#YOU KNOW THE funny thing is that in the tudors

[cosmic-walkers]

what the hell, was the relationship between henry and thomas in the tudors?? they are a trainwreck in the making T-T

[fryday]

I know there were so much going on in the new mukbang video, but I feel like we need a deep dive into the whole "I don't want to not do this, but I also just want you to be happy...I didn't want you to do something that didn't feel right for you. You should always follow your dreams and heart" speech. Sacrificing the thing you love and bring you the most monetary income for the person you LOVE.. This right here is the hard launch. In this day and age (especially in the whole "influencer" world), people prioritize money, fame, recognition, views over anything. We literally see how many relationships were destroyed because of money. YET, Phil said this line to Dan in the first mukbang video so lovingly and wholeheartedly and still a 5-years hiatus later. Like...YOU are above everything else in my life. UGH. My heart literally combusted and my forever dried eyes literally shed real tears as I heard him say this. So many people are saying Phil is winning the idgaf war, when bro clearly has been giving way too many fucks about his little giant "buddy" in the past 15 years (and still counting).

I sent you an ask before and said that I feel like Dan spoils Phil so much in this new era. After watching this mukbang video, I would say Phil DESERVES to be treated like a tudor princess. If I were Dan, I would be like him too... like...you don't have to catch me when I faint or go to the hospital with me when I am literally half blind if you prioritize ME and my feelings in your life and willing to support and love me no matter what. :')

this is so true anon. so so true. the joke about phil being the king of winning the idgaf war is really really funny because he DOES handle dan's more "serious" issues in such a hilarious, matter-of-fact way, and it just makes for incredible memes.

but jokes aside, it's really just different ways of showing love. i feel like phil's love is an accepting love. it's the kind of love that you can fall on, the kind of love that takes you in as your whole self (flaws and oddities and all) and says "you belong here" anyway, "i'll support every part of you". and we know this was exactly where dan found his sanctuary at 18 years old when they first met. in the same vein, it's phil so many years later saying i want you to be happy, first of all. YOU, the human in my life, before the "you" that involves your job/career/public perception/etc.

so when people laugh about phil winning the idgaf war it's because phil won't fuss over dan or wax poetic about how the fated creation of ranch parallels the fated creation of dan and phil (not over it), and that's simply because phil doesn't seem to express his love by *putting it out*. he expresses his love by *taking in*. his love is in his acceptance.

on the flipside, i feel like dan is someone who puts his love out (ironic considering he's the "love isn't real" guy, but). he shows his love in the million and one little gestures (see: him basically making half of phil's drink in the phantasy cocktails video) and proclamations of love (see again: ranch parallels). so, as you said, it comes across in a more doting sort of manner - which is just. well it's adorable.

tl;dr - they love each other more than anyone could ever encapsulate in a tumblr ask + response, but in different equally valid ways.

[youlooklikedead]

The puppy interview with the TUA cast is so funny AAHSJSJ

— Group One (The girls + Aidan and Elliot): "Aww puppies are so cute!" Group Two (The boys): "I'm suffering from cuteness aggression right now, I want to bite these puppies."

— Everyone staying sitting in their spots while Robert just crawls around after the puppies.

— Elliot being way too focused on the puppies and pretending he's listening. He kept nodding like he was listening but you can tell his mind is totally on the puppies.

— Aidan dressed in a cute dog hoodie and puppy socks.

— A puppy crawling inside Emmy's skirt and her stopping her answer to say "Excuse me! This is not PG rated!"

— Aidan throwing a dog toy so hard at the wall then immediately getting a "Damn, my bad!" look on his face.

— David: "We met at the gym at the hotel in Toronto. Tom slid into my DMs." Robert: "That makes it sound perverse! Did you say hello or send a picture first?"

— There’s some fan out there with David's name tattooed.

— Justin: "Someone made my face into a pizza! 😆" David: "Did you eat the pizza?" Justin: "Noooo! No, no."

— Robert got gifted a venus fly trap by a fan once cuz he likes plants but got it killed a week later lmaoo

— He also got gifted a portrait of himself that only the teeth and eyes shine in the dark.

— Aidan being possessed by Five for a brief second when Ritu said she kept Five's bracelet and giving a hard side eye. He had a war flashback right there.

— Emmy was supposed to audition for Cha-Cha instead of Alisson!

— Robert auditioned for The Tudors, got a small part in it then got called off but after already telling his whole family he would be in it 😂 Poor thing! His family being like "So we watched it...Were you really in it? 🤨"

— None of them knowing what rizz means 🤣

— Robert: "When I was pre...pre-seed, there wasn’t many females that I didn't fancy, to be honest." And everyone cracking up ahsgsg Also his celebrity crush growing up was Britney.

— Robert finishing the interview sprawled on the floor with a puppy on his arms saying he'll sic puppies on people who don't watch TUA.

But the highlight for me was:

Justin: "Oh the lava show, we would have fun on the lava show."

Robert: "Oh yeah."

Tom: "What's the lava show?"

Robert: "The floor is laavaa."

Justin: "The floor is laavaa."

Robert: "Floor is laavaa."

Tom: "Actual lava?"

Justin: 🤨😨 "No, nonono" 👁️👄👁️ "No. You would die." ⁉️😀

Tom: "W-why? Wha-?" 😂??

Robert: 😄

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[writingquestionsanswered]

Logical Story Setting Doesn't Work

Anonymous asked: I was having trouble picking ideas. I made two different versions for my story, just to see what would be the better book. I really liked both, so I made a pro-con list. I still really like both, but one version makes more sense than the other and I think it's the one I should go with. Just one con that's a dealbreaker for me: logically it would be set around the 1500s. Maybe even earlier. And I'm not really a fan of that. I can't explain much, but this story is dependent on another story I'm writing. I don't want to give up the connection between the books, and I don't want to go with the worse version with the weak plot. But I'm not interested in the 1500s and it seems like heck of a lot of research. I doubt readers won't notice the timeline being a little funny if I just choose any setting I want.

(Ask has been edited for length...)

This is definitely a tough one, and unfortunately, you don't seem to have a lot of options. You either bow to fate and let the story be set in the 1500s, or you find a way to beef up the plot that isn't set in the 1500s. Let's talk through some options for both.

1 - Try to Get Interested in the 1500s - It isn't much fun to research and write about a time period you're not interested in, so it's worth seeing if there's a way to get interested. Watching movies or TV shows set in a similar time and place to your setting can help you get interested in a time period. Some shows and movies set in the 1500s: The Tudors, The Spanish Princess, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Other Boleyn Girl, Reign, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shakespeare in Love, Wolf Hall, Kingdom, A Discovery of Witches, Magnificent Century, Jodha & Akbar, Amaya... If your story is set somewhere not represented above, you can Google that location and "1500s" or "16th century."

2 - Find a Way to Move it Forward - Such a big part of writing is taking the time to brainstorm (and do a little brute forcing sometimes) to get things in our story to work right. It isn't fast, and it isn't particularly fun, and you could spend days trying to make something work, but sometimes that's just how writing is. Sometimes, you just treat the problem like a Rubik's Cube and you work it until it's solved. Odds are good if you really set your mind to it, you can find a way to make a later time period make sense.

3 - Fake It 'Til You Make It - Another option in that same vein is to just start writing the story in whatever time period you like better. Don't worry about it making sense, just start writing. If you're lucky, something will just click while you're writing and pave the way for you to make the preferred time period make sense. Worst case scenario, you'll have a better understanding of the story's needs and that may help you adjust the time period to something that works better.

4 - Strengthen the Weak Plot - Although you describe the non-1500s version as "the worse version with a weak plot," you also said you still really like it, and there must have been some pros for this version, so I think this idea is probably salvageable. Once again, it's gonna take some brute force to figure out what needs to happen to make it work, but this may be the better path. You can also try the "fake it 'til you make it" option with this one and see where it goes. It's often easier to improve a story once you know for sure what it's going to be.

5 - Look for a Third Option - As much as it may not seem ideal, it's just possible that there's a third option out there that bridges the gap between option one and option two. It's always worth taking the time to brain storm--go the Rubik's Cube route again--and puzzle it out until something hopefully clicks.

Hopefully one of these options will work for you!

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[earthstellar]

still thinking about Earthspark Bumblebee being stuck with the kids entirely by himself for any slightly extended period of time and it’s so funny 

because I keep thinking about all the stuff kids have said to me when I’ve been babysitting or back when I worked in education and it’s so good 

there is no way Bumblebee would be fully prepared, at this stage, for Child Questions and Statements 

some real things children have said to me: 

-”I’M ANGRY” “thank you for telling me! why are you feeling angry?” “BECAUSE!!! RAIN ISN’T MADE OF ICE [takes big breath] CREEEEEEAM”

-”when the sun goes down it’s good because the sun needs to sleep too, but then the moon comes out at night so when does the moon sleep? WHEN DOES IT SLEEP?” 

(this was eventually resolved by me reading them “Goodnight Moon” as proof that the moon does in fact sleep, because why would we tell it goodnight if it didn’t also have a bedtime)

-”since dinosaurs were real, are we real?” 

-”if dead people live in cemeteries, how do they get their food underground? can we call Pizza Hut? I want pizza like dead people!!! I WANT DEAD PEOPLE PIZZA” (this eventually became “peepza” the longer this demand continued) 

-”planes go up. if I jump hard enough with super jump power, could I go to France? can we get a trampoline? I wanna go to France. WAIT!!! WOULD I NEED A PASS-PORP??? I DON’T HAVE A PASS-PORP!! NOOO” 

-”I AM APPLE MAN” [child proceeds to walk into the room swinging an apple around in a tote bag over his head, like some kind of medieval flail] 

-”I DON’T WANNA PLAY!” “oh no, why not?” “A BIRD POOPED ON MY FAVOURITE TREE” 

-”TODAY I LEARNED WE HAVE WATER INSIDE US!!! NOT JUST PEE!!!! pee pee pee pee pee pee pee pee” 

-”how does the floor work?” 

(legitimately a good question but it will be a while before they can apply for architectural engineering school, we ended up watching a documentary on how Tudor houses were constructed to try to solve this one lmao) 

-”I looked at my pen, I looked too hard, and it stopped working. I have mind powers like Mr Professor from X-MEN!!” [child proceeded to spend the entire day trying to “be strong brained” by staring at things] 

now, of course, the kid/Terrans are a bit more developed than this, a lot of these were from younger children, which is probably obvious 

but I can foresee there being a lot of questions about Earth etc. that Bumblebee might genuinely not know the answer to, or he might get faced with child non-sequiturs that throw him off

and because the Terrans may not actually understand yet how certain natural events (like rain) occur, I can imagine there would be some interesting questions, some of which might be more immediately answerable and some which would probably take more work 

I feel like Nightshade would ask more scientifically inquisitive questions which Bee might not be able to answer, stuff like that

but either way, there would be so many questions 

and some of them are bound to be wild 

lmao 

[spacerangersam]

Tell me more about your BBC Ghosts character swap AU please?

(like I wanna know from you about the other BH ghosts you didn't draw in their character swap AU version yet on what their character swap would be, for example Thomas, Mary & Robin please?)

Thanks!

I'd be happy to!

Thomas is a caveman, tricked into a fight by his cousin (with less of the dramatics though, since Francis couldn't have forged a letter)  who either got stabbed with a spear or bonked on the head with a club. Regardless, he was killed and in death, gets to carry around a spear. It‘s big, cumbersome and annoying, and I just think it’s funny. He can give the living bruises with it.

To blabber on a bit: his name is actually To, but Julian thought that was stupid so renamed him Thomas, and he did originally come from Scotland. Though it wasn't called Scotland when he was there, obviously.

He struggles a lot with modern English - he’s lived through the rise and fall and change of so many languages that he really struggles to keep up. He slips between using new English and old English, French, old Brythonic languages etc, especially when he’s upset. That's what really kick-started his friendship with Patrick- Pat was the first one really willing to just stop and try to understand what Thomas was saying, and the first one to really sit down and help Thomas with his English. They have lessons every Thursday evening. 

He still likes poetry, but because of all that he’s even worse at it. He also still hates Byron, just for less personal reasons.

With the whole having being around for thousands of years and watched people come and go, he's terrified of the other ghosts moving on without him. He doesn't like to sleep alone because of it, likes being able to keep an eye on at least one ghosts during the night. He tends to spend the night with Pat or Kitty, curled up on the foot of their beds, but he’ll stay with someone else now and then

Mary is a Girl Guide leader from the 80s. She's a timid woman to begin with, raised in a strict Catholic household, who works in a farm shop-come-cafe. She was encouraged to take up the Guide role by her husband to give her more confidence, and she stayed with it after his death. It didn't really make her more confident though, and her Guides quickly learned that they could walk all over her. She died while camping out on the Button grounds - some of the girls set a fire that quickly got out of control. Mary couldn't get out of her tent and died of asphyxiation (suspend your disbelief if you wouldn't mind). She still was close to Annie (and depending on how much you want to play around with the au, Annie could still be around, era switched with the plagues) and learned to be more confident through her.

She insists on doing grace at mealtimes, even though she can't eat, tells people off for blasphemy, and prays on Sundays in lieu of going to mass. The longer she's with the ghosts though, the less she does it. She has a few handy survival tools in her pockets, and like Pat, knows a thing or two about using a bow and arrow.

Robin is from the Georgian era, a nobleman's son who was sent to live with his uncle in hopes he'd straighten Robin out and turn him into a proper gentleman. Robin hated that idea. He planned to make a getaway and start a new life, one where he could just be himself, only to get struck by lightning before he ever made it off the grounds.

It's hard think of a Robin with ‘perfect’ speech, so I like to imagine he came over from North Wales, Welsh being his first language. He does speak English, albeit reluctantly, and has no desire to be fluent in it.

He's still outdoorsy and cares a lot about animals - his parents never had much time for him so he spent most of his time chasing around mice in the manor and sneaking into the stables to pet the horses. He can also still muck around with electricity.    

I don't think I've talked about Julian either, but he's the headless Tudor. Much like in canon, he didn't pay much attention to his wife or child, which was ultimately his downfall when he unknowingly partied with people who were plotting to kill the queen and was damned by association. He got his head lobbed off, and the head can appear in photographs. He makes so many jokes about it.

I can't really think of much else to say at the moment but yeah, that's them

[elegantwoes]

LMAO you have just completely lost the plot. That's so embarrassing. What is Sansa DOING in the Vale ?? It’s about to be book 6 out of 7 and she can’t even rule or command 3 flocks of peasants. NOTHING about her arc is about learning how to rule, not like Jon and Daenerys. Sansa doesn’t know how to tax, she's bad at maths, she doesn’t know how to negotiate, battle strategies or how to command armies. She’s NEVER had any experience in ruling much less run a household. Her biggest achievement is throwing a lavish feast and tournament for nobles (while winter is on the horizon and with it starvation) while Petyr hoards food to gouge prices and she does nothing about it and doesn’t even ask him about it. Do you think Elizabeth I, Wu Zetian, Margaret I of Denmark, or Catherine II of Russia were traditional, soft and delicate ??

Ah, sorry, I forget, Sansa also thought about Mya Stone, “She could be pretty, if she would dress up like a girl.”

Sansa’s narrative arc is a slow, subtle and steady one. Clearly she’s a dark horse character who is meant to take the reader by surprise. In order to enjoy her story in heart’s content you have to have a patient mind. The fact you can’t do that sounds more like a you problem rather than a Sansa problem. Secondly, running a household is what Sansa does in AFFC and the fact there hasn’t been problems indicates that she has been doing a good job. GRRM doesn’t have to spell everything out to you in order to get that, like are you a child? Read between the lines, anon.

I don’t know all the women you mentioned but I know a thing or two about Wu Zetian and Elizabeth Tudor. Are you seriously comparing Sansa to women who accumulated majority of their power in their mid twenties? At Sansa’s age Wu Zetian was a maiden still living at home and doing her homework like a good girl.. Elizabeth was being sexually abused by pedophile Thomas Seymour (just like what Sansa is enduring right now. Sansa shares similarities with her too, not just Eleanor of Aquitaine).

Thirdly, Sansa doesn’t need to learn everything for you to understand that she has a political arc and is groomed by GRRM to become a ruler. Like Jon has his pit falls too but that doesn’t take away his political arc. All that tells me is Sansa is exceptional in area where Jon is lacking and Jon’s strongest area are Sansa’s weaknesses. It’s almost like GRRM is setting them up to combine their skills and work like a team. Funny isn’t it. Fortunately they will likely meet in TWOW and then Sansa can learn what she lacks from Jon. So I say wait till the book comes out before judge Sansa’s TWOW sample chapter (which by the way is likely only a draft). Patience is a virtue, anon. Exercise some.

I fail to see what that random quote about Mya Stone has to do with the point you are making, but since we sharing quotes I will share one too:

By the time all the new knights had been given their sers the hall was growing restive, and none more so than Joffrey. Some of those in the gallery had begun to slip quietly away, but the notables on the floor were trapped, unable to depart without the king's leave. Judging by the way he was fidgeting atop the Iron Throne, Joff would willingly have granted it, but the day's work was far from done. For now the coin was turned over, and the captives were ushered in. (A Clash of Kings, Sansa VIII)

Sansa at the age of twelve can listen to hours of court hearings without feeling bored or restless, something what adults twice, or even thrice, her age cannot do, for some of them quietly leave court. In this scene Sansa is on the gallery (Sansa leaned forward, her hands tight around the gallery’s wooden rail) and she could just easily leave without being noticed, but she doesn’t. She stays till the very end. You what this tells me? That Sansa can handle the day to day boring bureaucratic work that is required from a ruler. In fact she loves it. I mean she voluntarily decided to attend the court that Ned held in AGOT and then excitedly told everything that happened in court to Jeyne. Miss. War Criminal on the other hand grows bored of holding court. So who exactly is not suited to rule here? It certainly isn’t Sansa.

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tit for tat - my lady jane

@angel-starbeam

so god damn creative!! yes, yES and YES! i would fucking watching this. i mean i'd watch regardless lol

*the thought of jane x guildford having children. the thirst for season 2 is that much more!!

*if edward had to enter a forced marriage to mary queen of scots, and jane caught wind, she would definitely do some saviour shit and try and rectify that. i wouldnt love turmoils with the gays but edward x fitz's relationship would become that much stronger when they overcome this

*i think the katherine x william eloping storyline will definitely come in later to help out jane and her ethian crusade somehow

*i quite like seeing dominic cooper as a snivelling antagonist, he's so good in it that i almost don't want a redemption arc for him, though in ep8 there was a small smirk for jane's escape...

*like the previous, i loooove seeing mary unhinged its hilarious. i'm ngl im not too familiar with tudor history so i don't know what actually happens to her but i want a revenge plot or like her falling for an ethian or something idk

*Granny Margaret Beaufort and the nuns DEEEEFINITELY want ethians only vibes and are willing to kill for it

*i feel like Alice and the zoo are definitely gonna be a trojan horse thing. like if either jane or edward try and reclaim the throne, they will use the zoo to have an army uprising kinda thing (a la the 100 and the grounders in season 2 if you ever watched that)

*frances x stan, i stan. i think it's so funny. idk how i feel about the children part cuz like sorry frances you're not a great mother but idk this could be her redemption. i also totally know tudor history / royal family is so incestuous that frances x stan & jane x guildford combo wouldn't be an issue but i'm still like anymore permanent engagement from the former pairing other than boinking im not too sure how i would feel about it

*i think by the end, jane having like THE book on ethians makes so much sense. like ethian biology, ethian rights etc etc. she'd be like the go to ethian professor

[snalz-artt]

forgot to post this doodle SAY HELLO to the shittiest bbc ghosts/mcyt au ever conceived, thankyou @/luigra for helping hehe

i have A LOT to say so its going under the cut this is soso silly

basic bbc ghosts plot: A young woman inherits a huge mansion estate in england from a dubious familial connection and moves in with her husband. They plan to renovate the manor and guesthouses to make into a hotel/venue, but when she falls out a window and almost dies, she comes back to life with the ability to See Ghosts. With the house being very historic, there are quite a few interesting characters (the falling out the window thing might be their fault, actually). Hijinks ensue.

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CLEO: Cleo is the Allison of the story, she inherits the house and falls out the window, now.. undead(?) they can see and interact with the cast of Ghosts they’re now stuck with. Making ZombieCleo one of the Alive characters was too funny, sorry.

SCOTT: Scott is Mike!! Cleo’s best friend/partner/chosen soulmate (like in double life), he Cannot see the ghosts but completely trusts they exist.

They get up to various antics as they try to renovate and market the place, usually while being hindered or helped by the ghosts. I haven’t thought of a good pun on the name Button House yet though..

The ghosts are not all from any specific series, but a selection of ghosts/dead characters from multiple mcyt sources ^^

JOE: Joseph Hills takes the role of Thomas Thorne. He is a dramatic regency era poet who mostly follows Cleo around, trying to impress her with his… unique poetry, that was considered before his time. Their ghost theming comes from Beetlejhost of course.

RANBOO: Ronald Booth is Pat, a 1980’s Scout Leader. To be honest, this is just because Ranboo is very associated with the 80’s aesthetic and can fit the silly yes-man subordinate role, and of course was a ghost on the dsmp (Boo).

BDUBS: Bdubs is Robin!! A caveman who lived on the land well before the house was built. He’s seen it all, which fits Bdubs’ storyteller theme!! This is also just a fun visual choice because instead of wearing animal furs he gets to wear a big mossy coat. He also talks in a quite a unique and funny way which could replace how Robin talks like. Yknow, a Caveman. There was also a tiny bit in.. last life? Where bdubs was a ghost? (We were running out of ghosts at this point.)

SLIME: Charles Slime is Humphrey Bone, a headless tudor nobleman!!! Slime has a pretty constant track record of dying dramatically in mcyt (dsmp, epic smp, slimecicle cinematic universe) hence getting to be a ghost here. He has a lot of comedy that i think fits pretty well with being a ghost and with the visual humour of having your body separate to your head <3

FLIPPA: Juanaflippa as Jemima!!! I had to get one of the Eggs in here, even if i dont know much about qsmp at this point its just too perfect for one of them to be Jemima, since we have Charlie why not have Juanaflippa ^^ This can fit the common bbc ghosts fanon of Humphrey being found family for Jemima, with Charlie and Flippa’s father-daughter relationship. Creepy little singing ghost girl!!!

QUACKITY/MEXICAN DREAM: Yeah ok we were really running out of mcyt ghosts at this point, if you dont know anything about the dsmp you would probably think im making this up- uh, quackity plays him, he died and became a very prominent dsmp ghost. He takes the role of Julian as a 90’s politician character (like quackity/md in el rapids etc) here. I GUESS.

GHOSTBUR: Im pretty sure that while alive Kitty didnt blow up a country or whatever but the innocent and kind character of ghostbur fits the role of Kitty pretty well, with both having poor/inaccurate memories of their lives and being very sweet. A georgian noblewoman! Instead of Kitty he’d be called Willy or something. That way one of the ghosts can still have an innuendo name. Thats important.

JIMMY: Jimmy (James) as Mary. A stuart era peasant who got burned in the witch trials. He could still have the power to make people smell smoke, i think it fits the canary thing a bit. AND SPOILERS FOR BBC GHOSTS, Mary being the First Ghost of the main group to get.. sucked away is just too perfect. While never explicitly being a Ghost, Jimmy has such a connection to death that i think im justified.

PIX: Pixie as Fanny!!! He used to own the house many years ago and is now a ghost that really wants it to be perfectly historically preserved. Pix was a ghost in empires s2 and an archeologist who wanted to preserve history of course, so this fits the really proper and old fashioned personality of Fanny pretty well. Also her love of animals fits pix having the ghost cat and the dodos…

SCHLATT: Schlatt as The Captain, a repressed gay ww2 Captain who never actually saw any combat. He can fit the leader role that the Captain does, especially the fact that he just assumes himself the leader, and the others kind of don't take him seriously. Schlatt was a ghost, Glatt, on the dsmp! He will be a bit less.. nice? Than the bbc ghosts captain, but could still have a good bit of development.

bonus convex as the plague ghosts, vex are kind of ghosty, right?

[fideidefenswhore]

People can forgive and understand why Mary burned so many people but will call Anne the devil and all these horrible things because she was mean a couple of times. Gotta love the logic.

I think the idea is more that burning for heresy was the standard for the time, and that being cruel to your stepdaughter like...wasn't.

I actually find it funnier from a fandom/'fanon' perspective particularly when it comes to The Tudors. Natalie Dormer and Sarah Bolger were both actresses whose performances were really compelling, but as their characters are written there's actually more similarities than differences. You know I sometimes wish all Spaniards were drowned in the sea / if God wills it, hopefully she [Anne of Cleves] will drown at sea / careful, Cromwell, or I will see you cropped at the neck / if I could, I would strip him [Cromwell] from the King's side and burn him.

Granted, all of Anne's above scenes are taken from contemporary reports (although, from a decidedly hostile source), whereas Mary's above scenes are purely speculative fiction. Still, it's amusing that so many Marians watching the show adored Mary's characterization (I've spoken before about how despite how compelling SB's acting was to watch at turns, the writers' character work for Mary was actually remarkably inconsistent...I actually think an interpretation wherein Mary's 'affection and gratitude' towards her second stepmother was gradually revealed to have been affected and mainly strategic self-fashioning would have been compelling, especially considering that she passed an Act during her reign which held Jane and Edward as Henry's 'concubine' and 'bastard', just as much as Elizabeth & AB...but they did not take that route) and absolutely loathed, or loved-to-hate, AB. I'm sure it's to some extent an amalgam of their experience watching the show balanced with like biographies they've read and such, but still...funny af.

[mihrsuri]

More friends + fic recs

Listen do you like gorgeous plotty AUs and also I am reliably told some of the best written porn/kink you could possibly imagine (I can’t read it but like THE VIBES) then you should totally read my saati @shes-a-voodoo-child - she mostly writes wrestling but she’s written A Lot Of Things. Also great poly.

I haven’t read any of @gen-is-gone fic but I just know that they are great because the way she writes on tumblr I just !!!! It’s so thoughtful and lyrical and great about trauma and EVERYTHING.

@bibliothekara writes gorgeous funny brilliant everything but especially character studies + trauma.

@kawuli and @lorata - my saati @kawuli has thee most amazingly written hunger games fic that makes the world make so so much sense and @lorata has the Best World Building That I Have Adopted like, her District 2 is so so real to me these days I want to have a detailed conversation about it one day.

@lemonsharks has the best AUs and the best words.

@herawell and @rahabs indulge me in writing my niche OT3 and just, the words they are so lyrical and wonderful and fantastic and I make flailing noises every single time. I AM SO HONOURED ALWAYS

@eidetictelekinetic is one of my top five Tudors fic writers and somehow now we are friends! Also the person who genuinely made me think I could write the OT3 verse and have an audience for it maybe because she wrote Handmaid.

[greatbritishsimchallenge]

"Lady Margery, what a pleasure to see you."

"Lord John, I hope mother and baby are well."

"They are. Lady Odelgarde is just in the nursery now. She will be delighted you have come to visit."

"Oh, what a sweet little thing!" cooed Margery.

Odelgarde was immediately flustered at the sight of Margery.

"Lady Margery! What a surprise! What are... why are you.. thank you for coming to see us!"

"Of course I have come! You are one of my dearest friends and what sort of friend would I be if I did not come to celebrate your great joy. May I hold him?"

Odelgarde hesitated and then smiled, "Yes, yes, of course."

At first Margery cooed at the baby in her arms, but something quickly led her smile to falter.

"It's funny..." she said, "He looks so... familiar... like my Charlotte did when she was his age."

Odelgarde became even more flustered, "Oh? Really? Well... you know what they say about babies... they all... look the same except to their mothers! I think he looks like my grandfather."

"Hmmm," said Margery, turning to look at Odelgarde directly. "I am not familiar with that saying. The saying I know is that a baby's first slight to his mother is to come out looking like his father."

Odelgarde laughed uncomfortably then said, "You must be tired after your journey here and in need of refreshment, shall we go back downstairs?"

Margery eyed her suspiciously and handed John back to her, "Yes... I could do with a drink."

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[heterogeneousstan]

Their relationship in this show kills me. It’s just sooooo sad.

John references knowing Edward for 40 years. They have been to war together. They have been consistent and dependable for each-other in a vitriolic, deceitful, unstable world. They have been partners, a two-man team, a package deal.

Its kind of funny the way they stick to each-other’s sides like two school boys who have handshakes and secret code names and shit. Its starkly contrasted with the other dynamics between the politicians, which are all so stale and fragile (as you would expect from colleagues in a workplace where you kind of always have to be prepared for someone to betray you or for you to have to betray them).

Which emphasises the purity and innocence in their initial relationship, its very naive, especially from Edward’s side.

Edward refers to John as “like a brother” a very intimate and vulnerable admission especially from a man so often cold and aloof. John’s response is to remind him of his relationship with his actual brother and how he doesn’t want his and Edward’s relationship to be compared to Edward and Thomas’s. This is obviously deeply ironic, as their relationship ends up just like Edward and his brother’s. One feels like the other has backed themself into a corner which they cannot get out of and they prioritise their career, their family and ambitions over the other (bit more complex for Edward and Thomas but thats not what this post is about lol).

John’s desperation for him and Edward to still have a relationship after his betrayal is such a childish little hope, so immature and stary-eyed for a rat in the belly of the beast.

I wonder how different it would have been had they not had that argument on the staircase. I think John felt repeatedly ignored and belittled by Edward and this was his last straw.

John is a very emotional and arrogant character. He is hotheaded and I think if his ego hadn’t been affected he wouldn’t have done what he did, regardless of his opinions on Edward’s skill at the job.

Moreover, I think its interesting they share the same flaws in many ways: they both believe that they have the abilities and vision that others lack and that only they should have the top position, they are both very prideful and oblivious to the things around them (Edward to the threat of Thomas and John to the threat that he is encouraging in Mary).

The familiarity with which they speak to each other even when enemies is so poignant. They know each other so well. They are each other’s oldest friends.

I think their relationship is a representative of a theme most clearly demonstrated through Edward Tudor’s character: the death of innocence and truth at the hands of power.

And of course they both go down the same way. Of course they are reduced to squabbling children fighting over the shiniest toy. Of course they become what they have resented in each other because they have always been the same really. Edward stabs John in the back for position. John ignores Edward’s advice and the evidence around him of his own failure and plows relentlessly forward as Edward has always done. Of course this is what kills them both.

John killed Edward. Edward tried to kill John. They both are executed as traitors. All of their scrambling and scheming comes to nothing. The snake eats its own tail. The beast is doomed to consume itself in its entirety ect. ect.

[apostateoverrubies]

Certain adults hang out in children's spaces and be all surprised Pikachu face when they not only encounter kids but also find out that kids will do kid things.

You losing to a bunch of kids in a Tudor themed Roblox fashion show is not because they don't know history. It's because kids think it's funny to make sure Alvin and the Chipmunks win instead of the costumes trying to be accurate.

[mercurygray]

Hyping:

@mercurygray - we don't talk much but Merc's 20th century knowledge is above and beyond and reminds me how much passion can bring us the very best thing. Her writing is fantastic, and she's always a kind and positive presence on my dash <3 glad to be moots!

@selfproclaimedunicorn - Misa is a darling who comes up with fantastic ideas and boundless creativity and love. She is one of the bright spots I've found this year!

@azoraahai / @dragonsbone - Joey is one of the most loving people I know and is always someone who spreads the joy. Her gifs are jaw dropping!

@acrossthesestars - Alex is my otter in the ocean and I don't know how people are sleeping on her creativity. She's funny, quick witted, and clever and well worth the follow!

@randomdragonfires - Sam is an utter darling and I always enjoy our chats about fandom and real life!

@theladyelizabeth - Hi yes! Do you like Queen Elizabeth and Tudor times! I found her after the heartache that was Becoming Elizabeth and she's currently working on a FANTASTIC Robert Dudley and Elizabeth Tudor AU that I'm sooooo excited to sink my teeth into!

One of the lovely things about doing this event is that I get to meet new people! Thank you, Nat, for sharing these folks with me. I am glad to meet them and pass on your compliments. (Also, thank you, you're very kind.)

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