#widow wives

[thursdaymurderbub]

Joan Blondell & Glenda Farrell

[derangedrhythms]

All in black, pale but interesting, men find me...disturbing.

Angela Carter, Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter; from 'Two Wives and a Widow'

[anrisimps]

Commander Aile and his ethereal dead wife

Commander Aile and his second ethereal dead wife (Egg honorary mention💕)

[cometrose]

zhongli next lantern rite: oh no my 4th ex husband is here i must hide!

[thoodleoo]

So I'm reading The Iliad cause my greek myth hyperfixation from middle school hit me like a train and holy shit, why does Homer hate Ares so much???

"Then looking at him [Ares] darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him : ‘Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all the gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles."

This feels like some self insert shit. All the gods are being horrible during the Trojan war, so how come only Ares gets the short end of the stick?

king i dont think the personification of the web of oral tradition and shared community culture that is homer harbors any personal feelings toward ares. hate to break it to you

[avengers-assemble-12]

the way hailee and florence both cut their hair is so silly to me

I love all the little drabbles of Kate and Yelena obsessing over each other (i don't ship them but its adorable)

[landfilloftrash]

I have not drawn my boy Borrgol in a bajillion years. I must rectify this.

[fenixsmutraph]

No doubt, given all the time these two spent together on Aionios, you just know Rex called out the wrong name at least once.

Good thing Aionios time works the way it does, because early on, doing that just got him banished to the couch dimension for an entire year.

Full and more exp/licit set can be found here and here.

[thatisayouproblem]

I was listening to music earlier in my *checks phone* 14th re-reading of Iron Widow and i just realized how much the song Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives fits Zetian. Like, it has the voice i imagine her to be, the rough and powerful tone, the lyrics which feels a lot like something she’d say about Yizhi, I’m thinking mainly about the line; “he looked like an immortal coming down from the heavens only to stumble upon the concept of cannibalism” (it may not be accurate but i don’t have access to the book atm so I’ll correct it in a few days if i remember),

TL;DR, Tongues and Teeth is Wu Zetian’s theme song

[charlottenewtons]

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock // The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

[drunkforestnymph]

"I see you, Blodeuwedd Wildhoney. The real you."

Original characters I have absolute brainrot for right now; my DND character Blodeuwedd, an Eladrin Swarmkeeper ranger, and my DM's Warlock NPC Damyen. They're in love

[hollenka99]

Artur V now has his great great grandfather as a rival for the title of 'emperor with the most unhinged family dynamic'.

[hecatesbroom]

Apparently, today's brainrot of choice is a Golden Girls Sound of Music AU where Rose is Maria, Dorothy's the Captain, and Blanche is the Baroness, only that one scene where the Baroness visits Maria in her bedroom ends very differently & they end up in a polycule

[chicago-geniza]

Gotta stop referring to the Stef-Bohdan-Stanisława Zofia situation as "the legal loophole polycule" but like. Dr. Bohdan Zahorski got away with bigamy thanks to the Polish state's inconsistent civic status legislation between formerly partitioned imperial territories!!!

[fideidefenswhore]

Katherine of Aragon’s last letter, her famous and much quoted last letter is almost certainly a fake. It was reported as Actual History, by Fraser, Weir etc. in their popular histories right up until recently but if you look carefully, Fraser was really evasive about it in her footnotes, and Weir liked to mention it but skip by very quickly. If this document was ever considered in any detail there’s a tendency to say the sources for it aren’t great (while not actually saying what they are).  It wasn’t until Giles Tremlett’s Catherine of Aragon (first published in 2010 after the last season of The Tudors aired) that anyone nailed their colours to the mast and called it ‘almost certainly a fabrication.’. Which is a shame, because it’s great, and The Tudors went all out on it. Hirst actually improved on it with some subtle editing, softening the tone a bit, and moving the bit about finances to the beginning to make the whole end of the letter a loving speech to Henry. And Doyle Kennedy’s performance is amazing, allowing a well spring of love to flow through the words.

Matters of State

[strideofpride]

Look, if my previous mob boyfriends/husbands were Richie & Mikey, I’d probably be all over someone kind like Bobby too lmao