#Katherine Howard aesthetic

[anne1522boleyn]

Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard

[caitlin-snow-leopard]

Shapeshifter Six AU 5/6: Katherine Howard (domestic cat)

[dontloseyourheadinmycandystore]

[elephantlovemedleys]

4/? tudor aesthetics:

⎯ katherine howard

[heres-a-board]

🎵Six the Musical Aesthetic🎵

[feywild-meadows]

K Howard is here, and the fun's begun~

[thelittlehazegirl]

Katherine Howard

“Deprived of her childhood by a maniac”

Or several. :(

[anne1522boleyn]

February 13, 1542 Katherine Howard was beheaded RIP🤍

[dontloseyourheadinmycandystore]

[thelittlehazegirl]

OH MY LOVE <3

[thelittlehazegirl]

SHE DESERVED BETTER AND STILL DOES

Katherine Howard: *has fun*

Historians:

[anne1522boleyn]

Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard

[edwardseymour]

15,16,17,18,25

🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

15. that one thing you see in fanart all the time

the ariana grande-ification of anne boleyn in fanart is truly something. and as an olive skinned white woman, i don’t think white tudor fans know what olive skin looks like. also i think there is a frankly bizarre relationship certain tudor fans have with race (ab as an Other™️ because she was supposedly swarthy, trends surrounding coa being fair and spanish, jane seymour being ‘so fair that one would call her rather pale than otherwise’).

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

i truly do not understand the appeal of characterising female historical figures (largely royal, aristocratic) as powerless victims — with no thought to their complicity in an inherently unjust institution. catherine of aragon (as one example) was immensely privileged to the detriment of the majority of people: she believed in this superiority as morally just and fought for it. remembering what her queenship meant should colour how we talk about her: lauding her as brave for fighting for her status can and should coexist with acknowledging what she was ultimately fighting for.

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

i myself am guilty of this, but we absolutely need more content about non-courtiers (and content in general that is active and honest about acknowledging the fundamental value of those outside of the aristocratic sphere). wolf hall came close but veers into trying to have it both ways; ‘she [Mantel] wants to relish the bejewelled surfaces, the highly wrought fabrics, the flashing beauties of the Henrician age, while also having a go at the people and the institutions which enabled that agglomeration of riches. The aesthetic delight and the political outrage are on a collision course’. becoming elizabeth’s take on kett’s rebellion was hateful. one of the best jobs i ever had was transcribing local court records for an archive, and getting to meet dozens and dozens of men and women, and hear them talk about their lives.

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

critical thinking skills 🥴

i would be remiss if i didn’t plead katherine howard’s case yet again. she’s such a force of personality — charming and delightful and ‘fired with ambition’, when i think her ability to be as successful as she was as queen, given her lack of experience and the brevity of her reign, is nothing short of remarkable. i think people are genuinely missing out on someone so engaging when they dismiss her as either whore or victim. it’s a constant frustration, for me, that the way we talk about her remains so superficial.

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

god, i have so many of these; you could just send me 25s repeatedly atp haha. i think the most annoying thing though is the people who get weirdly offended by the insinuation that this fandom is, indeed, a fandom. there is this hypocrisy over how legitimate engagement can be — but ofc., certain people can be called ‘stans’ (indeed, ab fans can invent terms like ‘heneven eleven stans’ and ‘seyhive’, because people are just that painfully uncreative) but god forbid somebody, in turn, calls them ab stans. ‘i’m not a stan, i have a BA/BS/BE/LLB’; you write fanfiction — you are not serious people lol. it’s not an academic conference… nobody cares about you. you can leave if you’re not having fun, nobody is forcing you to be here.

[sweetfirebird]

yeah yeah there is no such thing as complete historical accuracy in modern media depicting ye olden times and yeah yeah sometimes shows are more about an aesthetic than any truth but every time I see a glimpse of the Tudors with ever young-looking whathisface as Henry, I feel like that show really, really was doing a disservice to his brides. Like let's bring the horror. And let's show his gross infected pus leg as well in all the sex scenes. just make it clear he stinks of puss, and also that the possible age range for Katherine Howard was I think lowest possible age 15 and highest possible 21 but most place her at about 18 at the time of her death so... 16? when Henry (49) married her. And so on. The Tudors is too kind to that piece of shit man and it's one of the many reasons I hate that show.

[thelittlehazegirl]

... wow, are they shippy, or what???

JOSS STONE and TAMZIN MERCHANT as ANNE OF CLEVES and CATHERINE HOWARD

THE TUDORS (2007-2010) | S04E2

[hetagrammy]

8 Shows to Know You

I was tagged by @apersonwholikeslotus! Thank you <3

I'm assuming these are like comfort shows?? Or ones we like. Also, I won't put Hetalia up here because let's be real, if you're here you already know I'm down the rabbit hole so it's a given. These are in no particular order

Avatar: The Last Airbender, there's quite literally nothing I can say about this show that hasn't already been said. It's amazing, do go watch it.

2. I love Outlander. I fell off around the middle of season 4, but the first two seasons are my favorites. I should probably go back and catch up at some point.

3. The Borgias is a guilty pleasure for me. There's plenty of inaccuracies, but I don't really mind them too much because the character writing is off the charts. If you're into the Renaissance, intrigue, and/or fucked up family dynamics I'd definitely recommend.

4. As crazy as the costume inaccuracies drive me, I also love The Tudors and I'm forever mourning that they took it off of Netflix. It unironically has one of the best depictions of Mary I (at least in her youth) I've ever seen. It did slip up a bit with Katherine Howard, but that's unfortunately not uncommon in Tudor media so I just have to take the L on that one.

5. Like everyone else I love this family, and I am anxiously waiting for season two of Spy x Family. Big rec for the found family fans.

6. If I could go back and watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood again for the first time, I would. Like Avatar, very little I can say about it that hasn't already been praised to death.

7. This was one of my first anime, and it still holds a special place in my heart. I really do hope it gets the Fruits Basket treatment someday with a proper reboot that covers the whole manga.

8. Over the Garden Wall. This show shaped me, I love the narrative and characters so much. The aesthetic is also great. I also felt very seen by Wirt as a kid (and dressed up as him last Halloween haha)

I think I'll tag @the-phoenix-heart @moderngamebantam and @maelerie but obviously y'all aren't beholden to!