#eleanor tag

[hangsawoman]

i literally spread like strawberries what more do you want from a girl

[blackangelism]

Your favourite mutuals and the fictional characters they are!

@demxlxverx - bonnie lisbon

@dollmaxxxing - lisa rowe

@kirkwahmmett - dolores haze

@th3-c0ld-n0v3mb3r-r4in - jules vaughn

ill add more as i think em up

[arelar-under-the-stars]

Eleanor Starlight - they/them - fem-presenting enby - pansexual

The more chatty yet reserved of the Starlights, Eleanor is the pilot and captain of the SS Eclipse, specializes in data management and planning, and works a job ferrying civilians to and from local planets in their ship. They start planning out trips weeks to months in advance, and manage back-up plans for if/when things go awry. Eleanor was born and raised on Koppai. They have a strong amount of Giyan ancestry on one side of their family. They live with their partner, Hazel. They enjoy wearing dresses, skirts, and anything soft and fuzzy. They keep a keychain of broken keys on their spacesuit as a stim toy. Eleanor doesn't emote through facial expression or body language well at all, but makes up for it through charming dialogues. Sometimes they don't process implied danger until it's far too late, but at least when they are aware of danger they can stay calm and focused.

With the 10th anniversary of their wedding coming up in a few months, Eleanor starts planning a long space-cation that should last around 3-4-months. Considering the length of the trip, they plan out a lot of backup strategies (20+) and bulk buy a lot of extra food in case they get stranded somewhere. And yet, even with all of these backup plans, Eleanor didn't exactly account for a child to stowaway in the ship's storage closet, making the food supply go down a lot faster than it should have. Not wanting to shatter Arelar's young dream of sailing through the stars, and also not realizing just how much danger she'd be in if something were to actually go wrong, they don't address the situation or bring it up to Hazel. Unfortunately within the next week or so, fate pulls the Eclipse near a mysterious uncharted planet, and all of a sudden... something goes wrong. It's only now that Eleanor realizes their mistake. Not having time to tell their partner about the child on the ship as it enters the planet's atmosphere, their first course of action is appointing Hazel in charge of stabilizing and trying to land smoothly while they get their helmet on and comfort Arelar as well as they can. A few moments later, the airlock fails and the ship's door swings wide open and the two get caught in the crosswind. Eleanor manages to pull Arelar back into the ship briefly, but loses their grip and flies out, crashing into the ground and getting knocked unconscious on impact.

Upon awakening, Eleanor quickly tries to get their bearings and realizes two things--one, they're being carried by a bunch of strange little plant-like creatures to... somewhere... and secondly--their helmet is cracked and actively leaking. The leak is slow enough that Eleanor is able to stay relatively calm. Soon, the creatures put them down and they turn around to see a strange onion-like vessel. The light it emits downwards is almost captivating... Are the creatures saying to go into the light? It wasn't like Eleanor necessarily had a choice--their helmet was leaking, they had no idea where the SS Eclipse was, and they were likely to die of oxygen over-saturation soon enough... What did they have to lose? So, somewhat reluctantly, they step into the light, feel themself get pulled upwards, and suddenly... all their senses start fading into blackness.

🍃... Suddenly waking with almost no memory, the only thing Ell can think of doing now is... Dandori. That's... planning and working efficiently... they're already pretty good at that. This shouldn't be too hard.

The only remnants they have of themself are... some jangly keys on their suit that they enjoy the sound of... and a photograph in one of their pockets of 2 people in formal attire at some sort of ceremony... But why does the image make them so sad?

[hangsawoman]

[captmuldoon]

Black Sails really tapped into a very specific kind of ghost story where your ghost is not actually you but someone else's perception of you - the person they thought you were and should be. Imagine hating knitting and embrodiery, and you're no good at it, but you do it because you're a governor's wife and people expect you to be at his side, quiet with your head bowed over your needles. You buy a new wardrobe of dresses because your role necessitates it, but you keep your old clothes hidden in your rooms because you can't bear to let go of that part of you yet. And then you die and you come back as a haunting and you're faceless and voiceless, and you're wearing a dress that means nothing to you, and the only sound you can make is that of your knitting needles hitting each other again and again. And this is how the person you love brings you back: a voiceless, faceless thing in the corner.

[zimzimyanna]

Has anyone ever done this before

[formulaonedirection]

Omg happy birthday babe I hope you have the best day you’re so cool and funny and the reason there is any on in my on/off again liking of lando ❤️❤️

HAHAHAHA #landoprop strikes again mwah thank you <333

[eve-be-sleep-deprived]

The Hex Portraits I spent way too much time on, all in one place!

Bonus/More colorful portraits below

[egg-on-a-legg]

girl they wont even let ME snog the helminth...

[stbot]

Eleanor & Williams meet-cute

↳ Black Doves

[notaplaceofhonour]

lesbians breaking all laws known to man or nature to bring their girlfriends back through mad science/dark magic reblog if you agree

[hangsawoman]

no live tumblrina can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

[blackangelism]

your favourite mutuals and their aesthetics!

@kirkwahmmett - amateur american cannibal babygirl

@saintfrancis-ofassisi - saint francis of assisi in a sunset palette

@angelic444heroin - slavic supermodel also known as nicotine

@xxinsanex-x (counts as mutual? idk) - i like to call it "mine"

@multipleheartbreakhotels - cherry red staticy tv set

will add more as i remmeber :3

[mooneater0-0]

I finally got to draw my sillies being domestic, I headcanon that Laura and Eleanor both live with wade and logan

[m3dieval]

A couple blog posts on kink in the medieval era by Dr Eleanor Janega:

This one's mostly about impact play

This one has Lancelot humiliation, Aristotle pony play, etc.

[wonder-worker]

A central element of the myth of [Eleanor of Aquitaine] is that of her exceptionalism. Historians and Eleanor biographers have tended to take literally Richard of Devizes’s conventional panegyric of her as ‘an incomparable woman’ [and] a woman out of her time. […] Amazement at Eleanor’s power and independence is born from a presentism that assumes generally that the Middle Ages were a backward age, and specifically that medieval women were all downtrodden and marginalized. Eleanor’s career can, from such a perspective, only be explained by assuming that she was an exception who rose by sheer force of personality above the restrictions placed upon twelfth-century women.

— Michael R. Evans, Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine

"...The idea of Eleanor’s exceptionalism rests on an assumption that women of her age were powerless. On the contrary, in Western Europe before the twelfth century there were ‘no really effective barriers to the capacity of women to exercise power; they appear as military leaders, judges, castellans, controllers of property’. […] In an important article published in 1992, Jane Martindale sought to locate Eleanor in context, stripping away much of the conjecture that had grown up around her, and returning to primary sources, including her charters. Martindale also demonstrated how Eleanor was not out of the ordinary for a twelfth-century queen either in the extent of her power or in the criticisms levelled against her.

If we look at Eleanor’s predecessors as Anglo-Norman queens of England, we find many examples of women wielding political power. Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conqueror) acted as regent in Normandy during his frequent absences in England following the Conquest, and [the first wife of Henry I, Matilda of Scotland, played some role in governing England during her husband's absences], while during the civil war of Stephen’s reign Matilda of Boulogne led the fight for a time on behalf of her royal husband, who had been captured by the forces of the empress. And if we wish to seek a rebel woman, we need look no further than Juliana, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who attempted to assassinate him with a crossbow, or Adèle of Champagne, the third wife of Louis VII, who ‘[a]t the moment when Henry II held Eleanor of Aquitaine in jail for her revolt … led a revolt with her brothers against her son, Philip II'.

Eleanor is, therefore, less the exception than the rule – albeit an extreme example of that rule. This can be illustrated by comparing her with a twelfth century woman who has attracted less literary and historical attention. Adela of Blois died in 1137, the year of Eleanor’s marriage to Louis VII. […] The chronicle and charter evidence reveals Adela to have ‘legitimately exercised the powers of comital lordship’ in the domains of Blois-Champagne, both in consort with her husband and alone during his absence on crusade and after his death. […] There was, however, nothing atypical about the nature of Adela’s power. In the words of her biographer Kimberley LoPrete, ‘while the extent of Adela’s powers and the political impact of her actions were exceptional for a woman of her day (and indeed for most men), the sources of her powers and the activities she engaged in were not fundamentally different from those of other women of lordly rank’. These words could equally apply to Eleanor; the extent of her power, as heiress to the richest lordship in France, wife of two kings and mother of two or three more, was remarkable, but the nature of her power was not exceptional. Other noble or royal women governed, arranged marriages and alliances, and were patrons of the church. Eleanor represents one end of a continuum, not an isolated outlier."