#he finally succeeds

[turtleblogatlast]

I love Raph and haven’t said that enough so to be more specific I love that Raph is a soft boy who loves bear plushies, a gross boy who eats an assortment of things that are definitely better left alone, a smart boy who is more than capable of taking down villains through planning and fortitude alike, a strong boy who is dedicated to training his muscles and fighting prowess, a teenage boy who loves his brothers but is more than happy to tease and roughhouse with them, an angry boy who sometimes lets his anger take a hold of him to cover the fear, a gentle boy who is generous with hugs and affirmations to those he loves, a capable boy who takes on more than should ever be expected of a teenager, a good boy who just wants to be a hero and slowly comes to realize the cost of that duty, a good boy who has no reservations about putting himself in the way of harm coming to his family, a good boy who’s a great brother and son and person and deserves only the best the world has to offer.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rise raph #he’s so wonderful frfr #my poor boy is traumatized but still so proud of what they accomplished because they’re HEROES #what started as something fun - Saturday morning cartoon-like heroes vs villains esque - soon becomes his calling #and he loses himself a little along the way #because the world is TERRIFYING now #if they don’t do something about the bad things in the world then worse things will come #and Raph CARES too much to let it happen #even at the expense of his own happiness and youth #and he luckily reigns back that fear - knowing his family is there to keep an eye out with him #and he finally lets himself be a kid again #he’s very well rounded and his flaws are so good because (like the others) they are ALSO his strengths #I like how it’s softly implied that bears are his fav animal too bc that’s cute af #headcanon that he likes them so much because a stuffed bear was the first toy splinter managed to get Raph #but yeah one of my favorite things about tmnt is that the characters are well rounded and rottmnt exemplifies that immensely #with raph being no exception!! #amazing big brother and character #there’s a REASON in my tmnt main character tierlist he’s S tier!!!! #hot take but in terms of who should be leader I think it should be less who’s the better leader- #-and more who’s the better leader FOR THIS SPECIFIC MISSION #bc all four can be great leaders fight me on that #APRIL can as well 100% #doesn’t need a designated leader for them to succeed #they just need ~communication~ #one of my favorite things tying Raph and Leo together is that they both *hide* #I’ve talked about Leo’s many masks a lot but Raph has one too #and it’s the mask of a hero - the mask of the protector

[thelien-art]

The Fall of Númenor;

#finally done #i just didnt have the energy or time for it most days and if not that then i got distracted by something else #pharazon is looking away berceuse hes a clueless lil biscuit #yes theres a lot going on but thats the point i want it to show chaos which i think i kinda succeed in #tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #the fall of numenor #fall of numenor #numenor #second age #mairon #sauron #annatar #tar mairon #tar miriel #ar zimraphel #ar pharazon #tar calion #pharazon #silm art #digital art #my art

[brother-emperors]

CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS

this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson

#this is one from the vaults I started a few months ago and finally finished. it’s always the furniture details that put things on hold lmao #the former co consuls are fightinggggg (?) #rome is built on top of other people. this is about both the imperialism-slavery machine and the way that all these guys would #politically devour their own generation to sit on a throne. etc. anyway. octavian specifically sits on a throne of other people’s #accomplishments. that’s a specific kind of debt to carry around your neck. or theft depending on who is doing what #this was theft. anything involving Agrippa was a gift so there’s an obligation to succeed which is it’s own kind of currency so to speak #sugghrhfh. every crassus always has to be like this. in my heart i always root for whoever decides to go up against rome #and then i'm stuck with the guy who should've got a spolia opima like. congrats on your win. i guess. i think. RIP. #ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT. while im talking about this crassus. domina fucking sucks. what an absolute clusterfuck of a show #anyway. if anyone ever does augustan age politics again. octavia would be a great character if you want to invent shit #but also more importantly octavian should seduce crassus for this. thank you. #octavian #marcus licinius crassus.....christ how do i write down that he's the grandson of my crassus. i'll figure it out later #roman empire tag #drawing tag

[lesbianleonardo]

sooo normal about this (lying)

#idw is constantly Kiling It with the turtle characterizations but man what they are doing with raph is so special #he was alone for a Year at the very start and then finally found his family #he’s familiar with how to survive but now he has a support system! a family! #and then bit by bit everything gets more dangerous #casey gets hurt Badly. leo is kidnapped and brainwashed. donnie almost dies. splinter’s desperate to kill shredder and succeeds #and then mikey leaves bc he sees the path splinter is on and he can’t be a part of that #raph’s family keeps getting hurt or they leave and he’s trying so hard to protect and keep them together #god the talk raph has with mikey absolutely rips me apart bc it’s literally right before splinter sets up harold as bait #we all know raph is the fighter and the protector but i really like how idw showcases it #he’s terrified but he can’t stop fighting or else something else will happen to his family and they will possibly get killed #sorry i’m insane about him #tmnt idw #tmnt #idw #idw raph #idw leo #idw donnie #idw mikey #teenage mutant ninja turtles #turtle talks

[aerticent]

was reminded that Maven’s entire motivation primarily revolves around his need to be better than Cal at literally anything so much so that he basically kills himself when he loses it

#they fuck me up so bad #spent his entire life being compared to Cal and being deemed the lesser of the two #and then he finally is better than him and even then everyone’s basically like ‘we’d prefer ur brother🫤’ #the clash between him needing Cal to know he’s better thus Cal HAS to live #but by keeping Cal alive it ruins his image among the silver nobles because it makes him look incompetent #and on top of that all the shit with Mare #He HAS to be better in every way the throne isn’t enough he also needs Mare to prove he’s above Cal #that doubled with his mutilated image of Mare #he was never gonna survive he was never going to succeed on the throne he was doomed to fail the moment Elara first infected him #THIS IS SICK #maven calore #cal calore #red queen thoughts #red queen series

[incorrectndyingflamequotes]

Jill: Do you love Joshua? Jote: Yeah, I do. Jill: Mid! I told you I knew it! You owe me 1000 Gil! Mid: We all love Joshua. You should've asked if they were IN love with them. Jote: I thought that was implied. Mid: ... Jill: ... Jote, looking straight at Mid: Congrats Jill, you just won 1000 Gil.

#final fantasy 16 #jote #joshua rosfield #undyingflame #incorrect quotes #incorrect ffxvi quotes #final fantasy 16 spoilers #ff16 jote #ff16 joshua #ffxvi joshua #ffxvi jote #shuate #jill warrick #they really asking so they can tell Joshua so he makes a move already!! #midadol telamon #mid tried to pull a prank on Jote XD #it ah it did not succeed #this is a girls night lol

[loving-jack-kelly]

small town au davey is the good smart kid who crashed and burned so hard once he was no longer in a small town where anything above average is astounding and the pressure is too much. jack was the troublemaker who everyone brushed off as a lost cause because everyone knew he came from a rough home. they reconnect as adults when jack has settled into adult life and davey is the one floundering, wondering where he's supposed to go from here when he feels like he's let everyone down but he doesn't know what he could have done differently.

#javid #newsies #i think. this would be good for the high school reunion idea I had a little while ago #single dad jack who's actually content with his life bc he's found where he fits finally #vs davey who's successful maybe but not as successful as he and everyone though he'd be in high school #most likely to succeed but is working a 9 to 5 office job that's just not exactly what he wanted #anyway. love these guys. love putting them in sad situations where the fix is finding each other #jack kelly #davey jacobs

[summertimemusician]

Sleep Deprived Linked Universe Au concept that I think could be neat, everything is the same but the Chain or a Chain Member (Wild, Sky or otherwise) is like the Sky Children/Moths in Sky Children of the Light. Or where we drop one of the children of light or a moth with the Chain as a substitute for therapy which I really think they could use.

Or secondary Sleep Deprived LoZ/LU Au concept: everything is the same, but either one of the Chain members is like the Vessels in HK, or we straight up drop the Pure Vessel in BOTW when Link/Wild emerges from his 100 year power nap (goodness I wish that were me) after having his brain scrambled like an omelette and they and Link unwittingly imprint on each other and adopt one another as found family, which helps them deal with their respective traumas, bonus points if Wolfie/Twilight/TP Link is also there and unwittingly part of the found family, and if it bleeds over into LU the Chain has to suddenly cope with the fact this eldritch bug being from another world entirely meant to be a vessel for a maddened deity basically adopted one o their own as a sibling. Could also somehow throw Ghost or Hornet in there later on.

I will not elaborate further.

#*sips tea in sleep deprived musician* #legend of zelda au #linked universe au #linked universe #Summer's Sleep Deprived Au Ideas That Are Unlikely to Ever be Posted #Honestly for the HK Au I think it can work because of the parallels between BOTW Link and Pure Vessel only on different scales #Both knightly like individuals with a duty to save a kingdom but ultimately failed #Either by pushing or being pushed too hard into the role to the point it suffocated them #And the only way for them to technically succeed was through death #Because technically the Link/Wild of 100 years ago is gone. He's a wiped blank slate. The old self died so the new one could thrive #and do what needed to be done #In contrast PV either only really gets peace through being killed and replaced with The Knight/Ghost #In aiding Ghost in dealing the final blow to the evil that essentially robbed them of the life they could have had #Or are freed but left to suffer #just some interesting parallels #The Children of the Light au is mostly just a sleep deprived idea since I've been playing the game again. #hollow knight #hollow knight au #sky children of the light #s:cotl #Wild would probably make a very chaotic moth #PV being able to let loose and bonding with an equally silent/feral child and just live freely #Time would take one look at PV and immediately snap them up #Pale King who?

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Why Is The Curse Gone In The Final Timeline ?

that isnt 'well its a happy ending so...'

Shinichiro got cursed in the original timeline, in 2003. Yet, when he comes back to 1999 (a time where he didn't kill the homeless man, and, supposedly, shouldn't be cursed) Sanzu is scarred by Mikey, acting triggered by the curse.

So, if Mikey from 2008 is cursed, Mikey going back in 1998 should still be cursed.

But he isn't.

What logical reasoning could explain this ?

Simple. First, we need to look at how Shinichiro got cursed. The homeless man yelled 'Curse you' before dying, not specifying how he cursed Shinichiro.

The last thing Takemichi wished to do before Mikey killed him was to save Mikey, to break the curse, to crush the dark impulses, to carry them (final timeline Takemichi carrying the curse ?)

So. What if the homeless man's curse was his last will ? And Takemichi's last will was to get rid of the curse ? And those last will became reality because the homeless man and Takemichi had the time leaping powers. The time leaping powers are introduced granting last wish. Takemichi comes back to the time he wanted to go back to when he's killed by a train. Shinichiro goes back to the day he wanted to go back to when he jumped from the bridge into the water.

The curse isn't there anymore because that was Takemichi's last will and the time leaping powers granted it - he was supposed to die. But then him and Mikey created a loophole, and both of them went back in time. Takemichi was too focused on giving the power to Mikey, so Mikey was the one to decide on the time they went back to - before it all went wrong with his life, before his first memory of the curse.

#now the only problem is the 'if shinichiro didnt succeed to find the homeless man that means he died - then why is takemichi still here in #the final timeline?' but considering the loophole he created with Mikey - i can excuse this #spoilers #tr spoilers #tokrev spoilers #tokyo revengers spoilers #tr #tokrev #tok rev #tokyo revengers #final timeline #tr mikey #tr manjiro #tr takemichi #tr shinichiro #tokrev mikey #tokrev manjiro #tokrev takemichi #tokrev shinichiro #shinichiro sano #takemichi hanagaki #manjiro sano #mikey sano

[sea-owl]

Okay but you know how many Greek heroes were given impossible tasks to complete line Heracles having to complete all those labors? Imagine one of those tasks is having to babysit the children of the king and queen of the underworld for just one hour. It seems easy, until they meet Polins kids.

So funny thing I kinda based Gareth off Heracles, soooo

Gareth and Hyacinth were engaged to be married but he had been hiding a secret, which in turn led to him lying to Hyacinth and it sadly made it look like he was only marrying Hyacinth to gain immortality. He came clean about it, and Hyacinth still wanted to marry him after, but Anthony found out. He ended up demanding Gareth do 8 impossible tasks to prove his worth to marry Hyacinth.

Gareth completed them one by one and when it came time for the final task Anthony was getting nervous. Now he couldn't outright kill Gareth (he really didn't want to anymore either) as he was still Simon's champion and Anthony was a god of his word. He just needed to make the last task an absolute knockout so he knows that Gareth truly loves Hyacinth. He needs to put someone else in charge of the task that will put Gareth through the ringer, who loves and is protective of Hyacinth.

Anthony's eyes fell onto the rulers of the Underworld, the red headed queen to be precise. Perfect.

"I need you to let Gareth babysit your kids."

Penelope raised an eyebrow, "You need me to do what?"

"The final task. I'm thinking about having Gareth babysit your kids," Anthony said.

Penelope crossed her arms and shot him a look. "Be careful with your next words Anthony, but why are you making the final impossible task babysitting my kids?"

Anthony held up his hands in a wait kind of gesture. "I'm not saying they're bad Pen, but you know your kids would run circles around any non-family babysitter."

It was true to. His four niblings from Colin and Penelope were generally good kids but all four of them had inherited their mother's brains. This often left them smarter than the adult that was supposed to be watching them. They were also frankly scary in their own right like their parents.

Agatha, the oldest of four children was a gentler version of her parents. While her parents judged souls fairly and justly based on how they lived their lives Agatha was more merciful towards souls. Just don't try to take advantage of her mercy because Agatha also believes in vengeance should the situation call for it.

Thomas has interests in the rivers his Aunt Felicity presides over, specifically the River of Pain that serves as a protective border around their home from the chasm that is Tartarus. He has also charmed many of the ghosts in his parents' army, often seen training with them.

Jane who is the most like her mother in personality, power, and looks. The little girl can make the most beautiful plants and then you find out each one she creates has the capability to kill. Jane's favorite and first plant she created being the Venus Flytrap. A plant that uses flowers and a sweet-smelling nectar to trap its prey between its jaw like leaves. Also, like her sister if Jane deems vengeance necessary then may the gods help you. Anthony just knows the mortals are gonna curse future criminals with both their names on their lips.

Finally little Georgie who liked dreams. He liked seeing how dreams affected mortals from the hope and happiness of a good dream to the terrors and alertness nightmares bring. Anthony has seen him before going around the ghosts who died in their sleep and asking them what their last dreams were.

All of this mixed together and they were perfect to run Gareth ragged.

"Plus," Anthony said trying to get Penelope to at least think about the idea. "We all know Hyacinth has been itching to move to the Court of the Underworld for a while now. If Gareth truly wants to marry her, shouldn't he at least see his potential future home? Shouldn't he get to know some of the family?"

Plus, if the kids accidently kill him then Gareth doesn't have far to go then does he?

Penelope bit her lip debating it. Generally, she does like Gareth and remembers the little boy who followed around his older cousin Simon eager to please. She also remembers that little boy is now the man who lied to someone very dear to her.

"What are the terms?" Penelope asked.

"Gareth has to babysit your kids for 24 hours without any help," Anthony said. "If he can do that and still wants to marry Hyacinth then he will have my blessing and immortality. He fails if he goes for help, hurts your children in any way, or leaves."

Penelope stared Anthony down before letting out a sigh. "Alright, but I'm coming for both of you if he pulls out a weapon on my children."

Anthony bowed, "Thank you Penelope."

Later that day Penelope came home to her children. "Children, Mama has a favor to ask of you."

#there's the polin kids #agatha and jane were partially based on the furies aka where the vengeance part comes in #thomas came to me through the trope of second sons leading the warriors of the kingdom mixed with the underworlds rivers #finally george came through because i remembered hypnos the god of sleep and that led to dreams #gareth succeeds btw but he looks half dead when his future nibblings are done with him #spring's rebirth #polin #implied #hyareth #agatha bridgerton #thomas bridgerton #jane bridgerton #george bridgerton #bridgerton

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl the episode with Dani's return in Danny Phantom really makes me more annoyed that A Glitch In Time really went and tried to redeem Vlad.

#and dark danny #but like mainly annoyed with vlad #cause throughout the show hes your standard evil villain #whose obsessed with maddie who he cannot have #and then danny who he also cannot have #he basically does alot of evil shit #and the whole finale is him going beyond redemption #but when it comes to dani you got him cloning danny constantly until he does finally get dani #but instead of just focusing on creating a family with her #he still obsesses over danny #and basically is fine with the idea of disgarding her if he succeeds at cloning danny #and literally was fine with telling her to overshadow danny #despite knowing it would kill her and she obviously doesnt want to die #and in her return episode basically wants her captured so he can disect her and make a perfect clone #and dont care about her even when shes dying basically #hell in this episode we see she has trauma from her debut episode #having to reassure herself vlad isnt here #like how the fuck did the book think vlad was redeemable again #no wonder dani didnt appear in the book #the book would either be barf inducing with forcing her to forgive him or...actually thats it #it'd be bad #and dont get me started on trying to redeem dark danny #just...why the fuck did the villains need redeeming in this book...

[astrarche-x]

back to obsessing over Richard

at first he doesn't seem to have any obvious fatal flaws - no hubris, no hunger for power etc

but his fatal flaw is this little voice in his head that whispers sometimes ''maybe violence IS the answer tho"

it's not like he believes that it's a good solution; but sometimes it's the more reliable solution. more efficient solution. faster solution.

and oh how he wants to speedrun his way back to being respectable citizen

(which is, of course, very ironic given the methods. but deep down he believes that he's so good at killing he can afford being immoral. he tries to get rid of this belief but to no avail.)

#like. sometimes he wants to do a good thing but the more violent way to get that is the way he prefers despite everything #like getting Tommy out in s3 finale. he could have broken into the house and try to do it stealthily #but no. he went in and started blasting guns in a very ''either i succeed or i'll die trying'' kinda way #then with proving Gilian guilty #he could have just waited for the final trial in the custody case #Julia's arguments were strong after their marriage and with Gilian accused of murder they were practically winners #but Richard had to make sure. and he thought he could only achieve that by using his killing skills #ugh. the complexity of this character #esp his character arc #the writers were like ''oh see how broken he is'' #''just kidding! he started to heal; not so broken now! just a guy who wants to be loved!'' #''anyway look how deeply broken he is. more so that you realized'' #it's like a reverse matrioshka #where the surface-level angst covers the deeper abandoned dreams which in turn cover an ocean of angst of much much bigger scoop #* scope #anyway his fatal flaw is deep-seated belief of ''i'm so good at killing that i don't have to be moral'' which persists despite him trying #to fight it #boardwalk empire #richard harrow

[wonder-worker]

"In total, Leonor governed Navarre as lieutenant, with some minor hiatuses, from 1455 to 1479, making her the effective ruler of the realm for nearly twenty five years. Out of her female predecessors, only Juana I served a longer period; however, Juana I was detached from the governance of the realm and physically distant from Navarre. Leonor however, remained in the kingdom throughout her lieutenancy, making her the female sovereign with the highest record of residency in Navarre.

One of the enabling factors for Leonor’s constant presence in the realm was the “Divide and Conquer” power-sharing mechanism that she employed with her husband, Gaston of Foix. Blanca and Juan had a similar division of duties, but unlike her parents’ often contrary objectives, all of Leonor and Gaston’s actions can be seen to be working toward their joint goals of obtaining the Navarrese crown and politically dominating the Pyrenean region. In order to achieve their ambitions, the couple were adept at working as a team even when physically seperated or carrying out divergent duties.

Politically, it appears that they took on different areas of negotiatiion. Gaston was the designated emissary to the French court, which was entirely appropriate as one of the French king’s leading magnates. One important example of his involvement in negotiations of this type include Gaston’s visit to the French court in the winter of 1461–62 to negotiate the marriage between their heir and the French princess, Magdalena, which ensured Louis XI’s backing for Leonor’s promotion to primogenita. Gaston also conducted negotiations on behalf of his father-in-law, Juan of Aragon, with the King of France, with a successful outcome in the case of the Treaty of Olite in April 1462, which was intimately connected to the marriage that Gaston was orchestrating for his son and Magdalena of France.

Even though Gaston normally took on the role of intermediary with the French crown, there are two letters issued by Leonor during her marriage in December 1466 as lieutenant of Navarre that show her involvement in French affairs. These letters were written during a period of extreme crisis, when Juan II’s difficulties in Catalonia were matched with Leonor’s continuing struggle with the Peralta clan in Navarre. In these letters, Leonor was playing on her familial connection to Louis XI, in hopes of his aid and backing, asking him to “commend this poor kingdom and the said princess to him [Louis XI] as one who is of his house.” Moreover, these letters show Leonor’s independent interaction in crucial diplomatic negotiations with France, both in receiving embassies directly from Louis and in sending her own personal ambassador, Fernando de Baquedano, with detailed instructions on how to proceed.

Gaston appears to have been more engaged with marital negotiations for their numerous offspring than Leonor. However, this may be due to the fact that the couple overwhelmingly chose French marriages for their children. Only three of Leonor’s children did not contract a French betrothal: Pierre who became a cardinal, a daughter who died young, and Leonor’s youngest son, Jacques (or Jaime), who married into the Navarrese nobility. Given the fact that Gaston was more intimately connected to the French court and the nobility of the Midi, it seems reasonable that he would take on the role of chief negotiator for these matches. All of the marital arrangements for their children were made in order for Gaston and Leonor to achieve their joint goals, the acquisition of the throne of Navarre and the consolidation of their power and influence in the Pyrenean region.

Another area where Gaston necessarily played a more central role was militarily. Robin Harris acknowledges Gaston’s successful military career and notes that after his useful military service to the French crown, “the comte was permitted by the [French] king in the last years of his life to employ his military resources in order to further his family’s interests in Navarre.” Gaston also performed many military services for his father-in-law; the agreement of 1455 that promoted Leonor and Gaston to the successors of the realm required Gaston to go to Navarre on Juan’s behalf and retake those areas that had fallen to the rebels “for the honor of the King of Navarre as well as for his own interests and those of the princess his wife."

However, there is some evidence for Leonor’s involvement in one military foray. In the winter of 1471, Leonor took part in a daring attempt to seize the capital, Pamplona, from her opponents, the Beaumonts. Leonor participated in an attempt to storm one of the city gates with a group of armed supporters. Moret notes that “this surprise was reckless; for it exposed the person of the princess to obvious risk and was somewhat rash.” Moreover, the element of surprise was ruined by the cries of her supporters shouting “ Viva la Princesa !” which alerted the Beaumont troops to the threat, and Leonor and her supporters were swiftly ejected from the city.

Like her mother, the noted peacemaker, Leonor was also involved in moves to reduce the civil discord in the realm. Zurita credited Leonor with “making a great effort to resolve the differences of the parties and subdue the kingdom into union and calm.” Leonor represented her father in negotiations for a truce with the supporters of the Principe de Viana on March 27, 1458, at Sang ü esa. Zurita notes, “The princess Lady Leonor was there at that time in Sangüesa and signed the treaty with the power of the king her father.” Leonor was instrumental in the forging of another truce that was contracted in Sangüesa, in January 1473, and she was also present at a conference with her father and her half-brother Ferdinand in Vitoria in 1476 “accompanied by the nobility of Navarre to renew the treatties . . . and attempt to arrive at a stable peace.

Although both spouses were named to the lieutenancy of Navarre, the documentary evidence clearly demonstrates that Leonor appears to have taken on the bulk of the administration of the realm. This was entirely appropriate as it was Leonor, not Gaston, who had the hereditary right to the crown. Moreover, it was logical for Leonor to remain in Navarre so that her husband could look after his own patrimonial holdings and continue to serve as a military commander for the King of France.

Leonor was an active lieutenant but she struggled to implement her rule fully across the kingdom, as many areas were dominated by the Beaumont faction who were opposed to her and her father Juan of Aragon. This meant that at times, she had no control or access to certain key cities in the realm, including the capital, as mentioned previously. Her grandfather’s impressive seat at Olite was the center of her sister’s court, but Leonor eventually regained her hold on the castle and used it as one of her primary residences between 1467 and 1475. Sangüesa remained an important base for Leonor, and she was also associated with Tudela on the southern edge of the kingdom.

Leonor’s difficulty in implementing her rule across the whole of the kingdom is illustrated by a prolonged struggle between the lieutenant and the town of Tafalla, which consistently refused to send representatives when she called together meetings of the Cortes. Tafalla was a center of Beaumont strength, which had supported her brother Carlos in his struggle with Juan of Aragon and was thus bitterly opposed to her appointment to the lieutenancy. Between 1465 and 1475 there is a series of missives from Leonor both summoning representatives from the town and then expressing disappointment when they failed to arrive. During this period, Leonor appears to have called a meeting of the Cortes at least six times, but the town consistently refused to send envoys to the assembly. There is a sense of increasing exasperation and anger in these documents at the repeated failure to participate in these important events. At one point, in late 1471, Leonor personally came to the town to give advance notice of her intent to call another Cortes the following summer, perhaps to circumvent any excuse that the town did not have sufficient time to send representatives, but Tafalla still did not participate in the assembly.

As her authority was contested, Leonor was keen to stress her agency and her position in the documents that she issued. However, at times she even struggled with the chancery; between 1472–73, Juan de Beaumont retained the seals of the kingdom and refused to let Leonor have access to them. In 1475, she granted a reduction in taxes to the important city of Estella acknowledging the reduced capacity of the city to pay after the population had shrunk from the effects of war and flooding. In this document she stressed her efforts to assist all of the urban centers of the realm, to help them recover from the years of civil conflict and devastation, “the other good towns of the said realm have been refurbished by our certain knowledge, special grace, our own change and royal authority.

Leonor’s address clause drew on all of her family and marital ties as a means of establishing her authority:

 “Lady Leonor, by the grace of God princess primogenita , heiress of Navarre, princess of Aragon and Sicily, Countess of Foix and Bigorre, Lady of Bearn, Lieutenant general for the most serene king, my most redoubtable lord and father in this his kingdom of Navarre.”

The signet that Leonor used for the majority of her lieutenancy as well as her sello secreto had heraldic devises that mirror her address clause, bearing the arms Navarre, her family dynasty of Evreux, her husband’s counties of Foix, Béarn, and Bigorre, and finally the Trast á mara connections to Aragon, Castile, and Léon.

To sum up, Gaston and Leonor’s ability to divide up roles and responsibilities demonstrates the couple’s effective partnership, using each partner in the most appropriate arena. Moreover, this division was entirely necessary as the couple’s widespread territorial holdings and the demands of balancing the complicated and difficult political situation both within Navarre and the Midi and between France, Castile, and Aragon meant that both partners needed to be fully engaged and active in order to achieve their mutual goals and further their dynastic interests.

Even though Leonor and Gaston generally employed this mode of “Divide and Conquer” that left Leonor primarily responsible for the administration of Navarre while Gaston oversaw his own sizable patrimony, the couple did work together as a unit whenever possible. Documentary evidence shows that Gaston came to stay with Leonor in Navarre for short periods, particularly during the autumn of 1469 and 1470. There is also some additional evidence to indicate an earlier reunion in 1464, which appears to indicate a desire on the part of the couple to be together. Gaston and his party were stuck in the mountain passes between Foix and Navarre on his way to visit Leonor. The princess issued a series of orders to dispatch men and pay for additional recruits and mules in the mountains in order to clear the passes and roads for Gaston, including one order for 300 men to be sent to help. Gaston’s death in 1472 took place on another journey to see his wife in Navarre; he died en route of natural causes in the Pyrenean town of Roncesvalles.

 Overall, Gaston and Leonor worked together with the mutual goal of obtaining the crown of Navarre, throwing the weight of Gaston’s power, wealth, connection, and military forces behind Leonor’s hereditary rights and were willing to fight off opposition from their own family in order to succeed. They worked in partnership, with each partner taking on the most appropriate role; Leonor was responsible for the governance of Navarre, and Gaston supported her militarily and financially. They both worked on diplomatic efforts to achieve their ambitions; Gaston used his position as a powerful French vassal and general to gain support while Leonor negotiated with her Iberian relatives to maintain their rights.

[...] Tragically perhaps, Leonor hardly had a chance to enjoy the position of queen regnant when it finally came her way. Leonor’s death, only a few weeks after her father’s in February 1479, meant that her rule as queen lasted less than a month. Leonor changed her address clause to reflect her altered position as “Queen of Navarre, Princess of Aragon and Sicily, Duchess of Nemours, of Gandia, of Montblanc and Peñafiel, Countess of Bigorre and Ribagorza and Lady of Balaguer.” Ram í rez Vaquero points out that most of these titles were disputed; several were titles that should have come to her as part of her paternal inheritance from her father but in reality would have gone to her half-brother Ferdinand de Aragon. In addition, the French titles that Leonor had held as Gaston’s wife had already been passed to her grandson. It appears that Leonor had enough time to mount a formal coronation, on January 28, 1479, at Tudela, firmly establishing herself as Queen of Navarre, even if only for a brief moment. Moret remarked that “out of all the kings and queens of Navarre she was the one who reigned the shortest, although she may have been the one who desired [the crown] most.”

-Elena Woodacre, "Leonor: Civil War and Sibling Strife", "The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics and Partnership, 1274-1512" (Queenship and Power)

#gotta love ruthless ambitious mutually devoted power couples 💅 #(they can have a little fratricide. as a treat) #historicwomendaily #Leonor of Navarre #Gaston of Foix #aka the self-declared malewife #Navarre history #Leonor fighting and scheming and waiting for the throne for decades only to finally succeed and then die less than a month later #biggest of Ls honestly #I do wonder what she would have thought about that twist of fate #Was she bitter about the hollow victory of it all? #Or was there nothing but satisfaction that she died as the Queen of Navarre #a position she had fought for for so long #or...both? #(also let's get one loud 'BOO' for Juan the Faithless aka one of the worst historical fathers I have ever read about) #(this is the guy who raised Ferdinand 'I'm going to lock up my own daughter' of Aragon btw. This is where he learned it from)

[mutant-advice]

one of these days someones gonna fucking kill you

if you think you can kill me i welcome you to come forth & attempt.

#though the only one i would let succeed is perhaps corvus. #only if he finally plays scrabble with me however. #socialization

[skyward-floored]

How much of Sky's side of the IAU do you have planned out? I know you mentioned that Legend and Hyrule find him on the island first, but what about between his disappearance and them finding him? ❤️❤️❤️

I have a bit of it planned, and I’ve actually got a little thing I’m writing showing some of what he gets up to on the island (mostly him trying not to die), but some it’s kind of vague XD

The biggest deal for him is that he’s trying to escape, but the island is too far from land for him to fly, and Dark Link keeps his communications under tight scrutiny. Sky would maybe be able to just sneak in and steal a boat or something, but he’s injured in the initial “hi I’m evil and this is all part of my evil plan we tricked you mwahahaha” thing that Dark Link goes off on, and can’t fly very well, which makes breaking in rather difficult.

So poor Sky’s in a bit of a stalemate— strong and clever enough to avoid being killed or captured and survive on the island, but too injured and outnumbered to do anything to get himself out of there. Or successfully warn the handful of other supers Dink lures to the island.

#answers from the floor #silvrash 797 #incredibles au #Dink’s robots and things are guardians too so it’s sort of alluding to the Silent Real s also #*realms #poor guy #and when Hyrule and legend find him #he’s in really bad shape #because a bit before they all show up Dink makes a concentrated effort to finally get rid of him and thinks he succeeds #but Sky’s just really badly hurt #which makes it very fortunate Hyrule is one of the first people to find him

[freebooter4ever]

i was never a teacher, i only stepped in as a teachers assistent to observe and take notes how students used my research teams IDE. but let me tell you. every student who seemed to be struggling in the classes i was in. and some of these classes were students who barely attended school (though when we were visiting they had full attendance for an entire week which was a record). and the #1 way i could get the disinterested kids engaged in learning computer science was by sitting down, listening to them, and treating them like human beings instead of A Problem. i was lucky, i was not in front of the class so could sit down one on one with the student who was being disruptive and answer their questions about the program individually. regular teachers have so many students they cant do this.

but anyone who thinks a computer can do this better is fucking insane.

#not to be bitter or anything but finally the rest of the world sees what an ass luis vo*n a*hn is #i thankfully NEVER had him for 251 #i had two very nice professors who actually wanted people to succeed and cared about their students #i had gupta i loved gupta #anyway 80% of the computer science carnegie student body hated ahn and turns out we were right #to be deleted later probably im sure my old school would send their lawyers after me #luis was a stuck up pretentious know it all who thought he was better than all his students #and didn't care about anyone who wasnt On His Intelligence Level 🙄 #when that language app took off mine and most of my friends reaction was well at least the asshole did something kind for once #turns out...