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[fuckthisshitimin]

Okay, I was planning on drawing Gertrude for International Women's Day, so I

actually spent three hours watching videos about 50's/60's fashion and looking up abortion laws in the U.K (and used none of that to draw)

got through Gertrude's chronology with the wikia and re-reading the transcripts

AND LET ME TELL YOU.

In MAG 4, that is dated in March 2016, Jon says that Gertrude has been Head Archivist for over fifty years.

So we assume she got the job around/before 1965, this is the year we'll use here.

We know she bound herself to Agnes attempting a counter-ritual. When she recounts it in MAG 145 she says she "couldn't have been more than 25". Let's say she was 25.

During that "counter-ritual", she used a lock of Agnes' hair that she found in the ashes of Hill Top Road's former halfway house. This house burnt in 1974.

So in 1974, Gertrude was AT MOST 25 years old.

So in 1965... Yup, sweet 16.

In MAG 160, Jonah says "[Gertrude] told me the Desolation had killed her cat." We don't know if she was joking or not, and it would be a great joke, since, you Know. Curiosity kills the cat, it goes.

But. Imagine.

16 years old Gertrude I-will-avenge-my-cat Robinson is now Head Archivist.

[ID: A digital drawing of a young Gertrude Robinson from The Magnus Archives, and her cat Miette, in green hues.

Gertrude is a sixteen years old girl wearing high waisted jeans, square heels and a boat collar shirt. Her hair is tied in a bun. Arms crossed, she stares at the viewer through her glasses.

Behind her, amongst a black background with green eyes, is the neon green shape of her dead cat. Miette is taller than Gertrude, and her eyes are filled with flames.

Signed: Meaningless Mikhaïl

End ID.]

Imagine being a dude in academia in the 60's. You get an interview at The Magnus Institute, the big boss sends you to the archives to meet your potential future boss and this little fierce one is fighting shadows.

I know it's probably just a mistake (or I did the math very wrong) but I like to imagine random people coming into the archives looking for "Robinson" and "That's me" and "Oh, is your father in?" and "Access Request Denied".

[kuropin]

Dont lock me up for this one

[monsterboyjunction]

Saw a post and decided to fix it ^^

[weevilwoodpecker]

i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia

[chinesewednesday]

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

@achilleanauthor

[jp-nichts]

Had a funny thought while struggling through a mechwarrior mission, loosing components here and there

[jp-nichts]

While I was trying to make a version in my usual color pallet I realized I had to make some more gay looking ones for pride month

[taibhsearachd]

Donate to Keep Rev’s Natchez Tours Rolling, organized by Rob “bomber” Newson

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On the last tour, Rev was explaining the history of Forks of the Road in Natchez, Mississippi. A few people became uncomfortable and got back in the van before the presentation was finished. The subject was slavery. More specifically, one of the largest slave markets in the United States. Forks of the Road was not just a place on a map. From the 1830s until the Civil War, tens of thousands of enslaved men, women, and children were brought there from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. Many arrived after being forced to march hundreds of miles in chained “coffles” down the Natchez Trace to be sold into bondage. Historians estimate that tens of thousands—and perhaps as many as 200,000—enslaved people passed through this market. It became one of the busiest slave-trading sites in America and helped make Natchez one of the wealthiest places in the nation. (National Park Service) Some people would rather leave that history alone. We disagree. History is not something to be hidden. It is something to be understood. Rev’s tours are not about guilt. They are about truth. They are about telling the stories of people whose names were often erased, whose families were separated, and whose lives helped build the wealth and prosperity that followed. The goal is not to dwell in the past. The goal is to learn from it. That is why these tours matter. And that is why the van matters. If you have ever taken a tour with Rev, learned something new, brought a friend, or simply believe these stories deserve to be told, please consider making a contribution. Every dollar helps keep the wheels turning and the stories alive. Thank you for helping us preserve history—not the comfortable version, but the honest one.

[lilyblisslys]

I hope your vibrator runs out of battery halfway through and that the charger is on the other side of the room. And also that you die

[lilyblisslys]

@janedemonium this just made me laugh so hard I woke up the cat

[packpack-killkill]

Cape Wild Dog | Charl Stohls Photography

[professional-rat-eater]

Lestat: I am an unreliable narrator. I love to lie.

Half the audience for some reason: I can’t believe how reliable this narrator is. He would never lie to us.

[fandiagnosis]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.2

[tarmairons]

idea from dmthinkr on twitter

[justarandomart]

when your dad calls you by your full government name

kinda based off this post

[bisexualrozanov]

#girl who is clearly healed and doing okay

[taibhsearachd]

[gracerings]

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

[etherealgoob]

Where was Lestat keeping his copy of iwtv for the entire duration of the show? Does he keep it on his person at all times? He's strapped on all occasions just by chance he runs into his ex husband ???

[sweet-shut-eye]

Never been about me

[vampyre-lesbian]

matthew lillard just shared this on his instagram, he’s such an icon 🏳️‍🌈

[evergreen-rabbit]

And this is why he's the actual fucking goat