#not armada related

[piecesofchess]

Hey, all. After a pretty unfortunate day I had to make an emergency trip for stitches, and that trip on top of $300+ worth of medical bills isn't making this an easy start to the year.

I have a Ko-Fi page if anyone ever wants to support me. Each donation is appreciated! And if you do send something, you can DM me for a commission.

#ko fi support #buy me a kofi #kofi #not armada related #ive had it listed in my about page but i dont think a post yet #i also have 5 dollar able ych commissions which also helps! if anyone would like one

[sleepyorchidmonster]

What if king Henrik managed to steal Malleus's egg after defeating Meleanor?

The main point is that the egg WOULDN'T hatch because it needs love (and even in canon it took a couple of centuries to hatch, despite the presence of Lillia and Maleficia).

So after a few tries, he discards his plans and keeps the egg as a trophy. Years pass and a five year-old Silver finds the trophy room while playing. He stumbles into the pedestal holding the egg, but manages to save it before it falls.

The child then senses a tiny heartbeat, and realizes there is a baby inside the egg!

The egg hatches immediately. Baby Silver loved it at once (the way he did once upon a dream).

And that's how we get a Dragon Prince journey (sorta).

After the dragon hatched, Silver went to talk with his animal friends to see if they could help (he loves his parents, but he couldn't just tell them he went to the trophy room to play, some instinct of his was also telling him they couldn't be trusted).

He left the little dragon under the care of a mother bear and went to the library to see if he could find anything. He came across a few old books from before the Silver Owls that described the Draconias (the little prince was so excited! His dragon friend could become a friend friend! He didn't have any friends besides the animals! And the dragon was even a fellow prince!)

But first things first! His dragon friend needed to meet his actual family, they were probably worried sick! So he grabbed a few maps, marked out the closest fae castle, told his parents he would go play with the animals in the woods and left.

The trek was very long and dangerous, but the entire forest was on his side. Baby Silver kept talking to Malleus, explaining life as a prince, introducing his animal friends, and trying to find out if he liked to eat berries.

They avoided war-stricken areas and managed to reach fae territory. And that's when things took a turn for the worse.

Henrik and the Silver Owls found them. Apparently, the egg was missing and a search party was assembled to follow its magical traces. Baby Silver didn't know that, and went to greet his uncle, saying that he was helping out a friend find his family!!

Henrik looked at his nephew, then at the dragon, and went for the kill, literally. The kid couldn't even defend himself, as his uncle cut him down with a simple strike (dawn knight was at home).

And that's when baby Malleus's magic blew up.

A snowstorm of cataclysmic proportions struck, complete with fire tornados and lightning. At the center of it all stood two children, the tiny Silver that was bleeding out, and Malleus, who had taken a human form and was trying to close the wound (he changed forms because he was scared and emulated the only thing he could think of as strong and protection, and that thing was five year-old Silver). Meanwhile, all of the animals formed a protective circle around them.

Luckily, reinforcements soon arrived. Both Lillia and Maleficia came (that storm could only be a Draconia's doing, they would NOT lose the egg again). They made quick work of the rest of the Silver Owls before rushing to Malleus's aid.

The animals let the faes though, as if they knew the dragon had finally found his kin. But Malleus wouldn't let go of Silver, even when the kid started telling him "Look, we found your family!! You're safe!", smiling despite the pain and looming death.

With the use of "Far Cry Cradle", Lillia quickly explained the situation, and the faes made the decision to save the human. They had a much too big debt with this child, who was so innocent it hurt.

They were also keeping the human. If that despicable man was his UNCLE, then no way in hell were the rulers of Briar Valley going to give the child back to his family. It would be a disgrace to the Draconia family.

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Now, there a a few ways this AU could go.

1. The faes weren't able to save Silver. They create a monument in his honor and he becomes the only human they respect. Relations with the Silver Owls may improve now that Henrik is dead, if they can convince Dawn Knight his son died to save Malleus.

2. The faes save Silver, who lives in Briar Valley until the end of his mortal lifespan, acting as Malleus's big brother and knight. The Silver Owls are angry, but eventually come to an agreement once they realize there was no mind control involved.

3. The faes manage to save Silver, but the wounds were so grave that he had to stay in magic stasis for a few hundred years. Receiving the BOTW Shrine of Ressurection treatment. Due to the nature of the magic, he lost his memories, got silver hair and became sleepy. He later wakes up and becomes the Silver we all know and love. Malleus still sees him as the older brother, but thinks that now it's his turn to protect the human!

#twst #twst chapter 7 spoilers #twst spoilers #it's a miracle how foreign relations can improve when everyone hates henrik and he isn't around anymore #also silver is just too good a diplomat #briar valley ready to protect this human #he is literally the saviour of the country #realizing that's the closest thing to a dragon prince au #with the whole “prince on a quest to give stolen dragon back to family” #also the feud between elves/faes and humans #and the fact that the human prince can talk to animals #baby silver strolling though the woods with at least a family of bears and a armada of birds and squirrels #silver twst #silver vanrouge #malleus draconia #lillia vanrouge #maleficia draconia #henrik was killed by his soldiers for attacking silver. and then he was fried to a crisp by malleus #how to get adopted by the fae #or how to adopt a dragon as your younger sibling

[metro-nix]

I asked my friends what I should draw, and the reply was - swordfighting, or something related. This idea came almost right away and I wanted to do it justice; process and additional warmup under the cut ^^

started with this really fast thing from reference just to know what all the shapes are

then I made a quick pose sketch, and copied it on the reverse of the page so I could look at it while drawing on the next one. Then I just translated all the shapes onto the pose. "easy"

#StarscreamDay #Armada Starscream #Starscream #Maccadam #Transformers #mx creations #traditional art #fanart #Transformers fanart #Transformers Armada #in semi-related news I GOT THE LEGACY ARMADA STARSCREAM FIG !!!! as of writing this I haven't unpacked him but I can't waittt to take photo

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

I like Transformers

Can you guess who's my favorite? (The last 12 are references to Jem and the Holograms songs)

This is a new oc (haven't remade my old ones lol). She has no name and barely a story, she'll get there...hopefully

For now these are her colors (she looks off buts it's fine)

#transformers earthspark #starscream #thundercracker #skywarp #nova storm #skyfire #jetfire #Jetstorm #I swear if Starscream dies in Earthspark I will riot #Like can he please have an arc and also not die #Like please idw and armada hurt meeeeeeee I can't do it again #transformers oc #transformers #I am tempted to make full comics for the Jem songs that I feel relate to Starscream

[unlikelytrashcreation]

How do you get out?

A vent poem and apologie.

I ask that question with all the honesty I have left

How do you cut yourself free when the rope around your neck is the umbilical chord that goes you? How can you untangle yourself from everyone's twisted half truths and potty mes if you were boor floating in them along with the blood in the hospital in Cleveland? If you cried your first year with them dripping of your brand new skin? How do you run when every time you look back your first and only freinds choke out sobs of "don't leave us don't leave us don't go" through there child lips.

When every story told you different.

When just opening your mouth to speak and or getting on your feet to walk is so exhausting you feel like your dieing.

When the same distorted waltz has ban dances on your bones for so long it feels natural.

How do you get out so you can have the energy for your art?

The energy for your cooking?

The energy left to find a new job that you like?

The energy to put towards anything ANYTHING outher than these people and the fear that no one cares about you or what you do.

#i have always related to zim #he was brought into existance to fill a purpose #and he did it the wrong way #everyone resents him for it #noone wants him #but he lives and would probably die bu his loyalty to the armada #to be hated by people eho trained you to love them is an awful draining crule curse #to be defective for your feelings and personality #is so painful #vent #vent poem #vent post #trash is ranting #trash is experiencing despertion

[bumbleblurr]

g1 blurr & rb blurr are the only 2 blurrs designed to be alive. Everybody else gets to die and suffer

Edit as I was typing the tags: OH YEAH ARMADA BLURR I'm p sure he gets alive privileges too

#i am not joking Actually thsoe 2 are literally are not meant to not die #rb blurr is in a baby kids show hes safe from all harm #and g1 blurr. is very much not supposed to die hes supposed to replace ppl that died #tf the movie had everybody die so the new cast can come on in. and blurr is a part of that new cast #the irony of this is not lost on me and i think its hilarious #blurr is introduced in the everybody dies movie and doesnt die. most interations of blurr following that very much die #i constantly see ppl mistake the last blurr on the disadvantages of blurr as g1. this isnt entirely accurate #and i didnt tag it as g1 bc of this. thats uk marvel comics blurr not cartoon g1 blurr #which. sure thats g1 too ig but are u seriously gonna tell me when ppl say ''g1'' they are thinking abt the marvel comics. #no theyre thinking about the cartoon #and i have to reitarate so hard. cartoon g1 blurr is So Specifically not a blurr that dies or gets close to it #u may be asking ''wooly why do u give so much of a shit about if ppl think g1 blurr is a part of the blurr death club?'' #well i can answer that. its bc i can. this isnt actually important at all lol #i just get irrationally huffed up when ppl are wrong abt stuff i like even if its completely inconsequential. im a nerd you see. #OK THIS IS THE POINT I REMEMBER ARMADA BLURR #i dont think he dies. idk i havent seen this one i just watch clips of it and go ''i like the hot shot guy :]. blurr is cool here too'' #i love his design in that series even though its not meant to be blurr originally i think #but orange and blue is p swaggy and the red demon eyes are cool i cannot deny this #i do think his characterization is actually not far off from blurrs base character #like ppl say the anime tfs have like no relation to their other counterparts (and include blurr in this statement i think) #but from what i can tell.. i dont think that's rlly the case with blurr? #like yeah hes much more of a brooding kind of serious and gruff than other blurrs #but that falls in line with how tfa blurr is p serious (even if he didnt exist at this time) #and hes a former racer & p competitive thats sounds like ur typical blurr following idw #its just a different way going abt it which i might..prefer over typical modern blurrs??? #idk i havent seen the whole show/trilogy but i like it when blurr is serious and a stick in the mud #so basically all this shit i have to say abt armada blurr boils down to. i dont know enough abt him to explain why he doesnt die #he just doesn't. he gets treated as a normal character and not canon fodder #and never again does he get this treatement if hes not protected by baby show immunity <3 #🐝 could you repeat the last part? 🟦

[kirisakin]

I'm not a hater except for DeviantArt fanfiction because HA HA WOW.

#WOOOOOOOOW. #It's TF related unsurprisingly. #Over here going don't you fucking put the good name of Armada in your mouth you fucking Windscream/MegOp/CharBee shipper.

[emo-batboy]

Really imagining Bruce having like an armada of fans who both baby him and think he’s the hottest man on earth, completely devoted to him. Usually, they’re pretty quiet unless there’s another public sighting of him (rare but it happens) UNTIL the bomb goes off in his tower and everyone learns Bruce was the target and suddenly they’re like “oh no poor little meow meow :( he doesn’t deserve this” but this time: it gets Global attention

Gotham’s crime is usually like a Jersey Thing TM where people make fun of how bad the streets are “Look Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.” “But what about that shadowy place over there?” “That is Gotham. You must never go there, Simba.” It’s just that one town along the Jersey Shore that is always draped in shadows, and you can’t swim there or you’ll get cursed.

But then The Riddler happens, and it’s kinda a bit bigger than usual? Their entire political sphere is murdered?!? Unusual. Suddenly, Gotham is underwater?? National crisis! But then BRUCE WAYNE, RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, ALMOST DIES VIA MAILED EXPLOSIVE and now shit gets serious!!!! (They don’t know about Aquaman yet. Shhh)

Some people are like “why tf do we care about this rich guy” and others are like “wait there’s someone richer than Lex Luthor?” and so the Bruce Wayne fanbase is like my time has come and they post his entire history of charitable donations all over the internet. His tragic backstory resurfaces (now featuring his mother’s, thanks Ed :/) and the “Poor Little Meow Meow Bruce Wayne” agenda goes global.

The Riddler’s video gets fact-checked, and the press concludes it’s like 90% cicrcumstantial and has nothing to do with Bruce anyway. News of Bruce Wayne paying for over 2/3 of the city’s infrastructure after the flood is put on blast. Paired with accounts saying “And also look at him. He’s hot af” and Bruce cannot catch a break.

Suddenly Bruce Wayne is The Celebrity of 2k22. Everyone wants to know his life story. He gets memed to hell and back because he’s “relatable.” Old TV specials of his parents’ unsolved murders pop up on daytime. It’s revealed that he’s been funding Gotham Pride for ten years now. That one time he was caught making out with Harvey Dent turns him into the bicon of the century.

He still refuses to speak to the press. It just makes people like him more because he’s “mysterious.” And for the first time in his life, Bruce can’t just get away with being a recluse anymore. On the bright side, this Soft, Gentle, Introverted Billionaire image that’s been thrust upon him is deterring the public from linking him and The Batman so maybe it’s a good thing??

#battinson #bruce wayne #batman #the batman 2022 #the batman #batman 2022 #battinson needs a hug

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

i adore reading your analytical posts abt soc so much jts not even funny; stumbling upon your account was like a coming across a goldmine 🙏 ALSO I RLLY WANT TO ONOW ABT THE SHE TREATS US LJKE MARKS ESSAY IVE NEVER THOIGHT ABT THAT RLLY also i loved the mr crimson post anw im sorry i’ll shut up now

Thank you so much, I’m so glad you like them!!

This is the first time someone’s submitted a question so bare with me because if there’s any way to do this wrong I’ll probably manage it, but here are my thoughts on the red herrings :)

She’s treating us like marks - an analysis of Leigh Bardugo’s use of red herrings in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

*warning: CONSTANT SPOILERS AHEAD!*

I happen to be an absolute sucker for a good bit of foreshadowing, I think if it’s done well it’s one of the best literary techniques out there, so it’s something I always like to try and be on the look out for when I read. With books that I go back and reread, in this case many many times (seriously I’ve never specifically counted but I’m pretty sure I’m at over ten times each for the duology, it’s ridiculous), I like to find the things I didn’t realise were foreshadowing the first time round. When rereading six of crows and crooked kingdom, I realised that a lot of the things I expected to be foreshadowing didn’t actually come to fruition whilst other, seemingly less important, details were the actual foreshadowing. I LOVE IT! It’s genius, because it leaves the reader worrying about one thing so they’re too distracted to realise the groundwork is being laid for something else. But you know what that makes me think of? Kaz’s ideology of “What’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet? […] Tell him you’re going to steal his watch,” and “you have to let the mark feel like he’s won”. Leigh Bardugo literally cons us, and she tells us that she’s doing it in Crooked Kingdom when the group are certain that they know where Inej is being kept, but Kaz says “Too obvious. He’s treating us like marks”. GENIUS

So I compiled a few of my favourite examples (in no particular order), if you know of any I’ve missed please add more I would love to see them!!

The cannon at the Ice Court. When the Crows first arrive in Djerholm they see a cannon built into the the cliff face, a defence mechanism for the Court, and Kaz says what might be one of my favourite underrated lines of his: “I’ve broken into banks, warehouses, mansions, museums, vaults, a rare book library, and once the bedchamber of a visiting Kaelish diplomat whose wife had a passion for emeralds. But I’ve never had a cannon shot at me”. Jesper jokes that “there’s something to be said for novelty” but then continues to say that a cannon would be useless against a ship as small as theirs and that it’s designed for “invading armadas”. They don’t mention the cannon again, but it stuck in my mind when I first read it as a looming threat, a reminder that the danger wouldn’t end when they left the court. So when they arrived in the harbour was I expecting soldiers, or a heartrender, or for Nina to take parem? Nope, I was too busy worrying about the schooner being blown to pieces - especially when the Crows all have such specific painful and/or traumatic experiences linking to water, with 4 out of 6 of them being drowning related. But that isn’t to say that the waiting soldiers at the dock weren’t foreshadowed. All the way through Leigh Bardugo constantly reminds us that Matthias had never seen black protocol in action, and that his time in the prison sector had been brief, but she lulls us into a false sense of security by letting us believe that the secret bridge onto the White Island was all Matthias was hiding. We trust him by this point, so we don’t expect anything to be different to what he’s told us, even though this is an aspect he couldn’t possibly have predicted. Bonus points for the fact that Nina’s poor well-being in the aftermath of the drug is foreshadowed by a joke at the awful Inn they go to before the job; the food is disgusting and she says “when I don’t want to eat, you know there’s a problem”, and in Crooked Kingdom it’s many times emphasised that she’s unhealthily losing weight and her appetite has vastly decreased, with Matthias buying her chocolate biscuits “in the hopes she’d eat something”.

The poison pill. Leigh Bardugo worked very hard in Crooked Kingdom to make us think that Nina might die. We went into that book knowing there was a strong possibility that she wouldn’t come out the other side; we knew very little about how she was coping with parem withdrawal at the end of soc, but we had seen around a minimum of five grisha being destroyed by the drug so far. (That’s a guess I haven’t actually counted). So we went in with the idea that she was already in a precarious situation, and even though we begin to see her regain herself she struggles throughout the novel both physically and mentally in the aftermath of the drug. Matthias begins to dream of being lost on the ice in the worst storms known to Fjerda, knowing that she was out there somewhere and that he could not reach her. This sounds like it’s foreshadowing her death. Then when the pair go to the Ravkan embassy, Tamar gives Nina a small yellow pill that Genya made; she explains that it kills instantly and painlessly, saying “we all have them” to make sure they cannot be drugged and enslaved by the Shu government, who are hunting for grisha with the Khergud at the time. Matthias is terrified by this, but Nina just slips it into her pocket without a second thought. At that moment I thought that Nina would almost take the pill only to be stopped by someone else, because it felt too obvious that it would kill her, but I did wonder if the Khergud would be the ones to stop her and so she would still be lost. But the pill never gets mentioned again, except when the Dime Lions come for Nina at Sweet Reef and she briefly remembers that it’s still in her pocket. Then never again. And Matthias’ dreams were, of course, actually foreshadowing the FESTIVAL OF PAIN AND TORTURE that is chapter 40.

Mr Crimson. I’m so glad you like my Mr Crimson idea! Basically I posted saying I think that he represents death in the novels and I’ve also talked before about how I think the Komedie Brute costumes that the characters usually adopt are representative of their character; Kaz the Madman, Nina the Lost Bride, Inej and Wylan the Grey Imp, and Jesper and Matthias Mr Crimson. I won’t go into detail about all of them but if you’re interested the post is on my page, but with the idea that Mr Crimson represents death it’s very important to me that, although all of them wear his cloak at least once, he is the only Komedie Brute character taken on by Jesper and Matthias (at least to my recollection, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). So of course I would argue that Matthias taking on the image in Crooked Kingdom foreshadows his death, but in that case what does Jesper’s represent? I came up with two options but I actually think you could combine them into one: it’s a red herring to make us align him with the literal death of Matthias, whilst actually foreshadowing the metaphorical death that his addiction and mental well-being are driving him towards as he tries desperately to stop them - in his own words to Colm “I’m dying anyway, Da, I’m just doing it slow”

Oh god sorry that this is yet another long post I hope y’all enjoyed this enough for it to be worth the time it takes for you to read all my ramblings 😭

Tagging people who asked for this one in the replies to my essay titles post - @the-magnificunt @flerkenkiddingme @luridorangeandviolentviolet @snowblack-charcoalwhite

#grishaverse #leigh bardugo #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #jesper fahey #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #kanej #wesper #helnik #overanalysis #books #book #essay

[totallyhealthyobsession]

Remember that scene in Voyager when Q tells his son, in the most stern and serious and exasperated tone he’s ever used, to not provoke the Borg?

I just find it comical given that Janeway develops a habit of picking on the Borg in the DQ and eventually is The Borg Expert in the AQ (in the Relaunch novels). She’s basically the consultant that’s called in to deal with the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known, a ‘species’ that even The Continuum steers clear of.

I mean, her ship arrived back in the Alpha Quadrant via a transwarp conduit and blew up the Borg Sphere that followed them. In front of everyone. They even hitched a ride inside the darn thing at the last moment. Starfleet rushed to assemble an armada with the ships they had left after the Dominion War, ready to fight a battle they knew they would lose but dammit they have to try. Just to witness Janeway pulling up late to the party after speeding through a red light and side swiping a bunch of stuff.

There’s plenty to unpack regarding the power of The Continuum and how they relate to other powerful species (Q has a very noticeable respect for Guinan and she isn’t fazed by him). But there’s just something poetic(?) about Q warning his omnipotent but very immature son to leave the Borg alone and he doesn’t say anything to Janeway. And she basically starts playground fights because they are in the way and she doesn’t have time for their nonsense.

Iconic.

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Janeway’s (temporary) death was the only thing that was a fixed point in space time in every single alternate universe/timeline and even Lady Q recognized the importance of Kathryn Janeway.

#kathryn janeway #captain janeway #star trek voyager #the janeway #the Borg slayer #admiral janeway

[piecesofchess]

My favorite time in the Discord server

#jack in the box #jack box #jack i box #fast food mascot #wasnt gonna post this butttt he is blowing up rn #not armada related

[slpytired]

Watching the whole Gundam series in 2023 masterpost

After watching the first cour of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, I became curious as to what the rest of the franchise was like. So obviously, I had to watch the whole thing to get the full Gundam experience. I did a little research and came up with this watchlist:

UC Timeline:

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative

Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash

Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Gundam Reconguista in G

Turn A Gundam

AU Timelines:

Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

After War Gundam X

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE 73: Stargazer

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

I've also linked my little reviews on each entry if anybody wants to check them out :)

I also read/am reading these related mangas:

Mobile Suit Gundam Aggressor

Mobile Suit Moon Gundam

Arasa OL Haman-sama

Mobile Suit Gundam MSV-R: Return of Johnny Ridden

HG ni Koisuru Futari

Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury: Vanadis Heart

Feel free to send me asks about Gundam stuff! I'm planning to explore other mecha series next year like Code Geass, Magical Knight Rayearth, Macross, Full Metal Panic, Wasure Hoshi no Volicia, Transformers: Armada, etc.

I also want to start playing through the Armored Core series of games, starting from AC6 and For Answer and then checking out the rest of the games.

#mobile suit gundam #zeta gundam #gundam zz #char's counterattack #gundam unicorn #gundam narrative #gundam hathaway #turn a gundam #gundam wing #gundam seed #gundam x #g gundam #gundam 00 #gundam age #gundam ibo #g witch #slpytalk

[scotianostra]

On February 9th in 1587, news reached London of Mary, Queen of Scots execution the previous day.

The people went wild with joy, church bells were rung out in celebration, guns thundered a salute, bonfires were lit in celebration and there were impromptu feasts held in every street.

Elizabeth however, did not greet the news with the same enthusiasm! It is said she had signed the death warrant in anger when she was told that Mary had plotted against her to be the figurehead of a Catholic uprising in England. It is also claimed that she withdrew the warrant but it was retained by her spymaster Walsingham.

Historians still debate how much Mary knew about the plot to overthrow Elizabeth.

It is a fact that the English Queen became almost hysterical. Her biographer William Camden, wrote that

“her countenance changed, her words faltered, and with excessive sorrow she was in a manner astonished, insomuch as she gave herself over to grief, putting herself into mourning weeds and shedding abundance of tears”.

Her rage was vengeful against those who had acted on her behalf. They had expected her anger, but not quite this extreme! Some fled home, others were banished, and Davison who had carried the warrant to Fotheringay, was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Elizabeth wrote to James VI, telling him that his mother’s execution had happened without her knowledge, and whilst James at first displayed grief, he did not want to alienate Elizabeth, and told a group of angry nobles that he believed Elizabeth was genuine in her grief and would not do anything to effect the Anglo-Scottish alliance.

It was three weeks before news of Mary’s execution reached France, where there was widespread distress at the death of the King’s sister-in-law. The English Ambassador reported:

“I never saw a thing more hated by little, great, old, young and of all religions than the Queen of Scots’ death, and especially the manner of it. I would to God it had not been in this time”

On 12th March 1587 as a part of French national mourning a requiem mass was held at Notre Dame attended by Henri III, Catherine de Medici, and many of Mary’s Guise relations including her uncle, Elbeuf. A moving eulogy was given by Renauld de Beaune, Archbishop of Bourges, recalling the days of her youth and the spectacle of her magnificent wedding ceremony in Paris. It seemed to him ‘as if God had chosen to render her virtues more glorious than her afflictions’. She had become a cult figure.

It’s a disgrace the Scottish nation were denied a similar mark of respect for Mary, remember many Scots still thought of her as our rightful Monarch, although it has been said that in Scotland there was displays of anger towards Elizabeth for what had happened - despite the fact that they had forced Mary’s abdication twenty years earlier.

In the eyes of Catholic Europe, Mary was a Martyr, wrongfully put to death by the ‘heretic Elizabeth’. Philip of Spain believed it was his duty to avenge Mary’s death.

Nevertheless, Scotland and France did not act in revenge for Mary. Philip did however, with the Armada as we know. But this did not quite have the desired affect, thanks largely to the weather. It is ironic to think that Mary’s death gave both herself and Elizabeth their finest hour, Mary became the Martyr that she wanted to be, while Elizabeth became 'Gloriana’, with the “heart and stomach of a King”.

I will finish this post and go back briefly to Mary’s execution. Those present that day spoke of her great courage and dignity, just under 61 years later her grandson Charles I was also executed with the same bravery shown, whatever the faults or follies of the House of Stuart, its sons and daughters, with rare exceptions, have at least known how to die.

The pics show the death mask of Mary, her tomb in Westminster Abbey and a replica in The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

#scotland #scottish #history #england #france #spain #the stuarts

[feelinjustpeachy14]

AA I LOVE THEM SM- I decided to make a au of sorts to these designs I made of the g1 tribe seekers!

Teehee I mostly wanted to show her outfit it’s mostly covered in og drawing-😅

In these drawings I forgot some face details with Starscream- but it’s mostly the accurate design :D

I made the story mostly related to what I planned for my armada au! Where when they crash landed they were forced to scan organic life, which kinda messed with their system, making them seem to have human skin yet it’s really tough! Like original metal!

I’ll make another post featuring their cybertronian form pre-crash!

Enjoy!

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Chapter Two

I think my back is getting burned. We’ve been lying out on the beach a while now, and it’s starting to feel too hot for me. With my cheek resting on my scratchy beach towel I ask Kelly to put some more suncream on me, and she squirts a cold blob of it onto the small of my back. I shudder. She tells me that she doesn’t mind getting burned, and that in a few days it will turn into a lovely golden tan so it’s worth it. Kelly’s got sallower skin than I have, so I don’t listen to her advice. I know I will burn. 

Kelly tans so easily every summer. Every September when she comes back to school she’s always this beautiful golden colour, and with her dark hair and eyes she doesn’t even look Irish. She says that she thinks she’s related to the sailors from the Spanish Armada that were shipwrecked along the western coast in the 1580s. It’s a romantic notion I suppose, but the older I get the more people I meet who say exactly the same thing to explain their dark colouring. I’ve come to believe that it’s bullshit, not everybody with brown hair can be Iberian. 

Claire and I wade into the sea later on, and the water is so clear and still that I can see the sand and tiny shells at the bottom. Little ribbons of seaweed slither past me as I slowly submerge my body. It’s so cold, but I quickly dunk my head in and get the worst part over with. I feel so much better then, the sweat and heat and sand have dissolved from my body. There’s nowhere I love to be more than in the sea. I wait all year until the summer rolls back around and I can swim for the first time, just to be peacefully submerged in it again, belonging to it.  

I float on my back and look up at the clear blue sky. It’s like like stretched silk above me, seagulls circling serenely beneath it. With my ears dipping below the surface and I let the gentle waves caress my cheeks, hearing nothing but my own slow heartbeat and the gurgle of the water all around me. The ties of gravity fade to nothing, I’m just floating, gliding along on the surface with no fear of falling. I lift one foot up towards the sky above me, and the cheery coral of my nails looks pretty against the expanse of pale blue, and so I lie back and enjoy the colours until I can’t blissfully ignore the pallor of my leg any longer. I’m so white it’s startling. I wonder who my ancestors are. Pale, skinny, mousy. Definitely nothing to the Spanish Armada. 

Claire’s talking nearby and I assume it’s to me, so I right myself and lift my head out of the water, but I see straight away that she isn’t. A young man has emerged from nowhere and he’s trying to speak to her. I assume she needs rescuing and I swim towards them. 

“Oh and this is my friend Evie.” she tells him as I erupt out of the water next to them combatively. 

The man barely glances at me and says an impersonal hello. Up close I can see he’s less the slime monster that I assumed, and actually quite good looking. He’s got dark cropped hair and deeply tanned skin. He reaches up to push his wet fringe from his forehead, and I notice how muscular his arms and shoulders are. Hmph,  I think protectively let’s see what he has to say. I don’t move. I stand next to my friend with arms crossed over my chest, fully aware that I look like a drowned rat with my hair matted to my scalp and in comparison she looks like an angel fallen from heaven.

“And Evie, this is Flavio.” Claire smiles at him, and I wave hello awkwardly. “Actually you can call me Evelyn.” I say to him, but I doubt he even hears me. I have a theory that men have selective blindness and deafness when they’re around women they find unattractive, and Flavio is case and point. He continues his conversation with my friend as though I never arrived. 

“We are staying by the beach.” He says to her, gesturing towards the string of holiday homes on the south end of the strand. His accent is thick Italian. “So if you would like, you can come tonight to my house to spend some time.” I’m staring at him unblinking as he says this. How old is he? I swear I can see crows’ feet around his eyes. 

“Well, I’ll have to ask my friends first.” She tells him. “But I think it could be fun.”

“I think we’re busy.” I say but Claire shrugs me off. “We’ll say it to Kelly and see what she thinks.” I stare at her incredulously. I am not going to hang out with a crowd of strange men tonight! The mere suggestion is outrageous to me. This is how girls end up on Unsolved Murders. 

“If you come” Flavio says “I would be very happy. We will have some music, some drinks, I make a very delicious pasta…”

“I’d say you do.” She says and then he gives her the address of his house. I am beyond words as we wade out of the water after saying our goodbyes to him.

“Claire! What was all that about?”

“I think he seems really nice.” She says innocently. “He’s only visiting for a week, he has a few friends with him, and if they’re all as fine as he is then… no harm going along for a few hours is all I’m saying.”

“Yeah, how old are they though?”

“Ah, Evie, does it matter? We’re all adults, we can do what we like.” It’s not true. Kelly is the only one that’s eighteen. Granted, Claire’s birthday is coming up in August but I’ll be seventeen until next March. I know there’s no point in arguing. I’m aware that I already seem like I’m trying to ruin the fun, like I’m on a mission to make our holiday as boring as possible. I throw my hands up in defeat. “Well, it’s up to Kelly then. I can’t fight the two of you on it, but just so you know, I won’t be happy if I end up getting dragged to that dinner party tonight.”

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