Amy, have you read Wolf Hall (& its sequel)? Those have straightened me out about the Tudors. And are really great!
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Feb 15, 2013 5:58:57 am PST #11434 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 15, 2013 6:02:41 am PST #11435 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Jackbooted Neo-Nazi "security guards" performing illegal searches and rousting workers out of their beds in the middle of the night... who could have foreseen that might become a problem?
sumi - Feb 15, 2013 6:03:18 am PST #11436 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
-But Amy - that's all post Wars of the Roses except for Richard III.
So you want Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III and then the Tudors.
Amy - Feb 15, 2013 6:05:37 am PST #11437 of 30001
Because books.
I guess my point is that I only know post Wars of the Roses, sumi. I do need to get caught up on the others.
We have Wolf Hall, lisah, and Stephen read it and loved it -- I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
lisah - Feb 15, 2013 6:08:01 am PST #11438 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm a few pages from finishing the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, & I am stalling because I don't want it to end. And then wait however long ut will take the 3rd book to be published.
sumi - Feb 15, 2013 6:08:44 am PST #11439 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I think that the lesson of the Wars of the Roses is that EIII had too many sons. . . and then his heir decided to leave the throne to a descendant from the female line and all hell broke loose.
(See Wikipedia.)
Liese S. - Feb 15, 2013 6:12:12 am PST #11440 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I know, Matt, people are so sensitive!
But hey, you'd all have been fine if you'd still been boycotting the one-click patent like me. Which is obviously so much more important than human rights issues.
Kate P. - Feb 15, 2013 6:53:31 am PST #11441 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm boycotting Amazon because of their bullying tactics with independent brick-and-mortar stores! So many good reasons.
Hey Liese, I dreamed last night that you showed me one of your cigar-box guitars! It only had three strings, but then when I looked closer each string was made up of like 20 super-thin individual strings. The sound was kinda weird and jangly, but they looked very cool!
lisah - Feb 15, 2013 6:55:29 am PST #11442 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Kate's reasons for boycotting are the same as mine!
Steph L. - Feb 15, 2013 6:58:05 am PST #11443 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm boycotting Amazon because of their bullying tactics with independent brick-and-mortar stores! So many good reasons.
On the flip side, as of April, their health insurance (for the employees who have it) will cover transgender-related medical stuff, including reassignment surgery (I have no idea what perentage the employee pays, what the deductible is, etc.). (We have a trans* friend who works for Amazon, and she just recently told us about it, because reassignment surgery has been her goal, but without insurance it's prohibitively expensive. So she's thrilled, obvs.)
So now I'm torn about Amazon, damn it.
And Knut's new book -- the serial -- is available only as a Kindle thing, and I want to support him (plus I would want to read it anyway, because it sounds awesome). So...complicated Amazon feels.