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[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?

[basedonconjecture]

Author Ask Tag

thank you for tagging me @ofcrowsanddragons & @thedissonantverses <3

What is the main lesson of your story?

If I had to distill it down to a single point it’s that identity is self-determined. We are a patchwork of influences from culture, family, experiences and a plethora of other things but no one can tell you who you are but you.

What did you use as inspiration for your story?

Since it’s a canon re-telling of Veilguard, that’s probably the largest source, haha. I’m fascinated by the Crows and the politics of Antiva, at large. Others are doing some truly fascinating work fleshing out Antiva as a setting for their fics that I’m truly in awe of, honestly. For me, personally, I really want to preserve that level of soapy drama that's baked into the Crows as we see them in the game so I'm looking at Italian historical figures largely through other fictionalized versions of them (Showtime's "The Borgias" and Netflix's "Medici" but also lighter fare like Casanova since romance is featured heavily in it as examples). My brain is often circling around Machiavelli, as well, and there's some ancient Roman philosophers floating around the proverbial vision board. By and large, however, I'm pulling a lot -- a lot -- from Shakespeare (the title of my last posted chapter is a reference to Julius Caesar and I had a real Neve-With-the-Conspiracy-Board moment there and there's a half written sleep-deprived breakdown of why somewhere in my phone's notes if anyone's ever curious lol) for, what I think, are obvious reasons. There’s a heavy theatrical element to the Crows and the storylines attached to them in canon but also the way Shakespeare moves people around each other, obscures information from them that is obvious to the audience, masked players, and identity etc. It’s grand monologues and tight interpersonal scenes where there’s as much being communicated in what’s not said as what is. There’s a play-within-a-play aspect to Lucanis’ companion quest line that I loved from the jump so I’m just…expanding on that with my Rook de Riva. Leaning into the aforementioned melodrama. 

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, or help them grow as a person?

At outset, Selora is half trying to prove her worth, essentially. She’s spent most of her life with the Crows purposefully flying under the radar, actively making herself look like an underachiever, to work with Viago all with the belief she was an essential Crow because of it. Getting kicked out sent her into a tailspin in trying to get back and really undervaluing herself (struggling with her identity outside of Being A Crow) but, along the way, through the people she meets and the much harder lessons of leadership, she learns to trust her own inner voice, it becomes less a matter of clinging to a life she knows and more claiming her right to be there. She loves the Crows, she loves Antiva, and the people there and probably falls closer to Teia in being a bit idealistic about it. There’s probably a few topics I will touch on tangentially (particularly in regards to family and what repairing those kinds of dysfunctional relationships can look like) but if there’s anything I can impart it’s to take up space. Whatever else they come away with, I do hope that’s among them.

How many chapters is your story going to have?

Oh, gosh. It’s currently at 15 -squints- and we’ve not even recruited Davrin, yet. I’n hoping to cap it at 50 which will require some finagling on my part, likely, but it’ll take however many chapters it takes.

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard rookanis fic posted on Ao3, that you can read here :)

When did you start writing?

I wrote my first book at 6 years old! It was for school, alas, but pretty much as soon as I started reading I started writing. I’ve been a storyteller in one medium or other my whole life. It was a regular hobby starting in middle school, when I started also doing forum roleplaying (I have no idea what the current terminology is these days) and has followed me all the way into my 30s now. I used to write little skits for different drama groups from middle school into college as well as original fiction, poetry, etc. I have completed one full length fantasy novel and the ever growing incomplete novels gather dust in various WIP folders.

Do you have any words of encouragement for fellow writers of writeblr?

Write. I know it’s oft repeated but it’s the most consistently universal advice I’ve ever run into. Writing is a muscle, it has to be built and can only be done by doing. Even just aiming for a few words a day (like 50 or 100) can really help! I will personally also set a timer as opposed to having a word count goal, like a 15-30 minute sprint, and whatever comes out is what I get done for that day. You’d really be surprised how often that gets the pistons firing to write more without feeling like I’m burning myself out. 

But! Some other advice: if you’re feeling really unmotivated and nothing else (consuming other media, listening to playlists, etc.) seems to be helping, try changing up your environment. I don’t necessarily mean going to a coffee shop or something (writing in public is impossible for me, personally) but I am sometimes way more productive writing on my phone, for example, or writing by hand than sitting at my laptop or PC. Seriously, try changing your environment or your mode of writing.

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tagging: @mythals-whore, @introvertedfangrl, @dymme, @operative-arrow and anyone else! (sorry if you've already been tagged, haVE ANOTHER)

[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. 💗

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

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

[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.

[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

[loveisjustawaytodieblog]

È quella la mia paura sai? Vabbè cercherò qualcos'altro da guardare.

Io di serie Rai non sono molto pratica. Vidi la serie dei Florio, che prima era stata fatta per Disney plus e quando avevo l'abbonamento, la ho vista e mi era mezza piaciuta.

(Premetto che non sono fan delle serie TV italiane, ma questa dei Florio la vidi perché era in stile Period Drama, come vidi anche i Medici e Elisa di Rivombrosa ai tempi che furono).

Che tra l'altro, l'attore principale dei Florio è Jacopo, il mondo è piccolo.

Veramente alcune sono fatte con i piedi, quindi non so, io aspetto il Gattopardo di netflix.

Se devi guardare qualche period drama consiglio sempre qualcuno della bbc.