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Matthew 25:40

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Labyrinth (1986) dir. Jim Henson

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HAYDEN PANETTIERE as KIRBY REED

in SCREAM 4 (2011) dir. Wes Craven

requested by @octoberbrunette

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i fucking hate dragon age

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | ▶ dev. Sandfall Interactive

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Butterfly brooch, 1898.

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all of them. right mouse button->open image to see original size

my babies ahhh ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

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ELEMENTARY | 1.02 - While You Were Sleeping You want a thank you? Fine. Thank you.

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"If she was contemporary to Tamenobu, whose dates are 1550 to 1607, we can assume that she lived during the late Muromachi to Azuchi-Momoyama transition. She’s called Fujishiro-gozen– Lady Fujishiro– after her estate, the Fujishiro-tate, which shared its name with Fujishiro village, where it was located. The village is long gone, having been merged into Hirosaki City in the 1950s, but traces of its name remain in the local community center run by the city. And if we assume that Fujishiro-tate was in this area, that puts it about a kilometer from Hirosaki Castle’s west moat, on the opposite side of the Iwaki River.

Now, we can’t be thinking of her in the framing of a daimyo. We have to think further back. This isn’t the Edo period, after all, but just before it– before the era of the fancy castles you probably think of when you hear the word “daimyo.” Lady Fujishiro was an inheritor of the Muromachi system that gave her family the modest measure of local power it possessed. The Muromachi system, in turn, was a development of the earlier Kamakura system.

Jitō. We need to be thinking of jitō in order to get a proper sense of her level of local power.

Jitō are the land stewards of the Kamakura era. They’re the small landholders that were part of how the Kamakura shogunate distributed rewards to its loyal retainers. This is also how some of the families that grew into the later daimyo houses of the late Muromachi and Edo eras first came to their starting level of local power. These aren’t people who would’ve had castles in the fancy Edo period sense, these are people who would’ve lived very close to the land, might’ve actually taken part in farming it themselves, and didn’t measure their incomes in koku but in units like kan instead. This is where some locally influential families like that of Lady Fujishiro originated.

The other thing to note here is that women could be jitō. It was only through the end of the 16th century that women could be daimyo, and only occasionally, and only if there were no men to head their families.

So with that understood, she’d have been a minor landholder, and would’ve been in command of a handful of retainers at best, when she stood up against Tamenobu. The claim is that Tamenobu wanted her as a mistress, but she was heading up her own family and raising a child, and given that this was an era where as we mentioned before on the podcast, Nanbu control in this part of Aomori was slipping, she’d have likely been fiercely guarding her local autonomy. The local history on the topic, the Taisho era Aomoriken Nakatsugarugun Fujishiromura Kyōdoshi, edited by Nakamura Ryōnoshin, says that she shut herself up in Fujishiro-tate with her handful of retainers, and died in battle. It also claims that with her dying breath, she cursed Tamenobu and his descendants to the end of time."

Bakkalian Nyri A., "Lady Fujishiro"

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THE GILDED AGE (2022-) Costume Appreciation Gladys Russell in 3.04 - Marriage is a Gamble

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I need to let go, who am I scared for?

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1.13 elementary

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Technically JW is American……. So does he celebrate July 4th?

I don't know about John but Johnny would have a blast

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Evrard, a marble worker who was so devastated by the death of his wife, created this unique mausoleum in her honour. Erected in 1920. The mausoleum, features a mourner, extending an arm to a blank wall. Once a year, around summer solstice, sunlight in the shape of a heart is formed - a touching reminder of an unending love from well beyond the grave.

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Astarion Ancunin in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023).