Anne's Life in Christ

Anne. Living and loving life as part of the Universal Church!

[thefreakmeister]

great things are happening in my notes app

[silentknight97]

[hello-eeveev]

a crude summary of one of my favorite musicals

[tockthewatchdog]

i think all the time about how if i met my ancestors from 500 years ago they would think i am spoiled literally to the point of insanity like a mad king

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bearcatcatbear]

Today is the only day you can summon the energy to reblog this.

[pompadourpink]

Spotted on twitter

[dingdongyouarewrong]

do you ever think about lady jane grey

[dingdongyouarewrong]

you are fifteen years old.

you like to stay inside and read most of the time, as much as you can. you are pious and devoted. you are taught etiquette and all manner of languages. your parents are strict and harsh, but you make the most of what you can. and then you are sent away and betrothed. you marry a nobleman with a powerful and ambitious father. you love him.

all around you, men in high places are scheming for power. you are to be used in this however can bolster their own status as much as possible. you are a fifteen-year old girl who loves to read. with your father-in-law's influence heavy on his mind, your dying cousin, the king, names you as a potential successor.

and then he dies.

and your father-in-law and the other men tell you you are the queen now.

you don't want this. you never wanted this. people are kneeling before you and you are panicking and you can't calm down until you have your family here with you. you pray and you weep. you don't want this. but you want to do the right thing. you agree to do your duty and are crowned within days. during the coronation, you don't want to wear the crown. you live like this for just over a week. sentiments are brewing against you; that your coronation was illegal. a coronation you never wanted and never asked for. people start opposing you. your own father abandons support for you as soon as it becomes unpopular. you are sixteen years old.

you are deposed and imprisoned, separated from your husband, and kept in the tower for months. you were queen for nine days. you are allowed walks outside sometimes. you don't know what's going to happen to you. you never wanted any of this. and then you are put on trial and sentenced to death. you are spared, at first- and then two months of imprisonment later you learn that your father was involved in a rebellion. you had no knowledge. no control. they sentence you to die anyway. you are seventeen years old.

on your execution day, they behead your husband first. you aren't there for it. you look out the window of your prison and you see his beheaded body brought back. you cry out. you cannot go to him.

it's your turn. they bring you in simple clothing up to the scaffold. they give you a blindfold. the executioner asks for your forgiveness. you give it to him. you tie the blindfold yourself. you can't find the block they tell you to lay your head down on. you don't know what to do. you can't find it and you can't see. someone helps you lay down your head. and then they kill you.

you were seventeen years old.

[persephatta-crescent]

Mr Darcy: So I have learned from Elizabeth that Jane is in fact in love with you.

Mr Bingley: Oh my gosh, that's wonderful! When did Elizabeth tell you this?

Mr Darcy: When I proposed to her.

Mr Bingley: ...

Mr Darcy: ...

Mr Bingley: You proposed to the sister of the woman you said I shouldn't marry because of her family's unsuitability?

Mr Darcy: If it helps... she said no

Mr Bingley: *tackling him to the floor*

[nitewrighter]

Dude we figured out the moon reflects sunlight and doesn't glow on its own in the 5th century BCE. But that's also the only first recordable time that "this idea in particular" occurred at the same time as "writing it down" and those two concepts managed to really intersect in a way that is observable to us in the modern era. We're so smart as a species. How many times did this idea occur before we made it really tangible to future generations? It breaks my heart to think about, but maybe the first human who had that idea made life easier for her kinsfolk for a few generations before it got wiped out by a famine or a plague. Collective and cumulative human knowledge is such a gift and we're fucking it up so bad.

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[mercymagdalena-deactivated20241]

me, seeing art and iconography of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, trying to prevent a stupid little lamb from falling off a cliff or something: haha that’s so me coded am I right

[threeture]

[mercymagdalena-deactivated20241]

you get it

[pompadourpink]

Spotted on Twitter

Two super cute students come to see me:

Can we ask you a question?

Of course

Promise you won’t laugh?

Obviously

Do you swear?

I swear

If he puts a diving suit on, can Dracula go out?

What’s the capital of Japan already?

Bah, Tokyo

Nobody:

The chair in my room:

[alicentsgf]

no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

[alicentsgf]

[helenvaughans]

[helenvaughans]

the thing is that for all its supposed faults, i would take this brand of 90s utopian globalism over whatever the fuck we’ve been doing for the last 10 years in a heartbeat

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[finelythreadedsky]

obsessed with this detail on this item from today's anthropeum (link to object page at the met). little guy's falling out of his metope.

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[juststarsandthemoon]

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data