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David Tennant as Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost - Part Four (for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2008)

Link to [ Part One ] [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ]

#the tennant situation #this is a role he was born to play #also he looks really good in elizabethan pumpkin pants

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One thing about writing historical fiction/rpf is that, especially if it's set reasonably far back in time, characterizing historical figures has a lot of the same energy as creating OCs. But you look like a complete tosser if you do the OC memes

#fic babble

jerreeeeeee

the best analogy imo for ocd is mosquito bite. its so itchy its driving you crazy and you know scratching it will make it itch so much worse later but you need it to stop right now and scratching it feels so good and even when you dont want to scratch it and you feel like you could handle the itch you cant even stop your hand from scratching the second you stop focusing on not scratching. except ☝️ what if it was inside your brain and instead of an itch it was terrifying overwhelming distress

#oh god

unhelpfultarot

Five of Pentacles and The Sun

You will soon experience a fairly drastic change in the weather.

#like to charge reblog to cast #it is hotter than lucifer's taint outside #and not the nice chilly dante version of him

billgibbarchive

Bill Gibb for Baccarat, Renaissance Pinafore Dress With Terracotta Shirt, ca. 1970.

Images from 1stdibs.com

#I WANT IT

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lesser-known-composers

Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) - Le Pré aux clercs: Jours de mon enfance ·

Sumi Jo · Anthony Marwood ·

English Chamber Orchestra · Richard Bonynge

#richard bonynge is a name of all time man

langernameohnebedeutung

it's so funny to read "and there was just one bed :O" fanfiction set in time periods where sharing a bed was entirely normal. Guys, just be glad it's only the two of you.

ineptshieldmaid

Hmm.

Proposition: There’s only the two of us in this bed (which makes it uncomfortably intimate). We’re usually three abed with Snoring Steve the footman between us. We kind of expected to bunk down before the fire or in a hayloft, but our mysteriously gracious host has given us a room, and this bed, and there’s only two of us in this bed.

#personally i prefer exploiting the normalization of bed-sharing for the purpose of gay shenanigans

detroitlib

From our stacks: Illustration from Songs of the Birds By Walter Garstang. With Illustrations by J. A. Shepherd. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1923.

#tits or gtfo #what are birds we just don't know

harvardfineartslib

For World Elephant Day.

This is a facsimile version of “Libro de la utilidad de los animals” (The Book of the Usefulness of Animals: (Kitāb manāfi' al-hayawān). It is an illustrated Arabic bestiary crafted in 1354, probably in Syria. Each animal is introduced by a description of its characteristic features, habits, and reactions in various situations. Then follows an account of the different anatomical parts of the animal and their curative effects on humans. (From Facsimile Finder)

World Elephant Day was created to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants and to help conserve and protect elephants from the numerous threats they face.

#hey we have this same facsimile in my workplace #i should use this as the display page more often

lostinhistory

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

#i am already in a midwestern city so LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO #also sue is nonbinary so let's all make sure to get their pronouns right

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contemptible-scoundrel

my "suicidal hermit" lifestyle has been largely detrimental to my emotional wellbeing

#michelangelo #legit had this revelation in his later middle age #his emotional wellbeing continued to be all over the map but his living conditions and diet improved a lot

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

christopher nolan shakespeare would be like “our much ado has been about nothing”

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

“our twelfth night is coming to an end”

coldswarkids

"that love's labour sure did get lost"

curly-cottage-girl

“that midsummer night was a dream”

the-davest-of-uncles

"that to be wasn't"

shredsandpatches

"like doth quit like, and measure still for measure"

...oh. Never mind.

#i think all's well that ends well also has a title drop

kuutamosonaatti

Amadeus (1984) | dir. Miloš Forman

#getting to sing this live was so so great #like i normally don't get that hyped about the possibility of movie concerts #but this one was special #because the music is the story #and it's all about the magnificence of the music and #we're right there MAKING IT #(also amadeus got onto the schedule for last season because the chorus lobbied for it)#gave me a lot of emotions ngl #rock me amadeus #choir stuff

finderofsmallthings

Nobility in the late Middle Ages allergic to naming their sons anything other than Henry, Richard, and Edward 🙄

#yeah but if you don't then you get overrun with thomases very quicklt #quickly #i'm not retyping all that

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

what did you call your friends’ parents or other non-relative adults growing up?

first names

mr/mrs/ms/dr [lastname]

mr/mrs/ms/dr [firstname]

mr/mrs/ms/dr [friend’s name]

ma’am/sir

familial honorific (auntie, uncle)

other

Voting ended onAug 12

please tag with your region/country and age (?) if you think that’s relevant! and of course translate these into your native language if not an English speaker

#first names #i was educated (not raised) by hippies so at my school we first-named the teachers #i didn't have enough friends that i had to address their parents much #my sister-in-law otoh is horrified that my siblings and i use first names for aunts and uncles #i am from the us midwest and am a young gen xer

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tanadrin

i am reasonably certain a smart person could explain to ben franklin (a smart person and something of a polymath) the fundamental principles behind the operation of a smartphone down to a pretty precise level of detail, without too much trouble, except stopping to walk him through mathematical formalism and defining terms. maybe the biggest problem you'd encounter is the notion of a band gap and how it makes a transistor work--that's where you really have to make a big leap into the conceptual world of quantum physics, and either you'd have to black-box it or spend a long time explaining no really this is our best model for very small scale physics and it has enormous predictive power. one area he might get sidetracked on is initially conceiving of a multipurpose device as, in principle, a sort of aggregate of many smaller miniaturized devices: a radio and a library and a music player and a calculator etc all separately packed into one small machine. and this isn't a stupid intuition--on some level this intuition for imagining future technology persists in science fiction at least as late as the original Star Trek!--but it's also one that's easy to correct. i feel like ben franklin could understand the concept of general-purpose computation and symbolic manipulation: the popularization of this framework as a general approach to mathematics postdates him, but not by a lot.

the biggest hurdle honestly is probably just that at a certain point the rate of a device results in qualitatively different capabilities as you ascend the power-law curve. babbage could envision a general purpose computation device in the early 19th century, and the biggest conceptual leap from that to a cell phone is orders-of-magnitude improvement, but this gets you from "a way to speed up tedious by-hand computations for mathematics" to "a complete modern information-technology ecology," which is qualitatively fundamentally different. there are people who do grasp the Implications of that sort of thing intuitively (ray kurzweil predicting AI in the 2020s just based on increasing computational power) but there are a lot of smart people who have trouble with that sort of thing. and then of course "at a certain point of computing sophistication you can use statistical methods to train a machine on the whole corpus of human language and get a computer program that has enormous general-purpose capacities starting from nothing but blobs of random numbers" is also deeply counterintuitive. i still have trouble with it!

but i wonder how far back you can go and still find somebody smart you could Explain The Smartphone To. you would have to explain a lot more about the basic operation of electricity and magnetism to newton, hooke, and huygens; but they seem like they'd get there pretty quick. certainly newton would. and you don't have to delve into relativity here or anything that's really going to cause a philosophical headache: newton might be quite relieved that you can point to specific physical waves as your medium for electromagnetism, especially if you mention as an aside that that model works for gravity, too. i guess if you go back too far and you lose symbolic algebra--and concepts like "the square of the distance" become principally about geometry, and not a free-moving mathematical abstraction, you lose a major conceptual tool for the formalisms. and once you hit the 15th century you might lose inertia, momentum, and the idea that terrestrial and celestial matter all obey the same rules.

but where do you lose the idea of an ordered, mathematical universe in general, the idea that abstraction and empiricism, and the formulation of quantifiable natural laws (and not of natures and ends) is how you understand physics? is that a 17th century/enlightenment thing? are there individuals before that transition who would still get it, or how complete and limiting was that sort of Artistotlean worldview? this i don't know enough about the history of science to say.