#-+ Henry's presence)

[dee-in-the-box]

(warnings: implied/referenced child murder and death, blood and bruises, implied alcoholism/alcohol abuse (lyrics), self-hatred)

putting this under the cut, just to be safe.

it's some Jack Kennedy Angst. because of course.

"I've really done it this time,

Where's there for me to go?

God damn it, I don't know!

How could I ever know?!"

hey so uh.

anybody ever think of the nonzero chance that Jack was Really Fucking Drunk the night he died?

because i do. Often.

(lyrics are from Audit by WeevilDoing, just slightly altered (original lyrics were "They won't breathe anymore."))

i dunno, the end of the song just makes me think of Jack the night he died.

i'm Very Normal about Jack and Dee, if it wasn't obvious

POV: your baby sister's been missing for 2-3 days ever since her birthday party and you've been beating yourself up over it (it's all your fault), so you decide to go to your job as a nightguard that night to check the cameras and see what happened to her (it's all your fault), only to discover that she got Fucking Murdered while you were gone by your employers (it's all your fault), and then you get fucking killed by an animatronic bunny before you can even get justice for her.

(alt: POV you're Jack Kennedy circa Late June, 1973)

(fun fact when i looked it up: Merlot is a kind of wine grape!)

[pushing500]

I really want to see Henry's (the little hussar) reaction to the fact, he has the exact same name as a eldritch-tumor hand tentacle attached to a tiny girl. I think he would be a little bit offended.

I think Henry might be a teeny bit overprotective of his name, yeah. He maybe wouldn't mind if someone named a baby after him, or maaaybe even a beloved pet, but a horrible squirming eldritch flesh whip?? No thank you!!

Fortunately, Andy can help him simmer down if the thought gets him too riled up and his Hussar's hyper-aggressive gene starts to kick in...

[toobusybeingdelulu]

still no leaks about max’s plotline in vecna’s mind except for like one scene with her and El in Henry’s memories/visions in the 50’s. I’m still fully convinced about her finding closure with billy’s soul while still there, don’t get me wrong, and I know that that would be a major plot point and that’s why it would be so hard to get leaked, but sometimes it’s just so haaard to remain confident without any real hints or content to speculate on 😭😭

[holocene-sims]

next // previous

august 24, 2021 8:15 p.m. rainbow bowling

[novafloofeatsbirds]

feeling the need to solidify my opinions

[strangelovealchemist]

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

[wheelercore]

Falling down the rabbit hole of whether henry creel even really exists, or whether he exists but was framed, because really what we have is a "silly terrible play", els flashbacks which is riddled with questions about their veracity, and an insane asylum inmate who claims to be Victor Creel (and even if he is, his recounting of events is suspect) in a subplot where it was all too easy for nancy and robin to swindle their way into the Pennhurst basement (and get away?? From what should be a very high security area of the hospital??) while the "inmates -at -an -insane -asylum -participate -in-an-elaborate -ruse -orchestrated -by -the -psychiatrist -to -convince -the -main -character -of -an -elaborate -lie" movie (Shutter Island) is right there on the inspo board with direct parallels.

How do you trick someone very convincingly? You let them think they are outsmarting you instead. Dr. Hatch and his associate Dr. Brenner Brantley would know this, they are academics after all.

Which is super fun to think about it, like why would they want to lead the gang down on a wild goose chase for a demon that victor creel claims killed his family- and the oh so convenient lore dump by vecna in which he repeatedly refers to himself as the demon.

[cantsayidont]

February 2024. Originally entitled HENRY JAMES' DRIVE-AWAY DYKES until the studio objected, this fitfully violent, very silly lesbian road movie plays more like QUENTIN TARANTINO'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: Two mismatched gay friends, uptight Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) and oversexed Jamie (Margaret Qualley), decide to drive to Tallahassee via a drive-away car delivery service and end up pursued by a pair of bickering goons (Joey Slotnick and C.J. Wilson) looking to retrieve a mysterious package hidden in the trunk of our heroines' car.

A pet project for director Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke (who is gay), the film, set in 1999, is basically a droll mashup of low-budget '90s lesbian romcoms (e.g., GO FISH, BAR GIRLS) and the same period's innumerable PULP FICTION imitators, full of absurd bits of business and scene-stealing secondary characters, including Beanie Feldstein as Jamie's hilariously bitter cop ex-GF. Some of its more ridiculous moments feel like trying too hard, but it's largely unburdened by the creeping nihilism that often drags down the Coen Brothers' ostensibly comedic efforts.

Much like costar Margaret Qualley's cartoony Texas accent, it can't be taken seriously, but it's endearing if received in the spirit intended, and there are far worse ways to spend 75 minutes. Coen and Cooke say it's intended as the first in a loose trilogy of lesbian B-movies.

[wonder-worker]

Margaret of Anjou’s visit to Coventry [in 1456], which was part of her dower and that of her son, Edward of Lancaster, was much more elaborate. It essentially reasserted Lancastrian power. The presence of Henry and the infant Edward was recognised in the pageantry. The ceremonial route between the Bablake gate and the commercial centre was short, skirting the area controlled by the cathedral priory, but it made up for its brevity with no fewer than fourteen pageants. Since Coventry had an established cycle of mystery plays, there were presumably enough local resources and experience to mount an impressive display; but one John Wetherby was summoned from Leicester to compose verses and stage the scenes. As at Margaret’s coronation the iconography was elaborate, though it built upon earlier developments.

Starting at Bablake gate, next to the Trinity Guild church of St. Michael, Bablake, the party was welcomed with a Tree of Jesse, set up on the gate itself, with the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah explaining the symbolism. Outside St. Michael’s church the party was greeted by Edward the Confessor and St. John the Evangelist; and proceeding to Smithford Street, they found on the conduit the four Cardinal Virtues—Righteousness (Justice?), Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude. In Cross Cheaping wine flowed freely, as in London, and angels stood on the cross, censing Margaret as she passed. Beyond the cross was pitched a series of pageants, each displaying one of the Nine Worthies, who offered to serve Margaret. Finally, the queen was shown a pageant of her patron saint, Margaret, slaying the dragon [which 'turned out to be strictly an intercessor on the queen's behalf', as Helen Maurer points out].

The meanings here are complex and have been variously interpreted. An initial reading of the programme found a message of messianic kingship: the Jesse tree equating royal genealogy with that of Christ had been used at the welcome for Henry VI on his return from Paris in 1432. A more recent, feminist view is that the symbolism is essentially Marian, and to be associated with Margaret both as queen and mother of the heir rather than Henry himself. The theme is shared sovereignty, with Margaret equal to her husband and son. Ideal kingship was symbolised by the presence of Edward the Confessor, but Margaret was the person to whom the speeches were specifically addressed and she, not Henry, was seen as the saviour of the house of Lancaster. This reading tips the balance too far the other way: the tableau of Edward the Confessor and St. John was a direct reference to the legend of the Ring and the Pilgrim, one of Henry III’s favourite stories, which was illustrated in Westminster Abbey, several of his houses, and in manuscript. It symbolised royal largesse, and its message at Coventry would certainly have encompassed the reigning king. Again, the presence of allegorical figures, first used for Henry, seems to acknowledge his presence. Yet, while the message of the Coventry pageants was directed at contemporary events it emphasised Margaret’s motherhood and duties as queen; and it was expressed as a traditional spiritual journey from the Old Testament, via the incarnation represented by the cross, to the final triumph over evil, with the help of the Virgin, allegory, and the Worthies. The only true thematic innovation was the commentary by the prophets.

[...] The messages of the pageants firmly reminded the royal women of their place as mothers and mediators, honoured but subordinate. Yet, if passive, these young women were not without significance. It is clear from the pageantry of 1392 and 1426 in London and 1456 in Coventry that when a crisis needed to be resolved, the queen (or regent’s wife) was accorded extra recognition. Her duty as mediator—or the good aspect of a misdirected man—suddenly became more than a pious wish. At Coventry, Margaret of Anjou was even presented as the rock upon which the monarchy rested. [However,] a crisis had to be sensed in order to provoke such emphasis [...]."

-Nicola Coldstream, "Roles of Women in Late Medieval Civic Pageantry", Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Culture

[une-sanz-pluis]

The virulence of the disease affected all levels of Henry's army, from the rank-and-file to its top commanders. Clarence himself fell ill and departed Harfleur sometime before 12 October, as he was in Calais on this date where he stayed only briefly to deliver the heavy artillery used during the siege. The speed of the duke's recovery on his return to England is difficult to gauge as the records are quiet about his activities. He appears to have swiftly resumed his seat at the Privy Council, but it is not clear whether he attended the Parliament that met at Westminster in November 1415, which began on 4 November, while Henry was overseas. By the summer of 1416, he was fit again and met Emperor Sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire at Dartmouth in June and was appointed Steward of England around the same time. The retinue that Clarence left behind in France numbered 742 of his original 980 men, six knights, 151 men-at-arms and 585 archers, according to the post-campaign account information we have...

Michael P. Warner, The Agincourt Campaign of 1415: The Retinues of the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester (The Boydell Press 2021)

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinkbing about. him

[fideidefenswhore]

Had circumstances been just a little different, Anne Boleyn might still have lived. Had she produced a son, Jane would have been a passing distraction, Anne's enemies would have been silenced, and her fiery character might again have seemed, at least at times, beguiling to Henry. During the course of their brief marriage, which lasted just over three years, there had been many fluctuations. After the final miscarriage, Anne fought back, saying she had been frightened by Henry's accident, but also broken-hearted at his paying attention to another woman. This kind of criticism was not something Henry was prepared to tolerate in a wife; one of Katherine's strengths, as she herself acknowledged, was that she had never shown any sign of animosity or distress in response to the king's infidelities. Henry and Anne's relationship had been a genuine love-match, however, and the volatility which helped bring about the extraordinary events of the break with Rome remained a part of their relationship ever after.

Henry VIII, Lucy Wooding

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

'Composition 11', ca. 1930, by Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979).

[Jaded in Japan]

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"If an idea is held in the mind and lighted up with sharpened attention, it will form a new magnetic field in which the results of connections unseen till that moment may gather and unite this idea with others of the same or even of an entirely different order."

~ Henri Thomasson, 'The Pursuit of the Present' (translated by Rina Hands)

[Ian Sanders]

[cosmic-walkers]

so much i need to write about james frains thomas cromwell

[gayofthefae]

How did Will access Joyce through the wall

Why did the lamp in the cabin glow when El closed the gate if the mind flayer had left his body

Why did he survive a week kidnapped directly by the Demogorgon when Barb didn't survive five minutes

Why did he have his own powers both before and after the mind flayer possessed him and Billy didn't seem to have them

Why was Billy the next target host

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Wherever you are, I’ll be there with you. 

Wherever you go, I’ll go there with you.