#The Cavaliers

[rifewithrifles]

Cavaliers - Machine stimboard

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[dciyaoi]

All of the original Midwest Combine and remaining founding members at 2024 DCI finals recreating the same photo from 1971

[myimaginaryradio]

Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers

[marvelousmiss-marvel]

Cavaliers costume change 😍😍

[boricuacherry-blog]

Fun fact: female r&b singer Tracie Spencer's father was a singer with his own group, The Cavaliers, who opened for Jackie Wilson. Her father is French Canadian and Panamanian and her mother is Creole and Indian.

[retroactivosigue]

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers - Last Kiss

[bugcowboyart]

Blades of the Cavalier Primaries Displayed for your Appreciation

In house order from top to bottom. I’d be happy to explain the choices if anyone is interested!

[artsyjaybird]

Hey mutuals! In the season of DCI Finals, I just made a goofy drum corps centric tumblr account! If you want to hear me blabber about my most beloved corps, music jargon, tune in to my journey in joining a corps, and hear me ramble about my marching show and personal journal, you can find me at @mello-guy!

[specialagentartemis]

Reading (listening to, as Homer intended) the Iliad making me go oh. Ohhh. I should have done this before I read Gideon the Ninth. I get it now.

Particularly thinking now about the tidbit that in early drafts, our beloved gray-eyed Necromancer Warden of the Sixth House was named Diomedes Sextus. For Diomedes, king of Argos, young, brave, noble, heroic. Favorite fighter of Athena, bestest friend of Odysseus. And, notably, fought gods and—well he didn’t win exactly. But he got them good.

And specifically, he fought and wounded Aphrodite; Aphrodite, who is also called Cytherea.

And then of course Tamsyn Muir said she decided to change his name so she could make the Sex Pal joke.

Palamedes is a less heroic, less fondly remembered character in the Trojan War, but according to Plato, he unrelatedly invented both number and the alphabet, so you keep that connection to scholarship even if that’s not the first association with him. More interestingly, imo, there’s also an Arthurian Knight of the Round Table named Palamedes, best known for his unrequited love for Isolde (and his apparent ultimately gracious acceptance of her choosing Tristan).

I think this is actually a super interesting shift in thematic naming focus: from favored-of-Athena, fought-gods-and-wounded-them to unrequited heterosexual love, but didn’t act like a dick about it.

Also y’know. Sex Pal

[illustratus]

[eikotheblue]

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having Complicated Feelings (concern, a small but nonzero amount of recognition of the self through the other, admiration, sexual desire,) about this one, lads

[rifewithrifles]

Cavaliers and Cadets stimboard (x) (x) (x) - (x) (x) - (x) (x) (x)

[dciyaoi]

DCI uniform sketches

[time-woods]

appleslices

[yagithegoat]

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel