what if we flirted at the gentlemen club 😳 (and we were both flirting) 😞❤️😞Discreet Gentlemen's Club

Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 4: “The Eightfold Fence” (vol. 2-2)

What's the story behind Denmark and the Netherlands?

Like, behind the ship? Or just in general?

Denmark and the Netherlands has a long history of friendship as well as many similarities between them. They have been trading partners since the Middle Ages, especially regarding cattle trade, that peaked in the 1600s and is this ongoing with Denmark exporting a calves to the Netherlands. Many Dutch refugees fled to Denmark during the Eighty Years War between 1568 and 1638, which further established links between them. They had a rough patch in the 1620s when Denmark upped the toll through Øresund because they were low on money. This cuased the Netherlands to join Sweden in war against Denmark in 1643. Still, after this, the Netherlands and Denmark-Norway remained allies and the Netherlands came to help when Sweden attacked Copenhagen in the 1660s. The Netherlands saved the city from capture. Likewise, Denmark-Norway helped the Netherlands in the war against England in 1665, which resulted in Dutch victory, as well as in the Thrid Anglo-Dutch War between 1672-1674. Further on, Denmark attacked southern Sweden as retaliation after Sweden had attacked the Netherlands in 1675. Sweden won the battles on land, but lost at sea.

Both Denmark and the Netherlands have similar terrain, extremely flat, and as such has both a love for biking and have infrastructure that facilitates this. Apparently the Danes and the Dutch are two of the few countries that celebrate copper wedding anniversaries (12,5 years) in the world, and they are both known for having similar mannerisms.

So, Denmark and the Netherlands have a long shared history of allegiance, trading, and cooperation between them, as well as cultural similarities and shared interests. Also, both their languages are incomprehensible garbage

Racing on the thunder

And rising with the heat

It's gonna take

✨PrincesS Charming✨

To sweep me off my feet

More Princess Charming here~

More Shrek fanart here

Tintype of a handsome pair posing together in their bathing suits, c. 1890s. You can't tell on screen, but in person it's evident that the fingerprint on the lower right corner is actually indented into the emulsion. One of these guys, or perhaps the photographer, must've grown impatient and picked up the picture before it was quite ready—on some summer day over a hundred years ago.

Old-World Romance: The Dr. Oliver Bronson House was constructed as a three-story Federal-style home

sidenote: more pics coming from here

//thisoldhudson@IG

☘️💜 Circa 1900, 14k Art Nouveau pin/brooch, faceted amethyst heart, seed pearls, and enamel.

Maloy's

I binged all of Hospital Playlist and Oh My Ghost while sick this week because I wanted more Jo Jung Suk. And my god. The range of this man’s acting skills.

Okay, one last post about Netflix's 3 Body Problem. I literally moved on (as in, I didn't bother finishing it), but today I saw a post on *** and some Chinese American saying the Ye Zhetai scene is the representation we need blah blah blah China could never. What triggered me the most about this is that the closest thing this person is to being Chinese is probably being born with the bloodline, probably never interacted with Chinese media. We are supposed to be in this together, and what are you talking about right now? There's a handful of Chinese diaspora out here who literally never bothered interacting with our culture (which is fine, nobody's business to tell them what to do), and then whenever America does any "representation," they are suddenly online! Sure, it would be nice if Western media started to be more diverse for us out here, but you literally can't rely on some white man to do it. You have to curate this experience for yourself if it's something you truly care about. There's no good excuse to not seek out things for yourself. The majority of the cdrama/cnovel fandom here on Tumblr (or Twitter) do not speak Chinese, but there are English subtitles on many official and fan-based platforms. Some non-Chinese danmei reader could probably tell you about censorship in China back to front better. Anyways, that's another can of worms.

Back to Ye Zhetai, I've already talked about it briefly here. It's not that deep, the scene exists to get people talking. It's all perfunctory, the banners are written in a Microsoft YaHei font (Microsoft invented this font in 2004), they do not care about the history behind it, it's to evoke a reaction in the West. Let's show this traumatic thing that happened in China, then segway all the world saving plot-line to England, is that clear now if that hasn't occurred to you yet??

There's a list of the media that stemmed from the Cultural Revolution on Wikipedia with one easy Google search. Did you really look? Did you watch and read everything on that list?? Is there really no Chinese representation apart from Netflix??? If it's not allowed in China, how could he ever write the book and publish it in China?? Did you even know about the speculation that Ye Zhetai is based on the real physicist Ye Qisun??

Obsessed with their dynamic tbh. If, like Lucien, the tiredest and most righteously angry man in the world saved my life and exploded people with his mind, I would also immediately fall in love

Queer Book Draw Challenge 7/20 The Magpie Lord by @kjcharleswriter

[ID: Image 1: Two side by side illustrated portraits of Stephen Day and Lucien, Lord Crane from The Magpie Lord standing back to back. It is colored in dark turquoises and shocking reds. On the left, Stephen lifts a hand to a magpie in flight. The Magpie Lord's ring shines on his hand and blood drips from under his nails. On the right side, Lucien grips a cane and turns smirking towards Stephen. A magpie is perched on his hand. Behind both of them are magpies in flight. There are 10 magpies in total. An intricate floral wallpaper also featuring magpies is present in the background. Two of the magpies are perched on their shoulders, curiously leaning across the frame towards each other.

Image 2 is a close up on the portrait of Stephen that reads "one for sorrow" in a looping script. Image 3 is a close up of Lucien's portrait overlaid with texts that reads "two for joy." Image 4 is a close up on the wallpaper print. End ID]

Commissions Open

If you aren't reading KJ Charles's books I sincerely do not know what you're doing with your life.

Cause Everybody Knows, He’s A Femme Fatale.

friend sent me these two photos unprompted with the text "welcome back alexander hamilton. red locks big nose and beautiful anime eyes iktr. my man my man my man."

congrats leland francis fraser. you have ousted tom blyth as my friend's alexander hamilton of the month, private subsidiary of white boy of the month.

what do you think about nedpan🇳🇱🇯🇵

I haven't really gotten deep into it, but from what I've seen going around I really like it! I think they are a good pairing with a lot of potential regarding the combination of their personalities, and it's no secret that I have a weakness from anything based on historical events 😅✨

I was working on this one drawing but got confused with costumes, so I decided to quickly draw some references for myself.

✨So please, welcome to the ball✨:

Princess Shrek🍃

and Princess Charming🌹

Here's what I'm thinking: both Princesses came to the ball in their best historically inspired dresses with their grand skirts and everything, but the rest of the time they are rocking their casual outfits: Princess Charming wearing her mini-skirt-like tunic, and Princess Shrek wearing her little pants and a shirt with a vest over it.

More Princess Shrek and Princess Charming here