I loved him at first sight. I have learned to love him more. I will love him until I die. I wish in next life I could still be in the same world which has his soul.
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Sorry I’ll be super off topic for my entire ramble
What baffles me more is why there are so few slash / femslash fan fictions on tudor history (not counting Six musical fanfics due to personal taste although I like the musical itself) than what I see in the Three Kingdom fandom….. Meanwhile mainstream historical fiction authors seem to pump out hetero pairings nonstop for years. It pains me because although I’m Chinese I still can’t get myself to take any interest in Three Kingdoms. Therefore I feel jealous every time I come across a Three Kingdom fanfic lol
Am I looking at the wrong historic era? But even with such interesting dynamics in the film The Favourite there are not many fanfics for it.
Should I simply equate the Six fandom to the Three Kingdom fandom (both are prolific and focus on homosexual pairings)? But most Six fanfics are just so ‘healthy relationship’ and vanilla……
Can someone please explain the whole Thomas Moore and Thomas Cromwell thing that’s going on here, to me. I just am incredibly fascinated and haven’t been here long enough to understand any of it.
The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:
Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016
Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.
You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.
Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.
您的哀恸如此美丽啊
我看
笑也 as 兄橘姬
Today when I looked at the direction of Tower Wharf there was a rainbow over the bridge. I also visited the scaffold site.
“liking something in fiction doesn’t mean you condone it in real life” but instead of dark fanfiction tropes it’s about liking jeeves and wooster while being a socialist
She also stressed several times that she’s not the first ‘historian’ to say so.
I feel like the thinking behind the theory is just too heteronormative.
Not only does Alison Weir state (as a historical fact) Bloody Mary was a contemporary name popular / commonly used during & shortly after Mary’s reign, but she also thinks Chapuys might have romantic feelings for Mary. I mean it’s fine to write fan fictions but writing it in details in a published historic novel is… really something else. The plot also seems to involve Mary knowing the feelings Chapuys have for her and feeling terrible for not being able to return it because it is forbidden. What makes it worse is the talk Weir gave blurred history and fiction therefore at the end some of the audience already seemed to believe this.
Not only does Alison Weir state (as a historical fact) Bloody Mary was a contemporary name popular / commonly used during & shortly after Mary’s reign, but she also thinks Chapuys might have romantic feelings for Mary. I mean it’s fine to write fan fictions but writing it in details in a published historic novel is… really something else. The plot also seems to involve Mary knowing the feelings Chapuys have for her and feeling terrible for not being able to return it because it is forbidden. What makes it worse is the talk Weir gave blurred history and fiction therefore at the end some of the audience already seemed to believe this.
Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
This is just too cute I can’t 🥺
Not only the sun moon joke, or the title of scholar, but also the struggle with salutation. It is so real…… (Or lack of struggle for him, actually?)
I’ve noticed souvenirs and stamps with Charles face today. Im really hoping bank notes won’t change soon.
Since I’ve been interested in Thomas More recently, I just realize how many advertisements in tube stations use the word “more”…… Sometimes it’s the only word you’ll notice unless you read the whole thing very carefully
There was a new colleague at work today and at her first day she immediately tried to boss me around??? Sorry to all other people named Karen but her name is also Karen.
You people have got to start being fucking nicer to lgbt people (especially trans women) who want biological kids like I'm so over the stupid fucking edgy "ugh why would anyone want to be pregnant" and "why would you ever want kids that's so icky and gross" attitude so many of you on here have it's fucking pathetic and annoying grow up
Ideal work schedule:
I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks
I complete the list
I leave immedietly
“The jewellery she displayed, the composition, her seated posture, the barely visible column with rectangular pedestal in the background (representing the pillars of Hercules, the imperial emblem found in portraits of Charles) and proffered rose, were all reminiscent of other portraiture of Habsburg brides. It fixed Mary within a traditional Habsburg iconography. The Tudor emblem, the red rose, suggestive the Virgin Mary mirrored the rose found in Titian's portrait of the Empress Isabella. The flower sacred to Venus was a metaphor of the love tendered to the husband and a symbol of the sitter's beauty. She wears the more informal loose-bodied gown, described by Soranzo as reserved for ordinary wear. The sleeves are not of the French fashion and the buttons up the front support this identification”.
The marriage of Philip of Habsburg and Mary Tudor and anti-Spanish sentiment in England : political economies and culture, 1553-1557 By Alexander Samson (pg. 222)
the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.
I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
remember evil scientists, make sure all your machines have big levers, button, switches and lights to make operating them as cool and satisfying as possible
Under the Mary I tag it’s full of E I fans and M haters.
friends and partners have asked me before why i need to show them so many movies and so many songs and so many books and why i wax poetics for so long and i have to explain hi hello these were my only companions for so long, this is where i learned how to love, this made my heart sing, this brought me such joy and understood my sadness and held me so tenderly, i need to show you because it’s a part of me it’s a piece of me, it understands me in a way i want you to understand me, it’s one of the ways i can tell you i trust you with this strand of my dna, i offer these pieces of me to you because i love you.
This reminds of a twitter post I saw the other day. OP says they never understand why snowing makes some people happy, because it makes a lot of other people’s lives worse. That post single-handedly destroyed my biggest joy in life since childhood. I can understand how thunderstorms can be very dangerous and also I don’t necessarily need them in my life, but how can I not wishing for snow to happen???????
刚发现图书馆有个Footlights的主题展览但是30 September 2023 – 18 March 2024
有那么一点点无语
Many many gifs of James Wilby and Rupert Graves reunited at the BFI Flare 2024.