The later you queue it for, the funnier it gets

I was more heartbroken when Bowie died compared to when the Queen died tbh

History is awesome, by any and every definition of the word. 

Two photographs from nearly the exact same vantage point taken roughly 70 years apart. On the surface, they are perfect bookends for the story of one single person, but imagine all the other stories connected to that era. The husbands and wives and affairs and mistresses and children and grandchildren that have always populated the tabloids, of course. But also the end of an empire. The independence and self-determination of millions of people and the unheard voices of millions more. So many stories and lives with direct and indirect connections to the events that happened between the day that the 25-year-old woman walking into Westminster Abbey in the black-and-white photo on the left had a crown placed on her head and the day that pallbearers carried a flag-draped casket with her 96-year-old body into Westminster Abbey one last time for her state funeral in the color photograph on the right. 

I’m not from the UK, I’m not a royalist, and I’m certainly not an imperialist, but I love history and that is the closest thing to a personification of history that I think any of us will ever experience. The Queen has always been a representative of something to somebody -- that was basically the duty she accepted and the utility she served. Some people believed she represented something positive, some people believed she represented something negative (or even evil), and others believed she represented the anachronism of monarchy itself in a diverse, modern society. To me, I saw history and everything that comes with history: the good, bad, and ugly (anachronisms are part of the daily diet of historians). But it’s always interesting and we can always learn from it. Do you know why? Because history is awesome.

the noise I just made--

Guys, what are you talking about? Queen Elizabeth is fine!

Dear Diary,

Today Sans undertale killed the queen of England-

You can see the edits people are making to Wikipedia as they turn all the references to Elizabeth II to past-tense

everyone on tumblr getting SPIKES in their activity bc old lizzy kicked it

Frankie Boyle's brilliant segment on the Queen dying.

A wee bit of advice here- it’s Frankie Boyle, he makes a good living out of making folk offended, so if it’s going to offend you I don’t give a fuck, just don’t watch it.........

I tried to just upload the segment on the monarchy, but at just over 11 minutes Tumblr couldn’t handle it, so you have choices, if you’re a Tory you can watch them rip into our “Health” secretary and get doubly offended at the whole show. Or forward to 13 and a half mins and just watch the monarchy segment, I recommend the whole show, but I’m a twisted Tory, Anti-royalist. 

Just gonna leave this here 🤔

Finding out about queen Elizabeth II death through tumblr memes is just unbelievable

who says I can't be diplomatic

rich barn lady: Oh yeah he photographed the queen's pony two weeks before she died. I'm sure you saw the pony in the funeral procession. He was so cute.

me: I did not.

rich barn lady: You should have seen it. It was amazing. So much spectacle.

me: I'm sure.

rich barn lady: we just can't understand the loss those people feel, of course, since we don't have a figurehead like that. It must be so hard for a whole nation going through that grief.

me, who saw things go down from a different side of society: mhmm.

my teen learned about the gddamned queen in social studies class today

direct quote “haha, so she seemed pretty cool”

and zero to 100 got pissed when i disagreed. all my politics are stupid bullshit, apparently and because I invoked Diana, i apparently also think only dead people can be decent humans. Uh. no. literally hating on the dead queen here, buddy.

also direct quote “I dont believe one person could oppress half the globe. the british empire didnt do that”

also he’s never heard any propaganda in his life and is not conforming to the dudebro code, that’s not a thing.

🙄🙄🙄

everyone give a round of applause to sans the skeleton

»Eines Morgens riechst du den Herbst. Es ist noch nicht kalt; es ist nicht windig; es hat sich eigent­lich gar nichts geändert – und doch alles.«

Kurt Tucholsky

Stupid idea watch party entirety of tumblr megamind