#PERIODT!

[astrologista]

my face when i almost forgot how absolutely legendary andre braugher was as detective frank pembleton on “homicide: life on the street”

[roosterbruiser]

I’m trying to get more comfortable being horny on main - I’m a grown woman and I want to stop shaming myself for being horny - anyway I’m this anon and I would commit atrocities to make out with Fanboy let alone have sex with him

bestie, yes!! be horny on main!! I totally understand the shame around it, though! I'm so glad you're coming to the dark side!!

and you know what? you're SOOO right for that!! he is genuinely so fucking gorgeous!! and he seems like the kind of man that would absolutely worship you...in the bedroom and out!!

[cyarsk52-20]

January *18th*, because anything scheduled after noon on January 20, 2025 will likely face National Guard troops

again, with the marching instead of voting I hate it here and I hate hews

And I will be sitting my black behind at home. I encourage other black folks to do the same

Chile, you WW should have been Marching yourselves to those polls to vote against fascism, and for your rights. You choose this evil, accept it! I hope karma gives it to you hard!

[rockdrop]

confession

[cowboyslikeme]

well since i have an opinion i might as well say it i think its a fixed setlist bc how many songs did she rehearse? and also we could cut a song from lover and a song from folklore and add maroon and sparks fly

also long live rip

[morganaconda]

freshly squozen

[luxuryandlilacs]

[shima-draws]

I’m not caught up yet but it still blows my entire mind that at the very end of BNHA—the last panel (in BOTH “final” chapters)—Shouto is looking directly at Izuku like he’s hung the fucking moon. Like he’s Everything. Like he’s ready to follow him to the ends of the earth. I don’t care WHAT y’all have to say about Izuku’s feelings but you cannot look at this and tell me there’s not something going on there, even if it’s one-sided

As a Tododeku stan I will take these crumbs and run with them. For miles. FOREVER

[homemadesterekpie]

[richmond-rex]

To sum up:

okay I just saw a Richard III stan on twitter claim that there's no way Elizabeth of York could have loved Henry VII because he was Ugly(tm) and so I just had to say/vent: the obsession with using physical attractiveness to unironically rate and compare historical figures is really fucking weird. This generally tends to happen with women (Henry VIII's wives in particular) but it's pretty common to see it with fans of Richard III as well, who are generally negative to Henry VII. Which is both very frustrating and very funny, because putting aside the generic compliments issued to royals, NEITHER of them were hailed as singularly attractive or singularly charismatic during their time as far as I know, they both looked like Some Guys who ruled the nation and (in Henry's case, idk much about Richard's reign) were quite good at it. And in Henry's case, its doubly weird and mean-spirited because I believe he was sick when his portrait was being made?

I mean, it's certainly not as though someone insulting a historical monarch's physical appearance is a major crime or anything lol, you do you, but it does become an issue when it spills into an analysis and examination of them as rulers and individuals. There's really no need to turn important periods of history into a hotness contest.

Also (more of a general rant), generally speaking, attractiveness was a feature conveniently assigned to most people of high status, and was almost a exaggerated. It's also relatively easy to identity genuine undeniable attractiveness based on the sheer intensity and awe with which contempraries raved about the people who possessed it (Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV and all their children were key examples of that lmao, as well as geoffrey of anjou and Philip iv of France as far as men were concerned), which was usually quite rare because the majority of people were not supermodels and were not expected to be lmao.

(a bit irrelevant, but I feel like the guy who played Henry in the white princess was absolutely perfectly for a younger version of his portrait, I haven't watched the show but I absolutely loved his casting)

Oh, I think Jacob Collins-Levy does look like a young Henry VII indeed, even if a more 'polished' version of him. Certainly, I think the real Henry VII had a much stronger nose, which leads me to the main part of your comment: some people find big noses attractive, for example. People experience attraction in such different ways! Someone might be attracted to another person's voice or hands, to someone's attention to detail or alternatively to their carefree attitude, to someone's jokes or their way of speaking or caring for their family or someone's intellect and insight. Attraction is a vast and varied universe, and to me it seems quite childish to reduce it only to someone's facial features. We don't even know what his body looked like, for example; we only have Vergil's word that his height was 'above the average', and Bishop Fisher's word that Henry was 'tall and of a fine build'.

Even if you consider Henry Tudor to have been the ugliest man in the world (which I doubt, as he was described as 'remarkably attractive' in his later years still), it's quite possible there was something about him that charmed people around him, in the sense that he was able to inspire extraordinary loyalty throughout his life. Thomas More said Bishop Foxe would give up his own father's head in order to serve Henry VII; Thomas Lovell was reported to have only one painting in his multiple residences, precisely a portrait of Henry VII. Henry was able to inspire and retain the trust of 400 Englishmen for two years in exile. The same thing that was attractive to his followers might have been attractive to Elizabeth of York as well, surely? We don't know!

According to a Venetian ambassador, Henry was 'gracious and grave', and according to Commynes, he was 'very pleasant, an elegant character, and a fine ornament in the court of France'. Once, during a conversation with the Spanish ambassador, his speech was described as 'like precious jewels'. I find it doubtful that Henry VII was an all-around unlikable, unattractive figure. And that's simply going by the premise that he was extraordinarily ugly, though when compared to other European rulers at the time, it seems reasonable to call him 'just some guy', if not actually attractive (see Charles VIII, Maximilian I, Louis XII, Ferdinand of Aragon, and even Philip 'the Fair').

I linked portraits in this ask but I don't even believe they are much conducive to a good discussion on attractiveness at all. It's not uncommon to find that many figures who were described as handsome/attractive (eg: Philip the Fair) don't actually look handsome/attractive to a 21st-century audience. And that might be simply because portraits or painting techniques of the time weren't able to transcribe their real physical attractiveness to us or because their ideas of attractiveness were different from ours—to which I ask: what's even the point of using portraits to call a historical figure attractive or unattractive, then? It's perhaps more useful to go by awed reports of a certain historical figure's attractiveness, as you said, and even then, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The resident Spanish Ambassador in England, for example, never once mentioned Elizabeth of York's looks in fifteen years, even though her beauty was mentioned elsewhere by other people.

Those types of comments against Henry VII do sound mean-spirited, as you said, even if not especially heinous (he and his family are, after all, dead). It's a sterile argument and proves no point as to a historical figure's ability to inspire loyalty or love in someone else, and even less as to their ability to rule well. If anything else, quite frankly it's not an argument at all, it's just the expected pettiness of a bad loser lol It gets even weirder at their insistence that Richard's reconstruction is especially handsome (which has inspired even some... questionable poetry).

(x)

[ppeuppeuppeu]

taz with that "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY" in a teasing tone when mackenyu told them that he didnt feel that it was hard using swords and that he just enjoys it (very sanji of taz indeed haha and just so frickin zoro of mackenyu) and the others hyping macken up and praising him god i love them so much

also emily at the beginning of the video telling macken what we've been thinking all this time after watching the series:

and our humble swordsman:

[toffoliravioli]

what happened to his face 😭

[afsosville]

This is just an /opinion/ and I'm just tryna find ppl that agree with me.

I do not think having kids could quote on quote "fix" Shen Jiu, biological or otherwise. 1) A kid should not bear the responsibility to be that emotionally invested in the shit mental health of their caregiver. Don't make any child go through that. And 2) Nothing about any child could make Shen Jiu be a decent caregiver out of his own volition (sure, he was nice to NYY and probably did care for her, but that's about how far it went ejrrjf tho I'll gladly eat up AUs where he does treat her like a daughter when he knows how to care for a kid properly).

Good luck trying to make Shen Jiu get his shit together unless you're actually changing things about his past. The easiest "fix" imo is to give Shen Jiu an ADULT, heavy emphasis on this, an ADULT that could invest in his mental/emotional wellbeing when Shen Jiu is still a kid or a teen. How else do you expect Shen Jiu to be a responsible adult around kids when he's never had a responsible adult to care for him at all?

There's not a single authority figure in Shen Jiu's life that's ever done him good, not QJL, not WY, and SJ's own shizun, the prev. QJPL is up for debate but I have reasons to believe why they ain't shit too. And like hear me out, YQY doesn't count either coz SJ *thinks* YQY is another caregiver that gave up on him and didn't take responsibility for him. And obviously that's not true, but that's just how it is from his perspective sadly.

I still really like Shen Jiu's dark backstory, coz there's no Shen Jiu without it, buuuuuuuut if you really want a version of him that doesn't take that bullshit out on his disciples, do give him an ADULT, coz never a kid, give him and adult first, before you give him any kids, so he can LEARN HOW TO BE AN ADULT.

Ykwim???

Anyways, this is why older SY/ younger SJ is best Shen Bros dynamic don't try to change my mind.

Here's some Shen Bros fics that are like that >>

Locked and Loaded by Hellister

These Gentle Hands Will by anorangecarrot

Reversal of Fortune by Grace_Youya

The Shadows that Raised Me by Lbhs_left_tiddie

[icarusredwings]

Thinking about Erik accompaning Charles to fancy parties and feeling like the odd one out, watching how smoothy Charles flirts with all these beautiful women yet... never leaves with any?

Instead, he makes Erik drive him home because he's "far too drunk to drive" and even has him carry him upstairs. Charles is half asleep, but he keeps demanding Erik play with him, calling him a coward and 'What? Dont think you can beat a drunk man?' Only to stare at him half the game.

It makes Erik a bit uncomfortable, panicking because he's worried he's reading his mind about him. And he is. He so is. Hearing how cute Magnus thinks he is when like this and how happy he is to know THIS version of charles.

The one fussing and whining about the game, teasing him all the time, and sprawoed out in his bed like a pathetic disaster. He talks to erik in his brain semi on accident, laying here and talking about how sweet Erik is to him, how he treats him like a real person and how happy he is to have a true friend that isnt just out for his assets.

He hears erik quickly, thinking about an ass joke, and bursts out laughing like the little maniac that he is. Eriks so nervous that hes sitting here with a lopsided smile, sweating bullets, wondering how many drinks he really had and if he was okay with the joke or not only for Charles to kiss the hell out of him.

So now, Everything is silent but the conversation in their head is beautiful, the kisses are everything they've ever wanted but the moment erik tries to put a hand up his shirt, Charles slaps his hand like a grandma slapping you for trying to take fresh baked cookies.

The metal that was once floating clanks onto the ground. Erik is so scared that hes made him uncomfortable, but Charles giggles again, absolutely having a fit of them only to put his ear to eriks chest, trying to drown out all the sounds in his head.

It's really not rocket science to understand, so quickly in his brain, he puts together that perhaps Charles doesn't fancy anyone in that way. It's why he leaves the girls at the bar. It's why he's laid out on his chest right now, practically snoring.

For a few minutes he just lays here contemplating if he should leave, if he should touch him anymore only for Charles to put his hand on his back and another on his head. "Stay.."

It leaves Erik staring at the ceiling, grinning like an idiot and wondering what he was going to tell Hank in the morning...

[celestemona]

“Can you talk about something else but your wife?”

“Absolutely no. I’m proudly married to her. If you ever have the luck to spend five seconds in the same room as that woman that’s all you’d wanna talk about too. Every moment I’m away from her is like 10,000 days without sunlight. My final breath will be her name.”

— Wriothesley, Lyney, Kaveh & Cyno

[reveluvjay]

Ryan said change lives, Hugh heard "part thighs" and went with it.

I can't stop staring at her t-t-t-t face

(I'm no better than a man ✋😩)