#kent hill

[oddmediaforall101]

Just an excuse to mash all my bbgs into one picture🫶

Edit: I’m gonna make a whole post dedicated to all different types of priests (or at least attempt to-), so put your faithful bbg in the comments of this post of you have one

[robin-nightwing]

clark’s pining playlist is openly labeled “thinking about him” with no fear because he knows bruce hates his music taste so much he’d never listen to one of his playlists long enough to put the pieces together

[violent138]

Fully believe that Bruce loves the Kent farm because it's so different from everything in his life. He can't be anything but Vengeance at Wayne Manor/Tower, can't be anything but Brucie Wayne in Gotham, fully -in -control-occasional dickhead Batman at the Watchtower and Dad in Bludhaven. But at the Kent farm, he's just another guest engaged in a death match with Martha to help clean up.

[stardustinthesky]

#this show GETS it

[stargoose-photo]

Blue Bell Hill, Kent, England, June 2024.

[whywoulditho]

someone on reddit said DC comics have separate authors for each run so like superman's authors are probably not allowed to write things that affect batman's story and that's why they couldn't make conner and tim kiss even though tim is a canon male kisser and vice versa for damian and jon. suddenly everything on the planet earth makes sense

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Leslie Patrick

1 August 2023

Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536), King Henry VIII's second queen, is often portrayed as a seductress and ultimately the woman responsible for changing the face of religion in England.

In reality, she was a fiercely intelligent and pious woman dedicated to education and religious reform.

But after her arrest and execution on false charges of adultery and incest in May 1536, Henry VIII was determined to forget her memory.

Her royal emblems were removed from palace walls, her sparkling jewels tucked away in dark coffers, and her precious books disappeared from the pages of time.

One of Boleyn’s books that has reappeared is the Book of Hours, a stunning prayer book, printed around 1527 with devotional texts designed to be read throughout the day, features hand-painted woodcuts — as well as a rare example of the queen’s own writing.

In the margins of one of the beautifully decorated pages, she penned a rhyming couplet followed by her signature:

“Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day, Anne Boleyn.”

The book vanished with Boleyn’s execution in 1536, then resurfaced around 1903 when it was acquired by the American millionaire William Waldorf Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) after he purchased Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn’s childhood home in the English countryside.

The hiding place of the disgraced queen’s devotional tome had been a mystery for centuries, until recent research by a university student uncovered hidden signatures that helped trace its path through history.

The discovery

The book’s whereabouts in the 367 years between Boleyn’s death and its reemergence remained puzzling until 2020 when Kate McCaffrey, then a graduate student at the University of Kent working on her master’s thesis about Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours, found something unexpected in the margins of the book.

“I noticed what appeared to be smudges to the naked eye,” recalls McCaffrey, assistant curator at Hever Castle since 2021.

Intrigued, she borrowed an industrial-strength ultraviolet light and set it up in the darkest room of Hever Castle.

Ultraviolet light is often used to examine historical documents because ink absorbs the ultraviolet wavelength, causing it to appear darker against the page when exposed.

“The words just came through. It was incredible to see them underneath the light, they were completely illuminated,” the curator recalls.

McCaffrey’s theory is that the words were erased during the late Victorian era when it was popular to cleanse marginalia from books or manuscripts.

But thanks to her extraordinary detective work, these erased words turned out to be the key that unlocked the tale of the book’s secret journey from certain destruction at the royal court to safety in the hands of a dedicated group of Boleyn’s supporters.

The guardians

Indeed, various pages throughout the text reveal the names and notations of a string of Kentish women — Elizabeth Hill, Elizabeth Shirley, Mary Cheke, Philippa Gage, and Mary West — who banded together to safeguard Anne's precious book and keep her memory alive.

While it’s unclear how the book was initially passed to these women, Anne Boleyn expert Natalie Grueninger suggests it was gifted by Anne to a woman named Elizabeth Hill.

Elizabeth grew up near Hever Castle, and her husband, Richard Hill, was sergeant of the King’s Cellar at Henry VIII’s court.

There are records of the Hill’s playing cards with the king, and there may have been a friendship between Elizabeth and the queen that prompted Boleyn to pass her prayer book on before her execution.

“This extended Kentish family kept the book safe following Anne’s demise, which was an incredibly brave and bold act considering it could have been considered treasonous,” says Grueninger, podcaster and author of the book The Final Year of Anne Boleyn.

Anne’s Book of Hours was passed between mothers, daughters, sisters, and nieces until the late sixteenth century, when the last name makes its appearance in its margins.

“This story is an example of the women in the family prioritizing loyalty, friendship, fidelity, and a personal connection to Anne,” says McCaffrey.

“The fact that the women have kept it safe is a really beautiful story of solidarity, community, and bravery.”

The book, currently on display at Hever Castle, is a touchstone of the enigma that was Anne Boleyn.

Castle historian and assistant curator Owen Emmerson points out that the book contains Anne’s DNA on the pages from where she touched and kissed it during her daily devotions.

“This was a really beloved possession of hers,” says Emmerson.

“Because of what happened to Anne Boleyn, we don’t have a vast amount of information in Anne’s own words. But the physical remnants of her use of the book, and the construction of that beautiful little couplet, have her identity in them.”

While Anne’s Book of Hours has finally found its way home, the research into this intriguing historical mystery is not yet over.

McCaffrey continues to chart the book’s provenance through the centuries to find out where it was hiding all this time.

The discovery of the inscriptions illuminates the book’s furtive journey, providing us with a glimpse into the controversy, loyalty, and fascination that Anne Boleyn has engendered for the past 500 years.

[mamawasatesttube]

when people say kon can't cook im like. man objectively everyone can have their own headcanons but come ON. that boy lives with ma kent! and after pa's death and kon's resurrection, we've seen him canonically fussing over her and insisting he can handle all the chores. of course he can cook, this is a no-brainer to me. he learned from her and now insists she should put her feet up and rest while he makes dinner. i know this in my heart

[more-relics]

Pink Floyd and road crew Alan Styles and Peter Watts. Photo session taken on the Royal Air Force Biggin Hill Aerodrome, Kent, England in 1969. Photos: Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell.

[shroudedmoon]

No color this time!! I think I've got anatomy pretty much down too :)))

Day 2: Vacation

They're having a rare but well-deserved break after saving the world (again)

[adalineozie]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Ted Lasso 3x2 | Christmas In Notting Hill

[ineedtostickwithonethinglol]

tw a/b/o

so. bat family headcannons on second gender.

Martha: alpha raised to fill the omega role(it was around 1950 after all... also explains why bruce was their only child.)

Thomas: alpha no questions asked. although in the timeline that h is Batman, a broody, heartbroken omega

alfred: pack beta that everyone thinks is an omega until they realize he doesn't have a strong sent.

Bruce: an omega both his parents ha the O gen so.. although Bruce didnt present until after he met Jason(literally that night he got his true scent)

dick: Sunshine alpha.

jason: omega to alpha, not doing more then masking his scent as if no one else gives alfred a great grand child he will.

Tim: beta? no one is sure as he nests and locks himself away for a week each month but he doesn't smell like an omega.

Cassandra: alpha with nesting tendencies.

Stephenie: beta.

duke: alpha, idk why.

damian:Omega.

bonus

barbara: omega

kori: both omega and alpha due to how her species is.

j'onn j'ons: same as kori but because Martians can change at will depending on which partner is dominant and which is submissive.

Clark Kent: alpha

lois lane: omega

Selina: alpha

Harley: manic omega.

ivy: alpha

joker: beta.

[dailydccomics]

Power Girl and Superman by Chuma Hill

[stargoose-photo]

Motney Hill, Rainham, Kent, England, February 2024.

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #26

Everyone gets a mark on their wrist when they turn 15. Clark Kent gets a weird mark that looks like a wispy D with a small P in it, he has no idea what it means…

Danny Fenton Gets a weird S… his mom sees it whispers something about zero day and tells him to cover it up and never show it to anyone.

Years pass and Clark is gearing up for his internship with his friend Jimmy. Danny had been on the run from the GIW for years after his parents found out his secret, he finds himself in metropolis, what happens when the new superhero Superman has his soul mark?

Danny feels conflicted, everything else his parents taught him were false, was his soul-mark one of them?