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ALANA BODEN as PORCIA Domina 1.07: Treason

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Ivar Arosenius - Temptation of St. Antony (1908)

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smth smth elizabeth seymour taking the anglo saxon name of her husband while jane names her son after the anglo saxon king edward the confessor, and edward growing up without a mother and wolf hall being left to rot after a generation passes, when the anglo saxons spoke of apocalypses and dustsceawung: the knowledge that all things were and will be dust. because jane lies under the floor of windsor amongst dead kings and children, immortalised as the perfect wifemother, and elizabeth is preserved wearing jewels depicting the fall of sodom. but perhaps her jewellery is instead testament to holbein’s self-praise for his ability to capture elizabeth’s image just as lot’s wife was immortalised as a pillar of salt, and perhaps jane’s portrait could only ever capture her as a human jewel, defined by the expectations of men, and perhaps historical women are only ever dust, themselves

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Jane trying to set up all the late teens to mid twenties aged women in her care to channel their devotion into their own upkeep and practice self love like

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Katherine Parr having her corpse picked at and plucked from after death is Jane Seymour being entombed beside her abuser is Katherine of Aragon’s womb and heart and organs being mythologized upon both before and after her death is Katherine Howard getting the axe instead of a sword and a fine swordsman only because Henry could not murder her himself is Anne Boleyn being dumped in an arrow chest

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in tudor terms she came from nowhere and was nothing.

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Few of her contemporaries have as rich of an aesthetic palette associated with them as Jane Seymour there I said it. She’s a Phoenix, she’s a peacock, she’s a nymph of Diana’s train, she’s an enemy of the gospel. She’s been the milk of human kindness and a sweet pale girl and a snarling unsexed she-wolf. She was ostentatious, proud, devout, and conservative all at once. A hawthorn branch bearing a rose.

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Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (John Huston, 1957)

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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