#once again i don't know my sources

[phociian]

another lil history thing:

The Washingtons were well known for spoiling the children under their care. People in that time noted that. Their kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc. All the kids that lived with them were spoiled by them. Patsy and Jacky Parke Custis (Martha's children from her first marriage) were extremely loved, especially since George and Martha never had children of their own. George bought Jack a violin, and Patsy a spinnet (which was kinda like a predecessor to the harpsichord), and would buy Patsy a doll from London once a year that was updated with the latest fashions from Europe. He also bought Jack horses and Patsy a parrot (I think it was a parrot, it might have been another bird). One of his and Martha's granddaughters (I can't remember which) also had a spaniel named Frisky. Also George tended to spoil the girls and was stricter with the boys, and Martha tended to spoil the boys and was stricter with the girls (probably because she was the woman of the house from a very young age).

But they were strict too. George was strict about education (since he didn't have a chance to be formally educated like his older brothers). He was very strict about where he would send Wash Parke Custis to college (and I think someone recommended he ask Hamilton where he was sending Philip, since Philip was a few months younger). He was super strict with Jack, Wash's father, but both boys were lazy about schooling and just overall uninterested, and in the end deferred to Martha (in Jack's case) and Nelly Calvert and David Stuart (since they were Wash's mother and stepfather). Neither of them ended up finishing school. The girls were also tutored really well in dance (I think), music, embroidery, etc. They were well read and were able to read and write proficiently. Martha was more lax about the boys' education (I don't think she actually had a formal education and would often use secretaries to write her letters and then she'd copy them and sign them), but she was known to be pretty strict with the girl's education (since all that jazz was vital to them finding a husband and all that).

[repmet]

[insp] [Alex]

Prince Henry of Edinburgh is accurate to the movie don't @ me

[scarefox]

btw. here is the LGBTq QL actor list I started on MDL

I try to keep it updated as far as I get information.

[lady-dulcinea]

Jessica De Gouw as Mina Murray from the 2013 NBC series Dracula

[skunkes]

if life is categorized by Before Loss and After Loss then I exist in the before but with a countdown to the after. and the countdown is always always present and debilitating. the loss will be debilitating too but i cant help myself. i will always suffer twice.

[memento-morri-writes]

I've been thinking a lot about how Rook's reunion with his former mentor, Zara, is going to go, and since I can't predict what the DM is going to have her do or say, I can only dwell on what I know is going to happen. Which happens to include taking off the illusion ring that's been hiding his injuries from her. So have a snippet of the description I have planned for that moment:

tw for description of (mostly healed) injuries

He hesitates, twisting a ring on his finger. Looking at it more closely, she can tell it’s very finely crafted, and must have been very expensive. A large emerald is set into the band. Rook sighs, and pulls the ring off his finger in one quick motion.  Immediately she’s struck by the difference in his appearance as the illusion melts away. He looks awful. His warm, healthy skin fades to a dull and sickly grey. There’s huge bags under his deeply sunken eyes, and his cheeks are hollowed, as though they have been carved out by an overeager sculptor. He looks like he’s recently risen from the grave.  While he was thin before, now she can see his ribs under the skin, and his collarbones are exaggeratedly pronounce. Thin white lines left by dozens upon dozens of recently healed cuts are scattered across his body. On top of that, faded bruises cover most of his visible skin, a mottled mosaic of purple and yellow. They’re clearly days, maybe weeks old, and she can only begin to imagine what they must have looked like when fresh. Bandages are barely visible under his shirt, wrapping around his back, hinting at even more injuries.

[sysig]

Grump and not so grump (Patreon)

[fideidefenswhore]

Thomas Seymour said something like "No words of Boleyn"? What is the context for this quote? I think I read it in your tags, your tags are quite interesting tbh

"Discussing the fate of Anne Boleyn was taboo around Elizabeth, creating a barrier. Thomas Seymour was the only one bold enough to break the taboo. Indeed, he mocked the embargo to others in the household. 'No Words of Boleyn,' he sniggered--a punning reaction on being asked about 'Boulogne' from Elizabeth's treasurer, Thomas Parry." The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor, Elizabeth Norton

Edit: Here's the original, it does seem like he said that by way of repetition, and did mention his own brother as being of the opinion as well (score 1 for my memory, lol, thanks @annabolinas for sending me the quote).

[therewillbenoromance]

i'm ethan and i was wrong

i'm singing the ethan wrong song

i shouldn't have called myself kin

now here's my remorseful dance

[realized i'm fictionhearted not fictionkin yippeee]

[liazrad]

GRRRRR I HATE IT HERE I HATE LIVING WITH MY DAD AND STEPMOM IT'S THE WORST!!!!! I AM FUCKING MISERABLE.

[steakout-05]

i think having TF2 as a special interest really early in my childhood influenced so many things about myself and my identity.... my gender is big men my sexuality is big men and my sense of humour is big men. i even named myself after the "very tiny and scrawny but still big" big man and i think about all the big men in TF2 on a semi daily basis,,,,,, anyway yeah i like the men in TF2 :)

[butchsophiewalten]

in my excitement i somehow massively fluxed dates around and that's super on me. Jack's disappearance date has always been June 11th and has never been the 18th. The Richie 2 audio is from a week after his disappearance

[take-ya-to-the-ghey-bar]

Not that anyone's asked about this, but--

Seeing as i'm in the mood to share some random info about what rattles around in my brain-- Have this list of canon muses i either plan to try writing, or have considered writing, but for one reason or another just... haven't attempted lol

tho i will slapping all that under a cut--

{𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔}

Impey Barbicane - Code: Realize

Saint-Germain - Code: Realize

Kageyuki Shiraishi - Collar x Malice

Noël - Sound Horizon

R.e.v.o - Sound Horizon

Alice? / aka: the 89th Alice - Are You Alice?

{𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔}

Shell Overlord - Blood Bank

Jooyoung - K's secret/The Unquenchable Mr. Kim

Ukyo - Amnesia: Memories

Idia Shroud - Twisted Wonderland

Kazuki Hoshino - Collar x Malice

Laito Sakamaki - Diabolik Lovers

[casiavium]

I love the song O Children by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and yes I know it from Deathly Hallows part one but outside of that it's such a good song. It's about bittersweet death and Orpheus and Eurydice and the song just. Songs so good

And I WILL fight any self righteous ex Harry Potter fan that tries to pull some SHIT that it's about the Holocaust (and therefore should not have been used in the movie which I don't care about the artisy agreed to it so. Whatever. He got paid) IT'S FUCKING NOT you DUMB PIECE OF SHIT WITH NO MEDIA LITERACY show me a source that says this that's not some Harry Potter fan's Tumblr post from 2011. Show me it. Show me an interview with the artist. Show me exactly why you think it's about the Holocaust. Oh, trains leading to death? Because Harry Potter is a thinly veiled and pathetic attempt at WWII parallels? (and if we're going by that do you have a deathly hallows tattoo because if you're so 1:1 about this. you do know the deathly hallows is her fucking. symbolic equivalent to you-know-what. Oh that's offensive? YOU DON'T THINK???)

Because HAVE YOU WVER HEARD OF POETIC IMAGERY IN YOUR DAMN LIFE how could you have ever called yourself a Harry Potter fan without the basic ability to understand sometimes things are not LITERAL. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[xhda1449x]

ok apparently 30 tags is the limit on tumblr and I'm putting it here because I couldn't put it in the tags

for my own curiosity, because my tragedy enjoying boggles the minds of a bunch of my irl social circle.

[yallemagne]

still on my bullshit. one of many.

I have not been the most prolific writer recently so my gay agenda is not being spread (ohhh I wish someone I knew who also promised me they would could spread it for me ohhh), but despite ALL ODDS being against me I am still enamoured with Van Helsing/Renfield. It's just that I have the writer's equivalent of erectile dysfunction. The spirit is willing the flesh is weak yada yada.

Anyhow I realized just now that, in my head, Van Helsing is just... progressively... getting shorter... Maybe not literally, but in my mind's eye, I see him shrinking into a wide little man. A jaunty little crab. Now, in my initial height chart, Renfield only has a couple inches on him, and the difference isn't even very clear, what with Renfield slouching a few inches because he is weighed down by Immense Sadness. So, I'm in the shower upset like "am I that much of a fucking whore that I need a significant height difference THAT BAD", and that could be it, but recently I'm more obsessed with Angry Short x Silly Tall (AKA most Wolverine ships), so where is this coming from? Van Helsing is Silly Short and Renfield is Angry Tall and I don't know what other ships---

Voxman. Boxman and Professor Venomous. How did I write Van Helsing and Renfield from Classic Horror Novel to mimic the dynamic of Boxman and Venomous completely on accident? And WHYYYYY am I having this epiphany alone in the shower and not surrounded by likeminded friends and allies who can nod knowingly and say "I see I see"? It's because the world does not see my VISION. COWARDS, THE LOT OF THEM.