#crib death

[tenth-sentence]

He and Roger and Ad Worx itself were apt to be numbered among the fatalities no matter what they did; he could read it on Roger's round face, which had not looked so pallidly serious since he and Althea had lost their boy, Timothy, to the crib-death syndrome when the infant was only nine days old.

"Cujo" - Stephen King

[bananaink]

Well, I'm alive :'D And I drew a silly little fake-cover for a fake-DLC for Cult of the lamb. Because I'm obsessed with the game, obsessed with arcane and find myself just smushing two things I love together until they look cool :D At the beginning, I only wanted to draw Viktor as a little critter-follower next to the lamb but that wildly escalated into all of this :D Happy new year everyone

[ramsaybaggins]

If you are pregnant and have a cat, in most places you will be told in no uncertain terms that you must never let the baby sleep with the cat in the room. They really do love to get in the crib beside sleeping babies which is not safe at all.

“Everyone knows cats are evil because they steal childrens’ breath”

I know this sounds like a joke when Frenchie says it in the show, but there was historical precedent because a cat was tried for murder after a child died “ in consequence of a cat sucking its breath” in 1791.

There’s speculation that the urban legend arose because people would find cats nestling in the cribs of babies, possibly for their warmth or because of milk breath. Plus the age-old adage of cats being associated with witchery and the devil.

At least some of Frenchie’s superstitions were taken as fact in the 18th century.

[stiltonbasket]

Lan-jiejie, drunk off a sip of wine and ranting to her friends at 2 am: my didi is a dumbass? He's had a crush on this girl for 15 years, and he keeps getting into fights with her? why can't he get his act together and confess? except he tried to and it got worse? ٩(//̀Д/́/)۶

Lan-jiejie, hearing that her didi finally got engaged to the girl of his dreams:

Lan-jiejie two seconds later, finding out that said engagement is the result of a perilous quest, a secret relationship, and will now be the precursor to a shotgun wedding:

[beeben]

Naw i really dont give a shit about ppl fucking while the kids are home most ppl know how to lock a door but i just had to read a post where the person said fucking in bed next to ur sleeping kid is ok. And its ok cus its only babies and toddlers that do that. So that makes it ok right💀

[yooniesim]

some ppl that work in healthcare... really shouldn't work in healthcare.

(heavy heavy tw for medical situations & death/child death in tags, do not read if you're sensitive to it... I'll delete this later just had to vent)

[coldflasher]

the flash should have ended with barry quitting his job at ccpd to become a stay-at-home husband and that's on that

[blood-mocha-latte]

what if i just started crib posting. who could stop me. what if i just started rambling about cribs

[can-of-pringles]

The scene with Death and the baby and Dream being there messes me up every time

[kaerinio]

i am sitting here thinking about how viserys' treatment of dany following the selling of their mother's crown was reminiscent/a direct mirror of how aerys treated rhaella : the awful name calling, the paranoia of her conspiring to betray him in some way, the manipulation, the violence. viserys loved their mother, yes, and i do not think his unreasonable anger at dany for their mother's death just sprouted out of that one moment. that's something he'd been harboring since their flight from dragonstone. but, in a similar way that aerys comforted rhaella after the first few instances of miscarriages and crib deaths before convincing himself that she was somehow plotting against him through unfaithfulness, viserys is kind and loving and sweet with dany until he's fully convinced himself that she is the reason for their current situation. in his mind, she is about as responsible for everything as the usurper and tywin lannister and all their enemies. there's even a direct shift in how he discusses revenge, reclaiming their home, and the concept of "coming into my kingdom". where he once would have included dany, his sister, the princess of dragonstone, his only ally, he began to exclude her, transforming her into a form of currency, a thing, rather than valuing her. additionally, while rhaella attempted to shield viserys from aerys as he continued to descend into paranoia and unnecessary violence, we know that he, even at a young age, began to show behavioral similarities to his father, and in his adulthood, viserys holds their father in nothing but the highest regard, his praise similar, even, to that of rhaegar.

[godddamnbranman]

How to stay afloat in a bottomless pit..? The trick is to stop falling.

[furryprovocateur]

a 91% missed for me. You have got. to be fucking kidding me.

[cherrysnax]

u just have to see a post or tweet made by a black person blow up to see how much white ppl hate us

[funkily]

How was Beetlejuice

IT WAS SO GOOD . my throat is really sore from cheering and there were a number of changes (none of which i minded) and my mom really liked it !!!!

[une-sanz-pluis]

Was Margaret of Anjou's murder of Humphrey proposed by the Tudor dynasty?

Margaret's involvement in Humphrey's downfall was first proposed in the sixteenth century according to B. M. Cron in her MA thesis, "Margaret of Anjou: tradition and revision". I'm yet to discover who was the "first" to claim she was involved in Humphrey's murder, however. Polydore Vergil, followed by Holinshed and Hall, claimed that Margaret was involved in a conspiracy to deprive Humphrey of power and influence but he doesn't explicitly connect her with the plot to murder him. I've included an excerpt from Vergil on Humphrey's death behind the cut.

Whether or not Margaret was actually involved is something we'll probably never know. Although most contemporaries believed Humphrey was murdered, most historians think he died of a stroke or heart attack brought on by the stress of his arrest. Margaret gave Humphrey a New Year's gift in 1447 which might suggest (as Cron suggests and Maurer perhaps hints at) that Margaret was uninvolved in the plot against him.

Henry VI certainly approved of the plan to arrest Humphrey on charges of treason, while William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk has traditionally been seen as the architect and prime mover of the plot against Humphrey. Margaret, plausibly, could have been aware of the plot or even involved, especially given her close links to Henry and Suffolk. However, the claim he had opposed Henry's marriage to Margaret, thus earning Margaret's enmity, seems to have originated in Polydore Vergil's 16th century account rather than any contemporary sources.

I've taken this extract of Vergil from Dana F. Sutton's hypertext critical edition of the 1555 version of Anglica Historia.

But his wife Margaret was a very prudent woman, eager for glory, full of reason, counsel, officiousness, and manlike enterprises, in whom you could see much intelligence, much diligence, much vigilance, much carefulness. But she was not free of a womanly nature, being headstrong and fickle. When she came to realize that her husband Henry was ruling in accordance with Gloucester’s will rather than his own, and that he was devoting no great diligence or thought to the war, she decided to take that care upon herself, and gradually to deprive the duke of all the great power he enjoyed, so that she herself would not be called a goose for allowing her husband, now growing to maturity, to be governed by another man. Therefore a little later Margaret strove to put her plan into practice. But when the woman had once attempted this of her own volition, suddenly some men ready for sedition, prompt for violence, prone to crime and murder, rose up who sought to make Gloucester unpopular and egged her on [...] Fired by these urgings, the woman seized control of the kingdom, together with Henry her husband, and although this was nothing else but to plow a field by yoking together an ox and a donkey, as the saying goes, she nevertheless began spiritedly to undertake that responsibility. First she not only barred Gloucester from all public affairs, but also declined to shield him from his enemies’ insults. For not long thereafter some nobles conspired against the duke, accusing him of many misdemeanors, and particularly that he punished men convicted of crimes with greater severity than the laws of England prescribed. [...] Although the duke made a very creditable response to his accusers, he failed to help his case because he had already been marked down for death, save that he freed his mind from distress in that he was not obliged to listen to his condemnation and did not know the time appointed for his death. For the conspirators, fearing that there would be rioting if they subjected this popular man to a public execution, they decided to take him unawares. Therefore by authority of the Privy Council they summoned the nobility to appear on an appointed day at a parliament at the Abbey of Bury. When Gloucester made his appearance with the rest, he was suddenly arrested and on the following night, setting the worst example in human memory, he was strangled, with all his retinue thrown into prison at a single stroke.

Vergil's account is at odds at what we know - that is, we know that Humphrey's political influence had been waning for some time before his marriage to Margaret and that Henry had rarely, if ever, governed according to Humphrey's will (Humphrey wishes that was the case!). It is, however, close to how we see in Shakespeare depict Margaret and Humphrey's relationship in Henry VI, Part Two. Vergil's characterisation of Humphrey is in the "Good Duke Humphrey" vein and it's possibly for that reason he makes no mention of Eleanor Cobham's existence let alone the witchcraft accusations.

While Margaret's depiction isn't wholly negative, her flaws are associated with her feminity ("she was not free of a womanly nature, being headstrong and fickle") and her behaviour is linked to internal division and the death of the Good Duke, even if she is not actively involved.

[endawn]

anyways, pax would’ve been a great father if he had ever gotten the chance to