#serpent queen

[wildfloweronwheels]

The implications of Taylor Swift wearing her diamond chain mail dress tonight which is a clear reference to the one she wore in That Bathtub Scene™️ in the LWYMMD video but it also looks like an unwrapped version of the dress she wore on that night in 2009, when it’s literally been 13 years since... no one is doing it like her.  absolutely no one

#taylor swift #vmas 2022 #the easter eggs are all around us #serpent queen #lwymmd #she did not come to play #we are not safe #the woman is an agent of chaos #she's messing with us #be prepared guys #hannah post™️ #tumblr viral

[weirdlookindog]

Richard Williams - Serpent Queen

#richard williams #serpent queen #art #painting

[isabelleneville]

⚜️Starz The Serpent Queen ⚜️

Catherine De Medici, The Dauphine of France, later, Queen Consort of France, later, Queen Mother and Queen Regent of France. Portrayed by Liv Hall and Samantha Morton.

#the serpent queen #serpent queen #theserpentqueenedit #perioddramaedit #liv hall #samantha morton #Catherine de Medici #my edits #stills #that dress in the second still has me

[kaiyonohime]

Started watching ‘The Serpent Queen’.  It actually rocks.  It’s not quite historically accurate, and they have some 4th wall breaking with the main character on purpose, but it’s very well done.  

And Colm Meaney (O’Brian from DS9), makes an amazing King of France.

#serpent queen

[arcadian-orchid]

Chickens can't fly, but I've seen one. Eke enough wing-flap to clear a fence. Then it's free but then so too are the foxes.

#serpent queen #dark and moody #victorian aesthetic

[period-dramallama]

I don't mind the asides to camera. Samantha morton is incredible at what she does she can definitely pull off a soliloquy and BBC House of Cards shows what monologues to the camera can accomplish.

But I would respect the show so much more if it were doing its own thing. Fleabag and the Great are so recent. I'm torn because I love black comedy so much, but we already had Hilarious Evil Queen in Reign with Megan Fellows. While she was a delight to watch we don't need a repeat of that.

#the serpent queen #serpent queen

[glowingatdawn]

Another Rant- we better get a Season 2! I personally feel for Elizabeth and I don’t think they handled this well and now are rushing the last few episodes. They could’ve excited Seymour a long time ago. I don’t get why why focus just on that for her story. There’s so much they could’ve picked. I genuinely don’t even think people realized Bess is acting that way because of trauma. I don’t think it gives her a pass for being rude but being a 14/15 year old and going through something- I do feel for her and why she’s behaving that way so I do feel bad. People act out because of what happened to them but wtf are the writers doing at this point!!! Like we are close to end of Season 1! Can they actually give her more and just too much. And at this point, making up stupid things thinking is smart is just wrong. I definitely want more Robert and Elizabeth but seriously they need to and should have chose something more than TS. I was so happy when he was executed.

But other than that storyline. I genuinely feel like they could’ve done more with all characters! It’s so annoying. Now everything is rushed and honestly this didn’t do justice for Bess. I’m getting very tired of some of these movies/tv portrayal of Elizabeth. My F**K. Like you gotta be kidding me.

End Rant. But they could’ve done better. And I will continue to watch it because I think Alicia is doing a good job and I also love Rob and Bess chemistry in this. Yes it’s my guilty pleasure. Yes maybe they are together in the afterlife.

Also WTF was that Serpent Queen TRAILER! WTF. Like STARZS!!! WHTA ARE YOU DOING WITH THESE WOMEN. I have no words

#elizabeth #queen #elizabeth i #elizabeth tudor #becoming elizabeth #tudor #justiceforelizabethi #serpent queen #catherine de medici #justiceforcatherinedemedici

[balkanikabg]

#historical facts #historical video #not sims related #catherine de medici #serpent queen #the serpent queen #Youtube

[hagsgate]

Nuwa the Serpent Queen explains how Magic works

Previous - CHapter Select - Next

#dnd #dnd comic #channeling #naga #serpent queen #nuwa #bassen #interlude

[nsfmusic]

Best The Serpent Queen Quotes – Tv Series

#serpent queen

[ichbinmeineeigenepuppe]

Wohin geht die Reise

#puppe #serpent queen

[isabelleneville]

⚜️ Starz The Serpent Queen ⚜️

Diane de Poitiers, mistress to King Henry II of France portrayed by Ludivine Sagnier 

#the serpent queen #serpent queen #theserpentqueenedit #perioddramaedit #ludivine sagnier #diane de poitiers #my edits

[kaiyonohime]

Has anyone watched ‘The Serpent Queen’ on Starz?  I kinda want to watch it (I’ve got a shawl I’m finishing knitting, I need something to watch!), but the summary of the show is so historically inaccurate that I don’t know if they wrote it that way to avoid spoilers, or the writers of the show were just that historically inaccurate (the show is not going for historically inaccurate in the way ‘Our Flag Means Death’ did, they seem to be trying to present the show as historical).  Which would be a shame.

The summary: 

[Considered an immigrant, common and plain, Catherine de Medici is married into the 16th century French court as an orphaned teenager expected to bring a fortune in dowry and produce many heirs, only to discover that her husband is in love with an older woman, her dowry is unpaid and she’s unable to conceive. Yet, only with her intelligence and determination, she manages to keep her marriage alive and masters the bloodsport that is the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years.]

Her husband, the future kind of France, did have affairs (are there any French royals that didn’t in the 16th century?), but she had a shit load of kids, including three sons that would rule as king of France.  

So... like, I’m kinda worried at just how far from historic the series needlessly drifts.  

#serpent queen

[period-dramallama]

I fear with the Serpent Queen that they'll recreate Fleabag and the Great without understanding WHY those shows work.

#the serpent queen #serpent queen

[perplexingly]

I like the whimsy of fairytales so much with all their strange rules that just are respected and personifications of things like the wind that noone questions and characters’s reactions that are either too drastic or too mild for the situation and never just right

Modern storytelling makes too much sense 😞

#just read the rest of the stories in the east of the sun west of the moon anthology can you tell #I also read about Egle queen of the serpents and kinda want to read an anthology of lithuanian tales

[queen-paladin]

disclaimer: yes, I am complaining about cheating in media. Because, yes, writers have the freedom to create what they want but if the morality in creation is free for all forms of media, but no piece of art is exempt from criticism, and that includes criticism on personal moral grounds. I betcha if I said Harry Potter is good, actually, everyone on here would flood my blog telling me I am wrong because of the author's intense prejudice. That being said, I am criticizing cheating in fiction, If you don't like that, don't interact

So often lately I see period dramas where the husband cheats on the wife (ex. Poldark, The Essex Serpent, Queen Charlotte, The Great)...and not only do I despise the cheating trope with every fibre of my being to where I get panic attacks when I consume the media...but specifically with period dramas...

Do these writers not understand the greater implications of a husband cheating on a wife during these periods? More than just the humiliation and heartbreak in the case of a loving, good marriage just like it is today.

In the Western world, probably until certain laws were enacted in the 1900's, if a woman married a man, she was legally his property. She had no legal identity under him. She was financially dependent on him. Any wages she made would automatically go to her husband. Her children were also not legally her children- they belonged to the father. If the husband died, even if the wife was still alive, the children were legally considered orphans.

Women could only rarely gain a divorce from their husbands. In England in the mid-1800's specifically, if a wife divorced a husband she had to prove he had to not only cheat but also be physically abusive, incestuous, or commit bestiality. On the other hand, a husband could divorce a wife just for being unfaithful. Because, kids, there were sexual double standards.

Getting married was often the endgame for a lot of women during that time. Sometimes you couldn't make your own living enough- marriage was a way to secure your entire future financially, with more than enough money to get by. If you were a spinster and middle class, you could get by with a job. But if you are an upper-class lady, the one thing a lady does not do is get a job and work. So upper-class spinsters basically were dependent on their families to get by (ex. Anne Elliott in Persuasion faces this with her own toxic family). As strange as it sounded today, marriage gave them some freedom to go about since a husband could be persuaded sometimes more easily than a father and one had a different home, their servants, etc. A husband was your foundation entirely for being a part of society, and standing up as your own woman.

So if a husband cheated on a wife, that was a threat to take all of that away.

He could give a lot of money that could be used to support his wife and children to the mistress. He could completely abandon said wife for the mistress. And since the wife legally couldn't get a job as he still lived, she would be dependent on any money he would said- and that is IF he sent over any money.

He could take her to court and publicly humiliate her to get a divorce away from her (look up the separation of Charles and Kate Dickens, he would call her mentally ill and say her cooking was bad and that she was having more children than they could keep up with all while having an affair and divorcing her to be with the misteress). And even if the wife was the nicest, more proper, goodest, more rule-abiding never-keeping-a-toe-out-of-line lady in town...as a man, the law was default on his side (look up Caroline Norton's A Letter to the Queen which details exactly that, the poor woman had her earnings as a writer taken by her husband and was denied access to her children from said husband)

So yeah...even if there was "no love" between them (and anytime the wife is portrayed as too boring or too bitchy so He HaS tO cHeAt is brought up is...pretty victim blamey)

So yeah. Period drama writers, if you have the husband have an affair ...just consider the reality of these things and address them, maybe punish the husband for once (*gasp* men facing consequences for their actions?!?!!), and if not, just please find other options and other tropes and devices for once.

#tw: cheating #cw: cheating #period dramas #feminism #history #books #tv shows #movies #television #tv series #costume drama #period film #queen charlotte #the essex serpent #the great #poldark