Text from this post

S06E12

I'm sorry... did he just come out?!?!?!

I just finished watching s1 of House and I am so normal about this Australian man

corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture

2024 house md 2: electric boogaloo

ive been seeing people do this (it's amazing) and I want to join in. Here is house md reimagined in 2024

they are so boyfriends

Granada Sherlock Holmes...Jeremy Brett

LOIF OR BATH??

ANTI-BARFING SPIKES.

This is why they have such a problem with plastic bags. It’s because the unique structure of their esophagus makes it so that they can’t get rid of them.

Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

two of us has been gone from vimeo for a while and nobody has reposted it so here’s two of us (2000) on google drive

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

I hate that you photoshopped out the right arm of the dog to enhance the realism

currently maybe possibly single-handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883

@queenlua Happily! This is going to be long, so here's some set dressing first:

Eton College, for anyone unfamiliar, is a prestigious boys' school in England that has famously educated MANY MANY politicians, royals, nobility, and other assorted famous people. All you really need to know about it is that's it's incredibly posh and expensive and exclusive

The Eton Society (called “Pop” internally) is a self-selecting body of senior students at Eton that have historically held a decent amount of power at the school. If you’ve ever attended a school with a prefect system/house system etc you probably know a little bit about how obnoxious this kind of group can get. Now imagine they're all called Lord Godfrey Pickerington or something. Are you getting it? Is the set being dressed? Good.

Now that the scene is set, here’s our tale!!

I stumbled into Eton’s archives while doing research for a fanfiction and we’ll just leave that admission where it is!! It was in reading old issues of their student-run paper, The Chronicle, from 1883 that myself and @carebewear started becoming fixated on one guy in particular.

Cecil B. Gedge (from this point on known as Gedge) was a member of the Eton Society in 1883/84. He won a few Science awards during his time there (Biology!!) and seemed to like rowing during school sports events. He went on to become a barrister, which will make sense once you know more about him.

The best part of Gedge, though, is his appearances in the minutes for the Eton Society meetings. At least at Gedge’s time, the Eton Society seemed really fond of staging debates (more like loosely organised discussions) on a wide variety of topics.

Here are some of the riveting questions they discussed!

And my personal favourite: "Are Ghosts Real?"

(They were very divided)

Gedge first came to our attention in debate about the annexation of New Guinea, in which he apparently started an "abusive attack on the British army and missionaries":

Wow! Based Gedge!? He continues to spit period-typical truths about things like how we shouldn't tax bicycles actually because it would disproportionately affect poor people. YIMBY Gedge?? He would've loved light rail.

The final nail in our Gedge obsession was a debate on women's suffrage, in which Gedge vehemently advocates for women's right to vote and then gets no supporters at the end of the meeting. But I appreciate that he said it anyway and kept saying it. He is more persecuted that Christ, to me.

Here are some more, from anti-conscription sentiment to indirectly calling his classmates stupid to weirding everyone out by saying he wants to donate his body to science (his friend dissecting him for fun):

We started getting the feeling people might not have liked Gedge that much, mainly since one of the Society members wrote a poem about all his friends and Gedge isn't in it.

In 1884, there was some extended drama in the Chronicle where someone whom I groundlessly suspect was Gedge under a pseudonym ("A Socialist"), wrote to the editor complaining that the "debates" published by the Eton Society were "bad" (genuine quote) and that they should make a REAL debate society at the school that ALL boys, not just the self-selected seniors, could participate in:

To make a long story short most of the vocal members of the Eton Society threw up their hands at this and refused to do anything, basically boiling down to "Just because we're the prefects of the school doesn't mean we should have to actually DO anything!! Unfair!!" and also this quote which reads exactly like at least a thousand real tweets I've seen in my life

Liberal. Gedge, of course, was there giving practical suggestions, but the discussion was ultimately cut short because their principal died and they had to push a memorial issue of the paper. We have a working theory that the staff might've used that interruption as an opportunity to get the boys to cut it the fuck out.

Anyway it's a little unclear what happens to Gedge after that. He isn't credited as being in the 1884 Eton Society in the larger school register but it's unclear if that's because he wasn't re-elected or if he just graduated. Either way, he went on to become a barrister in London, which makes a lot of sense. Sadly though, he passed away in WW1, which we were really normal about

Thank you Lt. Gedge, for truly embodying the eternal spirit of an outspoken debate-kid, a friend to the lefties, a proto-yimby, a terminal back-talker, and the kid in a biology class that's a little too excited for the dissections. I hope your life, however short, was a rich and bright one. Thanks for the incredibly entertaining afternoon, brother 🫡

He was gedgy before his time

In October 1914 (When Gedge joined up) no one would be looking at a man in his late forties and asking "Why are you not at The Front?"

In fact, for someone that age, and at that time, to not only be able to join up, but to get a commission for the Front Line, (they shouldn't have taken anyone over 45 btw) he must have pulled some strings to get in. In fact being a Barrister, he would be considered ideal for a Staff Officer role.

According to his Commanding Officer, Gedge was wounded early in the advance, and rather than allowing himself to be withdrawn from the Front Line, he insisted on returning to his men.

After doing so, he was never seen again.

losing my mind imagining in-universe Enterprise porn parodies. They have surprisingly high production value and are popular enough to follow Kirk around wherever he goes. They’re vague enough that he can’t sue them, but the whole ship knows about “Captain Quirk” and his various productions. “Captain’s Log” is a particular favorite since it features “Commander Cock” whose theoretical resemblance to Vulcans living or dead is entirely coincidental. Spock is not amused. Kirk is not amused. Bones gets them each a massive poster of their respective impersonators, but he stops laughing when the character “Dr. Boner” is introduced in “First Contact: Extraterrestrials Gone Wild”

spirklets

finally I made an edit with Jeeves and Wooster