#La Pleiade

[blueiscoool]

Notre-Dame Restoration Reveals Renaissance Poet's Coffin

The tomb of one of France’s best-loved early poets has been discovered during post-fire restoration work in Notre-Dame cathedral.

Scientists say they are nearly certain a lead coffin found beneath the transept is that of Joachim du Bellay, who died in Paris in 1560 at the age of about 37.

The 2019 fire, which destroyed Notre-Dame’s roof and spire, has provided a rare opportunity for archaeologists. Their findings will be on display at an exhibition from November, shortly before the cathedral’s re-opening.

Born near Angers in western France around 1522, du Bellay was – with Pierre de Ronsard – founder of a circle of poets known as La Pleiade which championed French, rather than Latin, as a language of poetry.

It was known from records that du Bellay was buried in Notre-Dame, where he had served as a minor clerical official. But his tomb has never been found.

Analysis of the skeleton inside the lead coffin revealed it to be of a man aged about 35, who suffered from bone tuberculosis in his neck and head, and spent a lot of time in the saddle.

Du Bellay suffered in later years from deafness and debilitating headaches – symptoms consistent with the researchers’ findings. It is also known he was a regular rider, having notably made the journey from Paris to Rome on horse.

One remaining question is why the body was where it was, and not in the side-chapel where it was recorded as being interred.

One theory is that it was moved to the new site after his name became famous with publication of his collected works some years after he died.

Du Bellay is still taught in French schools, and a few of his poems are widely-known.

The most famous Heureux qui comme Ulysse (Happy he who like Ulysses) is about nostalgia for one’s childhood home.

By Hugh Schofield.

[evelyn-art-05]

would u believe me if I told u I took this picture with a regular phone in an area with lots of light pollution

[just--space]

Mercurys Sodium Tail : That's no comet. Below the Pleiades star cluster is actually a planet: Mercury. Long exposures of our Solar System's innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury's thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by light from the Sun. Sunlight also liberates these molecules from Mercury's surface and pushes them away. The yellow glow from sodium, in particular, is relatively bright. Pictured, Mercury and its sodium tail are visible in a deep image taken last week from La Palma, Spain through a filter that primarily transmits yellow light emitted by sodium. First predicted in the 1980s, Mercury's tail was first discovered in 2001. Many tail details were revealed in multiple observations by NASA's robotic MESSENGER spacecraft that orbited Mercury between 2011 and 2015. Tails, of course, are usually associated with comets. via NASA

[mahou-furbies]

57 years of magical girls!

List of series they're from:

Pic 1

Row 1: Sally the Witch, Himitsu no Akko-chan, Cutie Honey, Mahou Shoujo Lalabel, Minky Momo, Creamy Mami

Row 2: Persia the Magic Fairy, Magical Emi, Pastel Yumi, Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Wedding Peach

Row 3: Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, Saint Tail, Cardcaptor Sakura, Mahou Tsukai Tai, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

Pic 2

Row 1: Ojamajo Doremi, Corrector Yui, Time Stranger Kyouko, Tokyo Mew Mew, Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san, W.i.t.c.h.

Row 2: Pretear, Princess Tutu, Mermaid Melody, Kamichama Karin, Sugar Sugar Rune, Winx Club

Row 3: Futari wa Precure, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Uta Kata, Fushigiboshi no Futagohime, Happy Seven, Shugo Chara!

Pic 3

Row 1: Futari wa Precure Splash Star, Powerpuff Girls Z, Nanatsuiro Drops, Yes! Precure 5, Balala the Fairies, Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel

Row 2: Fresh Precure!, Invaders of the Rokujouma!?, Umimonogatari, Heartcatch Precure!, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Row 3: Wish Upon the Pleiades, Suite Precure, Magical Lollipop, Symphogear, Smile Precure!, Magical Girl Ore

Pic 4

Row 1: Vividred Operation, Doki Doki! Precure, Day Break Illusion, Magical Girl Site, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai shiteita.

Row 2: 6 Hearts Princess, Kill la Kill, Samurai Flamenco, Happiness Charge Precure!, Magica Wars, Machikado Mazoku

Row 3: Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero, Lolirock, Go! Princess Precure, Miss Guillotine, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara, Sleepless Domain

Pic 5

Row 1: Punch Line, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka, Concrete Revolutio, Miraculous Ladybug, Magical Suite Prism Nana

Row 2: Myriad Colors Phantom World, Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R, Mahou Tsukai Precure!, Flowering Heart, Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls, Magical Girl Raising Project

Row 3: Matoi the Sacred Slayer, Flip Flappers, Balala the Fairies: Over the Rainbow, Pop in Q, Acro Trip, Kira Kira Precure a la Mode

Pic 6

Row 1: Märchen Mädchen, Twin Angel Break, Re:Creators, Magia Record, Cloudy Wondrous, Strawberry Seafoam

Row 2: HUGtto! Precure, Balala the Fairies: Ocean Magic, Tsukurotte Piature, Gushing Over Magical Girls, Star Twinkle Precure, Stellar Witch LIPS

Row 3: Healin’ Good Precure, Catch Teenieping, Mewkledreamy, Dame Daffodil, Sasaki and Peeps, Tropical Rouge! Precure

Pic 7

Row 1: Blue Reflection Ray, Magical Mom, Magilumiere Co. Ltd., Tea Tea Cherry, Delicious Party Precure, Balala the Fairies: Magic Star Fate Castle

Row 2: Hirogaru Sky! Precure, Magical Destroyers, Magical Girl Tsubame: I Will (Not) Save the World!, Wonderful Precure!

[frontyard-stars]

Winter sky, taken at 8PM EST

The Pleiades star cluster is captured in both pictures, and Jupiter is included in the second! How many constellations can you find in these photos?

¿Cuantos constelaciones puedes encontrar en las fotos?

[beardedmrbean]

The tomb of one of France’s best-loved early poets has been discovered during post-fire restoration work in Notre-Dame cathedral.

Scientists say they are nearly certain a lead coffin found beneath the transept is that of Joachim du Bellay, who died in Paris in 1560 at the age of about 37.

The 2019 fire, which destroyed Notre-Dame’s roof and spire, has provided a rare opportunity for archaeologists. Their findings will be on display at an exhibition from November, shortly before the cathedral’s re-opening.

Born near Angers in western France around 1522, du Bellay was – with Pierre de Ronsard – founder of a circle of poets known as La Pleiade which championed French, rather than Latin, as a language of poetry.

It was known from records that du Bellay was buried in Notre-Dame, where he had served as a minor clerical official. But his tomb has never been found.

Analysis of the skeleton inside the lead coffin revealed it to be of a man aged about 35, who suffered from bone tuberculosis in his neck and head, and spent a lot of time in the saddle.

Du Bellay suffered in later years from deafness and debilitating headaches – symptoms consistent with the researchers’ findings. It is also known he was a regular rider, having notably made the journey from Paris to Rome on horse.

One remaining question is why the body was where it was, and not in the side-chapel where it was recorded as being interred.

One theory is that it was moved to the new site after his name became famous with publication of his collected works some years after he died.

Du Bellay is still taught in French schools, and a few of his poems are widely-known.

The most famous Heureux qui comme Ulysse (Happy he who like Ulysses) is about nostalgia for one’s childhood home.

[magicalgirlagency]

What’s your absolute favorite magical girl series?

Here's the Créme de la Créme tier of my tierlist to give any ideas:

In this tier, we have (in order of placement):

Cloudy Wondrous;

Dame Daffodil;

Magical Warrior Diamond Heart (I didn't had the opportunity to play it yet, but the amount of dedication in the production of this VN is something to be admired);

Fushigi Mahou FunFun Pharmacy;

Hirogaru Sky PreCure;

HeartCatch PreCure;

Go! Princess PreCure;

Healin' Good PreCure;

Kirby Star Allies;

Little Witch Academia;

LoliRock;

Machikado Mazoku/Demon Girl Next Door;

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (Finn Fish did it first, not Kyuubey. Shut up);

Majo no Takyuubin/Kiki's Delivery Service;

Himitsu no Akko-chan (I'm most fond of the second version from the 80's);

Kabushikigaisha MagiLumiere/MagiLumiere Co. Inc. (it's getting an anime this year!!);

Magical Girl Critical;

FlipFlappers;

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee;

Flying Witch;

Magical Girl Problems, Magical Girl Solutions;

90's Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Classic, S and SuperS);

Sailor Moon Crystal and Eternal (FYI: By the time I made this tierlist, Cosmos wasn't out yet);

Tongari Boushi no Atelier/Witch Hat Atelier;

Houkago no Pleiades/Wish Upon the Pleiades;

Princess Love❤Pon;

The Owl House;

MASHLE: Magic & Muscles;

Hover Girls;

The Powerpuff Girls (OG);

Re:Cutie Honey;

Twitches;

Panel de Pon (known in the West as Tetris Attack);

Wimp Witch;

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei/The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess & the Genius Young Lady (TenTen Kakumei, for short);

WordGirl;

Majokko Shimai no Yoyo to Nene/Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene;

SpectraSpell;

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch;

Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld;

ArtisWitch;

Tokyo MewMew New (the OG series is good, but the way the reboot recontextualizes things and respects Ikumi-sensei's image is just magnificent);

Ojamajo Doremi (NO CUTS, NO CENSORSHIP, NO AMERICANIZATION);

Twinkle Star Sprites;

PuyoPuyo and PuyoPop Fever;

Ribon no Kishi/Princess Knight.

[raya-rhaenyra-ahsoka]

My Thoughts on Ep.06 - We Take a Zebra to Vegas, A rant (SPOILERS AHEAD!)

Actual Iris-messaging on screen! Good way to start the episode.

Yes, toss the drachma, SEAWEED BRAIN!

If you want the gods’ attention, you have to pay for it. Eh, not surprised since it’s kinda how children have to do to get their parents’ attention these days.

Wtf is Luke Castellan doing in Chiron’s office?

We know who stole the bolt. (Book-readers, we know who stole the bolt!)

*Calm expression* How do you know? and not *gasp* Really? Who is it? Very sus. 🤔

I do have a love-hate relationship with Clarisse La Rue as a character, but accusing her as the lightning thief? OH, HELL NO!

This convo:

Luke: Guys, what is this?

Percy and Annabeth: What?

Luke: When did you turn into an old married couple?

Percy and Annabeth:

Everyone in the fandom:

Luke channeling his big brother energy by teasing Annabeth, his little sister, to a boy her age. Annabeth’s going through that older-sibling-embarrassing-you-in-front-of-your-crush stage. It’s just typical sibling stuff.

Annabeth, externally: *pokerface*; Annabeth, internally: STOP EMBARRASSING ME!

Confirmed: Luke ships Percabeth. 🥰

Percy changing the subject because he’s also embarrassed.

Annabeth cuts off the connection before Percy can mention Hermes and tells him Luke and his dad aren’t on good terms.

Grover just figured out that the truck is driven by animal traffickers and insists that they free the animals is absolute peak characterization.

They’re like artists. Proceeds to release the animals in the middle of traffic.

How that convo basically went:

Percy: Idk about this, man.

Grover: Oh, they’ll be fine. I gave them the satyr’s blessing so they’ll be able to reach the wilderness safely.

Percy: Dude, I meant for these people.

Grover: Oh, uh, it’s fine. These people destroyed nature so idgaf about them. But the animals are fine, so let’s go!

Percy: So, which hotel is the Lotus Casino? It could be any building-

Annabeth: Duh! Obviously, it’s the one with the giant lotus blossom on it.

Percy: Seriously?

3 minors walking into a Casino hotel. Totally normal and not suspicious at all.

Dua Lipa’s Levitating instead of Lady Gaga’s Pokerface. I ain’t even mad.

WISE GIRL! WISE GIRL! WISE GIRL! HE CALLED HER WISE GIRL! 😍🥰

Of course, Annabeth insists Percy goes with her. Percabeth! 😍

Annabeth tells Percy about May Castellan, Luke’s Mom. It’s kinda early to know about this, but I’m not complaining. It just justifies Luke’s resentment of Hermes in the show.

Grover: *finds Augustus, a fellow Satyr* *Forgets everything*

Please tell me someone else heard some kid calling out BIANCA in the background. It's not just me, right? Please tell me it's the di Angelo siblings in the Lotus Casino. UNCLE RICK, WE NEED ANSWERS!

Percy explaining his nightmares and asks if they are real.

How that convo went:

Annabeth: Hmm, idk

Percy: How do you not know?

Annabeth: I may be smart but there are things I don’t know.

Percy: Wtf does that make me then?

Hermes/Alexander Hamilton not throwing away his shot. How does a bastard, son of a god and a Pleiad. Grow up to be a master trickster, according to Homer’s Illiad…

In Vegas you can be a new man...apparently, not.

Hermes: I’m not doing this again. You’re on your own, kids. Bye!

Annabeth: We’re friends of Luke’s.

Hermes: *surprise pikachu face* Damn it, let’s talk.

Hermes being an epitome of another crappy absent godly parent. Not surprised.

Annabeth doing what probably Luke taught her to do:

Annabeth: So I stole Hermes’ keys.

Percy: You what?

Annabeth: I turned invisible and picked his pocket.

Percy: You stole from the god of thieves?

Annabeth: Yes, I’m multi-talented. Lol

Percy: *lowkey falls in love*

The lotus fruit being pumped into the air is something new.

Percy: Grover got really old. 🤣

Percy and Annabeth chases Augustus around while Grover’s playing VR games.

Grover forgetting things because he was alone, while Percy and Annabeth remember because they have each other. PERCABETH!

Grover acting all carefree like a dentist just sedated him with nitrous oxide, while Percy and Annabeth are frantically looking for Hermes’ car will never be not funny.

TO THE DUMB KIDS. Yep, that note is for you.

Percy: So, who’s driving?

Percy and Annabeth turning to Grover because he’s the adult.

Grover: *still high* Idk man. Idk what we're even doing here.

Percy: Ok, I’ll do it. How hard can it be. If I killed the Minotaur, I can drive a cab.

Percy: How hard could this be? Proceeds to hit the car on several columns.

Percy getting angry because another car didn’t slow down and nearly hit them, then slamming the horn. Bruh, you’re inner New Yorker is showing and I’m here for it.

This scene: 😍😍😍

Me, watching this scene:

Percy and Annabeth smiling at each other then realizing the car’s scraping the wall. This shit cracked me up.

The truck nearly hitting them gave me a mini-heart attack. Good thing they’re in Hermes’ cab.

Percy half-nervous and half-excited to finally meet his Dad only to find a Nereid instead, giving him 4 teleportation pearls as a gift.

The title implying they took a Zebra to Vegas but we see no zebra? Come on! Anyway, that was a good episode. Can't wait for the Percy vs Ares showdown next week.

[knife-dad]

Top 10 fairy tales/folk tales!

Oooh good prompt! Okay, in no particular order:

Tam Lin and Janet (Childe Ballad 39)

Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnelle (also Gawain and the Green Knight, although I'm not sure if that counts as a fairytale. It is to me)

How the rabbit got on the moon (both the Mexican and Chinese versions, which are eerily similar!)

Beauty and the Beast. I looove a good batb retelling

Eros and Psyche and their variations, but especially East of the Sun, West of the Moon

La Llorona

Orpheus and Eurydice but especially the version recorded in Sir Orpheo :3

The Pleiades myths across cultures, I just think it's neat that so many different communities saw them as sisters

The Little Mermaid (I had an illustrated version that left an indelible impression on me as a kid lol)

The Wild Hunt motif, another one that kinda reoccurs across cultures

Thanks for the ask my friend!

[badlydrawndrawnings]

Got bored and decided to do a basic Wiki search of the new personas + new Velvet Room attendant name.

Jánošík (aka, Juraj Jánošík): a Slovak highwayman who robbed from nobles a la Robin Hood. His story is mainly known in Poland and the Czech Republic, and he is a symbol of resisting against oppression.

(Interesting that Wonder’s Persona is like Robin Hood. While that archetype of a person stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is a thing, considering one of Goro’s Persona is Robin Hood...maybe there’s a connection between them, or a hint of what this game and the world going to be about via Goro. Or not. Again, a common archetype. Wouldn’t be surprise by this, consider Atlus are jerks regarding Goro’s fate that is now just annoying.).

Awilda: A Scandinavian female pirate from the 5th century. The daughter of an Scandinavian king, Awilda got so impressed with a prince of Denmark, who was battling her at the time, she revealed her true identity and married him.

(That means for sure Arai is connected to the baseball man with the ‘Palace’. Desire. Still confused with the terminology at the moment. She’s might be a gender flip of Ryuji’s character and his arc. I hope that somehow, these two meet and talk to one another.)

Rob Roy: Full name Rob Roy MacGregor, he was a Scottish outlaw who partake in the Jacobite rising in 1689 (and others), and later became the head of his clan, watching and protecting cattle from raids. Rob Roy also had a feud with the Duke of Montrose at the time and robbed his cattle.

(Honestly speaking Rob Roy’s life is a lot to give the basic somehow. But at the very least I know why Luffy’s codename is now ‘Cattle’. I can’t find any connection between Rob Roy and owls though.)

Merope: A common name in Greek Mythology. One Merope for instance, was the queen of Corinth, the foster mother of Oedipus. Another Merope was a water-nymph. Another Merope was a princess who the hunter Orion was engaged with, and was later assaulted by. One last Merope to be mention here, is Merope of the seven Pleiades. The youngest of the seven sister, this Merope married the mortal Sisyphus, and thus became mortal herself.

(Looking at Merope’s official artwork, she lacks the well-known golden eyes of the rest of the attendants P3 onward. She’s has more in common with Belladonna, Nameless, and the Demon Painter. Okay, the last two don’t show their eyes, but Belladonna lacks the golden spark too! I think and hope Merope is someone to keep an eye on. hehe. eye on.)

[emberdune]

In which history comes alive again

JUNIPER: Dear Lily. All day and all night I thought about writing you this letter, saw it unfold in my mind, and so now that I am here with my paper and my ink it does not seem like a real thing, but like a task one undertakes in a dream. When I am finished I will curl this paper up and tuck it in an acorn shell and throw it through your bedroom window; I dreamed this, too, and did I dream you? Are you real? Are you anything of flesh, do you breathe? Sometimes, when I look out of your mirror at you, I think that I am looking at a piece of my own soul, torn loose and tossed into the world. Not because you belong to me, but because you are familiar and strange at the same time. Lily, you are a person, you are a creature all in your own right – and isn’t that curious? How can something like you have come to be? I want to unpick you, like stitches, to see what makes you run – but I won’t. I will content myself with drawing your name over my wrist-bone to consider how you turn my blood into gold. You were small when I was small. I watched you through the bluestar, through the blazing star. It was my mother warned me against you, but I heard you singing in the cinnamon fern and thought you were beautiful: a thing I could never touch. Like the crest of Orion. Like the farthest Pleiades. You wore erythronium in your hair, like your name; the yellow trout lily. Lily, lily. Sometimes I think I would eat you if I could. There is a witch in a story who ate a girl she loved, and always afterwards when she spoke, flowers fell out of her open mouth. I would swallow you up, and you would be lobelia on my tongue for the rest of my life. This is what they say: it is not uncommon for us to want to eat what we love. But you are uncommon. Every moment we have spent together is a shining stone in the bowl of my skull. I am greedy, and so I take them out and look at them now and then, like a dragon. The day we went to the buried well and threw butterfly weed down into the black water to count our wishes. The first time you stepped out of your dress for me, gold in the sun, yellow and gold. The night I brought you into the hill, when you clung to me like lichen and in the hall your eyes were cups of firelight. The day in the rain, both of us laughing. Dear Lily: my mother taught me many things but she did not teach me this. Where does it come from, the thread that ties us together? Who spun it? What is it composed of, what is its matter? I have half a mind to unpick myself, to find the source; but I won’t. That day in the field of green-and-golds. You said who are you, where did you come from. I said I came from the hill; I am the girl who does not die. You laughed, and I fell in love with you, there. There: I wrote it down, I turned it into ink and made it something tangible (but you could burn this letter and I would still love you, so it must be something beyond matter). See it here in black and white. I love you, girl from the house on the hill, girl with the hair made of sunbeams. I love you, knot in my heart. I love you, hands on my hands, hands on my ribs, mouth on my mouth. I love you, stone in my shoe. I love only you. Only you. Only ever you. Yours always Juniper.

[songsofbloodandwater]

Hey, how’re you? 13 and 12 for the asks

Hello! All good here, deeply enjoying the beginning of autumn and the much lower temperatures, how have you been?

12) what do you think your practice would taste like? If one could taste a magico-religious practice

Honestly, blood. Whatever blood can taste like. I've had moments where it's just metallic and asphyxiating, and others when it's pungent but peppery, almost floral.

I really wanted to say something normal, like bread, or milk, or some herbal tea. Or a passed down family recipe. I also thought of water and all that it represents to us. But realistically, it's just blood. I'm sorry if that answer is kind of predictable coming from me!

13) How does your craft feel in the spring vs in the darker months?

In my experience, the most tangible difference comes from the differences between Day Spirits, and Night Spirits. Traditionally, in my family, there's specific workings that we cannot do at night, the lack of sunlight means the Spirits that would be called are not the kind of spirits you'd want to call at all. This type of belief extends to seasons. Seasons stem from the natural changes in daylight hours available on Earth, and we see it as not just the plant life adapting to the colder months, but the spirits associated with the Land also adapting, hibernating, migrating (within this Realm or to other realms), or being in whatever way less available to us. Some, entirely unreachable.

In my opinion it's not that the Day and Night courts are "rotating" and one season or the other belongs entirely to one or the other court. It's simply that in the darker months the tangible presence of the Night Court becomes most prevalent, dominant, due to the absence of most of the Day Court, and viceversa. But they're always coexisting to varying degrees.

In my family that means we begin the warm months in August-September, awakening and feeding the earth and then slowly welcoming back the different allies and relatives of my spirit family throughout the next spring and summer months, as they come and as we get to spend time with them. It reaches a peak in December, with Solar festivities. Then starts to decline again throughout the next months, until we reach the "Lunar" peak, and the weakest moment of the Sun and Day court, in June with the Longest Night of the year. My seasonal calendar isn't just depending on daylight hours, but also on the apparent cycles of certain sacred constellations across the sky, so throughout the year I'm paying attention to Them and working with each as they come and go aswell, for example, the Southern Cross's rotation marks some special dates for me in regards to the fertility of the Land and to the Beloved Dead, or the Pleiades appearing and disappearing, carrying messages and omens, bringing with them certain Spirits and their influence, and taking them away as they go.

It feels like a family reunion that lasts months instead of hours. When people just start arriving, when there's feast and stories and sharing and warmth, and then everyone starts saying their goodbyes again, until next year. Summer is the height of the party. Winter is the only time of the year that reflects what you'd normally imagine from everyday family life, when it's just me and the Spirits that walk with me, that "live with me in that house", so to speak. In practicality, that means more outwards work during the warmer months (in relation to the Land and Spirits that are tied to different kinds of cyclical natures), more inwards work and "housekeeping" of my own courts during the cold dark months. There's still some work to do with perennial spirits during the winter (for example, La Dolorosa and The Wild King, and their respective courts, are mostly unaffected by the seasons) but it's still a smaller workload in general when in comparison to the warm months.

Hope that makes sense! thanks for asking these were fun!

[kimkimberhelen]

MGMT - Nothing Changes (Official Audio) 2024

This is what the Gods must have been talking about When they told me “nothing changes” Falling through the Pleiades straight into a cloud Wishing all the stars could save me And I feel strange Like I shouldn’t be here Let me know if you receive me If I could change then I wouldn’t be here Oh nothing’s gonna change, believe me So don’t lead me on

This is what the birds must have been squawking about Right before the dream was ending And maybe you’d have heard if you’d stopped fucking around When it was time to stop pretending That I could change and I wouldn’t be here Oh, when did all the Gods deceive me? I should change I shouldn’t be here But nothing’s gonna change, believe me Believe me

Thrust the dagger into the night, valiant flailing Sisyphean daily life, endless straining Fortify the curtain walls, but nothing’s storming Push the boulder off to the side

La la la la la la la La la la La la la la la la la La la la La la la la la la la La la la La la la la la la la La la la

This is what the Gods must have been talking about When they told me “nothing changes”

[celluceta]

꧁•⊹٭𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐!٭⊹•꧂

Introduction

Hi there!

In this blog I'll post fanart and random scenarios whenever I can, since I'm mostly busy with college :') Also I may start posting fanfics and original art some day!

This is my first time ever trying to use Tumblr in a more serious way, so I'm still learning how this platform works.

I'm keeping requests closed until I feel confident enough!

🌕 This blog is multifandom, but I'm currently enjoying One Piece ! 🌕

About me

My name's Kada, but I also go by Iruni 🌷My pronouns are she/her.

I'm 20 yo and I'm from Spain, so I speak both english and spanish.

My favorite colours are green and pink, both neon and pastel! Although many people associate me with purple because of how much I love drawing galaxies and space-related content⭐

I love puppets, clowns and aliens. Most of my OCs are non-human!

My favorite music artists are Don Diablo, Dua Lipa, Kupla, Rosalía, La Casa Azul and Snail's House.

I have many projects that I'd love to start as soon as I finish my studies, such as an otome game, a webcomic and experimenting with music since I can play the piano and guitar!⭐

I'm INTP 4w5 and my birthday is December 9th. I was born in 2003.

I take some time to answer asks or comments, usually a day or two, because I always need to check if I'm writing things correctly,,, so excuse me🫠

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Fandoms

❥ Pokemon, specially BW!

❥ Magi

❥ One Piece

❥ Professor Layton

❥ Houkago no Pleiades

❥ A Hat In Time

❥ Vocaloid

❥ Omori

❥ Genshin Impact

❥ FNAF

❥ Inside Job

❥ Danganronpa

❥ The Dryad's Garden

❥ Monsters Inc./University/At Work

❥ Spiderverse

❥ No Straight Roads

❥ Nanbaka

Comfort Characters

Pokemon

❥ Banette, Sableye, Maractus, Burgh, Cilan, Cress, Chili, Ingo, Emmet, Elesa, Iris, Hau, Lillie, Ilima, Leon, Milo, Allister, Juliana, Florian and Katy

Magi

❥ All of them, but specially Aladdin, Alibaba, Kougyoku Ren, Ja'far, Sinbad, Sharrkan, Yamuraiha, Hinahoho, Rurumu, Pipirika and Kassim

One Piece

❥ Usopp, Shanks, Uta, Reiju, Vivi, Perona, Luffy, Sabo, Sanji, Hiyori, Shirahoshi, Rebecca, Franky, Corazon, Penguin and Shachi

Others

❥ Disney Cinderella, Disney Jasmine, Keroro, Kururu, Kel, from Omori, Hershel Layton, Kaeya, Glamrock Chica, Sundrop & Moondrop, Hikari, from Houkago no Pleiades, Marvin the Martian, Hatsune Miku, Rin Kagamine, Togata Mirio, Uraraka Ochaco, Hawks, Sero Hanta and Zim

DNI IF:

You support any kind of incest, p*dophilia and weird fetishes.

You don't support LGBT+, feminism, black rights...

You like shotacon/lolicon.

You enjoy relationships with a big age-gap. That kind of relationships make me really uncomfortable. If you like it, good for you, but I don't want to be exposed to that type of content.

And that's all for now, I may edit this post in the future! Have a good day🌼✨

[lunamagicablu]

Le Pleiadi erano sette sorelle: Maia, Alcione, Asterope, Celeno, Taigete, Elettra e Merope. Figlie di Atlante, il titano a cui Zeus aveva affidato il compito di sostenere la Terra, e di Pleione, la dea protettrice dei marinai.

In seguito a un fortuito incontro con Orione, le Pleiadi e la loro madre diventano preda del cacciatore. Per proteggerle dagli assillanti assalti amorosi di lui, Zeus le tramuta in colombe e le libera in cielo. Si dice anche che Zeus fosse il padre di tre delle sorelle.

Le Sette sorelle sono spesso associate a figure marine per questo simboleggiano i mari, le acque, i fiumi, la pioggia e il gelo. Conosciute anche con il nome di Oceanidi, alcune fonti rivelano che il loro nome derivi dall’antico termine greco plein, ossia navigare.

Maia – è la maggiore delle sorelle nota per la sua straordinaria bellezza e per la sua vita solitaria. Nonostante fosse molto bella, era una donna timida e riservata che prediligeva la solitudine e viveva da sola in una caverna. Il suo nome significa “madre” in latino, ma racchiude anche il significato di “fecondità”, perciò i Romani la consideravano la dea della primavera da cui deriva il nome del mese di maggio.

Alcyone (Ally) – è la seconda delle sorelle, ma è conosciuta per essere la più forte. Durante i giorni di Alcione, quando il mondo era pervaso di gioia, prosperità e quiete, lei vegliava sul Mar Mediterraneo rendendolo sicuro per i marinai. Sposata con Ceice, re della Tessaglia, i due ingannarono Zeus ed Era, facendosi passare per loro. Zeus per vendicarsi, aspettò che i due si separassero, per scatenare una tempesta che affondò la nave di Ceice che morì affogato.

Asterope (Stella) – è il nome greco per “stella” e viene rappresentata, nella tradizione, come la più debole delle sorelle proprio a causa della sua ridotta luminosità. Fu la madre di Enomao, figlio di Ares, dio della guerra. In altre versioni del mito invece è la moglie dello stesso Enomao da cui ebbe quattro bambini.

Celeno (Ce-Ce) – significa “melone” o “scuro��. Proprio come Asterope, la sua luminosità è ridotta, rispetto alle altre, perché si narra sia stata colpita dal fulmine di Theo. Ebbe numerosi figli: Lico (il lupo) e Chimera (in parte leone, drago e capra) da Prometeo; nonché Lico e Nicteo da Poseidone, dio del mare.

Taigete (Tiggy) – la mitologia vuole che vivesse in solitudine tra le montagne come la sorella Maia. Artemide, il suo amato, la tramutò in colomba così da sfuggire all’amore che Zeus nutriva nei suoi confronti. Anche Ercole provò a sedurla.

Elettra – nota per essere la terza stella più brillante della costellazione, ebbe quattro figli tra cui Dardano, fondatore della città di Troia. In alcune storie si narra che Elettra fosse la “Pleiade perduta”, poiché scomparve in seguito alla caduta di Troia e alla morte del figlio.

Merope (la sorella perduta) – fu l’ultima stella a essere mappata dagli astronomi perché invisibile a occhio nudo. Tra le più belle della costellazione, è soprannominata la “stella perduta” per aver nascosto il volto dalla vergogna di essere sposata a un mortale, Sisifo. Altri dicono che si vergognasse perché Sisifo era un criminale, la cui pena era spingere un pesante masso in cima a una vetta che poi rotolava sempre giù. La somiglianza con il padre di Merope, Atlante, che doveva sopportare sulle spalle il peso del mondo, è molto chiara. Lucinda Riley seven sisters by MelekatosheeOleak ************************ The Pleiades were seven sisters: Maia, Alcyone, Asterope, Celeno, Taigete, Electra and Merope. Daughters of Atlas, the titan to whom Zeus had entrusted the task of supporting the Earth, and of Pleione, the patron goddess of sailors.

Following a chance meeting with Orion, the Pleiades and their mother become the hunter's prey. To protect them from his nagging amorous assaults, Zeus turns them into doves and releases them into the sky. It is also said that Zeus was the father of three of the sisters.

The Seven Sisters are often associated with marine figures for this reason they symbolize the seas, waters, rivers, rain and frost. Also known by the name of Oceanides, some sources reveal that their name derives from the ancient Greek term plein, that is to navigate.

Maia – is the eldest of the sisters known for her extraordinary beauty and for her solitary life. Although she was very beautiful, she was a shy and reserved woman who preferred solitude and lived alone in a cave. Her name means "mother" in Latin, but also contains the meaning of "fecundity", therefore the Romans considered her the goddess of spring from which the name of the month of May derives.

Alcyone (Ally) – is the second of the sisters, but she is known to be stronger than her. During the days of Alcyone, when the world was full of joy, prosperity and peace, she watched over the Mediterranean Sea making it safe for sailors. Married to Ceyx, king of Thessaly, the two deceived Zeus and Hera, pretending to be them. Zeus to take revenge, waited for the two to separate, to unleash a storm that sank Ceyx's ship who drowned.

Asterope (Stella) - is the Greek name for "star" and she is traditionally represented as the weakest of the sisters precisely because of her reduced brightness. She was the mother of Oenomaus, son of Ares, god of war. In other versions of the myth she is the wife of Oenomaus himself, with whom she had four children.

Celeno (Ce-Ce) – means “melon” or “dark”. Just like Asterope, her luminosity is reduced, compared to the others, because she is said to have been struck by Theo's thunderbolt. She had numerous children: Lico (the wolf) and Chimera (partly lion, dragon and goat) by Prometheus; as well as Lico and Nicteo from Poseidon, god of the sea.

Taigete (Tiggy) – mythology has it that she lived alone in the mountains like her sister Maia. Artemis, her beloved, turned her into a dove so as to escape the love that Zeus had towards her. Hercules also tried to seduce her.

Electra – known to be the third brightest star in the constellation, she had four children including Dardanus, founder of the city of Troy. In some stories it is said that Electra was the "Lost Pleiad", as she disappeared following the fall of Troy and the death of her son.

Merope (the lost sister) – was the last star to be mapped by astronomers as invisible to the naked eye. Among the most beautiful of the constellation, she is nicknamed the "lost star" for having hidden her face from the shame of being married to a mortal, Sisyphus. Others say she was ashamed because Sisyphus was a criminal, whose punishment was to push a heavy boulder to the top of a peak which then always rolled down. The resemblance to Merope's father Atlas, who had to bear the weight of the world on his shoulders, is very clear. Lucinda Riley seven sisters by MelekatosheeOleak 

[leseigneurdufeu]

Can you please when you have time ofc, write a list of the books any French high-school graduate should have read? Like the baccalaureate curriculum for example. I'm seeking to catch up my general knowledge of universal literature + attempt to read directly in French

Sure!

Now curriculum may vary and there was a reform of education since I left high school so it might have changed but what any french graduate should have read: (authors in bold, titles in italics)

Poetry (middle ages and early Renaissance):

Any three poems from Joachim du Bellay or other poets from the Pleiade. Most important is Heureux qui comme Ulysse.

Also look up who the Pleiade were.

16th and 17th centuries novels:

La Princesse de Montpensier, by Madame de Lafayette. 90 pages but very, very antiquated language.

Gargantua, by Rabelais. It's NOT cheating to take the modern-french translation. Native speakers do it. It's not cheating either to just dump it half-way through because you don't understand half of it. Native speakers do it too.

La Belle et la Bête, by Madame Leprince de Beaumont.

Any fairy tale by Perrault.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos de Laclos. Please. Do. Not. Read. It. It's awful, the protagonist rapes a 15yo girl but it's ok because him loving her is making him into a better person (Yikes), the whole thing is about the protagonist and his long-time on-and-off girlfriend (who's married to someone else) teaming up to dirty/perverse two (maybe three?) innocent young ladies. It's studied because it's a classics, not because it's good. Please. Don't subject yourself to it.

Les Lettres Persannes, by Montesquieu. letters from a bunch of fictional characters to the others, two iranians (but at the time Iran was called Perse) visit France and criticize everything (way for Montesquieu to criticize but be able to say "nah it's my characters saying that not me"). TW of suicide and incest iirc. Not something too graphic either, since it's always second-hand testimonies or third-hand.

Theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries:

Le Cid, by Pierre Corneille.

At least one play by Molière. Can't recommand because I don't remember much of it. Do read summaries for a few of his plays though because some characters names have passed into common language to mean the type of characters they were (a Harpagon is going to be a greedy man, a Tartuffe a guy pretending to be devoted but being a hypocrite...)

Le Mariage de Figaro, by Beaumarchais. It's a political satire but also people are jumping from the window so that the husband doesn't find them in the lady's room. Basically.

If you fell in love with theatre at that point, you can look up Racine but fair warning, all of those have old language but Racine (along with Corneille) have very old language.

19th century novel:

Short version of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo. I'd recommand the long one but only the short one is required and also the long one has 40 pages of description of the parisian sewers system with no relevance at all to the story and that's not the only long digression so... Do what you want.

A book by Honoré de Balzac, whichever you'd want. If you want to read the whole series, it might be best to look up the order on wikipedia, they'll know better than me. Basically him and the next author on the list had a bibliographic universe before Marvel made it cool. 60-or-so books with common characters but not the same protagonists. I'd recommand you simply go with Le Lys de la Vallée, slightly royalist and apparently the easiest to read? (so i've been told but i didn't read it myself so...)

Any book by Emile Zola. I'd recommand Au bonheur des dames because it has to be the only one with a happy ending and a cute romance out of the 40-and-more books by Zola.

Bel-Ami, by Guy de Maupassant. The protagonist has no morals but it's funny. Kinda.

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. A tad bit depressing. Not the most interesting either. But it's one of the few that have been studied more than once in my schooling so I know it's an important one.

19th century theatre:

Hernani, a play by Victor Hugo. Tragedy, so a bit sad. But do look up the Battle of Hernani (sorry there's not a big choice of languages for this one on wikipedia). Basically founded the french romantic genre. Quite a scandal.

If per chance Hernani was love at first reading for you, you might also like Ruy Blas, still Hugo, although i found it a bit less good. If you want a ridiculously overdramatic, over-the-top movie freely inspired by Ruy Blas but in which no one dies, you've got La Folie des Grandeurs, a comedy with Louis de Funès.

Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, and if the style of the author makes you want to read more, go for l'Aiglon, which is about Napoleon's son but is a bit sadder.

19th century poetry:

Les fleurs du mal by Baudelaire. Awful. Simply awful. I mean you can try a few. I hated them all. Not necessary to have read all of them by any mean.

20th century:

A Ionesco play, either La Cantatrice Chauve or Rhinoceros, for the Theatre de l'Absurde. La Cantatrice Chauve is funnier I think.

Actually I won't give you any novels from that century because most of the ones studied suck and also it's for post-bac (after graduation) studies so it doesn't fall under the ask.

Now if I had to give you a few classics to read, what I'd recommand:

Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, (ibidem). Luckily this one is on substack format at the cristo account.

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo.

I think that's all. If you've got any more questions, about books or about whether or not it's worth reading That Book instead of watching an adaptation or reading a summary, or which adaptation of, for example, Les Miserables, is the best, I'm here to answer them.