#John Knox' House

[rabbitcruiser]

The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army on May 7, 1544 was the first action of the Rough Wooing.

[rywritess]

So, what are the Hogwarts houses of the dps boys? (And my case for them)

Neil Perry (Gryiffindor) - Gryiffindor, duh doy. Not afraid to bend the rules and examples are: he defies his father's expectations by going against his wishes to be in the play (literally forges a letter of acceptance) and the one to suggest to start the dps club and sneak out late at night. Also a natural born leader, the group follows him and hes almost like an anchor for the group, which makes it even more heartbreaking after his death. Sorry it's short, not much to say.

Note: He's arguably Hufflepuff coded too

Todd Anderson (Gryiffindor) - Neville Longbottom situation. At first glance, he might be timid, shy, (hey don't stereotype hufflepuffs!) and even lacks gryiffindors defining trait (bravery) at first.. But he grows his character overtime as we watch and progress through the movie.

• Loyalty: His loyalty lies with Neil (the only time he really spoke out about something is saying what neil truly wanted to become; an actor)

•Courage: Being the first one to stand on his desk as keating leaves for good at Welton.

• Chivalrous: The way he acts, treats everyone with respect and genuine appreciation.

Knox Overstreet (Hufflepuff) - Hufflepuffs traits: hard work, patience, and loyalty. This can be shown by him courting Chris to be his girlfriend. He was persistent, writing her a poem, convincing her out in the cold to watch neils play with him, and loyal to her with her being the only girl in his eyes. Im not enthusiastic about writing for him or his character because of what he does in the books, so this is a bit short sorry knox fans :’)

Charlie Dalton (Gryffindor) - This man is like.. if you combined the Weasley twins together = a headache for teachers and students alike. His defining trait is definitely bravery, especially with his stunt on gale nolan with the telephone. Not much to defend about this stance, other than the fact this would be a house he would want to be in. And canonically, the sorting hat does take in your preferences.

Richard Cameron (Slytherin) - This one is definitely very agreeable in the fandom. Slytherin.. to whose surprise? Ambition, resourcefulness, and cunning are the values of the snake's house. Aside from that, also insanely misunderstood and overhated imo!! We can see how his ambition shines to be one of the best or at least top in grades with his studious nature, resourceful (im sure he had found several ways to deal with Charlie being his roomate otherwise he would've went insane), and cunning by achieving an escape out of expulsion to snitch on keating.

Note: This also fits relationship wise with the otherpoets, slytherin having beef with every house

Gerard Pitts (Hufflepuff) - A gentle giant!! (Pitts lolm i love his smile) He can be socially awkward at times if hes not close with someone with his introverted nature, but he is loyal and kind (even with his sarcastic comments, it his love language promise) loyal to his friends and keating, being one of the people to stand on their desk to pay respect.

Note: | want meeks and pitts to be in the same house ok dont judge me

Steven Meeks (Hufflepuff) - Warm hearted, dedicated to studies, and showcases hard work.. (mostly from doing charlies assignments). We can see he uses his coat for the other members to put their food on the ground in one of their meetings and hes always ready to help others out academically or not. He is a sweetheart and incredibly underrated i love him <3

Note: While he could be ravenclaw, l believe hed value kindness more.

Probably controversial:

Mr. Keating (Gryffindor) - Yes, not ravenclaw.. Just- hear me out. I believe he would've had a hat-stall, just like mcgonagall where it couldn't choose between ravenclaw and gryiffindor. However, ultimately getting the house of the lion!! I think he is incredibly wise and smart (a great fit for ravenclaw), but he also has defining griffindor traits such as bravery, loyalty, and chivalry. He does talk back to gale nolan quite a bit when defending his teachings, i can argue he showcases loyalty to the boys in his class by giving constant support, and he knows how to conduct himself in certain situations (when gently scolding charlie of his stunt). But I can definitely see him in Ravenclaw too and its totally fine if you hc that!!

This is referencing my defense off two characters who are incredibly witty (mcgonagall and hermione), however still sorted into gryiffindor.

NOTE: !!! This took me an hour to write and i still love ravenclaws sorry theres no rep here:") but these are just my hcs for these characters

[shan0blight]

If i do when harry met sally i’m gonna need some help deciding the argument between the both of them (like how harry and sally argue that boys and girls can’t just be friends)

and if i do before sunrise there is a 50% chance i’ll do the other two movies in the trilogy

but if it’s sleepless in seattle the plot is going to be a lot different from the movie cause i just can’t see ether of them having a child and plus they don’t meet till like at the end soooo…. it’s def not my first choice

RIDE YOUR WAVE IS AN ANIME LOVE STORY AND ITS SO HEARTBREAKING!!!

[deadxregulus]

I want to start writing one shots , which is why i would like to hear your ideas and wishes for one shots !

Fandoms :

•Dead Poets Society

•Hpuse md

(Maybe there will be more fandoms with the time)

[scotianostra]

Royal Mile photies fae the bus.

[maryqos]

"As previously discussed by Mary Villeponteaux, Protestant efforts to equate female rulers with Old Testament tyrants such as Jezebel were motivated primarily by fear of their gender. The implication was that papist queens were neither compassionate nor rational, but impulsive, excessively cruel, sexually incontinent, and either stubborn or indecisive due to the unnaturalness of occupying a traditionally male position of power. During his own exile, Scotsman John Knox actively equated both Mary I of England and Mary Stuart with Jezebel, and argued that 'nature doth paint them to be weak, frail, indirect, feeble and foolish, while experience hath declared them to be unconstant, variable, cruel, and lacking the spirit of counsel.”

nick k. crown, "catholic, anglican, and puritan representation of royal martyrs."

[atendencytotangle]

My Favorite Books I Read in 2023 (In No Particular Order)

Check out these books that I loved reading during 2023

In previous years, I’ve limited my favorite books read in a year posts to ten. This year, I decided not to limit myself because I read so many books I absolutely adored in 2023 and I just couldn’t pare them down to ten. As always, not all of these books were published in 2023, but I read all 61 of them between 1st January and 31st December 2023. These were a mixture of fiction and non-fiction,…

[solcito-dps]

hi! my name is sol, im 19 but i’ve been writing since i was 11. I’ve never posted my writing in here, but i feel like it could be a good start now, since i’ve seen some of the fandoms im like very into right now are pretty active here. So, (i’ve been out of interacting with people on internet for a long time, in case i say something cringe) i would love to know if anyone here would like to be mutuals.

my interests are:

house md

dead poets society

obert sean leonard in general

succession

the beatles (my favorite beatle is george)

pedro pascal also in general

diego luna, gael garcía

and ultimately the bear and jeremy allen white

i think there’s more but this is all that is very important to me right now. so yeah, if you’re up to being mutuals and if you’re extra kind explain me how all this dynamic works i’ll be super grateful ❣️

(also english is not my first language so i’m sorry if something doesn’t make sense )

[morwensteelsheen]

Tilney v Knox (1799)

Those familiar with the work of Reverend Knox will know precisely what sort of ill-humour such a combination is apt to encourage in well-read young men; for those who are not familiar with the good minister’s work, suffice it to say that one may either concur with the conclusions of The First Blast, or have an amiable character, but never both.

On Ao3

Fandom: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Rating: General Audiences

Relationship: Catherine Morland/Henry Tilney

Additional Tags: I am here to be rude about John Knox and do very little of anything else, First Blast deez nuts

[gimmiesophiebaek]

Season Four: What Do We Know

Returning: Luke Thompson (Benedict, lead), Claudia Jessie (Eloise), Hannah Dodd (Francesca), Will Tilston (Gregory), Florence Hunt (Hyacinth), Ruth Gemmell (Violet), Victor Alli (John), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury), Masali Baduza (Michaela), Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte), Hugh Sachs (Brimsley), Emma Naomi (Alice), Martins Imhangbe (Will), Daniel Francis (Marcus), Jonathan Bailey (Anthony), Simone Ashley (Kate), Luke Newton (Colin), Nicola Coughlan (Penelope), Polly Walker (Portia), Lorraine Ashbourne (Mrs. Varley), Geraldine Alexander (Mrs. Wilson), Julie Andrews (voice of Lady Whistledown)

Status unknown: Chris Fulton (Phillip), Jessica Madsen (Cressida), Kathryn Drysdale (Genevieve)

Joining: Yerin Ha (Sophie, lead), Katie Leung (Araminta), Michelle Mao (Rosamund), Isabella Wei (Posy), Susan Brown (Mrs. Crabtree), Gracie McGonigal (maid), Summer Knox (debutant), Sachin K. Sharma (Louis), Pablo Diska (“Pretty boy”), David Anthony Barr (“Demimonde Man”)

Rumored/Unconfirmed: Elena Saurel (Miss O), Yoyo Chan (undetermined), Arthur Lee (Richard), Chloe Park (young Sophie), unnamed baby Edmund and unnamed baby Lord Featherington

Shonda Rimes: EP

Besty Beers: EP

Julie Ann Robinson: EP

Chris Van Dusen: Creator and EP emeritus

Jess Bronwell: Showrunner

Kris Bowers: Composer

Tom Verica: Director

Jaffar Mahmood: Director (rumored)

Possible flashbacks of Sophie’s childhood: There are two actors who follow each other on IG that could be playing the Penwood (Arthur Lee) and young Sophie (Chloe Park: please do not repost her social media). Rumored young Sophie also follows Shondaland and Bridgerton IGs.   

Sophie "Baek" background. Sophie has a Korean last name but we don't know if that's from her mother or something her dad made up. His last name was Gun (as far as I understand, also a Korean last name), but her stepsisters' last name is Chinese (Li).

Masquerade: Most likely in E1 because it's the season's first ball. It's the place where “attendees are encouraged to transform into whomever they choose”.

It seems that Benedict arrives late to the masquerade ball.

Benophie dance lesson is switched from the terrace to inside a gazebo. One of Sophie's gloves is *involved*. We still don't know how but probably as in the book (i.e. Cinderella's shoe). Sophie's dress is regency style. Benedict's costume is all black or dark brown.

Lake scene. Since both Yerin and Luke have already talked about this I think it's safe to say it will be the big talking point in the season's promo with the Masquerade.

There will be a Xiangqi game, a popular Chinese board game.

Benedict's bachelor place: Confirmed thanks to the designer's mood boards on Pinterest).

Kilmartin Estate in Scotland will also be featured (also from the designer's mood boards in Pinterest).

Both Li sisters will debut at the same time.

Rosamund is vain and Araminta's favorite. She tries to win Benedict, who is "the ton’s most eligible (if totally reluctant) bachelor".

Posy is kinder, chatty, overly friendly and socially embarrassing. According to Wei, Posy goes “on a nice journey” throughout the season. 

Leung: Araminta is fabulous, discerning, blunt and does "not respond well when anything -or anyone- threatens her standing in society". She is a "mother-slash-villain" and would “never call her evil because I adore her – I think she’s absolutely fabulous. She’s just heavily misunderstood”. She is also "feeling the pressure to get at least one of her girls married of" and “chemes to marry off one… to Benedict Bridgerton”.

Leung said Araminta’s costumes “are something else”.

Eloise, Francesca and John return to London, specifically to Bridgerton house.

According to Andoh, there is a garden party in E1 or E2. Not sure if Danbury is hosting that party.

The Demimonde is back. We have seen the Demimonde in Granville's parties in S1.

The story most likely begins in spring (social season's time) but there will be a time jump to autumn. There are leaked photos of the Bridgerton house with changing seasons. In an interview, Brownell mentioned how this will “open the Bridgerton world: this could mean the autumn, the countryside or the working class with a main character (or all three at the same time).”

Benedict will begin the season "aimless" and "loveless". Despite "his elder and younger brothers both being happily married, [he] is loathe to settle down"

Benedict’s fluidity will be explored.

Sophie doesn't know how to dance.

Ha: Sophie "craves and yearns for love despite all of her trauma and neglect". She is "a victim of tragic circumstances" and "has trouble trusting others". She has "been forced to work as a maid for one of the most demanding employers in the ton… [but] her resourcefulness helps her persevere".

Thompson: Benedict is "a man of many interests, and that’s great in some ways, and in some ways, though, can betray a sense of being lost or a little bit restless. And that goes quite deep… There is clearly something in him that’s not very comfortable, a bit scared or a bit worried about the idea of really committing to something. And that’s partly the struggle".

Sophie's decision to disguise herself in order to attend the masquerade will be "risky". This probably means they are following the part of the book where Araminta throws her out into the street after the ball.

We'll see a "shift" in Benedict when he meets a "mysterious lady in silver". He will "find himself on the hunt for Sophie".

Sophie is not "like the debutantes that usually populate Bridgerton". There is a "sincerity of her face".

Love at first sight trope confirmed: Sophie's decision also means that "both lives [hers and Benedicts] are forever changed" after the ball. Ha described it as "prismatic… when the light comes in and then it goes into a rainbow".

Ha: The season will be an "emotional tug of war, this kind of push and pull between what their hearts desire and what society desires for them".

Thompson: Also a "struggle between a proper old-school fairy tale -the romance of it- and the actual reality of the world… both are true. You have to hold both of them -the romance and the reality- in your hand. In its best version, 'true love' happens in the middle of that".

Sophie will struggle with her own mask because of the "battle of social status" or when she is "trying to hide her feelings from Benedict".

Upper and lower class trope: Confirmed. Ha: "It is the first time we really see the upper and lower class come together this season… My character is someone who constantly has her guard up. She… is always reminded of her place and doesn’t dream of more than her station as a maid. However, she is human after all, and craves that human-to-human love and connection. And it’s not until she meets Benedict that she slowly lets her guard down, bit by bit, and starts to create space to let love flow in for her."

Thank you to Mado_93 on Reddit for gathering all this info and allowing me to bring this over to Tumblr!

[astro-tag-9]

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[rabbitcruiser]

The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army on May 7, 1544 was the first action of the Rough Wooing.

[tommykane]

This is a drawing I did of the Scottish Storytelling Center on High Street along the royal mile in Edinburgh. Even though the streets are filled with crazy old medieval buildings, this guy stood out. This section of the center is the John Knox house originally built in 1490. The second I stumbled upon it, I knew I had to draw it. Plus I never painted a storytelling center before.

[weirdlookindog]

"There are those who, having sold their souls to Satan, must dwell forevermore in the grim housing of the dead - accursed beings only half alive, who must ravish beneath the moon for living, human prey"

Amos Sewell (1901-1983) - Illustration from John Knox' 'Those Who Dwell In Coffin'

(Dime Mystery Magazine, August, 1934)

[natequarter]

you wonder why the scots were so unstable, then you look at their monarchy and realise they had seven child monarchs in a row. oh your king's a twelve-year-old? that sucks. what, he's been assassinated? huh! good thing his heir-- HE'S SIX? good thing he isn't going to die a ridiculous death like getting blown up by a cannon any time soon! BUT NOT FOR LONG! what, he was actually blown up by a cannon? wow. anyway, we're leaving the throne in the capable hands of a nine-year-old. that won't go wrong! OR SO WE THOUGHT! well, at least it wasn't a cannon that took him out this time, just a little bit of rebellion and war. and we're leaving the throne in the capable hands of a competent and popular ruler.

BUT NOT FOR LONG! this idiot gets absolutely wrecked at the hands of the english. and by wrecked, i mean killed. great news for henry viii, terrible news for little one-year-old jamie (his nephew, i should point out), a.k.a. your highness, and fifth in a long line of idiots called james. (you'd think they'd learn to pick another name.) things work out eventually, right up until henry viii's lot come back onto the scene and get into a bunch of fights with the scots. unbelievably, things are about to get so much worse. in a real smart move, james dies at the grand old age of thirty. (i feel the need to point out that none of these jameses lived past the age of forty-two. and that's being generous.)

enter mary. she's catholic! she's not called james! she's the queen of scotland! and guess how old she is? six days! yes, you heard that right - six days. (and you thought six years was bad.) she's eventually whisked away to live in france and later marry the dauphin, handily solving the problem of the english trying to kidnap her and marry her off to edward vi. (she's five at this point. edward is ten. françois, the dauphin, is three. don't think too hard about any of that.)

they grow up. edward dies at fifteen. mary i, best known for her fondness for barbecues, dies five years later. françois, sensing a trend, dies two years after that at sixteen. mary returns to scotland, and all is well.

OR SO WE THOUGHT! whilst england was busy being torn apart by religious matters, scotland was busy being torn apart by religious matters. (you'll never guess what's happening in france.) mary, of course, is a devout catholic. some of the scots, who have spent twelve years without a monarch, let alone a catholic girl raised in france, are... not. rebellions! political instability! back to the status quo, basically. john knox is not happy, but when is he ever? elizabeth i kindly tries to help things by sending her bestie robert dudley (yes, that robert) to marry mary. this, unsurprisingly, does not go down well. fortunately, mary solves all these problems by creating a new one: she marries her half-cousin, henry lord darnley! yuck! i mean, yay! more rebellion (led by mary's half-brother)! henry turns on mary because he wants more power! he allies with the protestant lords, and they stab mary's private secretary to death in front of her whilst she's pregnant! the usual.

BUT NOT FOR LONG! mary and henry escape, they have a lovely little son called james (they still hadn't learn their lesson about scottish jameses), and they all live happily ever after until henry's house is blown up and he's found smothered outside in broad daylight. suspects include: everyone in scotland. but mostly lord bothwell, who proceeds to kidnap mary and marry her. now, you may struggle to believe this, but things go downhill from here. mary is eventually forced to abdicate, and flees to england. bothwell is imprisoned in denmark, and later goes insane. as for james, now the one-year-old james vi (anyone sensing a pattern here?), well, he's probably too busy learning to speak to care. because, you know, he's one. some people never learn.

from this point onwards, mary's kept under house arrest by elizabeth i. in a display of gratitude towards elizabeth, mary promptly spends the rest of her life plotting against her. or being involved in plots. in the meantime, james's regent, also called james stewart (mary's aforementioned half-brother; the name is cursed), earns the dubious honour of being the first head of government to be assassinated with a firearm. eventually, after mary, that virtuous angel, actively tries to kill elizabeth, elizabeth gets fed up and drops a sword on mary's neck. james, who last saw his mother at the age of zero years old, must have been devastated.

you all know what happened next: elizabeth died at the grand old age of sixty-nine, and james inherited the throne. thus followed decades of religious instability, parliamentary infighting, and stubborn monarchs who refused to listen to reason, which were surely new to the elizabethans. james, who was what is commonly known these days as a "hot mess" or "bisexual disaster" - don't quote me on that - was nearly blown up in a plot masterminded by a guy called tosser. sorry, i mean a tosser called guy. he also pissed everyone off by being a bit too buddy-buddy with several men, possibly lovers. (probably lovers.) that was not the end of the curse of james stewart (see: james ii of england), but it did at least put an end to mary queen of scots. oh, and england and scotland were united. that too. cue much chaos with a man you've probably heard of, named oliver cromwell... the rest is history. i mean, all of this is history, but you know what i mean.

and that's the story of why having seven child monarchs in a row is a really fucking bad idea!

[scotianostra]

High Street, Royal Mile.