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nostalgia-tblr · 2 years ago

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I realised that the 10k words that I currently have is likely a much smaller fraction of the hypothetical completed work than I thought it was going to be and I told myself I shouldn't take anything out because it all seems to be fitting together fairly neatly BUT I am def starting to have my doubts about the value of "the scene where the two male characters discuss whether the female character (who is not in this scene) should be breastfeeding the baby that she just had with one of those men (but she's been passing it off as the other one's)" because WTF that sounds AWFUL and I think I only put it in there because I was all YAY I'M JUST GONNA WRITE ABOUT MEDIEVAL QUEENS (KIND OF!!!) and there was that whole Thing in monarchies where you have to get a wetnurse in because breastfeeding reduces fertility and your shitty husband needs AT LEAST another couple of boys what with infant mortality being what it was in them days. And for some reason (probably sleep-deprivation TBQH) I at some point thought that it wouid be a good thing to put into an MCU fic???

#wip tag #now that i type this out it has become both worse AND funnier to me so who knows what i will decide to do with it in the end #i also remembered that this entire adventure into whatever the heck i am actually making now is because i realised that two famous queens #i forget which ones OBVIOUSLY #were famous for pulling off the same feat #which is 1) pop out at least one boy #2) outlive your shitty husband #and 3) your child-king son is now basically your talking puppet and you run a country now you go girl yas queen slay etc etc etc #i think one might have been catherine di medici? and... possibly margaret beaufort? (i know henry wasn't a kid at the time but yk)#POSSIBLY one was Empress Cixi? aka the one non-European more-or-less-queen that I know anything about #but anyway yes the trick here is to have a royal son and then refuse to ever die #elizabeth woodville has to be an Honourary Mention because she COULD have done it as well #had her brother-in-law not realised she was about to do that and kidnapped usurped and then probably-murdered the boy in question #Henry VIII's famous gang of queens all failed to meet at least one of the requirements :(#anyway hello some years ago i started reading books about famous dead queens and now what have i become???#BTW monarchies are a terrible idea #just scrolled up to see wtf i am typing this stuff under oh yeah it's the post about the lactation debate scene oh noooo #gonna... gonna hit post now while i still can #the Sylki AU that got longer and wronger

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