#i still only like it in a very very specific way tho

[widevibratobitch]

ive been neck deep in fitzconte the last few days and it's amazing the things people can do with a character who has 4 minutes of screentime, says like three lines in total and also never actually directly interacts with the character the fandom decided is their bestie their pal their sweet cheese their good-time boy. and lover.

the cheetah is a homoerotic allegory yes yes we know.

#but the fics ive read. holy shit. there are so many incredible writers in this fandom. obsessed. #anyway. friendship ended with fitzier. now fitzconte is my best friend. #(<- a joke obv im a fitzier girlie forever and ever. but when you CONNECT the two... my goddd. now i feel im alive) #also its so funny how the fitzconte fics seem so much more like rpf than say fitzier etc cause like. #since we got next to nothing of these two in the show - the fic writers' obvious next step is to turn to their actual life history #since they were buddies irl and all. the clio shenanigans are just a well that keeps on giving. #where would we be without that cheetah fitzconte nation huh #the terror #fitzconte #i used to occasionally dab my fingers into this ship but now that ive read some fics where they're oh so delightfully toxic... im in love <3 #i still only like it in a very very specific way tho

[halfusek]

Irt you post about the archives- Have you read any of the novels? I feel like some of them, like Joey's autobiography, help give a bit more insight to these characters, at least a little.

As for Nathan, I think it's supposed to represent that, unlike Joey, he really was a self made man with good intentions, and that highlights that Wilson was trying to live up to the shadow of his father and instead of being the kind of man his father would have raised, Wilson chose to be as vile as he is.

Memory Joey on the other hand, really is just a representation of this flawed idea people had of the man, only the good parts of Joey that he chose to show. The idealized version of himself that he saw, rather than who he really is. It makes sense to have that contrast there, but he really is just a plot device rather than his own character and it's a shame.

I can't say much for the others, because they feel very lacking. They have a lot of good moments, like the "I'm beautiful." "Always were." scene for example, but outside these moments they feel somewhat empty.

It's unfortunate, because if they had the time, team, and resources, they could have had an incredible story to tell, but limitations with money and staff because of the irl studios layoffs and TheMeatly & Mike Mood making really, really bad choices with their business caused the game to fall short of what it could have been.

we must have read different books because it felt to me like batdr completely ignores book lore

honestly i just feel like the books have been made irrelevant and theyre just kind of telling us stories about these random characters? like adrienne is doing her best to describe these characters but im not gonna lie, as there was some potential to them batdr has been a huge turn off for me for reading anymore (plus that upcoming book is gonna have a yet another completely new character as the main protagonist and im just... bruh how about yall expand upon the characters you already have because this universe is just becoming very messy and full of shallow characters instead of having fewer but interesting ones?? im not against new characters being introduced but they just keep on adding then and then it feels like what we're reading doesn't even matter in the grand scheme of things, that sucks)

sure we get an insight to joey... the only character that actually HAS a lot of complexity and screentime in the games so like yea i like joey and i enjoyed his book but again it felt more like an extra rather than anything that helped expanding the story or the world, i dont really understand their strategy for these...

nathan's and wilson's relation is just uninteresting and shallows wilson's character in my opinion, like what he says to you in game makes out nathan to have been some sort of a horrible father and that'd be kinda interesting and would make wilson a morally grey character

but no he's just a spoiled brat or whatever his archetype is supposed to be and we can throw away the entire symbolism about nathan and bockswell lotsabucks (that cartoon cat from the comics) and the fact that there is supposed to be nathan arch junior and senior making it clear that they changed their minds about the plot just to surprise people (even worse, they ADMIT to doing that in the interview that recently came out... as if it was a good thing ToT) but by doing so they just contradicted clues that existed there before that we could have gotten away from the damn books! like this just makes me not wanna buy any other books anymore because its a clear message that it doesnt fucking matter if we read them, theyre just there to tell us stories about random characters that also wont even appear in the games anyways but we will get 200 more audiologs from other randos we wont care for

again i gotta be sorry for being so negative but im just SO disappointed with batdr and with what the archives had to say

like whatever they are telling their story, its not a sin to be bad and scummy at writing (scummy as in not understanding that youre baiting people into buying extra things for understanding the lore and then making sure you surprise people anyway)

so basically

there is no use for theorising because the message is that they just want to surprise us so if we guess where theyre going they will just change the story no matter how much its gonna suck and contradict what happened before

i cannot comprehend how meatly sees that as a good thing but i guess thats how he wants to tell his stories and whatever makes them happy man

but i find it incredibly shady when you advertise your game as a mystery to be solved and personally this kills my enjoyment of the franchise

#im not saying im gonna leave the fandom but you wont see me theorizing anymore #its headcanons now only baby #and im probably not gonna get any new books #as much as i have a lot of respect for adrienne kress and enjoy her writing #i still didnt even touch the lost ones book tho i have bought it when it came out #and at this point idk if i will #im currently undergoing an awful state when im still kinda fixating on bendy but i dont have anything to power my fixation #in an enjoyable way #and it sucks!!! #ive been trying to get into other things and ive been enjoying different stories but it isnt the same man #bendy hit those very specific things i like about stories but then it started to hit the things i hate #and that is even not to mention all the controversies #its just a real shame #halfask #halfpost #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival

[zelda-posting]

tears of the kingdom could have been so good if it were built around like, its story or its characters instead of being a clunky shell to show off the mechanic no one asked for that it forces you to use

#* #text #totk #mechanics #i had fun scuttling around in the depths for a while but that got old eventually. for obvious reasons #what i liked about zelda games was always the atmosphere and character interactions #like. one of my favorite games is twilight princess. which is. deeply unserious in many ways #bit it COMMITTED to its setting and what the writers went ham making sure #that it was still full of whimsy and affection. #totk doesn't have that. the characters are all 1) instruction manuals or 2) vehicles for what small and disparate semblances of plot #survived whatever disaster must have happened in development that made them cannibalize several different ideas #and stick them into the shell for the fucking. arm #totk plays like a gallery or again just an engine for the building thing. #it's pretty. the music is good. the building thing is well made. but as a zelda game totk Fucking Tanks #i HATE overinvolved mechanics. i HATE having to stop and rely on a Whole Process that i have to keep stocked #to get anything done. i've always liked loz again bc of characters and whimsy but also bc it's always been mechanically vert streamlined #and accessible to someone like me who is disabled and finds fiddling EXTREMELY tedious #you have one required tool per dungeon and they're QUICK they're SIMPLE they're A GOOD TIME #totk. to me. is just clunky and has no redeeming qualities outside of again being pretty and still sort of nominally letting you run around #collecting things. some of the side quests were cute. but even then the characters were very. #THE THING ABOUT ZELDA GAMES IS THAT IM used TO THEM BEING ABOUT. NOT JUST THE FUNCTION!!!!!! #there were things— many of them! sometimes most of them even!!!— there just for fun. again almost especially The Characters #totk is so goddamn UTILITARIAN on all levels ITS. CLUNKY and BORING i don't WANT to have to do 30 things just so i can do something else. #hey nintendo. if you have to force people to play your game. like if you specifically have an ''open'' game and then subsequently have to #manufacturer MANY blocks and caveats to the idea of ''do whatever have fun!!'' so that it's''but only how WE want you to''. maybe thats bad. #maybe you've done a bad job. if again. you have to FORCE players to go about things in the way and order that you want. it's no fun. #like even zelda games where you have less options and linear progression feel less restrictive bc like. they don't fucking punish you. #for. playing the game. you just can't do things. totk really punishes you for going off script. which like. why even do that. #anyway. this is all probably incoherent. i'm right tho. #wow there are so many typos. pretend there are not <3

[saltyverse]

Does Scarebeast exist in your AU? And if so, does he/it and Man-Bat (in his giant bat form) ever have playdates? Because that's an adorable thought

unfortunately no u_u scarebeast as a concept is awesome but its not veryy. crane to me. not rlly his thing. but. speaking of kirk, he Does go on "playdates", with manbat. its rllt just it and kirk driving outside gotham and letting manbat go crazy on the local wildlife while crane just hangs out at the truck reading or whatever nerds do

#also you where right about he/it scarecrow tho. even if it was in reference to scarebeast #kirks transformations into manbat can . kinddaa be controlled? nottt realllly tho #most of the time its involuntary. the only way he can do it on command is with like #very specific circumstances. i havent figured out what it is tho. maybe a spike in heart rate? #also manbat doesnt rlllly.catch much. #because hes still . human ish. and was going deaf the deafness still happened #bat things just. prolonged it for a bit #which means its kind of dangerous for him to fly and stuff. but if he doesnt transform he gets antsy so its like #whatever. it happens eventually so might as well do it in a open area outside gotham #+ crane is there to make sure he doesnt get hurt #if manbat does manage to catch anything‚ its most likely eaten soon after But. sometimes. crane will take the #catches to make taxidermy out of #if ur wondering why crane would like do this with kirk. uh. 1) him and kirk have. fffriendship? business partners #and 2). crane likes creatures. beasts even #thank you for coming to my half awake ted talk #🃏.chat #asks

[sysig]

New dream OCs drop (Patreon)

#Doodles #Dream Log #Original #Been a while! I always appreciate when my subconscious mind drops non-human humanoids on me lol #This case is was an older gay couple of like? they looked pretty normal generally but they had a specific feature lol #That when they blushed rather than their skin changing colour their fur would fluff out over their whole body haha #It was very fast! Kinda like Mystique's scale-fur? But only with blushing and then when they calmed down their fur would retract haha #One of the couple was way easier to fluster than the other tho haha so I really only saw it on him #I get the feeling it was also kind of GOmens inspired - specifically Aziraphale which is still so weird to me because I haven't seen?? #Or read anything GOmens?? Why brain #Smol was picking on me the other day while we were making Picrews together that I was basically just making a Crowley as well like damn! #Brain why #Anyway lol #These two had that very settled-in married feel of lightly picking on each other out of love haha #The more chill of the two liked to fluster his husband and in return he would lightly poke at him for his old-fashion fashion haha #Which of course he offered as well! Also in play! It was cute #I think they both had blue fur and light skin hmm - you can see the little whispies on ascot lol that was the main different feature #They were chunky and defied gravity like that too! It's gotten fuzzy to recall now but I'm certain of that #How silly

[welcometogrouchland]

Lesbian Stephanie Brown...oh you're so real to me

#ramblings of a lunatic #on the one hand do i think her genuine romantic interest in Tim is a really important part of her early character??? #yes it contextualises a lot of her behaviour especially when you compare Tim to other men in her life who treat her far more poorly #ON THE OTHER HAND #do i think her strongest most fulfilling and most equal (and homoerotic) relationships are almost exclusively w women??? #yes #do i think steph is often a victim of her role as tims love interest meta-narratively?? YES very much so (thoughts still cooking tho- #-bc i have read a lot of her appearances in robin but not all of them and not in order) #do i think that it only hits so tragically bc she genuinely likes him and wants to belong in his world (for reasons beyond tim as well ofc) #so. you see it's very complicated #like in terms of being supported by textual canonical evidence she's bi and i love that reading a lot #this is just personal to me as a dyke steph brown enjoyer. i recognise it's not the most coherent interpretation thematically #(also either way I'd like to say. steph brown transmasc. not necessarily based on canon evidence just An Idea) #(and in my mind she's specifically the kind of transmasc lesbian that is transmasc in part bc of their relationship to their lesbianism) #(yknow?) #anyway

[frogtrenchcoat]

#frog arts n crafts #ig #this is a type of man #idk how 2 explain it concisely #it's most of the movie men im obsessed w #but there's a couple more that im equally obsessed w that aren't on here #these r the ones that don't give a shit #the carefree ones #in a very specific way tho #they don't care abt being normal or healthy #that's really most of it #and yes i hear u say #did u even watch my own private idaho #i mean scott favor b4 he started caring ok #not scott favor at the end of the movie #andrew neiman is a bit of an outlier 2. but he still fits !! yes he's not a gay whore. but he still doesn't give a shit abt being normal or #healthy so he's still hot. tho i admit he's at the bottom of my list. #should i tag them #should i send this post to the masses #tho i am like. 15 tags in idk if the thing abt only the 1st 5 tags counting is true but if it is it doesn't matter either way huh #so i'll do it #tyler durden #neil mccormick #luke the living end #he doesn't have a last name it's not my fault #frogs original post #fight club

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

im doing one for shinon too bc he deserves it

shinon radiant dawn vc: my mom never hugged me

shinon path of radiance and radiant dawn vc: -treats greil like a respectable father and never mentions his own father literally ever-

shinon radiant dawn death quote: (smiling portrait) “Ugh... This is...such a crock... What a... boring way to die... Co... Commander... Greil... I... I... I'm...” (is he implying “I’m coming to see you again”, based on the quote and smiling portrait?)

#DCB Comments #shinon is one of those characters where the fandom focuses on one single negative trait #and they blow it up completely and pretend it's the only trait he ever has had and ever will have #meanwhile there's a gold mine of information you can figure out just by reading his lines and thinking about why he acts like that #like the whole want for money to live well when they're clearly not super well off mercenaries #or when he takes weapons from dead enemies and gets scolded for it but like can they even afford new weapons regularly? #the way he acts implies he grew up poor and has always been poor and STILL IS but he's there bc he cares about greil #and eventually came to care about everyone else and cares a lot about kids which they had rolf who rly respected shinon #he does what he can to help them raise money when they need it but fact is they always need it #in his quote versus oscar in chapter 18 oscar asks him if promotion is so important and he says it's everything #he clearly has no ill will toward oscar but for shinon getting promoted and getting money in that promotion will help him live well #he's tired of being fucking poor. he doesn't see an issue with wanting to live like you know a normal person should #but ofc everyone sees that he argued with janaff in two supports (which btw janaff egged on HARD and talked shit abt greil #and he also used racist rhetoric back at shinon so like... that whole argument was a two way street #but the fandom ignores that and just calls shinon racist even tho in their A support shinon specifically catches himself #from using a racist term and changes the term he uses so he's not being rude bc he learned he was wrong abt laguz through janaff #and janaff learned he was wrong about beorc through shinon. it was a very development heavy support chain for both of them #the fandom hates on shinon for ''being racist'' even tho he's one of the few non-main characters to actually get full development #and has a complete story from beginning to end between both games and comes out better for it) #i mean that's only a couple examples of things that aren't even hard to read into but ppl like to reduce him to one trait #and one trait that actually gets better and develops through both games. oh no a flawed character who has to have a development journey AAAA #guess what he's perfect specifically bc he's not a boring already perfect and flawless character #he has to get angry and get annoyed and learn from others despite being a grown adult. he has to have negative interactions to grow #he doesn't get to cling to the ADORED main character and get a gay paired ending and be loved for it #which no offense to soren that's not his fault that's the fandom's fault for treating them both the way they do for stupid reasons #i.e. would soren rly be so loved by the fandom if he wasn't tunnel visioned at ike #yes i will take forever to write this out slowly with my injured arm JUST TO GET THIS POINT ACROSS! #HE IS A FANTASTIC CHARACTER EVEN WITHIN THE TELLIUS CAST AND I WILL FIGHT FOR HIM11!!111!!!1! #also i wrote this earlier between those asks no im not that speedy lel. much less with a bandaged arm l e l

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#ugh. the fucking struggle of a thing i will not talk about. its just an off shoot of one of my many #obessive compulsive tendencies. it just makes me think of my dad. like hes also a fucking anxious person but hes like. i have the thoughts #but then i dont let them control me so its not an issue. and he knos i get caught up on the structure and identification of problems so #hes always like. its only an issue if its like ruining ur life. and hes right and i definitely meet the standards of both of those things #bc im fucking thinking abt these things constantly. its in my head literally all the time. every second of the day #and i mean i guess this specific thing isnt ruining my life but it certainly isnt helpful and in combo with everything else my quality of #life is not what it could b. idk it just feels all empty which is y i became a fucking workaholic #bc i just get so fucking bored stuck in these stupid patterns that at least i can make myseld useful as i drive myself nuts #it also doesnt help that im still trying to unfuck my leg and not being very successful bc theres this fucking voice in my head like #keep moving. u cant sit down. walk around. dont stop. dont stop. dont stop. i can feel the muscles getting irritated again #its unbearable bc it doesn't really even hurt. i just kno im fucking it up for myself and i have all this excess energy that i cant get rid #of bc i cant run. anyway its just irritating #i probably triggered myself by watching the bear all day lol. its so good but it reminds me of working in a shitty banquet hall when my #brain was on fire. and theyve got that toxic workahoism that i so desperately cling to. and in a weird way i can relate tho their fucked #up mom when everyones just trying to help but shes so fixated on this thing that's clearly causing her distress but shes just screaming at #them. like i mean i have insight into my issues and i try not to let them affect anyone but me but its so hard when its like. i have to do #this thing. i have to do it. i kno its bad. i kno its fucked up but shut the fuck up and let me do this. u dont fucking understand #but i wouldn't say that bc i kno its irrational. ugh. i also have to go to a lab dinner tomorrow. maybe #no time has been listed so idk. its for my leaving so im technically the focus. hate that for me. whatever. itll b fine #at least the place is within walking distance and its like less than 3 weeks until i leave #unrelated

[softgrungeprophet]

tasm is my favorite spidey movie alongside raimi’s sm2 obviously but it definitely falls into a lineage of tropes that is far too prevalent, as far as dr connors is concerned

super frustrating cause i think that movie does a lot of things right in its writing, approach to peter and his relationships, to gwen and may specifically but also uncle ben and even flash in some ways, plus design language (i love sporty suits...) (prefer the eyes in 2 though) etc etc, even the skateboard as a really solid way to call back to the motorcycle— but the whole like “woe is me, nothing is worse than being disabled” thing is extremely obnoxious and mars an otherwise very good movie for me (also the voiceover scene in the deleted scenes is better than the final version imo, the version where it sounds more like a recorded playback fits better aesthetically and thematically imo whereas the final version mostly is just corny and is probably legitimately one of my least favorite scenes in the movie)

tasm2 also imo has similar pitfalls with max, though imo the electro aspect of that movie is by far the best part. i don’t really like the goblin stuff unfortunately lol—except i do think gwen’s death was like, very effective, especially in the context of the first movie and previous fakeouts, so it definitely did that well, even if i think the movie would have been better split into two and allowed more room to breathe for both

this is also a criticism i have of the batman’s depiction of the riddler once unmasked, though in this case the way he’s played onscreen is not the “wow being physically disabled is the worst” sort but rather the “wow look at this neurodivergent creature” sort that is, again, very prevalent in media especially in these genres and is nothing short of maddening as someone with a whole lot of both physically disabled and neurodivergent family members (and myself)

also appears in like.

SO many comic books lmfao

frustratingly widespread. either it’s weird inspiration porn or it’s weird self hatred, spanning all kinds of stuff from romance to horror to action, and it’s like YEAH there are difficulties in being disabled obviously and a lot of people get depressed or have rough patches or self-hatred because of that and because of not being able to do things they used to do but like... this one specific POV (usually a POV that is mostly held by abled ppl) is so deeply overrepresented in media, movies, games, comic books, novels.... where like... being disabled is just the worst possible thing you could ever be, and it’s worse than death, and so on and so forth, as though a man who’s been disabled a long time wouldn’t just be kind of used to it by then lmfao

reason number 454968549 why i find the agent venom origin SO frustrating cause previously, like, you had this whole really solid mini arc in web of spidey about flash coming to terms with his disability and accepting himself and understanding that he can both be loved and love himself while disabled without needing to “fix” that via weird secret government experimentation, and then like... a year or two later you have a comic that literally uses the exact thing that comic showed was not necessary for his happiness (aforementioned secret gov experiments) and said, actually, he IS going to do that, and also, i’m a bad writer who thinks flash is a fucking moron who doesn’t understand how friendship works between tWO PEOPLE HE’S BEEN FRIENDS WITH SINCE HE WAS LIKE 18 i’m sorry i just hate the AV origin so much it’s so contradictory to every aspect of this character

sure character regression happens but that just felt like contradictory writing and the usual lack of interest in character development, in favor of blatant military propaganda and a story the only redeeming aspect of which was, to be quite frank, the art

anyway what was i talking about

oh yeah disabilities aren’t the end of the world and it would be nice if media could approach them better. even stuff that’s otherwise good or that i really like often stumbles in this area, whether it’s various agent venom comics that ALMOST have it (this is often most noticeable in the fact that flash is using hospital-style wheelchairs or the wrong kind of prostheses) or a movie that does everything else just right but drops the ball on self-loathing and what that actually feels like over time (imo) or a game that inexplicably has an entire asylum based subplot for no fucking reason other than the fact that it came out in 2012 and that was en vogue then because of arkham asylum lmao

#it's funny tho cause for years and years all the criticism ppl flung about tasm was always shit like oh peter's too charismatic #or oh he's too confident or oh he rides a skateboard or— #it was never the ACTUAL things about that movie that CAN and SHOULD be criticized like its approach as a series to mental illness #and physical disability no it was always well peter has too much of a personality or too much of a handsome face or he's too jewish #or the soundtrack isn't danny elfman therefore?? it's??? inherently bad? that was a real weird take i saw once #and it's like there are real criticisms to be had but all you can come up with is that you took the eggs too fucking literally? #and can't understand their purpose and why they were included as a specific way to symbolize peter and may's relationship? #that's your problem??????????? #it's so fucking annoying #nadia rambles #nadia reads comics #kind of #there is a lot of media i really like that has these kinds of things that are very frustrating cause they end up dragging down good stuff #as an aside my movie ranking is that ITSV - TASM - SM2 are my number 1 tie #SM1 and TASM2 are about equal for me for complicated reasons #SM3 is mostly last because of the stuff with Gwen and the casting and writing for her I really disliked a lot #but as a movie i still find it fun to watch and gwen is basically the only reason it's lower than tasm2 tbqh #otherwise i think they'd probably be about tied for last in terms of messiness with characters i mostly enjoy #i also am just not a big fan of tobey as peter... like he's not the WORST choice but... like if i was casting a spidey movie he'd not be #on my list of choices #neither would everyone's little cinnamon roll you know who #andrew garfield was absolutely top tier casting for peter in terms of physique and physical appearance and body language and hair and #eyebrows and well his only fault is that his butt is flat. #and as we all know peter parker canonically has a fat ass #sorry about this #long post #idk what the point even is it would just be nice if people were a little more open to the notion that being disabled #is not like... a Fate Worse Than Death even when it sucks in a lot of ways #i mean it's a little complicated too though and depends on the disability like #how that ends up playing out. obvs. i WOULD like to be fixed actually. but that's my personal experience.

[daydreamerdrew]

Gosh, I’ve been trying to speculate as to what disability/disabilities Darla could have and there’s really nothing I feel I could confidently propose simply because Darla hasn’t historically received an in-depth enough portrayal that shows her in enough of a variety of situations and showcasing enough of a variety of issues for there to be anything that I think she textually fits a good amount of the qualifications for.

#like I think there’s a good case to be made for the ‘deficit’ in social communication part of autism #but there’s not really anything that could be pointed to for the restricted behaviors component #but I feel that arguing for social communication disorder is too limited #as then I don’t think it would properly account for what she has been shown to have #and doesn’t properly account for the fact that she’s disabled to the extent of requiring an I.E.P. #same issue with arguing she has ADHD #well- she could conceivably have ADHD but if so I don’t think that that would be all she has #issues with understanding social situations as well as either an issue with volume control or awareness of social norms around volume #are very recurring traits #her shouting excitedly in a scene where everyone else is not only speaking at a regular volume but treating it as a serious situation #and what she says demonstrating that she doesn’t fully understand the serious situation in the way everyone else does #is probably her most recurring character trait #I believes there’s also been a suggestion of her having memory issues #the first issue of the 2019 ongoing has her mention that she’s always told that she talks to much #as well as has her speak at the dinner table when Billy was specifically addressed #and the information that she volunteers there is something the other kids were trying to keep from the parents #so Mary has to cover for her and be like oh wow I can’t believe we forgot to tell you #it’s not that autism couldn’t be used to explain that so much as there’s a lot more to autism than just that sort of thing #hm I think her deep empathy for animals could also be interpreted as an autism thing tho #but again- still not really anything on restricted behaviors with regards to sensory issues or anything #highly possibly that there’s another relevant condition other than the 3 I mentioned here that I’m not thinking of #my posts

[boleynqueenes]

Being as you are someone who writes about Anne Boleyn, I must ask you, which are your favorite portrayals of Anne Boleyn? I mean fiction (novels, film, tv) but also non-fiction. And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks

If there's one with zero merit and/or minimal entertainment value I won't include it on the list, I'll say I'll ** = my absolute favourites and * = my compelling in some aspects, but tread with caution, and those sort of in between I'll leave alone.

Or rather, let's put it another way...* is worth a library rental or free Kindle borrow, whichever you have available, and ** is worth an actual purchase. Those without *...eh, I'll leave it to you.

The Challenge of Anne Boleyn, Hester Chapman*

Adultery, Heresy, and Desire, Amy Licence*

Raven's Widow, Adrienne Dillard**

Jane Boleyn, Julia Fox**

Among the Wolves, Lauren Mackay*

Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey*

The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Translation, Edition, and Essays by Joann DellaNeva**

The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir*

Renaissance Prince, Lisa Hilton*

Hunting the Falcon, John Guy & Julia Fox**

The Life & Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives**

Tudors in Love, Sarah Gristwood

Tudor England: A History, Lucy Wooding**

Children of Henry VIII, John Guy*

Henry VIII by Lucy Wooding**

The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory*

The Lady in the Tower, Alison Weir*

The Lady Anne (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**

Judge the Best (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**

Threads by Nell Gavin*

In the Shadow of Lions, Ginger Garrett*

Tarnish by Katherine Longshore*

Brazen by Katherine Longshore

Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius*

Wife after Wife by Olivia Hayfield*

The King's Mind by Christopher Rae**

The Concubine by Christopher Rae**

VIII by HM Castor

Queenbreaker by Catherine McCarran

The Tudors (2007-)**

The Lovers Who Changed History (2014)**

Anne Boleyn miniseries (2021)**

Blood, Sex & Royalty (2022)**

I Am Henry: A Compelling Novel of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII (2023)

And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks

Pieces from everything influence me, Christopher Rae's and Gemma Lawrence's novels, for example, both had some of the best and credible portrayals of Henry Norris I've ever read, both in credible unrequited love (tying into, Anne's wariness thereof) that was forged into a weapon against him and for why he became such a favourite of HVIII's in the first place (would've included Jeff Lavender's thesis of Norris also, had you asked for beyond fiction and non-fiction books). The best parts of all of the above have inspired me to craft AB as a character at turns, sympathetic and unsympathetic: proud, courageous, intelligent, zealous, prudent (more in the 16c sense than 21c), fierce, jealous, sensitive, vindictive, unyielding, talented, compassionate, bold, spirited, pious, impassioned, loyal, loving ...somebody who inspired either complete devotion or implacable hatred, with very little in between, and felt comparable extremes towards her own family, friends, and adversaries.

From my least favourite...I try to remember that every choice she made was morally defensible and/or justifiable, from her own perspective, regardless of whether or not it actually was (and of course, they weren't always). I try to remember also that fear and insecurity can best explain some of her less palatable choices, as enumerated here. Basically, just that she was human and flawed, but also that there were many people personally (and often, religiously) invested in magnifying her flaws and reducing, or even outright omitting, her strengths. Obviously, that misogyny can also be a factor in some of her portrayals, is a salient remembrance to keep in mind, as well.

#pls don't judge me for some of these lol #they are all my choices for entertainment and readability #and there are actually elements of tobg i really enjoy wrt anne's characterization that if excerpted i might actually love #i love how clear-eyed ; erudite ; ambitious and passionate she was #the film adaptation is sort of like a pale reflection of that in many ways . until the one horrible SA scene the film was actually like... #not bad i just think hviii was poorly cast . the physicality but not the charisma #or just loving the dialogue #and you did specifically say for understanding /enjoying ab as a figure/ character. not necessarily the the others in her sphere #threads im going to add sa tw and also it's really only the chapters of 16c AB which had any merit #and the same sa tw for dawn ius #also technically tobg novel even if not the same as in film #she portrays mary as 13/14 so.. #in some of these like TLE and HVIII her appearance is VERY brief or ancillary but i still loved #also sa tw for TLE . damn . why is this so prevalent in tudor fiction.... #anon #i mean jealous in two senses of the word also: #protective and mistrustful of unfaithfulness #both understandable traits for her to have in the circumstances she was in #my least favorites are ig TOBG even tho it's technically on this list-- lol-- altho it's way more entertaining than like #TKO by alison weir and honestly also TiL in some aspects #but somehow TLE and TiL both were better than TKO and her six wives book and also her hviii and court book #the king's damsel by kate emerson.... the concubine by norah lofts...jean plaidy...margaret george

[chaddicus]

one negative to tumblr only having following & mutuals, & not tumblr friends, is bc it doesn't work to make a post about something something tumblr foes. and facebook isn't ready for that joke :/

#x: axel talks #also last time I tried ''using'' facebook I swear I had like three sponsored/suggested posts on my feed #for every post I saw from people I had actually friended/followed #so I didn't stick around very long and I'm not especially inclined to try again lmao #I only still have it at all to keep in contact w people I know irl that I have no other way to reach #and to keep up with events from some local groups and businesses #honestly if I could reliably get both of those elsewhere I would fully just delete it #but tbh it's not even that 'we're too reliant on facebook for these things >:(' it's that facebook is #genuinely a good utility for that stuff specifically. it's just everything else about it that sucks #I should see if I could use facebook in firefox android like I do tumblr actually #then I could at least have adblock #might not work tho tbh idk if facebook sponsored posts function like actual ads for adblock to catch

[candy-shockwave-squid]

ahhh hahahaaaa

#just watched a very excellent video-a gd tiktok of all things #(only good tiktok vid ever/j) #perfectly explaining what OCD/intrusive thoughs are #and yeah #yeah im like 99.9 percent sure i have ocd lol #i straight up cried (im still crying) from having someone perfectly explain whats going on with my stupid mind #like it didnt dance around the specifics of truly ugly and foul intrusive thoughts-like im talking the disgusting stuff #but im grateful they didnt #like it was extremely affirming to remember that yeah im not a monster #its a terrible fear of mine to harm ppl violently or another way #but despite those awful thoughts telling me im a bad person-i know deep down i have zero desire to ever act on those things #still need to see a therapist tho #also if ur one of those ppl who contribute to the I Let The Intrusive Thoughts Win meme-i hope u stub ur toe #and step in a puddle of water w/ ur socks on

[waokevale]

Introducing Follower gang!

There. Finally did all the Bishops follower designs!

The 7 deadly sins

And some other follower gang, done with lineart this time because the other 2 pieces made me lose my soul for how long they took.

(Also a small HC if I may: Dr. Sozonius is trapped inside the mushroom on Sozos head, while the actual mushroom is controlling his body)

+ some more doodles

Info about the 7 Sins and more doodles below:

Jeg represents Greed - he was one of the first of Lamb's followers. (At first, it was very difficult for Lambert to indoctrinate people, due to their inexperience, this guy was like the 5th or so) Jeg has...a very specific personality to say the least, yet the Lamb can't help but be fond of him. They eventually nominate him the Tax enforcer role and...That might've been the worst decision of their life. But they did not take the role away. Jeg acts smug 24/7 and relishes in his new power, but deep down, dudes pretty insecure, ( but don't tell anyone!) He used to have a huge crush on the lamb, but then Narinder and eventually the other bishops came, and since their leader was for some reason head over heels for the ex god of death, Jeg grew bitter and often got into fights with Nari, as well as charging him and his other siblings more than the average follower. Though he's mostly mellowed out since then.

Brash represents Gluttony They despise Helob, since they used to fight for "food" a lot, and eventually Brash got really injured and was found by the Lamb. She tried to eat them, but was quickly disarmed. Despite this, they decided to spare him and bring his sorry ass back to the cult to indoctrinate. They were very cunning and didn't trust the lamb either, but eventually they cooled off and accepted the new life. She still eats people tho, just not from the cult, otherwise jail or *worse*

Yara represents Pride She is one of the core followers. She's very strict and somewhat self-centered, she likes things done her way, or if not her way, the lambs way. Period. No one else can boss her around or even give a helpful advice. She's actually a pretty stand up deer, and despite being incredibly stubborn still makes a good friend. She gets along with most people though Brash annoys her, since he keeps snatching body parts off corpses. She has always been extremely devoted to the lamb and will be annoyed if any follower dissents and tries to preach against them. She wasn't surprised in the slightest when they eventually took down all the bishops.

Thorn represents Envy He had a pretty terrible life before the cult. When he was brought in, she was bitter about her newfound situation. He wasn't very trusting of the lamb and thought they expected something out of her (which technically they did, but it's just work). He envies the fools who are so oblivious and just do everything as they're told and let their lives be guided by some amateur god. Similar to the other two, he puts on a mask, He often acts overly saccharine to hide his true feelings, but doesn't have any bad intentions. (Most of the time) She does genuinely like some people, but others, he only pretends to like to appease the lamb or to blackmail them. He hates when the people he actually cares about are threatened.

Jermo represents Wrath Jermo absolutely does not trust anyone. Similar to Thorn, and most other followers tbh, their life was absolutely horrible prior to the cult. They trusted some people, they got betrayed, and almost died several times because of it. It was extremely difficult for the lamb to make them stop dissenting. They legit had to give them the loyalty necklace in order for them to finally stop dissenting. Jermo keeps getting into fights with other followers, because they feel as though everyone is always against them or is constantly judging them. (They're technically not wrong) They've died 5 times, because they keep getting into fights with other followers. Lamb strongly considered keeping them dead, but decided to challenge themself with them (also they're too cuddly to just be killed off) Despite their many, *many* flaws, Thorn has a huge crush on them, since he's one of the people who managed to see their soft side. Jermo, deep, deep, deep down actually cares a lot, but they've been hurt too much by everyone, so they retaliate for the same stuff to not repeat.

Herett represents Lust At some point, she passingly heard about the cult and since it seemed like a peaceful place from the rumors (and also had hot people in it) she eagerly joined in. She's usually in the kitchen area, if not hanging around the love tent or babysitting some kids. She crushes on almost everyone, but for some reason she hates Kallamar (legit in my actual game she rejected him so hard, despite having the lustful trait and not caring prior)

Mateo represents Sloth Is perhaps the 1st or 2nd of Lambs followers, so they're absolutely not letting go of him, dudes lived 4 long lives and is tired of it, he keeps switching jobs since with age he's been slacking off more. He's currently stuck as a janitor (he hates it) He's also one of the few people who managed to befriend Jermo, his mellow, don't care attitude is somewhat comforting to them. Aside that, he gets along with almost everyone, as best as he can at least.

Not much else to say about the gang in the third pic but Riley and Dannie are platonic bffs and were forced to babysit kids when the lamb was crusading. The lamb was a little incompetent here to give carnivores children to take care of, but thankfully they actually managed to be good with them and got used to being on nanny duty.

The capybara (Beige) is a retired teacher and adopted a little owlet to take care of (Chip)

While Femur is our below yellow cat, and that's my HC name for him. He's a gatherer here.

#cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #cotl toww #cotl leshy #cotl helet #cotl kallamar #cotl shamura #cotl oc #cotl ocs #cotl sozo #cotl yellow cat #more ocs #cotl fanart

[tizeline]

More about that Seperation AU! (I'm just gonna tag it as Tiz Sep AU for now for the sake of organization)

Anyway, so if ya'll saw my last post, in this AU Donnie doesn't really have a battle shell, but he DOES wear prosthetics that gives him two extra fingers on each hand. Some people immedietly picked up on the implications of that (which makes me very happy) but I also wanna give a proper explanation, so here it is:

While we don't get a specific explanation in the show as to why Donnie built the battle shell, it's not unreasonable to assume that he would've compared his soft shell with his brothers' hard ones and might've felt a need to compensate. So if he grew up without his brothers, like he did in this AU, would he even feel that pressure to "improve" his shell? Sure, he'd know that most types of turtle species would have a tougher carapace than his own species, but he wouldn't be reminded of that in his everyday life. In fact, while compared to his brothers he's the most fragile one, compared to April and Splinter (who don't have shells at all) he'd be the sturdiest out the the bunch. So in this AU Donnie doesn't use any additional armour (he does still have a jetpack tho because fuck yeah)

So where does the additional fingers come in? While Donnie in this AU doesn't have any other turtles to constantly compare himself to, he WOULD inevitably compare himself to Splinter and April as well as humanity as a whole. All of which have five fingers on each hand as opposed to his three per hand. This isn't the only part of himself that he's insecure about, being seemingly the only turtle boy in a city of humans is bound to make him feel a bit isolated and lonely. He'd feel more pressure to be more human than turtle, and making himself extra fingers, in his mind, would be a way to accomplish that.

It's not JUST insecurity though, there's a practical aspect to having five fingers when you do a lot of handiwork, which is something Donnie does. In fact, I first got the idea when reading the IDW TMNT comics. I don't remember the details but there's a part when Donnie (or rather Metal-Don to be specific, I think?) comments on the fact that it'd be more beneficial to have five rather than three fingers. Ever since then, the concept of Donnie constructing extra fingers for himself to make his work easier is something I've kept in the back of my mind, and I figured this AU was the perfect oppurtunity to explore that.

#Tiz Sep AU #tizel art #tizel talk #my art #digital art #illustration #tmnt fanart #tmnt #rottmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmn au #rottmnt au #rottmnt separation au #donatello #donnie #rise donnie #rottmnt donnie #april o'neil #rise april #rottmnt april