#like the seymour apologists using that portrait...buddy

[elizabethan-memes]

Maybe it’s just me, and coloured by the fact they were both horrible people, but looking at the portraits of Thomas Howard and Thomas Seymour, their eyes are just so...dead. They’re like shark eyes. 

I don’t think it’s the simple fact their eyes are dark and they’re not smiling because:

She looks stern, but not soulless.

Also Henry VIII looks (deliberately) intimidating 

and colour me intimidated, but I still don’t feel alarm bells ringing in my head and shivers going down my spine the same way as when I look at the portraits of the Thomases and my brain goes “that man’s missing a soul.”

#tudor history #i'm reading too much into this #thomas howard #thomas seymour #henry viii #like the seymour apologists using that portrait...buddy #i'm never gonna look at that portrait lovingly #even IF you had forensic proof Tommy S Did Nothing Wrong and He Started Tudor England's First Puppy Shelter #i'm still not trusting that portrait #i'm sorry those two portraits are of men who look dead inside #yes i know portraits are subjective #and i've said before that it's dodgy trying to read personality from portraits #but i'm just saying what my gut is telling me #and my gut is telling me to run