#iwfl

Suffragette

#OTD in 1918 – The Representation of the People Act (or Fourth Reform Act) is passed giving the right to vote to women aged over 30, who meet property qualifications, in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL) had been established in 1908. Its founders were married couple Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Francis Sheehy Skeffington: she was a gifted academic from a Fenian family; he was a pacifist and feminist who adopted his wife’s name on their marriage, an unheard-of gesture at the time.

The fight for women’s suffrage, the right to vote, had been ongoing in…

Yelena and Bob finally go to their first couples counselling session for their mission, and begin their work in earnest.

Chapter 4: The Ruse

Strategy had to be done in Yelena’s rooms, to avoid detection. A little weird that their current home base was her bedroom, but, as she said, needs must. She didn’t mind him snooping- anything she wanted to hide, she didn’t think he could find.

He knew better to treat that as a challenge.

She had emptied her weapons cache, cleaned it, and was now returning them back to her closet.

“I’m feeling kind of left out.” He said, peering at the closet, its panels backlit with golden light, “I think I’m the only one around here who doesn’t have some kind of weapons closet in my room.”

“I killed him. I struck him out of the sky, me and my sister, because he was just a man, just a small man who hurt little girls.”

From my Boblena fic It Will Feel Lighter (It Already Has For Me)

hate it when i write a banger but it's not gonna be in a released chapter for ages so here