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wonder-worker · 3 months

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"It is too easy to dismiss [Leonor of Navarre] as an overambitious schemer who would do anything to obtain a crown, shedding the blood of her own siblings and her subjects in order to attain the throne. However, a deeper investigation of her long lieutenancy and ephemeral reign shows a woman who fought tenaciously to preserve her place but also worked tirelessly to administer a realm which was crippled by internal conflict and the center of the political schemes of France, Aragon, and Castile. She tried to broker peace, fight off those who opposed her, repair the wounds caused by conflict, protect the sovereignty of the realm, and keep the wheels of governance turning. Leonor was not always successful in achieving all of these aims but given the background of conflict and the lack of cooperation she received from all of her family members, bar her loyal husband, it is a huge achievement that she survived to wear the crown at all. Many writers have argued that Leonor deserved the troubled lieutenancy, personal tragedies, an ephemeral reign, and a blackened reputation, basing their assumption that she committed a crime that cannot be [conclusively] proven. However, a more fitting description of her would be that of a resolute ruler who successfully overcame a multitude of challenges in order to survive in a difficult political landscape and gain a hard-fought throne.”

-Elena Woodacre, "Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition", Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz)

#historicwomendaily #leonor of navarre #15th century #Navarrese history #my post #I mean...the crime can't be explicitly 'proven' but Leonor DID have the means motive and opportunity; she had the most to gain;#the timing was incredibly convenient for her; and most contemporaries believed she was responsible.#She *did* ultimately act against her brother [Carlos] and sister [Blanca]#Though of course the fact remains that:#1) The final responsibility lies with Juan the Faithless: he was the King; the one in power; and the one who rejected Navarre's succession #Blanca herself - while criticizing Leonor and Gaston - placed the ultimate blame on their father as her 'principal...destructor'#All three siblings were reacting to an unconventional disruption in the system caused by Juan & their actions should be judged accordingly.#2) I am hesitant to believe accusations of 'poison' as a cause of murder given how that was commonly used to slander controversial women #and given how it contributed to the dichotomy of Blanca as a tragic beautiful heroine and Leonor as her scheming ambitious sister #3) Even if Leonor DID commit the crime (imo she was at the very least complicit in it) she is still worthy of a reassessment.#I don't think it's fair for it to define her entire identity #Because it certainly did not define her life - she lived for decades before and would live for decades after #It was on the whole one of the many series of obstacles and challenges she had to face before she succeeded in ascending the throne.#The fact that she died so soon after IS ironic but it is in equal parts tragic. And we don't know what Leonor herself felt about it:#Did she think it was a hollow victory? Or did she feel nothing but satisfaction that she died as the Queen of Navarre? We'll never know.#Whatever the case: given her circumstances the fact that she survived to wear the crown itself was an achievement #It's funny because Woodacre parallels Leonor to Richard III in terms of 'blackened' reputations for 'unproven' (...sure) crimes #(thankfully she admits Richard has been long-rehabilitated; what she doesn't bring herself to admit is that he's now over-glorified)#But I don't think this parallel works at all for the exact reasons she uses to try and reassess Leonor #Namely: Richard was the one in power. He was the King. The ultimate blame for what happened to his nephews was his own.#and moreover: Richard's actions against the Princes DID define his reign and were exactly what provoked opposition to his rule.#Any so-called 'rehabilitation' that doesn't recognize and emphasize this is worthless #also if we want to get specific: the Princes were literal children who did nothing and were deposed in times of peace.#Carlos and Blanca were adults with agency and armies and Leonor's actions against them took place in the middle of a civil war #So ultimately I think Leonor's case is fundamentally very different and I don't think her comparison holds well at all

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bookshelf-in-progress · 3 months

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It's a good sign I'm recovering from my creative slump that I was able to brainstorm a story that makes me laugh.

#all it took was one shot from the disney batb #beast made a face that was very expressive of the man underneath #and a retelling started forming as a cheerful version of the beast started chattering at me #lovely man #doesn't know how to shut up #it's a major issue between himself and his beauty #(who is introverted and serious and a bit cranky)#he insists on telling the story to his children #despite my doubts that he'll be an objective or honest narrator to these young ears #and even then he refuses to tell me most of the story #all i've got is his first dinner with beauty (did not go well)#and i'm like 'how did she go from that to wanting to marry you?'#and he's like 'i'm just irresistibly charming'#and i'm like 'clearly not because you just told me how she resisted you. why did she change her mind?'#and he's like 'idk. lack of options? i'm just thrilled it happened i'm not self-aware enough to figure out why'#and i'm all 'can you at least tell me what you did? it can't just be that you had long boring days in the palace #'and then she suddenly fell in love'#and he's like 'but what if it did happen that way though?'#and i'm like 'make something up! i don't want people to fall asleep reading this'#and he's like 'sorry can't help'#so i try to talk to beauty but she doesn't want to talk to strangers so i'm stuck #but what i do have is a very hopeful sign of returning creative health #for some reason even though i have a jillion batb ideas #the funny ones are the only ones i get interested in enough to actually write #we'll see if this becomes one of them #adventures in writing

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431989 · 7 months

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i will have moments of hope that nd people are not viewed as children and then i am reminded that no, nd people are in fact viewed as children.

#ra posting #resident alien #i felt soooooo seen and related so much #knowing all of their thoughts now and making harry out to be a child hurts #WHERE is my show ABOUT weird people FOR weird people. I DONT WANT A SHOW LAUGHING *AT* WEIRD PEOPLE.#to clarify when i mean weird i mean it in the most beautiful positive way #i am weird and have grown up weird and thats ok. its ok to be weird.#BUT ALAS #have to be reminded that weird isnt ok and that youll only ever be viewed as a child #the fact they even saw harry in s1 as a child. thats amazing. so the people on that show view people like me as children. thats amazing.#so much for a wholesome story #it's so ironic the thing i'm hyperfixated on ends up kicking me in the face with ableist tropes

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freeasfishes · 4 days

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Honestly the hardest part about being a camp counselor was having parents who are all worried about their little kid being at camp all alone, and not having any way to tell the parent that I would absolutely die for their child without any hesitation whatsoever. How do I explain that the second I meet a child my self preservation instincts all fall apart and I'm a mother octopus eating my own limbs without looking like an insane person.

#sorry for quoting Suzanne Collins in front of u all but -I save you as I save my life- has been branded into my brain since middle school #thats the most beautiful thing Ive ever heard and thats how I feel about all children ever #like friend what am I if Id let harm come to a child in my care??? certainly not anything worth being.

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animmal · 27 days

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getting a handle on mavis is kinda 😵‍💫 bc on the one hand she's an empath (literally) and is shown to generally have more emotional intelligence/maturity than dr🅰️x/nebs/rocket combined, but at the same time she apparently saw no problem at all whatsoever w kidnapping kevin 🥓 for peter 😭 which is like???? i mean maybe those two things can be true at the same time but like... How. 😭 is she an empath or is she okay w taking people against their will to give as a present to her brother ?

#just some thoughts b4 bed...#ooc.#james 🔫 leaving me to have to make sense of this all like ok thanks #i do think she's somewhat Stunted in regards to social behaviour that's considered acceptable or appropriate #bc for most of her life she lived on ego's planet w literally nobody else but him and his children (her half siblings) that he kept killing #he straight up didnt even acknowledge he was her father. he had her call him Master. so like... yeah. no parenting done there #but she gets Most of that sorted out when she meets the guardians i think #(like basically she figures out how Not to act by looking at dr🅰️x and 🚀 lol)#im also 100% sure gam🅾️ra would've taught her some things woman to woman (my girl i'll avenge u from what goftg3 did to u)#so u would THINK w/ all that mavis would think twice before just straight up kidnapping a guy. but No #im gna say this is bc mavis kinda has a one track mind. what she knows is that peter is sad and she wants to cheer him up #dr🪓 gives her a solution: get peter his fave hero #she goes yay! and is so fixated on that part of it that she doesn't stop to consider the consequences #bc kevin is just. part of the goal at this point and not a person #so she's always. Always well intentioned. just sometimes doesn't think about all the angles as much as she should #does that make sense? i hope so. imc rying #well intentioned but doing fucked up things also applies to that scene where she erases dra❌'s memory #bc he's sad!!!!!!! he was hurt by something she said so she wanted to take it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#but she just went and took his memory of it without asking without even stopping to think if she should and that's #beautiful to me bc mavis is sweet and empathetic and she LOVES him just like she does all the other guardians #but she's fucked up too!!!!!! like the rest of them!!! just in different ways and i Love that in a woman #anyway. god. ive spoken too much in the tags. apparently i have a lot of feelings about this

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bumblingbabooshka · 1 year

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’Cause it’s my problem if I want to pack up and run away It’s my problem, it’s my problem if I feel I need to hide And it’s my problem if I have no friends and feel I want to die

#Tuvok #Tuvok art #st voyager #st voyager art #teen Tuvok #my boyfriend said 'satisfied' reminded him of teen Tuvok <3 #teen tuvok: I DON'T NEED HELP. THIS IS THE AUTHENTIC ME!!! MY TRUE SELF!!!!#adult tuvok: thank god someone helped me =_=#I love alternating between Tuvok's rebellion being serious and being silly....it's both I think. As most teenaged things are.#teen tuvok would scream at seeing the adult version of him he'd be SO dissapointed in that white picket fence bore HEHEH #'I'll bet you have two LOVELY children and a sehlat.'#'I have four children and several fish.'#'You DISGUST me!'#had to omit the 'smoke and drink and sway' lyric bc c'mon........he may be a rebellious teen but he's still TUVOK ~ NARC ASS.#In my beautiful mind Tuvok just floats through different kinds of being annoying his entire life <3 as do we all #It's just not Tuvok if he's not a little insufferable <3

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bisaster-energy · 1 year

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i personally think it would've been really funny if angel blades didn't work on human beings

#idk some testament to god's love for humanity #''my children cannot harm my most beautiful creation'' or wtv #metatron tries to stab dean and it's like that scene from knives out #u know when ransom tries to kill marta #also something about cas never wanting to hurt dean and his blade being able to reflect that #my blade is only for dean never against him #cas giving his blade to dean cut me up as you please #which isn't to say angels cant kill ppl i mean we all seen them use their powers on humans #i just think it'd be cool and maybe a little funny #but yeah dean giving cas the first blade = cas handing off his angel blade to dean #i trust you and only you with this. nothing is stopping you from using it against me but i trust that you won't #idk man smth about it #OH. also. proof that even former angels are still decidedly ANGELS. even without powers #i've always hated the whole ''oh i'm human now that my grace is gone'' u cannot just. turn into a human being. ur a different species #cas is still an angel. CAS GETS STABBED BY APRIL AND DEAN IS SCRAMBLING ''WHY IS HE DYING HE'S HUMAN NOW''#cas will never be human ever and that's on god...#he will always be Other. i love that. it also makes former angels MORE vulnerable than regular humans. so crazy #cee speaks

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flowerflamestars · 2 years

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Robin fic snippet

“Skin contact,” he said, reaching out. Elle passed him the baby, hands briefly overlapping on her little skull, “No one was holding her.” The difference came by degrees- tired wail fading into sad grizzling, rubbing her wet little face beneath Jason’s collarbone before rapidly seeming to collapse into exhaustion. Careful, Jason leaned against the edge of the desk he never actually used. After a beat, Elle followed, moving with assured quiet to pull herself up on top of the wide oak slab, high enough to lean her cheek on his shoulder. “Started screaming the second she was done eating,” Elle whispered. Sighed, turning her head to press a brief kiss to Jason’s skin. “God.” She reached out, hesitantly touching one little hand, bunched even in rest, “She’s so small.” For a while, they just watched the baby sleep. “Does she have name?” Elle smiled. “Elodie, I think. Feels like an Elodie.” Another Elle. Ellie. Jason barely wrestled silence into his laugh, rocking the baby as she stirred. “Sounds good.” He wanted to know what shade her eyes would be when they settled past baby blue. The color of her hair. The sound of her little laugh. A tiny, tiny magical person- Elle was right, of course. They’d never let her get hurt, ever again. “Philippe’ll be here in the morning,” Elle told him, quietly. Jason told himself not to be a fucking idiot. Not to be disappointed- He also knew perfectly well what he sounded like, when he whispered back, “We’re not keeping her?”

#Jason Todd: I am NOTHING LIKE BATMAN #Jason holding an orphan child for ten seconds: I am a Father Now #sometimes you just have to have a beautiful tank of a bloodsplattered man #rip off all his body armor to hold a baby #it is required!#actually I think Jason is the batkid most designed to have the Adoption Instinct #Dick is too easy of a choice!#siblings? yes now that he's gotten used to the idea #but children?? my darlings that man is never retiring much less having a life-work balance #Elle just trying to do her job #and being forcibly confronted with this Sheer Sexiness: this is FINE #YEP UH FINE #the conga line in her head: SOULMARK AUTOPSY SCAR MUSCLES SWEAT JASON-#teeny tiny witch baby #Jason meanwhile fantasizing about middle names and first steps #a kid! named after the love of his life! yes of course!#Migration Patterns of Turdidae #he's just an edgelord disaster with extremely normie desires

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macroglossus · 8 months

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jesus christ you'd think turning 30 was a death sentence

#the beautiful and damned #like my god brother. youre thirty. youre fine #gloria's looking in the mirror and insisting she's too old for children and that her beauty has fled because uh (checks notes) the skin at #her temples is thin? ? and she has faint crows feet. and yeah that's it #im glad im almost finished with this book bc any message it's giving is lost between the most boring plot of all time and similarly #unengaging characters. i get that's the point to show Life Without Rose Colored Glasses but i do not care and it's boring #reading list

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maretriarch · 1 year

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ive gotten a lot of horrible comments from older middle aged mildly overweight women about my weight loss but the one that makes me the most sad is "what you've lost, ive put on/you've given it to me/etc" like its a "joke" but it really shows how in our society other women are not like. separate people entirely but almost inherently other rulers to measure yourself against in a lot of ways but mostly when it comes to beauty standards

#something something self policing misogyny #also have never gotten a bad word abt my body hair except from older women #its like it triggers a shame response in themselves like theyre ashamed as if it was them that was hairy #and im not like Immune why would i be ill see a beautiful woman and feel like immediately worse abt myself and can see how if i was like a #different person it would make me resent her #i think this is strongest with mothers/daughters bcs id argue most parents see children as the clearest reflections of themselves/#their parenting skills/their lifestyle/ literally themselves they often have the same goddamn face #maybe inherently isnt the word this all stems from patriarchal values of fuckable appealing to men woman =worthy woman #so women that arent are seen as lacking some sort of moral quality theyre Bad People

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vinethreaded · 8 months

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tag drop

#beauty & gentleness sprouted from vine and thread ( visage )#a single vine. a single thread. to underestimate either means certain death ( musings )#magic madness heaven sin ( aes. )#her father is a great man. and great men receive lecturers from glorious daughters ( dionysus )#her mother is most beloved. and beloved mothers deserve all happiness ( ariadne )#keep the children close. guard them from harm. for they are precious and the gods are callous ( demigods )#what peace is there to be found amongst them? olympus suits her not ( the gods )#all that i believe is true ( headcanon )#( my edits. )#* 90% of ancient greek problems is zeus' dick ( ooc )

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saeshiraw · 1 year

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watching ror and i just have some thoughts

#ROUND TWO WAS UNACCEPTABLE PLS I WAS CRYING #adam’s line was so iconic it literally brought me to tears #“does any man alive need a good reason to want to protect his children?” and i was sobbing #full on sobbing i wasn’t even hiding it anymore it was so emotional and truly a good fight #ADAM ON TOP!! just thinking about that ep has me emotional again like i love adam fr #and i have just been so desperate for the humans to win so when i spoiled myself that humans were gonna win in the 3rd round i was so happy #BUT AT WHAT COST #i ended up becoming attached to poseidon out of all the characters lmfaoo 😭😭😭 i was cheering mr sushi on he is so cool and ugh i just #i could talk about this man for hours like he is the epitome of beauty and he’s so elegant HE DIDN’T DESERVE TO DIE 😭#but also i love sasaki and he’s so respectable n admirable that i really don’t know who i’m cheering for atp 😭 this animanga has me in #SHAMBLES! left me emotionally wrecked and so hyped at the same time #but so far my favorite fight would still be jack the ripper vs hercules like wait okay i could go on n on about how much #i love the detail that goes on in jack’s character n how genius it was that hilde chose him for that round ugh it was so good #i would say deep down adam vs zeus is my most fav fight or poseidon vs kojiro but the outcomes of those HURT i can’t not cry #I LOVE SHIVA TOO #can’t wait for qin shi huang vs hades roundd hnggrrr #bro i wanna write a poseidon fic so bad but for some reason i have been itching to write for jack like !! feef #nami [ rambles ]

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silverislander · 1 year

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ok i just finally finished lagoon. ohhh my god i am so excited to discuss this in class

#i have been thinking abt it So Much.#who gets to be the protagonist and why!! why is it always americans why is it white people why is it PEOPLE at all. why not fish #maybe a bat or a spider or a ROAD has the most fascinating inner life on earth and we would never fucking know #the way we humans (and esp white people) have a habit of crushing things without understanding how special they ever were #this isnt even just on a plot/character level its in the LANGUAGE of the book. pidgin english as a tool to show class/connections!!#and bc this class is postcolonial lit i just KNOW were gettin into all of that #its SO good dude. its such a good book #i also just thought all the nigerian mythology was super fucking cool even if i dont know much abt it #i knew vaguely abt mami wata and ijele i think. and anansi but anansi isnt really in the book #levi.txt #also just as a smaller thing: i didnt know much abt nigeria in general and its always cool to see new places represented in books #ive never even been close to lagos!! but i can tell the author loves it sm and sees the beauty in it #just. as a huge arachnophobe this book is literally narrated by a massive spider and im endorsing it. thats smth in itself hgfjdkhgfd #i have a lot of feelings abt it 👍#anyway. enjoy the infodump i will not apologize #next book for the same class is midnights children by salman rushdie which also sounds super interesting!!#one of the girls in my writing class last year was indian and her stories talking abt it were always great? so thats a good sign #i dont know loads abt india either but im so excited to see it in this book and learn more

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bilal-salah0 · 2 months

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Our lives before the genocide were not perfect, to say the least, but we were happy and hopeful. Our dreams were and are still bigger than the walls, barbed wire, and tanks surrounding us but today we find ourselves in a situation where hope keeps being dimmed by constant humiliation and unprecedented injustice. The adults in my family are barely holding on.

They're doing their best but what is our children's fault? What did they do to deserve such unbearable suffering at a very young age? When will this nightmare end? Will I be able to see them all someday safe, sound, happy and thriving like all children should? Such cruel neverending questions keep haunting me night and day. What we seek, above all, is not only to live in safety but also with dignity which is a basic human right we have always been denied.

whenever I see Omar and Salah's pictures in our beautiful home that was leveled to the ground, I can't help but compare them to the state they're in now; struggling to survive in a flimsy, airless makeshift tent surrounded by rubble, all sorts of disease-carrying insects, the stench of sewage floods and garbage, and the smell of death everywhere only made worse by the sweltering summer heat. The newborns' and the children's innocent faces amidst such misery won't leave my thoughts. They fill me with grief and rage because of how helpless I am. Seeing the kids smile and hold their heads up high, despite all the suffering and fear their little hearts have to go through every single day, is pure torture. Their childhood games have been replaced by waiting in long lines for food and water and carrying containers, sometimes heavier than their fargile malnourished bodies. Most of their playgrounds, kindergartens and schools have been reduced to dust and rubble, and the ones left are still being bombed allowing them no respite or refuge from

the horrors of the war.

For almost ten months now, our little angels have been enduring hardships beyond their years; ripped from the safety and warmth of their home and everything they knew and loved and forced into a life of pain and peril where only the unknown awaits them. Your support is our only ray of hope amidst such a dire and bleak situation. My family and especially our children need you now more than ever as the airstrikes, starvation, and water and health crises are only intensifying and we are being further humiliated and annihilated. I never wanted it to come to this. I used to think I could handle everything myself but I truly have no choice but to ask for help now. Please help me protect my family and bring them closer to the life of safety and dignity they deserve as all humans do, wherever they are.