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Rank the best and worst costumes from the Tudors

-shania twain voice- let’s go girls.

OKAY so, my opinions may change in the future as I continue to watch the show and get reminded of both good and unforgivable dresses, but here are my initial thoughts. 

Five GOOD Dresses From ‘The Tudors’ (In My Humble Opinion)

White Anne Boleyn Dress: This is par for the course in terms of dresses I like in The Tudors. The closest it has to historically accuracy is a square neckline, but it’s pretty! I enjoy the open sleeves even if they have no place in this era, and all in all I think it’s a cute look. I also think it would have served as a better wedding dress for her than the awful one we see for five seconds during her and Henry’s secret wedding scene. 

Brown Anne Boleyn Gown: This is perhaps the closest we get to historically accuracy in costuming on this show? It’s got the Henrician silouhette, and the colours are sumptuous. Like, yes, it’s brown, but it looks RICH. I absolutely love the sleeves. If they threw a good french hood on her in this scene, this would have been genuinely perfect.

Anne Boleyn’s Yellow For Mourning Dress: I might not be in the majority for being fond of this dress, but I am! Again, love the sleeves. We’ve got something vaguely approaching an historically accurate silhouette, even if that completely gets thrown off by the truly unique frilled headpiece she’s wearing, which... I can’t lie, I have always kind of loved. IN ANY CASE, this dress is the moment. 

Anne of Cleves’ Yellow Dress: Anne of Cleves got some marvellously funky  gowns in this series, and of course her red, Christmas dress is very iconic, but in terms of pure aesthetic, this yellow dress she’s wearing when she learns of her annulment is so pretty. The embroidery is gorgeous! 

Katherine Howard’s Ivory Downfall Dress: I have two pictures for this one just cause it’s kinda hard to get a good shot of it. It DOES actually appear earlier in season 4 when she wears it in a well-lit picnic scene-- and you’re probably wondering why I don’t use one of those pictures instead. WELL, that’s because this is the scene where this dress shines. It’s the “everything is crumbling around me but I’m still wearing the pretty princess dress” dress, which is, personally, my aesthetic. Combine it with the Queen’s Chambers in shambles, flowers wilting all around her, and it’s an iconic visual.  Now for the fun part. The WORST dresses.

Four UNFORGIVABLE Dresses From The Tudors 

Jane Seymour’s Sea Foam Green Monstrosity: I refuse to watch one minute and thirty seconds of advertisements on All4 to get a better shot of this dress (I mean I actually only screenshotted two of the dresses on this list myself, but... still). The sheer audacity of this gown to even exist and make me look at it with my eyes. The scene of Jane getting ready to take the air with Henry while Anne prepares for execution is SO iconic I’m just truly sad that THIS is the dress she was getting into. That is an executable offense. 

Anne Boleyn’s Purple Dress Mess: The best quality google image I could find of this dress is from the bit where that assassin imagines that he’s murdered Anne, which is fitting, because I too would rather be dead than wear this dress.

This Margaret Pole Dress That Really Offends Me For Some Reason: A lot of these dresses, you’ll note, are on the queens. That’s because they’re generally a bit more easy to remember all these years later; but also once upon a time in 2013 some kind soul uploaded a supercut of all the Queen’s scenes in The Tudors (and that is what I would rewatch, rather than the actual show.) Margaret Pole, in this dress, would show up in CoA’s supercut, and I HATED this outfit, every time. Viscerally. I actually just got to this point in the show in my actual rewatch and was reminded how much I hated it. They beheaded her for this outfit. Canon. 

The Sheer Lack Of Clothing On A Few Dozen Unnamed Court Lady Extras, And Occasionally Anne Boleyn, And All Too Frequently, Katherine Howard: I’m gay. And I like dresses. So I don’t watch a period drama hoping to see naked ladies. Not only was the constant female nudity in The Tudor’s objectifying, gratuitous and oftentimes genuinely disrespectful (e.g, Katherine Howard practicing for her own execution... completely naked) it also robbed us of screentime that could have been better spent looking at dresses.

[bforbetterthanyou]

Katherine of Aragon deserves so much better than this trashy show.If they managed to fuck up an amazing woman like Katherine of Aragon ,I don't even want to imagine how much they're gonna mess up Anne Boleyn(They're probably gonna make her a scheming,ruthless temptress or something as offensive).

If it makes you feel any better, Anne probably won’t be a huge character and even if she is, it will only be for like 2-3 episodes. So far she’s basically only been a background character (I mean, if you didn’t know she was supposed to be Anne, you wouldn’t know).

I know the writers aren’t gonna treat her well, but at this point, I don’t really care. Even if they do make her The Worst™️, it’ll probably be so over-the-top and dramatic that it might actually be hilarious.

[lemongogo]

Where did you find the fanbook leaks about Akaza 😭😭😭

searching through the kny tag on twitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=kny&src=typed_query&f=live) !! they’ve been a bit hard to find just bc i think people are mainly sharing through dms, but here are some threads / accounts i found w fanbook leaks 

https://twitter.com/Aethertastic https://twitter.com/transmuzan/status/1356764876350324736 https://twitter.com/GiyuuADay/status/1357229860867903490 (akaza profile)

[bforbetterthanyou]

What's your least favourite portrayal of Anne Boleyn and why?

Well, I have a feeling it’s probably gonna be The Spanish Princess but it’s too early to tell. I actually like her right now, but of course, she’s still just a background character at this point...

I mean, of course I’m gonna have to go with The Other Boleyn Girl for all the obvious reasons: that version portrays her as cold-hearted, scheming, and ruthlessly ambitious willing to step on anyone (including her own sister) to gain power. The only real shred of humanity we ever see from her is in the 2008 movie when she doesn’t go through with the incest and hugs George while crying but I know that even that was a deviation from the books.

Obviously the real Anne was none of those things. I’m not saying she couldn’t be cruel, she certainly had that side of her. But overall she was kind and bubbly and fiercely loyal to her family and friends.

But what really bothers me the most about TOBG, is not so much the characterization itself, but the fact that this version is so popular. So most people read the book or see the movie and just take it at face value. Which is why, even after 500 years, Anne fans and historians are still having to fight to defend her. And it’s a problem that, unfortunately, I don’t think will go away any time soon.

[lemongogo]

Ok i know this is mainly a mha blog but....favourite Shinobu Kochou panel and favourite Akaza/Hakuji panel ?

AA UR ICON OMG........I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

i was gna say thats such a good akaza panel but lies.. they all are. they r all the best..esp given their unique moods..  akaza attacking douma is pretty cool, i love those ,, but i also love the panels where he and koyuki see the fireworks together . or the panel of him crying for his dad :-(

but as far as my Favorite goes, i’m stuck between these two !! 

and 

(even though this one is more of a sequence than a panel)

they both hit rly hard for me :_( i could honestly write essays over each of them if i had the time AHAHAHAH. i like how these moments in particular characterize akaza and his connections to those he loves. its rly special 2 me !!! 

and SHINOBU AAAH these r two of my favorite characters im so stoked. for hers, its definitely the “i’ve always been angry, tanjiro” panel. like its such a heartrending moment imo

i seriously love how the series portrayed her anger and the ways it defined her actions and sense of self. it resonates w me !! in a lot of ways, and so its definitely my favorite shinobu moment, if not one of my fav panels in the whole manga :3

this panel is a close second, for how it follows her conversation with kanae. ooohghhhh its so good and sad and all the things i love wrapped into one . aside from u know. her death :-( . but that adds to the poignancy , i think

i miss kny so much man