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I posted 899 times in 2021

259 posts created (29%)

640 posts reblogged (71%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 2.5 posts.

I added 975 tags in 2021

#elizabeth i - 275 posts

#philip ii - 123 posts

#philip ii of spain - 121 posts

#non-fiction - 106 posts

#elizabeth tudor - 78 posts

#figure skating - 73 posts

#becoming elizabeth - 58 posts

#ask - 54 posts

#mary i of england - 44 posts

#catherine parr - 43 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#i recognise elizabeth r lady jane elizabeth 1998 wolf hall the virgin queen the tudors carlos rey emperador and el ministerio del tiempo

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Commissioned by the New York businessman Lumen Reed, George Whiting Flagg set out to paint Mary Queen of Scots Preparing for Execution, only to change to Jane when he discovered that Mary was ‘too old at the time of her execution to make an interesting picture’.

Eric Ives, Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery

Ugh, goodness me... This might explain why Mary Queen of Scots has been perpetually portrayed as youthful at her execution. It makes easier to romanticize death.

59 notes • Posted 2021-06-03 17:08:22 GMT

#4

I hate the notion that Elizabeth was lucky to be surrounded by competent counselors. I'm sorry but they didn't just happen to be around, it was her who picked them and appointed them to their offices! It's not luck! How one can be so thick and pretend to not notice that!

66 notes • Posted 2021-07-25 15:41:12 GMT

#3

She dressed carefully for the part, but the story of Elizabeth's vast wardrobe turns out to be one of careful budgeting and good organization, not wild extravagance and vanity. She certainly loved beautiful clothes and always dressed in the latest fashion but the impression gained is that she regarded the rich silks and velvets, gold embroidery, and spangles as state treasure; they were looked after most carefully. Some items dating from the 1560s were still there, unaltered, in 1600.

Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d

66 notes • Posted 2021-01-06 18:45:36 GMT

#2

A Tudor teenager who died at the age of sixteen is very unlikely to have left much trace on the historical record, and still less if female. Even if an aristocrat, that girl will hardly trouble today’s archivists beyond possible mention of negotiations over putative marriages. Finding a single surviving letter or a mention in someone else’s account book is finding gold. For Jane Grey there is a little more, but only a little.

Eric Ives, Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery

82 notes • Posted 2021-04-29 17:10:30 GMT

#1

Some of my favourites Elizabeth I quotes

“Rob, I am afraid you will suppose by my wandering writings that a midsummer moon hath taken large possession of my brains this month, but you must needs take things as they come in my head, though order be left behind me.” - to Robert Dudley, 19 July 1586.

“There is a strong idea in the world that a woman cannot live unless she is married, or at all events that if she refrains from marriage she does so for some bad reason... But what can we do ? We cannot cover everybody’s mouth, but must content ourselves with doing our duty and trust in God, for the truth will at last be made manifest. He knows my heart, which is very different from what people think, as you will see some day.” - to Diego Guzmán de Silva, 24 March 1565.

“I am a friend not won with trifles, nor lost with the like.” - to Thomas Seymour, Summer 1548.

“And yet, especially among the aforesaid arts and sciences, the invention of letters seems to me the most clever, excellent, and ingenious. For through their ordering not only can the aforesaid bodily features be declared, but also (which is more) the image of the mind, wiles, and understanding, together with the speech and intention of the man, can be perfectly known - indeed, traced and portrayed so close to artless and natural that it actually seems that his words that were spoken and pronounced long ago still have the same vigor they had before.” - to Catherine Parr, 30 December 1545.

“I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to live in any place of Christendom.” - to parliamentarians, 5 November 1566.

“Sir Spirit. I doubt I do nickname you. For those of your kind (they say) have no sense. But I have of late seen an ecce signum, that if an ass kick you, you feel it so soon. I will recant you from being Spirit, if ever I perceive that you disdain not such a feeling.” - to William Cecil, May 1586.

“...I know I have a soul to save as other folks have...” - to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, 28 January 1549.

“... it is (as your majesty is not unaware) rather characteristic of my nature not only not to say in words as much as I think in my mind, but also, indeed, not to say more than I think.” - to Edward VI.

“She said after a time that she could not marry your Majesty as she was a heretic.“- recorded by Count de Feria, 19 March 1559.

“When I in the course of my speech called marriage a desirable evil, she laughingly asked “Desirable?” - recorded by Ahasverus Allinga, 30 January 1564.

“You are to observe this rule, that seeing griefs and troubles make haste enough, unsent for, to surprise us, there can be no folly greater than by fearing that which is not, or by over grieving for that which needs not, to overthrow the health of mind and body.” - to Frances Seymour, November 1595.

...we might perhaps mean the King of Spain, but that their enmity had never begun but by loves, and that we ought not to think, that they could not be well together whenever she wished. - recorded by the French ambassadors Sieurs Belliévre and Chateauneuf, 18 December 1586.

138 notes • Posted 2021-05-22 08:12:01 GMT

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Deine Fake Fanfic Titel machen mich so glücklich, pls more!!! Wie wärs mit "O Fortuna" oder "Never gonna see the sea" oder "The Masochism Tango" (ja, ich bin Team 'Songtitel als Fanfictitel, sue me!)

Du kriegst alle drei!

O Fortuna

Rated T, Major Character Death

Tags: Friedrich II von Preußen/Hans Hermann von Katte, Friedrich II von Preußen/Peter Karl Christoph von Keith, hurt no comfort, ich nehme das was wirklich passiert ist und mache es noch schlimmer

Wenn auch nicht wie geplant, so läuft doch zunächst alles wie gewünscht. Er schafft es erst über den Rhein, dann nach Den Haag, kann Keith wieder in die Arme schließen und denkt daran, wie sein Vater es hassen würde, ihn so zu sehen; ganz in Rot und Gold, glänzend, strahlend, geliebt, vom Glück geküsst.

Doch das Glück ist eine treulose Hure. - Friedrich und Keith gelingt die Flucht; doch Berlin ist weiter von der Grenze weg als Steinsfurt und Wesel und der Dritte im Bunde hat weniger Glück.

Never gonna see the sea

Rated T, No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Friedrich II von Preußen/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, hurt/comfort, fluff, past relationships

Rheinsberg war nicht die Welt, die er zu sehen gehofft hatte, aber Rheinsberg war seine Rettung.

The Masochism Tango

Rated G, No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: One Sided Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff/Prinz Heinrich von Preußen, Prinz Heinrich von Preußen/other people, pining, friendship, Lehndorff you poor simp

Wieder war er den ganzen Tag bei Heinrich. Seinem Heinrich, dem liebenswürdigsten aller Prinzen, dem anbetungswürdigsten aller Fürsten. Seinem Heinrich, der in den Armen eines Anderen lag.

Also wenn die wer anders schreiben möchte, nur zu, ich hätte gern was zu lesen :D Die erste wäre aber RICHTIG schmerzhaft. Die letzte ist nur Lehndorffs Tagebuch aus anderer Perspektive. Obwohl bei dem Titel Henri und Kaphengst mein erster Gedanke waren.

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Zebrina

Given Name: Zebrina

Scientific Name: tradescantia zebrina (formerly known as “wandering jew”, but, for obvious reasons, is now known commonly as spiderwort as it is part of the spiderwort family)

About: Shortly after I planted Gerald, I found myself at Walmart where I spent much of my time due to my college being in a very small town in the middle of nowhere, Missouri.  My friends and I visited the garden center there when I saw her.  She was bigger than Gerald, but still just a child of a plant, with purple and green leaves and fuzzy purple stems which stretched this way and that.  Zebrina.  This type of plant does not grow vertically, but horizontally, spreading itself all over the place.  She might not look like much now, but she used to be huge.  I named her after part of her scientific name, which was printed on her plant tag.  Down below, you can find a couple of pictures of Zebrina in her hay day; however, last summer she took a turn for the worst after I re-potted her and slowly began to drop pieces of herself whenever she  was moved.  Now, she is just one stem with a few leaves and plenty of roots.  A few of her other cuttings exist, but they live with my best friend because I couldn’t carry that much home when I left college.  Although she is small (and, interestingly, much smaller than Gerald now), I am glad she is holding on and she has one of my favorite names of any plant I have.  Beautiful Zebrina!      

Bonus fact! According to Matthue Roth, a writer for Jewniverse from the Jewish Telegraphic Society, this plant was called the “wandering jew” based on a Christian legend (first appearing in the 13th century and later popularized in the 17th century) of a man who mocked Jesus while he was on his way to his crucifixion.  Christ stumbled on the door of a cobbler named Ahasverus.  The man turned Christ away and was then cursed to wander the Earth until the second coming of the Lord.  Legend has it that he still wanders, unable to stop save for short breaks every once in a while.  He holds 5 coins in his pockets for the 5 wounds that Jesus had and he is a little over 2,000 years old (Roth, 2014).  The zebrina plant is named thus because it spreads all around and is very durable.  Not sure I see the connection here, but, problematic name and story aside, it is an interesting (and intense) origin story for a mere houseplant.