BigJackBrass

BigJackBrass, 23 hours ago to history

It's hard not to feel that part of the problem with my homeland is summed up rather well by this object: a chair, specially made so that the visiting monarch wouldn't have to park his pampered posterior on a piece of used furniture, venerated four hundred years later.

#History #GreatBritain #DivineRightOfKingsMyArse

BigJackBrass, 23 hours ago to random

I do think that this café might be laying on the British nostalgia theme a wee bit heavily.

BigJackBrass, 1 day ago to random

#Mosstodon?

BigJackBrass, 1 day ago to RPG

Currently reading this history of the music hall, the British counterpart of vaudeville and precursor to variety. My favourite RPGs tend to be things like "Call of Cthulhu" and "Forgotten Futures" with a strong Victorian to Georgian (George V, that is) tone and history, but I often feel that the popular culture of the time is ignored when it should be a vital part of the world and the characters. NPCs ought to be playing records, going to the pictures, whistling the latest hits, referencing movie stars and stage actors, encouraging the PCs to read a new novel they're enamoured with—or recommending they avoid one they dislike.

A few sentences here and there, a name dropped, an encounter when shopping for sheet music or looking at the posters advertising coming acts… it doesn't take much to add to a great deal of flavour to the world and make it feel alive, rather than like those cheap cartoons where the only people moving or even present in a scene are the PCS.

#RPG #History #MusicHall

Scene from the movie "Bullshot". The titular hero is attempting to fend off the advances of an attractive woman who is wearing a very revealing dress and has just put a jazz record on the gramophone. Caption: "Is this seemly, Mrs. Platt-Higgins? Playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?"
Photograph taken in London in 1910. A figure wearing a straw boater is standing, partly obscured by an ornate lamppost, reading one of several advertising posters pasted along a wall. They include one for "The Sins of London" at the Lyceum; Madame Sarah Bernhardt and a number of other acts appearing at The London Coliseum, Charing Cross; and a travel poster advertising Blackpool by very sensibly not showing the town, but going for a painting of a smiling woman beside the sea instead.

hypnogoria, 4 days ago to Podcast

FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 108 - The Monster of Lake LaMetrie by Wardon Allan Curtis

Another early tale of a surviving dinosaur but this story about a lake dwelling dinosaur takes a very bizarre turn...

https://www.hypnogoria.com/gl_lametrie.html

#podcast #WeirdFiction #monsters #cryptids

BigJackBrass, 4 days ago to random

You've come a long way, baby.