#bianca minola

[pumpkinz-art]

digitally coloured sketch of bianca :3

(also tried a new brush, and i quite like how it turned out)

[the-noisiest-pumpkin]

no but fr i get so pissed when people boil taming of the shrew down to “ew petruchio gross, poor katherine” without acknowledging bianca and her fucking plotline?? like people get so weirded out when i tell them about how much i love the play and i have to go out of my way to tell them that, no, i despise petruchio and i pray on his downfall daily, obviously the misogyny isn’t the part i like about the play???

it really fucking sucks when tots productions cut out bianca’s plotline to make more room for katherine and petruchio, too?? LIKE YOU’RE GETTING RID OF THE PART THAT MAKES THIS PLAY A COMEDY!!!! STOP IT!!! YOU WILL BE BOILED

it is my firm belief that no production of taming of the shrew is any good without a solid bianca plotline, because her story is the whole fucking reason the play even happens. without a solid bianca plotline, the play just fucking sucks. in this essay, i will-

[reine-du-sourire]

4 Shakespeare characters that I really, really want to act one day:

Hermia, Bianca, Cassius, and Viola

[bestsistertournament]

[tora-the-cat]

Welcome to the Eldest Daughter Showdown!!

Here’s the bracket! I’ll queue the left bracket of polls to start going up at noon tomorrow =) The initial matchups are:

Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things) vs. Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)

Fiona Gallagher (Shameless) vs. Marcia Brady (The Brady Bunch)

Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice) vs Meg March (Little Women)

Junie B Jones (Junie B. Jones) vs. Judy Moody (Judy Moody)

Angelica Schyler (Hamilton) vs. Constance Blackwood (Ride the Cyclone)

Liesel Von Trapp (The Sound of Music) vs. Tzeitel (Fiddler on the Roof)

Candence Flynn (Phineas & Ferb) vs. DeeDee (Dexter’s Laboratory)

Margo Gru (Despicable Me) vs. Jasmine Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Lori Loud (The Loud House) vs. Emira Blight (The Owl House)

Shizuku Hinomori (Project Seikai) vs. Mob Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100)

Shamura (Cult of the Lamb) vs. Hestia (Greek Mythology)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)  vs. Fleur Delacour (Harry Potter)

Leonardo Hamato (TMNT 2012) vs. Leonardo Splinterson (TMNT 2003)

Tori Spring (Heartstopper) vs. Sae Nijima (Persona 5)

Satan (The Bible) vs. Gamora (Marvel)

Raphael Hamato (ROTTMNT) vs. April O'Neil (ROTTMNT)

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Dick Grayson (Nightwing) vs. Isabella Madrigal (Encanto)

Elsa (Frozen) vs. Dess Holiday (Deltarune)

Anissa Pierce (Black Lightning) vs. Temari No Sabaku (Naruto)

Ayano Tateyama (Kagerou Project) vs. Son Gohan (Dragon Ball)

Kendra Sorenson (Fablehaven) vs. The Glass Cat (Oz)

Pearl Took (Lord of The Rings) vs. Katherine Minola (Taming of the Shrew)

Violet Baudliere (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Sophie Hatter (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Teru Minamoto (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun)  vs. Scheherazade (Arabian Nights)

Tsunami (Wings of Fire) vs. Allison Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)

Katara (Avatar The Last Airbender) vs. Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Bianca Di Angelo (Percy Jackson) vs. Vi (Arcane)

Scarlet (The Path) vs. Aguri Yukimaru (Assassination Classroom)

Katnis Everdeen (The Hunger Games) vs. Morgana Le Fey (Merlin)

Fuyumi Todoroki (My Hero Academia) vs. Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)

Mari (OMORI) vs. Lucina ( Fire Emblem: Awakening)

Esme Cullen (Twilight) vs. Satsuki Kusakabe (My Neighbor Totoro)

[acekatherineplumber]

Notions I will defend until the day I die: Bianca Minola, while not my favorite character in Taming of the Shrew, is the smartest character in the whole play. She knows how to get what she wants in a society that is meant to prevent her from getting exactly that. Productions/adaptations that genuinely portray her as dumb do her a disservice.

[roomfullofhampires]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about it yet so I’ll just remind everyone that Mary-Beth’s stories are about herself and Molly respectively and now I’m upset.

I know some people think Mary-Beth could’ve helped Molly’s situation but I don’t think she had much power at all. However she very clearly knew what was going on from the beginning and had no way to express to others how she felt. She wrote about how the woman in her story was brought to America from her homeland and subsequently abused by her ‘husband’ and the men in his ‘family’. She was able to pinpoint the start of Molly’s abuse before anyone else.

She’s so used to feeling like an object herself, that she felt like there was no way to get through to men like Dutch. Only her journal would know what she knew. She’s WAY smarter than she lets on, at least when it comes to men. Her coping mechanism so far as shown in game is to just ignore them and write about it.

She’s essentially gaslit herself into truly believing she’s an idiot. Because it’s been the mask she’s had to use to survive for so long.

Mary-Beth reminds me of Bianca Minola from Taming of The Shrew. She fooled every man in that play by pretending to be meek and dumb. And hey, it worked. She got everything she wanted and was treated like a princess. So why would she stop now? I guess that makes Molly, Kate. She knew what she was worth but it only made men (including the fan base) hate her and try to break her down. She concedes a little bit by dressing to impress Dutch with the green dress, but as far as he’s concerned, she’s beyond taming.

She clearly has a massive respect for Molly by the way she describes her in that little story and by the way she talks about her after chapter 5. But inevitably reverts back to ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I guess you’re right’ because she’s been conditioned into thinking she’s nothing more than her looks. Molly wasn’t quite at that point yet and still had the self confidence she herself lost. I think that’s why she liked her so much.

As well, it’s interesting how she hasn’t named the protagonist of the ‘Molly story’. Meaning it was probably scribbled down on impulse and she couldn’t think of a name that was different enough. Clearly she’s not great at thinking of new names. All her pen names are quite similar to her real name, and the protagonist of her epilogue novel was named Susan Grade (Susan G.) she hasn’t named the woman in the story she wrote about herself either.

She’s only self deprecating about her writing because she KNOWS she can do better, the passion and the story is there but it’s so hard to put the story of abuse into words. In the epilogue she acknowledges that her romances are terrible and it just makes me wonder how good of a novel she could write of it came from the heart. Like if she made the stories about her and Molly into full novels.

Anyway, it’s just sad she felt like she couldn’t talk about this with anyone and could only express it through writing. She had the knowledge to help Molly but had no idea how.

[shrew-defense-squad]

Welcome all new followers!

This blog is an EXPOSÉ on Baptista Minola and his supposed daughters, Bianca and Katherine. I believe I have inside information that will lead to the EXILE of Baptista and the emancipation of Katherine, our supposed “shrew”.

Follow for more, and read my bio before interacting.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Week Challenge

December: Green

Kiss Me, Kate / Ann Miller as Lois Lane as Bianca Minola

*Is she having a bad time? No. (The costume represents the persona of Bianca, who is enjoying the attentions of her three suitors at this point.)

Yes, the character is really named Lois Lane!

The stripes and her mischievous expression in the top photo make me think of a Christmas elf.

It's a pity that the pink-and-black underskirt seems to have gotten separated from the main dress at some point, because the contrast really draws the eye. Seeing the dress on the mannequin, I realize that the overskirt isn't kilted up--that section actually is made to be shorter. It makes perfect sense, since obviously you don't want it coming down while she's dancing, but I never once thought of that while watching the movie.

[musical-dreamcasts]

Starlight Express - Nancy Anderson (she/her) as Dinah the Dining Car, requested by anon

Birthday: April 22, 1972 (age 50)

Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Theatre credits include: Lois Lane/Bianca (Kiss Me, Kate), Mona (A Class Act), Ensemble/Understudy Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), George Read (1776), Violet Bick (A Wonderful Life), Bet (Oliver!), Emma Fairfax/Fox (Doctor Dolittle), Johanna Barker (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Ilona Ritter (She Loves Me), Clara Oakes (A Man’s World), Little Dorritt (A Dangerous Personality)

(Pictured on the right is Rose Oullette, who played the role in the 30th anniversary Bochum production)

Credits: David Gordon, Unknown

[pumpkinz-art]

hello taming of the shrew fandom i’ve made the worst thing ever

[the-noisiest-pumpkin]

actually i’ve decided that the ship name for tranio and lucentio is “witty wordplay” and the ship name for bianca and lucentio is “perfect prose”. i WILL NOT be taking criticism at this time. <3

[berternies]

Gleeson and Bianca?

Gleeson: already done!

Bianca:

favorite thing about them: I love how smart and insightful and perceptive she is!

least favorite thing about them: her tendency to romanticize things too much + her difficulty with standing up for herself

favorite line: “can the patriarchy keep it down? I’m trying to write an essay”

brOTP: bianca katie and milly! Sisters :’) her friendship with bates is also v cute

OTP: bianca/luke I suppose!

nOTP: bianca/harry goes without saying but also bianca/bates it just would Not be good for either of them

random headcanon: she likes to make friendship bracelets, esp in pride flag colors! She has bi + ace + trans flag ones that she wears all the time (yes bianca is trans bc I say so)

unpopular opinion: I don’t like bianca/annie that much 😭 they’re cute but the circumstances surrounding them getting together are sooo fucked up. She should’ve dated chris instead ❤️

song i associate with them: oceans by miya folick

favorite picture of them: an angel 💕

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Bianca Minola from Call Me Katie is asexual!

[zukkacore]

Ideal Bianca & Kate Minola sister dynamic. If you even care. I just know Shakespeare would co-sign

[redhead-and-proud]

Taming of the Shrew Memes

I'm currently performing in a production of Taming of the Shrew and I was so disappointed to discover there were barely any niche memes about the play it’s filled with so many dumb plans and idiot characters. So I did the lord’s work and made some memes myself. You’re welcome. Feel free to add your own