#underrated queens

[allwomenjointhe4bmovement]

Everyone's hyping up Chappell Roan which is great, but yall are sleeping on these other underrated lesbian artists:

[pettson]

ok I need a tlou spin-off miniseries with each episode focusing on one person’s story from who they were Before to who they became After (which is maybe not who they wanted to be, or thought they ever would be capable of being, but who they had to become), and the people we would follow are Marlene, Tess, Kathleen and Maria

[marianadecarlos]

Please like and reblog 😊

Marie Therese and Mariana of Austria Fanart Part 2

Maria Theresa strolled into the palace halls hoping to speak to Mariana of Austria. Luckily for her, she saw Mariana of Austria walk by and she approached her and said.

Maria Theresa: Mother! Since my Lord father announced my engagement to the king of France, I could not contain myself from thinking of him. Mariana of Austria: He announced that two nights ago. Why are you so fixated on him, you haven't met him yet? Maria Theresa: I heard stories of him. They said he was a gentleman, a talented performer, and he had the finest of features. I cannot wait to meet him.

Mariana smiled and stated: You will make a magnificent Queen, May this marriage bring you joy.

@mariatheresaofspain @austin-friars @rmelster I hope you all liked it

[v-poreons]

That's it that's their dynamic

[helenofblackthorns]

I'm constantly thinking about this passage & I need other people to talk about

like "here is someone you already know"????????

[anifever]

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡ “ d’you like this outfit, steve? ”

“ yeah, do a lil’ spin for me doll. ” ₊˚⊹♡.

[kuzcoskingdom]

Emperor or no emperor, it's called common courtesy. If it were me, I'd march right back there and DEMAND to see him, you know I would!

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[devonaoki]

respectfully . WHAT THE FUCK

[aprill-99]

Character A: “The real tragedy was the friends we made along the way.”

Character B: “Don’t you mean ‘treasure’?”

Character A: “No. Having to care about other people has been a real bummer for me and my personal goals.”

[mewharley]

After rewatching Trolls World Tour, I just realized the relevance of the high five at the start of Trolls Band Together <3

It means they have a strong connection!

On the second movie he failed to talk with Poppy about their relationship and then she called him a friend. He got so caught up on that, that they failed to make a connection and having a good high five.

Failing miserably.

Just look at him, he feels so bad

Also I love how easy the confession was at the end

Just so casual

"and I love that we are different"

"And I love you Queen Poppy" the way he says it, so simple yet clear

"And I love you too Branch" and Poppy and her little smile, that was the smile she used to give Creek before the whole fall out, she´s now smitten with Branch :) and she loves him too, what else can you ask?

the love was always there, they just needed to have a better connection, you know, the whole thing where she wasn't actually listening to anybody because she was too focused trying to be a good queen

Also I love seeing Branch happy, it´s so tender

And they finally have their perfect high five!

Wait, did she hug him at the end? 🥺

I hadn´t noticed

I love their relationship, since the first movie and how it evolved

it´s just so tender and wholesome

[charmingradiobelle]

Charlie is genuinely so fucking pretty and I’m tired of acting like she’s not

[libraartz]

Season 7 Final Episode

UGH THEY LOOK FUCKING PRETTY 😭😍🤩

I love them so much

Bones really did they big one with this season.

[fabledfoxglove]

✦⋇ʜᴇsᴛɪᴀ • ɢᴏᴅᴅᴇss ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛʜ, ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴍᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ/ɢᴏᴠᴇʀɴᴍᴇɴᴛ, sᴀᴄʀᴇᴅ & sᴀᴄʀɪғɪᴄɪᴀʟ ғɪʀᴇ, ᴠɪʀɢɪɴɪᴛʏ, ғᴀᴍɪʟʏ & ʜᴏsᴘɪᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ⋇✦

[tentacledwizarddraws]

this would be so funny

[spampai]

What is this meme bruh 😭

Hot take: the King is underrated