#NONE OF IT GOOD

[jezabelofthenorth]

❝Isabel was highly preoccupied with her daughters’ moral and religious education and, if her library is a guide, they would have spent time studying the lives of saints and other devotional works. The Carro de las donas, by the Franciscan monk Francesc Eiximenis, was one of a number of ‘how to raise your daughters’ manuals that sat on the royal bookshelf. Eiximenis was relatively progressive in that he did not consider women intrinsically – or even in imminent danger of becoming – envious, greedy or gossipy. That did not prevent him from displaying many of the prejudices of the time. He firmly believed, for example, that sparing the rod was spoiling the child. Bad girls should be beaten. ‘Punish them and wound them on the back with some switch rather than on the head,’ he advised, in an attempt to minimise the damage. Girls should carry rosaries and spend a part of each day praying. Contact with boys, Jews or Moors was bad for them, and they must refuse food offered by non-Christians. Girls, the manuals generally agreed, were to be discreet and contained, and exercise self-control. Weaving, sewing and prayer were appropriate pastimes. Their greatest enemy was ‘the madness of love’. Catherine learned little, therefore, about the opposite sex. Her mother was a stickler for decorous behaviour. The queen was determined to protect both her own reputation and that of Catherine, her other daughters and her ladies. Isabel’s former sister-in-law, the scandalous Queen Juana, was held up as the model of all that a woman should not be. Apart from her own marital infidelities, Juana had also been infamous for her bawdy ladies-inwaiting. These carried daggers, displayed deep cleavages and had a tendency to ‘accidentally’ stumble when dismounting their horses, thus exposing large amounts of thigh painted with fashionable white make-up.

Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Giles Tremlett

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[aphroditusiscorroded]

I love the idea that Bill’s manipulation tactics are horribly obvious but Ford is so socially inept that it works on him perfectly

“He was a masterful manipulator.”

No bestie he was just nice to you and you folded like a house of cards

[rainesol]

In Kalim’s defence half the school is gnc and/or alt. Jamil’s new gyaru friend could’ve been anyone.

[sophisticatedswifts]

Apparently there’s a website called Public Square where conservatives register their businesses to identify themselves as “anti-woke” so other conservatives can find them. I just thought I would share in case anyone wanted to put their zip code in and learn which local businesses to avoid.

[essektheylyss]

"must a story have conflict?" yes. hope this helps <3

[melancholypolywog]

bill and ford comic! ft. bill being his usual attention seeking self.

[citruschemical]

📷.

[neapenning]

It'd be so embarrassing to join a group after trying to kill their members and losing

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Young Hero Sent On A Quest meets other young heroes also sent on various quests—only to discover they're all being used as free child labor by the same flaky wizard as a scam to collect magical artifacts.

the Young Heroes' collective new "Quest" is now to Unionize.....

[eldritchdemonfox]

If this post gets 10k notes by March, I will start taking better care of my health (something I have no motivation to do)

[datcravat]

[digitalmyyth]

Throwing around a Peter the Panda design

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[bye-bye-sugar-blue-eyes]

911 Text Posts 6/?

[senatortedcruz]

Let them speak

the loyal as a dog trope but the person they’re loyal to never wanted a dog

‘i gave you everything’ ‘no one asked you to’

they liked you better when you weren’t their’s to have. they don’t like the person you are around them.