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ENTJ | part-time Gryffindor | wed to history Loves Napoleonic-era tall ships, War of the Roses, Henry V, and the occasional squirrel. law school ate my life

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[the-library-and-step-on-it]

ANTHEMS FOR DOOMED YOUTHS

Songs for and poems by the war poets.

1. Anthem For Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen) - Sean Bean   |   2. The Half-Killed - Dario Marianelli   |   3. The Last Laugh (Wilfred Own) - Sean Bean   |   4. Panic Attack - Turin Brakes   |   5. Attack (Siegfried Sassoon) - Gemma Arterton   |   6. Elegy For Dunkirk - Dario Marianelli   |   7. Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Own) - Christopher Eccleston   |   8.  Broken Crown - Mumford & Sons   |   9. How To Kill (Keith Douglas) - Noel Clarke   |   10. Letters - Yann Tiersen   |   11. Arms and the Boy (Wilfred Own) - Gemma Arterton   |   12. Well Worn Hand - Editors   |   13. Suicide In The Trenches (Siegfried Sassoon) - Stephen Graham   |   14. Shallow Grave - The Tallest Man On Earth   |   15. In Times Of Peace (John Agard) - Noel Clarke   |   16. After The Bombs - The Decemberists   |   17. Last Post (Carol Ann Duffy) - Vicky McClure   |   18. Home From War - Frightened Rabbit   |   19. The Dug Out (Siegfried Sassoon) - Sophie Okondeo   |   20. Ghosts That We Knew - Mumford & Sons   |   21. The Soldier (Rupert Brooke) - Sophie Okondeo   |   22. Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) - Laura Marling   |   Bonus: The Soldiering Life - The Decemberists

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[charmingnotion]

Harrison Ford photographed by Nancy Ellison

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

It is said that, during the fantasy book in the late eighties, publishers would maybe get a box containing two or three runic alphabets, four maps of the major areas covered by the sweep of the narrative, a pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters and, at the bottom of the box, the manuscript. Please… there is no need to go that far. There is a term that readers have been known to apply to fantasy that is sometimes an unquestioning echo of better work gone before, with a static society, conveniently ugly ‘bad’ races, magic that works like electricity and horses that work like cars. It’s EFP, or Extruded Fantasy Product. It can be recognized by the fact that you can’t tell it apart form all the other EFP. Do not write it, and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees. Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. If assured that the Queen of the Fairies has a necklace made of broken promises, ask yourself what it looks like. If there is magic, where does it come from? Why isn’t everyone using it? What rules will you have to give it to allow some tension in your story? How does society operate? Where does the food come from? You need to know how your world works. I can’t stress that last point enough. Fantasy works best when you take it seriously (it can also become a lot funnier, but that’s another story). Taking it seriously means that there must be rules. If anything can happen, then there is no real suspense. You are allowed to make pigs fly, but you must take into account the depredations on the local bird life and the need for people in heavily over-flown areas to carry stout umbrellas at all times. Joking aside, that sort of thinking is the motor that has kept the Discworld series moving for twenty-two years.

“Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” (2007), Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

[history-of-fashion]

1808 Francois Gerard - Caroline Murat and her Children

[history-of-fashion]

1598 Agostino Carracci - Ann Parolini Guicciardini

[buttrockerbitches]

i’m watching this documentary about halloween and there’s a part where they’re explaining that ghost stories got really popular around the civil war no one could really deal with how many people went off and died and

the narrator just said 

“the first ghost stories were really about coming home”

fuck 

[buckleupbones]

#but wow let me tell you about how the american civil war changed the whole culture of grief and death  #because before that people died at home mostly  #where their family saw them die and held their body and had proof they were really dead and it was a process  #but during the war people left and never came home their bodies never came back there was no proof  #people died in new horrific ways on the battlefield literally vaporized by cannonballs or lost in swamps and eaten by wild animals  #and there were NO BODIES to send home  #and people simply couldn’t grasp that their son or father or husband was really gone  #there are stories about people spending months searching for their loved ones  #convinced they couldn’t be dead if there were no body they were simply lost or hurt and they needed to be saved and brought home  #embalming also really started during the civil war as a way for bodies to be brought home as intact as possible  #wow i just wowowow the culture of death and grief and stuff during this time period is fascinating and sad  #history  (via souryellows)

[glumshoe]

#quietly reblogs own tags  #also the civil war was when dog tags and national cemetaries became a thing  #and during the war there was n real system in place to notify families of the deaths  #like they’d find out maybe from letters from soldiers who were there when their loved one died nd stuff  #but there was no real system  #and battlefield ambulances were basically invented because so many people died on the battlefield when they could have been saved if they co  #…could have been moved frm the battlefield to a hospital  #like there was this one really inlfuential dude whose son died that way and he became dedicated to getting an ambulance system in place  

[thehighestpie-blog]

I’m not doing this in the correct tag-style, but.

IIRC, the Civil War also played a huge part in forming the modern American conception of heaven as this nice, domestic place where you’re reunited with your loved ones.  People (particularly mothers) responded to the trauma of brother-killing-brother by imagining an afterlife in which families would once again be happy together.

[pilferingapples]

(also not doing this in the correct tag-style, because I wanna KNOW— )What documentary is this? Or is there more than one? Any books on the subject? THIS IS FASCINATING.

[elizastrange]

cool (ghost) story, bro.

[mswyrr-deactivated20181203]

reblogging because, as a us history phd student, i want to say YAY for how much of this is totally on point. i also want to rec the book where a lot of this is covered very, very well, which is Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”

a lot of books on the Civil War are deadly dull because they’re about battles and shit, but as a transformative moment in mindset and ideology, it becomes *fascinating*

the other book I’d even more highly rec is David W. Blight’s “Race and Reunion,” which is about how the “(white) brother against (white) brother” image of the war was invented and how throwing African Americans to the merciless viciousness of post-Reconstruction racist whites was part of constructing this “oh everybody was white men and everybody was noble let’s celebrate them all” approach to Civil War remembrance

very good stuff

[pilferingapples]

Thank you! This looks like exactly the sort of reading I’m after! *adds to wish list*

[mazarin221b]

Also, look for David Blights recordings of his Yale  lecture series on The Civil War. 21 hours of class lectures, and its FASCINATING. He barely touches on the battles other than to use them as timestamps as to what was going on. Most of it focuses on what the mindset of everyone was going into the war, and what happened on the way out. It’s an amazing series that will change your entire perception of the war - how it happened, and how it wasn’t going to be possible to avoid it, because of the inherent evil of slavery and how it was destroying damn near *everyone* except rich white people.

[mswyrr-deactivated20181203]

I didn’t know about the free Blight lectures. You can listen to them here:

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119

They look awesome!

[sennkestra]

There’s also this PBS documentary, which I’m guessing is based on the book mentioned above (I’m watching it now): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/death/

[hearthlyconcerns]

@graveskeeper, I had to check and make sure this wasn’t your post

[fotojournalismus]

The full moon rises behind the columns of the ancient marble Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, southeast of Athens, on June 20, 2016. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

[sunne-in-splendour]

We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are "isolated." They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere. . . They are the ones who recognize that unlawful police stops corrode all our civil liberties and threaten all our lives. Until their voices matter too, our justice system will continue to be anything but.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting in Utah v. Strieff, No. 14-1373 (Jun. 20, 2016)

Opinion here. 

[vulpemarshmallow]

Pretty Girls Make (Higher) Grades

In a study of students at a Colorado university, attractiveness in women was linked to better grades. But, the difference disappeared for online classes.

The researchers found that the women judged as least attractive earned significantly lower grades, after controlling for their ACT scores. The best-looking women earned higher grades. And, male professors were more likely than female professors to give better-looking women higher grades.

But here’s what the study’s lead author, Rey Hernández-Julián, calls the “key finding”: When these same exact students took online courses, where appearance is not an issue, the benefits of being pretty all but disappeared.

[radroachmeat2-deactivated202012]

Jesus fucking christ

[angrylatinxsunited]

This is disgusting.

[radio-freedunmovin-deactivated2]

I enjoyed the clever Smiths reference in the headline, but this is so dehumanizing.

[critic-corner]

Kangana Ranaut’s photoshoot for ‘Manish Malhotra’ : Lately, I’ve been loving Manish Malhotra’s designs so getting a royal themed shoot from this designer was absolutely amazing. Kangana nailed it effortlessly and the set decoration couldn’t be better. I just feel that a tad bit of more light would have brought the designs in attention because at the end, that’s what the whole campaign is about.

[thepigeongazette]

Viva la ramen~~~

[squeeful]

Tag yourself. I’m MSG-laced unicorn blood.

[humansofnewyork]

“We don’t have any hobbies. But we do try to get together a few times a month to judge people and complain about things.”

[melodyandviolence]

January Morning - St. Petersburg by  Ed Gordeev

[dailybrussels]

[princesspenumbra]

“Queen of Kings” Editorial - Moustache Magazine

[history-of-fashion]

1812 Francois-Xavier Fabre - Portrait of sculptor Antonio Canova