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A Rainy Sunday, Edward Robert Hughes, 1872

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and i want that, too, king….

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oh penelope...

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my christian and satine fics (so far)

these are all one-shots, i still have some WIP's on the way and i'll be updating this list once i've posted something new. in the meantime i decided to just place what i have so far in one go so it would be easy to find on my blog and for anyone who wants to check it out

wandered inside

she comes to him in sleep and passes like the wind, vastly in a breeze but can still quickly be seen

in my sleepless solitude

Slowly, her eyes start to close, everything’s all so dark and empty, as hollow as how she had left him be. She starts humming a melody, with words forming out of it too. Trying to come at ease until she sees and feels him in her own sight.

pressed against you there (and leave the world behind)

“Is everything okay darling?” He asks, stroking her back in patterns as she leans onto his touch. “I just missed you.” She quickly sighs and responds,  this makes his cheeks turn red and his heart warm. Satine looks up so she could face him for their eyes to meet, and he presses his lips on her forehead that she reacts to with nothing but a beam on her face. 

the gallows of heartache that hang from above

“I will fight for it. For us.” Christian replies, his hands cupping her face and pressing kisses on her temple.

we'll be fine, i know it.

but if anything it meant they were both free. Free to fly away. 

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The role of the queen as landlord was unusual: she was the only married woman in the realm to hold lands outright and thus she held a position similar to a femme sole, a position generally held only by spinsters or widows. Amongst the landowning classes, a femme sole could take livery and seisin and alienate her lands. However, upon marriage, a woman became a femme couvert and ceded control of her lands into the hands of her husband. So how exactly could a queen, by rights a femme couvert, hold the position of an unmarried woman in terms of her properties? Seah discusses the legal framework of the queen’s position as a landholder in the ffteenth century, noting that the royal grants awarding the queen her properties emphasised the queen’s authority over those lands and estates granted to her. More specifically, her authority was highlighted through the clarification of her rights and responsibilities as landowner and in identifying the autonomy of the queen’s administrative officials, and evidence of this can be seen across the records of the later medieval period. However, though the queen held her properties outright this did not mean that she held the legal status of femme sole. Rather, the queen’s position was unique in comparison to all other married women: though the queen was legally a femme couvert, her status as the wife of the king elevated her position to enable direct ownership of her properties. This legal fexibility further highlights the queen’s special status: as a married woman she held and maintained extensive estates akin to the greatest of male magnates, and as the king’s wife her office and position was greater than any other noble landowner in the country. 

She was, in essence, a “superautocratic” woman simultaneously maintaining her position as a wife, the embodiment of a royal office, and an independent landlord.

— Katia Wright, “A Dower for Life: Understanding the Dowers of England’s Medieval Queens” | Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2023)  

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Black Women in Period Costumes

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“Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?” Elizabeth coloured, and said, “A little.” “And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma’am?” “Yes, very handsome.”

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Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors (2007-2010)

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“Let them eat cake!”

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Anne Boleyn + red dresses

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 “Natalie would be uncomfortable in her costume and not say anything. “She’d tell me, ‘My rib is killing me.’ I’d be like, ‘Natalie, why don’t you say something?’ I’d have to be like, ‘Hellooo, someone, Natalie’s rib is hurting! Can you fix her zipper?’” - Scarlett Johansson 

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3x09 || 3x10 || 3x12

Will + being referred to as Hannibal’s bride, his husband, and his wife

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after being mutuals for a certain time tumblr should give you a coupon for a free trip to hang out with them

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Y'all are amazing. Reblog to hug the person you’re reblogging from.

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“And maybe I didn’t realize I was in love with you before because it is something as natural as breathing; you do it completely subconsciously but once you start thinking about it, you notice that you’ve been doing it all along.”

— // a poem of love j.d.m.

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'WOLF HALL' RECAP — 1x03 'Anna Regina' air date — 4 February 2015 dir. Peter Kosminsky

In 1531, King Henry VIII has proposed a bill which will make him the head of the Church in England and allow him to marry Anne Boleyn. However, his plans are met with a series of complications.