#thewritingpossum

[jezabelofthenorth]

they acrualy were some warriors out there calling out emma frost on her shit and they have my eternal respect rather than saying some random tumblr user ACTUALLY hates the real koa rod um making fun of this weird ass version of her whom is a baby stealer and hates her daughter, like could not be me but you do you i suppose

[philomaela]

thewritingpossum replied to your post “I’m reading Lisa Hilton’s biography of Madame de Montespan and it’s...”

yeah, I read her biography of england's queen consorts and it's really really easy to see who she likes or dislikes..It's kind of a shame because she has interesting things to say for the most part

She definitely makes a lot of really interesting and valid points, but yeah it’s really easy to see who she likes and dislikes. It was most obvious with Madame de Maintenon like I was just reading it like “wow, she will not give this woman the benefit of the doubt on anything.” And it was a little distracting tbh.

[medievalcat]

was having some thoughts on got costume design:

-The Northern costumes weren’t bad imo but after a while the Northern style began to look repetitive, and monolithic. I think the show could have displayed how the clothing there is suited for cold weather and less frivolous than other regions without doing that. Personally I think taking inspiration from Russia and the Kievan Rus historical clothing could have worked very well.

-the Islands are a seemingly harsh climate and the people are active at sea a lot which explains why they seem to wear thick fabrics like wool and sealskin a lot and why their clothes, from the few descriptions we get, seem to be very full-body-covering. I’ve said that despite the “aesthetically Viking, politically Ireland” thing I think the Isles are less a metaphor for any specific *culture* and more about different issues that are existing in many places so I don’t have a set idea for what culture they think they are similar to. I think they would have a lot of layers and possibly for special occasions have the gold coin style jewelry that many cultures have such as in the Balkans and West Asia. They also seem like they wear dark colors and relatively practical.

-the Stormlands also have a harsh climate which makes me think they also would have thick, strong fabrics that would keep out water and moisture. I think their clothes are not talked about a lot but Stannis iirc is described as wearing leather all the time so it fits. Also people have compared the Stormlands to Spain which idk if I think GRRM intended but I can see the clothing looking similar to late medieval/early Renaissance spain. Many rich colors, thick but expensive and fine fabrics. Heraldic clothing too.

[makingqueerhistory]

thewritingpossum replied to your post “Girl, could you possibly prostrate yourself to appease cis-hets more?”

Could this girl be more obsessed with you tho? Like, you went to great lenghts to explain your opinion to her and to give her an historical and sociological context and she's still going so I'm pretty sure she's not going to learn and become more educated, she's just looking to start shit...

Yeah, they seem pretty hyper-fixated on us, but I find that isn’t uncommon with people who don’t have anything better to do. It is unlikely that we will respond to anything more from them, we just wanted to give some closure to the whole mess. Thank you for the support!

[thecatsaesthetics]

thewritingpossum replied to your photo: Sexy? Hot? Are they confirming that was not...

they can say it as much as they want it doesn’t make it true lmao

Listen the guy might be cute in real life, but with those weird angles and that wig, he looked awful. 

The wig wasn’t even silver-blond, it was golden looking. The more I look at Visery’s wig I can see it’s way more silver than Rhaegar’s was. That’s just unacceptable at this point, their budget is massive. No reason to have a wig this bad looking. 

Like I’ve seen people argue he was cast because he looks like one of the commissioned art work of Rhaegar but what is the point if they don’t even show Rhaegar’s face? 

[jezabelofthenorth]

TRULY ever “anne stan” as u say because...........lmao, hates that part of tobg, because it’s terrible??? i know tobg is old but like isn’t um kinda the point WHOM was online here where tobg came out in the year of our lord 2008, we made fun of koa stealing a baby in 2020 because it happened in november of 2020 and it was insane and funny as hell, that’s it

[medievalcat]

thewritingpossum:

   Mortimer: breathes Historians: He was a manly heterosexual straight man who loved to do heterosexual things in a viril way    

[thecatsaesthetics]

thewritingpossum replied to your post “I really can’t believe that their adding more nonsense V*cbourne to...”

i'm so mad tbh

I’m just salty about it all... like why does Daisy Goodwin think this is the best director to take. 

Even in terms of V*cbourne, on its own was a pretty well-done storyline, which had a 5 episode arc, which ended pretty tightly with not alot of more room for more. The “Goodbye Lord M.” really felt like a true ending to the storyline. There was a reason they couldn’t include him in the rest of the season. Even though historically he was still around. From a writing POV, I don’t know why she wants to add more in. It kind of ruins the relationship, because clearly, Victoria is going to always return to Albert. So I don’t get what adding more of it is going to do.