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janesemel · 15 hours
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porcile (1969) dir. pier paolo pasolini // the lion in winter by james goldman
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janesemel · 15 hours
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I will never understand the “good girl” craze amongst zoomers this space is for “filthy whore” enjoyers only
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janesemel · 2 days
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janesemel · 2 days
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And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 
“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“
She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.
A few years later, when she was 25 or so:
“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“
During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”
A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.
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janesemel · 2 days
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Modern AU Anne Stanhope gets coffee with Mary and takes her to the gym where Edward boxes afterwards and they go ‘hey u wanna get in the ring I bet that would be fun :D’ and Edward siiiiiiighs like oh great now I have to walk my wife’s undergrad study buddy through the lead foot/rear foot & basic punches and Mary promptly chips one of his molars with her heel
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janesemel · 2 days
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Hans Bellmer
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Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.
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janesemel · 3 days
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I’m like if a sensitive sweetheart was a bit bitter and loathesome
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THE BORGIAS | 2.09
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Intricate cascading roots on a Western Hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla.
Olympic National Park| 11-30-2023
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janesemel · 7 days
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- Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
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janesemel · 8 days
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It’s because at first the version of Mary that exists in Chapuys’ head is little more than a sexist, paternalistic remix of her real identity, so thoroughly warped by the age & class difference that he sees her as barely more than a porcelain madonna, a moral/religious figurehead, so sexless she’s barely human. But as Mary ages and their relationship is maintained through less explicitly stressful circumstances then the ones it was conceived under amidst the Great Matter, she begins to grow outside of the parameters he established for her internally. She gets her life back, she’s not just pretty and in pain anymore, she’s energetic, provocative, romantically active, loud. And that scares him, the way it scared him with Cesare’s mother, but it also excites and intrigues him, not least of all because he can’t be physically intimate with Mary the way he was with the mistress who bore his illegitimate son. The illegitimate son he left so he could go perform diplomatic duties in the same country as Mary. Who wants to be a mother. Who loves children. Who is at once everything he’d ever want in a woman and young enough to be his biological child, facts which would be so blatantly immoral if he ever confronted their coexistence that he has to force himself to stay in denial about it. While Mary goes around planning for the future and playing footsie with Phillip of Bavaria, more or less unaware that her very existence is eating this poor bastard’s brain. Eustace is a 50 year old politician with TSwift’s “You Belong With Me” playing in his head every time he meets eyes with his dead friend’s 21 year old daughter. It’s pathetic. It’s disgusting. It’s narratively delicious.
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janesemel · 8 days
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Anne Boleyn Headers Pack
Hello! I'm feeling inspired this year, and since May is the month when Anne left us, I was thinking of creating headers for those who would be interested in using them throughout the month of May. As usual, the Anne I'm editing is Natalie's from The Tudors.
The headers are 580x326 and will fit perfectly after you save the changes.
Please, don't crop the credit. If you'd like something exclusive request.
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janesemel · 11 days
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Roses of Yesteryear by Lucien Pissarro (1863 - 1944)
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janesemel · 12 days
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The age of delicately asserting Mary as a survivor is over we need to start making her chew on babies again
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janesemel · 17 days
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mihaly zichy ‘romantic encounter’ + these violent delights, micah nemerever 
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janesemel · 21 days
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i’m normally happy to let that blog flop in irrelevancy by itself, but there's a lot to unpack (not posting controversial bait is selective, ig) and i guess in dire times of low engagement, riding jane’s dick is a tried and true...
‘jane seymour didn't seem to have any female friends’
how would we know this? we have no evidence of private correspondence or of her life, overall, before 1536. she died the following year. that’s a very small window for evidence of a personal nature. we do know that she kept one of her female relatives close to her while she waited for news of anne’s execution (i presume it was anne stanhope), and she gave gifts to women in her household once queen.
also i think this argument that historical women have to have female friends as some sort of litmus test for innate moral fibre slightly... idk, i do not care if a historical figure fits the tiktok definitions of a ‘girl's girl’, like some sort of historical bechdel test. they’re aristocrats, they absolutely would not be my friend, so i do not care whether or not they had a sufficient amount of female friends within a circle of inbred aristrocrats.
‘wouldn't help her own widowed sister’
we don’t know why elizabeth didn’t reach out to jane for help, but it sure is interesting how the primary arguments made to explain this (that jane was not judged to hold enough influence, that thomas cromwell ‘got there first’, that elizabeth’s situation was not as dire as is assumed, there being a legitimate ideological or personal separation between the two women) are thrown out to intentionally cast jane as some sort of neglectful sister.
‘didn’t say shit about six innocent people getting murdered so she could be queen’
what exactly was she supposed to do? we have no sense of really anyone challenging the proceedings against anne. the only thing i can really think of is thomas cranmer... who still acted in compliance with those proceedings, regardless. jane had exponentially less power in this (extremely unusual) situation, i am not sure what exactly people want her to do, or what was in her capacity.
‘sat th[ere] waiting for news of anne dying to immediately take her place’
yes. and? support women’s wrongs.
‘did nothing for the six’s children, including a two year old girl whose whole life just got destroyed’
except for when she provided clothes, books and jewels for elizabeth, and took mary norris into her household, and gifted her jewels...
‘and she’s remembered as the kind one.’
the bitch ass anon posting this:
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