#Alexander Samson

[palecleverdoll]

- Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain  

[a-dream-seeking-light]

samson’s revenge — alexander rothaug (c. 1928, oil on canvas, 151cm x 151cm)

[paintedmesas]

msby memes gn

[xoxo-devdas]

wanted to share some notes from my fic-plotting

which has consumed any energy for creation and honestly LORD knows if I'll ever release it upon the public BUT

i really wanted it to have a polyam lams and hamliza and thus the relationship chart has stuff like J<--> A: messiest relationship preservation. which. fair. one’s bisexual and polyamorous and blindingly aware of the monogamous society he's in without the full scope of words with which to defend himself. the other is the most repressed self-denying homosexual this side of the Atlantic in the 1700s. they make it work. almost didn’t. but they make it work. addition:

gee laurens how come you’re living with the hamiltons? “gas leak” “frances needs a ma, and no i don't want to remarry” “rats” “he’s like family” “new york is fucking expensive and i got cut off” A<--> E: almost insta-love the way they fell hard for each other. but no, they were upfront about the practical matters of marriage. alex managed to send multiple letters that were to the tune of “im originally a poor Caribbean bitch. are you sure you wanna marry me?” and had to be pressed into confessing about john. it fucked up eliza for a while, but lupe (OC, my darling) offered some good advice. E<-->J: john kinda hated her for a whileeee

bitter ass bitch, had to be put in his place by eliza. would have self-sabotaged it but God and Samson (main oc, he goes through So Much) didn’t let himself fall onto a sword.

ever since i discovered that john laurens was a petty ass bitch I've been wanting to see John and Eliza be incredibly fucking snippy with each other but that would have been impossible with the Way Things Were re: genteel manners, the disregard towards women's opinions, john laurens' most likely inbuilt sexism (that ham also had, he's not getting off the hook on this) Penelope and Samson did not expect themselves to be dealing with such a dynamic and had to work overtime to make sure they didn't implde. unfortunately sam always sees that laughing 5 year old redhead when he looks at his cousin (alex) and Penelope knows that beyond all the points where these people annoy her, they are actually pretty decent for their time. she's mostly doing it so her sanity and her husband's peace of mind is preserved (god she does so much emotional labour)

[exist101]

The Elementals Characters

@interdimensionalvoid @crossover-enthusiast @anyone else who needs this

I am making a list of my entire oc universe this is part 1

Celine, the hero bearing the Rivermark and the sister of Stephanie

Samson (name might change), the hero bearing the Blazemark and the old friend of Casey

Trixie, the hero bearing the Treemark and the daughter of Ford

Gabriel, the hero bearing the Skymark and the brother of Hannah

Mask, the wielder of the Angel's Bane

Alexander, the immortal mentor

Alexandria, the undead hero

Tamica, the angelic warrior and sister of Veronica

Ava, the conspiring detective

Allie Axolotl, the living toon

Moxxie Monkey, Allie's boyfriend

Hannah, the parasitic host and sister of Gabriel

Casey, the warlock of The Lady of the Sun

Ford, the living puddle and husband of Elijah

Jason, the magician villain and father figure to Casey

The Tin Soldier, the Puppetmaster's personal guard and chosen one

Elijah, the father of Trixie

[artsynoova]

Nutcracker Season 2024

And here we are! Thank you so much to all who participated, all of them look wonderful! I'm so happy so many people joined! 

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

I leave you with all the wonderful artists and characters that participated!

@pinkyhaert -Hollyberry-Nicolas and Tulip-Snowball-Koda

@anjiedromeda -Riddley & Kronya

@inkabelledesigns -Auran & Loraine

@exittotheartscape -Maxi & Marie

@gruvu -Hardt & Clara

@lexi-the-writing-geek -Winter & Claire

@freckleocalypse -Sebastian, Emily & Abel

@highflyartist -Saragona & Marleen

@hobbies-miscellaneous -Alexander & Clara-Hanz & Kaitlyn

@marianorth12 -Hereman & Masha

@ariflorarts -Hans & Clara

@ladyfluffbutt -Garion

@kate66s -Erica

@artsynoova -Ben & Casandra

@falcontheartist -Alessia

@saturnnutcracker -Ivan & Sam

@oilliewaffle -Zek & Samson

@willowb1515 -Nicholas & Willow

@metallicartist -Erick & Karla

@bladefoxfairy -Aiden & Bladie

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Mythological Names

Names based on mythologies and religions.

Atlas (m)

Phoebe (f)

Maeve (f)

Lilith (f)

Aurora (f)

Samson (m)

Ram (m)

Calliope (f)

Dagon (m)

Cáel (m)

Arthur (m)

Nanna (f)

Athena (f)

Nike (f)

Bahram (m)

Ammon (m)

Delphine (f)

Balram (m)

Alexander (m)

Paris (f/m)

Cassandra (f)

Persephone (f)

Sunna (f)

Aeneas (m)

Vali (m)

Cassiopeia (f)

Anahita (f)

Kleio (f)

Doris (f)

Enki (m)

More names!

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[5blondeboytoy5]

On the subject of last names...

It drives me crazy that the SDV characters don't have last names like yeah saying "sam stardew valley" is funny and all, but here's my objectively correct headcanon on the marriage candidates middle and last names. It's insane especially seeing as last names are like... a thing in this universe, George and Evelyn and arguably Alex have them, but nobody else does!!!! A lot of these were based on people I know who remind me of the candidates (like, i gave Haley the same last name as the popular girl in my highschool) Let me know what you think and I can make a list of the other characters too !!!!

Bachelorettes

Haley Natalie Calvin

Emily Marianne Calvin

Abigail Janet Rosenburg

Leah Elaine White

Penelope Morgan Routier

Maru Amanda Darnell

Bachelors

Samson James Carmichael

Sebastian Matthew Hawthorne

Alexander Gabriel Mullner (Originally Vogler, but had it changed to match his grandparents)

Elliott Peter Mariposa

Harvey Dennis McLaughlin

Shane David Tyndall

[nothing-new-under-the-sun124]

Philip ii’s (real) reaction to the death of Mary i

The notion of Philip’s indifference to Mary’s death, derived from his alleged comment that ‘he felt a reasonable regret for her death’. In mourning at the monastery of Grunethal on 4th December, what he actually wrote to his sister Juana was that ‘given that the problem of Calais can not be negotiated so soon, especially given the death of the most serene Queen, my wife, may she rest in peace, which I have felt as deeply as one would expect, even in this she is most necessary to me…’ The Victorian translation of this document (‘I felt a reasonable regret for her death. I shall miss her, even on this account’) has given rise to the idea that Philip did not mourn Mary’s passing, particularly. The original underlines, however, that whatever Philip’s most intimate feelings about his wife, he expressed sorrow to his sister and underlined Mary’s practical importance to him in the context of the war with France.

Philip and Mary: The Marriage of Tudor England and Hapsburg Spain by Alexander Samson. Page 187

[malibuklaus]

Samson’s Revenge — Alexander Rothaug

[leacher]

hello! my name is morgan and i’m a writer that never actually seems to write, hence the reason i’ve made this account! i’m 21, use she/her pronouns, and this is going to be a very self-indulgent writeblr. expect to see lots of fics here, along with my in-the-works interwoven oc universe that i’ll be expanding upon immensely. hopefully. anyway! concepts and writings will live here as a way to motivate me to actually write, as well as tag games and challenges and things of that nature. i tend to write morally ambiguous characters, slice-of-life scenarios, and anything dark and macabre. but i don’t bite, i promise! so feel free to tag me in games, send in asks, shoot me a dm — whatever you want! thank you for checking out my account !! ♡

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notable wips :

⟢   wings of fire ,  UNNAMED.  a nightwing princess has the ability to change everything in her kingdom. and to hold that power in her claws … well, quite frankly, there’s nothing she wouldn’t do.

⟢   ocs ,   SHOEGAZE.  being the tambourinist for an infamous shoegaze band isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — just ask knox. in fact, some things are better left untouched, and the saint suicides might be one of them.

⟢   ocs ,   CROSS COUNTRY.  two loser teenagers get together to travel america. it goes about as well as you might expect.

⟢   ocs ,   MOONLIGHT MILE.  world war two medic teddy hatchett finds himself thrust into a winter battle after the death of his best friend. while he isn’t keen on making friends, it looks like fate might have other plans for him.

⟢   ocs ,   THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES.  alexander’s last chance at becoming a detective starts and ends with the infamous local cult run by a charming yet mysterious man named samson. going undercover, however, proves to be more tumultuous for alexander than anyone could've anticipated.

[palecleverdoll]

- Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain    

[marytudorqueenofengland]

“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)

[samsammysamson]

SAMSON! REJOICE! You're not the only one with a dorky full name! Alexander's real name just dropped 😈😈😈😈

That's not dorky, and neither is Samson, dangit!

[fashionbooksmilano]

1997 Fashion Big Bang

exhibition Palais Galliera, Paris 2023

Alexandre Samson (sous la direction de), Miren Arzalluz, Franck Delpal, Colleen Hill, Marc Lambron, Sylvie Lécallier

Paris Musées, Paris 2023, 192 pages, 140 illustrations, 23,6x31,5 cm, ISBN 9782759605477

euro 44,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

From 7 March to 16 July 2023, the Palais Galliera is organising an exhibition focusing on the year 1997, a watershed year in the history of contemporary fashion. 1997 was both a high point of 1990s fashion and the gateway to the new millennium. It brought a flurry of collections, shows, new appointments, openings and events that defined the fashion scene as we know it today. Such was its impact that 1997 can be thought of as the launching pad for 21st century fashion. 1997 was notable for a number of emblematic collections: bodies deformed by Comme des Garçons with the Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection, Martin Margiela’s conceptualised garments in the Stockman collection, and Raf Simons’s redefinition of the canons of male beauty in the Black Palms collection. The magazine Vogue Paris defined the 1997 Spring-Summer haute couture season as the ‘Big Bang’ that Paris needed in order to regain its place as the international capital of fashion in an era of economic crisis and intense global competition. But there’s no denying that 1997 was a vintage year. It saw the arrival in haute couture of star designers from the 1980s, such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler, while the legendary French fashion houses were taken over by a new generation of British designers, with Alexander McQueen at Givenchy and John Galliano at Christian Dior.

The globalisation of fashion gathered pace, foreshadowing the 2000s and 2010s. Young, little-known artistic directors rose to prominence, either on their own or at the head of major fashion houses: Hedi Slimane, Stella McCartney, Nicolas Ghesquière, Olivier Theyskens – names that are still shaping fashion today. A whole series of events marked the beginning of the new era: the concept store Colette opened and stayed at the epicentre of fashion for the next 20 years. But also, that same year, the world of fashion was shaken by the tragic death of Gianni Versace. The chronological layout of the exhibition features over 50 silhouettes from the Palais Galliera collections, along with loans from museums and international collectors and fashion houses. And it also includes videos and some outstanding archive documents. The exhibition 1997 Fashion Big Bang is an invitation to discover or to relive key events from this ��explosive’ year in fashion history.

13/12/23

[inky-duchess]

I was wondering if you had any guides on Spain, be it ranking system, fashion through the ages, or even technological development? Or if you know of any links or books, that'd be great too! I'm mostly familiar with English and French culture, but Spain a little less so besides general history.

Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker

The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas

World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas

Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett

Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey

Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain by Alexander Samson

Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters by Ana de Sagrera

A Divided Kingdom: The Spanish Monarchy from Isabel to Juan Carlos by John Van der Kiste

The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 by James Falkner