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TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERINE HOWARD THE TUDORS | 'Bottom of The Pot' — S04E05

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This is from Bluebeard but I’m calling it Catherine of Aragon with Jimmy IV’s head

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there is love in this story. even in its most brutal end. there is love in the story. how? where? here: here in me telling it to you, in spite of everything. because of everything.

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Marguerite Godin / "Griselda" / 1894 / Baron Gérard Museum

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PSA TO ALL READERS while wandering around a mall today I was ensnared by a powerful force that bade me enter a place called Barnes & Noble. in a daze I wandered the displays and was compelled to even pick up several books that this force attempted to foist upon me at great personal cost to myself. it was only through great strength of will that I was able to fight off this befouling force by withdrawing my cellular device from my pocket and logging into my library account to place requests for the same books at no cost that i was able to escape without grievous harm. truly it's crazy out there, stay safe and remember that libraries are always there to provide aid as you fight against such forces of darkness

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“it is singular that the personal badge of jane seymour should be put in the hall of the father whose only son had been executed just before her marriage as one of the lovers of anne boleyn” english aristocratic brains coked out on the divine right of kings what can i say?

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Jane Seymour inspired clothing from Virtual Yarns' Tudor Roses collection

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enemy feminisms: terfs, policewomen + girlbosses against liberation - sophie lewis

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— Edoardo De Falchi, Holbein / Léger

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I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.

— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)

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you only die once! when you do, make sure to make it as intentionally traumatic for everyone else around you as possible!!

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A small family tree depicting Henry VIII, his six wives and his children. Dates to the reign of Edward VI who is depicted at the bottom of the page. His line is connected to his father, Henry VIII at the top center and his mother Jane Seymour. To Henry’s left is Katherine of Aragon and underneath Katherine to the left is her daughter Mary Tudor. To Henry’s right is Anne Boleyn and she is connected to Elizabeth, her daughter.

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Let's be a medieval manuscript with mama

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

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