Cornetto Deleted Scene | Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
For those worried about the crew having to do a whole job just for one person, flight staff only get paid for time they're in the air; if he'd cancelled, they wouldn't have gotten paid for zip.
So in other words, he gave them an easy day where they can spend most of it on break, and also airplane staff should unionize.
Also the plane likely has to get to NC somehow so you might as well have fun with it
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
a very important holiday amongst my people
FIFTEEN YEARS BABY
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Fantasy kingdom where Only Royalty Can Do Magic but the royal family is so promiscuous and polyamorous and generous in their interpretation of what counts as family (“Your second cousin’s niece’s husband counts as family by marriage! Absolutely!”) that the whole kingdom is Technically royalty within like. Two generations.
You’d think this would wreak havoc with succession claims but actually once they realize everyone in the kingdom can do magic and therefore everyone is royalty and theoretically fit to rule they decide the only sensible way to pick is to vote on it and accidentally invent democracy. They just have to be careful to keep calling the person they elect king bc no one’s entirely sure what would happen with the whole magic thing if it figures out they’ve rules-lawyered the whole thing.
There is however a whole department of very beleaguered court scribes who have to work out what everyone in the whole entire kingdom’s appropriate titles and rank are because the magic can get very unstable if you don’t know you’re royalty, which includes knowing the specifics of your title. This was supposed to be so that lost princes and princesses could have very dramatic reveals where they discover they’ve had magic all along but will never control it unless they accept their destiny and go to court to learn who they really are but now it means that whenever you forget your title your cleaning spells go on the fritz and you come home to the mop attempting to scrub the ceiling again.
A neighboring kingdom writes requesting a family tree be shared with them for their own records and diplomatic purposes and the court scribes write back “Respectfully, the royal family tree takes up an entire basement and cannot be provided via post”
Honestly don’t even need the first two p’s for this to work, just loving the idea of them being so comfortable with marrying into the lower classes AND having such broad definitions of what family means that it was enough to fool the magic, and once they figured it out they just kept rolling with that so everyone became technically related within a few generations.
It would even make sense if they did it on purpose (more magic, better quality of life!), but it’s definitely funnier/more wholesome if it started as a total accident because some king loved having more family and people started noticing that him acknowledging them as a second cousin’s niece’s husband’s third cousin’s wife’s adopted child gave them magic. Thank you for this, I was cracking up laughing by the second segment.
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