White people of all stripes and marginalizations are absolutely unequipped to handle slur reclamation discourse because they're just stealing the n word discourse and mangling it to fit with whatever slur applies to them (and even some that don't) because, at the heart of it all, marginalized white people view themselves as oppressed on the same level as (or worse than) Black people and have a chip on their shoulder about it
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If you were there during my Mystic Messenger fan days, you are entitled to a senior's AND a veteran's discount tbh!
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Jeweler!Wanda’s assistant totally thinks Skitch is the best. Not rando chick at the front desk, but the personal assistant Wanda probably has. Like they just get so use to seeing Skitch around and Skitch is nice! If Skitch is bringing Wanda coffee they bring something for her assistant too. Same when it comes to food. Not to mention Wanda mellows out when Skitch is around. So yeah, Skitch would be popular around Wanda’s company.
Oh for sure yeah
Wanda's personal assistant, who I'm going to call Mandy, definitely gets along well with Skitch. Wanda and Mandy have been in the same dynamic for years and they consider each other good friends, and it makes sense that Skitch gets on nicely with the person who looks out for Wanda at her job when they aren't there, and vice versa in Mandy's case.
Skitch has Mandy's usual orders remembered as well so they can drop off her food when they visit Wanda.
Bruh after getting familiar with each other, I can see Mandy being down at the front most times when Skitch is expected to come by just so something like the Hannah incident doesn't happen again. She'll even encourage the idea of Skitch having their own guest badge made😌
(if you can already guess who Mandy is, I appreciate you like, and extra 20% bud)
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so far Jewel has not taken up a single person on their offer of helping to "cure" the tadpole problem because I'm an aberration-loving sicko and she wants to see the shrimp colors
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I can't even articulate how truly despicable it is that Depp's lawyer openly admitted to having someone on Depp's legal team deliberately spray his cologne on and around Heard to trigger her PTSD flashbacks, and clearly in order to make her look "crazy" and make Depp look better in comparison. All to further punish Heard and ruin her life for the crime of (checks notes) being an abuse survivor who was abuse by a famous and widely beloved actor.
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is anyone else old like me && was chronically online when they were younger,,,, like . i remember being so shocked whn someone asked who i kinned bc it used to have a way different meaning and my immediate reaction was like "no i am not that weird" b4 learning the current meaning is way more milder
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What do you think about the whole Anne wanting the christening robe from Catherine that she brought from Spain?
The Lady, not being satisfied with what she has received already, has solicited the King to ask the Queen for a very rich triumphal cloth which she brought from Spain to wrap up her children with at baptism (en temps de la tesme (?) qu. baptesme?), which she would be glad to make use of very soon. The Queen has replied that it has not pleased God she should be so ill advised as to grant any favor in a case so horrible and abominable.
Chapuys to Charles V. (July 1533)
So, I mean...there's no record of this response, or any letters, that corroborate this incident? And there should ostensibly be a few, right? At the very least the letter requesting it and the letter of refusal.
All that's left, really, is to argue for the likelihood based on what we know.
Against: Anne doesn't seem to have wanted reminders of Catherine around? She didn't like that Henry's shirts were being made for her by that reason, it's theorized she "could not abide the sight" of monkeys because they were Catherine's favorite pets, etc.
Moreoever, the argument Borman has made that this was a symbol of legitimate royal blood, I mean...sure, it definitely was, but it was passed down through the Trasmataras? It seems strange that Anne would request it as seeing her future child as an extension of that dynasty, actually, it makes like...no sense. Had the christening robe been one used by Henry and his siblings, perhaps his mother and theirs, and for some reason Catherine had this in her possession, then it would make sense.
And doubly, the argument Henry was making at this time was that his children by Catherine could not have even be bona fides, because the marriage contravened divine law. So, the christening robe, as far as their perspective would have went, would actually be associated with illegitimacy (since it was used for the children of Henry and Catherine), thus asking for it would be contradictory to the beliefs they espoused, as would the imagery of that symbol.
Since it doesn't make any sense even as far as symbolism goes, if Anne requested it, the gesture could only have come from a place of cruelty and pettiness. There's reports of Anne being petty and cruel, so that does nothing to disprove anything, really. In this vein, Elizabeth Norton states that Anne “spotted an opportunity to continue her persecution of Catherine”.
So, maybe the argument can be made that the request was not even so much a symbol of power and legitimacy, as it was that the robe was said to be very beautiful and Anne thus wanted to use it? With perhaps the added benefit that some of her detractors might recognize it and seethe, Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne
For: Anne did, if memory serves, take several items from the inventory of Catherine's goods and used them in her household, as did Henry. I have the quote of these items from a biography saved somewhere, I would have to find it, I can't remember if they were sort of more generic, utilitarian objects (gilt pitchers, that sort of thing) or if there were any that displayed Catherine's actual symbols. Either way, this demonstrates that Anne was not that adverse to reminders of Catherine surrounding her, so lends credence to the claim made by Chapuys here.
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