aphanon_meme | part 369 prohibition cocktails

part 369 prohibition cocktails

Meme, you did it! And on Christmas, too!! How fancy. How was your year? It's almost the new year and I don't know about anyone else, but I'm excited to enter the 20s. We can finally bring back some excellent slang, like "That sounds berries to me!" or "I guess I'd describe myself as a cancelled stamp." Have a good year... and don't take any wooden nickels!

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And share a couple lines from it if you want

Oh hey. Page claimed for reading.

https://www.history.com/news/knights-templar-downfall-confessions-torture

"By now the accusations against the Templars and their order had grown to a total of 127. On the list: worshipping cats, condoning theft and perjury to enrich the order and kissing each other’s navels during secret initiation ceremonies."

an I Am Canada novel!

Some lines from the page on on (note: violence/kinda gore)

"At the sight of an officer, he automatically straightened up and saluted. The sniper's bullet caught him in the left temple and blew a ragged hole in the back of his helmet. Lofty looked surprised and sat down. By the time I reached him, he was blinking stupidly. As I undid his helmet strap, I heard Ken say softly, "No."

The helmet came away and with it a large piece of the boy's skull, large gouts of blood and some pieces of grey matter. Lofty sighed almost gratefully and his eyes closed. I retched onto the sap floor."

Man the Scholastic Dear Canada/I Am Canada books are a lot more violent/realistic than the American equivalent. There's a Dear Canada book set during the Halifax Explosion that was descriptive with the violence as well.

ew

damnnn canada

I'm too lazy to quote it again but damn, book! It was quite violent, all things considered. Descriptions of corpses, of someone's head disappearing in a red haze from some type of artillery and the body standing still while blood gushed down, etc.

book on dutch history

"Extrapolating from the numbers of paintings in family inventories in Delft, it has been estimated that, by 1650, there were approximately two and a half million paintings in Holland, most admittedly copies, or pictures of poor quality, but a sizeable proportion, some 10 per cent, pictures of quality.

Painting in the Dutch Republic, in the seventeenth century, was a major industry, as well as art, and great numbers of paintings (often of indifferent quality) were produced not only for the Dutch market but for export, to those parts of Europe, particularly Germany, where there was a Protestant civic culture which to an extent shared the tastes of Dutch civic society. In the early period, down to the 1620s, very few foreign rulers took much interest in Dutch artistic production, though a notable exception was Christian IV of Denmark."

Title? This sounds relevant to my interests.

sure

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806 by Jonathan I. Israel.

it's like 1200 pages tho

I’m starting a political fantasy novel called The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which deals heavily with imperialism as a theme also the main character is a lesbian. I’m hooked so far and I’m just a few chapters in!

Anon, this is one of my favorite books! I haven't read the sequel yet, but maybe that's an excuse to reread it.

a somewhat uneven older fanfic from an author i like (i've run out of content, alas, from binging her newer works so i've dug back to stuff from many years ago). the emotional arc and the character and ship development part all make sense and are well written, but this is a plotty fic and the plot has some massive holes. a lot of it hinges on this character willing to face torture and death to protect his family except... in the particular circumstances set up by this fic that doesn't make sense as revealing this information wouldn't particularly endanger said family, whereas continuing to resist might cause the villains to threaten them, so if protecting the family is the motivation then just capitulate. i almost feel like this wouldn't distract me so much if it weren't for the fact that the author's newer fics are so well-plotted that by comparison, this sticks out more. but anyway, still enjoying it, i just needed to gripe somewhere because i don't comment concrit unless directly asked and i certainly wouldn't do so on a seven year old long finished fic but as i keep reading i'm just like GAH [CHARACTER], I AM TRYING TO FEEL BAD FOR YOU BUT SRSLY WHY ARE YOU DUMB.

They were on him then, the edge of the mob washing over him, but Sander was a dirty son of a bitch's bastard's whore, and what's more, he knew it. The citizens of Sneek should have suspected that a man willing to bite a priest would not shirk from snatching a scrotum or poking out an eye if he could, but in their fury to catch him them they failed to consider this. Thus, the first man to lay hands on Sander had his testicles crushed and twisted by thick fingers, and the second had his left eyeball hooked viciously with a thumb, the entire orb popping loose of its socket and bouncing against the poor fellow's cheek.

just starting the folly of the world and it's basically tarantino meets medieval holland and i love it already.

for instance, to put this scene in context (and this is the very first chapter, so not really spoilers): sander is a masochistic convict who's so excited by his own hanging (bondage, asphyxiation, prospect of certain death - what's not to love?) that he springs a pre-execution boner at the gallows, which he handily uses as distraction to slip that sexy noose and commit a spot of murder on the way out. it's bonkers and nasty-funny and... would one call this grimlight as opposed to grimdark?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1335427

"Kill me. Kill me now. End this here. I will be grateful, Monsieur. And you will have peace."

I'm

I'm so turned on by this

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