• @rockSlayer
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    983 days ago

    All this talk about being goth, but no one is suggesting we sack Rome. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

    • @[email protected]
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      213 days ago

      ackshually, that’s not “goth” that’s “visigoth”, which is less wearing black and being strange as fuck and more wearing armor and sacking capitals.

      Kids these days don’t even know their gothic sub cultures smh…

    • @[email protected]
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      123 days ago

      I say we sack Rome and I don’t even care if we do it in a goth way. Hell, I say we get creative with it.

  • @glimse
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    553 days ago

    I had to look this up and it’s (kinda) true. I thought his heart was removed in preparation for embalming or something but no -

    Her husband drowned and his body was found 10 days later. They build a makeshift crematory and burned it on the beach, turning everything to ash except a few pieces of bone and a chunk of… something. Probably not a calcified heart.

    People nowadays don’t think a brittle calcium heart shell could have survived cremation and think it was much more likely to be his liver (which was saturated in salt water).

    Mary and others at the time thought it was his heart so it doesn’t change the story at all. Just thought others might be interested, too

    • @[email protected]
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      93 days ago

      Pretty sure her husband was her dads friend, and she was significantly younger. They had to leave due to persecution.

      Probably just grooming IMO.

      • @glimse
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        203 days ago

        She met her husband when she was 16 and he was 21 so… kinda but I don’t think it’s quite as creepy as “grooming” typically implies given the time period. At least he wasn’t 45

        • @[email protected]
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          32 days ago

          I stand corrected. Although I thought I had her figured out. Like SA at yoing age and marrying the perp make her wprk make sense.

          She dark fr.

          • @glimse
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            22 days ago

            Both her and her husband’s wiki page are full of bad stuff happening so I get it

  • @scholar
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    443 days ago

    They were victorian so they had an advantage

    • @[email protected]
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      273 days ago

      The perks of being rich in the victorian period - you could do pretty much whatever you wanted, at the worst you’d be described as “somewhat queer”

      • @scholar
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        113 days ago

        ‘Eccentric’

        • @[email protected]
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          93 days ago

          Oh you snorted mummy dust mixed with cocaine and went on a murder spree? Not very becoming of a gentleman. Good thing you only killed the poors, God knows there’s too many lazy rabble around.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        I think the only thing that’s changed is that our rich people lack imagination, and we describe them as somewhat cringe.

      • @gift_of_gab
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        23 days ago

        🎵 Dear Goth, it’s been 666 days since my last confession… 🎵

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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    32 days ago

    She was also party to a scheme that enabled her friend Isabel Robinson and Isabel’s lover, Mary Diana Dods, who wrote under the name David Lyndsay, to embark on a life together in France as husband and wife.