it’s actually incredible how much a good actress makes a difference to a project/ perception of the historic figure they’re playing……… had anne boleyn been played by anyone besides natalie dormer on tudors, i honestly don’t think anne would be as loved as she is among ~my gen~ or w/e today.

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Did you watch The Tudors as it was coming out? I’m rly curious what your reaction was (assuming you already had some knowledge of Anne/the period), as I didn’t have a lot of in-depth knowledge when I watched & I wonder how that affected the ~experience lol

I did, but I was 13 when it came out lolol…

I had really no knowledge of the era beyond fiction; although it wasn’t the first Tudor era thing I’d watched/read…before this I had watched AOTD, the Lady Jane movie w/ HBC, the made-for-tv version of Red Rose: House of Tudor (that book that was like a young Elizabeth’s diary?), and had read Doomed Queen Anne and the book about young Mary (I) by that same author, and also TOBG (forgive me my trespasses~).

Somehow, I don’t think I totally absorbed that these characters were based on real people? That probably makes me sound dumb shshsh but like…idk I didn’t really grasp that idt, mainly I just found the first season entertaining in a guilty-pleasure kind of way (I would stay up late and watch it when my parents were asleep).

I can’t speak for others, but I think it definitely had a big impact on me…I disliked George and Thomas Boleyn for quite awhile because of it, it made me think Henry VIII had been a reality-show brat since birth, it gave me the impression that the age gap between COA and Henry had been huge…later on it made me think Katherine Howard had actually been guilty of adultery (although this didn’t make me unsympathetic to her– for a lot of fans online it did, apparently!! gross~), that the Flanders mare quote about AOC was real, that Charles Brandon was younger than Henry or the same age, etc.

And it didn’t make me want to research immediately; it was more after I rewatched the series when I was older than I began to see the flaws and inaccuracies for what they were and start doing some indepedent research/reading on the Tudor era and its most prominent figures.

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If asks ~count (I mean it’s your original ~thought, I think it should):

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This is SO corny (and not exactly~ original content shshsh just one of my non-aesthetic ‘mood-boards’) but I had fun making it, lol, so:

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My weird, dreamy reincarnation fic one-off.

The only single one-shot historic fic I’m remotely proud of…

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Thanks! I feel like a lot of ask memes are created for askers rather than…for the OP, honestly? So I thought it was fitting. And sometimes posts don’t turn up in tracked tags for whatever reason and so people that might like them don’t see them, ya never know…

This one… it is time-consuming to take screenshots from doc’s !! Also I felt like it represented the quote well, and I liked that I thought of aging in reverse, thought it was appropos for the quote also.

been thinking about this post a lot lately; and i thought i’d make an ask meme to address it.

a very simple way to promote posts you wish wish had more notes, or fics you wish you had more feedback on:

send a 💗 and i’ll respond with a post with original content~ that i wish had more notes, or a fic that i wish had more comments.

me watching people i’ve blocked who have been incredibly rude to me and my friends (some of who have tagged me in ~call-out posts, lol); and overall condescending and insufferable, continue to reblog from my sideblog (because you can only block them from posts on your main):

logan-delos:

No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But, despite everything, we didn’t do badly by one another. We did as well as most.

audreycooper:

Mädchen Amick as Shelly Johnson in Twin Peaks (1990-1991)

dailydormer:

_{Behind the Tudors – Tower of London}