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and you know what? no offense to ronance or buckingham or robickie, but you know what we deserved to see????

barbuckley. barbin.

i don’t know exactly what the name would be but i want my dorky redheads who bond over nancy being their gay awakening before falling for each other!!!

Reasons Robin and Barb from Stranger Things would have made a great couple

Both gay and hot

Both fashion icons

Both friends with Nancy

Robin is canonically into redheads so... Barb is her type

Barb's calm, patient, steady energy would have been the perfect thing to balance Robin's hyper-anxious restlessness

Robin would actually give Barb the appreciation she deserves

It would be so cute! Just think about how cute it would be

Possible ship names: Bobin, Robarb, Barbin, Holley, Buckland, Barbuck, Robland...

Week 3. Happy one you folks 🎸✌🏼💗 #legendary #favshow #barbin #robney #love #shipstagram #love #wintermood #mootd #howimetyourmother (at France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CneidDis98z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I love the idea of penny doing a ballet/dance performance and she is just a ball of confidence because she can see the entire first row is filled with all the people she loves most!

Jonathan is filming every second.

Maude, Nancy, reader and Wayne, have tears in there eyes.

Dustin, Steve are filling bawling their eyes out.

Eddie is just in awe of his amazing talented baby.

Afterwards penny runs to their group and everyone is praising her about how amazing she did and the just responds with “I know.”

Don’t do this to me while I’m ovulating!!!

Eddie watching his baby do her little routine, big smile on her pretty face and her eyes sparkling under all those lights and attention. He’s taken back to all those talent shows he did in school, desperate to be seen with only one person in the audience rooting for him. It had meant the world to him to see his uncle in attendance, clapping the loudest for him.

His daughter had an entire row taken up by people who loved her and he could see the effect it had on her; trying her hardest to show off, putting her all into it to make them proud. She runs right up them after, jumping into her daddy’s waiting arms with her own wrapping around his neck in a tight hug as she buzzes with excitement.

Everyone is surrounding them, showering her with praise and compliments (aunt Robin and aunt Barb sound the most impressed with her, a little envious) and Eddie gets to watch Penny preen under it all, smug at her own talent (listen—she’s okay at it now, not the greatest but her confidence promises one day she will be).

Still, Eddie’s expecting her to be a little bashful when he presses a kiss to her sweaty (he makes a face at that, hadn’t been expecting it) head, “You did so good, baby! My girl was the best up there, gonna be a star.”

But she’s Penny so she hides her face briefly in his neck before pulling back and wiping hair that really isn’t there out of her face with a demure shrug of her little shoulders, “Yuh-huh, I know.”

And when you press loud, smacking kisses to her cheek, she can feel the moisture from your tears against her face and thinks it’s because of Eddie’s comment, “Ah, mom! Don’t cry! I’m gonna be a star when I’m all growned up! I’m still your little girl now!”

Bonus: Argyle asks Penny to teach him some moves and Eden offers her $10 not to, which Barb and Robin beat with $20 and a promise of an extra $5 if she can get it on camera.

Aftermath of a coup: dealing with Marie's and Concini's creatures

Louis XIII dealt with Marie's and Concini's ministerial creatures exactly the way he wanted: according to his scale of political crimes and punishments. Mangot was the most innocuous of the triumvirs; hence, he was merely ordered peremptorily by the king's messenger to hand over the seals of his office, and was not allowed to see his monarch. In sharp contrast, Barbin was immediately jailed and his financial records seized. Ostensibly this action was to facilitate the trial against the Ancres, but it clearly reflected the king's belief that he was guilty of criminal negligence. Marie tried to intercede with Louis, first through Luçon, then at her own leave-taking with her son, and finally by letter from Blois. Barbin was kept in prison for sixteen months, then banished forever from France. Neither his own later appeals to Louis, nor those of Déageant and Luçon, succeeded in restoring his reputation and confiscated assets.

Luçon's fate was more complicated than that of the other triumvirs, reflecting a contest of wills between a hostile Louis XIII and a temporizing Luynes. From the king's perspective, the future cardinalminister Richelieu had three strikes against him: his closeness to Barbin, his indebtedness to Concini for his office, and his terrifyingly bright, authoritarian manner. The monarch revealed all his adolescent distrust on seeing the bishop of Luçon try to join the other secretaries of state after Concini's fall: "So! Luçon! I've finally escaped your tyranny."

Luynes immediately objected that Luçon was not all bad, pointing out the bishop's offer of loyalty before the coup. The king's favorite seems also to have suggested that the cleric's diplomatic skills and influence with the queen mother could help to keep her under control. Louis was sufficiently impressed to let Luçon act as Marie's temporary bargaining agent while she was incarcerated in the Louvre, and to let him accompany her to Blois. The bishop, however, departed soon after for his diocesan residence, probably in anticipation of royal disfavor. Explicit royal orders then sent him further away to the papal territory of Avignon.

These successive exiles undoubtedly reflected Luynes's second thoughts that Luçon was too dangerous a rival to leave with Marie. But they also bear the mark of a suspicious young Louis XIII, terrified of double manipulation by an imperious priest and an irrepressible mother. For his part, Luçon put the best face on his fall from secular grace in his memoirs, doctoring the sequence of events to suggest that the king bore him only good will.

A. Lloyd Moote - Louis XIII the Just

Just saw the Barbie movie. I liked the part where she said "it's Barbin time" and then Barbed all over the place

Today marks Intersex day of Remembrance. It is a day first observed in 2005 to commemorate the birthday of 1800s French intersex author Herculine Barbin. The term for intersex in Welsh is Rhyngryw.

[Queued from Twitter]

SAW BARBIE

Tumblr PLEASE give me polls how am I supposed to decide on my own what book to read next when everything excites me

Text Reads: For November 8th, please light a candle for all of us, intersex people who suffer and who have suffered and died from suicide or hate crimes. This day is the day to pause and realize the great harm false sex dichotomies have caused hundreds of millions of intersex people.

November 8th is Intersex Day of Solidarity, also known as Intersex Day of Remembrance.

Here is a quote from Hurculine Barbin, one of the first documented suicides, after her government forced her to live as a man. It was discovered in her memoir. She was a 19th-century French Hermaphrodite.

"You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into the limpid ocean of the infinite, where lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep."

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps.

I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep.

~ Herculine/Abel Barbin

whats everyone wearing to the barbie premier? 

My favorite part of The Barbie Movie is when she said "its Barbin' time" and then she Barbed all over those guys