TheKungFuHustler

Let's mock the midnight bell. Erin, now an age '60's Bob Dylan would consider 'untrustable.' This is a collection of my obsessions. I intended for a balance of beauty, music, feminism, and animals but it's generally a Tom Hardy and Jai Courtney wank-bank with history and/or animal content.

[mariacallous]

[hyzenthlayroseart]

I've been wanting to draw book-accurate Carrie White for a long time and finally got around to it. I love Brian De Palma's film adaptation and Sissy Spacek's portrayal of Carrie in it with all my heart but Carrie in the book was fat, unattractive and covered in acne and obviously Sissy Spacek's Carrie wasn't any of that. Every other adaptation of the book also cast actresses who didn't resemble book!Carrie, and there's an upcoming miniseries adaptation made by Mike Flanagan (who I am a fan of) but once again they cast a thin actress :/

I love how she turned out here. In the last photo she's using her telekinesis, I was gonna draw another prom photo in between those two where she's reacting in horror to the pig blood that's just been spilled on her but I ran out of room and honestly got too tired lmao. Maybe I'll make that into a solo drawing someday.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 13 July 1921, the Tennessee state holiday Nathan Bedford Forrest Day was first observed, celebrating the 100th birthday of the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was also a war criminal responsible for the murder of hundreds of mostly Black Union soldiers during the American civil war. Confederate forces under Forrest's control carried out the Fort Pillow massacre of 1864, when they slaughtered hundreds of unarmed Union soldiers who had surrendered. They murdered most of the Black soldiers and roughly one third of the whites: burning some alive, crucifying others and hacking people to death. One Confederate soldier described events in a letter to his family: "The slaughter was awful. Words cannot describe the scene. The poor deluded negroes would run up to our men fall upon their knees and with uplifted hands scream for mercy but they were ordered to their feet and then shot down. The white men fared but little better. Their fort turned out to be a great slaughter pen. Blood, human blood stood about in pools and brains could have been gathered up in any quantity." After the war Forrest became the first national leader of the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan, helping lead a wave of terroristic violence, torture and murder against Black people and white Republican voters. In June 2020, the Tennessee state government voted to continue to observe his birthday as a holiday, although under pressure from a national wave of Black-led anti-racist protests, they did amend the law slightly so that the governor does not have to personally sign a proclamation to him each year. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8483/tennessee-celebrates-kkk-leader Photo by Brent Moore

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

The way the American Civil War was remembered and subsequently how it is now written about and interpreted reflects an intense struggle between Victorian romanticism and the fraught birth of the modern world.

Think of the way Robert E. Lee is often described by authors and historians, even those who favor the Union, and how he is often described in terms that would not be out of place in describing a medieval knight (gallant, chivalric, gentlemanly). The way the war in some sense was a struggle between the past (represented by the sharply hierarchical agrarian south with its aristocracies and slave labor) and the future (the industrial, forward-thinking, more friendly toward the concept of egalitarianism north who valued the idea of being self-made, in many ways the birthplace of the “American dream”), and the way the idea of the Confederacy seduces people who don’t know the issues of the war well (or who care more about the aesthetics) through its gauzy visuals and ideas of ideas not unlike the Victorian medieval revival. A lot of Civil War buffs who fanboy over the Confederate generals seem to talk and think of the war almost like a gentleman’s game. Lee himself is a borderline mythological figure as the public knows him nowadays, more idea than man. The Confederate military history focus on sweeping battlefield tactics also reflects on this.

You contrast that with Ulysses S. Grant, considered one of the first modern generals if not the modern general, who saw war as something to quickly and efficiently bring to a close, and how he’s perceived. His prewar stumbling in life, his alcoholism, rough manners, function over form sensibilities. There’s more of a practicality there when one examines Grant and his fellows at the head of the Union army. They were modern men fighting a modern war and struggling to deliver the complicated birth of modernity.

The ultimate visualization of this that I always think about and go back to is April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House where Lee surrendered in full ceremonial dress to a Grant wearing a uniform splattered with mud. The proud, impeccably dressed son of an old moneyed Virginia family who holds the distinction of having graduated West Point without a single demerit surrendering to a humble, mud-splattered Ohioan raised by self-made parents who’d been forced out of the military due to his drinking and struggled to make a living until the military took him back.

[pagecommando]

I think what we need to do is view Lee as the High Water Mark of Virginian influence and a shifting away from it. (Family was storied, etc) There's a compelling argument to be made that Early America (Colonial era to owes more to Virginia social elements and politics than most popular history is able to discuss simply due to the time and effort involved let alone the issues of slavery and factionalism, and Lee's whole upbringing and family down to his fashion is a discussion of that. Pop history also tries to seat Lee as JUST a soldier ignoring his political activism and until recently his awful treatment of his own slaves. Grant is a midwestern small business failure who struggled at times (General Order 11) but ultimately was a transformative president in terrifying times, and fell short AS POTUS because ALL presidents fall short and Grant was human, but he tried as both general and statesman. So Lee tried to play the "Bluff Honest Soldier"

AMERICA MADE IN VIRGINIA: 250 YEARS TOGETHER

This July 4th, AMERICA MADE IN VIRGINIA: 250 YEARS TOGETHER celebrates the nation’s Semiquincentennial with a star-filled tribute set in the

Lee died as president of Washington College and in my opinion, used it to launder his legacy as an "Upright Christian Soldier Gentleman"

Robert E. Lee’s Financial Impact on Washington College — The W&L Spectator

By Catherine Roach   As Washington and Lee students, we see the mark that Robert E. Lee made everyday as we walk by Lee Chapel or ob

Lee was an owner 'cruel by the standards of the day'

An Unpleasant Legacy - Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

[senatortedcruz]

Our daily moral panic about muh birth rates becomes so much darker when you learn how much of it is the sharp decrease in teen pregnancy

[bisexualhunterbiden]

This plus the fact that they are actually NOT happy that more 40+ year old women are getting pregnant (in no small part due to the increasing availability of fertility treatments and IVF).

They don't want you to have 3 kids in your 30s to early 40s. They want you to have 3 kids by the time you're 22.

[victusinveritas]

Sam Neill just died. Holy fuck.

A Kiwi icon - the world reacts to Sam Neill’s death

Sam Neill has died in hospital, his family said in a statement on Monday.

[oneheadtoanother]

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

The way the American Civil War was remembered and subsequently how it is now written about and interpreted reflects an intense struggle between Victorian romanticism and the fraught birth of the modern world.

Think of the way Robert E. Lee is often described by authors and historians, even those who favor the Union, and how he is often described in terms that would not be out of place in describing a medieval knight (gallant, chivalric, gentlemanly). The way the war in some sense was a struggle between the past (represented by the sharply hierarchical agrarian south with its aristocracies and slave labor) and the future (the industrial, forward-thinking, more friendly toward the concept of egalitarianism north who valued the idea of being self-made, in many ways the birthplace of the “American dream”), and the way the idea of the Confederacy seduces people who don’t know the issues of the war well (or who care more about the aesthetics) through its gauzy visuals and ideas of ideas not unlike the Victorian medieval revival. A lot of Civil War buffs who fanboy over the Confederate generals seem to talk and think of the war almost like a gentleman’s game. Lee himself is a borderline mythological figure as the public knows him nowadays, more idea than man. The Confederate military history focus on sweeping battlefield tactics also reflects on this.

You contrast that with Ulysses S. Grant, considered one of the first modern generals if not the modern general, who saw war as something to quickly and efficiently bring to a close, and how he’s perceived. His prewar stumbling in life, his alcoholism, rough manners, function over form sensibilities. There’s more of a practicality there when one examines Grant and his fellows at the head of the Union army. They were modern men fighting a modern war and struggling to deliver the complicated birth of modernity.

The ultimate visualization of this that I always think about and go back to is April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House where Lee surrendered in full ceremonial dress to a Grant wearing a uniform splattered with mud. The proud, impeccably dressed son of an old moneyed Virginia family who holds the distinction of having graduated West Point without a single demerit surrendering to a humble, mud-splattered Ohioan raised by self-made parents who’d been forced out of the military due to his drinking and struggled to make a living until the military took him back.

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 6 days 15 hours

[thekungfuhustler]

I mean America was colonized by all three but England led directly to the founding of the nation.

[shirleyjacksons]

sounds like ass 🩷 how much do you want to bet carrie won’t purposefully kill anyone in this version

[shirleyjacksons]

i hate this motherfucker so much oh my god. will this series finally be the wake up call for the horror community to stop sucking his dick

[thekungfuhustler]

Sounds terrible but holding out hope for a fat Carrie, finally.

[70sscifiart]

Break time

[70sscifiart]

[70sscifiart]

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[grumpierbilbo]

1. God Speed by Edmund Blair Leighton (1900) 2. The Arming and Departure of the Knights by Edward Burne-Jones (1890s) 3. Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail by Arthur Hughes (1870) (the rest of the series)

[mini-wrants]

The love so many women are pouring on that weird looking Norwegian is proof to me that women are more that willing to fuck the ugly guy if he’s even a tiny bit funny/has a personality.

Men who complain about women only going for “6’5 finance bros” are getting clowned on by a professional soccer playing alien because he drops funny tweets and hugs his fellow players.

[mini-wrants]

The thing about pro athletes is that lots of them have bodies that are perfect for their sport, and that also makes them objectively weird looking. You might occasionally get a swimmer with a face like Ryan Lochte for example, but every other swimmer looks like their face was made with stretched out playdoh, which is great for their sport, but not conventionally attractive.

That so many women are falling all over the dude who’s paler than a ghost with a hammered looking face and not the hotties with bodies because boulder-faced dude has a sense of humor on his insta account has to mean something.

There are lots of much hotter soccer stars, but this dude sometimes makes jokes and puts a silly hat on!

[mini-wrants]

Tumblrinas are consistently falling head over heels for freaks and gremlins and retconning them as hot because their special alien/gremlin has a sense of humor and also believes in abortion rights and women working outside the home.

[maswartz]

[mizuthe-cat]

I wish I had this hat

[couldntbedamned]

If you come across anyone who starts off with "Scientists don't want you to know..." you need to understand that they're lying. They're completely full of shit and working a grift.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Scientists WANT YOU TO KNOW. Scientists want you to know SO MUCH. Scientists would be THRILLED to teach you EVERYTHING they know in EXPLICIT DETAIL. Scientists LOVE to share information and their findings and their theories. They don't want to hide anything, ever. They are SO HAPPY to share.

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Same goes for historians. I’n a historian and my favorite thing is talking to people about history.

Literally my entire career as a historian is dedicated to sharing history with as many people as possible

[iamsuuuuuuupertired]

Second historian here! Echoing prev but also like if you want to talk conspiracies cause it scratches a particular itch, how about asking experts where to look? Cause I'm not particularly interested in spending two hours deep diving UFO sightings but I am happy to direct you to "do your own research" on the Digital National Security Archive (access through your closest academic library) or filing a Freedom of Information Act request, which anyone can do for free!