Hello lovelies! I’m Liz and strong independent women (and the men who love them) is my fandom calling card. I’m a multi fandom enjoyer, but am very much back in the comforting embrace of period dramas at the moment.
I am a new gif maker and sometimes writer and am so glad you have stumbled into my little corner of the internet.
This is a secondary blog so likes and follows will come from @windylizmt. Would love to make this my main but, alas, that can’t happen yet.
Current Fandoms: Vikings: Valhalla, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Gilded Age, Miss Scarlet & The Duke, The Artful Dodger, My Lady Jane, The Witcher, and Shadow and Bone/ Six of Crows
Writing: My AO3 link, but you will have to be logged in to read. I also try to tag them on tumblr under the #mine: writing tag but I can’t say I’m very good at remembering to tag them like that.
Current Projects: Nothing to speak of at the moment.
OTPs and their tag:
Emma of Normandy & King Canute #otp: mutual respect
Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley #otp: it’s almost dawn
Geralt & Yennefer #otp: important to someone
Nina Zenik & Matthias Helvar #otp: youre better than waffles
Other Common Tags I use: #liz nonsense (for my ramblings), #justliz (my tracking tag), #mine: gif, #mine: edit, #mine: writing. I also tag by show name if you want to search that way.
Requests: I will for sure entertain requests for gifs if there is a particular scene you would like to see.
More about me, if you’re curious: I’m a weird horse girl, I love period clothing but am only just beginning to truly learn about it, my book tastes are varied, but rarely do I venture into the non-fiction genre. I have a thing for the 19th and early 20th century but please don’t look to me for a history lesson, I’m a staunch supporter of a good glass of wine any day of the week, I don’t enjoy cut flowers but love house plants, I have a soft spot for happy endings, and I fit the bill as a nostalgic millennial.
Last Book: Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart, by a Tory MP (I DIDN'T KNOW). This one was okay overall but I was confused about who the target audience was supposed to be, and part of that is that most of the book isn't actually about Amy Robsart (RIP) so if she's what you picked it up for you'll have to get through a lot of stuff you already know about the Elizabeth/Leicester pairing, and it seemingly dimisses the murder idea about halfway through (she doesn't die until about page 150 or something) only to suddenly decide "well actually" in the final chapter which is too little too late for me - if I pick up a book that promises SCANDAL and MURDER then I want that to be more prominent. (I suppose this book suffers from what plagues many of those Liz/Rob OTP novels, which is that their SCANDALOUS behaviour mostly just isn't by modern standards. OH MY GOD HE TOUCHED HER HAND?! IN FRONT OF THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR?!?! *FAINTS*)
So I wouldn't really recommend that one, and not just because it was written by a Tory MP (don't worry my copy was secondhand).
Current Book(s): Current paper book is Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II by Paul Doherty, which is full of exciting plot twists that I discussed recently, and the bit I am up to is after Hugh de Spense's been horribly killed but before Edward dies (this is not a spoiler because a) it's in the title of the book and b) this all happened in the 14th century of course he's dead by now), and currently Queen Isabella's shacked up with Roger Mortimer and ruling via her son (which is one of my favourite scheming queen tropes, yay!!) and Edward's in a castle, possibly in poor conditions, and yeah I assume he's about to get murdered and then we'll probably spend a chapter or two discussing whether or not this was Isabella's fault. OH NO, WHO HATH WROUGHT THIS TRAGIC TURN OF EVENTS?
Current Kindle book (main one, as I dip in and out of things a bit) is something about the six wives of Henry VIII by Antonia 'I'm Very Posh BTW' Fraser. Quite enjoying this one despite knowing what's going to happen to all of them. I'm only up to Anne Boleyn though and she's not even queen yet, we're still in The Interminable Divorce Proceedings which I feel is often the hardest part for a writer dealing with The Wives because it involves not much actually happening for ages and everyone gets increasingly depressed about Katherine of Aragon and then as soon as you're past THAT it's time to get depressed about Anne Boleyn. Anyway at the moment it's very awkward because Henry keeps frothing about Leviticus and how he is CURSED BY GOD because sure he has one legitimate child but she's THE WRONG SEX and this sort of thing is the reason Henry is always the least sympathetic character in any fictional version, even when they do a Bitch Anne Boleyn (oh, how edgy!). So there's a good chance I won't get to the end of this one because it's a big book with a complete shit as the 'protagonist' (it's non-fiction but u kno wot I mean) BUT in terms of the writing I'm enjoying it and it's a nice mix of Facts and Commentary so if you want a long book on this topic you could do a lot worse.
Next book(s): for paper book I plan on reading something fairly thin (because ow hand) which has maybe a 90% of being about a dead queen of England, and the next Kindle choice is further away (maybe) and will possibly depend on which Richard III biography is next to get a deep discount on Amazon.
Whoop whoop I can write posts when I’m drunk and travelling home, you couldn't do that in 1983! I suppose you'd just write your piece down on paper and type it up later
Richard Anthony Hewson began working s an arranger in the 1960s, he was lucky enough to work on big selling tracks for big selling artists
His studio project, The Rah Band, had a hit in 1977 with The Crunch which got to number 6 on the UK singles chart, he would match this success in 1985 with Clouds Across The Moon
In 1983 The RAH Band released their third studio album Going Up
Messages From The Stars was released as a single and although only doing moderately well at the time has become a club favourite over the last two decades. I bought this record in the 1990s but Sam The Samba Man (also Going Up) is a relatively recent purchase. Both feature Richard Hewson's wife Liz Hewson on vocals, as does Clouds Across The Moon. Sam The Samba Man has a scratch mix which is probably (as RAH is a studio guy) influenced by Malcolm McLaren and more importantly Trevor Horn (and Anne Dudley)
Hewson now writes music for TV and adverts
RAH Band - Perfumed Garden is a bit of a balearic gem. This was the album version but it was released as a 12" single in 1982, followed by Sam The Samba Man, then Messages
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RAH Band - Sam The Samba Man
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RAH Band - Messages From The Stars (Long Wave)
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RAH Band - the dubbed out Astro Mix. Hard to believe it's 40-years-old, such a shame it doesn't have the break down that's in the Long Wave extended version
"So basically I have a death wish. I've heard that before."
"The abyss isn't death. That's just a fable God made up to keep us away from the truth. Maybe you're just drawn to what other people fear. That probably makes you more alive."