20th Century - Blog Posts
People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".
Bender and Andrew in The Breakfast Club (1985)
1945: The village of Uskut, Crimea after Stalin's deportation of the entire native population of the Crimean Tatars from the 18th-20th of May 1944.
russian colonisers had yet to move into the houses.
Noble Doctor aesthetics
"And now for something completely different!"
I decided to do something different and post a pic of one of my OTHER major crushes: Eyes!
Started 2-1-21 (World) 1/2/2021 (US)
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I recently watched two Peter Alexander movies and I felt the need to make myself a lockscreen and edits! :)
For those who don’t know: Peter Alexander is a legendary Austrian actor/singer/entertainer, who was very famous in the german-speaking world from the 1950s throughout the 1980s!
Wallpaper aesthetics for the German TV series Netflix about the famous German hospital „Charité“ and it’s prominent doctors, like Emil Behring, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich in Season One. In Season Two we follow the Sauerbruchs and Adolphe Jung. And the newly released Season Three shows Otto Prokop and Ingeborg Rapoport.
The Series is a mixture of actual historical personalities/ events and tied in fictional characters. And it’s available on Netflix!
the french republics summarized
First Republic: hundreds of angry lawyers with divergent political opinions stuck in the same room (it makes for amazing entertainment)
Second Republic: "President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte"? Sounds perfectly safe to me!
Third Republic: WE FUCKING HATE THE GERMANS 😡
Fourth Republic:
Fifth Republic: Ah, finally a republic that is actually stable! ...wait a minute-
Finished Alien: Isolation today, so in honor of that, here’s some related memes
I still can’t get over that’s it’s actually the end. God I love that game.
Cops or Wake Up and Smell the Flowers (L'Uomo Vogue, May/June 1997)
Bruce Weber (b. 1946)
East Timor: Displaced East Timorese Children Take Refuge in a Camp in Dili Protected by Australian Troops (September 1999)
Mike Goldwater (b. 1951)
Not just for a rhyme...it's historical context time!
So it's obvious that with the phrase "here's the sugar on the cream" alastor means to say that "here's the best bit" but why use that phrase exactly?
Well fun fact about desserts of the past: they were far less sweet. Now that may seem obvious everything is really sugared up now, but sometimes there would not be sugar cooked or baked into the dish but added afterwards as a topping, particularly with puddings.
A lot of puddings at the time were much more savory and very starchy. Before the invention of gelatin you needed all that starchiness to create that firm pudding texture, especially if you didn't have eggs (if you did it would be a custard, not a pudding), so sugar was added later as a topping, usually with pure cream to make sure you could distribute the sugar evenly. Even though jello was a thing in the 1920s, this was still a very common practice for making puddings, so much so that the tapioca pudding on Ellis island given to immigrants if they stayed overnight was served this way through the mid twenties. So sugar on the cream is literally a historical example talking about the part of something that makes it "the best" even if its not a common turn of phrase. Its not just a substitute to "here's the icing on the cake" or "here's the cherry on top" to make it rhyme with team. Its an actual old fashioned idea relevant to alastor's childhood. Dude probably ate a lot of puddings served this way growing up until gelatin became popular for puddings.
Ok I've had enough of this "Alastor doesn't know about gay stuff" I keep seeing around. As a history nerd I honestly can't take it anymore.
Kiddos it's time to learn you a few things. First of all, compared to subsequent decades,
The 1920s were incredibly gay
Was it still illegal to perform homosexual acts, yes. Were gay people still abused and lost jobs for being gay, and were even socially excluded from cishet white society? Oh absolutely. Did most individuals have to stay closeted? Duh. But you know what wasn't a wide spread thing yet? The medicalization of homosexuality. Conversion therapy wasn't fully approved of by psychiatrists until the 40's. Crossdressing wasn't considered mental illness, scandalous, yes, but not mental illness. The haze codes were not implemented yet, and the combination of prohibition, the two decades prior of progressivism, and the horrors of world war one left the youngest generation with a rebellious spirit and a desire for breaking the law. And if you lived in a big city, being LGBT in the twenties was often better than being LGBT in the 30s, 40s, or even 50s.
Young rich kids would seek out queer cruising spots in cities as a form of tourism. Harlem was famous for it's yearly drag balls, and many of the most famous black artists at the time were infact lgbt. Broadway and Hollywood were full of individuals who people knew were not entirely straight. Hell, jazz was born in red light districts home to black queer people. In places like New York there were people famous for being openly gay and despite sodomy laws police would not care in the slightest about them.
And though the South was as fucked as it ever was with Jim Crow Laws and the race riots, New Orleans has always been one of the more progressive cities in the South and has always had a very large gay community. Between the inherit campiness and debauchery of Mardi gras to being the birth place of jazz, to new Orleans being the easiest place to get away with breaking prohibition laws in the south, Alastor as a mixed race black radio host playing jazz in New Orleans in the 20s ABSOLUTELY is familiar with the LGBT community of the time.
The thing is, the language used by the community at the time was so fundamentally different that alastor would not know what you are talking about if you spoke to him about modern LGBT issues. The pride flag did not even exist yet. Gay still meant happy to him in his age. "Bisexual" at the time was more akin to the term "trans" than being attracted to multiple genders, and transgender didn't exist yet as a word. But if you called yourself "a confirmed bachelor" he would understand you were a man who liked men. If you called yourself a "fairy" he would know you weren't cis. If you were a woman and told him you liked sapho or Peter pan, he'd know you liked women. And if you were wearing lavender, or a green carnation, a red bowtie, a violet (if you were a woman), or were a man with a peacock feather in your ensemble he would give you a knowing nod. He's not ignorant of the lgbtq. He's a man out of his time. He speaks a different language entirely to modern gay slang, so it seem he doesn't know anything about it. But he does. Gay and trans people have always been a thing and as a radio host, literally being on the forefront of mass media at it's beginnings, in arguably the best decade to be gay in the 20th century before the 60s, in a city so comfortable with what was considered debauchery that it gave birth to "devil music" and embraced it before anyone else, yes he knows what they are. He just doesn't have the modern language to express it.
Sisterhood
the process
fuck off, I eat it
We are moving to a very charismatic family: The giraffes. I had a little trouble trying to identify the species and subspecies of this family because has been changing throughout the years. It was thought to be one single species with nine subspecies. Today, different taxonomic divisions are recognized but probably the most accepted are four species, eight subspecies, and one ecotype (which I will explain in the future) So let's begin!
Reticulated Giraffe It is a single species with no subspecies. Along with the Rothschild's giraffe, those two are the most common giraffes in zoos and are probably the ones you have seen.
Its coat might be the easiest to recognize because its patches are very distinctive from other giraffes (sharp-edged, reddish-brown polygonal patches divided by a network of thin white lines).
Its particular shape has evolved in order to be able to eat the tallest branches of the trees avoiding all kinds of competence. Once an adult, the chances of being hunted by predators diminishes dramatically, making it a very successful animal.
It is facing a dramatical decrease in population due is the target for hunting for different purposes. Not just for trophy hunting but also various body parts are used for different things: Meat for food, the hairs of the tail served as bracelets, necklaces, threads, etc. Shields, sandals, and drums were made using the skin, and the strings of musical instruments were from the tendons, etc. Many organizations are taking care of this animal in Africa and all over the world. It will be a total shame to lose an animal like this one. Store Instagram ______________________________________________ References: Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals giraffe conservation maryland zoo Reticulated Giraffe _______________________________________________
Thank you guys for your support. I'm gonna mix things up a little in order not to bore you with one whole family of mammals at once. So next week, a whole new species that I think you gonna like.
Please like, reblog, or comment if you like the content. Cheers.
An illustrated poster with all the rhinos of the world. Is the most complete compilation because includes all the subspecies, even the ones that are extinct.
It took time to search, compile and corroborate information. Some of the extinct subspecies' quality photographs weren't good and some others didn't even have, so I had to base them on written descriptions.
Moreover, illustrating a rhino is not easy. Is a meticulous job. A rhino has a lot of textures that take time to do if you want to make it believable (an average of 10 hours per rhino). it drained me and I found myself exhausted at the end. But worthed it. I love animals, I love rhinos and I love to study them and share what I learned.
If you are interested in purchasing this poster, click on the link below: Store
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A Városmajori Jézus szíve plébániatemplom épületegyüttese. A modern részek tervezője ugyanúgy Árkay Aladár, csak a kettő között eltelt 10 év.
I couldn't restrain myself of drawing the whole Church complex of Városmajor, Budapest. Both the old and the modern part were designed by the same architect, Aladár Árkay, but with 10 years difference.
A Városmajori Régi Templom, amit Árkay Aladár tervei alapján építettek 1923-ban.
This is the old church in Városmajor, Budapest. It was built by one of my favourite architects, Aladár Árkay in 1923.