#mary from the reach

[kirkwallguy]

my most evil inquisitor lore is that my trevelyan has a sister who died in the kirkwall circle just before the chantry explosion and cullen had a massive crush on her. she looked just like her. many implications.

#she was caught trying to escape and had to be made tranquil #cullen signed the papers but he warned her ahead of time which gave her a chance to. well you know. #and that was his tipping point turning him against meredith's rule. #he DOESN'T know she was a trevelyan though bc her parents were so ashamed of having a mage child they made her change her name #and he just doesnt make the connection between two blonde girls. he just thinks he has a type. #until. on THE wedding day. hawke is invited (because my trev has a crush on him. and is desperately mad of his tall blonde wife who she saw #when she snuck a glance at his locket one time. she lied about reading tale of the champion.) #anyway bethany sees her and is like. wait. she looks exactly like this woman i was in love with in the circle. #and she puts the pieces together. realises shes marrying CULLEN of all people. and is like oh fuck. #and she like. warns her. but at that point what can you do? the wedding is arranged and trevelyan is a massive public figure #so she walks down the aisle towards a man who is a) possibly only into her because he's chasing the ghost of her dead sister b) possibly the #reason her sister is dead c) actually kind of evil now that she's hearing stories about him from bethany #sorry the dai romances are boring to me i need to inject toxicity and horror into them to be interested. #anyway. all this to say that cullen kisses mary on the forehead when she reaches him at the altar and everyone who Knows (several people #by this point. dorian was there as well so he's been whispering) goes dead silent

[justbackgroundnoise]

Got myself a new one for the Poulin collection today.

#a nice lil beauty from 2015 #my Pou collection is reaching close to 4 card binder pages and that’s not including her cards I have in one touch cases #marie philip poulin #woho #pwhl

[fideidefenswhore]

@bunniesandbeheadings I might misunderstand the text you linked. How could Mary call Edward a bastard? KoA was dead by then, and of course widowers can remarry. Calling Jane a legitimate Queen in no way would take away KoA’s status as Queen?

all of hviii's marriages after catherine of aragon were not recognised by the catholic church/pope. when he needed dispensations for these marriages, like for affinity (his marriage to jane was one of them), they were granted by the anglican church, whose authority the pope and other catholic monarchies of christendom did not recognise (the last real 'papal' henrician appointment, irony of ironies, was thomas cranmer's). there was also the matter of all marriages taking place when the realm was in schism, thus "all other women of henry concubines and not wives". prince edward was (legitimate) heir as reified by parliament; both retroactively from the succession act of 1536 and in name by the one of 1543.

foreign dignitaries of course, when they visited, would honour whoever henry's wife was as queen to maintain good relations and as matter of diplomacy (this wasn't, of course, done by the imperial until the last weeks of AB's time as queen, but otherwise, she was, even if 'frostily' by the french as in 1534). but they were often under instruction to treat this status as transient, as lauren mackay has summarized in her biography of chapuys, for example, charles v was rather mercenary in his attitude towards jane seymour, continually referring to her as henry's 'mistress' well into their marriage in his own instructions to chapuys:

"It appears Charles [V] was at times rather ruthless in regards to Jane, despite the fact that her being in power benefitted Mary. Charles referred to her in several dispatches as Henry's mistress rather than queen [...]" Inside the Tudor Court, Lauren Mackay

#bunniesandbeheadings #replies #there's like the question of why mary did not attempt to overthrow edward while he was king if she didn't believe his reign was legitimate #which is an interesting one... #but 1) her biographers really discount how much of a dissembler she was #2) loades theorized that she actually did buy into the henrician supremacy and her own illegitimacy and simply had a turnaround once #edward died believing that was god's sign she was the rightful heir thus legitimate...which i find an oversimplistic explanation. to say #the least... #i think psychologically in the last years of the edwardian regime she had something of a redeux of the AB years? #this belief england was going to fall into perdition due to 'evil councilors' but she couldn't do anything to reverse it #which is why there's an escape attempt not just an escape plan as in the former but she also decides against this in the last hour #so yes. what was her plan? or hope? it might've been that edward vi would be excommunicated as he reached his majority #and that charles v took up the call to invade and england became one of his dominions #and she would be set up as regent as he set up his other female relatives as regent in his absence #idk if i'd say jane being in power benefitted mary. all the 'benefits' she received came from her swearing to oaths she'd been pressurized #to swear to for the past two years...? #anyway this was illuminating and instructive. to me. it best explains imo why she took such a defiant attitude towards edward. she wouldn't #have seen it as defiant if she didn't believe in his authority in the first place

[dusty-daydreams]

Can’t wait to see Nicholas Galitzine in the idea of you and Mary and George, opposite Anne Hathaway and Julianne Moore.

(Which is to say I’m dragging myself through Cinderella 2021 and I’ve dragged myself through some of his other early projects and Nicholas is such a brilliant actor that I want to see what he can do with scene partners that can match him)

#nicholas galitzine #The Idea of You #mary and george #Cinderella 2021 #no shade to Camilla Cabello but that girl isn’t an amazing actress #like Nicholas was so good in Handsome Devil and the Beat Beneath My Feet #He was sooooo good in Chambers against Uma Thurman and the rest of that amazing cast #I just want him to reach his full potenial and move on from mediocre films with #with dodgy scene partners

[pregstiel]

really hate absence trying to equate felix the snake and mary. the snake is a.) not a person (that jack thus had a very different relationship with) and b.) was premeditated (not trying to frame jack as a serial killer, given that the snake was slowly starving and to jack, putting the snake down seemed very). while jack killing mary was completely accidental, done in a moment of stress and panic, and immediately regretted. the writers trying to frame it through the characters as jack having an “absence of good” and trying to “solve a problem” makes no sense in this scenario, and is such a weird way to try and frame jack’s actions

#a scenario that could have worked for me if they actually wanted this snake thing is like #what if nick actually needed mary to bring lucifer back #for whatever reason he gets her #is seconds away from doing it and jack can’t reach nick or hurt lucifer. and his snap decision is to kill mary to keep lucifer from coming #back #even that wouldn’t super work for me but it would be better to try and fit the stupid snake thing #god. i should be allowed to kill

[joanna-lannister]

girly called GameOfThronesHistorian on tiktok, wish that could be my job 😪

#also she got free gifts from pandora? #for the got collection lucky her 😩 #ALSO HOW DID GOT STUFF REACHED MY FYP? #hbo send me gifts and i'll show them to my tumblr mutuals pls #marie talks to herself

[coquelicoq]

behind the news but in case you are still down with the horrid virus i wish you a speedy recovery <3

thank you my love <3 i am indeed down with the sickness and it is very boring. pretty much all i can do is watch tv, so if anyone has any shows to rec to me, please do! due to my specific setup, i also can't really use the computer for very long, so piracy is out...so specifically recs for things that are on the apps i have on my roku (hulu, viki, tubi) preferred. i have so many other things i would prefer to be doing, it's very annoying 😫 but we must persevere !

#🥰 you warm the cockles of my heart #i looked up cockles one time because like who even knows what part of the heart that is? and i think it turned out to be #some sort of marine mollusk #don't quote me on that though. probably best not to quote me on anything at the moment #you guys have all been spared from me posting every random absurb thought going through my head only by the fact that #my laptop battery is really bad and there are no 3-pronged outlets within reach of the couch #maybe i'm just thinking of that one nursery rhymes #little bells and cocklesheels all in a row or whatever #mary mary how does your garden grow??? it's coming back to me. as celine dion would say #asks #not anon #i love you <3 can't remember if i said that already

[loudmound]

haven't been able to stop thinking abt mary very likely tying her worth as a woman to her beauty and productivity and how the illness thoroughly ruined both of those for her.

the incumbent loss of self-esteem combined with her growing anger and helplessness at her situation, leading her to lash out at those closest to her. feeling guilt for not only causing her loved ones pain in that way but for her even being angry in the first place because a woman takes her pain with grace and poise and with a smile on her face. (a real woman isn't pathetic and ugly like her).

the tragedy of it all in mary's failing to realize that her anger was probably the most justifiably human response to her situation that she could've had, and that while she felt genuine guilt for the pain she caused with her anger, she shouldn't have relentlessly chastised herself for something she fundamentally couldn't help in her being terminally ill.

#stormy shouts #JAMES AND MARY TO ME WERE BOTH IN THE GENDER MINES BATTLING WARS OF ALL KINDS #it wasn't just james to me... #and also... neither james nor mary were well-equipped to handle their situation #the negligence to see mary on james' part to me stems from unaddressed trauma due to the abuse he experienced as a child #and that if maybe if james was also willing to talk #ACTUALLY talk #about how he feels and felt and what have you #that they would've been able to reach a better place where it didn't have to end in mary's premature death by his hand #bcs mary was always always waiting for james #missed him so fucking much #and i think in her waiting she WANTED to talk to james #wanted to say sorry for her behavior in full #but combined with james' keeping away + his pervasive need to be stalwart and stoic in the face of pain #bcs that's what men are supposed to do #they never did talk #and mary only every got that chance in her letter 🥹 #FUCK my LIFE

[cestacruz]

Mmm Jeanne

#servants cant learn new stuff (i'll talk about jalter in a second) therefore #jeanne shouldnt know how to read or write #we actually Dont get a confirmation that she can do those things in summer 3. because the book that jalter thought jeanne wrote #was actually Her own book #jeanne works with marie. maybe she comes up with the ideas and does rough drawings that marie would be Delighted to bring to life #marie reads to jeanne is my image #jalter taught herself how to read and write and i think that was possible because of the unstability of her existence #if you try to teach jeanne how to read and write it will stick for a second but if like idk 15-20 min pass she would likely find herself #unable to read again and her writting to be suboptimal #she can sign her own name ofc thats historical #she can recite the bible from memory iirc #i love jalter's ability to be her own person even if it comes with the fact that she is very much. an ephemeral dream #like her FCKING SKILL IS CALLED. #WHY MUST YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS FGO #anyway. now jeanne again but physical #oughhh thank u for the support in the tags when i said jeanne should have self image issues because she looked different in life #i hadnt fully talked bout it i just went with hair but yeah. i need to check again because im pretty sure her body wasnt Suuuper different #but i just gotta confirm #but im just so i love the idea of her just not liking the way she manifested abd not knowing Why she manifested like that #when there are Countless depictions of her with her short brown hair #sieg looks to the side whistling (its not his fault but he knows the pseudo servant part #and its probably a mix of . fate apocrypha's manifestation and of how some people imagined jeanne looked like #but it still upsets her #not that she'd ever complain to people #you can probably get it out of her tho #unrelated and only to those who reached this far: im thinking of a singularity set in 15th century orleans in the Middle of the hundred year #war. but the difference aint “oh jeanne d'arc came back to life evil” rather than “there seems to be a battle here where it shouldnt and oh #my god is that jeanne- oh god jeanne d'arc fucking died-- #and chaldeas has to try and fix the war without living breathing jeanne d'arc #actually thats not the middle of the 100yearwar but yknow what i mean. also haha jk unless...

[randomidiocyncrazies]

oh this is really cute actually???

(but, being no home, there’s always gonna be a huge honkin’ knife to accompany the fluffy friendship moments)

my current theory is that Haejoon is haunted by what happened to his mom (a literal haunting? maybe), but he’s also perturbed that he could be comforted like back when he was a kid from someone other than his mom?

like, Juwan cuddles Haejoon when they’re sleeping, which comforts Haejoon and allows him to sleep well, but he has mixed feelings about the fact that his guy friend is cuddling him like his mom used to because he’s 1) still torn up about what happened to his mom (UNDERSTANDABLE) and 2) had no friends when he was young, so he had never experienced touchy-feely platonic affection before

I’m sure the real reason is more complicated and heart-wrenching than my guess though!

#no home #Juwan really grew on me #he's still quick to jump to conclusions and treat his assumptions as facts #but he also tries really hard to reach out to folks and make friends #even if he didn't necessarily get along with them before? #like... from his PoV Hara just yelled at him for no reason when they were kids #but he still stuck by her and encouraged her after seeing how her mom interacts with her #and now they're best friends #he didn't really have a real reason to try to befriend Marie but he is conscious of the fact that she eats lunch alone after interacting #he talks to Eunyung normally even though they don't like each other #(or maybe he's just too dense to realize that Eunyung doesn't like him???) #anyway he's quick to forgive and willing to give people a second chance so far

[aria0fgold]

I just realized something, the Omori in MiM only saw Sunny being miserable all alone which is a scene at the beginning of the game when Sunny first woke up... Omori doesn't know about what happened to Mari.

#aria rants #i feel like mim wouldve taken an entirely different turn if omori found out that the mari in the other reality is dead #i feel like itd be a lot more angsty on omori's chapters with a whole lot of self blaming and if that happened #mim wouldve gained a few more chapters to address that but tbf tho itd still reach the same happy ending anyway #itd just have an entirely diff path to reach it but regardless of that. itd always be the same outcome of the two living happily #i think its poetic in that way if i think bout it like that. cuz with or without further knowledge of what happened to the other #reality with sunny. the ending is the same all because of sunny's first wish. he wants everyone to be happy. including a #strange self-proclaimed magician living in the mirror. and if granting that wish means fate's scales breaking #then isnt that all the sweeter? an innocent wish from a boy that just wants everything to be just how it was before being #given the burden of responsibilities to keep up with everyone's expectations? all sunny wants is happiness. #and if omori who has blamed himself for everything could be just as happy. then isnt that a wish worth making?

[neosatsuma]

trick or treat! 🎃

Happy Halloween, anon!!! I have something just for you

#this came from my candy bowl which i reached into up to the elbow mary poppins style <3 #asks #anon #tumblr trick or treat

[slashermary]

the wall between mother and child doesn’t have to be real to be there!

#i wanna apologize to miss amy adams for putting her next to jensen ackles but unfortunately you can't get around that when you're doing #a dean sharp objects thing so :/ ANYWAYS now i'm probs done. but. just #the constant reaching and terror of not being allowed in your mother's room her mind her heart her life #they are both SO separate from their mother whether she's there or not!!!crazy!!!! #fucked up!!!! ok i'm stopping now i'm done being annoying about this. but lads if i had rewatched like a year and a half ago. #hoooo it woulda been over these would have been soooo much more complicated but! here we are #caroline.txt #mine #dean and mary

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

(click to enlarge. there wasn’t room on the meme for me to make the disclaimer that yes obviously a big portion of stede’s obliviousness is straight up born from being a wealthy white dude with no real-world experience and i’d never discount that.

i just think it makes sense that he sucks at actually communicating and that he’s used to not thinking about other perspectives, and i think it makes sense that through meeting ed, who likes and wants to get to know him off the bat, he does improve his social game on the ship enough to be accepted and protected by his crew in the end

and also that any take on stede that states he sees himself as important is wild to me when it couldn’t clearly be farther off from what canon shows us about him.)

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #he didn't think i was supposed to be a lighthouse to my family they must surely be lost without me #he thought i was supposed to be that and i couldnt and i am a failure who couldnt even talk to them about it i ruin everything #does he make decisions that negatively impact the people around him without communicating first? god yeah #but its more likely to come from a place of low self worth #men who think they are important and valuable dont agree that they defile everything they touch and stand still to allow their own murder #anyway idk i keep thinking about this lately #stede's a whole fucking disaster of a human and it makes sense to me that he sucks at this stuff #even set aside from his obvious class privilege #he does not FIT in that society he learned it was easier on him to stop TRYING to improve in that a long time ago #he's fucked over by inexperience and toxic masculinity telling him all the things that he Should Be #he was never going to be a cool involved husband to mary he was never going to risk reaching back when she reached out #(and i mean at that point reaching back out would have meant staying and i think by then he was kinda at his limit) #im not saying he's right in how he goes about stuff like fully the opposite he makes some shit choices #i'm just saying i'm tired of the lack of nuance #he knows textbook manners textbook etiquette and doesn't know what healthy relationships look like or feel like

[seasonofprophecy]

"What is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" rot in my bed it seems

#messages from mars #vent #negative #I'm sorry mary oliver I'm sorry every creative who has grabbed the reins of life and lived on every hoofbeat #I'm sorry every creative who has felt the sun of other countries and reached up to fewl the leaves of trees unknown to their parents #my best work will be for school and i will live the rest of my life in bed covered in sweat and mildew and dust #I'm losing myself. i can't do anything about it #I'm so fucking pathetic. i was supposed to have trampled the earth #i was supposed to have stolen the stars #and here i am struck with chronic illness and rotting in its embrace #i feel like the thread of life is being pulled out of my body but very very very slowly #so i die piece by piece #and death becomes something i wait for than run away from

[lakemichigans]

okay season 12 actually rocks idk why i hated it so much the first time i saw it

#i skipped through most of lucifer and crowley's scenes together because. boring #but the rest? actually very enjoyable and the mary angst was delightful #everything past this point is new to me #except what i've seen from tumblr. which admittedly is a lot #but i'm excited i actually like this show again lmao idk what changed but its fun for me #i think once you lean into the dumbest storylines known to man it becomes more fun #a british society trying to eradicate monsters in the US but giving up and killing humans instead? #dumb as hell but i've accepted it #i've never seen riverdale but i assume riverdale fans have reached this same level of nirvana #thank you for my slop The CW 🙏🏻 #spnwatch #<- i'll be tagging these posts with that from now on so you can blacklist #i dont want to use the regular supernatural tag because i don't need to share these with the world lmao