"Trust me, if you hurt my friend, I’m gonna hurt you. Worse."
— Rachel, probably (via incorrectmorpherquotes)
Announcement
I am watching Curse of the Black Pearl, and I am still super fucking committed to Elizabeth Swann, she of the wild eyes and voice like Damascus steel and hungry heart of a pirate.
#god i love elizabeth swann#best beloved and most feared#the girl with the hurricane in her veins and the glare of sun-on-sea in her eyes#homeless and wild and untamed as an albatross#norrington and jack and will are all so in love with her in their ways#norrington who loves her well-heeled mask first and then discovers (to his horror) that he loves her iron strength even better#jack who loves her as distractedly and madly as he loves the pearl#loves what she is to him: freedom and fire and wind in his sails and the glitter of stars on the horizon#and will who loves her flashes of aching gentleness#who was her possession from the first moment she said she was watching over him and learned that he loved her unbreakable grip#and elizabeth…elizabeth is in love with them all a little bit but she’s more in love with the sea and the sky and blood on her lips#with calypso and her wildness and her hunger and her cruelty#elizabeth doesn’t think of what she feels for those men as love#she thinks of it as claiming#they are hers and elizabeth is the pirate king and beloved of the sea#and she takes what she wants and gives nothing back#and she is stubborn and selfish and not sorry#i love her so much
“When I started as an actor, no one knew what to do with me. I was usually maybe about 6 inches to a foot taller than most of the actors, so I couldn’t play the girlfriend, I couldn’t play the wife, I was a little too overwhelming to be the best friend, they didn’t want me next to the lead because I was usually a foot taller than the lead… And then, God bless him, Rob Tapert, who created Xena and the Hercules franchises said, ‘I know exactly what to do with you! I’m gonna give you a sword! I’m gonna make you as scary as everybody thinks you are!’” - Gina Torres
(Source: evilspice, via ifeelbetterer)
Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
(via Feminism)
bisexual opera singer who killed ten men and snuck into a convent to shag a nun.
Just so y'all know, she later set that convent on fire so she and that nun could sneak out. And she seduced one of the men she’d dueled.
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Julie d’Aubigny) has always been one of my role models. I’m so glad this post exists so more people can learn about her. The more you know, the more there’s to love. Let’s see:
- Around 1678 (she was like fourteen or fifteen), she was making a living in Marseilles by doing fencing exhibitions, dressed in male clothes, with her boyfriend who was on the run because he killed a guy in an illegal duel in Paris.
- Then she joined an opera company and fell in love with a young woman, but the woman’s parents decided to put her in a convent to, you know, protect her honor and all that…
- …so yeah, that’s when the whole “sneaking into a convent to help a nun sneak out and also putting the room on fire” thing happened.
- She wounded a guy through the shoulder with a sword in a duel because he had made fun of her clothes. They became friends after she came back a few days later to ask if he was okay.
- She beat a singer who was quite famous at the time because he was being a jerk to some women from her new opera troupe in Paris.
- She kissed a young woman in front of everyone at a society ball, and that angered three noblemen who were there, so she beat them all in duel and fled to Brussels. Then she resumed her opera career there.
- Then she returned to the Paris opera and had yet more problems with the law because she beat up her landlord.
- She retired to a convent after the death of her love Madame la Marquise de Florensac, and died at only 33 years old.
- The legend says that she never got arrested for all her deeds because king Louis XIV thought she was way too entertaining to deserve death. I have no idea if that’s true. But she did sing in Versailles for the Court, so there’s that.
She’s back on my dash!
The woman who is, no word of a lie, MY PERSONAL HERO :D
How badass can you be to basically get a lifetime pardon from the king?!
Julie D’aubigny: It’s okay I have a note from the king
“Julie can do what she wants - King Louis XIV”
(via faiththegoodslayer)
