#george oglivie

[darlinggeorgiedear]

Have u ever read The Quest For Queen Mary? I was kinda shocked to read there that a few different people said that Mary never loved George or that George terrified her and often was rude to her in front of their kids to the point it sometimes made her leave the table (which was claimed by the Duke of Windsor, so, *technically*, the greatest source possible...). But on the whole, the amount of contradicting info in the book also made it difficult to get a coherent view

Yes I have! I think that book says more about court life than who Queen Mary was. It seems like everyone was interested in their dynamic (kind of like Queen Elizabeth and Philip) and would try to decide who wore the pants, yet would settle with opinions that were contradicting like you said. George and Mary's letters prove these opinions wrong, and they loved each other deeply. It is interesting to think that their relationship came off so differently to a variety of people (ex. some say they were in love, yet some say she was scared of him, or he was dominated by her, or she was dominated by him, etc).

My favorite excerpt is from Lord Standforham's daughter who strongly disliked Mary (many believe her dad didn't like Mary too). She goes on about court life, in particular people who in her opinion, blindly worshiped the Royal Family, and would get mad at her for making jokes about Queen Mary. Then Lord Stadforhams daughter goes on about how cold and unfriendly Mary was to her, and how she never loved a human but just things. Pope Hennessy at the point of the interview, is a Queen Mary sympathizer, starts to defend her, and makes a joke that I guess you never loved her. Lord Stadforham's daughter very dramatically says something to the effect of "no I never loved her but that's the thing, she didn't want you too."

If you have read anything about Queen Mary's life you know she did become less spontaneous and outgoing as she got older to mask herself from the critics. This doesn't mean she was always cold, she just didn't show her true self to growing amount of people as time went on. Her BFF Lady Oglivy said Mary was always the same (they became friends as children), but just had a new cold exterior that went away in private. Yet Lord Standforham's daughter worked for her dad so would have seen the King and Queen often in a more intimate setting, yet Mary was still closed off to her, which shows Mary picked and choice who she was open to. The real irony of her interview with Pope Hennessy is how Lord Standforham's daughter never connects maybe the reason Mary wasn't open and kind to her is because she knew courtiers gossiped about her, since it seemed like a two way unfriendly relationship.

My point about bringing up this excerpt is to show that even though what was said about Queen Mary in that book is very bias and can be easily proven wrong with the primary sources we have (letters and diaries) or contradicted within the same book, it still does help the reader have a deeper understanding of Mary in a more indirect way.

Also, George himself admits to letting his anger out on (or being rude to) Mary many times with countless apology letters, so the Duke of Windsor was definitely not lying.

#george v #king george v #british royal family #brf #mary of teck

[aimeedaisies]

Did Anne and Tim attend Sir Angus Oglivy's funeral

Yes they did 🥲

#asks

[edwardpinestar]

What are your favourite books of all-time? All genres. 📖

Uhhh, probably The Luchair Stones by Isabel Oglivie, the Deltora Quest series, the Rowan of Rin series and the Golden Door trilogy by Emily Rodda, and the first six of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole (I stopped being able to get them after 6) by Kathryn Lasky for fiction books.

I quite like George Washington, Spymaster: How The Americans Outspied The British And Won The Revolutionary War by Thomas B. Allen, and From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework For Liberation by Gene Sharp for non-fiction.

Puss in Boots and the City of Immortals and The Cult of The Gatito by Flippy the Godzilla, I Do Not Fear Death by OndoriNaramaki, It Shines With My Promises To You by Frogs and Moths, A Cat and a Wolf Walk Into a Bar by Pokeya, and A Two-Canine Problem by tmotc are just some of my favourite fanfictions, as of late.

As you can probably tell, I read more fanfiction than books, and gravitate more to adventure in historical/medieval settings.

#my asks #thanks for the ask #favourite books #book recommendations i guess??

[revelisms]

On Repeat Playlist Tag Game

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist 10 times and tag 10 people.

Thank you @ravenkinnie for the tag 🖤

Most of these are from my Papa III character playlist, to...somewhat no surprise. The fixation is still fixating.

1. Come un raggio — Bud Spencer Blues Explosion

BSBE has kickstarted my nosedive into Italian experimental rock. Love the baseline in this one.

2. Lung — Vines Version

Cry, rinse, repeat to this song. Adrianne Munden-Dixon's original composition is also very beautiful.

3. Reaper's Scythe — Green Lung

Green Lung is quickly joining my Ghost obsession. Their riffs make me want to just 💥🤛 y'know?

4. Archangel of Death — Lucifer

I hear Johanna's voice and I am possessed by the urge to throw on black velvet and dance by a fire. This song is no exception.

5. The Flame — Tamino

I've had Sahar on and off over the last month (what an album), but rediscovered this song from the 'Wickerman' short doc he recently released. Gorgeous visual artpiece that just writes a love note for this track.

6. Portrait of a Dead Girl — The Last Dinner Party

This band is Kate Bush meets Florence meets ABBA meets Roxette with a note of proggy 70s compositions. I've been following them from the start and I'm devouring everything they put out. The build to 'give me the strength' in this one?? OugH.

7. Hero — Regina Spektor

Revisiting my early-2000s heart-wrencher tunes here. It's been an age since I listened to this album, but it's an old favorite.

8. A Delicate Kind — George Ogilvie

My most recent musical find that I've been playing a bunch. Love the chord progression in this song; feels like a slow desert drive on a dark night.

9. Patterns — Vera Blue

The layering of the vocals is just hauntingly beautiful in this, I haven't been able to keep them out of my head since my first listen.

10. Black is the Colour — Cara Dillon

Reigning favorite of this song is of course Nina's, but Derry Girls introduced me to this version. The gentle piano, the vocals, the tenderness. It's so lovely.

Tagging @ren-144p @zkyfall @lullabyes22-blog and whoever else would like to join!

#tagging game #song recs

[astarfilledsea]

2019 in review

sorta kinda in a way not really but still-ish tagged by the lovely sweet dear @wall-ewest 

Top 5 films

httyd3: hidden world

always be my maybe

captain marvel

the little prince

a selection of scenes from r o s

Top 5 shows

good omens

club de cuervos

elite

carmen sandiego

the royals

Top 5 songs

foreign hands / george oglivie

strangers / jonas brothers

o i long to feel your arms around me / father john misty

redemption / dermot kennedy

shrike / hozier

Top 5 books

red white and royal blue / casey mcquiston

call down the hawk / maggie steifvater

the starless sea / erin morgenstern

a conjuring of light / v.e. schwab

if we were villains / m. l. rio

Top 5 positive or happy things that happened this year

i saw the jonas brothers WHICH WAS SO GOOD

got obsessed with rw rb 

read 50 books holy shit, never did that before since i was a kid

got to meet up with friends R and Meg! / saw Sammie again and we hung out and saw live will shakes which was p cool / hung out with kayley in downtown chi and went to the hamilton exhibition 

lolololololol somehow survived the year and moved to texas

i tag whoever is bored and wants to do this, go ahead friend

#ask #sorta #lol i need to watch more movies and tv shows #couldnt think of what to put there so i just put stuff i knew i watched #i read too much but those were things i did in '19 #i was bored so i wanted to do this

[goalhofer]

First MLB Draft Pick By Birth Country

USA: Robert Monday; Jr. (1st overall, Kansas City) 1965

UK: Les Rohr (2nd overall, New York Mets) 1965

Cuba: George Lauzerique (199th overall, Kansas City) 1965

Panama: Ben Oglivie (248th overall, Boston) 1968

The Netherlands: Rik Blijleven (55th overall, Minnesota) 1969

Germany: Glenn Hubbard (473rd overall, Atlanta) 1975

Jamaica: Charles Davis (270th overall, San Francisco) 1977

Puerto Rico: Dany Tartabull (71st overall, Cincinnati) 1980

Spain: Bryan Oelkers (4th overall, Minnesota) 1982

Canada: Kirk McCaskill (88th overall, California) 1982

Mexico: Ever Magallanes (255th overall, Cleveland) 1987

Dominican Republic: Andy Mota (314th overall, Houston) 1987

Nicaragua: Marvin Bernard (1,003rd overall, Chicago White Sox) 1988

U.S. Virgin Islands: Midre Cummings (29th overall, Minnesota) 1990

Japan: Dave Roberts (1,303rd overall, Cleveland) 1993

Vietnam: Danny Graves (101st overall, Cleveland) 1994

South Korea: Hines Ward; Jr. (1,646th overall, Florida) 1994

Democratic Republic Of Congo: Ntema Ndungidi (36th overall, Baltimore) 1997

#Celebrities #Sports #Baseball #MLB #U.S.A. #U.S. #U.K. #New York Mets #Boston Red Sox #Panama #The Netherlands #Minnesota Twins #1960s #Germany #Atlanta Braves #Jamaica #1970s #Puerto Rico #Cincinnati Reds #Spain #Canada #Mexico #Cleveland Indians #Dominican Republic #Houston Astros #Nicaragua #Chicago White Sox #1980s #Japan #Vietnam

[theghostofloganroy]

A brief look at George V as a parent.

You'll find a steady trend in most biographies written about the three major early 20th century Royals; George V, George VI and Edward VIII. About how King George V & Queen Mary was cold, distant and terrible parents. How George was a callous bully and Mary unfeeling and extremely distant. This could be further from the truth. Churchill writes in her 2018 Biography chronicling the life of George V during The First World War. "It is important to consider the pitfalls of applying universal distaste for Victorian parenting, methodology solely at the feet of the King & Queen and indeed to recognise that for people of their class & time. Their majesties played a more hands-on role with their children more than their contemporaries".  The King was not perfect by a long shot, his adolescence in the Royal Navy had instilled in him obedience towards authority which he expected in return. He can be chafing, his dry sense of humour could at times come off as more insulting than intended. On one occasion Churchill writes Prince Henry & a friend decided that they would build an aeroplane. Henry confessed to his father he wasn't sure if it would work, the King who did not like aeroplanes "none of you will attempt to fly in it as I'm sure both of you would come to grief". This chaffing part was part of the King's own upbringing, the inevitable result of a youth spent in service of the Royal Navy.  The King struggled to show his feelings not only to his children but to the Queen as well. However, despite all this, he simply adored his children as did Queen Mary. They saw more of their children than most of their class could boast. This was unavoidable given the fact they insisted on living in York Cottage for most of the year which was hardly appropriate for a growing family. Simple domesticity was a marked feature in the King's reign which could hardly be possible without their children. Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie a longtime companion and lady in waiting of Queen Mary wrote in her autobiography; although the king and queen have been depicted as distant parents. "this they most certainly were not... I believe that they were conscientious and more truly devoted to their children than the majority of parents in that era". She also writes that a lot of the King & Queen's shortcomings when it came to rearing their offspring comes down to them simply not having a full understanding of a child's mind. Contrasted with the Kaiser, George had a much closer relationship with his children, they remained at home longer than their German cousins did, nor did they have to apply for an appointment to speak to their father.

The King could be caring and extremely affectionate towards his children, this was especially with the case of Prince John. Upon the birth of his youngest son, the King put down his guns and abandoned his  favourite activity which was shooting in order to attend to his newborn son of which he would coo at under a tree in the gardens of York Cottage and insisted bringing Queen Mary all of her meals and helping to nurse her back to health. When it was discovered in 1909 that John had epilepsy the King made no indication that he was ashamed or embarrassed by his son merely the worry and anxieties that most parents have when their child has been diagnosed with an incurable and most likely life-threatening condition and in fact there was nothing to suggest that John wasn't a fully fledged member of the family. Nor was the King happy when he passed away, in fact, overcome with grief he hides himself away in York Cottage for days afterwards.

The King was proud of his children, proud of their good looks and of their achievements, however, he was also fully aware and accepting of their shortcomings. He understood that no child is perfect nor did he expect them to be, he could hardly care how many languages they spoke or whether or not they came first in a maths test, but simply that they tried their best and that they were good, honest & hard working individuals. This was certainly the case when Prince Henry brought home a report card from school, in which explained to his parents how he had come second from bottom. The King knew that Henry had come second from the bottom not because he struggled in his academics nor that he was stupid but because had been lazy and hadn't put the effort in. The next term, probably after a good telling off from his father, Henry wisely put the effort in and brought home a more satisfactory report card to which the King was ecstatic to read.

In conclusion, it’s merely not a case of whether or not the King & Queen were bad parents end of the discussion but to scrutinise the facts as they are laid out before us. The Duke of Windsor of who much of the ‘evidence’ against the King & Queen comes from did not emerge until half a century later when he had been in exile for over two decades which in the interim Churchill states much-troubled water had passed under that bridge, including his abdication, exile and dissatisfaction of his subsequent settlement. Even he admitted that he had never wanted for affection and that he had not had it so bad.  He wrote that Sandringham had been perfect. His father who at the time was Prince of Wales taught him how to shoot when he was thirteen. "He laughed and joked," David wrote, "and those small days at Sandringham provided some of my happiest memories of him". Though the children had been encouraged to modest and thoughtful they were never denied, Christmas & Birthday parties were extravagant. All of King George's sons were pranksters as children and were not afraid of pranking their father. On one occasion they gleefully watched as he began stirring his tea with a spoon that they had procured from a joke shop, made of a metal with a low melting point.  They were not afraid to have fully fledged food fights in his presence either.

source.

Churchill Alexandra, In The Eye of The Storm: George V And The Great War. [2018] [53-54 & 189-190]   Oglivy Mabelle, Thatched with Gold. [1960]

#this took me a good hour to write. #not my best but i''m pretty pleased with it. #George V #Queen Mary of Teck #Duke of Windsor #Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester #Prince John #Prince George Duke of Kent #Princess Mary #George VI #20th Century History

[the-music-warehouse]

Ravenclaw Playlist

For Island Fires and Family - Dermot Kennedy

Idle Town - Conan Gray

Back O’er Oregon - The Weather Machine

The Horizon - Taylor Berrett

Foreign Hands - George Oglivie

Note To Self - Ben Rector

#playlist #Playlists #ravenclaw #ravenclaw playlist #hp playlist #song recommendation #Songs #song rec #music rec #music

[nellygwyn]

The four (in)famous Lennox sisters (daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and great-grandaughters of King Charles II and Louise de Kerouaille)

Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland (1723-1774). She was wife of influential Whig MP, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and mother of the famous Charles James Fox, also a Whig MP and leader of the opposition against William Pitt the Younger. 

Emily Fitzgerald, later Oglivie, Duchess of Leinster and Marchioness of Kildare (1731-1814). She was mother of 22 children in total: 19 in her first marriage, and 3 in her second.

Louisa Conolly (1743-1821), who by all accounts, led the most conventional, uncontroversial life out of all her sisters. She married Irish MP, Thomas Conolly. 

Sarah Bunbury, later Napier (1745-1826). The most controversial of the sisters on account of her love affairs, she was courted by a young King George III in his youth and many thought he would marry her. However, he married Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz instead. 

#caroline lennox #emily lennox #louisa lennox #sarah lennox

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Garden Court and Temple Fountain’ (circa 1901-1910) by James S. Oglivy

Watercolour and gouache.

Reproduced as a plate in ‘Relics & Memorials of London City, London’ published 1910 by George Routledge & Sons.

Image and text information courtesy The Morgan Library and Museum.

#James S. Oglivy #early 20th century art #London #early 20th century London #Garden Court

[yegarts]

2018 Second Round Travel Grant Recipients

Photo: Andrea Nixon performs in Toronto during Canada Music Week

During the second round of travel funding in 2018, award in July, the Edmonton Arts Council (EAC) approved support for 65 artists and projects travelling to 29 different cities in 10 different countries.

Travel grants have long been an important offering from the Edmonton Arts Council as we encourage collaboration, professional development, and exhibition opportunities that either aren’t available in Edmonton or that provide artists with a larger audience. Similarly, EAC’s Executive Director, Sanjay Shahani, feels strongly about the need for artists to travel for networking and to showcase their work. “It’s important to give artists opportunities to connect with artistic communities, and to support artistic collaborations. Artists need to be at major events, gatherings, and conferences to connect with their peers. If we can provide a small contribution towards helping them go to events—for instance, supporting a band playing at a major festival in front of producers and presenters to potentially get booked—that’s important.”

“It’s important for our artists to collaborate with international artists, so that the work that they’re doing here in Edmonton has staying power, so it’s not just shown and seen in Edmonton, but has the potential for touring, for dissemination, and for distribution.”

Even in the digital age where meetings can happen over Skype and artists can be discovered on YouTube and Instagram, travel is vital to starting and growing careers in the arts. “Travel is just one really important piece of sharing an artist’s work, it allows artists to build relationships which you can’t do any other way,” Shahani says. “Most art forms require collaboration, most art forms require relationships between artists and arts communities.”

If you’ve got a travel opportunity in mind and need support, the deadline for the final round of 2018 travel grants is October 1, 2018. Click here for more information; applications open on September 1, 2018. The EAC grants team is willing and able to provide consultation before an artist chooses to apply; if you’ve never applied to an EAC grant before, are wondering if your project is eligible, or have any other questions about creating a strong grant, email your questions to [email protected] or call 780-424-2787. Artists residing in Edmonton for at least one year can apply for up to $750 to support travel for the purposes of training, development, presentation, touring, networking, and/or marketing.

The current travel grant recipients sought out unique opportunities, or were invited to showcase their work, around the world. Diverse art projects and training opportunities—in visual arts, dance, music, writing, installation, theatre, poetry, and film—were supported from Calgary to Tel Aviv. Get some inspiration for your own projects and opportunities by seeing what our current travel grant recipients are working on—and where they’re going.

26 Artists travelled within Canada to: Toronto St. John’s Winnipeg Whitehorse Montreal Inuvik Charlottetown Guelph Calgary

18 artists travelled to the United States to: Austin Palo Alto Norfolk Snowmass Shelburne New York City Chicago Rock Hill Shafer New Orleans

21 artists travelled internationally to: Frankfurt Orebro Brighton Mexico City Cali Havana Santandar Seville Gothenburg Tel Aviv 

Below is a full list of our second round of 2018 Travel Grant recipients, recommended by EAC’s jury review process and approved by EAC’s Board of Directors:

Singer-songwriter Andrea Nixon travelled with her bandmates, Brennan Cameron and Cody McLauchlin, to Toronto to perform during Canadian Music Week in May 2018.

Derina Harvey, Scott Greene, Stephen Pinsent, and Edward Smith travelled to St. John’s Newfoundland as the Derina Harvey Band to perform at the George Street Festival.

Trevor Peters and Annaliza Toledo will be travelling to Winnipeg as Fresh Canvas Art Co. to paint a large outdoor mural for the Wall-to-Wall Festival.

Musicians Frank Bessai and Marco Claveria toured Yukon as the Marco Claveria Project.

Musicians Stephanie Blais and Paul Cournoyer toured in Monteal as Post Script and performed at Les Francofolies de Montreal music festival.

Frederick Kroetsch travelled to Inuvik, Nunavut to film a short documentary called “Quinn’s Camera” with Crystal Fraser.

Musicians Adam Brown, Timothy Brown, Daniel Cleary, Christopher Segger and William Wallace travelled to Frankfurt to tour as the band Striker.

Musicians Gavin Dunn, Dwayne Martineau, Chris Quesnel, Jeff Stuart, and Brad Tebble travelled to Austin to perform as the band The Hearts at the SXSW Festival and Conference.

Brittany Graling, Jennesse Graling, and Jasmine Ma are travelling with Thomas Scott aka DJ Thomas Culture to Orebro, Sweden to perform as The Sissy Fits at Live at Heart music festival.

Fabiola Belarmino de Farias Amorim, Mattia Berrini, Silvia Buttiglione and Vladimir Machado Rufino travelled to Palo Alto as the Vaughan String Quartet to participate in the 2018 Stanford String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University.

Kurtis Cockerill, Nicholas Daves, Alexandra Vissia, and Andrea Vissia went to Brighton, UK to perform as Vissia in The Great Escape Festival.

Chorister and singer Louise Ashdown will be travelling to Norfolk, Connecticut to participate in Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop.

Visual artist Chelsea Boos will be travelling to Mexico City to meet with designers, fibre artists and other artisans.

Photographer Amber Bracken travelled to Snowmass, Colorado to participate in the Advanced Mentored Study Program, Visual Storytelling and Documentary Photography Projects at Anderson Ranch.

Stacey Cann is travelling to Charlottetown to perform Shield at the Art in the Open Festival.

Poet Vanessa Cardona travelled to Cali, Columbia to conduct research for her play Three Ladies, about the civil war in Columbia.

Poet Liam Coady is travelling to Guelph to perform in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

Writer Alison Dowsett travelled to Toronto to attend the Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference.

Lauren Gillis travelled to Shelburne, Vermont to perform as Lucette at an outdoor concert at Shelburne Museum.

Lyne Gosselin travelled to Havana with aerial act Duo Flippy Hoop to perform at International Festival Circuba.

Writer Rayanne Haines travelled to Toronto to attend the Canadian Writers Summit.

Jake Hastey travelled to Montreal to attend a training seminar with strength trainer Charles Poliquin.

Samantha Jeffrey is travelling to Toronto to present her play Alberta #4 at the Rendezvous with Madness Festival.

Visual artist Madeline Mackay travelled to Santander, Spain to present and exhibit her work at Impact 10 International Print Conference.

Candace Makowichuk will be travelling to Calgary for the opening of her exhibition at Jarvis Hall Gallery August 24 – September 8, a collection of 20 pieces from her time as the Cemetery Artist in Residence.

Jessica Marsh travelled to Toronto to represent JAM Music Company artists Altameda, Joe Nolan and Mariel Buckley at the Canadian Music Week Showcase.

Conni Massing travelled to Urban Stages Theater in New York City to attend a workshop and reading of her play Matara, which will be performed in Edmonton at Workshop West Theatre in November.

Visual artists Syr Morrison and Chynna Howard travelled to Chicago to take a course in aerosol arts at Aerosol Academy of Art to assist with participating in the City of Edmonton Graffiti Prevention Mural Program.

Flamenco dancer Jane Oglivie travelled to Seville, Spain for professional development in Flamenco dance and song and to discuss the Edmonton Flamenco Festival with potential participants.

Jacqueline Ohm, host of CreativeMornings Edmonton, will travel to Iroquois Springs in Rock Hill, New York to attend the CreativeMornings Summit Camp.

Skye Oleson-Cormack will travel to Gothenburg, Sweden to display her photography installation “A Conversation with My Body” during EuroPride festival.

Chantal Schultz is travelling to Shafer, Minnesota to work an internship at the Franconia Sculpture Park.

Leila Sidi is travelling to Montreal to showcase his hand-built guitars at the Sonore Festival, an exhibition of high-end handcrafted guitars.

Writer Gail Sidonie-Sobat travelled to Toronto to attend the Canadian Writers’ Summit.

Publisher and writer Matthew Stepanic travelled to New York City to attend the ModMag conference about contemporary and indie magazines.

Choreographer and performer Kate Stashko is travelling to Tel Aviv, Israel to attend the Gaga Winter Intensive to receive instruction in Gaga dance and prepare for teacher training.

Musician Maddie Storvold is travelling across Canada to tour her new album and meet with musicians, labels, casting directors, and agencies.

Visual artist Jesse Thomas travelled to New Orleans to conduct research at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to inform an installation he’s been invited to work on for NOLA 300 Luna Fete, the city’s tercentennial celebration.

Musician Erin Wong travelled to Toronto to attend the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute to receive training in baroque violin and bow.

[cityandking]

8, 15, 27, 33, and 44 for Vesper!

thanks! 

8. What is your OC’s theme song?

foreign hands by george oglivie (full playlist here)

15. If your OC could have any pet, what would they choose? Why?

give me my fucking mabari bioware (in all honesty, she’d probably have a cat. she’s more of a cat person. but……. please…. bioware…….. a dog…..)

27. What kind of childhood did your character have?

mmmmm mixed. some of it was wonderful (sitting in the library with kit, or working in the stables when she was little, or listening to mother talk about the grey wardens, or reading in the gardens) and some of it was… not (father’s blatant disinterest, and the twins always finding some reason to push her around, and kit always busy, and then the magic and the circle and–– well, she grew up very quickly after that)

33. Would they ever kill someone? What would someone have to do to push them to kill someone? If they would kill someone, why?

prior to the mage rebellion not at all, but then everything changed very quickly and keeping her students safe meant living a different sort of life than the one she had resigned herself to. and then, of course, as Inquisitor she became halfway a soldier, and there is a lot of killing in war.

44. How does your character react/ accept criticism?

more judiciously now than she used to. she just gets so much there’s no way she can even process it all, and given how much people hate her there’s good reason to take a step back and consider whether or not it’s merited. (most of the time it isn’t. she’s getting better at deciding who she trusts and who can fuck off)

oc asks

#thewildmother #memery #thanks tabby! #vesper

[celticnoise]

Check out this tweet from Alex Thomson and the reply it got from Jim Delahunt.

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That is astonishing, right?

The contempt it betrays is astounding.

When called on it Delahunt said it was a joke.

That’s where we are now with this.

That’s the absurd pass we’ve come to, where a quest to get justice and establish some order in Scottish football is treated with such naked contempt by the press.

Are these people ever going to man up, grow balls, and do their jobs, or what?

Alex Thomson, at least, believes there’s a case to answer.

But he’s an English based journalist who’s got more guts than the lot of them up here put together. I remember the resistance to his articles within the mainstream press back in 2012; the idea of them trying to lecture this guy on ethics or journalistic standards is embarrassing to this day.

But this takes the piss.

Jim Delahunt thinks cheating in Scottish football is funny. He thinks it’s funny to let it go. Or that’s his excuse anyway, what he hides behind in an effort to squirm out of a tweet he which I am certain he intended to be taken at least partially seriously.

Ponder that for a moment.

A BBC journalist is more comfortable being seen to find cheating a laughing matter, because the alternative is that he believes Sevco fans will react with such violence to any attempt to strip historic titles that we will literally be in a state of siege.

Ask yourself what that portends for Scottish football. Ask yourself what that portends for our so-called civil society. It is mob rule by another name. It’s do nothing for fear of what a bunch of deranged maniacs might do in response.

That’s dangerous thinking.

It is disgraceful for a BBC journalist to joke about that.

I have always liked, and respected, Jim Delahunt. That’s what makes this especially hard to take. Because the best case scenario here is that he thinks this is a subject fit only for the fringes of sanity, instead fo something that goes directly to the heart of our game.

Yesterday, in my last article of the day, I wrote “let justice be done though the Heavens fall.”

This would be what I had in mind.

See, I don’t care if there is rioting in the streets, and you have to ask yourself just what would be going through the minds of anyone who took it to that extreme. Wouldn’t it be better for society to actually confront these people on the appropriate level?

Because they are dangerous, whether their football team is winning or not and we shouldn’t be afraid to face them head-on or God knows what else they might demand in time, and even get if we’re in the mood to bow down to them.

If they want to behave like wild beasts, well I’m fairly sure the police have measures in mind for just such an eventuality.

The mentality that tweet suggests is one of pure cowardice, and I know full well that mind-set is echoed at Hampden.

Alex Thomson speaks as if the decision has already been made.

Let me tell you something; if it has been made then it’s going to need to be unmade.

There is no way in Hell that we’re going to stand down and accept that. If people want to worry about a stand-off they should be worried about one with tens of thousands of Scottish football fans, from across the clubs, and what we might do if such a scandalous abrogation of responsibility is what comes of all this.

We won’t riot in the streets. We won’t blockade Glasgow or shut down the railways. But our clubs will feel the pressure and that will penetrate to the boardrooms and in the end it’ll get to the people and the places that matter … and we’ll grind them down.

Or we’ll walk.

Maybe not from our own clubs, but image the consequences if Scottish football fans only followed their own clubs, and didn’t go to away grounds. Imagine the consequences if they steadfastly refused to take tickets for Hampden games of any sort. Imagine if we organised letter writing and email campaigns which brought the day-to-day business of the SFA to a complete stand-still. These are all options. And there are others.

Scottish football has been through five years of this.

Some of us have worked on it constantly through that time, in one guise or another. The SFA forgets that it is run with the consent of the clubs; it doesn’t exist as a protection racket for its pals, or for one team in particular. And those clubs forget they are run with the consent of their fans.

The SFA is playing a dangerous game with the tolerance of supporters up and down the country. We’re now on Day 12 of their shameful silence on the racist abuse suffered by Scott Sinclair – more on that to come in the next couple of days – and that’s but one facet of their arrogance and disregard for how they are viewed by the wider world.

Waiving Sevco through the licensing period reeks of the kind of corrupt back-scratching that has led the game to the 2012 crisis in the first place.

Whatever they believe, it’s more than just a handful of Celtic fans who find that interesting; after all, our own club is not impacted by that decision. But others are, and their fans are unhappy and their shareholders even more so.

There is, and there has always been, an easy answer to all of this; hand the whole EBT matter over to an independent inquiry, one that sets its own terms of reference and which isn’t compromised by backroom deals or off-the-record promises.

Let them decide on what an adequate punishment would be.

See, last time the fix was in and we know that for a fact.

Even if you ignore the obvious con-job – that the scope of that inquiry was limited so that it didn’t include the Discounted Options Scheme, which had already been declared tax fraud and which Campbell Oglivie was up to his neck in – there’s the other element which many forget but which some of us never will.

We know that Sevco was given a “no title stripping” guarantee prior to the Lord Nimmo Smith case back in 2012.

The deal memo that proves it has been online a long time, tied up as it was in the early drafts of the toxic Five Way Agreement, which is also out there for those who want a look. It’s not that we’ve forgotten about it, we’ve put it one side as we wait for other issues to resolve themselves.

One of those is the Big Tax Case.

Another is the Whyte trial.

That issue was never buried. It was simply put in a drawer, to be confronted later.

Later is almost here, and the SFA had better be warned; all options within the law are still on the table and some of them can open all the doors. We’d simply rather some transparency and light were allowed to flood in by people who even yet can do the right thing by the whole of the game.

In the end, though, they’ll have to, voluntarily or not.

They can dismiss this as they like, but they cannot ignore it.

We’re simply not going to let them.

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