#i medici netflix

[all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone]

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THEM WHEN THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER LIKE THIS

THE LAST ONE

Look at how happy she is, look at how in love with her he is, with her smile, with her being happy!!! *dies*

[themuselesswriter]

Top, Bottom or Switch - Daniel Sharman

Okay so the other day I was thinking (and you know that's never good) about Daniel Sharman's most famous characters and for some reason I have a theory that lots of his characters are bottoms in bed, so you guys will have to suffer my classification! Lorenzo De Medici This is the only character that I think of as a top. He seems like an expert at what he's doing, he always initiates the sexual interactions and he seems like the type of a guy who would come from a work day and be like "here love, let me take care of you for the rest of the night" and besides, he is kind of a hoe and his vibes are dominant.

Kelly Lord he is the type of guy who would be like "I'm an alpha dog bruh" but he is secretly a bottom, but he is the type of bottom that doesn't like to admit that he is a bottom if that makes sense? Like, he would throw in a fit but he would end up being a bottom, he would enjoy it, then feel ashamed or shy about it and he doesn't show this side of him unless he really trusts their partner cause he would be afraid that it would slip and his family would know and make fun of him.

Lancelot Du Lac (The Weeping Monk) Oh he screams bottom. Like, he wouldn't think about taking a sexual partner until he's out of the paladins' reach and when that happens, he would be too overwhelmed by all the decision making and the changes, so he would have a hard time expressing that he wants to be taken care of in the bedroom and that being a bottom gives him a sense of comfort and familiarity, he would even try to fake being a top to his partner just to please them but his partner would eventually figure it out.

Isaac Lahey In my humble opinion, Isaac is a switch. He initiates sexual interactions, he is confident, egoistic and loves the look of pleasure on his partner's face when he is getting it right so he would be a top leaning. However, there are days where his past hunts him and he feels the most vulnerable, on these days, he would prefer to be a bottom and have tender sexual interactions instead.

Troy Otto My man is a bottom and no one can convince me otherwise. He gives off top vibes in life but bottom vibes in bed, he is kinda oblivious when it comes to sexual interactions, his partner would need to initiate them (I have theory that Troy is a virgin, okay?!) and like, he would experiment a little but settle down to enjoying being taking care of in bed because it is such a precious feeling that he rarely gets to experience, to be looked after, loved, treated well, so yeah, he's a bottom.

Anyhooo, thank you for sticking around for my TedTalk! Next Episode: what type of fruit are you based on your favorite Bridgerton quote:'). Also, do you guys have different theories about these characters or different ones?

[peri-helia]

Does anyone know where I can watch Medici (season 2 really) considering Netflix fucking deleted it?

[lancedoncrimsonwings]

Frantically rewatching Medici again before it leaves Netflix

Did I make myself cry right before bed?

Ayup...

A suprisingly whumpy show ngl and Daniel Sharman is as always an absolute delight

[comradekarin]

reblog to spread the word!!!!!!!!!!

[markantonys]

i also decided to do a 1-per-media edition, mostly because i couldn't bear to pit my WOT favs against each other haha

tagged by @butterflydm thank you!! <3 and tagging anyone who wants to do it!

[hislittleraincloud]

You know what...

Fuck it.

Life is too short.

I just re-read that story of mine and it's too sweet to relegate towards DMs. I like their coupling, and I really liked this show. It appealed to my obsession about Renaissance Italy. Caterina Sforza is my spirit animal.

You like my writing? Then you have to familiarize yourself with the Renaissance. The Serpent Queen is/was a current show devoted to similar themes (so was the Medici show, but that was fucking awful compared to...), but the show I wrote for was Neil Jordan's Showtime show, The Borgias.

The big story was called 'Cardinal Pleasures', and it was about Cardinal Ascanio Sforza's illicit affair with Lucrezia Borgia (and there is no show canon for this, however it still can fit in canon quite well...and like all older men that I feature in my stories, I had/have a thing for grumpy Cardinal Sforza/Peter Sullivan 🫠).

I am

Yes, it's age gap (but Lucrezia is 17, I think, when they get together, and by then she's already been married off to and SA'ed routinely by her husband, Giovanni Sforza...and she has a child by the stableboy she had an affair with at the time). Ascanio was 40 when they got together, and the main story is not overtly smutty (and even the smuttiest part in the extras is pretty mild/tame compared to what I usually write).

I also wrote REAL smut with Cesare x Lucrezia (down at the bottom, the Bound By Blood tryptych...the second one is the smut). This is the real E/NC-17 one (Cardinal Pleasures rates an R for violence and sex/incest, but not really explicit sex). Their incest is canon, Third Season...they sleep together on her wedding night to Alfonso because Alfonso is too much of a little boy at heart, and Cesare had always been her bae since Season 1 (so...much...sexual tension...throughout the whole show).

I also wrote two screenplays for their Season 4, but all of my notes for the rest of it (as well as my other Borgia writings) were destroyed when my ex (and fkn heinous building manager) removed and trashed all of my belongings from my apartment when I was on a retreat in Rome. I had to get my fans to lend me money to rush back (I paid them all back), only to find the only thing left in here was my dog (and he was scared shitless in his open crate with nothing else around him). I didn't have the will to continue after the notes were gone, but maybe someday in the future, after a re-watch, I might be inspired. (I also never got to write the Civil War-era Borgias thing I was going to do...and that saddens me.) You can d/l the .pdfs of the screenplays from the link...a couple of actors from The Borgias featured in the scripts liked them on Twitter. 💀 I have but one typo in the second one. Hey man, I don't have Betas. I do everything myself in the end, even if I have someone read it over. And the first script has a non-script version/prose version. I didn't get around to doing that for the second script.

Unfortunately I can no longer re-watch on Netflix...they moved it all to Paramount Plus, which I don't have rn. If you do, and you like lush, dramatic, UNDERRATED period pieces, give it a watch.

Anyhoo, here's the direct link to Cardinal Pleasures. It's not a massive monster like Afterburn. Shouldn't take but an hour or so to finish if you're a fast reader, maybe more or less if you count the three extra birthday-themed fics I wrote for @brenli for her birthday. No idea what the word count is since it's only published here on Tumblr and not AO3.

Happy reading...hope you know some Latin 👹 (go grab your translator app).

[lunaslogs]

About to watch Medici The Magnificent before Netflix takes it off on April 30th. Will update as I watch/finish the seasons.

This is Luna, logging off!

[stromuprisahat]

Watching the second season of Medici on Netflix and Matteo Martari (a.k.a. Francesco de' Pazzi from that show) has SUCH book!Darkling energy. (I haven't read the book, but I got the gist from the Darkling apologist fam.)

This guy?

Yeah, I haven't watched it yet, and although it's on my list, I don't really enjoy watching stuff rn...

@anyone here, who read the books and watched this ☝️ show?

(My knowledge of this guy as a historical figure comes mostly from Hannibal. xD )

[jiminsproof]

tag game 🌙

I was tagged by Heather @summerwave to post a quick round of my 'lasts', thank you sm lovely!! 💓 Manifesting an amazing weekend for you 🫂💗

last song: back for more by txt & anitta (I CAN'T STOP I WON'T STOP LISTENING TO IT HELP I AM LISTENING TO IT RN)

last movie: avatar: the way of water (i did it for my dad.....)

currently watching: lmao i watched love is blind: after the altar last night (no comment)..... and today i want to finish rosa peral's tapes on netflix

currently reading: the medici by mary hollingsworth

current obsession: I CAN SEE YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE. COMING BACK FOR MORE. IF YOU WALK OUT THAT.... DO-OOR.... also yeonjun's adlibs...... fuck me UP

tagging my lovelies and wishing you all a great day 🫂💗 also, zero pressure!!: @cordiallyfuturedwight, @aprylynn, @twinklytwinkles, @hopeinthebox, @somebodydoeslove, @seraphjimin. 💗

[zalrb]

HI! I'm new and I admit that I haven't had the chance to explore your blog and masterlist very well yet (so in case someone has already asked a similar question, I apologize😭)

In any case, I wanted to ask you if you have any TV series/films to recommend since I'm in abstinence from Cesare/Lucrezia and The Borgias. I love their chemistry so much... And in general I also like the series so I was wondering if you (or others) had any advice🖤 I know that there's a TV series called "i Medici" but I don't think I found it in your masterlist, so I don't think it's worth it😅

Anyway, thanks whatever the answer will be🖤 Like I said I have yet to fully explore your blog etc but

1. I'm in love with your blog (I'll have to go and look at the section of the masterlist on Cesare and Lucrezia again because I have a bad memory, but I had already read all the posts🥺)

2. like I said I've been in withdrawal for a while and I miss Cesare and Lucrezia, so I would like some advice

(Last thing, I apologize because English is not my first language, so... Sorry😅)

- C.

Thank you! And no need to apologize, I understood your ask perfectly well :)

I did watch a bit of Medici, I just didn't end up sticking to it but I know initiumseries liked it so you could check it out and see if you like it.

There's of course The Tudors, which came out before The Borgias but it's the same creators.

People have liked Netflix's Borgias. I've never watched it, though. Francois Arnaud is my Cesare and no one else.

There's The Pillars of the Earth, the main couple is not like Cesare and Lucrezia but they still have quality angst.

Spartacus. I always recommend Spartacus for people who like passionate, tortured, angsty love stories but there is gratuitous violence and sex.

I never watched Versailles but people seemed to like it.

I guess there's technically The Great. I'm not a fan of Catherine and Peter and I can kind of take or leave the show itself but it might satisfy an itch.

[all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone]

I'm obsessed with them and no I'm never going to stop

[stravagatefaster]

Do you have any ideas on fan casting the stravaganza characters?

To be honest, I don't really "do" fancasts. I have jokingly talked with my friend about which overused actors would get cast in a very bad Netflix adaptation, but beyond that I haven't seriously thought about this.

Now if I were put in charge of making a Stravaganza adaptation, I would prefer to cast actors that aren't well-known already. I would also make it an English-Italian production (similar to how Medici was done) and make sure all the actors are at least close to the right ages (I don't want a single twenty-something to play a teenager).

I personally like to just use my imagination when it comes to characters' looks, though I have made versions of them using artbreeder. (I may share some of those if there's interest)

[aconflagrationofmyown]

Have you watched Medici on Netflix? I loved that show, their fall is heartbreaking (idk how historically accurate the show us) but when Guliano died I criedddddd 😫 and Cosimo and Contessina’s story he was so lucky to have her

Oh gosh yes! And I went into it very afraid it wouldn’t live up to my historical crush on those individuals but goodness yes, it was excellent. And all those men struck gold in the wife department 🤨 I also love the show The Borgias

[bradshawsbaby]

38 from the ask game (:

38. What’s one show you watch or musician you listen to that your friends know nothing about?

I binged Medici on Netflix during the height of COVID, and I LOVED it! 😍 But I feel like most people I know have never even heard of it 😂

50 Questions Just Because

[cycktok]

Tutto chiede salvezza

Volevo scrivere alcune righe su questa serie tv italiana Netflix, uscita nel 2022, perché tratta alcuni temi che mi sono cari e vicini.

La trama è questa: post crisi, che in seguito andremo a scoprire che si tratta di "crisi psicotica", dopo aver assunto sostanze stupefacenti ad una festa con amici in discoteca, Daniele è sottoposto a TSO; "TRATTAMENTO SANITARIO OBBLIGATORIO" poiché è doveroso che passi almeno una settimana all'interno di una clinica psichiatrica, dove condivide la stanza con altri 5 compagni. All'inizio restio alle indicazioni dei medici e professionisti del settore, non ricorda bene come è finito lì e cosa aveva fatto prima di finire in ospedale. Difficilmente va d'accordo con il compagno Gianluca palesemente omo e bipolare, che gli fa la corte ogni volta che può, e con altri che scopriremo più avanti.

Con gli psichiatri ha un rapporto di fastidio e indiferrenza, loro lo trattano come se avesse fatto qualcosa di eccessivo, come del resto si scopre abbia fatto; infatti i genitori di Daniele non vogliono parlare per il momento con lui perché ha spinto il padre a terra e urlatogli contro come fosse in una vera crisi vera, questo ha schokkato i due e convinti ad essere d'accordo sul fatto di far rimanere Daniele in clinica.

L'altro compagno è Mario, un signore con la barba con aria di filosofo che si scoprirà più in la che sia il più "Pericoloso potenzialmente" tra tutti, in quanto ha tentato di uccidere la moglie; lui ex maestro delle elementari con problemi mentali; di notte ha degli incubi. Nel corso della storia si vede dare suggerimenti a Daniele, il quale inizia a vederlo come maestro. Una frase particolare è quella dell'uccellino azzurro che Mario sostiene di vedere fuori dalla finestra e che sostiene un giorno vedrà anche Daniele.

Il primo psichiatra con cui ha a che fare Daniele è il dottor Mancino, il quale inizialmente sembra essere rude con Daniele ma in seguito il legame si rafforzerà e si scioglierà verso il protagonista; ad esempio tra le prime battute tra i due gli dice chiaramente "quella roba a te , sensibile come sei ti manda in pappa il cervello". La seconda psichiatra è la dottoressa Cimaroli, che sembra essere più accondiscendente nei confronti di Daniele, gli regala anche un quadernetto dove poter scrivere qualcosa anche di poetico perché conosce la vena poetica del protagonista."

L'infermiere che aiuta i protagonisti a stare in stanza è maschilista e razzista ed è Pino, il quale ad esempio in un battibecco tra Daniele che veemente sosteneva che il padre di Gianluca fosse uno stronzo dopo che ha buttato il ricambio suo nella spazzatura, gli dice che lui era un generale con delle medaglie al valore di grande importanza, e che mai al mondo avrebbe dovuto nascergli un figlio frocio.

Poi vi è "Madonnina" di cui si sa poco o niente ma non parla ed emette versi; l'ultimo compagno è Alessandro; si trova in uno stato catatonico per cui non parla e viene assistito perennemente dal padre, il quale nella serie è ridondante nello spiegare come è accaduto che si trovi ora in quello stato il figlio e i nostri protagonisti se ne lamentano alle volte.

Durante la serie arriva Nina Marinelli, interpretata da Fotinì Peluso. Attrice, influencer ed ex compagna di liceo di Daniele, viene ricoverata nel reparto femminile dopo aver tentato il suicidio; lei all'inizio cerca di ignorarlo, anche per la storia di Ludovico, il quale è riuscito a convincere lei e soprattutto la madre a farle ricoprire un ruolo in una serie tv, in scambio di uscite e frequentazioni con lo stesso Ludovico; nonostante il pubblico non sia così convinto della sua bravura da attrice, infatti viene considerata raccomandata. Durante la storia il suo cellulare viene usato dalla madre che messaggia anche con Daniele perché non vuole che si rovini la reputazione per essere finita in una clinica psichiatrica.

Poi vi è Giorgio, un omone che per farlo restare tranquillo in passato hanno dato tranquillanti per una settimana. Si scopre poi che ha un legame speciale con la madre che ha probabilmente perso negli anni, da qui la sua confidenza con Daniele per convincerlo di trattare bene la sua familiare stretta.

E' importante come evolve il comportamento di Daniele dapprima nei confronti dei compagni estranei e in seguito a dei veri e propri fratelli. Gli stessi che lo aiutano a scappare dalla stanza per vedersi in segreto con Nina e che l aiutano a resistere a mangiare i pasti sbocchevoli della clinica. Poi vi è l'altra infermiera di colore che dapprima con Daniele non riesce a instaurare un bellissimo rapporto, più che altro per concedergli le sigarette in numero minore possibile, ma poi anche con quest'ultima si scioglie, scoprendo da parte dello stesso Daniele lo stato di gravidanza di lei.

Posso dire che io personalmente ho vissuto un evento simile a Daniele, ma non sono mai stato in una clinica per una settimana con altri pazienti, poiché sono sempre stato autonomo nelle mie "guarigioni" e sedute con psichiatri e psicologi. Posso dire che per settimane ho vissuto cose che difficilmente rivivrò, sempre non ci siano casi di ricadute come mi è stato detto che potrebbe accadere.

Il fatto che nella fiction fosse rappresentata un'influencer, attrice, mi ha rievocati ricordi assurdi del passato e fatto fare voli pindarici, su come funziona il mondo dello spettacolo al giorno d'oggi, sulle raccomandazioni, sui rapporti amorosi e politici all'interno di questo mondo oscuro.