#the clothing is all wrong

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Mistresses (7/10) ↬ Rosamund de Clifford (before 1140 – c. 1176)

Popular biographers barely acknowledge that Henry II had a son by Ida de Tosney, but they attach much significance to his infatuation with Rosamund Clifford, who has been termed “the great love of his life.” Henry’s supposed public flaunting of his new mistress is sometimes put forward as the source of the queen’s desire for revenge. The fair maiden Rosamund was the daughter of Walter Clifford, a Welsh border lord, and the king may have first met her at a stop at her father’s castle during his 1165 campaign in Wales. She was no more than in her early twenties while he was thirty-two, and Eleanor had passed her fortieth year. None of the late twelfth-century chroniclers makes a specific allegation that Rosamund Clifford was the cause of Eleanor’s disenchantment with her marriage, however, and the evidence is too thin to suggest that this mistress presented a greater threat to it than had Henry’s previous ones. Most significantly, the chronology of Henry II’s affair with Rosamund does not fit the alleged facts. Some biographers have dated the king’s affair with her as early as 1166, and they credit the queen’s decision to leave the English court for Poitou in 1168 to the humiliation that she suffered. Yet the affair is likely to have begun during Eleanor’s Poitevin sojourn, no earlier than 1170 and possibly not until 1173, and it only became a public spectacle after the queen’s return to England as a prisoner in 1174, lasting some six years until Rosamund’s death in 1176 or 1177. Although Henry’s second illegitimate son, William Longsword, was born shortly before or soon after his affair with Rosamund Clifford began, he was definitely not her child. Eleanor’s husband was no more faithful to the fair Rosamund than he was to his queen. If Rosamund was indeed the great love of Henry’s life, the strongest evidence for his devotion is a house known as Everswell that he ordered to be built near the royal residence at Woodstock, intended for her according to tradition. Constructed around a spring with water running through rectangular pools and surrounded by cloistered courts, it was more like palaces of Norman Sicily than any secular building in northern Europe. In later legend Rosamund’s residence would be described as a maze or labyrinth, designed to make certain that Eleanor could never find her rival. Not even the gossipy Gerald of Wales, always willing to slander the Plantagenets, depicted the queen’s incitement of her sons’ revolt as resulting from her wrath over Henry’s mistress Rosamund Clifford. In one work written only a few years after the great revolt, he implied that Henry had been discreet in his adulteries up to that time: “After the great wrong committed against their father by his sons, under their mother’s influence … [the king] openly broke his marriage vows.” Writing decades later, Gerald declared that the king “was before an adulterer in secret, and was afterwards manifestly such,” pointing out that he publicly displayed his liaison with Rosamund only after the queen’s imprisonment. Other chroniclers add nothing about Rosamund’s role in Eleanor’s estrangement from Henry. The sometime royal clerk, Roger of Howden, remained silent about the affair until after the king’s death. Rosamund’s name only appears in his account of Saint Hugh of Lincoln’s visit to the convent of Godstow in 1191, when he ordered her tomb removed from the nuns’ chapel and reburied in the churchyard, “for she was a harlot.” Eleanor’s rage against Henry for his liaison with the fair Rosamund is insufficient to explain her role in her sons’ revolt. — Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England by Ralph Turner

[creekfiend]

when items which claim to be made of linen are like "hand wash gentle only do not use machines" it's soooo. guys linen is like. the durable fiber. I should be able to fucking boil this and hit it with rocks biweekly. you are doing something wrong

[thedreadvampy]

Losing my shit about this article in which a transphobic Tory was so busy panicking about existing in the vicinity of a Trans that she almost certainly misheard "jeans" as "penis" and decided that not only was this a problem with the other woman, but also that the world must be informed of this pressing danger.

"a trans woman! I had to stand directly behind her....I thought, 'this is going well', I'm handling The Situation fine'..."

translated: I saw a tall woman with broad shoulders. How would I get out of this alive? I thought. she has a PENIS. PENIS PENIS PENIS. through some force of PENIS I mean will I managed to PENIS behave normally towards her. My hands were PENIS PENIS PENIS shaking as I tried to dry them. summoning up all my PENIS courage I said 'dryer's crap innit'. she turned to me and said " yeah I'm just goiPENIS PENIS PENIS"

It's been a week and I'm still shaking. This proves trans women are the problem and I'm not weird. I'm fine. It's fine. If you think about it I'm the hero hePENIS!!!!!

very this

[piratefishmama]

Mechanic!Eddie fully thriving as he watches Stevie eviscerate one of his fellow mechanics for thinking she can be ripped off.

That's his future wife right there.

She dont know it yet

But that's her.

[trekkerac]

op doodles i never posted(ithink). can you believe it was shanks and luffy again

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Rouge-like tendencies, courtesy of grandpa

[c0riiander]

something’s wrong with my triple baka

[tomwambsgays]

(this looks insane without context, but it's a redraw of this meme i saw in twitter 😭😭)

[dandelion-de-deus]

I’ve been contemplating it and I think we really need to bring back the concept of the holy fool. I’ll go first

[sysig]

can i ask for larry and kabu.... is it allowed......... if not i can ask for something else lol

Day 2 - Warm feelings

[arcanegifs]

"Hammer work is such a delicate art."

[ladyinthebluebox]

wE wAnT cOmPaNiOnS tO bE mEaN aGaIn!!!!!!!!!!

my siblings in the maker, you can't handle Taash calling Emmrich a death mage couple times or [checks notes] ...asking Neve about her clothes [?????????????]

[erinwantstowrite]

How do you feel about people binding personal copies of your works?

I have been reading Lof, and you are such an amazing writer that it blows my mind. When Lof is eventually finished, I would absolutely love to (with permission and loads of credit to you) bind a hardcover copy for personal reading . Reading through this fic has been such an emotional journey and I would love to be able to hold a physical copy. I was also thinking about incorporating some of the beautiful art you've done of the story into the pages of a book, that way the art was next to the scene you were reading. Again to be super clear this would just be something I'd make for myself to read, no monetary gain and tons of credit to you for the story and art!

Completely understandable whatever your answer may be, just wanted to ask your thoughts and let you know how much I've loved your writing!!

yeah that's perfectly fine!! i'm so glad you love LoF enough to do something as sweet as this, that's so amazing to me!! i'm fine with people binding their own copies for personal use- as long as no one is trying to use websites that could get LoF into trouble (i.e. trying to sell it, or paying for it, etc) then it's all cool with me!

[itsmuffiiee]

I was told not to get this close to Jinks for safety reasons but it should be fine right? … right?

Hey.. Sorry I lied earlier- the reference wasn’t for a friend it was for me. @a-clown-with-wings

Silly Nonsense Below ・・・・・★

!! Please enjoy some doodles that didn’t make the cut!! I decided I wanted no tutu sometimes (a crime considering that’s one of my favorite parts of y/n outfit) and a stressed out bug doodle!!

!! We discovered this Evil Anti Jinks..!! so far we can’t tell their motives but they seem pretty cool!! Wonder if there is a Anti Mischief..?

[spookyshape]

the worms that ate me will one day eat you

heavily inspired by Kill me, Ace! - "Worm"