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[boleynqueenes]

Dramatis Personae (spoilers-light and corrections-light) of Nowe Thus, "" descriptions from Hunting the Falcon

Anne Boleyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard; wife of Henry VIII

First Introduction: Chapter 1

Henry VIII, King of England

First Introduction: Chapter 1

Sir Francis Weston, gentleman of the privy chamber

First Introduction: Chapter 1

Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and 2nd Duke of Norfolk; wife of Sir Thomas Boleyn, mother of Anne Boleyn, Dowager Countess of Wiltshire

First introduction: Chapter 2

Henry Norris, gentleman of the privy chamber, groom of the stool from 1526

First introduction: Chapter 2

Katherine of Aragon, youngest daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon; married (1) Arthur, Prince of Wales; (2) Henry VIII as his first wife sister-in-law

First introduction: Chapter 2

George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn; later Viscount Rochford, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Earl of Wiltshire

First introduction: Chapter 2

Mary Howard, Anne’s cousin, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk; wife of Henry Fitzroy; lady in-waiting; contributor to the Devonshire Manuscript

First introduction: Chapter 3

Jane Seymour, gentlewoman, third wife of Henry VIII

First Introduction: Chapter 4

Edward Seymour, elder brother to Jane

First Introduction: Chapter 4

Thomas Seymour, elder brother to Jane

First Introduction: Chapter 4

Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII’s niece; only child of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, and a leading contributor to the Devonshire Manuscript

First Introduction: Chapter 4

Jane Parker, wife of George Boleyn, daughter of Henry Parker, Lord Morley; one of Anne Boleyn’s ladies-in-waiting, Countess of Wiltshire

First Introduction: Chapter 5

Thomas Cranmer, Cambridge scholar and early protégé of the Boleyns; Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532

First Introduction: Chapter 6

Margaret Butler, wife of Sir William Boleyn and grandmother of Anne Boleyn; daughter and co-heir of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond

First Introduction: Chapter 6

Hugh Latimer, one of Anne’s chaplains; later Bishop of Worcester

First Introduction: Chapter 6

Sir William Paulet, courtier and privy councillor, Master of the Wards, comptroller of the royal household from 1532

First Introduction: Chapter 7

Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

First Introduction: Chapter 7

Lady Anne Shelton (née Boleyn), Anne Boleyn’s aunt, mother of Mary and Margaret Shelton, custodian of Princess Mary

First Introduction: Chapter 7

Sir Thomas Boleyn, son of Sir William Boleyn and Margaret Butler; father of Anne Boleyn; later Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wiltshire, Lord Privy Seal

First Introduction: Chapter 8

Thomas Cromwell, self-trained lawyer and servant of Wolsey; parliamentary manager, Master of the Jewels and principal secretary to Henry VIII; later Vicar-general and Lord Privy Seal

First Introduction: Chapter 12

William Cavendish, gentleman-usher to Wolsey

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Lorenzo Campeggi, Cardinal and papal legate

First Introduction: Chapter 12

John Husee, court agent to Viscount and Lady Lisle

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Margaret Lee, Thomas Wyatt’s sister and mother of Elizabeth I’s Queen’s Champion, Sir Henry Lee

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Nottingham; illegitimate son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount; married Mary Howard

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Sir Nicholas Carew, gentleman of the privy chamber, diplomat, supporter of Princess Mary; brother-in-law to Sir Francis Bryan

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Anne Stanhope, wife of Edward Seymour

First Introduction: Chapter 12

Dr William Butts, royal physician

First Introduction: Chapter 15

Margaret Gamage, gentlewoman; later married Lord William Howard as his second wife

First Introduction: Chapter 18

Mary/Margaret Shelton, Anne’s cousin, gentlewoman, contributor to the Devonshire Manuscript

First Introduction: Chapter 18

Lord Thomas Howard, lover of Margaret Douglas; a leading contributor to the Devonshire Manuscript; younger brother of Lord William Howard; stepbrother of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

First Introduction: Chapter 18

Elizabeth "Bess" Harvey, gentlewoman, Henry VIII's mistress

First Introduction: Chapter 19

Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn; married (1) William Carey; (2) William Stafford

First Introduction: Chapter 19

Thomas Grey, Yeoman of the Bottles

First Introduction: Chapter 21

Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; married (1) Anne Browne, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne; (2) Henry VIII’s younger sister Mary, widow of Louis XII; (3) Lady Katherine Willoughby

First Introduction: Chapter 22

Philippe Chabot, Seigneur de Brion, Admiral of France

First Introduction: Chapter 24

Catherine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn

First Introduction: Chapter 24

Philip Calthorpe, vice-chamberlain to the Princess Mary, husband of Jane Calthorpe, sister of Thomas Boleyn

First Introduction: Chapter 27

Elizabeth de Vere, Dowager Countess of Oxford

First Introduction: Chapter 27

Sir Francis Bryan, cousin of Anne Boleyn, gentleman of the privy chamber and diplomat; later known as the ‘Vicar of Hell'

First Introduction: Chapter 27

Henry (or Harry) Algernon Percy, eldest son of 5th Duke of Northumberland; 6th Earl of Northumberland from 1527

First Introduction: Chapter 28

Gertrude Blount, second wife of Henry Courtenay; close friend and lady-in waiting to Katherine of Aragon

First Introduction: Chapter 28

Elizabeth Carew, gentlewoman, sister of Francis Bryan, wife of Nicholas Carew, supporter of Princess Mary

First Introduction: Chapter 28

Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s uncle, brother of her mother Elizabeth Howard

First Introduction: Chapter 28

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, former governess to Princess Mary

First Introduction: Chapter 30

Edward Neville, cousin to Henry VIII, supporter of the Princess Mary

First Introduction: Chapter 32

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so I just sat quietly in the back.

After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”

And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”

I think about that interaction a lot.

[hurglewurm]

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[fagtainsparklez]

[stealingpotatoes]

it’s eunuch Tucker’s adoptiversary and defacto birthday today <3

[mail-me-a-snail]

he's free now

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[kallypsowrites]

Imagine being JD Vance, who makes such a huge part of his personality being catholic. The pope himself takes time to lecture you on compassion then promptly DIES. The pope uses one of his last hours on earth to tell you that you suck at your religion on EASTER. And then DIES. Anyway RIP Pope Francis

[wishfulsketching]

Silco and his terror of a daughter

[opera-ghost]

[meltygetswifi]

not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to

[sneepsnorp3d]

major traffic incident