#charles stratton

[trapezequeen]

“Our own mothers were ashamed of us. Hid us our whole lives. Then you pull us out of the shadows. Now you're giving up on us too. Maybe you are a fraud. Maybe it was about making a buck. But you gave us a real family.”

#the greatest showman #tgs #greatest showman #pt Barnum #phineas Taylor Barnum #Hugh jackman #Phillip Carlyle #Zac efron #zendaya #zendaya Coleman #Anne wheeler #charity Barnum #Michelle Williams #Lettie lutz #keala settle #wd wheeler #yahya abdul mateen ii #Charles Stratton #Sam Humphrey #Prince Constantine #the greatest show #a million dreams #come alive #carwheeler #natasha liu bordizzo #lord of Leeds #Daniel everidge #my edits #my gifs #greatest showman gifs

[aintinacage]

Impossible comes true.

#the greatest showman #greatest showman #tgs #the greatest show #hugh jackman #pt Barnum #phineas Taylor barnum #phineas barnum #the circus #circus #Sam Humphrey #Charles Stratton #the ringmaster #ringmaster #lions #tgs gifs #songs

[asma-town]

U know what I just realised? In The Greatest Showman, 95% of James Gordon Bennett's lines are just... roasting Barnum. Ik his dialogue is supposed to be conveying the highbrows opinions of circus, but I just find it hilarious that Barnum and Bennett will just flat out start throwing passive aggressive barbs at each other anytime they like lol.

Also do u guys think that after the circus is rebuilt, Bennett pulls an Anton Ego and starts to publicly support Barnum? Ngl I see Lettie, Anne, Charles and everyone else being a little weary of him at first but I just think that after the heart to heart Bennet and Barnum had near the end of the movie it would kinda be impossible for him to start criticizing the circus again.

#the greatest showman #p.t. barnum #james gordon bennett #anne wheeler #lettie lutz #tom thumb #charles stratton

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hey so remember those new protest laws that make peaceful protest illegal? yeah? wanna see them in action?

[alt text:]

Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest

Republic’s Graham Smith held at protest on King Charles III’s procession route in central London

Daniel Boffey Chief reporter, Sat 6 May 2023 08.31 BST

The head of the UK’s leading republican movement has been arrested at an anti-monarchist protest on King Charles III’s procession route.

Graham Smith had been collecting drinks and placards for demonstrators at Trafalgar Square when he was detained by police on the Strand in central London.

It is understood Smith was detained after bringing a megaphone to the demonstration. The Met police had tweeted earlier this week that they would have a “low tolerance” of those seeking to “undermine” the day.

Harry Stratton, a director at Republic, who arrived as Smith and the others were detained, said: “They were collecting the placards and bringing them over when the police stopped them.

“The guys asked why and they were told: we will tell you that once we have searched the vehicle. That’s when they arrested the six organisers. We asked on what grounds they had been arrested but they wouldn’t say. It is a surprise as we had had a number of meetings with the police. They had been making all the right noises”.

full article

dont you love it when your government decides to not even bother hiding the fact the fascist tendencies theyre leaning more and more into?

#uk police #uk politics #britpol #british politics #british police #monarchy #anti monarchy #the guardian #harry stratton #graham smith #daniel boffey #charles #charles iii #coronation #hell country #police misconduct

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Today is Tom Thumb Day.

#tom thumb #brothers grimm #thumbling #charles stratton

[diioonysus]

vintage illustrations + my tattoo list

#is from a bride book but the art is by john r neill #arthur rackham udine #also john r neill #from the 1914 book of shakespeare midsummer night's dream by i think william heath #it's by robert anning bell #the curiosities of kissing by alfred fowler but not sure if he's the artist #is in greek theatre costumes by iris brookes #in the book the golden fleece and the heroes who lived before achilles and the artist is willy pogany #in the book fairy tales by hans christian andersen and the artist is charles robinson #in line and form by walter crane #in the book kitchen maid and the artist is j. b. partridge #in the book the tale of lohengrin knight of the swan and the artist is willy pogany #in the book by john keats but idk the artist #in the book illustrators of montmartre by emanuel frank #in the book early poems of william morris #in the book the eve of st anges and artist is edmund h garrett #in the book home theatricals made easy or busy happy and merry #in the book the illustrated london instructor #in the book songs for little people and artist is h stratton #from alfred tennyson's poems and artist is eleanor forescue brickdale #artist is gerhard munthe #in arthur rackham's wagner ring cycle: the valkyrie #tiburtijnse sibille by jan luyken #by peter behrens #by shigeru hatsuyama #in the book devises heroiques by claude paradin #in the book price list of magical apparatus and illusions from 1884 #in arthur rackham's ring cycle: valkyrie (this is my newest tattoo i got!!) #in scapel: the 1911 year book of the woman's medical college of pennsylvania #in the child world by artist c robinson

[octisticsopinions]

The greatest showman and the erasure of disabled history (cw: historical ableism and racism)

I haven't watched the greatest showman. It watched a review of it. I won't watch it, I won't even pirate it, because watching a movie like that would be deeply upsetting to me.

This movie is about P.T Barnum, a real person, a horrible, ableist, racist, disgusting person, who should not be celebrated.

In this movie, he's a saviour for disabled "freaks", a word that this movie believes he has the right to reclaim for disabled people.

In reality, he exhibited disabled people and people of colour as "freaks" to be ogled and jeered at, to be abused and discarded when the novelty wore off, to exist for the entertainment of non-disabled whites.

This movie is not about the disabled "freaks". It could never be, because that would require showing the truth about freakshows, and it would give the disabled characters too much agency. This is a tragedy in my eyes, that we never see the stories of the actual disabled people of colour.

It's not about the disabled person who joined the freakshow to provide for their family.

It's not about the disabled black person who was lied to and deceived into joining.

It's not about the disabled slave who was sold into the freakshow.

It's always the non-disabled person who profiting off of the humiliation and abuse they subject their disabled workers and slaves to. And this is portrayed as something inspiring, and something the "freaks" should've been grateful for.

It's never about Joice Heth, or Saartjie Baartman, or Charles Sherwood Stratton, or the indigenous people who were tricked kidnapped or enslaved, or the disabled people who never saw their family again, it's about PT fucking Barnum.

I've seen disabled people find empowerment in this movie, and i'm happy for them. But the greatest showman was not made for disabled people to feel empowered by "embracing their differences". It was made for non disabled people who want to be a saviour to disabled people. It's for non-disabled people who feel guilty about objectifying disabled people, to reassure them that disabled people are actually grateful. It shows disabled people succeeding, but only because they cater to non-disabled people. It's made to justify ableism to non disabled audiences.

This movie is disgustingly disrespectful, to the victims of P.T Barnum. Many of the "freaks" where based on real people. Real people who were often sold into slavery, abused, tortured. Real people who this movie turns into puppets who only exist to make P.T Barnum look like a saint, to fufill non-disabled fantasies of being mother teresa to a disabled kid.

This movie will go down as a disgusting, shameful movie, and I hope the true stories of the ableism and racism in freakshows become widely known, until freakshows and their members are given the respectful and solemn recounting they deserve.

#pt barnum #the greatest showman #racism #colonialism #ablism #ableism #freakshows #history #whitewashing #ablewashing #musicals #Joice Heth #Saartjie Baartman #Charles Sherwood Stratton #disabled history #disabled #disability

[vellichorius]

the greatest showman sucks a little bit once you realise that the actual p.t. barnum was an actual dick

#tw ableism #so tom thumb ( whose real name was charles stratton ) was actually four years old when he got hired ? #and barnum was just like 'oh he's 11 it's fine' #he ended up hiring another 'tom thumb' named commodore nutt to do the same act #which isn't that bad but #watching the movie gave me a pleasant sense of 'this is what happened ! this is nice' #unfortunately not #and when his first wife died he remarried a year later #i don't know if that was normal in that age but #mostly i'm just shocked by the blatant ableism #anyways don't catch me getting annoyed at history AGAIN

[coriel-muroz]

Huntsville Revived #454

Family was important to Cory and Christy.

For Logan’s first birthday, they didn’t throw an actual birthday party, but Cory invited Robbie & Charles over, as well as Mary Anne,  Felix, Rick and Garrick.

“Seriously? The first time I come back from college and get to hold you, you immediately poop? Typical little brother - I should be used to it by now,” Robbie sighed as he took the baby to get changed. This was little brother #4, so he was quite experienced.

“I can’t believe Logan is 1 already. Are you and Christy talking about another?” Mary Anne asked Cory.

“We are. She would love to have a daughter, but I don’t care as long as they are happy and healthy.” 

Mary Anne smiled at her ex-husband. This was precisely why their marriage had not worked out. She had intended to stop with 2. Rick had been a happy surprise. She certainly was never getting pregnant again.

“Are you and Felix excited to be empty-nesters soon?” Cory wanted to know. With Robbie at college, and Charles joining soon, only Rick would still be at home - but he was to move in with Garrick.

“It’s hard to believe. I think Felix will miss having the boys around even more than me,” Mary Anne admitted. She loved her sons, but loved her own independence more.

Charles, meanwhile, found Ash playing upstairs.

“I’m hungry, Charle,” he said. He couldn’t yet pronounce the final s on Charles’ name.

“I’ll grab you a snack, Ash.” He went downstairs to grab something from the fridge.

“Just grabbing a snack for Ash,” he called to Christy as he poked around the fridge.

“You’re always welcome to a snack as well,” she replied. Technically, she was his step-mother, but since Charles had never lived with her and his dad, their relationship was both less complicated than that but more distant.

“Careful what you offer,” Garrick commented as he arrived, “Charles might eat you out of house and home.” Christy laughed at the comment. She was well aware of how much teenage boys ate, even if Robbie and Charles had never lived with them.

“Hey, Maxx, how are you doing?” Garrick also greeted the dog.

As Charles headed out of the kitchen with Ash’s snack, he only hoped his family was as calm and connected as they seemed in that moment in the kitchen.

#Huntsville Revived #the sims 2 #ts2 #sims2 #Household 15 #Cory Gonzaga #Charles Gonzaga #Robbie Gonzaga #Christy Stratton #Garrick Lawson #Ash Gonzaga #Maxx the dog

[dearorpheus]

(that last anon again) Thank you so much for the recommendations! I'm truly in awe of how well read you are and how thorough your answers are. May I ask if you have any fiction recommendations with the same themes?

(following on from this ask)

hi!! you're very kind, apologies for taking so long to get back to you! i've been snowed under with assignments+readings for uni and the slowly encroaching exam crawl... but yes absolutely♡

- The Story of O, Anne Desclos - The Bloody Chamber ; The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman ; The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter -> Angela appreciated and referenced symbolist artists like Rops:

Woman Putting on Costume, 1848-1898, Rops; The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter; excerpt from Romana Byrne's Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of Sadomasochism (mentioned in previous ask) which seems esp pertinent given the Bloody Chamber is a Bluebeard tale (but which is actually referencing Story of O)

I also mentioned Giger in the previous ask, and Hans Bellmer was an influence of his whom I enjoy viewing alongside Rops...

this is Sans Titre (Jeune Fille et la Mort), 1963

- The Torture Garden, Octave Mirbeau

(Le Jardin des supplices (1976) dir. Christian Gion; screencap from estateofinsanity)

- Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z. Brite - Necrophilia Variations, Supervert - Story of the Eye; My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man; Blue of Noon, Bataille - Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue ; Juliette ; 120 Days of Sodom, Sade - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice -> supplement w Sleeping Beauty (2011) dir. Julia Leigh - Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Monsieur Vénus, Rachilde - Le Necrophile, Gabrielle Wittkopp - The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P, Reiko Matsuura - The Damned ; Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans - Empire of the Senseless, Kathy Acker - Crash, J.G. Ballard (+ the Cronenberg of course) - Salomé / Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal, Oscar Wilde - La Morte Amoureuse, Théophile Gautier

^Romuald bitterly remembers his lost love, 1904, Eugène Decisy—his etchings for Gautier's story are beautiful (x, x)

- The Image, Jean de Berg - Trois Filles de leur mère, Pierre Louÿs - House of Incest, Anaïs Nin - My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell - Naomi, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - “Dolores”, Algernon Charles Swinburne:

-> first of many stanzas^ ; I also like his “Laus Veneris” - Trouble Every Day (2001) dir. Claire Denis - Belladonna of Sadness (1963) dir. EIichi Yamamoto

(screencap from eternal--return)

- Nekromantik (1988) dir. Jörg Buttgereit - Thirst (2009) dir. Park Chan-wook -> supplement w Zola's Thérèse Raquin and In Secret (2013) dir. Charlie Stratton

#eroticism #asks

[nocnitsa]

The Lily of Life By Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938. With a preface by Carmen Sylva [Elisabeth, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of Romania, 1843-1916]; Illustrations by Helen Stratton, 1867-1961. London; New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.

[trapezequeen]

Every Shot of Anne Wheeler (Part 11/♾️)

#every anne wheeler shot #greatest showman gifs #zendaya #zendaya coleman #the greatest showman #my gifs #greatest showman #gifset #Anne wheeler #tgs #trapeze #trapeze artist #wd wheeler #yahya abdul mateen ii #Charles Stratton #zac efron #Phillip Carlyle #circus #lettie lutz #the bearded lady #keala settle

[angrytreemarten]

Welcome Home AU ideas

(I only have one so far)

The Greatest Showman AU

❗️Spoilers up ahead!❗️

Basic idea:

Eddie started out as a poor kid who sometimes worked for Frank’s family with his father and fell in love with Frank after seeing him during hIs lessons in etiquette. He fell in love with his curiosity and grumpy yet caring attitude. Frank fell for him because he could make him laugh and taught him things she never knew about. He managed to get the Frankly-Hallot’s blessing to marry Frank. In order to raise money to support his nobel born-and-raised husband and now two adopted daughters, he tries to create a museum of sorts but it ultimately flops. One of his daughters points out that nobody wants to look at a bunch of old paintings and dirty bones and so Eddie sets out to find the most bizarre persons he can to add to his new show. Along the way he meets Wally Carlyle-Darling, a young man who is very successful but also very sheltered and cautious. After Wally eventually becomes business partners with Eddie, he meets a set of siblings that are a part of Eddie’s circus. He falls in love with Y/N Wheeler at first sight but Y/N has her doubts. After all, he is a puppet and she is a human. But that cannot stop love.

Hopes for the characters:

I’m hoping for Barnaby to be Lord of Leeds.

And Julie is the Lettie Lutz (Bearded lady) I don’t care what yall say. She’d nail it. Julie is bearded lady and Sally is Charles Stratton (Short man/Tom thumb), because romantic besties and because yes. I don’t make the rules.

Howdy is W.D. Wheeler (One of the acrobat siblings. W.D. Is Anne’s, or in this case, Y/N’s brother) (Y/N was adopted like most humans were.)

Poppy is Queen Victoria. I just feel like this role would fit her so well.

I don’t care who Jenny Lind is played by. Just preferably not by someone likable. 😒 I have a bias against her. No offense to any Jenny lovers out there. It’s just my opinion.

Details I’m hoping for:

Subtlety hinted throughout the whole thing that Julie and Sally are somewhat romantically interested in each other.

Eddie and Frank’s kids are just alternate AUs of themselves but nobody notices until the end in which some random background character takes one look at Frank and Eddie and one look at the kids and is like “Since when were there two of each of you guys?”, but ironically because there literally *are* two versions of them.

In the big group hug at the bar after Eddie gets it through his thick skull that his friends aren’t just staying for the money but because they finally have a place they fit in, he gets comically squished and makes a squeaky toy noise.

Both Wally’s parents have the exact same hair as him. 😂

Howdy is an overprotective brother and doesn’t approve of Y/N and Wally but is a good big brother and lets them happen because he knows Wally wouldn’t hurt Y/N for anything.

Let me know if you have an idea for more!

#wally welcome home #x reader #welcome home au #welcome home puppet show #wally darling welcome home #welcome home #welcome home fandom #wally darling #barnaby b beagle #julie joyful #sally starlet #howdy pillar #poppy partridge #eddie dear #frank frankly #eddie x frank #julie x sally #wally x reader #wally x y/n #wally x yn #wally x you #aus #welcome home aus #the greatest showman #lettie lutz #charles stratton #anne wheeler #wd wheeler #Jenny lind #The greatest showman AU

[silently-judgingyou]

Pick a movie, keep an actor from said movie, the rest are played by Muppets. What's the movie and who do you keep from it? Bonus points for details.

Why would I ruin a good movie?

//Ooooo but the mun loves this idea. I’m gonna pick The Greatest Showman because it’s my favorite movie. I’m gonna pick to keep Z because obviously she’s my fave.

//PT Barnum is Gonzo. Jenny Lind is Miss Piggy. Phillip Carlyle is Kermit the Frog. Lettie Lutz is Skeeter. Lord of Leeds is Fozzie Bear. The Irish Giant is Sweetums. Mr Hallet and Mr Carlyle are Statler and Waldorf. The Dog Face Boy is Rowlf the Dog. WD Wheeler is Sam Eagle. Charles Stratton is Rizzo the Rat. Charity Barnum is Janice. O’Malley is Animal. Prince Constantine is Beaker. Caroline and Helen Barnum are the Muppet Chickens. Mr Bennet as Dr Teeth.

//@antvnger I feel like you will appreciate this.

#michelle jones roleplay #muppets #mj got an ask #mun speaks #the greatest showman

[walkingdetroit]

Peacock Inspiration

My heart has been so full of inspiration this past week.

From the Guardian Building blues and greens to the beautiful Peacock tile at Pewabic, I realized how drawn I am to this color combination.

Back in 2022, I created an abstract design named "Blair," which has been sitting inside my art cabinet, barely noticed. I got her back out yesterday and was inspired to try my hand at a new watercolor.

After visiting the DIA yesterday, I realized the beautiful synchronicities between the Peacock feathers at the Woodward entrance and my own entryway at home! I found these Peacock feathers at Premier Pet Supply downtown on Washington, but even at under $2 each, they were far too beautiful to let Kiko play with them.

I repurposed my Christmas tree stand and decided to create an arrangement a few weeks ago; and subconsciously, I think I had this Peacock in mind all along! She is still a work in progress, but it has been a lot of fun to create.

There's more Peacock inspiration, too. After researching the art in the Detroit People Mover Stations, I learned about James McNeill Whistler’s paintings, who had designed “The Peacock Room” at 49 Prince’s Gate in London, owned by British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland.

The room was preserved in 1904 by Charles Lang Freer, who installed it in his home at 71 E. Ferry Avenue. The original wall is now on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Mary Chase Stratton, co-founder of Pewabic Pottery, was a friend of Freer, and created the original peacock tile for his home.

I have visited The Peacock Room at The Park Shelton, but had no idea the origin of the name. It's amazing how art leads us to history and stories that brought us to where we are today!

You can visit Joyce Kozloff's Whistler-inspired peacocks at the Financial District People Mover Station Downtown Detroit.

#peacock #peacockfeathers #artist #watercolor #guardianbuilding #detroitinstituteofarts #abstractdesign #abstractart #inspiration #lifeisart #walkingdetroit #artdeco #detroitarts #detroitpeoplemover #financialdistrict #pewabic #pewabictile #pewabicpottery #thepeacockroom

[thebeautifulbook]

THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Helen Stratton. Adapted for children by Charles Lamb. (London/New York: Chatto & Windus/Duffield, 1907).

source

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #illustrated book #vintage books #children’s book #william shakespeare #the tempest #edwardian books