Dreaming Through The Noise

c-c-calamitys-child:

Reminds me a fair bit of Claire…

/approval

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northcentralpositronics:

duckwhatduck:

thedreadvampy:

northcentralpositronics:

duckwhatduck:

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer-turned-humanitarian, accomplished skier, first High Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, and recipient of 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (he donated the prize money to international relief efforts).

#tall was he as a viking #kindly and strong was he #the blood of his roving fathers #drove him from sea to sea #fuck you eleanor farjeon

I love that my family think exactly the same as me.

Let me try something.

• JUDAS MACCABEAUS
• JULIUS CAESAR
• SALADIN
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

now, I want at least three lines of poetry about each of these people

I predict that nobody will find this easier than my family 

JULIUS CAESAR PRIDE OF ROME
MADE THE BATTLEFIELD HIS HOME
AND something something THEN HE WENT
AND WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS TENT 

HERE COMES SALADIN
DON’T SAY SALADDIN
HIS SKIN IS AS DARK AS THE SLAVE OF ALADDIN

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
HE CONQUERED THE WORLD AT A ROLLICKING RATE 

I can’t remember Judas Maccabeus, though. Um… take up your arms and slay them for the glory of the Lord? Something like that. It rhymed with “implored”.

WAIT NO I HAVE IT

They bid us bow to Bacchus
They load us with abuse
They thwack us and they whack us
To make us worship Zeus! 

MY TURN:

• POCAHONTAS
• BRIAN BORU (boru boru)
• DAVID LIVINGSTONE
• MASANIELLO

But did she wed the man she saved?

Her story was not so engraved.

John Rolfe the settler made her his bride

And brought her to England, where she died

BRIAN BORU BORU BORU BRIAN BORU BORU i can’t remember anything else except the next line probably ends ‘too’

Have you heard of Livingstone

Doctor David Livingstone

Who went to darkest Africa and solved its darkest riddle?

Tommaso Aniello

For short Masaniello

Said “ducats are golden

but lemons are yellow

so when the collectors appear for the rent

we’ll pelt them with lemons until they’re content”

YEAHHHH

RIGHT THEN

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• GRACE DARLING
• LADY GODIVA
• BOADICEA 

FOR WHEN HER VIGIL STILL UNENDED
SHE COOLED THEIR BROWS WITH something DAMP
THE MEN SHE NIGHTLY WATCHED AND TENDED
NAMED HER THE LADY OF THE LAMP

WHEN MEEK AS A MOUSE
SHE WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE
HER DEAR FATHER’S STOCKINGS TO DARN

LADY GODIVA
LET YOUR HAIR DOWN
BARE YOU MUST RIDE
THROUGH COVENTRY TOWN

BOADICEA WAS FRIGHTENED OF NO MAN
AND SCORNED THE IDEA OF ANYTHING ROMAN 
(THE ROMANS SHE HATED FOR TREATING THE BRITONS
AS SOMETHING CREATED EXPRESSLY TO SIT ON)

hells yes

• BUFFALO BILL
• WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
• HENRY VIII
• HEREWARD THE WAKE 

OH WHAT A THRILL 
HERE’S BUFFALO BILL
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAT AND CHAPS IDK

WILLIAM THE FIRST WAS THE FIRST OF OUR KINGS
NOT COUNTING THE ETHELBERTS, EGBERTS AND THINGS
…
AT BONG NUMBER ONE THEY STARTED TO RUN
AT BONG NUMBER TWO THEY WERE SHEDDING THEIR SHOES 
AT BONG NUMBER THREE THEY WERE WEAK AT THE KNEES and so forth

LAST OF ALL WAS KATHERINE PARR
LAST AND LUCKIEST BY FAR
FOR THIS TIME IT WAS HENRY WHO
HOPPED THE TWIG AND A GOOD JOB TOO

I feel like a failure because Hereward the Wake is on the VERY EDGE of my memory and I can remember the illustration and the gist of it but not the actual poem.

• QUEEN ANNE
• JOAN OF ARC
  and of course
• CHARLEMAGNE 

I suspect I can’t do Joan of Arc anymore because whenever I try and remember it I get the Leonard Cohen song instead…let’s have a go though

QUEEN ANNE’S DEAD/POOR QUEEN ANNE/something something her pretty dress/CLOSE HER PRETTY FAN/AND ON HER PRETTY MONUMENT/LET NOTHING ELSE BE SAID/BUT THESE PLAIN WORDS:/QUEEN ANNE’S DEAD

GIRL WHAT MAKE YOU AT ORLEANS SIEGE/I FIGHT THE ENGLISH I FREE MY LIEGE/something something something/MARGARET MICHAEL AND CATHERINE

CHARLEMAGNE/PRIDE OF FRANCE/WHO WOULD NOT DIE/TO WIN HIS something GLANCE/FAIN WOULD I

TIME TO GET NAPOLEONIC:

• NAPOLEON i like this one
• NELSON
• WELLINGTON

NAPOLEON, WHEN THE DAY IS DONE
STANDS UPON THE SANDS
AND STARES OUT AT THE something something
AND DREAMS OF DISTANT LANDS

(I always loved Napoleon’s, but I could never remember it that well)

NELSON HE HAD ONLY ONE ARM
WHAT, ONLY ONE ARM?
YES, ONLY ONE ARM
BUT THE FROGGIES AGREED IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM
WHEN HE FOUGHT FOR HIS KING AND HIS COUNTRY

and oh my god wellington i forgot about him buuut

THIS HERE’S THE IRON DOOK
FOR WHOM THE DRUM GOES BANG
AND THOSE WHO DON’T APPROVE OF HIM
MAY ALL OF ‘EM GO HANG

the iron dook is the best dook

• WILLIAM TELL
• ROBIN HOOD
• ooh ooh LADY HESTER STANHOPE i have this feeling like i was the only one who liked her though

also an embarrassing amount of my historical knowledge comes from those poems, just puttin’ that out there 

Napoleon when the day is done

On St. Helena stands

And gazes at the setting sun

And dreams of distant lands

Where once the [rulers?] feared his glance

When from the ranks he rose

To be the Emperor of France

And trample on her foes

:)

thedreadvampy:

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

northcentralpositronics:

duckwhatduck:

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer-turned-humanitarian, accomplished skier, first High Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, and recipient of 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (he donated the prize money to international relief efforts).

#tall was he as a viking #kindly and strong was he #the blood of his roving fathers #drove him from sea to sea #fuck you eleanor farjeon

I love that my family think exactly the same as me.

Let me try something.

• JUDAS MACCABEAUS
• JULIUS CAESAR
• SALADIN
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

now, I want at least three lines of poetry about each of these people

I predict that nobody will find this easier than my family 

JULIUS CAESAR PRIDE OF ROME
MADE THE BATTLEFIELD HIS HOME
AND something something THEN HE WENT
AND WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS TENT 

HERE COMES SALADIN
DON’T SAY SALADDIN
HIS SKIN IS AS DARK AS THE SLAVE OF ALADDIN

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
HE CONQUERED THE WORLD AT A ROLLICKING RATE 

I can’t remember Judas Maccabeus, though. Um… take up your arms and slay them for the glory of the Lord? Something like that. It rhymed with “implored”.

WAIT NO I HAVE IT

They bid us bow to Bacchus
They load us with abuse
They thwack us and they whack us
To make us worship Zeus! 

MY TURN:

• POCAHONTAS
• BRIAN BORU (boru boru)
• DAVID LIVINGSTONE
• MASANIELLO

But did she wed the man she saved?

Her story was not so engraved.

John Rolfe the settler made her his bride

And brought her to England, where she died

BRIAN BORU BORU BORU BRIAN BORU BORU i can’t remember anything else except the next line probably ends ‘too’

Have you heard of Livingstone

Doctor David Livingstone

Who went to darkest Africa and solved its darkest riddle?

Tommaso Aniello

For short Masaniello

Said “ducats are golden

but lemons are yellow

so when the collectors appear for the rent

we’ll pelt them with lemons until they’re content”

YEAHHHH

RIGHT THEN

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• GRACE DARLING
• LADY GODIVA
• BOADICEA 

FOR WHEN HER VIGIL STILL UNENDED
SHE COOLED THEIR BROWS WITH something DAMP
THE MEN SHE NIGHTLY WATCHED AND TENDED
NAMED HER THE LADY OF THE LAMP

WHEN MEEK AS A MOUSE
SHE WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE
HER DEAR FATHER’S STOCKINGS TO DARN

LADY GODIVA
LET YOUR HAIR DOWN
BARE YOU MUST RIDE
THROUGH COVENTRY TOWN

BOADICEA WAS FRIGHTENED OF NO MAN
AND SCORNED THE IDEA OF ANYTHING ROMAN 
(THE ROMANS SHE HATED FOR TREATING THE BRITONS
AS SOMETHING CREATED EXPRESSLY TO SIT ON)

hells yes

• BUFFALO BILL
• WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
• HENRY VIII
• HEREWARD THE WAKE 

OH WHAT A THRILL 
HERE’S BUFFALO BILL
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAT AND CHAPS IDK

WILLIAM THE FIRST WAS THE FIRST OF OUR KINGS
NOT COUNTING THE ETHELBERTS, EGBERTS AND THINGS
…
AT BONG NUMBER ONE THEY STARTED TO RUN
AT BONG NUMBER TWO THEY WERE SHEDDING THEIR SHOES 
AT BONG NUMBER THREE THEY WERE WEAK AT THE KNEES and so forth

LAST OF ALL WAS KATHERINE PARR
LAST AND LUCKIEST BY FAR
FOR THIS TIME IT WAS HENRY WHO
HOPPED THE TWIG AND A GOOD JOB TOO

I feel like a failure because Hereward the Wake is on the VERY EDGE of my memory and I can remember the illustration and the gist of it but not the actual poem.

• QUEEN ANNE
• JOAN OF ARC
  and of course
• CHARLEMAGNE 

QUEEN ANNE’S DEAD
POOR QUEEN ANNE
IF SHE WAS PLAIN, SHE HAD A PRETTY FAN

…I always felt bad for Queen Anne, her whole poem is SHE WAS FAIRLY MEDIOCRE BUT UM SHE WAS A QUEEN I GUESS?

I HEAR THE VOICES
SWEETER THAN WINE
OF MARGARET, MICHAEL, CATHERINE

CHARLEMAGNE
FLOWER OF FRANCE
WHO WOULD NOT DIE TO WIN THY BRIEFEST GLANCE?
FAIN WOULD I

• THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH (you must remember that one)
• NELSON
• EMMELINE PANKHURST 

(also, it’s “sixth and last and luckiest far”

*wanders off whistling innocently*) 

I DON’T KNOW IT WAS A LIST OF BATTLES DIAGONALLY

NELSON HE WAS SEASICK AT SEA
(What, seasick at sea?)
YES, SEASICK AT SEA
BUT THE FROGGIES AGREED THAT something something something
WHEN HE FOUGHT FOR HIS KING AND HIS COUNT-ER-Y

VOTES! VOTES FOR WOMEN!
yadda yadda that’s the important bit

I can remember ALL the illustrations though I swear

• RICHARD III
• HENRY II which is the one all about Thomas Becket
• ALEXANDER SELKIRK
• SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 

Also CLAIRE I AM IMPRESS all I remembered was “I hear their voices sweeter than wine/Margaret, Michael and Catherine”

I WAS WRONG THOUGH it’s MAID not GIRL

thedreadvampy:

northcentralpositronics:

duckwhatduck:

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer-turned-humanitarian, accomplished skier, first High Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, and recipient of 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (he donated the prize money to international relief efforts).

#tall was he as a viking #kindly and strong was he #the blood of his roving fathers #drove him from sea to sea #fuck you eleanor farjeon

I love that my family think exactly the same as me.

Let me try something.

• JUDAS MACCABEAUS
• JULIUS CAESAR
• SALADIN
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

now, I want at least three lines of poetry about each of these people

I predict that nobody will find this easier than my family 

JULIUS CAESAR PRIDE OF ROME
MADE THE BATTLEFIELD HIS HOME
AND something something THEN HE WENT
AND WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS TENT 

HERE COMES SALADIN
DON’T SAY SALADDIN
HIS SKIN IS AS DARK AS THE SLAVE OF ALADDIN

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
HE CONQUERED THE WORLD AT A ROLLICKING RATE 

I can’t remember Judas Maccabeus, though. Um… take up your arms and slay them for the glory of the Lord? Something like that. It rhymed with “implored”.

WAIT NO I HAVE IT

They bid us bow to Bacchus
They load us with abuse
They thwack us and they whack us
To make us worship Zeus! 

MY TURN:

• POCAHONTAS
• BRIAN BORU (boru boru)
• DAVID LIVINGSTONE
• MASANIELLO

But did she wed the man she saved?

Her story was not so engraved.

John Rolfe the settler made her his bride

And brought her to England, where she died

BRIAN BORU BORU BORU BRIAN BORU BORU i can’t remember anything else except the next line probably ends ‘too’

Have you heard of Livingstone

Doctor David Livingstone

Who went to darkest Africa and solved its darkest riddle?

Tommaso Aniello

For short Masaniello

Said “ducats are golden

but lemons are yellow

so when the collectors appear for the rent

we’ll pelt them with lemons until they’re content”

YEAHHHH

RIGHT THEN

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• GRACE DARLING
• LADY GODIVA
• BOADICEA 

FOR WHEN HER VIGIL STILL UNENDED
SHE COOLED THEIR BROWS WITH something DAMP
THE MEN SHE NIGHTLY WATCHED AND TENDED
NAMED HER THE LADY OF THE LAMP

WHEN MEEK AS A MOUSE
SHE WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE
HER DEAR FATHER’S STOCKINGS TO DARN

LADY GODIVA
LET YOUR HAIR DOWN
BARE YOU MUST RIDE
THROUGH COVENTRY TOWN

BOADICEA WAS FRIGHTENED OF NO MAN
AND SCORNED THE IDEA OF ANYTHING ROMAN 
(THE ROMANS SHE HATED FOR TREATING THE BRITONS
AS SOMETHING CREATED EXPRESSLY TO SIT ON)

hells yes

• BUFFALO BILL
• WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
• HENRY VIII
• HEREWARD THE WAKE 

OH WHAT A THRILL 
HERE’S BUFFALO BILL
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAT AND CHAPS IDK

WILLIAM THE FIRST WAS THE FIRST OF OUR KINGS
NOT COUNTING THE ETHELBERTS, EGBERTS AND THINGS
…
AT BONG NUMBER ONE THEY STARTED TO RUN
AT BONG NUMBER TWO THEY WERE SHEDDING THEIR SHOES 
AT BONG NUMBER THREE THEY WERE WEAK AT THE KNEES and so forth

LAST OF ALL WAS KATHERINE PARR
LAST AND LUCKIEST BY FAR
FOR THIS TIME IT WAS HENRY WHO
HOPPED THE TWIG AND A GOOD JOB TOO

I feel like a failure because Hereward the Wake is on the VERY EDGE of my memory and I can remember the illustration and the gist of it but not the actual poem.

• QUEEN ANNE
• JOAN OF ARC
  and of course
• CHARLEMAGNE 

I suspect I can’t do Joan of Arc anymore because whenever I try and remember it I get the Leonard Cohen song instead…let’s have a go though

QUEEN ANNE’S DEAD/POOR QUEEN ANNE/something something her pretty dress/CLOSE HER PRETTY FAN/AND ON HER PRETTY MONUMENT/LET NOTHING ELSE BE SAID/BUT THESE PLAIN WORDS:/QUEEN ANNE’S DEAD

GIRL MAID WHAT MAKE YOU AT ORLEANS SIEGE/I FIGHT THE ENGLISH I FREE MY LIEGE/something something something/MARGARET MICHAEL AND CATHERINE

CHARLEMAGNE/PRIDE OF FRANCE/WHO WOULD NOT DIE/TO WIN HIS something GLANCE/FAIN WOULD I

TIME TO GET NAPOLEONIC:

• NAPOLEON i like this one
• NELSON
• WELLINGTON

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer-turned-humanitarian, accomplished skier, first High Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, and recipient of 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (he donated the prize money to international relief efforts).

#tall was he as a viking #kindly and strong was he #the blood of his roving fathers #drove him from sea to sea #fuck you eleanor farjeon

I love that my family think exactly the same as me.

Let me try something.

• JUDAS MACCABEAUS
• JULIUS CAESAR
• SALADIN
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

now, I want at least three lines of poetry about each of these people

I predict that nobody will find this easier than my family

GODDAMMIT SIBLING NOW I WILL HAVE ALL THE POEMS STUCK IN MY HEAD NOT JUST NANSEN.

BUAHAHAHAHA

BUFFALO BILL
BRIAN BORU (Boru Boru)
THE CID
LADY GODIVA
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
MASINIELLO
GARIBALDI
GEORGE WASHINGTON
NELSON
BAD KING JOHN
WILLIAM AND MARY OF ORANGE

MINE IS AN EVIL LAUGH 

You forgot Richard III, Boadicea, and of course history’s mystery coming to a close.

also the penny stamp was purple and the ha’penny stamp was blue.

and Rob Roy McGregor kept robbing the roy.

BOLINGBROKE BOLINGBROKE WHAT WILL YOU DO?
I’LL LODGE POEMS IN YOUR HEAD AND THEY’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU. 

everyone on all our dashes and everyone who likes Nansen is going to hate us

but yesssss

northcentralpositronics:

thedreadvampy:

duckwhatduck:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer-turned-humanitarian, accomplished skier, first High Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, and recipient of 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (he donated the prize money to international relief efforts).

#tall was he as a viking #kindly and strong was he #the blood of his roving fathers #drove him from sea to sea #fuck you eleanor farjeon

I love that my family think exactly the same as me.

Let me try something.

• JUDAS MACCABEAUS
• JULIUS CAESAR
• SALADIN
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

now, I want at least three lines of poetry about each of these people

I predict that nobody will find this easier than my family 

JULIUS CAESAR PRIDE OF ROME
MADE THE BATTLEFIELD HIS HOME
AND something something THEN HE WENT
AND WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS TENT 

HERE COMES SALADIN
DON’T SAY SALADDIN
HIS SKIN IS AS DARK AS THE SLAVE OF ALADDIN

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
HE CONQUERED THE WORLD AT A ROLLICKING RATE 

I can’t remember Judas Maccabeus, though. Um… take up your arms and slay them for the glory of the Lord? Something like that. It rhymed with “implored”.

WAIT NO I HAVE IT

They bid us bow to Bacchus
They load us with abuse
They thwack us and they whack us
To make us worship Zeus! 

MY TURN:

• POCAHONTAS
• BRIAN BORU (boru boru)
• DAVID LIVINGSTONE
• MASANIELLO

But did she wed the man she saved?

Her story was not so engraved.

John Rolfe the settler made her his bride

And brought her to England, where she died

BRIAN BORU BORU BORU BRIAN BORU BORU i can’t remember anything else except the next line probably ends ‘too’

Have you heard of Livingstone

Doctor David Livingstone

Who went to darkest Africa and solved its darkest riddle?

Tommaso Aniello

For short Masaniello

Said “ducats are golden

but lemons are yellow

so when the collectors appear for the rent

we’ll pelt them with lemons until they’re content”

YEAHHHH

RIGHT THEN

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• GRACE DARLING
• LADY GODIVA
• BOADICEA