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[blueberry-ghost]

Look at this lovely handmade bunny pin of mine~

I was super lucky to get one as a present from a talented friend <3 Please check out her Etsy and Instagram for more pretty embroidery pin! She does great ones and more pins are coming in the future! Keep an eye on it! 

(not to mention, that the pins have great quality, and are such nice valuable things to make your stuff more unique!) 

[superhero-gerbil]

Historical revisionist musicals

I might be late to the party on this, but I’m noticing a trend recently in terms of historical figures in history getting musicals devoted to them, painting them in a different light. I would call it being “Hamiltonised” or “Getting a Sweeney Todd”, but I don’t know if they were the first or if there are ones before it.  Either way, I’m here for it. I’ve just finished listening to a bunch of songs from SIX and the tunes are good and the points they raise about the six wives of Henry the VIII are undeniably strong. For a lot of them, they were ripped out of their lives by a powerful capricious prick and made to marry him before being offed, dumped or otherwise removed from the picture. The true crime is, naturally, that none of them are really remembered for it, even in history classes. Anne Boleyn gets the most characterization and she’s always portrayed as a wanton, devious baby maker.  However, the best thing about SIX is how each of the characters main songs reflect a different style of music and musician from recent pop music and it fits their stories marvelously. Anne Boleyn song “Don’t lose your head” reminds me so much of Lily Allen in a Ditzy-cute-but-actually-talking-about-serious-shit way that it made me re-appreciate those songs, whilst Catherine Howards “All you wanna do” is so reminscent of seedy sex-jams by the pussy cat dolls that when the reality of her situation hits you it feels like a gut punch. The Weakest song with my listen through, Catherine of Aragons “No Way”, only loses out because it reminds me so much of “Work” from Hamilton, but it has a cracking Brass section in the chorus. My favorite song, “Get Down” by Anne of Cleaves, has this wonderful sense of swagger and bravado that gives me flashes of Beyonce at her most dominating, which considering that it came after the horrible history-esque “Haus of Holburn”, makes it seem even more triumphant. 

It ends on the great note that Catherine Parr makes that, yes, Historians and history teachers tend to be quite reductive in our teaching of these figures and it does them a dis-service to not look at them as complete human beings. We need to remember that history, as well as many other things in life, is fundamentally about people and people are complex beings, shaped by environment and influences. Considering that this musical came out only a year ago, and our tory government and the pandemic has hit the arts industry in the UK the hardest, I shouldn’t have to say support them, as well as the artists

So yeah, If you guys can, give the songs a listen. Would Recommend. 

[silassstingy]

y'all we're going to an indie wrestling show tonight 🤭

[therainsworthprincess]

[ So I added  Oz to my multimuse blog @friendshipisvaluable . If you guys want to interact with him or with Ada, Vincent, Gilbert, Oscar, Break, Noise, Echo and Shelly, feel free to follow! ]

[scytheofhatred-blog]

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http://gunmageofzero.tumblr.com/ So i made another Cadet blog. Go check it out!

[faemagique]

Are any of you guys book nerds?  Then you should check out my bookish blog.

undeadunicron.blogspot.com

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[ask-ophantomfrance]

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☻ - Favorite Blog I follow/Rp with

( I have a few favorite blogs that I rp with.  

1. http://ask-tea-and-rum.tumblr.com/

They are amazing, go love on them.  They are so much fun to rp with and they’re just awesome!  She’s one of my favorite people to go to to rp FrUK.   

2. http://bigbenwithscones.tumblr.com/

They are awesome.  Go love on them too.  I rp FrUk with them too and we have had a lot of fun with our rps.  I’m very slow at replying most of the time because I get distracted by camps.  (I will reply to the drunk England rp today or tomorrow.)  I have so much fun rping with them.  

There are a lot more than this but these two are some of my favorites )