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“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.”

— Umberto Eco (b. 5 January 1932)

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Minyoung Kim (Korean, 1989) - Negotiation (2024)

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the new heart I've been growing in my garden is at a strange and delicate stage of development

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You’d probably make a lot of money putting “bound to obey and serve” on one of those bdsm necklaces instagram is always trying to sell me

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Babe listen the Jane Seymour Playlist is defined by interjecting fluffy, ostensibly sweet heavily gendered folk pop into a long list of deeply horrific haunted strip club bangers. Thus representing the darkness and cruelty of Jane’s perfect princess milkmaid lifestyle that ended with her siblings deaths and her child’s death and her own. That’s what it’s supposed to sound like.

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hold on everyone i’m thinking abt courtly love and katherine howard and henry viii and ‘suck the rot right out of my bloodstream’

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Marco Marella

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The Old Hall, Fairies by Moonlight; Spectres and Shades, Brownies and Banshees, c.1875 by John Anster Fitzgerald (English, 1819–1906)

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Donald Trump is not "orange" he is "gyaru" part of Japanese gal culture which inverts yamato nadeshiko beauty standards

Yeah I largely agree with this

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I’m also v fond of the supposition that this unidentified holbein sitter might be Jane

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It’s comforting to see Mary I of England’s depictions in visual media transform from a typecast which was very sharp and gloomy, markedly aged-up and often exaggeratedly “unattractive” to a normal woman. Sometimes a young and hot woman but also, more and more, a normal woman. She’s just human! We love human Mary. I’d eat her casserole at the church potluck. 10/10.

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Something something mother daughter tea

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It’s been said angels wear a multitude of disguises. Here’s a heavenly collection of angels revealing themselves through time.

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Hey you should listen to this

blah blah blah i don't give a fuck about catherine of aragon actually and i don't give a single solitary shit about jane seymour revering her memory. the idea that she admired - even liked - anne boleyn, and obsessively sought to replace her because being her was the closest she could ever get to being with her, because it's the only way she might compartmentalise the complicated feelings she might have for her........ i think that's a lot sexier, actually. a lot more compelling.

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Billie Gadsdon as Princess Mary in The Spanish Princess

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You’d think Jane being around for Elizabeth’s birth would ingratiate her to Anne, and it definitely did increase the intimacy between them, but at the end of the day Jane was a Seymour. She’d been sitting in on births her whole life. Several of the babies she saw delivered as a girl were wiped out in their infancy by the cruel hand of the plague. Jane’s been here, she’s seen this before. Her kindness exists next to such practiced coldness. It always has.

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Lilit Lesser is obviously talented, not least of all because I think the best versions of Mary are the ones that take advantage of the fact that her features weren’t 100% femme - her face had a vaguely masculine pointedness that really pops in the best films and shows, like Romola Garai in BE and Angela Cremonte in Carlos Rey Emperador. Faye Marsay’s portrayal of Anne Neville and Alicia Vikander’s Katherine Parr both achieve this effect very well.