Lily Of The Valley also fits the cathedral series, so there you have it, my darlings!

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The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

My bros I have been doing a lot of reading about Wacky WWII Hijinks lately and I want to tell you a story because I love it okay

once upon a time there was a dude in Spain named Juan Pujol Garcia. Pujol was a chicken farmer. Pujol hated him some goddamn fascists.

See Spain had recently ended its civil war, with the fascists taking power. So when WWII broke out in Europe, Spain technically remained neutral but in practice was buddy buddy with the Nazis. Juan Pujol Garcia thought this was pretty bullshit

so soon after war breaks out Pujol travels to his local British embassy and goes “hey I wanna spy on the Nazis for you”

“who the fuck are you?” say the British, and kick him out

but Pujol is not deterred! He still wants to dunk on some fascists, so now he goes to his local German embassy instead. “hey” he says, “I wanna spy on the British for you, I sure do hate them”

“yeah okay” say the Germans “that seems pretty legit”

and just like that Pujol now officially works for the Abwehr, the German intelligence agency. They hand him some spy gear (invisible ink and such) and instruct him to travel to Lisbon, and from there make his way into the UK. So Pujol heads to Lisbon, and a little while later writes to his German handlers telling them he’s made it to England

Pujol had not made it to England. He had, in fact, made it to the Lisbon public library, where he checked out a number of English guide books and set about just wholesale making shit up

this is slightly complicated by the fact that, for example, he completely did not understand British currency and all his expense reports were basically gibberish. He also reported things like bribing Scotsmen, because the people of Glasgow would “do anything for a litre of wine” (an actual quote) because, hey, people in Spain like wine so that’s probably the same right?

Here is where it starts to get really crazy, because the Abwehr loves this. “wow this dude is a great spy” they say, because apparently none of them had ever been the England either. In fact, they are so pumped about this new awesome spy that the British start to get worried

you see, by this time the British had cracked German’s supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and were totally dunking on the Nazis by reading basically all of their ~super top secret~ radio transmissions. And, crucially, they’d become so good at breaking and reading traffic that there were literally no German spies in England. The Germans would set up a spy drop (usually dropping dudes in by parachute in the middle of the night), the British would intercept the message and then just scoop the dudes up as soon as they landed in a move that must have been SUPER embarrassing to the spies

so there are no German spies in the UK because they’re all sitting in a prison run by MI5 (although some are being run under supervision as double agents, feeding Germany bullshit). But suddenly MI5 is picking up all this traffic from the Germans talking about their super great spy- a spy the British do not have in their jail

“oh shit” says MI5, and starts rereading all the transmissions they have to and from this mysterious super spy.

“hey wait” says MI5, upon actually reading the shit the spy was sending. “someone is playing silly buggers, pip pip cheerio”

At this point, Pujol, still in Lisbon, had actually been approaching the British embassy again, repeatedly, but apparently “I am literally an Abwehr agent and would like to offer you my services” wasn’t interesting enough, because he was repeatedly turned away, again. It wasn’t until MI5 started asking around that one of the embassy staff was like “oh yeah we know that guy”

so in 1942 the British finally make contact with Pujol and he officially becomes a spy for MI5. They move him to London and assign him a case officer so he can start making up even better bullshit

and he does. Once actually in London, Pujol reports to the Abwehr that he’d recruited a whole slew of informants- from a bunch of Welsh Aryans to disaffected army officers. He ends up with a network of 20+ sub-spies, all feeding him information from around the UK

none of these people actually exist

Pujol just straight up invented like 20 people, keeping careful track of their fake personalities, names, and activities. With the help of MI5, the information he sends becomes even better- a mix of true but ultimately useless facts and actually important intel timed to arrive in Germany just slightly too late to be of any use. He and his “spy network” become the Abwehr’s most trusted agents

Pujol, now codenamed Agent Garbo (for his acting skills), ends up playing a huge role in the run-up to D-Day, where the Allies mounted a huge intelligence campaign to convince Hitler that the planned site of attack was going to be Calais and not Normandy (this was Operation Fortitude and you should absolutely look it up for more Wacky WWII Adventures). Obviously you know how this ended

crazily enough, the Abwehr never figured out that Pujol was a double agent. After the war he received both the Iron Cross Second Class (which require personal authorization from Hitler), and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (from King George VI)

unable to resist being totally fucking ridiculous, Pujol turned down MI5’s post-war offer to continue spying, but this time against the USSR. “no,” he said “just help me fake my own death and then I’m moving to Venezuela”

and that’s exactly what he did. Juan Garcia Pujol died in 1988, at the age of 76

Okay I’m just editing my reblog to add this picture of Juan Pujol Garcia because I feel that it adds so much to the story to picture him doing ALL THE ABOVE with this expression:

What a legend.

Thank you Jess for this extremely important addendum.

he’s my hero and also adorable

This is…holy fucking shit, I have no words for how much glee this story brings me. It’s like Mother Night but not soul-crushing

He was Catalan and his real name was Joan (not Juan) Pujol i Garcia.

After the fascists won the Spanish Civil War, Spanish names were mandatory, since the Catalan language and culture were completely banned by the fascist regime, but he referred to himself as Joan. So let’s refer to him as Joan as he would have wanted, and not use the name that the Spanish fascists imposed.

Here’s an interesting interview with him from the year 1984 (in Catalan)

I cannot recommend enough the book about him

There have been two movies about Operation Mincemeat; the first was ”The Man Who Never Was” in 1956, and more recently “Operation Mincemeat” in 2021.

There’s also been one about double agent Eddie Chapman (”Triple Cross” in 1966) who like Garcia was awarded an Iron Cross.

So far there have been none about Agent Garbo, which is a shame, because there’s an appealing thread of genuine comedy running through the whole thing.

(Wikipedia entry here,)

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ppl who have never lived outside of a city writing these rural american gothic posts like "the goats know secrets" girl the goats dont even know how to get their horns unstuck from the fence without my help

the worst thing in the world is doing things. the second worst thing in the world is not doing things. how has no one ever come up with a solution for this

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Tag nine (9) people you’d like to know better I was tagged by @the-20th-century-girl Thank you!! Last Song: Dare to be Stupid by “Weird Al” Yankovic (listening to it as i write this haha) Currently Watching: I’m on my 128937th rewatch of ghosts rn! also started watching season 2 of sonic prime :D Currently Reading: The Merchant of Venice (for school unfortunately), but i’m also reading a whole bunch of spider-man comics rn Current Obsession: Weird Al (surprising no one) Tagging (unfortunately): @spineless-lobster @likefish @thattransboyaled @petrodragonicapocalypse @mr-imperatrix @fatherbloopy @natequarter @maeo-png @activebutodd

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Last song: Poltava - Sabaton (it’s also stuck in my head rn lol)

Currently watching: Not much tbh, I still gotta watch s5 of wwdits so I’ll do that soon

Currently reading: I’m gonna start reading Song of Achilles soon!!!

Current obsession: My brain won’t let go of capvers so those two little army gays are floating around in my mind a lot atm

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Last song: airheads- roger taylor (but that’s just cause it was the last song i listen to on the album lol)

Currently watching: good omens (hehehahah)

Currently reading: fanfiction?? idk i think the last thing i read was the david minns freddie book

Current obsession: queen and also kris (/silly) they consume my every waking thought

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Last song: pale white horse by the oh hellos (doing my daily dear wormwood listen)

Currently watching: good omens (just had a rewatch to get excited for season 2)

Currently reading: fanfiction

Current obssession: good omens, freddie mercury, queen

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Last song: uhh lemme check… Miss Pettigrew by Paul Englishby (it’s from the movie ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day’. Frances McDormand plays the main character and the film’s sooo good! Highly recommend!)

Currently watching: The Pride and Prejudice series from 1995. Also in preparation for Good Omens Season 2 😎

Currently reading: other than my study notes? Mickey Mouse comics lmao

Current obsession: GOOD OMENS. other than that Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Wooster and Jane Austen :)

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Last song: She’s Kerosene by Interrupters

Currently watching: Zerocalcare’s Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo, it’s both so good and so heavy to watch (in a good way) at the same time, still have the last two episodes to go ✌🌚

Currently reading: I started Desencuentros by Luis Sepúlveda just this morning lol

Current obsession: Green Day! (again) - and boy i am livingggg - Good Omens, Zerocalcare’s Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo (which translates apparently to This World Can’t Tear Me Down)

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Last song: Tanglewood Tree by Chris & Meredith Thompson

Currently watching: Anne With an E

Currently reading: I just finished The House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig. It was okay, I gave it 4/5 stars on Goodreads, it’s prettily written.

Current obsession: I’m not sure I have one that would properly qualify. The closest contenders are either the novel I am currently writing, or anything by Sarah Waters but especially Fingersmith and Affinity, I can turn real obsessed about those in a second

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Last song: Sinner by The Last Dinner Party

Currently watching: Doctor Who, Season 4 (New Who)

Currently reading/listening to: Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers), read by Andy Serkiss

Current obsession: Reading, but in a general sense? Really intensely working through the backlog of books I have bought/been gifted but not read.

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Last song: “Dalla sua pace” from the opera Don Giovanni

Currently watching: Every filmed production of Don Giovanni I either own on DVD or can access online, so I can discuss them with people like @leporellian and @tuttocenere.

Currently reading: Heidi Ann Harner’s collection of the different cross-cultural versions of Beauty and the Beast.

Current obsession: All my usual hyperfixations.

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Last song: “Do It Again” by Steely Dan

Currently watching: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, DuckTales 1987, and Sailor Moon (rewatch)

Currently reading: a bunch of books at the moment! I have a super long read list and I figured that reading multiple books at a time will help me get through it faster. So right now I’m reading:

Current obsession: KiSS/kisekae dolls (I’m having a blast making my own btw, as well as digging into the corners of the Internet to find more). Also, the Chronicles of Prydain series! I’m loving it so far and I think it’s criminally underrated! I can’t wait to finish it!

@strawberryvulture, @ariel-seagull-wings, @godfrey-the-chaos-duck, @justaboot, @roger-s-maracas @velvet-vhs, @elgaladwen, @magicalemi3, @happyheidi

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Last song: Talk - Coldplay

Currently watching: nothing atm

Currently reading: Don Quixote

Current obsession: many things but most of all, anything related to history which is my all time obsession 😄 oh and Soviet movies (this, too, is an all time obsession)

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