Alfred was an absolute icon in btas

Maximilian Liebenwein - The Legend of Saint George: The Rescue (1903)

they're meant to die by each other's sword why are they in a coffee shop

salmon run

they're putting me on the cover of times magazine and also putting a cup over me and there's even talk of taking me outside

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the king picked the guy with skull shoulderpads for the court magician job, which is exciting

Supernatural is so torture chamber with a certain je ne sais quoi. Like yeah when I was being gaslit while having rocks thrown at me it sucked. But tv shows these days just don’t give you the satisfaction. Of coming out of twelve years of gaslighting and stone throwing. Covered in blood. With a win. They don’t make television shows you can get in physical fights with anymore. They don’t make television shows you can be versus against and win

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1780-90 embroidery detail, mens waistcoat

~ The Whittier News, December 5, 1903

Mr. M. R. Hadley is out of jail and will sell 18 pounds of sugar to any child capable of carrying it. Otherwise he will deliver in seventeen minutes. Not fifteen or twenty. Seventeen.

I tried to find out who this person (a man, probably, but the ad doesn't specify, and women COULD own businesses!) was

there was a prominent banker named Washington Hadley in Whittier, CA, but that doesn't start with an M, died before telephones were invented, and anyway he doesn't seem likely to be announcing his release from jail with a Sugar Flash Sale

the Hadley family remained influential in the area, though. so this could be the child of a Fine Upstanding Family who's gotten out of the lockup and is now hawking sugar within a very specific timeframe

This is getting interesting.

According to the phone book, M R Hadley was still busy hawking sugar in Whittier in 1904, with a different phone number and an address in Greenleaf Avenue:

Greenleaf Avenue and Philadelphia Street intersect, so it's possible his store was on the corner.

AHA! Non-payment of tax and resisting arrest.

Also, M R Hadley is a bloke.

1903-08-31: It seems that popular opinion was in his favour. The jury was discharged.

1903-08-02: "He is now technically in jail, but actually attending to his business and having fun at the expense of the City Marshal…"

Also: we now know that the store was called Hoosier Grocery. The paper calls it "Hooser Grocery" but the phone book confirms that's a typo.

REBLOGGED because of the amazing detective work in the comments!

Some fun out of context things from tonight's over an hour long game changer episode

Presenting the results of my latest hyperfixation

Tam Lin is a Scottish folktale, usually presented in ballad form, dating back to at least the 16th Century. It has been summarized and re-told by different people over the years, including Overly Sarcastic Productions. It is the subject of a one-act opera, and was the inspiration for a 1970 movie that updated the story to the present day.

The fairy queen yells at Tam Lin in every version analyzed except for the Anais Mitchell version. Her version is an outlier in many respects, since the entire parade is left out, Janet simply grabs hold of Tam Lin mid-conversation.

Another oddity is Pentangle's version, which was written for the movie and consists of a jumble of images meant to complement scenes from the film, without a coherent narrative.

The biggest surprise to me is how few versions mention Janet seeking an abortion, something that I had always thought of as a central part of the story.

One thing I wish I could have looked at in more depth is the balance between versions that describe Tam Lin's transformations before he goes through them, and versions that describe them as they happen. As they happen is more common, but some songs will do the entire sequence twice.

Going into this, I had two versions prominent in my mind: Anais Mitchell's pop-folk version that leaves out much of the story, and Anne Briggs' very traditional (and very long) version. Because of this, I thought perhaps we would see a decrease in the complexity of the story over the years, but that's not the case, it's basically flat. I think a better comparison might be to separate into traditional and revised versions, although that is something of a judgment call.

There were so many minor discrepancies I couldn't even keep track of them all, but these four stood out because they are so oddly specific. Even the main character's name and the setting aren't consistent across versions, if they're even mentioned at all. Some versions don't even give the main character a name!

My data collection process leaves a lot to be desired, as well as the way in which I decided which events were major or minor, and which things to leave out altogether. This was mainly just a fun way to explore different versions of my favorite folktale, listen to a lot of different people sing different versions of the ballad, and rotate the whole thing in my brain.