#Mary the First was a woman

[coochiequeens]

The Church of England was created because HenryVIII knew Mary wasn’t a son

#Church of England #define woman #Eve was a woman #Men trying to look progressive #HenryVIII #Mary the First was a woman #ann Boleyn lost her head because she was a woman who gave birth to a daughter #Jane Seymour died because she was a woman who gave birth #Catherine Howard lost her head because men abused her

[masterofiodine]

bbc ghosts modern au!!

making up their outfits was really fun (especially kitty and thomas, he would look great in skirt)

#cap wpuld wear cardigans #he wouldnt want to wear it at first because he would feel ridiculous and old in that #and eventually he funds out its really comfortable and starts to like it #humphrey is a turtleneck guy #*ehm* #or like any sort of this tight sweater #kitty would put on the most bold color combination and patterns #and still make it look good #like i literally cant imagine pat in enything else that his normal outfit #and this p.e. teacher sort of fit #i'll do better next time #and julian is justin his normal clother but with trousers #with robin i just felt like it #and fanny is a bussiness woman #i see her having like ten sweaters of this type in her closet #mary would like summer dresses i think #thomas in skirt is a thought i cant get out of my head #and something like tank top #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts headcanon #humphrey bone #bbc ghosts kitty #pat butcher #thomas thorne #fanny bbc ghosts #mary bbc ghosts #robin the caveman #the captain #julian fawcett #moi is arting

[yourdailyqueer]

Marie Cau

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 27 October 1965  

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Politician, engineer, entrepreneur

Note: First transgender woman elected mayor in France

#Marie Cau #queerness #trans people #lgbt #lgbtq #transgender #trans woman #queer #1965 #white #french #politician #engineer #entrepreneur #first #popular #popular post

[darthraydor]

#brenda leigh johnson #sharon raydor #brenda.sharon #otp: that woman #the closer #kyra sedgwick #mary mcdonnell #lets goooo baaaaack #back to the begiiiiiining #unhinged ao3 tags said “bickering as foreplay” #and when i say i ran to post that i must go first scene #which led me down this path so #prepare to be inundated with new and remade gifs #also god brenda's rank kink gets me every time #gif #gifset #mine #also how proud am i that i managed to eek this quality out of my 640p rips

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Boss Tweed

Up In Central Park (1947)

#vincent price #up in central park #boss tweed #he met his wife Mary while making this movie #as she made the costumes...talented lady #luckiest woman of all time i said it #hes so cute #so sexy #fugitive #first class #bicon #god hes perfect #I WANT HIM #please just a crumb sir #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #gifs

[wilsonthemoose]

Mary fighting to get out of the life and getting married to a guy who died in her arms and making a deal with a demon in exchange for a visit 10 years down the line and then naming her sons after her parents who got killed by aforementioned demon is...mam I love full-circles and history repeating itself and narrative damnation but maybe name them Joe and Alex.

#mary winchester #See if this were her story. Itd be different. #It's just that she was the woman in a nightgown who burned on a nursery ceiling in the first episode and as a ghost 22 years later told her #Son she was sorry #So it's like that. But if this were her story shed have taken her kids and her husband and run #Shed have slept in jeans and jackets for 10 years with guns under her pillow and her kids in the next bed 3 feet from her #It's just. Maddening.

[starqueen87]

#Mary Jane Patterson #first #black #woman #receive #college degree #oberlin college #principal #read about her #remarkable #knowledge is power

[fruitypat00ti3]

We stan Cog x Toon in this household, so have my take 🐟🐑

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#still a bit shy about posting these two but they make me happy ❤ #when smol engineer fonds big scary woman #toontown #toontown corporate clash #corporate clash #ttcc #deep diver #Cinny Lee #my art #doodles #fanart #bottom one is a little older when i was drawing Mary for the first time !

[denimshortsdean]

12x01 Keep Calm And Carry On does such intense and insane psychic damage to me when Mary tenderly says to the impala “hey sweetheart, remember me?” and Dean looks so sweet about it because his mother loves his baby just like he does!! And the music is all soft and nostalgic and she’s reliving highlights of her life, running away from her father, not being a hunter, the days when she actually loved John

and then they fucken punch me directly in the face by revealing she was thinking about the times she fucked nasty in the backseat and probably conceived her eldest son who is standing RIGHT THERE and clocks it all at 95mph

#text #spn #Mary Winchester #dean winchester #s12 #12x01 #it’s ya boi Rach #Mary Winchester right from the first five minutes they said this is NOT the pure woman they’ve been idolising

[lucky-draws]

the normal alive girls again...

#silent hill #silent hill 2 #sh2 #maria silent hill #mary shepherd sunderland #my and my doomed girlfriend ( we are the exact same person ) #accidentally gave mary r*make james' nose kind of??? sorry #in a shock win for feminism the first drawing on here in 2023 is not an ocie but a woman #two of them even. ( but not really )

[crownrots]

#oc txt. #c: hattie #c: mary ellen #hattie being able to make it back to her own vault just in time to be with her mom in her final moments is 🤕 #she’s not the overconfident self assured put together person she was when she left however long ago it was #and her mother isn’t the hyper independent stoic emotionally constipated woman that didn’t even hug her before she left #her mother really did believe that this colony that had supposedly been growing since she was a girl WAS her kids’ only hope at a future #they knew for years that the vault was running out of supplies and falling apart #she was getting older and really didn’t think a future above ground was for her or her husband or the other adults that had grown up there #it was for their kids. #bc the vault wasn’t going to be able to sustain them for much longer #it’s why she pushed her kids so hard and pushed them away even harder #bc it made sending them into that world ‘easier’ #she wouldn’t miss them as much and they wouldn’t miss her #sending her twins up there (her first borns) years prior was HELL #and she dreaded the day hattie was old enough to be thrust out there and even debated whether or not she’d even go through with it #so seeing her now … especially in the state hattie is in when she returns #she feels guilty but at the same time proud? because despite it she knows hattie had and HAS what it takes to survive up there #and seeing tj??? she doesn’t know if the twins made it to the colony or whether the colony was even real operating ect ect #so she’d never get to see them with her grandkids if they had any #she at least gets a slice of what could have been if things were different #it’s good that hattie gets to tell her truth of everything #it’s good that hattie gets to reconcile and be the last thing she sees before she passes #it’s all mary ellen ever wanted … to see her girls again #and in her mind if hattie made it … then she knows the other two did too #and i think for hattie she was just on the cusp of giving up and throwing in the towel #but she’s got people relying on her and she’s not a quitter … was never allowed to be #and i think by now she’d be searching for them less for herself and more for her parents #the least she can do is find out if their sacrifices (and the sacrifices of everyone else) were warranted

[coconut530]

Here’s two doodles (late night edition)

#Malevolent #Malevolent Podcast #6 #WOW LIKE WHERE DO I EVEN START #First like them talking and stuff #John sorry bby you felt isolated but I mean come on friends never hurt anyone #And NOEL!!! Frickin’ love this guy #SO MUCH USEFUL INTEL WHAAAAT. CHARON TREASURER ORDER SIGIL LIKE SO CRAZYYYYY #AND JOHN WAS PART OF THE CONVERSATION!!! I have no idea why the second Arthur started talking I just burst out laughing for like. #So many minutes #But it was so wholesome and gratifying! Like we only get this type of freedom with Kayne bc he can hear John so having a trustworthy friend #Hearing us is nice #Unrelated but soundscapes were really good this ep like dang surely one of my fave eps of the season #And then um. Whatever Aldrich and Percival scenes were #That story was kinda cute I forgot about it way to tie it back to the beginning during the penultimate #JOHN STOP FORGETTING THINGS WE NEED TO BE PAST THIS #MARIE GIRL I’LL MISS YOU YOU WERE VERY FUN AND EPIC AND OUR FIRST WOMAN CHARACTER SO UHH YEAH #ALSO YOU TALKING ABOUT UR SON MADE ME WANT TO CRY OKAY HAHAHA #Noel!!! He’s just the best I tell ya #WHEN HE WAS LIKE UR OFFICE CUMMINGS DREAMLANDS KING IN YELLOW PRISON PITS THE CANA ADAM FRY LIKE OH MY GOOOOOOODDDDDDDD #I DIED IT WAS LIKE SO CRAZY HE LIKE KNOWS SO MUCH IS SO SIMILAR TO US IT’S CRAAAAAAZY #AND DUDE IT’S REALLY HARD TO NOT CALL YOU NOEL STILL #WE GONNA BREAK! IN! AND IT’S GONNA BE EPIC! #ANS THEN WE’RE OFF TO ENGLAND!!! WHAT I’M SO EXCITED #FIRST MIZU FROM BLUE EYE SAMURAI GOES TO ENGLAND AND NOW ARTHUR WHAT A TREAT #MALEVOLENT’S SO COOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Story time with Lucile Desmoulins compilation

The Violet It was the first day of spring, and I walked out, descending into a valley filled with willows, which, alas! were not yet green. I turned away my eyes from the sight of those melancholy trees denuded of their leaves, and thought only of seeking amid the fresh-springing grass for the first flower of the fairest season. I walked a long time without finding anything, but at length, as far off as my sight could reach, I perceived a violet, one single violet! Oh, how beautiful it was! I flew to the spot, and was about to pick it, when, (what was my surprise!) the humble flower stirred, and seemed to endeavour to extricate itself from beneath my fingers! Fearing to deceive myself, I stretched out my hand. Then a voice, as sweet as its perfume, made itself heard, ”What are you doing, Lucile,” it said to me; ”why would you tear me from the earth? Alas! suffer me to live yet awhile; no one here treads me underfoot; you will soon find thousands more beautiful than I; in a bouquet I should be lost, mixed up with others, and I should add nothing to its size; let me end my days here.” Touched by such affecting language, I replied: ”Fear nothing, gentile flower, I would never be so cruel as to destroy you; let me only inhale your breath.” Then she lifted her odorous head, and her leaves unfolded themselves. Moved to tears, I allowed one to fall into her calix. She said to me: ”Your tears recruit my strength; I shall live longer than my fellows.” Then I said, ”I will come every day and moisten your leaves with sweet pure water.” ”Come,” she replied, ”but come always alone.” I promised her this, and every day I went to tend her, and to inhale her delicious perfume. Alas! I shall never see my friend again! My charming violet — one evening — in vain I sustained her bending stem, in vain slightly sprinkled her with water drops to revive her; her last hour had come. I shall visit that valley no more, but I shall ever think of my sweet violet.

First cited in Camille Desmoulins and his wife: passage from the history of the dantonists by Jules Claretie (1876) page 128-129

What I would do if I were in her place If destiny had placed me on the throne, if I was queen, and, having brought pain to my subjects, a just death for my crimes had been prepared for me, I wouldn’t wait for the moment when an unrestrained population came to tear me from my palace to drag me unworthily to the foot of the scaffold, I would prevent their blows, I say, and would like by dying to impose them on the entire universe. I would have a large enclosure prepared in a public place, I would have a stake erected there and barriers surrounding it, and three days before my death I would let the people know my intentions. At the back of the enclosure and opposite the stake I would erect an altar. During these three days I would go to the foot of this altar to pray to the great master of the universe, on the third day I would like all my mourning family to accompany me to the stake, this ceremony would take place at midnight by light torches.

First cited in Les Autographes et le goûts des autographes en France et à l’entranger (1865) page 301-302

The Aviary Cloé had only seen the revolution of the twelve months of the year twelve times. Her only occupation, her only amusement during this happy period of her life, was to look for nests in the woods and to see these young broods growing under her eyes and by her care. The little birds had grown big, she didn't have the courage to get rid of them; she kept them all and fed them as best she could. Her parents, who were not wealthy, were forced to interfere with their daughter's innocent pleasures. The aviary had become considerable and required a fairly large quantity of grain, which the young shepherdess obtained only with great difficulty. She had even had to steal more than once. One morning the young Cloé had gone out to find some new broods. What a sight awaited her on her return! She arrives very happy, in her hands a pretty nest of warblers. She runs to her aviary: the door to it was wide open, and not a bird inside... The merry finches, the bullfinches, the frank sparrows, the goldfinches, the tender warbler, the nightingale... and you too, faithful pigeon, all had taken their flight: not a single one had awaited the return of their poor master! How to paint Cloé's despair? At first she remains motionless and mute. A moment later, rage seizes her, she tears out her blond hair, she is flooded with tears; then she overturns and breaks the cage under her feet; she goes, comes, walks out and returns almost immediately. Several times one sees her following the birds in the air with her eyes, hoping to distinguish some of those in her aviary. She can no longer eat, and throws away all the objects that could remind her of too dear memories. At twenty, she was no more distressed when she learned of the infidelity of her beloved shepherd. One hears her exclaim: “Ah! Alas! They gave up their beneficence… Even though nothing was missing. These ingrates! What had they to desire? I shared with them the bread that was given to me for myself alone. I made them eat it out of my hand. How many times didn’t I go to the garden to pick up for them the fruit that had fallen from the tree! I spent whole hours looking for new worms for them that they love so much! How many times have I exposed myself for them to the reproaches and threats of my parents! Every morning, every evening I took care of them, as a mother takes care of her little children. I caressed them in turn; I warmed them in my bosom. How many times have I disturbed my sleep to go discover some companions for them at dawn, through brambles and thorns! They were all my pleasures. Near them I forgot the hour of the dance. They even recognized me and returned my caresses. During the winter, when the snow covers the fields, where will they take refuge? They will die of cold and hunger… if the bird-catcher does not trap them to give them to cruel children, or else the inhuman hunter… O my poor little birds, how I pity you! Alas! You miss me. Cruel parents, it is you who cause us all these evils!”

An elderly shepherdess, her neighbour, had heard the lamentations of the young Cloé. Touched by her good heart, she came up and said to her, embracing her: 

”Console yourself, beloved child, do not cry over the fate of your lost birds; all your care did not make them happier... 

”My dear, what more did they need? I could have given it to them.”

”Liberty, my dear daughter: it is the greatest of goods. For her, we face the rigor of the seasons, the traps of the bird catcher, the gun of the hunter. For her we forget her benefactress, and the benefactress has no right to call ungrateful those who prefer only liberty to her.”

”So you mean that, free, they can be even happier than they were with me?”

”Yes, Cloé.”

”You assure me, my dear?”

”Yes, beloved child.”

”Well, if it is as you tell me, I am willing to forgive them.”

First cited in Paris en 1794 et en 1795: histoire de la rue, du club, de la famine, composée d’après des documents inédits, particulièrement les rapports de police et les registres du Comité de salut public, avec une introduction par C-A Dauban (1869) by Charles-Aimé Dauban, page 335-337.

#i like how the first and last sound like lucile thought: #”if one day i get condemned and executed for something i didn’t even do i better leave behind a story #that sounds like it could only have been written by a person with a completely pure and innocent heart!” #and then there’s the ”i hope you kill yourself in an excruciating painful way marie!!!” story… #lucile desmoulins #desmoulins #marie antoinette #i wonder if max liked or disliked the bird story… #what! you’re anti aviary lucile! #if i had a nickle for everytime a frev woman told a depressing story about a pigeon i’d have two nickles #frev compilation

[natequarter]

Words themselves are my first evidence of the gender mixing of Tudor-Stuart monarchy. “King” and “prince” are gendered terms for us—no one would call Elizabeth II a king. But in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these terms were used to describe female monarchs and, indeed, used by female monarchs to describe themselves. The long list of Elizabethan examples is familiar—descriptions of Elizabeth I as “king-like” before the troops at Tilbury, praises of her “princely” qualities, and her own declarations before parliament and elsewhere that she was prince and king. Less familiar may be the fact that the same applied to Mary Tudor: the imprisoned Princess Elizabeth importuned her sister Mary with reminders of the special value of a “king’s word,” and Mary’s funeral celebrated her with the accoutrements accorded to a king rather than a queen, even displaying the military symbols of gauntlet and spurs.

Herrup, Cynthia. “The King’s Two Genders.” Journal of British Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1086/503588.

#i do think this highlights another issue: mary #elizabeth's propagandistic uses of gender are well-known #i have the weak and feeble body of a woman etc etc #her transformative rhetoric is almost embedded in her legacy #but mary was similarly a childless queen #the first queen regnant in fact #she was the one who established this use of masculinity and defiance and linguistically gendered norms #one cannot consider elizabeth without also acknowledging mary #and yet we so often do forget her #because elizabeth lingers on in our memory but mary does not #insert something insightful about matilda here and how she too had to manage that balance #without the additional support of coronation

[am-i-tho]

hate reading fanfic where they have to demonize women in favor of the mlm ship literally stfu why would Mrs. Hudson say "that woman" SHE IS A WOMAN GIRL

the only time people do it right is when addressing the very obvious flaws Mary's character has- it being that she is selfish and even after seeing John deal with grief in real time during the 2 years he spent away, she still was willing to shot Sherlock and actually kill him for real this time. And does this because of course in her old line of work and living her old life demanded it from her and of course it makes a person have a different perspective in what a life costs. And John is the same!!! He killed a man for Sherlock 1 day after meeting him!!! He's a soldier!!!

At the time, Sherlock was as much as threat to her lifestyle as Magnussem bc both of them now had her secret and that's why she did it. And, at the time, the cabbie was the Enemy to John and represented a threat to someone on "his team"(or the very concept he was fighting for or was loyal to).

Mary kills to protect herself, whatever she is fighting for. John kills "bad guys", kills to protect people. He's a doctor. Sherlock kills after there's no other option, he killed a man for John.

There's so much to explore here!!! Mary isn't just a throw away concept bc she gets in the way of Johnlock, her very existence in John's life is already so telling and interesting

(John is addicted to a certain lifestyle and Sherlock provided that > after he is gone he meets Mary and convinces himself he wants and is ready to live a normal life > except no he isn't and sherlock is alive(+Mary is the first girlfriend John has that doesn't make him choose between herself or sherlock) > sherlock throws him in a life or dead situation, forcing them to reconcile before dying > they do but oh haha it was a joke you're such a dick man we were both safe all along (sherlock shows him he can still give him that adrenaline rush and John LAUGHS afterwards) > he then throws himself entirely in the wedding planning ("if i keep him happy with her then maybe my presence won't be so unbereable") > he leaves the wedding early (+theres a baby on the way!) > they don't speak for months, sherlock goes back to drugs, John distorts a junkie's arm > john's wife is actually an ex-assassin who used to work for the government > she tries to kill sherlock > they all have a row > sherlock pleads john to forgive her > he does > sherlock kills Magnussem > he's exiled > tarmac scene, they don't even hug > has an overdose in the plane while reading John's blog entry of when they first met > dreams of John saving his life, killing the personification of everything he fears > he comes back! > waiting for something to happen, doing so much all the time trying to make most of his time before something big happens > the baby is born> > John "cheats" on Mary > Mary dies, saving Sherlock's life > John blames him > they don't speak anymore > sherlock is back on drugs almost dying bc a Mary told him to do so in a message + John talks to "her ghost" constantly > John beats Sherlock in the hospital > John is saying goodbye > he sees Mary's message > he saves Sherlocks life > they talk and John cries "it is what it is" > Eurus plot yada yada > "this is family" "that's why he stays" + mycroft, moriarty and sherlock know who sherlock would choose between mycroft and john > Victor Trevor parallels > happily ever after (?) They're raising Rosie together)

#going crazy in my week break from school sorry #sherlock bbc #johnlock #long ass post and full of spelling errors but whatever its 2:40 am and english isnt my first language #theres no good fanfictions anymore!! #also i want read more stuff exploring mycroft and sherlock growing up together #WHATEVER!!!!! BYE #(also more sherlock and molly becoming friends) #“mary sucks” sure but not bc shes a woman or bc she is john's wife

[bobzora]

finally beat the first kingdom in p5t the other day and it was truly flabbergasting the way marie fuckin. dissolved. and morgana was like well that shouldn't have caused a mental shutdown... but i don't know for sure! and then moved on. LIKE HUH. WHY ARE NONE OF THE THIEVES. ACKNOWLEDGING THIS. LMAO?

#bobtalk #p5tposting #p5t spoilers #i guess. for the first dungeon. lol #its like well if it was akc i'd understand but it's whiplash because over and over the thieves are normally like #well....this palace Looks bad. but we should scope out how things are in the real world before we take action! they're generally cautious #and they're stuck here so obviously that's not an option right. like they were going to fight marie eventually no matter what #but they're like *shrugs* about any potential real world consequences to girlie disappearing like that it's really...weird? #i mean. even with kamoshida they only went through with trying to steal his heart because they were desperate and willing to risk him dying #bc they didn't know for sure bc they were new to this but it was better than the alternative. etc. iirc at least. #i'm aware this is a silly spin off this is just. really funny to me? unusual? that the game is like. 'don't even worry about it <3' #like guys i think you might've just killed a woman <- i know she's going to be fine. because they wouldn't do that. but LMAO can u IMAGINE #(anyway barelyyy started the second kingdom (as in. we made it to the first battle and haven't started). are all the rulers just going to b #ppl toshiro has beef with personally. because that's really fucking funny if so. his whole GC hates his ass!)