#bianca minola

[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-

[pumpkinz-art]

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

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

So Chloe just posted this. Katherina has a sister named Betty. Betty Montagova. Bianca Minola. Like Taming of the shrew. I am clawing at the walls.

[bracketsoffear]

I saw folks were doing fanmade statements again! I have some on the back burner I want to share:

“Way Down Under the Ground”, Statement of Persephone Grey regarding her husband’s growing company town. (Hadestown, The Buried); Grey is the last name of the actress who originated the role on Broadway (Amber Grey).

“Taming”, Statement of Bianca Minola regarding her sister’s gradual shift in personality. (The Taming of the Shrew, Lonely/Spiral); [side note: I originally thought of it as just a Spiral statement, but Lonely works a bit too well. Petruchio's manipulations work because of his isolation of Katerina and depriving her of food, water, and decency. There's a whole post-Change domain dedicated to the loneliness abuse victims feel and their fears.]

"Literal Monster," Statement of Peter Spankoffski regarding the death and resurrection of his high school bully. (Nerdy Prudes Must Die, The Desolation) [sidenote: desolation avatar Max Jagerman FUCKS. Also thought of NPMD having some Hunt aspects, specifically with Max and stuff ]

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[falling-turtle]

Little Stratford - custom shopping district for Veronaville

Little Stratford is home to many businesses, newcomers and established merchants alike. How is life in this little community going to continue?

Have you ever wanted more Shakespearean Sims for your Veronaville and/or a shopping district that’d fit Veronaville’s theme? Well, I wanted the same thing, which is why I sat down and created this little suburb so you can enjoy more Shakespeare-inspired families in your neighborhood!

Features:

9 households inspired by Shakespeare’s plays The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Winter's Tale.  There are 22 playable Sims in total (plus one cat). There are also three deceased NPCs that are resurrectable and have correct memories.

8 business lots - 6 owned by some of the families who live in this subhood, 2 unowned. There is a general store, a pet shop, clothing store, a restaurant, a bookstore, a salon and spa (which works as a venue), a bakery and a furniture store.

The neighborhood name when you download it is BLST so make sure you don’t already have a subhood by that name.

The hood is built on the Riverblossom Hills template so you shouldn’t need a camera mod to view the lots.

MODS THAT YOU WILL DEFINITELY NEED:

50 new lifetime wants for Sims 2 by Lamare since some of the Sims use those lifetime wants

Lifestyle Build Bundle (the second link in the top post; extracted from Lifestyle Stories by Argon)

Fix Subhood selection by Mootilda

RECOMMENDED MODS

Veronaville 2.0 by Delijume is what I prefer to play instead of the original Veronaville, so if you want even more Shakespeare than what the original Veronaville + my subhood gives you, I recommend you check it out! I chose Sims for my neighborhood specifically so they wouldn’t clash with playables from Veronaville 2.0 (although a few of the townies have the same or similar name as the Sims in my neighborhood).

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Meet the families of Little Stratford!

Belmont

Portia has recently inherited her late father’s business. She’s confident she will be able to manage it just fine... as long as she has the support of her best friend Nerissa. But with her wealth, will she ever be able to form genuine relationships or is she going to be surrounded by vultures?

Friends

Bassanio has moved in with his best friend as both of them look for ways to get wealthy. Bassanio has his sights set on a wealthy heiress while Antonio is struggling to get his business off the ground. Will the friends be successful in their endeavors?

Minola

After his wife’s death, Baptista was left to manage his business and raise his daughters alone. Will he manage to be a good father to both Bianca and Katherine as well as keep the business afloat?

Lartius

Just moved in, Hortensio and Petruchio are looking forward to their new life in this town.

McBeth

The McBeth sisters have just moved in! Verona plans to open a shop and sell her potions, Bellatrix mostly wants to cause mischief and Esme is trying to keep things from falling apart. This family might seem a tad wyrd, but the sisters have a strong bond.

Falstaff

John is looking for some new love; ideally for someone wealthy enough to financially support him. He has his sights set on two women in particular and is fully confident he will manage to woo at least one of them. Is he right?

Page

George and Margaret have been married for years and still going strong! Will young Anne manage to find such a strong relationship one day? And will William ever manage to fix his terrible grades?

Ford

Alice and Francis are content, but are they truly happy together? Will they grow closer or more apart?

King

Leontes and Hermione have been happily married for years but recently, Leontes has become convinced that Hermione is cheating on him. Will his jealousy destroy the family?

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[pumpkinz-art]

boom get taming of the shrew college au’d

[zukkacore]

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

[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

[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!