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amateur-weatherboy · 5 months
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siryl · 8 months
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Some years ago a lady brought to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh a trout covered with a fine coat of white fur. It was pleasingly mounted on a wooden shield and was labelled as follows:
FUR BEARING TROUT Very Rare Caught while trolling in Lake Superior off Gros Cap, Near Sault Ste. Marie, district of Algoma. It is believed that the great depth and the extreme penetrating coldness of the water in which these fish live has caused them to grow their dense coat of (usually) white fur. Mounted by ROSS C. JOBE, Taxidermist of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Visiting the museum to find out more about her unique fish, the lady was told that it was undoubtedly a trout (either brown or brook) and that its fine white coat was undoubtedly from a rabbit, whereupon she immediately presented the fish to the museum. She had bought this fake in good faith which indicates that the idea of a fur-bearing trout did not seem outlandish to her.
―Stanley Peter Dance, Animal Fakes & Frauds, 1976
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lavenderlyncis · 1 year
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Love how transphobes and anti-indpendence people are trying to make us seem like some evil nationalists that only want independence because we're xenophobic or something
As if England isn't one of the most nationalist, xenophobic and racist countries in the world. As if there isn't a lot of fucking xenophobia towards scottish people in England. As if England isn't literally trying to block a law to help trans people
Sorry we don't want you blocking our laws just because you are tories and terfs
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mahgnolias · 2 years
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ingravinoveritas · 15 days
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did you see this? https://x.com/achtungchio/status/1768089834222977466?s=20
Oh my God. Yes, yes I have indeed seen that post, but for those who haven't let's get a screenshot up:
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This comes from a fan who attended tonight's performance of Nye and was at the stage door afterward and overheard this exchange between Michael and another fan. (A second fan has made another post here on Tumblr also confirming what Michael said.)
So...just to put things in perspective, it has been eight months since GO season 2 first aired, and one month since we've gotten a comment from David about what it was like to kiss Michael. And now we finally have heard from Michael about what it was like to kiss David, and everything about how this came about could not be more perfect.
I love that it was a question from a fan, instead of a print or TV interview. Knowing how Michael has interacted with the fandom for the last five years, I would fully expect him to give the cheekiest (and most honest) answer to a fan instead of an interviewer. It's probably also what he's wanted to scream out on Twitter since last July, but couldn't because of the Writers' Strike and then the subsequent fandom drama that occurred in late October.
His answer absolutely blows me away, for so many reasons. That you can just hear "It's everything you've dreamed of" so distinctly in his voice, for one. But also that it's gorgeous because Michael is giving away so much by saying so little. It's that he was being a complete tease with that soft chuckle (as the second fan mentioned) and by letting us imagine more than he told us--and also seemingly very purposely not stopping us from imagining it.
Also, the use of "you dreamed of" instead of "I dreamed of" almost seems deliberate, as if Michael used to dream about kissing David but hasn't had to for a long time because he's kissed him many times before. (It also made me wonder if that was a sly reference to those of us who have thought about Michael and David kissing, and the fact that Michael knows so many of us have thought about it. I'm probably completely wrong, but I feel oddly and unexpectedly seen at the moment. Haha.)
I am just delighted that someone finally asked him that, though. I think we've been dying for it, but also likely not as much as Michael has been dying for it. And how amazing would it be if this is what leads him back to Twitter to engage with the fandom and share a few more juicy tidbits that he's been keeping under wraps. Fingers crossed...
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lionofchaeronea · 4 months
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Piety: The Knights of the Round Table about to Depart in Quest of the Holy Grail, William Dyce, 1849
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scotianostra · 20 days
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Jumping off Abbey Craig.
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barbucomedie · 8 months
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Sword Hilt and Portion of Blade Excavated from the Isle of Man dated between the 13th-14th Centuries on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh Scotland
Photographs taken by myself 2023
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scotland · 2 years
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A small abandoned jetty in the Trossachs, Scotland.
📸 Scott Jackson
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scotland.co
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dadsinsuits · 21 days
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Ian Blackford
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vox-anglosphere · 1 month
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Miles of purple heather carpet the Pentland Hills in late summer.
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amateur-weatherboy · 4 months
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more bildad memes
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pepaldi · 4 months
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The wonderful Peter Capaldi co hosting with Richard E Grant at the Usher Hall RSNO Patrick Doyle's Music from the Movies An All-star celebration. (x)
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woso-scotland · 15 days
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Bring back the anniversary kit for the euro's this is what a stunning kit looks like
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ingravinoveritas · 1 month
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Thinking about David showing up to the first night of Nye in conjunction with episode 3 of The Way and how the odds of Michael and David snogging in the dressing room afterward while Georgia watches just went up by a considerable margin…
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(Actual footage of Michael in his dressing room after the show…)
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vyorei · 2 months
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The dossier contains absolutely no evidence, no sources, it's literally a "they did this, trust me bro".
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