#like... come on

[witheverynesta]

Feyre "I came back from the SC and instead of checking on my recently turned fae sisters, I went to fuck my husband" Archeron.

Feyre "I forgive my sister but if my family was talking shit about her I wouldn't do anything (except halfheartedly tell them to stop)" Archeron.

Feyre "I lock my depressed sister up in a house with open windows where she can potentially kill herself instead of trying to help properly" Archeron.

Feyre "I lock my sister in said house with a creepy guy despite my sister saying multiple times she didn't want to be near him" Archeron.

Feyre "I'm so nice to everyone until I became High Lady and let the power get to my thick head and started looking down on everyone including my first ever friend" Archeron.

Feyre "I think of myself so highly that I can't help but meddle in other people's business and spend my free time matching people up depending on the aesthetic" Archeron.

[tarrielrae]

🍅 kiss me, eclipse // sasuke uchiha icons pt. 15 🍅

[wilsonwandmagician]

We had no certainties, but no doubts either.

[archangeldyke-all]

OKAY i'm ready to fall in love this isn't fucking funny anymore

[everything-else-from-noxx]

Maddie: Are we the only people we know who don't have kids?

Maddie & Chimney: Buck

*scene changes to Eddie dropping off Chris with Buck knowing he's the only one who will get through to him right now*

[acluelessfangirl]

Listen, what I am upset about in the orv teaser trailer isn't the fact that there are guns being used. It's very specifically the people using the guns because Jihye and our sunfish don't need one, they are both enough of a threat to themselves and others without it.

[epickiya722]

It's actually something else when people are like "why won't he go down already" and "he's such an ass pull" and whatever as if it wasn't established since the VERY BEGINNING OF THE MANGA that Sukuna is a very powerful guy that even Satoru Gojo, strongest sorcerer of the modern age, stated that even he would have a hard time fighting Sukuna.

WE WERE WARNED FROM THE BEGINNING!! HIS TITLE IS "KING OF CURSES"!

HE AIN'T GONNA GO DOWN EASY!!

I don't want him to win, of course, but I am not surprised that they're having a hard time taking him down. Let alone him not giving it his all. Bro been a problem since day one.

[stazvlt]

"You're not alone."

Inspired by all the Harry- went-back-in-time-and-raised-his-younger-self fanfics. I present to you, Henry Potter.

[taylortruther]

i don't mean to say this in a judgemental way, but ultimately this album for me is just a "you know I'm a person, right?" because of how much we and the media dissect her relationships. I actually think it's great she wrote so much about matty, because a burning affair is very interesting story wise, much more than a dying relationship which was (RELATIVELY!, in terms of the public story, lets be clear about that) unproblematic, but through it she can sort through some deeper emotions from the previous one.

However, I think the album is screaming "stop judging me, it's MY life" so I think we should take something from that🤷🏼‍♂️

i have been on the "i don't like it, but i know why it's happening, and i will always be glad when taylor does things for herself (even when i don't like it) because no one should be beholden to a bunch of faceless people, and i accept that taylor lives her life differently than i do" train for years so idk why this is being sent to me 🙏

[frankencat]

One thing that kinda bothers me is when companies release a "gothic" scent (perfumes, candles, etc), marketing it as being "dark" and "mysterious" aroma, but you check the notes and it's just a light floral, fruty, gourmand-ish scent.

Like, I know that scents are very subjective, but when I see a perfume named Vampire's Blood, I don't expect it to smell like strawberries.

[une-sanz-pluis]

hello! i wanted to ask whether there is any record of what isabella of valois’s reasons were for refusing to marry into the english royal family again after the death of richard ii. obviously it’s easy to speculate a variety of possible reasons, given the circumstances, but do we have evidence of what was actually primarily motivating that decision? or at least what reasons she gave publicly for it?

Hi, sorry for taking so long to get to your ask. The last few months have been hectic and I had to take some time to research this. The research took awhile because the image of Isabelle of Valois making a furious stand against Henry IV and refusing to marry his son is very common but actual contemporary sources for it... are not. At least, I haven't been able to find any.

I'm not saying that we definitely have no contemporary source for it - I'm aware that, since I can't read French or Latin and don't have access to an academic library, I can only check things that have been published or translated into English and are easily accessible. However, I'm reasonably certain that I've not missed anything obvious since none of the academic work I've read ever cite anything like the story. The most sources say is that Henry IV wanted Isabelle to marry into the royal family (e.g. Jean Creton claims that Henry wanted to marry a woman in the French royal family himself and marry his son, the future Henry V, to Isabelle) and that Charles VI* was steadfast in his refusal to even countenance the offer and instead wanted Isabelle to be returned.

The best source I could find for Isabelle's feelings on her potential remarriage is in Jean Froissart's Oeurves, which is available online for free but in French. Working off an ill-advised Google Translation and other historians' discussion of the passage, Jean de Hangest, lord of Hugueville was able to have a private audience with Isabelle, during which he informed her that her parents absolutely forbade her from marrying into the English royal family again and that she should refuse any efforts even if she incurred the wrath of the English. Isabelle confirmed that the English had spoken to her about marriage on several occasions (there are no other details were given) and then she asked Hugueville to assure her father of her obedience to his will and said, on fear of death, she wouldn't disobey him and marry without his permission. Then she began to weep and Hugueville ended their meeting.

Her anger at Henry IV does have some support in contemporary sources, however, but these relate to reports of her behaviour during the ceremonies for her return to France in Mary 1401.

The sources almost universally agree that Isabelle was agitated during the ceremonies, both in England and in France. Adam of Usk reports that she said little but scowled with "deep hatred" at Henry and that some feared "her burning desire for revenge". Other writers report her weeping during the ceremonies. Juvenal des Ursins, for instance, writes that she wept and continued to weep loudly, despite her parents' joyful greeting of her.

It's important to stress that Isabelle is given little to no direct speech in these reports (the exception is John Hayward who wrote Isabelle openly reproving Henry, but given he wrote during the Tudor era, his version should be considered suspect) and that all reports interpret her body language in order to fit their own narratives. For instance, Usk depicts her unconcealed anger as a sign of her childishness which, in turn, feeds his overall aim in discrediting Richard II's kingship. For Richard to choose such a young and childish girl for his queen speaks to a serious error in judgement and further adds to Lancastrian narrative of Richard being unable to mature into adulthood and rule properly.

This is not to say that Isabelle's agitation was a wholesale invention by the chroniclers but, rather, it is they who have assigned the meaning to her behaviour.

I suspect that the narrative of her furious refusal to the proposal that she marry Henry's son conflates the reports of Usk and Hayward (the latter of whom is probably given too much weight) with the fact of the marriage negotiations. It's a perfectly logical leap to make. We know from Hugueville that the English did speak to her about marriage but we know nothing about what was said or how she felt about it, so we borrow from the accounts of her open anger at Henry IV when she was returned to her parents. But in terms of actual evidence, all we know is that her parents had prohibited it and that Isabelle wished to be obedient to their will. It's also important to recognise that Isabelle was still under the age of consent so she, personally, could not agree to a marriage and permission had to be given by her parents as long she remained underage.

As you say, it's very easy to speculate. I came away from my research feeling incredibly sorry for Isabelle. It's very, very easy imagine that Richard's deposition and the prolonged negotiations between England and France over her future were incredibly distressing, especially when we read of the pressure she was under from both sides. It would be entirely natural if she did resent Henry for what he had done to her and to Richard and I do think there was at least some truth to Usk's reports of her anger. In terms of what she felt about her potential husband - who was very probably the future Henry V, though the official records are somewhat vague on this point - we have no evidence.

* I use "Charles VI" here as it was in his name that these actions were carried out. It should be read as a shorthand for his government as due to his severe mental illness it is not always clear who was directing French policy. As far as I can make out, however, Charles was in one of his lucid periods during these negotiations.

References

Stephanie Downes and Stephanie Trigg, "“she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture", Literature, Emotions and Pre-Modern War: Conflict In Medieval and Early Modern Europe (ARC Humanities Press 2021)

Nancy McLoughlin, Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France (Palgrave 2015)

Christopher Phillpotts, “The Fate of the Truce of Paris, 1396–1415,” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 24, no. 1 (1998)

S.P. Pistono, “Henry IV and Charles VI: The Confirmation of the Twenty-Eight-Year Truce,” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 3, no. 4 (1977)

S. P. Pistono, “The Diplomatic Mission of Jean De Hangest, Lord of Hugueville (October, 1400),” Canadian Journal of History, vol. 13, no. 2 (1978)

Louise Tingle, "Isabella of Valois: Child Queen", Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (Palgrave 2023)  

Deanne Williams, "Isabelle de France: Child Bride", Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (Palgrave 2014)

[arvadthecursed]

the cool thing about endometriosis is that you'll be talking about the horrible pain it causes you and people will say to you, without a hint of irony, "well, i've heard having kids helps :)"

[ivi-prism]

Hello admin student that begged me for help correcting their essay who I gave a step by step guide to rewrite your essay since I wasn't going to rewrite it and research for you since it was unsalvageable since you did it all with ai and zero research Have you handed me the essay you produced with the guide I provided you that gurantees me the essay will be in a workable state so all I have to do is correct it because I do not have the time nor am I willing to research and write this essay for you? Yes? Great! I'm glad it was useful for you, I will check the essay and correct style and help with any gaps in your wording, I hope you have more clarity now how to write essays so is easier in the future. I am so glad- *gets handed the same ai generated essay they were asking me to review before i gave them the guide and just ask me to "correct" that version which cannot be corrected but would need to be redone* ...Well admin student... I think we've reached an impase, I did learn by making the guide and about making business from this encounter so thank you and good l- This is the last thing you need to graduate? Oh darn! Well good luck :D

[rennarita]

love that it takes my sister closing on a house and posting about it on facebook for people that i haven't heard from in months to start reaching out to me to get information

[but-make-it-poly]

Tumblr is Great

Obviously not sponsored since I'm literally nobody here, but it's genuinely so cool that I can post my headcanons, thoughts, and theories without feeling like I'm lost in the shuffle.

I cannot say just how amazing it is that I could be analyzing how the Force works in the shower and realize... I have a place to put that now. It's not just me and whoever is willing to listen to me ramble about my stupid shit. Now other people are reading my stupid shit... and they like it.

Now again, I am small. Just a few days ago I reached 100 likes added together from... 7 posts + a repost. Which is bananas! But not someone whose... y'know, big. But the little that I have is honestly just great.

I mean... I'd seen a lot of Tumblr posts filled with amazing content, but I still didn't get an account. Idk why, just felt like I didn't need it or that I'd never use it. Or maybe it was just stubbornness towards the end. I needed a good reason. Something I could only find here.

That was when I found out about an obscure Batman character named Lance Bruner (I made a post about him, u should read it). I wanted art of him. It only existed here. They cut me off the "Classified: jk make an account :) and I did. And honestly, I'm really glad I did. This is pretty worth it. This is the most I've ever posted on a platform (unless you count the comment section) and honestly, and most importantly, I'm having fun.