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girl i love reading about how ye olde folks used to travel, bonus points if reading while travelling myself

Mwah @ the takedown of the all-pervasive smug leftist sense of superiority

Basically: when issues the public cares about get dropped by the left/liberals they get picked up by right-wing conspiracists and twisted to suit their narrative, and by refusing to engage in any meaningful debate you leave the right as the only side talking about it. hm.

so far? chills.

My mouth gets dry in sympathy reading about all this reclaimed body water ew

Ya know… reading this having watched the first movie (and planning to go see the second)… Dennis I geddit. I see the vision.

A very interesting new angle as Redmond Chang asks herself: Was Mary, Queen of Scots actually just… dumb?

So like… this is making me want to rewatch the Serpent Queen even though i know it takes infuriating liberties

oh Lord she’s going full “maybe Edward II escaped and DIDN’T die in captivity”

Sadly, repeating apocryphal stories about the supposed lovers of a previous Queen Isabell somewhat erodes Alison’s credibility here…

Kind of sad that the ultra-rich of the 21st century no longer plot to poison and execute one another…

One thing about Alison is that she is going to relate to her literary subjects as though she knows them personally.

See what’s so interesting is that Dan Jones cites Philipp IVs consent to give Isabella in marriage to Edward as proof that he couldn’t have been gay, cause what god-fearing monarch of the 13th century would do that if he credited the rumours going around Europe - but like at the same time, as pointed out here: there’s always pragmatism (and also this is the same king who burned a religious order to extinction)

starting off strong as we continue to read our way through as many ye olde Englishfolk biographies as possible: Allison Weir is firmly in the pro-homosexual-king-conspiracy camp.

Not even an “allegedly” thrown in there for good measure. THE homosexual Edward II, she calls him.

“Conventionally, and probablu correctly, their relationship has been construed as homosexual.”
TAKE NOTES DAN JONES Re: Edward II and Piers Gaveston

🎶WILLIAM WALLACE SCOTTISH REBEL 🎶

So his one redeeming quality is that it seems like he really did love his wife a lot

Nedward, why are your daughters so much more interesting than you are???

Wales wales wales…

Look I know the subject is grim but so far this is so stinking CUTE

Ned likes to stand on business.

Clever clever idea, that order of the garter

First of all… Penellaphe?
(I have to guess she intends it to be pronounced pe-nella-phee but in my head it unfortunately reads as pene-laugh)

Why are you the way that you are

The worst thing about Nick Dunne is that he’s literally just a guy. He’s so infuriatingly average in the way that he doesn’t pay attention and doesn’t really care and then gets mad at his wife being “mean”

(Bookclub book for may)

Bring the energy you bring for Isabella & Roger to Edward and Hugh, DANIEL. Don’t be a coward. 🤨

Oh sure, Dan. Their relationship was definitely “brotherly.”

laughing at how little medieval people knew about ethiopia until i remember that i know next to nothing about ethiopia

Nedward never stops flip-flopping.