Blair: Compassion
Nadia: Gallantry, nobility of spirit and action.
Amy: Compassion
Fiona: Boldness
Ren: ... yeeeeeaaaaah... let's unpack that.
Ren is absolutely desperate for love and affection. Ren is absolutely smitten by women who simply show honest interest in her.
Nadia: Gallantry, nobility of spirit and action.
Amy: Compassion
Fiona: Boldness
Ren: ... yeeeeeaaaaah... let's unpack that.
Ren is absolutely desperate for love and affection. Ren is absolutely smitten by women who simply show honest interest in her.
#LitHodgepodge 12
Qualities we appreciate in others are direct reflections of what we value, or feel we lack ourselves. What does your character look for in a companion? (Slight modification of Proust's version, which differentiates btwn men and women.)
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Qualities we appreciate in others are direct reflections of what we value, or feel we lack ourselves. What does your character look for in a companion? (Slight modification of Proust's version, which differentiates btwn men and women.)
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An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions
MONDAYS WITH MARCEL
[Black & white picture of Marcel Proust, a man of the fin de siècle who had dark hair, sleepy eyes, and a dark mustache, sitting with his elbow propped on the back of his chair and looking pensive]
Prompt:
12 | Answer as one or each of your characters (as well as yourself, if you wish!):
What is the quality you most like in another person?
[Graphic of a talking crow]
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions popularized by French writer Marcel Proust. Victorians answered these questions in parlor games, and modern interviewers now often use them. They can also be a great character development tool!
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October 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Blair: Compassion
Nadia: Gallantry, nobility of spirit and action.
Amy: Compassion
Fiona: Boldness
Ren: ... yeeeeeaaaaah... let's unpack that.
Ren is absolutely desperate for love and affection. Ren is absolutely smitten by women who simply show honest interest in her.
Nadia: Gallantry, nobility of spirit and action.
Amy: Compassion
Fiona: Boldness
Ren: ... yeeeeeaaaaah... let's unpack that.
Ren is absolutely desperate for love and affection. Ren is absolutely smitten by women who simply show honest interest in her.
Interesting - without recent evidence I would have said they were more Catholic coded (along with knights, gallantry, etc). I wonder if this is a recent phenomenon?
October 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Interesting - without recent evidence I would have said they were more Catholic coded (along with knights, gallantry, etc). I wonder if this is a recent phenomenon?
The people that liberated the Falklands were people like Surgeon-Captain Rick Jolly - one if the very few people ever to have won an award for gallantry from both sides.
From Argentina for saving so many of their sailors' lives, UK likewise
Be a Rick, not a dick
From Argentina for saving so many of their sailors' lives, UK likewise
Be a Rick, not a dick
October 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The people that liberated the Falklands were people like Surgeon-Captain Rick Jolly - one if the very few people ever to have won an award for gallantry from both sides.
From Argentina for saving so many of their sailors' lives, UK likewise
Be a Rick, not a dick
From Argentina for saving so many of their sailors' lives, UK likewise
Be a Rick, not a dick
I assume you have already submitted the recommendation for the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross?
October 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I assume you have already submitted the recommendation for the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross?
It's worn between the conspicuous gallantry cross and the distinguished conduct medal.
October 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
It's worn between the conspicuous gallantry cross and the distinguished conduct medal.
Serjeant George Bland of the Royal Army Medical Corps was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 for gallantry while in charge of stretcher-bearers. He was later killed in Belgium on 9 October 1917, aged just 26.
📍Oxford Road Cemetery 🇧🇪
📍Oxford Road Cemetery 🇧🇪
October 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Serjeant George Bland of the Royal Army Medical Corps was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 for gallantry while in charge of stretcher-bearers. He was later killed in Belgium on 9 October 1917, aged just 26.
📍Oxford Road Cemetery 🇧🇪
📍Oxford Road Cemetery 🇧🇪
I suspect a lot of English gallantry from that era came down to exactly that: the assumption that any married premenopausal woman is likely pregnant, with the unborn heir being full of potential and potentially a boy.
October 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I suspect a lot of English gallantry from that era came down to exactly that: the assumption that any married premenopausal woman is likely pregnant, with the unborn heir being full of potential and potentially a boy.
Julio Pedro Garesché de Rocher was born in Havana, Cuba in 1821. Sent by his parents to the US to attend Georgetown College, he later entered the U.S. Military Academy, graduating in 1841. Breveted for gallantry in the Mexican War, he was serving in the Adjutant General’s department in 1861.
October 6, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Julio Pedro Garesché de Rocher was born in Havana, Cuba in 1821. Sent by his parents to the US to attend Georgetown College, he later entered the U.S. Military Academy, graduating in 1841. Breveted for gallantry in the Mexican War, he was serving in the Adjutant General’s department in 1861.
Miyamura was finally released on Aug. 20, 1953, during a prisoner exchange. He was afraid he would face a court-martial for losing position, but he immediately learned of his Medal of Honor. It was officially presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House on Oct. 27, 1953. /8
October 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Miyamura was finally released on Aug. 20, 1953, during a prisoner exchange. He was afraid he would face a court-martial for losing position, but he immediately learned of his Medal of Honor. It was officially presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House on Oct. 27, 1953. /8
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Good to meet another Nelson! My Dad earned his Silver Star for Gallantry in Action ass a radioman D-Day survivor.
Good to meet another Nelson! My Dad earned his Silver Star for Gallantry in Action ass a radioman D-Day survivor.
October 4, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Good to meet another Nelson! My Dad earned his Silver Star for Gallantry in Action ass a radioman D-Day survivor.
Good to meet another Nelson! My Dad earned his Silver Star for Gallantry in Action ass a radioman D-Day survivor.
King confers armed forces gallantry awards on 150 recipients
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today conferred the Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award on Arm Forces chief General Tan Sri Malek Razak Sulaiman at the 2026 Investiture Ceremony for the Armed Forces…
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today conferred the Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award on Arm Forces chief General Tan Sri Malek Razak Sulaiman at the 2026 Investiture Ceremony for the Armed Forces…
King confers armed forces gallantry awards on 150 recipients
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today conferred the Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award on Arm Forces chief General Tan Sri Malek Razak Sulaiman at the 2026 Investiture Ceremony for the Armed Forces Gallantry Awards (DKAT).
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October 6, 2026 at 5:02 AM
King confers armed forces gallantry awards on 150 recipients
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today conferred the Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award on Arm Forces chief General Tan Sri Malek Razak Sulaiman at the 2026 Investiture Ceremony for the Armed Forces…
KUALA LUMPUR: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today conferred the Panglima Gagah Angkatan Tentera (PGAT) award on Arm Forces chief General Tan Sri Malek Razak Sulaiman at the 2026 Investiture Ceremony for the Armed Forces…
Middle Ages developed a code of conduct called chivalry - "gallantry" toward women. warrior ethos
October 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Middle Ages developed a code of conduct called chivalry - "gallantry" toward women. warrior ethos
You can't pass up a chance to witness the gallantry of Earth's ruler in person! Now you stay right there and watch me!
October 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
You can't pass up a chance to witness the gallantry of Earth's ruler in person! Now you stay right there and watch me!
Visited Coventry War Memorial Park yesterday and stopped at the memorial to Arthur Hutt VC.
It was 109 years ago today that Arthur’s bravery, initiative and leadership earned him the Victoria Cross, making him Coventry’s first recipient of the UK’s highest award for gallantry.
It was 109 years ago today that Arthur’s bravery, initiative and leadership earned him the Victoria Cross, making him Coventry’s first recipient of the UK’s highest award for gallantry.
October 4, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Visited Coventry War Memorial Park yesterday and stopped at the memorial to Arthur Hutt VC.
It was 109 years ago today that Arthur’s bravery, initiative and leadership earned him the Victoria Cross, making him Coventry’s first recipient of the UK’s highest award for gallantry.
It was 109 years ago today that Arthur’s bravery, initiative and leadership earned him the Victoria Cross, making him Coventry’s first recipient of the UK’s highest award for gallantry.
![The play contains an error rooted in Robert Browning's unfamiliarity with vulgar slang. In her closing song, Pippa says:
But at night, brother howlet, over the woods,
Toll the world to thy chantry;
Sing to the bats' sleek sisterhoods
Full complines with gallantry:
Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry![21]
— from Act IV: Night, Scene: Pippa's chamber again (emphasis added)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ap2eev7lky7la2cskdb2eeb5/bafkreialm4qjvfbuj6oogc3s52bbsnzv662ywvj7v44oviedtypvg4ejvy)
!["Twat" was and remains vulgar slang for a woman's external genitalia. But in 1886, Frederick James Furnivall, a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, asked the poet for his source, and Browning replied "that he got the word from the Royalist rhymes entitled 'Vanity of Vanities', on Sir Harry Vane's picture"[22] in which Vane is lampooned thus:
They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat,
They'd send him as soon an old Nun's Twat[23]
Browning added, "The word struck me as a distinctive part of a nun's attire that might fitly pair off with the cowl appropriated to a monk."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ap2eev7lky7la2cskdb2eeb5/bafkreig23haz4nxujb2zdizo6umf2shfojooexztf7benms7n2pxcfknxi)
He earned a gallantry medal.
October 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
He earned a gallantry medal.
MEDAL OF HONOR.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHUR J. JACKSON, USMCR 🇺🇸
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 208. Arthur J. Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHUR J. JACKSON, USMCR 🇺🇸
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 208. Arthur J. Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving
October 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
MEDAL OF HONOR.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHUR J. JACKSON, USMCR 🇺🇸
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 208. Arthur J. Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ARTHUR J. JACKSON, USMCR 🇺🇸
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 208. Arthur J. Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving
I'm Bramble!
I'm a trans, disabled writer from Wales telling short stories about a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father. Collectively, I call them Raven & Bear. Eight are written so far.
Post-apocalyptic Gallantry.
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I'm a trans, disabled writer from Wales telling short stories about a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father. Collectively, I call them Raven & Bear. Eight are written so far.
Post-apocalyptic Gallantry.
#QueerPrompts #Raven+Bear #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
October 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I'm Bramble!
I'm a trans, disabled writer from Wales telling short stories about a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father. Collectively, I call them Raven & Bear. Eight are written so far.
Post-apocalyptic Gallantry.
#QueerPrompts #Raven+Bear #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
I'm a trans, disabled writer from Wales telling short stories about a young girl learning how to be a knight from her adoptive father. Collectively, I call them Raven & Bear. Eight are written so far.
Post-apocalyptic Gallantry.
#QueerPrompts #Raven+Bear #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
John Matten awarded Star of Gallantry for extraordinary actions in South Vietnam
A member of the Karridale-Augusta RSL has been awarded the Star of Gallantry — one of the nation’s highest military honours. Source link
A member of the Karridale-Augusta RSL has been awarded the Star of Gallantry — one of the nation’s highest military honours. Source link
John Matten awarded Star of Gallantry for extraordinary actions in South Vietnam
A member of the Karridale-Augusta RSL has been awarded the Star of Gallantry — one of the nation’s highest military honours. Source link
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October 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM
John Matten awarded Star of Gallantry for extraordinary actions in South Vietnam
A member of the Karridale-Augusta RSL has been awarded the Star of Gallantry — one of the nation’s highest military honours. Source link
A member of the Karridale-Augusta RSL has been awarded the Star of Gallantry — one of the nation’s highest military honours. Source link
He's chosen his words very carefully here. Doesn't deny being part of the operation, defends the people on the ground but not necessarily everyone involved.
From the battlefield to the ballot: NZSAS veteran stands for Parliament
He was awarded the NZ Gallantry Medal for trying to save his dying friend in a firefight.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 3, 2026 at 4:56 AM
He's chosen his words very carefully here. Doesn't deny being part of the operation, defends the people on the ground but not necessarily everyone involved.
Marquei como visto Seal Team - 5x8 - Conspicuous Gallantry https://bancodeseries.com.br/index.php?action=se&serieid=12623&episode=88&type= #bancodeseries
October 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Marquei como visto Seal Team - 5x8 - Conspicuous Gallantry https://bancodeseries.com.br/index.php?action=se&serieid=12623&episode=88&type= #bancodeseries
Atribui nota 8.5 ao episodio 5x8 - Conspicuous Gallantry de Seal Team https://bancodeseries.com.br/index.php?action=se&serieid=12623&episode=88&type= #bancodeseries
October 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Atribui nota 8.5 ao episodio 5x8 - Conspicuous Gallantry de Seal Team https://bancodeseries.com.br/index.php?action=se&serieid=12623&episode=88&type= #bancodeseries
25/26 Mason received the George Cross, the highest civilian award for gallantry, gazetted on 8 September 1942, and his crew took a DSO, five DSCs and seven DSMs between them. The island itself had been given that same cross in April.
September 29, 2026 at 7:35 AM
25/26 Mason received the George Cross, the highest civilian award for gallantry, gazetted on 8 September 1942, and his crew took a DSO, five DSCs and seven DSMs between them. The island itself had been given that same cross in April.