#they both frequently post interviews with people that have different perspectives ; biographers of mary i and all that

[fideidefenswhore]

been thinking about the AB Derangement Syndrome a lot lately and i realized i actually summed my thoughts up earlier in My Sacred DMs and felt like sharing, so:

i can’t really tell if it’s an anger over her predominance in the subject or just that that’s the filter you have to see through when you’re seeking out (free) content? ive been thinking about this a lot lately and there is like this butthurt thing i think about that the two major tudor resource collations are run by AB admirers (AB Files & On the Tudor Trail……) so it’s like a resentment about having to see it through that prism i suppose, that’s really obvious in their comment sections too where there’s always perennial lurkers that are like actually AB wasn’t that great. she was mean. poor princess mary :’( & i sincerely do not care, you cannot both expect/ask someone to do the work for you and also conform to your own opinions/slants or this unrealistic expectation of ‘absence of bias’ (which is really actually reflection of your own bias as ‘neutral’) at a certain point you are asking for AI history simulator content it's beyond entitlement, it is a belief you’re the main character and everyone must cater to your whims. like it is really a thing that make you go hmmmm when mary i/coa stans are like tehe i prefer alison weir > eric ives. or frankly any other academic historian bcus, why? she affirms your confirmation biases better? i don't even really get it with the former particularly because while weir pities mary i, she very obviously does not respect her. she has repeatedly said she was unsuitable to ruling and had minimal political intelligence. so like why would they gravitate towards her...? and so it seems like it's mainly bcus alison weir depicts anne as the villain of her story with zero nuance or examination of the credibility of the source material in question, and that this better reflects their 'emotional truth'.