#diarmaid

[dotmander]

finally posting these: all my (current) characters, lovingly and painstakingly drawn as chibis

[wolfhalledits-archive]

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in WOLF HALL (2015)

"I hazard that when Cromwell’s household heard of his arrest in June 1540, they began a systematic process of destroying the out - tray of his principal archive, much aided by the fact that two of his own officers were left in charge of it for least another year. Their hope would have been to save their master from destruction, for a man is much more easily convicted by his own writings than by the letters he has received. The royal confiscation team would not initially have noticed the character of the huge quantities of papers deferentially presented for their inspection when they arrived at the door. 2 It was a good try, although it did not succeed. The result is that amid the torrent of paperwork through which the conscientious biographer wades to recapture what is left of Thomas Cromwell, the man’s own voice is largely missing. We hear more of it out of Lord Lisle’s papers than in Cromwell’s own. Hilary Mantel has sensitively captured this quality in Thomas Cromwell’s archive in her novels: her Cromwell is pre - eminently an observer, even of himself, not ‘I’ but ‘he’." — MacCulloch, D. (2018). Thomas Cromwell: a life. Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London]

[samheughanupdates]

diarmaidmurtagh Wednesday was Wheelsday - @samheughan thanks a million for letting me ride that beautiful Harley brother! Nice little local jaunt this time but lookin forward to really getting out there into the beyond bud! 🏍️ 🛣️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[chuffineckjames]

WW2 pilot time travels😉

[jamesfrain]

Thomas Wolsey in 1529 to Cromwell: “My own entirely beloved Cromwell”

This is how I think I'm writing when I send a message to a Tumblr friend. “My own entirely beloved mutual”

The note is in the book "Thomas Cromwell: A Life."

[p-redux]

Not a question but more of an info...

Sam is in Scotland and has most likely visited a friend who he has traveled home with him

https://www.instagram.com/diarmaidmurtagh?igsh=MTNoOHNxZHFvMWgzdQ==

Hi Anon, thanks for the info. It looks like Diarmaid Murtagh, the actor who plays Buck Mackenzie on Outlander, traveled to Scotland for work. He posted this on July 18 👇

And then today, Diarmaid posted he and Sam Heughan went riding MIDWEEK...Wednesday 👇

The story he posted today can be confusing because he mentions the weekend, but it's only in reference to the music played in the video setting the mood for your weekend "let this tune kickstart your weekend folks." 👇

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So, they guys spent mid week riding together. And Diarmaid posted this weekend, but I don't take that to mean they're still together this weekend. Today is Friday, not Wednesday.

There's different possibilities of where Sam could be. Some say he could be hanging with Hayden Sylte at St. Andrews Golf Open. Others say he could be with his mom at an art thing in Edinburgh--his mom opened a new art studio.

We shall see where he is seen this weekend...

[historyartthings]

Absolutely loving, adoring, Le*nda de L*sle’s review of MacCulloch’s work...

My thoughts, feelings, opinions I’ve put below. It gets very long because I cannae haud me wheesht

I don’t know why she’s obsessed with the idea that he mustn’t have loved his wife. ‘the supposedly grieving widower’? I don’t think the arrangement of a marriage for a king - which Henry obviously agreed to - is a sufficient way to judge what Thomas’s relationship with his wife was like. The (foreign and domestic) political, religious and dynastic factors at play there can’t be ignored in favour of extrapolating that he didn’t understand marrying for love. The “happy marriage” in quotation marks😭 have got to laugh. her condescending cynicism is based on nothing tangible, as far as I can work out. She shades MacCulloch as well through the, ‘he believes that although the evidence is sparse, Cromwell was indeed a grieving widower'…. Ngl I would argue it’s not a particularly strained logical leap to assume he might’ve been upset.

We know barely anything about their relationship. Mostly what can be concretely said is he, unusually, never remarried - we’ll obviously never know the reason(s) for that, but still. There was seemingly one notable relationship outside of it, which we only know of because it resulted in an illegitimate daughter, a wee while after his wife passed away. But even that isn’t for 100% certain. He also atypically didn’t have a mistress. There’s also exactly one (1) extant letter from him to his wife, which is pleasant enough, but not much revealing - he asks her for news of home and sends her a deer. she didnt live long enough so as to have any external remarks on their marriage once he entered court spheres. Essentially it’s impossible to draw anything more than speculative conclusions, but based on what can be tentatively extrapolated from his actions, it seems more likely he grieved for his wife than didn’t imo. And also just considering natural, human emotion??

(Even if you want to suggest they didn’t marry for love in the beginning - and/or weren’t in love by the end - they were married for what? Roughly a decade and a half? With no signs of estrangement, and friendly correspondence in letters to Cromwell asking him to pass on their regards to his wife. So even if it was simply an amicable relationship, on a basic level being with someone in such close proximity, for that long, and losing them is probably going to be upsetting?)

On a tangential note, as MacCulloch does point out, the valentine to Mary mentioned here wasn’t at all romantic - it’s misleading to present that, as she does, as an attempt for he himself to marry into royalty. Or more charitably, I think she misremembered the context for it from the book

I’d also question de Lisle’s point about the executions. Personally I don’t think it suggests a greater misogyny than any of his contemporaries? Imo it’s indicative of the broader pattern of a brutal, violent ruthlessness towards those he saw as any enemy, in his way, and/or as going against the crown/policy etc. As opposed to any particular or especial hatred towards women. This isn't meant as an excuse for those actions in any way, because they're - quite obviously - horrific. I just question the rationale behind such a judgement of even-worse-than-usual-for-the-time-misogyny based upon it. Such brutality wasn't isolated to women, men were treated just as abominably. She talks of their humiliation to evidence her point, but again, men were faced with the same. (Ask Richard Whiting who got dragged up Glastonbury Tor at nearly 80, whose case involved, 'to be tryed [presumably for treason] at Glaston and also executyd there' from cromwell's remembrances; or John Forrest, who was strung up in chains, which is a humiliating - to use her term - prolonged death in itself, but was also supposedly burnt using kindling made from a statue of a saint - oh how clever of you!). We don’t (afaik) have letters or remarks which reflect cromwell’s views on women in the same way as for Norfolk, for example. it's just a bizarre extrapolation to me. again, imo it's an incredibly dark, ruthless streak through his personality. it seems to have been his standard handling of any major execution. Also, to be clear, I’m not suggesting he wasn’t sexist/misogynistic, because ofc he was. All men back then were, as a symptom of living and socilisation in such a patriarchal society.

(also interesting for her to pair this suggestion w/ her thoughts about his marriage come to think of it. she seems to be linking the two in a broader picture, I assume wherein this should be added to the ‘evidence’ he didn’t/couldnt have loved his wife)

also the contrast of his physical looks in the Holbein, against his 'becoming' a 'convivial figure' in MacCulloch's work, is disappointing. not reading personalities from portraits, nor ascribing negative character traits to appearances and/or weight (implicitly or otherwise) shouldn't be a big ask, but apparently is. It'd be a wee bit different if she’d pointed to his expression - I still think that’s an unsound way to go about things fwiw - which at least isn’t intrinsically linked to his features, but alas no.

Lastly, re: MacCulloch’s arguments, i would say he’s more impartial than she implies. He might be Anglican, but I wouldn’t say he’s ‘on the Protestant side’ particularly. I struggle to see how his presentation of Catholics - from what i remember, altho it’s been a while since i've read it - is less than fair? He directly praises more and fisher iirc. but someone with a better knowledge of the book could correct me on this point.

also, positioning that he's on the 'protestant side', alongside the next line being about his argument that cromwell was grieving, is an interesting choice. is the suggestion that if you agree with the latter your sympathies must lie with "protestantism"? that it's only through a biased lens you could reach that conclusion? sksjksjk diabolical suggestion that that's the only reason anyone might consider he mourned his wife. like am i going insane or is it genuinely what she's saying??… i cant see why she'd juxtapose those specific points otherwise. Like critiquing mantel's comments about catholics and their presentation in wolf hall is fair enough, but connecting that with the fact she wrote cromwell as 'heartbroken' and that he loved his wife, comes across to me as though she's suggesting the former should invalidate mantel's interpretation of the latter. which again i dont think is fair based on the evidence we do have..

I would also question (because it is confusing to me) despite the fact that MacCulloch and Mantel were friends, why the “”””””happy marriage”””””” across both works is the way in here??? like why are you so bothered as to both lead and finish the article with that?

(And, frankly, MacCulloch paints a picture of a happier marriage - he writes that the simplest explanation is, ‘he couldn’t bear to marry anyone else’ - than Mantel does. Who presents their relationship as literally (as in, textually), ‘loves’ but not ‘in love’. and has him actively wanting to remarry. she had a line in TMATL that goes he was ‘mostly faithful’ which? I’m not sure if she meant to imply infidelity but… altho she did present a picture of him missing her i guess)

[dotmander]

hi i have. Many. here:

caomh

diarmaid

saraid (and a couple taliesin)

jack

hi friends if you have playlists for your characters PLEASSSEEE share them with me! doenst matter if they're just based on vibes or hyperspecific or unfinished or they only have 2 songs or 200.

i really want some new music and also want to see what kinda songs you assign your blorbos!!

[levithestripper]

VIKINGS— 01x08 “Sacrifice” for @grantairescurls

[fideidefenswhore]

did cromwell have an illegitimate daughter like wolf hall says?

yes (although, no suggestion that she was from antwerp);

"It might have been in these times of desperate uncertainty, with his wife and daughters dead and his future thrust back into this own hands, that Thomas Cromwell fathered an illegitimate daughter, Jane. Back-projecting [through her granddaughter and marriage] suggests [...] Jane's birth [was at] the beginning of the 1530s. The one glimpse of her in the Cromwell milieu is in 1539, by which time she was in the household of her half-brother Gregory, now himself a married man: Lord Cromwell paid Gregory's wife Lady Ughtred [a] very considerable sum [...] for 'apparel for mistress Jane'. It is to his credit that Jane had any place in the Cromwell circle at all; not all such children had such consideration. [...] Heralds were less [than] tight-lipped about Jane Hough, [recording her as] '[the] base daughter of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex.'" MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cromwell a Revolutionary Life. Penguin Books, 2019.

[dotmander]

hopping on the trend

images in order from left to right:

[dotmander]

lukas & werevari:

slides in for the ask game: lukas & werevari OR diarmaid, and yvette&sieran :)

WAAAAH

lukas @ werevari: (handshakes) werewolves. dog lukas is picking wolfvari up by the scruff while werevari goes :D probably has to keep werevari out of trouble. bc they're very dumb god bless

lukas @ diarmaid: besties!!!!!!! he will say absolutely nothing to her but perches on the roof of her sick goth tower to watch birds or paint. thinks she's neat and loves her stained glass works!!! if she tries to say things to him he just (autism creature stares) at her

yvette @ sieran: AUGH many feelings. yvette mentored her as a novice in the priory. she was the most brilliant--and eccentric--sapling they had ever taught, and her sacrifice at claw island devastated them-- especially since they were there at the time of her heroic last stand. yvette was in love with her, but never confessed for a multitude of reasons, and they buried her in lornar pass, close to the priory. close to home.

[samheughanupdates]

diarmaidmurtagh Leisurely mid week ride with my moto bro @samheughan - roll on the next one fella! 🤘🏍️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Episode**

Outlander (2014)

Season 7, Episode 7: “A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers” (2023) Director: Joss Agnew Cinematographer: Nic Lawson

[cinemaocd]

Thomas Cromwell: A Fresh Look, Lecture by Diarmaid MacCulloch for the Berwick Literary Festival