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So, while a modern reader who expects the Encomium to provide a portrait of a great and distinguished queen at the height of her power will be disappointed, and might well despair of an author who could suppress, misrepresent, and garble what we know or think to have been the truth, a reader more sympathetic to the author’s purpose will be rewarded with an extraordinary view of English politics in the early 1040s and will properly appreciate all the dissimulation and artful dissembling…The Encomium represents the triumph of literary artifice over historical truth; and while truth is still there, it is a truth which lies hidden in the artifice.

- Simon Keynes, Introduction to the 1998 Reprint of the Encomium Emmae Reginae; image from the British Library MS 33241

#history #gif #emma of normandy #!!! #a gifset for the emma encomium? #what next? #encomium emmae reginae

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getting intense twelve-era episode vibes. we have an unpleasant obvious foil to the doctor (the half-faced man from deep breath; ‘josiah smith’) we have a theme of tension between science and religion (robot of sherwood; evolution and horror) we have manipulation of the companion’s past and ‘facing fears’ (the entire premise of listen; ace’s traumatic childhood memory of gabriel chase) it’s so very series 8. i once read that season 26 of classic feels spiritually more like ‘series -1’ of nu and this is really proving that point. so many themes going on. class and gender and race and colonialism and darwinism and christianity and ableism and victorian social mores and uncomfortable history and the monster in the attic. gothic science fiction in the jekyll and hyde vein. they’ve got it all

#doctor who #ghost light #seventh doctor #oh yes #<3<3<3 #you get it op

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~ Evening Dress and Jacket.

Date: ca. 1965

Designer/Maker: Zara Holt; MAGG (Melbourne)

Medium: Silk, cotton, plastic, synthetic fibres.

#fashion #costume appreciation #well. #/presents this to all my dw followers #lol

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Among those believing that Anne Boleyn was innocent was Matthew Parker, her chaplain, who, when Elizabeth’s Archbishop of Canterbury, claimed that Anne’s soul was in “blessed felicity with God.” About six days before her arrest, he recalled, she asked him to look after her daughter, a plea he took seriously. He confided to Burghley, if he had not “been so much bound to the mother,” he would not have agreed to serve her daughter as archbishop.

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners, by Retha M Warnicke

#history #anne boleyn #elizabeth i #quotes #wicked women of tudor england #retha m warnicke

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#angel the series #ats #gif #angel #cordelia chase #david boreanaz #charisma carpenter #1990s #2000s #sff #parallels #angel x cordelia #cangel #<3 #aw

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Taskmaster Series 17 Episode 2 - Jumungo

#taskmaster #gif #greg davies #alex horne #sophie willan #steve pemberton #joanne mcnally #nick mohammed #john robins #taskmaster spoilers #s17 #comedy #2020s #cheer up tag

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"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”

#lotr #graphics #quotes #sff #oh amazing editing! #this is beautiful

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whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

#whitby #lol #that's whitby for you

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honestly before they decided to put daleks in every third big finish audio they should’ve considered the fact that No One Likes To Listen To Thaem

#big finish #daleks #please stop with the daleks big finish please

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OLIVER REED as IVAN DRAGOMILOFF in THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU (1969)

#the assassination bureau #gif #oliver reed #ivan dragomiloff #1960s #period drama #cinema #british cinema #comedy #!!! #assassination bureau gifs!! #amazing

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#hignfy #gif #mel giedroyc #ian hislop #quotes #s65e06 #ha #she's so tonally dissonant to the show it's perfect

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I've seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you're writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you're just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that. . . really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner's own reference. There's almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don't blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren't being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

#ao3 #yes #the unrevealed option on a collection is supposed to be for gift exchanges which reveal on a given date #people have been misusing it to post their works privately on ao3 #as well as this sort of thing #which really is not what it was designed for #unfortunately you can't take away the unrevealed option without ruining all the fandom gift exchanges #(which is what the option was designed for)

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by Mihaylov

#photography #beautiful #inspiration

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Im curious.

#polls #no #(i have been trying to think. because i feel like there may have been somewhere #but basically if i ever have #i can't even remember #i stop watching if it gets difficult to obtain the series #and very occasionally if it goes right off the rails #and sometimes i'll be salty about some deaths esp. in retrospect #but. no. i enjoy a good fictional death. and then i can write fixit fic #(deaths i am still salty about forever: cordelia in angel (no1 Bad. No.) and also zaf in spooks although #because we didn't see it. i expect the best death scenes from spooks! off-screen horrible death is unacceptable. show me my fave dying! #yes. i may not fit the proper modern fandom profile sorry.)

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#started watching another Boat Show and I care them so very already#the onedin line#james/anne onedin

“Am I so unbecoming?” // “You might not find me so great a catch, either.”

#reblog #gif #my gifs #when people say nice things #omg someone watching the onedin line! #*very carefully does not say things* #it'll all be fine; it'll all be okay #lol #<3 #sorry prev #onedin love is almost non-existant!!)

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Too swift from your gun and stronger than stone. RENEGADE NELL (2024)

[+] LOUISA HARLAND 😎 [+] ..more on “Renegade Nell” 🎬

#renegade nell #gif #derry girls #louisa harland #2020s #comedy #somehow #it just seems perfectly natural to see orla like this. #just. oh yes. there's orla.

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ANGEL REWATCH - one gifset per episode └1.06 - Sense and Sensitivity

#angel the series #ats #gif #cordelia chase #angel #charisma carpenter #david boreanaz #1990s #sff #quotes #sense and sensitivity #<3