Who is this beautiful badass, you might ask? None other than Queen Isabella I of Castile, that’s who.
Even when before she was the queen, she took no fuckery from others. When her half-brother tried to set her up with Alfonso V of Portugal, Isabella decided to make a secret proposal with Ferdinand II of Aragon to secure her place as the heir to the throne. This woman took shit from no one.
Once she became queen, her levels of awesome only increased. When a rebellion broke out in Segovia, did she send her soldiers to go slaughter the rebels? Did she ignore the problem? No. She went out there herself and and negotiated with the rebels, and soon enough the rebellion died down. Mother. Fucking. Awesome.
Not only did she and her husband (also a complete BAMF) help unify Spain, but she also reorganized the government system, brought crime to its lowest point it had been in years, and repaid the huge debt her brother had left for Spain. Christopher Columbus? Yeah, she funded his entire voyage. Reconquista? They completed the damn thing.
Isabella was also known for her beauty as well, and when Ferdinand went to meet with her to talk about the betrothal, he was supposedly awed by her radiance that he became awkward and speechless until she got the conversation going. Her beauty combined with her wisdom and levels of awesome? Number one history crush. I would totally go lesbians for her.
Óscar Jaenada, Verónica Echegui, and Henry Cavill on the set of Cold Light of Day.
…XD What’s the point of doing up those last two buttons?
… I think I was doing something…
Really lazy submission for the ‘celebration’ prompt. It’s a Koshmas tree!
…I promise to do something better next time.
I completely love this picture, I’ve been holding off using it until today.
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