#wasgoed

[marcusagrippa]

when i first got interested in rome i was at the tail end of my star wars hyperfixation so i really needed to make a crossover + tried to put the jedi in the roman senate which. Failed. however i do still have an intense irrepressible need to see cicero and caelius as god's shittiest psychosexual master/padawan duo

[trainingdummyrabbit]

Daily Affirmations: - I Am Not In a Time Loop - If I Were In a Time Loop I Would Tackle It with Poise and Grace - The Time Loop Is More Afraid of Me Than I Am of It - I Can Get Out of The Time Loop Whenever I Want - I Am Not In a Time Loop

[butchniqabi]

i have so many fucking books LMAO

[shikisei]

@revenantyuri snezhnayan william 👍

[animutate]

me after sleeping all day and not talking to anyone

[barkingredwolf]

TRANSFORMATION OF THE WASGO

[robyn-goodfellowe]

so weird wheni go back to hungary i might see somme of u guys...walking on the street. and everything

[fideidefenswhore]

I think some historians are more sympathetic to Jane Seymour than Anne Boleyn because she was not really spoken about like she was the driving force of a faction, whereas Anne was. Thoughts?

Well, historians tend to argue for their in/significance depending on what theory they believe has the strongest weight.

It's difficult to compare because we have such different eras of influence and spotlight, as it were, for these women as they were primed for the throne. Anne's was six years and Jane's was, generously six months, arguably more like five (January-May 1536, even then, February is the first we hear of her in any capacity), some historians don't even mark it until April 1536, in which case it's more like two.

But for what we have, maybe? Jane was 1 for 2 in political influence (again...generously); complete failure during her tenure as mistress/'betrothed' (again, it's hard to mark when that was, we don't have the equivalent of either emerald ring or diamond-ship to mark acceptance, we sort of just assume marriage was discussed) to reinstate Princess Mary, success in sowing doubts about the legitimacy of Henry's marriage. Here, Anne had the advantage, it's entirely possible the first time she heard of doubts of validity for Henry's to Catherine had been ten years prior, in Mechelen (as that’s the earliest they crop up).

During the six-month-period, it’s Edward that's mentioned more than Jane by (I almost said contemporaries, but actually just realized it’s) Chapuys (only), second to Gertrude Blount and Nicholas Carew. Comparatively, we have, by the fall of Wolsey (1529):

The duke of Norfolk is made chief of the Council, Suffolk acting in his absence, and, at the head of all, Mademoiselle Anne. (Du Bellay)

And at the same time, Chapuys is rating her influence on the royal prerogative just as highly, if not more so, only with a more negative slant. 

GW Bernard has argued that this should be disregarded, as later Du Bellay ‘contradicts himself’, and must have with time, developed a more realistic view:

Lady Anne has presented Du Bellay with a hunting frock and hat, horn and greyhound. Tells him this to show him how the affection of the king of England for Francis increases, for all that the Lady does is by the King's order.  (Du Bellay, 1532)

However, A) I don’t find these statements to be contradictory...the former suggests Anne has the most influence with the King, not over the King (of course it’s more realistic that she would be directed by him, but the former doesn’t imply that she wasn’t!), B) There are contemporary reports from 1530- onwards that, actually, that was the case (Anne directing Henry); and enough of them from enough various sources that they can’t be disregarded entirely.

And besides, the remark from the year of 1529 does have other corroboration, in the form of Cromwell writing to Wolsey:

"None dares speak to the King on his part for fear of Madame Anne's displeasure.”

We also have, not only Anne, but Anne’s parents being referred to as figures to be feared (even by the papal envoy, apparently), her parents and George Boleyn being referred to and regarded as figures that it was necessary to fete, flatter, gift, and draw favour from, if one ever wanted to gain royal favour, we don’t have anything similar in regards to Jane (a scant few, for favour, once she’s Queen, but not as many as for her predecessor’s reign, and no successful intercession), for Jane’s parents, or even really to Edward, until years later on the latter. 

Anyway, I assume you’re speaking more to the time before they were Queens, than after, but my feeling is sort of that... if Jane had lived, Cromwell would have always overshadowed her, whereas Anne, for the time in which she was, held her own. 

[northernreads]

I have to give notice to my current job today, which I only started 2 weeks ago, and I am so nervous

[weepingandgnashingofteeth]

im literally having an episode of something

[ispyspookymansion]

AND WAIT ONE MORE ASK ID GO TO BAT FOR MICHAEL MYERS ANYDAY BUT DO YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT DUMBASS CULT AND THE PLOT SURROUNDING IT??? ITS NOT GOOD. ITS JUST NOT

YEAH. YEAH. like there are some good halloween films and characters but OVERALL they fucked up a lot So much with their timeline and plots. made a mid franchise overall

[motherforthefamicom]

ididlike four paragraphs thats good enoughi think...

[soliddaddy96]

AGHHHHHHHAGAHAGAA < thinking about characters

[animutate]

What if they made officially licensed body pillows of the Pico's school cast. Like how much would u pay to get that official Pico daki

wdym hes right here

[madwickedawesome]

michael sheen if u see this i had a nightmare last night about how scared i would be if we swapped bodies bc i wouldn’t know how to properly communicate that i was some 16 year old kid trapped in michael sheens body and everyone would think michael sheen went crazy and i would be personally responsible for michael sheens downfall

[barkingredwolf]

GRIEF OF THE WASGO.