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regencyronnie · 2 months
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Visualising Miss Searle: The Search for a Likeness
One of my favourite ‘reality’ shows on television is the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? Experts get to use the latest research and forensics to try and determine whether an artwork is a hidden masterpiece, or something less valuable. It is a good thing that I was so attentive as I have had the opportunity to do a little variation of this sleuthing from behind my laptop keyboard. This all kicked off…
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hoffmans-trophywife · 5 months
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Little Help | Mark Hoffman x Reader
Summary: John makes Hoffman help you and he almost kills you (with pleasure)
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Warning: NSFW Smut, creampie, degradation kink, puller hair
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After having survived one of Jigsaw's tests after making some bad choices in life, John Kramer saw enormous potential in you due to your willpower to survive being different from anyone else tested, you had the strength of an apprentice, as well as Amanda and Lawrence. As you didn't have many things to lose, you easily accepted John's invitation to become one of his apprentices and help him with the next games, even though it was almost like signing other people's death warrants, you saw it as a job, you just don't receive any payment for it.
Amanda wasn't with you today at the factory, so it was just you who was putting together a new trap and John who was drawing some new models in a notebook. You had been making some mistakes for a few days now, which made him start keeping an eye on you to look for some good solution.
“I called Hoffman to give a little help for you. I see that you are having a lot of difficulties.”
John said, still drawing. You felt your heart stop for a few seconds after hearing that. You hated Hoffman just as he hated you too and you knew that very well, he made a point of always making it clear when you saw each other, which fortunately was rare.
"You what? Hoffman? Are you kidding me? What about Lawrence?”
Unlike Mark, Lawrence liked you and you liked him too, you always got along well and always helped each other.
“Lawrence has a family, and he's traveling with them. Amanda is not available, you stay with Hoffman, the end.”
He closed the subject there and you huffed in frustration, the hours there with the detective would be terrible.
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It was almost dusk, John had gone home to rest in his room while you had stayed to wait for Hoffman, sleep had consumed you and you soon dozed off on the table, only to be woken up by a loud knock on the table that almost made you have a heart attack.
“Finally! I thought that besides being stupid you were also deaf.”
You rubbed your eyes and looked up to see the devil, aka Mark, staring at you.
“Fuck you.”
“You can curse me later, cutie. We have a lot of work to do.”
He went to the other table where there was the trap that you needed to assemble but there was something wrong with the pieces, since every time you tried to fit it to your body it simply came apart and you had to do it all over again.
"Do it"
He handed the materials into your hand, but you didn't take them.
“How am i going to fix it if i don't know where im going wrong damn? i've tried several times.”
Mark took a deep breath and placed the tools on the table again, carefully picking up the trap.
“Don't be a stupid girl, just open your fucking arms.”
You ignored his rude manner and looked at him suspiciously, opening your arms, then you felt the trap being placed around your waist and your neck.
“Hey hey, what are you doing?”
You despaired for a few seconds thinking he was going to fix it and use it on you.
“I'm not going to kill you with that ugly thing you did. I need a model to be able to see the error. Unfortunately, i only have you.”
You ignored the offense and stayed quiet, he bent down a little in front of you and looked at the pieces, you held your breath when he looked at the part of your neck and ran his hand over it. You could swear he squeezed your neck on purpose.
"Thats it."
He spoke and took one of the tools, where he placed it near his neck and fixed the error that was in the support of the equipment. After that he released the trap again and removed it from his body, placing it on the table. You felt your neck tingle.
Mark ran his long fingers along your neck, where the metal had left a mark due to his grip, you tried to control your breathing when you realized how close your two faces were to each other. You looked at him again.
“Don’t look at me like that…”
"Like what?"
You tried to hide the sexual tension, turning your head, only to feel his hand pulling your face back to look at him, at his blue eyes.
“I know you don’t really hate me, do you think i don’t see you staring at me every day?”
“I stare at you and imagine myself killing you in various traps.”
You tried to finish the subject there and he laughed sarcastically.
“Oh sure. Do you know what i imagine when i look at you, Y/n?”
He got close to her ear and whispered:
“I imagine myself every day fucking that tight pussy of yours right on this table and you screaming my name.”
You closed your legs on impulse as soon as you heard that, only to see a smile appear on his face, he grabbed your hair from behind, giving a light tug making you let out a moan.
“Why don’t you make it a reality then, detective?”
"I will”
You felt his tongue invade your mouth with precision while his arms pinned you against the table, Mark held your waist and placed you sitting on the table, where this time he attacked your neck leaving some marks, your hand pulled his tie. Hoffman took off your blouse, squeezing your breasts and then removed your underwear, he took off his blazer and threw it in a random corner of the room and pushed you against the table, opening your legs, you shivered when you felt his fingers pass through your intimacy.
“You don’t know how many times i've thought of you in this position just for me.”
He squatted in front of you and removed your panties, leaving you completely exposed to him, before you could say anything you felt his tongue invading your pussy making you scream in surprise, his tongue worked so well inside you that made you roll your eyes with so much pleasure, Hoffman stuck two fingers inside you and started moving them while sucking your clit, you pulled his hair, you felt your stomach tighten.
“H-Hoffman, I...”
“No.”
He realized you were going to cum and pulled away, making you moan in frustration, he grabbed your neck and unzipped his pants, exposing his member, which made your eyes widen a little due to its large size, Mark positioned his member at your entrance and forced himself into you, the tip hitting your cervix, which made you squirm at the new sensation.
He placed both hands on your hips and began thrusting hard into you. Completely invading you with each blow. You grabbed his arms and moaned loudly. Hoffman pulled your hair and squeezed your neck, starting to choke you as the loud sound of your bodies crashing into each other filled the empty room. Your face started to turn red due to lack of air and he seemed to enjoy it.
“You look so perfect when im choking you, you fucking little slut!”
He said irritably and began to move even harder and released your neck, making you gasp for air quickly, Hoffman squeezed your waist tightly, which would probably leave marks later, the two of you moaned loudly and together. His fingers began to make quick movements on your clit, making you almost cry with pleasure.
“Be a good girl and cum for me while you scream my name, hm?”
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, fuck, Mark!!”
"Good girl!”
You screamed, cumming and feeling your legs weaken and shake, Mark grunted and soon you felt him coming apart inside you, you breathed for a few seconds before he came out inside you, watching the semen drip from your pussy, he licked his lips. Mark took you off the table and helped you get dressed again.
“It won’t change how much i hate you.”
You said and he laughed.
“Please remember to say this when i fuck you again .”
He gave two little slaps in your face and put his blazer back on.
“I'll give you a ride. Hurry up. Cmon"
You put on your boots and picked up your bag, walking alongside him, even though your legs still felt sticky to each other. God, what have you done?
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focsle · 1 year
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"Here I am scribbling nonsense [in] when I should be engaged in the more useful [and] occupation of washing out some very dirty clothes of which I am the happy owner so with the permission of the reader if I am so fortunate as to have one I will once more haul taut + belay." - William Douglass Buel, whaler on the bark Wave, 1856
Since I am unable to do my heaps of laundry today because someone has inconsiderately monopolized AAAAALL the machines, it's time to write a post about whaleship laundry day to quell my fury!
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"A person unused to the sight of the ship would take the Old Lucy Ann for a ready made clothing store, the rigging being hung full of wet clothing" wrote John Martin of his ship on laundry day in 1842.
As always, laundry was a dreaded task but also an absolutely necessary one, especially given how begrimed (or as one whaler put it, 'beshit') things would get on a whaler. William Abbe, a greenhand on the Atkins Adams in 1858, most viscerally described the mess that came from the work:
"To turn out at midnight and put on clothes soaked in raw oil. To go on deck and work for Eighteen hours among blubber—slipping + stumbling on the sloppy decks til you are covered from crown to heel with oil—eating with oily hands oily grub—drinking from oily pots til your mouth and lips have a nauseating oily luster—turning in for a few hours sleep — after wiping off your bare body with oakum to take off the thickest of the oil"
So you gotta clean that shit! 'Clean'. A relative sort of word.
First, whalers soaked their dirty clothes in the communal urine barrel, as the ammonia content of stale urine was one of the few things strong enough on board to start to cut through the grease. Sometimes the clothes would be towed behind the ship afterwards to rinse them, but that wasn't always the case. Rainwater was also collected in anticipation of wash day to have fresh water to rinse with. With this fresh water, a lye was also made using the ashes and crispy blubber scraps come from the trying out process. The deck would be washed in a similar way after trying out a whale, often using a combo of urine, lye, and sand. J.E. Haviland, of the Baltic in 1857 described the laundry work that he had never expected to be doing himself:
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"Tomorrow all hands are to wash out their clothes with the ashes made from the scraps These ashes are put in a cask and then pour fresh water in the cask + this makes a very strong Lye which might take all the grease and slush out of the clothes without applying any soap. I have some 12 pieces to wash but I think I can do it as quick and as well as any wash woman. If any one had of told me two years ago I should be obliged to wash my own clothes, say nothing about mending then I should have thought them a fool. But man proposses + God disposses."
Whaling wife Almira Gibbs, who accompanied her family (Captain and young son) aboard more than one whaler had her own recipe for soap, despite Haviland's assertion that it wasn't necessary:
"1 lb castile soap 1 1/4 lb soda 6c worth borax add 5 pts water and let it simmer till it is all dissolved, take it off and add 9 pts water and let it cool."
Whaling wives aboard also complained about laundry and the difficulty of doing it aboard ship. The moldering of clothes in such a damp environment, the constant roll of the vessel sometimes overturning one's tub or making ironing dangerous, having to wait for rainfall for fresh water, and a sunny day for actually performing said wash, were constant features in wives' laments. Mary Lawrence, aboard the Addison in 1860 sarcastically wrote about her laundry attempt thwarted by the weather one July.
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July 30 A wonderful circumstance. When we were called this morning, the sun was shining bright. “Now for a washing day,” thought I, “if it is Saturday.” So I went to work; had a large wash, it being four weeks since I had had one before. Just as I got about half through, the fog came thicker than I ever saw it before. I was obliged to put my white clothes in soak and dry the colored clothes in the cabin.
She also mentioned her young daughter Minnie who "took her little tub and washed her dog's bedclothes, for Jip has had a bed all the season that had to be made up like anybody's bed".
Sighting whales at any point would also put an interruption to the wash. This photo taken aboard the Sunbeam by Clifford Ashley in his brief 1904 research trip shows men hoisting up the whaleboats after taking a small whale, their Sunday laundry still hanging between the davits.
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I'll close with whaling wife Mary Brewster's description of a wash day following the trying out of a whale on her husband's ship Tiger, one winter day in Magdalena Bay 1847.
"Calm pleasant weather. Employed in sewing till 4 this afternoon, when I went on deck, where I found every part, and everything about, very nice and clean. The sailors all washing up their dirty clothes, both trypots full boiling in ley [lye] and the rigging hung full. A few garments floating which had taken flight overboard to save washing. All presented a lively spectable and I could say with all hands, farewell to Greybacks [lice]."
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The year is 1884. John Kreese is the local sheriff and rules the San Fernando Valley with an iron hand (with the discreet help and financial backing of his old war buddy turned robber baron, Terrance Silver). He has a posse of promising young fellows working for him, the Cobras. First and foremost is his young right hand man, Johnny Lawrence, whom Kreese has trained in his methods and who is primed for his succession.
Except a stranger and his widowed mother from the rough side of New Jersey waltz into town one day, and they don’t act like the tenderfoots they’re supposed to be, East Coast and all. Daniel LaRusso (second-generation immigrant) refuses to back down when threatened and blunders straight into Kreese’s evil plans. Fortunately, he ends up making friends with Mr. Miyagi, a Japanese immigrant who fought for the Union in the Civil War. They bond over (amongst other things) being misfits and outsiders, and Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel his family’s karate and how to shoot his opponent’s gun out of their hand lightning-quick.
At first, for young Mr. LaRusso, it’s a question of everyday survival, but it quickly becomes about exposing Kreese’s (and Silver’s) corruption, which Johnny doesn’t want to acknowledge (since Kreese practically raised him). But soon young Mr. Lawrence is going to have to make a choice: stand with his  teacher and protector, or listen to LaRusso’s warnings?
Doing an art trade and I got the lovely @jossujb to draw for 💜 I ended up doing a whole western AU. Now, of the two texts, which is the title and which is the subtitle? Yes. (couldn’t choose, they both felt corny but fun, so you get to decide!)
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i'd kiss me if i could
a short & silly little fic about adam, david and amanda shooting the shit, for the sawtober say twenty-five prompt 'lungs'
i'm gonna be honest guys, i struggled today. none of my ideas were really latching on and i felt kinda ill/sad besides. in the end i scrapped my other ideas and decided to write something short and silly based on motherdanger's art for today's prompt, and idk if i'm happy with it but at least i did it. thanks for the inspo bestie 💚
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The car was cramped, and close; and the smoke wasn’t exactly helping. But it was fucking freezing out in the street, so it was hunker down in David’s shitty old jalopy or risk a Hoffman strop for stinking up the van.
Although honestly, Amanda would take a Hoffman strop and even a possible deadly punishment from John over whatever the hell she was being forced to bear witness to.
“I’m telling you, man, we’re sitting on a goldmine, here,” said Adam, trailing smoke as he gestured broadly from his position sprawled out across the entire back seat. “There’s a million freaks out there, dreamin’ about getting it on with twins. Except we’re not actually related, so it’s not weird.”
David exhaled a quick, irritated puff of smoke. “I am not doing porn with you, asshole.”
Honestly, just kill her now.
“C’maaahn, who wouldn’t pay to see–” he sat up and gestured between himself and David– “this?”
“I’d pay you to never, ever show me it,” said Amanda.
“Dykes excluded, obviously,” Adam conceded, waving her off.
David, in his customary nihilistic slouch in the passenger seat, sneered. “Guessing your sugar daddy wouldn’t be too into it, either.”
“What, Lawrence?” Adam laughed. “Please. He’s so not my sugar daddy; he won’t even let me sneak any good shit into the shopping cart. But don’t worry; I’ll win him round.”
“‘Win him round?’” Amanda parroted sarcastically.
“To shooting porno with some other dude?” David tagged on, incredulous.
“Some other dude who looks exactly like me. I think I could get him into it.”
David glanced between himself and Adam in the rearview mirror, brow furrowing. “I really don’t see it.”
Adam groaned. “There’s literally no way you can’t see it. Mandy – Mandy, right?” He leaned forward, perching his chin on the back of David’s seat and all but pressing their faces together. “Clones, right?”
Amanda took a slow drag, considering. “...Nope. Smoke’s gone to your brain, Stanheight.”
Fortunately, a sharp tap on the window interrupted Adam’s next stream of belligerent whining.
David, recovering from a startled lurch, squinted through the smoke; and eventually gave in and wound down the window to let it dissipate. Outside, looking about as snobby and unimpressed as ever, Lawrence lurked on the pavement.
“Thought I might find you all out here,” he said, flat. “John wants us to get started.”
“Oh,” muttered David. “Yeah, dude, just a second…”
Lawrence sighed. “Shall I tell him I found you all systematically destroying your lungs, or would you like to break that news yourself?”
“Narc," Adam grumbled.
“Hey, Gordon,” said Amanda, because if she was gonna be forced to listen to Adam’s bullshit she was at least gonna make him suffer for it. “Your boy toy’s gonna star in a porno.”
“What?!”
“Et tu, Mandy?” Adam hissed, scrambling to lean over David towards the window. “No, Lawrence, you’ll be into it, I swear – you like looking at me, right?”
Lawrence squinted. “...On occasion.”
“Uh huh – and you definitely like fucking me. Correct?”
“Unfortunately,” he said, looking vaguely pained.
“Well; how’d you like to look at two me’s, getting it on?” He gestured between his face and David’s. “Pretty hot, huh?”
“...David?”
“Obviously.”
Lawrence looked back and forth between them. “...I don’t see it.”
Adam's pissed squawking was almost worth the price of admission.
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dailyjsa · 15 days
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Welcome to DailyJSA's JSA Member Tournament!
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Sixty four enter, one takes the crown!
These are characters who were either explicitly stated to be members of the JSA, or very involved with the team to the point that they're basically a member (mainly applies to Thunderbolt). Some are in a grey area due to retcons (such as Hippolyta) or were barely involved with the team, but they still count. Batman, Wonder Woman (Diana), Superman, and Robin have been excluded from this tournament to give other less popular characters a fair chance.
These initial matchups were made with a randomizer to be as fair as possible.
Each week, a round of polls will be posted. All polls will be a week long.
Since there are so many matchups to start, Round One will be split into two parts. The matchups are below the cut for those who may have trouble reading the bracket.
Feel free to send in an ask if you have any questions.
Round One (3/20):
Darknight vs Terry Sloane (Mr. Terrific)
Jesse Chambers (Jesse Quick/Liberty Belle) vs Al Pratt (The Atom)
Jennifer Pierce (Lightning) vs Al Rothstein (Atom Smasher)
Salem Nader (Salem The Witch Girl) vs Jeffrey Graves (Mister America)
Earth 2 Helena Wayne (Huntress) vs Jay Garrick (The Flash)
Dinah Lance (Black Canary) vs Sonia Sato (Judomaster)
Hector Hall (Doctor Fate) vs Pieter Cross (Doctor Mid-Nite)
Rick Tyler (Hourman) vs Ted Grant (Wildcat)
Matthew Tyler (Hourman) vs Joan Dale (Miss America)
Tom Bronson (Wildcat) vs Grant Emerson (Damage)
Jakeem Williams (Jakeem Thunder) vs The Thunderbolt
Jim Corrigan (The Spectre) vs Hippolyta (Wonder Woman)
Khalid Nassour (Doctor Fate) vs Jack Knight (Starman)
Kent Nelson (Doctor Fate) vs Thom Kallor (Starman)
Maxine Hunkel (Cyclone) vs Markus Clay (Amazing Man)
New Golden Age Helena Wayne (Huntress) vs Roxy
Round One Continued (3/27):
Billy Batson (Captain Marvel) vs Yolanda Montez (Wildcat)
Todd Rice (Obsidian) vs Dinah Drake (Black Canary)
Anna Fortune vs Beth Chapel (Doctor Mid-Nite)
Carter Hall (Hawkman) vs Red Tornado (John Smith)
Shiera Hall (Hawkgirl) vs Sand Hawkins (Sand/Sandman)
Michael Holt (Mr. Terrific) vs Alan Scott (Green Lantern/Sentinel)
Sylvester Pemberton (Star-Spangled Kid) vs Courtney Whitmore (Star-Spangled Kid/Stargirl)
Karen Starr (Power Girl) vs Wesley Dodds (Sandman)
Sara Butters (Red Beetle) vs Nathan Heywood (Citizen Steel)
Kent V Nelson (Doctor Fate) vs King Chimera
Kendra Saunders (Hawkgirl) vs Teth-Adam (Black Adam)
Ri vs Ted Knight (Starman)
Pat Dugan (S.T.R.I.P.E.) vs Libby Lawrence (Liberty Belle)
Rex Tyler (Hourman) vs Johnny Thunder
Charles McNider (Doctor Mid-Nite) vs Jennie-Lynn Hayden (Jade)
David Reid (Magog) vs Kate Spencer (Manhunter)
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oscarwetnwilde · 6 months
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James Wilby as Clifford Chatterley in Lady Chatterley (1993) and James Wilby in an interview on him playing the role:
The People - Sunday, 30 May 1993:
Lady Chatterley’s vicious husband Sir Clifford made James Wilby bad-tempered, foul-mouthed, and a nightmare to live with. “I was taking the part home with me and refusing to come out of character,” admits Wilby, 32.
He realised he was going to have to live with a monster the moment he immersed himself in the part.
“He was wounded in the war and paralysed from the waist down,” Wilby explains. “But I felt no sympathy for him. He is vicious, manipulative, small-minded, yet incredibly intelligent. "He has no compassion and actually encourages his wife to have an affair with Mellors so he has an heir to his estate. “The role not only caused me stress and drained me physically and mentally, but made me feel deeply unattractive sexually. I know my wife Shana found it hard to kiss me. "I’d be rude to her about silly little things. If I found there was no coffee in the house I’d shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with. I had a permanent scowl on my face for five weeks. "But I knew I had to do it. At the time I still had scenes to shoot and I couldn’t risk slipping out of character. If I’d been anything less than convincing in the scenes I still had to do, the audience would have picked up on it and I’d have been furious with myself. "I know it caused tension between Shana and me but if you’re going to do a job properly, you have to be prepared to put yourself out. If not, it’s time to give up acting.” When Wilby worked with Angelica Huston on A Handful Of Dust, she had complained to him about the behaviour of Jack Nicholson, her then lover while he had been making the movie, The Shining. "Because his character had been evil, he behaved like a bastard, she said. So at least I was in good company! During the five weeks between the bulk of my filming and the few scenes right at the end of the shoot, Shana had to resort to humouring me rather than get into arguments.” To make matters worse for Wilby, his wife, a picture researcher, was five months pregnant with their second child, and having miscarried the previous year there was a fear she might do so again. “It was a very difficult time for us and I’m fortunate that I have such an understanding wife,” says Wilby. “Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio the following morning and deliver something that was believable and complete. But I can almost believe Shana was glad I was shutting myself away because I was behaving so badly.” Just learning Sir Clifford’s speeches demanded enormous concentration from Wilby. “My character’s part is actually bigger than that of gamekeeper Mellor's in terms of words. When Clifford opens his mouth, three paragraphs spill out, not just a sentence. "And he has this ridiculous small moustache. Ken Russell the director, insisted I grew one of my own and it came to symbolise everything I hated about my character and the effect he was having on me and my marriage. "I couldn’t wait to get it off and there was ceremonial shaving on the set at the end of the shoot,” he says. For DH Lawrence the story exemplified the class war in Britain. Clifford is from the landed gentry so he thinks himself superior to people like Mellors. “He calls Mellors a half-tamed animal with a gun and he means it," says Wilby. “Lawrence actually wrote three versions of the book- Lady Chatterley; John Thomas and Lady Jane; and Lady Chatterley’s Lover- and Clifford becomes more vicious as the books go on. The BBC version is an amalgam of all three books.” Wilby finally shed Sir Clifford when he went on a yachting holiday in the Mediterranean with three friends after he had finished filming Lady Chatterley. “Shana was going to come, but because she was pregnant she decided she couldn’t risk it. It was the best thing I could possibly have done. It was physically very demanding and I sweated Clifford right out of my system.”
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nadiv22 · 4 months
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My favorite quotes from civ VI
TECHNOLOGY
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” – Plutarch
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
“I AM FOND OF PIGS. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston S. Churchill
“Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?” – Merle Travis
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” – Will Rogers
“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” -W. H. Auden
“I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” -Mark Twain
“I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because bronze will last for thousands of years.” – Richard MacDonald
“MONEA, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown
“A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.” – John Steinbeck
“The Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” – Marie Osmond
“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder … Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” – Capt. E.J. Smith, RMS Titanic
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.” – Criss Jami
“One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering.” – Robert Heinlein
“There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.” – Lemony Snicket
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” – Nemo Nox
“Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” – Henry Ford
“The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press is heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything.” – Terry Pratchett
“Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.” – Brian May
“If facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” – Albert Einstein
“No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.” – Karl von Clausewitz
“Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.” – Lawrence Henderson
“Bolt actions speak louder than words.” – Craig Roberts
“Never criticize a rifleman until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he’ll be barefoot and you’ll be out of range.” – The 2nd Target Company
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.” – Chuck Yeager
“Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.” – Earl Wilson
“Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.” – Sir William Crookes
“If God had really intended men to fly, He’d make it easier to get to the airport.” – George Winters
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” – George Patton
“There may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.” – Joe Hill
“I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.” – Courteney Cox
"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek
CIVICS
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Colonel David Hackworth
“A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.”– Bill Owens “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” – Marcus Aurelius
“It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut; they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.” – Garrison Keillor
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare
“Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.” – Sun Tzu
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“A good navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism it’s your count that votes.” – Mogens Jallberg
“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.” – Anatole France
“You can’t go around arresting the Thieves’ Guild. I mean, we’d be at it all day!” – Terry Pratchett
“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government … You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!” – Monty Python
“In diplomacy there are two kinds of problems: small ones and large ones. The small ones will go away by themselves, and the large ones you will not be able to do anything about.” – Patrick McGuinness
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” – John Locke
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” – Douglas Adams
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” – Edward Wilson
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” -Mark Twain
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun
“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John F. Kennedy
“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?” -Jane Austen
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” –Albert Einstein
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Full crew list! With names, ranks, and ages! (tho some have less detailed portraits since they've only really shown up in the background at this point). I'll update periodically with better pics.
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Name: Barzillai Waite Rank: Captain Age: 46
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Name: Adelaide Waite Rank: Captain's wife Age: 34
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Name: Eric Mathews Rank: 1st mate Age: 32
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Name: Ezra Carter Rank: 2nd mate Age: 25
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Name: Charles Allen Rank: 3rd mate Age: 34
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Name: Lawrence Manner Rank: Greenhand Age: 26
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Name: Josué Cabral Rank: Ordinary Age: 22
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Name: Bastien Addo Rank: Ordinary Age: 28
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Name: James Barnard Rank: Ordinary Age: 29
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Name: Joseph O'Reilly Rank: Ordinary Age: 23
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Name: Jackson Pells Rank: Greenhand Age: 17
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Name: Silas Dickey Rank: Greenhand Age: 16
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Name: Enoch Pike Rank: Cooper and Carpenter Age: 32
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Name: Abnur Wright Rank: Ordinary Age: 20
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Name: Luis Sela Rank: Ordinary Age: 21
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Name: Samuel Nelson Rank: Greenhand Age: 21
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Name: William Williams Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 27
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Name: Frank Iona Rank: Greenhand Age: 19
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Name: Francis Goldwhit Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 23
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Name: Martin Amos Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 27
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Name: João de Silva Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 24
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Name: George Lee Rank: Ordinary Age: 26
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Name: Ephraim Murray Rank: Cook Age: 41
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Name: John Gillipse Rank: Steward Age: 18
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Name: Apollo Delaman Rank: Ordinary Age: 21
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Name: Peter Fortune Rank: Ordinary Age: 28
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Name: Afonso Borges Rank: Greenhand Age: 23
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Name: Ed Barker Rank: Ordinary Age: 25
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Name: Josiah Ripley Rank: Ordinary Age: 23
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Name: Scupper Rank: Mouser extraordinaire Age: 3
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Elvis Presley Events In History Today The 21st November in 1964 Is Sixteenth Movie Was Premiered In Hollywood. Roustabout By Paramount.
Elvis Presley’s sixteenth movie was the 1964 Paramount film 'Roustabout'.
Playing opposite Barbara Stanwyck this time out in Roustabout, Elvis Presley was in awe of his costar and worked hard to live up to her professional standards. Unfortunately, the scriptwriters were less demanding of themselves, and the film suffers from banal dialogue and predictable plotting. Elvis Presley starred as Charlie Rogers, a drifter with a chip on his shoulder who lands a job as a roustabout, or handyman, with a down-and-out carnival operated by strong-willed Maggie Morgan, played by Stanwyck. When Charlie breaks into song on the midway one day, throngs of young people flock to hear him sing. As news of his talent spreads, Maggie's carnival begins to turn a tidy profit. Charlie's good fortune continues as Cathy, a beautiful young carnival worker played by Joan Freeman, takes a romantic interest in him. However, after a misunderstanding involving a customer's missing wallet, Maggie and Cathy chide Charlie for his selfish attitudes. The embittered young man quits Maggie's outfit to work for a rival carnival. When Maggie's carnival starts to go under, Charlie returns with enough money to ward off the creditors. His unselfish act wins Maggie's respect as well as Cathy's heart. Having at one time been a carnival worker, the idea for a picture with a carnival background had been that of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager. However, Colonel was adamant that the movie 'not cheapen carnival life....that this was a wholesome way of life in which the participants had a legitimate pride'.
The movie was first announced in May of 1961, but production was delayed until March of 1964. In the time between there were changes. Among them were: that the working title went from 'Right This Way Folks' to 'Roustabout'; that Elvis Presley’s character name changed from Charlie Main to Charlie Rogers; and that the character of carnival owner Maggie Moore changed to Maggie Morgan; and that the actress chosen to play Morgan changed from Mae West to Barbara Stanwyck. The writers were Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss.
Anthony Lawrence later worked on the scripts for the Elvis movies 'Paradise Hawaiian Style' and 'Easy Come, Easy Go' and the 1979 TV biopic 'Elvis', starring Kurt Russell in the title role. Among his other credits are a number of TV series including 'The Fugitive', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'Cannon', 'Quincy' and 'The Blue Knight'.
Allan Weiss was the screenwriter for the Elvis Presley’s flims 'Blue Hawaii', 'Girls! Girls! Girls!', 'Fun In Acapulco', 'Paradise Hawaiian Style' and 'Easy Come, Easy Go'. He once remarked that the scripts were written to producer Hal Wallis's specifications: 'Wallis kept the screenplays shallow'.
'I was asked to create a believable framework for twelve songs and lots of girls'. However true this was, both Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Weiss received a nomination from the Writers Guild of America in 1965 for their work on 'Roustabout' as the Best Written American Musical of 1964.
The director was John Rich and this was his first time to work with Elvis Presley He came from a strong background in TV, having directed such series as 'Our Miss Brooks', 'I Married Joan', 'Gunsmoke', 'The Rifleman', 'The Andy Griffith Show', 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' and 'Gilligan's Island'. He was anxious to break into film directing with Hal Wallis. He wasn't impressed with Elvis Presley’s Memphis Mafia entourage and their constant hanging around and playing practical jokes on one another. Elvis Presley told Mr. Rich, '...when these damn movies cease to be fun, I'll stop doing them. And if my guys go, (expletive), so do I'. Elvis Presley and Mr. Rich had gotten off to a shaky start when Elvis Presley cajoled the director into allowing him to do his own stunt fight, which was very uncommon then due to the possibility of the star's being hurt and shutting down production. When Elvis Presley indeed was hurt in the stunt and required several stitches above his eye, Mr. Rich was afraid to tell Hal Wallis that he'd allowed their star to become injured. Then he came up with a plan to write into the script the bandage that covered the stitches and thus production wasn't halted and Wallis was appeased. John Rich later directed Elvis in 'Easy Come, Easy Go'. By that time he was disillusioned with Hal Wallis and his methods and had developed a respect for Elvis Presley And No Big Star Had Ever Put Him Straight Like He Did When He Told If These Damn Movies Cease To Be Fun I’ll Stop Doing Them. He Really Admired And Respected Elvis Presley For Standing Up And Speaking Is Mind Although Parker Wasn’t Happy As He Pulled Elvis Presley Up Rich returned to directing TV series including such programs as 'All In The Family', 'Sanford and Son', 'Maude', 'The Jeffersons', 'Barney Miller', 'Newhart', 'Dear John' and 'Murphy Brown' among others. He has received many accolades including seven Emmy nominations with three Emmy wins.
On February 26, 1964, Elvis Presley reported to Paramount for pre-production. He started with soundtrack recording sessions at Radio Recorders of Hollywood. On March 3, Elvis Presley recorded the version of the title song 'Roustabout' that was written by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott. It was not used in the film. Instead they used a different song with the same title written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye.
Elvis Presley recorded his vocals for that second song on April 29, 1964 after the principal photography was shot. An acetate of Elvis Presley’s long-thought-lost Blackwell/Scott song was found in Winfield Scott's basement and RCA first released it as a bonus track on the 2003 Elvis 2nd To None album. To differentiate it from the one used in the movie, the title was changed to 'I'm a Roustabout'.
Elvis Presley became frustrated during these sessions when he wanted The Jordanaires to back him up on a song that he would be seen singing alone in the film while riding a motorcycle down the road.
One of the producers questioned him as to where the backup singers would be in the shot.
Elvis Presley snapped back, 'The same damn place as the band!'
One of the songs in the film, 'It's A Wonderful World', written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, was for a time in contention for an Academy Award nomination as Best Song.
For authenticity in Elvis Presley’s sixteenth film, 'Roustabout', a real carnival was employed and set up on land near Thousand Oaks, California. This was one of the locations used for exterior shots in the movie. The interior shots used three connecting sound stages (Nos. 12, 14 and 15) on the Paramount lot. The doors between them were opened up to make them into one huge stage, which was needed to accommodate the set for the big tent scenes. This was the first time in the history of the studio that they had done this.
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George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham in Fiction - a partial summary
CW: discussions of biphobia and homophobia in historical fiction and current historiography.
Feeling both inspired and outraged in equal measure by the upcoming Mary&George series, and having been fascinated with this remarkable man since forever, I have decided to post this partial overview of portrayals of George in fiction. The ones in bold are the ones I have read. Feel free to add to the list.
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 
The Honey and The Sting, Elizabeth Freemantle 
My Queen My Love, E.M Vidal 
Cavalier Queen, Fiona Mountain 
The Dangerous Kingdom Of Love, Neil Blackmore 
The Fallen Angel, Tracy Borman
Wife Of Great Buckingham, Hilda Lewis
Darling Of Kings, P J Womack
The Queens Dwarf, Ella March Chase
The Smallest Man, Frances Owen
The Spanish Match, Brennan Purcell
Captain Alatriste, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Cardinal and The Queen, Evelyn Anthony 
Earthly Joys, Philippa Gregory
Myself My Enemy, Jean Plaidy
Charles The King, Evelyn Anthony 
The Young And Lonely King, Jane Lane
The Fortunes Of Nigel, Walter Scott 
The Crowned Lovers, E Barrington
The Minion, Raphael Sabiniti 
The Murder In The Tower, Jean Plaidy 
A Net For Small Fishes, Lucy Jago 
The Arm and the Darkness, Taylor Caldwell
Les Gloires et les perils (?), Robert Merle
And a few I’m not so sure about where George is mentioned in passing: . 
Viper Wine, Hermionie Eyre
John Saturnalls Feast, Lawrence Norfolk 
Rebels and traitors, Lindsay Davis
The Assassin, Ronald Blythe 
Some observations, in no particular order:
Novels set mostly in James reign often have George as a rival to Robert Carr and will attempt to foreshadow how much worse he will be compared to Carr.
The ones that feature Henrietta Maria as Protagonist or at least POV character, where George is normally a baddie trying to sabotage HM and Charles I's relationship, and his death is often portrayed as some sort of salvation for HM. In these books George will often be lamed for things which were IRL Charles's fault such as the expulsion of HMs French household in 1626.
Three Musketeers is practically a category in its own right due to all the film/tv adaptions but has had relatively few clones or imitators in English which is something of a surprise
George is only a protagonist in one of these books (Darling of Kings, P J Womack) in the rest he's a cameo or a villain
Rumours that I suspect authors know is nonsense are repeated verbatim such as Tracy Borman's baseless speculation about G offing the Manners brothers, king James, and his rumoured involvement with the occult.
Georges relationships with James and Charles respectively are mentioned but not meaningfully explored. neither are any other personal relationships he had.
The insights and shifts in terms of post 1970s revisionist and post revisionist scholarship esp. Roger Lockyer's bio of George have not found their way into any fiction set in this era. Georges capability as an administrator and manager of patronage is more often than not totally absent.
the general view of George and why he's often shown in such a negative light is pretty much "well, he was willing to god knows what with that dirty old man James; who knows what other depravities he was capable of" and its female authors who really seem to lean into this, which I find fascinating and disturbing.
EDIT (can’t believe I forgot this) George’s murder in 1628 is always the result of some sort of aristocratic conspiracy rather than the act of terrorism it was IRL. I do get why authors do this - the amount of world building and foreshadowing needed to make it seem plausible rather than random in universe. However making it the result of personal grudge rather than ideological violence detracts from why it was so shocking and important.
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Hi, hope you're doing well! I was wondering if you had any recommendations for oracle decks for beginners
Hey there, thanks for the ask!
Honestly, it depends on what you're looking for. There are different Oracle decks for different things. I would also recommend using a deck that calls to you, regardless of what anyone says to you. If you feel a connection to a deck, that's likely your best bet; you may find it easier to interpret the cards.
Oracle cards tend to be more challenging for people than tarot, so keep in mind that even decks that might be a little more "beginner" may still be a bit difficult to interpret, even with the aid of a guide book. Here's a list of decks I'd recommend:
The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Oracle deck (by Kim Krans)
Woodland Wardens (by Jessica Roux)
The Urban Crow Oracle (by MJ Cullinane)
Mushroom Spirit Oracle (by Nicola McIntosh)
Sacred Symbols Oracle deck (by Marcella Kroll) (when I checked, I didn't see anything appropriative, but I couldn't see the full deck; I'd remember double-checking this one if you can)
Moonology (by Yasmin Boland)
Tea Leaf Fortune Cards (by Rae Hepburn)
Ancient Animal Wisdom (by Stacy James & Jada Fire)
Wisdom of the Raven (by J Edward & Heather Neill)
If you want something a little more challenging, I recommend these:
The Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck (by Kim Krans)
Oracle of the Radiant Sun (by Caroline Smith & John Astrop)
Cosma Visions Oracle deck (by James R. Eads)
The Endless Oracle (by Eric Maille)
The Phantom Fauna Oracle deck (by Sam Sawyer) (I think you could use this one as a starting deck, too, tbh)
Pillars (by Travis Lawrence) (honestly, I desperately want to get my hands on this one myself)
I hope this gives you some things to look into and enjoy! Have a good day/night, friend. c:
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Do you have any nonfiction that you would recommend if someone was interested in the US Navy/military?
im probably not the right person to ask this bc most of my military knowledge hyperfixation is centered on the ARMY in the American Revolutionary War & World War II. It’s only pretty recently that i got into modern warfare as a topic, so let me just give some indiscriminate recs
Can’t go wrong with David McCullough‘s 1776, which is a great overview of the first year of the revolutionary war + the extremely fraught politics of trying to start a new nation’s military—really illustrates where a bunch of lingering schools of thought in our military originated from.
Another David McCullough shout-out: his The Wright Brothers is an excellent book about the origins of flight, AND it was the book right next to the picture of Ice and Maverick shaking hands on Ice’s bookshelf in TGM. So we know ice has read that one. I think you can’t go wrong at all with any David McCullough. I own like 5-6 of his books and he hasn’t missed once. (His best is John Adams but that’s not mil related)
Ron chernows biography of Washington goes into his military background (7 years' war) a whole bunch, and kind of elucidates how truly fortunate we were to have our nation’s first leader be a military man who really kinda didn’t want to be there. Some really good takes on leadership. Just beware that chernow does have a reputation in the history community for just makin shit up sometimes. If it sounds too cute/quaint to be true, it really might be.
u may be tempted: DO NOT read Brian kilmeade's Thomas Jefferson & the Tripoli Pirates, one of the few navy NF books I've read. I read it b4 I even knew who kilmeade was--didn't matter. it fucking sucks. he uses like 7 sources in the whole book.
Stephen E. Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers is a great WWII NF book about that generation of infantrymen.
The one big Navy NF book I've read recently is (not to brag but my personally signed copy of) Craig symonds' new biography of admiral Chester Nimitz, who was COMPACFLT during WWII's war in the pacific. I got a SHIT ton of professional characterization for Ice from Nimitz' life and this book--Nimitz also worked 18 hour days, was also separated from the love of his life for long periods of time in Hawaii, was also probably acutely depressed, etc.
okay: THOMAS E. RICKS. The Generals is SUCH a good book. Army leadership from WWII up through Iraq and Afghanistan. Focusing on how the Army used to relieve (fire) commissioned officers who couldn't hack it, and that's a huge part of why we won WWII, but somewhere between WWII and Korea, being fired started being super shameful (macarthur's fault if I'm reading it correctly) so mediocre officers didn't get fired and that's why the army has suffered shit leadership in every war since WWII. It's a HUGE thesis that he backs up so well. Would so recommend. I'm also currently reading his FIASCO about the fuck-up of Iraq. Also incredible so far.
Michael O'Hanlon's Military History for the Modern Strategist-- a post Civil War survey of military strategy on the campaign/operational level. Might be a good introduction to US military history, just giving a pretty broad overview of post-CW warfare, so that way you don't pick up a random book about the Korean War and go "wait what was the Chosin campaign again?" Interestingly written and I got to meet him and he wrote "wishing you the best" in my book after I told him I wanted to steal his job at Brookings someday, so admittedly I'm biased.
Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State is not strictly military related, but it is one of the best-written and most illuminating nonfiction books I've ever read and I cannot recommend it enough.
For war fiction, my taste is v mainstream: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (imo better than the things they carried), Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds, Cannot Miss Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front if you haven't read it, Hassan Blasim's The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq... For specifically Naval lit: Run Silent, Run Deep is a pretty good classic, and this summer I read the 600-page behemoth The Caine Mutiny, which is about specifically WWII-era naval law... it's a brick. But it won a pulitzer and it's...passable. Kind of interesting at least.
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Certain Needs
by Tippens101 Johnny has certain needs. Fortunately for him, his boyfriend understands. Words: 1851, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Cobra Kai (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Johnny Lawrence, Daniel LaRusso, Bobby Brown, Dutch (Karate Kid), Jimmy (Karate Kid), Tommy (Karate Kid), Terry Silver, John Kreese Relationships: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Johnny Lawrence/OG Cobras, John Kreese/Terry Silver Additional Tags: Top Daniel LaRusso, Bottom Johnny Lawrence, Sub Johnny Lawrence, Orgy, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Collars, Small Penis, Bondage, Dirty Talk, Feminization via https://ift.tt/DO48WZ1
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