#deborah woo

[makhonkit]

Hong Kong Day 4 - Hong Kong City

Day 4 was finally our truly free and easy time in Hong Kong, in preparation for Day 5, Ocean Park!!!

On Day 4, we woke up quite late, had a simple and light breakfast at our hotel. Then we went to meet my good friend Deborah Woo ( https://www.instagram.com/modern.wooman ) at Nanhai No. 2 at World Trade Center, a really beautiful dim sum, yum cha, place over looking the sea view of Victoria Harbor. Food was delicious and atmosphere was amazing. Thank you Deborah!

Then Deborah also took us to buy our very much sought after Yuen Long Wife Cakes! After that we returned to our hotel and Abby wanted some personal sight seeing and shopping time, so I took care of the kids while she went out. Auntie Jamie came over to our hotel too. We watched Frozen 2 on Disney Plus then rested a little.

Evening Auntie Jamie walked us to have dinner with Uncle Kazu and her at Lei King Restaurant in Wan Chai. They serve some of the most delicious very local Hong Kong food in the area. We had lots of good food!

Then Jamie took us to the seaside over looking Tsim Sha Tsui. It was a relaxing and beautiful walk. Our kids had fun doing their own parkour and made some friends.

#travelwithraymak #travel #vlog #hongkong #travelhongkong #hongkongtouristspot #hongkongfoodie

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama April 2023 💚

10/4: Paper Moon with Kim Seo Hyung, Lee Chun Hee, Lee Shi Woo. 10 episodes; thriller, mystery, romance. Trailer

12/4: Bora! Deborah with Yoo In Na, Yoon Hyun Min, Joo Sang Wook, Hwang Chan Sung. 14 episodes; rom-com. Trailer

12/4: Stealer: the Treasure Keeper with Joo Won, Lee Joo Woo. 12 episodes; action, mystery, comedy. Trailer

14/4: Queenmaker with Kim Hee Ae, Moon So Ri, Ok Ja Yeon. 12 episodes; political, drama. Trailer

15/4: Doctor Cha with Uhm Jung Hwa, Kim Byung Chul, Min Woo Hyuk. 16 episodes; medical, comedy. Trailer

17/4: Family with Jang Na Ra, Jang Hyuk, Chae Jung An. 12 episodes; action, comedy, thriller. Trailer

26/4: the Good Bad Mother with Lee Do Hyun, Ra Mi Ran, Yoo In Soo, Ahn Eun Jin. 14 episodes; family, life. Trailer

28/4: Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim 3 with Han Suk Kyu, Ahn Hyo Seop, Lee Sung Kyung. 16 episodes; medical, drama. Trailer

So excited for JangJang couple reunion!!!

Which one are you going to watch? 😆

*REBLOG FOR UPDATES*

[billysjoel]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT

Day 17: POC in horror Names & films below the cut

From left to right, top to bottom:

GIF 1: Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017), Amandla Stenberg in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Kid Cudi in X (2022), Betty Gabriel in Get Out (2017), Rahul Kohli in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), and Jodi Long in Night Swim (2024)

GIF 2: Moses Sumney in MaXXXine (2024), Courtney Taylor in The Invitation (2022), Scatman Crothers in The Shining (1980), T'Nia Miller in The Fall of the House of Usher (2024), Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and Park So-dam in Parasite (2019)

GIF 3: Sauriyan Sapkota in The Midnight Club (2022), Wunmi Mosaku in His House (2020), Kelvin Harrison Jr. in It Comes at Night (2017), Teyonah Parris in Candyman (2021), Jacob Batalon in Tarot (2024), and Adia in The Midnight Club (2022)

GIF 4: Laurence Fishburne in Event Horizon (1997), Michelle Ang in The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), Nassim Lyes in Under Paris (2024), Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep (2019), Gong Yoo in Train to Busan (2016), and Levy Tran in The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

GIF 5: Winston Duke in Us (2019), Tahirah Sharif in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Kang-ho Song in Parasite (2019), Avantika Vandanapu in Tarot (2024), Blair Underwood in Longlegs (2024), and Georgina Campbell in The Watchers (2024)

GIF 6: Steven Yeun in Nope (2022), Sophie Wilde in Talk to Me (2022), Giancarlo Esposito in Abigail (2024), Nathalie Emmanuel in The Invitation (2022), Colman Domingo in Candyman (2021), and Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

GIF 7: Carl Lumbly in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Myha'la in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Will Smith in I Am Legend (2007), Moronke Akinola in No One Gets Out Alive (2021), William Chris Sumpter in The Midnight Club (2022), and Natalie Mendoza in The Descent (2005)

GIF 8: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Candyman (2021), Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite (2019), Evan Alex in Us (2019), Aya Furukawa in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Sope Dirisu in His House (2020), and Keke Palmer in Nope (2022)

GIF 9: Daniel Jun in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Iman Benson in The Midnight Club (2022), Malcolm Goodwin in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Kim Su-an in Train to Busan (2016), Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), and Annarah Cymone in Midnight Mass (2021)

GIF 10: Rahul Abburi in Midnight Mass (2021), Crystal Balint in The Midnight Club (2022), Anthony Ruivivar in The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Liza Soberano in Lisa Frankenstein (2024), Choi Woo-shik in Parasite (2019), and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Us (2019)

[gingersnaptaff]

Y Mab Darogan 2 - Double the Owain, Double the Fun

(The Owain's flag. This is known as Owain Glyndŵr's flag but Owain Lawgoch used it first.)

‘Grieved a great lord, although England is his:

A Welsh lion has won

Concord in the land he rules,

Equal might, bold in battle.

Bold was Arthur once, and his men, spreading

Anguish on every side,

Soldiers’ dearly loved soldier,

As you are today, bold man.’

- 'In Praise of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth' by Prydydd y Moch

Moving on from Arthur, we're going to talk about who came after him in being seen as Y Mab Darogan. In the thirteenth century ‘English rulers were all much the same as far as the Welsh were concerned.’ Oppressors. They sought to encroach - and thereafter destroy - the native Welsh rule.

To give you some background, Llywelyn y Llyw Olaf's late wife, Eleanor de Montfort[1], was Edward I's first cousin, while Llywelyn's uncle and predecessor, Dafydd, had been another first cousin through his mother, Joan - or Siwan - Lady of Wales. Yet, ‘it was not unusual,’ writes Deborah Fisher in her book Royal Wales ‘in the Middle Ages, for close family ties to be ignored when political issues came to the fore.’ In 1283, even though by this point Edward I was ‘eliminating a family with which he had close blood ties,’ he would ultimately succeed in his campaign against the Welsh. Edward himself was not particularly troubled by said blood ties when he beheaded Llywelyn at Cilmeri, or when he shut away his second cousin, baby Gwenllian, at Sempringham priory where she couldn't even spell her name. Forgive me for sounding bitter - and biased - when I say that even today Wales still feels the aftershocks of Edward's conquest and what came after.

And so it was Edward's ‘systematic elimination’ in 1283 of a family he was so intertwined with that only augmented the Welsh feelings of resistance towards their enemies across the border, and meant they looked to be rid of their oppressors through the coming of Y Mab Darogan.

The first recorded usage of the term is in a poem addressed to Llywelyn Fawr by his bard, Prydydd y Moch. In it, Prydydd says that this Messianic figure will be ‘o hil eryron o Eryri’ or a descendant of the eagles of Snowdonia. This suggests the royal family of Gwynedd, otherwise known as the House of Aberffraw, who were known as the Lords of Eryri. Eagles are even used on the retroactively applied coat of arms of Owain Gwynedd - ‘the blazon: vert, three eagles displayed in fess Or.’

What is true however, is that Llywelyn Fawr - being a canny sort - did not lay claim to the Mab Darogan title. Deborah Fisher in ‘Royal Wales’ writes that it was ‘better [for him] to leave than implicit in the words of his bard.’ After Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf's death and the end of Welsh political independence ‘the need for a deliverer became profound and added to the immediacy of the vaticinations.’ Bards pushed for individual leaders to take up the role of Mab Darogan more strongly than they had before.

And Iesu Mawr did they - and two in particular - respond.

The name Owain even became entrenched with the Mab Darogan legend, in no small part thanks to the two lads we're gonna talk about today! (WOO!)

When our first lad, Owain Lawgoch, emerged in the 1360's, Owain became the name ascribed to Y Mab Darogan and ‘the poets eagerly worked to spread the news that the Prophesied deliverer had come … and urging support for him.���

‘Although he’s known as ‘Yvain de Galles in France, and Owen Rotherick in England,’ he is more commonly called Owain Lawgoch. This sobriquet, meaning 'red hand' appears to refer to a hand-wound earned fighting the English on Guernsey in 1372.’ His given name is, Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri!! (Can I get a YEEHAW?) A 'routier of some distinction’ he was a direct lineal descendant of Llywelyn Fawr, through his illegitimate son, Gruffudd[2]. His granddad, Rhodri, was one of four brothers who – once his big bro Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf was decapitated and his second oldest bro, Dafydd, was hung, drawn, and quartered – became heir alongside his brother, Owain Goch (in a sense for the English usurped the throne) to the House of Aberffraw.

Rhodri, in an extraordinarily good move - and the House of Aberffraw in this period weren't known for them, I must say - chose NOT to press his claim. Instead, he retired to England and Tatsfield Manor in Surrey where Owain's father, Thomas/Tomos, would later be born. Thomas was interested in establishing a base in Wales, for he attempted to claim the lands of the Llŷn peninsula that his granduncle, Owain Goch, once had possession of. This came to nothing, however, but it does give us an indication that he knew his lineage was important.

Undoubtedly, once Owain was born in February 1330, Thomas also passed the knowledge of this onto him. “The last male descendant of the House of Aberffraw?” I imagine him saying, all starry-eyed. “Hoo boi!”

Owain took to all of this like Dylan Ail Don to fuckin water. He was acutely aware of his lineage, and the oppression of the Welsh - and, in my opinion, was probably enamoured with the thought of being the one to deliver the Welsh their freedom and battering the English. (Not a bad thing, ngl.)

Fortunately, he got ample opportunity to do so. After Edward II passed away in a fire-poker-up-arse incident and his Welsh Marches lover Hugh Despenser the Younger was hung, drawn, and quartered Wales ‘ceased to the centrality in royal politics that it had in the previous generation,’ when Welsh affairs had loomed large in the kingdom, and when Eddie II had been heavily reliant on the Marcher lords for support in the Despenser war.

Edward III - Eddie II’s son in case you were confused cuz SERIOUSLY EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME NAME IN THIS - had failed to keep the Welsh nobility onside with his execution of another Welsh pretender, Llywelyn Bren, in 1314. In fact, many of the English nobility had thought his execution to be overly cruel and capricious. England would ‘pay less regard’ to Wales ‘and,’ as David Stephenson writes, 'would allow the development of the sorts of frustrations that encourage the hopes and ambitions of Owain Lawgoch, the exiled descendant of the ruling house of Gwynedd, and ultimately those of Owain Glyndŵr, a descendant of the royal house of Powys.’[3]

All this to say, when Owain was around 20 - give or take, Gwynfor Evans says it's firmly 20 but we aren't *quite* sure - he left Wales to join the King of France, Charles V's service. He fought as a mercenary during The Hundred Years War - and, by all accounts, did a damn fine job. The French chronicler Jean Froissant noted he fought on the French side at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, but there's no other evidence to support this.

However, in 1369 Owain was deprived of his English lands, so it's safe to say that by then he'd firmly become entrenched in fighting for the French in their own rebellion against the English. As Professor Thomas Pierce Jones writes, ‘The English authorities were prepared for an invasion of Wales as early as 1369; it is moreover significant that an inhabitant of Anglesey was condemned for having been in touch with Owain Lawgoch an enemy and traitor, for the purpose of starting war in Wales.’

Furthermore, he was in France's service as the leader of a Free Company of mercenaries. As Evans notes: ‘’the prodigious Owain’ as Barbara Tuchman called him, earned a big reputation as a brilliant leader of the professional military, securing a place in folk literature of France, Brittany, Switzerland, Lombardy, and the Channel Islands. He commanded his own independent force, with ‘other Welshmen … [who had] defected from service in English armies’ including his lieutenants Owain ap Rhys and Ieuan Wyn, also known as Poursuivant D'Amour.[4] (with a nickname like ‘Pursuer of Love’ you KNOW he's hot shit. Fuckin HUNKY BASTARD. Look, lads, I am trying not to horny post on main, okay? Suffice to say Owain Lawgoch and his captains could’ve GOTTEN IT.)

ANYWAY. Ahem.

While in French service Owain fostered good relations with Bertrand De Guesclin and gained the support of Charles V of France, who was himself in a bit of a bind with English oppression. Surely seeing the opportunity to further stretch the already thin English ranks both at home and abroad, Charles firmly threw his weight - and a fuckload of money - behind Owain.

In Paris during May,1372, Owain announced his intentions to claim his ancestral title of Prince of Wales. As mentioned previously Charles gave him money for arms, soldiers, ect. and, ‘preceded by a notable proclamation setting out Owain's aims,’ Owain duly set sail from the port of Harfleur. He then attacked the island of Guernsey - and there's actually a myth about him becoming a fairy king and carrying off a lady when she discovered him - but the expedition was then called off by a message from Charles telling him, ‘Pls go to Castile, pretty, pretty please with sugar on top, to get me some bloody ships to defend La Rochelle from le Anglais!’

Owain did - also gaining favour from King Enrique of Castille in the process - and, a year later, defeated an English and Gascon force at Soubise, and captured both Sir Thomas Percy and Jean de Grailly, the captain of Buch.

But while he was campaigning - and, honestly, kinda knocking it out of the park - in France this did mean his Welsh campaign had to be abandoned. (BOO!)

Now in 1377 word reached Edward III that Owain was planning another expedition - this time with help from Castile! (You gotta remember politics are a tangled web but all the other European royals were more or less united in that time-honoured tradition of wanting to batter England to death.) Like Charles, King Enrique of Trastamara recognised the need to stretch the English thin so they couldn't commit anymore shenaniganry - also the fact that they'd supported his half-bro Pedro the Cruel in the recent civil war no doubt also swayed him - and so they aimed to aid Owain in helping to reclaim the throne of Wales.

(You are, at this point, wondering ‘Sarah, wft does he have to do with y mab darogan?’ And like, a) chill your beans and b) I am about to tell you how Owain Lawgoch, that sexy sonofabitch, met his end and became enshrined in legend.)

So in 1378, ‘serious menace’ Owain Lawgoch and his company of mercenaries were in the town of Mortagne - Perhaps, I won't lie, it's an ominous sign having ‘'Mort’ in the village name - besieging it. ‘With the connivance of the English authorities’ a Scot, John Lamb, who had ‘wormed himself into Owain's confidence’ and made his squire. This gave him the perfect opportunity to assassinate Owain which was ‘a sad end to a flamboyant career.’

(Owain's assassination as depicted in Froissart's Chroniques')

For his trouble (sarcasm), Lamb was paid handsomely. The Issue Roll of the Exchequer dated 4th of December 1378 records, ‘To John Lamb, an esquire from Scotland, because he lately killed Owynn de Gales, a rebel and enemy of the King in France … £20.’ After this he is never heard from again as far as I'm aware, although the fact that he's a Scot is indicative of the fact that no all Celts were brothers-in-arms at this time.

Owain meanwhile was laid to rest at the church of Saint Leger in Cognac, 4 miles away from Mortagne. In 2003 a monument was unveiled at the location of his assassination in Mortagne-sur-Gironde, calling him: ‘Tywysog Cymru et Chevalier de France.’

(Here it is!)

After his death Welsh poets venerated him as ‘coming across the sea with his battle-axe or his red spear to “drive the Saxons like pigs into Cors Fychno”’ mourning the loss of ‘the chief hope of Welsh freedom’ and what might have been if he'd succeeded in his aims. ‘’In recording the dashed hopes,’ writes Elissa R. Henken, ‘one poem, apparently written soon after Owain Lawgoch's assassination, shows just how powerful the dream had been.’

The dream of y mab darogan would only grow in the years after Owain Lawgoch's death. ‘The necessary portent had not been achieved’ in regards to Owain Lawgoch, the last true male descendant of the house of Gwynedd, who in many of the Welsh's eyes was their true Prince, but another would soon come.

Which brings me onto my next lad…

Owain Glyndŵr! Historians call him a ‘national redeemer’, ‘a coming Cadwaladr,’ or ‘that great magician/damned Glendower’ if you're Shakespeare[5]. You and I might call him daddy. (Cymru, I am so sorry for objectifying our greatest rebel leader.)

He was born In 1354 in Sycharth, Powys, he had the lineage necessary to be a Welsh national leader. His father, Gruffudd Fychan II, was descended from the last Prince of Powys (Madog ap Gruffudd who was the son of Gruffudd Maelor and Angharad a daughter of Owain Gwynedd), while the matrilineal links he received from his mother, Elen, meant he was descended from the Princes of Deheubarth and Gwynedd. (And HYWEL DDA! 🥳 Law boi is BACK) He had in his possession two lordships,Glyndyfrdwy, where he was born[6], and Cynllaith Owain.[7]

He was fostered into the home of the rising English lawyer, David Hamner[8] - whose daughter, Margaret, Owain would later marry - at a young age and had practised law at the Inns of the Court in Westminster. It's even possible when he was in England that he witnessed the Peasants Revolt, the powder keg to Richard II's eventual downfall.

Furthermore, he no doubt knew that the Welsh kowtowed to the English gentry. English kings and magnates ‘waxed rich’ on the income they derived from Wales: ‘the king of England could expect to collect over £5,600 from the Principality lands in North and South Wales.’ The laws favoured the English heavily. ‘Discriminatory charters’ were issued ‘that no Welshman or Welsh woman should be allowed to live or purchase lands in the towns of Wales or in neighbouring English counties,’ while paranoia soon spread through those towns about illicit infiltration.

Other ‘Episodes of ethnic tension’ between the Welsh and English were reported throughout the 13 and 1400's purely because of the various monopolies that were being given to the non-native English. And so it is little wonder then that the welsh ‘felt demeaned and the victims of discrimination.’ At Hope - a town near Wrexham - in 1401 the noses of Welshmen were rubbed in the memory of ‘the statutes, provisions and ordinances decreed for the burgess and English towns at Caernarfon at the time of the conquest and thereafter observed through the whole of North Wales.’

Now, Wales in the 1400's was, uh, crap. It was, ‘a land of two peoples… English and Welsh,’ writes R.R. Davies in his book ‘The Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr,’ 'It was a situation which had been centuries in the making, but one which acquired a much greater measure of definitiveness from the mid-thirteenth century'. As I've previously discussed, the Normans colonised Wales both before and after the Welsh Conquest, which led to much distemper amongst the ranks of the Welsh uchelwyr (gentry). In particular, after Richard II’s death in 1400 and the coronation of his cousin - and usurper! - Henry IV meant that the Welsh lords - whom Richard had heavily favoured (Hugh Despenser for one) - were discarded, and the favours that they'd garnered were dispensed to far more palatable English lords.

This, combined with outbreaks of plague, the oppressive taxation levied on the poor - Adam of Usk in his Chronicle says that England ‘extracted £60,000 annually’ from Wales before the revolt! - meant that the country was ripe for rebellion.

Glyndŵr surely noticed this. As I've said, it's quite possible he knew from his time spent in England just how bad things were for the monarchy even after Richard II's death. Henry IV was, no doubt about it, a dick to Welshmen. Fines were ‘crushingly heavy’ and kingship and lordship in Wales were still ‘remarkably extortionate and avaricious.’ The church too was ‘despotically used’ by the English government as a colonising weapon. Owain, by this point, had moved back to Wales, settling at his estate at Sycharth. He'd married Margaret - ‘the best of wives’ as she's described by the poet Iolo Goch, ‘a fine girl of knightly line, noble and generous by nature’ - and they'd had five sons - Gruffudd, Madog, Maredudd, Tomos, and Ioan - and three daughters - Catrin , Siân, and Alys - together.[9]

Plus Owain had his own beef that would give him the impetus needed to finally light the match.

In 1400 he had a good old quarrel. I mean. Owain. Sir. Please. With Reginald, Lord Grey of Ruthin. What about you might ask? The fact that dear old Reggie had either delayed Owain's summons to accompany the king on an expedition to Scotland, or OVER A FUCKIN BOUNDARY DISPUTE. Let it never be said the Welsh are NOT petty. You would be WRONG. Anyways, Owain, having found his pretext for rebellion, immediately set about making it a reality.

I like to imagine he proclaimed it into a megaphone.

So, the movement was carefully planned and orchestrated by the coordinated efforts of the disaffected North Walian gentry, the clergy, and the poor. Owain’s cousins, the Tudurs of Penmynydd - yes, THOSE TUDORS - in Anglesey supported Owain. ‘The anger from people of all walks of life’ coalesced into a rebellion. English towns such as Chirk, Flint, Denbigh, and Rhuddlan, you fuckin name it, anywhere in North-east Wales was getting attacked. Wrexham - where Owain Glyndŵr had familial ties - became his home base. And the North-west of Wales - not to be outdone - duly followed. Anglesey got decked. Conwy and Beaumaris got thumped. And so, ‘the whole of North Wales was involved in the rising.’ (As a north walian like GO TEAM. BENDIGEDIG.)

This fuckin absolutely blindsided the English. Forces were galvanised. Henry IV diverted his army on its journey home from Scotland to lead a lightning campaign to try and quell it! He left ‘twenty men of arms and eighty archers’ to defend the castles at Caernarfon, Criccieth and Harlech, as well as smaller forces at Conwy, Denbigh, and Beaumaris. In Dyffryn Clwyd - which had been the first target of the rebels - the English authorities showed they were back in control by ordering the execution of eight of those who were involved in the attack in Ruthin, while the dispatch of the four quarters of Gronw ap Tudur’s body to four border towns was done to put fear into the rebel ranks.

However, this fuckin backfired. MASSIVELY. Like I can't stress this enough, this rebellion is the Biggest. Gwynfor Evans writes, ‘The tenacity of Glyndŵr and his men is amazing … [the war] was aflame for ten years and did not finally end for fifteen.’ Owain Glyndŵr on 16th of September 1400 was proclaimed the true prince of Wales by ‘a group of prominent Welshmen, some of Norman-Welsh descent.' These included Gruffudd and Philip Hamner, Owain’s brothers-in-law, and Robert Puleston, his sister, Lowri’s, husband, whilst the Dean of St Asaph repped the Welsh clerics. All ‘remained faithful to their price, some faithful unto death, throughout the coming war of liberation.’

This ‘carefully planned’ coronation was supported by all members of Welsh society. From the aforementioned Tudurs, the Welsh labourers (some of whom had even returned home from England to follow Owain!), to students in Oxford who abandoned their studies, all followed their Prince! And, all the while, their English counterparts shouted ‘Slay, slay the Welsh dogs!’

It's as my old nemesis Gerald of Wales said: ‘Their (the Welsh) mind is solely on the defence of their country and their freedom … When the bugle of war sounds the countryman rushes to arms with the same alacrity as the courtier from his court.’

Now, from here it's a bit of a rush job, but suffice to say Owain gained allies in both the English court - Henry Percy, or Hotspur - whom Owain would draw up the Tripartite Indenture with[10] and from the other Celtic countries. Help came from Scotland after Owain wrote to Robert III ‘The people of Wales are under the oppressive bondage of your mortal enemies and mine, the English,’ yet the letter dispatched to Ireland was sadly captured by the English. France too sent aid, perhaps believing in Owain's cause, perhaps just for the fuckin giggles of fucking over England AGAIN. ‘My nation,’ Owain wrote in a letter to Charles IV, ‘has been trampled underfoot by the barbarian English.’ In 1401, Ieuan Goch of Ceredigion,who had spent 20 years in the service of the King of Cyprus was sent by Charles VI to bolster Owain's ranks. Unfortunately he was caught by the English and imprisoned in the Tower of London.[11]

Also, big windfall for Owainy Babes as in 1402 REGINALD, BARON GREY DE RUTHIN, WAS CAPTURRRRRRED!!!! CAN I GET A YEEHAW!!!! This meant the king had to pay a big ransom for his release and I am CREASING MYSELF AT THIS. IMAGINE. Reggie's just like ‘Haz, come pick me up, I'm scared. 😭😭😭 They're threatening to beat me up. Glyndŵr’s yelling about his land boundary.’ Meanwhile Henry IV is just like ‘fuck saaaaake.’ Beautiful.

A brilliant victory at Bryn Glas ensured the capture of the Mortimers, Henry IV's cousins. When Henry nicked all their plate and jewels and refused to pay their ransom they duly switched their allegiance to Owain. Owain, sensing an opportunity, married his daughter, Catrin, to Edmund Mortimer. They would go on to have a son, Lionel, and three daughters. The king tried to ‘make a supreme effort to crush him.’ But Owain could not be defeated. In 1404, Owain called ‘four from every commote’ to a parliament in Machynlleth. There, with the blessing of the Pope of Avignon, and envoys from France, Scotland, and Castile, Owain was crowned Prince of Wales ‘by the grace of God.’ A treaty made with France was also signed in Paris by Gruffudd Young and John Hanmer and ratified by Welsh parliament, recognising this.

(Owain as depicted on his Great Seal.)

Whether through guerrilla tactics, war, or the weather - SERIOUSLY Holinshed's Chronicles says, ‘About mid of August, the king, to chastise the presumptuous attempts of the Welshmen, went with a great power of men into Wales, to pursue the captain of the Welsh, rebel Owen Glendower, but in effect he lost his labor; for Owen conveyed himself out of the way, into his known lurking places, and (as was thought) through art magic, he caused such foul weather of winds, tempest, rain, snow, and hail to be raised, for the annoyance of the king's army, … the king was constrained to return home, having caused his people yet to spoil and burn first a great part of the country.’ - Owain kept on winning. Shakespeare later alludes to Owain's so-called ‘magic’ when he has Glendower say in Henry IV Part 1: ‘Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head/Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye/And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him/Bootless home and weather-beaten back.’

Yet this good luck, the absolute multitude of victories couldn't last. During the siege of Harlech Castle in 1409, Edmund Mortimer died, while Owain Glyndŵr's wife, Margaret, her two daughters, one of whom was Catrin, and Catrin's three young daughters were captured and incarcerated in the Tower of London. Margaret and Owain's oldest son, Gruffudd, Catrin - of whom Shakespeare says ‘her tongue makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned’ - and her daughters would later perish there. Margaret and Owain's other sons, that ‘fine nestful of princes’ as Iolo Goch described them, all would perish in battle. Even their house in Sycharth had been torched in 1403.

The family toll was enormous. Imagine. You become Prince of Wales and at such an extraordinary cost. I don't even know if Margaret saw her husband again because she died in 1420. And Owain was fuckin fighting for his life up until 1415. The English wanted him dead. Can you imagine? Nearly all your kids are dead. You have led your sons to their deaths. You have heard your granddaughters have perished in a draughty cell, scared and afraid. Your youngest daughter has either had to watch her kids die, or has perished first without hope of aid.

And for what?

I think that must have been such a heavy burden for Owain to bear. To know he'd put all his family's lives in danger simply because he wanted to reclaim what he'd lost. I have to wonder if, when he'd heard that his cousin, Owain Lawgoch, had been assassinated in Mortagne, he hadn't thought ‘I don't want to be like that. Bleeding out, betrayed by somebody I thought was my friend.’

And honestly, Owain wouldn't have a happy ending either. He'd battle, of course, but after 1410 he was on the run. A number of his closest associates - Rhys Ddu, Philip Scudamore, and Rhys ap Tudur - were taken prisoner and executed. In 1411, Maredudd ap Tudur, great-grandfather to Henry VII, and two of his half-brothers were executed for their parts in the rebellion.

However, I will say in a brief shining bit of happiness, in 1415 at the Conference of Constance, Owain's treaty with France allowed them to contest England's assertion that Wales was part of England. Gruffudd Young, Glyndŵr’s Chancellor, was part of the French delegation. It was he who prompted the French to to successfully contest the English and maintain that Welsh nation good was separate from the English. ‘Thus,’ Gwynfor Evans writes, ‘Wales was first proclaimed a nation in Europe by the French.’

As for Owain, nothing concrete is known after 1415. It's speculated he ended his days in the house of his eldest daughter, Alys, who'd married into the Scudamore family, in the Welsh-speaking bit of Hereford. Siôn Cent, a Welsh poet, suggested that the family chaplain was Owain in disguise. Thomas Pennant, the Welsh naturalist, wrote that Glyndŵr died on the ‘20th of September 1415’ which would make him about 61. Nobody gave him up. Nobody betrayed him. But nobody knows where his body is buried.

Nobody.

Adam of Usk wrote: ‘he was buried at night by his followers. But his burial was detected by his opponents; so he was re-buried. But where his body lies is unknown’ His direct descendants, the Scudamores, perhaps do know but they won't tell.

As for Owain's legacy he lives on. Owain Glyndŵr day is celebrated in Wales on the 16th of September each year. Meibion Glyndŵr - the Sons of Glyndŵr - a Welsh nationalist group, bear his name. He's mentioned in the same breath as King Arthur as Y Mab Darogan to this day.

And he, Owain Lawgoch, and Arthur all have some banging myths connected to them which I'll be exploring next week!!!

(Owain Glyndŵr's signature.)

Some notes:

[1] Eleanor de Monfort was actually captured by Edward I when she was first married to Llywelyn by proxy. She was making her way from France to North Wales by boat when she, her brother Amaury, and their entourage were captured off the Isles of Scilly. She was held by Eddie I for THREE YEARS until she was released in 1278 after Llywelyn and Edward signed The Treaty of Aberconwy. She would later die in childbirth, spared of seeing her husband and first cousin's escalating conflict.

[2] Gruffudd was born to Llywelyn by Tangwystyl a daughter of Llywarch Goch, who later married (or became mistress to, sources have differing opinions) Ednyfed Fychan, Llywelyn Fawr's Distain (seneschal). She would later die in childbirth. Illegitimate lads had the same rights as their legitimate kin. Gruffudd caused a lot of problems for his dad that I won't go into today BUT EJDDJDJ Gruffudd would later die in 1245 after attempting to escape the Tower of London where he'd been imprisoned. As the Brut y Tywysogion takes up, ‘by throwing a rope through the window of a tower, and descending along the rope, but the rope breaking, he fell, and broke his neck.’ To further bring home the irony, he DID THIS ON SAINT DAVID’S DAY.

[3] Coincidentally These two Hot Bois™️ share the same flag! Owain Lawgoch had it first and then Owain Glyndŵr took it up. They were distant cousins so like it's NOT stealing. Everybody refers to it as Owain Glyndŵr's flag but Owain Lawgoch set the trend. The lions are rampart instead of passant. (Somebody far more versed in heraldry pls tell me what they mean.)

[4] Ieuan Wyn was a descendant of the aforementioned Ednyfed Fychan. FUN!

[5] Billy Shakes did also say of him: ‘"a worthy gentleman,/Exceedingly well read, and profited/ In strange concealments, valiant as a lion/And as wondrous affable and as bountiful/As mines of India’

[6] Nearly said ‘and raised’ sjddjjdjd kill me.

[7] Cynllaith Owain was named for Glyndŵr.

[8] David Hamner would later become a Justice of the King's Bench.

[9]Owain also had illegitimate offspring - Dafydd and Ieuan are his sons and two daughters, Myfanwy and Gwenllian. Only one of his sons, Ieuan, would have kids. All his other sons perished in battle - except for Maredudd who took over as leader of the rebellion but accepted a Pardon from Henry V in 1421 and then later died.

[10]Tripartite Indenture is my fave infenture. Owain, Hotspur, and Edmund Mortimer drew it up to show what part of England and Wales they'd have after they'd won. Glyndŵr would have Wales and a ‘substantial part’ of the west of England including the Welsh Marches, Hotspur would have the North of England, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire. Eddie Mortimer would've had the rest of southern England. The agreement defined Owain borders as: ‘The whole of Cambria or Wales divided from Leogria now commonly called England by the following borders, limits and bounds: From the Severn estuary as the River Severn flows from the sea as far as the northern gate of the city of Worcester; From that gate directly to the ash trees known in Cambrian or Welsh language as Onennau Meigion which grow on the high road from Bridgnorth to Kinver; Then directly along the highway, popularly known as the old or ancient road, to the head or source of the River Trent; Thence to the head or source of the river commonly known as the Mersey and so along that river to the sea.’

[11]I have been to the Tower. I hated it. That building I am convinced hates me. Do u think it has a vendetta against Welsh people? Cuz, like guys, my feet HURT afterwards and I am convinced it recognised that as a weakness, okay.

Sources:

Land of My Father's by Gwynfor Evans

The Fight for Welsh Freedom by Gwynfor Evans

Medieval Wales by David Walker

Royal Wales by Deborah Fisher

Welsh Poems: Sixth Century to 1600 by Gwyn Williams

The Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr by R.R. Davies

Medieval Wales c. 1050 - 1332 by David Stephenson

War and Society in Medieval Wales by Sean Davies

'King Arthur: Owain Lawgoch, and Owain Glyndŵr: Three forms of hero' an essay by Elissa R. Henken

Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespare.

Adam of Usk's Chronicles

Jean Froissart's Chroniques, volume 2

No addendum this week just som BOPS:

Owain Lawgoch:

And Owain Glwyndŵr:

Okay, hywl fawr!!!

[pod-together]

Pod-Together Day 2 Reveals 2024

coal-fire heart (The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry - Anonymous (Song)) written by Aether, performed by Beryllinthranox Summary: The sea was the perfect wind-roughened blue, the kind that made her want to take a deep breath and step over the rail and into the deep.

Today’s Top Story: An End to the Plagues? [text, audio] (Good Omens (TV)) written by BookGirlFan, performed by 1happydaiz Summary: “Good morning, and welcome to Ancient Egypt News. Our top story this morning, the Israelites, and the plagues they have brought on our nation. This morning, families all across the capital have woken to the news their eldest son has died during the night. Abubakar, our man on the ground, coming to us live from the streets with more.”

Convergence (Stray Kids (Band)) written by Chanlixbolt, performed by InterstellarBlue Summary: con·ver·gence /kənˈvərj(ə)ns/ noun noun: convergence; noun: convergency Convergence is when two or more things come together to form a new whole, Chan finally gets out of his head about his feelings, and Hyunjin and Jeongin start wooing him with utter enthusiasm.

Gritty Thoughts (Men's Hockey RPF) written by FandomisOhana, performed by eafay70 Summary: Thoughts on Gritty!

That's not how it happened! (Shadowhunters (TV)) written by Hagar, performed by kittona Summary: In which Magnus tells a story to Jace and Clary's kids - and everyone has opinions.

That Clear and Simple Path (Merrily We Roll Along - Sondheim/Furth) written by klb, ShakespeareStoleMyURL, and rockinhamburger, performed by horchatapods, elledubs, klb, and ShakespeareStoleMyURL Summary: Three phone calls, the night (and then the day) after Frank's party. A podfic musical.

Dirt Cake. Because Why Not? (One Piece (Anime & Manga)) written by ScarletSorceress, performed by stereden Summary: Thatch really thought he'd learned his lesson about Ace and 'cakes'. Mainly that, if Ace wanted him to bake a cake, it would never be a normal cake. The first one had pork in it. The second was an actual war crime. Now the third one...had dirt in it? What occasion could Ace possibly plan for that required a dirt cake??? Well, Thatch was just going to have to make it to find out. Yay...

Dare Me to Tell You the Truth (Hacks (TV 2021)) written by schwanenkoenigin, performed by wilfriede0815 Summary: Ava desperately wants to get Deborah to play Truth or Dare with her. Deborah tries to resist.

just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go [text, audio] (魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù) written by unitaryexectheory, performed by Gavilan Summary: "A'Yu, A'Yu..." Nie Huaisang sighed."Not even my own sect brothers call me Nie-zongzhu." He pouted, but Mo Xuanyu didn't speak, looking guarded. "The only Nie-zongzhu was my brother and Nie Mingjue's dead." "That must have been very hard for you." Mo Xuanyu said blandly. Nie Huaisang gave a little acknowledging giggle, feeling disgust and pleasure at how Mo Xuanyu glazed past Da-ge's name. It's good. This is good, he reminded himself. So, Nie Huaisang smiled, gently placing the cup onto Mo Xuanyu's hands. The skin of his wrists and hands was a shade lighter than Nie Huaisang's own, clutching the cup lightly.

When We Meet Again (Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games), Star Wars - All Media Types) written by xazz, performed by Ceewelsh Summary: Bode made good plans but there was a saying that even the best plans didn’t survive first contact. He’d expected he would have more time. He didn’t expect the plan to start to fall apart at his first meeting with Cal Kestis.

The Hospital [text, audio] (The Hotel (Podcast)) written by zombified_queer, performed by tipsy_kitty Summary: The Manager, Owner, and Lobby Boy have to deal with the repetition of Madam Hotel’s very tragic accident.

[sweetteaandpie]

Hi! Shipping asks! 2, 8, 18, 24 and 28

Hi!! Woo hoo!

2. What is your current OTP?

I have a few across fandoms.

Helen Magnus/Nikola Tesla from Sanctuary

Bill Adama/Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica

Deborah Vance/Ava Daniels from Hacks

Fox Mulder/Dana Scully frim The X-Files

C.C. Babcock/Niles from The Nanny

Samantha Carter/Jack O'Neill from Stargate

Crowley/Naomi from Supernatural

8. Who is the most shippable person you can think of?

Helen Magnus! I will ship her with just about anyone.

18. What is your favourite unpopular ship?

I'm not sure exactly how to interpret unpopular. Does it mean that it's not common so it lacks in popularity, it does it mean that people simply don't like it. If the first, then Dana Scully/Walter Skinner. If the second, then Voldemort/Bellatrix Lestrange.

24. What is your favourite canon ship?

Bill Adama/Laura Roslin

28. What is your best shipping advice?

Don't be shitty about other people's ships. Have your opinions, but let people enjoy things.

Thank you for asking!

[lilolilyr]

Space 🪐/ chocolate 🍫/ blood 🩸 (for the woo ask game) + sending love (not for the ask game)

Thank you for the ask, and for the love <3

I don't really have any Bering & Wells or Star Trek wips right now or anything else you might know so I'm just taking my most active wip, my take on Hacks HBO Season 4 (Ava x Deborah) - spoilies for that longfic, so I'm putting it below the cut in case anybody cares

'chocolate' and 'blood' weren't in there, but 'space' was mentioned twice:

When the woman at the entrance tells her one of her writers is already there, Deborah thinks nothing of it. Well, there is a tad of annoyance over not being the first one in the room, she had expected that by coming in this early, she could get used to the space without any strangers around, could find her bearings and organize the room to her liking without anyone watching on. Instead, she will be forced to make small-talk with some writer who probably hasn’t even seen her special, or worse, congratulate Steven on his position of head writer when she’d rather punch his teeth in for, no matter how indirectly, costing her Ava.

and

After calling Kiki and briefly explaining that Ava needs someone to talk to, Deborah gets off the couch to give Ava some space and she disappears into the kitchen for cold water to fight off the alcohol induced drowsiness.

Her knuckles turn white as she has an iron grip on the countertop, her head down, eyes closed, she tries to regain her bearing, but all Deborah can think about is that no matter how hard she tries, she just seems to fuck it up with Ava all over again.

oh and while not quite 'blood', there is one mention of 'bloody' as in the curse word xD

“’Basically’ done isn’t done. I’m sorry, Deborah, the network just wants to make sure you are aware of what is at stake here. Oh, and that it really isn’t your prerogative to give out free days to our staff like candy.”

Deborah hisses through her teeth. She wants to argue that it is her show, her staff, and it bloody well is her prerogative to schedule her own working hours and has been from the start, and keeping the rest of the staff in the office when she isn’t here is bullshit – but while she usually wouldn’t back down from a fight like this, she is too worried about Ava to enjoy a good argument.

[thehonoredonesrpg]

¡Os traemos una pequeña novedad!

Como ya no queda mucho para completar la información relativa a la ambientación del foro, queremos avisar a todos los que nos siguen que la apertura de las reservas está muy próxima. Antes de ir a la fecha, queremos hacer un adelanto de lo que se subirá entre hoy y mañana:

Pactos, vínculos y técnicas malditas

Pliegues y sellos

Glosario

Posteriormente, como nos han pedido, también subiremos ejemplos de técnicas malditas que se han empleado en el manga de Jujutsu Kaisen y buscaremos también algún ejemplo de los demonios que aparecen en Chainsaw Man, por si os sirve de guía e inspiración.

FECHA DE RESERVAS

Las reservas podrán hacerse mañana día 16 de abril hasta el día de la apertura, aún por anunciar. Dejaremos hasta las últimas dos horas, en caso de que alguien necesite realizar algún cambio o por si hay algún rezagado. El horario de apertura será el siguiente:

20:00 en España (hora peninsular)

13:00 en México, Perú y Colombia

15:00 en Chile, Argentina y Venezuela

NORMATIVA DE RESERVAS

Antes de reservar, pedimos que por favor tengáis en cuenta la siguiente normativa, porque si algo se sale de ella la reserva no tendrá validez.

Pondremos un anuncio previo a la apertura de reservas. Hasta que ese anuncio no esté colgado, no podrán mandarse ningún tipo de reserva.

Se atenderán por orden de llegada. No sabemos si vamos a estar saturados o si el flujo de gente será más llevadero, pero intentaremos dar notificación del listado lo más pronto posible.

Únicamente puede reservarse PB, porque no hay cupos de ningún tipo para oficios, técnicas y derivados.

Pueden reservarse hasta 2 PBs para uso propio. No se permiten reservas para búsquedas.

El PB deberá de ser real y el personaje no podrá contar con más o menos de 5 años de los que el PB tenga en la realidad.

Las reservas se mantendrán durante 7 días desde la apertura del foro, tiempo que creemos suficiente para haber creado los personajes. En caso de que alguien necesite algo de tiempo extra, se puede poner en contacto con nosotros.

Tendréis que poner el nombre del PB, un nick de registro y una contraseña para que, el día de la apertura, nadie intente colarse. Quedaría de la siguiente forma:

PB — Nick — Contraseña

NPCS & RESERVAS

Aaron Taylor-Johnson — Crow

Alina Olesheva — Dragon

Álvaro Morte [NPC]

Alycia Debnam-Carey — Day

Ana de Armas — Xandro

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey — Bonny

Aubrey Plaza — whats

Bethany Joy Lenz [NPC]

Brian Tee [NPC]

Casey Deidrick — bukowski

Charleen Weiss — G.

Choi Soo Bin— Panic

Choi Yeon Jun — Badblood

Deborah Ann Woll [NPC]

D.J. Cotrona [NPC]

Ed Skrein [NPC]

Eiza González — Poppy

Ella Purnel — Mercy

Eva Mendes [NPC]

Havana Rose Liu — Snoopy

Hero Fiennes Tiffin — Serra

Hiroyuki Sanada [NPC]

Jeffrey Wright [NPC]

Jensen Ackles — Hombre Lavadora

Jeon Won Woo — Melinoe

John David Washington — bulldog

Kang Seul Gi — akugetsu

Ken Watanabe [NPC]

Kim Min Gyu — yoshida

Lily James — JED

Lizeth Selene — Boo

Maggie Q [NPC]

Mahershala Ali [NPC]

Manny Jacinto — Snoopy

Matthew Noszka — muricano

Michael B. Jordan — Air

Minatozaki Sana — shintani

Ming na Wen [NPC]

Nana Komatsu — Fool

Natasha Liu Bordizzo — Grimmjow

Oscar Isaac — Atom

Rebecca Ferguson — whats

Rosemund Pike [NPC]

Ryan Porter — bukowski

Sarah Rafferty — Dory

Shen Quan Rui (Ricky) — Ian

Steve Milatos — Crow

Suki Waterhouse — Mercy

Theo James — Drama

Tony Thornburg — Grimmjow

Vachirawit Chiva-aree (Bright) — Astro

Will Higginson — Leucocito

Yulef Bopp — Ploff

Zoey Deutch — Xandro

[boldlyvoid]

Candytuft with Steve from the flower language prompt? Pretty please and thank you! Xoxo

candytuft (indifference) — “i said that i didn’t care, but i lied.”

Steve never considered that his words, no matter how little they mean, all have consequences. when he said he didn't care, if he waved her off and ignored her, he really, truly believed that it would make him seem irresistible. that she'd be intrigued by him and she'd try and figure out what he liked in order to keep talking to him. he liked the chase, he wanted the attention... he just didn't want to ask. he didn't want to come off as needy or weak.

he ended up playing it so cool that he came off frigid. cold. unapproachable. it turned her away, she was quiet around him and she stood on the other side of the room and she didn't ask questions, she avoided his eye contact and acted small around him. when he said he didn't care she heard it as "you're not important" and she took it to heart. cause why did he listen to everyone else? why did he try so hard with Dustin and Robin-- and Nancy for crying out loud! but he didn't give a damn about her? it hurt.

he fucked up.

and he knew it.

"Can we talk?" steve asks, hand on her shoulder, tentatively, he leads her towards the empty kitchen. "are you okay?"

she nods, pretending, "yeah... why?"

"you don't talk to me anymore?"

"why would I want to?" she gets defensive, crossing her arms and taking a step back. "the last time we talked, seriously talked, the world was ending and after that, you stopped caring. you tuned me out when I talked and you actually told me you didn't care. so why would I keep trying?"

"I said that I didn't care but I lied," he rushes out, his heart in his stomach, he feels like he could be sick. "I... I thought maybe it would drive you wild I know--

"Steve," she tilts her head to the side and looks at him with the utmost concern. "you can't be serious?"

"my dad said--

"you can't take His advice?" she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "he's the worst husband, ask your mom... you don't want to be like him so why are you still listening to that shit?"

he shrugs, "my moms still with him..."

"Yeah cause Deborah Harrington is a good name to have and divorce is expensive," she reminds him. "you and I both know she deserves better... I deserve better."

he nods, "you do. you really do. I'm really sorry."

"prove it," she smirks, coming up with an idea already. "you can take me out on a date and you can ask me questions and we can have a real conversation again and you can woo me the right way."

"okay," he smiles back, blushing a little. "are you free tomorrow?"

"hmm, I don't know?" she teases him, taking a step back into his space and pinching at his cheek. "I clock out at 5... you can come pick me up at 6:30?"

"sounds good," he places his hand on her shoulder and soothes his hand along her shirt sleeve, down to her elbow. he caresses her with his thumb, "I missed you..."

she melts a bit as she stares into his eyes, "i missed you too, dummy."

[sairic-pyre]

[Sunmoore walked them home through the sunset, the sky a beautiful pink-purple. The way he held himself high was quite the difference from the sheepish and tightly held way he walked to the date. He got there, smiling at Sairic to go in first.. They had the keys.]

[they unlocked the door, only to be met by a cowering Deborah who was perched on top of the bookshelf]

What are you-

[the "woo yeah baby" gif appeared momentarily, scaring the living FUCK out of sairic.]

[of course, it disappeared afterward. What the fuck?]

[purpleplaid17]

Jess Watches // Mon 13 May // Day 229 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Dark Matter (with B) 1x02 Trip of a Lifetime

Jason wakes to a life that makes no sense - he doesn't have a family and he's created something extraordinary.

After watching this ep we talked about what our other selves could be up to if we'd made different life choices or if our parents had. It throws up an interesting thought exercise that we got very absorbed in. Also, gutted we didn't get to keep 2 Jennifer Connellys. :(

Hacks 3x03 The Roast Of Deborah Vance

After learning there's a Late Night vacancy, Deborah makes sure everything -- and everyone -- is operating at its finest for her roast.

I hate roasts for being mean-spirited. (What a cunt.) But if it means I get to hear Jean Smart laugh so joyously then it's worth it. And DJ's speech was very quotable (What a cunt.) but the superior and heartwrenching scenes were after the NA meeting, when DJ had that it out with Deborah (What a cunt.) and after the roast with the moment of clarity about Deborah's addiction. (What a cunt.) Also, JPL, please give Kiki a spin off with the other PTA mums.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo Ep 2 The Wedding Dress That Slipped Off

The father of a bride sues a hotel for a wedding that ended in a humiliating disaster. Lee Jun Ho asks Young Woo to share her whale facts over lunch.

YoungWoo: [ I know what you are. ] *Client withdraws from the trial so she can be with the woman she loves.* YoungWoo (and team):

[surferofrowdybliss]

©Deborah Coulter 2024

College for week of March 31...Visual Play turns 11 today!! Woo Hoo!!!

Thanks for following Visual Play now entering its twelfth year.

 Next week it will be a year since my brother Rich passed away after his long journey being a peaceful ☮️ warrior living with brain cancer. Rich was one of my biggest fans in cheering be on when I chose the life of an artist at young age despite others concerns. Over the years he would send me articles he had read about different artists, their process or anything doing with the creative life. When I decided to start this blog back in 2013, Rich thought it was a hoot since he knew how little experience I had with social media. Rich was thrilled I was willing to take a risk and explore expanding the channels to share my love and passion for making collages with a larger audience than just having shows. He loved my weekly commitment and process of visually playing while letting my imagination to show me the way.

Today my heart is full of deep sadness that I will not hear Rich's voice on the other end of the phone or see him to celebrate with me yet I know he is beaming bright out among the stars 💫 happy that with scissors and glue in hand I continue being a surfer of rowdy bliss!!

May infinite love and peace flow…

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Bora! Deborah / True to Love (2023)

This show brought me alot of joy. Everytime a new episode dropped, I ended up smiling like a kid at Christmas. It also made some interesting choices when it came to romantic relationships that I was not a fan of...

What Worked

Show was funny, and comedy is hard! There were times when they made it look easy, and (ironically) that's when you know everyone probably worked their butts off behind the scenes to make it happen. I especially liked the choices they made in the way it was shot and just the overall comic timing by the actors. Just some fun performances.

The writers knew how to play well with romantic tropes. We had everything from an over the top makjang love quadrilateral, to a hate-to-love, to a workplace romance, to fake dating, and eventually a friends-to-lovers arc, all in one series. And they mostly worked well. Because the cast and the directors knew when to play it straight and when to be funny.

What Didn't Work

The writing was not the strongest part of the show. There were some funny jokes, but most of the humor was from the way it was shot and the way the actors played it. From discussion online, alot of people had a problem because they went into it expecting a rom-com and they ended up with a sitcom that had a strong romantic plotline. Knowing that going in, might have helped.

There were two big plotlines that bothered me. The first was the romantic arc between the CEO (Han Sang-jin) and the office assistant (Bang Woo-ri). The writers did what they could to make it seem less ick, but they would have been better off doing anything else. It didn't bother me tons, but it just felt like a wasted plotline.

I was also bothered by the story with the best friend (Lee Yoo-jeong) and her husband. The characters themselves were okay, and the actors were good, but it felt like a recycled B-plot from a bad American sitcom.

There were alot of other little issues (especially with the "noble idiot" thing they had Lee Soo-hyuk doing in the last two episodes—just tell her how you feel maaan!), but no show is perfect and the good far outweighed the bad for me.

The Performances

Yoo In-na as "relationship expert" Yeon Bo-ra. The smartest thing the showrunners did was casting her as the lead. I hadn't seen her onscreen before (Guardian: The Great and Lonely God is still waiting for me), and I was completely charmed. Even when the character was doing something completely ridiculous and cringey, I still enjoyed watching her going through it. And as someone who suffers from alot of second-hand embarrassment, this is no small feat.

Yoon Hyun-min as "grumpy editor" Lee Soo-hyuk. This actor spent most of the show playing the grumpy straight man to all the antics going on around him, so when he had a moment of genuine comedy (or sadness), it hit extra hard. He had great chemistry with Yoo In-na and was fun to watch as well.

Joo Sang-wook as "clueless CEO" Han Sang-jin. I really liked the dynamic between him and Yoon Hyun-min. Whenever they had a scene together it was just great. His romantic arcs were mixed. I liked what they did with his character and the ex-wife. I did not like the office romance thing they tried to do (though that was more on the writers).

Hwang Chan-sung (aka Chansung) as "dirty cheater" Noh Joo-wan. The actor did a good job making this guy seem pathetic and hate-able. Maybe they did too good a job as it was almost hard to believe that Bo-ra would be stuck on this character the way that she was. They make sense of it, mostly, but the main reason why it's believable is that (sadly) there are too many guys like that out there in real life.

Park So-jin as "the bestie" Lee Yoo-jeong. I really enjoyed her performance, in spite of the terrible story arc the writers gave her. The scenes with more than just her character and Yang Jin-woo were generally good. The writers (unfortunately) turned her into this "too clingy" wife in the background and sometimes that was funny or touching, but often it was annoying.

Kim Ye-ji as "little sis" Yeon Bo-mi. Her arc in the first half of the show was great. I loved the few scenes she had with Lee Soo-hyuk as well. I think the romantic arc she had was mostly very sweet, but not that interesting. It ended up in a decent place, but it just felt off at the start.

Koo Jun-hoe as "total himbo" Yang Jin-ho. The writers made some questionable choices with how they setup the romance between his character and Bo-mi, but his performance kept it from being too weird (at least from an audience point of view). He was a pure cinnamon roll and watching him being bounced around by all of these grumpy jaded people was funny and great to watch. I liked the middle and end-points of the romance arc, but I mostly just enjoyed watching him for his reactions to everything else going on.

Lee Sang-woon as "sitcom husband" Yang Jin-woo. I think the actor did okay with what he was given. He did great when playing off the other characters, but the entire story with his wife was just off and not that interesting to watch. There was some good comedy in there, but the writers needed to do more than recycle old sitcoms to make this caricature into a relatable person.

Song Min-ji as "girl boss" Seo Su-jin. I liked what they did with her character. Both the story with her ex-husband, and just the way she interacted with the rest of the cast was just great. I would gladly watch a spin-off show with her as the lead, though I don't know if this particular show needed more of her than we got.

Hong Hwa-yeon as "office assistant" Bang Woo-ri. There were moments when I found the character very relatable, and some of that was on the quiet performance she gave. But I don't like the story the writers gave her.

Kim Ji-an as "the clingly ex" Lim Yu-ri. I mostly liked the way this character was portrayed, I just felt like the writers didn't quite know what to do to make her seem like a real person. Mostly, she was just there to cause drama, and that's okay, but not ideal.

Everyone else. There were some good character actors in there and they didn't let the minor characters down as much as lesser shows do. I especially liked the moments with the office workers getting the best of the clueless CEO.

TL; DR:

This show was funny and charming and I will undoubtedly rewatch it at some point. The OTP was fun and tropey and the humor really worked for me. Not everyone will like the show, but those that do, will like it alot.

[damelucyjo]

Okay, here we go!

Episode 2 - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea

Oh, I'm digging this remix!

Keeley's office is so cute

Keeley & Ted really are the same person, aren't they 🥰

I have a feeling I'm going to love Barbara

TED!!! That was very enthusiastic, even for this lot 😂

I'm glad we're gonna get more Trent this season

OMG, their collective 'no' for him to just agree. Hilarious

How can he honestly still be so clueless about the Football world? 🫣

"The fumes make me dizzy and I overshare. Please don't print that" Rebecca, you are so real 😂

Rebecca instantly changing her mind once West Ham is mentioned and Trent fully seeing it.... hmm... 👀

Zava dabba doo! OMG, control yourself, woman! 😂

The exact same thing switched between Ted & Rebecca? Brilliant move. And her admitting to it being because of Rupert? Yes!!

'Love that' spoken like a man who knows about shitty exes

Ted & Keeley bonding! I've missed it

Isaac scaring Keeley, amazing. Him wanting a shoe deal but just for shoes, amazing. He's moved on from his Rolos!!

Jamie stuttering around Keeley, boy's still got it bad, huh?

Of course Isaac is a body language boy!

CLENCHED ARSE!! OMG 😂

'I use body science' oh Jamie

That pitiful hum. I love you Jamie!

'It's called empathy, you dusty old fart' I think Roy & Jamie are my favourite pairing in this show, after Ted & Rebecca, of course

'I forget how skittish elderly people could be cause of the war' please never change!!

“And don’t you say a fucking word about it either, William” OMG poor Will! 😂

Oooo he's reading a book. Beard, I'm as shocked as you

Beard's screams!!

He's saying football without thinking... he's learning!!

This banter about wishes is just Brendan & Jason doing what they do best. I love to see it

'I just wished for that 30 seconds ago' Dani, please never change 🥰

This confusion about what is going on is my type of comedy

The boys being collectively upset about Roy & Keeley, so true.

And Beard's scream, Ted fainting... I love my boys

The collective 'aww' Poor Roy haha

'What's a CD?' HOW OLD ARE YOU, WILLIAM?! My god 🫠

Of course Beard has a set of keys to Ted's

How many times did they have to film Brendan running back in screaming before they could do it without laughing?? I can't not laugh watching it!

Roy boy is so angry, bless him

I see you Phil, trying your best not to completely crack up in the background 🤪

'Woo! I mean, fuck off, Trent Crimm' we must protect Dani at all costs

Is this us being shown that more people don't trust or believe in Keeley yet? 🤔

She's so precious, still not understanding why people would be proud of her 🥰

DEBORAH!!

Of course Deb doesn't camp. Who do you think she is?!

Ooo, Tish talk 👀

Nothing like being overly sarcastic with your mother. It's my favourite thing to do!

Her own mother telling her she should meet with her psychic because she's in desperate need of maternal guidance? Please never change, Deb! 🫡

This show is so good at the callbacks, Rebecca mentioning something about Rupert that she knows so well which we get to hear about later... more shows need to be like this!

Hannah & Jeremy together are just gorgeous! 'No, it's too late. Jinxed it' I could watch these two banter for hours

Everyone ignoring him, poor Trent 😕

Brett has been amazing in this episode, as with all the others, but a full scene where he doesn't say anything, but you understand everything... ALL THE AWARDS! The balloon popping is the icing on this scene

Babs is showing Keeley exactly what she thinks of her without saying it, that's cruel. Leave her alone!

I can see this relationship becoming something wonderful though

Believe, believe, believe. It's almost like that's what this show is about or something...

Mae & the bar boys are back! 🥳

Is that text foreshadowing that hiring her friend may not work out??? 🤔

I'm with Hannah, I could watch an entire show of just these three at games

'Jinxed it again' Hannah & Jeremy, again, marvellous!

The stadium being behind Roy may have made me tear up a little, not gonna lie 🥹

Rebecca grabbing Keeley's hand 🥹

Lip-reading massage therapists

SHE USED TO BE A BARTENDER! 👀

AND HE WAS MARRIED WHEN THEY GOT TOGETHER!!! 👀👀

I love backstories!!

Ted telling Roy like it is and him not blowing up at him?? Love to see it

Also perfect explanation of what a Hallmark movie is 🫡

Roy still being angry because of something written when he was 17? So real.

The boys being relieved they can talk again 😂

Them also not needing Ted to give them their pep talks at games anymore cause they're working it out themselves...I see what's happening... 🤔

Go on Rebeca! Be a boss bitch!!

I will say this everytime we see Rupert, but I fucking love Anthony Head 😍

I can never take my eyes off the screen when Hannah & Tony are on it

HANNAH'S FACE!! Truly a masterclass in showing everything without words

YESS! CHEW HIM OUT, REBECCA!!! We love an angry woman!!

Off Dani's fucking face! 'My face scored a goal' 😂

A sour-yell. Perfect

Her popping back round the corner, Hannah you comedy queen

Twat - Ooo, I do love an angry Rupert 😏

'May I keep the pen' I think I'm gonna like this Zava

Another Beard yell, I'm in love 🥰

Zava and Jamie are gonna clash big time. I'm excited

Jane still finds them threatening 👀👀

Roy's whole speech being basically a parallel for what they're setting up to be Ted's journey this season... interesting 🤔

That's another one done! This was one of my favourites, I think. Got back to the humour of the show a bit more.

[ishangshangshang]

BORA! DEBORAH

8.7/10

Korean

Romantic Comedy

Super light-hearted drama. This is the type of drama that is very easy to watch and if youre feeling down or heavy, it can help you feel better. The plot is not new but now executed like other cliché series. The different troopes give you views in each stages of relationship. My fave is about the marriage life of Lee Yoo-jeong and Yang Jin-woo.

I learned a lot about romantic aspects in this series. There's always a 2 sides of the coin, people in a relationship doesn't share everything with each other. The other half tends to keep something to their partner thinking it is for the betterment. Yet, sometimes it leads to unnecessary miscommunication. It made me realize that being open and letting them know that your are open to discuss any problems without judging them first will be a game changer.

Another one is giving extra time, gifts, and affection is very important. Even just a single gesture is actually enough and letting them know you love them from time to time matters, and that applies to both parties, in a boat you need to paddle on both sides to keep balance.

This series made me realize that I'm always very cautious with my heart all my life that it made me cry during the ending coz want to fall in love carelessly and ridiculously. I realize that wanted to do cringey things too. That I regretted letting few people passed in my life without giving them a chance and up until now my coward when it comes to my true feelings. I need to be honest with myself someday 😔💨

[kai-zenkira]

For craackships,hehe,you dont know but I have a favourite for this so step aside and let me show you my crackships. Aka my favourite male lead(therdeo lapileon() being a wife to good/bad characters. Okay,here you go

Kosair from RE x my beloved therdeo lapileon from my in laws are obsessed with me[based it because in that au kosair would neglect therdeo because kosair is too busy worrying of his little sister and hates the slave rashta while therdeo behind the scenes help rashta survive in high society and at the same time,caring for his sons. The sons are rupert from your majesty,please don't kill me and dion from how to protect the heroines older brother)

2. Dekis solon from your throne x therdeo lapileon (dekis would be caring for the man and planning an assassination to his enemies while therdeo helps his husband and cautiously looking after his own children. The children are karen from resetting lady9her hair is red due to the cursed blood),deborah from isn't it better to be a wicked villainess,Sebastian from black butler and luo binghe)

3. Rezef from the villainess is a marionette x therdeo lapileon( rezef would be possessive of therdeo since both of them are alike and wanting to keep therdeos blood curse from the public while therdeo is only holding the state affairs and just be a bird of a cage to his rezef. The children are elena from shadow queen and sung jin woo from solo leveling)

okay,what do you think of my crackships. Pretting interesting huh.

1.Not you shipping my GOAT (Therdeo) with that fraud (Kosair) [not Rashta catching strays]. I see your Kosair×Therdeo and I raise you Mckenna x Phineas

2.I vibe with it. Dekis assassinating the people spreading Lapileon blood while Therdeo is none the wiser,Therdeo thinks he is helping take down Solon enemies but little does he know. Celphius with youger (older?) siblings. <Dekis x Therdeo x Dekis's wife (hc her names Clarisse) cause he loves his wife and his husband>

3.Therdeo not wanting to leave his house in fear of his family secret getting out would make Rezef so happy.They are so toxic Yaoi but they are happy.

Celphi hates Rezef although Rezef send him to the school where Edel attends and this two are friends.