sad alfred never ending era

michela - she/her - history enthusiast, rants are my elixir of life, i make gifs from time to time !! my gifs, my edits, ao3

[kingslionheart]

David at the curtain call for The Duchess of Malfi - Shakespeare's Globe, 2014

[vikingagesource]

The Last Kingdom | 3.04 Tobias Santelmann as Ragnar The Younger

[wizardarchetypes]

i get a $250 million production budget to adapt beowulf into a summer blockbuster and at the end beowulf is contemplating his reign as king in his old age and the passing of time and we hear some kids say something he doesn't quite understand and he says stoically "it's as if the English i speak is becoming old..."

[guiltfactory]

your boyfriend isn't thematically significant

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

[prokopetz]

#the best route is clearly to get really into a specific kink scenario and invent a world to justify it (via @salix03)

That's not even a joke. Developing a kink scenario so elaborate and so excruciatingly particular that it can only properly be contemplated in the frame of a world created specifically to contain it is genuinely closer to Tolkien's actual creative process than 99% of the stuff that plays at being heir to his legacy.

[briek-angel-author]

In Episode 5, Season 1 of The Last Kingdom, Uhtred is once again his own worst enemy. He still can’t control the impulses that sabotage him. We want to root for him, but storming a church just to prove a point to Alfred? It’s the perfect example of how his anger keeps overpowering his rational side.

At this stage of the story, what interests me most is watching how he evolves. He needs to understand that justice isn’t achieved through rage but through clarity, patience, and strategy. And the irony is that he can be a brilliant strategist — we saw it at the beginning of the episode, when he sneaks into the Danish settlement and kills Ubba with precision and cunning. That version of Uhtred is the one who could actually win.

[guiltfactory]

i like when both people in a relationship are scared of it

[whyenn-reader]

even better when they are not in a relationship but you can't exactly say they are not not in a relationship

[nikoriis]

i imagine being medicated would feel good as fuck. unfortunately i have to rawdog whatever's wrong with me

[wordfather]

if you complete one task off your to do list you should be allowed 3 days of chilling afterwards as a reward

[casusbelloli]

i have literally never fallen in battle. only tripped gracefully with tasteful panty shot

[gnusnoteunuchs]

ME: ah, fuck! these allergies are going crazy!

THE PERFIDIOUS POLLEN PARTICLE:

[tramontane-fire]

Reblog if you are Bad Queer Representation.

[kosmogrl]

[ceruleanheaven]

if i was a different person with a different personality and a different life things would be kinda different i think

[loveridden1999]

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Hotel Room

Artist: Edward Hopper (American, 1822-1967)

Date: 1931

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Description

The loneliness of the modern city is a central theme in Hopper’s work. In this painting, a woman sits on the edge of a bed in an anonymous hotel room. It is night and she is tired. She has taken off her hat, dress and shoes, and - too exhausted to unpack - she is checking the time of her train the next day. The space is confined by the wall in the foreground and the chest of drawers on the right; while the long diagonal line of the bed directs our gaze to the background, where an open window turns the viewer into a voyeur on what is happening in the room. The female figure, sunk in her own thoughts, contrasts with the coldness of the room, whose sharp lines and bright, flat colours are heightened by strong artificial lighting from above.

[great-gatsby]

every reread kills me a little bit more

[great-gatsby]

reread and enjoy <3