#Emma-May Dixon design

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Assorted Gravity Falls doodles!

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HES SO FREAKING BRIGHT MY EYES ARE BURNING

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PYRAMID STEVE ‼️‼️

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My first official venture into a super rare pair, EmmaStan, aka Emma-May Dixon and Stanley Pines!! @cosmo-shell and @slug-ball opened my eyes to the concept of these two, and WHOA the potential really stole my heart. It's absolutely not what they're serving out front, lmao, but the ship has bewitched me body and soul nonetheless. I just fell in love with the idea of these two tortured souls finding comfort in each other during the most difficult periods of their lives. They've been through HELL and deserve nice things. 😊💖 (And Emma-May in particular deserves WAY more love and attention in this fandom!)

My personal interpretation of Emma-May was mainly inspired by this piece by @birdskullz and this piece by @cosmo-shell.

Check out my AU fic for them here if you want! I haven't attempted a multi-chaptered fic in a VERY long time, lol, so hopefully this one will pan out well. First two chapters are up, but I've got more drafted out that will be posted very soon!

Writing out some key HCs about Emma-May and a rough timeline of events I constructed for my AU fic under the cut here:

Emma-May's family moved from Kansas to Tennessee when she was less than a year old, so she was raised in TN

Her mother is black while her father is white, and she has two older sisters

She became friends with Fiddleford and his siblings sometime during childhood

She attended college in New Jersey (went to a school I made up called “Gertrude University,” sort of a ref to the real university of Rutgers), majoring in botany, while Fidds ofc went to Backupsmore somewhere in the midwest 

Met Stan by chance once as a college student about a year after he was kicked out of his house and was still struggling with treasure hunting (probably around 1970 or 1971)

Married Fidds anywhere from 1973-1975 when they were in their 20s – felt pressured from family and society to get married, but they were best friends and did love each other (but the marriage was covertly strained from the beginning bc neither could get what they truly needed from each other – best friends don't necessarily work as a married couple even if some level of attraction is there along with the love)

Had Tate in the early-mid 70s, both love him to pieces and Fidds was a very devoted father up until he started unraveling 

Fidds left his family around the very late 70s to early 80s to work with Ford

Fidds abandoned the portal project in the early 80s, at that point already having started his descent into madness due to his reliance on the memory gun

Emma-May filed for divorce after becoming fed up with his bizarre behavior, lack of calls home, and a big fight they had around Christmas of the early 80s

The “homicidal pterodactyl-tron” attack happened during springtime after that Christmas, and this solidified Emma-May's decision to take Tate someplace safe (to stay with her aunt who lives in another state) while she set off to Gravity Falls herself to try to track Fiddleford down and figure out wtf happened to make him so different and dangerous 

At some point either right before or after the pterodactyl attack, Fidds created the Society of the Blind Eye and subsequently lost what remained of his mind and memories

Emma-May bumped into Stan, once again by chance, the night before he arrived in Gravity Falls upon Ford's request

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"we didn't even get emma-may's design" "we'll never know if tate's more like his dad or mom" OF COURSE NOT, FIDDLEFORD DOESN'T REMEMBER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

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What a happy family, sure hope they don't fall apart due to the actions of the father figure. Also, debuting my design for Emma May Dixon

[pixeltwix]

⚠️Emma May & Ciphertology⚠️

-Backpacking off of my theory from yesterday!! Very long text post incoming-

I’m of the mind where not only do I believe Emma May’s family was in a cult, but that they continued to practice its teachings after being disbanded. From here this is just my own personal ramblings as I have a very long and personal take on Emma May and Fiddleford’s lives and history as a whole and separately. Today will be dedicated to Em’s side (ft her families designs as well :3 )

Emma May’s father, Dale Dixon, is the older brother of Madeline Dixon- the teenage girl who was one of the first to be swayed by this Silas Birchtree. It’s implied she fell for him in place of her boyfriend at the time, but I choose to believe this was a lingering affection she’d keep for life in her worship.

Being a young man at the birth, peak, and end of Ciphertology already with a wife and children, Dale was too closely wooed by the teachings of Silas and the inter-dimensional being that was Bill Cipher. He was a bit of a cult kiss ass, if you will. He’d be the first to do whatever Silas would suggest or order of the cults people and the man was happy to do it. Be it shaving his head and painting on an eye or attempting to build the portal he had zero qualifications for alongside everyone else.

Naturally after the cult was disbanded and everyone was put into witness protection, while Dale accepted the state relocation for his family (to Virginia) he refused any government aid beyond that. Instead dragging his young family and sister into the woods where he constructed a shabby little home for them. A home where no one would contradict his word and he could continue the teachings of Ciphertology.

Emma May was born only a few short years later. And while her father had already named one of her older brothers as a namesake to his idol, Silas, her mother named her in turn for her secret idol, Emmaline Butternubbins. She knew Dale would never accept the original name, so she did what she could to compromise- it was a cope of sorts. Thelma Lou, Em’s mother, unfortunately has no say in her husbands madness and is slowly being broken down to the cult. While she had some resistance when Em was born it wouldn’t last too terribly long as soon every adult figure in the family believed in Ciphertology.

Growing up in the middle of nowhere Appalachia’s, Emma May didn’t have much outside influence other than the mini cult community her father had created over the years within neighboring people. She knew no different than the madness and basic cult ideas of ‘have as many kids and wives as you want just so we can create more followers’ sort of mindset. The only hiccup was that Emma May was never dumb, she wasn’t so easily swayed by the triangles teachings, she always internally questioned everything- no matter what adult was telling her things she always was left with a feeling of ‘is that really true though?’

She kept such thoughts to herself, assuming she wouldn’t have to actually do anything notable within the cult, she was shocked and horrified when at the age of 15 her father was bringing her before an older man to marry. An older man who already had a handful of wives. She knew even if she was older she wouldn’t want this life, seeing upfront her mothers decay in the cult and the mass of siblings that she had..she didn’t want that. She wanted an education, basic rights, and just? Freedom from this. She didn’t know if the outside world would be different, but at that point she didn’t much care. She wanted out and she needed out fast.

Running away from home before the official marriage ceremony she remains on the run until she makes it to Fredericksburg, VA. A bustling friendly town that otherwise left her feeling like she was in an alien world. She looked straight out of the early 1900s in a wave of hip and groovy late 1960’s styles. While she couldn’t read anymore than simple words she skimmed through the phone book of a nearby cafe, and while unable to find any Dixon outside of her indoctrinated family she found hope in searching for names under her mothers maiden name, ‘Finch’. 

Discovering a man in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey, by the name of Benjamin Finch she manages to find her mothers estranged brother. A man her mother was forced to shun and block out the second he expressed concern over her involvement in a cult. Thankfully upon learning who she was he was more than happy to shelter her, albeit he only lived in a trailer as he practically lived in the museum he worked at. Making her way up the East coast, Emma May finds herself in Jersey, her uncle slowly acclimating her to modern life. Teaching her how to read, to write, and most importantly teaching her the reality of the world. Luckily he wasn’t a religious man of any sorts and rooted her in modern thoughts of science, feminism, and other new age ideas of the time.

Once he felt she was ready he let her attend Glass Shard High, getting the education she always wanted despite struggling to understand the basics. This didn’t get her down though as she was determined to graduate someday. Instead she tracks down local nerd and idea enthusiast, Stanford Pines, someone she hardly finds to be ‘a freak’ considering her cultish upbringing was beyond bizarre (plus she learned from an early age to find beauty in the ‘odd’ or ‘weird’) Befriending a young Ford and learning from him she also befriends Stan, someone who was more than willing to help her break out of her docile and dainty shell. Stan’s girlfriend at the time, Carla McCorkle was equally happy to teach her the modern idea of feminine rather than beaten to death old book concepts. Living in Jersey, in short, was slowly thawing her from the confines of her upbringing- developing into the life she always wanted and frankly? She was thriving!

She was also gaining her own beliefs in this time. Such as ‘marriage is stupid’ and ‘having kids is stupid, I’m never going to have them’ sort of mindset. Thanks to her upbringing she swore then and there that she would never have a family of her own. So, that’s what makes her next phase of life particularly ironic.

After the science project incident in senior year between the Pines brothers the friend circle would face a brutal falling out, the only one keeping in touch with everyone being Emma May herself. Stan is kicked out and the brothers aren’t talking, Carla breaks up with Stan and refuses any more connection to the Pines, and Em is left in limbo to comfort and appease everyone whilst ignoring her own feelings about it all. Between the late night girl talks with Carla, keeping Ford off the edge, and letting Stan stay with her in the trailer it was only a matter of time before her juggling attempts would fall.

And that’s exactly what happened- after Ford discovers she’s been harboring Stan he can’t help the rush of anger, insecurity, and betrayal that someone he considered his only friend left to hide that from him. Also afraid of losing a friend who’s done so much for her in her cult unlearning she’s quick to prove her loyalty. Packing her bags after graduation she joins Ford to Backupsmore to continue supporting him, taking up a diner job beside campus and shacking up in a cheap apartment. She continues secretly offering Stan money when she can as she still feels guilt for her decision, but it becomes less frequent as she’s now supporting herself financially on her own.

But of course her sole company of Ford wouldn’t last forever. Especially when all she tends to hear from him is how cool his roommate is and how’s he’s thrilled to be around another intellectual mind for once. And while he was hesitant to introduce his two friends to one another it was quick history after that-

Em absolutely deals with a lot of survivors guilt and general fear (lots of ‘I can’t believe I left my younger siblings behind, what if thEY were forced to marry that man in my place?!’ and ‘what if the cult tracks me down and forces me back home?!’) and on top of that I already feel she’s got some religious based ptsd and some bpd in there as well, but I think that would make her more endeared to Fiddleford when they first meet. A man who was pretty open about his own anxiety and ocd (idk if that’s a popular hc, but him having ocd makes so much sense to me) definitely helped her understand herself better and the two of them absolutely developed ways to help one another with it. They become each other’s safe spaces essentially <3

I feel like all of this is something I could talk about for hOURS, but I feel I’ve already typed up enough for today. So take this all as you will :) it’s just been super fun rewriting the story I had for her. I always envisioned her to be a teen runaway and living with her estranged uncle in Jersey, but now it makes even more sense plugging in my cult theory. But anywho, I hope this was an enjoyable for y’all to read as it was for me to type

[gfthe-fearsome-foursome]

Have Stan, Ford and Fidds have news about Carla McCorkle, Cathy Crenshaw and Emma-May Dixon?

"Carla? I used to have a thing for her, but never got the guts to say. As far as I'm concerned, she's seein' somebody else now."

"It's alright though, I'm pretty sure I'll meet somebody else eventually."

ooc: On a side note, Carla and Stan are amiable accquaintances at least, they're not on any bad terms. Stan's just a bit downtrodden when he's reminded that he lost his shot but he's getting over it and he already has somebody else in mind.

"Uh... Cathy? I do know her, she's the block rep. We don't get along. Not the faintest idea why."

"We've barely even interacted, let alone talked. It's already getting annoying how she just goes out of her way to antagonize me. We're supposed to be adults."

ooc: Okay, so... gen z is generally a more forgiving or accepting generation(take this with a grain of salt). So Ford isn't often messed with for having odd hands, au contraire most people think it's cool. HOWEVER, this man is painfully oblivious to many social cues and Cathy doesn't have the complete context either. In this AU because Ford is generally seen as an academic giant and a loner, many people think he's intimidating and intense- but that doesn't stop some from liking that sense of "mystery" and he looks well kept. Ford is also pretty old school so sliding into his DMs doesn't often work because he'd sooner be addicted to a book than his phone like most of us. Given that, Cathy figured why not leave an unlabeled letter on his desk about her interest in him. Any sane person would open that letter right? Ford threw it out. Without reading it. He thought it was a chain letter or some bully threat because the envelope wasn't marked at all and couldn't even be traced. The only idea that it was for him was because it was at his assigned desk. Eventually, Cathy heard from a classmate was that Ford simply threw out the letter, and the man in question is still clueless about what the heck that letter even was because he didn't care to read it! Cathy isn't in the wrong for being mad, and honestly Ford's aloofness could be mistaken for haughty arrogance. Even if he doesn't mean it. Either way, they're at odds. I got the design for Cathy from a comic by @stephreynaart!

"Oh! Emma-May! She's a gal! We'd been friends for a while so color me surprised when I met up with her again here!"

"She's got a girlfriend last I heard, but her family's painfully conservative; so I had to act like her boyfriend a couple of times in front of her parents. Just tryin' to help her out when I can."

ooc: Emma-May is gay in this AU, chat come and fight me if you don't like it, but yeah! Fidds is bi and Emma-May is his gay best friend. Both of them grew up in the same neighborhood together and are from old money. Neither have come out to their parents because of the high risk that they would either be murdered, disowned, or scolded into retracting their statements. It's pretty wild.

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Hey do you wanna look at the Emma-May Dixon I designed?

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15th January: Emma and Harriet call on Miss Bates

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Read: Vol. 2, ch. 1 [19]; pp. 98–104 (“Emma and Harriet had been walking together” through to “able to escape the letter itself.”)

Context

Emma visits Miss Bates in a bid to distract Harriet. She has an ingenious suspicion regarding Jane Fairfax and Mr. Dixon.

We know that this occurs the week of January 9th: Jane Fairfax is expected “next week” “Friday or Saturday” (vol. 2, ch. 1 [19], p. 101), which must be the 21st or 22nd, since it is just before it will have been “four weeks” since Mr. Elton’s departure (vol. 2, ch. 3 [21]; p. 113).

The practice of ‘crossing’ a letter involves filling a page with writing in one direction, then turning the page and adding another set of writing at a 90-degree angle to the first. (Some letters would be crossed twice, which involves adding a third set of writing at a 45-degree angle). This was done to reduce expenditures on paper and on postage; given that postage on letters sent through the postal system at this time was charged to the recipient, not the sender, of a letter, Jane’s crossing her letters may be read as consideration for the Bateses’ financial situation.

Note that the third section (“An Animating Suspicion”) contains spoilers.

Readings and Interpretations

On Structure

Many commenters point out that the sleepy and confined nature of life in Highbury in evidence in volume one opens up slightly with the arrivals that occur throughout volume two. Marcia Folsom, for example, writes that the “newcomers energize the novel, and they displace Emma from the center of her world” (2004, p. xxviii). Adena Rosmarin argues that we leave volume one overconfident in our ability as readers due to our supposedly clear-sighted view of Emma’s errors and penitence; however,

[a]s we leave Volume I the novel broadens and deepens. We need more information and less distraction to continue making sense of Emma’s world, but, not incidentally, we get precisely the reverse. Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, and Mrs. Elton are introduced. The helpful narrator of Volume I appears less frequently and more enigmatically, intimating that more is known than is written […]. Thrown back on our own overconfident and desensitized resources, we are tempted to trust Emma. But because the Elton episode has left her not less unreliable but only more subtly so, the temptation is as dangerous as it is irresistible. Moreover, our very mode of making sense, the passive reading sufficient to the cloistered world of Volume I, becomes suddenly and unexpectedly outmoded, replaced by a hermeneutic dance of bewildering complexity.

[…] The end of Volume I, then, marks our hermeneutic nadir: hubris and complacency are at their height, our faith in the novel’s conventional design at its most naive. From here on the growing subtlety of Emma’s misreadings increasingly challenges and thus develops our reading competence, our misreadings and Emma’s becoming increasingly alike, both in kind and degree […]. This convergence is the novel’s major affective strategy. (p. 325)

The Third Rate of Highbury

This section opens with Emma paying a call to the Bateses in order to spare herself from hearing more of Mr. Elton. Emma’s ulterior motive for paying the call seems to cause her some compunction.1 Folsom writes that,

[i]n many places, Emma seems to be defending herself against the introjected voice of Mr. Knightley, plainly suggesting how deeply his presence and importance have entered her consciousness […]. At […] times, she is not quite able to forget his criticisms; it is he whom Emma sometimes mentally addresses in her self-examinations. [Quotes from “She had had many a hint” to “third rate of Highbury,” p. 99.] […] Emma’s unspoken thoughts capture her habit of listing arguments in groups of three or four items […], and her grasping at exaggerated diction to explain her decision to herself […]. Her “horror” reflects Emma’s almost visceral fear of contamination if she pays a call to the Bateses. (2016, pp. 46–7)2

Some critics assume that the “second and third rate” descriptor applies to rank and thus evidences Emma’s snobbery. U.C. Knoepflmacher, however, connects the phrase to a quality of mind, rather than to rank alone: “those ‘second rate and third rate’ minds of Highbury so contemptuously scorned by Emma for their unimaginativenes” (p. 641). And Paul Pickrel writes of this as one occasion on which Emma’s actions only “seem to be based on snobbery” (p. 300, emphasis mine): Emma’s

reason seems suspect; the women that she meets in the Bateses’ parlor are after all more or less the same women that she meets anywhere else that she goes. The reader suspects that the real objection to the Bateses’ society is Miss Bates’s fondness for singing the praises of her niece Jane Fairfax, when a truly superior society would be occupied with singing the praises of Emma Woodhouse; and this suspicion is borne out by Emma’s decision to call on the Bateses on a certain occasion because she thinks (mistakenly, as it turns out) that there is a less than usual chance that Jane Fairfax will be the topic of conversation that day. (ibid.)

Lloyd Brown points out that the disjointed syntax and repeated em dashes in Emma’s thinking here ironically mirror Miss Bates’s speech, which

similarity is satirically incongruous, for the narrow selfishness that has inspired Emma’s embarrassed self-defense is directly opposed to Miss Bates’s “universal good-will and contented temper” [vol. 1, ch. 3; p. 12]. Emma’s broken sentences express the shamefaced recognition—and simultaneous denial—of insensitivity towards Jane Fairfax. (pp. 130–1)

An Animating Suspicion

Emma and Harriet are given an unexpected indirect recounting of one of Jane Fairfax’s letters upon paying their visit. This meandering summarizing constitutes the first time that we have heard Miss Bates speak at length; we may begin to understand why Emma considers this kind of conversation “tiresome” (vol. 1, ch. 8; p. 37; or vol. 2, ch. 1 [19], p. 98), or test Emma’s claim that “[e]very letter from [Jane] is read forty times over” (which, similarly, “tires [her] to death”; vol. 1, ch. 10; p. 56). After hearing this monologue, Emma violates the (somewhat excessive) resolution with which she ended the first volume, to “supress[] imagination all the rest of her life” (vol. 1, ch. 18; p. 92), in suspecting Jane to be in love with her friend’s husband. Folsom points out that this incident evidences the speed and vigor of Emma’s mind:

In listening to Miss Bates’s undiscriminating and random summary of her niece’s letter […] Emma suddenly discerns something mysterious in Jane Fairfax’s decision to give her time to Highbury. [quotes from “At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion” to “‘come to you at such a time’”; vol. 2, ch. 1 [19]; p. 102].

The idea that leaps into Emma’s mind is a way to impose a meaningful narrative on Miss Bates’s fragmentary recounting of events at Weymouth […]. Emma’s thought is both “ingenious,” that is, clever as an interpretation, and “animating,” that is, exhilarating to Emma in her dislike of Jane Fairfax. The suspicion suddenly occurs to her as a way to explain Miss Fairfax’s otherwise incomprehensible decision to come to Surrey in January for three months for her “health.” The narrative Emma imaginesof an adulterous love that Mr. Dixon might have felt for Jane Fairfax while being engaged to her friend Miss Campbell—is entirely Emma’s fantasy, but her sense that there must be a secret reason for Jane’s willingness to be entrapped in the small Bates household is right. […] In such moments, Austen seems to have an image of Emma’s mind—a brain—into which ideas and insights shoot suddenly, perhaps from layers of mind not accessible to conscious thought. (2016, pp. 42–3)

That her suspicion is “animating” is also relevant to Emma’s stultifying situation: as Tony Tanner writes, “what on earth—or, rather, what in Hartfield and Highbury —is going to ‘animate’ Emma, with her constantly brimming high spirits, if not the scenarios, indeed the fantasies, of her own brain?” (p. 188). Mary Hong, however, argues that it is the syntax of Miss Bates’s speech, and not Emma’s mind alone, that gives rise to Emma’s interpretation: “In narrating her niece’s letter […], Miss Bates’s broken syntax links the name of Jane to that of Mr. Dixon while Mrs. Dixon’s name drops out altogether” (p. 243). Among other examples, she notes that,

[b]ook-ended by Jane’s name, the sentence “it was very natural, you know, that he should like to speak of his own place while he was paying his addresses” seems to refer to Jane rather than to the future Mrs. Dixon. The insistent juxtaposition on the level of syntax suggests, to the reader’s and Emma’s ear, an intimacy between Jane and Mr. Dixon that goes beyond their relationship as the close friend and the husband, respectively, of Mrs. Dixon.

[…] [T]he use of (broken) syntax actually conveys a meaning (or encourages a reading) at odds with the intention of the speaker. As a representation of Jane’s letter, it is also at odds with the real intent of the writer. Hence, Emma’s relief that “though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax’s letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself” is ironic, for had Emma read the actual letter offered by Miss Bates instead of rushing away, she would not have been misled by Miss Bates’s peculiar syntactical paraphrase of it. […] Emma’s imaginative stories, instead of reshaping the world before it, actually result from her immersion in the world (at least in Miss Bates’s version of reality). In contrast to the collapse of subjectivity with the free indirect discourse given in accounts of the novel, the generative capacity of Miss Bates’s superficial description suggests that interiority and narration are not inseparable. (p. 244)

Miss Bates’s speech, then—often ignored by characters and critics like—has significance both at the level of plot and character (Emma is not coming up with fantasies out of whole cloth) and at the level of language and narration (the implications of a character’s language as revealed through free indirect discourse may not always be what they ‘mean’).

Footnotes

For Claudia Johnson, this is in itself evidence of Emma’s good qualities: “although Knightley thinks her ‘rather negligent’ in contributing to the ‘stock’ of Miss Bates’s ‘scanty comforts,’ Emma’s ‘own heart’ ranks visits there an obligation” (p. 128).

See also Morris: “[Emma’s] language suggests an almost visceral fear that contact with the socially unrecognised will contaminate the integrity of her sovereign self. […] To fall from privileged eminence is to lose perceptibility in the mass of undistinguished others” (p. 89).

Discussion Questions

Do you think Emma’s behavior towards the Bateses is really negligent? Why does she dread visiting there as much as she does? Is the “second and third rate of Highbury” a description of rank, a description of a quality of mind that Emma dislikes, or a cover for other sentiments entirely?

What inspires Emma to suspect Jane Fairfax of an illicit affair with her friend’s husband?

What does Miss Bates’s monologue signify for her as a character, or for the narrative strategy of the novel?

Bibliography

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Brown, Lloyd W. Bits of Ivory: Narrative Techniques in Austen’s Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1973).

Folsom, Marcia McClintock, ed. Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma. New York: MLA (2004).

_____. “Emma: Knowing Her Mind.” Persuasions 38 (2016), pp. 41–55.

Hong, Mary. “‘A Great Talker upon Little Matters’: Trivializing the Everyday in Emma.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 38.2/3 (Spring – Summer 2005), pp. 235–53. DOI: 10.1215/ddnov.038020235.

Johnson, Claudia. “Emma: Woman, Lovely Woman, Reigns Alone.” In Women, Politics and the Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1988), pp. 121–43. Excerpted in Austen [1815], pp. 400–13.

Knoepflmacher, U.C. “The Importance of Being Frank: Character and Letter-Writing in Emma.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 7.4 (Autumn 1967), pp. 639–58. DOI: 10.2307/449531.

Morris, Pam. “Emma: A Prospect of England.” In Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), pp. 83–106. DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419130.003.0004.

Pickrel, Paul. “Lionel Trilling and Emma: A Reconsideration.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 40.3 (December 1985), pp. 297–311. DOI: 10.2307/3044759.

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Robert “John” Gordon III, 66, of Springfield, MO, moved to heaven to be with his Savior, Jesus Christ, on May 8, 2019. Born in Detroit, MI, on May 11, 1952, John was the eldest son of Robert John Gordon, Jr. and Edith Mae (Dayton) Gordon.

John graduated from Wade Hampton High School in Greenville, SC and attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. John and Brenda were married June, 16, 1972 at the Branson Bible Church in Branson, MO and made their home in Springfield, MO. John worked at Lilly Cup until 1980 at which time he started Landscape Artistry, a landscape design and Installation Company, which he operated until his death.

John was a faithful and loving husband, father, brother, brother-in-law and friend. Though John submitted his eternal life to Jesus Christ at an early age, led by the guidance of his Godly mother, it was in 1980, prompted by circumstances of life, that John began a much deeper walk with Christ. He and Brenda and young son Chris began attending Glendale Baptist Church in Springfield where they met and joined with other young couples in pursuing their Christian walk. Many lifelong relationships were formed at Glendale and many more were added when John, Brenda, Chris and Jenny began attending Rolling Hills Baptist Church. Old relations were kept and new ones added when the family began attending James River Assembly, now called James River Church.

John and Brenda were missionaries and Ambassadors for Christ, not formally ordained by any church, rather through their obedience to God’s Word and calling on their life to be charitable, hospitable and to bind up the broken-hearted. Even though John traveled to many foreign lands on 14 church mission trips and although he spearheaded sending numerous shipping containers filled with clothes, kitchen equipment, bicycles, boats, and even Christmas lights to the church in foreign countries, most will consider the missional activities that occurred at the Gordon home as John and Brenda’s most important mission work. God blessed John with a wife who could whip up incredible meals on a moment’s notice, beds ready for the weary, so John could carry out his heartfelt backyard counseling and fellowship to people of all ages and cultures. Brenda and the family came to expect the ‘guess who’s coming for dinner’ calls as John sought out those who may not know the Lord, those who needed a helping hand or those who could join in their fellowship ministry. An example of this compassion would be John and Brenda’s taking meals to the homeless living under bridges in Springfield and sharing the Gospel with them.

John’s mother provided an early foundation of Bible study and church attendance and John continued Bible study throughout his life. He had an excellent retention of scriptures and could always recall the proper scripture in the proper context to share with someone needing encouragement or guidance. John was a true prayer warrior, regularly leaving the house at 4:00 a.m. to pray with a brother-in-Christ.

John didn’t merely read the Bible, it was his compass. One of this favorites, Isaiah 41:10 (NIV), “So do not fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” John had experienced a long battle with congenital heart disease and yet was able to live a joyful and abundant life. He knew the measurement of success was not an earthly measure but rather heavenly. Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NIV) was imprinted on his heart. “This is what is what the LORD says ‘ Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me. That I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,’ declares the LORD.

John loved fishing, bow hunting, golf and entertaining friends and strangers. John’s unconditional love for his children Chris and Jenny naturally enabled him to be a fun and engaging grandfather “POP POP” to his three grandchildren. When he was able, he enjoyed taking them fishing on the piers in Florida and teaching them real life examples from the Bible. John was a true ‘fisher of men’.

John wrote two published books, The Lord and the Landscaper and The Landscaper’s Secret. These two books chronicled intimate moments between the Lord and John in his regular early hours of reading, prayer, and waiting on the Lord.

Someone said when God made Robert John Gordon, III, the Lord broke the mold…we will not need another like him…so true. No one could or will ever be able to fill the place John filled in the hearts and lives of his family and friends. “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things. I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your Master.” Matthew 25:23 (ESV)

Visitation will be held Saturday, May 11, at 10:00 a.m. in the main auditorium at James River Church – West Campus, Springfield, MO followed in the same place by a Celebration of Life service at 11:00 a.m., Reverend John Lindell officiating. Immediately following the services, a graveside service and burial will be at Rivermonte Memorial Gardens, Springfield, MO.

Pallbearers are Ed Anders, Randy Cantrell, Ron Firestone, Don Frank, Bill Hart, Mike Morris, Galen Pellham, Phil Stocker, Curt Stiles, and Bill Woods.

John was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, William “Bill” Gordon.

John is survived by wife, Brenda Kay (Cushman) Gordon; son, Christopher and wife, Emma Gordon; daughter, Jennifer and husband, Ben Bosscher; grandchildren Skylar, Tristan and Landon Bosscher; sister, Sheila (Gordon) Summers; mother-in-law, Amanda Cushman; brothers and sisters-in-law, Vickie and Wayne Dixon, Lynda Jury, Sherry and Harry Behle, David Cushman; and many nieces and nephews.

[tales-from-the-graveyard]

Not really an OC, but my design/interpretation- Emma May Dixon, Old Man McGucket’s ex-wife.  Elementary school librarian.  Has seen more than any mortal should, but still stayed with him until the “Racoon Wife Incident.“  Then divorced him despite the “Pterodactyl” incident.  The remains of the Pterodactyl are still in her garage awaiting the day of her retirement.

[hollowgroverp]

The event has officially begun!

A few reminders:

There will be no acceptances during the event,

The event will run through end of day Friday May 19th.

Information about the event can be found here. There are plenty of events that will take place over two days in game and you will have a full week to interact during any of these events. 

Please run any major plots past us before hand.

Otherwise have a great time! Let us know if you have any questions.

The outcome of the softball game:

The rivalry of this game is rather legendary, every year the Hollow Grove Fire Department and Police station face off for bragging rights for the year. Coming in after a two year winning streak the HGPD feels like they’ve got it in the bag, they’ve even brought in local Logan Legend to play pitcher for them. Heckling and taunting is pretty much a given but no one dishes it quite like Scarlett Cardwell. Jack Haley and Colton DeForest, unfortunately spend most of the game trying to keep her from getting into a fight with the other team when it goes too far. Then of course there is trying to keep Rowan Hastings and Isabelle Cresswell in their designated positions when they wonder off. 

The crowd is a mixture of silent spectators from far and wide and there is plenty of heckling that happens amongst them and towards the players. When Rowan Hasting’s take a baseball to the face though Emma Sawyer takes to the field and patches the young wolf up in no time and he’s back in the game in no time. 

During the seventh inning stretch the HGPD takes the lead once more, hitting several out of the park home runs, when they realize all the spare balls are missing. Anne Glass sitting in the stand simply smiles innocently as she watches the confusion that ensues for a good twenty minutes. During the lull in the game, Delilah Reyes gets bored so naturally she decides now would be a great time to streak across the field. Chaos ensues for a good ten minutes until the balls are found and Jack Haley retrieves Delilah’s clothing for her. 

In the final inning, the police department is up by three points with the fire department up for their final bat. Dash Hastings and Nick Adler manage to get on base but two strikes leave the fate of HGFD looking grim. Then Jamie Taylor comes up to bat, he’s been rocketing them out to center and left field all day but when notices that HGPD has put probably their worst player, Isabelle Cresswell, in right field. So with one swift strike he hits the ball into right field. A pop fly that by any means should be easy to catch. A very enthusiastic Issy is certain she will catch and every one watches with batted breath as the ball rockets towards her. Then suddenly the sound of the ice cream truck can be heard in the distance and distraction sets in. “Oh ice cream.” Can be heard as the blonde turns to run off the field towards the ice cream truck and everyone watches in shock as the ball hits the ground with a hollow thud and then sudden their is an explosion of cheering from the fire department as the players round the bases. Colton DeForest scurries from his place at first towards the ball but at this point its almost too late. Jamie Taylor is rounding third and headed for home, the crowd is screaming and the fate of the game comes down to Colton throwing the ball home. Dust flies as Jamie slides into home as the ball reaches the catcher and the crowd is silent as the ump makes the final call. 

‘SAFE’

The winner of the HGPD vs HGFD charity softball game is.............. Hollow Grove Fire Department!

The outcome of the Bachelor auction:

“Thank you for all your generous bids, your support for the children has been over whelming! This years highest earning basket was Basket Thirteen Mr. Jett Danvers! His basket even ended in tie. Congrats to both young ladies! The winners of the baskets are as follows:”

Basket one, Ezra Gillies was won by Kinsley Austen

Basket two, Arthur Grey was won by Sloan Burkhart

Basket Three, Dash Hastings was won by Lorelei Holt

Basket Four, Connor Quinn was won by Gia Mannan

Basket five , Tucker Longstreet was won by Ana West

Basket six, Lukas Blackwell was won by Diana Stirling

Basket seven, Logan Legend was won by Isolde Harabo

Basket eight, Adam Haley was won by Anne Glass

Basket nine, Emmett Bryson was won by Maggie Blackwell

Basket ten, Jason Grey was won by Samantha Pierce

Basket eleven, Jamie Taylor was won by Delilah Reyes

Basket twelve, Nick Adler was won by Joslyn Blackwell

Basket thirteen, Jett Danvers was won by Imogen Mastrano and Rachel Silver ( a tie!)

Basket fourteen, Colton DeForest was won by Nora Hastings

Basket fifteen, Gideon Henry was won by Cassie Cresswell

Basket sixteen, Jack Haley was won by Fallon Robbinson

Basket seventeen, Jeremiah Dixon was won by Emma Sawyer

Special Note: We had a great deal of bids in comparison to baskets, for this reason we made a special point of making sure that each player had at least one character that would have at least one pairing. Meaning if you have multiple characters, we apologize, we just didn’t have the resources to pair everyone but at least one of your characters should be included in some kind of pairing

[uneminuteparseconde]

Des concerts à Paris et autour

Avril 24. Author & Punisher + Casio judiciaire – Espace B 25. Erik Minkkinen – L'Epoque 26. Éliane Radigue par H. Breschand & L.-M. Marion + "Solo" de Jakob Ullmann + Benoît Burello : "Asphodel & the Island Sun" – Collège des Bernardins 26. Tim Olive, Anne-F. Jacques & Pascal Battus + Ritual Extra + Vincent Malassis + Paul Gremare – tba 26. True Widow + King Woman – Espace B 26. Aluk Todolo + Oranssi Pazuzu – Petit Bain 26. Kas Product + Dear Deer – Batofar 26. Rodolphe Burger + Sylvain Vanot – Le 104 ||COMPLET|| 27. Daniel Bachman + Jake Xerxes – Le Zorba 27. Wild Classical Musical Ensemble + Magnetix – La Station 27. Gaëtan Boudy & Clément Hauvrette : cinéconcert sur "M le maudit" de F. Lang – Le Cirque électrique 27. La Femme + Superpoze (dj) + NSDos + Zaltan + DK + Epsilove – Cité des sciences et de l'industrie 27. Jean-Sébastien Mariage & Olivier Lété avec Vincent Fortemps (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 27. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Elysée Montmartre ||COMPLET|| 28. Julien Gasc + Forever Parot + Dorian Pimpernel + Orval Carlos Sibelius – La Station 28. PVT + Faroe – Point FMR 28. Oxbow + Celeste + Sumac + Inter Arma (Old Town Bicycle fest.) – Le Gibus 28. Patten + UVB 76 + Le Vasco + Der Amethyst – Supersonic 28. Laurent Garnier b2b Michael Meyer + Vitalic + S3A – Trabendo 28. Michel Deltruc & Patricia Dallio avec Maki Watanabe (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 28/29. Gaëtan Boudy & Clément Hauvrette : cinéconcert sur "M le maudit" de F. Lang – Le Cirque électrique 29. Sébastien Roux – Le Bal 29. Dälek + Ovtrenoir + Jaye Jayle + Emma Ruth Rundle (Old Town Bicycle fest.) – Le Gibus 29. Frustration + Cheveu + JC Satan + La Femme + Usé + Violence conjugale + Cannibale + Marietta (dj) + Topper Harley (dj) – La Machine ||COMPLET|| 29. Abstract Keal Agram – Trabendo (gratuit) 29. Unglee Izi + Mesa of The Lost Women + Videophage + Trous aux rats + Molière + Cuntre + Evil Moisture + DJ France-86 (fest. Premier sang) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 29. ErikM & Louise Leverd avec Clara Cornil (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 29. Silent Servant + Peder Mannerfelt + François X + Heartbeat + Valentino Mora + Amila – Concrete 29. Guts Pie Earshot + La Flemme – Centre Barbara-FGO 30. Las Ondes Marteles + Woodloop + Trotski nautique + Supertrump – Centre Barbara-FGO 30. Nadja + Matt Jencik + Ensemble économique – Supersonic (gratuit) 30. Seefeel + BLN – Batofar 30. Bagarre + Les Hôpitaux + Puzupuzu + Boe Strummer + Pasteur Charles + Bambina – Petit Bain 30. Jean-Léon Pallandre & Isabelle Duthoit avec Skallistan (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly)

Mai 01. Jean-François Pauvros avec Ludor Citrik & Joan (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 01. Black Marble – Batofar ||REPORTÉ|| 02. Antoine Schmitt, Violaine Lochu & Garth Knox (fest. OW-AO) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 03. Meat Wave – La mécanique ondulatoire 03. Seabuckthorn + Raoul Vignal + Albane Aubry – Les 3 baudets 04. Group A + N.M.O. – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 04. Qual – Espace B 04. Jeff Mills : Spirale Deluxe – La Seine musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 05. La Novia & Yann Gourdon : “In C” de Terry Riley – Centre Pompidou 05. Poni Hoax + Yula Kasp – La Station 05. C.A.R. + Léonie Pernet + Lil'Sugar – Le Klub 05. Anetha – La Machine 06. Esmerine + Bärlin – Espace B 06. Little Nemo + Babel 17 – Candy Shop 06. Paris Acid Boys + Peev (Marathon électronique) – 6, rue de La Pointe (Romainville) 07. Infecticide – Supersonic (gratuit) 09. Blanck Mass – Point FMR 09. Erevan Tusk + Nick Grey & The Random Orchestra + Franck Rabeyrolles + Hop on Me – La Java 10. Zombie Zombie + Tomaga + None + Tristesse contemporaine (dj) (Zombie Jamboree fest./10 ans de Julie Tipex) – La Machine 11. Cocaine Piss + Miss France + The Sunflowers – Supersonic (gratuit) 11. Oiseaux-Tempête + L'Effondras + Noyades – Trabendo 11. Laetitia Sadier + Solo Astra + Beat Mark (Le Beau fest.) – Espace B 11. Ambassador 21 + Lying Figures + Wild + Yorblind – Bus Palladium 12. Wire + Blackmail + Teknomom – La Maroquinerie 12. Fabrizio Rat + Camera – La Station 12. Étienne Jaumet + Gilb'r + Tolouse Low Trax (Zombie Jamboree fest./10 ans de Julie Tipex) – La Machine 12. Manu le Malin + AZF + 14anger + Sinus 0 – La Machine 13. Collection d'Arnell Andrea – Batofar 13. Jumo + Giorgia Angiuli + Nova Materia (Sound Design Party|D'Days) – Gaîté lyrique 13. Mammane Sadi + Novella + Blondi's Salvation + Biche + Mohamed Lamouri (Le Beau fest.) – La Station 13. Headless Horseman + Ventress + Blindr + Illnurse + Paulie Jan – Trabendo 13. Bas Mooy + UVB + Charlton + Sleeparchive – Nuits fauves 14. Lee Patterson – péniche Adélaïde 14. Thee Oh Sees + Häxxan – Trabendo 15. Chameleons Vox + Blue Mountain Expansion – Supersonic 15. James Ferraro + Ducktails + Typhonian Highlife – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 16. ToutEstBeau + Fiodor Novski & The Shiners – Espace B 16. Guerre froide + Wallenberg + The Saint Cyr & Pascale Le Berre – Petit Bain 17. Xiu Xiu + Le Prince Harry + Delacave – Petit Bain 18. Poison Point – Angora bar (gratuit) 18. Molecule + Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima (Soirée sonore) – Centre Pompidou (gratuit) 18. Philippe Laurent + Das Ding – La Java 19. Eloïse Descazes & Eric Chenaux – Médiathèque musicale (gratuit) 19. Vril + Henning Baer + James Ruskin + DJ Pete + Parfait – Dock Eiffel (La Plaine-Saint-Denis) 23. Sleaford Mods + Mark Wynn – Gaîté lyrique 23/24. Pascal Bouaziz : musique live pour "Nos féroces" de Séverine Rième (Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis) – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 24. Death in Vegas – Gaîté lyrique 24. God is an Astronaut – Flow 25. Collectif_Sin (Villette sonique) – Wip 25. Keiji Haino, Merzbow & Balasz Pandi + Afrirampo + Puce Mary (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 25. RA + Drab Majesty – Espace B 26. Soviet Soviet + Empereur + Dead + Scaffolder – Supersonic (gratuit) 26. Royal Trux + Groupe Doueh & Cheveu + Uranium Club + Bernardino Femminielli (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 26. La Colonie de vacances (Villette sonique) – Périphérique 26. Actress + Jacques Greene – Nuits fauves 27. Annette Peacock + OOIOO (Villette sonique) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 27/28. Princess Nokia + Randomer + Marie Davidson + Doomsday Student + Mandolin Sister + The Goon Sax + Pizza Noise Mafia + Deena Abdelwahed + Volition Immanent + Mdou Moctar (Villette sonique) – Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 28. Einstürzende Neubauten + Jenny Hval – Grande Halle de La Villette 29. Ruins + Akaten + Zubi Zuva X + Acid Mother Temple SWR + Acid Mother Kirisute Gomen + Psyche Bugyo + Makoto Kawabata + Zoffy + Atsushi Tsuyama + Emiko Ota (Japanese New Music) – Gaîté lyrique 29. MSHR + Max Eilbacher & Duncan Moore + Acqua Dentata + Meryll Ampe & Romain Arnette – tba 29. Psychic TV 3 + Aikula – Petit Bain 30. Broken Social Scene – L'Alhambra 31. The Make Up + The Blind Shake (Villette sonique) – Cabaret sauvage

Juin 01. Kim Myrh & Lasse Marhaug + EKT (EriKm, Harald Kimmig & Olaf Tzschoppe) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 01. Society of Silence + Charles Fencker – Nuits fauves 02. Ansome + Myler + Ossian + Ayarcana + 138 – La Machine 04. Karima Walker + Mikko Savela – tba 04. Anetha + Kas:st + Octave One + Paranoid London + Rodhad... – Vélodrome (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) 06. John Russell + Michel Doneda & Lê Quan Ninh – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 08. Primal Scream – Gaîté lyrique 08. Mikky Blanco (Loud & Proud) – tba 08. Soror Dolorosa + Schonwald – Bus Palladium 08. Sida + Cellular Chaos – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 09. Blurt – Espace b 09. Maud Geffray + Chloé + Voiron + Casual Gabberz + Krampf – Gaîté lyrique 09. Skinny Puppy + Carpenter Brut (fest. Download) –  Base aérienne 217 (Brétigny/Orge) 10/11. Richie Hawtin + Flying Lotus + Jon Hopkins (dj) + Moderat + Motor City Drums Ensemble + Recondite + A Tribe Called Quest + Solange + Nicolas Jaar + Parcels + Jessy Lanza + Action Bronson + Anderson Paak + Abra... (We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 11. Inhalt + Poison Point – La mécanique ondulatoire 11. Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka Spel – La Cigale 14. King Dude + Suzie Stapleton – La plage de Glazart (gratuit) 14. Charlemagne Palestine – musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme 16. Warum Joe + Asphalt + Last Night + Police Control + Colombey – La Station 22. Joëlle Léandre & Mike Ladd – Galerie Hus (sur résa) 30. Geneviève Pasquier + Position parallèle + Black Light Ascension – Le Zèbre de Belleville 30>10.07. Air + Metronomy + Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales + Savages + Devendra Banhart + Michael Kiwanuka + Tindesticks présentent "Minute Bodies" + James Vincent McMorrow + Lady Sir (Rachida Brakni & Gaëtan Roussel) + Kate Tempest + Calypso Valois + The Color Bars Experience joue Nick Drake (fest. Days Off) – Philharmonie

Juillet 01. Ke/Hil + Kommando + Tunnels of Āh + AntiVallium – Le Zèbre de Belleville 01/02. Soichi Terada + Antal b2b Hunee + San Proper + Margie + Renart + Mézigue + Rendez-vous... (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 02. The Color Bars Experience joue Nick Drake (Days Off) – Salle de répétition|Philharmonie 02. Tindersticks : cineconcert sur "Minute Bodies" de Suart Staples (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 03. Metronomy (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 04. Savages + Kate Tempest (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 05. Group Doueh & Cheveu – Institut des Cultures d'Islam 06. Devandra Banhart  + Lisa Hannigan (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 07/08. Varg + Exal + BLNDR + Ancient Methods + Voiski + AZF + Marie Davidson + Fils de Vénus + Nina Kraviz + Dixon + Marcel Dettmann + Moodymann + Apollonia + Levon Vincent + Midland Romare + Kaytranada + The Martinez Brothers + Jackmaster + DVS1 + Jlin + Avalon Emerson + Raheem Experience + Konstantin + Peggy Gou + Hugo LX + TGAF + Bamao Yende... (Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 07/08. Daikiri + Gloria + Tomaga + Le Villejuif Underground + The Limiñanas + Hey Colossus + Fai Baba... (La ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 08. Sourdure + Piu Piu (dj) + N.M.O. + Danny L. Harle (dj) (Siestes électroniques) – musée du Quai Branly (gratuit sur résa) 08. Air (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 09. Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 09. Carl Stone (dj) + Manu le Malin (dj) (Siestes électroniques) – musée du Quai Branly (gratuit sur résa) 10. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 15. Blawan – Rex Club 21. Hocico + Shaârghot – Petit Bain

Août 25>27. PJ Harvey + The XX + At the Drive In + Franz Ferdinand + Cypress Hill + Ty Segall + Rone + The Kills... (Rock en Seine) – Parc de Saint-Cloud

Septembre 21. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 22. She Past Away – Petit Bain 27. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex ||COMPLET|| 28/29. Sigur Ros – Grand Rex

Octobre 03. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith ||COMPLET|| 04. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Zénith 14. Wardruna – La Cigale 23. Mogwai – Grand Rex 28. Peter Hook & The Light – Le Trianon

Novembre 15. Igorrr – La Maroquinerie

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

[issyandbella]

Beautiful May Wedding With The Dress Of Dreams.

Victoria and Russel married at the stunning Dewsall Court in Herefordshire in May, and what a wedding! This was so special, I just had to share it with you.

Images by the hugely talented Nicola Dixon

When I first met Victoria, and her mum Karen, I just knew this wedding would be a dream from the start. The colours, the dress, the flowers, the styling, it was all just perfect.

Roses are Victoria’s favourite flower, and they were the running theme through the entire wedding.  With no exception the bouquet flowers were made using beautiful roses supplied by the Real Flower Company in Hampshire. We used David Austins Keira, White Ohara, Prince Jardinier, Cream piaget and peony pink. Victoria wanted her bouquet to be scented and it was, we added in sweet peas, and lily of the valley, as it was her grandmothers favourite flower. Myrtle from the mother of the Brides garden. Silver lavender, mint, scented geranium and eucalyptus, this was without a doubt a bouquet bursting with floral scents. For the final flourish we finished using our own organic, natural dyed silk ribbons to complete the look.

The bridesmaids had smaller versions of the bridal bouquet.

Victoria chose Eleanor from Leglow Brides to do the makeup, and Angie from Beautiful Brides to style her hair.

Victoria's dress was designed by herself and Emma. It was out of this world. With a simple, sexy split to show off those sequin Jimmy Choos. The dress was from Emma Beaumont Atelier.

The ceremony took place in the Wainhouse at Dewsall. For this we decorated with rustic chandeliers, that were hung above the aisle. We made multiple bunches of scented eucalyptus, rosemary and mint. They were then placed on the chairs.

The ceremony table had a gorgeous arrangement of the all the bridal flowers. The huge bundle of fresh flowers scented the wain for the whole ceremony.

After the ceremony, we saw the wain transformed for the reception. We decorated the long tables with a collection of foliage runners, and candles.

The yummy cake was made by Jo from Secret Cinderella, and of course decorated with needlessly endless scented roses.

Suppliers:

Photographer:  Nicola Dixon  http://nicoladixonphotography.com/

Venue: deswall court Herefordshire   http://www.dewsall.com/

Hair and Makeup: Leglow Brides  http://www.leglow.co.uk/

Dress: Emma Beautmont Atelier  www.emmabeaumont.com

Flowers: www.issyandbella.co.uk

Shoes:  https://www.jimmychoo.com

Cake: secret Cinderella http://www.secretcinderellacakes.co.uk/