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navree · 3 months ago

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the concept of having children being so tied into political ambitions and machinations throughout history means that a lot of people do seem to straight up forget that these people were, like, family, and likely acted as such a lot of the time

#personal #a post brought to you by three things #thing one: i got woken up at five am by some kind of fire truck so i'm tired and babbling #thing two: remembered how people get Weird about catherine of aragon and anne boleyn's miscarriages #and seem to completely ignore that for all the dynastic ambitions of it all these were also wanted pregnancies by both parents #and those losses came with heavy emotions behind them as well as physical trauma #and thing three: i tried reading an episode summary of that horrible domina show to see what the fuck was going on there #and what do you MEAN augustus agrees to kill one of his stepsons???? those are his fucking kids!!!!!!#like he's a human being who raised one of them since literal birth and the other since very early childhood!!!!#it makes SENSE that he'd be emotionally attached and view them as his children just as much as julia!!!!#that's just how human beings and human emotions work!!!!#honestly why even tell a story about historical figures if you're not gonna acknowledge their humanity in your writing #instead of making them one note caricatures #(it's why the tudors works and domina can go fuck itself)#(for this and its litany of other sins)#(anyway i'm gonna go back to thinking about augustus and his role as a father specifically that's always a fun time for me)

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