Looking back at 2022 through global lens
Looking back at 2022 through global lens
By Geeta Mohan: As 2022 comes to a close, the world witnessed major events that changed the discourse geopolitically.
We take you through the big international happenings of 2022 as we ring in the New Year. Besides Covid and climate change, the Russia-Ukraine war dominated global headlines.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR
On February 24, 2022, in what Moscow called “special military operations”, Russia…
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Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.
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The Queen Mother and the Princess of Wales attends the Derby Horse Race, Epsom, Surrey, Britain | 1986
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I think it's not surprising that monarchies create violent fucked up people. We basically invented a breed of human whose only career prospects are sitting around and hoping their mom dies.
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tudor fiction often likes to make something deep out of elizabeth i choosing not to marry and to remain a virgin for life but i have to say, seeing my mother judicially murdered by my father whilst very young purely because she didn't give birth to a son would probably put me off marriage forever, no matter how hot the earl of leicester was
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well i was just about to answer those asks for that ask game but it feels weird now
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John Mulaney’s royal killing streak lasted than Liz Truss
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I think it's really fucking funny how the final edited episode of friendlocke violet was released and then H*nry K*ssinger died on the same day, do you understand what I'm saying? Are you following along?
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