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Did a bit of a clothing style timeline thing for my Philip design! tried to stick fairly grounded in the historical sources, although with some fun liberties and inspirations.

#philip augustus #12th century #historical clothing #historical fashion #medieval #middle ages #medieval manuscripts #my art #Philip ii of france #philippe auguste

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Having just rewatched the Lion in Winter, I am need of someone to vent to about all the ways Geoffrey is Eleanor but sterile. The way he's a mother-father surrogate for John and shepherds him around, all the while insulting and manipulating him. The way the cycle of parent-child relationships is continued in their strange attachment. They're constantly a pair despite at least one party always ready to sell out the other. Godd, why is there not more JohnGeoffrey stuff?

Also. 'And Richard? Promise him anything.' when your mother-lover prostitutes you out to your ex-boytoy situationship.

Idk. You seem like you would get it.

geoffrey in 68 TLIW and his toxic matronly vibes..I see u ehehe. Not enough John relationship explorations at all in general, I feel he gets brushed off a lot bc his scenes are goofy but especially in the play you can see how much more conflicted he is, in how he's painfully aware and frustrated that he's lacking. He tries to weakly push back against Henry (the "I'm not going on the birthday hunting trip!!!" Scene) but Henry basically shrugs and laughs him off. Just enough for Geoffrey to swoop in and play him...it's interesting that it works bc Geoffrey is seen to kind of be nicer to John, John (in the movie) is happy to see him when Geoffrey arrives, he brought presents...he plays up the "you and me we're in the same boat" younger bros teaming up to take on the oldest solidarity lmao. It's interesting also in the play how John also isn't above snarking at Geoffrey's expense too (he finds Geoffrey's "here I am father! I'm it" play in the end CRINGE and tells him as such in the dungeon). Geoffrey may be playing the Lucy Charlie Brown football movie on John every year but they still hang out and WILL be coordinating to invade Aquitaine later on lmaoooo...

Eleanor also ordering Rich around at the end of Act 1 is so good...so much implied before we even get to the Big Drama (and also her feigning ignorance when henry asks about it later.) Richard is always getting played in this movie, and he hates it, and he can't help following along and being a cog in everyone's plans (his whole assertion at the beginning where he's like "I WONT HAVE MY FEELINGS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF...IM cool and stuff .." and then proceeds to get his heart raked all over the coals the rest of the play. Iconic of him

#Asks #Geoffrey Duke of Brittany #The lion in winter #tliw #Sorry I thought I answered this ages ago but realized it was still in drafts

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Drew some more of the BK yuriburgers , including some strap action here after being requested by a friend…they are very goofy and snappy but cute to meee

#Bk yuriburgers getting more cozy action before their yaoi conterparts #burger king au #yuri burgers #yuri #Genderbends #my art #This is a very what batman movie did you watch situation #stuff in the link #My art

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

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Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

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The Virgin in Prayer, 12th cent.

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Answered a fun ask with both some historical thoughts analysis and also how to apply to my yaoidelusion

#retrospring #Asks

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man the byzantines were really off the shits when it came to mosaics. i've been staring at the medaba floor mosaic for like 20 minutes because it's so gorgeous and detailed. like look at this thing. this is a MAP. a MOSAIC MAP from the 6TH CENTURY AD with LABELS in GREEK. i want to touch it. i want to eat it. it's the sickest shit i've ever seen and it is a map. god damn

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I know it's not the case but it is very funny to me thinking of Gillingham as not necessarily a Richard yumejo as much as he is just a RichPhil anti....like NOOOO my oshi MUST have higher standards...this is a frenchtwinkphobic zone....anyways this is spurred on by him having the more Rich/Mercadier agenda a teensy bit more (in my delusions)

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Some watercolor late 1190s RichPhil bitter snarking and surprise tenderness.

Late (like 3 months late) Retrospring request I've been thinking about... (Full ver on Twitter)

#richphil #My art #richard the lionheart #philippe auguste #philip augustus #bald Philip #LOL #watercolor #12th century #comics #Plantagenets #Capetians

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A cool find from the used bookstore next to the library I've been studying at!!! Books are all donations and $1-2 in cash. What a find!

Some fun stuff about gov and economics in here. Of course, our favorite boys drama gets touched on as well but in context of more ordinary inheritance arrangements

Contemporaries writing about John: "ok he was DEFINITELY evil but here's a goofy little personal anecdote about him that shows personality"

Contemporaries writing about Richard: "good fighty I guess." The "he must have had other areas of competence too" is funny to me jfkdn

Henry III tho gets the most shade, they call him a Tryhard so much while describing his expenditures (not untrue but ouch)

This is interesting and I want to dig into it--i saw the author has published a similar book but just grabbing this one

Fellas loving ur wife TOO MUCH...opens you up to EVIL!!!!!

#books #History stuffs #Research #Hauls

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thinking about becket or the honour of god by jean anouilh 1961 again and like. yes henry's romantic love is blatant but the sort of. parental themes of it all are interesting too? like it's abt the inherently fucked up dynamics of royal families. the loneliness of being king etc.

(not to mention henry's subsequent lack of affection for his own sons ... he's never breaking the cycle etc).

like it's a case of henrys mommy issues/lack of any genuine parental love and how he seems to find that/wish for that in becket. there is constantly something familial abt their interactions, from their outward appearances as the childish king and his older, wiser chancellor, to everything else abt them.

the way henry is always saying that becket taught him everything. ("every thought in my head came from you" is quite something.)

the "gently, as if to a little boy" and the rare use of henrys name is especially insane here because this isn't actually becket speaking, it's from henry's imagined conversation as he kneels by becket's tomb. but it's there in their real interactions too.

+ this bit below which i went crazy over because it's an extra little moment that wasn't in the film: when henry falls asleep in becket's bed after gwendolyns suicide, he wakes again with a nightmare, and becket soothes him back to sleep like a child:

+ there's other stuff i could point to but yeah basically yes henry was insanely in love but their relationship genuinely contains many multitudes.... ruler and subject. older brother and little brother. friends. best friends who go out hunting drinking wenching sharing the same girl's bed etc. enemies. norman conquerer and conquered saxon. man who is deeply in love with the man who cares for no one and hates to be loved. father and son. the church and the state. the king and his right hand arm/man/confidant/silly rabbit. evil old men yaoi boys. etc etc etc etc etc etc

#Thinking about HTYK alongside this as well

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becket (1961)

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becket (1964) aka a very dear movie to me, one where richard burton plays a man plagued by religious guilt and peter o'toole plays the king who is desperately and tragically in love with him. its on tubi US right now 😉 some process pictures under read more

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have some Catony

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My JohnRich concept eternally

#doodles #Richard: im SAD and MAD and feel impotent due to imprisonment lack of victory and also the actual impotence #john: (insert the I LOVE FAT BITCHES audio) I AM STRAIGHT BUT #its ok rich #he loves you and finds you beautiful #fr