#she lived in ''the middle age''

[tricoufamily]

jacques's, nancy's, and mrs. villareal's parents circa 1960-something + baby jacques and nancy bc they were there in cas anyway why not

this feud's been going on for approximately this long

#suicide mention in tags #god hugo looks so much like both of his maternal grandparents </3 he would have gotten along w both of them so well #they were quirky awkward middle school teachers they died in a car accident when mrs. villareal was just a baby #so i'm actually not sure she would have even met jacques if they lived and hugo wouldn't exist. but LOOK #benicio only ever met hugo he died not long after he was born #look at them they're all color coordinating then nancy's terrible terrible father ruins it #bad. idk if anyone ever bothered to do the math on that one unfinished wikipedia extra i did #but yes ~30 year age difference between them. she was 22 when she had nancy she killed herself when nancy was 11 #ts4 #ts4 cas #the sims 4 #this is the fall: extras #dominique #benicio #chester #queenie #elena #hector #jacques villareal #nancy landgraab

[agnisleftpec]

neflix's atla for me is just "wow! that idea's cool! i hope someone writes a fanfic with that but good :)"

#i could be someone......... #important fanfic ideas include: #gaang steals zuko's diary and form a parasocial relationship with the teen chasing them #iroh is the parent searching for the best deals and zuko is the sulking kid who wanted to leave the store an hour ago #suki as autistic trying to bond by showing sokka that she also does the combat stuff he talks about and not realizing she's embarrassed him #undercover s1 zuko encountering the gaang #zuko being beaten up by a middle aged lady with a brush #zuko as an artist and calligrapher #41st as the crew but we actually think about how that's probably just ozai trying to make sure his son dies at sea with an incompetent crew #ZUKO'S SHIP SURVIVING INTO S2 #and many more. probably #natla #natla spoilers #ok the suki one is more a projection but i think it's a valid interpretation of ep 2 #let me live

[lady-starkiller]

modern au crozier fumbling both sophia and fitz has to be among the top ten category 5 francis crozier moments alluded to around the university

#divorced from both but tbh they both get with him whenever #his allure is his divorced energy #the terror #the terror prof au #sophia doesn’t live in the university town #but when she arrives GIRL #there is a bounce in our middle age man’s step #our man is whistling on the way to class #fitz: no it doesn’t bother me #fitz: *is seething*

[cowboysmp3]

not to b crazy but i think a regency romance narumitsu au would fuck supremely and this is totally not just because i think edgeworth could be the awkward autismcore stuffy high status man who accidentally offends wright at fancy balls or anything,,

#but like picture it everuone close ur eyes and think about this #idc what their jobs are in this au #i simply want them in regency clothes being SILLY #i would write this myself if i knew enough about regency era #maya is there of course she would look so so so cute in her fancy regency clothes #my initial thought was it would be pre 7 year gap almost like a AA1-AA3 vibe #but it could totally be two middle aged men fighting for their lives socially #i think this is massively huge big brained of me #narumitsu #wrightworth #ace attorney

[stellaluna33]

I can never, ever forget that when I was 13, the school paper ran a "little-known facts about your teachers" column, and one of the teachers (science, I think?) said that she and her husband eloped just one week after meeting, while she was engaged to someone else! And they were still married like thirty years later! And I need, I NEED to hear the rest of that story! I want to watch a MOVIE about that story!

#Twue Wuve! #I love that you never really know what kind of extraordinary lives the 'ordinary' people around you might be living #Like. She was just your average middle-aged woman! #But apparently she was also the romantic lead in some kind of sweeping drama that's not supposed to happen in 'real life!'

[hamburgrr]

SHES DOOOONE

So I know you aren’t supposed to pick favorites but if I’m honest… Raph’s my favorite turtle we made for this au. She’s actually the starting point I went off LOL. Anyways, I don’t wanna give TOO much away because she’s half of the main focus of the mini comic me and @fowlaroundtown are currently making but let’s just say home girl has been through the RINGER!!

Oh and side note. Pronouns were TRICKY on this one. Cause this Raph is trans-femme but didn’t figure that out until she was in her 20s. So I just used He/him on the 14 year old side cause she hasn’t figured it out yet??? OH WELL!!

Anyways I love her, she’s such a grumpy old butch and if y’all have any questions on her PLEASE lemme know I could talk all day. Gnight!!!

#mamnt #middle aged mutant ninja turtles #MAMNT Raph #hamburgrr draws #SHES MY BABYGIRL OK I ADORE HER #SHE lives in FLORIDA in the SWAMP #AND SHES A SEA TURTLE #AND SHE HAS A ESA NAMED SKULL CRUSHER #And I adore this cringe fail old woman #she IS the washed up old bastard #anyways #tmnt au #tmnt iteration

[lexa-griffins]

Farm Lexa has this hand bound book she made back when she was around sixteen. She made it to keep her pressed flowers. The very first page has pressed daisies and a date below them followed by a happy scribble, "Clarke asked me on a date."

The dandelion Clarke put in her hair after their first kiss. A black eyed susan they picked after their first time as they walked around the run down farm.

The petals of the deep red roses Clarke gifted Lexa the day they decided to get engaged.

One of each of the flowers Lexa walked down the aisle with. One of each of the flowers from Clarke's bouquet.

The english primrose that popped up in Lexa's garden not long after little Madi laughed for the first time.

The Lilly of the Valley a baby Saige found fascinating because fairies lived in them.

The poppies the twins ended up ripping from her garden because it matched their hair.

The small piece of baby's breath that showed up around the tree where they buried their baby soon after Lexa stepped out of her grief.

The sunflower petals that remind her of Clarke and their little sunshine boy Aden.

Every wild flower the kids offered her. At least one petal from the bouquets Clarke got her. Her favorite flowers from her garden. The ones she found on walks. All dated, all with a note on why they made her smile.

#ignoreme.jpg #farm clexa #it is 5 am i have not slept and i am thinking of Lexa in her greenhouse #its such a small thing in the middle of the farm #barely big enough for more than one person to be inside #but it has a table for Lexa to make bouquets to sell #and a little table where she dries and presses her flowers #its a quiet place in a house so full of babies #and yet it is all windows and she can always see what is happening #they find her little notebook when she passes #sitting in the cramp living room her children and her grandchildren and maybe even her great grandchildren #she is gone but lived a good life #and now here are all the people she loved looking at the little keepsakes she kept of their love for her #Clarke's wrinkling hand shaking with age and the pain of losing her wife touching the daisy #shed been so nervous holding the flowers in her hand after buying them at the market to go and ask lexa out #so excited to go on a date with her #it was a lifetime ago #they dated they married they had chilsren they built a life #oh and what a life #:') bye

[suburbanlegnd]

#some of them really do belong on this hellsite with how piss poor their reading comprehension is #“but she can't write/sing!!” “she's middle aged!!” “but what about her jet?!” #my sister in chr*ist you literally use Tumblr as a news site #and believe the bullshit about her jet from a website that made people believe that vaccines turn them into zombies #have some fucking shame and grip for once in your miserable lives #thanks for coming to my ted talk #rambles #taylor swift #ttpd

[mochapanda]

was listening to fantasy high thinking abt dnd worldbuilding stuff and made this chart of dungeon meshi race lifespans for fun bc autism

#''adulthood'' being a loose definition since like obv humans dont mature at 16 its just that they live in medieval times #but i wanted to keep everything consistent with the adventurers bible #id say like right in between 'adulthood' and 'middle age' is like. actual adult age like where kabru is #marcille has question marks bc since her age is ''unstable'' its hard to tell if she even ages at a steady rate #im like. trying so hard not to start drawing maps

[mugentakeda]

funniest part of the nightmare sequence thing i wrote earlier for the dai li au is that while lu ten is having all kinds of horrific dreams and shit relating to his mom, his mom in question is probably somewhere in the fire nation outside the capital getting a coconut oil hair treatment and a manicure while chatting with the salon girls. and then shes gonna get bottomless mimosas

#like shes not even dead shes queening out somewhere. Living the divorced middle aged cuntress life.

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

the reason i’m not afraid of aging is because i want to be a hot middle-aged man who has a toxic yaoi relationship with another middle-aged man

#u know i used to be so afraid of aging until i realized that i want to be a dilf. now it’s kinda exciting #i realized recently that i could never picture myself living past my twenties until i pictured myself as a man #but like. i want to be a man and a woman and nothing and everything #but like. i’m cool with how i look now for the most part idk if i would want to transition physically at least not rn #and rn i still dress fem enough that everyone goes straight to she/her #and i like she/her but it hurts rn #bc some of my family has switched to they/them or it/its and it’s just so soothing #but family that knows i don’t like it still use she/her and phrases like ‘daughter’ or whatever even more often on purpose #and it hurts bc i don’t really feel the need to change the way i dress/look but i know everyone assumes she/her #when they see me in a dress or skirt. even w how very not-cis my fashion sense is #but also i fucking hate pants which is a separate thing (prob autism tbh) and even if i wore pants they’d still use she/her #thinking of changing my name to something very masc so i can confuse people enough that they’ll stop defaulting to she/her #and i haven’t told ppl outside my immediate family so idc if they use she/her but i’m fucking pissed when ppl in the family do it #anyways side note when i was 12 my ideal gender (b4 i knew about being non-cis) was a floating consciousness w no body #or a plastic-doll-like creation that’s smooth all over #… i still want to be a floating consciousness actually lmao. it would be great #back then i hated being a girl but i didn’t know there were more options and also i was socially isolated (didn’t leave home for like 2yrs) #and my mother was openly transphobic whenever the topic was brought up so that was my only real experience #but i didn’t really internalize it other than the fact that my mother would be rude if i ever happened to be not-cis and guess what? she is #anyways it’s like 2am and also i’m only awake bc i was captivated by a sugar daddy middle aged gay fic for a show i watched like 5 episodes #for 2 years ago #sorry for rambling in the middle of the night lol #gn y’all

[bluberimufim]

Pedro & Inês (cultural ramblie)

Happy Valentine's Day!! <3<3 When I planned this post, I did not realize Carnaval and Valentine's Day were on consecutive days (catholic calendar calculations continue to kick my ass, just like every year), so you get TWO cultural ramblies for the price of one!!

This one is a bit different from the other ones. I usually talk about legends or holiday traditions but this is actually just history! Still, I felt inclined to share partly because this is a major thing in portuguese culture and partly because this is the most overdramatic historical anecdote I have ever seen and more people need to know about it. Now, let's get into it!

The Tragedy of Pedro and Inês

(portraits of Pedro and Inês, made centuries after their deaths)

In 1340, Prince Pedro of Portugal, son of King Afonso the 4th, married Constança Manuel of Aragon. When she moved to Portugal, Constança brought along her lady-in-waiting, Inês de Castro. You can already see where this is going.

Pedro and Inês fell madly in love and began a secret relationship (which seems to not have been that secret at all). In 1344, Afonso the 4th exiled Inês to the castle of Albuquerque, near the border, out of fear that this affair would sour diplomatic relationships with Castille.

It just so happens that Constança died in childbirth one year later. Despite his father's requests, Pedro refused to remarry, claiming that he was still too overcome with grief over his wife's death. Instead, he had Inês's exile annulled and began living with her. During this period in which they lived together, they had 4 children.

In 1355, five years later, King Afonso the 4th ordered the assassination of Inês de Castro. She was killed in Coimbra, in Quinta das Lágrimas, where legend says you can still hear her crying at the fountain where she lost her life, later named Fonte das Lágrimas ("Fountain of Tears"). This moment, along with another one further ahead, is the one all the poets go crazy for.

Inês's death triggered a revolt against the king, led by Pedro. However, there was never an actual physical confrontation, since the queen-mother was able to stop it in time.

In 1357, Pedro rose to the throne, becoming King Pedro the 1st. He claimed that he had married Inês in secret around 1354, legitimizing their children and making her possibly the only posthumous queen in history (someone fact-check me on this). For avenging her death, he was dubbed "Pedro, the Just".

He had matching tombs made for him and Inês so she could be buried as queen by his side. They still stand today in the Monastery of Alcobaça, where you can visit them. They were placed on opposite ends of the transept, facing each other, so that they could be face to face when they rose from their graves. The inscription on Pedro's tomb is thought to read "Until the ends of the world". I'll show pics later, don't worry.

You thought I was done? I haven't even gotten to the overdramatic part! (Ok, the tomb thing was pretty dramatic, but this part is extra as hell)

As King Pedro the 1st, he had Inês's two assassins executed. According to a somewhat contemporary chronicle by Fernão Lopes (still Middle Ages but a century later), he had their hearts ripped out, one through the chest and another through the back. Sources seem to disagree on whether this actually happened or not, but Fernão Lopes was a pretty reliable guy in other parts of his chronicle. And, this being strictly myth, it is said that he made those two assassins kiss the hand of Inês's corpse as they would the queen's. For this, he was dubbed "Pedro, the Cruel", on top of his other title. Perfectly balanced and whatnot.

Here's a painting by Pierre-Charles Comte about it:

The Tombs

I saw them in early November of last year and I cannot overstate how amazing they are in real life. The whole church they're in is beautiful but the tombs are just breathtaking, especially knowing the story behind them.

They're the reason I wanted to make this post. They are considered some of the greatest masterpieces of portuguese gothic sculpture. They are full of intricate carvings and, despite missing a few pieces here and there, are still in amazingly good condition today. You can visit them for free any time.

Here are the pictures I promised. The last 2 are taken by me!

Some historical notes (cool facts)

This is mostly about the corpse coronation part because I found it in my research and thought it was cool.

The first dynasty of portuguese kings didn't have coronations. They were seen as warrior kings first and foremost, and therefore felt no need to pledge their allegiance to Christianity. If they did swear over something, it was a shield. They did not have the fancy ceremony.

What can we learn from all this, you ask?

Write that overdramatic romance you've been wanting to. You'll never out-drama queen King Pedro the 1st.

#as a kid i always felt really bad for Constança #she literally got pushed aside in the history she was a part of #no one cares about her??? #all she is is “a woman who got cheated on”?? she deserves better!!! #anyways Pedro is the greatest drama queen to ever live #imagine being so extra about your girlfriend's death your tombs become some of the most famous sculptures in Portugal #and also the heart thing #the Middle Ages really were a time huh #portugal ramblies #portuguese history #portuguese legend #pedro e inês #happy valentine's day #<3 <3 <3 #i'm not translating the names. fuck that. #i refuse to look up what the english equivalent of “Inês” is

[hella1975]

'why are you smiling' because i have beautiful mutuals and we all love each other. go back to your sports romance you heinous bitch

#going to put a barrier in the middle of the room. let me live in peace #why is she even awake it's PAST HER BEDTIME #anyway i was studying when i reblogged that ask game and i got alexa to play ride by lana del rey #(bc that's my comfort song atm thanks to the roadtrippers <3) #and she shuffled a playlist that i SWEAR was some sort of coming of age driving through a tunnel vibe #bc it was just banger after nostalgic banger i got BUZZCUT SEASONED. TRYING TO STUDY #so yeah i was already in a nostalgic 'i miss my friends' vibe but that ask game wooooo it put me in a Mood #like i have so much love for my mutuals actually they're the coolest people on this godforsaken webbed site #they have me sat here smiling and giggling at my laptop so openly my sister felt the need to comment on it smh #anyway i kept being like 'after this one i'll stop for the night' bc i feasibly cant keep typing without pissing the fuck out of my sister #and then boom just sent one and im gonna need an ESSAY for that so i am officially done for tonight #i'll answer any others in the morning <3 #hella goes home

[br1ghtestlight]

i don't watch sitcoms (especially older white middle class family focused sitcoms) very often but watching clips of them on instagram has me appreciating that the belcher family is like actually working-class Poor because the jokes where kids are like "omg are we poor??" are not my favorite thing. and they're always SO RICH in their big fancy houses in california it's so annoying. you can tell they've never thought about a single person or circumstance outside of themselves in their entire lives, even the parents

the belcher family is a much more accurate protrayal of an american family tbh especially in 2024

#im always watching cartoons where the families are living in poverty..... like this and steven universe #object shows are well. yknow. society.... but like bryce and liam are both homeless or on the verge of homelessness #working at their shitty fast food jobs #I'm honestly not sure what charlotte did for work but i know she could NOT afford her treatment and made that everyone else's problem #in this day and age it's just uncomfortable to see all these upper middle class families & characters #txt #bob's burgers

[maulfucker]

Ok so. OC thoughts about Order 66.

Verred and Kuru are with Latros on Coruscant when the order comes out. Verred leaves Kuru with Latros and runs to the Jedi Temple to see what's going on and help people escape. She doesn't come back.

Latros takes Kuru and escapes Coruscant before ships start to get pulled over and checked for hidden jedi

Master Apos was with the younglings, and that's another reason for Verred to go to the temple: to try to help her master one last time

Dji survives by letting its ship get blown up and hiding in the debris until the clones got tired of searching for a corpse. No one ever remembers givins can survive in vacuum.

When he's sure the clones have left he sends a distress signal and hopes for the best. It gets rescued by the Da'ali twins, and asks to stay with them until it can find one of its people

(It doesn't know yet what happened to master Apos and Verred and pretty much every other member of their lineage. He suspects, but he doesn't know.)

The three of them eventually track down and find Kuru (and Latros) so Dji can reunite with the only other survivor of their little family.

Latros and the twins are both bounty hunters, and Dji is a great pilot, so they're like. hey why go our separate ways. why not become a crew.

So in my mind they become something kinda like the Ghost crew from Rebels but with two ships, three pilots, and a decade earlier

bonus thought. Latros is a kinda acquaintance of Maul (he worked for him on occasion before the Siege of Mandalore) and I think it would be very funny for them to meet him, considering the crew is composed of two jedi (bad thoughts on Maul) two mandalorians (complex thoughts on Maul) and Latros (no thoughts whatsoever)

#hm i should make an original post tag #star wars ocs #order 66 #verred ghalla #kuru miin #latros omiss #apos tehr #dji bellutani #viti da'ali #arta da'ali #literally all of them so far..... #there are at least three more still cooking in my brain. at least one of them will probably also die on order 66 #rip my he/him lesbian grayscale jedi i haven't even named or designed you yet and you're already destined to die #well at least there are all the years before order 66 to think about. </3 #considering making a medic who eventually gets picked up by the crew. every crew needs a doctor. even if just to prescribe bacta #also considering having dji and latros have a slight homoerotic rivalry #dji is supposed to be kuru's new master (self-proclaimed) and latros (nightbrother) (uses all aspects of the Force) is a Bad influence #(they're not even jedi anymore it makes literally NO difference) #but also they're middle aged guys in space so why not make them hold hands. while they bicker of course. <3 #(latros is in his 40s and dji is in its 50s or 60s but i think givins live longer than near-humans. or at least they should.) #ALSO considering latros helping kuru turn her lightsaber into an electrified whip (latros's weapon of choice) #so she doesn't have to give up her lightsaber and he gets to teach her how to use a whip for combat #anyways. Thiunking. there are Scenes in my head. i might try to write them. eventually. #my ocs

[jesterguy]

I have so many posts in drafts about Palestine and I still just don't even know what to say or where to start

#how do i talk about my extremely zionist early education #how do i talk about my birthright trip at age 13 and the impact it had on me as a jew and as a human on this planet #how do i talk about my childhood rabbi reaching out the kids i grew up with offering support for those mourning the loss of history #and also those mourning the lives of colonizers (who ultimately are jews seeking a safe space after hardship at the great expense of others #my fucking guts have been clenched for days i feel like a shell #my mom is more worried about sending my transfem sister to college on her own in the inner city now not bc she's trans but bc she's jewish. #not to mention i always say im 'raised jewish' not actually jewish bc im not! im not jewish ive bever had a conversion. #what fucking right do i have #all i know is my upbringing and my ability as an adult to unpack it. #and how many things that i was taught are WRONG #i didnt get a christian brainwashing a got a zionist brainwashing #anyways all this to say theres always a lot of regard for Palestinian suffering on here as there should be in these situations #but young jews have a fucking weight on them right now like you just would not believe #not that its equal to or greater than the trauma of being palestinian. but just that its not mentioned right now #thats all ive got to say. idk yall are welcome to ask me more about this i just had to spew some of it #might delete #cam talks #if it isnt clear im fully pro palestine and my goal isnt to be any sort of devils advocate here. im just in a very complicated sort of pain #if i posted that email from my middle school rabbi here he would be doxxed and hate crimed. #and you know. i dont like the guy. but the fact that i know thats what would happen tells you a lot.