cardboard-aliens:

It’s so funny how Elizabeth is only allowed to have “cute” character flaws- They make her naive and too nice because that’s attractive and easier to sell- look at her she’s insecure about her pinky!!! BUT WHO taught her there was anything wrong with her pinky??????? She was isolated enough to pick up on racism BUT she somehow still got internalized ableism???????? how???? Her only context is herself- even if she read an anatomy book or something to see other people usually have their both pinky fingers the same size how did she draw the conclusion that her slightly shorter pinky was a “deformity” to be ashamed of????? (it’s not even that noticeable and easy to forget about- that’s why they have that dumb scene where they full stop the story to remind you Elizabeth has a short pinky. Cut off her whole arm cowards.)

It just feels like they were picking whatever traits they wanted with no regard for if it made sense in the context of her back story- Elizabeth can’t be racist despite being the heir of a white supremacist city b/c that’s not marketable, but some insecurity and pity parties??? throw that in now she’s a woobie and that’s CUTE.

klassizismus:

Details: Shipwreck off a rocky coast on March, Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1694

chooh2:

noctumsolis:

quasi-normalcy:

Concept: A series that starts off as an historical drama building towards some major event, like the assassination of Caesar or the crucifixion or something, where everyonein your audience knows what’s “supposed” to happen; and then it turns out in the first season finale that one of the characters is a time traveller on a mission to change history and they actually succeed, so it segues into a bizarre alternate history narrative in season 2.

And the hints are all there that this character is a time traveller from the first episode, but you don’t pay attention to them because you figure that it’s just the normal level of anachronism in historical dramas, like: “Wow, that person has surprisingly progressive views for the Victorian period” or “Ah, I don’t think they said ‘dude’ in the fourteenth century, lol.” And then they don’t know what they’re watching until it’s too late

Make it happen.