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Moved

If by any chance, there are still people following this dead-for-the-past-few-years blog, I resurfaced at @marysshelleys a year and a half or so ago. I never linked it here because I don’t post that much anymore, but, there it is anyway if you’re curious!

My mental health went a bad way in 2018 and I felt like I needed a fresh start. I made a lot of friends on this blog and I regret cutting myself off from all of you though, so...if you’re still around, maybe come say hi?

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YOU THINK I’M JOKING BUT I’M DEAD SERIOUS

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your tan france name is your favourite colour followed by a place you wanna visit, for example mine is grey jordan

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farmahouse

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Wall Line by vuzephotography

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Been reading books from the seventeenth century at Chetham Library today. Much needed break from reality.

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I spent the most magical afternoon

I went for a walk in the nature, and I took a path that was completely new to me.

I kept walking, when I came across a cute house surrounded by flowers. A little child was watering the plants, and a woman insisted to offer me a glass of water. I didn’t know her, but she was a friend of my uncle’s sister, apparently. We talked for a bit, then she told me to follow her, because she wanted to show me the laboratory where her husband produces honey. There he was, working.

He gave me a piece of honeycomb to chew on, then he showed me the complete process to make honey. Finally, he gave me a jar as a gift. The woman explained to me how to go back to town, and she walked me to the bridge I would have to cross. That looked surreal too.

I feel like the house won’t be there if I ever go back. It was beautiful.

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one of the most frustrating moods is Desperate Need to Create Something, Anything + persistent lack of motivation/attention/ability/time/inspiration/energy to do so 

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Look i dont wanna sound like a Fandom Mom or whatever but what do you think women over 25 or so are supposed to do? Do u really think theyre supposed to drop all their interests and just talk about taxes and marriage or whatever? It seems like 25+ year old fanboys do not receive this kind of “ooh cringe” reaction either. There are guys in their 40s with comic book collections and shit and people might think theyre a nerd at worst, not a freak who shouldnt be trusted

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Cottage witch aesthetic~ 🌳🌲

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-Magic dreams-

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Invader ZIM

2001 | 2018

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elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH

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Consider: Hobbits unused to carrying swords, initially VERY unclear on when it’s appropriate to whip em out

Merry and Pippin have a disagreement over, idk, whether cake or pie is better and both draw their swords like ‘HAVE AT THEE’ 

meanwhile Aragorn in the background like, boys please, please boys those are sharp

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When I get riled up about inaccurate (and downright insulting) portrayals in historical period dramas I often get people telling me “calm down, no one studies history from movies” 

No but movies, especially when they become widely successful, do subconsciously influence the opinions of those watching, for better or for worse, especially if the audience does not regularly study the nuances of history. More people have probably seen Natalie Dormer’s Anne Boleyn than have read Eric Ives’ biography on the historical Anne Boleyn, and that’s fine. Movies and TV shows are more accessible, more fun to consume and allow the audience to feel an emotional connection to a person who otherwise would be confined to dusty history pages. This is all fine and well if it’s at least a nuanced portrayal but if all you receive is a caricature then what opinion are you making? What story are you being told? And if that opinion becomes popular enough then it enters common myth which becomes so incredibly hard to push back against in academia, something historian Jenny Wormald experienced when she wrote Mary, Queen of Scots: a study in failure. And all she was saying that Mary deserved to be examined and critiqued as a 16th century Queen attempting (largely ineffectively) to navigate politics, and not as a tragic fairytale victim. 

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