just an irritant inside a clam

pearls are literally calcified snot nostr:note1fx037eff5peuew5dfrzd42dfyw0ctuh0t5xe3t5u8few06e38z9sf7r52e

to be on such a backfoot

to know how angry & humilated many men feel

you are not so lackadaisical as to be like

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pearls mine!! gimme!! mine!!!

im not saying elizabeth was a genius

or wayy smarter then the men around her

im saying all anyone had was time

(relative to the 2020s, my history class)

that is how insane it was then

& all people did was have time to think & pray & sew & lay in bed

unless she was fully leaning into assumptive tropes for some other actual maneuver

that is why im saying

elizabeth would not have risked it over pearls

like a liar on the throne

~then

anything you do is vain, weak, frivolous, overcome by temptations, the weaker sex, a whore, a temptress

you cant win any which way

so like.. anything you ever did & didnt do

was humiliating to many men

from fact of elevation alone

cos religion was real big then

like it was the only telly

the bible

was the only telly

to be a female monarch then

was really impossible

cos eve cos adam tricker

i dont know how to explain to male students the conditions of 1500s uk

im not sure how to close the gap

as a history teacher

she had plenty

she is a woman

was this article written by a dude

legitimately dont believe elizabeth would risk it

they are just pearls

i legitimately dont believe it without so many other sources sorry

From there, despite the protestations of the lord & nobles who had scarpered with her, she made the decision to cross into England & throw herself on her cousin Elizabeth’s mercy; this being the same Elizabeth who had expressed outrage at the way Mary had been manhandled by her nobles whilst at the same time engaging in a bidding war with Catherine de Medici to buy Mary’s famous string of black pearls – Elizabeth won.

????????????

stop this cant be real

She enjoyed a little under a fortnight of her hard-won freedom before being beaten by her half-brother’s forces in battle at the village of Langside, just outside of Glasgow. Watching from a nearby hill as her men were cut down in an ambush organised by Kirkcaldy of Grange, not to mention possible treachery & dissent within her own ranks, Mary for once lost her legendary bottle & broke into a cross-country flight that finally ended up in Dundrennan Abbey near the Solway Firth.