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goldnnavy · 2 years
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In addition to my visits to the Maritime Museum, I also had a wonderful time visiting @benjhawkins and @pentecostwaite at the Pownalborough Court House! The tour was amazing, and getting to gush about my love of breeches was so much fun! Just look at how beautiful it is:
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And I even got to see the famous Polly(!!):
Here's my tracing of it vs the real etching.
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Again, thank you so much to @benjhawkins and @pentecostwaite for being so kind and awesome!! I look forward to meeting up again in the future!
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20, 22 & 25 for the ask game, please! :)
Of course, my friend!
20. What’s something you learned this year?
I have learned a great deal of Irish! I am nowhere near fluency yet, but I am working on that!
22. Favorite place you visited this year?
This year, I visited a few beautiful places, some impressions of my trip to Dresden with a friend and the early 18th century Dutch tiling room in Schloss Caputh with its often naval, sometimes risqué motifs I'll show below:
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25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one
As I write mostly historical fiction, I am not in the habit to create characters, though there is one, Willemina Stuart (1702-1781), the fictional daughter of Mary II and William III. What started out as a what-if game between @vankeppel and me to see how early modern European politics might have shifted had their been a (Protestant) Stuart heir to the English throne, has grown into a full-on character.
Willemina, named for her father (and, if you were to ask her, looking an inconvenient amount like him), manages to annoy Louis XIV as a young girl enough to almost start a war and becomes the monarch under whom these pesky colonials in North America gain independence; to say that her life is a full one, both politically and personally, would be an understatement.
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focsle · 1 year
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I’m really enjoying all of your posts about Mister Martin. It’s a vicarious enjoyment because I have approached my own hunches and feelings about similar things in my own (current) life with a certain degree of standoffishness. Being wrong about such things would break my heart, so I don’t examine them closely. I applaud your bravery to dig into the corroborating research.
Ah, thank you! There are things I’ve gotten that have definitely been wrong, usually when I’m specifically TRYING to get information to research later, rather than just….experiencing whatever I’m being shown and inherently absorbing the information after spending a bit of time there. The latter is when I end up getting things that are more accurately corroborated, where possible. So it’s all about sifting through what I just made up and what feels ‘legit’.
I had a lot of doubt going into it because I was like ‘I know a lot about this history AND I have a very active imagination’. But everything about it caught me off guard. Martin was not the sort of man I would’ve imagined myself being at all, if I were to Make Up A Guy. He felt incredibly different from me, until I started analyzing his emotional world and realized how alike we actually were. And how I learn about him feels VERY different from how I just…use my imagination. It’s less a dream/daydream and more…deliberately entering a very visceral headspace that really does feel like embodying another person and reliving their memories—like I can suddenly understand the dimensions of his body, what his clothes are made out of, when his gums ache and what tooth is bad and needs to be pulled, when other people touch him, what side of him got caught in a whale line, etc. etc. etc. I haven’t experienced anything else like it before. And yeah, when I start learning words in different languages or tying knots I hadn’t practiced I’m like ‘okay….okay lol, maybe that’s something.’
Thanks for being here while I’m Extremely Eccentric on Main.
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benjhawkins · 2 years
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I remember reading a quote about how many sailors kept going back to sea regardless the dangers and the hard work because they saw so many wonderous things in their travels and it made it hard to connect to people who never left the town the were born in and that’s why some of them kept going again and again
Does anyone remember what it’s from?
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brimstone-cowboy · 2 years
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It’s time to harvest the flax, and the sun is blazing down on your field, blazing down on you. It’s far too hot today to take on work this hard, but it must be done. From flax comes linen, a valuable textile.
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“Who is to see? Who is to care?” 
And so you do. You are alone.
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Time grinds by, the sun grows higher, you bend low, you pull flax. You sweat, your naked limbs ache, you bend low, you pull flax. Your muscles burn, your hands bleed, you bend low, you pull flax. 
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You are utterly naked, covered in flax stalks and dirt. You feel an errant bead of sweat travel slowly down your shirtless chest and lodge in the muddy cup of your uncovered navel.
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“Goddamn it,” you mutter, and the flushing judge, apoplectic, opens his mouth to speak.
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clove-pinks · 28 days
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A group recruiting for New England-based War of 1812/Napoleonic reeenactors! Here they are at Fort McClary in Kittery, Maine.
@goldnnavy @benjhawkins @pentecostwaite @newenglandofficial
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chiropteracupola · 5 months
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tagged to share my last line written by both @verecunda and @sanguinarysanguinity, thank you!
here we've got something from the foth ladyhawke au...
What a price Keith Windham had paid, to be foremost in the heart of such a man as him!
and many of the usual suspects have already been tagged, so @dxppercxdxver, @bishakespeares, @kigiom, @natdrinkstea, @pentecostwaite, @borisyvain, if you're interested?
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ltwilliammowett · 1 year
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Do you do something about Black Sailors since it is Black History Month?
Hi,
well I'll try, but I don't think I'll get much done. I don't have the time to do the research in a reasonable and timely manner, especially since I still have a lot of things half-finished on my desk as well my usual work and three unfinished excavations reports. But feel free to have a look here @pentecostwaite @clove-pinks @benjhawkins @sanguinarysanguinity and you will find some great posts.
I'm very sorry to disappoint you. Have a nice evening.
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Last Line
@dasmims tagged me to post the last line I wrote. That line is, unfortunately, a spoiler, so have a different (but similarly recent!) one:
With the fading of her youth Barbara had grown into her strong features, they conferring such dignity on her that Horatio now wondered that he had ever called her horse-faced and mannish.
Tagging @acrossthewavesoftime, @chiropteracupola, @tgarnsl, @educatedinyellow, @pentecostwaite, @benjhawkins, @truthisademurelady, and anyone else who would enjoy playing!
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littleastrobleme · 9 months
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I was tagged by @charliemack (thank you kindly!) who'd like to get to know me better. Here are some pertinent details!
Last song: "Susie Save Your Love" by Allie X and Mitski
Currently watching: Other than dissociating in front of YouTube video essays about topics that may or may not be interesting to me...? My girlfriend is obsessed with Yugioh so I'm slowly making my way through its first season! It's... Kinda endearing?
Currently reading: I'm not currently reading anything *but* I just got a few books at a bookstore while on a road trip, so I'm excited to (put them in a pile of other recently purchased books and not read them for months) dig into one of those soon!
Current obsession: I've been on kind of a warbirds kick lately so I keep watching videos of inertial engine startups and Spitfire and Mustang flybys and low passes so the part of my autistic brain that likes aircraft engine noises gets some dopamine!
I'm not sure I can overcome my shyness to tag nine whole people, but if yall haven't done it yet, or have and I missed it, come on down @clove-pinks @benjhawkins @pentecostwaite @chiropteracupola and any of my other darling dear mutuals or followers, I'd love to see yall's answers! :)
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As an incentive, here's a fucked up little dog(?) I saw on a tombstone today!
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seaglassandeelgrass · 2 years
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@pentecostwaite tagged me to share the latest line of my writing then tag as many people as words therein, so here 'tis:
The requested dozen armadillos last week had been bad enough.
From the beginnings of a short story about Madeline Brewster, much-beleaguered set-dresser in the early days of motion pictures, and her increasingly ridiculous fetch-quests through London's antiques markets.
(eta: explanation of the armadillos, or: Creatures of Darkness)
Tagging only five folks, as ten is a bit much: @gendzl @focsle @ashipwreckcoast @tam--lin @beradan
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goldnnavy · 1 year
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1, 14 & 17 for the asks game! :)
1. Song of the year?
I'm afraid Benj beat you to this one!
14. Favorite book you read this year?
May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth. I'm almost through it and it's so moving to read these letters...
17. Post a picture from the end of the year
The world and me. :)
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Thank you @pentecostwaite :D
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Most Esteemed Friend,
I just heard in passing about an “incident” (fisticuffs??) in 1775 between Admiral Graves and one Benjamin Hallowell. What do you know about this remarkable event? I’m so eager to hear your take on it! It seems part and parcel of the “terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad” summer of 1775 for Graves.
Yours etc,
PW
My Equally Eſteem'd Friend,
You are in luck: I have a post on that, which chronicles the entire story from the very beginning hostilities between Graves and Hallowell in early July 1775 to the fisticuffs-incident on 11 August.
The short version is that a local customs official by the name of Benjamin Hallowell, who held rights to cut hay on an island off Boston and happened to be quite friendly with Graves' nemesis Gage tried to get the mandatory permission slip from Graves required to essentially break the ongoing blockade and sent people to the island to cut the hay for him.
Graves did not grant him permission, which led to a lengthy triangle of correspondence between Gage, Hallowell and Graves; Hallowell proceeded to tell those sympathetic to his cause that the disliked Admiral wanted to cut the hay for his own profit, whereas Graves maintained that the laws and regulations applied to everyone and he was not going to make exceptions for individuals. Moreover, the grass on the island was destined for the use of the British forces's cavalry.
On 11 August, when the two men's paths crossed in Milk Street, Boston, the situation escalated into a street brawl presumably started by Hallowell.
Although both parties are likely to have sustained injuries (Graves may have had a black eye, whereas Hallowell seems to have been worse off according to one account, suffering from a concussion so severe he experienced a temporary loss of vision), public opinion quickly turned against the already disliked Graves, and even openly anti-loyalist newspapers in Boston claimed the Hallowell, the British official, as an American hero.
Graves may have beaten Hallowell almost to a pulp, but the incident turned in what we would call a PR disaster as a British admiral beating up people in the street, regardless the circumstances, was not exactly the reassuring picture of law, order and authority Britain wanted to represent in the Colonies.
Personally, I think that here, two similarly stubborn and bellicose personalities got to lock horns over an issue that might otherwise have been resolved in an hour. The fact that Hallowell was on good terms with Gage, Graves's personal enemy, only added fuel to the fire.
Funnily, Hallowell's son entered the Navy-- and contrary to his father, befriended an admiral. Benjamin Hallowell-Carew was the man who gifted Horatio Nelson the L'Orient coffin. Another personal acquaintance, and comrade-in-arms of Nelson, was Thomas Graves, Samuel Graves's nephew. One wonders if this new generation of officers knew of the spat between their father and uncle respectively...
I am &ct.
Radegonde
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nordleuchten · 1 year
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WIP tag game
Thank you @echo-bleu for tagging me. :-)
Rules: Post the last line you wrote and tag the same number of people as words.
My protagonist Edward’s daughter marries and while neither father nor mother are much pleased by her choice of husband, Edward can at least appreciate the irony.
„How many Navy officers by the name of William do you know that hailed from large families?”, Edward asked his wife and smiled sheepishly.
I am tagging @acrossthewavesoftime, @cadmusfly, @pentecostwaite and everybody who might be interested.
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benjhawkins · 2 months
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In case you were wondering if me and @pentecostwaite were really Like This in real life
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exhausted-eternally · 2 years
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Tagged by @kat-tail for a playlist game :D
Rule : Shuffle your playlist. List the first 10 songs then tag 10 people.
First song by Ramin Djawadi
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Second song by AC/DC
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Third song by Two Steps From Hell
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Fourth song by Abney Park
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Fifth song by Lindsey Stirling
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Sixth song by Waveshaper
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Seventh song by Les Friction
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Eighth song by Daft Punk & The Crystal Method
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Ninth song by Vixtrola
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Tenth (and by far my favorite in this list) song by Thomas Bergersen
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I tag @benjhawkins, @pentecostwaite, and whoever else wants to C:
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