#wicked fun

[kiemiestas]

made a gif to celebrate susie coming out as bostonian

[stimtickle]

Keep it Creepy…💀🦇🍁

[blackswaneuroparedux]

This myth called bravery, which is half-panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can’t be a hero and bad. There’s practically a law against it.**

- - Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE 

**George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman    

[luciferonvacation]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.

- Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE

A guilty pleasure to read the legendary comic adventures of the colonial rogue Harry Flashman. Read the Flashman Papers series before they get cancelled.

**George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman at the charge

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.**

- Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE 

Between the late 1960s and early 2000s, British historian, newspaper man, and World War II veteran George Macdonald Fraser wrote and published a series of eleven novels and one short story anthology following the military exploits of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the infamous bully from 1857 English classic novel Tom Brown’s School Days.

It turned out that, after being expelled from Rugby School in the late 1830s, Flashman had joined the 11th Hussars and gone on to become one of England’s most decorated war heroes. The Flashman Papers are his purported memoirs. Through Flashman’s eyes Fraser explores all of Victorian military history, from the Kabul Retreat to the Boer War. He was there for it all.

Fraser’s intention was to capture - in a readable modern style - the realities of British colonialism, not just in action, but in thought and speech. Harry Flashman himself is a lying, bullying, toadying, lecherous poltroon, who, by virtue of cowardice and good luck, emerges from each adventure looking like a hero - which only brings about more trouble in the end.

This conceit has been much-plagiarised since the release of Flashman in the 1960s. Readers of this blog might be most familiar with Sandy Mitchell’s Ciaphas Cain series, which is an adaptation of Flashman into the 41st Millennium.

Although a brilliant grounding principle for a series of military literature, The Papers is solid in its execution. What makes the series so brilliant is, in actuality, its historical basis, and its superb writing.

There is little chance such a series would ever be published in our present silly political climate of micro-agressions and being easily triggered. It’s ripe target for the humourless cancellation brigade. Read it before the books get cancelled.

Anyone interested in colonialism and Victorian military history needs to read these books. They are, in many ways, as well-researched and accurate as any textbook ever published on the subject. You will not find a single historical error in any of the books–outside of Flashman himself, of course, the damn rogue.

**George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game    

[midnightbreeze13]

[legendhasit]

Black Party

I am the dark knight, Fuck a bat signal, right I stole the Batmobile and got stopped for running a traffic light The cops pulled me out, told me not to put up a fight, Cuz my breath caused the breathalyzer test to ignite

They can’t hold me, shadows mold me Hiding in plain sight, like a corner fold, see? Darker than Black, the swan is back with an ugly duckling plucking the feathers to match my jacket made myself a fucking hat after I removed the skin with a hatchet

Sass is a class act What’s jazzy as black on black? The baddest witch bitches of Salem promote the black cat Is that a fact?

Got a greyhound named Fenrir at the track Who used to be a guy named Tony addicted to blackjack and crack It’s okay now he’s winning races to pay off his debt to me Instead of hiding, relying on Winchesters to come get to me

Bitch please

We stay prepared, Tarot cards with the truth on deck Demons calling us up to invest and write checks Damned or blessed? Depending on the troops that you rally Either way you don’t  wanna meet me in a Dark Alley