#it goes from anger to pity. why won't you give me what you claim i'm worth to why won't you give yourself what you claim you're worth? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fideidefenswhore · 7 months

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teenage dream (2023), olivia rodrigo / the spanish princess (2020) / the private lives of the tudors, tracy borman (2016) / the six queens of henry viii (2016) / the vaux passional / the six wives of henry viii (2001) / the lovers who changed history (2014) / blood, sex & royalty (2022) / blood, sex & royalty (2022), gif @fabledenigma / the cross (2014)

#yes i am using this song this intro and this bridge yes i am using it for him.#i just want to be hated.gif #web weaving #the afterword will probably prove the most controversial but oh well.#is it enough for you? gagged him a little.#it is so gutting bcus it's so tangible that she just. pities him. to her core.#it goes from anger to pity. why won't you give me what you claim i'm worth to why won't you give yourself what you claim you're worth?#i have like the entire meta for that scene saved bcus i knew it wouldn't save all my tags #tl; dr you won't be fulfilled by that; you just think you will.#and of course it hits its target because nothing is ever enough for him #his most formative memories begin with this sense of debt #where he's fallen behind this future that's been charted for him because it wasn't supposed to be his #and then he becomes king and just. falls behind and falls behind and falls behind #each loss compounded by grief and disappointment and the sense he's fallen even farther behind #the loss of his mother is spoken of re: his development a lot and i think it's important but it probably overshadows #how small the other gaps are #it's nine years between his brother dying and the loss of his first child that lived at all #and more than that it's his brother and mother dying literally eleven months apart #there is this sense of dynastic duty but it also has to have been so deeply personal #he wants to compensate for the loss of his family and yet his family continues to die and each loss reminds of the previous #and in this immediacy the women he marry inherit this debt #this emotional debt and debt of duty #henry has a lot of promise but the promise has a price if it's not fulfilled #fabledenigma #and it's to the disadvantage of all the women he becomes close to (and some of the men-- wolsey; cromwell) that henry's been staring #at this hourglass of sand since he was ten years old but he also doesn't know any other way #there is a deep and ineffable tragedy about this man #inescapable from what julia fox said recently; anne was the love of his life.#which means to me the question of whether or not he remembered anne in the aftermath answers itself.#there's not only always the ghost of anne herself but the ghost of the future they had planned together

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