When Charles actually outlives his Mom

i expect i'm really going to regret asking this, but why are people so excited about the queen possibly dying? it's not like the monarchy is going anywhere. she's a figurehead. king charles iii will also be a figurehead. i haven't seen anybody explain any way in which the queen dying will affect normal people's lives. so all the crab dances just seem kind of... macabre.

Now someone needs to draw reigan and sans partying with the crabs

all of twitter waiting for an announcement that aint coming because they're dumb enough to trust deuxmoi

Not now honey, i have to liveblog the death of the queen

The queen died and Christopher Eccleston is trending... Tumblr never change

ARE YOU TELLING ME BRO MET THE QUEEN AND I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS??

Me, an English as a Foreign Language teacher, having to update all of my fucking worksheets on the royal family, once again :

“I swear it, Your Majesty, this was the first time.” His eyeballs strained to the corners of his eyes, striving to see the king’s face. “You will tell Her Majesty?”

The king’s laugh was silent, no more than a puff of warm air against the baron’s cheek.

“I am here in the night, holding a knife-edge at your throat, and you worry that the queen will learn about your error? Worry about me, Artadorus.”

tfw you're right there holding a knife-edge at a guy's throat and the guy is still more afraid of your wife arghhhghr

I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the death of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

It just occurred to me that Belos has no idea America is no longer a British Colony and hasn't been for centuries.

Like. He was a puritan. He was born in the mid 1600s. Independence was won in 1776. As far as he is aware America as an independent country does not exist.

It also just occurred to me that Belos, Luz & co all landed back in the human realm right around when the Queen died. That one is just hilarious coincidence.