This entry is nothing but me being a history geek.

[revolutions]

1. I am doing the happy dance of nerd joy because my essay on Juvenal's satires got 82%. :D

2. Is it bad that I almost kind of want to write Cope/Marsh fanfic? Seriously, I was reading about palaeontology history and things today, and clearly they were just full of the FoeYay.

3. I am really really amused by this Kate Beaton comic. Also, the person in the comments who described the Young Victoria movie as "a two-hour elaboration of Victoria's boner for Albert".

4. Hey, maybe I could bribe Kate Beaton to draw the Cope/Marsh slash. Uhm, yeah. XD


[Edit: oops, forgot to include a description of the comic. Added one in the comments, since it is kind of long.]

Comments

[milkymoon]

But geeking is wonderful! I'd rather see this than...annoying people talking about what's on their myspace.

(And Kate Beaton's comics look lovely. :3)

[revolutions]

Ack, forgot to describe the comic! Here it is for not_a_sniglet and anyone else using a screen reader:

It's three strips of three panels each, depicting (imagined) scenes from Queen Victoria's life. In the first strip, she is quite young and is shown with her husband Prince Albert:

In the first panel, Albert is holding a piece of paper and saying "Happy birthday Victoria! I have a present for you." In the second, Victoria looks very excited and says "WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT". In the third, we see that it is a picture of Albert in an, ahem, "sexy" pose, with the text "HEY BABY - HRH". Victoria is saying "Oh Albert it is just what I wanted".

Second strip: Victoria is still pretty young, and is looking very put out. Albert is saying "Victoria, stop that." "But I'm the Queen." Second panel: Albert says "You're being a big baby" and Victoria replies "But I'm the QUEEN". Third panel: Albert says "Queens do not throw baby fits"; VIctoria, flinging herself on the floor, says "Au contraire".

Third strip, which is the one that made me lol: A much older Victoria is writing in a book, with one of her (now adult) children standing behind her. He asks "Mummy what are you doing" and she replies "Writing my memoirs". In the second panel, we see a close-up of the memoirs she is writing, which reads:

CHAPTER ONE: ALBERT IS A BABE AND WE DO IT CONSTANTLY
CHAPTER TWO: ALBERT'S TIGHT PANTS GET ME SO HOT
CHAPTER THREE: WORN OUT FROM SEX WITH ALBERT. PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER STUPID KID THOUGH.

In the third panel, her son is saying "Mummy, that is not appropriate" and she answers "You're one to talk".


.... yeah. As Kate Beaton points out in her comments to it, the best thing about Queen Victoria is that she had such a giant boner for her husband and never tired of telling people about it. :D

[lysimache]

I am doing the happy dance of nerd joy because my essay on Juvenal's satires got 82%. :D

Yay! :)

What was your paper about? (I wrote a paper once on uses of the ablative absolute in Juvenal 1.)

[not_a_sniglet]

Yee!! Comic love!!

The Newbie

[jackluminous]

If you actually write Cope/Marsh, I will buy you chocolate and booze. For serious.

And I've been wanting to write Tesla/Edison for years. War of the scientific rivalry OTPs!