#Century Series

[nocternalrandomness]

Century Series Formation

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North American F-100A-15-NA Super Sabre (s/n 53-1606) McDonnell F-101A-10-MC Voodoo (s/n 53-2435) Convair F-102A-15-CO Delta Dagger (s/n 53-1798) Lockheed XF-104A Starfighter (s/n 53-7786)

#Century Series #Aircraft #Cold War #USAF #F-100 #Super Sabre #F-101 #Voodoo #F-102 #Delta Dagger #XF-104 #Starfighter #jets #fighter #fighter bomber #interceptor

[larryshapiro]

Classic American LaFrance Century Series pumper and Ladder Chief Quint

#larry shapiro #larryshapiroblog.com #shapirophotography.net #larryshapiro #larryshapiro.tumblr.com #fire truck #firetruck #fire engine #American LaFrance #Century Series #TBT #throwbackthursday #throwback thursday #Ladder Chief Quint #LemontFPD #Lemont Fire Protection District #vintage fire truck #classic fire truck

[moonwatchuniverse]

60 years ago... October 17, 1962 NASA testpilot John McKay, a former Navy pilot, who as a civilian research pilot/aeronautical engineer, made 30 flights in the North American Aviation  X-15 hypersonic rocket planes from October 28, 1960, until September 8, 1966. Note he wore an Accutron Astronaut microsonic tuning fork GMT pilot wristwatch on a coffin link bracelet. Accutron stands for  “accuracy through electronics” and these watches were worn by 8 of the 12 X-15 test pilots, the “Mercury Seven” astronauts, the crew of Gemini III (March 1965) and Gordo Cooper onboard MA-9 and Gemini V. 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of Accutron as the world’s first electronic watch, a microsonic timepiece. Join the SWFG space watches facebook group for more... (Photo: NASA) 

#Aviator #Astronaut #Accutron #Bulova #tuning fork #test pilot #montres #uhren #military #MoonwatchUniverse #coffin #NASA #USAF #US Navy #flight research #century series #F-104 #Starfighter #spaceflight #Zulu time

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

#jeeves and wooster #i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction #yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood #a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going #but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING #I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE #i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession #it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing! #the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason #jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text #wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind #the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london! #oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage #two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point #the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!! #this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time

[dronescapesvideos]

F-100 Super Sabre, the "Hun".  North American Supersonic Jet Fighter

#youtube #f-100 #f100 #century series #aircraft #airplane #supersonic #jet fighter

[charles-edwin]

New smut fanfic just dropped by user ThirstyPhaya.

#the sign the series #the sign #phayatharn #phaya x tharn #billy patchanon #babe tanatat #the sign bl #mjblr #when these two finally do it i want the scene of the CENTURY #since their fantasies are this good

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Erin Gray and Gil Gerard - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

#buck rogers in the 25th century gif #erin gray #gil gerard #70s sci-fi #70s tv series #colonel wilma deering #glen a. larson #seventies #1979 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[daikunart]

#SHUT UUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP #raysand #Only friends the series #Sandray #Dark scene #Only friends #khaotung thanawat #first kanaphan #Thaibl #Gifs #sand x ray #Ofts ep9 #Clowngifs #If anyone asks... I'll be here for the next century #They made me miss vp tho

[helpallthenamesaretakenblog]

Never going to let y'all forget that annabeth is so slay she pulled a minor godling in ttc

#reading the books you can tell annabeth has danced with lot of boys #when she's asking percy while they're dancing “don't YOU have school dances 🤚” like that girl has EXPERIENCE #and introvert of the century Percy's like “um yes but I stay in the shadows in the corner” 😀👍 #Iconic #percy jackson #pjo #rick riordan #annabeth chase #percabeth #pjo fandom #heroes of olympus #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv series #annabeth percy jackson #percy series #percy pjo #percy and annabeth #annabeth #pjo meta #pjo art #percy x annabeth #the titans curse #pjo books #percyjackson #pjo series #pjo spoilers #grover underwood #rick riordanverse #riordanverse

[nocternalrandomness]

Delta Darts from the ANG 101st FIS - 1965

#ANG #Air National Guard #Convair #F-106 #Delta Dart #Interceptor #Century Series #Cold War #Military #aviation #aircraft

[pencildragons]

ok but. im losing my mind that loki spent CENTURIES in a time loop learning advanced physics just to save his friends. like. centuries. hundreds of years. and it was all for nought and in vain anyway. centuries of being what is functionally entirely alone. because no one else around him remembers this because it is the first time this has happened for them. and then . loki takes himself to the end of time to save the universe and in doing so damns himself to total isolation for Literally All Eternity. he can see the ones he loves but they cant see him. those centuries will be an eyeblink at the end. and . and . and. nobody touch me im going to sit at the bottom of the ocean for ten thousand years

#centuries????????? fucking CENTURIES??????? #im! unwell!!!!!! #loki #loki laufeyson #loki series #lokius #i wrote this eith lokius in mind LOL #just. fuck. holy shit dude #anywah!!! #my glorious amusement #words of wyrm

[rendellstreet]

Brief character blurbs from the TBEA / TTS Seasons 1 + 2 pitch bible

#Tangled The Series #Varian #Lance Strongbow #Captain of the Guard #Stan the Guard #Pete the Guard #''We'll come to find Varian is an antagonist force to be reckon with'' the understatement of the century LOL #Captain's ''he'll need to accept that Cass is not his little girl anymore and she can make her own decisions'' 😭 #''Lance would give his life for Eugene'' 🥺 #So was Pete supposed to be pegged as the new guy on the guard #And Stan was the older more experienced guy looking out for the rookie? #''Slightly wiser'' now why is he catching strays like that fdkbfkdb

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay so I saw this post about dark percy (really him reaching his Limit and fighting full strength with everything he had) and I was imagining the potential fallout of that. Pretty bad, as you can guess.

The thing is a lot of percys strongest moments happen out of view of the olympians, especially in hoo. The hurricane atop the glacier in alaska, the poison scene in tartarus, bending the depression river and the one in the palace of nyx.

Stuff like the St Helens eruption got him washed up on an inescapable island literally removed from reality until calypso gave him the OK, the achillies curse he got tricked into losing by hera. Smaller moments, the minotaur, fighting ares, the stolen pirate ship, walking on water vs hyperion, freshwater sources, him knowing both Latin and Greek, they're more easily brushed off or at least mostly due to cunning, sword skills and sheer luck and grit.

But basically the olympians don't actually know the full extent of percys strength and divine power. They have hints - percy standing on the throne, winning against ares, his many victories - but what they aren't willing to brush aside in the heat of (an important) battle there have been pretty strong consequences for.

Heck, just look at Frank, he's no prodigy with weapons, he's polite and respectful, but his distant relation to two olympians letting him inherit shapeshifting earned him direct divine meddling and his life force tied to a hunk of half toasted firewood. Man is a honey bear with lactose intolerance and he was punished with a mythical death curse for being too strong.

If Percy's true strength came out, he would risk losing everything. His freedom, most certainly. If he wasn't straight up executed he might wind up in a Greek myth style imprisonment, the way of atlas, prometheus, calypso, or something like the myriad of ways Greek heroes met their end. Good scenario he survives a dozen curses and gets on with life with a dozen new disabilities, best case scenario he's stripped of every inch of divine power and dropped back to the mortal world, not even clear sighted. Total separation from the Greeks and Romans. Oh, annabeth would marry him either way, and his friends would hardly abandon him despite the gods wishes, but they'd hardly be able to see him, and no long range contact without the ability to IM him or vice versa.

All of that to say Percy is hiding his true strength from the gods themselves - maybe not consciously, and it's not even power he particularly wants - but if they ever find out?

It's game over.

But why is he so strong? I don't know. What I do know is that the half bloods of the books are so much stronger than the ones of myth. Used to be that divine blood would get you divine favour and a great fate whether you liked it or not. Maybe some cunning and bow skills. A spot of spell casting if you were really lucky. Achillies got his curse after he was born, Perseus had a dozen magic artifacts, orpheus had something going on but hercules is to my knowledge an outlier. Now? Everyone in camp has some special power. Flight, fire, necromancy, hypnotism, dream walking etc. However it's happening, half bloods are slowly but surely getting a lot, lot stronger every century that passes. Meta? I mean I guess. But.

What no one has done before is something that their godly parent couldn't.

Except.

Except Percy.

Except Percy, in tartarus, at his mental, emotional and physical limit, controlling poison with his mind, overpowering the goddess of poison in her home, making misery choke on misery. Feeling something in his chest crack. Doing something poseidon could not, and doing it better than the person who could.

Down there, hidden away from the gods, he evolved. For that brief moment, he did something, was something new.

And that was how the gods overthrew the titans.

And that's why they must never find out.

#In terms of extrapolating meta 'percy Jackson unknowingly being maybe the first of a new generation of increasingly powerful #Half bloods that would be in line with overthrowing the more powerful but complacent olympians as the next in the long line of toppling #Ancient and established lineages of divinity' has to be one of my favourites. Give it a few more centuries and they might actually be in #Danger lol #And the olympians would NOT be happy but would they solve the issue at its roots and stop having kids? Doubtful :) #Even just three of them who barely had anything to do with land or mortals couldn't keep it in their pants for more than half a century #Hestia and chiron remain the mvps as always lol #I got distracted from a story idea with lore dang it #pjo #pjo hoo toa #pjo series #pjo fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #percy jackson #Pjo dod #hoo series #pjo hoo #the heroes of olympus #perseus jackson #pjo meta

[inky-duchess]

Etiquette of the Edwardian Era and La Belle Époque: How to Dress

This is a new set of posts focusing on the period of time stretching from the late 19th century to the early 20th Century right up to the start of WWI.

I'll be going through different aspects of life. This series can be linked to my Great House series as well as my Season post and Debutant post.

Today will be focusing on the rules of clothes with this time period.

A Cut for Every Occasion

As you may know, the wealthy elite and their servants lived extremely regimented lives and every aspect was governed by careful rules. They would be expected to wear the right outfit at the right time, every minute of the day. Any misstep would be noticed at once and be subject to scruntiny.

In the circles of the elite, one would be expected to change for every occasion. One simply wouldn't wear the same outfit they've been lying around the house in to attend tea at somebody's house. Fashion in this era was dictated by the clock and by the event diary of the wearer.

Ladies

Women of the upperclass would be expected to change at least six times a day. When she would rise for a morning of repose around the house, she would simply wear a house gown or a simple blouse and skirt. If planning a morning stroll, she would change into a walking suit which is a combination of blouse, skirt and jacket along with her hat usually of tweed. If running errands or paying a visit to friends, she would wear another walking suit. If riding, she would wear a riding habit and a hat. If hosting tea or taking tea in her own home, she would change into a tea gown with is a lighter more airier gown more comfortable for chilling in. If attending a garden party, one wears a pastel or white formal day gown accompanied by a straw hat and gloves. For dinner, she would change into an evening gown which would be more elaborate and show off a little more skin than her day wear. After dinner and ready for bed, she would change into her nightgown.

Female servants had an easier time of it. A housekeeper and lady's maid would simply wear a solid black gown for the entire day. A cook and kitchen maids would wear a simple day dress for working with an apron. Housemaids would usually wear a print dress with an apron and cap, changing into the more formal black and white attire you would associate with a maid.

Gentlemen

The gentlemen had an easier time but they too were subject to changes throughout the day. Men were expected to wear a suit. The most popular day time suit was a sack suit. These were comprised of plain and loose fitting jackets, worn over a starched shirt with a high collar, waistcoat and straight trousers with ironed creases. These suits were exclusively wool with cheaper ones made of a wool and cotton blend. Grey, green, brown, navy were usual but sine younger men preferred louder colours such as purple which was a trend for a time in the 1910s. These suits were worn about the house or in the city accompanied by a coat. Men would change into tweed if shooting or walking. For garden parties, a gentleman would wear a light coloured suit, usually white and a straw hat. For dinner, a man had two choices: his tails or his dinner jacket. A dinner jacket was for less formal suppers say if dining at home. This was a collection of a jacket, trousers, waistcoat, a bow tie, a detachable wing-collar shirt and black shoes. Lapels of these jackets were edged with silk or satin. Tails were worn at a formal dinner party, at White Tie events. This was made up of a tailcoat, white piqué waistcoat, a starched dress shirt with a pique bib and standing wing collar with a white bow tie. Trousers were lined with trim to hide the seams.

Male servants were soared changing. Footmen would wear their livery around the clock which would resemble white tie to a certain extent or mimic court dress of palace servants. Butler's would wear a variation of a gentleman's evening suit throughout the day. When a male servant is dressed, he usually stays that way. However, a valet or a footman may be taken to pick up during shooting parties where they would wear tweed walking suits.

Jewellery

Jewellery was an important sign of status in society. Upperclass women of this time has access to untold caches of sparklers but there were rules concerning their use and meaning. Earrings were usually clip ons as women of high status would not pierce their ears. Simple, understated earrings were worn during the day with more ostentatious sets were worn in the evening time. Broaches were popular at this time, usually worn at the throat of a gown or blouse or walking suit or affixed on hats. Large stoned rings were worn over gloves while slender bands were worn under. Jewellery was intricate and understated amongst old money whole the nouveau riche went for chunkier stones and larger settings. Tiaras were only worn at White Tie events, held after six pm and almost never by unmarried girls. One would not wear a larger tiara than that most senior lady present. Men would wear tie pins, cufflinks and pocket watches to match any occasion be it for a jaunt on the town or at a formal evening party.

Hats

Hats were a staple in this period. Anybody respectable from any class wouldn't venture out of the door without a hat.

Men would wear hats when heading out but always remove them when entering a building, and never wear one without removing it for the presence of a lady. The bowler was seen as more a servant's headwear while a top hat was reserved for gentlemen. Flat caps would be only seen on gentlemen at shooting gatherings or in the country, they were popular among the common class for any informal occasion.

Women had more stricter rules concern hats. Hats for women were more a day accessory worn while out and about. A woman would not wear a hat in her own home even when entertaining and nor would any of the other female occupants if joining the gathering. A woman would not remove her hat when attending a luncheon or tea or any activity. Hats were held in place by a ribbon or sash tied under the chin or by a hat pin, which is essentially a large needle thrust through the hair. This was the period where women's hats became more ornate and rather large, leading to some critisism. Among servants, housekeepers and lady's maids would not wear a hat while indoors and working but a housemaid or cook or kitchen maid would cover their hair with a cap with housemaids changing into a more elaborate one come evening time. Male servants would not wear hats unless travelling or outdoors.

Gloves

Gloves are a staple in this period and worn only at the opportune time. Among servants, only footmen would wear gloves and usually only when serving. Butlers would never wear gloves. Female servants did not wear gloves.

Men did wear gloves, usually woollen or leather while outside or riding gloves when out on horseback.

Women wore gloves whenever outside. Day gloves were usually wrist length, with evening gloves stretching to the elbow. During dinner, evening gloves would be removed at the first course and laid across the lap, replaced at the last course when the ladies leave for tea and coffee after where the gloves are then removed again. Gloves are always worn when dancing and at the theatre or opera. If one is sitting in ones box and sampling some chocolate, one can remove their gloves for that.

Hair and Makeup

Make up was a no-no amongst the upper crust and for their servants in England and America, as it was seen as licentious but in France, the use of rouge was accepted. Perfume and cologne were acceptable but excessive use was frowned upon.

Hair was dressed by one's lady's maid. Bouffant updos were popular in this time period for married women. During the last years of this period, women began adopting the 'bob' but this was seen as radical and sometimes scandalous. Unmarried girls could wear their hair down, often with accessories like a bow to adorn their tresses. Servants would always tie up their hair and never be seen with it down or uncovered (though this depended on their job).

Men would comb their hair, slicking it back for dinner. Most men were clean shaven but if they wore beards, they were usually well groomed. Hair was kept short for grown men and teenagers but young boys may wear their hair longer whilst in the nursery.

#This bitch loooonnnnggg #Etiquette of the Edwardian Era and La Belle Époque series #Fantasy Guide #Early 20th Century #late 19th century #Great houses #writing #writeblr #writing resources #writing reference #writing advice #ask answered questions #writing advice writing resources #writers #Writing advice writing references #Writing references #Historical fiction #1900s #1890s #Fashion

[wolfhalledits]

'WOLF HALL' RECAP — 1x02 'Entirely Beloved' air date — 28 January 2015 dir. Peter Kosminsky

As 1529 draws to a close, Cardinal Wolsey moves to York while Thomas Cromwell attempts to gain support for him from King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, in the process, gradually wins favour for himself.

#wolf hall #´period drama #thomas cromwell #hilary mantel #mark rylance #tv series #16th century #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #tudorerasource #gif #the tudors #ours #byfefa

[ltwilliammowett]

John Mollo's personal handwritten costume design manuscript and diary which includes character designs, artwork, meeting notes and budgets, used for the design and production of Seasons 2 to 8 of the television series Hornblower II

#naval artifacts #naval uniforms #hornblower #design #costumes #18th century #age of sail #naval fiction #age of sail movies and series