Catholic, Royal

Descendant of Saints, daughter of Empresses

[genibibiou]

I hope if Gen Z, one day, realizes one thing about itself as a collective, it's this:

They dress terribly. Like suburban dads about to mow the lawn early on Saturday just to wake people up.

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

Teaching my husband the difference between Jazz Hands and Spirit Fingers

[cir-c]

I'm tempted to take a barre class next week, anyone knows how hard/good these are?

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

I do it regularly, at different difficulties depending on where i am in my cycle. I find them very good for stretching & muscle group focus.

Happy to answer any questions~☆

[cir-c]

How would you compare it to Pilates?

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

There are many similarities in pacing and various workout positions, and some studios will use some of the same small handheld equipment like resistance bands & small exercise balls. The main difference will be the focus on upright posture & much more supporting your own body weight instead of laying on a pilates reformer machine.

They usually offer a range of class types, so look into the alignment/stretching ones for low impact. Just above that will usually be the standard/classic class, then one step above that the class instructor typically adds ankle & handheld weights for more muscle building. Again, these are the three basic levels so ask what your studio typically does.

I enjoy barre because of the rhythm and balance aspects, it reminds me of taking ballet as a girl.

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

Pregnant cravings during the day: Lobster ravioli. Steak with Bearnaise sauce. Pistachio cheesecake. BBQ ribs. Crab legs.

Pregnant cravings at night: Crunchwrap supreme. Toaster strudel. Ice cream cake. A corn dog wrapped in a grilled cheese. Bagel Bites.

[cir-c]

I'm tempted to take a barre class next week, anyone knows how hard/good these are?

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

I do it regularly, at different difficulties depending on where i am in my cycle. I find them very good for stretching & muscle group focus.

Happy to answer any questions~☆

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

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[themakeupbrush]

Iris van Herpen Fall 2025 Couture

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

Me at 8pm: I totally have the will & energy to get this house deep-cleaned tonight. All I want to do is go over everything, upstairs and downstairs, with my steam cleaner & finally get all these clothes put away. I'll be so proud of myself tomorrow.

Me at 10pm, with no cleaning done: I cannot possibly be upright a moment longer. All I want to do is lay down and shut my weary eyes. Tomorrow is another day.

[lacetulle]

Zuhair Murad | Spring/Summer 2026 Couture

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

-i see some couture i would love to have (e.g., pink satin strappy high heels with a green silk lily stem wrapped around the stiletto, and the white silk lily blossom open at the back of the ankle)

-i think wistfully how much i would like something like that

-next immediate thought: 💡"i can make something like that"

-cackling with realization

[bethanydelleman]

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

[janeeyreofmanderley]

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

[obi-troll-kenobi]

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)

[darkfrozenabyss]

First Steps, Millet and Van Gogh

[bethanydelleman]

I learned things today:

In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies "translations" akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother, Theo, had sent—pose "as a subject," then he would "improvise color on it." For this work of January 1890, Van Gogh squared-up a photograph of Millet's First Steps and transferred it to the canvas.

(source)

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[notasapleasure]

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Joan of Arc

1412-1431

Feast day: May 30

Patronage: France; martyrs; captives; military personnel; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; soldiers

Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, was born in 1412 during the Hundred Years War. At age 12 she began receiving visions of Saint Michael, as well as other angels and saints, telling her to drive out the English. Possessing remarkable mental and physical courage, Joan led the French army to victory over the British at Orleans when she was 18. Several additional victories led to Charles VII’s coronation. Eventually burned at the stake, she held up a cross calling continually upon the name of Jesus. A retrial declared her innocent in 1456 making her a martyr. Joan of Arc was canonized 500 years later.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

I simply cannot take my mother seriously anymore because she wants me to stop talking about what she maliciously & intentionally put me through four years ago during my engagement when I was thirty-two years old-

-but will STILL. TRY. to push a victim narrative over what her mom/dad did to her.

She is sixty-six; whatever she could possibly bring up was 50 years ago at least bc she ran away at 17yo & HER PARENTS HAVE BOTH BEEN DEAD FOR DECADES.

"It was so long ago, get over it" in her exact tone would put her into a spiral

[smvj57erkx]

Statue of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) Museum Rouen, 📍Paris

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Bona of Pisa

1156 - 1207

Feast Day: May 29

Patronage: flight attendants, travelers, pilgrims and travel guides

Saint Bona was born in Pisa, Italy. A child of a single mother, she experienced many visions and dedicated herself to God at the age of ten, becoming an Augustinian tertiary. At fourteen she went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to find her father who was fighting in the Crusades. On the way home she was captured by Muslim pirates and imprisoned and later rescued. She made many pilgrimages to the Holy Land. She had a great devotion to St. James and made the pilgrimage of St. James (Santiago de Compostela) nine times. On the tenth trip she returned home due to illness and died.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[justryingtovibe69]