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[retiredficwriter]

Okay bestie I'm sat. What's the soundtrack to your collection of bloodlines amvs?? I actually made a sydrian amv to check yes Juliet back in the era of daisy and nic's trailers lmaooo but I do have a sydrian playlist that definitely needs some new additions

oooh i need to watch it!

gotta admit, after looking at my songs, most of them are for amvs i would do my fanfic 💀 BUT i compiled a good sydrian list that i would love to do amv or small video edits:

golden hour by kacey musgraves drive by halsey (golden lily era) back to friends by sombr (beginning of indigo spell era) my love mine all mine by mistki together by the xx get you by daniel caeser and kali uchis salvation by gabrielle aplin yellow light by of monsters and men

i also have some adrian-centric amv ideas for these songs:

i was never there by the weeknd gasoline by halsey cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant wires by the neighborhood

honorable mention for my va amv: good luck babe! for dragoway, remember the name for eddie and rasputin for dimitri (more specifically in his strigitri era)

[richmond-rex]

Reverse unpopular opinion ask meme: hmmmmmm Perkin Warbeck? 😂

Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme: send topics and instead of salt or hot takes, I MUST talk abt something I like about it.

Okay, so I lowkey want to kill you <3 and the vaccine is acting up and I’m feeling as though someone hit me with a car and shattered my bones into smithereens, so here goes my answer: I love how much of a freaking mess Warbeck was?? If you ever feel bad or frustrated because your life is a mess, or believe you made poor life choices think about Perkin Warbeck. No wonder people mocked him and there were even some ballads going around after his attempted landing on the Kent coast in 1495: 'sundry roundellis & songis to his shame & derision.' First, he proclaimed himself to be one of Richard III's bastards, realising it didn't exactly help his claim he took to calling himself Edward of Warwick, then again realising that claim could be easily disproven, he finally started to proclaim himself Edward IV's second son, Richard of Shrewsbury.

That attempted landing on Kent that I mentioned? Warbeck fled the scene because the populace threw him back — common people, not even an army, slaughtered around three hundred of his men. He fled the scene and tried to step foot in Ireland and he had to flee and lost men again (p.s.: the Irish called him 'the French lad', perhaps aptly as it is quite possible he was a ploy invented to threaten Henry VII at the time he was at war with France). Warbeck finally found refuge with James IV in Scotland who gave him an army and a wife, and sent him south to engage in battle with the English, and Warbeck fled the scene yet again. Apparently, James was so furious to see him back at his court that he is reported to have shouted that he couldn't believe Warbeck was King of England. When Warbeck finally managed to land somewhere in England — Cornwall, who was already up in arms against Henry VII — he lost his nerve yet again, deserted his army and fled.

Do you ever think you're in your flop area? Once Warbeck left Burgundy he never left his ❤️x

[herawell]

Hello! I was recommended your fic Castle Crumbling, and while I haven't fully read it yet, I saw that you said the flashback was based on history? I only had a quick look at the first chapter but I assume it's the scene of Mary being lifted up by HVIII and I was wondering if you had a source for that because that's so cute.

Yes, the flashback is based on an anecdote of Henry tugging off Mary’s hood in front of a large crowd and revealing her hair: https://books.google.com/books?id=dn9JAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22a+profusion+of+silver+tresses%22&source=bl&ots=_iY9UIUkqv&sig=ACfU3U3cAYJAaJp2S3uUfSEnJWSgurFjAQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLsu6t75fwAhXaJDQIHcOWCykQ6AEwAXoECAEQAw#v=onepage&q=%22a%20profusion%20of%20silver%20tresses%22&f=false

In case Google Books doesn’t show the page, here’s another source: https://tudortimes.co.uk/people/mary-i-images Look for the words “silver tresses”. 

Although the bit about Henry lifting Mary up and Katherine joining in the fun, I made those up, and Mary was actually nine at this point, not six like I wrote in the fic.

I’m also curious to know, how did you get recommended the fic?

[lukestarkillerisgay]

how is ur personal beef with the queen going now that she's single

i like the implication that my beef was like out of jealousy for prince philip -- but it’s still on, one down three to go , im booking my flight out there to beat her ass

[phoebehalliwell]

I haven’t been on tumblr for ages so I might have missed some past discussion about it lmao but I’m highkey loving all this raw footage and outtakes of charmed that’s been popping up on YouTube lately lmao watching them film orbing and freezing scenes will always be funny

!!! i know right! i personally like love hearing them like repeat a line over and over again with the exact same inflection i think it’s just so funny how that works this is the youtube channel for anyone who hasn’t seen these yet!

[branloaf]

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[retiredficwriter]

honestly my biggest gripe with rose and eddie's friendship is that there wasn't any conversation about spokane.... makes me hate the time jump between fb and sk too bc you're really telling me that the first time rose saw him afterwards she wasn't begging Eddie to forgive her for not being able to save mason and he responds with the exact same thing??????

I remember there's a line in SK (can't remember where, pls quote it when you get to it!) where rose "realises" that her and Eddie should have been thrown in therapy the second they got back. This is like at least a month after spokane. A MONTH and you only JUST realised how fucked up Eddie is by all of this??????????

i got you friend:

and the thing is, this realization rose makes is when eddie talks about spokane with lissa. not rose, but lissa because she wants to matchmake eddie and rose together.

i don't know if it's because of the guardian mentality that all this trauma is expected and they should never put themselves first, but it is weird that rose and eddie never talk about what they went through on paper. i'm still close to the 50% of sk but the only person from the spokane group that rose has talked with about the incident was christian, and even so it was very surface level.

this might be an unpopular opinion but i don't really see eddie and rose as "friends", mostly because eddie's screentime in va is so little and the times he shows up, it's barely with him and rose bonding. (for me it feels like eddie became her friend by association with mason). like if you think sydney and eddie, it's without doubt they are friends and i can think of examples where they talk about themselves and their problems to each other. we are shown why they are friends, not told.

who told eddie mason died? was it rose or was she there when he heard the news to comfort him? was there a funeral for mason and did they both attend? or were they too consumed by grief that they skipped? even in the beginning of sk, the way rose recaps spokane and eddie there's no mention to what their reunion was like. she just tells us what he went through and how he is now protecting her from guys. it feels like book 2 happened more than a month ago and their friendship started because of trauma-bonding.

a scene between rose and eddie right after spokane was absolutely needed. it would have made their friendship more memorable.

[richmond-rex]

Top 5 tudor related what ifs ;)

I’m going to answer it with hopefully unexpected ones ❤️

1. What if Edmund Tudor had been made duke of Somerset in right of his wife (Margaret Beaufort), instead of Henry VI passing the title over to her uncle (Edmund Beaufort)? Would Henry Tudor have received the title? Would that have changed how Edward IV treated him? Would that have made him more dangerous right from the beginning? 

2. What if, instead of disfranchising him at every turn, Edward IV had betrothed and later married Henry Tudor to one of his daughters (Mary, I suppose)? Marrying into the royal family, would he and his retinue have been able to support the Woodvilles in the 1483 crisis? Would Prince Richard have been taken away from the Queen Mother?

3. What if things had gone according to plan and Elizabeth of York had been able to join the Earl of Richmond in Brittany? (I’ve considered writing this AU before) How would that have changed his invasion?

4. What if Arthur had been born a girl? Would Henry VII have survived the 1487 crisis and kept his crown (and head)? 5. Now as for the last, a more common one: what if Prince Edmund had survived? Would Elizabeth of York have felt the need to give Henry VII another son? Would she have died around the same age (35-37) that the majority of her sisters, and later daughter, did? What if it was some genetic condition (e.g. cancer)?

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