StoneOwl12
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A 20-something scatterbrain from Scotland.
Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Hawaii 5-0, The Professionals, cute animals, and various stuff I find interesting, funny, or I just like.
This is not a consistent blog.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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(Source: itallwentbarmy)
(206): Oh my God, that is a gorgeous man. And I wasn’t even gay until five minutes ago.
(732): You almost set me on fire last night.
(1-732): You probably deserved it.
(Source: pandalotte)
Oh god Ben you perfect human being I don’t even care that you get Bodie and Doyle confused
(Source: higgles-my-shiggles)
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(425): What goes on in that head of yours?
(206): Gay sex, for the most part. Why?
I don’t want to write history,” he says, firmly. “I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary, revolutionary (from the Guardian).
In honesty though, Horrible Histories is fantastic.
For the following 15 years or so – the last Horrible History, Deary swears, has now been written – a small army of researchers furnished him with truckloads of facts, anecdotes and stories, and the author, having established his “over-arching narrative” for the period, picked those that told it best, including “the hardest-hitting facts”.
“Take the Barmy British Empire,” he says. “I’d basically concluded it was one of the worst things to happen to the planet. So I deployed the facts that illustrate that, such as the fate of the Tasmanian people: there were 10,000 of them when the British arrived, and 30 years later they were pretty much gone. We wiped out a whole people.”
Beneath the goo and the gore, then, there is often a very serious point to Horrible Histories. The last chapter of Ruthless Romans, for example, portrays modern-day Zimbabwe and essentially asks, is this any different? Barmy Britain, the current musical stage show co-written by Deary, features a finale whose sarcastic references to burger bars, bankers and internet dating leave its young audience in little doubt that whatever the crazed excesses of our ancestors, future generations will doubtless consider us every bit as loopy. The approach, he concedes, displeases some adults. “It’s why I’m dangerous; inculcating rebel ideas into the minds of innocent young people using humour. I had a complaint the other day, a Jewish mother whose rabbi had told her that her children shouldn’t be introduced to the Holocaust before the age of 13, and her six-year-old had seen it in Horrible Histories. Sorry, but what am I supposed to do – lie to children?”
(via outstare-the-stars)
Why has god forsaken me with only lady babies.
Henry VIII of England (via punkslovepoints)
But I couldn’t stand my wife
(619): He makes this seasoned whore feel like a novice. I’ve met the one.
Oh my god you guys there’s a game on Horrible Histories: Gory Games where they have to launch pies into Henry VIII’s mouth.
This is actually hilarious.
I did a bigger version of King John’s adorable cat wallpaper. Come and get it.
Keep in mind it’s for personal use.
