#mallory queen

[deliciouskeys]

imo

[just-a-latina-fangirl]

GUYS

Here’s the link to the article

[costumeloverz71]

Queen Madalena (Mallory Jansen) Purple gown with black lace sleeves.. Galavant (2015-2016).. Costume by Sheena Napier & Susannah Buxton

[vivalgi]

Everyone has antagonists they wish to romance but what's the most F'd up lineup for Villainous Valentine you can come up with?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The defending champion Molla Mallory, right, in the Women’s National Singles Championship, with Helen Wills Moody at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, August 25, 1927. Moody won the women's title.

Photo: Associated Press

[jaybirdscoffee]

BY GOD. SHE’S BACK. LADY ETHEL MALLORY IS BACK.

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Meggy: You actually make a good argument.

Bob: I do some of my best work when I bullshit.

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Nimbus: Do you have an idea of who Lady Gaga is?

Queen Melody: Presumably the wife of Lord Gaga.

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Saiko: I’m a little low on cash.

Tari: How much do you have?

Saiko: Nothing.

Bob: How can you walk around with no money?

Saiko: I’m hot, I get by.

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Ping: I need somewhere to sit.

Umbra: *gestures to a chair*

Ping: *throws the chair out the window*

Umbra: *sighs, pointing to his lap*

Ping: Aww, thank you, Umbra! You’re so sweet!

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Mandy: I wanted to tell you a joke, but I only remember the punchline.

Juliano: Go ahead.

Mandy: Tooth hurty.

Juliano: When is the best time to go to the dentist.

Mandy: You should have been a clown.

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Cody: And that concludes our presentation! LC, you’re up!

Lil Coding: Alright, it's time to see if you little shits were listening.

*kahoot music begins to play*

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STH!Root: I fear no one.

Mrs. Mallory: Root, guess what? There are Beyonders here!

STH!Root, abruptly fleeing the room: I WAS NEVER HERE!!

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SMG4: Ugh, I can’t even SPEAK the name of the woman who organized that monstrosity of a PTA meeting!

SMG3: I don’t give a fuck. Her name was Susan.

SMG4: FUCKING SUSAN!

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Cody, to LC&Lily: Wow, if your dads could see you right now they’d have a heart attack.

Bowser Jr: Good idea! I’ll take a picture!

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Irene: Tulip! I think you set the oven too high!

Tulip: I'm the master of baking! Watch!

*Irene shrieks and runs away as Tulip pulls down the oven door, which spews out flames directly at her.*

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Juliano: You’ve been stalking me??

The Abyss: You call it stalking, I call it "lovingly lurking in the shadows".

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Chester: How are you still alive??

Aite: Honestly I’m just as confused as you are.

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Mario: I am not party rocking, and I am not in the house tonight.

Luigi: but are you shuffling?

Mario: ..

Mario: Every day.

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Meggy: What are you doing?

Mario: I’m holding my breath to see if I could last as long underwater as the characters in the movie.

Meggy: ..why are you watching Finding Nemo??

[petulant-poet]

Who up versing they silt

[cheeseandstrawberrytartlover]

Six Fanarts

Featured: a young Almalexia, a young Queen Barenziah, Delvin Mallory, Relmyna Verenim, Nerevar Indoril, Lucien Lachance

Took me 4 days! Tagging the people that have asked for certain characters below!

Deets for people who cannot zoom in as much

@orangevanillabubbles @shivering-isles-cryptid @average-crazy-fangirl @thalwhore @xcoffeepostx

[sansa-of-oldstones]

Gonna go cry about the fact that in F&B, Helaena offered her own life to Blood and Cheese.

I really think the choice to change this was deliberate. Let’s be real, her begging for her children’s lives, asking them to take hers instead, would have been more powerful. It would have ripped my heart out even more than it did.

Rhaenyra can cry, “a son for a son,” all she wants, but she didn’t go through what Helaena did BECAUSE OF DAEMON SENDING BLOOD AND CHEESE OFF TO MURDER. BECAUSE OF HER OWN WORDS TO HER COUNSIL.

It’s why they insisted Helaena participate in the procession. They knew.

Aemond didn’t command Vhagar to kill Luke. Rhaenyra didn’t have to witness it. Enough already.

Anyway, I am not sure how to articulate what I’m feeling after reading GRRM’s not a blog post on Reddit, but I am UPSET.

[battlevann]

Angelica and Mallory playlists...

[deliciouskeys]

I did the zombie apocalypse team meme for The Boys.

[hitchell-mope]

I know I need to watch the movie first.

But my brain won’t let me get that far because it’s already got me making fancasts for the ZM version of the fourth movie. All I’ve got at the moment are:

Catherine Zeta Jones. Scarlett (Letty) Blanc The Red Queen.

Jake Gyllenhaal. Simon Blanc The White King. Scarlett’s younger brother.

Asher Angel. Wallace (Wally) Blanc The Red Prince. Scarlett’s son.

Joshua Bassett. Wesley (Wes) Blanc The White Prince. Simon’s son.

Sophia Anne Caruso. Youngish Elsa.

Lilly Collins. Youngish Verna.

Brenton Thwaites. Youngish Adam.

Mallory Jansen. Youngish Belle.

McKenna Grace. Chloe Charming. (Cinderella and Charming in ZM)

Michael Sheen. Cheshire Cat.

[petit-hughie]

That’s kinda gay

Who? 😑

Oh my god 😭

Is she not with you??

My poor girl 💔

Tributes dead:

Also Ashley

Translucent

Frenchie

Kimiko

Homelander

Robin

Gecko

Hughie

Butcher

Soldier boy

A-Train

Black Noir

Lamplighter

Fire Cracker

Ashley

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Harry Dresden Does Not Handle Exes Well

If Storm Front was the general introduction to the world, Fool Moon to werewolves, and Grave Peril to the Vampire Courts, then Summer Knight is where we meet the Fae Courts, and they are unequivocably the most dangerous of the factions Dresden has interacted with so far. Harry's actions and interactions with the Queens and Ladies in this book echo into the rest of the series, and have consequences all the way through Peace Talks and Battle Ground. That said, this book is also weirdly bifurcated in terms of Harry's personal character arc--he had man pain and girl trouble--and the plot-y, political stuff with the council and fae courts. Let's talk Summer Knight.

As per usual, FULL SERIES SPOILERS below the break, so be warned.

Harry opens this book hardcore wallowing in guilt and self-loathing over Susan's abortive transformation, exodus from his life, and his own inability to reverse the change. He hasn't showered or shaved in way too long, he's about to be evicted from everywhere, and all his friends are trying and failing to stage interventions.

Then the high school sweetheart he low-key thought he might have accidentally murdered after she betrayed him to their abusive foster father/teacher (who Harry killed in a duel) quite literally knocks on his front door.

And this is on top of Murphy--who has fully shifted into BFF territory at this point--struggling with psychic scars that Harry also blames himself for. Being a mortal woman in Harry Dresden's orbit honestly sounds EXHAUSTING because this man has exactly zero sense of the balance required to actually help someone. Harry gets lost in his own man pain and how he somehow "should" be able to throw raw power at a problem and fix it, and the next thing you know, the women who are reasonably dealing with their own trauma suddenly have to drag Harry's ass out of his pain over their pain. There is a reason flight attendants tell you to put on your own mask before assisting others. Hell, even Elaine says it to Harry at the end of the book:

Stop feeling sorry for yourself, Harry. [...] I understand that there's something you're blaming yourself for. I'm just guessing at the details, but its pretty clear you were driving yourself into the ground because of it. Get over it. You aren't going to do her any good as a living mildew collection. Stop thinking about how bad you feel--because if she cares about you at all, it would tear her up to see you like I saw you a few days ago.

This is not the last time someone calls Harry out for not helping, but it honestly isn't until about Skin Game that the Susan stuff and its aftermath get fully resolved. Not to get too TMI on main, but honestly Harry reminds me of a college boyfriend I had who just could not handle my health stuff. And that's not a judgment thing, not everyone can handle everything, but where Harry falls down on the goddamn job here is not knowing where his own weaknesses are and compensating for them. His pattern of "but muh man pain" holds all the way through the series, literally up to and including Battle Ground.

So suffice it to say that I'm not a huge fan of Harry Dresden Goes to Peices over Both His Ex-Griflriends. So what did I like about this book?

Couple things.

I loved that Harry finally brought Murphy fully into the supernatural world fold. I don't love his sexist bullshit with her, but I spent a lot of the series ignoring that because the rest of their dynamic is really damn good. And Murphy handing the Chlorofiend its own ass is never not awesome.

I also really, really enjoyed the introduction of the fae courts. Butcher really did take just a massive double handful of fairy myth threads and weave them into something magical (if perpetually horny in a way that gets really complicated and more than a little contradictory later). Summer and Winter more or less seem to map onto the Seelie and Unseelie courts, and the power structures more or less steal from the maiden (lady)/mother (queen)/crone (mother) structure of triple goddesses across the world. Not to mention that we get folkloric and fantasy creatures from trolls and centaurs to red caps and Jenny Greenteeth throughout the courts. We even get things like changelings and Victorian Era-inspired small folk. We also get the dangers of fairy bargains, food, and glamor. I would be hard-pressed to point to a fairytale/fae folk tradition that doesn't get some level of wink-and-nod at some point in the series. Hell, we even get a cheeky final line from Shakespeare's fairy play, at which point you've officially ticked every box.

Overall, I would have to say that the worldbuilding and the fae courts were what really kept me reading this book. I loved the synthesis of lore and myth in creating them, and the little bait and switch we get with Winter being the straight shooting court and Summer being absofuckingloutely terrifying in its duplicity is a nice touch that honestly I didn't appreciate on earlier reads.

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June 18, 2024

Happy 35 Birthday to Mallory Jansen.