#Madonna 1997

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Madonna and Ingrid shopping in NYC, February 1997

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Top 5 obscure light vintage novels! (Not sure if my previous ask got eaten, but also curious about this one specifically)

The strictest definition of what I consider "obscure light vintage novels" requires a book to meet a lot of criteria:

Published before 1960

Not recommended to me by anyone I know personally (including on tumblr)

Doesn't have a fancy Oxford-Classics-type edition with an introduction. (And none of the author's other books are well-known enough to have one)

Has a realistic setting

Ideally written by a woman or centered around a female main character

Which means that very few books fit this list. But of those few, here are my top five.

Desire by Una Silberrad: Flawed but fascinating Edwardian novel about an eccentric heiress who meets a soulful author and eventually winds up working for him when she loses her money and he inherits his father's pottery business. Fascinating characters, amazing romance, lots of interesting themes. I'm also going to count the author's other novels in this category, because she's come to epitomize "obscure light classic" for me. The Good Comrade is a much frothier novel with some great characters, and Curayl is highly flawed, but its silver-tongued hero lives rent-free in my head.

The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert: I finished this book less than twenty-four hours ago (so I could include it on this list). It's a 1953 German novel set in 1947, about a refugee family building a home after the end of the war. It reads like, if you can believe it, a cozy post-apocalyptic novel. These people are living through some terrible things, but they make the best of things and manage to find joy. It's chock-full of fascinating details about life in post-war Germany, and reminds you that the people on that side of the war were human too, losing people and places they loved, and doing their best to live in terrible times. There are some superstitious elements later on that I wasn't crazy about, but otherwise I adored this story.

The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy: Novel from the 1880s about four sisters who open a photography studio to support themselves after their father's death. Extremely underwritten (one of the girls meets an old flame and marries him between chapters), but a very easy, pleasant read with interesting historical details, and some nice sisterly relationships that remind me just a bit of Little Women meets Oscar Wilde.

The Heir of Redclyffe and Countess Kate by Charlotte Mary Yonge: Books by one of the bestselling authors of the Victorian age who's completely forgotten today. Both get too preachy at times, but make up for it by having amazing characters. The first one is a family saga about cousins caught up in an old feud, and the second is like if Anne Shirley suddenly found out she was a countess.

The Rosary by Florence Barclay: The bestselling novel of, like, 1920. It gets very melodramatic, but I was also surprised at how grounded and witty the characters were. I remember very little about it, but I have fond memories of the reading experience, and it earns a place on this list because when I want to find an "obscure vintage light novel", on some level I'm thinking I want to find a book like this.

I know you didn't ask, but I find myself wanting to list five novels that don't quite meet the strict criteria above, but are close enough that I want to highlight them.

The Dean's Watch and The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge: Goudge isn't exactly obscure in this section of tumblr (which is why I heard of her in the first place), but she's obscure enough that a lot of her books are out-of-print or otherwise hard to get, and these two in particular are among the best books I've ever read.

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery: Montgomery is extremely well-known, and this book has an ever-growing and very devoted cult following, so it's not exactly obscure, but it's much less well-known than most of her other books. A deep cut, if you will. It fits perfectly within the light vintage novel category, and has long been one of my favorite novels of all time.

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: It's got an Oxford Classics (or similar imprint) edition, and is well-known as one of the very first sensation novels, but it's not exactly known among people who don't deep-dive into Victorian literature. I read this last month and loved it. It's a cozy sensation novel with an amazing main character, great atmosphere, and a plot that manages to grip you even while not much happens.

Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther: It's not exactly obscure if it has a movie adaptation, but from what I know, the movie basically ignores the book, which isn't that well-known today. Charming slice-of-life from the very early days of WWII England.

Helen by Maria Edgeworth: Not exactly beloved, and Edgeworth isn't exactly obscure, but this is a lesser-known novel that fits well within this category. The first half had some moments that were so dull I considered not finishing, but the second half was gripping enough that I can mention it as a nice, obscure surprise of a book.

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Outtakes of Courtney Love, Madonna, and Tina Turner for Rolling Stone’s November 1997 “Women of Rock” issue.

📸: Peggy Sirota

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With Mick Jagger - 1997

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Madonna

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Love is a bird, she needs to fly Let all the hurt inside of you die You're frozen when your heart's not open

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The Spice Girls should've dressed up like Madonna and the women on "Three's Company" during that scene where they're doing a photoshoot dressed up as people from pop culture in the past (i.e. Charlie's Angels, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy, Diana Ross, etc.).

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1997 Vanity Fair spread.

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Madonna 1997

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THE PRODIGY O FENÔMENO DOS 90 e MADONNA OBCECADA!

THE PRODIGY O FENÔMENO DOS 90 QUE DEIXOU A MADONNA OBCECADA! – Caixa Véia. 20 dez 2023 Keith Flint, vocalista da banda The Prodigy, morreu hoje, aos 49 anos, de acordo com informações da imprensa inglesa e do próprio grupo, foi encontrado morto em sua casa, em Dunmow. Músico, cantor e dançarino, ele nasceu em 1969, em Londres, e foi nos anos 1980 que conheceu o DJ Liam Howlett, que seria seu…

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Various WWF Wrestlers x Fem Reader/Sunny- "I Know You Want Me"

For those about to read this fanfiction, you can either read about Sunny or insert yourself into this fanfiction.

Or both.

You can also choose to read about Sunny in 1996 or 1997, or both.

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Sunny was the most sought after, lusted over woman in the World Wrestling Federation in 1996 and 1997.

She was the company's biggest sex symbol at the time---there were more men holding up signs showing their lust for Sunny than any other woman in the WWF during those years.

Her entrance music is "I Know You Want Me", where lyrics of the song include "I know you want me, I know that you want my love!".

Because of Sunny being such a sought after sex symbol that even male wrestlers would lust over sometimes, in the summer of 1996 (or in June of 1997) Sunny did this photoshoot with some other male wrestlers.

If it's 1996 you want...

This photoshoot had pictures of Sunny in the men's locker room, where she was pictured wearing a spaghetti strapped light pink colored chemise with matching silky color coordinated short shorts.

Sunny's eyes were looking into the camera where she had a coy expression on her face, whereas many various male wrestlers were circling and swarming around her happily gazing at her.

These male wrestlers in the locker room that were looking at her were Shawn Michaels, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Brian Pillman, The New Rockers Leif Cassidy and Marty Jannetty, the Hardy Boyz and the Smoking Gunns Billy & Bart Gunn.

If it's 1997 you want...

In June of 1997, Sunny did this photoshoot where she was standing in a locker room, where she was dressed in a spaghetti strapped link pink colored chemise with matching short shorts.

Sunny looked into the camera with a smirk on her face, and as she was standing up dressed in that aforementioned outfit, there were several male wrestlers standing and circling around her, happily looking at her.

These male wrestlers that were pictured with her in this photoshoot were Shawn Michaels, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Brian Pillman, Rob Van Dam, Chris Candido, Tommy Rogers from the Fantastics, and RockaBilly.

In the pictures of Sunny in that chemise and short shorts, Shawn was standing on the left side next to her with his long hair hanging down and where he stared at her with a smile on his face.

Hunter stood behind Sunny and looked at her with a grin on his face.

Brian stood on the right side besides Sunny where his eyes stared at her with his classic ear to ear grin spreading across his face, his eyes looked like they were gazing at her ass.

Marty Jannetty was laying on the floor on his back in front of Sunny, where he looked up at her with a smile on his face.

Leif Cassidy was standing in front of one of the lockers with his head turned sideways and looking at Sunny behind him, where he stared at her with a smile on his face.

Billy Gunn was sitting on the floor beside Sunny staring at her with his classic pearly white smile.

Jeff Hardy laid on the floor in front of Sunny, where his eyes looked up at her.

Matt Hardy and Bart Gunn were standing in front of the lockers, where their heads were turned and looked at her with smirks on their faces.

There were also pictures of Sunny of those male wrestlers in those exact same places, but Sunny this time was wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around and covering her naked torso.

The top of the towel she wore was tucked under her arms and the bottom of the towel reached her lower thighs.

In the pictures of Sunny wearing nothing but a towel with these male wrestlers all circling around her with smiles on their faces gazing at her, Sunny's mouth was open and slightly in an "o" shape, and one of her hands was tugging down at the bottom of her towel she wore.

There are so many outfits Sunny could've worn in these pictures, like wearing a silky spaghetti strapped baby blue or white teddy (not bear) that's a mixture of a chemise and short shorts, wearing a long sleeved sweatshirt that reaches her upper thighs, wearing a short white spaghetti strapped negligee that reaches her upper thighs or even wearing a camisole with matching panties.

The outfits she could've worn in these pictures look like the negligees, teddies, camisoles and panties women on "Three's Company" wore, in particular what Suzanne Somers wore.

These pictures of Sunny are replicas of a photoshoot the singer Madonna did in 1985 in Hawaii.

Sunny could've even been standing in between the handles of a ladder in a swimming pool with these male wrestlers smiling at and looking at her, like in this Madonna picture.

Speaking of teddies, another photo of Sunny involved her wearing a silky white spaghetti strapped teddy that was a mixture of a chemise and short shorts, and her arms were up in the air.

As she stood in this outfit with her arms in the air, these same aforementioned male wrestlers were all swarming around her.

Shawn Michaels stood in front of her with his hands on her waistline, whereas Billy Gunn stood behind her with his hands on her waistline and smiling at her.

Brian Pillman stood in front of her with the back of his head pictured and his head turning and looking at her.

Hunter was standing next to Shawn and HHH's eyes were checking Sunny out.

There also were some photos of Sunny dressed in nothing but a towel where the top of it was tucked under her arms and the bottom of it reached her upper thighs while some male wrestlers circled around her and 2 male wrestlers had their hands on her waistline.

Sunny didn't have to wear that teddy and towel in those waistline pictures, she could've just worn a dress or one of her Smoking Gunns outfits instead.

This picture of Sunny with these wrestlers circling around her while her arms are up in the air was also modeled after a picture of Madonna in 1985 in Hawaii, where Madonna had her arms up in the air while some guys were circling around her and putting their hands on her waistline.

If it's 1997 you want...

Shawn Michaels was standing on the left side of Sunny looking at her with a smile on his face, his long hair was hanging down.

Rob Van Dam stood behind her with a smirk on his face and his eyes looking at her, whereas Brian Pillman stood on the right side of her with his eyes looking at her ass and his mouth grinning his white toothy smile.

RockaBilly was sitting on the floor next to one of Sunny's legs and ankles, where he looked up at her with a smile on his face.

Hunter laid on the floor in front of Sunny where his eyes stared at her.

Tommy Rogers' was standing in front of one of the lockers and his head was turned and looking at her from behind, his eyes checking her out.

Chris Candido was laying on his back on the floor in front of Sunny while his eyes stared at her.

There was also pictures of her with her arms up in the air while she was dressed in a tight dress, a silky white spaghetti strapped teddy and a towel tucked under her arms and wrapped and covering her naked body.

In this picture, these aforementioned male wrestlers were all circling around her, Shawn Michaels stood in front of her and placed his hands on her hips, whereas Brian Pillman stood behind her and placed his hands on her waistline.

Hunter was standing next to Shawn where HHH's eyes were checking her out.

If it's you that you want...

By the end of 1997, you were wearing less clothes than usual on WWF television, pay-per-views and photoshoots.

Because of that, you did a photoshoot in November of 1997, where there was a picture of you standing in a locker room wearing a peach colored spaghetti strapped chemise with matching short shorts.

Shawn Michaels, Triple H, The New Age Outlaws and the Hardy Boyz were circling around you while you were dressed in this outfit.

Shawn stood next to you with his long hair hanging down and his eyes looking at you, whereas Triple H stood next to you and his eyes checked you out while his mouth grinned and smirked.

In these pictures, Triple H had his long golden hair hanging down.

Billy sat down next to one of your legs and looked at you with a smile on his face.

Jeff Hardy laid down next to you on the floor and looked at you.

Road Dogg laid on his back in front of you with a grin on his face.

Matt Hardy stood behind you looking at you with a smile on his face.

Like Sunny, you were also pictured wearing nothing but a towel tucked under your arms and the bottom of your towel reaching your upper thighs.

There was another picture you took that involved you dressed in that same teddy as well as a towel where your arms were up in the air.

In these pictures, those same male wrestlers were circling around you.

Triple H stood in front of you with his hands on your hips, whereas Shawn stood behind you with his hands at your waistline.

Shawn's and Triple H's looked at your body while their hands were at your waistline, and both of those men's long hair was hanging down.

There are so many other male wrestlers you wish were in this photoshoot with you, like Rob Van Dam, Brian Pillman, Scott Hall, Chris Jericho, Nova from ECW, Tommy Rogers, and the list goes on.

But some of those other male wrestlers are in other wrestling companies, despite RVD almost joined the WWF in 1997, and Brian Pillman died at the end of the year.

You could've done this Madonna in Hawaii-inspired photoshoot in the summer of 1997 or even in 1996, but this photoshoot probably wouldn't have fit your character, or maybe it would've.

Not to mention, like Madonna in that Hawaii photoshoot, you could've stood in between the silver handles of a swimming pool's ladder while you wore a skintight black dress and male wrestlers circled around you.