#which itself is very rarely

[wonder-worker]

"The newly widowed Elizabeth (Woodville) was exceptionally vulnerable. Several of the trustees responsible for her jointure refused to hand over the manors that were meant to sustain her in her widowhood. Moreover, her brother-in-law, Edward Grey, had seized estates that her son Thomas should have inherited from his paternal grandfather, while her mother-in-law’s new young husband, Sir John Bourchier, had prevailed on Lady Ferrers to settle her principal properties on them jointly for life, ensuring that Thomas would have to wait far longer for this inheritance too. Rivers and Scales were pardoned in July 1461 and swiftly moved into the Yorkist establishment, which perhaps explains the success of the chancery suits Elizabeth launched to regain her jointure. Her son’s inheritance proved harder to recover. By 1463, Rivers was often in (Edward IV's) company and on his council, but Elizabeth needed someone with much stronger influence over the King. She turned to a distant kinsman, William, Lord Hastings, the King’s chamberlain. Hastings drove a very hard bargain for his aid but it was probably amid these negotiations that the King’s desire for Elizabeth was kindled."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: the Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #Elizabeth really had terrible in-laws #And these people weren't even the worst of them - that particular award goes to Richard of Gloucester #As complicated as her first widowhood sounds it was a breeze compared to the literal nightmare she went through during her second. #Honestly though: part me wonders what Elizabeth's first marriage was like because we know absolutely nothing about it. #The marriage itself is a blank slate but the fact that her husband's parents & siblings were so indifferent and uncooperative #to her - and their own kid-grandchildren?? - after he died indicates that his family may have been rather dysfunctional imo? #Certainly they (or most of them) don't seem to have cared about the wellbeing or dignity of his young and newly widowed wife which #doesn't exactly suggest closeness or support during the marriage itself from their end. #Elizabeth doesn't mention John Gray in her deathbed will either though she mentions Edward IV. She may have thought it was #'inappropriate' to mention her first husband beside her significantly higher-ranked second husband...but she DOES mention her son by #her first marriage - which would have drawn attention to it anyway - alongside her royal daughter so that's unlikely to have been a reason. #Maybe it was simply the passage of time? She and John had been married for very few years and she lived such a different life after that #So it's possible that her first marriage simply seemed very distant and faraway to her. #Alternatively it may have simply been undivided affection for Edward IV (her husband of 19 years who she married for love) #which fits well into the relatively personal nature of her will. #Of course we don't actually know anything about any of this and this is all pure wild speculation on my end...but I'm curious. #It's really a shame how little we actually know about Elizabeth's life - made worse by the very limited primary records of Edward IV's #reign and the fact that his chamber records don't survive. And it's even more frustrating that this is so rarely actually acknowledged #by historians. I'd argue we know far more about the life & interests of most other 'prominent' women of the Wars of the Roses #(sans the Neville sisters) than we do about Elizabeth Woodville.

[hide-your-bugs-away]

WHEN I FIND MAGAZINES WITH THEM ON THE FRONT COVER... IT'S A GOOD DAY... 🥹🐾✨️

#AAAAA... STILL IN SHOCK THAT I FOUND THIS!!!!!!! #it's so rare to find magazines with the group as a whole on the front cover.... especially when alan was still in the group 😭🙏 #quite a few solo eric covers which are still really great but aaa....... seeing the original lineup all together on a magazine cover.... 🥹 #ESPECIALLY THIS PHOTO!!!!!!! #VERY VERY SOFT. IN FULL COLOR. #CHAS KEEPING HILTON AND JOHN SAFE AND FAR AWAY FROM THE CHAOTIC DUO /lh #speaking of them.... t h e m ..... #i have a cropped version of eric and alan that's been shared around animal-blogs in the past bUT i've never seen the full photo before!!!!! #eric and alan are very very special to me...... #oohhhh the contrast. wow. awesome. #ALAN PRICE BOWLING SHIRT BTW #the little article itself talks about chas' hair getting pulled out and a girl handcuffing herself to eric. 😔 poor guys. 😔 #april-1964 to april-1965 animals are very special to me........ #the animals #eric burdon #hilton valentine #chas chandler #john steel #alan price #british invasion #60s rock #classic rock #not a second mag #aleric #teehee yeah them

[variousqueerthings]

*sighs in post mildly broke containment again* there's nothing wrong with reading willow as a lesbian, this is a piece of fiction, and the post I made took on a jokey tone for a reason and is ultimately more about underlying bi-erasure on tv than anything else kaybye ✌

#im watching btvs #jeepers creepers but btvs is bringing out the *taking it all very seriously in a very morally high-and-mighty kind of way* crowd #and i dont mean about shit that matters such as discussing racism or misogyny in fandom #just about whether you agree or dislike someone's read of a situation - move on my friend if you dont agree #i mean i could go on a rant about HOW the show portrayed willow-the-now-lesbian #(and while im at it why i hc buffy-the-apparent-heterosexual as bi too but nobody has disputed that part oddly enough) #but that would be an effort im truly not interested in expending on this day and possibly never and has been written before #im mostly just live-blogging and moving on #if im writing anything fanfic-wise it'll be about kendra and that'll be my full fandom contribution #ok but the ONE thing i'll mention is the fight willow has with tara which is one of the rare Ls for tara #where she basically admits that she's afraid this is a phase because willow has loved men/been with oz #and that's just an interesting fight from a meta perspective because the idea that bi women have to *choose a side* #and are consistently questioned and doubted by their lesbian partners #is a core element of biphobia within a gay relationship that many people can attest to #hell it's a big part of bisexual rep that is conscious of itself that at some point there's a plotline where the person is questioned #about their true loyalties and asked to take a side #btvs ofc is NOT conscious of this underlying tension and in fact i would argue is agreeing with tara that this is what needs to happen #for several other reasons as well #but literally people have WRITTEN about this im not saying anything bold and controversial here AND it doesnt take away #from lesbian willow reads to acknowledge the flawed approach of the show to her sexuality like come on #willow rosenberg

[white-cat-of-doom]

Tagged by the lovely @ride-a-dromedary for a list of my current five favourite songs (in no particular order)!

Sunset - Makoto Matsushita

昔みたい - Mebae Miyahara

Tired - The Wandering Hearts

Doomscroller - Metric

Paraclete Bhishajyati - Fire-Toolz

As with any individual song recommendations, I always say to listen to the albums they come from, in addition! (Aside from the Mebae Miyahara, as that is not on Spotify and only half on YouTube).

If anyone also wants to do this, say you were tagged by me! I can always list five more :).

#Thank you so so much for the tag! 🤍 #These links are all to YouTube because Spotify is missing a ton of music from what I can tell #I wanted to put あの頃のあなた by Mebae but it is not online from what I could find #Maybe I should upload some full albums by more obscure artists to the internet for the masses #Anyway #I have many music recommendations #And I have been slowly working on importing and digitizing old Japanese records from the 1970s and 80s which is tons of fun #Because that music does not really exist anywhere online #And is very rare to find outside of Japan itself #I could have made a list of just those but I have to be more varied ;) #Not CATS

[cuteniaarts]

Behold, my latest and most enamouring new obsession:

Malina, Lady of the Chief of the Northern Water Tribe. As if Red Lotus child OCs weren’t niche enough

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #lok malina #still feel like that’s too vague of a tag but I can’t come up with anything better for now #and yeah. she has completely stolen by heart and I don’t know how to feel about that #don’t think I ever was this attracted to my own art before #to be fair the design isn’t mine. it’s very heavily based on something nina drew back in 2021 #because I did not have the energy or creativity to come up with my own thing #but the art is all mine and I genuinely adore it. super proud of myself which is a rare occurrence #anyways. kat and I spent three days digging this niche lower and lower and now have a he #*hell of a lot of lore about this basically nonexistent character #for lore about a lady from the North Pole a lot of it is rather hot… to the point my cheeks are burning non stop #I would say I’d let her do anything she wants to me but in my very specific aroace-adjacent case it’s more like #I’d let her tell me to do anything she wants to her #if that makes any sense and I have not completely lost my goddamn mind yet #okay. enough yapping. back to the art itself #lazy background because I suck at those and am not currently attempting to learn them. I’ll probably do that over the summer #about time anyway. my characters have been placed against an off-white background for far. far too long #this is the first piece in just over a year that isn’t tagged with sotrl. which is kinda weird tbh #I’ve been drawing my OCs almost exclusively for nearly 5 years so it is genuinely surprise I’m branching out #*surprising #less branching out and more diving from one hole into another but y’know #anyway. in my personal and very correct opinion she turned out absolutely gorgeous #her servants are way too lucky and unalaq is way too much of an idiot. no offence to vaatu but he could never beat out this #and I also have Kat’s personal and very correct opinion to back up my own. two against the void. once again we’re winning #I wanna draw her a lot more bc she has completely possessed my brain. I just wish character interactions were easier to draw 😭 #I’ll figure it out. just need to fight my visualisation issues for a proper idea. brb #okay I’m almost at the tag limit so. in summary: #she 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

[dallonwrites]

reblogs off bc i dont want to start Conversations based on other peoples posts but re the whole "who is in control you or the character" question, i find it SO interesting because it's by letting myself discovery write that I (for me personally disclaimer) found the perfect balance between intuition and intention. which to preface "intution" is the easiest way to describe how the inside of my writers brain feels bc often i just get vivid characters/stories/images/scenes with little control at first and i have to figure out what they mean. anyway discovery writing is what works for my brain to make intentional decisions because i need to be amidst a draft to get the Story Cogs working, whenever i try to outline before a draft it's always been just throwing things at a wall bc it feels too far away, but because im also using the discovery element to do that it's like. that's where i think the whole i feel like my characters reveal themselves to me comes from. because im always discovering small bits about them even if i've written them for years just but because discovery writing is also what prompts me to be intentional about writing as i write something it's like both are happening at the same time. so the whole "who's in control" it's like...i don't think control is the right word for me at all because its not Me or the Character it's me trying to understand the character to understand + then write my intentions. like neither me or the character are in the drivers seat because there's no car we are in the middle of the story forest and at first i won't know what it means at all except that it is a Story. and my character will start going one way and sometimes i'll follow and pay attention to where they're taking me to figure out if this is the right path/where to go next. and sometimes i'll figure out how to read the compass first and realise i need to drag their ass in another direction

#anyway i just thought this was interesting because i used to think i needed to outline to be intentional/in control of my story #but outlines are too distant for me to feel like im in control so thats why theyre more organisational than creative for me #whilst we're infodumping on process i also dont like the whole are characters Like Real People or just Story Tools #like yes my characters are tools for the story just like how the story is a tool for demonstrating my characters #like again i dont think its one or the other for me #but i treat them as very 'real' (which this can be another tangent in itself) and intuitive is the best way to describe how i process them #but that doesnt mean there isnt intention and control you know #like the reason i describe my characters and stories as 'real' to me is simply bc they are very vivid in my brain #and that vividness often expands the bounds of the story #i want to go on the 'real' tangent the weight of that word one day #i think this makes sense if u know that for me i rarely get 'ideas' i get images #and characters/relationships #and i have to figure out what that means as a story #also no i dont think you need 'intuition' bc thats just the word i use for myself but i do think you need to understand #how intention works w your writing process and what it means for you to be intentional and what helps you be intentional #and sometimes that will be not considering any form of 'intuition' at all #beloved writeblrs i think i need to launch the dallonwrites substack i cant be doing these tag essays anymore!! i need to expand!!! someone #give me a podcast

[caffeinatedopossum]

If you ask me a question and I really struggle to answer it, it's not because I don't know, it's actually because I need to write a 20 page essay on it to convey the intensity of my passion and knowledge about it to you

#if i dont know the answer i just say i dunno which is easy #this happens most with like responses to questions about how i feel Christianity or something #because there are certain blatantly harmful mainstream beliefs but not everyone that calls themselves a Christian #subscribes to those beliefs so i have to like be very very careful and nuanced with explaining it #to make sure everyone knows that religion itself is not the problem it is the people who subscribe to particular harmful beliefs #which just happen to be so mainstream that they are often seen as synonymous with being religious #i just KNOW this shit is infuriating to the Christians who dont hold those beliefs too. like i cant imagine #yall are rare

[chamerionwrites]

It’s ironic because le Carré is (justly imo) frequently taken to task for phoning in his female characters, and yet paradoxically I actually think several of his most compelling characters are women

#in general i think he is extremely good at quick and confident thumbnail sketches #and that those sketches can stray toward caricature (very sharp and blackly funny caricature which is a skill in itself! #but at worst it can be a bit glib and I am more consistently impressed by him capturing people *quickly* than *thoroughly*) #that said i think the dudes overall are noticeably better drawn BUT paradoxically some of his *best* character work is on the rare 3D ladie #s. anyway i don’t really have a point i was just musing about this #john le carré #spies #lit tag #on writing #my posts

[luckystrike-x]

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#i think it was already pretty obvious that paddy and mcgonigal were supposed to be the achilles and patroclus of ww2 #it kills me that stirling walked inside paddy's tent and just outwardly compared his situation to achilles' #can this show be more heavy-handed than that? #whenever there is a ''good'' joke (which happens rarely) or ref they can't help reasserting it #just in case we didn't get it the first time #which makes it unrewatchable for me #it's also very britishly self-congratulating which in itself is already barely watchable #they should have taken more notes from amc's the terror and not just for the gay plotline but whatever #i'll keep watching cause there's only one ep left and i really like augustin he reminds me a lot of milo from atlantis #i also understand paddy to some degree it makes me crazy too not to have many people to talk about literature with #i just won't become a war criminal about it though

[munchboxart]

Me and the people on Aliexpress buying Kirby Re-ment figures are competing. I bought 2 boxes of the Kirby Bakery Cafe yesterday (6 were left, I bought 2, and the full set option was gone, meaning there is a 1/6 chance that Meta Knight was in there, if he wasn't in the 2 that were already gone). I checked the store today, and the last 4 boxes were bought, and I was planning to buy more if Meta Knight wasn't in there. Fucking insane people

The lengths I have to go through to COLLECT META KNIGHT FIGURES. UNBELIEVABLE

#insane ramblings #the competitive blind box figure collecting is real #either that or the store is actually out of stock and im just fighting air #praying to god that they bless me with meta knight #the set itself isnt that bad honestly. pitch and gooey figures? any time of the day please thank you #if u wanna know which meta knight figures r the rarest by rement. its the kawasaki and bakery cafe sets. esp kawasaki #ive VERY RARELY seen anyone sell even individual boxes from the kawasaki set that isnt from mercari jp #etc #ive only seen one person sell the bakery cafe meta knight and it was way too expensive 4 me. and also their ver looked ass tbh

[deedeemactir]

I think one of the things I really appreciate about The Rookie is that it’s like, what if cops were actually about doing good? What if the white male cop realized he was trying to be a white savior and not only modified his approach in helping an underserved community but also brought in people within the community who could serve the same purpose? What if cops actually brought in mental health professionals first to deescalate a situation rather than blindly shooting? What if a male officer actively sought a different position in order to pursue a relationship with a colleague ethically? What if cops called each other out for trying to overlook/actively overlooking others’ offenses within the department? What if sexism and ageism were seen as problematic as they are? What if cops didn’t SUCK ASS

#the rookie should be considered High Fantasy #also it doesn’t take itself too seriously which I appreciate #and it portrays villainous women with all the gravitas they deserve which is SO very rare #two of the three scariest antagonists in the show thus far have been women #the rookie

[lithiumseven]

Grilled squash is S tier bro

#absolutely iconic food #eating some at a rehearsal dinner I’m working which itself is a very rare occurrence but it’s fun #and this stuff slaps #as grilled squash always does #tis i #food

[the-sill-of-all-sills]

What godforsaken thing led my spine to decide "oh you want to take a deep breath? Fuck you,"

#sills random rants #scoliosis #chronic pain #my nerves just go !!! in certain spots when I breath in deeply #which is very rare but I guess it happened before so eh #it should sort itself out but its a bit annoying if I'm honest

[mcmansionhell]

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

Im researching pitbull coat colors cuz the different ways different coat colors come about and present in cats and dogs is fascinating (clearly, considering how much I geek out about calico cats)

And apparently chewby had some rare puppies

(This website didnt specifically say that blue brindles are rare but other places im looking do)

Like I knew boosie had an interesting coat but I didnt realize precious (a blue fawn) was also not common

Also according to this boosie is technically a reverse blue brindle cuz blue is his primary color (he just looked blue as a puppy and developed brindling as he aged)

#precious could also be a champagne pitbull but since her dad was blue shes most likely blue fawn #i wonder if blue ever developed brindling like his brother #im not entirely sure what chewbys coat is called tho #shes darker than most fawns but shes not as dark as most reds #i would personally consider her red #but a lot of red are RED red #man for a guy that is an organized backyard breeder at best mike managed to end up with some interesting coat colors #even just champagne pits seem to be rare #i wish mike was the kind of guy to keep pictures of his dogs cuz i would LOVE to see what chewby and saints parents look like #like chewbys either a very dark fawn or a very light red #saint was blue #they had several blue puppies #at least one ended up being blue brindle #precious is blue fawn or champagne (only difference is apparently genetic makeup?) #she had at least one sister that had similar coloring (they were both runts and sunny unfortunately didnt make it) #i wish i knew what the rest of the puppies looked like #duckduckgo is unfortunately not immune to ai enshittification thi #several of these articles use ai generated pictures of pitbulls that are extremely unsettling #which makes me question the content of the article itself #but the ones in the screenshots appear to be written by real people #im doing digging too hard on that cuz this isnt like....important information or news or some shit but like #the ai articles are inescapable #the horrors are unending #and if i see one more ai generated pitbull im gonna throw my phone through a wall #its worse than the articles with pictures of real dogs that do NOT have the coat colors theyre describing #at least those pictures arent creepy