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I would be ghost-waiting in my ghost-appliance to give you a ghost-tour (tv/radio ghost! A lot of that hit a litttle too close to home 😭)

anyway

tags if you want

@thickerthanthieves @acting-pterygii @interview-with-the-vlfote and anyone else who fancies a go!

Made a uquiz because of that ghost/haunting poll

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Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

this post must be reblogged by everyone

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Tag meme: what monolgue(s) or short scene(s) live in your head rent free?

Ulterior motive to the tag meme: wanna perform one of them?

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Are you Lancaster

1) This is indeed @whiteswanoflancaster — I just have a very strange blogging setup going on that I haven’t bothered to do anything about yet😭

2) a little self-consciously, but yeah! I find it rather strange to take sides in a 550–year–old conflict, but despite that I’d say I support the Lancastrians! This is because:

- While Richard of York was undoubtedly more competent than Henry VI — and while I’d even argue he didn’t want to take the crown — there’s no getting around either the fact that he did or the fact that, in doing so, he completely destabilised the system of government in England, which probably wasn’t a price worth paying — many historians argue that Edward IV and Henry VII introduced a “new monarchy,” their financial systems and tight control of the nobility actually resembled the systems of earlier rulers such as Edward III, and weren’t all that new at all! There isn’t really a huge difference between Edward IV giving land to his brothers and Edward III giving it to his sons, in my opinion — and so the Wars of the Roses and by extension York’s decision to disrupt the system by claiming the crown led to politics taking a bit of a “backward step” towards a less efficient system. Without that disruption, England might have been better able to flourish in the sixteenth century — and there’d have been far less death.

- Their story is just appealing in my opinion! There’s a certain romance to it that caught my attention and refused to let go — and it’s also there at the end of the wars, with Henry Tudor and his allies standing for Lancaster. It’s a little bit shallow, but I do love a good story — and this is certainly that!

- Margaret of Anjou was very, very cool and deserves to be more widely known about and appreciated. Enough said 😭

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ABOUT ME

Why “white swan?”

- it’s fairly well-known that the Lancastrians didn’t use the red rose at all until Henry VII saw its propaganda potential! One of the badges they DID use was the white swan, which is one I’m particularly fond of.

What’s the header?

- Harlech Castle! It’s where Margaret of Anjou escaped to after the Battle of Northampton, and it was the last Lancastrian stronghold to fall in Wales! It’s also a picture I took myself, which is always fun.

What’s the title?

- A quote from an essay by Anne Crawford on Margaret of Anjou. In full: she was an “object lesson in how not to behave as a queen consort.” I don’t agree, but I love the quote!

What’s on this blog?

- Fourteenth and fifteenth century history

- Medieval European queenship

- The Wars of the Roses and their immediate causes

- Book and documentary reviews

- General musing!

- Serious History (@lost1ndaydream for the shitposting… most of the time!)

What else?

- The ten-year plan features a PhD in this stuff!

- Henry VII deserves a biopic and I will die on that hill

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finally cracked and created a history sideblog @whiteswanoflancaster

Please give me a follow!

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Wdym I forgot Australia? Definitely haven’t had the tab open waiting to be input into the spreadsheet for two whole weeks or anything… not a single chance of that…

anyway!

Current podium:

Sainz (65 pts)

Leclerc (49 pts)

Norris (48 pts)

Constructors:

Ferrari (139 pts, inc. Bearman’s; otherwise 114)

McLaren (78 pts)

Red Bull (52 pts)

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Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

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Reblog if you are okay with people giving you lots of boops!

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Second race and already three days late… I’m doing well😭😭

Current podium:

Sainz (25pts)

Bearman (25pts)

Hamilton (18pts)

Verstappen (18pts)

Constructors:

Ferrari (62pts)

McLaren (35pts)

Red Bull (30pts)

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The DOTD Championship is coming back, and this year I’m adding a constructors’ championship!

Current podium:

Sainz (25pts)

Verstappen (18pts)

Perez (15pts)

Constructors:

Ferrari: 37pts

Red Bull: 33pts

McLaren: 10pts

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Somewhere in Bahrain, Oscar Piastri, Fernando Alonso and Alain Prost are sat around a table in hysterics about the downfall of Alpine

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I would never condone watching F1 for free without subscribing to those expensive, corporate streaming sites that make millions from advertising other corporations.

And I would never condone clicking on this link to watch F1 pre-season testing and all the free practices, qualifying and races.

Don’t click on this link.

JOKES! Fuck that, free for all is what I say. No one should miss out on F1 because it’s expensive to watch.

Just to be clear…this is the link I am talking about. It streams F1 for free. FREE!

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f1 wrapped

30,000 minutes listened to the dutch national anthem

6,383 increasingly desperate messages in the gc trying to make sense of ferrari strategy

723 minutes spent zooming in on strips of stomach visible under shirts in race weekend photo dumps

14 hours spent listening to george russell saying he has no words on the radio before proceeding to use words

922 times seeing valtteri bottas's bare ass on the internet

0 times brundle and/or crofty pronounced zhou guanyu's name correctly