#gee idk maybe because they'd been married for decades and he was suddenly being cruel and humiliating and hurting her and she was upset | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

navree · 2 years ago

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what i think a lot of people forget about historical figures, especially when engaging in any kind of historical fiction, is that these were actual people and they had feelings, they very much had thoughts and emotions about the things that happened to them and that they did and that they went through

#personal #this was mostly inspired by stupid people who go 'how dare catherine of aragon not renounce her marriage that would have been smart'#gee idk maybe because they'd been married for decades and he was suddenly being cruel and humiliating and hurting her and she was upset #(not even taking into account that the primary argument for 'catherine should have capitulated even tho it makes no sense')#(is that she should have done it for mary)#(even tho there was no indication that henry would treat mary as badly as he did because he'd never done that before even with fitzroy)#(so how the hell was she supposed to know? clairvoyance?)#but also i was thinking again about how a lot of post ides stuff tends to paint young augustus primarily as seeking power #guys a member of his family that he was close to was full on murdered #you don't think that maybe the eighteen year old boy was like???? upset???? and sad??? and wanted to fuck the murderers up???#of course he was shoring up power but it's very clear that his primary motivation was 'they took caesar from me and i loved caesar'#'so now i'm gonna make my determination for payback everyone's problem'

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