#but...but...RICHARD IN A KILT

[lucien-calore]

Reasons why The North is the Westerosi equivalent of Scotland and not Russia:

[heracliteanfire]

Kenneth Sutherland, 3rd Lord Duffus. Richard Waitt, about 1712.

“Lord Duffus was a Scottish aristocrat who supported the Act of Union in 1707. However, during the 1715 Jacobite Rising he joined the rebels who wanted to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty. The Rising failed and Duffus’s estates were forfeited. He fled to the continent, but was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Released in 1717, he later served in the Russian Imperial Navy where he rose to the rank of admiral.” via the National Galleries of Scotland.

[richardxoliverxmayhew]

❝—Happy birthday, darling. The kilt is actually meant for me, to be worn for your viewing pleasure.❞

Birthday Greetings/Presents for Richard: ACCEPTING

II @vxctorx

With the blonde’s sweet greeting, and with the sight of the unexpected presents, Richard immediately lunged himself at the other and wrapped his arms around Vic, trapping the taller in the tightest bear hug. “Thank ye’, Vic. Ye’ really didn’t have to get me anythin’. I-... I love ‘em they’re--”

The Scotsman’s words came to a halt at the mention of the kilt. “Oh. Is tha’ righ’?” Suddenly, Richard broke the tight embrace, tucked the bottle of scotch and chocolates under one arm, before draping the kilt over Vic’s shoulder and playfully dragged him by the front of his collar towards the nearby bedroom.  “Tha’ does it. After both of us down this bo’le of scotch, yer’ wearin’ tha’ kilt for the rest of the nigh’. And ye’ cannae’ say no ‘cause it’s my birthday. Tha’s the rules I’m afraid,” he grinned. 

[scotianostra]

On September 8th 1930. 3M started production of their now world famous, Scotch tape.

No it’s not Scottish but it does have an amusing, if slightly insulting story behind it.

The brand name Scotch came about while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The body shop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, “Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!” The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes.

Indeed, the brand so embraced the notion of being cheapskates that until 1944 their mascot was one Scotty McTape, a kilted boy with an enthusiasm for tape.

It’s not the only instance of Scottish stinginess, I lived in France for wee while, and I recall a sign in some shop windows, I don’t recall exactly what the sign said, but to me it had obvious connection to Scotland, I asked my then Girlfriends brother, who had been living in France for some time, what it was for, he told me that it meant you would get a bargain in the said shops, as the Scottish connotation inferred we shopped there, and we were a canny lot!

Now we may have this reputation, but it is by no means justified, for instance did you know that us Scots are more likely than people from the rest of the UK to give to charity … in 2018, 12 percentage points higher than the UK average of 64 percent as a whole.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue April 15, 1968

Jules-François Crahay for Jeanne Lanvin Spring/Summer 1968 Haute Couture Collection. Twiggy wears the "College" ensemble, a long luxurious white organza weskit profusely embroidered with brass nail heads, wooden beads and chalk white sequins to shine against a raw silk shirt and a kilt flame in silk crepe. Lesage embroidery. Sparkling crepe. The shoes are by Charles Jourdan.

Jules-François Crahay pour Jeanne Lanvin Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1968. Twiggy porte l'ensemble "Collège", un long luxueux un weskit d'organza blanc abondamment brodé de têtes de clous en laiton, de perles en bois et de paillettes blanc craie pour briller sur une chemise en soie grège et une flamme de kilt en crêpe de soie. Broderie de Lesage. Crêpe pétillault. Les chaussures sont de Charles Jourdan.

Photo Richard Avedon

vogue archive

[ingravinoveritas]

With the announcement of David's casting in the titular role in the Donmar Warehouse's forthcoming production of Macbeth, it only seems fitting to talk about his ongoing pattern of making Shakespeare slutty and/or bisexual. We've seen it with Benedick, we've seen it with Hamlet, and we've seen it with Richard II...so, without much further ado (pun slightly intended), let's talk Thane...

[drluciengaudet]

Lucien had known Connor was fighting when he'd decided to stake his claim on the slave. Doubting the news had reached the Valkyrie he decided to deliver it himself having seen the outcome of the match. One he had a number of questions he'd get from the source. Being a councilman there was nothing stopping him as he made his way to the locker rooms and to where his newly claimed slave resided. Finding the lovely half dressed Valkry Lucien walked up in his overly done outfit. Usually he didn't wear such revealing items, but he was trying to get to Raphael and knew the ghoul's eyes drew to him far more in such outfits, which was proven. The two had exchanged gazes regularly throughout the fights and a few words. As much as he hated the Raphael he fed off his attention and as a councilman and a Gaudet he never did things half assed. He would always go the extra mile so when he got wind Raphael was coming in Spartan costume Lucien followed the theme and added his flare to both upstage and draw attention. It seemed to draw Connor's attention just as well as he stood before him in his outfit.

"Mr. Frayne. Rather a dismal attempt. I expected more from such a specimen." Lucien said as he approached his slave with a bag in hand that he did not hand to Connor but dropped and then kicked to the young man's feet expecting him to bend down to pick it up. "That is what you'll be wearing for the rest of this evening." And when the slave crouched to look in the bag Lucien stepped closer, his heels clicking with authority on the ground.

"You'll no longer need this." He said removing the slave's collar. "Give me your wrist." And placed the $700k Richard Mille RM 11 03 watch on it. "It was designed for the Le Mans, perhaps you've heard of it." He found such a race and theme fitting for the Valkyrie and a time piece as Lucien was a creature that expected timeliness from those he kept. He also expected Connor not to embarrass him.

"I expect you to change, Connor." Lucien said waiting for his slave to change into the kilt, collar, and leash he provided. He would be treated as the animal he was.

@fieryxconnor

[alexlacquemanne]

Avril MMXXIV

Films

La Course à l'échalote (1975) de Claude Zidi avec Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelsnitz, Amadeus August, Henri Déus, Luis Rego et Catherine Allégret

La Septième Cible (1984) de Claude Pinoteau avec Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Jean Poiret, Elizabeth Bourgine, Béatrice Agenin, Robert Hoffmann, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Roger Planchon et Francis Lemaire

Pierrot le Fou (1965) de Jean-Luc Godard avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Jimmy Karoubi, Roger Dutoit, Hans Meyer, Samuel Fuller et Raymond Devos

Downton Abbey II : Une nouvelle ère (Downton Abbey: A New Era) (2022) de Simon Curtis avec Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Nathalie Baye, Allen Leech et Tuppence Middleton

Orgueil et Préjugés (Pride & Prejudice) (2005) de Joe Wright avec Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Simon Woods, Kelly Reilly, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Talulah Riley, Donald Sutherland et Brenda Blethyn

Les Pleins Pouvoirs (Absolute Power) (1997) de et avec Clint Eastwood et Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, Judy Davis et Penny Johnson Jerald

Prêt-à-porter (1994) de Robert Altman avec Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Chiara Mastroianni, Stephen Rea, Anouk Aimée, Forest Whitaker, Julia Roberts et Tim Robbins

Un jour (One Day) (2011) de Lone Scherfig avec Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison, Rafe Spall, Jodie Whittaker, Romola Garai, Joséphine de La Baume et Patricia Clarkson

Adaline (The Age of Adaline) (2015) de Lee Toland Krieger avec Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Harrison Ford, Anthony Ingruber, Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Crew et Richard Harmon

Séries

Coffre à Catch

#161 : La DX à la ECW ?? - #162 : Summerslam 2009 en approche! - #163 : William Regal nous régale ! - #164 : Les chevaliers des 1000 likes ! - #165 : Qui se cache derrière le masque du Hurricane ??

Castle Saison 5

Pour le meilleur et pour le pire - Une soirée qui tue - Le Vice et la Vertu - Un choix cornélien - Faux-Semblants - La Cible - La Chasse - Morts de peur - Un passé insoupçonné - La Vie des autres - À la recherche de l'homme-singe - Protection rapprochée - Toute une histoire

Maguy Saison 3

Mal de maire - Chambre accouchée - Jument comme tu respires - Téléphone qui croyait prendre - Impair et deux belle-mères - L'éminence grippe - Sauve qui pneu ! - Voir un petit coup - Message californien - Le coffre effort - Kilt ou double - Rumeur au cerveau - Décibel et tais-toi - Le magicien d'hypnose - Cosmétiques en toc - Des plaies et des noces - Pub, pub, pub… hourrah ! - Un chiffon, fon, fon… - La layette, nous voilà - Gare au gourou ! - Noces à ronger - Talisman comme un arracheur de dents - La rosière arrosée - La strip-teaseuse de bonne aventure - La clé des mensonges - Surprise patrie - Le sponsor en est jeté - Ovni soit qui mal y pense - Adam et chèvre - Jerôme sweet Jerôme - Isabelle et la bête - Tel Pierre, tel fils - Apocalypse mômes - Les dons de la mère - La ruée vers l'art - La SICAV se rebiffe - Mort aux rafles - Bretteville au trésor - De briques et de brocs - Olé concentré - Dégâts des os - L'émoi d’août

La croisière s'amuse Saison 4, 5

Chapeau bas - La Voisine - Le Professeur - Jalousie - Bon Voyage - Une belle amitié - Qui perd gagne - Les Sirènes - Personnalité, vous avez dit personnalité ? - Les Jardins - L'habit ne fait pas la fille - Ne jouez pas avec les inconnus - Quelle classe - Nous étions deux - Incroyable Isaac - La Fille à papa - La Toque - Vicky s'amuse - Les trois font la paire : première partie - Isaac radioactif - Zeke et Zelda

Meurtres au paradis Saison 13

Carton plein - Un plat qui se mange froid - Court-circuit - Question d'avenir - La liste de souhaits

L'autre côté du ring Saison 3

Le procès des stéroïdes - Brutal : le FMW d'Onita - Extrême et obscène : l'XPW de Rob Black

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 23

Qui sème le vent - Effet domino

Biographies WWE Saison 2

Wrestlemania I

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 6,7

Le voleur plein de bonnes intentions - Instinct de survie

Kaamelott Livre V

Le Dernier Jour - Le Royaume Sans Tête - Jizô

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Ricochets - La surprise du chef - La Peur des autres

Top Gear France Saison 9

Ceux qui font du rallye - Ceux qui sauvent la planète - Ceux qui deviennent gangsters - Ceux qui ont fait n'importe quoi

Les Brigades du Tigre Saison 3

Bonnot et Compagnie - L'Homme à la casquette - Don de Scotland Yard - Le Cas Valentin - Le Crime du Sultan - L'Ère de la calomnie

Messieurs les jurés

L'Affaire Varney

Spectacles

Mademoiselle (1982) de Jacques Deval avec Jean Meyer, Rosy Varte, Jacqueline Jehanneuf, Anne Rondeleux, Bruno Constantin, Maurice Risch, Nicole Chollet, Dominique Blanche, Florence Fors, Jacques Maury et Bertrand Gohaud

The Morricone Duel (2020) du Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Live by Request: Earth Wind & Fire (1999)

Une femme trop honnête (1978) de Georges Vitaly avec Judith Magre, Bernard Lavalette, Francis Lax, Danièle Deray, Madeleine Barbulée, Jacques Verlier, Maurice Teynac et Christiane Muller

Daho Pleyel Paris (2008)

Livres

La commode aux tiroirs de couleurs d'Olivia Ruiz

Détective Conan, tome 21 de Gôshô Aoyama

Le privé d'Hollywood de François Rivière, José-Louis Bocquet et Philippe Berthet

Kaamelott, tome 4 : Perceval Et le Dragon d'Airain d'Alexandre Astier, Steven Dupré et Benoît Bekaert

[lokisgoodgirl]

Everything makes sense now. I just discovered that sex originated in Scotland.

Scotland, home of the Loch Ness monster, bagpipes, kilts, Richard Madden oh and sex

🤔🤔Source?🤣 If this is true I am disappointed at how far we've fallen (certain notable figures aside)

[silverhallow]

John Michael Stirling

Nicknames: John Boy

Profession: Distiller

Hobbies: bagpipes, drums, Bollywood and highland dancing.

John is the very image of his mother, his hair has an auburn twinge which his sister is a bit jealous off.

He has his mothers musical abilities but found he enjoyed playing the drums, which his uncles Anthony and Benedict got for him for his third birthday. Which apparently was payback from his mother gifting their sons drums. But unlike his cousins, John was very good at them.

Much To his uncle’s disappointment so for his 5th birthday he was given bagpipes… which after a few false starts he got very good at as well.

He’s not very sporty but fell in love with traditional highland dancing and when he went with his father and Aunt Kate to watch a Bollywood film with his cousins, he fell in love with that style and started taking classes. He would partner his sister but she had two left feet and gave it up quickly.

He adores highland dancing as well and yes before you ask… he is a true Scot’s man under his kilt… he nearly gave Richard a heartache when he asked and John, very much with his fathers charm… showed him.

He did business at St Andrews University and eventually went to work at the Kilmartin distillery and helped broaden their horizons and lines making it even more successful.

[unit2-ss24]

The 1970s - part 3

Punk

Punk fashion originated in the late 70s. Punk rock stripped rock and roll back to its foundations. The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action, and not "selling out". The clothing represented a darker and harsher view of reality.

Vivienne Westwood’s controversial ‘Destroy’ T-shirt, 1977. The Destroy T- shirt was meant to be an angry condemnation towards government, religion and fascism.

English punk icons Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren opened the infamous SEX / Seditionaries shop on Kings Road and ultimately deconstructed British fashion, mixing X-rated silk screens, bondage gear, vinyl, rubber and safety pins with iconic English fashions such as plaid kilts and tight stovepipe trousers.

In America, The punk style was more laid back and not as exaggerated as it was in England. It was amplified by bands such as the Ramones, Blondie, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. However they opted for a more laid back look with tight jeans, leather motorcycle jackets, sneakers, and ripped t- shirts.

Zandra Rhodes

In 1977, Zandra Rhodes became the first couture designer to put punk on the runway. Her "Conceptual Chic" collection incorporated safety pins, black jersey, and fabric tears.

The Icons

Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger not only wore 70s fashion, her style was a huge inspiration to women of the decade. She was a Studio 54 regular, she was friends with the likes of YSL and Halston, and acted as their model and muse. From turbans to tube tops, nothing was off limits for this original fashion risk-taker.

Iman

Iman's talent was spotted by Peter Beard in Kenya in the late 1970s. He helped launch her career as a fashion model in New York in 1976, where she formed creative partnerships with leading photographers such as Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon and Francesco Scavullo. In 1992 Iman married David Bowie, with whom she had one daughter with. Iman was First shot for Vogue in 1976, she had her pick from the 70s catwalks as all the top designers of the day Halston, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Issey Miyake and Donna Karan all wanted her beauty.

Jerry Hall

Jerry Hall is an American model and actress. She began modeling in the 1970s and became one of the most sought after models in the world. She entered the fashion world at age 16 and immediately threw herself into the Studio 54 scene while earring £1000 a day.

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve's name was linked with on elf the top designers of the 70s, Yves Saint Laurent for whom she served as muse and model for many years. Near the end of the 70s she became the face of Chanel No 5 and famously caused sales of the fragrance to go through the roof in the US.

Beverly Johnson

Beverly Johnson is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. She rose to fame when she became the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966.

[donpishya]

Have  another cursed cartoon. Every cartoon I’ve been sending you was from 1844 because they’re all pretty much cursed.

Aka ✨Jacksonians I don’t trust with sharp objects✨

We have Andrew Jackson with a hatchet telling people to get off his lawn. He also looks very unwell.

We have Calhoun and Richard M. Johnson as dogs?

Clay and Frelinghuysen as creepy raccoons. Usually I love raccoons and Henry Clay but this is scary.

Polk put that knife down. What are you doing? I do enjoy his kilt.

Martin Van Buren doing nothing off to the side. Asshole.

Finally, we have John Tyler and his ridiculously big nose telling his dogs to go up to the tree as well.

So much chaos

The fact that they gave the sharp objects to Jackson and Polk is so dangerous and their both already threatening Clay and Frelinghuysen with it😂

And Polk wearing a kilt and Jackson wearing normal clothes is funny to me, It's like they somehow forgot Jackson was Irish too.

I always like how Buren is depicted different than any other person in the picture, he's always in the background.😂

The animals are always nightmares...😭😭

[theobaileypp-archived]

Theo inspected the place on the grass where the patchwork kilt had been placed so they could sit with a deep frown. Sure, the stage view was great, but as his eyes danced between the blanket and his very pregnant sister, it also troubled him. "Are you certain you should... squat down at this... state? I could have someone bring us some chairs, and I'm sure Dylan can get us a better spot. Or we could go somewhere else," he couldn't hide the worry from his voice. "I mean, I've seen Hamlet more times than I can count, it can't be that impressive. In fact, Shakespeare plays always give me flashbacks to back when I played Richard III in school and got the reviews saying I was 'too handsome' for it, as if that wasn't the whole bloody point." Theo rambled, mostly because he was nervous. He did that. Being around Asli and looking at her midsection, where a whole baby was growing, made him sort of queasy now. For several reasons. He still hadn't told her, and knowing the severity of her situation, perhaps he shouldn't. "This surely can't be as great as Hamlet in the acropolis."

with @draslihanxfahri-bailey at the performance arts festival, hamlet play in the park.

[scotianostra]

On September 8th 1930 3M started production of their now world famous, Scotch tape.

No it’s not Scottish but it does have an amusing, if slightly insulting story behind it.

The brand name Scotch came about while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The body shop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, “Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!” The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes.

Indeed, the brand so embraced the notion of being cheapskates that until 1944 their mascot was one Scotty McTape, a kilted boy with an enthusiasm for tape.

It’s not the only instance of Scottish stinginess, I lived in France for wee while, and I recall a sign in some shop windows, I don’t recall exactly what the sign said, but to me it had obvious connection to Scotland, I asked my then Girlfriends brother, who had been living in France for some time, what it was for, he told me that it meant you would get a bargain in the said shops, as the Scottish connotation inferred we shopped there, and we were a canny lot!

Now we may have this reputation, but it is by no means justified, for instance did you know that us Scots are more likely than people from the rest of the UK to give to charity … in 2018, 12 percentage points higher than the UK average of 64 percent as a whole

[richardxoliverxmayhew]

"So, I'm a wee bit curious...Do you follow kilt tradition and, y'know, wear nothing underneath or are you more modern and opt for some knickers of some sort?"

Things for Richard: ALWAYS ACCEPTING

II @lady-llewellyn

"I would say tha' it depends on the event I wear my kilt to, and, more importantly, it depends on who my plus-one is.-- Speakin' of which, El, I'm invited to this fancy dinner. Don't suppose you'd like to come along?"

[winterrose527]

Would you take a kilt yoga class with Richard Madden?

Wow what a question to start off with. I’d do anything with Richard Madden, so yeah probably.

That being said, I don’t find the idea of him in downward dog in a kilt erotic? Like that’s not the angle from which I need to see him or anyone 😂