the romantic sentiments attached to the the phrase “my dear”.

With this in mind I proceeded to examine Hamiltons use of the the phrase “my dear” (and variations “my dr.”, “my dearest” and “ma chere”). In his correspondence on founders online he only uses “dear” (or variations) as a noun 9 times and only to 4 different people: Elizabeth Hamilton, Angelica Church, John Laurens and Rufus King.

First and foremost I want to address the letter to Rufus King. This is a bit of an outlier as it doesn’t seem to be a romantic letter. Hamilton addresses the letter “My Dear” however considering the context I suspect this may be a mistake. Hamilton tended to address King “My Dear Sir” or “My Dear King” so it’s possible that that is what he intended to write here.

Out of the remaining 8 letters 4 of them are to Eliza. As Eliza was his wife this is altogether unsurprising and I don’t really have much to say on this. (If anything it’s surprising there are only 4 examples however he often uses other cute pet-names like “angel” when writing Eliza which is romantic in it’s own way).

The one an only use in a letter to Angelica is the earlier example.

The remaining 3 are from letters to John Laurens.

Notably if you look at the draft for Hamilton’s April 1779 letter to Laurens you can see that he originally wrote “And Now my Dear Jack” before crossing out “Jack”. This shows a clear and purposeful choice to change “my Dear Jack” where “Dear” functions as an adjective to “my Dear” where “Dear” functions as a noun.

I will note that he has written “one” underneath with what appears to be an arrow pointing up as if he was changing it to “And Now my Dear one” however if you take a broader look at the draft you will see that “one” actually belongs to the line below.

Conclusion

So what is the point of this? One of the big problems we face when studying queer history is the change of language and how it’s used. Let’s take Hamilton’s famous opening line from his April 1779 letter to Laurens as an example.

Cold in my professions, warm in ⟨my⟩ friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m⟨ight⟩ be in my power, by action rather than words, ⟨to⟩ convince you that I love you.

As someone in the 21st century I instantly read this as a romantic sentence, however one might point out that perhaps I’m ignoring the historical context. In the 18th century unlike today it was not considered unusual for friends to write quite flowery affectionate letters to each other.

For example in his letter to Meade on the 22nd of October 1981 Laurens writes:

I embrace you tenderly: my eyes are sore, my body and mind fatigued by an uninterrupted flow of business, but as long as they exist, my friendship for you will burn with that pure flame which is kindled by your virtues_

I might counter this argument by pointing out that “by action rather than words” reads like a euphemism, however one could easily argue that it’s somewhat ambiguous. While this sentence could be read as Hamilton saying that he wishes he could show his love for Laurens through sex, it could also be read as Hamilton saying he wants to show his love for Laurens through other non-sexual actions (such as doing nice things for him).

I could argue all day that this line is clearly romantic but without some concrete understanding of what language was considered romantic it’s hard to argue the point.

Hamilton’s letter to Angelica clearly shows the romantic implications of “dear” as a noun. If it didn’t have such implications Hamilton’s entire flirtation in this letter makes no sense. If we conclude that “dear” when used as a noun is romantic, and Hamilton purposefully close to use “dear” as a noun when addressing Laurens we must conclude that Hamilton intended it to be read as romantic.

One might suggest perhaps that it is different as Laurens was a man. That when writing a women it has a romantic connotation but writing a man it doesn’t. However if this was true and the use of “dear” as a noun between two men was a common term of endearment between friends we would surely see it used more.

Stepping away from Hamilton’s letters for a moment I decided to look at some of the other letters on founders online. I didn’t look at these letters in as much detail but a quick look seemed to indicate that the most common uses of “dear” as a noun were between John Adams and his wife Abigail. While this was a very quick look I didn’t identify anymore uses between people who were not already known to be romantically involved.

Based on this research I would conclude that “dear” when used as an adjective could be romantic but definitely wasn’t always romantic, however “dear” when used as a noun carries a romantic connotation.

I would argue that we can conclude that people to whom Hamilton addressed as “my dear” (with perhaps the exception of King) were people he had romantic feelings for (or at least people he intended to suggest he had romantic feelings for).

[societyghost]

A Guide to Terminology as used by Western Males of the Species

Prude - a woman who won’t fuck you

Dyke - a woman who won’t fuck you because you have a penis

Slut - a woman who fucks other people and not you

Tease - a woman who won’t fuck you even though she smiled at you

Feminist - a woman who won’t fuck you because she has, like, thoughts and stuff

[thescienceofjohnlock]

Bitch - a woman who treats you the same as you treat women

[fiercefatfeminist]

I wish I was on my phone because I would put like a million clapping emojis under this

[mizlesbian-deactivated20180915]

historians talking about laurens and hamilton’s possible romantic relationship : ▶ 🔘──────── 00:04 
historians talking about angelica and hamilton’s possible flirtation : ▶ 🔘──────── 163:12:12

[harrv]

🤔

[ruderobots]

Season 5 of GoT was disappointing... Sansa made good progress in becoming a strong woman but then she just went back to “seasonONE-Sansa” waiting for someone to help her.

[ruderobots]

I hate long-term thinking.