The hugs were a debuff the whole time

Early 30s, she/her, I like history, ASoIaF and Elden Ring lol

[kuttithevangu]

I was wondering if you could explain “fandom is marketing”? I think I get what you mean but then also maybe I don’t?

If something has a big fandom, publishers and studios know they can make money off it. This is why we see publishers openly acquiring and selling things that were originally posted as fanfic, like Alchemised, Heated Rivalry, etc. It’s why the horrid wizard woman considers people participating in her fandom to be supporting her political causes.

Word of mouth is the most effective way to sell people on media, and fandom is word of mouth that costs the creators/owners nothing. Doing Fandom Stuff used to be subversive, but media companies have now figured out that fandom is a form of advertising and they’re no longer worried about it. Those of us who still think of fandom like it’s a livejournal-era secret club we can never let the corporations discover have got to update our self-concept

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[hypersp-ce]

[pyx]

victorian sterling silver seal peppers

[hypersp-ce]

Excision

[wraithwen]

the red woman had won her, heart and soul

[artist-ellen]

A Dothraki pair

Not necessarily a couple-couple but could be. They are similar in age and in decoration.

She is wearing almost like the 'winter' version of Dothraki clothing. Still a riding outfit but with an under-long sleeve/jacket. In a warmer time of year she too would be shirtless underneath her vest.

(If you see this without the other Dothraki images know that this is a companion-post , not the whole picture. ;D)

CARRD TO EVERYTHING

(I am the artist, do not download or save these images for re-posting or AI. No AI was used in the making of this image, any mistakes are human.)

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[torturexprince]

The Dove and the Lion

[richmond-rex]

What books about Tudors ( as a dynasty in general and about specific persons) can you recommend? Thanks! 🤪

Hello! I have recommended books about Henry VII and Elizabeth of York here, here and here :) I have never read a 'good' book covering the entire dynasty, I think there are many nuances from monarch to monarch to be talked about in a sole book, but this is just my opinion. The ones I read tended to be biographical rather than thematic (eg: Finances, Foreign Policy) which also puts me off—if anyone knows a work that does that, please let me know so I can check it out. I do not read sufficiently on the other Tudor monarchs to recommend books about them but let me direct you to some other blogs that will be able to help you better. I'm not tagging them here so they don't feel pressured to reblog this post:

I recommend @ isabellalinton for Henry VIII and his wives, plus @ henry-rex for the same monarch; @ kingedwardvi may help you with books about Edward VI; @ queenmarytudor, @ marianrevisionist and @ maryethequene will know which books to recommend about Mary I, and I trust @ elizabethan-memes and @ theladyelizabeth will know which books about Elizabeth are worth reading. I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of people here so if anyone wants to help me by reccing other blogs, please feel free! I'm basically going by monarch's names at this point.

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Here is mine recommendation post for Elizabeth I.

[machiavellianjanearchive]

off the top of my head (and this is limited to biographical), I'd recommend:

For Henry VIII (and his reign):

Henry VIII, J.J. Scarisbrick (Yale English Monarchs Series)

Henry VIII, G. R. Elton

Henry: Virtuous Prince, David Starkey

Reign Of Henry VIII: The Personalities and Politics, David Starkey

1536, Suzannah Lipscomb

The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety, Diarmuid MacCulloch

The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII, Suzannah Lipscomb

Henry VIII and The Court: Art, Politics and Performance, Thomas Betteridge and Suzannah Lipscombe

Henry VIII and History, Thomas Betteridge

Henry VIII In History, Historiography and Literature, Uwe Baumann

For his wives:

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey

Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship 1485-1547 by Retha Warnicke (Queenship and Power Series)

In Bed with the Tudors: the Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I, Amy Licence

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys, Lauren Mackay

Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death and Commemoration, Steven Gunn and Linda Monckton

Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was, Sean Cunningham

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives

Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions, G. W. Bernard

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners, Retha Warnicke

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love, Elizabeth Norton

The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Tudor England, Retha Warnicke

Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister', Heather R. Darsie

A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine Howard, Lacey Baldwin Smith

Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love, Susan James

Katherine Parr, Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: A Theological Perspective, Don Matzat

Although, I think the best bet with Tudor history is to read a wide range of opinions and theories, and draw your own conclusions from that!

[edwardseymour]

“to speak of transness having an early modern history at all is to court controversy, flouting as it does the central, grounding assumption beneath contemporary transphobia: that transition is a novelty, that trans life must be defined by its newness and experimental nature. the assumption that trans life is a specifically modern phenomenon, in sharp contrast to the apparently timeless stability of cisgender modes of identity and embodiment, has been foundational to both the lethal politics of trans-antagonism in the present moment and also to early modern gender and sexuality studies. until very recently indeed, the field has flatly disavowed the possibility that trans history might reach back to early modernity, instead bracketing historical gender variance within the cisnormative model of 'transvestism'. in place of this limiting approach, i argue that trans embodiment in the renaissance was not chiefly understood as a question of clothing or a fantasy explored through the fictions of the stage. instead, this book insists that transition happened, both socially and surgically, and that the significance of such alterations was glossed through the categories provided by theology.”

— colby gordon, glorious bodies: trans theology and renaissance literature

[jeyneofpoole]

theon’s entire Thing is about how alone he is, right? he is so sure that nobody loves him (because, really, nobody in his general vicinity actually does, so sure), and he covers it up with his smiles and his careless faux-cruelty and his jokes and this is so so important to his character. but. but for every single night spent alone and wishing for home, and every night spent alone and feeling the noose around his neck, his mother spends a night walking the halls and calling out for him. every time he cried himself to sleep his mother wakes and cries out for her baby boy. because somewhere, somewhere, there is someone who loves theon greyjoy.

[newtype-lila]

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

[gojira007]

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[fatelectrician-deactivated20260]

I wish these people were oppressed

[fatelectrician-deactivated20260]

stop tagging this saying shit like “me and jakey!!! 🥺”

[dovv]

[daofeibutdead]

idek what that means I think a yes would have sufficed

[sexhaver]

for context this person claimed that Mitski bought them as a child sex slave and had them chained up in her dorm at college. and everyone just believed them for a few days

[gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool]

I was listening to a lecture by Emma Smith on Richard III and this gets at two things I find very core to my reading of tragedy in ASOIAF:

Like the folio, all six [earlier quartos] call the play The Tragedy of Richard III. It's a challenging designation for us because we [as readers] are still largely wedded to that essentially good but with a tragic flaw model of tragic protagonist which was been shaped for us out of Aristotle's Poetics via A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy... but as I've discussed before when I've been talking about Titus Andronicus and other plays, the tragic hero model is quite limited. Even Bradley, its great exponent, can only really make it fit four of the dozen or so plays which Shakespeare writes which are tragedies. Seeing Richard III as a tragedy is less about an ethical judgement on the qualities of its central character, and more a simple description of its shape. What we've got here is the de casibus medieval tradition of great figures falling due to the operations of fortune's wheel. The monk's prologue in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has it. Tragedy is a certain story "of him that stood in greet prosperity/And is y-fallen out of high degree/Into misery, and endeth wretchedly." So you can see that medieval idea is just a structure of falling from high to low. It's not a moral of ethical judgement of any sort. It's a definition based on structure. One thing we can be sure about in a tragedy is where our focus of interest lies. In the structure of the tragedy of Richard III, we might then say Richmond is about as interesting as Fortinbras is in Hamlet, i.e. not very. The very fact of being alive at the end of a tragedy is an index of your irrelevance. Think about Edgar in King Lear or Malcolm in Macbeth, or the Prince in Romeo and Juliet.