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dinner with the family i suppose
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Anonymous asked:
Hello there I am a sort-of man very intrigued by the friend who actually left on a ship?
He was already working at living history museums and had a focus in his studies on the history of naval material culture, particularly clothing, so he sailed on l'Hermione, a reconstructed 18th century ship, across the ocean entirely in period clothing. (To be clear, he was the only one in period clothing the whole time. He was also the only non-French person.) In part, he wanted to see how the clothing naturally changed from constant wear, particularly with the sort of physical, dirty work on board a ship.
Here's his old blog that he did as functionally his senior thesis talking about sailor stuff, including anecdotes about stuff he experienced as part of the journey. These days, he makes a living making and selling reproduction clothing and various other objects as well as giving tours, demonstrations, etc. His business page is here.
If I remember correctly he literally just plopped himself next to the ship in 18th century clothing and started teaching people about it in French until the very confused crew let him on. I'm still a bit fuzzy on if he ever technically "finished" that study abroad trip or if he just kinda...sailed away
Addendum: He and his wife Esther fly overseas today where they will spend the next couple months recreating an 18th century Savoyard pilgrimage, walking from Canterbury, England to Rome, Italy. They have a blog to document it: https://timetravelingtales.com/
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ngl. if i was in court for unnatural sex crimes as a man in 1936. and my last name was ALREADY mycock. i would not want to be represented by a lawyer named LUSTgarten
#he was one of the one guys to get acquitted tho so ig lustgarten was good#mycock was a company director tho so maybe that influenced it#he had 1 accusation w a guy who had 5 other guilty charges tho#they probs thought roberts was the Greater Criminal (they def did by the judge's comments)#and were like. uhhh sorry for the inconvenience mycocks even tho u already incriminated urself#bc the cops are corrupt as fuck and threatened p much everyone into making statements against themselves!#that the judge admitted as evidence!#twilight bri
you ever start researching that gross indecency trial w 28 men in it where a twilight men was used as evidence again bc its a free newspaper archive weekend, and then end up finding someone else making clippings of the same trial + other gross indecency trials
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“Mine is special. It’s good for absolutely nothing.”
just got to add this edward carpenter to my collection of moneygrab reprint covers that made me laugh so hard i began to question my sanity
quick brush test w zelgius
JUST GOT THE LAST VERSION OF TM I NEEDED TO HAVE THEM ALL
#i always worry i freak out random sellers#w how they list this dumbass book#for like. a higher price than its worth lbr.#and then it sells immediately#should they have priced it higher? did they just sell a rare gay novel for peanuts?#its MEEEEEEEEEEEE#it was $15 w $7 shipping and not in great condition#interesting that its still illustrated#the cover is a remix of the 1957 pyramid edition w illustrations so checks out a little#twilight bri
woke up and chose violence against myself (reread rime of the ancient mariner)
#at this point its satire that im using a whitman reference for tedi boat fic title#i have no other way to describe the feeling of opening the seadrift section of leaves of grass#and tripping straight into a wall (out of the cradle endlessly rocking)#the birds got to me ok#if the seabirds arent embodying some excruciating human mistake#whats the POINT of dying on the sea#brihamut's mercy
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obsessed with this man...
more of this mad lad
oh I forgot to add these
「SPINNING EDGE」
thermonous
“I have read your poems with my door locked late at night and I have read them on the seashore where I could look all round me and see no more sign of human life than the ships out at sea: and here I often found myself waking up from a reverie with the book open before me. I love all poetry, and high generous thoughts make the tears rush to my eyes, but sometimes a word or a phrase of yours takes me away from the world around me and places me in an ideal land surrounded by realities more than any poem I ever read.”
— Bram Stoker, from a letter to Walt Whitman; Feb. 8, 1872. (via xshayarsha)
Replaying Path of Radiance
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We all got that one vassal who's read a few too many warrior tales... Trying to get a little freaky with it on the down low... Won't shut up about his loyalty unto death... Saying shit like "my liege, I am your blade...." Bitch I sent you to guard my isolated holdings in the eastern provinces for a reason!!!!!!! #REBLOG!!!!!