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

#i watched this yesterday and AH i fell in love with theatre once again #also he's so small here so i needed to gif him in this shot #i'm the target audience #he needs to do theatre once again i swear #your honor i love Him #david dawson #the duchess of malfi #the duchess of malfi 2014 #michela's gifs #daviddawsonedit

went to the library and got a textbook on how they speak english in england. from 1964

yourstorai

the urge to run into someone’s arms

#alfred x uhtred #i need serotonin and i need to imagine soft moments so i don't care how real this statement for them actually is OKAYY #more like true than real

55five

Be a teachable individual YOU DO NOT know everything

55five

Be a teachable individual YOU DO NOT know everything

55five

Be a teachable individual YOU DO NOT know everything

vikingagesource

The Last Kingdom | 3.04 Tobias Santelmann as Ragnar The Younger

#my guyyyyy #the last kingdom #young ragnar

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..."

#i laughed harder than i should have done

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.

#writing

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.

#PREACHHHHH OP #the last kingdom #uhtred