The Fuck Am I Doing

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It appears you do not have enough cringe on your dashboard so here is a throwback to some months ago when I had an acute omegaverse obsession and just made these silly AUs for Ivan and Alfred.

The first one is a classic fae court AU because I think I had just finished reading ACOTAR and I didn’t like it or anything but I did want Alfred be a dazzling Seelie prince and Ivan to be cool Unseelie king so that’s why this idea was born. I just love drawing Alfred in dresses sometimes 🥹

day 1 - magic/fantasy

day 2 - cat france + wizard england

day 3 - forced proximity

day 4 + day 5 - nyotalia+pirates

day 6 - medieval (redraw)

so at topkapı palace there exists this wonderful portrait of selim i – with a pearl earring. even a cursory knowledge of gender and costume in the ottoman empire will tell you this is definitely not in the ottoman tradition (men occasionally wore rings, but jewelry was relegated to women and (male) slaves as it were). one of the romanticized explanations to this startling exception was that selim i had declared himself “the slave of god” (as suleiman the magnificent, his son, would also claim). we know better now that the portrait was most likely not selim i but a depiction of shah ismail i, selim’s persian contemporary

He will understand <3

I rarely use tumblr unless it’s to repost my indie project no one cares about but I forgot that this is how a lot of people connect with fandom spaces and I could totally dump my fanworks here.

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I don’t usually publicly talk abt my heta interest bc I’ve got a big history special interest so I always redo the characters in my headcanons which makes them a bit older and crustier usually and ALWAYS with lore accurate uniforms.

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