Winds take a pensive tone,and stars a tender fire

Sarah, 23.

[queenyou-shallbe]

Starz Orders Catherine De Medici Drama ‘The Serpent Queen’ From Justin Haythe, Francis Lawrence & Erwin Stoff, Stacie Passon To Direct Opener

Starz continues to double down on European royalty with its latest series order – an eight-part drama about Catherine de Medici. The cable network has ordered The Serpent Queen, based on Leonie Fri…

starz are really just going to keep increasing my blood pressure!!

At least it’s based on leonie frieda’s biography?? the potential this series has!! yet so many ways it could go wrong 

[flowerytale]

Anne Brontë ― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

[antigonick]

“Heart, I implore you, it’s time to come back from the dark,”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Summer Morning”, in Red Bird

[moonchildattitude]

Cottagecore 💛

[christophernolan]

EMMA 2020 + SCENERY

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

[antigonick]

And the moor’s winds lift my light-dark hair. I am still here when the sun goes up, Still here when the moon drops down. I do not now stand alone.

Jackie Kay, excerpt of “Anne”, as engraved on the Brontë Stones (via antigonick)

[kayawilkins-deactivated20210201]

You could have killed me. I know. I think about that all the time. Killing Eve (2018-) : BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series

[itsthatunique]

“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: who is to blame? […] What does matter is that, to them, justice was done. Because, you see, to them a just world is a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl. What happened there, what happened after, even the good we did, all of it… all of it… madness. Well, I’ve given you everything I know. They’ll deny it, of course. They always do. I know you’ll try your best.”  - Chernobyl (2019) dir. Johan Renck

[macherierps]

To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually wants us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. […] Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask… what is the cost of lies?  — Chernobyl (2019, dir. Johan Renck, created by Craig Mazin)

[ansonmount]

“Our goal is the happiness of all mankind.” | 1x04  | CHERNOBYL (2019)

[daeneryssansa]

we know no queen but the queen in the north whose name is   s t a r k

[rayshippouuchiha]

There’s just a whole pissed off dragon flying around now. Just an entire dragon. A big ol pissed off nuclear warhead with no off button out there flying around and everyone’s like “that’s fine, this’ll be fine.”

[truestoriesaboutme]

[maradyer]

Sansa Stark, the Queen in the North. Queen of Winter. Lady of Winterfell. The Red Wolf.

[mademoiselleboullan]

may 19, 1536 | the execution of anne boleyn, queen consort of england and second wife of king henry viii

For her final public appearance, Anne dressed carefully in a gown of grey damask edged with fur. A gabled hood, under which her long hair was tucked, framed her face. Determined to die boldly, Anne stepped onto the scaffold and addressed the crowd with a smiling countenance. The officials drew in their breath. Would the queen declare herself a good woman in her last moments and make mockery of the king’s justice?

To their relief, there were no surprises. Wanting to make a good end, and perhaps to protect her family from any royal reprisals, Anne made no accusation or criticism. But she admitted no guilt either. Following her brother’s example, Anne merely submitted herself to the law and prayed for the King, asking the crowd to do likewise for her. Anne climbed the scaffold steps with Kingston’s assistance and then addressed the waiting crowd:

“Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul”.

As Anne prayed, the executioner called out to his assistant to pass him his sword. When Anne moved her head to try and hear what the assistant was doing, the executioner came up unnoticed behind her and beheaded her with one stroke of his sword. With a single deft swing, it was done. Death was quick and painless as had been promised her. (source)

[jesterlesbian]

“The world of Hadestown is a mythic world. But as we know, in all parables, the lesson to be learned is about mankind.” - Andre De Shields