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anghraine · 2 months

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I'm feeling like supporting some women's wrongs! (And rights, but definitely also wrongs.)

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radi-17171 · 5 years

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The unholy family

#the borgias #cesare borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare and lucrezia #sin has a name and it is borgia #mine #rodrigo borgia #juan borgia #guilia farnese #the original crime family #magnificent family of the renaissance #magnificent bastards #my one weakness. the one chink in my armor. you.#magnificent bastards of the vatican #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #history #such great ferocity and so much virtù #odi et amo #house borgia

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dovewingz · 3 years

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talk about ur ocs <3 & if they have any; what are their theme songs, zodiacs and erm opinions on each other

*kisses u* /p

i do actually have an oc blog but *pushes that away* im waiting til i actually start working on the story to use that more. anyway ill talk a bit abt the main trio of friends >:)c

shadowpaw, doepaw and beechpaw are all best friends and i love them very much <3 <3 doe + beech are siblings, beech + shadow are a little bit....... y’know 😏, doe + shadow are just friends im still fleshing their individual dynamic out

they all have playlists (here) which sort of have no context spoilers for the whole story but OH WELL. i could figure out their actual zodiacs by working out when exactly they were born but uhhhh i dont rlly believe in astrology so i’ll just put their personalities below. if any astrology bitches (endearing) see this and want to assign them zodiacs from those go wild

anyway im gonna keep going heres more info on their individual relationships :3c

doepaw + beechpaw: very close but tbh the only reason they hang out together is because their friends happen to the same lmao. their parents are Highly respected so they sorta feel the weight of the world on their shoulders. they deal with this in very different ways. doe overthinks her every choice, fearing that one wrong move will result in the whole world turning against her. beech “lashes out” in a sense, where he breaks the rules and ignores all the hard expectations on him, he doesnt let himself get trapped in the present for too long! this leads to Shenanigans

doepaw + shadowpaw: these two are still getting developed... but doe rlly appreciates shadow because hes one of the only cats who sees her for HER rather than as an extension of her parents. hes initially not very friendly to her bc of his own family issues but as he gets to know her, he learns to trust & rely on her :] she has a v nurturing spirit and shadow tends to soften when hes with her

shadowpaw + beechpaw: simply best friends™ but, like, that doesnt quite Feel Right??? neither of them can describe it so they just dont! unspoken feelings bless!! it took a long time for shadow to warm up to beech but beech just kept trying to befriend him (think this post) and eventually they became inseparable! they both constantly find ways to break the rules + are pure chaos together. shadow uhhhhh he can be a bit codependent and beech pretty much always wants to spend time with someone and talk and Do Things so their dynamic works pretty well........... for now

all together they are the literal embodiment of those t-shirts....... “i get us into trouble” “i somehow make it worse” “i get us out of trouble”

personalities

shadowpaw [+] loyal, protective, committed, retentive, hardworking [=] blunt, bold, stubborn [-] impulsive, defensive, antagonistic, unfriendly, avoidant

doepaw [+] compassionate, empathetic, attentive, responsible, polite [=] quiet, careful, obedient [-] perfectionistic, non-confrontational, indecisive, self-doubtful,

beechpaw [+] optimistic, friendly, hopeful, nonconformist, devoted [=] forward-thinking, energetic, forgiving [-] impulsive, facetious, restless, disorderly, dependant (gets bored easy, relies on constant attention/stimulation)

#i gotta admit there are some red flags that beechshadow in particular ignore... i wonder if theyll come up later in the story 😏#ask #lovewing3 #my ocs

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jedimusings · 4 years

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Was that [SAMARA WEAVING]? Oh no no, that was just [KIT MCKINNON], an [ORIGINAL CHARACTER] from [HARRY POTTER]. They are [TWENTY-FIVE] years old and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

How long has your character been here?

kit has been here for about three months.

What is your character’s job?

kit is a tennis instructor at a private club and also coaches a local high school team.

Where has your character been pulled from in their fandom?

kit was pulled from right after her death (although, she does not remember this at this point in time).

Has any magic affected your character?

yes! kit remembers most of her life, but there are still gaps missing.

And any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know

yes! there’s def more to come BUT here we go:

so kit was born into a large family. and i am still working out kit’s personality- but as a child she was outdoorsy, was hardly ever indoors because she was always out exploring, could be very dramatic, and she loved quidditch. (CONFIRMED: kit is the child that says “recess” or “PE” when you ask them their favorite subject in school). she had a temper and was very quick to anger. but kit has always been devoted to her family, realizing at a young age that her siblings were her best friends. kit really is the sibling that you argue with and then five minutes later she’s in your doorway asking if you want to go get food smh.

after being sorted into slytherin (by which she considered process of elimination- she hardly fit anywhere else). kit didn’t not like school, she knew school was important, but she struggled to find a subject that she actually enjoyed.

kit came to hogwarts knowing that she loved quidditch. all throughout first year, she started training to join the slytherin team. she went to practices and watched, taking notes on technique. she read quidditch books. she began closely following the leagues (quickly deciding that the holyhead harpies were the best and her most favorite team, even if their score did not always reflect that). after practicing on her own for a bit, she decided that being a team beater was right for her. it was the team position that she was most naturally skilled at, and the more she trained outside of class, the more that skill developed. and while that position is most suited for her, her training has lead her to be a very versatile player.

so she made starting beater second year. actually (and annoyingly) beating out an upper level student for the spot. she wasn’t necessarily a prodigy or anything, she just found what she liked and devoted all of her time to it. she eventually became team captain in her fifth year all the way through graduation

besides quidditch, kit’s time at hogwarts was mostly uneventful. there was an incident where she went missing in the forbidden forest for five days in her fifth year. despite urging, she never discussed what happened during this time and waves it off as simply getting lost in the woods. this is one of the periods of time that the magic in dc has caused her to forget, so as of now, she no longer remembers what happened during that time anyway.

after graduation, she joined the chudley cannons for one season. a year later she was recruited by the falmouth falcons as a reserve team member for one season. she then did three seasons with the falmouth falcons as a starting beater. she then FINALLY joined the holyhead harpies, where she continued as a starting beater up until the first wizarding war.

her social life between graduation and the war was also pretty well documented by the gossip columns. she was, to her chagrin, a wizarding world it girl for some time. kit was just known by people, everyone had a story about how the encountered kit. and hardly any of these were negative stories. she was just seemingly everywhere and she is one of those people that makes every interaction, even the ones with strangers, just feel important and special. she always stayed after matches to talk to people. that sort of thing.

that being said, kit was also a huge mess. she partied a lot, and could make a scene when intoxicated. she was never a great sport, meaning that when she lost matches she never took it in stride, often getting into explosive shouting matches with players from other teams. kit dated several other quidditch players and other somewhat well known members of the wizarding community. kit had an on again, off again relationship and was briefly engaged to this person at the start of the war, however, they ended things shortly after the engagement (also!! i have ideas of who this could be so if you’re remotely interested in a marauder’s era male character- please let me know!).

**there is meant to be a paragraph about kit’s life during the war here, and i will fill it in when i get a clearer idea of that*

so kit got to dc- she was never under the impression that she was someone else and remembered most of her life. she does not remember: what happened during the forbidden forest disappearance, various patches of her professional quidditch days, and her and her family’s death. these will probably all come back to her eventually.

after realizing that there were some similarities between being a beater and tennis- she put her all into a new sport. she got a job giving tennis private lessons and now also coaches a local high school team. she makes a decent amount of money doing this. further, she’s gaining her social reputation again, whether she actually wants this to happen or not and has been rubbing elbows with dc’s political/social circle, so far, she remains in their good graces. without quidditch, kit feels pretty directionless here in dc but is happy to be back with her family once again. she still wants more for herself, she’s just not sure the direction she should go next.

wanted connections and ideas:

- people who get wrapped up in a kit adventure. basically, this is a person who doesn’t know kit OR has only met her a couple of times and meets her at the beginning of a day/night out and gets wrapped up in a series of the shenanigans that she became known for in the wizarding world AND is becoming known for in dc. this would likely lead to some sort of friendship OR it happening again lol. i think this could be a really fun thread and connection and have lots of ideas.

- codependent friends, people she became fast friends with in dc and they’re together literally everyday and texting constantly (also MINOR SPOILERS for the second or third episode of the politician season 2- but this is inspired by a plot line in that episode).

-a frenemies plot!!!!! that could be fun.

- people she gives tennis lessons to/people she give tennis lessons to their children.

- people from the wizarding world (she could have gone to school with them, they could know her siblings, they could remember her quidditch days, etc.)

- previously mentioned ex fiance (again, i have ideas)

#hw: intro

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sierrza · 5 years

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I'm cray but I make it seem like it's the new beautiful.My jobs won't last long. My relationships are miles and miles down a dark part in my head. I get restless and feel like if I spend enough time stuck in one place my life flashes before my eyes like this:Born without lungs I couldn't use without a machine helping me remember to breathe so 3 months in a box NICU/ gravesite in the hospital where other babies were dying next to me and I was operated on every day hating life then hallelujah handed off to my teenage full on scream throwing shit annoying kyle parents who know how to get pregnant but not turn into role models or parents fit to handle their child without going all warzone style 5 or 9 days of the week and making me listen to them from the bedroom trying not to pee my pants because if i left the safe zone i'd regret it and wow fuck after 9 years of that bs my time got split by weeks on and off with each psycho.. I couldn't choose families so instead these fuckers mysteriously disappear right when a girl needs to get their parents shitty guidance the most..Normal 12 year olds deal with the growing spells and emotional rollercoasters and hit the fan normally. My heart started failing around the time my friend died while I was on restriction once again for months for asking a fucking question thats when my dad mad lost respect from me when I got yelled at for being upset about it minutes after realizing he texted me with no answer before killing himself and mom just got up and left with her kids a milli miles away n signed her rights solely to my dad who emotionally abused the shit out of me all that summer and on till I turned 16. mom never called back so i raged like hell when i physically fought him back after craving one day to get him to try me and he threw hands before kicking me out his gf and kids got to live with him. After billions of drastic measures to get myself free from never going out and seeing friends and sharing xanax with his ex to handle life for a year and a half and then having to withdrawal when she left him when I didn't even know what that word meant.Life flashes before my eyes and I want to change the channel and find something else God let me take over.I got free written all over me nowGangsta rap and millions of quotes for motivation made me do it biiitch. Till I hit a wall and started arguing with myself about who made the turn into that wall instead of climbing it and fighting that fight bagging up the wasted time.Mad frets being an orphaned only child with 2 siblings and parents closed off like I'm not allowed into their mix like family vacations and pets dying or weekly interactions or whatevs. Last year my mom kicked me out for the 5th time and I fought with my boy dude all aggravated and tried draining all my blood out in a Linda Lane parking space. God came over to me and handed my bloody spine a surge of survival juice and then did it again when I was drunk and made my car do cartwheels and kicked up the dirt on miracles when I walked away without getting paralyzed or killing someone and even gave me some advice and asked me politely to dig elsewhere instead of at myself and my health and my luck with my freaky misguided baddie self.I'm promising the world a better bitch because a bitter bitch is bound to get barked at by emotionally abusive barking freaks.I'd rather do the barking. I'm living like it's hard to die cause it is but this past year I've gone from codependent as a left shoe, to mad at the ones who got me twisted into something I wasn't, to gifting myself the go get em attitude back, and asking me aggressive ass questions about how I want to leave the world when my time does come and my heart retires. As kind as ever I be asking it to show willingness to undoubtedly fill others hearts who are broken too as a requirement for my shenanigans I left on my loved ones hearts last summer.I'm not trying to die as much as I'm trying to stop feeling so extra extra alive when everything gets so overwhelming and I just wanna be with my friends souls and not my retched body that has to endure so much thinking and wondering and blah blah blah.I'm not trying to give up but I'm lifting up every stone to find another reason to keep going when I'm running with no direction. My retched life is as important to keep from enforcing extinction as my friends were as important to me before passing too quickly.This journey is a fucking trip now that I'm flashing ya'll with it all girls gone wild style. The dreams I have are vivid and I talk a bunch about all that makes up who I am and why I think that is.And I'm mad and weird and people get intimidated by my lack of structure because I have trauma inside me like black on a yellow highlighter but this post is proof of just a quarter of whats fueling the weird greatness that is me. And its strength doesn't go unnoticed so I'm thrilled to be of distraction to you from whatever it is going on where u are.You really can't say you know what it's like to try and treat life like it's gold when it's an empty farm and no one is around to feed you.You can't feel sorry for me if you know that if you were in my shoes you would have been sent back to a better place ages ago because there was no way in hell you fit in this tank of a lifetime.You really can't say you hang in there cause you have the lives of 7 cats because piles of survival follows you like a shadow you can't detach from..I am my parent I am my guardian and I have been acting like I'm out of control in hopes of being acknowledged and loved for it but I'm mostly losing daylight doing that so I am forcing acknowledgment with this post and practicing self love for the science experiment that is the first child/girlfriend/friend that no one wants to remember having.This is not easy being single and wishing you could move vicariously through a partner but you're making that partner be you for once.. I don't know what to do with my hands..don't make that sexual I was just referencing taladega nightshahah andI love my parents they just face their children like they face their demons.. differently.Thank god I got all these prayer angels helping me see the light cause I'd be a dark lil somethin else if I didn't! God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiersTop tier immortality might have accumulated in here too idfk yet tho hopefully not ha ha ha (nervous laughter) (im really 900 years old but I forgot my ID to prove it to you)that's all for now.

#life #story #my story #writing #personal #how i am #who i am #me #literally me #storytelling #personal story #recovery story #progress story #experiment #science

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cesarborjas · 10 years

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Saw the post about alfonso and lightly implied abuse (in the show), wondering what do you think about it? He was suspicious and jealous towards the end so it makes sense... Are there any other scenes that support this?

Putting it below the cut.

It seems pretty clear to me in 3x10 that he's abusive, tbh. He jerks her around roughly, which would be bad enough, but the fact that he does it in front of Cesare is so mind-numbingly stupid that I can only assume an escalation from less blatant aggression. Before his drunken boor stage, Alfonso implied that they rarely if ever had sex; now Lucrezia says it happens when he's drunk. She also says, damningly, that he reminds her of Juan towards the end (who by then was a would-be rapist and child murderer among many other things and decidedly creepy towards Lucrezia in particular).

I don't think he was ever violent towards her before 3x09, though possibly manipulative in a sulky passive-aggressive childish way. IDK, like a lot in Season 3 it goes from one thing to another without really giving us any of the intermediary steps, so it's difficult to judge exactly. But flying into a rage over something trivial enough that he frightens Lucrezia (who by this point is not a remotely fearful person) seems related to where he does end up. :\

Beyond that, one of the thing that struck me when I was first marathoning the season is the sharp disconnect between what Lucrezia says about her relationship with Alfonso, and what we actually see. There is little evidence that she's in love with him during their marriage; she seems to regard him a bit like a dog that isn't taking training very well (there's at least one interview suggesting that she doesn't love him). Meanwhile she insists that she loves him as her husband, everything is great!!!!--even as she tries to seduce her brother. There are many possible reasons for that, but I think it's possible that something is very wrong in that relationship before it reaches the point of 3x09 and 3x10.

#anon replies #respuestas #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #/#//#lucrezia borgia #alfonso d'aragona #this is not an alfonso appreciation blog #abuse for ts #Anonymous

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anghraine · 2 months

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By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:

#anghraine babbles #poll nonsense #ursula #lady macbeth #medea #lady susan vernon #austen blogging #azula #the wife of bath #electra #caterina sforza #maleficent #athena #lobelia sackville baggins #avatar: the last airbender #medieval blogging #the oresteia #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #legendarium blogging

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anghraine · 6 months

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So there was this really terrible review of The Borgias back in the day that complained about Jeremy Irons, of all people:

“Irons, as lean and elegant as men are made, exudes passion aplenty, but that passion burns with the steely flame of the North, not with Latin fire”

Yeah.

Anyway, when I was writing a paper on the Borgias for school, I vented about that specific sentence to my friends. In retrospect, though, I'm kind of grateful for it, because "steely flame of the North" ended up just entering our collective vocabulary for any number of occasions. It's like:

Friend: I think [other friend] hates X even more than you do.

Me, trying to sound neutral: Possibly.

Friend: Well, maybe. You do burn with the steely flame of the North.

#thanks terrible reviewer lol #anghraine babbles #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #magnificent bastards of the vatican #borgias fanwank

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anghraine · 6 months

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I was just thinking about The Borgias and how one of the changes from history had an intriguing consequence for its own narrative.

The Borgias focuses on Rodrigo's children by Vanozza dei Cattanei, and I think suggests that they are Rodrigo's only children in order to simplify things. But IRL, this core trio quartet did have older half-siblings, at least including two older sisters (Isabel and Jeronima) and a brother (Pedro Luis).

This matters to the family dynamics in The Borgias because, historically, Cesare was not the firstborn son. The various firstborn-son privileges went to Pedro Luis because that was a perfectly normal thing to do and Cesare went into the priesthood—also perfectly normal for a younger son. And then, when Pedro Luis died, his privileges fell to the next son who could receive them, Juan.

But in The Borgias, Cesare is the firstborn. So Juan getting the duchy and the military career and basically every secular advantage is genuinely quite strange.

There's eventually some blahblah about Rodrigo actually having a master plan for Cesare with a hereditary papacy or whatnot, but this seems a pretty weak retcon to me. To me it seems like show!Rodrigo just bypassed his firstborn son in all this for not much of a reason beyond personal preference, which would be a really big deal in their social context (even as depicted in the show).

I don't think their dynamics suggest Cesare was recently disinherited; I think Juan has clearly been given the firstborn son treatment for a long time.

The interesting thing about this to me is that steamrollering Cesare into the priesthood and handing everything else over to Juan would be such a weird slight on Cesare that his resentment and longing for Rodrigo's validation make a lot of sense in his context.

At the same time, all this makes Juan's position very shaky on paper, because Rodrigo could just push Cesare back out of the priesthood and actually treat him like the firstborn son if he felt like it, and people would probably think this was more appropriate. And IIRC Rodrigo actually threatens this at one point, so it's not just a theoretical possibility. I personally don't think show!Rodrigo would ever have really displaced Juan (least of all in favor of Cesare, on whom Rodrigo projects all his self-loathing). But it makes a convenient bludgeon to get Juan in line.

And I don't think Juan knows that Rodrigo wouldn't actually do it. But I do think he knows that his position and privileges are dependent on this apparently arbitrary, highly unusual choice of Rodrigo's that could easily be changed. And I suspect this plays a major role in how Juan thinks of himself and Cesare, and what their dynamic is on his side as well as on Cesare's.

#anghraine babbles #long post #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #the borgias #cesare borgia #juan borgia #rodrigo borgia

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anghraine · 11 months

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I'm autistic and headcanon a bunch of my faves as autistic, also! But I'd like to leave part of the Autism Headcanon Sweepstakes up to you, the people:

"Peak autistic character" means whatever it means to you!

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anghraine · 6 months

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I felt it was time for another very silly and self-indulgent poll, so ...

(Feel free to respond, but please not with "is that really disputed? It's actually popular/canon/whatever.")

#today i choose violence :D #i have posted explanations for some but not remotely all #anghraine babbles #anghraine's headcanons #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #austen blogging #austen fanwank #sw fanwank #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #borgias fanwank #poll nonsense

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anghraine · 2 months

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Speaking of the Borgias+Florence post, my actual, unironic playlist for The Borgias feelings:

Cesare and Lucrezia's Theme | Trevor Morris

Sail Away Sweet Sister | Queen

Young and Beautiful | Lana del Rey

Numb | Marina

Gloria | U2

SOS | Rihanna

The Fallen Priest | Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé

Take Me to Church | Hozier

Bedroom Hymns | Florence + The Machine

Raise Your Glass | P!nk

Time Will Remember Us | Epic Score

Only the Good Die Young | Billy Joel

Ave Maria | perf. Luciano Pavarotti

Bed of Roses | Bon Jovi

#sos came on in the grocery store today and i was like... okay i'm going to kick that post out of drafts #anghraine babbles #deep blogging #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #my little piano: music is magic

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anghraine · 2 months

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I've been getting some Borgias reblogs and I'd like to have serious deep thoughts about my favorite TV show, but mostly I'm thinking about how convenient it was that Florence + The Machine (who I love!) released Ceremonials the same year that The Borgias came out, allowing for many excellent Ceremonials+Borgias gifsets and manips on Tumblr dot com over the next few years.

#no slight to the greatness of the several borgias+take me to church mashups but bedroom hymns? seven devils? so good for my faves #ngl this is how i discovered ceremonials at all and it's one of my favorite albums ever #anghraine babbles #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #my little piano: music is magic #florence + the machine

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anghraine · 9 months

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It's occasionally weird to think that, despite over 20 years of preoccupation with Austen, I probably owe more of my academic career to Neil Jordan.

#i always liked shakespeare (duh) and the early modern aesthetic(tm) but #i was like ... i want to be into something less moralizing. i've heard of some stuff so let's go with *throws dart* the borgias #after an episode and a half i could feel the hyperfixation coming #when a non-shakespeare early modern drama course came up i was like 'i must know More' and signed up #after a year and a half i was teaching the prince to remedial english students #and it's also why i wrote my paper on the borgias that got me into my phd program #like. asfdjkh;asdjd;;;;dfkj #anghraine babbles #ivory tower blogging #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #renaissance blogging #early modern blogging #austen blogging

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anghraine · 7 months

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WGDOTS is definitely my fav!!

Got to pull out a gif for this one:

Thank you, anon. I wasn't sure if that was true for anyone—or if they'd admit it if it were, lol.

For the innocent and unwary, wgdots is we get dark, only to shine, my long (yet unfinished) AU for Showtime's The Borgias with some extra dollops of history. But it's very much based in The Borgias and ... has basically every kind of content that was in the show, including scheming, murder, sibling incest, adultery, and general religious profanation, but packed into a few months during S1. So, definitely my most #problematic fic, while also definitely my most thoroughly researched one.

I had plans for where it was going to go long-term but got mired in grad school and then swept off my feet by Jyn/Cassian. But tbh The Borgias is my other favorite fandom; nearly everyone was really nice about the fic despite its Everything, and despite it coming well after the series finale, and having major roles for quasi- and actual-OCs, and also never finishing.

#fwiw the murders in wgdots are not always the /same/ murders as in the show. they're the same in having murders etc #anon replies #respuestas #fic talk #fic talk: wgdots #meme prattle #nice things people say to me #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #(<<< my show tag)#gif

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anghraine · 21 days

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hello! I LOVE your series on ao3 about vanessa/juana's births of the Borgia children, she's one of my favourite characters and there's so little written about her. do you think you'll ever complete the series with the arrival of Lucrezia?

Oh, thank you! I was really fond of my Vanozza fic, though unsurprised that it was largely overshadowed by the others. I did have a plan for the rest that I never got around to, and ... hmm, it's hard to say. I'm more likely to finish that one than any of my other Borgias fic, but if I do ever get back to it, it will be awhile.

#iorekbyrnison #respuestas #nice things people say to me #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #vanozza dei cattanei #fic talk

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