It’s just occured to me that lots of people use Tumblr only via the mobile app rather than the desktop so here are all the relevant links on my blog in a pinned post.
Entering London less than a week after her half-sister’s death, Elizabeth was received with rapture. Bonner stood in line at the walls of the City to welcome her. She offered her hand to the Mayor and aldermen to be kissed, but when Bonner approached and knelt before her she withdrew her hand and walked on.
we need to free the nipple so bad im so serious we should be so far past the point where girl children are told they have to keep their shirt on while their brothers and cousins get to run around shirtless or women shamed for breastfeeding or trans men needing top surgery to go outside shirtless without getting judged at best and arrested at worst or girls getting taken out of class for not wearing a bra like this should be a priority
“I don’t want your promise. I don’t need it. Perhaps no one will understand my marriage to you. But I speak to you, and you answer. I ask you to do things. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t… but you do at least listen. To my thoughts, to my decisions. As if I were a person.” CATHERINE PARR IN BECOMING ELIZABETH (2022)
I’ve decided there are two categories of historical novelist:
Category A: Primary sources? What primary sources? I read Alison Weir, that’s enough.
Category B: Oh I did SO much research, I am SO historically accurate, I read ALL the primary sources….wait what do you mean those sources are ‘apocryphal’? What do you mean ‘the author has an agenda’ and ‘apply critical thinking’? It was in a primary source! Why aren’t you treating me like a historian?
Category C is Patrick O’Brian who did bonkers amounts of research and then went and wrote the year 1812 twice because he couldn’t fit everything he wanted to write about from that year into the novels’ timelines otherwise
