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Late night kirby OC doodles from a while ago. (Well, mostly OCs, wanted to draw a quick thing with Susie and Secty) I'll write a bit more on some under the thing vvv

Came up with temp designs for Medea's parents. They're a family that has struggled financially, but kept going forward. They would always sacrifice what they could to ensure Medea would grow up well. Work longer, feed her first, school, even piano lessons, as Medea took interest at a young age. Then their little Medea grew up, with a desire to repay her parents for everything they had done for her, so she set her sights on working for Sectonia, the young spider queen. Within just the first three years, she was able to earn enough to relieve her parents of their burdens and live a less stressful life. If all were to fail, she'd always have her parents to fall back on 💙

Then there's a few random doodles, trying to draw some of the characters I don't do often (Buena B, Loren, Gallo for example)

Then an attempt at a halcandran OC. She'll fit a similar role to Magolor, probably, and be integrated into the water themed planet Moira is on, since she's lacking development, and I need to flesh out that planet more. I am... struggling to design one. I really don't know what to do with her face/ hair. All I know is that her outfit will be yellow. Bottom left is the best I've done, top left is a lil too villainous- gives me yolkian vibes from Jimmy Neutron lmao

[sartorialadventure]

Hi! I saw your post about the historical paper dolls (from about 1200 - 1450), and I noticed there was a period at 1300 where the woman was wearing her hair loose and uncovered, but in the 1350 outfit, it was no longer acceptable to have loose and uncovered hair. Do you know why it became acceptable to have loose and uncovered hair around c. 1300 and why it became unacceptable again? I've always wondered about medieval European women's hair covering

Good question! Generally, women in the middle ages were required to cover their head/hair in public. “For a woman to have walked the streets of a medieval town with her hair uncovered would have invited suspicion as to her sexual morality—that was the behaviour of a prostitute. (In fact, if an “honest” woman from the French town of Arles saw a prostitute wearing a veil, she had the legal right to rip it off.) “

However, unmarried women could sometimes get away with less head covering than married women could. In some times and places, unmarried women didn’t have to cover their heads in public, or could just wear a fillet (a headband, like the one the woman is wearing in the 1300 plate).

Honestly, the truth is that medieval Europe wasn’t a monolith. Customs of dress and standards of modesty could vary widely from region to region and from decade to decade. However, I think it’s safe to say that a medieval woman with her head uncovered in public is almost certainly either an unmarried woman or a prostitute.

[sob-dylan]

What kinds of scenes with Nacho and/or Lalo would you have liked to have seen more of in season 5? :D

Oh man. The list is endless. But mainly: a deeper exploration of the evolution of trust between Nacho And Lalo. Here’s a summary of the Nacho/Lalo Trust story in regards to my Viewer Experience:

50% Off: Gus tells Nacho to gain Lalo’s trust. Nacho invites him to Poker Night With The Boys, that doesn’t really work, but oh! What luck! The 5th street trap house gets busted! Giving Nacho the chance to rescue some meth, resulting in Lalo calling him a badass! And then later, when Nacho asks him whether or not his guys should move back out, Lalo says it’s his call!

Emma: Atta boy, Nacho, you did it! Lalo trusts you now! 

The Guy For This: The Garage Scene. Nacho sits behind Lalo. He mimics his body language. He seamlessly supplies necessary auxiliary information to the conversation like “biznatch” and “attorney-client privilege.” They’re a well-oiled machine.

Emma: Beautiful! Nacho’s the Platonic ideal of a consigliere! He’s doing so well as a double-agent!

Namaste:

Emma: I wonder what Nacho and Lalo are up to.

Dedicado a Max: 

Emma: I wonder what Nacho and Lalo are up to.

Wexler v. Goodman: Gus asks what Lalo is planning. Nacho replies “idk dude he talks a lot.” A sharp contrast to the 50% Off assertion “he doesn’t tell me shit.” 

Emma: Ayyy! Good job, Nacho! You’ve really gained his trust! 

JMM: Lalo calls Nacho from prison to tell him to burn down a Pollos Hermanos. 

Emma: Nacho got the motherfucker sent to prison and he’s still Lalo’s first call when he needs a lil’ bit of arson committed. The award for Best Double-Agent goes to . . .

Bagman: Jimmy suggest Nacho goes to pick up Lalo’s bail money. Lalo says “Ignacio? Sure, I fuck him, but I wouldn’t trust him with my wallet, ya know?” (via @pandirpus​)

Emma: Wait, what? You don’t trust Nacho? I mean, I guess that makes sense . . .

And then, of course, Kim points out that Lalo needs to learn how to trust his own guys, he decides to place his trust in Nacho, and then Nacho betrays him. Point is, I spent 6 episodes believing that Nacho had successfully gained Lalo’s trust. But no! And then, in the span of the very last episode, Nacho did gain Lalo’s trust, betrayed him, and lost it. On it’s own, I think this story line could’ve been paced a little better. I understand that they were beholden to the pacing of the Kim/Jimmy story line because of the way Bagman unfolded, but they really sacrificed a lot of build-up of dramatic tension in the Nacho/Lalo storyline. I think they lost quite a bit by cutting this scene from Wexler v. Goodman: 

Another scene I am HEARTBROKEN about them cutting, you ask? This scene from Bad Choice Road: 

Mainly, I’m mad that they cut it just because I just want to know what the fuck that scene was. The part they did keep in was the phone call Nacho has with Victor or Tyrus while Amber and Jo are cooking in the background. Was it a congrats-on-getting-out-of-jail dinner party where the only attendees were Lalo, Nacho, and Nacho’s girlfriends? If so, that’s wild! Also, I just want more of Jo, played by Poppy Liu! I’m a fan of her comedian buddy Joel Kim Booster (with whom she’s stars on the NBC comedy Sunnyside, which I’ve never seen) so I’m operating under the assumption that if she’s pals with this guy I like, she must be pretty cool herself. Hopefully we get more Amber and Jo in season 6.

[chthonic-cassandra]

Top 5 kinds of flowers! :)

I love them all so much! And right now especially I am just overjoyed beyond measure when I see any flower, so this is mostly instinct and I am deliberately not thinking it through:

- Lilies

- Water lilies

- Sunflowers

- Bluebells

- Irises

[finelythreadedsky]

What's the etsy store called that sells the replica medieval/renaissance rings? That sounds amazing!

the one i was talking about is libby willingham designs (etsy/website) but i’ve also since found chloe lee carson (etsy/website) who has (more expensive) pieces inspired by old jewish house wedding rings rather than actual replicas, and now i’m fantasizing about being in a position to get her house-ring mezuzah (home apartment ownership??? $400 to drop on a mezuzah??? that’s the dream)

[queenfredegund]

For the history ask meme: 28, 31, and 13! :)

28. Which historical figure do you think has been the most fictionalized and elevated to a godlike status nowadays?

Definitely, Anne Boleyn! I like her very much, that’s not the question, but a film / documentary / tv-show nearly each year? That’s too much … And each time there is that difficulty to develop the complexity of her life and her relationship with Henry VIII, so … stop it for a time and wait for a better angle, thanks!

31. How was your interest in history started?

I don’t really know, I think I was always interested in it, even without thinking on it. For example, when I was a child, I took catechism lessons, and there was those books we used to work on with depictions of the life of the patriarchs or Jesus, and maps of the ancient Near-East, and I was just amazed by that. I wanted to know more things about it, this was the only thing who interested me in fact… 

There was also that book I found in my grandma’s house on the ancient world with floor plan of palaces, like Persepolis or Knossos, and even if it is an old book now (she bought it for my mother and uncle back in th 70s!), I love it that much that I kept it and it is on my bedside most of the time.

13. Fun fact?

The cardinal Richelieu was a cat-lover and he lived with 14 cats with hilarious names: Félimare, Lucifer, Ludovic-le-Cruel (Ludovic-the-Ruthless), Ludoviska, Mimi-Piaillon (the word “piailler” means in french “to cheep”, or “to scream in a very annoying way”), Mounard-le-Fougueux (Mounard-the-Fiery), Perruque (Wig), Rubis-sur-l'ongle (Cash-on-the-nail), Serpolet (Breckland thyme), Pyrame, Thisbe, Racan (perhaps like the poet?), Soumise (Submissive), and Gazette (an official newspaper). Here’s a painting of his lovable pets (x).

[elucubrare]

"Empire" for the reading list ask game!

Jean D'Ormesson's The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, A History. It gets a little wearing by the end, and it's a very Byzantine empire with very Byzantine rulers, but it's a deliciously dense history of a fictional empire. 

K.J. Parker's Purple and Black, an epistolary fantasy novella about the experience of Power and what it does to you. 

Anthony Hope's The King's Mirror, which is about how a king can't have friends or lovers or even family without the emotion being changed and charged by his station. Let me tell you, when I downloaded a book about a boy king by the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, this was not what I was expecting. 

Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., which does a pretty good job with Josephine Bonaparte's life, both internal and external. 

and Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial, another, more magical realist fictional empire.  

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Exactly! That's why I always kind of roll my eyes when people say the Yorks had the "right" to the throne and the Lancastrians and Tudors "did not." When it comes to the 15th century civil wars and the accession of the Tudors, no way we can really say one family did or did not have a "right" to the throne. Some families had the throne and held it for more time than others. That's really all that matters.

i do too, besides henry iv decided to bar the beauforts from the throne without permission from parliament or permission from the pope which was what richard ii did in 1390, which means it was only on the will of the king and could be undone by another king who changed his mind........hich is exactly what henry vii did so the beauforts were resorted to their status that was granted in the 1390′s by parliament AND the pope