#victorian army

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The British soldier's morale was fed not only by patriotism (`Your Country needs you') but by the unique regimental spirit that has been the envy of other armies down to the present day: one cannot let the Regiment down.

J.M. Bereton, The British Soldier

Victorian Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Officers Drill Order on Foreign Service.

[1pcii]

steampunk sabo!!!

(click for better quality//no reposts please but reblogs are greatly appreciated!//high-res ref image under cut)

reference image:

[lovesomehate]

Swiss’ shimmies were so strong it ripped Papa’s trousers 😂

[video]

[moss-is-a-frog]

The “We’ll do every room in a different style” line ends up being true because each suite is decorated to each ghost’s preference/era

[harbingersecho]

RVBtober 6 > favorite character Colonel Sarge

all rise for the flag 07

[bantarleton]

British Guardsmen (from left to right, Grenadier, Coldstream and Scots Guards) during the late nineteenth century.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i always see so much of Nico ships where either Nico is the one pining or the focus is almost completely on Nico pining and i feel like we’re missing a lot of opportunity here. Where’s the inverse? Where’s the POVs from [other character(s) of ship] of them falling hard for Nico and just absolutely losing their mind pining over him because he’s so impossible to read that they can’t tell at all if he likes them back or not. Them doing some complicated social dance cause they cannot for the LIFE of them figure out Nico but they’re trying so hard until they finally just tell him outright and find out Nico has liked them back this entire time and they lose their mind just a little bit more. WHERE IS IT.

[illustratus]

Faithful Unto Death by Edward Poynter

During the excavations at Pompeii in the early 19th century, the skeleton of a soldier in full armour was discovered. Romantic historians of the period assumed that he had remained loyally at his post while all the other inhabitants of Pompeii were fleeing from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Poynter has painted a night scene with the sentry standing in an entrance sharply and theatrically illuminated by the glare of the eruption at which he is staring with detached concern. By contrast behind him others are desperately struggling to escape the encroaching flames. This became one of the most famous Victorian paintings; the theme of absolute devotion to duty and of total obedience to orders by a military elite had a special appeal to late Victorian imperialist Britain. Poynter’s command of the demanding technicalities of violent lighting effects is also remarkable.

[victoriansword]

British Pattern 1827 Rifle Officer’s Sword

[crudetautology]

Rewatching “Moonah Ston” I’m sort of curious who voted for who to do the reading. I think the vote may have gone like this:

Fanny: The Captain. Obviously! They're best repressed buds and chat about satirical skewering of socio-political institutions in the Mikado for fun.

Pat: The Captain. They're also best buds in love and in series one he is more deferential to the Captain, I feel, but would have ultimately been just as happy with Thomas doing the reading. Probably.

Mary: Thomas. She's obviously team no one, but someone had to have voted for Thomas, right?? Maybe she does it to give her more ammunition to slam him with

Robin: The Captain. Yeah, I do think he would be happy with either one but on balance I do think he slightly prefers the Captain over Thomas

Kitty: Thomas. She may be the only one that genuinely likes hearing him hold readings

Julian: Thomas. He definitely likes the Captain more "chaps in the library"-causing trouble and all that but his "it was incredible close and entirely non-biding" makes me think otherwise

Humphrey's body: The Captain. The Captain hangs out with him to count stuff, alright. And given that the body got with Fanny I imagine he likes the repressed buttoned-up type. And also he doesn't actually have to listen to either of them having no ears and all.

Humphrey's head: Abstained. Because they couldn't find the head bit. But would have probably voted for Thomas in series one. Series two is a different story.

[clove-pinks]

I am on the NMM website a lot, and while looking for something else I came across this portrait of Captain William Peel again.

I have The Sea Beast fresh in my mind with its theme of empire demanding/glorifying heroic sacrifice, and it hits a bit differently. I have seen this painting presented as the ne plus ultra of imperialism: the naval officer with his sword, illuminated in a tropical scene and leading troops to crush a rebellion of the colonised people; he is literally holding a pith helmet. At least the superior first edition of Amy Miller's Dressed to Kill has commentary on this portrait.

But it's a posthumous portrait.

Captain Peel wasn't basking in adulation when this was made, wasn't enjoying the acclaim of his Victoria Cross: he was dead. He has a magnificent statue as well, even more dashing than the portrait, and surely his powerful family had a lot to do with memorialising him—but he still died. He didn't make it home to the metropole.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

- Arthur Koestler

I’m not sure I completely agree with Koestler because there’s also something innate within us that is twisted for selfish power and dominance (our original sin), but he has a point. Few would argue that the rituals used to wage war change with the times, but students of Clausewitz are skeptical about supposed changes in what we believe to be war’s enduring nature. According to the Prussian, war’s nature does not change - only its character. The way we use these words today can seem to render such a distinction meaningless, but careful attention to semantics can reveal real problems in how we think about war, society, and the future.

The nature of war describes its unchanging essence: that is, those things that differentiate war (as a type of phenomenon) from other things. War’s nature is violent, interactive, and fundamentally political. Absent any of these elements, what you’re talking about is not war but something else.

The character of war describes the changing way that war as a phenomenon manifests in the real world. As war is a political act that takes place in and among societies, its specific character will be shaped by the politics and culture of those societies - by what Clausewitz called the “spirit of the age.”

War’s conduct is undoubtedly influenced by technology, law, ethics, culture, methods of social, political, and military organisation, and other factors that change across time and place.

[tj-dragonblade]

For the guess game, what about chair, kitchen and/or class?

Thank you! Nothing for 'kitchen' or 'class', but for 'chair':

His Captain opened heavy eyes, met his gaze, indicated the chair adjacent with a weary tilt of his chin.

[fantastic-brainrot]

[waywardvictorianconfessions]

At her concert in 2012 i bought one of her black "Asylum army - get committed" tees (the one with the spoon). I still wear it because it's a nice design and it's actually related to the Asylum, unlike these random Asylum Academy/madame de Pompadour/digestive biscuit/Little inmate mess

[chocochipcookie305]

"So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,

There never was a knight like the young Lochinvar."

- Sir Walter Scott

WHY WAS THIS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND WHEN I SAW THIS PICTURE???😂