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[catherinesvalois]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 DAY 6 FAVORITE ERA → THE MIDDLE AGES

[trailertrashgrog]

no context me & @aethelreds conversations

[sandushengshou]

aaahh happy birthday!!!! i hope you had a good one <3

thank you! 💜 I had tres leches cake and it was delicious

[cardassiangoodreads]

🤯💥 for the fic ask!

🤯 This is the easy answer but... I always feel uncomfortable writing straight-up smut. I've tried it twice (and also kind-of here) but I feel like in those fics it's also obvious that I’m not confident and I'm trying to dance around it. Maybe? Maybe I'm just reading those fics that way because I know the mindset I had while writing them. Certainly plenty of, if not most E-rated fics don't spend the majority of the fic run time on the actual anatomical descriptions of sex. But this is a thing that I'd like to get better at in terms of not just fanfic but original writing projects.

💥 My feeling has long been that fanfiction culture is only going to live up to its lofty ideals if it gets a lot better at making room for constructive criticism. Granted, I, like everyone else, prefer to get criticism (especially detailed criticism) from people I know whose writing I have read and liked -- which in my case is just because a lot of fanfic writers are not very good, lack reading comprehension in important ways, can't tell the difference between "bad writing" and something that's just not to their personal taste, etc., not because I can't handle criticism (I was an openly-female reviewer for a popular nerd media site for years, starting at the height of Gamergate, so LOL, I have Seen Some Shit)... So I get the broader fanfiction culture norm against unsolicited criticism. But there are still some people who are just so fragile, they'll crumple at a comment that is 90% positive because of that other 10% and it's like... you wonder why you're stagnating as a writer! You are never going to improve if you insist on nothing but hugbox positivity about your work. I think it's good that fanfic culture has some more organized versions of this like "betas" (I'll never not find the use of this term rather than "editor" or "reader" weird and funny) for events and stuff; I think it should be more widespread, and I also think people need to be honest with themselves about who they choose for a beta and make sure a) it's not someone who is just going to gush about everything they do, b) that person feels comfortable giving you actual criticism; you don't have a history of collapsing at the slightest hint of a "mean" word. I'm glad I have a few different friends I can ask to look over my work who will be honest with me about it.

[talesfromthecrypts]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOCAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAH MEG THANK

[nedlittle]

thoughts on your favorite art piece/art movement?

my favourite piece of art is van gogh's starry night over the rhône! mostly just because it brings me great peace to look at, but also because you can really see how van gogh was a colour-focused painter. the contrast of the stars with the (relatively) new gas lamps! the fact that i only just noticed the pair of lovers in the foreground because i'm always too concerned with the sky! the texture of the reflections on the water!

[aadmelioraa]

🌹 👀

cheating and giving you more than one sentence from my aldflaed-are-exes-in-a-modern-au-wedding-weekend-only-one-bed-nonsense wip.

“So you’re Aldhelm,” Cynlaef says. He’s spinning a cocktail napkin beneath his middle finger, a nervous gesture Aldhelm finds amusing and somewhat gratifying.

“I am," Aldhelm nods.

“I’ve heard a lot about you,” Cynlaef continues. “From Aelfwynn, and Aethelstan…mostly from Aelfwynn.”

Aethelstan directs his laughter into his pint.

[catherinesvalois]

Different takes on how Elizabeth is shown dealing with her father’s death/dying. THE TUDORS // BECOMING ELIZABETH As a parent, Henry had one thing going for him (besides being there, alive) - his royalty. It was his name (not her mother’s unless you count her pride in her ‘most English” descent) that the adult Elizabeth would invoke frequently...[But] for the first half of the period - hardly more than a decade in all - that passed between Anne’s death and that of Henry himself, Elizabeth’s father was effectively an absentee from her life. (Sarah Gristwood, Elizabeth & Leicester)

In The Tudors, Elizabeth walks away from her last meeting with her father first without a second glance and as the audience we can sympathize, not only with her, but with Mary (who remains and cries moments after Henry exits), because of all the emotional trauma their father and his government have put them through. However, Becoming Elizabeth depicts Elizabeth as angry that the wheels of government do not stop to mourn her father, which is a choice the writers could make without turning heads, because the audience does not see her early upbringing and her mother’s fall so we don’t have the same emotional buildup as The Tudors. However, I think that both of these depictions together make up how Elizabeth felt and acted. Elizabeth was always aware that she walked a thin line being so close to the throne (even as a legally declared illegitimate child of the king). Her private feelings, unlike those of her sister Mary’s, were frequently masked as habit of pure survival. Therefore, putting on a sincere face of grief no matter how mixed her feelings were towards her father might not have been natural, but expected by the new regime and watched by those around her.