Can we just have a moment to appreciate this guy? All of Philomena Cunk’s experts are great but Ashley Jackson, professor of imperial and military history at London’s King’s College stands out.

When repeatedly asked about the “Soviet Onion,” he initially tries to correct her. She accuses him of mansplaining, so he eventually just plays along completely straight-faced.

“Well, if you want to talk about sort of Russian Soviet vegetables, we can. I mean, it was a deeply agrarian country, and so there were lots of onions, lots of potatoes, lots of other things.”

“Did they have turnips?”

“Think so. Cheap, easy to grow, hardy. Great in a stew.”

Just… “Great in a stew.” Man went from trying to correct her to just… listing the virtues of turnips. Class act.

Ashley Jackson - Ennanga

Harpist Ashley Jackson explores the musical and spiritual connections between various forms of American musical expression in her new album, Ennanga. Through the works of notable Black composers who have redefined musical landscapes, the album celebrates the centrality of the African American spiritual to the history of American music. Ennanga features The Harlem Chamber Players and Jackson's harp transcriptions of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alice Coltrane, as well as original compositions by William Grant Still and Brandee Younger.



Sports Ashley Jackson what do you think of sports I think that some guys think they made an awfully big mess of your face that’s what I think

It just isn’t fair when all the boys in the United States of America are almost retarded and then they say go Ashley go Ashley and then Ashley says yeah I’m hot shit I’m so much better than Rebecca Cooper Rebecca Cooper is just lame so I’m nice to her but I mean I already know I’m so much more attractive than her I hope all of her hair falls out of her head so she could never have pretty hair that’s the Ashley Jackson mentality because she believes in sports but it’s not fair when I know that a lot of other guys with a lot more money and intelligence have made an absolute mess of your face

Went to ECCC yesterday and I made this Cullen sibling gang gang print just for the occasion 😅 Got Alice (Ashley Greene) and Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) to sign it!

i wanna elaborate further on my take on sally

i just feel like they’re missing a key aspect of her character, which is how gentle she is and how much of herself she is willing to give up for her son’s wellbeing.

with gabe being kind of a pussy and her arguing with him so easily, i feel like it really undermines how much book sally struggled behind the scenes to make things work (even though percy cares about her and does so much for her, the demigod side of him is something he hasn’t discovered yet and the burden falls on her to handle things — a form of mother’s invisible labour).

book sally married this absolutely horrible guy and went through years of abuse and didn’t fight back directly because the pain was nothing to her if her son was safe. the blue candy was their quiet rebellion against him, and as badass as she was, she wouldn’t have put gabe in his place the way tv sally did, because that wasn’t her priority and it just wouldn’t be worth the effort.

it just feels a little like when they make disney princesses more badass and less feminine?? or like when kpop men do “manlier” versions of girl group/artist’s dances? like it’s undermining her value as a softer female figure, because book sally isn’t a big, strong, badass woman that percy looks up to because she protects him, she’s quietly mischievous and caring and he knows she can protect herself but also protects her as best he can and their dynamic is lost a little bit when she stands up so easily to gabe in a fight that isn’t really worth picking.

and it also irked me a little when she explained why they go to montauk every year, because in the books percy already knows more about his father. she tells him stories growing up because she wants him to see the best in the world and not grow up bitter like luke, because even though she may resent poseidon (since he knocked her up at like 19 after her parents died, and left her broke and with a kid without finishing college), she understands to some extent why he left her and can’t be with percy, and she cares too much about percy and how he feels and what kind of person he is to let him feel her anger towards his father. so she suffers through that quietly too, so that percy can feel like there’s still someone out there who cares about him, like his father is someone to be proud of even though he doesn’t know him.

sally is meant to look for the best in the people that matter, but still be able to see their objective value. it’s a symbolic aspect of her character that she’s a clearsighted mortal, which means she can see these things herself and understand them, but does not have any role in taking action against these things until she has to for her son.

anyways that’s my take. regardless i still am enjoying the show and their relationship very much, but i just don’t think it holds a candle to sally jackson in the books!!!

the 4 Bridgerton main girls characters and their vogue covers and the only boy that matters vogue cover idkr!

Arsema Shantol cover is coming and it’s gonna eat the most trust me when i say on their season it’ll DEVOUR!

WHO IS NEXT TO BE ON A VOGUE COVER 👀👀👀?

what the hell did he do did he go backstage and immediately open tumblr and see us excited about his beard as he gleefully ran for the nearest sink to shave it???? matthew ronjon jackson you’re a cruel man

Ashley Greene & Jackson Rathbone behind the scenes of Twilight (2008)

I just realized during the field trip in the first film, Jasper gives Alice a tiny flower

team who needed more screentime

I swear Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone were in love

Behind the scenes pictures of Jenna Coleman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ashley Benson, and Eric Balfour filming episode 2 of Wilderness, "The Other Woman"

Ellie at 14 (Boston), 17 (Jackson), 19 (Seattle), 21/22 (Farm)