Shoutout to Luigi's Mansion ghosts fr. Gotta be one of my favorite Nintendo franchises! Had to take a break from Psychonauts for a minute because I was having burnout-- hope you all enjoy these in the meantime!!
In the end, politics was an accretion of personal decisions, and that means that the personality of the protagonists cannot be left out of the discussion. It determined not only how they reacted to the situations in which they found themselves, but how others reacted to them. The growing support for Edward IV in 1461 must have owed something to the realisation that he would make an effective king - whereas his father never seems to have been regarded in that light.
--Rosemary Horrox, "Personalities and Politics", The Wars of the Roses (Problems in Focus), edited by A.J Pollard
...When the worst had happened, and civil war was a reality, the overwhelming imperative was to find some way of restoring order. At the level of high politics, what this entailed in practice was a rallying around the de facto king. The Wars of the Roses, far from weakening the monarchy, actually strengthened it, since the king was the only man able to surmount faction. In spite of (Henry VI’s) manifest failings, Richard, duke of York's criticism of the regime commanded little high-level support - and would have commanded even less but for the crown's alienation of the junior branch of the Nevilles, headed by York's brother-in-law the earl of Salisbury. York in fact never did attain the political viability to break the vicious circle of temporary ascendancy and political exclusion. It was his son, Edward, earl of March, who finally mustered enough support to take the throne. He was able to do so in part because the situation had been transformed by the country's descent into open war, which reduced the compulsion to uphold the king as the embodiment of stability. Once it was no longer a matter of averting war, but of stopping it, political opinion began to divide more evenly between Henry VI and his rival.
However, the crucial change may well have been York's own death at the Battle of Wakefield late in 1460. In the ensuing months Edward of York was able to present himself as the man who could mend the shattered political community. That self-identification with unity proved immensely potent, and it was not a role which could plausibly have been filled by his father. In the eyes of contemporaries, York had been the begetter of faction: a man tainted by his willingness to go to extremes.
“Warwick launched his final bid at kingmaking, this time in alliance with Margaret of Anjou to restore Henry VI. He and Clarence landed in Devon while the King was in Yorkshire. Elizabeth (Woodville)’s initial reaction was to prepare for a siege in the Tower of London where she had already retired in expectation of the imminent birth of another child. But on 1 October news reached the capital that the King was preparing to set sail from Bishop’s Lynn, abandoning his kingdom. With no hope of imminent rescue, Elizabeth moved swiftly into the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey with her mother and her daughters. She sent Abbot Thomas Millyng to advise the Mayor and Aldermen that she was surrendering the Tower, and consequently Henry VI, into their custody.
- J.L Laynesmith, “Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight’s Widow” in “Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts” / “The Last Medieval Queens, English Queenship 1445-1503″
"Elizabeth (Woodville) at first fortified the Tower of London against the approaching Lancastrians, but then decided instead to hand over custody of the Tower to the mayor and aldermen of London while she went into sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. It was a move which not only protected her daughters, who were with her, but also saved London from attack, which perhaps explains some of the praise she later received. The author of 'The Historic of the Arrival of Edward IV, who claimed to have witnessed much of what he recorded, stressed
the right great trowble, sorow, and hevines, whiche [the queen] sustayned with all manar pacience that belonged to eny creature, and as constantly as hathe bene sene at any tyme any of so highe estate to endure; in the whiche season natheles she had browght into this worldc, to the Kyngs grcatystc joy, a fayrc son.
...When Edward (IV) arrived, there was a scene of family bliss, in which the queen's vulnerability and domesticity could be contrasted with his heroism. The king was thus presented in an unusually human guise, which might appeal to readers familiar with such partings themselves throughout the civil wars:
The king comfortid the quene, and other ladyes ckc; His swete babis ful tendurly he did kys; The yonge prynce he behelde, and in his armys did bere. Thus his bale turnyd hym to blis.
Like last year spending ski trip in a same place and having Klopps leaving do🥲 in the alps is crazy... also there was Carras birthday party. I get it why they're trying to hide this, they are inseparable! Pls lets talk about this in the next Stick to Football😍
#OTD in 1922 – The IRA kidnaps more than forty loyalists activists and ‘B’ Specials.
In mid-January 1922 the Monaghan football team was arrested in the North on their way to play Derry in the final of the Ulster Championship. On 7 February the IRA responded by kidnapping forty-two prominent loyalists in Fermanagh and Tyrone and held them as hostages. A party of eighteen armed B-Specials, when travelling by train to Enniskillen, were stopped at Clones railway station in Co…
If you've just joined, Joe Lycett broke the internet today by promising to shred £10.000 of his own money if David Beckham promotes the World Cup in Qatar.
Delivered in the only way he knew how (fabulously hilarious and wittingly unforgiving), Lycett, British comedian and national treasure, trailblazes accountability and criticisms against footballers who took money from Qatar, where homosexuality is still punishable by death and human rights crimes are prominent.
For every 1 million David Beckham reportedly receive from Qatar (from a total of 10 million), Lycett promises to donate 1k in support of LGBTQ+ charities. But should Beckham decide to go through with his endorsements, he will shred this money LIVE on the website he set up (benderslikebeckham.com), shredding public figures' hypocritical reputations with them.
🗨️ — Hello !! I am a new author on Tumblr. Please, don't expect my works to be perfect, I am still learning how to use the app. English is not my first language, please, be nice to me. Please, correct me if I have any grammar or spelling mistakes, thank you.
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— Diggory (Cedric)
— Granger (Hermione)
— Jordan (Lee) / Still trying to figure his personality.
— Johnson (Angelina) / Same as Jordan.
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— Lovegood (Luna)
— Malfoy (Draco)
— Nott (Theodore)
— Parkinson (Pansy)
— Potter (Harry)
— Weasley (The twins, Ginny, and Ron)
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— Amy March
— Josephine "Jo" March
— Margaret "Meg" March
— Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
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The further I get into my teaching career the more I absolutely despise Severus Snape for what he did to Neville Longbottom. No child should be that scared of going to class ESPECIALLY when their home life is not the best. The classroom should be a safe space for everyone. Severus is a cunt for not providing that.
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The duke of Clarence before-named, brother to king Edward (IV), had been fully reconciled to the king by the mediation of his sisters, the duchesses of Burgundy and Exeter (Margaret of York and Anne of York), of whom, the one without the kingdom, and the other within it, entreated the duke to make peace with his brother."