alicehoffmans:

Henry VIII. 

And somehow I ran out of steam, maybe I’ll reblog more on ‘why’ later but I guess I’ll just leave it at #HisImpact, and I personally find him the most interesting which is all the matters (sksksksk) and also he’s somehow, of all them, the most accessible (via what there is to read on him from primary sources alone, and how much of it is available for free online) and also the least accessible (”Three may keep counsel, if two be away; and if I thought my cap knew my counsel, I would cast it into the fire and burn it”.)

I just wanna say…most of this is fueled by interest, but a tiny part might be spite because? 

It is so incherseting to me; how I constantly see his accomplishments dismissed, even derided, because “it’s not like they were motivated by selflessness”/ “it’s not like his intentions were noble/pure.”

Firstable: somehow, I never see any other monarch judged by that standard so…noted. 

Secondable: fasc-in-at-ing how the definition for accomplishment/achievement has– apparently-– changed in the dictionary since I last looked it up; with that caveat added, and yet it looks exactly the same as it did before?