alicehoffmans:

imagine thinking you can dictate what someone should/shouldn’t be interested in……….or that it’s literally any of your business at all? 

tbh; criticizing the way academia/research hones in on the study of monarchs and monarchies specifically, criticizing the way in which historic period dramas about royalty tend to be the most popular, get the highest ratings, get the highest budgets and critical acclaim…is totally valid. 

(i get it. i’ll argue that part of it’s circumstantial/based on what evidence we have– much as i would love to read the diary, for instance, of a 16th century launderess, the fact of the matter is that none exist because a person of that income during that time would likely not be literate)

but that’s not what i see. what i tend to see is a person criticizing others for wanting content of their personal favorite monarch, or having interest in that monarch, when that person just has a different favorite monarch. 

it’s irritating, it’s transparent, and it’s honestly not fooling anyone. 

tl;dr my friend can’t make a gifset about henry viii without getting a snarky ask about it? 

like….really?