#literally happens every year
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the rainy season is uppon us (at least for those of us in Here, Somewhere where I live) and thus here are my list of pros and cons:
pros:
- its actually pretty chilly, instead of being roasted alive in the 45°C + heat
- teachers come in late
- rain showers
- sometimes a bird, or a bunch, comes inside the classroom to hide from the rain
- most notably pidgeons
- and some ravens
- theyre cool
- splashes
- trees sometimes get hit with ligtning and classes end for emergency evac
- swimming practice gets cancelled more often than not because some storm is about to hit
- its cold in the mornings, and no one blames you if youre excuse is 'i overslept' in the school late slip
- my geo teacher lets kids use the couch to crash after math
- my math teacher is particularly vicious this time of year, as most things annoy her
- especially the internet in her classroom
- shes a good teacher but shes even better while being the antagonist of our lives
- (i havent failed a single math test so far and my average is around 80-90% thanks to her)
- yay we got our internet back from IT after 3 months of radio silence
- colds
- yeah shit sucks with a stuffy nose but hey you cant smell that gross school bathroom smell during this time
- can just jump into the pool, get out of it, and walk around and no one will question seeing you dripping wet
- electricity gets cut, resulting in cool mid day blackouts
- mid term pranks are in full session
Cons:
- the awful bathroom smell
- getting drenched when you're just minding your own business
- people pushing each other out in the rain
- misquitoes
- colds
- malaria is getting rampant
- the school hallways are always wet
- classes are somtimea flooded and our back packs are collateral
- (tho it did result in some classes where all of us are sitting on desk and our teacher took to wearing flipflops and spalshing us when he thinks we arent paying attention)
- leaks and mold
- skywalks are neigh impossible
- black out, internet shortage when that giant project file youre about to turn in gets shut down with the dinosaur on the screen
- misquitoes
- fevers, stuffy noses, the sneezing, feeling gross and very unwell, etc.
- having to leave my poor bike at school while i walk home in a downpour with my tiny umbrealla because my parents wouldnt let me ride
- the street food people dont come by anymore
- srsly i miss those grilled rice papers stuffed to the brim with declious goodness
- the indoor gym drops a few degrees colder and our teachers cant do anything about it
- i swear every kid was shivering because everybody had a cold
- misquitoes
#rainy season#thoughts?#pros and cons#literally happens every year#school nearly got cancelled once#i put a wasp nest that i befriended long ago under the camera in the staff evlavator#mid term pranks as a freshman#srsly why wait for yoru senior year when you can just start things now#its good practice#shoutout to ms. kelt shes the villain in every of her class' stories and the hero at the same time#all my teachers are evil but who doesnt have one?#i got four this semester#i have four periods everyday#dont worry their all good teachers#they just like to see their students suffer#:'D
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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
[plain-text version of this post can be found under the cut]
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
Plain-text version:
Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".
Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"
And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".
Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.
At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.
So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!
P.S. Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!
Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!
Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.
#hlep#original#mental health#my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need.#the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it#i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support#and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist.#the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28!#a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents.#they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of#huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the#longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong.#and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives.#you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead?#or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of.#no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow.#i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel#i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong.#just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop
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#sherlock#it might be the cough medicine but I'm really feeling the bbc sherlock wedding episode today#a good feeling ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡#like finding an old block of cheese in the back of the fridge you forgot about and its gotten super hard and chewy#i currently have half a block of gouda curating in the vegetable cupboard#waiting#how are you doing friends!! C:#I'm good! I still have the cough but I also got a new scarf#I'm still thinking about buying window colors as well but I am waiting if that is also just because of the cough medicine#I can't believe it's already been a year since I have moved! last year I was doing everything here for the first time#and now everything is happening for a second time! that year was both very long and also happened very fast#our floor in the “office” my father wanted to install still is not completly done but he threw up last time he tried#he did not threw up because of the floor but because every time he does a home renovation project he drinks 3 liters of Cherry Coca Cola#we are trying to not make him drink 3 liters of Cherry Coca Cola but he doesn't want anyone else to finish the floor I think so we just do#not mention the hole in the floor#have a nice autumn day friends!! I hope you're doing well! ( ´͈ ◡ `͈ )#♥
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I, for one, am looking forward to Viking Piece.
#one piece#elbaf#elbaph#not really spoilers we're not there yet#monkey d. luffy#nami#usopp#listen... I'm Norse... I really wanna see what Oda makes of our culture#he already thinks semlas are delicious so I can't wait to see what else he gets wrong#YES THIS IS MY ANTI-SEMLA PROPAGANDA#they're nasty (do I still eat one every year for national semla day? I do)#('wait you guys have a national semla day?' you say. indeed we do)#ANYWAY ELBAF#guess it's finally happening!!#Oda has literally teased this arc SINCE I WAS A KID#and I'm in my early 30s now
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If I see one more person say Odysseus cheated on Penelope I'm gonna rip out your ligaments like Typhon did to Zeus that one time
#epic the musical#the odyssey#odysseus#penelope epic the musical#“He slept with Calypso every night for 7 years” yeah bc she forced herself on him every night#and he had to sleep with Circe to save his crew#Not like bro could just refuse Calypso#she's a literal goddess who'd likely do who knows what to him for saying no. And as for Circe? Consent under duress is not consent#end of.#You forget the part in the poem where every morning he sits on the beach and cries bc he misses home and feels like he betrayed his wife???#Or how in the musical it's implied Calypso's abuse gets so bad it's one of the things that almost drives him to kill himself???#Or how in certain tellings of the Odyssey Ody straight up has a break down when telling his wife what they did to him#both bc of how badly it traumatized him and fear that she'll blame him for what happened and leave him?!?!!#Calypso and Circe when I catch you two when I catch you
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are we ever gonna talk about this
#my posts#my aftg posts#aftg#all for the game#the foxhole court#the sunshine court#if you haven't read the extra content you are in a lot less pain than me#because there's so much. just so much#and this. he kills himself to draw attention to the raven's abuse#AND TO SHOW HIS SUPPORT FOR KEVIN WHAT DO YOU MEAN?????#it happens on the day/night of graduation!!!! which means 2 years post-tkm??? unless the timeline is different in other drafts#just imagine kevin in every draft. but especially in that one#oh my god ohhhhhhhhh my god im so glad we did not have to see that#and at one point nora says jean has complicated feelings about neil and kevin but he was always willing to die for them#???????????? literally wtf
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hey i had a wild and crazy idea, just bear with me here bro, but maybe if you're beetlebabes dni you should try not going in the tags constantly to announce that to everyone who is the exact thing you're trying not to interact with. idk just a thought! like consider that we all know you exist, no one who has shipped beetlebabes for any amount of time is unaware that there are people who find the pairing and the people who ship it disgusting. i know that this new film must have all of yall huffing massive amounts of copium to deal with it all, but you could also just, yknow, not interact with it at all. not talk about it. stay in the lane of things you actually like instead of treading on other people's fun bc your disgust with it makes you feel entitled to try to shut it down. just put it in your bio if you feel that strongly about it and move on with your life maybe? choose happiness instead of bitterness? focus on improving yourself and your life instead of trying to play fandom cop every day? just thoughts, do with them what you will!
#beetlebabes#beetlejuice x lydia#once again antis go wandering into the exact places they claim to hate#yelling at everyone to 'dni' despite literally being in the middle of the function#like what do yall think is going to happen??#if you don't like it go away???#im just so tired of these people lmao it's been like 10 years of this now#every day im blocking some new anti that's made their way into the tags yelling DNI DNI#this new movie has them FUCKEd up but that's not OUR problem ok lmao#tbh tho ive always found it kind of hilarious that people are that opiniated about it in the first place#it doesn't even really rank up there with the most problematic ships
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......hello
i don't think you've actually watched seb race at all because he ran people off the track and crashed into them just as much, if not more than max does now.
not to mention: the entirety of multi 21
#every hyperlink is a different seb crash#this is not me hating!#this is me frustrated that people have let popular narratives overtake the reality of what actually happens in formula one#seb was viewed in just as much controversy in 2010 as max is now#and he was literally known for crashing into people#like his nickname was crash kid#his first years on the grid#to pretend that max and seb are somehow different in both driving style and championships is to be ignorant of f1 history#sorry you dont actually know the sport#f1#sebastian vettel#max verstappen#red bull racing#ferrari
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hey i feel like we're really sleeping on that time Danny possessed Vlad & framed him for assaulting a minor
Editing with the clip because people don't believe me. Episode is 41: Eye for an Eye.
#Danny Phantom#i think this ties into my other post i made a long time ago about Danny siccing the GIW on Vlad#like we KNOW in CANON that if Danny was even a tiny bit more like Vlad he would literally become a supervillain#villain is such a stupid word i hate how it's spelled. why is it like that#anyways i need to like. rewatch DP cuz i remember shit & then i'm like#did that actually happen. because that sounds too insane#but like. he Did That. didnt he#i think that's what i love about this character. but a lot of people ignore it#Danny is like. gritting his teeth going ''do good do good'' it isnt effortless it isnt easy he doesnt even want to do it half the time#& sometimes yeah he WILL do crimes or get back at people who've been assholes to him or whatever#he WILL use his powers for bad sometimes#he'll be like ''dont do that it's bad'' but like. he WILL do it himself#the whole ''i'm a hero'' thing he's got going on is like. more of a. how do i put this#it's like when you're drawing or writing & saying ''it doesnt have to be perfect it just has to BE''#like Danny isn't a hero sometimes. he's got morals & has a general understanding of good & bad#but also he's 14 & being attacked every day#i would start saying bad words & threatening people that annoy me too man#okay i glanced over the scene again for the first time in years & Danny was literally in the middle of outing Vlad to the whole town???#hello?? are we really ignoring this?????#VLAD TORNADO VLAD TORNADO VLAD TORNADO#this show is so stupid i love it#love how Sam & Tucker immediately backed him up yeah fuck Vlad all my homies hate Vlad#okay you know what. maybe i will do a DP liveblog. i think it would be fun#on daddyplasmius. only posting this on pa-pa-plasma cuz it's kind of just a. weird rant post? kind of? idk
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‘When you think about me, why do you always bring up the ball?’ Fabian is not beating the gay allegations this episode unfortunately
#fabian aramais seacaster#fabian seacaster#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#dimension 20#my god Fabian#ducking a kiss from your crush to immediately blabber on and on about your boy best friend and then FACETIME HIM mid convo???#I had to pause the episode and take a breath#queerplatonic Fabriz real#also like I don’t know if it’s an active RP decision by Lou or just a commitment to the bit but Fabian has been all ‘tHe BaWl 🥹❤️’ all seas#every time riz does anything and now it’s happening when he’s not even there#im just thinking about how vocally fond he’s been over this season and it’s at a time where riz literally cannot focus on him at all becaus#Fabian is basically crushing it without his help and like imagine how stoked riz would’ve been the past two seasons if this was the energy#he was getting from Fabian :( he just doesn’t have time#anyways im normal#fhjy spoilers#dimension 20 spoilers#fantasy high junior year spoilers#riz gukgak
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"omg homophobia :( the lesbian ship i want to kiss didn't kiss in an episode that was obviously going to be the backstory of another main character :( hes EXPLICITLY gay in a MARVEL DISNEY+ show and kisses his boyfriend but its still so homophobic :( the episode wasn't straight out of my headcannon so i hate it :("
do you know how dumb u sound rn
#like i want agatha and rio to kiss as much as the next gal#but this was so obviously going to be a billy-centric epsiode#which advanced the plot which is literally the point of every single episode???#random agathario makeout session would make NO SENSE here bc there was such a massive reveal at the end of last episode#so they have to go back and explain it#also#sorry to rant and sorry to be so angry lol#ive seen people saying how they already knew about billy from leaks and theories and comics so this ep was dumb and unnecessary#but i watch this show with my mum she has none of that context#she forgot what happened in last weeks episode#like#not everyone is on tumblr fighting for their lesbian witches#there are casual viewers who arent watching breakdowns and reading theories#so this episode was needed#it wasnt out of place#it would have been way weirder to not develop the whole billy thing and just keep going with the trials#that isnt how tv shows work#especially marvel shows that are part of a wider universe and cant just stand alone#GRRR IM GETTING ANGRY#i havent engaged like this with marvel for years#but smth about the way certain people are acting... its not quite sitting right#thats all lol#agatha all along#agathario#agatha spoilers#billy maximoff#billy kaplan
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me when im in a cage & its prolly a metaphor or smth
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE TMPH !!!!
[specifically cage for today]
alt version without the tv filter, brighter verions of em & the sketch for it cos its got a semi diff vibe/expression & i think it looks neat :}
#ITS BEEN A YEAR SINCE THE POWER HOURS STARTED CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT????#TF WHAT HAPPENED#in a cage but this time the metaphor is more about time#cos we dont have enough songs like that/j#anywayyys#its 5am so im tryin to hurry#but im gonna try posting a piece for every TMPH song! each day they came out at least so Art will [HOPEFULLY] come out tomorrow#i pray#i pray i finish them & post them all#and they look how i want them to#speedrunning art [literally] yet again#chonny jash#cj tmph#chonny jash power hour project#does that have a tag? sure#-atlas art-
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gonna have to get a new (old) phone soon because although this one functions perfectly, it's getting to the point now where a lot of apps require ios 16.0 minimum and the iphone 7 stopped at 15.8
the current ios version is 18.0
#literally the phone is completely fine it just happens to be 8 years old#they stopped updating the os on it 🫡#i mean to be fair my ipod classic 5th gen is almost 20 at this point and still works#and they stopped making the PARTS for that like a decade ago#might finally get an iphone 8 lads i can feel it in me bones#every android ive ever touched died immediately and all the apple tech ive owned could be a museum piece#think my macbook outlasted 4 of my besties laptops#idk what it is but around me specifically apple tech is like old nokias. shit just will not die
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I am once again thinking about how odysseus who witnessed the horrors that the captured women went through (one of his main duties in the iliad was taking the women back home and making sure they were as comfortable as possible and safe because he was the only one trusted not to violate them further due to his devotion to penelope. And in the odyssey part of the reason circe sent him to the underworld was so that he'd have to listen to all these women's stories (before he could talk to the prophet) ). Who was one of the few that saw women as people and respected their space and opinions. And was then put in those exact same situations. I don't have the motivation right now to do a full literary analysis of this (I'll site the sources too) but oh man one day I'm going to write a full essay on this.
#The odyssey#iliad#Odysseus#Tw: rape#Tw: sex slaves#Tw: camp slaves#Tw: That one time Calypso kept odysseus as a sex slave for 7 years#circe#Something about the inherent trauma of witnessing how your friends treat women#Watching them keep sex slaves#Then having to bring these girls home hearing about their stories seeing the aftermath#Then living in a situation where you have to let a powerful witch use you as she pleases half in payment for lives/food/medicine#Half because she has the equivalent of a gun to your best friends head and if you don't keep her happy then youre all dead#And then that witch sends you on a quest to the underworld where granted you'll benefit too but first#You have to listen to every single captured women from the Trojan war that you didn't Shepard home tell you their stories#Tell you that you're a horrible person while you are living in a disturbingly similar situation#And then later finding yourself trapped as a sex slave for seven years to an immortal nymph#And then being labeled as a horrible cheater for the rest of history#And none of this well historically everybody cheated or it's up to interpretation bullshit#Because it fucking isn't and granted a lot of abridged versions skip this shit#But if you read the full original stories and still think odysseus cheated then you just have an issue with men being victims#Or weren't paying attention i guess#Where's that meme where's it like the text was up to interpretation cut to the text where it very bluntly states what's happening#And I'm not saying odysseus was a good person or that he didn't have slaves because he did. And he wasnt#But first off nobody deserves to suffer that violation#Second they weren't sex slaves they were all nurses/maids/spys and I'm not getting into the ancient culture slavery issues rn#Third there's a lot you can pick to hate odysseus for but cheating/disrespecting women wasn't one of them#They literally invented a new word to describe his and penelopes love and it means to be so in love that you think the exact same way#Also forcing this narrative of odysseus cheating and penelope leaving to be a single girl boss is#Just the fake feminist mindset that stay at home moms are weak and wrong and live awful lives
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It's impossible to find a video about fashion history without an airhead who self-identifies as a fashion historian - because she LARPs on week-ends and owns a sewing machine - inserting a 5 minutes tirade in defense of corsets.
#but why women wore it for centuries#GIRL#do you want to talk about foot binding?#because that happened for like a thousand years#or genital mutilation#or breast ironing#or forced feeding#all done by women for centuries#enforced by women on little girls#corsets literally caused chlorosis#and other health issues#some mothers forced their daughter to sleep in a tight corset and would tie their hands at night so they couldn't take it off#how fucking dense must you be to be unable to understand that when a woman's only value is in what men have decided is beautiful#she will torture herself and others to reach this status#every culture has something done to girl that ranges from painful to horribly mutilating#either to make them attractive to men#or pure in the eyes of men#it's everywhere#and it has nothing to do with women being 'stupid'#but with fucking patriarchal oppression#go wear corsets in a public park pretending you're Ariel at 38 years old but spare us your opinions gooooood
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I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.
I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.
Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.
All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:
“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”
Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.
#(the quote is by Richard Woodville in his deathbed will; he was the last of the Woodville brothers to die)#elizabeth woodville#woodvilles#my post#to be clear I am not arguing that the death of an English gentry family name is some kind of giant tragedy (it absolutely the fuck is not)#I'm trying to put it into perspective with regards to what Elizabeth may have felt because we know her family DID feel this way#writing this kinda reminded me of how I am just not fond at all about the way Elizabeth's experiences in 1483-85 are written about#and the way lots so many of the unprecedentedly horrifying aspects are overlooked or treated so casually:#the seizure and murder of two MINOR sons and the illegal execution of another;#her sheer vulnerability in every way compared to all her queenly predecessors; how she was harassed by 'dire threats' for months;#how she had 5 very young daughters with her to look after at the time (Bridget and Katherine were literally 3 and 4 years old);#how unprecedented Richard's treatment of her was: EW was the first queen of england to be officially declared an adulteress;#and the first and ONLY queen to be officially accused of witchcraft#(Joan of Navarre was accused of her treason; she was never explicitly accused of witchcraft on an official level like EW was)#the first crowned queen of england to have her marriage annulled; and the first queen to have her children officially bastardized#what former queens endured through rumors* were turned into horrifying realities for her.#(I'm not trying to downplay the nightmare of that but this was fundamentally on a different level altogether)#nor did Elizabeth get a trial or appeal to the church. like I cannot emphasize this enough: this was not normal for queens#and not normal for depositions. ultimately what Richard did *was* unprecedented#and of course let's not forget that Elizabeth had literally just been unexpectedly widowed like 20 days before everything happened#I really don't feel like any of this is emphasized as much as it should be?#apart from the horrifying death of her sons - but most modern books never call it murder they just write that they 'disappeared'#and emphasize that ACTUALLY we don't know what happened to them (this includes Arlene Okerlund)#rather than allowing her to have that grief (at the very least)#more time is spent dealing with accusations that she was a heartless bitch or inconsistent intriguer for making a deal with Richard instead#it also feels like a waste because there's a lot that can be analyzed about queenship and R3's usurpation if this is ever explored properly#anyway - it's kinda sad that even after Henry won and her daughter became queen EW didn't really get a break#her family kept dying one by one and the Woodville name was extinguished. and she lived to see it#it's kinda heartbreaking - it was such a dramatic rise and such a slow haunting fall#makes for a great story tho
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