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David Tennant and Catherine Tate at the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards Photobooth
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#david tennant#catherine tate#bafta#bafta 2023#this was very cute#still bitter that neither of them have any baftas#other than david's welsh and scottish ones#it's always a joy to see them together#stuff i posted
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missdeliadali replied to your post "It's SO wholesome how, when hugging Michael,...”
What a great analysis! Thank you! I couldn't agree more.
Aww, thank YOU (and everyone else who's commented on this post) for these kinds words. I truly do appreciate it so much.
It seems surreal that I wrote this post two years ago, and yet that whole night was so powerful that it still resonates even now. Reading back what I wrote, I think what comes to mind is a lot of the discourse I've seen from the anti-RPF crowd, particularly the sentiment "It's lowkey homophobic to say two men can't be close friends/flirty without being in a relationship with each other."
But to my mind, what's actually true is exactly the opposite. That it's lowkey homophobic to say two men can't be close friends and be in love. We often hear the refrain of "The person you're in love with should be your best friend," and aren't Michael and David best friends? Why, then, would it be such a bad thing for them to be in love?
I feel like so many younger fans in particular seem to think monogamy is the be-all, end-all, but that's not how love or relationships work. Attraction doesn't stop just because you're in a relationship or married to someone, or because you have kids with someone. And David in particular I feel like has shown he has the capacity to love more than one person at a time--different to, yet not less than how he loves Georgia. Georgia herself has supported and even encouraged the shipping of Michael and David (even calling Michael David's "other wife"). Michael and David themselves have had countless opportunities over the last four years to snuff out the fires of speculation...but they never have.* Not once.
There are so many terrible things in this world--war, famine, hatred, abuse, violence--but two best friends falling in love shouldn't be one of them...
*If anything, Michael has done the complete opposite, fanning the flames repeatedly while cackling maniacally...
#missdeliadali#reply post#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#there are stalkers in this fandom and people objectifying Michael and David's bodies at every turn#and to me that is far more worth calling out than people shipping them#i love them#and i love that they love each other#platonic or romantic#does it really matter which one#let men be in love 2k23#a friendship that's become something more#ineffable lovers#fandom woes#thoughts#discourse
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New Blog Bio:
I do not tolerate pro-israel, zionist shit anywhere near me. I don't tolerate anti semitism anywhere near me. I will not tolerate anyone who is upholding or supporting the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinians. if you do, BLOCK ME
if ur gonna follow or interact with my blog pls realize I am very critical towards most acotar content, especially if it involves Rhysand. I am more-or-less a Rhys Anti until further notice and I am hard-core side eye towards Cassian until Rhysand is held accountable for being a shitty person for more than like *checks notes* two pages
I'm not a Tamlin Stan, nor do I particularly care for him, but I have been engaging in thoughtful criticisms of his actions often which involves character analysis so you v likely will see that pop up every now and then
likely you will find:
anti Rhysand
anti/critical IC
anti/critical/pro feyre
anti/critical Cassian posts, maybe MAYBE pro cassian
critical/pro Azriel- I'm pretty neutral towards him
anti/critical/pro elain content [often. w/o being tied to a ship]
pro Lucien
pro Nesta
pro Eris
most pro tog characters
anti/critical chaol (he just annoys me with his high horse)
Pro Ships:
Azriel/Eris/Nesta
Tamsand (lmao)
Feylin [book one]
Elucien
Nesta/Lucien [idk the ship name]
Feycien
Feyssian
Mesta
most tog ships
aelin/manon
malide
chaorian
Anti Ships:
Nessian
Feysand
Elriel
lysaedion
chaolena
My Specific ACoTaR Meta:
SJM + Eugenics + Ableism in her Writing
CoN + the Eternal Perpetuation of Abuse and Toxicity
SJM and the vilification of Ireland in acotar and tog
SJM could have had the HLs give their power to resurrect her wo Rhys forcing them if she played by Faerie Rules
Rhys physically assaulted Nesta
Class Warfare + Class Traitors in ACoTaR
Rhysand + Morally Grey Behavior
My Meta / Aus / etc Posts
tag -> #justice for poor cassian and poor archeron Sisters
tag -> #glasses!elain propaganda
tag -> #slavic archeron Sisters au
tag -> #fix cassians characterization challenge
tag -> #scottish!tamlin
tag -> #welsh!rhys
tag -> #disabled!Cassian
tag -> #my acotar world building
tag -> #appropriated faerie lore in acotar
tag -> #hybern Ireland
tag -> #white feminism in acotar
tag -> #eugenics in acotar
tag -> #eugenics in tog
tag -> #classism in acotar
Other Acotar Meta:
Mor SA'd Cassian
tag -> #acotar tiktok meta
tag -> #acotar meta
tag -> #racism in acotar
tag -> #Nesta is not an alcoholic send tweet
Other:
A Synopsis of The Ballad of Tam Lin
If You're interested:
Mission to have my own Bookstore:
tag -> #mission: cheshire books
TVDverse:
leave season 1 Caroline ALONE. she deserved better 🥺
Damon and Rose's Friendship that is ALL
Esther is Mikaels victim too stop this irritating 'Esther is the real villain'
tag -> #can we stop the overt vilification of Esther Mikaelson and the UwUization of Mikael Mikaelson
tag -> #tvd tiktok edits
tag -> #Damon Salvatore
tag -> #Caroline Forbes
tag -> #Vincent Griffith
tag -> #Shelia Bennett
Shadow and Bone / Six of Crows:
The Darkling Meta
tag -> #David kostyk
Once Upon a Time
tag -> #cora mills
The Hunger Games / A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes:
Coriolanus Snow Meta
tag -> #thg tiktok meta
tag -> #coriolanus snow
tag -> #reaper ash
tag -> #wovey
Percy Jackson
tag -> #nico di Angelo
completely irrelevant:
tag -> #rural iowa
more to be added!
#acotar#a court of thorns and roses#throne of glass#nesta archeron#anti rhysand#sjm critical#elain archeron#feyre archeron#lucien vanserra#anti cassian#aelin ashryver#aelin critical#rowan whitethorn#Rowan critical#manon blackbeak#manorian#malide#anti chaol#dorian havilliard
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Hi! I don’t have a subscription so I can’t read this full article you posted.
https://www.tumblr.com/literatemisfit/720928934490980352/david-tennant-on-his-wife-georgias-cancer-scare
Could you possibly give a summary or copy/paste what it says (if you’re comfortable with it)? Especially that last part you mentioned as being especially sweet?
Somehow when I went to open it I also got stuck behind a paywall so they must have added one. But I was able to use incognito mode and get access to it anyway. I've copy pasted the entire thing for you so you can see what I mean by sweet ;)
See below:
Georgia Tennant is recalling the moment, at the start of the pandemic, when she realised she was going to be locked down with her husband. ‘David was supposed to be filming in South Africa,’ explains the 38-year-old actor and producer. ‘But then there was a series of phone calls, South Africa shut down, and he turned to me and said: “I’m not going back”.’
Georgia and I share a look that speaks volumes: about the slo-mo dawning experienced by wives all over the world when it became clear they would be trapped with the man they’d promised to love and cherish – but not, crucially, have lunch with every day for weeks on end. About what became more like the premise of a twisted reality TV show when those weeks turned into months
‘I remember having this sudden realisation…’ Glancing at her Scottish stage and screen star husband, Georgia pauses, blue eyes wide, and at this point I’m already smiling because I think I know what’s coming. ‘That, oh my gosh, David’s just going to be here, the whole time.’ I nod compassionately. ‘Which obviously I’d never had before.’ Another nod. We’ve all been there.
‘And just thinking: that’s really exciting!’
Oh… It’s a needle-across-vinyl moment and I stop mid-nod and stare. Georgia and I are not on the same page. In fact, she seems to be reading an entirely different book: this wife can’t think of anything nicer than being holed up with her husband of 12 years.
‘We just really like each other,’ she says once all three of us have stopped laughing. ‘Even now, we like hanging out with each other more than we like hanging out with anyone else.’ Some might say that’s a pretty good basis for a marriage. ‘Exactly. And when all the kids are around it’s like a commune here, which I love.’
With a semi-apologetic shrug the 52-year-old Doctor Who and Broadchurch star confirms, ‘It’s true.’ There’s no way around it: he too just really likes his wife. ‘In fact, the more time we spend together the more we get on,’ he says. And although I’m not sure I can deal with any more bombshell revelations so early on in an interview, this is probably just as well. Because the Tennants didn’t just end up marooned on the couch together for the duration of the pandemic – with their five children, Ty, 21, Olive, 12, Wilfred, 10, Doris, seven, and Birdie, three – but filming a lockdown TV comedy series, Staged, which became the surprise summer comedy hit of 2020.
The whimsical meta sitcom follows David’s fractious friendship with Welsh actor Michael Sheen as they plan various ill-fated ventures from either side of the world on Zoom. Only this isn’t reality TV, but a hammed-up version. Its two actors forever making a drama out of a crisis, as their partners watch, bemused, occasionally stepping in when things get out of hand.
Georgia and Swedish actress Anna Lundberg’s attitude is probably best described by the bumper sticker quote: ‘Behind every successful man is a woman rolling her eyes’, and audiences liked them so much that their roles get progressively bigger with each series.
Amazingly, Staged outlived the pandemic premise it was built on and I’m here today, in a sleek home office at the back of the couple’s west London home, to talk about the third and final series, which is currently airing on BBC One. Having spent the past 24 hours binge-watching six episodes of the show, I’m slightly thrown by how dialled-down the real David and Georgia are compared with their on-screen personas. He’s far less wild-haired and neurotic in real life – perhaps in part because after a trip to the dental hygienist this morning, he’s not yet been allowed his coffee – and she’s just as beautiful, with the same poise she maintains throughout Staged, but more amused than exasperated, today, by her man.
‘This wasn’t our first project together,’ David reminds me when I ask whether working on the show together over three years didn’t tip this perfect partnership over the edge. ‘After all, Georgia and I did meet on set.’
It’s true that it was while he was playing the Tenth Doctor in 2008 that he met his future wife, who was cast as his genetically engineered daughter in the BBC show. Does Georgia still get endless joy from that? ‘Oh, I’ve had 15 years of joy from that,’ she flings back. ‘Of course, I was already 900 years old at the time,’ David deadpans.
After the Doctor Who years, the pair went on to co-star in the 2017 film, You, Me and Him, which Georgia also produced. Still, when it came to filming Staged, he got ‘incredibly nervous’, he admits. ‘I think we were quite anxious about what that would… do, weren’t we?’
His wife murmurs her agreement, although like her Staged character she seems serene and in control and it’s easy to imagine her talking David down from various ledges in daily life.
For all their harmony, they seem quite different. Certainly, they come from different backgrounds. As the daughter of actors Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson, Georgia was born into the profession, making her debut at 15 in ITV’s Peak Practice, before going on to appear in shows such as Where the Heart Is, Like Father Like Son and The Last Detective.
Bathgate-born David, meanwhile, is the son of a Presbyterian church minister, who attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and established himself with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre early on. After winning the game-changing role of Doctor Who at 34, he has continued to demonstrate his versatility as an actor, flitting from hard-hitting TV dramas like Des in 2020 (playing serial killer Dennis Nilsen) and Litvinenko in 2022 (as the former Russian spy) to playing a demon in Amazon’s ongoing fantasy series Good Omens. Then there’s his stage work: the recent West End play Good, in which he played a professor drawn into Nazism, and a forthcoming stint as Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse in December.
Despite his success, the actor has suffered from acute anxiety ever since he was a boy, fretting about everything from ‘not being good enough’ and ‘being found out’ (as he told one interviewer in 2019) to the loss of anonymity he knew he’d experience back in 2005, when he was cast as a TV hero he’d idolised from the age of three. ‘Because with a show like Doctor Who,’ he tells me, ‘it’s on a different scale.’
As anyone who suffers from anxiety knows, the primary, all-consuming worry is that everything ‘probably will go wrong’ at any given moment. In 2018 something did go very wrong when Georgia was diagnosed with cervical cancer – something she shared in her blog, despite usually being a private person. ‘I thought it was easier than having to phone everyone and tell them,’ she explains today.
‘It was a very weird experience,’ muses David. ‘Because we found out the bad news after it had been dealt with, so we had the relief at the same time as the horror.’
Following an abnormal smear test result, Georgia had a biopsy and a cervical excision to remove the tissue causing concern. It was only after that procedure that test results showed the cells had been cancerous. David pauses, looking at his wife. ‘At least we were spared the prospect of living with, “You’ve got this, and can it be caught?” But I still have these flashbacks of “What if you hadn’t…?”’ He shakes his head. ‘I don’t think I acknowledged at the time how serious it could have been.’
The couple were too busy ‘just dealing with each stage’, David goes on. ‘The slightly funky test and then going in and having the biopsy.’
‘But I did make you answer the phone, when we were waiting to hear [the results],’ Georgia cuts in. ‘I obviously knew there was going to be something, so David got the news first: that it was bad but that they’d got rid of it. And then he made me get on the phone so that I could hear it from the doctor myself, because he knew that was something I needed to do.’
Afterwards, ‘both of us were just numb,’ David murmurs. ‘It was such a Sliding Doors moment. Even a few months later it could have been too late.’
‘Which is why now,’ Georgia concludes wryly, ‘I’ll tell everyone with a cervix: go and get yourself checked.’
With the couple’s eldest son Ty now a successful actor – having starred in the TV series War of the Worlds and HBO’s House of the Dragon – and Olive, then 10, making her big-screen debut in Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winning film Belfast, two years ago, I’m curious to know how they both feel about their brood following in their footsteps? ‘I just want them to be happy and to be able to survive in the world,’ Georgia says. ‘So if acting is what they want to do…’
It helps that the industry feels fairer now in almost every way, they believe, and we segue into a discussion about inclusivity and ‘real representation’ in acting – meaning, for example, that only LGBTQ actors should play LGBTQ roles. Until we’re all caught up, David maintains, ‘you have to protect those spaces for actors who come from those communities’.
It also helps that the industry is a safer place for women now than it was 10 years ago, says Georgia. ‘Because it
definitely is,’ she adds. ‘Things happened to me when I was younger that I now realise were not great, but at the time I thought it was all part of it – that I had to laugh them off. I’m talking about situations that made me feel uncomfortable,’ she explains. ‘Now I would be able to say so, but at the time the dialogue just wasn’t there. And I don’t think any of our kids would have to feel like that now. Even if they did, they would have the words and the people behind them to say: “that’s not OK”.’
David is currently filming the Disney+ series Rivals, based on Jilly Cooper’s famous bonkbuster, he tells me. ‘And there’s an “intimacy co-ordinator” on that because there’s quite a lot of shagging, so everyone’s being very appropriate and careful.’
But doesn’t it feel strange having your sex scenes ‘co-ordinated’? ‘Oh, it’s ludicrous.’ He grins. ‘Because it means you’re making the most intimate, private moments very compartmentalised and that there’s someone there asking the embarrassing questions nobody did historically – but that’s because you’re not doing these things with your actual partner. So that’s another thing that has got better over the years.’ He tilts his head to one side, narrows his eyes: ‘That said, there are still lots of reasons not to become an actor.’
This seems as good a place to end as any, and as the Tennants take me back through the garden to a side gate, Georgia tells her husband she’s ‘going for a manicure – and you have to come with me’. When I leave they’re still bickering gently, with David asking: ‘Why do I have to come?’ I don’t catch his wife’s reply, but I suspect it’s just because she really likes him.
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12th June 1997 saw The island of Eigg pass into community ownership when it was purchased by the Eigg Heritage Trust.
After years of instability, neglect and lack of secure tenure, the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust was able to purchase the island on, largely due to the generosity of around ten thousand members of the general public
The Hebridean island of Eigg is second to St Kilda as the most famous of the smaller Scottish isles. While St Kilda is renowned for its extinction as a place of human settlement, Eigg is celebrated for its rebirth. After overthrowing its eccentric, authoritarian owner two decades ago, this 31 sq km (12 sq mile) patch of moor and mountain was reborn as what is sometimes mockingly called the People’s Republic of Eigg.
This triumph of David versus Goliath has forged an apparently inspirational, sustainable community of 100 people.
A series of owners tried unsuccessfully to run some sort of business on Eigg during the latter part of the 20th century, from the Welsh Farmer whose Hereford cattle promptly died of bracken poisoning. Disheartened, he got rid of Eigg for £110,000 in 1971 to Bernard Farnham-Smith, self-styled naval commander, head of an English charity that wanted to run the island as a school for disabled boys, by 1973 the Eigg’s own school had only one pupil. Rather more successful was eccentric Keith Schoenberg, a dashing, Yorkshire-born businessman and former Olympic bobsleigher, acquired Eigg.
He was a charming, persuasive adventurer, who, over the next 20 years endeared himself to the guests by allowing them to perch on the running board as he drove them to beach picnics or moonlit games of hockey. One failed marriage after the other ended with him reluctantly having to sell the island in 1992 in his divorce settlement, in a surprise move he ended up bidding and became sole owner of Eigg, this didn’t go down well with the Islanders who were tiring of him, culminating in a fire in sheds on Eigg’s pier, with Schellenberg’s Roller inside. Police arrived but noone was ever brought to justice for the arson attack, maybe the Polis were just happy to get off the island alive rather than ending up in a wooden effigy atop a bonfire! “It was once the laird’s factor [his estate manager] who went about burning people out. Now it seems OK to burn out the laird himself,” fumed Schellenberg.
By 1995 he had enough and put the island up for sale, but refused to sell to the population, it should really be of no surprise that the knew owner seemed more eccentric than the previous one, self style Professor Gotthilf Christian Eckhard Oesterle was a fire-worshipping German artist and self-styled “professor” who went by the name of Maruma having read the new name in a pool of water in Geneva.
He declared it was impossible to own Eigg and vowed to improve opportunities for the community, build a swimming pool, and replace the dirty diesel generators that provided electricity with an integrated system of wind and solar power. The press discovered that, unfortunately, Maruma was not quite what he seemed: he was unknown in the art world, he wasn’t a proper professor, and he had used Eigg as security for a £300,000 loan at a punitive 20% interest rate. He promised to remove the island’s rusty old cars, but a pile of wrecks soon accumulated by the pier: locals dubbed it “the Maruma centre”. In July 1996, the island was put up for sale again, at an inflated price of £2m.
The Islanders Trust rthrew themselves into raising the asking price. . The story of the islanders who wanted to buy their own island was portrayed as a jolly romp in the style of Compton Mackenzie’s Whisky Galore, in which Hebridean islanders rebel against British bureaucrats. Eigg folk didn’t particularly relish this stereotype, but it captured imaginations and raised money.
Donations began flowing in at the rate of £1,000 per post bag; soon it was £30,000 per bag. Concerts took place in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Tyrone – and even Detroit – to raise funds. A mystery benefactor, a woman from northern England whose identity remains secret. gave £900,000. Most donations came from England. Outsiders were shocked by the feudalism that the islanders endured – the owners even decided which of them, if any, could eat Eigg’s seaweed – and worried about the possible fate of its pristine environment. The wildlife trusts, including the Scottish Wildlife Trust, were particularly effective at mobilising their members to help Eigg.
Meanwhile, the island’s Trust feared that Maruma’s German estate agent would sell Eigg to another international client. The agent described the Scottish islands on his books as “the Van Goghs” of 120 personally inspected paradises: “There is a sense of romance in buying islands. It is the ultimate purchase you can make, a complete miniature world of which you can be king.” Maruma’s creditor, a German clothing exporter, finally put the islanders out of their misery. After Maruma defaulted on his £300,000 loan, the creditor used the Scottish courts to force Eigg’s sale. His solicitors accepted the islanders’ offer of £1.5m on 4 April 1997. Finally, the people of Eigg owned their island.
Recently the Island's trust advertised the two raree jobs on Eigg of a head teacher and a warm homes manager
Eigg has been hailed as Scotland’s most Eco-Friendly Island and the community trust are doing a great job of running a successful business, which includes offering accommodation, courses and working holidays for volunteers, you can read more about the Island on their website here. http://www.isleofeigg.org/
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Other Outlander Actors
Tonight I watched for the second time the 10-episode series of Recipes for Love and Murder. It airs on Acorn. I first watched it a few months ago, then I found the book, read it, and decided to rewatch it.
It stars Maria Doyle Kennedy, and is situated in the Union of South Africa. I haven't looked her up, but I suspect she is a native of that country.
I often why Sam and Cait, Roger and Brianna, and David Berry get all the publicity. I wonder if Outlander actors ever get any publicity. Or is Outlander just a show for Sam/Cait fans, and they don't pay attention to the rest of the series.
My goodness, Billy Boyd, who plays Neil Forbes, Jocasta's lawyer, was big in The Lord of the Rings. And Jocasta is played by Maria Doyle Kennedy. There are others who I recognize.
Acorn has so many British (Scottish, Welsh, Australian, New Zealanders, and English) actors - so many that I really like. Great murders mysteries, and Sam is supposed to show up in one of the Midsomer Murders episodes sometime in the 130+ 2-hour episodes over 25 seasons. I don't know when since it does not list it, but it is among the many things Sam has been in according to his webpage.
So, Maria Doyle Kennedy plays a woman name Tannie Maria (pronounced Tunney), a woman working in a newspaper office as an advice columnist plus a woman of many recipes. The book lists a few of them at the end of the book (also has an index of Afrikanner languages). And we get to watch her put the recipes together. I want to try some of them, but the main dish meals are all built around lamb, lamb knuckles, or mutton (and what is the difference), and I don't eat meat. Not even sure where to buy it. I don't think my grocery store has lamb, but I may have to ask them if it is available.
Since I will eat fish, and sometimes (rarely, but sometimes) chicken, maybe I can substitute. She uses a large number of spices and herbs. The curry recipe sounds particularly delicious - just don't know how well it would fit with meat other than lamb.
Since my days of managing a merchant seaman's bar, I have made an effort to say "thank you" in nearly 100 languages, and Afrikanner was one of them (dankie, pronounced dankey A). Oh yeah, I bet you can figure out what "fok" is.
I also have a really good Scots recipes book, and I use it. I particularly like the cullen skink, fix it fairly often (uses fish, potatoes, onions, several herbs, and milk - makes a really delicious soup), and kailkenny (in Irish, colcannon), a veg dish using mash and fried cabbage, mixed, with butter (not marg). There is even a recipe using haggis, but it is pre-pared haggis, not one you have to make up yourself.
So if you like "Jocasta" and can get Acorn on your TV, give that one a try. She is a most beautiful woman, a good actress, and the recipes she shows in the episodes look really delicious. Next time around, I am going to write really fast and get the many ingredients down so I can try some not in the book.
Other Scots actors I like are Denis Lawson, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, and too many to mention.
There is more to life and pleasure than just Jamie - besides which it is really Sam Heughan I most like.
Carol in Austin
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Courtier demanded assurance king could not be prosecuted under new Welsh law
Palace official secured assurance under archaic custom that requires UK parliaments to get consent of monarch to draft bills
Rob Evans, Severin Carrell and David Pegg
Thu 11 Apr 2024 06.00 CESTShare
Royal courtiers privately put pressure on the Welsh government to ensure that King Charles could not be prosecuted for rural crimes under a new law that ministers had drawn up, documents reveal.
The elected minister in the Welsh government who is its chief legal adviser was “not happy” that the king was to be given the special exemption from prosecution but agreed to it last year.
A Buckingham Palace official phoned the Welsh government to secure the assurance under an archaic custom that requires UK parliaments to obtain the consent of the monarch to draft bills before they can be implemented.
Under the mechanism, ministers notify the royal family of specific clauses in draft laws that may affect their personal wealth, their private property or their public functions. The ministers ask the monarch to approve the laws before they can be passed.
Investigations by the Guardian have shown that the late queen used her privileged access to draft legislation to secure changes that protected her private interests or reflected her opinions. In one recent example, her lawyers lobbied Scottish ministers in 2021 to change a draft law to exempt her private land from a major initiative to cut carbon emissions.
The use of the consent mechanism has been criticised as “undemocratic”. It has been in force in Westminster since the 1700s and has been extended to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments.
During the queen’s 70-year reign, she vetted more than 1,000 draft laws before they were approved by elected politicians. Those included bills that affected the her personal property such as her privately owned estates in Balmoral and Sandringham.
The mechanism has continued seamlessly into the reign of Charles. Ministers in Westminster, Scotland and Wales have been required to obtain his consent to 20 laws since he came to the throne in September 2022.
Buckingham Palace refused to say whether the king had asked for any changes to these laws before approving them. One was a bill that was formulated by the Welsh government to reform agricultural practices.
On 1 June last year, the Welsh government noted in an internal memo that its lawyers “had been contacted by Buckingham Palace officials who have sought an assurance that Welsh ministers will take into account conventions regarding prosecuting the crown when making regulations under this bill”.
In an email the following day, Welsh officials noted that Mick Antoniw, the Welsh government’s counsel general – the equivalent of the attorney general in Westminster – was “not happy with the exclusion”. However, he “recognises the ongoing convention and therefore” agreed to it.
This was a reference to an ill-defined convention under which criminal and civil proceedings cannot be brought against the monarch as head of state. The monarch has been given personal immunity from swathes of British law, ranging from animal welfare to workers’ rights.
However, an investigation by the Guardian has previously highlighted the extent to which this practice gives the monarch immunity for his conduct as a private citizen, affording protection to the king’s privately owned assets and estates.
More than 30 laws stipulate, for example, that police are barred from entering the privately owned Balmoral and Sandringham estates without the king’s permission to investigate possible crimes, including wildlife offences and environmental pollution. No other private landowner in the country is given such legal immunity.
In the case of last year’s Agriculture (Wales) Act, the monarch was exempted from regulations relating to the marketing of agricultural products, the disposal of carcasses and the disclosure of information to the Welsh state. Police are also unable to gain automatic entry to the king’s private property portfolio under that part of the act.skip past newsletter promotion
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According to Buckingham Palace, the royal household rang the Welsh government to ensure that “as a matter of legal correctness” the monarch could not be prosecuted under the act.
A palace spokesperson said the convention had to be maintained as the draft act contained a particular type of legislation that would not rule out the possibility of a prosecution.
The spokesperson added: “At no point were any objections raised by the Welsh government, either formally or informally.”
A Welsh government spokesperson said: “The immunity of the monarch from prosecution is a long-established principle.” They declined to comment further.
Charles approved the bill on 20 June 2023, according to the documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents do not specify which of his properties would be affected by this act.
Other laws which have been screened by Charles under the consent mechanism include legislation relating to the rents that UK landowners can charge mobile phone companies for putting up masts on their land and the management of Scottish private trusts. Trusts are widely used by the Windsors and can help the rich to shield their assets from public scrutiny or tax.
Charles gave his permission to a Scottish act that froze the rents for tenants in private properties and a Westminster act that required landlords to produce an electrical certificate in their rented homes. Charles rents out more than 300 homes across his Balmoral and Sandringham estates.
The palace spokesperson said: “King’s consent is a parliamentary process and His Majesty has granted consent on each occasion it has been requested by government.”
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Hi! This may be too specific, but I was wondering if you could help suggest actors who could play a 35+y.o. tall and beefy (more fat than muscled) white man? Ashkenazi Jewish descent would be ideal, but not necessary. Thank you, don't forget to drink water, and hope you find at least one thing that makes you happy today! - 🥦 broccoli anon
Jack Black (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, as well as Northern Irish, Scottish, English, remote French and Welsh (converted to Judaism) - my beloved!
Nick Frost (1972) - I didn't know he had tattoos now! 👀
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973)
David Harbour (1975)
Kristian Nairn (1975) - is gay.
K. Trevor Wilson (1981)
Josh Ostrovsky (1982) Unspecified Jewish.
Matty Matheson (1982)
Not white but too good not to mention for other people looking too!
Cooper Andrews (1985) Samoan / Ashkenazi Jewish.
Media needs more fat men it's so sad.
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𝐎𝐰𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐊𝐚𝐝𝐞 | hpma minor character profile
warnings: discussions of death and cancer
✧ IDENTITY ✧
Full Name: Owen David MacKade
Nicknames: None
Name Meanings: Owen → Welsh, “young warrior ; well-born” ; David → Hebrew, “beloved” ; MacKade → Irish & Scottish, “from the wetlands.”
Date of Birth: June 3, 2003
Gender: Male ; he/him
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Blood Status: Muggleborn
Nationality: Irish
✧ APPEARANCE & VOICE ✧
Faceclaim: Noah Jupe
Height: 5’6”
Build: Average
Hair: Curly brown hair that’s length varies by the year
Eye Color: Brown
Defects & Modifications: He has a small scar on his left bicep.
Style: Jeans ; t-shirts ; sweatshirts ; plaid shirts ; trousers ; sweaters ; jackets ; hoodies ; sneakers
Voiceclaim: Noah Jupe
Accent: Irish
Dialect: General Irish English
✧ PERSONALITY ✧
MBTI Type: INFP — the mediator
⤷ A Mediator (INFP) is someone who possesses the Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Prospecting personality traits. These rare personality types tend to be quiet, open-minded, and imaginative, and they apply a caring and creative approach to everything they do.
Positive Traits: Integrity, dedicated, intelligent, curious, supportive, athletic
Neutral Traits: Idealistic, reserved, stubborn, quiet, imaginative
Negative Traits: Sensitive, impractical, easily stressed
Interests & Hobbies: Football/soccer, hurling, cricket, reading, video games, dancing, flying, painting, writing
✧ MAGIC ✧
Wand: Owen’s wand is made of elm wood with a unicorn tail hair core and is 9 ⅘ inches long with a supple flexibility.
⤷ Elm wands preferred owners with presence, magical dexterity and a certain native dignity. Of all wand woods, elm, in Ollivander's experience, produced the fewest accidents, the least foolish errors, and the most elegant charms and spells; these were sophisticated wands, capable of highly advanced magic in the right hands (which made it highly desirable to those who espoused the pure-blood philosophy).
Patronus: Elephant
Boggart: His brother’s dead body
Riddikulus: The body pops up and does the robot dance
Amortentia: Owen smells like soap, spearmint, cinnamon, and cedarwood.
✧ HOGWARTS ✧
House: Ravenclaw
Best Subjects: Charms, herbology, history of magic, potions
Worst Subjects: Transfiguration, defense against the dark arts
Extracurriculars: Frog choir, prefect, head boy
✧ EMPLOYMENT ✧
Affiliations: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Professions:
Age 18 to 25 - Magiovet in training
Age 25 to 96 - Magiovet
✧ RELATIONSHIPS ✧
Father: David Padraig MacKade [deceased. 1965-2006]
Owen doesn’t have many clear memories of his father, as he was four when David passed away. Those memories are stronger in Owen’s mind than his memories of his mother, but not by much. He misses the man a lot and as much as Owen adores his big brothers, he wishes that he could turn to his father for things.
Mother: Clare Siobhan MacKade née O’Brien [deceased, 1967-2004]
Owen doesn’t have any memories of his mother, as he was only one when she passed away. He wishes that he could have had any memories of her and there are a lot of moments where Owen wishes that he had her to turn to. He really misses her.
Brother: Finnian Joseph “Finn” MacKade
Born on December 30, 1996, Finn is six and a half years older than Owen. They have a close relationship and Owen is probably the closest to Finn. They don’t have that many arguments because of their age gap, except when Owen feels like Finn is being too protective over him. Owen loves his big brother a lot, though.
Faceclaim: Tom Holland
Brother: Nathaniel Brian “Nate” MacKade
Born on December 30, 1996, Nate is six and a half years older than Owen. Owen probably has the most distant relationship with Nate, but they’re still fairly close. They don’t have that much in common and Owen gravitates more towards Finn anyways. However, they love each other a lot and care about one another immensely.
Faceclaim: Tom Holland
Brother: Padraig Darragh “Paddy” MacKade
Born on April 16, 2000, Paddy is three years older than Owen. They have a close relationship, partially because Finn and Nate are often together and because their age gap is smaller. They get along pretty well, although they do fight. They have a lot in common and love each other a lot.
Faceclaim: Levi Miller
Grandmother: Jean Frances MacKade née Hughes
Owen has a good relationship with his grandmother. He has always had a good relationship with her and he really looks up to. He’s not as aware of how much she does, but as an adult, he really appreciates everything that she’s done for him and his brothers.
Faceclaim: Julie Andrews
Nephews: Wyatt Hartley MacKade ; Jonah David MacKade ; Ian David MacKade
Nieces: Zoey Vanessa MacKade ; Flora Elspeth MacKade
Sisters-In-Law: Nova Luisa Hartley (@gaygryffindorgal) ; Scotty Rosier (@drinkyoursoupbitch)
Pets: A labrador retriever named Lady
✧ HISTORY & BACKGROUND ✧
Hometown: Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
Pre-Hogwarts Childhood:
Born on June 3, 2003, Owen David MacKade was the fourth and youngest child pof David and Clare MacKade. He joined older brothers, Finn (6), Nate (6), and Paddy (3). Owen’s childhood was disrupted by his mother’s cancer diagnosis and her subsequent death in late 2004, when he was one. Therefore, he doesn’t have very many memories of his mother. The next disruption came when Owen was three and his father died suddenly. Thankfully, Owen’s grandmother took him and his brothers in and gave them the very best childhood that she could. The next shock, which wasn’t nearly as traumatic or difficult, was when Finn and Nate received Hogwarts letters, with Paddy receiving one a few years later. Owen was very excited when his own letter came in 2014.
Hogwarts Years:
Upon starting Hogwarts, Owen was sorted into Ravenclaw with the hat barely touching his head. He was very happy to be sorted into Ravenclaw, as he had idolized the house due to the stories that his big brother, Finn, told. He also loved being in the same house as his big brother, who helped a lot whenever Owen was feeling homesick that first year. In addition, Owen was made a prefect in his fifth year and head boy in his seventh year.
Adulthood:
After graduating from Hogwarts, Owen became a magiovet, fulfilling his fascination with magical creatures and his desire to help others. He also found himself being made the godfather of his niece, Zoey, and his niece, Flora. Like his brother Paddy, Owen took being a godfather very seriously and loved all of his various nieces and nephews.
Old Age & Death:
Owen passed away in his sleep at the age of 107.
✧ MISCELLANEOUS ✧
Trivia:
Owen’s middle name is in honor of his father.
Owen is a good listener and has a firm belief in the good of humanity, even when his beliefs aren’t always reinforced.
Owen is generally quite optimistic and is the most optimistic of the four MacKade brothers.
Owen really enjoys building with Legos, especially the more complex sets and he has a whole display of the smaller (and cheaper) architecture sets.
Owen’s great-great-great paternal grandparents were both squibs from wealthy and well-known families. They changed their surname to MacKade when they moved into the muggle world.
Important Links:
Owen’s tag [#owen mackade]
#owen mackade#hpma#magic awakened#hpma minor oc#hpma character profile#my character profile#my aesthetic#minor oc
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ABOULIA
So, God save the King eh? At 100 million pounds, his cosplay bash was well worth the moolah…indeed, my bosom swelled with pride to read that Take That, Lionel Richie and two of the Muppets were there to aid the celebrations. Nothing but the best for GB. A few houses around here still have massive British flags hanging down from 2nd floor windows, one has a long string of pennants attached down to a broken wall. Nice metaphor. Those against the monarchy were arrested outside the coronation whether or not they had padlocks, rape alarms and superglue with which to protest. Peaceful protest in a democracy? Stay at home and rant quietly lest thy neighbours report thee. Had a chat with a woman up the street about Brexit and patriotism…who said; ‘The Scottish are Scots, the Welsh are Welsh, the Irish are Irish but the English are British’.
Imagine this mentality multiplied on similar themes all over the world, and we get the current Russian war, Sudan, racists, Arab wars, Trump fans, Chinese ‘communists’, fundamentalists etc, etc. THIS group, OUR group are the most important, enslave the others and if they disagree with such inhuman bondage, punish until pliant or just kill them. Behold, the Elite have become as Gods. Robert Anton Wilson said that he had always taken the viewpoint that sure there was an elite running the world…and it was him and his friends. A more optimystic viewpoint to have, good humour is better for the immune system than hatred, says Dave, arf arf.
Very glad to see Finland join NATO in April, Turkey and Hungary continue to hum and haa over Sweden assession as the former are moaning about Kurds and the latter because of the suspension of EU funds, cancelled due to its dodgy practices…Orban is not really a big fan of democracy…the Trump of Eastern Europe, still trying to stay mates with Vlad. As is Erdogan. Massive human rights violations under him ensured Turkey won’t be getting into the Good Guys club (arf) of the EU anytime soon. However, they are both in NATO (Turkey has the second largest army) and should know far better than to kow tow to Putin on any level. Let’s hope the May 14th election will up seat Racip Tayyip. Get him out, peacefully but surely.
An American parent complained that a school history trip featuring Michelangelo’s statue of David was ‘pornographic’ and suddenly the principal is sacked. One parent. Of a 12-year-old. A modest, circumcised stone penis and testicles is offensive? Must have been a ‘christian’. The western world 2023; Art is pornography now. And Kali bless the NRA. People should be aggressively tested for intelligence before they are allowed to have children. Especially in America. How do these ‘adults’ function on this planet? What next, Mona Lisa veiled because of the curve of her breast and suggestive smile? The masses are dumb partly because they pander to the minority of the dumber.
Apparently, the international arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Belova (Children’s Rights Commissioner (sic) for Baldhead) are ‘outrageous and unacceptable’. Invasion, murder and mass kidnap deportations of children for reprogramming are not decent legal reasons? Ok. Foully rotten to see the two Ruscist slapheads Prigozhin and mad Vlad dick measuring over ammunition and dead bodies. And today, the glorious May Day Victory parade in Moscow featured one tank. Not quite Beijing or Pyongyang standards. ‘The world is at a turning point’ said Vlad, still ranting about the ‘nazis’ in Ukraine. That would be the nazis who democratically elected a Jewish actor as their president. Seems likely huh? And again with ‘the West wants to destroy Russia’ rhetoric. No they don’t Vlad, just you and your band of criminals. You are not Russia.
Xi Jinping in Moscow, still slyly giving tacit and very complicit support for the War as they don’t much approve of areas seeking to remain independent of big brother. (Witness also, their keen support for the mass murdering Myanmar junta) Winnie the Pooh, leader for life just like Putin. Tik Tok/tick tock you bastards. At least Xi seems to have chosen his successor…Surely Mad Vlad is not loopy enough to think the appallingly insane Medvedev could take over? Lock them all together in a bunker with one pistol.
Meanwhile the West must utterly excrete (I said excrete not execute) Trump and Boris. Might just be possible (please Shiva) but unlikely the East will ever get shot of (I said shot of not shoot) Putin and Pooh. As said before in other formats by my hand, the West might be decadent liars and killers but those in the East make us look like clones of the Dalai Lama. How will the world ever move forward into love, peace and net zero? AI has the solution…remove the need for any humanity whatsoever. Or improve and evolve them. Now there’s an idea, quick, trap it, regulate it, drive it underground to build in supressed power…
Boris Johnson swore to tell the whole truth about Partygate but did he FK? He needs to be swamped with lawsuit after lawsuit just like his brother in harm Trump. The perfect empty reality tv stars of the West with Megan Markle as their Victim Queen. Risible Sunak goes to school giving a lecture about the importance of Maths, failing to appreciate the bitter irony of his mis handling of his previous job and the billions lost due to foul pandemic deals, cronies and Brexit. And his own extended family getting business deals via policy….
Conservatives Thatcher and Major led the country for 18 years and the government was a brown shower of corruption by its end, leading to a landslide victory by Tony Blair which kept the Labour party in power (don’t count Gordon Brown) for 13 years, also ending in scandal and corruption. This current gang of criminals and morons of the Tory party have now been in power for 13 years. And this country has been irrevocably ruined by them. (Opinion based on stats and business reports.) There is no possible way Labour can shore up the finances, employment, and health care system of this country in a term or two unless some type of V for Vendetta type crackdown (but this time for real) is enforced. So we will be treated to the sight of bullshitter Boris et al ridiculing the new Government as they wade through a swamp of sewage which they will inherit. Much the same way as the Republicans did when Obama took over the massive deficit they had created and for which they then blamed him.
The holy DAO…a decentralised autonomous organisation free of governmental control and hierarchies, sounds good? As usual, depends on the character of the humans involved. Hierarchies always develop according to variations on the food chain and even an equally skilled pack (animal or man) working as a team will allow pragmatic nature to select a top dog. The round table still reserved the biggest chair for the king. Use nationalism, religion, fear, a cocktail of all three. Never fails. Never will. Kill for your country, protect your family and uphold the common values. (But Sir, what if the common values are based on wilful ignorance due to obviously selectively released information and encouraged prejudice? Questions a timid voice from the back of the class.)
Politicians are advised of underling psychology and act accordingly. The constant daily manipulation of the millions who are seemingly unable to think for themselves, apparently prefer the clearly corrupt to control their reactions for them. Stir the mass, wind them up and watch them go, basing reactions on whipped up emotion rather than actual facts. Country after country, group after group. Still blaming the Bignoses (or, if you are Russian, the Bignoses AND the Nazis, not quite yet understanding their own current actions and words are in no way dissimilar to Nazis.) What are all these poor little racist didums going to do when Soros departs for higher planes? The good Christians will have to get louder about Bill Gates or the dodgy android Zuckerberg. Or Elon…
(Musk says Artificial intelligence is a dangerous thing, while buying into it. ‘Civilisation destruction’ a strong possibility he said, while buying into it. After all, who wants to be left behind in the race to destroy humanity and make money? Loved the beautiful press release from Elon’s people that his spaceship Starship (arf) experienced a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation’. I will call my next mental breakdown that. Unless he has copywritten it already.)
‘If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers’ Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow. The West and East will never stop their chosen methods of manipulation, why should they when they work so well? Millions’ noisy addictive focused attention on the dreams of fake lives in fame and glamour and millions more afraid of the totalitarian knock on the door. Almost all avoiding the question of ‘Who are these whorepigs governing us? ‘And ‘Can any among us truly rule fairly when man lacks consistent self-control?’. The instinct to survive turns into greed, More ! is never satisfied, so faster and faster swirling into the void of absolute entropy upon which leaders have tried to enforce control, but have failed (and will continue to do so) because they have spent centuries hollowing the centre.
‘Democracy is indispensable to socialism’. Lenin, hmmm, he also said: ‘It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be rationed’. Easy to say when your boss has all the gulags. ‘A lie told often enough becomes the truth’, and don’t the leaders on all sides just believe that as an immutable fact? Whereas when one repeats a provable fact, it maintains its structural integrity in the face of unbelieving ridicule That said, even E=MC squared is only a pixel in the cosmic landscape. It is the thoughts of ‘God’ which are the sub atomic particles transforming to waves, once observed by the individual which flow through mirrors of ‘neural pathways’ in all dimensions.
This is me sober, just on Alta Rica coffee in the afternoon, listening to The Stargazers Assistant, Mirrors and Tides, Shivers and Voids on headphones. With a crunchy red apple, just before a colossal rain storm. And a day later with Popol Vuh’s beauty on speakers, trying hard to avoid the crushing aboulia which is now constantly at the door of the heart. Dopamine circuits malfunctioning. When my respect for someone ends, they are Done, never been afraid to cull dead weight and now…it has come round to me. Like best friends, I have given myself many extra undeserved chances but now as Leonard said ‘the evidence accumulates’ and has become overwhelming…Need to do a couple more decent things with a new Will once the overlong and criminal process of inheritance tax is over months from now and then let go.
A lady up my road lost her husband last month to rapid onset dementia; I had met him some weeks before and had a fine thirty-minute conversation on many topics. He had been a gunner in bombers in the second world war and adored music, but during his last two weeks when his wife brought him tapes to the hospital of Mozart et al, he ordered her ‘Turn that noise off’. I had always thought that however ill I would get in the future, as long as I could hear music, there would be still be joy in life. Never occurred to me how the brain can change its mind so definitively about what was Loved.
Shivered.
‘I dream of a government that resembles jury service’. Jaz. Damn right. People who want to serve and improve/evolve society. A group only in temporary power for a fixed length of time before being replaced by similar albeit individual minds. Not years of lying greedy scumbags changing laws to suit their needs and handing out contracts to their mates before checking they can actually deliver. The flaws in this idea remain large and revolve around finding humans who are actually steadfast but flexible, rationally intuitive, good hearted without being wishy washy and strong enough to remain incorruptible by vested interests. Hmm, seems verrry likely. So, just allow nuclear war by arseholes or AI to breed humans the right way. A Matrix Terminator future. Or?
Happy springtime rising into summer, stay healthy, be free, realise in glimpses.
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David Tennant at the 2023 BAFTA TV Ceremony
for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)
#david tennant#tennant tuesday#bafta#bafta 2023#joshua kane suit#this is an excellent look#dt wearing joshua kane is a match made in heaven#love that jacket detail#wish we could have seen more of the vest#it is a crime that this man has no baftas#other than his welsh and scottish ones#(which are awesome)#stuff i posted#of course this post had to be made
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crawling into your inbox, exhausted. a shell of a person. genuinely thank you for your addition to the british food poll that has tortured my last 24 hours 💛
agh I'm sorry it's been so stressful for you.
The number of Americans going "nothing on this list is British, the very first option is Welsh!" made me want to scream (whatever criticisms you have of like...the structure of Britain/the UK, acting like Britain is synonymous with England while it DOES currently include other countries is just making the problem WORSE by erasing the non-English countries that are part of Britain. "That's UK food, not British food" makes no sense unless the food in question is from Northern Ireland. Then again this is the site where people regularly talk about David Tennant "using a British accent instead of his natural Scottish one" like...a Scottish accent IS British...)
I can sympathise if it's like. A Scottish or Welsh person who is annoyed because they want independence and so personally don't really see themself as British (even though they officially are, I'm not going to pick a fight with them about it because I understand their point of view)? But a random American who clearly just doesn't know the difference between England, Britain and the UK really doesn't get to argue.
(I suppose technically historically speaking Scotland and Wales are even more qualified to be called "British" than England--Britons vs Anglo-Saxons--though of course in modern terminology "Britain" means "the kingdom that is unfortunately heavily dominated by England and that many people in Scotland and Wales understandably want out of".)
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It’s very different in other places where they’re are heat… And I’m lucky because I am on the red ellipse as well now I am I’m very lucky I am I’m an auspicious little lucky bundle of miraculous survivor for sure that’s what God wants for me that’s what the queen of England wants for me that’s what my grandmother wants for me why? Oh I don’t know I mean I’m not necessarily that goddamn special I’m just a kid who tries to do the right thing at the right time
I’m not gonna listen anyway I appreciate it that thing but I was like you already know that like you’re on puppet strings to and I’m gonna do what I’m gonna do and I’ll help you out but I already know that there’s nasty energy here and I already know that it’s enough to make me wanna kill an entire family of thieves
I will not let my daughters and sons or anybody that items associated with be raised in this country… If those people in the consumerist middle class had given a goddamn they would have been more intelligent and they would have already raised their children in another nation rather than trying to steal from human trafficking victims because it would be real cheap and Asian and such an easy easy easy find sure nobody with heat or money is watching
But I’m also sure that the police have something special in mind for you and your inbred tribes… Or tribe I’m not sure do you have one wife or more are you one of those breeder types? Well anyway they know more than I do and I’m pretty sure that probably your daughter wants to have sex with my daddy with his big long Wang is that what they said Wang or something like that huh well I don’t I don’t agree it’s it’s such a cheapening kind of of of of art of love of depth trail socially culturally a lot of people in Germany are kind of giggling because you guys are small minded redneck fools and I guess probably Scottish and welsh stock
Yeah it’s a little gross it makes me feel a little sad but I’m just like well you know how can I be sad if I just already know that it’s a lie in the first place I already like I’m looking at that guy and I’m like OK you know what they sucked up my Quesarito Enrique glass yes is wearing that hat and while he is famous and rich that’s still happening I’m sure that they just sucked that up with a green straw of course they did but they wouldn’t so don’t worry and David you know I know that you already ate some nasty food just be grateful you know I’m so done with you I hate your guts eat shit and die
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Your “other partner.” Right. Okay, Michael. Thank you SO much for clearing that up...
#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#the white curl project#sweet jesus take the wheel#david is lowkey bi and michael is highkey bi#no way he doesn't know exactly what he is doing#tell me again that they're not a couple#JUST CALL HIM YOUR BOYFRIEND ALREADY MICHAEL#i feel like we're inching closer to that anyway#i can't with this man#Michael ships himself with David more than anyone else ever could#from 'the other one' to 'my other partner'#oh Michael#let me live please#i will probably reblog this and add more later when i am coherent#ineffable lovers#gif by me
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12th August 1332 saw the Battle of Dupplin Moor when Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
As battles go this was a disaster for the Scots fighting on behalf King David II, who was a child at the time. So what went wrong?
Looking at the figures Balliol’s army that included the disinherited and mercenaries from England and Wales, who really should have had no chance.
The numbers involved, as usual vary, some say there were about 5,000 Scots, but it is generally said that at least 15,000 were fighting for the Scottish King, son of Robert the Bruce, other sources put the number at up to 40,000. The usurper’s army has been put at around just 1500, they were outnumbered by 10 to 1.
After a skirmish at Kinghorn, where they landed, the Disinherited soon marched for Perth, to engage the smaller of two armies that were being mustered against them. A few miles to the south west of the town, on Dupplin Moor, a heavily outnumbered, mainly English force, destroyed the far larger Scottish army, using tactics that would make English armies a dominant force in Europe for the next hundred years. Edward III of England was using this as more or less a testing ground for his new highly disciplined bowmen that he “lent” Balliol.
The Scottish army under the experienced regent Donald of Mar was split into two divisions, most of whom were carrying the traditional Scottish long spear. The English adopted tactics they would put to good use in the decades after, , where the men-at-arms all dismounted and formed into lines to protect the ranks of Welsh mercenary longbowmen, on loan from Edward III.
Since the Scots had the advantage of numbers and naturally wished to drive the invading force from Scottish soil, they attacked and charged Balliol's lines with the Highland charge, however they failed to break through and were pressed back; thus exposed on the field of battle they became targets for the longbowmen and the Scots were hit by the volleys of arrows sent in their direction.
The second Scottish division was then ordered to attack and split into two columns and tried to outflank Balliol's force. This second charge got nowhere near Balliol's lines as they too were cut down by the volleys of arrows sent in their direction.
Once the second charge had failed the Scots fell back in disarray, their retreat being hampered as they stumbled amongst the casualties already lying on the ground, making themselves even easier targets for the enemy longbows. The battle turned into a rout and according to one account the Scottish dead were said to he piled fifteen feet high whilst the English men-at-arms patiently waded through the battlefield finishing off any Scot that showed any signs of life.
By the end of the battle the Scottish dead included the earl of Mar himself, the earl of Menteith and the earl of Moray, the High Chamberlain Alexander Fraser, eighteen other Scottish barons and at least 2,000 soldiers from the Scottish army. (Although estimates of the Scottish dead vary wildly and as high as ten or thirteen thousand in some cases.)
You know I like to delve into the chroniclers of the day, as close as we get to a newspaper in medieval times, and if you follow my posts you will also know that, much like today they were biased in there reports. The main English chronicle of the day was written by the Franciscan monks at Lanecrost.
Priory of Lanercostewas in northern English, in what is now Cumberland, it covers the history during the years 1201 to 1346. Not surprisingly the Monks were Pro-English, probably what we would call a headline nowadays the Monks reported that in Perthshire at the battle "A most marvellous thing happened that day..." The chronicler's definition of 'marvellous' might not be everyone's, as he was enthusing over the great piles of dead soldiers that lay on the field of Dupplin Moor - "the pile of dead rising up from the ground was more than a spear's length in height", drooled the chronicler, clearly experiencing a tight little thrill of ecstasy at the thought.
Another chronicler and historian John Capgrave wrote an account almost 200 years that would have been drawn from the more contemporary Lanecrost accounts and describes the carnage at Dupplin thus;
In this battle...more were slain by the Scots themselves than by the English. For rushing forward on each other, each crushed his neighbour, and for every one fallen there fell a second, and then a third fell, and those who were behind pressing forward and hastening to the fight, the whole army became a heap of the slain.
The true casualty figures will likely never be known, but it seems clear that the Scots casualties were in the thousands, while the Disinherited lost two knights and 33 squires. It was one of the worst defeats suffered by the Scots on home soil. Scottish casualties were divided between the large number that were killed in the main body of the fighting and those who were able to retreat and start to escape the battle.
Edward Balliol would eventually be sent scampering back to England, I have covered him in other posts throughout the year.
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Hi I saw a post of yours that was screen shot and shared one Facebook about how English language and grammar was made hard dilibratly could you tell me more about this or the where I should look for a source or reffences I can't include a link but I posted it on this page and I don't use tumbler really at all so it will remain at the top for years
The textbook for the History of the English Language course at university that opened my eyes to this was The Stories of English by David Crystal. Posts like the one you saw on Facebook are located on my former grammar nut lis tag. The other book that I hear covers this well is Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English by Tim William Machan, but it's apparently a bit dry and academic.
The change in English grammar and spelling I was talking about happened in the last five hundred years. Before that, there wasn't really "correct" or "incorrect" English. Some spellings, dialects, and accents were more prestigious or common or more widely understood than others, but there wasn't an objective standard. People spelled words however sounded good to them, and English had a lot of dialects with different vocabularies and grammar.
From 1500 to 1800, people tried to fix, reform, and standardize English, because obviously the language that ordinary common people speak is too degraded and inferior for the educated upper classes. It had to be "improved" to make it more like Latin.
To back up a bit: Language has been a class marker in England for nearly a thousand years. Old English, the language used in 1066, was a Germanic language, and Latin was only the language of the educated clergy. Then England was invaded by French-speakers who became its ruling class. French is descended from Latin; for several centuries English commoners spoke their Germanic language, and English nobles and churchmen spoke Latin or French. But as the centuries went by, Old English adapted significantly until it was a Germanic-Latinate hybrid. (Here's a resource on how we can still see the effects of that history today)
So in English, Latin has almost always been seen as more prestigious, associated with the rich, the educated, and the powerful. Making English more like Latin inherently meant making it less like the ordinary language spoken by commoners, and more educated and exclusive. And from 1300-1500, English nobles increasingly spoke English as a mother tongue and used it to talk and write to each other.
People who wrote grammars and dictionaries from 1500-1800 didn't survey a wide variety of English speakers and see what was the most common usage, or the most commonly understood, or easiest to learn. Instead they decided which suited their ideas of an elegant language more like Latin, and which were used among the educated elite. They developed a variety of English that required years of careful education to learn; without those years, someone can speak perfectly fluent English, but their language will be full of little tip-offs that they aren't "educated" or "well-brought-up." If I say "I didn't never do it" everyone knows exactly what I mean, but also that I'm breaking the rules.
Discriminating against language variants became a really easy way to prevent people from "rising above their station". Hell, in Britain, minute differences in how people pronounce their words or shape their sentences can still get them discriminated against as "low-class" and "uneducated." On the other hand, linguistic diversity has been a source of pride and resistance over the centuries—many languages like Irish, Welsh, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic have survived official government efforts to completely snuff them out, and are actively making a comeback.
Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, when Americans did away with the traditional aristocracy and theoretically anyone of any origin could rise to the top, the rhetoric changed from what was privileged and elite to what was just... "correct" English. Some communities preserved nonstandard dialects, particularly Appalachia, but in many other regions and countries across the globe English was a foreign language they learned about from textbooks and members of the colonial elite. In those circumstances it was often very easy for authorities to call things "incorrect English" as though "language that doesn't obey artificial rules marking prestige" is the same thing as "language English speakers won't understand".
Things have started to change since the mid-20th century. There's more visibility and acceptance of nonstandard dialects and English creoles. Now dictionaries recognize that their job is not to dictate what words should mean, but reflect the language as it is used.
No idea when the fuck we'll get English spelling fixed, though. Every new suggestion seems worse than the last. People will claim that no other language has spelling bees, but I know that French dictées can be just as hellish, as can Chinese dictation exercises. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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