#( maria & barbara )

[highqueensofanime]

SLAP! 💥

[diioonysus]

"purple is a color that sparks imagination and awakens the spirit."

[tremorsmackenzie]

There is an unexplored time period in shield where maria, bobbi, may, natasha, isabel hartley, sharon carter, clint and coulson all worked simultaneously at shield and its a crime that we havent seen anything set in it. that literally sounds like the best thing ever.

like, may has nat in her contacts (season 2 i think). come on.

just imagine the snark.

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Anna Maria Lergetporer, by Barbara Krafft, 1811, Napoleonic era

[jewelleria]

the thing about children is that they’re always delighting in the world in front of them.

wisdom to heal the earth, rabbi tzvi freeman / madeleine l’engle / grave of the fireflies (1998) dir. isao takahata / iroquoian woman, barbara alice mann / rainer maria rilke / star wars: attack of the clones (2002) dir. george lucas / the little prince, antoine de saint-exupery / the spirituality of parenting, david spangler

[inafieldofdaisies]

Women in Blue / Las Azules (2024–) | Season 1, Episode 1 | Bárbara Mori as María de la Torre

“I was obsessed with detectives as a little girl. I devoured every book I could find. My favorite series was Detective Murrieta. On the cover art, I'd add long hair and a skirt. Detective María.”

[officiallythatboi]

Maria n Barbara the lovely toons

[didanagy]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

dir. simon langton

[quatregats]

Honestly the thing is that I actually really like all three of Maria, Barbara, and Marie, they are interesting characters, but I think on every single one of them Forester couldn't handle the weird and interesting dynamic he'd created and did a last-minute swerve to make them 2D and boring. The way he set them up, though, remains fascinating and you've got to give them the benefit of the doubt

[archduchessofnowhere]

Once she [Maria Carolina] had subdued her husband and massively improved her own standing by producing a son, she had Ferdinand dismiss the old minister, against Charles III’s opposition, and replace him as state secretary with the former Sicilian emissary in Vienna. And in 1778 she began regularly attending meetings of the State Council as the heir’s mother, just as Kaunitz had initially advised her to do. In short, she showed herself to be a true daughter to her mother: not just externally but above all temperamentally. Sanguine, spirited, intelligent, and accommodating, yet also strong-willed and confrontational when necessary, she proved a masterful manipulator of her husband—albeit for her own ends, not those of her mother. She had always successfully resisted having a lady-in-waiting sent from Vienna to spy on her, and she was similarly adept at evading supervision by the imperial emissary, Wilczek. She was too much like her mother to tolerate being used as her instrument.

Maria Theresa could not begrudge her daughter her respect. In 1772 she reported to Marquise d’Herzelles: “The Queen is conducting herself very well … and I am assured that the king has already mended his boorish and filthy ways.” “I love this daughter very much, and she deserves it too,” she wrote to Countess Enzenberg, meaning: in contrast to Amalia in Parma and Antonia in Versailles. She subsequently held up Carolina to the other children as a paragon of candor and obedience, and even King Ferdinand, about whose character defects she was under no illusions, eventually rose in her estimation to become (temporarily) her second-favorite son-in-law, gendre bien aimé. She expressed herself more frankly to Maria Christina, who in 1775 was to travel to Naples to ascertain that all was in order: “You know how dear your sister is to me; justice compels me to say that she is, after you, the one who has shown me the most true inclination, asked for my advice, and heeded it too. But young and spirited as she is, partnered with so heated and ill-mannered a husband, surrounded by all possible ills, what hope can there be for her? It is a miracle that things are still running as they are, and,” she added in canny self-awareness, “more harm than good is to be expected from advice offered from abroad.”

Even Carolina had not always been open and trusting with her, she complained. That she was not quite so satisfied with her independent and strong-willed daughter in Naples as she claimed is also confirmed by Leopold, who in 1778 noted in his diary that the empress hardly bothered any more with “Neapolitan affairs as she is somewhat irritated with the queen, who does not appreciate others mixing in her business.” Toward the end of her life, pity for Carolina regained the upper hand: “The poor Queen deserves … sympathy,” she wrote in April 1780.

Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara (2020). Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in her Time (translation by Robert Savage)

[my-sacred-art]

MARÍA PEDRAZA (Spanish, born 1996)

The Passion and Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, from the Santa Barbara Altarpiece, 1430/1435. Maester Francke (German, 1380-after 1430.) National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.

[highqueensofanime]

The Many Faces of Maria Barbara

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Never Say Never Again 1983

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Maria Mirska, Barbara Szumska and Adam Napoleon Mirski

Jan Rustem (Armenian, 1762-1835), c. 1808, Napoleonic era

[unanchored-ship]

Im pretty sure these are the first women to ever appear on this blog

That makes me either the straightest or gayest person

Also I lied sorry guys im too lazy to draw all the previously posted men realistically. maybe some other day

[inafieldofdaisies]

Women in Blue / Las Azules (2024–) | Season 1, Episode 3 | Bárbara Mori as María de la Torre

“The truth is, your actions have consequences. You want to lead them? You have to understand that.”