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[qqueenofhades]

garciaflynnanimal replied to your post “hacash: obviously during these trying times we’re all secretly...”

@qqueenofhades So I’m Philip Capet. No clue who that is. Goddammit Jim, I’m a scientist, not an historian! But I sound cool. I had sex with Richard and caused a lot of drama. Good for me.

LMAOOOOO.

This is Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223), often known as “Philip Augustus” (originally since he was born in August, but by the end of his reign, it was likewise viewed as an imperial honorific). He was the son of Louis VII (Eleanor of Aquitaine’s first husband) and his third wife, Adele of Champagne. He was born in 1165 and became king on Louis’s death in 1180, at the age of 15.

Louis himself was notoriously meek, inefficient, prone to military disasters, being bullied and outwitted by those trash Plantagenets (not least since Henry II swooped in and married Eleanor six weeks after her divorce from Louis, proceeded to have a whole passel of sons with her, made the Capets’ life hell at repeated opportunities, bossed Louis around with impunity despite technically being his vassal, etc) and personally pious, and therefore not very good at the whole king thing. Philip changed all that very quickly. He became a formidable player in his own right at an early age, no easy thing to do against the Plantagenets, and made it clear that the kingdom of France could not be trampled on as easily as it often had been before. He quickly allied with each of Henry II’s discontented sons: Henry the Young King and Geoffrey of Brittany at first (he was genuinely good friends with Geoffrey and allegedly had to be stopped from throwing himself into his grave in grief after Geoffrey was killed in a tournament accident in 1186). Philip was shrewd enough to understand that exploiting the long-running tensions in the Plantagenet royal family was a winning political strategy, since Henry had been fighting for decades with his sons (and with Eleanor, who he locked up in 1173; she wasn’t released until Richard became king in 1189). Super great strategy, right? No downsides?

....well, then Richard, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou, turned up in all his glittering red-headed glory in Paris in early 1187, looking for the same political advantages that Philip had bestowed upon his brothers, and everything went Tits Up for, well, the next twelve years solid.

Basically (as I write about in my Queer Richard paper) Philip and Richard fell passionately in love, had a brief and torrid affair, caused all kinds of political hell-raising for the beleaguered Henry II, and then after Richard became king in July 1189, everything went Straight To Hell. They remained completely obsessed with each other for the rest of their respective reigns; they went on crusade together while Richard was still supposed to marry Philip’s half-sister Alys (he married Berengaria of Navarre instead, claiming that Alys had been his father Henry II’s mistress, because really, incestuous does no justice to this whole affair). Philip left shamefully early (in July 1191) while Richard remained on crusade, went back to Europe, and immediately allied with the fourth Plantagenet brother, the future King John, because why mess with success? The two of them caused various mischief in England (Eleanor was tasked with keeping them in check) while Richard was gone. When Richard was captured by the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VI, on his return from crusade, Philip and John vigorously lobbied (ultimately unsuccessfully) to keep him locked up indefinitely. Philip was rumored to have informed John of Richard’s ultimate release with a letter reading, “Look to yourself, the devil is loose.”

After Richard returned to Europe in 1194, he and Philip spent the next five years fighting each other constantly, broken with a series of temporary peace treaties and truces, and finding personal ways to humiliate each other (or frankly, Richard personally humiliating Philip) whenever they possibly could. Richard began building his mighty castle, Chateau Gaillaird, at Les Andelys in Normandy; the sentiment of this translates roughly to “In-your-face Castle.” Philip had repeated bad luck with bridges breaking underneath him during hasty retreats and almost died at least once, much to Richard’s delight. By the year 1198, Richard had won back almost everything that Philip had originally taken and was at the apogee of his power and control; Philip was comprehensively defeated. But then in March/April 1199, Richard was unexpectedly injured and died a week later at a siege of an inconsequent castle in the Limousin, and that changed everything.

Philip’s ex-ally John now became king of England, and they became enemies just like the others. In 1204, Philip famously won Normandy back to the French crown for the first time since it had been given away to Rollo the Viking (founder of the Norman ducal house) in 911. This was a huge accomplishment for a French king (Eleanor also died that year at the ripe old age of 82, leaving John on his flailing lonesome) and helped cement his reputation. The conquest was made permanent at the battle of Bouvines in 1214, as Philip also collected almost all of the existing English possessions in France. (This was a major part of the reason John had to accept Magna Carta forced on him in 1215, and the barons were willing to accept the invasion of Prince Louis, Philip’s eldest son, in an attempt to take the English throne; they hated John That Much.) By the time of Philip’s death in 1223, everything except Gascony, which remained attached to the English kings, had been returned to direct French royal control, and the French monarchy itself had been greatly expanded in power and prestige. So basically, he ended up getting the last laugh, but if Richard hadn’t died so early, who knows what might have happened.

Personally, Philip was cynical, shrewd, very much a fan of realpolitik, and had a penchant for discarding wives on flimsy pretexts. He is said to have made a law as a teenager trying to outlaw the French court from swearing (this did not go well, and Richard was a notoriously colorful and profane curser, so who knows how THAT went). He disliked horses and was not excessively fond of warfare in general, but got quite good at it, and certainly much better than his father Louis. He married three times: Isabelle of Hainaut in 1180, niece of the Flemish count, who he then tried to divorce in 1185 (she died in childbirth in 1190). He then most famously married Ingeborg of Denmark, sister of the Danish king, in 1193, but for inexplicable reasons, publicly repudiated her the next morning and refused to acknowledge her as his wife. This caused him literal decades of arguing with the Pope, who excommmunicated him repeatedly over the whole affair, but Philip stubbornly refused to take her back until 1213 (after his third wife, Agnes of Merania, who he illegally married in 1196 and who died in 1202 after he was forced to set her aside by papal pressure, was long gone). Even then, he probably never lived with her as his wife, and nobody ever figured out what in tarnation Philip had against her in the first place.

Anyway: yes, he was a Noted Nemesis of the Plantagenets, but also loved them (aside from his deep friendship with Geoffrey and torrid affair with Richard, he tried a few times to marry Joanna of Sicily, Richard’s sister and Henry and Eleanor’s youngest daughter, though this would have been an opportune way of forcing peace with Richard), and ended up with the last laugh, since he outlived every single one of them and made France into pretty much the strongest secular power in medieval Western Europe. So, not bad.

[nevada-b-1780]

10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags

Rules: make a new post, and post your fave 10 characters from 10 different fandoms.

I was tagged by @kissedbydragonfire - thanks, I do actually love doing these! 🥰

Garcia Flynn, Timeless

Wash, Firefly

Athena / Sharon Agathon, Battlestar Galactica

Wesley, Angel

Topher Brink, Dollhouse

John Crichton, Farscape

Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis

Sylvia Tilly, Star Trek: Discovery

Abed Nadir, Community

Jaskier, The Witcher

No pressure tagging, only if you want to @tearsforthefallen @stalltherain @even-in-winter @ununpredictableme @garciaflynnanimal @mathgirl24 @celtrose-ish @thealocksly @magnificentcowboypeanutpaper @coldsasschronicles apologies if any of you have already been tagged.

[mathgirl24]

15 for the soft asks 😎💕🥰🥵🥺😈 (sorry not sorry hehehe)

15.   for every emoji you get, tag someone and describe them in one word.

@even-in-winter - PUNK!  (for giving me this ask!  😘)

@kissedbydragonfire - Twin

@ununpredictableme - Giving

@celtrose-ish - Thirsty

@garciaflynnanimal - Hilarious

@princessamerigocreations - Lovely

[celtrose-ish]

@garciaflynnanimal @kissedbydragonfire @mathgirl24 @ununpredictableme look who came up in the lore Olympus chats

[even-in-winter]

Thanks for the tag @thealocksly !

Rules: Post the last line you wrote (from any WIP) and tag the same number of people as there are words.

“All lost in their own world, none the wiser about what there is to come.”

I honestly don’t know who is tagged and who not, so I’m just gonna tag a few @tearsforthefallen @who-knew-what @garciaflynnanimal @nevada-b-1780

[princessamerigocreations]

Ten pics challenge

Rules: describe yourself using ten pictures you already have. Don’t search or download new ones.

I was tagged by @even-in-winter​ @magnificentcowboypeanutpaper​ and @kissedbydragonfire​ Thank you, thank you!!!

And I tought I could post pics instead of crying, so here it is. And I tag @ununpredictableme​ @mathgirl24​ @sephirayne​ @savegarciaflynn​ @frankiebleu​ @garciaflynnanimal​ @ktanansi​ @kateera​ @x-voyevoda​ and anyone who wants to play:)

[lucifersfavouritesinner]

10 for 10 for 10

Rules: Answer ten questions, come up with ten questions of your own, and tag ten people. I was tagged by the one and only  @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels​, thank you very much for giving me a reason to procrastinate !

1. If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I’d love to go to some many places like United States, Chile, UK it’s hard to choose. And I would like to go to Walmart. Because apparenly there’s everything there, it’s huge, stuff are cheap and all weird stuff happen in Walmart and I want to experience that. 

2. Congrats, you have a Patronus! What animal is it?

Capybara, because they are chill as fuck.

3.  Favorite dessert?

Chocolate cake no filling, no fancy stuff, just plain simple cake

4. If you could dye your hair any color, what color would you pick?

Different shades of blue I want to look like a fairy to amaze small children and to scandalize old people

5. You’re allowed to make one ship of yours canon. Which one?

That’s just rude. Why just one ? They are my children how am I suppose to choose ? Either Garcy or Midge and Lenny I cannot choose.

6.  What’s your favorite method of murder?

Melting bodies in acid. It’s efficient and gets the job done.

7. You can punch any fictional character in the face, who are they?

Kubakis from an amazing fanfiction The Woman written by @stevieharrrr he could also be an example for point 6.

8. What song best describes your personality? That is, if you wanted someone to listen to one song to understand you, what song would it be?

I Miss The Days - NF 

9. You get to know the answer to one unsolved historic mystery. What mystery do you choose?

What sounds the dinosaurs made. I. WANT. TO. KNOW.

10. We all have a weird meal that we eat. Pepperoni-and-mustard panini. Potato chips coated in chocolate. What’s your weird meal?

Well, it’s not a meal, but I can eat whole lemon in one sitting I will bite it like an apple and I will eat it. 

Now, question time.

1. What movie you have watched more than three times ?

2. If you could meet one historic figure who would it be ?

3. If you could listen only to one artist who would it be ?

4. What’s your favourtie book ?

5. If you could be in any TV series what would that be? And what would you do ?

6. Favourite place in your house ?

7. We all had a subject in school that we hated. What was it ?

8. What was the longest book/ fanfiction that you have ever read ?

9. You can have one superpower, but your enemy will also have it. What is it ? 

10.  A song that you listen to when you wanna feel like a bad bitch.

I tag @stevieharrrr @garciaflynnanimal @kissedbydragonfire you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to. 

[mathgirl24]

Thirsty sisters, this is for us!!  @celtrose-ish​ @kissedbydragonfire​ @ununpredictableme​, @garciaflynnanimal​

Baby Yoda sipping Soda ✨

[qqueenofhades]

Ada Lovelace :)

who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite | SCIENCE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING AND ALSO NOW FAERIE, YOU GO ADA

[put a fictional character in my ask]

[nevada-b-1780]

Thanks for the tag @kissedbydragonfire!

Your name + Fantasy Dress

Your name + Fantasy Crown

Your name + Fantasy Weapon

I love and adore the corset dress and I think the crown and knife match it quite well, but I was hoping for a sword! 😭 That knife does look a bit delicate and lightweight, hopefully it's enchanted or it wouldn't last 5 minutes in my hands! 🤣

I'm tagging @stalltherain @celtrose-ish and @garciaflynnanimal, only if you want to of course 🙂

[mathgirl24]

List 10 different female faves from different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

Thank you for the tag, @even-in-winter​!!!!

1.  Elizabeth Weir, Stargate Atlantis

2.  Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

3.  Regina Mills, Once Upon a Time

4.  River Song, Doctor Who

5.  Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek Voyager

6.  Lucy Preston, Timeless

7.  Dorothy Zbornak & Sophia Petrillo (can’t choose), Golden Girls

8.  Leia Organa, Star Wars

9.  Aeryn Sun, Farscape

10.  Anne Elliot, Persuasion

I’ll tag @failegaidin​, @celtrose-ish​, @ununpredictableme​, @princessamerigocreations​, @stalltherain​, @nevada-b-1780​, @magnificentcowboypeanutpaper​, @who-knew-what, @norbertsmom, @garciaflynnanimal

[even-in-winter]

I accept your challenge @kissedbydragonfire

Rules: Spell out your URL using song titles. Then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL.

E - Ex's & Oh's ~ Elle King

V - Verdammt Ich Lieb' dich ~ Matthias Reim

E - Et si tu n'existais pas - Jasper Steverlinck

N - Nobody's Wife ~ Anouk

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I - I Wont Give Up ~ Jason Mraz

N - Night Prayer ~ Jasper Steverlinck

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W - Wake me up ~ Avicii

I - I've No More Fucks To Give ~ Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

N - Nothing Else Matters ~ Metallica

T - Troublemaker ~ Grizfolk

E - Envole-moi ~ M.Pokora

R - Radioactive ~ Imagine dragons

This was NOT easy, but fun nonetheless.

@ununpredictableme @mathgirl24 @magnificentcowboypeanutpaper @princessamerigocreations @thealocksly @celtrose-ish @garciaflynnanimal @who-knew-what @drlucypreston @frankiebleu @battleshipgarcy EVERYONE who wants to parcitipate. I would love to see your answers 😊

As always, no pressure! 😁

[qqueenofhades]

prairiepirate replied to your post “I have to say, I dearly love all of you who are calling 6-chapter,...”

me: /literally unable to comprehend a 6 chapter fic in which Garcia Flynn gets his shit together lol

garciaflynnanimal replied to your post “I have to say, I dearly love all of you who are calling 6-chapter,...”

 By ch 6 Flynn still hasn’t even figured out he’s being an asshole.

RIGHT? RIGHT?!

(God I HATE that we all love this utter human-shaped pile of ABSOLUTE GARBAGE so much. GOD.)

By chapter 6, Flynn is ALWAYS in “full speed garbage reverse directly into the dumpster” mode (he might not even be ALL THE WAY IN THE DUMPSTER YET) and has AT LEAST an additional 6 chapters (we’ll say more like... 8) of tunnelling directly to the center of the earth before he even gets some REMOTE APPROXIMATION OF A CLUE. He looks at a 6-chapter fic with a full romantic arc and Short Circuits.

GOD I HATE HIM.

I HATE HIM SO MUCH.

[mathgirl24]

Shirtless Sunday? 💜

Hmmm...  I know we had a few weeks of Buns and Guns Sunday.  @garciaflynnanimal​ I think is the one who came up with that.  But we haven’t been doing it lately.

I am in no way in charge of this, so what do my thirsty sisters think?

[even-in-winter]

Tag game

Rules: google your gender, eye color, hair type and color, and the word “anime”. the first photo is you

Thanks for the tag @kissedbydragonfire​ and @thealocksly​

She looks kinda grumpy, but it fits me when I have another early morning class hahaha. 

Tagging @nevada-b-1780​ @omnicat​  @celtrose-ish​ and @garciaflynnanimal​

[mathgirl24]

Favorite Childhood Movies

I love these things so thanks so much for the tag @kissedbydragonfire​!!  This was really hard.  It showed me that I’m more of a TV person than a movie one.

Post ten GIFs of movies you loved as a child, then tag ten people. Optional: Tell us why you love(d) the films you picked.

1. Empire Strikes Back

The drama, the romance!  This came out when I was quite little, and with the invention of the VCR (yup, I’m aging myself here) I ended up watching this a gazillion times.  The Darth Vader reveal....   the Han/Leia ship - my first ship.

2.  Little Mermaid

As a kid I loved the songs.  As a adult, I love the songs.... and Ursula.

3.  Princess Bride

Do I really need to explain this one?

4.  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Funny Star Trek with time travel and illogical plots (how are TWO humpback whales going to repopulate the species?  It’s the Adam and Eve syndrome - their kids would have to mate with their kids on and on)

5.  Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

This was a kid’s fantasy movie, fooling all the adults and getting away with everything.

6.  Aladdin

Robin Williams. Enough said.

7.  Robin Hood (yeah the one with Kevin Costner)

Alan Rickman was a revelation to me in this film.

8.  Sister Act

As a woman growing up Catholic, this hit just the right funny bone.

9.  The Outsiders

I had to read the book in grade school and loved it, so of course I loved this too.

10.  Back to the Future

Tagging @ununpredictableme​ @celtrose-ish​ @garciaflynnanimal​ @even-in-winter​ @who-knew-what​ @princessamerigocreations​ @stalltherain​