Not the dead Clythia

The pipeline from “I’m indifferent/slightly averse towards this popular ship” to “this ship shows up in every fucking unrelated fanwork and post and now I have a personal grudge against it because it’s so hard to avoid” is surprisingly short

Cuddles for little Hvitserk :)

drew this as a "me time" drawing, hope you all like it.

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

Girls will be like "awww my skrunkly, my blorbo, my little meow meow" and then draw that poor guy in a reenactment of a biblical scene

Blorbo is Athelstan and the girl is Michael Hirst

i pledge allegiance to the fags......

Someone let George Blagden play a really terrifying villain. Let him do it. I want to see him go full evil. Just let him run fucking wild.

That’s it Athelstan, force those carnal thoughts deep down inside, see how long you can keep them there with those two around.

Y’know, I’ve tried and tried to read his body language/expressions in this scene as, “That’s it. I have clearly descended into a violent and depraved Hell.” I mean, that’s what we’re supposed to think he’s going through, right? He’s just experienced a sudden, violent attack, his brothers being murdered; being kidnapped, bound, and taken across the sea, and now officially enslaved by these people. Their invitation for him to engage in such a filthy, sinful act surely is supposed to be just one more thing to add to the list of brutal, awful things he’s experienced in the past several days.

And yet … Instead of him being revolted by their lovemaking, he has to force himself to read his Gospel instead of watch them going at it. Instead of expressing disgust at the proposition, or even just plain telling them that he doesn’t want to, he falls back on his vows. He wants this, and the only reason he says no is because he’s still desperately trying to hang on to the person he was before Ragnar showed up. That next scene, when he tries to shave his head again, even if he’s hurting himself doing it? That’s penance. That’s him punishing himself for even considering the offer—because he did.

Yes, the Northmen did awful things to him and people he cared about. Yes, Ragnar enslaved him. But he was not a free man to begin with. He was enslaved by the church, which had owned him since he was a child, and bound by their harsh rules of asceticism. In putting that rope around his neck, Ragnar actually gave him more freedom than he had ever had before, and this scene makes it clear that Athelstan knows it.

All of this.  He wasn’t repulsed by their offer at all, he was desperately trying to cling to religious reasons not to join them.  He never actually told them “no”, just that “it would be a sin.” He wants to, but his enslavement to the church would forbid it, and he knows of no other way to exist. 

#what decades of pent-up sexual tension look like

i love love LOVE princess kwenthrith and her voracious sexual appetite and her absolutely unabashed objectification of men

and i fucking love how king ecbert is like u go girl get iiiit

me: full-on atheist except when thinking about ragnar and athelstan whom art in heaven and/or valhalla happily together and also multiple-times reincarnated and married 4ever

i want autism mommies to mean hot autistic milfs and not what it actually means

Girls on tumblr be like “baby boy. Baby.”

And it’s a murderer

murder should be legal if it's your friends' shitty parents

fem!ivar the boneless

ive been thinking abt Margrethe.

for starters, her relationship with Ubbe was never one i was really rooting for, but the more i think abt it the more it? grosses me out??

Czytaj dalej

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