While We're All Mourning Helen McCrory And Her Characters, I Have To Throw In, Her Children Are Thirteen

A lot of characters. Really. Too many of them.

Reblog if you like characters that everyone else seems to hate.

What are you doing later? Probably having bad Chinese take out with Eli.

“my child is completely fine” your child thinks buying unnecessarily expensive stationery is going to make them a better student

bonus points if someone comes in and interrupts you and you have to start all over.

Things that you need to remember to understand the vast majority of European history:

Britain and France’s foreign policies towards one another was essentially a mutual fuck you

Russia is big and cold

(On a related point: invading Russia doesn’t work because Winter™️)

The Pope loves a good crusade

There were a lot of treaties of ‘Perpetual Peace’ that totally worked (lol)

Trying to maintain the ✨balance of power ✨ pretty much always led to war 

German wasn’t Germany until quite recently but when Germany became Germany it made everyone a bit nervous

Italy also wasn’t Italy until pretty recently

The French love a revolution

They also love a republic but aren’t great at keeping one around 

Napoleon (the first one) was a Bitch and messed everything up

Standard British answer to any reasonable request: ✨no ✨

War is the answer to everything cause who doesn’t love a good war?

The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t the Roman Empire but they liked to tell themselves that it was

The Habsburgs liked to be in charge

😍 m o n e y 😍

Britain liked ships

Spain also liked ships

So did the Portuguese

The Spanish were very Catholic  (but the Spanish Inquisition were actually expected)

Basically all the royals were related (*haemophilia has entered the chat*)

England and Scotland were Not Friends but France and Scotland were (which equaled Major Problems)

The Dutch were 💰rich 💰and everyone wanted a bit of it

Religion was a *bit* of an issue

✨ feudalism ✨

Everyone want to be the Romans 2.0 

You could making a drinking game out of all the French Wars of Religion

Everyone found the Ottomons a little bit scary (cause they were *gasps and screams of horror* not Christian)

There has been more than one defenestrations in Prague 

Poland Lithuania was not very Lithuanian

British policy to land/important cultural item/anything that they come across: ✨finders keepers ✨

Ziva: What’s up guys? I’m back.

Tony : What the- you can’t be here. You’re dead. I literally saw you die.

Ziva: Death is a social construct.

Poor Maggie

Margaret “keeper of wombs’ secrets” Pierce 

Sorry Owen

step 1: apply cold water to burned area

Weird Words to Learn for No Reason

coenaculous - fond of dining; relishing food; especially suppers

irisate - to render iridescent

intersidereal - between or among constellations or stars

interlunation - the dark time between the old moon and the new; can also be used to refer to a period of darkness or blackness in general

ensanguine - to stain or cover with, or as with, blood

sphacelated - necrosed; dark and shrunken

limn - to depict or describe in painting or words; to outline or highlight something with a bright color or light

vinewed - moldy; musty

plutolatry - the worship of wealth

chthonic - of, belonging to, or relating to the underworld