David Oakes as George Plantagenet and Aneurin Barnard as Richard III THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

“I prayed it meant no male would take me as a wife, that I would escape what my elder cousins had endured: loveless, sometimes brutal, marriages.” (Morrigan, A Court of Mist and Fury)

Morrigan’s Cousins. art by @mossytrashcan, commissioned by me!

I’m so happy I got to commission this! Mor’s unnamed cousins are a classic sjm throwaway line with huge implications that never gets brought up again. they’re my roman empire. what are their names? are they still living? did Mor do anything for them when she ascended as queen of hewn city and rhysand’s third?

Mühlhausener Altar in the cathedral of Bamberg, Germany (ca. 1500)

JODIE COMER as MARGUERITE DE CARROUGES in THE LAST DUEL (2021)

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.

Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.

Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉

THE BORGIAS | 3.10

LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

the white queen meme: [2/10] characters - anthony woodville

They must have their war without me. I fought enough when there was reason, I will not risk my life for this. I’m going on a pilgrimage to Rome.

She laughed. No sound was ever sweeter. It was good to hear her laugh.

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) "The Lady Clare" (1900) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Currently in a private collection The painting is based on the poem "Lady Clare" (1842) by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

15 MAY 1536 ♔ The Trial of Queen Anne

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was tried for treason in the Tower of London before an audience of as many as two thousand people. The charges against her included committing adultery with five men, one of whom was her own brother, and plotting the king’s death. Though many of the official trial records have been lost (or were surreptitiously destroyed), even those sources usually critical of or hostile to Anne agree that she behaved with great dignity and professed her innocence and her fidelity to the king with eloquence and sincerity. Anne’s poise is especially remarkable because four of her five alleged lovers had already been convicted. The outcome of her trial was therefore preordained, as was that of the subsequent trial of her brother George.

𓅃 “The Queen then was summoned by an usher. She seemed…not as one who had to defend her cause but with the bearing of one coming to great honor. […] She defended herself soberly against the charges, her face saying more for her than her words; for she said little, but no one to look at her would have thought her guilty. In the end the judges said she must resign her crown to their hands; which she did at once without resistance, but protested she had never misconducted herself towards the King. […] Her face did not change, but she appealed to God whether the sentence was deserved; then turning to the judges, said she would not dispute with them, but believed there was some other reason for which she was condemned than the cause alleged, of which her conscience acquitted her, as she had always been faithful to the King. But she did not say this to preserve her life, for she was quite prepared to die. Her speech made even her bitterest enemies pity her.” Lancelot de Carles

𓅃 “…then the Constable of the Tower and the Lieutenant brought forth the Queen to the bar… [H]er indictment was read afore her, whereunto she made so wise and discreet answers to all things laid against her, excusing herself with her words so clearly as though she had never been faulty to the same…” Charles Wriothesley

𓅃 “On the 15th the said Concubine and her brother were condemned of treason by all the principal lords of England, and the duke of Norfolk pronounced sentence. …the thing was not done secretly, for there were more than 2,000 persons present. What she was principally charged with was having cohabited with her brother and other accomplices…These things she totally denied, and gave to each a plausible answer. […] To all [charges] he [George Boleyn] replied so well that several of those present wagered 10 to 1 that he would be acquitted, especially as no witnesses were produced against either him or her… The Concubine was condemned first, and having heard the sentence…she preserved her composure, saying that…what she regretted most was that the above persons, who were innocent and loyal to the King, were to die for her.” Eustace Chapuys

Amos Nattini (Italian, 1892- 1985) - Illustrations for The Divine Comedy (1915-1939)

FOLK-TALES OF BENGAL by Lal Behan Day. (London: Macmillan, 1912). Dozens of Illustrations by Warwick Goble

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The way everyone acts about the supposed "daemyra downfall" in season 2 reminds me of all the losers that were saying Daemon will cheat on her with Mysaria in ep. 8 from season 1 based on a single second from a trailer. And yet...

Portrait of Queen Anne (1665-1714) (Detail)

John Closterman (1660-1711)

"He's so insecure, so you know he'd put in the work, right?"

Saltburn (2023) | dir. Emerald Fennell