Nobody told me I'd have to title this thing.

With a large chin, a prominent slightly arched nose and delicate lips, the “face” of England’s King Richard III was unveiled on Tuesday, a day after researchers confirmed his remains had finally been found after 500 years.

A team of university archaeologists and scientists announced on Monday that a skeleton discovered last September underneath a council parking lot in Leicester was indeed that of Richard, the last English king to die in battle, in 1485.

Devotees of Richard, who have long campaigned to restore his reputation, proudly revealed a 3D reconstruction of the long-lost monarch’s head on Tuesday, introducing him to reporters as “His Grace Richard Plantagenet, King of England and France, Lord of Ireland”.

In which the like…head of the Richard III Defense Club absolutely loses her shirt because she was convinced that the scoliosis and whithered arm were ‘bad press’ because people didn’t like Richard III. 

When the examination proves them to be true she has to leave the room to compose herself.

I will tell you, I appreciate passions. But the attractiveness of a historical figure is not a hill I ever expected to see a person die upon. 

The difference being that, in this particular case, he took Richard’s well-remembered medical condition and turned it up to eleven. Yes, Richard did have one shoulder slightly higher than the other, but we’re two generations down the line and naaaaaah, no one else my age’ll remember that it was only a mild aberration of his shoulder. Let’s turn that into a full blown twisted back that is his entire motivation.

I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them

Technically, they’re not wrong about it being bad press, because it was. Shakespeare made him a very physically and visibly disabled villain. It came as such a shock to them that the bad press was based in reality and that Richard was actually not the embodiment of physical perfection they decided that he must be. They forgot that some people around in Shakespeare’s time would have remembered Richard. There probably were nasty jokes about him, just like there are jokes now about William’s thinning hair and Harry’s red hair (and/or legitimacy).

However, if you want to see something nifty (and I wish I could find a link, because it was awesome), they did a documentary some time later about a man with a similar degree of scoliosis as Richard III being dressed up and trying riding and armour and things like that, to see how someone with scoliosis would have coped. And what do you know? The armour served as a support truss and apparently made things easier for him, which he was really excited about. Also, they think Richard had a special saddle made to ensure stability on horseback, much like Kaiser Wilhelm did in the early 20th century.

First panel: NB person, crying, says “what if i’m faking all of it?”

Second panel: Friend replies “you know … cis people tend to not really question their gender …”

Third panel: nonbinary person is now smiling, friend continues with “so if you’re thinking you’re nonbinary”

Fourth panel: nonbinary person has stopped crying, friend finishes sentence with “you probably are!”]

like. he knows this is an impossible task. and it does happen–yes! in the first episode, so maybe we don’t even think about it that much! but when ozai tells zuko to go find the avatar, it’s an impossible task. and iroh knows this. and zuko might have everything riding on this, and he’s a kid and hasn’t learned what’s impossible yet, and so he’s plugging his ears and saying “i can do it! i can do it and then dad will love me again!”, but iroh knows the only reason this specific task was assigned is because ozai doesn’t want him. he doesn’t want him back. ozai didn’t want him to betray them so he gave him a little hope, a little “of course i could still love you, you can come back, that’s a possibility, just don’t disappoint me” because, you know, he’s an abusive dick. but iroh knows his brother, and he knows 

i think as a kid, while i loved loved iroh, it was a little hard to reconcile his silly moments with his wise moments. it’s not anymore 

i’m just thinking of the pai sho tile, and how silly it seemed at the time that it was just in his sleeve. silly old man! so forgetful 

no. no, that wasn’t it at all 

because every moment he stalled, every moment he mucked up the plan, every moment he just generally wasn’t helpful, that was another moment where he could still have a chance. where he might get through to zuko. where he could delay what was suddenly now a very real possibility: