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THAT SMILE!
George VI during the Royal state visit to the United States, June 1939.
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#bertie and his adorable teeth#the cutest smile ever#king george vi#the royal family#the british monarchy#the british royal family#british royalty#long live the king#god save the king#royal tour#king bertie#vivat rex#the monarchy#the king's speech#hyde park on hudson#george vi
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most of cringe #witchy tumblr needs to see this i think
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If anyone ever sincerely called me a mollycoddle to my face, I don't think I'd ever recover.
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Vivat Rex
#the elder scrolls#tes iv: oblivion#oblivion#tes#tes oblivion#martin septim#hero of kvatch#tes fanart#fanart#digital art#clover's art#this took. seven hours.
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Vivat Rex!
Vivat Rex Carolus!
Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
Let the new Carolean Age begin....
#king charles III#coronation#latin#monarchy#royalty#history#carolean age#british#united kingdom#british history#the crown
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Saturday Night Question (MMO AU)
a/n: Inspired by Recovery of an MMO Junkie and that bit of Ch. 6 where Idia assigns all the OB Boys rpg classes. Title comes from the op track which I highly recommend. (x) Loose modern au, NRC is an actual college everyone attends and Grim is still a talking cat-weasel-monster. Not everyone knows each other IRL so expect some minor catfishing. The MMO is based off of Final Fantasy XIV and will contain references to class and game mechanics but no spoilers.
For those unfamiliar with FFXIV chats
[FC] <Tempura Kun> this is the guild chat. Everyone in the guild can see this.
Tempura Kun >> this is a whisper, only two people can see this
[NOVICE] Tempura Kun: this is the novice network for mentors, only Riddle can see this
[Tempura Kun] if someone is texting it will be portrayed like this.
LFM- STYX (FC) recruiting, static needs a pure healer/off tank. Serious offers only.
Your buddy Epel talks you into trying critically acclaimed mmo First Fantasia because it has a thirty day free trial with unlimited game time and includes the first expansion as a joke but as college gets more stressful and you struggle to make irl connections it becomes your personal safe haven. You finally work up the nerve to join a guild and find yourself stuck in the middle of a really familiar set of egos. At least you're having fun.
Tempura Kun| lalafell| white mage/omni-crafter| Yu (you)
A college student living in a haunted mansion their dead beat dad's "renovating." You are only really interested in crafting after being really burned out on hardcore raiding from your last MMO, but agree to sub for heals so Epel can replace the group's usual off tank who's taking a hiatus. That and Gloomurai agreed to let you decorate the FC house, how could you refuse?
Granny Smith| male roegadyn| dark knight| Epel Felmier
One of your friends from class. Mannon keeps mailing him fantasia and insisting he change his race but he's really attached to how muscular this lets him be. He really just wants to play for fun, but he's super competitive and is super eager to try out harder content to "prove how manly he is."
Gloomy Samurai| female miqo'te| samurai| Idia Shroud
The leader of the fc and the person who runs the discord. Extreeeeeemely blunt to the point of being a bit unpleasant and downright scary. You're pretty sure they only let you join to get access to more pictures of Grim and because Epel's friends with the main tank. Super funny for someone so terminally online, but you are beginning to suspect they just- don't have a life outside of gaming.
Jude Bellerose| male hyur| black mage| Riddle Rosehearts
Knows the mechanics for every single fight in game and is scarily efficient at his rotation. Also extremely inflexible and refuses to adjust for a n y o n e, but blames the wipe on everyone else because he knew the mechanics so why don't you? Pretty sure he broke a keyboard while trying to clear the last raid tier.
Vivat Rex| male miqo'te| reaper| Leona Kingscholar
Rex plays this game for triple triad like a true king and is only kept on the static for his consistent dps. Claims that he doesn't pay attention to the discord but he knows everything everyone says in there anyway and responds any time someone vaguely mentions him. Likes to mess with Jude and is not above causing a wipe to out dps him.
Snake Whisper| male au ra| dancer| Jamil Viper
He has every single non-crafter class leveled and knows their rotation. Refuses to play anything other than dancer because he hates people pulling logs and enjoys holding dance partner over the other dps's heads. Likes to post pictures of his cooking in the discord and has his spotify linked to his account. Surprisingly willing to swap recipes if you ask, provided you promise to not give them to Nautilus.
Mannon Du Luc| male elezen| paladin| Vil Schoenheit
Epel's online friend who he says he hates but you're pretty sure he admires a whole lot. He's playing this game for glam, his dresser is maxed out with almost every limited piece ever added. He has completed every single piece of extreme content for the glam without being carried and expects the same level of competence from his off tank. Super nice to you though, he always coms his healers.
Nautilus Noise| male viera| sage| Azul Ashengrotto
Raid leader who does the call outs with Snake Whisper. Claims to be irl friends with Gloomurai but neither of them ever talk about their personal lives so who knows. Has ff logs installed and will pull them to... critique the other static members. You are 99.9999% sure he's playing the market board with 8 retainers but lack concrete proof. At least you can make him shut up if you compliment him.
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An independent day and boarding school located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey, Westminster School is accepted as having been founded in 1560; though the educational traditions of Westminster are thought to actually date as far back as the tenth century, and it was only by the personal intervention of King Henry VIII, in 1540, that the school (then ’The Royal College of St. Peter’), was able to survive the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Thanks to Henry’s intervention, the school carried on with forty ’King’s Scholars’ financed from the royal purse; though by that point it’s thought the School had become a ’Public School’ (a school available to those who could pay their own costs).
During Queen Mary I’s brief but bloody reign, Westminster Abbey was reinstated as a Roman Catholic monastery; and again, the School somehow miraculously survived the transition; though when Elizabeth I returned Westminster Abbey to Anglicanism in 1560, she re-founded Westminster School and drew up new statutes to select 40 ’Queen’s Scholars’ from boys who already attended the School.
Dr Busby, a seventeenth-century headmaster, is said to have cemented Westminster’s reputation, as much by his classical learning as for his ruthless discipline by the birch. He is also said to have prayed publicly ’Up School’ (in the School Hall), for the safety of the Crown on the very day of Charles I’s execution in 1649, then locked the boys inside to prevent their going to watch the spectacle a few hundred yards away!
Busby also took part in Oliver Cromwell’s funeral procession through London in 1658; an occasion on which Robert Uvedale (a Westminster schoolboy), succeeded in snatching the ’Majesty Scutcheon’ (white satin banner) draped on the coffin. The banner was presented to the School by Uvedale’s family some two hundred years later as a memento of the occasion.
Demonstrating still continuing determination to cling to its traditions, Westminster School did not adopt the broader changes associated with the ethos of Thomas Arnold (headmaster of Rugby School; made famous during the Victorian era by the novel ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’), such as the emphasis on team over individual spirit; in consequence, the School was once again able to retain much of its distinctive character. Similarly, despite pressures, including destruction of the School roof during the Blitz, the School refused to move out of the city. As such, unlike other schools such as Charterhouse and St. Paul’s, Westminster still proudly remains in its original central London location in the grounds of Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Traditions: The ’Greaze’ has been held ’Up School’ on Shrove Tuesdays since at least 1753; the head cook ceremoniously tosses a horsehair-reinforced pancake over a high bar, which was used from the 16th century to curtain off the Under School from the Great School. Members of the School fight for the pancake for one minute, watched over by the Dean of Westminster Abbey (as Chairman of the Governors), the headmaster, the upper years groups of the School, and distinguished or even royal visitors. The pupil who gets the largest weight is awarded a gold sovereign (promptly redeemed for use the following year), and the Dean begs a half-holiday for the whole School. Weighing scales are on hand in the event of a dispute, and any cook failing to get the pancake over the bar after three attempts, would formerly have been ’Booked’ (stoned with Latin primers); though, that particular custom has apparently lapsed!
In a tradition dating back to the coronation of King James II, in 1685, the Queen’s (or King’s) Scholars of Westminster School have the privilege of being the first commoners to acclaim each new sovereign at their coronation in Westminster Abbey; the boys’ shouts of ’Vivat Regina!’, (Long Live the Queen; or, as appropriate, 'Vivat Rex!’ – Long live the King’), are incorporated into the coronation anthem ’I was glad’.
The motto of Westminster School is: ’Dat Deus Incrementum’; (God Gives the Increase); the school Colour is pink: and famous ’Old Westminsters’ (the term given to the alumni of Westminster School), include: Ben Jonson (poet and dramatist; 1573–1637); Sir Christopher Wren (architect, scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society; 1632–1723), Henry Purcell (composer; 1659–1695); Sir John Gielgud (actor and director; 1904–2000); Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer and producer; born 1948); and Rudolf von Ribbentrop (when his father, Joachim von Ribbentrop, was appointed as Hitler's Ambassador to the Court of St James in 1936).
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“i cannot express how much i actually adore this photo, it's just so so lovely”
Isn’t it just?!
So, so pleased His Majesty is doing well. I will keep my fingers crossed that he listens to his doctors (and his wife) and paces himself accordingly, on the long road to remission.
Vivat Rex 🇬🇧
it's just such a warm and fuzzy picture, you can really feel their bond in it!
agreed, i hope he doesn't strain himself and takes care in his return. he's already given us so much of himself!
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Okay, I'm starting off my Seven Kings Must Die Countdown with my bestest boy. The arsehole of Wessex and the best brain the British Isles has ever seen. Vivat Rex Alfredos!! 👑
#seven kings must die#seven kings must die countdown#day 1#the last kingdom#tlk#alfred#king alfred#alfred the great#alfred of wessex#david dawson#aelswith#not mine credit to the owner#you don't understand how much I love him#I BURN FOR HIM!!!!!#fave in tlk by far#david dawson is so mesmerising for no good reason smh#tlk edit
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Tagged by @pers-books
Last listened to: The Light - Sara Bareilles. Although I am also listening (in other types of audio) to the BBC's Vivat Rex and enjoying it very much (currently on the Henry IV installment with Robert Hardy, Martin Jarvis, Robert Powell, Anthony Quayle & Patrick Troughton).
Reading: The Element of Fire by Martha Wells, but I've only just started it.
Watching: As I may have mentioned, Glorious 39 (2009), which I'm enjoying, especially for the Romola Garai. (Currently fairly confident that Bill Nighy is the actual instigator of the Sinister Plot, but less sure about where everyone else stands or who's most likely to die next.)
Current obsession: idk, maybe my current origfic is the nearest I can think of, but I'm not sure I am obsessed with anything at the moment!
Tagging: @herawell @lurking-latinist @basiltheratatouille @maryellencarter @captain-aralias @jurijurijurious @mariocki and anyone else who wants to do it, including the important people I should most definitely not have forgotten!
#meme#replies#pers-books#thanks for tagging me!#i am watching and listening to old tv faves and new tv faves. good times!#(makes up for the rest of it a bit lol)
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Who remembers Charles III’s recent fountain pen tantrums?
Well, our darling George VI has dealt with dodgy dip pens since 1937 :) And I absolutely adore how thoroughly he tries to clean his inky fingers.
gif made by @for-valour
#i can help clean you bertie#1937 coronation#george vi coronation#pengate#charles iii#king george vi#george vi#king bertie#the royal family#the british monarchy#the british royal family#the monarchy#british monarchy#vivat rex#god save the king#long live the king#1937
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"I fucked with forces that our eyes can't see,
Now the darkness got a hold on me" - Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron
8: Crazy, Starvetober list by crazysnor1ax
The red wording surrounding the Codex is as follows + translations:
Above: Rex noster - Our King
Right side: Vivat Rex - Long live the King
Below: Revertere ad nos - Return to us
#rod vibes#woodraws#dst#don't starve#don't starve together#dst maxwell#old man fucks with the horrors again#also it was quite fun having his book of horrors whisper ominous things :))#even in insanity the Codex is his emotional support horror book
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A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne (or Vox Populi)
by Edmund Blair Leighton
Vox Populi translates as 'The Voice of the People'. Although Blair Leighton inscribed his picture with its Shakespearean title, the exhibited name is more concise and without specific literary context. Its resonance is more universal, alluding to the people's acclaimation of their monarch. During the coronation service a unified cry of 'Vivat, vivat Rex/Regina' greets the ruler, when he or she is first presented to their subjects.
Blair Leighton's title derives from Henry VI, part II, the penultimate in Shakespeare's cycle of history plays, chronicling the struggle for power between the two warring dynasties of Lancaster and York. He puts visual shape to a prophetic reference to the young Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond:
This lad will prove our country's bliss
His looks are full of peaceful majesty
His head by nature framed to wear a crown
His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
Likely in time to bless a regal throne.
The play ends with the accession of King Edward IV, following the murder of the just but weak Lancastrian monarch, King Henry VI, by Edward's younger brother, the future King Richard III. Shakespeare's characterisation of Richard in Richard III helped establish his reputation in popular mythology as a tyrannical monster who, upon Edward's death in 1485, was designated Protector to the young Edward V and his brother. The murder of the Princes in the Tower, and Richard's subsequent disposal of others thwarting his own path to kingship, simultaneously creates a momentum of power and lost allegiance for the hunchback king. The final act of Richard III documents his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485, at the hands of Henry Tudor. Henry became King Henry VII, and so inaugurated a period of prosperity and achievement for England, over which the Tudor dynasty presided.
If we view his choice of subject in its literary context, we can see how Blair Leighton gives visual form to a golden promise of future peace. He does justice to this brief. His picture is a spendid vision of royal power at its most diplomatic and munificent. Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, holds her son aloft on a stone parapet. The little prince's hands hover, as if seeking something to grasp, but his stance is straight and sure. Armed guards raise a wall of pennants which divide the prince from the appreciative crowd, some of whom gather on balconies. Behind the royal group there are further armed guards, without helmets, who bear heavier standards.
The dynamic between these physical exemplars of strength, powerfully-limbed soldiers clad in plated armour, and the purely symbolic strength of the young prince, lends Blair-Leighton's picture especial poignancy. There are other dynamics which are resolved too; in the picture's colour scheme of red and white the colours of the House of York and House of Lancaster are made harmonious, in prescience of their subordination by the House of Tudor.
#edmund blair leighton#edmund leighton#art#history#england#medieval#middle ages#prince#royal#throne#royalty#vox populi
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N A P O L E O N ⨉ R E A D E R
vivat rex
◆ . . . . . happy birthday napo!
◆ . . . . . written for day 7 of xxsycamore/@kissmetwicekissmedeadly and @batteryrose's dazzling Napoleon Week 2022
◆ . . . . . modern au
18 + blog, minors dni. I don't reply to ageless blogs
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"What's this?"
Napoleon shrugs. "A ticket."
"I know it's a ticket," You say with a laugh. "But what's it to?"
"My night job."
Your heart starts racing. No way? Is he finally entrusting you with his secret? You've only been dating for a few weeks now, so it was only natural to not know everything about each other yet. But when it came to what he did for a living, Napoleon was strangely prevaricate.
Technically this ticket doesn't take 'serial killer' off the table. But there's something about Napoleon that makes you trust him, almost to a fault. His hand is worth taking.
The sound of crashing waves carries into your beach bungalow.
Napoleon leans in, but instead of giving you a hug like you expect, he nudges your shoulder with his and whispers into your ear: "It's dangerous at night though. And technically closed. So we'll be going during the day." His breath warms your cheek.
It takes you a second to recover. "Okay, how did you make that entire statement sexy?"
Napoleon withdraws and presents his usual half-grin. "Did I?"
You huff indignantly but your smile plays past your eyes up to your tingling ears.
His words bother you however. "Closed at night?"
"It'll be obvious when we get there." Napoleon laughs as his gaze drops to the slip in your hand. "Or when you turn the ticket over."
You purse your lips and do just that, but when you read the logo on the other side your stomach nearly punches into your throat.
To be continued
#napoleon week 2022#ikevamp#ikemen vampire#ikemen series#ikevamp napoleon#ikemen vampire napoleon#ikevamp x reader#ikemen napoleon#atelier write ikeseries#series:vivat_rex
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A soldier marches not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- G.K. Chesterton
The largest ceremonial operation for 70 years. A spectacular display of military precision and professionalism by the British armed forces for the coronation of King Charles III.
Vivat Rex Carolus.
#chesterton#gk chesterton#quote#marching#soldiers#british army#british armed services#coronation#king charles III#monarchy#britain#proud to be an army veteran#proud to have served with these men and women#personal
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