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william and mary are trying for a baby. there are some Reactions

look what my friend had to say about charles and james

(Thank you CapCut for making everything out of sync)

walked in on the boss reading her brother's porn stash and now i'm kind of tempted to ask if she'd like to do a 'photo shoot' with me too...

and the award for the best dressed six lives character goes tooo!!!

boy Mary AU w&m. well now its William and CHARLES but there can only be so many charleses at once so I shall refrain from calling her that. I think if she had to rule as king Mary would kind of take after William and be a bit more reclusive and serious, though she can still function at social events better than him. Quite a change from the previous Charles.

Since this is mostly crack I did not really think it through how she will come to rule, but it would be neat if they still had the glorious revolution just with Mary on her own, and some help from William. this does not make sense at all.

plus now there are Three of them. Monmouth and William can compete to be Mary's favorite cousin while teaching her about all the Normal Man Hobbies she is supposed to have now that she's a boy. James can't believe that after all this effort to keep his precious daughter/son away from stinky gross William, they have become besties.

I know you're a Charles II fan, so I'm asking if you've been to the Boscobel house? I would like to go there someday as I love visiting historic homes and stuff where famous people and historical figures have lived.

Yes, I've been to Boscobel! I took some pics:

This is the ancestor of the oak tree that Charles II hid in when he was trying to avoid the Roundheads:

Here's one of the priest-holes that Charles hid in. He was over 6ft and this priest-hole is tiny and not very tall so he had to stoop for about 48 hours:

And this mound in the garden is from the 17th century. A mound in the garden was a French idea; you can sit on top of it and observe your beautiful garden. Charles II actually sat on this mound on his second day hiding in Boscobel, and he read love poetry whilst the Penderell brothers kept watch:

"Odd's Fish!"

“Odd’s Fish” was the favourite exclamation of King Charles II. It also featured in the play ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ and was said by Captain Hook (a character who based his image on King Charles) in the 1953 Disney version of 'Peter Pan’.

It is what is known as a 'Minced Oath’ a specific kind of euphemism or disguise mechanism, whereby an offending term or taboo phrase is distorted or “minced” so that it no longer offends. (We still have the idiom “not to mince one’s words” meaning to speak frankly.)

Other examples are, God’s truth becoming strewth!, by God! becoming egad or plain Gad !, Jee whiz for Jesus, Crickey for Christ, Lummey! for Lord love me!, tarnation for damnation, heck for Hell, Deuce for the Devil.

In the late sixteenth century there were increasing Puritan injunctions against the use of profanity on the stage, so that there is no doubt that the response was the great number of minced oaths. Consequently, the name of God was either distorted to gad or abbreviated to od , producing curious forms like ’od’s my will for “as God is my will” and ’od’s me for “God save me.”

The minced oaths caught on in their own right and were still used after the Restoration.

Odd’s fish is a minced oath for “God’s face.”