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btw you should absolutely read stuff you don't agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren't contagious and reading words someone else has told you are "bad" won't infect you like a virus and make you "evil". read with your own brain.

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Sea or ocean. Painter: Lionel Walden.

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they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

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why does no one talk about kermit and miss piggy breaking up and kermit having a new girlfriend

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DASHCON TOMORROW???!

and I'm just sitting at home. forever alone TT_TT I'M SO JEALOUS OF EVERYONE WITH A TICKET!!!!

tumblr is gonna be so empty! don't forget about us out there!!!! we can't wait for all the cool stories!!

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Embrace your divine feminine energy by taking part in traditional women's hobbies & interests like experimenting with radioactive materials, developing mathematics, programming computers, piloting aircraft and practicing marksmanship.

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found this nefarious cube in my home. going to incinerate it out of an abundance of caution.

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from my books

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One of my last fanarts of @the-muppet-joker before dashcon..

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Why so serious?

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the world is a mess but at least we still have cunnilingus and spicy curry

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What time period do you think Prospero is from?

As it turns out we actually have quite a lot of details about Prospero's culture and period of life. More than I expected, considering just one full-fledged flashback (in case you're wondering why I spent so much time on this analysis). Long story short - I would say 1900-1910.

To talk in more detail, first I'll focus on what we know from the main timeline. As I mentioned earlier I'm of the opinion that the entire main cast hails from the 20th century. However there is a problem with Prospero: jabot is in his nevermore uniform. He calls it a cravat but like. it's clearly a jabot.

Unlike a cravat a jabot is a rather old–fashioned accessory which mostly disappeared from the men's wardrobe by the middle of the 19th century. Prospero may look like the most fashion conservative person but cmon not that much. Earlier someone pointed out to me that we don't necessarily have to judge students' lifetime based on their school uniforms (i mean women of the Lenore class didn't wear trousers in that era, Annabel clearly did not wear skirts above her knees during her lifetime and the origin of the bolo tie worn by Monty in the first season gives me a headache). I do not rule out that RnF designed academie uniforms based more on vibes than on the time period fashion.

For the last meal Prospero chooses cannoli and espresso. Espresso as a method of making coffee in a more or less traditional form was patented in 1884  (although the coffee machine version of that time was apparently very uh. rough draft i would say. most sources will tell you that espresso was popularized in the 1900). The term espresso itself is also found in various sources of the first decade of the 20th century.

Now I will study his flashback frame by frame and line by line.

The disease he talks about in the flashbacks is most likely tuberculosis. At least the symptoms of hemoptysis coincide. Besides tuberculosis was treated for a long time in sanatoriums, where as mentioned Prospero worked.

The tuberculosis vaccine was invented in 1921, but it became widespread much later. The first most effective antibiotic was found in 1944. Prospero however claims that there is no cure, so the flashback obviously takes place much earlier, probably even before the invention of the vaccine.

Before the invention of drug treatment, tuberculosis was treated, among other things, with surgical intervention: pneumothorax, pneumonolysis or even removal of a part of the lung. Do you know what tuberculosis surgery reminded me of? Prospero`s hallucinations.

but im just saying. we digress.

So we know that Prospero and his family are Sicilian immigrants. Apparently emigration from Italy to the United States was most active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and later Sicilian immigration was greatly hampered by WWI and the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924. According to Prospero`s cousin, many in their family did not attend school which corresponds to the low level of education among the Sicilian immigrants of the first wave: given the neglect and discrimination towards them, they simply did not trust the American education system and were not eager to adapt among people who despised them.

As for dago slur, it was used against people of italian/hispanic origin in 1900 (more or less).

Aaaand let's finish the same way we started – fashion. In his flashback Prospero is wearing a cape coat, possibly an Ulster but not necessarily. From what I've found capes for men's coats gradually went out of style during the Edwardian era.

The same goes for his tie. I have no idea if it has a specific name but the bottom line is that it's a relic of the Victorian, or at best the Edwardian era. In the 1920s the Langford tie was invented, the one that we know as a normal modern tie. It actually pushed older fancy neckwears from the market, including that kind of large bow ties over the collar.

Anyway yeah rip Prospero you would have loved BCG vaccine.

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🌼 feeling just toooooo inspired by these dandelions popping up EVERYWHERE lately...so I made this life cycle linocut!!! 🌼

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mean as fuck why is he doing that