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i gotta be ovulating because why am i finding steve buscemi in the sopranos...not bad looking. i think its how hes carrying himself but its whatever i gotta deal with this on my own
#yaz watches#the sopranos#i think its coz im a vain bitch and there arent any eyecandy men wise.....coz the ladies are wow....#christopher dont count hes got a napolean complex#i guess its my cross to bear#maybe i admire steve tony coz in a sea of bitches hes trying to stay clean#i think i was primed forthe psycho ex convict of the seaon a la richie and ralph and he seems level headed#smart#erudite even#i havent been sleeping well these past two days
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Bordo argues that Dormer’s Anne is superior to the default version derived from Eustace Chapuys and Catholic polemicist Nicholas Sander, described by Paul Friedmann in Anne Boleyn (1884) as ‘incredibly vain, ambitious, unscrupulous, coarse, fierce, and relentless,’ and still found in fiction such as Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012). The real Anne, though fond of a good time, encountered evangelical thought in the French court, became an avid student of scripture, assisted importation of English Bibles, gave Henry copies of Simon Fish's Supplication of the Beggars and William Tyndale's Obedience of a Christian Man, sought to convert monasteries to educational purposes, and was a patron of evangelicals.
History, Fiction, and The Tudors: Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License
#tbf the sequel (butb) does include anne's charity but there's such an overt skepticism in the text that she might as well have#*and evangelicalism#omitted the same...#or they do but as an inherently skeptical device rather#do you really think what cranmer thinks of her is true as said by jane rochford and absorbed by cromwell#do you REALLY think she makes smocks for the poor because she 'cares' etc#anyway such a funny summation of her character...#one by one:#incredibly vain? probably but i don't. care?#ambitious sure unscrupulous no#coarse? such an odd attribute to ascribe to her#anne was erudite and sophisticated#even if she could be vindictive#fierce and relentless sure#vain being first is a tell tho#anytime men describe women and the first descriptor they use is 'vain'...#she becomes mother to me
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I'm pretty sure fighting path type has nothing to do with what path the characters follow. We have upcoming followers of Idrila who are nihility, and another major example would be Jing Yuan (erudition) who most probably follows the hunt as a member of the Luofu.
Another, more concrete one (if we want to take him at face value, which we probably don't but the fact that others can believe him IS telling!) would be Luocha who claims that while his power does come from the abundance, he still wants it dead.
And Bailu too, who uses abundance but comes from the Luofu, where they hate that sooo much. She probably follows the hunt like everyone else there, too.
(and if we're going by that, I'm pretty sure citizens on Belobog don't seem to know about other Aeons besides Qlipoth the preservation- at least, not until they're reconnected with the rest of the universe.)
#hsr spoilers#:3#also if#theoretically#we were ever getting a playable masked fool#(cough sampo cough)#the path of elation isn't even currently available for playable characters#i wish it was but apparently that's just erudition wtf#whatever i guess...
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my heart's kitten has been out of town WITHOUT ME for FOUR DAYS and i am so lonely! no one is here to pet my hair lovingly and tell me about potential mechanisms of neoepitope recognition :(
#it's not that i'm *specifically* interested in neoepitopes but 🌸 is so erudite and delightful. and has so many interesting thoughts#who will come flop their whole weight onto me on the couch while i very slowly read emails?????#i made a halfhearted attempt to abduct a cat off the street this evening but it was very evasive and i couldnt get close enough to see#if it had a collar. so i gave up.#this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when my girlfriend is out of town. we can't allow it#box opener#girlfriend tag
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hsr dev team and also god if you love me at all you will make sunday a dps
#aristotle.txt#i will pull my pookie even if his kit is ass but i really want him to be a dps preferably nihilty or erudtion#if hes erudition ill shave my eyebrows as sacrifice
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Thinking about the paths in hsr and how some inform so much about the characters once you figure out the logic behind them, and specifically about ratio longing for nous's recognition but following lan's path - he's obviously a scholar, so him being an erudition character would have made a lot of sense when you don't think too deeply about it, but despite characters with less ties to knowledge walking that path ratio does not. He follows the path of the hunt. And that's a very cool fact about him imho
During his quest screwllum says that more than a scholar he feels like ratio's a doctor with the way he tries to cure people of their ignorance, which isn't strictly wrong and I love that about him (and I love about screwllum that he thinks so poetically too), but the way I see it ratio really is a hunter. He does follow lan's path, when you think about it. His travels are all about his fight against ignorance, after all. Thinking about him and his relationship to the aeons really put a lot of things about the paths into perspective for me - I thought the paths were somewhat more literal, but after all it's about the driving force behind a character's actions, is it not?
Nous is the unrelenting pursuit of the truth, of knowledge and information, and that's why someone like argenti follows that path despite being the furthest thing from a scholar you could think of - his travels are first and foremost about finding the truth about idrila, after all. On the other hand ratio isn't actively devoting his life to finding a truth or amassing more knowledge, and that's why nous won't look at him. He is extremely intelligent and competent, and he does value learning above all else, but his main pursuit is to use that knowledge to rid the universe of ignorance, and that's why he follows lan's path - the hunt is the path of those devoting their life to fighting against something, in the end, be it a literal enemy or a figurative one.
It's really really interesting to me? There's a ton of characters that are given depth by understanding their path, I love to think about it
#this is the reason why sundays bait didn't work on him i think#sunday was acting under the impression that ratio followed nous above all else#that he craved knowledge more than anything#but the simple truth is that he doesn't#he studies because he likes it and because it makes his ambition easier but it's not his life purpose#veeeery interesting truly#I've been going down this type of rabbit holes since i first played through the xianzhou tbh#how dh goes from the hunt to destruction and what that says about dan feng#how i believe it's probable df himself changed path the moment he did what he did?#he was probably abundance before which is why bailu is now following that path#he WAS a healer after all and he DID forsake that and risk destroying his whole home for his goal#it's fun with him bc i think he did change element too#he created a life after all that's probs why he's imaginary too#on that note blade changed path when he was reborn too i think#him following the path of destruction now makes perfect sense but I wonder what he could have been before#same for jl actually they're all so tragic#i wonder if the events of their past might have had jy change path too....#he's a strategist so erudition intuitively works for him but i wonder what knowledge he's truly seeking to follow that path#i would have thought preservation more logical for him ngl#ahhhhh I'm digressing but either way !!!!!! fun topic to think about#makes me even more excited to find out which path we'll be unlocking for march next !!
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Spelling was not standardized in Shakespeare's England
yes this is my point. william "sex jokes" "historical RPF" shakespeare is broadly upheld as the pinnacle of english literature, and zero percent of his works conform to any standardized spelling/grammar system
"shakespeare couldn't spell his own name" is shorthand for "the snobbery of ~english literature & canon~ is both self-contradictory and arbitrary in the extreme." & to me this means that anyone can create whatever they want and be just as good as any shakespearean sonnet. bc the only real qualifier for "good writing" is that somebody cared about the story they were telling, and the only real qualifier for "good reading material" is that someone, somewhere, wants to read it
no gods no kings no earl of oxford only a bunch of plays written in a drama club's groupchat and the people who keep investing them with meaning. there is no magic formula or golden standard. the only thing that gives any art any value is the people who choose to value it
#ask linden#this is about the title of my blog#shakespeare couldn't spell his own name and NOBODY CARES!#this is my point!#nobody *should* care! it doesn't matter!!#also that last line abt earls of oxford is in reference to the ''oxfordian theory of shakespeare authorship'' as the wiki page calls it#u can check that on wikipedia if ur interested but what it boils down to is that a bunch of academics have been up in arms since ~the 1920s#over the idea that The Venerable Shakespeare could have been some rube born to commoners#obviously plays so Erudite (& so uniquely appealing to the ''commoner'' demographic) could not have been authored by some paltry lowborn!#why that boy billy probably couldn't even write!#- which like. cmon man. u have about as much evidence as chemtrails here. and also like -#yeah there's a solid chance shakespeare wasn't super up on his penmanship! but that doesn't mean he wasn't capable of eloquence??#like in all probability a lot of shakespeare's work might not have been penned by him#& in fact it's not unlikely that at least some of it was quasi-crowdsourced as actors & collaborating playwrights weighed in#Richard Burbage probably had a lot to do with Hamlet's character work & writing!! we know this!!#we do not create in a vacuum!!! art written in a groupchat is not less valuable or artistic for having peer review built into it!!#shakespeare was just some guy. & he's also a symbol#arbitrary as that designation may be. but the old white men who chose their canon chose him as a patron saint#so i will go on insisting that if we're to know shakespeare we had better know him properly. foul mouth gallows humour bisexuality & all#shakespeare#literature#linden's originals#linden in the tags
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I hate that I love both Fu Xuan and her gameplay
#I want Jingliu. I've been saving for Jingliu. But. Ma'am. You're so tempting#I love her design I love her personality I love her storywise I love her ambition I love how she moves and how she talks and the animations#And she's so useful#But#Jingliu 🥺#Why did they have to go one after the other 😔🍊🗡️ pain betrayal love despair#Watch me do maths in a few weeks/days/hours trying to decide if I could spare some pulls for Fu Xuan#(probably I shouldn't‚ I don't trust the 50/50 even twice. I could be unlucky after all and lose both times)#It's a bit frustrating because after Jingliu I don't think I want any character at all#I liked Argenti because I love knights but he seems to be physical erudition and I don't need that#Besides I don't usually like the gameplay of erudition characters. I think the only path I find more frustrating is the hunt#Abundance and preservation aren't the most fun to play but at least they're very useful#Anyway... Couldn't Topaz have come before Jingliu? 😔💔#I talk too much#I should probably delete this later
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tfw you read criticism that's mostly normal but then takes a sharp turn directly into "women only like this character because he's hypermasculine and they only think with their ovaries and he's a traumatized bad boy they want to fix" and you just have to put the phone down because you're supposed to be past dealing with shit this bad-faith
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#can't believe i had to read that from a blog that seemed to be otherwise erudite and taking itself seriously#does that mean that person just honestly believes 'women are stupid sex-crazed creatures' is a normal credible argument??#i even checked the notes and nobody was like hey what the fuck#and of all things it was about t*b*r*m*#who is...really not what I'd call the ur-example of hypermasculinity#but the notes were all like oh yes this makes sense#and I'm still sitting here the next day going kids? wtf? girlies you're really letting someone talk to you like this?
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"You have proven quite useful to the Academy of Arcane Science, darlin'."
"I'm not interested in fucking a MILF, I just want to be a MILF."
(i got a bit sick of this and just put in some lazy bg, no shading, WYSIWYG etc)
#everquest 2#foci tamara paust#erudite#my art#pose reference from adorka stock#one day i might do a version where she looks even more like a lich
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Writing Eric reminds me that this dude does not know how to chill the f out
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Being as you are someone who writes about Anne Boleyn, I must ask you, which are your favorite portrayals of Anne Boleyn? I mean fiction (novels, film, tv) but also non-fiction. And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks
If there's one with zero merit and/or minimal entertainment value I won't include it on the list, I'll say I'll ** = my absolute favourites and * = my compelling in some aspects, but tread with caution, and those sort of in between I'll leave alone.
Or rather, let's put it another way...* is worth a library rental or free Kindle borrow, whichever you have available, and ** is worth an actual purchase. Those without *...eh, I'll leave it to you.
The Challenge of Anne Boleyn, Hester Chapman*
Adultery, Heresy, and Desire, Amy Licence*
Raven's Widow, Adrienne Dillard**
Jane Boleyn, Julia Fox**
Among the Wolves, Lauren Mackay*
Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey*
The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Translation, Edition, and Essays by Joann DellaNeva**
The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir*
Renaissance Prince, Lisa Hilton*
Hunting the Falcon, John Guy & Julia Fox**
The Life & Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives**
Tudors in Love, Sarah Gristwood
Tudor England: A History, Lucy Wooding**
Children of Henry VIII, John Guy*
Henry VIII by Lucy Wooding**
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory*
The Lady in the Tower, Alison Weir*
The Lady Anne (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**
Judge the Best (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**
Threads by Nell Gavin*
In the Shadow of Lions, Ginger Garrett*
Tarnish by Katherine Longshore*
Brazen by Katherine Longshore
Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius*
Wife after Wife by Olivia Hayfield*
The King's Mind by Christopher Rae**
The Concubine by Christopher Rae**
VIII by HM Castor
Queenbreaker by Catherine McCarran
The Tudors (2007-)**
The Lovers Who Changed History (2014)**
Anne Boleyn miniseries (2021)**
Blood, Sex & Royalty (2022)**
I Am Henry: A Compelling Novel of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII (2023)
And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks
Pieces from everything influence me, Christopher Rae's and Gemma Lawrence's novels, for example, both had some of the best and credible portrayals of Henry Norris I've ever read, both in credible unrequited love (tying into, Anne's wariness thereof) that was forged into a weapon against him and for why he became such a favourite of HVIII's in the first place (would've included Jeff Lavender's thesis of Norris also, had you asked for beyond fiction and non-fiction books). The best parts of all of the above have inspired me to craft AB as a character at turns, sympathetic and unsympathetic: proud, courageous, intelligent, zealous, prudent (more in the 16c sense than 21c), fierce, jealous, sensitive, vindictive, unyielding, talented, compassionate, bold, spirited, pious, impassioned, loyal, loving ...somebody who inspired either complete devotion or implacable hatred, with very little in between, and felt comparable extremes towards her own family, friends, and adversaries.
From my least favourite...I try to remember that every choice she made was morally defensible and/or justifiable, from her own perspective, regardless of whether or not it actually was (and of course, they weren't always). I try to remember also that fear and insecurity can best explain some of her less palatable choices, as enumerated here. Basically, just that she was human and flawed, but also that there were many people personally (and often, religiously) invested in magnifying her flaws and reducing, or even outright omitting, her strengths. Obviously, that misogyny can also be a factor in some of her portrayals, is a salient remembrance to keep in mind, as well.
#pls don't judge me for some of these lol#they are all my choices for entertainment and readability#and there are actually elements of tobg i really enjoy wrt anne's characterization that if excerpted i might actually love#i love how clear-eyed ; erudite ; ambitious and passionate she was#the film adaptation is sort of like a pale reflection of that in many ways . until the one horrible SA scene the film was actually like...#not bad i just think hviii was poorly cast . the physicality but not the charisma#or just loving the dialogue#and you did specifically say for understanding /enjoying ab as a figure/ character. not necessarily the the others in her sphere#threads im going to add sa tw and also it's really only the chapters of 16c AB which had any merit#and the same sa tw for dawn ius#also technically tobg novel even if not the same as in film#she portrays mary as 13/14 so..#in some of these like TLE and HVIII her appearance is VERY brief or ancillary but i still loved#also sa tw for TLE . damn . why is this so prevalent in tudor fiction....#anon#i mean jealous in two senses of the word also:#protective and mistrustful of unfaithfulness#both understandable traits for her to have in the circumstances she was in#my least favorites are ig TOBG even tho it's technically on this list-- lol-- altho it's way more entertaining than like#TKO by alison weir and honestly also TiL in some aspects#but somehow TLE and TiL both were better than TKO and her six wives book and also her hviii and court book#the king's damsel by kate emerson.... the concubine by norah lofts...jean plaidy...margaret george
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#stressing out bc i realized i HAVE to do stage III and IV on gears and gold#to unlock the secrets to get erudition#reading what i can of redit guides bc the article 'guides' are literal shit that tell you nothing#there are people already through not just v but the extra shit and it's so easy for them#and i'm like jfc why am i so stupid that it's so simple and easy for these people and i just am struggling to get the dice/tile choices rig#and i thought that going higher lvl you'd need pres/abun path but there's ppl just doing dmg paths and not even having a healer??#i hate how swarm and g+g just make me feel so completely fucking utterly stupid#i just i do have the ability to do some decent teams and i have max lvl/lc lvl and really have pushed traces/relics#but there's so little info that explains shit in simple detail like i need a fucking tutor in this shit but i guess i'm the only one#like i just need somehow to get how the dice/dice faces/tiles puzzle piece together into a whole like how it all builds and connects#i guess everyone else just gets it and figures it out on their own but i'm too much of a dumbfuck#and fucking gdi i graduated top of my class in both hs and college i am NOT stupid i just don't learn without explanation#and the game DOESN'T EXPLAIN and the community only seems to dole out info in tiny bits so i dont' see the whole#or they just brag and don't say HOW#please ignore my sr bs#man for generations that constantly complain that schools never taught for the way they learn#gamers in this community are SHIT at sharing their knowledge to anyone other than people like themselves
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i badly need an erudition unit i'll want to invest into ughhhh
#jing yuan might be the closest but i don't like that lightning lord is backloaded dmg.... advance forward just doesnt help him as much it#seems.......#argenti's kit is easier to control but kind of boring .. ehhh..#are there even any erudition chars coming in penacony??
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the best friend just told me jade and aven might not have much synergy......terrible day for the ipc girlies 😔
#it's from the leaked kit and we don't have the numbers so he said to take it with a grain of salt#but apparently to be a support jade takes hps from the dps so we'd need a healer in her team not a tank 😭#this is so sad i wanted to make an ip4 team sob sob#also said she might not have any synergy with ratio and topaz either cause she wants erudition types.....#crying in the club if i got her the only chara she'd work with is jy#and not even all that well since jy's fua is so slow...........#😭😭😭#could be better to invest in robin for fua teams if u don't have himeko apparently.......#sob sob#my queen.....are you truly useless to me.....#here's to hoping the prelim kit is all wrong ig ha ha ha#orz
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More explorations through the parsed dialogue files. The nymph in Sharess's Caress (the one whose Fist client turns into a mind flayer) offers you a "moment of ecstasy" in return for saving her life - and apparently there are some character-specific dialog options for all of the origin characters (minus Lae'zel and plus Minsc) regarding their deepest desires. And I'm kinda having a lot of feelings about it.
Naoise Nallinto: The all-being. Here, there is no suffering. Here, you want for nothing. Here, you are anything. You have one word. Tell me: what will you be?
DARK_URGE: Sane.
Naoise Nallinto: You are sane. Time dances on in sequence, the winding path of time evens, and becomes straight. With a quiet head, you can once again hear the song of the birds and the wind in the grass. You pluck a flower, and it does not bleed.
SHADOWHEART: Whole.
Naoise Nallinto: You are whole. Within and without, free from expectation and the crushing burden of solitude.You are the entirety of you. Every path outward leads to adventures yet unknown. Every path inward leads to dreams eternally fulfilled.
ASTARION: Safe.
Naoise Nallinto: You are safe. The winds of fate blow you to the warmest of hearths in the most cordial of inns. Your seething passions lead only to pleasure. The touch of the sun comforts your flesh, but never burns it.
KARLACH: Alive.
Naoise Nallinto: You are alive. Your senses vibrate with sensation - smell, taste, touch, sound, sight. All alert to the beauty of now. The sound of your heart - your heart - beats a steady rhythm: Hello, hello, hello.
GALE: Wise.
Naoise Nallinto: You are wise. The erudition of the ages flows through you and from you, illuminating the scholars who seek your counsel. You know yourself, for such is the beginning of all wisdom. When souls would drink the waters of learning, you are their font.
WYLL: Free.
Naoise Nallinto: Then be free. You are an eagle, the most divine of messengers, soaring above the peak of Mount Sundabar. No man or woman, no devil or demon, no goddess or god dares confine you within one border or one creed.
MINSC: Minsc.
Naoise Nallinto: Er - you are Minsc. You are the most Minsc. Wherever you go, there is only Minsc. Every step, every breath, every thought shall be - the Minsc-est. (DEVNOTE: Confused but making it work.)
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#astarion#karlach#shadowheart#gale#wyll#minsc#bg3 dialogue#naoise nallinto#sharess's caress#good old minsc lol#but ugh the other ones [sob]#even the durge one#everyone here needs about fifty hugs
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