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History, history, history, history, history. And fanfics, occasionally. Mods: Madame de Pompadour; History Student and Femme Extraordinaire.
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You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.
There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.
Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.
PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.
Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)
The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.
So even if you think it isn't enough, remember that donating even as little as $1.35 helps! It's $1.35 they wouldn't have had otherwise. So donate if you can. 🇵🇸
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I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence
Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.
Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.
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EOC (Elves of color)
Reblog if u agree
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OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”
NOT JIF,
GIF.
And here is the link for the opposite.
WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.
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The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, January 24, 1943
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Sleek late summer/early autumn kimono depicting mushikui (worm-eaten) yatsude (paperplant) leaves. This kimono must be very pretty when worn, as the leaves are made from urushiito (lacquered threads) and the ground has discreet gold and silvery threads. Shimmery!
Yatsude nickname is tengu no uchiwa or “tengu’s fan”, as those mighty demons are sometimes depicted using those large and sturdy leaves in place of their usual wide feathered fan (ha uchiwa):
(photos from)
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JASON ISAACS
as Captain James Hook
PETER PAN (2003) dir. P. J. Hogan
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Stéphanie Kilgast aka Petitplat (French, b. 1985, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, based Vannes, France) - A Tale Of Knowledge, 2020, Sculptures: Epoxy Clay, Aluminum Foil and Wire, Acrylics, Paper on reclaimed Book
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Consider this (based on a conversation I had with some friends a while ago): Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for people who actually like Pride and Prejudice.
Look–I tried to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I got about 20 pages in before I came to the conclusion that the person who wrote it did so out of the belief that the original Pride and Prejudice was stuffy and boring. There were out of character vulgar puns. And the trailer for the movie did not convince me that I had missed anything by cutting short my reading experience.
So, what I’m talking about here is this premise: the world of Pride and Prejudice, but if you die, it’s highly likely, almost certain that your corpse will get up and try to eat people.
But no one dies in Pride and Prejudice, you might say. In fact, few or no people die in any Jane Austen novel.
This is true. But people do get sick with some regularity. Imagine the tension added to Jane getting sick after going to visit Bingley if there was the chance that she would become a zombie after she died. Becoming a zombie in an eligible bachelor’s house probably would have seriously wrecked any chances of any of the living sisters ending up with him.
Imagine Mr. Collins, as a minister, having the duty upon someone’s death of severing their head with a ceremonial plate or something that would prevent the corpse from rising. Obviously important, but this only makes him more self-important and obnoxious.
And dangerous.
For you see, in this version, Mr. Bennett, who stays in his office all the time, whose life is the only thing allowing Mrs. Bennett and her daughters to stay in the house–Mr. Bennett is definitely a zombie. He died at home, and Mrs. Bennett decided that, no way were they dealing with this, and so…just started faking it. Jane and Elizabeth know. The younger sisters don’t.
In this universe, I think we have to go with zombies that are not any faster or stronger than the humans they were, and in fact tend to get weaker as time passes because their flesh is rotting. And…hmm, okay, how about they are pretty violent upon rising, and for about a week afterward, trying to bite people and spread the infection (even though most people are carriers anyway, but getting a nasty bite from a corpse will give you other stuff that will have you die while carrying the virus). But then they calm down and basically just start sort of attempting to act like they did in life, that is, taking habitual actions with no consciousness, in a depressing and desiccated way.
So Mr. Bennett is a zombie, and Mrs. Bennett’s number one goal is to get her daughters married before anyone finds that out. And this, actually, makes Elizabeth’s refusal of Mr. Collins more frustrating for Mrs. Bennett–obviously Mr. Bennett didn’t tell Elizabeth that she could refuse Mr. Collins, because Mr. Bennett is dead, but Mrs. Bennett can’t say anything or the game would be up.
Another question in this version–does Mr. Darcy find out about Mr. Bennett being a zombie somehow? Does Elizabeth find out that he knows and didn’t say anything and this is something that helps repair his earlier actions?
Anyway, this is the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that I was looking for.
#pride and prejudice and zombies#as it should have been#story idea#well someone has to write this now#reblog
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An Iridescent Python with polka dots.
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St Dustan’s in the East church, London, United Kingdon ~ Kathryn Holeywell
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“Hudson River”. Tiffany stained glass window, c. 1900.
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J. W. Godward, Reverie/In the Days of Sappho, 1904
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Yozakura (nighttime cherry blossoms) in Kagawa, magical pictures by Mitani Yukari
#japan#sakura#yozakura#hanami#night#cherry blossom#nighttime cherry blossom#kagawa#reblog#aesthetic#traditional japanese culture
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" Simon Berger is an artist who works with a hammer and glass to make glass portraits "
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