#bessie x cleves

[skittle-bop69]

ok ok ok uhhhhhhhhh six x total drama

courtney as catherine of aragon-it just works

gwen as anne boleyn-this might be a questionable choice but it makes sense with courtney being catherine of aragon and the whole boyfriend kisser thing

zoey as jane seymour-(if im being honest with you i didnt know who to put as jane and i saw someone else use zoey as jane so-)

leshawna as anna of cleves-get down matches leshawna's energy perfectly

vito as katherine howard-the trauma

bridgette as catherine parr-by far the choice im not 100% sure with but like her convincing the others that they are more than what history perceives them to be is smth i can see her doing

also drama brothers as ladies in waiting :D

trent as maggie

harold as bessie

cody as joan

justin as seniorita maria

[yourdeepestfathoms]

Kitty: What’s the cute nicknames you guys call each other?

Jane, lovingly, about Aragon: Goddess...

Anne, adoringly, about Cathy: My queen...

Anna, about Bessie: Stinky

Kitty, Jane, Anne:

Anna: Goblin. Possum. Short. Pasty. My little Mayo packet.

Everyone:

Anna: Oh, and Princess! 🥰

[letsgoravendors]

Jane: Lina, where’s the kid.

Aragon: What kid?

Jane: Our kid.

Aragon *looking over at Kitty, Anne, Cleves, Cathy, Maggie, Joan, Bessie, and María all arguing over the remote*: You’re going to have to be more specific.

[boleyn-falcon]

Here’s an old Banna doodle I made!

For those who don’t know Banna is Bessie x Anna and I love it 🥺 these cuties❤️🖤💜

[dailydoseofwomen]

[plegdoctor]

Ok so: who from uk2 would you cast in which role in Six?

I’m not even going to lie to you, the amount that I’ve thought about this is honestly embarrassing. Not putting this under a cut because it's art and you all deserve to see it XOXO

Aragon: Tayce. I don't know why but the two just click for me. Tayce is confident, she's not afraid to speak up, I imagine she can be quite feisty sometimes which is what No Way screams to me. But at the same time we know she can give us vulnerability (citing the memory lipsync) which is why I think she'd be a good Aragon. She can also deliver with the dramatics needed for some of Aragon's lines: everything she said in Beastenders was fantastic and you can't tell me she wouldn't do the monologue absolute justice. However I also think that Tia would be an amazing Aragon

Boleyn: Boleyn is my absolute favourite role in Six. Total dream role for me, I’m obsessed with Anne Boleyn, so I’ve thought a lot about this. My initial thought is Veronica. Green, she’s done her before (and done a fantastic job may I add), and I feel like it just makes sense in my mind. HOWEVER, we mustn’t forget Bimini’s iconic promo look being a reference to the most well known portrait of Anne Boleyn. Also, with Bimini’s accent I feel like it matches well with Millie's (who used to play Boleyn on West End) and also with Christina Modestou’s voice (who is the voice of Boleyn on the cast recordings). So to conclude, I think we'll go with Veronica Boleyn and Bimini swinging the role

Seymour: Listen, yous can disagree with me on this and I highly encourage it because I am not sure of myself BUT I'm leaning towards Cherry for this role. I'm obsessed with a dark haired Seymour but also Cherry looks so good as a blonde and I can't totally explain this one, but I think that Cherry would kill Heart of Stone. Just a vibe. Veronica is a contender too because with her voice I know she could do this song absolute justice and more, so maybe she can swing the role upon occasion

Cleves: Asttina. This is one that I won't allow you to fight me on because I'm simply correct with this. Imagine Asttina doing Get Down? No, just take a few moments to imagine it and let yourself live in a world where that exists for just a few minutes. Do you have goosebumps? I know I do. BUT ALSO this is Tia's go to role. If you haven't watched the video of Boleyn Veronica then go back and click because it also includes Cleves Tia and she is just *chefs kiss* I genuinely can't choose between the two of them for this role, so they can both have it and to hell with the logistics x

Howard: Ellie. That's it. Ellie. She's young, she's bubbly, the costume would be beyond gorgeous on her. I think she would do so well as Howard, I know Ellie doesn't tend to do too many emotional lipsyncs and everything but I think she would be brilliant in subtly disguising the sadness of Howard's song/story into her personality, and the audience would walk away still thinking about it and thinking about the way that Howard continues to be portrayed in our media (All that being said, the line "I think we can all agree, I'm a 10 amongst these 3s" is so A'whora that it hurts)

Parr: Sister. Hear me out on this one. I feel like Sister is just constantly sick of everyone's shit ("But why should that story be the one I have to sing about just to win? I'm out"), very smart, and generally has a vibe of Parr to her. I also would love to see Parr played as a bit bored of the whole thing throughout and just generally detached and apathetic to the whole Six Wives of Henry VIII thing, I think that would be a really interesting take for her and I would like to see it

(Joe is Lady in Waiting Joan, Lawrence is Lady in Waiting Bessie, Ginny is Lady in Waiting Maria)

[niamh-sims]

Day 2, Results

Really, Henry thought, this Lady really could have put in a bit more effort in trying to win me over...

Again, borrowing *stealing* from @winterinverona​‘s Get Thee a Good Husband, scoring for day 2 is as follows:

Lifetime Relationship + (Daily Relationship x 0.5) + (Number of Bolts x 3) + (Successful Flirts x 5) + 5 Points for Crush OR 10 Points for Love

1. Bessie Blount: 47 + 0.5(100) + 3(2) + 5(5) + 5 = 133 points

2. Ann of Cleves: 47 + 0.5 (100) + 3(1) + 5(5) + 5 = 130 points

3. Katherine Parr: 42 + 0.5(93) + 3(2) + 5(5) + 5 - 124.5 points

4. Anne Boleyn: 41 + 0.5(91) + 3(1) + 5(4) + 5 = 114.5 points

5. Jane Seymour: 36 + 0.5(36) + 3(1) + 5(1) = 94 points

6. Catherine of Aragon: 25 +0.5(25) + 3(1) + 5(1) = 66.5 points

Although she does make a significant improvement of day one, in the end Catherine of Aragon just doesn’t cut it... And she’s lucky Henry doesn’t cut her head off!

Catherine: You can’t kick me out!  I am Catalina, Princess of Simspain!  I was born to be Queen of Simland!

Catherine: Only kidding... I can’t wait to be out of this dump...

Catherine: Pig!

And day 3 will be up soon!

[feuillesmortes]

Out of curiousity (and not wanting to lengthen the other post) What makes you consider Weir a bad historian? I always felt like that but I am wondering why others too

Well, I’ve only ever read one thing written by Alison Weir (her biography of Elizabeth of York) and if anyone wants to add to the discussion they are welcomed to do it, but from what I’ve seen regarding her other books as well is that they are poorly sourced. They are poorly sourced, and she makes such assumptions based on scant evidence that she chooses to focus on to a ridiculous degree for some reason, that her books read more like fiction than serious, historical research. Her fiction books are something else too: she has recently written that Anne of Cleves had a bastard child before marrying Henry VIII (because of… stretch marks?) and this was a reason why he divorced her, and it seems her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in her book A King’s Obsession was also wildly offensive. I talk more about her biography of Elizabeth of York under the cut.

Alison Weir thrives on sensationalised history, that’s the truth. She’s partially responsible for popularising the myth that Richard III and Elizabeth of York had a romantic, carnal relationship (gross!) in her biography because she chose to interpret a possible letter from Elizabeth to her uncle as a romantic one, even though there are only surviving fragments of said letter. In a 2013 interview she admits that:

“I don’t take that view nowadays … on reflection I think they mean something else entirely …  it would not surprise me if his relations with his niece have been sensationalised. For which I fear I must bear some of the blame!”

We all know Gregory’s The White Queen is out there to prove that the damage has been done even though Weir herself nowadays doesn’t believe in that theory – and not only in fiction, I’d say! Recently I was reading an excellent biography of Margaret Beaufort and the author also said that Elizabeth of York may have “harboured romantic feelings towards her uncle” and her source was none other than Alison Weir! I wanted to weep and puke at the same time.

As Weir herself claims in her interview, the words saying that Elizabeth was the king’s ‘in body’ had never appeared before in other versions of the letter, and even if was the case, medieval people had a very different way to express themselves that would suggest to a modern reader an erotic level even in the case of friendships or religious worship. The following letter is an example offered in the book Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others by Ruth Karras. It’s from the priest Alcuin to the emperor Charlemagne, in which Karras has omitted the word ‘sacred’ to make this point: 

Alcuin was tutor to Charlemagne himself, his sons and other young men sent to court, and he is considered by many to be the most important scholar of the Carolingian renaissance. Many authors have also pointed the homo-erotic (or plainly erotic) language he used in his letters. Karras goes on to say:

While for us the erotic equates with the carnal, for many medieval thinkers the erotic, to the extent it overlapped with the spiritual, was opposed to the carnal. Bernard of Clairvaux, for example, who wrote a series of sermons on the Song of Songs in which he imagined kissing Christ on the mouth and something even more holy, “that most intimate kiss of all, a mystery of supreme generosity and ineffable sweetness,” would have wanted to make a sharp distinction between his spiritual understanding of this action and a carnal understanding that would equate it with erotic activity between men, or between men and women. 

It seems to me that Weir wants to be a ‘popular’ historian and so she chooses to support the views that will offer her ample chances for scandal. Because of that letter and of a poem called The Most Pleasant Song of Lady Bessy (which is a largely fictionalised account of Elizabeth of York’s efforts to woo support to Henry Tudor before Bosworth) she claims that Elizabeth was an ambitious, I’ll-do-what-it-takes-to-be-queen type of woman and worse, that she only became demure and gentle and the Elizabeth of York that is traditionally known in history after she fell in love with Henry VII. How, you ask me? Because Henry played on her affections to make her what he wanted her to be. And on what grounds does she make that claim? None. She just says that in her biography as if it’s something backed by sources and not her own opinion. It’s beyond absurd, really.

So that’s why I don’t take Alison Weir as a serious historian, but from what I’ve seen many others here don’t either. I hope this answer helped you x

[sixfanficsarchive]

are there any Bessie x Anna fics out there? They seem like such a cute ship

Candy Crush by n0t_bess1e_b4ss_0n_the_b4ss

Anna has a huge crush on the cute girl who works at the local sweet shop in London. Unfortunately, the girl is an oblivious, shy mess, but that just makes her fall even harder.

How To Be A Useless Bisexual: A Biography By Bessie Bass by n0t_bess1e_b4ss_0n_the_b4ss

Bessie Blount does NOT have a crush on Anna of Cleves. But Anna certainly does

[barbossas-wench]

Gotham girls x Six cast

Queens

Aragon - Barbara Kean

Boleyn - Harley Quinn

Seymour - Lee Thompson

Cleves - Ivy

Howard - Mary Dahl

Parr - Selina Kyle

Ladies in Waiting

Maggie on the Guitar - Kristen Kringle

Bessie on the Bass - Liza

Joan on the Keys - Isabella

Maria on the Drums - Sofia Falcone

[trebehmnosila]

Current Cast for Persona 5 x Six the Musical!

Catherine of Aragon: Makoto Nijima

Anne Boleyn: Futaba Sakura

Jane Seymour: Ann Takamaki

Anna of Cleves: Akira Kurusu

Katherine Howard: ???

Catherine Parr: ???

Maggie on Guitar: ???

Bessie on the Bass: ???

Joan on Keys: ???

Maria on the Drums: ???

Hans Holbein(?): ???

Henry VIII(?): ???

(?) means I don’t know if I’ll be drawing them or not

[yourdeepestfathoms]

Anna: *gently sprinkles Bessie in snow*

Anna: Snow angel!

[yourdeepestfathoms]

Random Banna AUs I Think About At Any Moment

Bessie is a Gorgon, Anna is the hero sent to slay her

Bessie is the wolf, Anna is Little Red Riding Hood

Bessie is a bodyguard, Anna is the queen

Bessie is a demon, Anna is an angel

Bessie is a Succubus, Anna is the human who summoned her (and then helps her not being a Succubus because it sucks, especially when you’re asexual)

Bessie is crying alone in the back of a bus late one night, Anna is the one who goes and checks on her to see if she’s okay

They literally just foster every animal they come across like that one lesbian couple on TikTok

Bessie is learning how to horseback ride, Anna is the horseback riding instructor

Bessie is a vampire, Anna is a werewolf

[yourdeepestfathoms]

Anna, trying to be a supportive gf over Bessie’s new special interest: vulture culture? is that like furries for people who like birds?

[yourdeepestfathoms]

[In which Anna makes a Tinder account just made up of pictures of possums]

Bessie, messaging her: I have a thing for marsupials. What can I say

Anna, messaging back: Bessie

Anna: You’re in luck

Bessie: Are you into eating garbage straight from the dumpster underneath the moonlight too?

Anna: I don’t wanna be too forward

Anna: But Bessie

Anna: I would love to take you out for some garbage

Anna: Dress accordingly

Bessie: I already haven’t showered for a week, my body is ready

Anna: What if I weren’t a marsupial

Anna: What if I was just a woman really into dumpsters and being nocturnal

Bessie: What if I really haven’t showered in a week?

Bessie: What if I knew of some real nice dumpsters around here?

Anna: I will go out into the woods

Anna: And bring you back the coolest leaf I can find

Anna: Chivalry is not dead

[yourdeepestfathoms]

AU where Bessie is a gorgon.

She was cursed into the form after being raped by Henry, who covered the act up by saying she wanted it, so the castle mage put the spell on her.

Shunned from her home, Bessie festers in her anguish and loneliness in a cave, which became her new domain. People often come down to kill her, but they never succeed, and the stone statues that now litter her cavern are just a grim reminder of the awful power she holds.

Years pass. Bessie’s depression is a deep, dark thing now. Her scales, once a shiny ebony black, have become brittle and patchy from her picking them off. She’s very thin, as not much food wanders down into her cave and she’s too afraid to leave. Her arms and tail are covered in bites from her trying to poison herself with her own venom, but it never works. Nothing ever works.

Enter Anna, a swordswoman. She was hired by a queen to slay Bessie, as she had never failed a job before. Anna takes the offer and goes to the cave, expecting to see a bloodthirsty, hideous monster who kills innocents and pressed itself on the king while his wife was pregnant, but instead she finds a crying serpentine girl laying in a sorry excuse for a bed, which was made of dirt and leaves. She didn’t even get up when Anna approached, just continued to sob into her dirty bedding.

“Kill me,” Croaked the monster. “Please, please kill me.”

Anna was taken aback. This creature had a lot more emotions than she thought it had. She had been told the beast thought only of murder...it shouldn’t be capable of crying in grief, let alone begging for death.

Anna doesn’t kill Bessie, and instead befriends her. They visit each other constantly, with Anna being Bessie blankets and food and water. They’re never able to directly look at each other, but they’re happy. Bessie is happy. And Anna swears to her that she’ll find a way to reverse her curse.