#Royal Rebellions

[kroosluvr]

don't wanna talk, baby i just wanna dance

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[illustratus]

Henri de la Rochejaquelein by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

[princesssarcastia]

i really hate reading them 99% of the time because they're so hard to do well. and because everyone else usually focuses on the things i find least interesting about it.

but it's sooooo fun to imagine what your favorite characters would do as feudal lords. it's a fascinating question: what would this character do with unlimited executive and probably military power over an area of land and its people? people who depended on them? would they be a good ruler? a bad one? would they take it seriously? do their inherent qualities make them better suited to that role than the modern era? or are they truly a product of the time and place they come from?

because I'm me, this thought exercise is a chance to daydream about "what if I held a gun to this character's head and forced them to get involved in politics?", really.

on one end of the scale you have anakin skywalker, who would....not....have done well as emperor, or frankly as any kind of feudal lord. maybe don't give him more power over life and death, or taxes, or food supplies. maybe don't.

on the other end of the scale, you have jed bartlet, who i truly believe would have been more comfortable with unilateral authority and a divine mandate. somebody make that man a king. let his staff profess their undying devotion to him on their knees, the way they so desperately, secretly wish they could in canon. i feel like it would Fix Them. Leo McGarry wants soooooo badly to swear his sword to Jed. you know it in your heart to be true.

[huesofvioletandpurple]

[ID: the "Love is love" meme with persona 5 royal and madoka magica characters edited on top. Rumi and Takuto Maruki's sprites are edited together for the "regular couple", the art of Akechi Goro and Joker playing chess in the bad ending is assigned as the "yaoi couple", and a screenshot of Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi sitting in a flower field turning purple from Rebellion is assigned as the "yuri couple". Edward Elric from fullmetal alchemist gives a thumbs-up, and says "I See No Difference" followed by "all of you have loved someone who completely disappeared from your existences/lives, leaving you mourning them even if they aren't dead. This will lead you to rewriting reality so that they will finally be happy in a life that has continuously mistreated them. Even if you erase your relationship in the process. Even if they end up hating you for what you've done. By doing so, you have taken God's power into your own hands. Love is love !" End ID]

I've been having. thoughts lately

[zhang-ling-he]

241012 | Zhang Linghe Weibo Summit 2024 shortlisted dramas and roles

[rollthedice-playthecards]

Goro, joining the rest of the gang for the next Palace trip: Hello, fellow idiots. Akira: Hi, Goro! Goro: No, no, not you, you're not an idiot. Futaba: You underestimate him.

[lightningqueen11]

Shouta couldn’t help himself, he blinked. And in that one, crucial moment, a demon tore its way into the world.

The being appeared from a tornado of brilliant blue fire, so bright it hurt Shouta’s eyes, roaring a deep, inhuman roar. Claws ripped through the flames, glinting in the firelight as bladed heels dug into the concrete. It had no face, just a mass of fire in the vague shape of eyes and a mouth on a smooth mask under a top hat. Inky black wings flared out from behind the creature, covering the moon and stars in complete darkness.

“YOU DARE HARM MY TRICKSTER?” The entity roared, towering over Shouta like a predator would its prey. Pure dark energy flowed from the thing’s claws, sucking the warmth from the air in an instant. Shouta felt an unnatural fear pierce his being, the kind that made him want to cower and hide and never come out. “BEGONE WITH YOU!”

First official art for A Transfer of Power, A Will of Rebellion! Scene taken from chapter 7, The First Infiltration

I didn't originally want to share stuff from this fic here on Tumblr, after all, this was more a Legend of Zelda/LU account. But then I started posting my Persona 3 Reload reactions and decided yeah, this is a 'whatever tf I want' account, Beyond The Mirror can be my Legend of Zelda account. So, here's what I've been working on lately! Art and writing for this one fanfiction. I'll figure out how to put images into ao3... Eventually. Maybe when I actually get some work done on the next chapter

Have the speedpaint!

[xiakeponz]

idol cdrama combo chart 笑

L猫 ZLH has been busy fill out the chart gogo-

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

Parts of Alysmond I NEED to see:

-Their iconic first meeting, whatever that may entail

-Alys stopping Aemond from blowing a fuse when he finds out about King's Landing

-Aemond fighting Crispy over Alys (whether Crispy likes her or not I don't care I just need Aemond to completely lose his shit over her ok)

-Aemond leaving Harrenhal like brb babe

-Aemond hearing from some random villagers while out foraging that Harrenhal has been taken by Sabitha Frey and she found a pregnant witch there and he's like shit shit shit I gotta go back

-Obv the moment he reburns Harrenhal and takes Alys with him

-him and Alys camping, probably Alys stopping him from doing stupid shit

-I NEED to see the moment Alys decides to take him back to Harrenhal, either as revenge for what he's done to her ancestral home OR she genuinely thinks he can merk Daemon's good noodle with his giant nuke lizard

-And of course, that good bye kiss even historians jotted down

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

“Wille should have been king with Simon that would have been a real revolution”

1- Just say you don’t get neither Wille or Simon’s character

2- BOOTLICKER ALERT

[wonder-worker]

"[Matilda of Boulogne's office as Queen of England], initiated and broadly defined by the coronation ordo, gave her royal power and authority to share in governance. Her obligations and activities were shaped by custom established by previous queens and the ad hoc needs of king and realm. [...] [Matilda's] thorough integration into the governance of the realm was not repeated in [Eleanor of Aquitaine’s] years as queen of England. Eleanor's coronation followed a new model that emphasized the queen as progenitor of royal heirs and subordinate to the king rather than as sharer of royal power. Though Eleanor acted as regent in England between 1156 and 1158 and in Poitou on several occasions from 1165 on, her writs suggest delegated rather than shared royal authority. In England, her power was limited by the lack of lands assigned to her use and by the elaboration of financial and judicial administration. Whereas [Matilda of Boulogne's] inheritance allowed her to play an integral role in politics by securing the Londoners' loyalty and a steady supply of mercenaries, Eleanor's inheritance provided her with more extensive power in Poitou and Aquitaine than in England. Until 1163, Eleanor withdrew funds from the Exchequer by her own writ, but unlike her Anglo-Norman predecessors, she was not a member of its council nor did she issue judgments from the royal court. Eleanor's counsel and diplomatic activities, in contrast to Matilda's, are rarely mentioned. She did, however, encourage the 1159 Toulouse campaign and supported Henry in the Becket affair and the coronation of young Henry. Eleanor was not a prominent curialis; she rarely witnessed Henry's charters or interceded to secure the king's mercy. She did follow in Matilda's footsteps in her promotion of her sons, cultivation of dynastic goals through the Fontevraudian tombs, and patronage that reflected her family's traditions. For Matilda, to be queen encompassed a variety of functions-curialis, diplomat, judge, intercessor, and "regent." Through a combination of factors, Eleanor's role as queen was much more restricted."

-Heather J. Tanner, "Queenship: Office, Custom or Ad Hoc", Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons)

[illustratus]

François-Athanase de Charette de La Contrie by Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin

[mal3vol3nt]

wilhelm is wearing pink. wilhelm is wearing PINK. WILHELM is wearing PINK…..

my gay son 🥺

[redroyalblues]

i truly appreciate nick’s dedication to his single earring and bc of him i am very much of the opinion that henry would have an earring phase and it would slay

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... sound of rebellion ...