tenderly i remain your antisocial king

@punai

the relationship between tomas cromwell and anne boleyn in these books just really defies description. they’re sisterwives to henry viii together. they’re eve and the serpent. they’re each other’s other woman. she’s his hag. he might have been in love with her sister but they don’t talk about that. she trusts him because he’s not noble and therefore expendable but that’s the main reason she doesn’t trust him. he put her in power and is actively trying to supplant her because he wants to watch her think her way out of it. she tried to get him beheaded yesterday but today they’re getting brunch. he’s her right hand left hand arm. she’s his silly rabbit. does he call her that. no

Also. Thomas Cromwell having infinitely more respect, attention, and affection for Cristophe the random ill-tempered rude French urchin who he lets live in his house and pays to torture people because Cristophe tracked him down in Calais to be like cremuel I hear you are a rat bastard sick son of a bitch you should hire me since the cops are after me. He has more love for Cristophe than he does Gregory, his own sweet respectable and gently raised son. Because gave Gregory the upbringing he himself could only dream of as a poor blacksmith’s son getting the shit kicked out of him daily and cannot stand him for it. This is so Logan Succession. You DO have to be a killer

you have to kill the rupaul in your mind

when (some orb-weaver?) spiders are hungrier they build/adjust their webs so the strands are more taut, meaning the web is more sensitive, and smaller prey than normal will make it vibrate (every bite counts when you're starving!). but ALSO: if you station a well-fed spider on a web that was built by an extremely hungry spider, that spider will go capture the kinds of tiny bugs that the looser web it would have built itself wouldn't have alerted it to. they outsource the decision-making for which prey to go after to their web! they just adjust the settings til they seem about right for the moment and then go along with whatever the web picks up. "the spider will eat whatever it's aware of, and it sets the bounds of its awareness by spinning different kinds of webs." that's so cool....