#Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta

[hjbirthdaywishes]

April 15, 2023

Happy 44 Birthday to Karen David. 

[medievalandfantasymelee]

👑🌹The Queen of Love and Beauty🌹👑

Round 1 (1 of 6)

The Queen of Love and Beauty shall hold the honour of presenting unto the winner of the Tournament his Champion's Coronet.

Vote for the lady who, to you, best exemplifies feminine dignity, grace and loveliness

The six contenders with the most votes will advance.

Row 1 - Lagertha [Katheryn Winnick], Vikings (2013-2020) - Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia [Karen David], Galavant (2015-2016) - Alicent Hightower [Olivia Cooke], House of the Dragon (2022-)

Row 2 - Cersei Lannister [Lena Headey], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) - Daenerys Targaryen [Emilia Clarke], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) - Margaery Tyrell [Natalie Dormer], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Row 3 - Sansa Stark [Sophie Turner], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) - Rhaenyra Targaryen [Emma D’Arcy], House of the Dragon (2022-) - Moiraine Damodred [Rosamund Pike], The Wheel of Time (2021-)

Row 4 - Brienne of Tarth [Gwendoline Christie], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) - Egwene Al’Vere [Madeleine Madden], The Wheel of Time (2021-) - Queen Madelena [Mallory Jansen], Galavant (2015-2016)

[goverment-mandated-femslash]

Today's government mandated femslash couple of the day is

Queen Madalena and Princess Isabella "Izzy" Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia!

[ijustgothere-thisisamistake]

So I haven't seen any actual crossovers of Galavant with... anything really. Like, there are some really good posts about one with Merlin (which I are very important and I'm grateful for them) but also not a lot of them. And no Sanders Sides either? (except that one post that said that the show was written by Roman and Patton, which, yea)

So I decided that I'll cast the sides for the roles. It always comes to this...

So, that's what I thought:

Galavant - Roman

Isabella - Logan

Sidney - Patton

Madalena - Janus

Richard - Virgil

Gareth - Remus

Some are a little weird: like Virgil as Richard. It's mostly cause I run out of sides, but what made me feel kinda fine with it was that "I want to shoot him with a crossbow / want to stab him in the eye" kinda felt like something that Virgil would think about Roman in the beginning (Though it was probably the other way around...). Also Richard went from villain to hero, kinda similar to Virgils arc in some way.

There is also Remus as Gareth. So my brain was like bloodlust. and that is mostly it idk. I don’t think that there is a character that has enough chaos for Remus but there isn’t any side to come close to Gareths vibes in any other form really. idk.

Logan as Isabella is fine enough I think. Roman as Galavant is obvious. Patton is Sidney.

this is also works with some of my ships from both series: I'm good with most ships from Sanders Sides (I have a post about it) and canon Galavant ships are cool and I also ship Galavant/Isabella/Sidney, Richard/Gareth and Galavant/Richard that is for some reason my favorite rn (which is also funny in this casting as pinxiety was the first ship i shiped in Sanders Sides)

Here is a casting as mix/fusion of the sides cause I feel like sharing that as well:

Galavant - Roman+Virgil

Isabella - Logan+Roman

Sidney - Patton+Janus/Logan (it’s hard to choose cause Patton is good enough for me)

Madalena - Janus+Logan/Remus (also a hard choice cause Janus works good for me)

Richard - Patton+Remus

Gareth - Remus+Logan

If you have any other opinion or ideas about this you are more then welcome to share them

[epivskey]

The Founders as Women: Godric Gryffindor

Godric valued courage and bravery, believing these were the two most virtuous abilities a person can possess

Ravenclaw | Hufflepuff | Slytherin

[legends-of-tomorrow]

SHOWS THAT WERE CANCELLED TOO SOON [#3]

“Way back in days of old, there was a legend told, about a hero known as Galavant...”

Galavant 2015-2016

[rae0fsunsh1ne]

I gotta say it's kind of weird how similar some of the character names are

there's Gary, Gareth, and Barry

then there's Isabell-a, Madalen-a and Robert-a

I love them all, do not get me wrong, but it's just an odd thing I noticed

[readytoclimbtothestars]

The cast of Galavant during Alan Menken’s performance and performing the theme song 

x

[muscari-melpomene]

Y’all, if you want to watch a musical sitcom that regularly breaks the fourth wall and has a crap-ton of catchy music that’s all on Spotify (even songs that got cut out of the show) look no further than GALAVANT which honestly SHOULD HAVE HAD A SEASON 3 OKAY

not that I’m bitter

[hjbirthdaywishes]

April 15, 2024

Happy 45 Birthday to Karen David.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

👑🌹The Queen of Love and Beauty🌹👑

Round 2: 6 of 6

The Queen of Love and Beauty shall hold the honour of presenting unto the winner of the Tournament his Champion's Coronet.

Vote for the lady who, to you, best exemplifies feminine dignity, grace and loveliness

The three contenders with the most votes will advance.

Row 1

- Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia [Karen David], Galavant (2015-2016)

- Danielle de Barbarac [Drew Barrymore], Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

Row 2

- Eleanore of Aquitaine [Katharine Hepburn], The Lion in Winter (1968)

- Guinevere [Angel Coulby], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Row 3

- Isabeau of Anjou [Michelle Pfeiffer], Ladyhawke (1985)

- Padmavati [Deepika Padukone], Padmaavat (2018)

[incorrect-galavant]

OKAY SO. galavant holiday episode <3

there are like. four different storylines. #1 is izzy & gal, #2 is madalena, sid, & gareth, #3 is jester, roberta, & richard, & #4 is gwynne & vincenzo. under the cut because it got long. happy holidays!

so. #1. gal isn't very fond of holidays. his parents would fight more around christmas-time & after gal left home, he didn't see the point in celebrating by himself. madalena also didn't care about it & sid is jewish, so that took care of that. later on, holidays were just an excuse to drink, so after he got sober, christmas still wasn't something with good memories attached to it.

enter isabella.

she's like! so gal :) now that it's our first year together as husband & wife how would you like to celebrate the holidays :) & gal is like oh well i don't really care. & izzy's like hm okay. & she ALSO doesn't really celebrate christmas but she (not at all) offhandedly mentions it to her parents who are like "isabella maria lucia elizabetta of valencia you need to small-town hallmark movie that boy into understanding the true meaning of the holidays or your marriage is DOOMED!"

something something valencian superstitions, a married couple's first holiday together is what makes or breaks their relationship. we learn something fucked up about her parents here, something about them being put through life-or-death stakes during their first holiday so that they were FORCED to rely on each other & bond. this isn't traumatizing, they're very fond of this memory. they mention some game of thrones couple & say they broke up because they had a horrible first christmas together.

cut to plotline #2. somehow they've gotten madalena off the warpath & sid is determined to convert her to Goodness. she only started celebrating holidays when she married richard, & even then, all she did was attend the feasts. so sid is like Well I Will Teach You The Meaning of Christmas. he already made her observe yom kippur & celebrate hanukkah with him. the main problem with them trying christmas next is that 1. sid is jewish & grew up in a jewish village & 2. he went from living in the village to adventuring with gal, so he's not like. exactly sure on how christmas is supposed to work. gareth is getting increasingly agitated during all of this & it's not clear why.

#3. christmas is coming up, & guess who's a christmas baby! that's right, it's richard! roberta has a gift completely ready to go, & she's very proud of it, until jester lets it slip that they used to have grand feasts & a million presents for richard every year. his gifts were always extravagant & EXPENSIVE. roberta also worries that, while they were close childhood friends, she might not know him well now. she sets off to find the perfect christmas/birthday gift.

#4. vincenzo is tasked with preparing a birthday/christmas feast with an increasing list of demands from izzy, roberta, sid, & richard. we get backstory that every christmas, a chef from his family has hunted & cooked wild reindeer for the main meal. he has let down his relatives by never successfully catching one before, but this year, gwynne spurs him on. they set off on a quest for the reindeer.

#1. izzy tries to trap gal into admitting he wants something. he's always romantic, but he is Not into christmas & she isn't helping. anything he asks her for (that isn't conceptual, asking for her love doesn't count as a gift request) is practical & something he already has. like, he'll ask for sword polish, so she buys him an expensive brand, but he already bought his favorite cheap brand & doesn't like the expensive one much. or, she tries to master a craft (like, knit him a sweater, sew him something, etc) but she doesn't have the patience for it. she is INCREDIBLY annoyed about this. gal feels awkward & kinda annoyed by her repeated attempts.

#2. more bad christmas shenanigans. sid & madalena fail at making traditional christmas food, get the wrong tree, their decorations are wrong & they don't get the lore (stuff like hanging up garlic & setting out poison food to protect children from the galavant version of santa, they're celebrating santa's birthday & he likes to kill children, etc). madalena mentions that gareth always seemed more violent (happier) around the holidays, so it turns into the two of them trying to impress gareth. he kinda snaps at them when he sees all this because they're doing christmas "Wrong."

#3. jester & roberta have a little "my fair lady" montage, possibly with harry or that gay wedding planner assistant, in which they try to turn roberta into the Height of sophistication. it isn't working. she looks (& feels) like a lucy punch cinderella stepsister. it's all Wrong & she Hates it, but she thinks it'll make richard happy, so she keeps trying to change. she has all these plans & setups ready. lots of gold, lots of shitty people, lots of stiff dresses & pointy hair.

#4. interspliced between all these scenes, we see vincenzo & gwynne traveling through increasingly dangerous situations. they may or may not be chased by Rodents of Unusual Size. they mention nearly getting killed in a GOT battle. it becomes clear that they're not hunting just any reindeer, but SANTA's reindeer.

#1. izzy gets it into her head that what gal REALLY wants is another quest. she tries setting up different dangerous situations. gal gets agitated by this. they eventually spar, & while he thinks this is just one of their normal sparring sessions, she gets frustrated because he isn't immediately getting joyful & changing his mind on the holidays. she eventually throws down her sword & yells "why won't this work? why can't you just celebrate this with me?" & he snaps. "you wanna know why i don't like christmas izzy? you really wanna know?"

it's a lot of emotion coming out at once. anger about his parents fighting, that he couldn't have normal holidays like other kids could, that his dad would rather celebrate with other knights than with his family, that any toys he did get were stolen or broken by bullies. he mentions a specific beloved gift he had, maybe a training sword or a particular book of poems, that his dad took after gal disappointed him. & his dad is a better person now, he gets that, but how come those boys his dad takes care of get a better christmas than gal ever did? he mentions drinking, how it was always easier to get a free beer around the holidays, & madalena, how they never understood each other well enough to know what the other wanted. so, sorry about izzy's superstitions, but he'd rather spend the holidays alone.

#2. turns out, gareth LOVES christmas. he is, in fact, the small-town hallmark movie love interest to madalena's big-city businesswoman. he always loved the extravagance & lights, the dancing & feasts, the gifts & songs, far more than he'll ever admit. he insists on creating an amazing banquet himself (a la britta perry being incredible at wedding planning), but he starts feeling guilty. he finds a stocking sid made for him & a card madalena wrote him about how much she loves him. he realizes he needs to make this right.

#3. roberta presents the extravagance to richard. he has that "oh!" reaction where you kinda Hate it but you wanna be nice about it. maybe she rented a castle or something, but while all the guests are "respectable," none of them are friends of richard or roberta, and they make fun of tad cooper. steve is having multiple affairs. eventually, roberta trips on something (stiff dress, choking on hairspray, etc) & knocks into a candle. everything burns down. it's Ruined.

#4. vincenzo & gwynne have successfully trapped & caught the reindeer. now they must start the perilous journey back home, where they've been invited (ordered) to help with gareth's christmas/richard's birthday banquet.

#1. gal is off staring at the sea or something. he receives a package from his father. it has a heartfelt letter, a card signed by all the orphans, & a meaningful gift. something relating back to gal's trauma. his relationship with his father will never be perfect, but he's trying. he decides to go back home & runs into izzy as she's leaving to go find him. they sit down together & apologize. izzy for not respecting gal's boundaries, gal for yelling at her & not listening to her. izzy explains her insecurities about them as a couple & why the holiday superstition upset her, he does the same. while she's worried that not celebrating the holidays will ruin them, he's worried about the opposite; the holidays have hurt him so much before & he doesn't want them to hurt what he has with izzy.

they share a tender moment, holding hands, looking into each other's eyes. they're in love <3333333 & more importantly they're willing to work at having a healthy relationship. even if they aren't celebrating how they "should," they'll always have amazing holidays if they're surrounded by the people they love. they head off to gareth's banquet.

#2. gareth invites sid & madalena to the banquet. he's fixed the decorations. now, on top of what he likes, there's sid & madalena's strange little stuff. home alone style traps & garlic & poisoned milk everywhere. maybe a noble drinks some & dies in the background. this is not relevant. gareth apologizes to sid & gives him a meaningful gift. he then goes to madalena. he apologizes to her, too, & they talk. she wants to be better, not for the world, but for gareth. she doesn't want to mess up or hurt him again. she doesn't want it to be like her relationship with gal because that wasn't real. gareth holds her, tells her she doesn't have to worry about any of that. he loves her because she's herself!! hallmark movie romance moment!!!!! fuck madalena & galavant in her pen pal (2021), i want what madalena & gareth have!!!

#3. all of roberta's plans have been ruined. she attends the banquet with richard in her plain dress, the one she planned to wear in the beginning. the only gift that hasn't been destroyed is the original one, so she gives it to richard. it's something incredibly personal--something handmade, maybe an embroidered saddle for tad cooper? or a cross-stitch of roberta, richard, & tad together. he LOVES it. she realizes she doesn't have to change to make him happy. maybe they all get a little hallmark moment.

#4. vincenzo & gwynne have rocked this banquet. they have food for everyone. they have chinese food & cake & reindeer. in a dark twist of events, it's implied that the reindeer is rudolph, & that they might've caught & cooked santa as well.

everyone has their little happy ending at this feast. they laugh & love each other & fix their issues :) maybe gal & izzy write sonnets for each other. maybe they all sing a little song. also i think there should be an evil wizard or something attacking them the whole time. yes they should confront their interpersonal issues but also there Is a magic man on a horse with a pointy stick trying to kill them. maybe it's santa. who knows.

happy holidays!

[thejackalhasarrived]

Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia ↳ Season 1 // GALAVANT

[roadtogalavant]

karendavidofficial #fbf January 31st will always be a meaningful day for me. 6 years ago today, we began prepping for filming the pilot for galavantabc and 4 years ago today, our season 2 finale aired. My life and my journey changed the day Dan Fogelman, Susan Vash, our Galavant creative team and ABC cast me in the role of Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia. (Still a mouthful, but a name that will forever be etched in my heart) I smile and laugh so much just thinking of all the incredible memories we created together as a tv family, and family we all are - to this day and beyond. I’ve made friends for life who are my family. 

The gratitude in my heart is endless. To all our friends and families who tuned in every Sunday, despite the temptations of the Super Bowl, or the Globes or some other major event which aired in the same Sunday time slot, thank you again and again! To those who binge watch to this day on a regular basis on Netflix, I love you more and more! 😉 

Above all else, I’m so grateful this show happened. I’m so happy my stateside chapter started off on home turf 🇬🇧 with some armour, a sword and a horse, some dreamlike Disney songs by alanmenken and glennslaterlyrics along with playing a strong, empowered, kick butt, big hearted, not so perfect, relatable character, that I can only hope inspired the big girls and boys and little girls and boys watching the show, to love themselves more and to fight for their dreams and happiness... Happy Anniversary, dearest, beloved, #Galavanters 🎉 🎉 🎉 Maybe one day, we’ll get to do it all again. Until then, you can binge watch 2 magical seasons on a regular basis on netflix netflixca (if you haven’t already). 😉 With all my heart 💘, Isabella Galavant xoxo

[vivaspitfire]

One of my absolute favorite songs from Galavant aka the most accurate song about love ever.

Love is strange And sometimes kind of gross It’s embarrassingly gassy And it leaves its dirty underwear in piles around the place

Love is rude It has a sort of smell And it thinks that you don’t notice And it blurts out things that make you want to smack its stupid face

And its awkward and confusing It annoys you half to death Then it grins that dopey grin And you can’t catch your breath

Love is strange And sometimes sorta smug And its really, really bossy And it messes with your head ‘til you’re a hopeless basket case

And it’s stubborn, it’s insulting It’s obnoxious, it’s the worst You keep pushing it away And you fall in head first

Love is strange And often pretty drunk It looks different without makeup And it’s nothing like the fairy tales you grow up dreaming of

Love is weird Love is dumb Love is strange And that’s what makes it love

[fandomtransparents]

Princess Isabella Lucia Maria Elizabetta of Valencia