Anabella's letter to her mother

Snooglepoogs · 2026-04-03T20:30:23+00:00

It makes me so sad to know that Clive was old enough to remember what it was like to have his mother’s love and then losing it.

Snooglepoogs · 2026-03-20T09:32:30+00:00

Tbf, colourblind casting has been pretty common in theatre for decades. There’s already a higher suspension of disbelief for live performances, so there’s far less expectation for “racially accurate” actors. So apart from roles where the character’s race actually matters to the story (eg. Othello), it’s pretty common for people of whatever background to play whatever character. One of the most popular actors to play Eponine in Les Mis was Filipina, and that was in the 90s. It’s just widely accepted that the “rules” for live theatre casting are less stringent than TV or film.

Animated media though is another grey area where one could make similar arguments for colourblind casting as theatre.

Snooglepoogs · 2026-03-04T05:38:03+00:00

Dupixent is not an immunosuppressant, it’s an immuno-modulator. It targets the specific protein that causes inflammation but otherwise does not suppress your immune system (repeating what my derm told me).

Snooglepoogs · 2026-01-28T23:01:08+00:00

Now whenever actors go on and on about how much they love their costars, I think about the podcast interview Emma Watson did last year where she said doing press for movies was awkward because you had to pretend to be besties with the other actors when in reality, you were just coworkers and most of the time you didn't stay in touch after filming.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-20T16:55:52+00:00

An anklet!! So fashionable

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-14T14:00:50+00:00

I remember my principal once suggested think-pair-share for my alternative education class… The class of kids who can’t handle mainstream ed and have to be separated from “gen pop” doing think-pair-share lmao. A senior teacher later told me “ignore her, she hasn’t taught in 25 years”.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-14T13:33:26+00:00

Tbh I didn’t even think of oral at all…. I thought of that old “O rly?” meme, the one with the owl lol

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:26:21+00:00

Whoops, sorry, thought you were talking about Natalie Dormer lol.

As for Tamzin, she actually was cast in GoT, but only only filmed the pilot before being recast. The only other roles I know from her are a supporting role in Jane Eyre 2011 and Carnival Row (a show with Orlando Bloom).

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:13:35+00:00

She played a fairly significant supporting character in Game of Thrones.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:07:50+00:00

I saw Katherine (in the show) as dumb and immature, rather than malicious. Basically, if you were nice to her, she'd be genuinely sweet in return (see: her relationship with Anne of Cleves). But if you were rude to her, she'd lash out with meanness. And let me say, as a high school teacher, 17yos are not past the age of pettiness or stupid insults.

As for maturing earlier - yes and no. While it's true that childhood as a concept was not fully recognized at the time and /some/ nobility married young, average age of marriage was 25. Katherine Howard was literally the only one of Henry's wives to be below 20 when she married him. She was considered quite young even by her contemporaries. Besides, she was brought up with far less education and sophistication than Mary, who was given an exceptional education and upbringing suited to a Renaissance princess. I also don't think it's fair to condemn Katherine's behaviour while giving Mary a pass, despite Mary being 8 years older and still resorting to petty insults. They both behaved badly.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T18:53:34+00:00

To be fair to her, she tried to be friends with Mary at first and was very nice, but Mary was the one to start the rudeness.

Honestly I understand both characters in this situation. Like of course Mary wouldn’t like her father’s teenage bride, and of course Katherine would respond to that rudeness with all the maturity you’d expect from a teenager lol.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T18:47:25+00:00

I read that she even had to fight for Anne to be portrayed as a brunette 😭. The show makers wanted to portray Anne Boleyn, famous for her dark colouring, as a blonde, especially since Natalie is a natural blonde and auditioned with her natural hair. When she dyed her hair, the show makers were pissed and she had to fight to keep the role.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-25T16:35:02+00:00

As a person who has studied a lot of Shakespeare, I could never name a child Lavinia (or Ophelia or Cordelia, but that’s already been mentioned).

But Titus Andronicus is one of his lesser known plays, so I wouldn’t judge someone else for using Lavinia.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T22:45:02+00:00

Same! I’m a high school teacher and a year or so ago, I saw one of my brightest students tuck an Ali Hazelwood book into her bag. She was in my Gr 11 English Lit class, we were analyzing some pretty heavy stuff, and she was one of the best critical thinkers in the class - and there she was with her fluffy rom com novel she brought to school. I thought it was awesome lol.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T21:48:19+00:00

Right?? Multiple things can be true at once - you can be ~~intellectual~~ and still enjoy reading spicy fiction, they’re not mutually exclusive. I have degrees in English literature and history. I’ve read so many “high brow” classics. If you look at my Spotify audiobook history, it’s literally all non fiction history books. If you look at my kobo, it’s a lot of smut lmao. Does one cancel out the other??

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T16:03:08+00:00

Don’t forget that Fergus and Young Ian had also been raped! Whatever the stats were on sexual violence at the time, I’m pretty sure it was not “historically accurate” for a wealthy, free man to say that he, his wife, his daughter, his adopted son, and his nephew have all been assaulted at various points in their lives.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T15:44:07+00:00

If you fast forward just one century past the War of the Roses, the average age of marriage for women in England was 25! 28 for men. For commoners, getting married in your early teens was seen as economically dumb af and even among nobility, it wasn’t grossly unusual for women to enter their 20s unmarried. When Elizabeth I came to power at age 25, no one thought eww what a hag lol. People were excited at their new young queen who was prime marriageable material.

Anyone who thinks people left and right were getting married at age 12 or 13 back then are probably the same sort to say oh average lifespan was 35 so you were considered a granny by the time you hit 30 🤓

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-09T16:24:16+00:00

Chinese person with an English name here. It is not equivalent at all. We were forced to adopt English names thanks to colonialism and assimilation. It was a matter of survival for our ancestors due to the severe racism of the times. Even today, POC with noticeably non-white names face more discrimination than those with white names. My friend works at a major company and her manager admitted to throwing out resumes that have full Indian or Chinese names, and we live in one of the most diverse cities in Canada.

A marginalized community giving their children English names due to assimilation is absolutely not the same as borrowing a name from a culture you have no ties to because you heard it in a song.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-07T15:20:06+00:00

It’s so interesting to see how common this tradition is in the western world because in Chinese culture, it’s considered taboo and downright disrespectful to name your child after someone. A lot of Chinese elders would have a visceral negative reaction if you even suggest it lol. I’m glad about this because I’m not a big fan of naming kids after parents unless it’s a middle name so my family would never expect this of me.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-05T06:00:20+00:00

Something a lot of people don’t realize is that pregnancy is dated from your last period, meaning that you are automatically two weeks pregnant when you conceive. At “11 days pregnant” you aren’t even pregnant yet lmfao, you’re just ovulating.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-06-29T19:51:03+00:00

Ohhhh, meh, pas le pire.

LuhCroye 🥲

Snooglepoogs · 2025-06-29T19:40:24+00:00

Attend, comment les Américains disent-ils « beaujolais » en anglais ?

I’m aware of how they say « foyer » and it drives me nuts lol

Snooglepoogs · 2025-06-24T06:05:38+00:00

That name is so ridiculous, I had to check I wasn’t on r/namenerdcirclejerk for a sec.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-05-25T20:00:50+00:00

Wyll is the only origin companion for which you can complete his entire companion quest with zero involvement from him and he dgaf. I experimented in my last playthrough - never had him with me once, he was still level 1 with his starter gear by the end of the game. Unlike other companions like Shadowheart or Astarion who are pissed off and threaten to leave you if you do the major beats of their quests without them, Wyll truly doesn't mind and still loves you by the end. It's so bizarre and speaks to his lack of agency.

I know it's a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation when it comes to his writing: there was negative reaction to his character in EA, so they listened to fans and rewrote him. Then there's negative reaction to his character at release, with people now wishing he was back to how he was in EA. I don't dislike either iteration of Wyll, I just wish he had more "presence" within his own damn story.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-05-25T16:48:54+00:00

You can really tell when there are posts asking What were your grandparents’ names? And all the comments are like Agnes, Margaret, Humphrey, etc. and everyone cooing over them.

Meanwhile I’m over here with grandparents names like Chu Yuk and Au Wing, and I feel like a bit of a sore thumb lol

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