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2023 was a hard year for me, but I learned a lot, my family, as a whole, did a ton of growing, and towards the end of it, I found all of you. So thank you. 🥂
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆🎇
@sm-baby
@gummy-axolotl
@hootbon
@unfunnyaceartist
And allll the rest of ya I couldn’t fit in this page ; ;
I feel so honoured to get to be a part of this close lil circle, that I’ve found in this fandom- you guys are awesome and so damn talented. The aus I’ve seen have blown my mind.
The Jax’s have broken into the port wine, and I’ve made us all the ancient recipe, of grasshopper pie -v- (grasshoppers not included)
#my stuff#tree makes an appearance#new year#mush 🍄#carnival au#carnival!jax#scp!jax#noodle toon#freakshow au#tadc freakshow#freakshow jax#plaidy#tadc oc#digital circus oc#tadc fandom#tadc#the amazing digital circus#tadc jax#jax#💚💚💚
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Nelly + 2 Charleses
and a reaction pic :3
#okay no but reading abt nell and sackville in plaidy is fun#JUSR REALIZED SACKVILLES NAME IS CROPPED OUT WHOOPS#should be able to tell apart him and le merry king apart tho#i gave sackville horrendous eyebags yes#or eyeliner <- he would#charles ii of england#charles sackville#earl of dorset#nell gwyn#theres like 936 different ways to spell her full name😭
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Me n @bearfag 🪿🐕
MAKE YOURSELF💥
#why are we howard and vince#i was looking for a plaid shirt but i couldnt find one sufficiently plaidy#not scribbling#picrew
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Writing a fem character as a villain by making her abusive toward her children, have her obsess over a man, and be vain about her appearance, makes her a boring villainess.
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Me when an article I'm reading calls Jean Plaidy 'one of the greats in historical fiction'
#i'm sorry but no#i have no respect for your opinion if you think PLAIDY is good at historical fiction#get some standards! improve your taste!#historical fiction#and i say this as a fan of victoria holt#Plaidy could write gothic fiction but she wasn't a historian and the plaidy books are wikipedia summaries of the 1950s churned out#churned out in a hurry to please publishers who were themselves not historians
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Your thoughts on the prolific author Jean Plaidy? Did you read any of her books? Do you have favorite/most hated? What do you think about her view on the Tudors, Boleyn's, Yorks, Stuarts, Hapsburgs, etc?
I have found them very dull, paint by the numbers, etc. Honestly I find most of the novels from that era of that era that way, though, it's part of why I can't stand Weir's, hers just feel like a complete emulation of Norah Loft's which are also that way for me. I feel like newer authors of the genre are more likely to take risks, even if all their creative decisions are not my favorite, I can respect that (Suzannah Dunn, Christopher Rae, etc).
To be more specific, as a Henry VIII Enjoyer, these novels miss the mark for me. He's always very one-dimensional, sadistic satyr meets bluff hail-fellow-well-met, extremely pliable and easy to manipulate; it's just very boring and not satisfying to read.
#anon#very unpopular but to some degree i would even say philippa gregory > jean plaidy#(just as far as...entertainment? her depiction of henry is also like that. altho the film adaptation somehow made it even worse)#and philippa gregory > alison weir again very limitedly and only pertaining to fiction#(bcus honestly i think weir's depiction of henry might be even worse than pgreg)#(maybe even worse than margaret george's which is saying A LOTTT)#(probably as bad as norah loft's. but she's a fan. so)#i actually have some sliding door theories on pgreg tho#i basically think that her books were the gateway for weir gaining credibility#bcus they were so outrageous (a very hateful and homophobic interpretation of a slightly less but still homophobic theory from warnicke)#they made weir seem moderate and credible in comparison#and we have been stuck with that albatross ever since. god hates us every one.#i also believe weir segued to mantel's popularity to some extent#it demonstrated the popularity and marketability of that sort of portrayal of AB#cerebral ; cold; calculating and very fun to hate#of course that began earlier but while LiT is more sympathetic than some of her later works;#you definitely get the sense AW is having a lottt of fun hating her in certain sections#(earlier with TOBG i should say)#whatever tf pgreg said about her#'of criminal nature' agrewafrhdsijfs
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oh, to be a Victoria Holt novel protagonist, rushing through moonlit gardens in glamorous peril, trying to escape the Byronic antihero whose heart I have, but whose previous wife's fate I do not wish to replicate...
#moodboard#victoria holt is queen#gothic romance#romantic suspense#victoriana#victoria holt#jean plaidy
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Mi Opinión: Madame Du Barry; Amante Real – Jean Plaidy
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🔥 Jean Plaidy's historical Medieval/Renaissance novels
Okay this is kind of embarrassing, but I actually haven’t read them. I keep meaning to, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. But I will…eventually
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Ayo its everyones fav bunny boy, and a poor victim called plaidy. I wanted to draw my friends oc with their tormentor :) @an-albino-pinetree
#original character#digital circus#jax#fanart#digital art#i did this instead of sleeping#i had fun#tumblr people hashtag like this#its pretty fun
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Not me falling head over heels for another au-
Freakshow/Sideshow au belongs to @hootbon and @ask-the-ultimate-baseball-star
#I *promise* Jax asks will return soon#this is just- really* what my hangover decided to latch onto-#my stuff#plaidy#tadc oc#digital circus oc#freakshow Plaidy#freakshow caine#freakshow gangle#tadc freakshow#freakshow au#horror au#tadc#the amazing digital circus
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I DONT KNOW WHY IM SPEWING THIS OUT BUT THESE TWO ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE FRITZ FANFIC WRITERS AND NOW DAT THEY DO DIS I DIE OF JOY
OOOH AND THANKS TO THIS I JUST FOUND A NEW BOOK I WANNA REAAAAAD!!!!!
#i dont wanna compare it to plaidy because it should shine in its own way but I WANT TO COMPARE IT TO PLAIDY#GRGDHSGFDMLFKNFFFFKSSHJJJ THANK YOU FOR FEEDING ME#I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT TO POP UP WHEN I SEARCHED WILLIAM SO OOOHOHOHOHOHO#ik its kinda short BUT ITS SWEET#william iii#mary ii#duke of monmouth
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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE
'Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.'
'Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I've got there, because I know that by doing that I am inching the book forward. Those 1,000 words might well be rubbish–they often are. But then, it is always easier to return to rubbish words at a later date and make them better.'
'Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . .'
'. . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too.'
Author Extraordinaire Sarah Waters
#sarah waters#author extraordinaire#writeblr#writing inspiration#writing advice#writing tips#literature#books#tipping the velvet#fingersmith
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Artist Jane Crowther
My 2024 Booklist
Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Maskerade by Terry Pratchet (#18 of Discworld)
The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey
The Great Gatzby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy
A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall
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Book Sale
I’ll be moving shorty and will need to find homes for the following list of books (under the cut).
If you are interested in any of these titles, or anything else I am planning to rehome (board games, dvds, stationary, home goods, etc.), either reply to this post or send me a message.
All items will be shipped from the UK.
Name your price! Minimum is the cost of shipping. Payment can be made via paypal.
Fiction, Classics
Une Vie - Guy de Maupassant [text in French; 1988, J’ai Lu ed.]
The Mabinogion – trans. by Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones [1974, Everyman’s Library ed.]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie [2001, Agatha Christie Signature ed.]
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand [Penguin Modern Classics ed.; NEW]
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [2009, Oxford World’s Classics; annotated]
Gothic Tales – Arthur Conan Doyle [2018, Oxford World’s Classics]
Fiction, Modern
The Vampire Lestat (1986 paperback) Anne Rice
The Lady in the Tower (2003 paperback) Jean Plaidy
The Fallen Blade (2011 paperback) Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The North Water (2016 paperback) Ian McGuire
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2019 paperback) Andrew Miller [NEW]
The Midnight Library (2020 hardback) Matt Haig
Science
Chemistry3 2nd ed. (2013) Burrows et al. [annotated]
The Periodic Table (2017) Tom Jackson
What’s that Bird? (2016) Rob Hume [UK bird pocket id guide]
Philosophy
The Problem of Knowledge (1988 reprint) A.J. Ayer
Language, Truth and Logic (1990 reprint) A.J. Ayer
New Age
Horoscopes: Your Daily Fate and Fortune (1987)
The Witch’s Shield (2010) Christopher Penczak [NEW; with CD]
The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology (2011) April Elliott Kent
The Kitchen Witch (2011) Soraya
Making Magic (2019) Briana Saussy [NEW]
Paganism in Depth (2019) John Beckett [NEW]
And breathe… (2020) Sarah Rudell Beach [NEW]
Misc. Non-Fiction
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (2007) Kate L. Turabian
Mug Cakes (2014) Mima Sinclair [NEW]
Learn to knit block by block (2018) Che Lam [NEW]
Find out What Your Cat is Really Thinking (2018) Trevor Warner [NEW]
Speak Welsh (2019 reprint) John Jones [NEW]
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