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Every so often I go down these rabbit holes on Wikipedia of royals and nobles on the British Isles and something that always stands out to me is that so many of the marriages are political, so many are between minors (as young as 14 on both sides, engagements even younger), and neither side really has a choice.
Like for example, Arthur Tudor was engaged to Catherine of Aragon when he was like 2 years old and married when he was 15 (Catherine was 16). He did exchange letters with his betrothed (in Latin!) but only met her a few weeks before the wedding. He said he was very happy to marry his wife, but did he really have a choice? He might just have been making the most of it or obeying like the child that he still was.
Girl Being Forced to Marry For Political Reasons Against Her Will is such a common trope, and maybe it's more of the focus because women had less power in marriage and less ability to take lovers, but it seems like a lot of these marriages were people who were both basically told whom they would marry. Just because men can keep having sex with whomever they want doesn't mean that they haven't lost anything in these interactions and that it wouldn't do emotional damage. And the putting on a nice public face would be similar for both of them.
Anyway, maybe a writing idea? I'm not sure where I'm going with this, except that I feel for these young and powerful men who were often as much pawns in their parents' schemes for influence as the girls.
#writing stuff#writing idea#?#so many marriages between children in the nobility of old times#reading about one marriage between a 16 year old girl and a 14 year old boy#and she was already a widow!#british nobolity#history
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#theenglishedit#the english#the english 2022#chaske spencer#emily blunt#eli whipp#cornelia locke#whipplocke#originals#GOD!!!!! I'M INSANE#the LOOK they share OUGHHHH he knows it already but it's still a confirmation for him#- the first time syphilis is said out loud between them -#and he doesn't say anything or react with disgust or throw her under the bus the way she looks like she expects#and then his reaction to hearing about the black widow....#knowing that will happen to cornelia#he looks devastated#and when they move together and reach for each other so so easily for comfort and strength#GOODBYE!!!!! GOODBYE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thinking about this writing prompt with Nat and Y/N. Where Nat is a pretty high up SHIELD agent as usual, but Fury still won't tell her who she's reporting to, citing it as 'above her clearance'. So she comes back home, to her wife, grumbling about how unfair her 'company bosses' are for not trusting her with 'corporate secrets', while Y/N is giggling to herself as she comforts her poor wife and agrees that her higher ups must be real idiots to not trust her (and maybe one day Nat's 'handler' laughs about how 'we're all idiots here, hm?' to get Natasha to finally realise who her handler is)
#thinking about it the other way too where Y/N is a junior SHIELD agent reporting to a well-known agent known only as 'The Black Widow'#and everyone calls their handler that and they're too awkward to ask her for her real name. so never learn it.#and natasha only sends text messages because she KNOWS thats the format Y/N prefers. But it means they never work it out#but after public missions Y/n scours the internet to make sure no photos of them are leaked that natasha might see#not knowing that natasha already wiped them from the internet herself to protect her partner's identity#*casually adds this to my WIPs*#ikan wips#ikan thoughts#natasha romanoff#natasha romanoff x y/n#natasha romanoff x reader#natasha romanoff imagine
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Consolidation post for the development of the female Western black widow (Latrodectus hesperus) that I’ve been trying to keep tabs on since last month:
11/3/2023
11/17/2023
12/8/2023
#I know you already saw all of these but I did get a better picture of her current instar I think#wish I could have caught her mid-molt because she’d have to come out of that ball she’s always curled into lol but oh well#spider#spiders#widows#black widows#cobweb spiders#Theridiidae#my photos
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Rules for a Proper Governess, which is what I'm approaching as a "everything you like about Sir Philip Book but without the bullshit" novel, thus far features:
--a pickpocket heroine who steals the lawyer hero's shit, after which he chases her down to the like... basement... where she lives? Goes "bitch you live like this???", has a minor panic attack about his dead wife, and passes out
--(he wakes up and realizes she's like dragged his unconscious form so that his head is on some pillows lmao I died)
--(they make out when he wakes up)
--he does a good "get your head IN THE GAME, Sinclair!!!" @ himself, only to come home like two days later (during which she JUST. STALKS HIM.) to find that his governess has left because his children are nightmares, our heroine is there because stalking, and the kids love her
--so he's just like "FINE. YOU CAN BE GOVERNESS FOR NOW" before watching her walk away and resigning him to just. not sleeping. because boner.
Already, \this is much better.
#romance novel blogging#how do you fix Sir Philip Book? by making the characters good#as it turns out#i can already tell that sinclair mcbride has no idea what a plant is#aaaaaand he's been FUCKIN#he misses his dead wife a lot but he's also like “a man's gotta eat”#so he just. fucks widows.#but he also can tell our heroine (bertie) has never been kissed so after he sticks his tongue down her throat#he nobly backs off#which i'm sure will last about 30 seconds#(unlike sinclair who will probs last three hours)#i also really love bertie tho#i LOVE. a stalker heroine#like she has Reasons lol but it's also like#she wants to sniff his boxers
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the fact that Thriller (the only thing I haven't done yet is die/and it's me and my plus one(s) at the afterlife) is on the same record as (After) Life Of The Party (I'm a stitch away/from making it/and a scar away from falling apart [...] kiss away young thrills and kills on the mouths of all my friends) and Hum fricking Hallelujah (*gestures at the whole song*) and GOLDEN????? when I say Hum acts as a touchstone for IOH this is what I mean
#also takeover. um. wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee. FULLY a metaphor bc that was long before ashlee#like. you can extrapolate so much and it all kinda comes back to that October 2005 alt press issue where they talk about best buy#and then immediately all go and yeah we're already working on the next album btw. like those two things automatically go together#she speaks!#fob#fall out boy#infinity on high#ioh#tw suicide#*implied. I'm talking about hum hallelujah again :')#saw the (after)life(r) poem and it made me feel insane
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how i look with he/him pronouns in my bio
#jokes. theyre not my first preferred pronouns but lmao#i want a haircut so bad. but im toughing it out#what for???? on principle at this point#me#lady at the pharmacy said she liked my overalls i was like omg thank u....#anyway also i need a haircut becos if i get called maam when i dont intend for it one more time im gonna go batshit.#u cant see the extent of it cos i usually have it up but. theres a lotta fucking hair.#but the front isnt long enough to keep back with it....#i feel like maybe if ALL of it was back id get maamed less. cos u can see my developing widows peak LMAO#obviously i would have been fine with it here. but i got maamed on the flight back when i was#at my worst and greasiest. already unpleasant experience made worse
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in the flowers in the palace au, when did lwj realize that she was in love with wwx? It seems like she knows by the first part of the series, since lqr is trying to encourage lwj to marry and she's refusing, so did lwj fall in love when wwx was studying at the cr (if that happened in this verse)?
Lan Wangji's love realization happens when Wei Wuxian breaks into the Cloud Recesses to comfort her in "for myself, in my frenzied heart." This doesn't have much to do with Lan Wangji's refusal to marry; she was simply raised differently from most other girls in the FITP universe, because Lan Qiren and Qingheng-jun knew they could rely on Nie Mingjue to protect her after their deaths through NMJ's marriage to Lan Xichen.
During Lan Wangji's childhood, Nie Mingjue's father was a high-ranking general who controlled the most important military garrison in the empire, and LQR/QHJ were confident that Lan Wangji would be free to live the life she wanted (and stay safe from power plays within the Lan clan) as long as LXC had the Nie family behind her. Thus, LWJ was allowed to choose the subjects she studied after she came of age; and when she decided to pursue higher studies in music and weapons training instead of learning how to manage a household, QHJ didn't object.
By 21, Lan Wangji would have found it extremely difficult to fulfill any of the responsibilities of a gentry wife, so QHJ/LQR never considered marrying her off until Qin Su joined NMJ's harem as a concubine (signaling a loss of favor/power on Lan Xichen's part).
#asks#flowers in the palace#lan wangji#reference#part of the problem (re: lwj living the life she wants as an unmarried woman)#is that there are male heirs around who would refuse to respect lwj's leadership of the clan in future#and unlike say jiang yanli#lxc and lwj do not have a maternal family to back them up#because their mother was a wen princess who eloped with qingheng-jun and then went into seclusion for the next 16 years#so wrh wouldn't find out#and after lqr and qhj passed away lwj would have no one to protect her within the cr#luckily by the time madam lan died lxc was 14 and already pretty much spoken for re: marriage#so she had the assurance of future protection through her sister after losing her mother#and qhj rly didn't want to think about a backup plan for lwj bc he'd only need one if lxc or nmj died before their marriage could happen#and at the time nmj was the heir to a dukedom and part of a strictly monogamous family#so qhj figured that lxc would have all the power she needed as a) nmj's wife or b) his widow if he was killed in war#he was not counting on nmj overthrowing wrh and crowning himself emperor
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Don't attack me for this, but I think people arguing about who he loves more are missing the entire point
#Inuyasha#would you ask a widowed man if he lived you more than his DECEASED WIFE#someone tried to break them apart and unlike most shojo they succeeded#i just can't believe I'm still seeing anti kikyo posts fifteen years later dude she died and Inuyasha and kagome already got together#give her a break omg#mine
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Yelena hearing Natasha tell her not to spike the engine, looking at Natasha with love and regret and then doing what she has to do.
Natasha seeing Taskmaster approaching fast, looking at Yelena with love and regret and then doing what she has to do.
Natasha, letting go, falling to save Yelena.
Natasha, letting go, falling to save everyone.
#this post brought to you by the idea that the look on yelena's face when natasha let go of the parachute#would be the same if yelena had been on vormir instead of clint#“she loved you and always wanted you safe”#yelena already knows because natasha's done this before#yelena may be angry that natasha sacrificed herself but yelena tried to do it first#between watching the hawkeye show and the black widow movie and all the bishova fanfic i've been reading#seeing how broken yelena is by natasha's death#this makes me so retroactively bitter about how natasha was mishandled in the mcu#i shouldn't need 7 hours of additional film/tv and supplemental fanworks to give a shit about a character that was in 7 fucking MCU movies#i dunno maybe that says something about me#that i'm only sad about natasha now because yelena is sad about natasha#but i think it's more likely a failure of storytelling on their part#i felt plenty sad about loki (both times) and peter and coulson and hell even yondu and they had way less screentime#anyhoo#this kinda got away from me#basically just wanted to point out some similarities and wallow in my natasha and yelena feels a bit#black widow#avengers: endgame#natasha romanoff#yelena belova#parallels
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new snake :3
#we wont b getting him until we move but i am so excited for him#he's an old boy getting rehomed#baby: beep#(placeholder until we decide if we're keeping his old name)#i need more animals i am going insane. also i think im buying a prettier new house for sprout today from tarantulacribs#so i can use her old house for either a brazillian black or a mexican fire-leg juvenile#lays down on the floor. more ameenals..#i have cindy's old house too (i miss u bb girl u had a good lil jumpin spider life)#i could put another jumper in there OR an arboreal T sling#dear prospective job pls give me the higher paid position so i can support more pets thank u#on a related note if i DO get that position i'm probably going to have permission to start a small herp+invert ambassador animal collection#at the place#i'm literally so fucking excited about that prospect u have no idea#waaaauuuugh#i have a 40 gal waiting for mr beep which is apparently bigger than what he's in now#baby boy i will make u the nicest retirement home in the world#OH DID I MENTION HERE julia got me a t-crib medium coffin shaped#for a black widow :`)#her name is going to be Lady Jacqueline Tern and i'm in love with her already even tho she prob hasnt been born yet#all of this is dependent on getting these jobs and being able to move soon. pls manifest.#i might start a separate pet blog if it all works out
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I didn't forget about her!
So, here's that proposed Black Arachnia based oc(ish), Black Widow!
I made a few posts about her but she'd be a youngling alongside Sideswipe, Strongarm, and Influx in the "rid15 without the rid15" time period I discussed, I'll self reblog the posts but she leans more into tfa BA's scientist theme and spider based altmode— but without the trauma
#tfp au#oc#kinda#kinda not#basically she's a little science spider gal who is a Decepticon youngling#oh this is only her first iteration of her design— i will be further tinkering like i did with hazard's design#maccadam#transformers#au#you may suggest tfp arachnid is already aligned's version of black arachnia and to that i can say is ''why can't there be anpther''#after all rid has wildbreak who was explicitly a combination of g1 Breakdown and wildrider's characters#don't click for quality there is none#black widow
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What's up with your sims game?👀
thank you for this entirely unprompted question anon !!!
okay so I've been playing a Sims 3 lepacy challenge for about a year now (maybe longer). Not non-stop but when I play Sims I play with this family. A lepacy challenge is like a legacy challenge, except the goal is to play one expansion (EP) per generation and complete a Lifetime Wish from it.
The current Sims in the household are from generations 4, 5, and 6. Generation 4 has the elder Corin and his younger cousin the adult Viola, Generation 5 has her three young adult children Kate, Paris, and Alice, +Alice's imaginary-friend-turned-real-girl girlfriend Yorik, and Generation 6 has Kate's toddler daughter Audrey.
Generation 4's EP is TS3:Late Night. Late Night added a celebrity system, vampires, and a lot of nightlife, among other things. When I first moved the family to Bridgeport, it was Corin, his older/younger brother Tybalt (Tybalt was born first in my game but Corin actually was a time machine child and came out as a child when Tybalt was still a toddler), and his cousin Viola. When they moved Corin and Tybalt were young adults and Viola was a teenager. So we've been in Bridgeport for SO LONG.
Tybalt's lifetime wish was Master Romancer, to WooHoo with five different Sims. I actually completed it, and with an extra challenge that they had to be celebrity Sims. But he had such a bad relationship with the rest of his family by the end that I thought it was better for the story to just kick him out. He was annoying and sleazy as fuck lol.
Now, I am working on completing Corin and Viola's LTWs. Corin's is the Distinguished Director LTW. He has to get to the top of the Film career but I am worried he won't be able to! He is an elder now, and he's level 8 of the career (Screenwriter). But with holidays, people's graduations and stuff, and his days off per week, it's so hard for him to advance bc he hardly ever goes to work!! I am really worried he will die before completing his dream lol.
Viola is actually my heiress (she has a pretty crazy backstory too if anyone wants to hear it sometime) and her LTW is One Sim Band. She has to master Guitar, Bass, Piano, and Drums skills. She has done ALL BUT DRUMS. She is drums level 8 and I am SO IMPATIENT. Because once Corin and Viola are done...
I CAN MOVE THE FAMILY TO APPALOOSA PLAINS!! Appaloosa Plains is my favorite world in TS3, I am SO nostalgic for it because Pets was one of the only EPs I had as a kid. The generation 5 (Generations) folks all have base game LTWs, because Generations didn't come with it's own LTWs. So they can all be completed in Appaloosa Plains. I am honestly so sick of Bridgeport and the family being celebrities lol. I want to move them to the country!!
I am so excited because Kate's toddler, Audrey, is generation 6 (Pets). I AM GONNA MAKE HER A HORSE GIRL!! And she's also a vampire. IT'S GONNA BE SO 2009!!!
I am literally so impatient lol. Let them out!!!
Kate has been extremely unlucky in love in Bridgeport so I am really envisioning her leaving the city behind and finding a nice country boy/girl 😢😢. Just need Viola to grind drums... keep grinding drums... and for Corin to either go to work or die. Teehee.
#literally nonsensical infodumping#if anyone wants (they dont) i can provide detailed backstory on any sim and screenshots#also note i will be so sad when Corin dies hes my precious baby i just have to joke about it to cope#also Viola wont be ok shes already a young widow and Corin has been her best friend since childhood 😢😢😢#ask#answered#anonymous
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Because Tina and I have been discussing our extended dual-MC universe I had to draw grown-up Nadia. I’m not even gonna fandom tag this, at this point there’s like, one canonical character who plays a central role XD
#I am however gonna tag her mom because I'm pretending she's not getting her own tag#I've written 4 pages of fic already I think that ship may have sailed#but still#OC: Valeriya (Ambitious Widow)#sometimes I draw things
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I just thought about something. There was the whole thing with moving Thor's hammer in Age of Ultron... but remember that Widow refused to even try, saying it wasn't something that she wanted to try... do you think, assuming that Steve could have lifted Thor's hammer at the time and simply backed down because he didn't really see a reason to wield it, since it could cause trouble with Thor, that Widow would have been considered worthy or not? I'm guessing the answer is 'no she's not worthy' but I'm still curious~
I think Nat rightfully assumed it was a pissing contest and didn't want to join in.
I also think that Nat wouldn't have thought herself worthy and didn't need Mjolnir to tell her that (or to affirm the assumptions she was sure most of the others would have with regards to her worthiness - whether those assumptions were founded or not).
Beyond that, we'd have to look at the characters we know Mjolnir did qualify as worthy for commonalities between them (Thor, Vision, Steve (I'm not taking Jane into account here because although she WAS worthy, TLAT went a weird way of "she's worthy because Thor told Mjolnir to take care of her" and also she's much more complicated and also we're talking about characters defined worthy at the period of time in AOU (as opposed to potential worthiness later))) - and the main commonalities I see between those three is their innocence in doing good and their belief in the goodness of people.
Hope and faith and love, mainly, towards the normal person and a desire to protect that, which is roughly how Thor regains his worthiness in his first movie - he sacrificed himself for the common man, who he had grown to love and had faith and hope in their being good, etc. (It's been a while since I've seen the movie, don't judge me.) You can also see all of these in Steve and Vision VERY LOUDLY.
I think by Endgame, Nat's sacrifice very clearly demonstrates all of the above - or at least those as given to her fellow Avengers - and at that point, yeah, I would say she was worthy.
And I certainly think she has those in abundance towards her fellow Avengers in AOU (and I think Civil War semi-supports this - she sides with Steve because she trusts her Avengers family over the government, and she turns on Tony because she trusts in Steve and the validity of what he says about Bucky).
But I think, as a spy, Nat has a level of distrust and suspicion towards average people that you're not going to find in either Steve or Vision. Not that she believes everyone she runs into is bad, but that she's used to seeing everyone else as a potential antagonist or spy or something else in disguise. And she's definitely using Hulk instead of Banner, quite against what Banner specifically wants (we see this later on in AOU in the Battle of Sokovia), which is a clear decision of what she thinks they need to win over trusting in her fellow Avenger to know what is best for him.
So I would say that no, in AOU, I don't think Mjolnir would consider her worthy. (But that's character arcs! Progression! I think it's possible she's worthy in CW, but there's still that learning to trust the other Avengers to know what they need - which is the Steve choice - and then trusting them fully in Endgame - there's the progression of worthiness there!)
...which isn't getting into everything else, etc.
#musings#cobaltstarling#natasha romanov#mcu#black widow#bandit answers questions#IDK JUST THOUGHTS#i'm not a nat expert though#and it's been a while since i've seen a good chunk of the movies#but i also think nat's belief that she wouldn't be worthy plays into it too#WHY she thinks she's unworthy would change over the course of the movies too#and i also don't think the movie woukd have let her be worthy either#it would lose the necessary power and validity to get them to trust vis if anyone other than thor moved it#with the exception of steve because we KNOW steve's good#(not that worthiness and goodness are equivalent)#but like#steve being able to move mjolnir even the slightest bit confirms what the audience already suspected about steve#and vis being on steve's level says something to the audience#nat is a divided topic#and would be even among the avengers#and then vis's trustworthiness would have been in question#and it couldn't be in question#a n y w a y
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absolutely bonkers idea i just had abt widow (my kirby oc thats a halcandran-floralian spider hybrid and is taranza’s half sister for those not in the know)
what if shes not just taranza’s half sister but magolor’s half sister
#purely bc i think itd be funny tbh#i dont think taranza and magolor are family or anything and dont consider themselvessuch#i want to say widow doesnt really like magolor but tbh her whole deal is that she wants to connect w her halcandran heritage#after not having it her whole life and wanting to know more descendants#so she'd probably actually be kinda close to him post rtdl#i think she'd be pissed learning that he took the master crown but would also be sorta interested in it herself in a morbid way#and magolor in a twist is like DEAR GOD DONT WEAR IT#im aware this makes her even more of a ''''''cringe'''''' oc so to speak but shes already one's sister and dating zan#so like. idk i made her for fun#echoed voice#i need to brush up my magolor characterization also. bc hes still a sneaky bastard to me even post redemption#but after his defeat he's probably happy to have discovered some family. like sure he'll try and scam her a few times maybe#but he probably genuine really likes having her around on the lor
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