#modern day princess diana i tell you

[reijndeers]

crowd singing happy birthday to b 🫶🫶

[long-live-astronerd-ghost-king]

DPxDC prompt: Danny is Chronos' first child.

Well, not his first child biologically, to be completely honest.

It just so happened that the Phantom very often helped/helps/will help Clockwork at different times and his presence next to the titan required an explanation.

And the opportunity to call Zeus a little brother is worth a lot, right? So when the Ancient came up with this idea Phantom did not resist just to have such a pleasant bonus from their cooperation.

However, in the time of the gods and heroes, such a solution was not a problem. But in modern times, when Phantom tries to attract as little attention as possible in order to graduate from university, such relatives are more likely to cause a lot of problems.

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Wonder Woman: Uncle Danny?

Superman, who wanted to chase away a teenager serenely strolling through still smoking battlefield, turns to Wonder Woman, who is waving affably at excactly this guy.

Well, Fenton honestly happened to be in Fawcett City by accident, and it just so happened that by chance it was on this sunny and cloudless day that the villains decided to cause riots worthy of the attention of the founders of the Justice League.

Danny: Diana! My dear, it seems like we really haven't seen each other not for a long time! In what century was it? Ah, I honestly, I barely remember it... The speed at which children grow up defies the laws of time. I mean, look at you! Your mother must be so proud. How's Dad? Still not paying child support, arrogant bastard?

Wonder Woman: Oh, uncle, please. I'm all grown up now, don't worry about me.

Danny: Hm, well, let's get back to this question later. I didn't want to embarrass you in front of your friends. Anyway, would you like to introduce them, little princess?

Wonder Woman: Of course, meet Kal El, Batman, and Shazam. The rest of the guys have already returned to our base. Would you like to...

Danny: Ooh, you're talking about, um... What do you young people call it? The Justice League, right? During my youth, the heroes rarely united and mostly performed all the feats alone. It's good that you help each other, kids.

Danny flies up a little to pat Superman and Batman on the head.

Under the Diana's gaze full of hope that they will get along with her uncle, the men do not move.

In the background:

Red Hood and Robin who used to hang out with Danny near the Lazarus pits: *sounds of seagulls dying of laughter*

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Flash: So you're Diana's uncle?

Danny: Yes, call me Danny.

Flash: Cool, cool...

Danny: What does the temperature have to do with it? Do you need ice? Let me make some for you.

Flash: No, it's like,um, I didn't know that Zeus has a younger brother with that name. So, it's good to know?

Danny: Hmm, thanks. Many people tell me that I look quite young, hah. But actually I'm his older brother, so...

Flash: Older? Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to disrespect.

Danny: No, it's all right. It's "cool". I rarely appear on the pages of your human myths and legends, I know it. After all this business about Chronos devours his own children, my father punished me for a long time. So, yeah...It's a funny story.

Flash: Punished for what? How?

Danny: Uh, sitting in a room at a time when there is no Internet or electricity is not fun at all. You see, I just didn't want a younger brother or sister because I was afraid that my parents would pay less attention to me. So, I made up this stupid prophecy and persuaded Gaea to tell it in order to remain the only child in the family. My father would never have thought that I would decide to kill him, that's why...Phah, it's just a bad family story. In 10 thousand years, we'll all laugh about it.

Flash: Yeah, that's... funny.

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Danny *is woken up by an emergency call from the League at three in the morning, although he fell asleep at two o'clock* (he gave his contact so as not to upset his niece): I knew this would happen! I knew it!

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Billy Batson *stands in his human form in front of the Justice League and doesn't know what to say*,*sweating nervous*.

Danny *enters the hall*: What's up, mortals, Diana and...Batman? My father said that there is something that I have to be here for. Oh! Well, at least someone in this family is also a shapeshifter. Have you decided to make a younger form so that your uncle doesn't feel lonely? What a good boy! Usually everyone is so afraid to seem like children, once they turn a couple of centuries old. Ah, youth~

Billy: Yeah, I decided to..experiment? and it seems I got stuck by accident.

Danny: It's okay, Uncle Danny will help you. Come on, let's go...

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Danny *teleports them to the Fawcett City*.

Billy: ....

Danny:

Billy: Hey, I'm still stuck!

A new portal opens and a man in a purple cape hands Billy a note. "Go to Constantine. P.S., my son always completes all assignments only by half, sorry." written on it.

Billy: Oh... OoOhHh!!!

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Meanwhile, Constantine, who is forced to do additional work: Son of a bi... beloved and respected Master of Time.

Danny: Yeap, that's me.

Constantine: Damn it. Couldn't you just let Batman adopt him like in other timelines?

Danny: And where's the fun in that?

[iwanthermidnightz]

This was a very good article! I loved hearing Kristen’s (and Jodie Fosters) perspective as a queer trailblazer. Inserting some snippets below 🤍

To get to this point, Stewart’s weathered more than a decade of unrelenting media scrutiny, first about her straight relationships, then about her gay ones, as she figured out her own identity. She leveraged her global stardom from the “Twilight” franchise not to become a superhero or a lifestyle guru, but to fuel an astonishing run of acclaimed independent films, including “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Still Alice,” “Certain Women,” “Personal Shopper” and the Princess Diana drama “Spencer,” for which she earned an Oscar nomination.

“Whenever I hear that she’s doing something new, I’m so curious to see what it is, because it’s going to be a movie that hasn’t been made before,” says Clea DuVall, who directed Stewart in one of her only Hollywood films during this period, Hulu’s 2020 release “Happiest Season,” the first lesbian Christmas rom-com backed by a major studio. “She really is so herself. And I think that’s why so many people respond to her the way they do — because she is so authentic.”

By the time Stewart stepped on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” in February 2017, she’d spent the previous two years trying to convince the press that it was OK to write about her relationships with women, rather than resort to the vexing practice of referring to her girlfriend as her “gal pal.”

“It wasn’t even like I was hiding,” she says. “I was so openly out with my girlfriend for years at that point. I’m like, ‘I’m a pretty knowable person.’”

But even with that posture, the media’s “gal pal” dog whistle triggered a deeper, more painful history of intrusive curiosity about Stewart’s sexual identity. “For so long, I was like, ‘Why are you trying to skewer me? Why are you trying to ruin my life? I’m a kid, and I don’t really know myself well enough yet,’” she says. “The idea of people going, ‘I knew that you were a little queer kid forever.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah? Well, you should honestly have seen me fuck my first boyfriend.’”

It’s worth dwelling on this point: For almost the entire history of Hollywood, queer actors dreaded the public discovering who they really were, and that fear kept the closet door firmly closed. “Because I was gay, I really retreated,” says DuVall, who came out publicly in 2016. “Even doing a teeny tiny movie like [the ’90s lesbian cult favorite] ‘But I’m a Cheerleader,’ people immediately were like, ‘She’s gay, how can we out her?’ I wanted to stay small.”

Stewart, though, went big, with a monologue on “SNL” about how President Donald Trump, in 2012, obsessively tweeted about her relationship with Pattinson. “Donald, if you didn’t like me then, you’re really probably not going to like me now, because I’m hosting ‘SNL’ — and I’m, like, so gay, dude,” she said to wild cheers from the audience.

“It was cool to frame it in a funny context because it could say everything without having to sit down and do an interview,” Stewart says before running through the kind of questions queer actors have had to consider before coming out publicly: “‘So what platform is that going to be on? And who’s going to make money on that? And who’s going to be the person that broke it?’ I broke it, alone.”

A few days later, I mention Stewart’s “SNL” monologue to Foster over the phone, and she lets out a big laugh. “I never knew that,” she says. “What a wonderful, funny, wry, modern way to be honest to the world. That’s just awesome.”

As Stewart talks about her “SNL” experience, I think about how no stars of her age and stature ever came out when I was growing up as a gay kid in the 1980s and ’90s. So to have her professional trajectory not skip a beat feels like real progress.

When I tell her as much, she takes the conversation in an unexpected direction. “Because I’m an actor, I want people to like me, and I want certain parts,” she says. “I have lots of different experiences that shape who I am that are very, very far from binary. But I did get good at the heteronormative quality. I play that role well. It comes from a somewhat real place — it’s not fake. But it’s fucked up that if I was gayer, it wouldn’t be the case.”

I try to clarify what she means: “So your career maybe would have suffered after coming out had you not affected a performative femininity …”

“… that I know works to my advantage,” she admits, nodding. “That’s why I’m fucking stoked about ‘Love Lies Bleeding.’”

Stewart didn’t let that scandal, as intense as it was in the moment, stifle her. Instead, she grew to fully embrace her queerness in her public life — like bringing her girlfriend, screenwriter Dylan Meyer, to the Oscars in 2022. “It’s not that I wasn’t scared,” Stewart says. “It was just that there was no other way to live.”

She’s even started to recognize that the most ostensibly heterosexual thing she’s done, “Twilight,” has its own queer sparkle. “I can only see it now,” she says. “I don’t think it necessarily started off that way, but I also think that the fact that I was there at all, it was percolating. It’s such a gay movie. I mean, Jesus Christ, Taylor [Lautner] and Rob and me, and it’s so hidden and not OK. I mean, a Mormon woman wrote this book. It’s all about oppression, about wanting what’s going to destroy you. That’s a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”

I ask Stewart if she understands how much her decision to come out has also made her a role model for LGBTQ people. She cackles. “Oh, you have no idea,” she says. “Every single woman that I’ve ever met in my whole life who ever kissed a girl in college is like, ‘Yeah, I mean, me too.’ I’m constantly joking with my girlfriend. I’ll be sitting there and be like” — she whispers — “‘She’s gay too. Everyone’s gay.’”

It can be easy to forget just how rare this still is, a giant movie star living such an openly queer life. “It feels like a generational thing, where I’m watching somebody make the leaps that I didn’t think I could ever do,” Foster says.

After fiercely guarding her privacy for decades, Foster came out publicly at the 2013 Golden Globes, and has just now played her first explicitly gay character in the 2023 biopic “Nyad.” Talking about Stewart has put Foster in a reflective mood. As our call is coming to an end, she offers this unprompted insight: “I get a lot of questions about who I was and what I represented in the industry, and was I — I don’t know …” She exhales. “Was I helpful in terms of representation? I’m sure there’s a 12- or 13- or 14-year-old when I was making movies as a young person who said that I had something to offer to them in their life as a queer person. I had to do it my way. I had pioneers to help the way, who I’m grateful for. And now people can be grateful for Kristen for being the pioneer. I’m just — I’m grateful to her.”

This sense of communion with the wider LGBTQ tribe is why Stewart has dedicated herself to embracing the fullness of who she is as a bro-y, butch-y queer woman in her work as an actor and, come hell or high water, a director.

“I was like, ‘I would like to be on that team because we need each other,’” Stewart says. “I didn’t want to be left out anymore. It was this whole world that I didn’t realize I could explore.”

[evita-shelby]

i'm sorry im obsessed with older shelby headcanons, like geriatric Eva being a firm Diana stan, slighting Cowmilla and just the monarchy in general.

Or just like how there family is immortalized and percieved through history. Where their company may be now. Shelby descendants dominating every industry.

A funny meta thing where a dramatization of the Shelby family origins shoots and people look at the historical figures and are like "damnnnnnnn that's a zaddy right there"

or like Eva and Thomas just not getting with the times and modern technology, "you can't just kill people like you use to these days"

I hope you enjoy 😉

Gif by @quelmarth

Eva would be wondering why these two ladies are fighting over Charles the Turd when they could just find better men or better yet get together.

She would be at each women's weddings(and Camilla's it would be a sympathies greeting card cuz she's dead by then) be like, seriously? This guy is who you want? Take my grandson, Tom Jr, he's a much better guy, smaller ears too.

Tommy lives well into his 90s because Eva doesn't want him to die way earlier than her

He still remains a very private person and goes full cryptid once he retires from politics

Charlie grows up to be a very liberal politician with a personal feud with Margaret Thatcher, outlives her so he can piss on her grave

He's also Winston Churchill's son in law by his daughter, Mary (who contrary to irl mary Churchill doesn't become a conservative)

Has an I love my gay sister(Diane who is bi) t shirt the moment they come into the market

Diane ends up a singer-actress-buisnesswoman-philanthropist who does a little bit of everything and yet no one is really sure what she does.

Diane also lives very modestly for someone with a lot of money

Also is openly bi but no one believes her

She marries Tom Bennett from World on Fire and has two or three kids

Her eldest son, Thomas Jr, is Eva's favorite grandkid

Gabe becomes a spy/assassin and eventually marries Luca’s only daughter and pretends to be working for the company abroad when really no one knows where he is

Some speculate he died as a teenager as no records or photographs exist of him past 16

They all show up at Arrow House on every major holiday come hell or high water

Eva wrote her memoirs but marketed it as fiction

Everyone has theories about what's true and what's not

Florence marries Andrew Roberts JR (son of Billy Kimber’s accountant) who she's callee her boyfriend since they were six

Florence may or may not have had a romantic relationship with Princess Margaret on the side as both were playmates and the same age

There are several adaptations of Eva's memoirs and what little they have on The Shelbys

There are Sucession style series, documentaries and docu-series and a fuck ton of tell all books about them done the second they die (Tommy in the late 1980s and Eva in 2000 at the age of 104)

Eva is nearly always played by Salma Hayek or Penelope Cruz

Tommy is played by Jason Statham or Leonardo Dicaprio

Eva is also a Catholic Saint who gets decanonized once it is known she was an aetheist

[primal-slayer]

Re-designing Wonder Woman

Various writers/artists talk through redesigning Wonder Woman

CBR News: Diana's new costume was revealed in "Wonder Woman" #41. In her own words, it was finally time for her to leave the 'girl behind' and embrace then woman that she's become. What can you tell us about the new design and why it represents Diana as a god, a queen and a warrior for justice?

Meredith Finch: One of things Dave and I discussed was that the initial costume that she wore was the one that she put on when she left Themyscira and went into the world of men. At that time, she wasn't part of the Justice League. She was just herself. I wanted the costume to be more in line with what other members of the Justice League are wearing. I also wanted it to be in line with the fact that she is a queen now. If you look at the costume that Hippolyta wore -- traditionally, queens tend to put on much more ceremonial costumes. And, she's also a warrior, so I wanted to be a really strong, solid costume. It hints at the Amazon culture but also fits in the modern world.

When making a major decision, like changing an iconic costume, how much credence lies with fandom and those that have loved the costume since the days of the Linda Carter TV series and the George Perez miniseries and what serves your story and new readers of the title?

If you look at the sketch designs that Dave did (published in "Wonder Woman" #41) for the new costume, first and foremost, they are all intended to be reflective of the character. And when you find something that works, it's like a title for a book: It just works. Dave did quite a few costume designs, and once he did the one that we landed on, it worked instantly for both of us. Getting approval from DC Editorial was fairly easy, because looking at it, the costume just has a synergy with the character. It's strong and reflective of who Diana is, and is still very recognizable as a Wonder Woman costume.

Does the costume have any special properties, or is Diana powerful enough that she does not need any extra protection?

The nice thing is that because it's a new suit, if we decide that we want to add something to it, we'll be able to do that. But looking at who she is right now, she's not just Wonder Woman and an Amazon princess -- she's Wonder Woman and the God of War. As a god, she really is invincible. The suit is much more a reflection of who she is than an addition to who she is. But to be fair, it was designed by Hephaestus, so I am sure there is something special in there because he does love her. https://www.cbr.com/finch-on-signifi...ys-redemption/

“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Mr. Straczynski wrote. “If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.”

He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”

Given Wonder Woman’s pre-eminence as a female character in the largely male superhero pantheon, her looks have always been a matter of more than casual interest, to both fanboys and feminists. In a 2006 interview about her work on the series, the novelist Jodi Picoult said: “One of the first things I did was ask if we could give her breast-reduction surgery, because as a woman, I know you wouldn’t fight crime in a bustier. But I was somehow shot down by DC.” The new costume was designed by the artist Jim Lee, who in February was named co-publisher of DC, alongside Dan DiDio. Given the assignment, “my first reaction was, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” Mr. Lee said in an interview. But he welcomed the challenge: “When these characters become so branded that you can’t change things, they become ossified.”

The new look — with an understated “W” insignia, a midnight blue jacket and a flinty fusion of black tights and boots — is darker than the famed swimsuit-style outfit, and aims to be contemporary, functional and, as Tim Gunn of “Project Runway” might say, less costumey.

Given the hope that the character will one day have her own international film franchise (a feature has long been gestating at Warner Entertainment, DC’s parent company), one test of the design was to imagine how it would look standing next to, say, Batman’s politically neutral ensemble. “The original costume was the American flag brought to life,” Mr. Lee said. “This one is a little more universal.”

Mr. Lee has drawn his share of sexy superheroines (the X-Men’s Rogue among them), some in skimpy costume, and knows what many fans will ask: “Why am I covering up her legs?” Ultimately, he wanted her to look strong “without screaming, ‘I’m a superhero.’ ”

The arrival of Issue 600 is a bit of comic-book sleight of hand, or, as DC calls it, a return to historical numbering. Wonder Woman’s first self-titled series, which begin in 1942, ended with No. 329. The character was then overhauled, her previous continuity erased, and she starred in Volume 2 as a heroine new to the world. That incarnation lasted 226 issues. Another new direction spurred a third volume (and, to collectors who care about such things, another Issue No. 1) that ran for 44 issues. Do the math, and what would have been Issue No. 45 is now Volume 1, No. 600.

The new costume will almost certainly be better received than the curveball thrown Wonder Woman in 1968, when she lost her powers, dressed mod and practiced martial arts. It took the attention of no less than Gloria Steinem to protest the change, and to help get the Amazon back into her star-spangled duds. Ms. Steinem went on to use Wonder Woman, resplendent in red, white and blue, on the cover of the first issue of Ms. magazine in 1972. A cover line proclaimed, “Wonder Woman for President.”

That’s the kind of attention Mr. Straczynski thinks she deserves: “Wonder Woman is a strong, dynamic, vibrant character who should be selling in the top 20, and I’m going to do all I can to get her there.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/bo...S8G9WNUsmwNo5Q

I got to design the Wonder Woman costume for our Earth Two series, with just some small tweaks by Jim Lee. It’s my version of her battle armor as apposed to a classic variant. It was the most appropriate direction considering the context.

Truthfully, I like the middle ground between pure fantasy and practicality. I want to know how a costume works, what all the parts are for, where did it come from, what it’s made of. I want there to be a practical nature but for that to not limit the design. https://sciencefiction.com/2012/03/1...-nicola-scott/

IGN: I'm glad you brought up the costume. Both you and Nicola are obviously drawing Diana at very different points in her life. Can you talk about the process of redesigning her look and what influences you drew from?

Sharp: Yeah, there's the basic one from the New 52. There's elements of that. There's also elements from the film version. With the one I'm doing, Greg was like, "Do you like the film costume?", and I said I really liked it. So let's just do that. That's settled. I was very happy to adapt that look for what I was doing with the costume. Nic's has slight variations. I talked about this with Greg. She'll wear different outfits. For instance, the cape is ceremonial. It's not always going to be there. We're of the belief that these characters live in a real universe. Obviously it's a fictional universe, but they wouldn't continue to wear the same clothes all the time. It's just ridiculous to assume that they would. So there are variations, and that's fine with me.

Scott: In the Year One story, I had asked if we could take the film costume and make it just a little more comic book-y and a little brighter and shinier. This is her first outing wearing a Wonder Woman costume. It's freshly minted. The breastplate has just come out of the forge and it's just been dyed. It's fresh. It's her first adventure off the island.

Sharp: Whereas mine is all tattered and beaten up and scuffed.

Scott: And probably has pieces replaced. It's a more mature outfit, where mine is meant to make her look a little more optimistic. https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05...s-diana-prince

MFT: Did you design the costume? How did you approach the task of a Victorian-era Wonder Woman design?

PW: Yes, I based it on a Victorian/Western showgirl. I looked at the original costume, hence the eagle, but stylized it to give it a more turn-of-the-century feel. I looked at Art Nouveau artists like Alphonse Mucha especially and some of the Pre-Raphealite painters like Holman Hunt, Millais, and the more stylistic Dante Gabriel Rosetti and also Victorian painters Alma Tadema and John William Waterhouse. It was important for me to understand Victorian scruples as much as their idealization of beauty. https://fanbasepress.com/press/featu...oman-amazonia/

]JF: From my perspective I’m really inspired by the designs that these film-makers are coming up with in these movies. A lot of the times I sit there and I look at these designs and go, “These are great! Why aren’t we thinking about these designs in comics? How come we didn’t think of that first?” I have to say, it’s really cool to see that Ben Affleck’s Batman costume looks like it does in the comics. It’s taking its cue from the comics, you know? So I made a joke on Twitter that I’d been drawing Ben Affleck’s Batman for the last three years. I draw this guy with a giant chin in a Batman suit.

We came up with our Wonder Woman design, and a lot of people would think that our Wonder Woman design is based off of the movie Wonder Woman, but actually it’s based off of an old drawing I did five years ago that Geoff found and really liked. So we used that as a costume. Then it just so happened that, “Oh, Cool! There’s a Wonder Woman costume that kind of goes in that same direction!” I think with the comics, visually, we want these characters to look as classic as possible. The more classic you make your characters look, the longer life your book has. It can transcend time. It’s not stuck in a time period where it’s, “Well, remember when they did that?” It’s these characters are in their classic looks.

We really talked about that because we want this book to be as big as possible. We want it to be as timeless as possible, and we want fans to come to our Justice League to see the characters in their classic designs, and just dive into the story and go from there. We want to deliver the best visual and story book that we possibly can. We want you to feel like you’re getting your money’s worth with these books, every single month. That’s our goal. http://www.multiversitycomics.com/in...war-interview/

Wonder Woman isn’t wearing her traditional costume but pants. Tell me a bit about how you came up with the look? Which do you prefer? Are these Amazon pants or off the shelf pants?

“You know what Lois like to see when she gets home? Pants. Pants on everyone.” As for these pants, they're store-bought. Or maybe “borrowed.” We’ll get to a more traditional look (or an amalgam of the various “traditional” takes) later in the arc. I had one idea for that one. Jorge took it, and ran with it and gave it his own twist, and it looks GREAT. As for her “vigilante” look when we meet her, we were going for something a little more urban combat-y. Pockets. Knives. Hair up. Some of her Agent Diana Prince look, mixed in with a bit of her (in hindsight, unjustly) lamented “Odyssey" look. Of course, we’d be remiss to not have her bracelets/gauntlets. She can’t NOT have those. Therein lies madness. https://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com...der-woman-once

Themyscira is just the start of Paquette’s visual re-imagining. “My first thought when Wonder Woman with Grant was mentioned was ‘I don’t want her to be dressed as an American flag.’ Not because an American flag is wrong but it made no sense. She’s coming from such a rich, wonderful culture with so much iconography (Greek culture), so why does she not use that, and why would she dress up as a flag? She’s not Captain America. But at the same time, I understood that this kind of iconic colour/texture is something that’s recognizable, so in that aspect it does have value. If I could reach the same design with a few differences, but make it so it’s not coming from the flag, it’s coming from a natural extension of her culture, I could live with this. The retro-engineering of her costume into something that makes sense is already embedded into the story.” He details some of the changes he has in mind. “The animal associated to Aphrodite is a dove so instead of an eagle on [Wonder Woman’s] breastplate, it will be more of a dove. It’s not the American eagle, it’s the Aphrodite dove. Stuff that creates [the letter] W is by accident, so it’s not like she already has a letter of the alphabet on her [costume]. In the end I’ve created a structure so it feels inevitable for Wonder Woman to look the way she does.” https://thatshelf.com/interview-yanick-paquette-on-wonder-woman/

[froggy-1988]

Information post

Seeing it was the coronation this weekend and I know that a lot of people aren't in countries with monarchy I thought I'd do a quick and easy how the modern British monarchy works.

Money: The crown owns a lot of land, like some important streets in London that they get rent from, the duchy of Lancaster and the duchy of Cornwall - they gain income from this through rent and also they farm.

The money from the duchy of Cornwall supports the Prince of Wales and his family, the money from the duchy of Lancaster supports the other working royals and the minor royals.

Income from crown owned estates goes to the government and then the government gives some of it back to the royal family. They have the responsibility to maintain a lot of historical building with this money and so a large portion of it goes to building maintenance which is why sometimes you hear the royal family is struggling financially, some years those old buildings require a lot of work due to flood damage, fire damage and just age.

How much money does it cost the British public to have a royal family - about £1.20 a year per a tax paying person .

What's the point of a royal family if you have a government? Well, some people feel it guards from one person gaining absolute power and as such protects against dictatorships - in fact that's kind of how the current situation came around, we had a king who dismissed parliament for 11 years so he had absolute power, so he was beheaded. Then a man called Cromwell came to power and we'll .. he ended up having too much power to. Technically our government could choose to get rid of the king if they can prove he has too much power and technically he king could choose to get rid of the government if he thinks they're not acting in the best interests of the people but in reality - it doesn't happen because it would be a major major event. The king is meant to protect the people but be above politics and he advises the prime minister in weekly meetings but the prime minister also has the right to tell the king not to do certain things

Do you have a choice about having a royal family? Yes, there's even been votes in the past about whether we still want them, and at the moment polls show 54% of people still want a monarchy 32% don't and the rest really don't care.

What do they do?

They serve the people- they are figure heads, representatives in other countries.

Are they just celebrities: No, celebrities draw attention to themselves for their own gain, the royal family has attention but are meant to try and defect it to those who do good works and the British public in general. So they will turn up at charities and talk about the good work the charity does to give the charity attention.

What kind of charitys?

Each working royal has their own range of interests and supports charitys around those interests. Princess Diana was about landmines and HIV, Prince Harry was about sports for injured servicemen . Prince William likes sports and the air ambulance and rescue services as he used to work for these. Princess Katherine supports early years - kids from birth to five years old. Sophie has toured countries affected by war and is interested in woman who have suffered from wars. Camilla supports women who have faced domestic abuse. Meghan didn't do many royal engagements as she was pregnant for a large proportion of the time she was a working royal but she was given the royal theatre and the royal society of dogs as her charities as she was an actress and liked dogs. Then Princess Anne who is very into sports particularly rugby and horse riding - and a whole load of other things that nobody else wanted she's known as the hardest working royal and will often go to three charities a day to show her support.

What is a working royal: A member of the royal family whose sole or main job is working as a royal - the charity appearances and decision making and representing England in other countries. On royal occasions they get the front seats, the professional photos and the balcony appearances.

So yes... that is what a modern royal family is and does.

[kayla1993-world]

Seeing Queen Camilla crowned alongside King Charles on coronation day may be fraught with Prince William and Prince Harry. Their mother Princess Diana was destined for the role. "They are likely feeling wobbly about it," royal author Ingrid Seward tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week's issue. "I think many people will feel the same." Palace sources always insisted that Prince William, 41, and Prince Harry, 38, who grew up knowing their father's affair with Camilla, were welcoming to their stepmother. A family friend says "there wasn't any animosity," and Prince Harry voiced support for Camilla in 2005, saying that he and William "love her to bits" and that she was "not the wicked stepmother." However, in his sweeping memoir Spare, released earlier this year, the Duke of Sussex wrote that he and Prince William were glad their father had found happiness. However, they didn't want Charles to marry Camilla. Prince Harry also accused Camilla of leaking details of private conversations to the press. "He was justified in his complaint that he and William were used in the early days to legitimize the partnership of Charles and [Camilla]," royal biographer and A Greater Love author Christopher Wilson tells PEOPLE. "Over time, she's learned to roll with the punches. Harry's feelings have been known for many years. Her reaction to Harry's comments would be limited to a sad shake of the head." Despite the controversy, some say Camilla, 75, has earned her place as Queen alongside King Charles, 74. "She has done a lot to show she is prepared for it and has a right to be in the modern world," biographer Sally Bedell Smith tells PEOPLE. "And there has never been any doubt that Charles wants her there as Queen." Seward adds, "William is quite calm about it. But it will stick in Harry's throat a bit." Although it was announced when Charles and Camilla married in 2005 that she would be known as Princess Consort when Charles took the throne, Queen Elizabeth put an end to the title speculation in Feb. 2022 as she marked the 70th anniversary of her accession. The late monarch, who died in September at age 96, wrote, "When, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be referred to as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service." Camilla spoke out for the first time about the title shortly after the announcement. She did this during a visit to the Nourish Hub, a community kitchen in London. "I feel very privileged," she said. As the crowning ceremony draws near, it remains unclear if Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will travel to the U.K. for the historic service. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have resided in Meghan's home state of California since 2020 after stepping back as senior members of the royal family, have been invited to the event at Westminster Abbey. Come what may, "Queen Camilla" was not a title the one-time Camilla Parker Bowles ever imagined. But on May 6, she will be symbolically crowned alongside her husband at a historic coronation rich in tradition with modern touches. "Considering that for most of her life she'd never contemplated becoming Queen, she's doing incredibly well," Wilson tells PEOPLE. "It's a hell of a challenge being permanently in the spotlight at this age, but she's tough and can take it."

[interstellarfamous]

Week 13

Honestly, the Atlantic article assigned read like a fanfic in itself. “It was an electric June night in Flushing. Star-crossed Mets phenom Dwight Gooden made his first start following a drug suspension handed down that April, and the Amazin’s beat the Pirates 5-1. But what made that evening in 1987 truly extraordinary was not the play of the defending World Champion Mets (sigh).” 

these extrasensory descriptors that inform the audience about key details to the celebrities’ lives allow fans to convey the story as if they were a fly on the way of their fan object’s lives. this style of writing also often appears in sensationalist fanfic which seeks to dramatize the mundane actions of celebrities lives, simply because they’re famous. 

Two articles actually mention the former Princess Diana and bring to mind images of   her as an ascribed celebrity— but also as an attributed one, “the people’s princess.” I believe that lines such as these and these sort of titles, given to Princess Diana by her fandom, allow for her fans to begin using her imagery, iconography and general story to inform their own realities and “suspend our disbelief for a second.” (why do our brains love celebrity conspiracy theories?) Fans may then go on to make fanfic and fan generated content in order to more closely aligned with the stars/celebrities. 

J.K. Rowling’s line about having had “no idea there was this huge underworld seething beneath” her, in reference to her meeting the fan community of Drapple “shippers” really spoke to me as well, because you will truly never know how large your community and your outreach— there’s always new fandoms and communities cropping up.

The final article explains how “for as long as people have been telling stories, people have been telling stories about those stories. It’s a basic human impulse: The Greeks wrote fan fiction about the Trojan War; the Chinese wrote it during the Ming Dynasty; the Spaniards wrote it about Don Quixote; the Victorians about Sherlock Holmes.” This provides the contextualization necessary to begin to consider fanfic and “slashfic” as post-modern, present-day examples of storytelling.

Personally, I have been very interested about radically innovating, digital methods of storytelling that have begun to rise through platforms such as Clubhouse and even AI Generated Images. Each of these spaces, where the virtual user is able to create content based upon their unique insights, phrasings and perspectives allow us to see how new forms of storytelling are rapidly emerging. With that being said, I am actually leading my first ever Workshop titled “A.I. Storytelling Journey— Empowering your Eternal Youth” tomorrow, virtually, and I am so excited to begin using visual storytelling methods to illustrate the sort of stories— fanfic or otherwise— that are being told in today’s digital world. Let me know if you would like to join, at 2PM EST!

[bleubrri]

⟡ ゚ ៹ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ʙɪʀᴅ — nanami x reader

contains: modern royal!reader , journalist!nanami , infidelity , mention of yuji as nanamis son<3

a/n: it occurred to me i’ve never seen a modern royals au? think princess diana era drama. i envision nanami as a journalist that you confide in. this may or may not be v niche idk🚶🏾

the carpet muffles his hurried steps down the hall just enough that nanami can power walk with large, hastened strides along the outskirts of the palace without being detected. he always found it odd that technically they called his a house. it was very much a palace.

the staff member escorting him to these meetings for the past few months has always been the same, and they don’t seem to mind his apparent rush—perhaps they recognise that this clearly goes against his usual punctuality.

when they reach the room, all they offer is a kurt nod of the head before they’re opening the door for kento as he steps inside.

“apologies.” he clears his throat, trying to disguise the breathlessness in his voice.

you wave a hand. “i barely beat you. i’ve been here no longer than a minute.” you’re slipping off the satin scarf that’s tied around your head and the tartan blazer from around your shoulders. you look windswept, gorgeous. refreshing, as always, but with undereyes tinted purple.

“tea?”

“thank you.” he nods and makes his way over to the small sofa opposite you as the porcelain china clinks under your fingers. you’ve got a delicate touch, though nanami has noticed that everything about you seems delicate. he often finds himself wondering if you’ll break—if this family will break you, one day. shatter you into a thousand pieces as if you were a frost-stricken petal on a december morning.

“how are you?” he asks, his tone is tender and it makes your fingers pause as you add a drop of honey into his cup. it’s a request that you remembered him making during your first meeting, and he adores you for it.

your lips are pressed together so quickly that he wonders if he imagined it. “come now,” you tease, handing him the teacup and settling into your seat opposite him. “we always do you first.”

he huffs a laugh through his nose, tendrils of steam fogging his glasses as he takes a sip. “very well.”

he tells you about new interns, about big stories this week and the company expansion.

“so, you’re working a lot?” your tone practically drips with concern that he wishes you carried for yourself. nanami hums, placing his cup onto its saucer and throwing an ankle over his knee.

he tells you about yuji, and you light up a little. his achievements in school, his hobbies and the camping trip this summer that his son can’t stop gushing about.

“i should like to meet him someday.” you smile, hands draped over your knees as you lean forward, gripping on his every word.

nanamis eyes flicker over yours. “would that be.. appropriate?”

your gaze meets his and its steely, despite your tired smile. “i think they owe it to me to be a little inappropriate.”

they is the family. it’s always the family. always the institution. he can almost hear you cracking under the weight of it.

the hand that’s retracting from placing your own cup onto the table is caught in its path. “you’re owed a great deal more than that.” kento’s large palms cradle the shell of your own, feathered traces of the veins on your hand accompanying his words.

“how are you?” he asks again. the smile you give him is tight lipped, your eyes so glassy he thinks he can see the shards of you in them.

“he danced with her yesterday.” you whisper, and kento’s hands don’t stop their movements. “in public—at a charity event. a wonderful cause, though the papers didn’t seem to care. all they wanted was to write about how he couldn’t keep his hands off of his alleged mistre—”

a twisted sort of sob cracks your voice and kento is quick to lean forward and pull you into his reach. his lips brush your hairline and he keeps a firm grip on your hands with one of his, the other coming to cup your dampening cheek.

he brushes saltwater from under his thumb and pushes his lips further into your skin.

“i can’t stand it.” you whisper, “i fear i can’t.. i can’t bear another minute of it.”

nanami pulls back, the lenses of his glasses doing little to dull the intensity of his gaze.

“bear it with me, then.”

your brows crinkle, confusion colouring your expression that kento gets the desire to kiss away.

“just be here with me.” his voice is low as he rests your foreheads together. “just for a minute.”

you hum, and though tears slip past your lashline when your eyes flutter shut, you’re perfectly contented to stay like this—breathing him in in a moment of ease. a moment of peace. he always seems to center you. it’s like he’s catching you just in time, slipping a grounding hand around your ankle right before you float off out of everyone’s reach.

he’s true to his word, as always, though you curse the seconds for ticking away as they do, stealing your time with him.

“you should meet him. yuji.” he says, half smile and heavy gaze of his that always seem to be on your mind creeping onto his face.

you smile, a genuine smile that he knows so few people get the joy of experiencing, and give his hand a gentle squeeze. “i’d love that.”

nanami can feel the cool metal of your wedding ring against the skin of his palm. it’s mildly distracting, a subtle reminder of the larger birdcage that they have you trapped in.

but as he focuses on you nestled under his touch, your watery smile and tired eyes, kento can’t help but imagine. a sunset on your face, sand between your toes and pink hair ruffled between your fingers, another hand entwined with his.

kento thinks of your sad little smile, of your loneliness within these godforsaken halls, and desperately wishes for another life for you.

#: @i4sgwr @oxygenstarrved @gudetamae

[admirableadmiranda]

Hi.....just saw your random facts....can I ask your top 10 fav books (fiction) that you had? Sorry for asking another random ask.....Thanks....

No worries, anon! Love to talk about random things! It's a lot of fun!

Top ten books... it'll be top ten books at least of today. I could easily compile a top fifty.

Catwings series by Ursula K. Le Guin. Really simple children's stories that are some of the first books I can remember reading and are still some of my favorites.

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. A completely different heroine from so many I'd read as a young kid and she still stands out to me today. Just a beautiful comfort read.

Modaozushi by Mo Xiang Tong Xu. A much more recent entry into this list, but it has soared up to one of my favorite books of all time due to wonderful characters, beautiful complex plot and a something about it that continues to engage me after more than a year of focusing on it.

Ciara's Song by Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie. A Witch World book that is set mostly outside of the big plots, but is a story about an orphan who grows up to be happy even in the midsts of her world being at war and so much loss.

Dealing with Dragons/Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. Two of the Enchanted Forest Chronicle books and I cannot pick one above the other. Dealing with Dragons is the funny and charming series of a princess who is utterly bored with her life and decides to go become the princess to a dragon instead. Calling on Dragons is the quest to recover a magical sword featuring a no-nonsense witch, the same princess who is now a queen, a clever magician, two cats and a rabbit who's manage to transform himself into a donkey. Makes me laugh and grin the whole time.

Corambis by Sara Monet (the last book in the Doctrine of Labyrinths series) Specifically just this one. After three books of the leads struggling to overcome the absolutely miserable upbringing they had combined with the miserable present day, they actually begin to make something of it and find some sort of peace and happiness all the while dealing with a mysterious clockwork engine that seems to be gearing up to try and kill everyone around them.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. A lot of gently poking fun at typical fairy tale tropes combined with a very sassy narrator and a romance that leans into constant bickering that I actually enjoy.

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip. This one I can't quite put my finger on why I love it so much other than that it is haunting. It is not the happiest of stories by any means, it is about a young woman who has lived alone with only many mystical animals called by her family who is in search of a mysterious bird called the Liralen, one of the last strange beasts not in her menagerie, while below the kingdoms seek to control her and her mysterious animals in their wars.

Deerskin by Robin McKinley. If the previous book is somewhat haunting, this one definitely is. It is a retelling of the fairytale of Deerskin/Donkeyskin/Catskin, where the fairest queen in the world dies and makes her husband promise to not marry anyone again unless they are as beautiful as her. He swears that he will not, but cannot find anyone until their daughter comes of age and resembles her mother exactly. Deerskin is a much darker take on a dark fairytale, yet there is some light and hope and it ends on a gentle note. Not a story for the faint of heart, but still one of my favorites all the same.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley. If at this point you haven't guessed that she's one of my favorite authors, then I don't know what to tell you. Sunshine is a bit of a departure from the others, it is a modern day story set in a world in which vampires and werewolves and such are real, and our protagonist is an ordinary baker who makes the mistake of traveling out on her own to a lake where she is shortly snatched away by vampires to torment an old enemy of theirs, where it turns out that Sunshine is a little more than they were prepared for. Full of lavish descriptions of food, a lot of sass and snark and a world that gives you just enough description to be starving for more.

Thank you so much anon! I hope you enjoyed my desperate attempt to wrangle all my faves into some sort of order.

[thepavementsings-archive]

ahhhhh thank you sm for the recs!! excited to read/re-read all those masterpieces!! i am ready for your carlando recs now.....

Hello Anon I did not forget about you! I am newer to Carlando but here are some that I love. Also there were a few more I really loved but they seem to be hidden away right now so if you’re seeing this and you hid the Netflix accidental outing fic I loved that too <3.

As always if someone wants theirs taken off the list lmk! And please please send me your recs. Under the cut :)

From Here to Kingdom Come by Anon

Princess Diana Modern Day Royalty AU!! When I tell you that this is the fic of my dreams I yell about it every single time Anon updates. This LANDO actually makes me scream. It’s about carving out a place for yourself and for the people you love no matter the circumstance and ANON AUTHOR IF YOU’RE OUT THERE IF YOU [SPOILERS] I WILL DIE. I usually don’t rec WIPs but this is an exception it is my beloved fic. Literally using this fic rec to send a message to say this story is EVERYTHING to me and I literally yell about it all the time I owe you my life carlando royalty anon I really do. Godspeed and I will cry if you do it.

Fall and Fixture by @restacks

Spy AU. Restacks is an absolute genius at building the world of AUs. The attention to detail and all the little folds of the world that you get to peek behind in the writing are so artfully and masterfully done. The way that some tropes are really leant into and others are more subtly placed in makes the story feel so real and believable while still getting everything you want out of a specific universe like spies. The character work is stellar, the way the tension is molded throughout is perfect, and the payoff you get by the end is just really really fucking good. Everything in this story is immaculately placed. I will continue to reread it.

Maybe then you can tell me more by @mahixa

Monaco Grand Prix First Time. I love a getting together story, and this one feels so comfortable and lived in and sweet. It feels like a natural progression of them as characters outside this slice of the story, which is communicated so well without being explicit about it.

hey, young blood by mondaycore

Mafia AU. This one is almost a vignette, I believe it is a work in a larger Mafia series of the grid, but standalone this one is so good. It’s a bit of a darker characterization of Carlos, which I found really interesting and suitable for the world, and the tension is so palpable and so hot.

Pictures of you, pictures of me by mondaycore

Carlos teaches Lando how to sext. This is a really fun interpretation of Carlos’ need to be a teacher and to manhandle Lando in that dynamic. The Lando voice here, how he gets in his head a lot and how he observes himself in his surroundings, is really well done. It’s also a fucking great concept in general, that is really well executed when sometimes that type of thing can border on cheesy.

Found a way to drop the keys where my failures were by @elementalmoments

Post-Sochi Established FWB. This is hurt/comfort how it should be written! This is my comfort fic. The emotional intimacy and the miscommunication is really well placed and I love Lando’s POV. The tones and shifts work in such a lovely way to unravel this point of their relationship for the reader that does an incredible job of show don’t tell. Also read ALL of elementalmoments' other fics too, they are all works of genius :)

You Say We’re Just Friends (But Friends Don’t Know the Way You Taste) by WhiteWolfCraft

FWB to Lovers, one of my favourite genres. I really love the progression here and the way the author uses different kinds of sex to illustrate that.

Like real people do by an orphan_account

FAKE DATING FAKE DATING AU. I love fake dating. We need more fake dating stories please everyone thank you! Lando needs a date to his cousin’s wedding and his friend who he is definitely not in love with agrees to go with him. Carlos LOVES HIM his family LOVES CARLOS Lando is a CONFLICTED IDIOT who doesn’t see it it’s perfect.

Fringe Contender by @redpaint

Boxing AU. I love this story so much. I actually read this one wayyyyy before I cared about Lando or Carlos. I barely knew who they were at the time, but the story is so good I was drawn in immediately. Rereading it now, again the dynamic between Carlos and Lando as teacher/student is one of my favourites, and this does a really wonderful job of translating that desire for both of them into a world I know nothing about. The locations in this story are so vivid, Spain feels like another character in the story. The motifs are really clever throughout and I just love the juxtaposition between tenderness and violence that this type of AU allows for. I think Lando/Carlos is my favourite pairing to read AU form for, and this is the cream of the crop.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hello! This blog really helped me in the long run I am so thankful that this existed - the posts here are absolutely a godsend goldmine. I was hoping to ask: do you have any metas/resources/tips on how to construct stories as if you're telling a folktale/fairytale? Or how to create stories using fairytale or folktale elements of some sort? Thank you very much!

First, let's look at the origins of fairy tales: to teach a lesson, moral, or convey a cultural norm. Usually those norms get lost over time, edited out, sanitized, or re-contextualized in a different moral light (though the mainstays, stay out of the goddamn woods and be nice to the elderly, tend to stay pretty clear).

So when dealing with a fairy tale, you have a couple of factors to deal with:

The theme or lesson is the most important part of the story

Wrong choices and their consequences must be clear to the reader

Cultural context is very important - communities and their rules are key.

If you were to retell a fairy tale, a popular thing to do, it's vital to research not just the origins of the tale, but what it was trying to convey. Nobody's very happy about new Girlboss Cinderella not because no one wants to see an ambitious princess tale, but because it fundamentally misunderstands everything about the original tale. If you don't understand what you're trying to subvert, you can't subvert anything.

But you can still ask some interesting questions about traditional fairy tales and find what meaning you'd like to convey. Why was cursing Beast's whole estate a necessity in the original tale? What does that mean for a modern day audience? If creating your own fairy tale, what core theme do you want to focus on? Kindness, respect, honestly, etc.

I could not find many outside sources that weren't watered down resources for kids, but I can recommend Frances Hardinge, Diana Wynne Jones, and Catheryne Valente as authors who really capture that fairy tale feel for a modern audience. If you need some guides, start there!

[steampunkforever]

There’s a lot you could say about The Bodyguard, notably how the largest difference between Kevin Costner’s character and that of the protagonist from The Last Boyscout is that Kevin Costner’s character isn’t played by Bruce Willis.

What DID stick out to me was the film’s reflection of the shift from the home-grown sort of memphis-mafia-styled (questionably licensed) personal security for celebrities that populated the 50s through the 70s to the more polished and disciplined Ex-government-agency security of the modern day. Just like the explosion of Helicopter pilots pushed into showbusiness by military retirement and post Vietnam austerity, there was a distinct demographic of (ideally) highly trained individuals previously devoted to establishing perimeters entering the private sector.

In that aspect, the entire movie is less about a ex-secret service member looking after a spoiled pop starlet and more about the post-vietnam integration of veterans into the private sector. This becomes all the more clear when you ignore the 1992 release date and instead consider the fact that the script was written in 1975, originally intended to star Steve McQueen and Diana Ross.

The movie itself is perfectly serviceable, but very flat, in essence a fun “bad” movie good enough that I don’t consider it actually bad and just the general quality of any given mid-tier Matlock episode. Sure, you could say that with the budget the film commanded that would certainly constitute as “bad” but-- Wait are you telling me they were supposed to film a sequel starring Princess Diana???

One more thing that the British Monarchy has robbed from us-- The Bodyguard 2: Royal Engagement

[gstqaobc]

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STOP PRESS: We thought you'd be delighted to hear that, thanks to members’ generosity, our first advertising about the League for many years in La Belle Province appeared today in the leading newspaper of Quebec City, Le Soleil. If you would like to receive a pdf copy of the ad, please request by return email.   ECOMM 8.5.21 A JUBILEE BLESSING...OUR THANKS... LEAGUE FLAGS - again available LEAGUE TARTAN SCARF - update and last but not least A SPRING SALE OF MONARCHICAL ITEMS PLATINUM JUBILEE MEDAL Our thanks to the many members who told us they have contacted their MP and the Prime Minister’s office to express their support for the issuance of this Medal in the Canadian tradition.  We look forward to hearing of replies any of you may receive; and we ask you keep up the chain of advocacy by thinking of friends to whom you can send our original message, and urge then to participate in our efforts. A BLESSING ON THE QUEEN IN THE IROQUOIAN TRADITION A member of the UEL Association who is a Kanienkehaka Embassador at Large, wrote to the League as follows: Please remember our Mohawk members, who would like to express our good wishes and thanksgivings to our Sister. You may be familiar with our ceremonial blessings, and the thanksgiving address to be offered before all matters; it is an Iroquoian custom:

Next year marks the 70th Anniversary of The Queen’s reign. Our Monarchy has never before seen a Platinum Jubilee! Thus the occasion calls for celebration, thanksgiving and above all, a sense of gratitude and unity. LEAGUE FLAGS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT DISCOUNTED RATE With hundreds of new members in recent months, the League has received a number of requests as to when we will re-issue the League Flag. Part of our Armorial Bearings, it bears a Royal Crown by personal permission of Her Majesty The Queen. Produced for many years by our friends at the Flag Shop, it is ideal for your den or boathouse, a kid's bedroom, college dorm - with grommets so it can if you wish also be flown on a flag pole outdoors Its dimensions are 24 x 42 inches, and it is made of 200d nylon.  We order and keep only a limited stock, so as not to tie up funds in inventory, as it is a specialty item. PRE-PRODUCTION SPECIAL: $85 INCLUDES POSTAGE LIMIT: TWO PER MEMBER If you wish to reserve a Flag (we should receive it in around three weeks) kindly access the League’s online store at https://store.monarchist.ca/en/products and make a “Fighting Fund” donation for $85.  We will know your purpose, and get a Flag right off to you once we have received them.   THE LEAGUE’S TARTAN SCARF Progress Report Thanks to our friend Matthew Rowe, who runs the Prince of Wales-patron Campaign for Wool in Canada, we have located a UK manufacturer who is willing to manufacture scarves in a small quantity by commercial standards. The fine Tartan chosen by you, and designed by our member Carol Martin, will be woven of  wool, sized 180cm (app 70 in) X 30cm (app 11½ in) with tassels of 7cm (app 2 3/4 in). We will approve the cloth material this coming week. It appears a custom label may be expensive given the quantity required - we will do our best to resolve that issue and deal with somewhat tiresome but important details remaining, such as the method of shipping to Canada and potential duty and taxes. It is our hope to come up with firm pricing in June, and shortly after to solicit pre-orders within the price range acceptable to the several hundred members who expressed interest in a scarf.  All of which is to say - we are on track, and look forward to producing and getting to you the League’s first - and long overdue - piece of apparel suitable for both women and men!   AND NOW.... WHAT (SOME OF) YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR... OUR SPRING SALE! These monarchical souvenirs, for one reason or another not suited to our annual Silent Online Auction in September, have been donated to the League in recent months. Many would be suitable for young people to interest them in the Monarchy and history. IF YOU WANT TO PURCHASE AN ITEM/ITEMS, PLEASE CONTACT US FIRST TO MAKE SURE YOUR CHOICES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. WE WILL THEN CALCULATE THE POSTAGE APPLICABLE TO YOUR ORDER, AND GIVE YOU A LIMITED TIME TO PAY ONLINE VIA THE LEAGUE STORE, THE ONLY FORM OF PAYMENT FOR THIS SALE, BEFORE MAKING THEM AVAILABLE TO THE NEXT MEMBER REQUESTING. 1) THREE CORONATION 1953 MAGAZINES The Sphere, Illustrated, and The Illustrated London News, lovingly used condition, each telling the story of the Coronation as only the British can do!  The advertising is fascinating, too. These will be enjoyed as living images and texts describing the beginning of a glorious Reign! $20 2) SIX ROYAL SOUVENIR PUBLICATIONS Maclean’s magazine’s tribute to Diana on her death; Pitkin glossy colour booklet Charles and Diana’s Wedding day; The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Pitkin-sized booklet; another similar-sized booklet by Ronald Allison: The Queen - The Life and Work of Elizabeth II; Illustrated London News Royal Year 1986; Illustrated London Newscoverage of The Marriage of Princess Anne, 1973. $25 3) HMY BRITANNIA POSTER Sized app. 16 x 20 inches, a glossy photographic portrait (2002) of The State Rooms aboard Britannia.  Especially appropriate now that the Yacht is, in a way, to be replaced by the HMS Prince Philip. In a tube with Britannia-watermarked tissue paper and a gold Britannia seal, we suspect it was sold at the resting place of the ship, now a tourist attraction. Some water stains. Will need to be dry mounted to remove creases from rolling, after which it will occupy pride of place in a den, a kid’s bedroom or a man cave! $25 4) A CRAZY FUN ITEM: COLOUR RUBBER 3-D DIANA KEYCHAIN You will never lose your keys with this app 1 3/4 inch high rubberized moulded Diana key chain! We’ve not seen anything like it previously. You might well use it - or display it as a sure conversation-starter on a shelf, perhaps next to a bobbling Queen! $20 5) SILVER JUBILEE MEDALLION & CHARLES AND “LADY DIANA SPENCER” WEDDING CROWN Both 1 1/2 inch diameter. Gold-coloured Souvenir medallion bears profile of The Queen, 1977, with a  surround referencing the Jubilee. The Crown, encased in a plastic holder by the Westminster Bank, is official coinage from 1983, with the usual image of The Sovereign on front, and verso, a profile of Charles and Diana with a surround referencing the occasion and year. $25 

(the mark on the Royal Arms is not a defect, but a seller's sticker that is not on our plate)6) UNUSUAL, RATHER-MODERN IN DESIGN, SOUVENIR PLATE FOR SILVER JUBILEE - BY WEDGEWOOD A heavy 10" plate produced by Wedgewood in 1977, respectful and colourful, but, in our view, not really “traditional” and thus of special interest. A deep blue silhouette of Thhe Queen in centre, surrounded by the Garter motto, with tne lancets extending which depict Heralds, Guardsmen and elements of the Household Cavalry and one Royal Shield surmounted by the Crown. Many decorative flowers, Rim references the Jubilee and states “God Save The Queen.” Crimson tracery surrounds the plate. Condition: as new $35   (The picture is the Van Dyke etching of the King, whose image appears in the framed print offered below)

7) A CANADIAN-FRAMED PRINT OF KING CHARLES ENGRAVING After the original by Van Dyke, the engraving from the original owned by the Earl of Pembroke, it is unusually but attractively framed, we believe in pine, ready to hang, with modern “Art handmade Plaque Canada” sticker on back. The entire object is app 10 x 13 inches, with the engraving proper about 5 ½ x 10 inches. Condition - engraving darkened by age but distinct; frame: excellent; print: slight water-stain foxing at bottom adds authenticity rather than detracting from the overall appearance. $50 8) BOOK: CHARLES & DIANA VISIT CANADA Vivid colour pictures, hardback, published by Collins, and covering many moments from the Royal couple’s 17-day first visit to Canada in 1983.  Condition: excellent. $15 9-14) LIVING HISTORY: DRY-MOUNTED ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHS From the collection assembled by the federal government in Diamond Jubilee year, these are terrifically “usable” as, hard mounted without “frames” they are light in weight - and ready-to hang in your den, or child’s room, or to fill a wall with multiple pictures! All are app 10 x 14 inches b&w unless noted otherwise. We will advise you of the postage cost at time of your inquiry, as this varies considerably depending on your postal code.  If anyone wishes to purchase all seven of these at a favourable price, please contact us immediately. 9.    In colour: Prince Edward in his late teens, a broad smile on his face as he leans against an oak and relaxes on autumn leaves with his Labrador Retriever.    $15 10.    Front cover of Paris Match depicting The Queen returning in the Golden Coach from her Coronation, Orb and Sceptre displayed, and Prince Philip by her side. $20 11.    Princess Elizabeth on the telephone in her office at Buckingham Palace, 1946.        $15 12.    In colour: The Good King, George VI of late, happy and beloved memory, wearing a tan jacket - a reflective portrait on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.    $25 13.     The Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, probably just after the war, looking ready to go out for an evening in lovely beaded formal dresses. $20 14.    Our favorite of this tranche of pictures. Colour shot of the Royal Family, shortly after the War, in the Palace Gardens. The King, The Queen and the Princesses are seated on wicker chairs - with Elizabeth’s dog beside her. This happy family - “we four” - exemplifies the bequest of a happy, close family life that made our Queen such an extraordinary person. $30 15.    Colour 3/4 length study of a beaming Princess Elizabeth, hands clasped in front, on her 19th birthday.    $25 16.    The shade of the Abdication not yet visible, this 1936 picture shows the future King and Queen as Duke & Duchess of York at the door of their Piccadilly residence, with a serious-looking Elizabeth holding her Mother’s forearm. $25  

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[lifelovelaugh2468]

I was wondering, from whom did Lee Jihye get the novel "the lovely princess"?. I think there are 4 possible ways:

1-> the world tree: i would makes sense in a way because it is very powerful and would find her in every dimension and he showed her what happens with obelia after her and claudes death. But the it doesn't makes sense because in the early chapters of the manhwa athy says that a customer left the novel behind and the world tree is not a person, also if he wanted to prevent the downfall of obelia then why not telling her with the book? Or telling her himself?

2-> diana: i don't really think it was her but it could be, because we know she is whatching over athy so it could be a possiblitiy. But then how could she do this when she is a ghost? Would she make a deal with the world tree?

3->claude: he would makes more sense than diana. Maybe got reborn in the modern world and remembered his first life after he gave lee jihye away ( i also think he would be her dad in the modern world). Maybe he was ashamed of what he did and that is why he doesn't approached her and left the novel behind. But then how does he know what happend with obelia when he was already dead? Why give her a novel when he doesn't know that she would be reborn as athanasia again? Why even give her the novel, so that she can protect herself in her 3rd life? Shouldn't he protecting her ? So i also don't really think it was him.

4->Lucas: he makes the most sense, especially after what we could see in the latest chapters and after knowing that in the novel he could go to different dimensions. He would know what happend with obelia because he was there (and maybe the reason..) when it happend. Maybe he left the novel because he wanted to prepare her, because she has great magic and what i understood is that he can not fight aeternithas because he has his magic absorbed. But then how did he and athanasia meet in the first timeline? Or rather why is he interested in her( in love when he should have destroyed obelia, if it was him and if she was the reason it could also be that he was just very pissed at aeternithas) when she doesn't have her magic because she didn't meet claude early and wouldn't met blackie? Or would she?. And she doesn't have lived before because that was her first life. So why doing all this? Did they still meet? If so then why not prevent her death? Did he went to the world tree when she died?

I have so many questions and i hope i can find answers to that. If you know more then please tell me. It is been a while since i have read the novel and i just begann to reread the manhwa. And i'm sorry for grammar mistakes i write this with my smartphone and like i wrote before english is not my first language. Have a nice day!

[alicehattera03]

I have this draft I’ll never write so if you have any headcanons or writing you wanna do for it, here it is lol:

Athykiel au where Athy is taken in by the Alpheuses n Jenny stays in the palace

Jenny keeps her name and is born in the palace bc Penelope threatens Claude saying the kid might be his so he keeps her trapped in the ruby palace out of cruel curiosity, kills her when he sees Jenny isn’t his, but keeps Jenette alive just because it’s funny to see ana and penelope’s greatest creation he such a failure. Some maid keeps her bc she’s penny’s right hand that wasn’t there for the slaughter. She names Jenny. Jenny is sweet but useless. Everyone tells themself that jenny doesn’t have an immortal name bc she’s a girl (even tho she’s the only heir Claude has. But Jenny doesn’t notice that, never thinks that deeply about it. She thinks Claude named her, and is deluded in her fantasy that Claude is just busy, but he considers her his greatest gift).

Diana had to flee bc Penelope was hurting her n gave birth in a noble house thanks to Lily’s connections, Claude is so upset when Diana dies he tells Lily to take Athy away and then uses black magic to forget both. Lily uses her noble connections and stuff happens, roger finds out she has jewel eyes and makes a deal to raise and present her like he og did with jenny

Basically, it’s just athykiel constantly neck to neck being geniuses at studies. Athy teaches Kiel how to have fun and feel free while kiel protects Athy from roger when he gets over ambitious and acts a bit mean. Roger starts to see her as a daughter too bc she’s just as talented as Kiel plus imperial blood lol, it’s just athykiel being geniuses and impressing everyone.

When she’s presented, Claude is like meh whatever, but he knows Jenny is useless even if he barely has even seen her and he needs an heir, so he tests her. He doesn’t remember Diana, but he sees she’s useful and she is pretty likable, she makes his workload easier and isn’t annoying like Jenny. So he likes her. She is the crown Princess without a doubt. Jenny though older is useless, so she’s married off to some foreign emperor’s illegitimate child for alliances bc she’s just causing problems.

Also maybe roger simps for her in a dad kinda way??? Like he has a soft spot for her bc she’s just as good as Kiel and she’s a cute little girl, and he can see how well athykiel complement each other??? And idk about Athy’s name, ig Claude let’s her keep the name Diana gave, but while she’s in the Alpheus care, she can only use it in private with roger, Kiel, Lily, or the duchess. So other than that ig her name would be Adonia?? Bc yeah.

Sorry I basically just wrote a book in your inbox but I wanted to tell someone but like, i don’t think I have the time or energy to write it myself lol

OHHHHH THANK YOU BLESSSS 

-> wrote this AU here!!!

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18/10/20 EDIT: I’ll post the long au ideas here if I can’t fit them onto the og post!!! 

@01paige01 :Yet another angsty AU, my mind is too dark what’s wrong with me, also this AU involves the mentioning of suicide, so TW So I’m this AU, Athy remembers her original life AND her modern day life. That’s basically the only dramatic change, yet it causes a BIG ripple effect.

 She becomes a quiet and emotionless baby, only crying out when it’s needed (for food and whatnot). Lily and the maids are concerned of course, but dare not mention it to the emperor. Meanwhile Athy remembers her original life and the modern life, so she read what happens after she died. It breaks her (she doesn’t know the true ending of course) She doesn’t know what to do, so she just numbly does through robotic functions day by day, but is in a severe depression. Athy has dark thoughts here and there, of “he never loved me, WILL never love me, I’m doomed to die AGAIN, there’s no point in being cautious...” that lovely kind of stuff 

 One day (for whatever reason) she decides to wander around, and comes across the area where she originally came across her father, but now it’s before he uses magic to wipe his memories. And what do you know? There he is, Emperor Claude, dad of the century, title pending. Athy isn’t in awe, not even shock or fear, she’s just numb. Best to cut off emotions before the choke you, I guess. Claude of course connects the dots of Athy being his daughter, with the jewel eyes. But while the eyes are a distinct clue as to her royal blood, they’re oddly dead-looking. It freaks him out a little (though he’d never admit it). You know I’m the 2nd season webcomic, where Athy has a dark/blank expression facing her father early on? It’s like that, but a little worse and all the time. Growing curious because of the out of place expression (she’s young why does she have that expression already like what)

He has Felix take her back but doesn’t punish her. Athy doesn’t show any reaction to Felix, nor any resistance to him leading her back to Ruby Palace. Lily and the maids are freaking out, and once they see Felix with leading Athy inside, the panic grows bigger. Lily takes Athy back as soon as possible, with the bare minimum politeness needed, and practically slams the doors shut in his face.

 Later Claude invites Athy for tea, and though she thinks the comment of “fluttering in my moth” or whatever it was like her mother, she says nothing. Only speak when spoken to. She’s basically a human doll. That’s where my detailed thoughts end regarding this AU, but I imagine two endings. One, Athy and Claude grow to have a wonderful relationship, happily ever after, yada yada Two, Athy continues to stay numb, gets worse, to the point where she takes her own life :( (I imagine she does this when Jenette finally comes into the picture) Either ending, her father grows to love her.

 It’s definitely darker than my previous AU, but my mind is a dark jungle, who knows what lurks there