#personal details

[intelligentchristianlady]

CBP considers requiring tourists’ social media history to enter U.S.

The administration is considering requiring some international visitors to provide five years of their social media activity.

PSA. The personal details that would be required are extremely invasive and disturbing.

Warn your foreign friends and relatives.

[bethanydelleman]

I haven't read much about Jane Austen's personal life, but do you know if at some point in her life she and her family could realistically have been acquainted with someone like Darcy (the almost millionaire nephew of an earl) to get inspiration to write the character?

Darcy is likely better than a millionaire, but to answer your question: yes.

Jane Austen was a member of the gentry and she attended balls and lived in Bath for a time, likely meeting many wealthy people. But more importantly, her brother, Edward Austen Knight, became the heir of a very wealthy family (similar to Frank Churchill in Emma). He inherited three estates and had a yearly income of around £15,000 per year. Here is some more information about him.

Austen also had two brothers in the navy, both of whom eventually became admirals and they attested to the accuracy of her Portsmouth scenes in Mansfield Park. And two of her brothers (I believe) were clergymen just like many of her male characters. She really wrote what she knew!

[falling-down-the-scroll-hole]

[kshithi-and-stories]

Introduction

My name is Kshithi. It means the Earth in Sanskrit language. 

I identify myself as a female. 

I love stories. At any point of time there are at least 10 new stories in my head. One day I want to send these stories out to the world.

I know how to speak, write, and read three languages. English is not my native language.  Please expect some grammatical errors.

My AO3 id: muggle_diary

My AO3 works : https://archiveofourown.org/users/Muggle_Diary 

My current favorite story is Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. 

This is an anti-jiang cheng and anti-madam yu blog.

ASKs are open. 

[manikas-whims]

Tagged by @gone-daddy-gone

1. Birthday: 18th April

2. Zodiac: Aries but my major sign is Leo (chinese zodiac: Ox)

3. Height: Pfffttt! I'm a shortie xD

4. Last song I listened to: Filter by BTS Jimin (check out, its addictive ♡)

5. Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Playing games, listening to music (i listen to anything regardless of the language, as long as i like it)

6. Last movie I watched: Parasite

7. Favorite Book/Writer: Paulo Coelho (all his books are so inspiring)

8. Dream Job: Journalist, Writer

9. Fav Color: Blue, Black, Grey (honestly all colors make me feel different emotions)

10. Meaning of my name: lolz, so my name basically represents a myth. In our Indian mythology, it is believed that King Cobra (yes, the snake) has a gemstone on its head which is supposed to give it powers, hence making him "King"

So my name means "the gemstone on Cobra"

(i know weird xD )

Tagging some people i follow, so if you don't wanna do it, you are free to ignore ☺

@arirna @hitsuhinalover @kirimina-x-izuocha-x-bakucamies @mandakkoo @notimeliketoday @whatthehorsedoicallthisblog

[titleknown]

So does this mean you're Thomas Franklin Johnson of Tucson AZ, born the 17th of April 1992?

...Yes. Which, I’m pretty sure I’ve given all that info out on the blog. Tho it slightly spooks me that at least one person kept those scattered pieces all together in their head...

[napoleondidthat]

To draw closer to the Emperor, let us first examine his appearance. Picturing his facial features is not an easy proposition since none of the portraits can be trusted to show his true likeness. Dubbed "small puss in boots" by Josephine, Napoleon was not actually as short as legend has led us to believe. At 1.69m tall (roughly five and a half feet), he was the average height for his time. All of the known measurements agree to within a few millimeters, including post mortem measurements taken by the doctor on Saint Helena who recorded a height of 5 pieds, 2 pouces, 4 lignes (equivalent to 1.686m or five feet 5.5 inches).

Bonaparte was slim at the time of the Revolution but grew fatter with age and fortune. As Emperor, he got shorter and wider and hated it. He had a rather high and prominent forehead, with brown hair thinning around the temples--fine, soft hair, albeit in short supply. He often changed his hairstyle. From the Consulate onward he is depicted with short neck-length hair. In Italy he had long free-flowing hair, loosely gathered in a pigtail. When he cut his hair, Napoleon acquired the look that is now part of legend. His soldiers, always quick to notice what their leader did, immediately nicknamed him Petit Tondu ("little shaveling"). Napoleon being the only general of the time who eschewed the fashion for thick, flowing locks.

A "piercing gaze that went right through you" is how people described meeting Napoleon's steely blue-gray eyes. Being short-sighted, he sometimes needed opera glasses to see properly and always kept a pair about his person. In his desk he kept a pair of eyeglasses and pince-nez.

Napoleon had a finely drawn mouth, with evenly proportioned lips that shut tight when he was in a bad mood but opened in a broad smile when he was being charming. His teeth were not particularly straight but very white and in very good condition.

Napoleon had an aquiline profile with a nose worthy of an ancient Greek bust. An irreproachable nose in every way, so very sensitive that vinegar and Agarwood had to be burnt in the Emperor's bedchamber.

The head under the hat was on the large side, 22 pouces (inches) in circumference. It was long rather than wide with slightly flattened temples and very sensitive to the touch. His ears were "small and perfectly formed". His neck was short, his shoulders were rounded and his chest was broad and largely hairless. His legs were well turned and shapely thighs. His hands were also very beautiful and always protected by kid gloves or gloves made of reindeer leather, thicker gloves when he went horseback riding. Despite habitually biting his nails when impatient or preoccupied, Napoleon took great care of his hands like every other aspect of his appearance.

Napoleon had a strong voice, no doubt a product of army life, but he was incapable of singing in tune. He loved to sing just the same would often be heard humming or whistling to himself when he was in a good mood, particularly as he got dressed in the morning. Not content merely to murder popular ditties, Napoleon also murdered the French language. He often made mistakes when speaking, such as failing to make the liasion between a consonant and a vowel, or adding the letter "t" to the third person singular or the letter "s" to the first person singular in the future tense. Did he speak with a strong Corsican/Italian accent? History doesn't say. All we know for sure is that he spoke with an Italian-like intonation, placing the stress on the final syllable.

--Xavier Aiolfi, historian. Napoleon A Private View, page 141.

[confused-but-smooth-blog]

Talking to people from the internet

What my parents think I do:

Oooooh, here you go, have my passport and my ID, this is my address and phone number and you can have my house keys and credit card too if you want!!!

What I actually do:

Soooo, do you like Oreos or nah?