#tudor crime

[puffpastrycrimewatch]

Tudors old and concept designs

Tudor always had the magical tavern but he was a human with three or more hellhounds that looked like doberman, this was his very first design, not much story about him. I knew I wanted him to be an ally the main characters can rely on, a friend who was loyal no matter what because he's just naturally a nice guy

But I decided humans are boring...( And I wanted an object OC-) I was going to do some sort of technology but everyone does that...I mean I did too- so I decided on a human heart cause it's cool and kinda has the shape of a head and I haven't seen anybody do it

This was my first doodle of his heart design, I don't remember why steam is coming out of his heart tube but I'm going to bring it back to his design and try to figure something out

One the first concepts for dobi and yara, I forgot I gave her a yellow collar, it's cute I'll bring it back

[thatotherman001]

Some Doodles for @puffpastrycrimewatch

[puffpastrycrimewatch]

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I gotta draw them hanging out next!!! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

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@puffpastrycrimewatch they meet once again

was feeling motivated today so 🦅🦅🦅

[jamesfrain]

"He picks up the gifts and leaves her. He stands outside the room. He leans against the wall, his eyes resting on a picture, where a twisted man adheres to a tree, and bleeds from head, hands and heart" —The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light | Episode two 'Obedience'

[wonder-worker]

“They [the people] love the Prince [Arthur Tudor] as much as themselves, because he is the grandchild of his grandfather [Edward IV]. Those who know him love him also for his own virtues.”

"Polydore Vergil remarked that “a vast multitude of persons” flooded London when the date of [Henry VIII's] coronation was announced. “[E]verybody loved him,” Vergil wrote of the ceremony, likening Henry to Edward IV “the most warmly thought of by the English people among all the English kings...and for that reason [Henry] was the more acclaimed and approved of by all.”

— Don Pedro de Ayala on July 25, 1498 / Lyndsi Lewis, The Politics of Public Relations: Concepts of Image, Reputation and Authority in Henry VIII’s England (LSU Master's Theses, 2015)

[elephantlovemedleys]

i was recently looking for available screenplays of tudor period dramas and came across then got this one of elizabeth (1998), thought i’d share some pages i scanned along!

[blogmollylane]

Newly acquired:

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

The Little Old Lady who Broke all the Rules by Catherina Ingelman-Subdberg. Translated by Rod Bradbury

The Queen’s Man by Rory Cléments

[midnightsaboteur]

Open Starter

Max Tudor - 31, bisexual, criminal enforcer/robber

Written solely in beta editor

Connection Ideas - Significant other, fwb/casual fling, affair, escort, fellow gang member

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The distinctive sound of Max’s Chelsea boots against the hardwood floor signalled his presence before he knocked on the apartment door. The hour was late, yet that didn’t matter to him. As a veteran criminal, splitting his time between orchestrating robberies and enforcing the will of his masters, Max rarely kept expected ‘office hours.’ It wasn’t the first time he’d visited the apartment’s resident at an ungodly time of night, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last either. 

After three sharp knocks on the door, Max stood back and waited for them to come. If they deigned to look through the peephole before answering, they’d see him standing firmly in his three-piece suit and overcoat, his attention entirely focused on the door. As per usual, Max didn’t text or call when he came over to them. They understood that he could arrive when he liked, often when he needed to unwind. On that night, such a principle stood stronger than ever when considering the bruising on his knuckles, the slight scratch on his face, and the speck of blood on his tie. 

[malkaleh]

Re the tags on this post, what's the lore???

It’s mostly my joke that Owen’s entire thing is basically like ‘kitten thinks of nothing but murder and snark’ because he’s the ‘oh he’s so quiet and sweet’ (external impression) ‘I hate you, fuck off I’m reading or I will stab you’ (reality). This one loves very few people and he will commit Crimes for them. Please let him commit Crimes.

(He’s also very sweet, the most girl dad, one of the early childrens book writers and illustrators in England but he will Stab You Without Remorse)

[navree]

Protestants are so funny because they somehow made witch hunts a thing and 500 years later it is blamed still on Catholics lmao (this is my villain origin story and I'm not even catholic myself xd)

I mean, Catholicism also wasn't entirely immune to the concept of witch hunting and certainly hopped on board with it (the Spanish Inquisition was very much a Catholic endeavor) and it's entirely fair to just say that Christianity as a whole was fucked up for that, regardless of denomination, as well as for a host of other things over the last two thousand years, but the cardinal sin of Protestantism is that not only does it have all the nastiness of all other Christian denominations, Catholicism included, but they're also boring and dull as shit and therefore don't have any positives to outweigh the negatives.

[good-books-to-read]

Cool Cover Monday

Title & Author: The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

Summary: In a small Alaskan town a young boy is found with his throat ripped out and drained of blood.

Eerily this echos a case from 25 years ago, the town believes it the local vampire colony that live deep in the mountains.

Out of Towner Barbara Atkins dosn’t think this is the case, for one the evidence dosn’t add up and this town is hiding more than one secret.

As the snow and bodies piles up and the days shorten, time is running out.

Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/44fbc27a-8c4e-4fcd-90aa-f892b7126491

[puffpastrycrimewatch]

Do it. Or dont. Idk

He shall know horrors (⁠・⁠∀⁠・⁠)🫶

Lmao imma do more-

Redesigning my sonas hair and maybe outfit •3•)...

[roseshavethoughts]

The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor

My #BookReview of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor #Iamreading #Fiction

The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor Title – The Chalk Man Author – C. J. Tudor Genres – Mystery | Crime | Thriller Published – 2018 by Crown Publishing Group (NY) Links – Amazon | Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. From the shocking first chapter, through to the whirlwind finale, The Chalk Man is a wonderfully rich coming-of-age story about love, loss, regret and desire. This novel has it all,…

[kindledspiritsbooks]

My Month in Books: May and June 2023

The Heroine’s Journey: Women’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock If, like me, you picked this book up thinking that it is a feminist response to Joseph Campbell’s idea of the Hero’s Journey, you’ll find yourself disappointed. Less literary theory and more self-help, Murdock posits that women have been defined according to masculine values and successes and that a heroine must reconnect with…

[yaymiyas]

THE TALK

warning: yandere!isekai!crown prince, he is very mean in this, female reader

a/n: this is TECHNICALLY not a part two to the introduction but it sort of is….. it jumps from the conversation to the breakfast……..enjoy! ALSO ALSO ALSOOOOOOOO technically its female reader bc you got reincarnated blah blah

looking at the fragments of bacon he didnt want to eat, he let his fingers drum against the edge of the white plate. the fact that you, the daughter of a whore, lover to none, and nuisance to all, was right beside him made his food hard to swallow. the two of you sat in the dining room, and while he sat at the very end of the table with his back facing the door to the kitchen, your usual spot would be that of the opposite side. right across from him, back facing the entering door, but it seems after the poison didn’t hit quite deep enough in your veins, it did affect your brain because, for some reason, you thought it was brilliant to sit directly next to him. you weren’t as talkative as he would have thought of you, ever since you have learned of the activities he had decided to partake in, you started to demand his attention. at first, it didnt bother him much, since he himself started to believe that he was focusing solely on gracie that your suspicions were bound to grow, and grow they did.

for weeks, months, up until the poisoning you were all up on him. he was certain that you were attempting to skin him alive and wear him as a coat it was all mildly unpleasant but more irritating. saer never had a taste for you; rather, he actually hated you. to no one’s fault but his own fathers, he was forced to marry you out of pregnant promises. your father, sir tudor, wasn’t the poorest dope saer’s father has ever seen, but he was the loyalist. he worked on the gwynn estate, doing a multitude of things for the family, automatically gaining the trust of the duke and then the king himself. at the time, king gwynn was more fascinated with how a man with such little knowledge could become his most loyalist man, but that he did. following the pregnancy of both the queen and your mother, he decided that the best course of action was to marry his second unborn son off to the unborn daughter of a freeloader.

an icy shiver runs down saer’s back, forcing him to shake his shoulders and head. looking up from your half eaten plate, raising your head to the sudden movement. he was quiet the whole time, poking at the small slivers of bacon like they were the nastiest things on earth. you werent surprised that he wasnt talking; no, you were actually relieved. it wasn’t because he wasnt attractive or anything, he certainly does look like the main lead; its just the talk you had prior to the breakfast that was replaying in your head. cynthia and amanda didn’t give you much information, since, from the looks of it, they didn’t want to say too much. either their heads were on the line or yours were. you never thought about asking tily, even though she was the one that brought you down here. it just felt too weird knowing she was the one who weirdly had something against you. from your fading memories of ‘obsession falls’, you remember reading online forums and tweets about the whole thing. it seemed like the only real crime edina committed throughout the whole book was wanting her husband to love her. she did everything he had asked of her, from the way she talked to her style of clothing, even to what letters she can reply to. in olden standards, she seemed like the perfect obedient wife. this might have been your first mistake, but you didn’t read too much on saer or his backstory, so you never really understood the reasoning for his hatred of his wife, but you knew it was deep and it was boiling.

clearing your throat, you believed it was a better time than ever to clear the air and get to your point. you never understood why edina allowed things to get as deep as they were, but she was made just to be killed. it sucks that no matter what you do or say, saer will always hate you because you are edina.

“saer,”

“ae.”

that stupid nickname. shutting your eyes tightly and fighting back against any light to seep through, you sighed heavily. the whole time, saer had been watching you carefully. even though it was from the corner of his eyes, he was indeed trying to calculate your next moves. it was kind of silly that your sudden change in physical response is making him antsy, but how can anyone fault him? the last time the air-headed cunt decided to change the way she was reacting, gracie was suddenly engaged to alastair and smiling in his face about it. it was enraging. other than the fact that you were in his life to begin with, knowing that the reason he couldn’t slit the throat of his ex best friend was all because you decided to breathe. those two minutes were the longest two minutes of his life. he watched as your head dropped down on the table, making a very sudden and loud noise with it. saer had sternly told any and all servants to leave the two of you be if any loud, disruptive noises were heard. he even double checked that he sent your nosey maids, cynthia and amanda, home around that time. he knew that if they were present in the building, you weren’t going to eat that poison.

it was infuriating to watch them care about someone as lowly as you. not just them, anyone. reading gracie’s letters, asking how you’ve been and to see you before she even utters a word about him, was beyond hurtful. it felt as if his whole world was falling apart, all because you decided to have superpowers and not die. this was the only way to get back at you. he has tried strangling you. he has tried slaying you. each attempt was caught by either maid, cynthia, or amanda. it made him sick to see you get dotted on. seeing the frilly outfits they were making you wear, as if you were a porcelain doll not worth anybody’s touch. you were disgusting. a disgusting being that deserved to die. so why. why were you here? why were you looking at him like he had done something wrong. 

“enough with the causalities, i would like a divorce saer.”

[literaryvein-reblogs]

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