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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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#TheTudorsWeek2023, by @thetudorsgifs | Day 1: Best Episode(s)

Episode 2x02: Tears of Blood: Henry continues undermining the Catholic Church's influence in England, while his chaplain makes a fact-finding tour of Lutheran Germany; Anne resolves to consummate her relationship with the king as Brandon plants doubts about her virtue.

Episode 2x03: Checkmate: His patience at an end, Henry marries Anne in secret, appoints his Lutheran chaplain Thomas Cranmer the head of the Church, and strips Queen Katherine of her title and status; the king and new queen's first child is born, a girl christened Elizabeth.

Episode 2x10: Destiny and Fortune: In the Season 2 finale, Anne awaits execution in the Tower of London as Henry's marriage to her is annulled, baby Elizabeth is removed from the line of succession, and Henry proposes to Jane Seymour, who accepts.

Episode 3x05: Problems in the Reformation: Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.

Episode 3x09: The Undoing of Cromwell: In the Season Three finale, Henry moves swiftly to annul his loveless marriage to Anne of Cleves, and beds a new teenage mistress; Princess Mary falls in love with Duke Philip of Bavaria; Cromwell's fall from favor is sudden and dramatic.

Episode 4x01: Moment of Nostalgia: Henry introduces his new wife to court, Katherine Howard, his fifth Queen. She attempts to befriend Henry's children; this succeeds with his young son, Prince Edward, but she receives only contempt from Lady Mary while Lady Elizabeth is receptive but prefers to spend time with Henry's former wife Anne of Cleves.

#thetudorsweek2023 #these episode summaries are...smth #they seem to pretty much match the amazon summaries except weirdly the second one #'christened elizabeth' to 'both newylweds disappointed by her gender'#unpopular not to include the finale ik but like...#idk. i kind of thought they phoned the finale in a bit #i liked all the ghosts of past and future and the last scene with kparr and his children #really loved the parallel of his road to the afterlife being the same as the reunion between him and AB after she survived #the sweating sickness...and the parallel in their deaths too (a sword from behind that they could not see because they were distracted by #something else higher above them #and then the white horse works either as christian symbol or knight-errant or both #but the rest...kind of mid #they just expected me to care about charles brandon. far more than i do #charles brandon is to me what AB seems to be to others #im resentful he had so much screentime at the expense of introducing other characters #like we barely even got the exeter conspiracy. we did but like that was the exact moment they introduced the poles #we saw margaret pole for like five seconds s1 but otherwise. yeah #the google summaries are also. something. damn #shorter but maybe i should have picked them #also like the way the last episode summary does not allude to what was the title at all lol #(it's from a line from dialogue from henry to elizabeth #when he gives her a copy of tacitus' annals)

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jangmi-latte · 6 months ago

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working on commissions really challenge me to the core because wtf do you mean i'm kicking my feet and getting beet red over DEUCE SPADE???? MAN can't believe he can literally overpower my crush over ace

#after working on commissions i have a surprise for the rest of you that i've been waiting to publish for months now #STILL THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THIS COMMISSIONER HUHU YOU REALLY ARE ONE OF A KIND #got me covering my face mid writing with puppy love playing in the background??????#i think i have a fatass crush on deuce now DAMN #if you know that as a author i'm already losing my shit i hope you lose yours too bECAUSE YOU PUT ME ON THIS BLIND DATE AND #I DID NOT EXPECT TO FALL LIKE THIS /POS ILYSM

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glitzybunny · 9 months ago

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*AAA- AAA- AACHOOO!* Sorry it's really dusty in here for some reason-

(shout out to my beloved wife for writing the image ID btw :3 @thestirringpot)

#hazbin hotel #angel dust #hazbin hotel angel dust #angel dust hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #my art #the angel dust episode is my favourite out of all of them pff the rest is kind of mid but we ball #leaving my cave of university and such to post hazbin fanart thats fucking crazy- anyways #mmm this took a bit to get right #back to studying and my wife now #maybe #pff #glitzybunny #didnt want to fully redesign him #just wanted to do some minor changes to fit em into my style!#mmm mmm mmmmmmmmmmmm

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s0fter-sin · 28 days ago

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what up it's been 12 years and i'm still pissed there was no consequence to dean being in constant survival mode and fighting 24/7 in purgatory

what do you mean he didn't become a god at hand to hand combat? what do you mean he could still be jumped by random ass demons?

he was - at best - in a constant in-between state meaning he didn't get hungry or tired but that also means he didn’t sleep for a year and was constantly being hunted by hundreds of thousands of monsters that want to eat him specifically, while actively searching for cas

OR he was in a completely normal state meaning he was constantly fighting starvation and exhaustion while all of that was still happening!! it's not like there's much to scavenge in monster heaven!! he would’ve been on the verge of dying for a year!!!

then he comes back and he's just exactly the same? the same level of fighting skill he's always had? if not slightly worse for some reason?? what do you mean he couldn't kill anything he came across with his eyes closed when it's what he's been doing EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR???

it's always been one of the flaws of a show running for so long that after like s6 they never seemed to be getting better? they still got the shit kicked out of them by demons and ghosts and what have you and instead of finding obscure rituals they just got A Better Gun™️

both sam and dean are the peak of what hunters can be; they've been trained to hunt and kill things bigger and stronger than them since they were children, so what do you mean they still get the shit kicked out of them so often? was it just to show how strong monsters are? that even with their level of experience and skill, they're still outmatched?

(or do you just need a way to keep up the tension cough cough what who said that)

but you can't have dean who's been trained to be an elite soldier Since He Was Four Years Old go into a 360 combat scenario for an entire year - a good chunk of which he was completely by himself - then say he didn't improve his combat skills At All

and not even just combat, his senses would've been off the charts!! there was nothing but ambient forest noise and growling, his hearing would've gotten so sharp, it was darker so his night vision would ve been insane and he should've been able to feel a monster coming a mile away after constantly being on guard

post purgatory dean had the opportunity to be a completely different beast to anything we'd ever seen before, to be a completely different kind of traumatised from all of his other trauma

hell broke him but purgatory should've broken and rebuilt him into something Terrifying

#lost potential has always been spns biggest problem post s5 bc there was no plan and never a guarantee that theyd get another season #so whatever new villain or circumstance they introduced always had to be written to be concluded that season #bc they never knew until the mid season break if they could stretch it into the next season #thats why side characters die and get brought back so many times bc each death really was supposed to be It #but then they got another season and its like well shit cas cant stay dead lets figure out how he can come back this time #they could never permanently alter sam or deans personality or mental state bc they couldnt let time go on before resolving it #its also why they never stayed apart bc of the newest Big Fight for more than an episode but thats a different conversation #nothing could have lasting consequences but something like this shouldve changed dean as much as hell changed dean #and hell changed him permanently bc there was a plan and knowledge of how many seasons they had #s8 onwards leaves the characters in a constant loop of feeling the same things and having the same arguments #with whatever new apocalypse dropped in the middle #dean was arrogant in s1; lost in s2; afraid in s3; broken in s4 and at war with himself in s5 #sam was kind and lost in s1; he was angry in s2; desperate in s3; an addict in s4 and recovering in s5 #that kind of character growth is important and amazing to watch #other than dean being reluctant and sam soulless in s6 did they ever have such a clear difference season to season?#if anything dean shouldve had a bigger reaction to same leaving him in purgatory #that shouldve been something he held over his head for the rest of their lives bc it is unforgivable #but the boys are never allowed to change and dean dies to fuck ass vampires and a nail so whats the point anyway #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #supernatural #spn #carry on my wayward son #dean winchester #sam winchester #talk meta to me

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doodle17 · 1 year ago

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Yknow I’m surprised I haven’t seen SparkleDog-sona’s/Helluva Boss-sona’s of Raz and the gang considering his VA works with Ms. Vizpop

Im hoping they stay FAR away from it. But, I highly doubt it because I think the chances of that happen are slim to none

Look, Richard, my man. I love you, but for the love of God if there are any cameos of his actual GOOD characters in THAT show I'm going to lose it

Keep that shit away from my son

#This isn't to say Richard does a terrible job at Moxxie #If anything hes one the people who carries the show (voice acting wise) besides..... um.#Idrk tbh the rest is kind of mid #But yeah NO #Istg if Viv ever lays her finger on Psychonauts I'll bite it off #But I highly doubt it #Again the chances of that are slim to zero #So we don't have to worry about it really #doodles rants #vivziepop critical #helluva boss critical

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you-have-made-a-fatal-error · 9 months ago

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once upon a time, in about 2016, someone wrote HeR to find out where they sourced the images used to decorate Abby's room in MHM and were told that the art came from the Corel library.

this... was not true. obvs I don't think the HeR employee who answered that email was intentionally misleading/lying to this person, but it's bad info nevertheless. basically all the in game art from MHM/the early games came from the Mary Evans/Pictures Now collection, which I know because I've spent a buttload of time trying to id all the irl art used in the games.

so why bring up the Corel thing? because as it turns out that there is an ND game that almost exclusively* used art from Corel, but it's not MHM, or any of the early games. that game is in fact Warnings at Waverly Academy. seriously. easiest time I've ever had tracking down in-game art. (the corel art collection is waaay smaller than the mary evans/pictures now collection. like two orders of magnitude smaller. like 500 images vs 60,000 images. you get the picture.)

*and by almost exclusively I mean there is seriously one painting in wac that isn't on any of the corel art disks. and that painting? pictures now collection. why? why not any of the 450+ corel paintings that didn't make it into wac? the mind boggles.

#niche posting is extremely niche today #apologies y'all #i just find it kind of weird.#also uh. means that in 2009 when making wac her was still using their corel photo disks from 1997 #i'm not sure if they should be ashamed or if they should own it.#that said the art chosen for wac has no thematic consistency at all it literally seems like it was selected at random #and all the paintings are stupidly tiny for no reason (except maybe image quality since again the corel images are form the mid '90s)#and they use some of the paintings more than once in the same game - srs there's at least 2 they use twice and 1 they use THREE TIMES #it's lazy. that's what i'm saying. it's lazy.#just like the rest of wac lmao.#what can i say i have long been on the record as a wac hater #warnings at waverly academy #wac #clue crew #anyway art id posts queued to come out over the course of the weekend.

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acediscowlng · 3 months ago

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you ever think about how tentpole fandoms from 00s-2010s shows with huge followings that are going strong even now would just not exist if they were made in this day and age

#ara rambles #just. in this environment. i doubt even juggernaut fandoms like spn and merlin would even exist #like. so many shows had mid first seasons and it was *fine* because they were given time to grow #the fuckin cw verse never had a single good season in its entire existence and it still spawned dctv only fans #who are a behemoth and completely removed from the rest of the dc fandom #*all* of merlin's seasons were mid and it still got 5 of them #spn was supposed to end at s5 and got ten more seasons after that #aos season 1 and the first half of s2 were pretty boring but it got to 7 seasons #fucking riverdale!!!!#umbrella academy and stranger things feel like the last gasp of this kind of culture #and they're all drawn out and are dying terrible deaths #we're four years into the 2020s folks are there even *any* big fandom shows that isn't fighting for its life #what? house of the dragon and rings of power?#idk if those count cause house of the dragon is drawing from got power which is kind of a different space from the rest of fandom culture #and uh.... imma be real.... i barely hear anything about rings of power #i guess iwtv is the last survivor and i think it's telling that it's the only one not on a big streaming site!!!!#wait. i forgot bridgerton. yeah. bridgerton is basically the only big fandom show rn. don't know how it made it this far tbh.

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bitegore · 27 days ago

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ngl i think i kind of was a genius for being like 'yeah this character is a scary killyou cannibal scary killer who scary kills you' and then realizing that the way my worldbuilding works out is that there's a nonzero chance that if you leave literally any body parts over they can just come back, depending on what they believe in their heart of hearts can kill them. Of course she'd start eating her kills. She probably tried normal stuff first and then realized it didn't work and she had to try harder if she wanted to actually keep them dead.

#red rambles #im working on a character who i made up years and years ago and wasnt even happy with then because he didnt seem to have enough like #interior thoughts he was just like a guy who killed people when he was stressed and his life was constantly stressful and then he killed on #person too many and they were like 'this is fucking untenable and he has to die' and then they killed him #which is soooooooooo absolutely nothing honestly. Like it works as a barebones summary but i want to stress there was actually straight up #nothing else there. the entire rest of his whole whatnot was just being entangled with Haven who is a different character who at the time #ALSO felt unsatisfyingly lacking in interiority but at lesat he had really complex motivations and action flowcharts. that werent just 'i #get grumpy and i just go kill some random person with no regard for what the consequences will be and then i am so mean and i kill you'#now theres a lot more happening. i really didnt. like.#okay so i had a Backstory worked out but it was vague because i didnt know what the fuck he WANTEDDDDDDD right like. i had no motivations a #literally all except 'oohhh i kill people ooohhh i like killing people ooohhh im erratic i kill people' and the background i HAD was like.#Upper class scion of some rich family whose family honest to god just did not like him very much and also [gestures vaguely] i guess he #maybe kicked dogs or something and then he ??nebulous timeline meets haven and then kills his sister or kills his sister and very quickly #thereafter meets haven but i usually lean toward the former because haven LOVES convincing people to kill their whole families its like #cathartic for him because he would love to kill his entire family but physically cannot do it. but like kind of the implications of this #as far as i was concerned given this is set in the mid 1800s was like. ehhh he's getting away with this because he's rich white and male an #it pays to turn a blind eye to his indiscretions or w/e. a genderswap means that she'd be subject to a lot more scrutiny on basis of like #misogyny. LOL. and i already had the preexisting 'hates half sibling' (i genderswapped the sister into a brother because why not) and 'hate #parents' and 'parents strongly dislike her' and 'unsettling' and it worked nicely to start giving me actual fucking. Literally anything to #work with there. because it means that by going off with Haven she walks out of one situation where she has like 0 agency into another one #and like to be clear i respect anyone who is sitting around in haven's general vicinity for snapping and just starting to kill people. me t #but this works. SOOOOOOOOOO much better for real #im still working the kinks out but like also this means that she wins. she wins like multiple times actually. she comes closer to killing #haven than anyone since he learned what fucking species he was and causes him more trouble in the interest of getting the FUCK out of there #than anyone else has and then she fucking gets what she was going for against literally every effort haven could've made over ~five decades #get owned loser.#every time i draw her i cant help it i write some shit like PLEASE JUST GET DIVORCED on it even though i wrote the fucking narrative i know #it will never fucking happen and thats why she does all this shit instead #in another world she'd be like the wildly capable owner of Raytheon 2 or some other shit like that. like she'd never be a nice or good #person but she wouldn't be dead. god she could be in charge of a country or some shit. Alas. Please get divorced.

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milfbro · 1 month ago

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Women write better scifi usually. I said it.

#azimov writes good scifi when he's talking about transgender robots #but yeah I think the rest of his stuff is kinda mid.#very creative but mid #*blacks out thinking abt stephen byerley for more than two seconds*#azimov wrote at least 2 trans robots and both are super unique and interesting #onw of them is a sensitive artist type who both is a man and makes himself a man #he's incredibly kind and focused and loves people #and stephen is a little fuckboy shit libertarian who sucks #and I love him.

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chronotopes · 6 months ago

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Jenny and I made such delicious chicken fajitas today and then I cried over string light placement anyway on account of being so #normal

#I think there being a little demon in my head that says I can’t rest until this apartment is perfect is kind of getting to me you guys #wegmans tomorrow though :) beautiful wegmans #maybe we’ll make ramen after. I think that could be fun.#like mid effort ramen when you dress up the instant stuff I mean #or maybe something else… what else makes a delicious but low effort meal #oh my god we can get pickles tomorrow. and kimchi. sadness canceled we’re so back

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jittyjames · 11 months ago

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i'm scared to talk about them bc every time I talk about fic plans I somehow always end up hating them and never posting bc I feel like I've overhyped them and people are going to think I'm weird and cringe and suck, BUT I'm really excited about whump: the musical and I want to post my fics now but I can't :(((((

#just screaming to myself about these fics ig #not overhyping or hyping anything at this point anymore bc everything I actually like flops horrendously #I don't want to let people's reactions affect my work but lately I've just been like.... WOW MY FICS ARE A BUNCH OF SHIT #been in a creatively stunted hole since like #...mid october #one trick pony at it again ig #in the words of lin #come on brain think of things come of brain be so smart #I think writing academic papers like crazy at the end of the semester kind of burnt me out???#like I feel like all of my work is lacking heart and idk how to fix it??? I feel like I come off as more clinical and formula based #idk this has just turned into a rant #someone give me advice pls #maybe I should write more riskily or something #BUT WHAT IS RISKY IDK #maybe I just need to have fun and write what I like and to hell with the rest of it

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wormchaser · 4 months ago

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superabsorbent by even rude is kind of awesome...

#the best songs are the first 3 and smooth and under tongue th rest are kind of mid.

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epitomees · 7 months ago

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