#also he went like 20 years without knowing his brother was responsible for his banishment which is also funny.

[allgremlinart]

oh Korra's dad.. your career is so inscrutable..

like ok: he was next in line for the throne but then gets banished from the North. sometime between arriving at the South and the events of Korra s2 he is elected chief so like. lose-win I guess. but we DONT know if everyone ELSE knows that he was banished ?? when he was elected ?? Korra doesn't but she was purposely kept in the dark about a LOT of things so... do they know and don't care ?? if they knew would that have hurt or helped him election wise ?? like I really don't know it could have been either way ?? regardless, a dilf

[theangryhistoriananna]

Tell me ALL about Jane Boleyn, I have to be at work in the morning and I want to procrastinate going to sleep Educate Me Please

Listen Jane Boleyn was a goddamn queen who did NOT deserve to be dragged like she was. 

-Jane Boleyn was considered extremely beautiful by 16th century English standards. We can pretty safely say this because she was picked repeatedly to show off in front of foreign ambassadors. The most notable being that she was chosen to take to France for the infamous Field of the Cloth of Gold AND not long after she was again picked to fill the role of Constancy in Chateau Vert. We also know that Anne picked her again to join her in a masque to impress Francis and the French nobles 

-Apart from being pretty the above examples also suggest she was rather accomplished in dancing. 

-Jane Parker was a distant cousin of Henry’s, and her father Henry Parker the Elder had been under the care of Margaret Beaufort who took an interest in him, promoting his interests, safe guarding his inheritance after his widowed mother remarried to a Howard, and promoted his match with Alice St. John-Jane’s mother. 

-Jane had several brothers and sisters, but as far as we can tell, only two made it to adulthood-her sister Margaret who married John Shelton and whose decedent once incurred Elizabeth’s wrath when she married without seeking her consent first and her brother Henry Parker the younger whose own son refused to swear to the Act of Supremacy and was promptly sent into exile for it. While Jane kept her religious views to herself, we know Henry was an avid supporter of the Reformation. Her father on the other hand was a Catholic.

-Jane had been in the service of Katherine of Aragon for some years before marrying George. We don’t know exactly WHEN Jane arrived at court, but probably before 1523. Cavendish, in his poem, mentions she had been brought up at court since a young age-though girls were not allowed to serve as Maids till they were thirteen. 

-Jane was most likely 19/20 when she married George. It is believed she was of an age with him, her birth date usually stated as being 1505, a year after George’s usually stated birth date. 

-Both George AND Jane were listed as being particular favorites of Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII by Wolsey. 

-We don’t know exactly when but it seems Jane left Katherine of Aragon’s service sometime after Anne was formally recognized and joined her sister-in-law’s service. One could argue this was simply because she was considered Anne’s family, but given that several members of Anne’s family were left out of Anne’s service or stubbornly stuck by Katherine (chief being Norfolk’s wife) it’s equally plausible Jane was legitimately loyal to Anne. 

-While Anne was at her height in power, Jane was given a great deal of respect and dignity and featured as one of Anne’s foremost ladies, alongside Anne’s cousin Mary Howard, and Anne’s sister Mary Boleyn. Again Anne seems to have favored and preferred her family members, and Jane-as George’s wife-would have been viewed as much her family as Mary was. 

-Jane was a patroness who financially supported at least one religious man, and sought out positions for him to fill. 

-During Anne’s coronation march Jane was given a spot of the highest honor, allowed to ride directly behind Anne, with the kingdom’s most powerful and noted women, far above what her station as Viscountess afforded her. This was no small gesture, and it was likely very deliberate on Anne’s part. By placing her sister in law with the ranks of such women as the Duchess of Richmond, she was stating that Jane was now a woman of influence and should be treated with the highest regard. 

-According to Chapuys, Jane was banished once while attempting to help Anne get rid of a young woman who had caught Henry’s eye and had shown sympathies to Mary. Chapuys doesn’t report what Jane did specifically, only stating that it had been done in collaboration with Anne. Jane rarely pops up in Chapuys’ dispatches but when they do, it should be noted that he painted her as being in league with the Boleyns, not against them. 

-Jane wrote to George while he was in France. We don’t know what she said, for her letters don’t survive, but they are referenced by Anne’s chamberlain, who refrained from telling George in his own letter about a situation with Suffolk because he was sure Jane had already told him in hers. 

-Apparently it was to Jane, not George, that Anne uttered her infamous statement about her husband suffering from erectile dysfunction (and not being able to please her) While many historians have erroneously stated it was to George who she said this to, that’s a falsehood probably coming about because it was at George’s trial that the statement was used-suggesting that Jane had probably confided in her husband what Anne had said. 

-Also despite what some historians say it was not said that Jane told Cromwell that George laughed at the way the King dressed. The statement that George had done so cropped up immediately after the statement about what Anne had told Jane  in Chapuy’s report on George’s trial, leading for many people to scrunch the two statements together. 

-There isn’t much evidence that Jane Boleyn was the sole informant against her husband and sister in law. Most everyone who was actually present at the trials mention many other women by name as being responsible, but Jane is never one of the names given. Jane’s name never even cropped up on the list of suspects till decades after her death. 

-Three days after George’s arrest, Jane was allowed to get a short message to her husband in the tower-an impressive feat since communication was strictly forbidden between the arrested and their families. She wasn’t allowed to give the message herself but it was delivered to George by two political enemies of the Boleyns’. Ives and other historians have stated that the messengers were proof that Jane had had malicious intentions in her message, but more likely the choice of messengers was made by Henry and Cromwell, and that Jane had absolutely no say in the matter. The exact wording of the message is lost to us but we know from Kingston that it more or less asked after his well being and promised to petition Henry on his behalf. George is recorded as having asked the messengers to send her his thanks. While briefly he appeared comforted by the message we know a short while later he broke down into tears. People don’t give the fact that Jane not only managed to but even ATTEMPTED AT ALL to reach out to her husband enough credit. Jane didn’t leave George to his fate like the rest of his family seemed to do, she was the only one who came closest to doing what we often have Mary doing in alot of popular Tudor fiction: trying to help her family. 

-According to one historian, Jane made a pubic sign of sympathy for her husband. 

-After George’s execution Jane fell on financially hard times, made even worse because Thomas Boleyn refused to pay the proper amount due to her via her jointure. Infuriated she wrote to Thomas Cromwell complaining and asking him to help her get Thomas Boleyn to cough it up, and asking if Cromwell would return to her George’s plate as it would be a great comfort to her. 

-She fucking wrested her marriage bed back from Henry. Jane Boleyn was a badass in her own way. 

-Jane wore widow reeds for the rest of her life, and notably after 1536 only ever wore black (as opposed to before 1536 when she had a very colorful wardrobe). As has been pointed out before this doesn’t necessarily mean she was wearing it in mourning, but it should be noted Cavendish called her a widow “woe-begone in black” 

-She was listed as being a chief mourner for Jane Seymour at her funeral. 

-Princess Mary paid for repairs to Jane’s windows once, and on occasion gave her ladies’ money. 

-Jane is one of the ladies recorded as having the infamous conversation with Anne of Cleves regarding  her sex life (or lack of) with Henry. It was Jane Boleyn who was recorded as declaring “I do believe her majesty is a maid still!” 

-According to Katherine Howard, once Jane tried to leave her and Culpepper alone and Katherine had to call her back and reprimand her for neglecting her duties. 

-It was reportedly either Jane Boleyn who called Culpepper a sweet little fool, or Culpepper who called Katherine Howard that. 

-Jane stated in the interrogations that she fell asleep during Culpepper and Katherine’s meeting, but this is likely a lie 

-According to Katherine Howard, Jane was recorded as coaching her on how to handle the interrogators, and promised her she’d never reveal what had happened “to be torn with wild horses” 

-Jane most likely suffered from a nervous breakdown after her arrest, which Chapuys and other referred to as her “going mad”. She was taken from the tower and given to the constable and his wife to nurse. Henry even sent his own doctors to take care of her. Jane went through periods of “lucidity” at this time which is when they were able to interrogate her. 

-According to Chapuys’ upon hearing that she was to die Jane regained her “sanity” (most likely her composure) 

-Jane died after her mistress Katherine Howard, as the highest ranking was always executed first. Jane apparently made a speech, though there are conflicting tales about it’s length. Chapuys’ states she and Katherine both were to nervous to say much, but the French ambassador stated that it was Katherine who was relatively quiet while Jane made a lengthy speech. Otwell Johnson, in a letter to his brother, states that both women died with such dignity and bravery that he had no doubt both women were in heaven. 

-Jane’s body was found in Victorian times and given a proper burial and a marker which can be seen today on the chapel floor.

-Jane’s name is also listed on the monument on the tower green alongside Katherine, Anne and Margaret Pole. It’s touching that despite her nasty legend and reputation she has still been given proper respect and attention in monuments.  

-Far from being what we often see in media and in some non fiction depictions, Jane was not a vile bitter harpy desperate for revenge or hell bent on mischief. The Jane of records was a Jane who was loyal, charming, affable, and well liked, who wasn’t afraid to assert and fight for what she thought was hers by right, and who could not just survive but thrive in the courts of five very different women. Who succeeded despite the odds being stacked against her. The Jane of the records feels very much like a real human woman, not a cartoon villain.