exactly, there’s so much overblown about her relationships with men (essex, raleigh, philip of spain for some weird ass reason?) when like these pale compared to her very long friendships with women, but also how many of these men really knew her beyond her public persona as queen? very few, while the women in her life were with her nearly constantly and in far more intimate settings, much is made out of her ‘jealous’ reactions to when her ladies would marry but you can easily see why elizabeth, kinda obviously, may have had some deep abandonment issues and didn’t like her ladies leaving her 

i don’t even know what to make of this because there’s like also elizabeth being like “how cruel are men” with another shot of mary and darnley which is like yeah fair enough but then pair it with that line it’s like what is going on here???

that is also my slick, slick method so i’ll see where it gets me

suddenly all other history disappears, it becomes illegal to even mention anything other than english history from 1485-1603, those brave few still try and post about all monarchs, but it is hard, they are growing tired “the tudors are so overrated” they say but no one listens

no one should be encouraging their 12 year old daughter to spend that much time and effort or that much money on make up, instilling this fear of being bad at make up that young is a terrible thing to do, like again i am not saying making make up a forbidden thing for pre teens, i highly disagree with that also, but really it should be $20 at the drug store with your friends and you pool all your stuff together when you hang out and not $100+ at sephora

people out here acting like elizabeth forced mary into england at gun point or something

oh my god so many historians have a problem with this shit too tho like just because something was technically accepted in the days of yore doesn’t mean you need to spend pages explaining why it was Actually Fine

yeah same that’s always been my problem with her, i don’t mind changing history a bit to fit your story, you kinda have to do that when you write historical fiction, i just hate her defending it as if it’s all true or as if she’s not using theories that are highly controversial and debated and are far, far from being factual