#look at george blagden

[oswlld]

AS HE TOLD ME “R, YOURE GOOD FOR NOTHING, FOOL” AND I HEARD EVERY WORD THAT HE SAID

[unclefungusthegoat]

Talking of iconic behind the scenes videos, literally can’t tell you how much I love this one - you know, just Louis XIV, midway through declaring himself head of the French church, encouraging his court to behave in a perfectly normal manner for the 1680s.

I don’t own the video -  it belongs to Canal+ and everyone who made Versailles.

[grantairescurls]

George for White Christmas!!!

[holy3cake]

Men with pretty eyes and curls are actually ruining my life.

[its-elvie-innit]

The urge to draw athelstan as a monks medieval Bible painting is strong. Overwhelming, even.

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

HEY SO

[girlinthebrightbluejeans]

When I see an actor that has long gorgeous hair in a historical show without their wig on it causes me physical pain.

[annebrontesrequiem]

George Blagden played Louis XIV?!

- Finding out this information was so surprising it crashed Tumblr

remember when versailles came out and george blagden was playing king louis xiv of france and les mis tumblr was chomping at the bit climbing up the walls they were like imagine you are this drunken green son of a fuck grantaire in love with a man who is in love with the revolution and you wake up hungover in the dirty streets of paris with memories in your head of being the sun king, of building a glittering palace

[pringle-slut]

let's start things off fun:

i don't think there's actually any doubt in charles' mind that, even if he can't say it back, he will. i think when presented with the information and the option, it won't take him long at all to decide he wants to fall in love with edwin (he already has, he just hasnt clocked it yet) and will be eagerly awaiting the day it finally clicks. idk how much of this is from the modern au fic where charles tells monty "hey sorry you have no chance he's in love with me :)" and how much is just. the way charles looks at edwin The Whole Fucking Time (jayden revri, the actor you are. george blagden would be proud)

hi it's @twostarsandasmileyface but with my a03 name (ooooo) and probably exclusively dbda thoughts! have i posted any dbda fic on ao3 yet?? nope! but i wanna! this'll be the drawing board. i'm sorry in advance for how often i'll be going a little crazy over how stupid hot these people are

[la-pheacienne]

I don't know if anyone needs to hear this but ExR shipping frenzy is not (merely) a by-product of the musical and it's not because they cast a good looking Grantaire. I have never watched the musical in my life and I found out who George Blagden was last year, but I've shipped them since I was 14. It's in the book. They just have an objectively unparalleled dynamic, in the book, and it is normal that people are drawn to it. It's not mischaracterization and it is definitely not the musical.

[gloomth-and-wanderings]

(Saw this post on @shatnerihardlyknowher's blog and it looked real fun but the post was getting really long so I'm making another post)

Assign a song to every letter of your username!

g: guennevere - crosby stills and nash

l: lydia - jonathan richman

o: once in a lifetime - talking heads

o: one of these nights - the eagles

m: maid of orleans (the joan of arc waltz) - omd

t: the third man theme - anton karas

h: how's your wireless - the divine comedy

a: a lady of a certain age - the divine comedy

n: new england - jonathan richman

d: deacon blues - steely dan

w: what a fool believes - the doobie brothers

a: all that jazz - echo and the bunnymen

n: nightmare song - iolanthe (gilbert and sullivan)

d: death of a disco dancer - the smiths

e: eggerson keaveney - jazz emu

r: rhiannon - fleetwood mac

i: i will follow you into the dark (? cover) - george blagden

n: naive melody (this must be the place) - talking heads

g: girls just wanna have fun - cyndi lauper

s: still ill - the smiths

tagging: @floofyhobbit, @enlitment, @flavia-draws, @modernchemical, and anybody who wants to do it!

[starrose17]

It's great coming back into the Vikings (Athelnar) fandom when I was someone there right from the very start, because I know things newer fans don't seem to know.

For example, it seems no one knew that George Blagden really DID shave the tonsure on his head, because he made a tweet about being bullied on the tube once so wore a beanie whenever he left his house until it grew back ( in fact every hairstyle he had was real, with a few extensions).

Also how Travis would tie George to something secretly while Athelstan had that rope around his neck, call him, and George would then half strangle himself or fall over. Every. Single. Time.

Also how Travis once kidnapped George and locked him in the boot of his car, or how George did a private dance to Rock Me for Travis that Travis has recorded on his phone, or how Travis bit George's ear while eating in a pub together once, so badly it bruised.

Or how George once did a charity promotion and personally emailed a thank you to everyone who donated, FROM HIS OWN EMAIL ADDRESS, so a bunch of us ended up having his actual own personal email and when i replied back to him saying maybe that wasn't the best idea he said something along the lines of oh yeah opps not used to being kinda famous yet.

Or how it was me, @azryal00 and @chainfour who invented the ship names Athelnar and Tblag, I mean you are literally looking at one of the grandmothers of this entire fandom.

Just, so many little things, that I'm sure I'll remember more of as I slowly re-post like everything Vikings related from 2013 - 2014 from my own tumblr archive.

[queelignapologism]

Queelign Headcanons (Part 1?)

AHEM. So. I originally planned for this to be a list of short points but, as usual, got carried away. Curse you, bowl-cut malewife Quee, curse you and your stupidly fascinating potential as a character.

Queelign can sing. This man is voiced by George Blagden who is an amazing singer, and I like to believe that he inherited the same singing talents. He probably never feels the need to use them though - dude is a crusader - but he could be convinced if one rolls 20 in persuasion. Here’s an extract of George for illustration (solo between 1:15 and 1:52)

I think Queelign might often neglect his own health on his quest to purge all of the graceless. I mean, the man invades us in some random place in Belurat and he’s the only crusader presence there as far as I know, so one has to wonder what in the world he was doing here. Was he just… waiting there for some impure heretics to appear? I also like to think that the yellow-ish skin isn’t natural (jaundice?) and might be a result of some kind of liver damage, whether it be a genetic disorder or other causes of cirrhosis/or just some kind of health condition. Not like it’s stopping him from wooping some Tarnished anyways… (source for below : Zullie the Witch on yt)

Queelign opposed the idea of the Specimen Storehouse with a passion. Assuming Salza sided with Hilde in favor of it, we can safely guess that their position is driven by scholarly pursuits. Now, why would Queelign, who is seen actively hunting the graceless even years after the war, and who seemingly has no interest in learning about his ennemies’ ways and customs, want to preserve the culture of those he deems impure and heretical? If anything, their mere existence is a plague to fair mother Marika! Queelign is first and foremost a warrior, bloodthirsty and fanatical, and as such certainly does not care about the specifics of the people he slaughters. And in the end, war ultimately ends up being all that remains of him.

As time went by, I feel like Queelign would have gotten progressively more scared of the dark. Already when we give him an Iris of Occultation in the prayer room, which blocks out light in all its forms, he freaks out and despairs about Marika abandoning him. This is actually the main objective of the Iris, as darkness=forsaken by the Queen, aka the worst fear of any crusader. And Queelign being desperate as he is for grace, he would take his fear a step further by avoiding all places exceedingly dark. I can imagine that when he takes the time to rest, if he ever does that lmao, he’d wish to absolutely have a source of light somewhere to avoid being alone in obscurity.

Queelign definitely admires and looks up to Messmer, the mere fact that he reshaped his greatsword to match his spear is proof enough. He is also a Fire Knight, which means he was ready to abandon whatever high station he had in Leyndell to serve Messmer. Heck, he even wanted to be Messmer 2.0 as a ‘Second Impaler’. However, Queelign also expresses a certain desire to remain pure himself (« I would not. Am I not pure? »), probably in order to get Marika’s favor, I’d assume. This might explain why he is so different from the other Fire Knights we meet in the Shadow Keep, who are all super tall and lanky, have red hair, and a seemingly burnt upper face (much like the regular Messmer soldiers). Although this could totally just be because of the limitations of the player-type NPC models :P

(This is the end, finally 😭)

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Hello!!! I just finished your zombie apocalypse fic a while ago, Crack of Dawn, All is Gone? Needless to say it was spectacular, the ending is just so good. I was wondering if you could describe the physical appearances of the 4 of them a bit in detail? I really want to draw fanart hehe.

You're an amazing author! All of your fics are so good :D

omg hiiii!!! Thank u so much for this and for all of your lovely comments on my fics. I've been having kind of a challenging few weeks and seeing a barrage of new comments from you was always a lil bright spot in the middle of The HorrorsTM, so thank you for that 🥹🥹🥹 I can't promise my physical descriptions will be any good, but they're here anyway!

Enjolras, I actually have a clear faceclaim for for this fic, which is the model Michael Lockley! So yah, tall and thin, big dark eyes, very very pretty

Given that they're twins in this fic, as long as Cosette looks kind of similar to Enjolras, you're good! I think the main difference is that her hair is a darker blond than Enjolras', and that she wears it in long braids instead of natural.

Appearance-wise, my Grantaire is always similar to George Blagden. I was here since 2012 you can't ask me to change my ways now. I think the main difference is that he's short and stocky, with big broad shoulders and chest. Also he has a big thick black beard, good for him.

Marius I picture as being tall and gangly, like a baby giraffe who doesn't quite know how to manage all its limbs in unison yet. He's pale, freckly, and has lots of red hair and big brown eyes with not a single thought behind them. Also dimples. Because I can.

Given it's a zombie apocolypse fic, they'll all be fairly scrunkly and messy, like realistically all the guys are gonna have a good amount of facial hair, not just Grantaire! Up to you if you wanna include that though, I certainly didn't when I was picturing them lmao

Thank u again for the ask, tag me if you ever do end up posting fanart I would absolutely love to see it <3 <3 <3

[fionacreates]

3, 11, 14 for the book asks?

3. What were your top five books of the year?

(gonna lump some series together)

"Darius the Great is not OK" and the sequel "Darius the Great Deserves Better" by Adib Hhorram - maybe it was just the vibe I needed at the time, but they were lovely coming of age books.

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb (reread) It's been actual YEARS since I read these and I still cite them as a favourite series. It was amazing how much I forgot. Still a good read. Even if I want to throttle the teenage protag at times!

The Martian by Andy Weir. I picked the audiobook up on a whim because it was available and I needed something to listen to. Best whim I've had this year! I don't know what I expected from the book, (I haven't seen the film) but it was a blast from start to finish. Again, the narration by Wil Wheaton didn't hurt!

Jade City by Fonda Lee. I've only had a chance to read the first of the trilogy, and it was setting up for some grand things. It's been a while since I looked around the fantasy genre for a good series to sink my teeth into and there's been so much published since I last went looking. Can't wait to get to the next two.

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland. Fantasy queer romance. Does what it says on the tin. The right amount of trope and emotion and vibe. I've read a few fantasy romances this year and I was expecting something melodramatic and cliche but fun, and it delivered way above what I expected! I know the author is publishing again next year and I can't wait. I think it's pirates next time.

Honourable Mentions

Lessons in Chemisty - Bonny Garmus

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

The Odssey - Homer (I know QUITE A WHILE Huh?)

I listened to an audiobook narrated by George Blagden, this has been a book I've tried to read for a while as I am ofc very aware of the cultural impact, but I just couldn't get into reading it. Considering the Odyssey comes from Oral Tradition it is so much better when read to you. George Blagden's voice doesn't hurt either :P

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

I'm rereading Jane Austen's Emma for the first time since I read it the first time, and I'm trying to go slowly and really enjoy the language, not zoom through for "OMG WHAT HAPPENS NEXT". I'm now getting to enjoy the slower chapters and all the bonus gossip and vibes.

I'm also in the middle of Victoria Goddard's Hands of the Emperor which has been a good read so far, protags who aren't -20 are rare and I love it.

Yes I ADHD read multiple books at once.

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[oneiriad]

Tried googling what George Blagden is up to these days, and apparently there's going to be a Vikings con in Germany in April 2025.

3 minutes of Athelstan for sale for 61 euros.

I mean, the castle looks pretty, but German castles generally do. And no.

(I also noticed that this con is mostly getting fairly small side character actors, while Gustaf Skarsgård and Alex Høgh will be visiting a bigger, more general con in Dortmund).

And nobody ever visits Denmark, except to marvel at how nobody bothers random US celebrities and kids can run around freely in Tivoli.