#is that the new default setting???

[cowboylikeyouu]

oh yeah dean, give it to him !!! 🔥🔥🔥

[suretkerim]

:D a silly danny for @ghostenluvs (love when he does silly things it is joy)

it is little less impressive if you weigh nothing tho

[gamebunny-advance]

"Sharp Teeth" (Sketch)

I liked the idea of this doodle, but it's just not coming together the way I'd like. Maybe I'll come back to it as a concept, but whatever I'm doing right now just isn't working for me >_<;

[henswilsons]

(not like do you wait for a work to be completed btw, just how you format your reading on ao3)

[beescake]

on a casual note i don't see why anybody on tumblr would want their posts getting sucked into the ai stream

so please tick 'prevent third-party sharing' for each of your blogs, and remind each other to do so as well

[qweenofurheart]

i redrew that one shot from saltburn with my ocs winghead and adam.

adam is loud and imposing and wants to go to art school and winghead is more like the quiet and polite jock. adam sort of clings onto winghead bc he’s the only other “cursed” at their hs (hence the wings and antennae on their heads) and winghead is annoyed but complacent to his company.

[k0nstanta]

WAIT kotya can turn into a human??

silly answer: actually, kotya is a human. catgirl robot kotya is just her transition ideal. her robotsona, if you will

serious answer: though technically human kotya and robot kotya (smartly named k0tya) are the same character, they are from different universes. there's several of those featured on this blog, and as a rule i tag what's what under every post (formatted as "setting: [x]"). if a setting tag is missing it means it's either an unrelated drawing (not a part of any story) or related to the main "default" universe (which is the only one i often forget to tag... lol)

[citizen-saint]

i haven’t thought about xenogenders and whatnot for so long but reading performative acts and gender constitution gave me like. an entirely new angle to think about them

[grumfield]

Recently became obsessed with that one pic of Mia Goth with Alexander Skarsgård on a leash

[ava-of-shenanigans]

I think my favourite Egyptian mythology thing is that you could argue (based on some things said in certain texts) that Horus is Set’s best friend by default.

Uhhh basically: In a lot of spells in the Greek Magical Papyri say that Set hates friendship and ruins every relationship he’s ever been in because of how the strong the evil and hatred vibes he exudes are. Therefore, he has no friends. However, there are a bunch of other texts that say that Horus and Set became friends after the conflict around which one of them would be king was settled. And when the texts elaborate on how this happened, they usually have a part where whoever decided which one of them should be king tells them that they have to get along with each other now. Therefore, Horus is Set’s friend (because he has a court order that says he has to be). And if Set has no other friends, that means Horus is his only friend. Which means Horus has to be his best friend, because there are no other potential candidates.

Oh also, there’s a spell in the Pyramid texts that lists a bunch of gods along with other gods that they like, and they mostly list gods alongside their mothers, like Horus and Isis, Sobek and Neith, etc. But when they get to Set, they list him alongside “the two reconciled gods” (which is an epithet that refers to both Horus and Set specifically in the time after the conflict over kingship was resolved).

[andr0nap-wf]

me for the past few months: im gonna be responsible with my plat and save what i have for something important 😤

also me, yesterday: *spends my saved plat on drifter fashion* this qualifies as important

[blujayonthewing]

THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER

[coratorium]

guess what setting has been added and enabled by default for some people

thats right. the one that removes literally the only good thing about the tumblr dashboard

[hermanunworthy]

some little doodles i did for my buddy @apricior's fic part of the plan as thanks for writing it for me!!! <33

[stephantom]

I’d need to watch it again to confirm this, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Becket is the only character who independently initiates touch with Henry?

There are plenty of people whom Henry touches, and it’s almost always possessive or threatening: the villager woman in the first flashback scene, the Saxon peasant girl (and possibly the old man? I think he prods at both of them with his riding crop), Gwendolen (holding her shoulders/neck), the French prostitute (kissing, leaning over, sitting on, slapping her butt), his sons (pushing and kicking them), the bishop (strangling), his barons (clutching onto one, tapping one’s head to indicate his vapidness), and Thomas too—(clasping his shoulders when he realizes Thomas is hurt, holding his hand to put on the chancellor ring).

Interestingly, I don’t think we ever see Henry touch or be touched by his mother or his wife. There’s the moment when he grabs/kicks their needlework, and later on he knocks all the plates off the table, possibly vaguely in their direction—so there are two physical interactions which are violent but still sort of… distant? And still the direction is just Henry to them (in terms of physicality, anyway—verbally, they do initiate conversations/fights with him).

Does anyone touch Henry? There are the monks who whip him in the end, but Henry has ordered them to do it. Likewise, there’s the servant/valet/page who begins to wipe him dry in the bath scene, but again, that’s someone performing a duty. Thomas Becket though, cuts in and takes over the drying, and the dialogue tells us explicitly that he’s not expected to do this, and doesn’t have to (“You’re a nobleman—why do you play at being my valet?”) but Becket seemingly wants to do it, and he knows Henry likes how he does it: enthusiastically, confidently, warmly, and freely (“No one does it like you, Thomas”). He towels Henry’s head, helps Henry put on his boots, and then casually uses Henry’s legs to push himself up to stand.

There’s the scene in Henry’s tent, after the French prostitute has left and the two of them are sitting on the bed: Becket sort of leans in and briefly clasps Henry’s arm where it’s lying in his lap, casually and warmly.

There’s also the getaway horse ride, where Becket is holding onto Henry, arms wrapped around him, and they’re both laughing and smiling. Henry’s shirt actually falls open a little and Becket’s hand winds up on his bare torso.

And then there are the thwarted attempts at touch, after the split: the two scenes where Henry accuses Becket of not loving him. Both times, Becket moves toward Henry and reaches out to touch him, and both times, Henry moves away and tells him to keep his distance.

They’re quick little things, but if they are actually the only instances of anyone touching Henry affectionately (or even of their own volition) that we see over the course of the movie, it does support an impression of Henry as fundamentally isolated—maybe there is truth to his claim that Becket is the only person who’s ever loved him.

What’s tragic is that 1) Henry doesn’t really know how to express love himself (see: Henry expressing nothing but violence and entitlement to everyone else around him, and even to Becket for the most part), and 2) Becket’s love, albeit huge in Henry’s world, is conflicted and unfulfilling—for both of them.

Becket might be the only person who’s dared to reach out to Henry and meet him on something close to a human level, and Henry loves him for it, but why does Becket do it? Part of it may just be an instinct of Becket’s to fulfill a need where he sees one, if he can, and if it benefits him. I think it’s so interesting that Henry seems obsessed with the question of whether Thomas really loves him, when it seems the truth might be that Thomas actually doesn’t know; maybe it’s an unanswerable, even nonsensical question to him. Like, what else could he do? I don’t know. “Insofar as I was capable of love, yes I did [love you].” But the fact that his last words, unwitnessed and private, are, “Poor Henry.” Fuck me up.

Ok, that last paragraph got away from me and now I can’t stop. Tempted to draw comparisons to “Beauty and the Beast” (this is a sad version where no magical transformation happens… unless you take a particular Catholic stance and consider that both of them maybe took real solace and meaning in Thomas being made a saint and that Henry maybe found real absolution through his penance).

I also want to compare all of this to “The Lion in Winter”, where it feels like, rather than a story about one lonely monster in a castle full of people he sees as objects, it’s a whole microcosm of traumatized and power-hungry people, reaching out for power and security and love and stabbing each other in the back, over and over. (Like, of course his mother and wife and kids have complex feelings for him—some of which involve love!) I think that depiction is better and less myopic, more true to life and probably a more accurate portrait of the historical figures involved (even when it comes to Henry and Becket—Becket was of that world too, after all), but I think I’ve rambled enough about all of this, so I’m going to end this post now. I’ll just say that there’s something nevertheless appealing about the boiled-down fairytale melodrama of “no one else ever loved me but you!”

[twoheadedraven]