unicorn out of captivity, 2022

looks like I need to be explicit again: terfs and transphobes are not welcome here. this is a truly madly deeply enthusiastically pro-trans and especially pro-transfem blog. my femininity has 1000x more in common with trans women than it will ever have with any vision of womanhood that depends on medicalisation, body fascism and despair, and my masculinity is informed by the warmth, kindness and vulnerability of all the best cis men I've had the fortune to know. there is nothing interesting about your martyrdom or your misery. get over it and, until you do, get off my posts.

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

ELEANOR TOMLINSON as ISABEL NEVILLE

THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

UK General Election — 4th July 2024 ‼️

Here's a collection of resources and information for the upcoming general election because voting is very important.

If you've never registered or have changed address since you last registered, you MUST register to vote here by 18 June

If you're unable to vote in person on the day, you can apply for a postal vote by 19 June or apply for a proxy vote by 26 June

Photo ID will be required — details here on what is accepted and how to apply for a free voter ID document if needed (deadline: 26 June)

For info on your constituency and candidates, visit whocanivotefor.co.uk

You can find an overview of any MP's voting record via theyworkforyou.com

For your consistency's vote share last election + the recommended vote to get the tories out, visit tactical.vote

If you're a student, you can register at both your home and term time address, but you can only vote at one of them!

Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, “The Red Girl”

Unknown artist | Katherine Parr (details) | late 16th century

“i firmly believe that the [boleyn ‘b’] necklace was real as it would be odd if they just added something that didn't exist to her portraits.”

the tudor fandom is so cooked. you people are so fucking stupid.

“She was a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon for several years alongside Anne Boleyn, so she would've witnessed the way Anne held Henry off for so long by pleading her virginity. She watched, and she learned. There is a famous tale of how Jane was picking out items for her wedding to the king, while Anne awaited her execution in the Tower. If true, it would show sprinklings of a cold heart. [...] I wonder if Jane was reminiscing over these events, as she was dying of child-bed fever, and if so, what her thoughts on them were. Did she pray for forgiveness for the part she played? I like to believe that she did, given how spiritual she was known to be.”

abfiles comments writing fanfic fantasising about jane seymour in moments of terrible duress!

But, without her, is not our Reformation in danger? Was she not our greatest supporter and advocate? Yet she would likely have become our greatest liability. 

(requested by lostienotpennysboat)

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

from time to time, i think again about how PERFECT Jack Farthing as Henry VII would be, and how casting directors are totally ignoring it and i cry about it in my shower 😭

i mean-

CAST HIM NOW I’M TIRED!!

RT if u think katherine parr should deal with thomas seymour ‘roundly and shortly’

truly… why does it matter if katherine howard was innocent? why is her value and the sympathy she is afforded conditional upon katherine not having had ‘inappropriate’ sex? why is every other piece of information about her relative to this one specific issue? (we know why.)

Last two of Henry VIII's wives, two more K/Catherines! I'm all finished with this project!

Katherine Howard was Henry's fifth and youngest wife, and second to die by execcution at her husband's hand. She was cousin to Anne Boleyn, and like her, rose to the king's favor as a lady in waiting to Anne of Cleves. Her age at the time of their marriage being speculated to be between 15 to 21-- her husband was 49. The crimes levied against her at her arrest were primarily to do with two alleged affairs that the king was not aware of at the time of the union. History has not been kind to this young woman. Thankfully there has been recent retreadings of her story, and more scruitiny has been called upon to the older men who claimed to have loved her. She reportedly loved to dance, which is why I painted her mid-step. I also wanted to show off some Tudor era garments, so the lift of her dress is greatly exagerrated.

Katherine Parr was Henry's final wife. At the time of their marriage she had already been widowed twice, and was in service to Mary as a lady in waiting. Katherine was a staunch Protestant, perhaps even more so than Anne Boleyn, as she fervently supported the Reformation, and even spoke to Henry about finishing this work (at this point Henry himself lived as a quasi-Catholic, and was comfortable in the state of limbo he left his realm in by not defining Anglicanism further), which famously almost cost her her head. Katherine is actually quite notable for being the first named female author published in England, and she has three works credited to her. After Henry passed, Katherine made a swift marriage to her one-time lover, Thomas Seymour, which caused a great deal of scandal and pain to her step-children. She died after giving birth to a daughter only about a year after Henry. The dress she is wearing is based on a Tudor portrait by an unknown artist. It seems to be depicting the queen in a more relaxed attire than formal court attire, but, I have to say, I wish I had chosen a different outfit. Since making this design there has been a brilliant discovery of another portrait of Katherine, and if I ever will return to Katherine, I'd like to base her on that one. The portrait I referenced in this picture is dated to the late sixteenth century, but Katherine died in 1548, so I can't help but wonder if the dress is innaccurate. Curiously, there is also speculation that she had originally been painted wearing a French Hood for the piece, which was painted over later-- but it's only a theory.

Catherine & Henry in Isabel 3x10