#pirate queens

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the OG radfems lol

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wendilse headcanons i still dont know if that’s even their ship name

they kissed at a sleepover when they were 10 and it was both of their first kisses

when they were younger ilse used to love the fabrics of wendla’s dresses and would always ask to touch them because her parents refused to buy her ‘fancy’ clothes

wendla loves to braid flowers into ilse’s hair. she just loves her hair in general

when wendla got her first period she was really scared cause her mum never told her about it and she came to ilse for help

as soon as the weather gets warm they do their homework outside, but they usually get sidetracked and end up chasing bugs or climbing trees. they get in trouble later but they think it’s worth it

they both love flowers. if they had a house, it would just be like flowers everywhere

wendla always smells like lavender and ilse never knew that’s what it was, so when she first learned it was an herb and smelled it she immediately thought of wendla

ilse loves to go swimming and once they were in the forest and found a creek. they took off their shoes and socks to wade but ilse ended up going in all the way and getting soaked

ilse smokes weed but not around wendla

wendla likes to say that ilse’s eyes look ‘like the moon’ and no one ever knows what she means

wendla wears silver jewelry and ilse wears gold

ilse used to spend a lot of time at wendla’s house cause her home life was not good, and wendla’s mom started to anticipate her staying over so for a period of time she had a toothbrush and pajama’s at wendla’s

a kid (prolly otto) made fun of ilse for wearing the same clothes 2 days in a row (she was up late cause her parents were fighting, overslept, and her mom started yelling at her so she couldn’t change) and wendla got mad and that was like the only time she’s ever gotten mad

wendla loves baking and bakes ilse little treats sometimes

when they got older and started to drift apart wendla always asked ilse for help with schoolwork but really she just wanted to see her

ilse plays violin and wendla loves to listen to her play

ilse loves painting wendla and is always giving her compliments about how great she is to draw

i love them so much😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️my girls❤️❤️❤️

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Pirate queens comfirmed???

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As it should be

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Asha & Arya

Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. 

A Dance with Dragons

You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.

A Game of Thrones

Did anyone else notice that Asha is adult version of Arya? 

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It’s my friend and her girlfriend’s 1st year anniversary and it’s been 1 year since their production of Spring Awakening closed! Yup, they made it official on closing night! So, I just had to draw them as the characters they played (their costumes are not like this, I just used what she posted on Instagram. They give major Wendla and Ilse vibes for sure). It’s a bit sloppy, but that’s because I’m busy atm. I’ll draw this properly one day.

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alas, here's my life work.

aka, i spent my entire day drawin em 😳😳

hHHOPE THEY RECOGNISABLE 😳

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Total War(rior) Queens

So contrary to what I thought in my post about my Iceni campaign, I do, in fact, have Queen Boudica of the Iceni as a character in my faction. No idea how she’s alive in 141 BC, but whatever. The only reason I know this is because I apparently unlocked an achievement by winning a battle with her. Here she marches to war beside her shieldmaiden girlfriends, deep into the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia (no joke!). Kudos to Creative Assembly for having the guts to include her and other real-life badass warrior queens.

Queen Teuta of Illyria is the starting leader for the Ardiaei in the Grand Campaign. She was the driving force in my conquests of Greece in my Ardiaei campaign, conquering even Athens and Sparta before she passed away from old age. Historically she was more of a pirate queen than a warrior queen, raiding all along the Adriatic Coast and as far south as Sicily. Her fleets amassed the largest pirate treasure in Mediterranean history---a particularly impressive feat, given the Med’s history of piracy. But thanks to misogynist historians, she’s still a relatively unknown figure historically, despite all this. 

Nubian Queen Shanakdakhete of Kush also makes an appearance in the Grand Campaign, here perched at the head of her army with her squad of war elephants. Little is known about her from our surviving sources, but she lived during the reign of the Ptolemy Dynasty in Egypt, and likely would have butted heads with them, politically or militarily. In my campaign, she helped wipe them out after her predecessors drove them from Egypt. 

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII (yes, that Cleopatra) is head of the Ptolemy faction in the Imperator Augustus campaign. Too often considered little more than a temptress to two Roman blowhards, Cleopatra led troops into battle, first against her quarrelsome relatives, later against the enemies of Rome, as their client monarch. In my campaign, she is currently Empress of Rome, controlling all of Egypt, Lepidus’s holdings in Africa, and most of Italy including Rome itself. 

The Empire Divided Campaign, meanwhile, gives us Queen Zenobia at the head of the Palmyran legions. By all accounts except Emperor Aurelian’s, Zenobia was a strong war leader and savvy politician. She took advantage of Roman civil strife to conquer Syria, Egypt, and parts of Asia Minor from the Romans, battling Aurelian’s armies quite nearly to a standstill before her defeat. I’ve played two campaigns with her, sacking Rome in both of them and instating Zenobia as Empress of Rome.