They were the earliest senior personal protection officers, your last line of defence. Although whether the gold stick was ever really designed to do much damage, I’m not quite sure. But it was certainly an indication of who you were. They do exercise every year on how the mounted escorts will behave if anything happens. I’ve done that - but I don’t think you’d want me to draw a sword!
Princess Anne on her role as Gold Stick in Waiting during the Coronation of King Charles III
‘Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story’ by Robert Hardman (2024).
Horizontober is a bit like Inktober, but it's all about the wonderful world of Horizon! Posting the list a little bit early so ya'll can ruminate on that.
Favorite Machine
Oceanic
Recognize
Preserve
"Oh dear..."
Shine
Pass
Slump
Cruel
Favorite Tribe
Royal
Retire
Lounge
Array
Train
New
Facet
Tarot
Float
Favorite Outfit
Haze
Weave
Magic
Criminal
Wobble
Authority
Redo
Tree
Beam
Favorite Weapon
Future
For anyone wanting to participate, the tag I’ll be using for this year is #horizontober2023
I’ll try check out that tag every day in October, and I’ll absolutely be reblogging everything I find, though the fandom is getting so large that I might not be able to see every entry!
All art forms are welcome in Horizontober! Fic, poetry, gifsets/gifs, digital/traditional, animation, music, photomode, videos, nail art, Horizon flavored memes, cosplay, jewelry, mood boards, tattoos you wanna show off…. Uhhhhh, scrapbooking?? Horizon themed meals! Staged scenes of any figurines or Funkos you have?? Flower arrangements! Infodumps about plants found in the game! And other things I can’t think of right now! As long as it’s something you created or captured and relates to the prompt and the Horizon world somehow!
All participation levels are also welcome! You wanna try for every single day? Awesome! You just wanna do one or two prompts that speak to you? Fantastic!! You discover this event halfway through October and wanna catch up on all the ones you missed and post 3 a day for a week? I actively encourage it! I made one of my best internet friends that way! :)
Have you talked to [Seb] about actually possibly rejoining Formula 1 and being a Mercedes race driver or do you think it's more likely that Sebastian will return to a race seat, but it will be with Porsche at Le Mans?
I think with Seb I have a friendship that goes back a long time and we're talking about everything. Sebastian is flirting with the idea of going back racing, whether it is with Porsche and Le Mans, which is a great program, or whether it is coming back into Formula 1. I try to be a sparring partner and tell him what I think. And clearly you can never discount the name for our team as well.
I honestly don't think anything happened between Dean and Benny. During that time in Purgatory, I think Dean would've been too focused on Cas to have a fling.
I really just saw them as friends. Maybe I just missed some subtext, but they felt like friends to me.
Not to say that they couldn't have been something else in a different situation, after all, Benny is Dean's type. And I find it fun whenever they are amiable exes in fanfic. But mainly, I just see them as friends.
Tired of remakes and sequels. Where is my movie about Nikola Tesla rising from the grave as a god and smiting everyone who has done him wrong or done it especially in his name?