#or; more likely

[fideidefenswhore]

philippa also likes Mary because she believes she won in the end over her sister. Mary had a loving husband, children and descendants, so Philippa gets to shame Anne by using Mary and going like “see how Mary is better!!! She had the best life!! She had the last laugh” 🙄

'The last laugh' thing is so insane to me, she was isolated from her family and perhaps had conflicting emotions about them at that point; but it's clear from her letter to Cromwell that she was heartbroken over the rift ("too heavy to bear"), even if it did contain some element of resentment about how she had been treated by her family in the past decade ("rather beg my bread with him than be the greatest Queen in Christendom"). It's also entirely possible (there's a report from the Bishop of Faenza that Anne's sister was with her during her last miscarriage, that has been variously theorized to have been either Mary or her sister-in-law, but there's no corroboration of either so I remain skeptical) that Mary did not even know about the trials of 1536 until after the fact; the swiftness of the arrests --> executions allows for that, that we cannot place her firmly at this time allows for that (some historians have theorized she was living in Calais with Stafford at this point, even, although I don't know if she would feel comfortable being so far from Henry and Catherine Carey), that by the time Henry VIII's diplomat abroad, Gregori Casale, heard of the arrests and sent word asking Pate how he thought events were going to unfold, George and Anne were both already dead, means that it remains open that this, too, is how Mary found out. How horrifying would it be to learn that your siblings had been executed before you even learned of their arrests? There's no 'last laugh' in learning you will never get to say goodbye, even if your brother was "so cruel against us" (us, meaning Mary and her husband, although the oft-omitted part is that she asserted if there was "any pain I could take with my life [with which] I might win [his] good [will], there is [none] living would venture more than I").

But I do stand by my initial theory of transferred affinity: the whole novel, the resentment from PG bleeds through. They are made to foil each other and it's clear by the foil which one is her self-insert: Anne is self-aggrandizing whereas Mary is self-effacing. Mary is aware of her inferiority and doesn't 'overreach' beyond becoming the King's mistress, at turns embarassed and awed by Catherine's love for her husband and vice versa (although never enough to eschew their flirtation, which I suppose is why she makes her...fourteen, in this novel, in 1522? So that she has less agency). Her self-reflection is acutely embarassing to the point that she 'knows' that compared to her, Catherine is 'silver' whereas 'we' (ie, the Boleyns) 'were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin' (PG loooves metal allegory... in another novel she waxes and wanes about how Arthur was 'gold' whereas his younger brother was 'lead'...deep /s).

That's clearly at the heart of her resentment about Anne (there's acknowledgment of contemporary praise of her but only the most superficial, such as the observation no other women of the court surpassed her in skills of music and dance); Anne did not feel herself to be inferior in intelligence or ability to her predecessor. She knew she was inferior in status to her predecessor, especially before the marks of gradual elevation to its summit, but there's not much indication that she was ashamed or embarassed by this outside of extremely hostile sources. According to the relatively neutral Venetian ambassador, she was actually rather opaque about that:

Had audience of the King this morning and thanked him for the love he bears the State, and did the like by the Queen, who said she knew that God had inspired his Majesty to marry her, and that he could have found a greater personage than herself, but not one more anxious and ready to demonstrate her love towards the Signory.

[nyancrimew]

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[dredsina]

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[enemywasp]

I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[unsung-idiot]

some quick drawings of little Soos I made a while ago

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[12neonlit-stage]

you're allowed to discuss and work together, reblog for a higher sample size or something

You have 1 week, good luck!

[illumerie]

all of humanity in his hands

[redstonedust]

yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.