#To Serve Them All My Days

[darkhorse-javert]

The sand(s) of time

@flashfictionfridayofficial

1938 Bamfylde, Devon

“‘How fast the sand of time doth flow’” Howarth's voice was an uneasy whisper in the room, weaker than he felt it should have been, of the common sense of the illness ignored.

Who's is that, Howarth?

“No-one's in particular PJ the frail once solid form said. “Clough might be just as apposite foe the present moment. He coughed a little to clear his throat, “Say not the struggle naught availeth, the Labour and wounds in vain.”

“Another war.” 

Howarth grunted, dropped into silence 

His sickness rose again at the thought. As if we hadn't turned France and Belgium red with blood, us and the Germans both. And all the boys, bright and curious and keen, sharp with loyalty and fervor which he remembered of those last bright days in the Valleys - before a promised University became khaki and trenches and shells. Now somehow, it seems to be coming round again, what we were determined to stop.

Christopherson, already gone, ghost unmarked. And there would be more to come, because Bamfylde and England had bred them like that, even he had in a way, building in them a strength of conviction and a challenge to the status quo.

“Not your fault PJ, not your fault.” Howarth said softly, “A good mind and an honest heart, you've given them that… from then a man must do as his conscience demands."

[no2ticonderoga]

I have read many books in my life. And some I read and loved as a young man have sadly lost their appeal as I've aged...sometimes my interests changed, other times I came to new understandings in life that left me feeling a bit cold towards them. (Looking at you, Tom Clancy).

But other books grow with you, and hit different as I come to new stages of my life. And my very favorite book is one such. It speaks to me in new and different ways as I grow, and my life changes. And so, today, as I've been returning to Bamfylde in North Devon, I am struck again how much I love this book. It just has so much to say to me.

[e-b-reads]

Not Your Classics Challenge

day 17: War and Peace

A book about existing in war time and peace time, in a very specific time and place. (Also chosen because, although the book itself isn't too long, it covers more years than the books I usually choose: it was a present from my mom.)

[kwebtv]

Frank Middlemass as Algy Herries and John Duttine as David Powlett-Jones in "To Serve Them All My Days"

[inkclover]

For how can one say no to a god? A little extra under the cut :3

What if, long ago...they were just kids once? And and what if maybe....they used to play together?

[bitchthefuck1]

Tom's line about Shiv being selfish and "find[ing] it very hard to think about me" is actually so telling because while it's absolutely true that she rarely takes his position into consideration, Tom never once thinks about what he can do to help Shiv unless it also benefits him.

Every single time he makes a move or sacrifice that might help her, it's always something that he thinks will give him a leg up. He volunteers to take the fall for cruises, not for Shiv, who is in no way implicated, or even for Waystar, but because he thinks it'll ingratiate him to Logan, and the second it seems like he might have to actually follow through on that, he immediately tries to get out of it and even throws Shiv under the bus. Meanwhile, for all that Shiv disregards his interests, there are a number of things she does that only help him, and she's the one who actually sacrifices something and undermines her position with Logan to beg him not to let Tom go to jail.

It just makes it so clear that no matter how much he might love her (and I think he does, in his own compromised way), for him their relationship was always built on the underlying assumption that it's her job to prop him up, but it's not his job to help her.

[blaintism]

@gleesource 500 followers celebration day 4: tina cohen chang + her pop rock playlist

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[stuckinapril]

I’m finally biting the bullet and contacting a therapist today after being ambivalent ab it for so long… this hellsite has its many disadvantages but one thing I can say is it has truly helped me be less scared of pursuing therapy. Silver lining etc etc

[vampirealpaca]

Drew my OCs from my book as which TMA fear entity I’d think they’d be aligned with/serve/etc

(click for better quality lol)

[angel-archivist]

It's so interesting and so exceedingly frustrating how agab is being utilized now within the queer community as a way to isolate and sort nonbinary and genderqueer folks into binary boxes that determine their moral purity levels, and their authority to do and write and exist.

The way nonbinary writers are being put under accusation of fetishizing gay men while their AGAB is continually brought up in a way that feels like queer-space-approved misgendering.

The way feminist circles that are supposedly trans-inclusive will use the word AFAB in a way that implicitly but intentionally isolates nonbinary people who aren't AFAB from joining. It's for women*.

The way the language is already flawed and leaves out intersex folks from the conversations while focusing on a binary of sex that isn't truthful.

The constant obsessing over whether someone is AFAB or AMAB and whether or not that gives them the privilege to join, do, write, or be present in certain spaces really really concerns me. How are we supposed to dismantle a binary system of gender if we can't even move past forcibly assigning and focusing on people's genders assigned at birth?

[vaggieslefteye]

HELL'S GREATEST DAD ↳ from Hazbin Hotel Season One (2024): 1x05 - "Dad Beat Dad"

[milkbreadtoast]

Feel so blessed... his drip never misses... Eundamie my fashion king🛐☺️🤍🩵

[ethmaron]

that one twitter meme

[kwebtv]

To Serve Them All My Days - BBC One - October 17, 1980 - Januiary 16, 1981

Drama (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

John Duttine as David Powlett-Jones

Frank Middlemass as Algy Herries

Alan MacNaughtan as Howarth

Patricia Lawrence as Ellie Herries

Neil Stacy as Carter

Susan Jameson as Christine Forster

Charles Kay as Alcock

Kim Braden as Julia

John Welsh as Cordwainer

Cyril Luckham as Sir Rufus Creighton

Simon Gipps-Kent as Chad Boyer

Belinda Lang as Beth

Nicholas Lyndhurst as Dobson

David King as Barnaby

Phillip Joseph as Emrys Powlett-Jones

Michael Turner as Brigadier Cooper

Norman Bird as Alderman Blunt

[avirxy]

beauty and beast au but Claire’s the one cursed because she’s the only one I can see literally pissing a sorceress off enough to get cursed. (If we’re going off the original movie Jim would probably offer them a hot meal and a room for the night, knowing him he’d make everything super accommodating)

[kang-yina]

I have a enemies to lovers-lovers to enemies toxic yuri story with mattel i guess