Tag: mihrsuri

Most romantic H/A moments? In The Tudors and/or history?

The top was probably after she recovered from the Sweat (that was like a pinnacle reunion scene like…I don’t think anything has topped it since, on any period drama, altho this came pretty close).

Sadly, the thing about Tudors was that their relationship wasn’t actually very well-developed or well-written? So tbh I don’t think there were that many romantic moments between the two of them on the show, or not as much as there should have been, at any rate.

We know they’re in the love but we don’t know, like…why. We don’t really see them talk to each other about their families, their childhoods, their hopes and dreams and fears; so in that way it was very Tell-Not-Show:

Worse, the earthshaking union between Henry and Anne is nearly as talky. She wants to be queen, he wants her to be queen (I’ll spare you the 15 versions of this conversation), but the pair, pretty and unknowable, lack any clear reason why they’re so smitten. The audience is expected to take their word for it — and there are plenty of words, just few that resonate. In one scene, a triumphantly pregnant Anne giddily declares a craving for apples, and she becomes a real person, but The Tudors provides too few of those moments. Instead, Henry and Anne nag and harp and tongue each other. It’s like asking us to root for a particularly vapid reality TV couple.

 Some of this was, I think, due to limited screentime (and the time jump in between s1 and s2), and had they not done the storyline where Norfolk and Thomas Boleyn are pushing/manouevering Anne into the relationship they probably would’ve had a better arc. Because tbh, that took up a lot of time. 

We don’t see that many intimate moments between them (not even them waking up with each other), most are focused on sex. Which is a shame, imo, because I think their relationship was about a lot more than just sex but that’s often what it’s reduced to. 

Anyway, I’ll pull a few from my tag that I like, those I use for inspo:

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this one she’s not technically in but it’s about her and i </3 :

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i’ll do another fic/fandom because why not:

i’ve started to see some really upsetting comments on other people’s fics; and it’s made me so cautious that i’ve just started moderating comments on my own.

like ‘

sad that authors think they can post a chapter their fic and then never update’ and like… of course they can?? it’s their fic, not yours. if you want control of an update schedule, then you need to write your own fic. simple as that. 

tl;dr it was a really long and upsetting thread in a fandom i write for (telling the author they ‘owed them an apology’, lmao) and i feel like there’s been this kind of shift in fandom behavior of like…demanding updates more often than you actually write a comment to the author about what you like about the story in the first place. 

and also a shift in like…spam like comments? i actually don’t agree with ‘any comment is better than none’. i would rather have none than ‘update!’ and i would rather have none than one-word comments that have no context like ‘bastard’ (you have to assume it’s one of your characters, but you don’t know which one?? if people aren’t going going to specify, sometimes it’s better to just…not say anything, tbh).