hot take: katherine of aragon has not been maligned by history; she’s been vilified and unduly blamed for things by certain individuals, yes, but that’s true of everyone — “maligned” is a very strong word for a woman who has had many champions, and even those who have questioned the traditional narrative of tudor history have usually been careful not to make her the villain
Tag: tbh…
i know it’s not always obvious whether someone tagged a post if it’s been reblogged a bunch but frankly i think it’s common courtesy to click on op and check? i know yada yada all tumblr posts are public but i do think it’s rude/bad online etiquette to respond to a short, uncapitalized, untagged post with lengthy disagreeing meta, even if you’re not personally attacking the op
it’s bringing a different level of discussion that was invited and i feel it carries the assumption that people aren’t bringing correct intellectual rigor to their casual posts
rest assured if youre trying to play the cool guy and make like “jokingly” rude comments on strangers posts for Funney Aloof Joke Points theyre just showing your comment to their friends and being like hey whats this dudes problem lol
i really wanna hammer it home that friendly ribbing doesn’t really come across when you’re not that persons friend and you really just seem like an aggressive weirdo
remember when macklemore said “walk into the club like whaddup i gotta big cock” and we just let him
Being an adult just makes me cry all the time
while I understand and respect the blogging “experience” and tagging friends and writing comments on posts, which is fun and natural and maybe I’ve read the same 100 things on all of my posts as comments idc if ppl have fun and I can ignore it, I find it thoroughly disrespectful when people try to “”reword”” my posts to try to tell me what I mean with my own post when I was the one who .. wrote it…. like first of all, log off.
i’m that one oscar isaac interview gif; except ‘let’s get into gender[ed] [Tudor] politics.’
me with an invisible martini in hand: the problem…with henry viii discourse…is that you all assume he is like dennis from iasip. when…CLEARLY…he is like MAC from iasip.
altho….


