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I spent at least half the evening writing a short history of England, kings and queens based, as your average person would describe it. Occasional referring to the BBC for kings I wasn't sure on (and found out that there's a reason you don't know much about Stephen or Henry III). Ran into trouble once I finished James II, since I know bugger all beyond then, and even less about the Georges. (though what's interesting is that around then it suddenly gets littered with stuff about Prime Ministers and political parties and Cabinet ministers. Hmm. Were our history teachers trying to keep us from this pre-GCSE?)

Most entries are two lines max. For your perusal :

Henry III : Um. Does anyone know anything about this one?

Edward I, Hammer of the Scots, Longshanks : Hammer of the Scots. And the Welsh. And pretty much everyone.

Ignore *everything* Braveheart says. No, really. There isn't a single historically accurate fact in that thing. Well, except the torture scene, and now we've had Passion of the Christ, we now know far more about Mel Gibson's fixations than we ever wanted to.

Edward II : Gay. Murdered by his wife's boyfriend by the means of a red hot poker up his arse in some castle that wasn't his. (no really, what more do you need to know about a monarch?)

Edward III : Fought the French. Father of the Black Prince. Who was bloody scary in battle. Other son, John of Gaunt.

Richard II : Got on the throne as a kid - son of the Black Prince. Fell asleep during his coronation. Got deposed as an adult.

Henry VIII : Wives. Six of 'em. Founded the Church of England to get a divorce. Three legitimate kids that survived, a few illegitimate ones. (not exactly news when it comes to the British Monarchy) Apparently died of a syphilitic heart condition.

This is because I decided to add more to Oi Yanks No. Also being worked on are a brief description of attitude to religion and racial distribution, aka 'no we aren't religious' and 'what time is the next wave of immigration due?'

Oh, and I missed Holby City. :pout: Peter Wingfield, that's all I'm saying...

Also for those willing to squint please note what the sign says behind Ianto.

name change!

Just so you know, I'm changing my username. I've been kabukivice since my early-ish days in fandom (well, I spent the first bit as ghoststar3, but the only people who knew me as that were the very early members of the Warren Ellis Forums and my god, that takes me back.) and I'm very, very bored of it. (also, I haven't been a fan of the Kabuki comic in years.) So if you see burntcopper appear on your flist? That's me.

Probably going to phase out kabukivice.com and move everything fannish over to darkisrising.net as well.

silly meme

If my LJ/life were a fandom...

a. Who would people ship me with?
b. Who would be my arch-nemesis?
c. What would a Mary Sue in my fandom be like?
d. When or how did I/will I jump the shark?
e. Write a one sentence summary of the story that would win the Best Fanfic Award in my fandom.
f. What would a typical badfic involve?
g. Who would be the BNFs in my fandom?
h. Why would my fandom end up on fandom_wank?