spartacus challenge: five quotes [01/05]
→ and it grips until there is nothing left.

ruffling: someday when I’m queen… listening to a great mix and this song made me really sad

ruffling:

someday when I’m queen…

listening to a great mix and this song made me really sad

branstahk:

the romanovs - a miniseries 

         a would-be ten part series detailing the beginning of a reign, and the end of an imperial dynasty. 

nicholas II - chris pine
alexandra - emily blunt
grigori rasputin - viggo mortensen 
olga - jennifer lawrence
tatiana- freya mavor
maria - lily collins
anastasia - hailee steinfeld
alexei - isaac hempstead-wright

clarasoswns:

Whouffle Playlist — Somebody to Die For by Hurts

I’ve got nothing left to live for
Got no reason yet to die
But when I’m standing in the gallows
I’ll be staring at the sky
Because no matter where they take me
Death I will survive
And I will never be forgotten
With you by my side

kat-oakenshield: game of thrones fancast: oded fehr as oberyn martell, the red viper of dorne “I will hear you say her name, Ser, or I will chase you through all seven hells.”

kat-oakenshield:

game of thrones fancast: oded fehr as oberyn martell, the red viper of dorne

“I will hear you say her name, Ser, or I will chase you through all seven hells.”

starkbenjen:

No matter what is beyond my control, nothing will ever make me less than a woman. I am and will always be a powerful woman.

plantagenet: history meme | ten moments: the white ship sinks, 1120 “As the royal esnecca put to sea in the twilight, a glamorous company of ebullient young aristocrats assembled onthe White Ship’s freshly scrubbed deck. Altogether the prince’s entourage numbered more than two-hundred from the cream of the Anglo-Norman nobility to the fifty rowers grasping the long oars that stretched down beneath the great square sail to the dark sea below. …No one saw the rock at the mouth of the harbour. There was no warning: just the heart-stopping jolt of a brutal impact; the sickening crunch of splintering wood; and sudden screaming panic as the ship began to list. With freezing water pouring in through the shattered hull, it took only minutes for the White Ship to go down… it was a personal tragedy for the English king: Henry had lost kinsmen, friends, and servants, and, most terrible of all, three of his beloved children. But, for a king, the personal was always political, and all Henry’s hopes for his country’s future had been swallowed by the sea along with his drowned son. “No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster,” William of Malmesbury wrote grimly.” (x) 

plantagenet:

history meme | ten moments: the white ship sinks, 1120

“As the royal esnecca put to sea in the twilight, a glamorous company of ebullient young aristocrats assembled onthe White Ship’s freshly scrubbed deck. Altogether the prince’s entourage numbered more than two-hundred from the cream of the Anglo-Norman nobility to the fifty rowers grasping the long oars that stretched down beneath the great square sail to the dark sea below.

…No one saw the rock at the mouth of the harbour. There was no warning: just the heart-stopping jolt of a brutal impact; the sickening crunch of splintering wood; and sudden screaming panic as the ship began to list. With freezing water pouring in through the shattered hull, it took only minutes for the White Ship to go down… it was a personal tragedy for the English king: Henry had lost kinsmen, friends, and servants, and, most terrible of all, three of his beloved children. But, for a king, the personal was always political, and all Henry’s hopes for his country’s future had been swallowed by the sea along with his drowned son. “No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster,” William of Malmesbury wrote grimly.” (x) 

favourite asoiaf characters; Stannis Baratheon

“I am king. Wants do not enter into it. I have a duty to my daughter. To the realm. Even to Robert. He loved me but little, I know, yet he was my brother. The Lannister woman gave him horns and made a motley fool of him. She may have murdered him as well, as she murdered Jon Arryn and Ned Stark. For such crimes there must be justice. Starting with Cersei and her abominations. But only starting. I mean to scour that court clean. As Robert should have done after the Trident.”