🔥 for ships?

hmmmmmmmmm

claims of incest are kinda stupid in hetalia. these are immortal nations with no canon explanation for their birth and no explanation of their genetics. it's okay not to feel comfortable with a ship because you see their relationship as more platonic/familial than romantic but don't attack people over it

Me, when I learned the Carpathia only managed to get in contact with the sinking Titanic bc they randomly rang to tell them they had mail:

1 & 9 for the history asks?

1. Who is your favourite historical person?

I think it shines through that, while I do have a few different people that interest me greatly from various periods, I predominantly post about the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe on my Tumblr blog.

Within that time frame, my favourites are, without a doubt, Admiral Samuel and Margaret Graves, an at times somewhat unconventional Georgian couple.

I found out about them through watching TURN: Washington's Spies, as the series's main, and largely fictionalised beyond recognition, villain is Samuel Graves's godson, John Graves Simcoe. Researching him, I quickly found out about the lives of his godfather and the latter's wife, and became intrigued.

9. Favourite historical film?

Taking "historical" to mean with regards to the setting rather than 'a plot based on historic events', I am very fond of Persuasion (1995), Emma (2020), and Master and Commander (2003).

Branching out into TV series with a historical setting, I greatly enjoy Hornblower (1998-2003), Prince Regent (1979), and The First Churchills (1969), among others. Both Prince Regent and The First Churchills had some of the most amazing casting choices I have ever seen. Rather than going for a household name actor or someone conventionally attractive according to contemporary standards at the time of filming (cough, Br*dgerton George III, cough), both series went for maximum resemblance, warts and all, wherever possible.

This appeals to my sense of humor on so many levels...

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

The Chariot of Death (1848)

— by Théophile Schuler

i love studying. i love writing. i love reading. i love learning languages. i love doing mathematics. i love wandering over some particular sum and trying to come up with formulas to solve it. i love physics. i love biology. i love chemistry. i love history. i love literature. i love learning.

not to achieve the perfect grades ever. but it just amazes me that there's so much to know and learn and write and read about in the universe. my curiosity wouldn't get enough of it.

“Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”

– The Secret History

Top five history books? (On any topic)

OOoooh!! Thank you!

bismarck: a life, by Jonathan Steinberg, not even close.

bismarck: ein biography by Erich Marcks

Unser Bismarck by Christian Allers

Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky

oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

I was tagged by @chaotic-history, thank you! :D

hot shower or cold shower // texting or calling // earbuds or headphones // paperback or hardcover // matte or gel // 12 hour clock or 24 hour clock // blue or green // sunsets or sunrises // tulips or orchids // candlelight or moonlight // sci-fi or horror // pen or pencils // pandas or koalas // gold or silver // sneakers or boots // denim jacket or leather jacket // pink or purple // chocolate or sour candy // drive-in movie theater or the cinema // pastel colors or neutral earth tones // lemonade or fruit juice // past or future // constellations or aurora borealis

Tagging everyone who would like to participate!

The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

DPxDC prompt: Danny Phantom is an extremely high-level threat due to his capabilities and experience battling against his ghostly enemies. Batman is creating a contingency plan for him and Constantine's advice, as the one who dances the tango with the Infinite Realms? A bone-weary sigh of "plop him down a telly and put on a NASA documentary or something. It's like you haven't been dealing with teen kids for decades now fer fuck's sake."

La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat-Woman) 1890

— by Albert Joseph Penot