#shaun talks

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I get that there are a number of countries with red, white, and blue national colors, and only so many ways you can arrange said colors in patriotic displays, but it always hilarious to me when Americans unintentionally(?) Gallicize it.

Case in point, the US side of Niagara Falls lit up for the 4th of July:

La Fayette, nous voilà!

[shaunanon]

the king is back

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**That day that Boris wasn’t expecting to have children of his own**

SO HERE ME OUT!!!

Since I was drawing Boris on my sketchbook and I saw next to it was the Warners and thought.... what if Boris adopts the Warners??

And Bendy and Alice doesn’t know about it

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All of us need to embrace our inner Old Lady with hobbies like fibre arts, genealogy, and traditional recipes; but it's equally important to nurture our inner Old Man with such interests as painting miniatures, building models, and perhaps collecting coins.

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At the start of the year I was apparently creating steamboat-related cliffhangers in drafts on a weekly basis. Which could mean nothing.

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While I am still mad about historical men's fashion: my other pet peeve is when someone tries to do an "18th century vs. 19th century" thing, and it's literally court dress from like 1790, covered with embroidery and jewels, compared with ordinary day attire for a 19th century man.

Like. Imagine comparing the most outrageous cyber-goth club wear from the 1990s with a cheap 2010s men's business suit!

"THIS IS WHAT THE DOT COM BOOM TOOK AWAY FROM US! Men used to go to work with green plastic hair extensions and slutty fishnet tops with their tripp pants covered with bright cables and chains! Now they wear 'BUSINESS SUITS' in boring navy and black. 🙄😩💅🏻"

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Someone once summarized The Art of War by Sun Tzu as "remember to feed your army" and honestly, they're right. We act like it's some kind of semi-religious text from the Mystical East but it's a lot of practical advice along the lines of, "if your soldiers look weak and exhausted and they keep leaning on their weapons they are not getting enough food."

Anyway. I keep thinking about this kind of Obvious Advice because um. My greatest takeaway from David Clammer's book Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 is that Napoleonic Wars soldiers were not sleeping in tents??! There was a high-level decision to NOT USE TENTS, in the interest of greater mobility (and concealing the size of your force), right up until 1810 or so. The British did it, Napoleon did it too. Guys, should we be feeding the soldiers AND preventing them from dying from exposure? Tough call...

At least in the War of 1812, if you didn't have tents it meant something went very wrong (baggage never arrived, roads are impassible, etc.)

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I didn't say a name but you're thinking about him...