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You are safe in the arms of the T. You will not drown in groundwater four stories below ground. You will not be crushed. Your fate is not to smother in trash fire smoke. The T watches over you. The T will nurture you. Place your life in the open hands of the T. Look into my tracks. What do you see? The sleekest, fattest, healthiest rat you’ve ever seen. Could a crumbling public transit infrastructure house such a rat? Charlie is long dead. You will escape from here

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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The Grossglockner by Edward Theodore Compton

#i love how much the glaciers look like the sea #mountains

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Swords rated by sexiness:

Broadsword <- Not for me but I guess if you're into bears

Rapier <- This one’s sexy but like a little too sexy. I wouldn't approach a rapier at a bar

Longsword <- Handsome but boring. Almost too boring to mention

Flamberge <- Huge show-off, kinda want to knock the flamberge down a peg, but in a sexy way

That’s all the swords I know thanks for coming

#you're so right about cavalry sabres #swords

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this part of the gift of the emperor is always so funny to me "not unlike jealousy" girl you wrote several paragraphs about it

#bunny no #crime and cricket

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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

#ironic considering this post's phrasing: #moby dick

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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

#i should buy another sword

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Bothering the beast

#i miss living with cats 😭 #i want to bother a beast

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I was doing my usual Sunday night search for miwackulous tyes when I found this charming c. 1850 daguerreotype (Met collection).

I am quite sure this has been shared on tumblr more than once—and the pose was even referenced for a James Clark Ross/Francis Crozier piece, if I recall correctly—but it can't hurt to share it again! These men are arranged in such an intimate manner, well beyond the usual physical contact that was the norm in 19th century male portraiture, even the Met has to speculate:

This portrait shows two young men in a tender embrace, their thighs entwined, sharing a suggestive moment before the camera. Are they lovers? Perhaps, but more likely this photograph is an example of the natural and unselfconscious intimacy and physical contact that men enjoyed in a pre-Freudian era.

Lovers or, as they say, very good friends? It's interesting that they felt comfortable enough to strike this pose in a photography studio! (As others have pointed out, quite a few 19th century men who were definitely queer avoided cosy portraits like this one... too revealing, perhaps). Either way, their neckwear is impressive.

#miwackulous tye monday #queer history

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you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.

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AN EXTREMELY RARE EMBROIDERED 'PEACOCK FEATHER' CAPE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

The long cape entirely constructed with layers of overlapping peacock feather shaped panels, each panel finely worked in satin stitch, the silk threads in tones of ivory, yellow and blue on the eye of the peacock feather, and the surround intricately worked in peacock feather filaments, with one cloth button on the collar and another near the waist, finished with Imperial yellow lining.

45 1/4 in.(115 cm) long

#i need a historical fashion tag

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Actually I take back what I said in the tags of that “what would fix your blorbo” poll. 10,000,000 USD, in specifically that form, would potentially fix Horatio Hornblower. Untold riches in United States money, unaccountably delivered to a Royal Navy captain? What could it possibly be but the price of treason? They’d hang him for certain. And he’s always so angsty when people don’t hang him. He wants so badly to be punished for things nobody else thinks are that bad. Maybe if they executed him as the result of an anachronistically phrased Tumblr poll, maybe then he’d finally be happy.

#'he's always so angsty when people don't hang him' he sure is! #horatio hornblower

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silver sword

#this chapter is a comedy #arvis #sigurd #fire emblem

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#arvis #fire emblem

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your boyfriend looks easy as fuck to parry

#i'm boyfriend

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my twitter commissioners are geniuses by the way and they made me draw oldvis

you can order him HERE

#pathetic post-timeskip emperor arvis my beloved #arvis #fire emblem

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

#my kink is karma chappell roan