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You may not think it, but I took yous up that mountain for good fucking reason.

SAS Rogue Heroes - Season 2 Episode 2

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I feel sure that at some point the boys must have stolen one of these hats & pranced around wearing it

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This is unnecessarily long, but: I was just thinking about Wickham's predation on fifteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy and then, almost exactly a year later, Wickham's predation on sixteen-year-old Lydia Bennet.

There are obvious parallels between the two incidents. In fact, they're so obvious that I think the incidents are sometimes treated as equivalent, with the consequences only differing by happenstance. I don't think that's true, personally.

There are some mechanistic sort of differences—Wickham put a lot more effort and planning into the Georgiana situation. He wanted to marry her for her money and to make her brother suffer. She had to be isolated from people who would look out for her interests, he had Mrs Younge in place, he had known Georgiana as a child and was able to exploit his own previous kindness to her as her father's godson, etc.

And Georgiana, despite all of this, and despite being swept away by a teenage infatuation with an extremely attractive man, was still uncomfortable with it. She was worried about disappointing a brother who raised her and whom she deeply loves and admires. When her brother actually showed up by surprise, she decided to tell him everything; Darcy takes pains to give her credit for this. Adaptations generally downplay Georgiana's active decision-making here, but the only element of chance is Darcy deciding to go to Ramsgate at all. He insists that he was only able to act because Georgiana chose to tell him what was going on.

This isn't meant to be an indictment of Lydia, though. Does she admire the parents who raised her? No. But why would she? Especially why would she admire a father who treats her mother and sisters and herself with profound contempt and no sense of responsibility? Why would she ever confide in him?

It's not like Lydia doesn't confide in anyone. In fact, she too confides in an older sibling, her sister Kitty. And in one sense, her trust in Kitty is not undeserved. Kitty does keep the secret. Presumably, she does this because, despite her occasional annoyance with Lydia, she is very much under her influence and goes along with whatever Lydia does. Regardless, she is trustworthy in that sense. Moreover, we see at the end of the book that Kitty is easily improved by being placed in better environments and taught how to behave. She just didn't know better.

How was she going to judge Lydia's situation correctly? Who was teaching her to judge anything correctly? Certainly not their parents.

If Mr Bennet had bothered to interest himself in his younger daughters and try and influence them for the better, impressionable Kitty is probably the one who would have benefited the most. The whole Lydia/Wickham thing would have fallen apart before it went anywhere if all the girls had been been properly raised, even if Lydia did exactly the same things.

And Lydia likely wouldn't do the same things if she'd been brought up properly and, you know, treated with a baseline of respect rather than being openly mocked by her father, the person most able to affect her development. Instead, at barely sixteen, she's been continually rejected by her father, over-indulged by her mother, and flattered by adult men (28-y-o Darcy says he and Wickham are nearly the same age). And she still tells someone what's going on, even though she doesn't care about her parents' opinions or the consequences of her actions. And she was under the protection of a colonel and his wife at the time, who also could have told someone or acted, and didn't.

It's not that nobody could have done anything about the Lydia/Wickham situation. It's that nobody did until Darcy found out and tried to extract her. But it was, in one sense, too late. To Lydia, he's just some unfun acquaintance who says boring things like "go home to your family and I'll do what I can to cover for you." That is, he tries to do what he did for Georgiana.

But Lydia is not Georgiana—she did not choose to tell him about any of this. She did not want to be extracted because she didn't know and couldn't be quickly made to understand what marriage to Wickham would mean in the long term. And she didn't care what her family thought because she had no reason to, pragmatically or psychologically.

Georgiana, otoh, did care about her family's welfare and the good opinion and affection of the head of her family. But despite their radical differences in personality, the most fundamental difference between the girls IMO is that Georgiana had every reason to believe that disappointing Darcy and losing his respect would be a change from the norm.

Normally he is affectionate and attentive towards her. They write each other long letters, he defends her to other family members, and praises her frequently. Georgiana, quiet and intimidated though she may be, talks more when he's around. Disappointing him had actual stakes for her.

Put another way, the potential loss of his good opinion mattered to her because he's gone to the trouble of raising her as well as he can and forming a good relationship with her. She chose to tell Darcy the whole thing because he had earned her affection and trust in a way that Mr Bennet has utterly failed to do. Even Darcy happening to visit Georgiana at Ramsgate comes from his affection and attention to Georgiana's welfare, even if he couldn't have known what would follow from checking on his sister at that particular moment.

Chance is always part of life, and it's part of the novel and these situations. But a lot of how these scenarios wound out was not determined by chance but by long-existing patterns in these girls' educations and relationships.

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Why does Johnny speak Italian in series 1 & then nothing in series 2? WHY??

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3/4 Way through SAS Forged in Hell & this ...😭

ME: Nnnnooooooooooooooooooooo

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Historic blue plaque honours achievements of Ralph Alger Bagnold

A new blue plaque has been unveiled today in honour of Ralph Alger Bagnold OBE FRS KL (1896-1990), a Plymouth-born man who became a scientist, explorer and soldier and whose ground breaking research into sand dunes has been recognised by NASA.

Bagnold was born on 3 April 1896. During the First World War he was an engineer in the British Army. He then served in the Second World War as the first commanding officer of the ‘Long Range Desert Group’. The unit carried out dangerous reconnaissance work and raids behind enemy lines in North Africa and is considered to be a forerunner of the SAS.

Historic blue plaque honours achievements of Ralph Alger Bagnold | The Box Plymouth

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THEO BARKLEM BIGGS as REG SEEKINGS SAS ROGUE HEROES 1.02

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Just to let yall know that in the sas book the description of Bill fraser is "aloof, probably homosexual, unknowable, unstoppable." I just needed to share that.

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its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

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by Паб Линца

commission for me :3

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SAS ROGUE HEROES FANART: EOIN MCGONIGAL

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i’ve finished rewatching the second season so now i want to understand how to draw dave

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The Italian partisan woman known as 'Noris' is seated bottom centre, surrounded by members of the SAS, sometime in 1945. Sadly you can't see her dark hair & blue eyes very clearly in the black & white photo. But I am maintaining my view that Alessia's casting is a little history easter egg.

Ben Macintyre quotes Roy Farran (2 SAS), p283: "a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes, as brave and dangerous as a tigress and completely devoted to the British company"

She's so precious💕

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Some time ago I made a post asking artists to do Bill Fraser and Withers fanart as Tintin and Snowy. Well, with @rosemaryandbrine's help, I put my money where my mouth was and commissioned @peatbogpirate to do just that. This is the incredible result.

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@theboyfromcork - saw your tag about David's letter to Paddy, here's what I've got. Would gladly take other eyes. A few words were blurry in the best screencap I could get, so it was difficult on top of the handwriting.

Dearest Paddy, It has brought me joy to hear of your success in helping to [something] this new stage of war, although of course there is a frustration in me at the fact that I am not with you all as you walk forward. I must say, imprisonment is a peculiar experience. There is no freedom, yet to some extent there is. I have encountered a familiar face or two, who help the days move faster, but [cut off] say nothing [something] to the [something - ?commander?].

then the second bit about Eve

You may be aware of a woman [cut off] Cairo, I became well acquainted with [cut off] the least. Her name is Eve Mansour. [cut off] journalist. I suspect she may perhaps [cut off] somewhere nearby to where you

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She's so precious💕

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Laughing, Riley approached another makeshift stall.

‘How about this?’ he asked donning an old Calabrian style hat, it’s pointed top adorned with long ribbons that had become tattered and miscoloured with age.

‘No, no!’  Alessia laughed and shook her head, though she could tell from his grin that he wasn’t being serious.

He pulled the hat down into a jaunty angle.

‘I do look Italian.’

‘Rompiscatole!’