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nat1volition · 1 year

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it’s not about reciprocation it’s just all about ME!!! baby I love these bozos

#jsmn #jonathan strange and mr norrell #susanna clarke #drawlight #Christopher drawlight #henry lascelles #lascelles #the 1975 #i will never apologize for giving historical bitches my autism 2010s songs #they deserve them #the sound is the most drawlight/lascelles song I’ve heard in a minute #there Will be more content with this combo

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j-august · 1 year

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"Ah, but, sir," said Lascelles, "it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does."

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

#quote #quotation #Susanna Clarke #Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell #Lascelles #judgements #review #opinions #errors #article #book #ah I see someone's been reading the London Review of Books

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the-wraxall-illustrations · 1 month

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Les Misérables cover art - Lascelles Wraxall translation - Art by Lynd Ward

#my posts #les mis #les miserables #victor hugo #lascelles wraxall #wraxall translation #lynd ward #jean valjean #javert

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slow-burn-sally · 4 months

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#henry lascelles #john childermass #jsamn #jonathan strange and mr. norrell

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thinkanamelater · 1 year

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Love wins <3

#jonathan strange and mr norrell #the gentleman with the thistledown hair #stephen black #henry lascelles #jonathan strange

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occasional-owl · 8 months

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#christopher drawlight #henry lascelles #jonathan strange & mr norrell #jonathan strange and mr norrell #js&mn

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puddinginthemix · 8 months

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Since I finished watching The Terror I've been thinking about "The Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell to The Terror Pipeline" (cf. Tumblr user pudentilla). I came to the show because a number of people I followed for JSAMN posts were also posting about The Terror, and naturally I was like, dudes on ships looking very cold and rather gay, what is this. Of course, I liked it immediately, but the reason for the "pipeline" still seemed fuzzy.

I joined this conversation about Tuunbaq's role in the story--how The Terror would still be a great show without the demon bear, but his presence definitely adds a certain whatsit--but things didn't really crystallize for me until I was reading an article that discussed speculative fiction as a form of resistance to the Western, colonialist, capitalist, masculinist model of literature that is often unfortunately dubbed "realist" fiction.

It would be easy to write The Terror as a "realist" narrative about the doomed Franklin expedition. All you do is take out Tuunbaq. It would still be excellent. And yet Tuunbaq--the entity that turns the story into speculative fiction--is the force that overwhelms the entire Western, colonialist, capitalist, masculinist enterprise.

I was fascinated by the end of Mr. Hickey: on the one hand, he appears to reject his native culture in favor of reinventing himself as a wild cannibal shaman of the frozen north. On the other hand, everything about what Hickey wants/tries to do is colonialist, exploitative, and driven by the urge to dominate. He fantasizes that he's connecting with Tuunbaq, but he doesn't understand it at all. And then it eats his face.

That was the fantasy moment that made me think ohhhh, what a beautiful connection. Magic in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is always and forever the enemy of colonialist, capitalist, masculinist domination. Lots of other people have blogged about this (recently @fluentisonus, good stuff), and I won't rehash that in detail here. But in JSAMN, magic puts itself into the hands of a Black man, servants, women, people who reject conquest and domination as a way of living. It rescues and sustains those people (like Tuunbaq brings Silna a nice fat seal). But those who would use it to dominate others, it utterly crushes.

tl;dr: 1) The Terror isn't The Terror without Tuunbaq; 2) I rode the JSAMN to The Terror Pipeline and I think I get it now

#long post #speculative fiction #the terror #amc the terror #the terror amc #jonathan strange and mr norrell #jsamn #cornelius hickey #tuunbaq #stephen black #john segundus #lady pole #henry lascelles #the gentleman with the thistledown hair

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collarsncrowns · 11 months

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Grandchildren of TM King George V & Queen Mary:

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011)

The Hon Gerald Lascelles (1924-1998)

HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)

HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002)

HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935 -)

HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent (1936 -)

HRH Prince William of Gloucester (1941-1972)

HRH Prince Michael of Kent (1942 -)

HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944 -)

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missmarymaywindsor · 9 months

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Extract from Queen Mary’s photo album showing Princess Mary with her infant son George Lascelles! And, of course, one with Grannie too!

#brf #british royal family #queen mary #george v #mary of teck #may of teck #queen mary of teck #mary princess royal #countess of harewood #princess mary #earl of harewood #George Lascelles #7th Earl of Harewood #princess mary princess royal #princess mary countess of harewood

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george-the-good · 4 months

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The King said to me rather bitterly this morning that Winston had come back from his Italian holiday looking a new man, and that while Ministers out of office always got such opportunities for recuperation, he never did. To that, I am afraid, the only possible answer is on the lines of il faut souffrir pour étre belle. It is a melancholy but inescapable fact that the Pope of Rome and the King of England are almost the only two human beings who can never expect a complete holiday until they reach the grave. Even the King’s private secretary can count on being allowed to go into honourable retirement some day.

- George VI’s Private Secretary, Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, diary entry, 26 October 1945 (King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War - The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles)

#King George VI #Alan Lascelles #Winston Churchill #British Royal Family #1945 #1940s

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shloodles · 9 months

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ID: four sketches of characters from jonathan strange and mr. norrell. 1) norrell, a mouse-like older man with an oversized wig slumped in an armchair with a cup of tea in his lap, looking extremely weary. 2) norrell glaring at childermass, a younger man with messy hair in a ponytail, who is leaning against a wall with arms crossed, looking at norrell judgmentally. 3) lascelles and drawlight looking at the viewer. lascelles, standing behind drawlight, is a slim man with short hair wearing a disinterested expression and holding a small glass of something. drawlight, a shorter plumper man with rouged cheeks and a wig is wiggling his fingers with a delighted and nefarious expression. 4) segundus, a young thin man with curly hair standing stock straight with his hands clasped awkwardly yet delicately in front of him, staring straight ahead with a haunted expression. behind him stands honeyfoot, an older portly man with thin hair, looking slightly bewildered. end ID

another mr normal sketchdump

#show edition. third rewatch #described #worth mentioning i completed most of these to hips dont lie by shakira on loop #jonathan strange and mr norrell #jsamn #john segundus #gilbert norrell #john childermass #henry lascelles #christopher drawlight #mr honeyfoot #my art

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hacash · 11 months

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Me every time I do my biannual rewatch of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and remember what a delicious bastard Lascelles is

#jonathan strange and mr norrell #Henry lascelles #lascelles is just The Most villain #I love how no one in the fandom seems to try and whiteboi villain him #he’s not a misunderstood puppy he is a DASTARDLY BASTARD #and everyone wants to see him punched in that appalling hot face of his #it’s why fandom loves him

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royal-confessions · 5 months

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“I think Princess Margaret would have been successful in marrying Peter Townsend if she had just waited for Tommy Lascelles to retire. Lascelles was in a bad place since his only son (John Lascelles) and his best friend ("Bunt" Goschen) had very recently died from cancer. He and his wife had been responsible for the care of both men and Goschen's wife Vivienne who also had cancer. Tommy's mother and favourite sister also died from the same cancer that killed his son so no doubt he blamed himself. But then I suppose if she did wait she would have had to contend with the death of Rosie Adeane. I think a lot of media paints Margaret as the victim and Lascelles especially but also Adeane as the villains when in fact their were all complex individuals who were suffering, but, I would argue, the former more so than the latter. Nothing compares to the loss of a child.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#princess margaret #peter townsend #Alan Lascelles

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the-wraxall-illustrations · 19 days

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