#savoyard

[baebeylik]

Savoyard Helmet (Todenkopf). Italy or Germany, 1600-1620 CE.

The Cleveland Museum of Art.

[armthearmour]

An Oakeshott type XI Arming Sword with an original scabbard,

OaL: 41.3 in/105 cm

Weight: 2.5 lbs/1130 g

Savoy, France, ca. 1200-1250, case ca. 1434-1438, housed at the Reale Armeria, Torino.

[eato]

[absentminded-dressmaker]

I’ve Got a Little List... My Gilbert and Sullivan Queer Headcanons

Soooooooooooo I have lots of thoughts on this and it’s high time I wrote them down instead of giving TED Talks about it in the shower. In this essay list, I’ll go into all my LGBT ships, headcannons, and stage interpretations I’d like to see from all* the Savoy Operas.

*excluding the eugenics-y ones because ugh. And the ‘reunion shows’ because I can’t be bothered to care about them.

Trial By Jury

I headcanon the defendant as pan. Or maybe that’s just ‘will fuck/flirt with any living thing’

The Sorcerer

Wells as a they/them, no I will not elaborate. Just trust me.

HMS Pinafore

Sometimes I like to think that some of the sisters and cousins and aunts have wives and girlfriends, and that’s why there’s so goddamn many women around ;)

Pirates of Penzance

I’d love to see an interpretation with a bisexual Ruth who is chasing the major general’s daughters along with all the pirates. If there was a daughter who was into it that’d be especially neat. (Maybe Ruth could even portrayed as a butch lesbian, but that contradicts some plot elements. I don’t care.)

Patience

For as long as I’ve been aware of aspec labels, I’ve considered Patience to be ace. You CANNOT fight me on this one. Specifically, asexual-demiromantic, but I could also see her and Grosvenor being an alterous couple.

And we all know good old Bunthorne is really just Oscar Wilde, so I just have to assume that he’s at the very least bi. Someone ought to write an alternate ending where Lady Jane ends up alone and one of the duke-colonel-major trio ending up with Bunthorne.

Iolanthe

Iolanthe’s choruses are very strictly gendered (common for G and S) with the women all being fairies and the men all being humans. But Strephon is half a fairy and half a human. For this reason, I would just die to see an interpretation of them as being genderqueer in one way or another. I want to see an enby and/or gnc Strephon so bad!

Also, in this house we ship Mounterarat and Tolloller, but that goes without saying.

Ruddigore

I’d kind of like an AU where Robin identifies as female (cis or trans, pick your poison) and Rose is pan. I know a maid who loves a little maid... the pining would be *chef’s kiss*

Yeoman of the Guard

I don’t have much for this one because the romantic pairings change so often and people are in disguise and it all confuses me, but I think Kate would do nicely with a girlfriend.

The Gondoliers

Shipping Giuseppe and Marco and/or Tessa and Gianetta is obvious, but I think that you could also headcanon/AU them as poly. In fact, I think they are, like, legally, forcibly poly in the show.

If you’ve got anything to add lmk! I love G and S discourse and it’s hard to come by <3

[grandboute]

Opinel

[francepittoresque]

[BRÈVE] L'ours Marco : animal au grand coeur du duc de Lorraine ► http://j.mp/2kUSvz4 Le duc de Lorraine Léopold Ier possédait un ours appelé Marco qui, durant l'hiver 1709 fit preuve d'une intelligence et d'une sensibilité dont bien des hommes peu charitables pourraient s'inspirer pour s'amender

[alpexperience]

Tartiflette

Tartiflette is one of our favourite things to cook and serve to our guests (and, of course, eat ourselves)! It always goes down a treat, and whenever we go home friends and family want us to make it for them! It's a fantastic local Savoyard dish and a staple throughout French ski resorts. Made up of potatoes, lardons and melted cheese, what is there not to love? ...I believe the answer you are looking for here is "nothing!" Although the main ingredients stay the same, the recipe for tartiflette can vary; some add cream, some don't use garlic. Everyone has their own way of cooking tartiflette, and we thought we'd share our recipe with you. The dish uses reblochon cheese, a cheese made from cows milk in the Savoie region of France. If you're struggling to get hold of reblochon in the UK, a mix of Gruyere and brie will work just as well.   This recipe makes one large tartiflette, and serves roughly 6 people.

Tartiflette Ingredients: 1kg large Charlotte potatoes, peeled 200g lardons 2 shallots/1 large onion, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, crushed 100ml white wine 100ml cream 1 whole Reblochon cheese, sliced Black pepper and salt   Method: Pre-heat the oven to 180C (fan oven). Boil the potatoes in salted water until cooked, but still hold their shape (about 10 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes, you can test by pricking with a knife, if the potato slides off easily, it is done). Drain potatoes and leave to cool. Add the lardons to a hot frying pan, then add the chopped shallots and garlic and fry until slightly browned. Season with pepper, then deglaze the pan with white wine and continue to cook until most of the wine has cooked off. Slice the potatoes thinly and then begin to layer into a large oven proof dish (I sue my favourite blue lasagne dish) with the lardons. I usually do a thin layer of potatoes on the bottom followed by half the lardon mixture, another layer of potatoes, the rest of the lardons and then a final layer of potatoes, but really you can layer them however you want! Pour over the cream and season with plenty of black pepper. Slice the Reblochon cheese and cover the layered potatoes with the slices. Bake in the oven for about 30-40mins, or until the cheese is golden and bubbling on top. Serve with a fresh green salad dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, cornichons (mini gherkins), charcuterie (we like a mix of jambon cru, coppa, rossette de lyon, ham and saucission) and plenty of French bread for dipping! Perfect! Now you can cook up a little taste of the Alps at home!           Read the full article

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