#Marya the White Russian

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Actual footage of me at work the other day.

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Prelim Poll 3

Propaganda here

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I had to had these thoughts so so do you<3

Harry Hook/Ivy de Vil

In Dead Beauty AU or variations thereoff, cos if Uma's here, Harry channels how unhinged he is in different direction (less fun one for this case) (and also I ship Huma)

But I already have the AU so why not ✨Mutual self-destruction at it's finest

As in, they had to be stoped from playing Russian Roulete with actual loaded gun. Multiple times.

Poison's fine enoughyou can always drag them to the Mims or Ginny, Bonny, or Marya, even Faciliers.

Gun, not so fun.

Oh, and actually ending up together, that'd be one of the worst cases scenarios

And joyrides in Cruella's car

Yes, it is terrible for everyone around.

No no, no one can stop them.

Well, Cruella could, but it goes about like this:

Ivy: „Auntie, I'm taking the car!“

Cruella: „Fine, just remember-“

Ivy: „I know, I know. If I have to choose between hiting a wall or a pedestrian, always hit the pedestrian. It damages the car less.“

Cruella: „That's my girl.“

Especially the Tremaines are having a horrible time ✨

Also, they're both actors

Too much alike

Always playing up how crazy they are, how flirty. Holding up their reputation and their name

Acting almost all the time

You know that kind of thing, the "only around eachother, they can take off the mask and be who they truly are"?

Okay, now forget it.

They're not taking off that mask, but- when it slips for just a heartbeat, when one of them freezes, expresionless, and just looks at nothing?

The other doesn't say a word, only pours another glass of alcohol or passes another cigarette.

They're actors, and they know it.

Also another fun game than russian roulette:

At a bar, whoever manages to pick up someone first gets free drinks for the rest of the night from the other.

This game can be over very quickly, especially if either of them decides that free alcohol is more important than any pretence of class.

The record is about ninety seconds.

Sometimes, Diego plays also, and he insists they do not cheat

Wanna know how they cheat?

Ivy ✨ accidentally ✨ collides into a lonely looking "gentleman" and spills white wine all over herself and a bit on him. She starts apologising, all "Oh NO, what a clutz I am-"

... it's white wine cos she ain't cleaning red

I'm keeping Alala's as Hooks mother so Harry cheats with siren song. It's not superpowerful, imagine if he was ugly, it'd keep a girl out of his League talking to him for five minutes instead of minute and half, but this is Harry HOOK and also he looks like that.

The lowest he went was when he went for a pirate and just straight up ordered them to.

Ivy refused to pay after that

[picnokinesis]

Immediately looked up the quote you put below the zine art and 👀 good quote choice!!!!

Ahh thanks!! I did a dive into russian folklore a while back when I found out that the name 'Koschei' came from the story of Koschei the Deathless, and I immediately had to know what that entailed, naturally. That quote is, as you probably noticed, slightly changed from the original, but that's because (as I said in the tags) it's actually something I had planned for a doctor who fanfic based on the folklore. It's a fic I would love to write some day but alas, I only got so far as chapter 1, but it basically involves the Doctor diving into the Matrix to find the Master after TTC, and there's just russian folklore everywhere. Tecteun is Baba Yaga, the Timeless Child is the Firebird, the Doctor is mostly Prince Ivan (and the magical stead is the TARDIS), but sometimes Marya Morevna, and the Master is mostly Koschei the Deathless but also sometimes Marya Morevna too. I'd probably have the wizards who marry Prince Ivan's sisters as previous incarnations of the Doctor as well, but I hadn't thought that far.

Anyway, part of the reason it's doomed to never be finished is because I was going to do art for it based on Ivan Bilibin's illustrations of the original stories. I only ever ended up sketching one, but funnily enough it was the one for that quote that's on that other art! In the original story, Prince Ivan comes across a battlefield full of dead and dying soldiers, and asks who killed them - and they tell him it was the person in the white tent, who turns out to be the warrior princess Marya Morevna. In my fic, I was planning for it to be that the Doctor steps into a new part of the Matrix and finds the battle field of Skull Moon, or some other battle in the Time War - and, of course, asks who killed everyone. And the answer given is 'the man in the barn' - which turns out to be the War Doctor, of course. So that then sparked the idea of 'child, it was you' - originally, for that print, I was planning to write that entire quote in gold Gallifreyan, because I liked how it kind of referred to both the Doctor and the Master as children of Gallifrey, but also kind of twisted them both together - both the destroyers of the planet, mirroring each others, the same in more ways than they can stand. And that's kind of the meaning of that piece of art.

Anyway - here's the sketch that I did for that fic, and the original Bilibin illustration it was based on!

[hogansheroestournament]

An Evening of Generals (s3 e13): Posing as waiters, the heroes want to get rid of a room full of German generals.

Fat Hermann, Go Home (s5 e17): Marya, the White Russian, uses Schultz to impersonate Goering just as Hogan is trying to save a trainload of stolen art.

[thewitnesstav]

chapter 1

осторожный -careful

помогите- Help

Спасибо- Thank you

насколько плохо?- How bad? До свидания- Goodbye

ты в порядке- Are you okay

Как вас зовут -what's your name

Здесь- Over here

Вы помните свое имя- did you remember your name

ублюдок-bastard да- Yes | some of the common words that'd be used in this chapter|

Marya ''bell'' was raised in Kazan, I did a twist on this oc, her mother was an American immigrant, but her father was A Russian man.

{ if I get any Russian wording wrong pls don't be afraid to comment}

Cliffside 1986

16 hrs

Marya Bell Belyaev

 you know how it feels like to be betrayed by someone you trusted, in the end, someone you know who nearly destroyed your life. This was the moment right here both of them were walking with one another Adler slowly turned his head toward her.

  '' I hope you know this is nothing personal. It's being professional. '' She heard Adler now noticing him reach for his gun a reaction sparked as Bell reached for her own gun. But in this instant, he took the moment and shoot her. It was like a blinding to her, as she felt her body hit the ground. Turning her head as she watched him walk past her now

another light flashed in her eyes than

It felt like another wound by her old wound. Surely enough she could see his fading figure going away now. She was so sure this is where she was going to die. Can you blame her? She would have given up and just die until she heard the footsteps rushing toward her body. Till she was flipped on her back. having spotty vision now looking at this man. He looked around 56, having scratchy facial features after all ''Здесь! Я сказал вам, что слышал этот выстрел '' [Over here! I told  you I heard that shot] After hearing what the man said

Noticing the man speaking in Russian. ''насколько плохо?'' Another voice ask before Bell Could feel her body slowly being lifted up then ''Help me carry her.'' The voice now spoke Plan English as she felt another arm wrap under her chest. ''Grab Er' Legs will you?''

the voice said to the other one. Right on time, they began dragging Bell's body away. ''How bad' is the wound?'' The other asks his friend. ''Not as bad as I thought' Minor trauma.'' The one responded to his friend then. ''Alright, we got to put er' down so we can call an evac.'' An Evac? Russian soldiers? Bell tried to think even the minor part of her brain was still working. I wasn't dead yet right? The one lifted her head back for a second. ''Her eyes are opened.'' One commented.

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''How long until they'll get here?'' One asks. ''Not long.'' Another one said. ''Alright, exit wound?'' ''да'' the man who tilted bell's head back responded to the question. ''We'll tend to the wound and wrap it up, that'll all we can do for now got it?'' She could see the man nod his head physically he lowered his head down to get into her line of eyesight.

''We are getting you out of here. Got it, keep your eyes open.'' The male commented as they had to cut off some of the material around the wound to add medicine when trying to add it, They saw her muscle tense up which gave them signs she was still at least holding on. ''Muscle tensing she's hanging on.'' One whispered, before wrapping it up

Not long the rotating of helicopter blades could be heard from close by as the wind began to pick up. '' Здесь '' The man waved his arm as they carried out a stretcher, before anything Bell could feel her body being put on the stretcher in a careful manner. ''You found her like this? '' One of the pilots asks now looking over.

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After the helicopter began to take off. Her head was being rested on the stretched, overall she could still hear them “ Do you think she’ll make it ?” The pilot ask now

” Most likely. American ? “ the pilot ask now . “ Nonsense I think not.” The other replied. “ closest hospital is Berlin as much we have enemies this is a emergency.

that’s all she could hear before everything had turned white in her eyes. She could hear yelling. The sound of rushing footsteps

the breaching of the door before, feeling a oxygen mask being placed on her mouth. Her blurry vision was blurred by lights. “ She’s waking up !” She heard a nurse physically yelled.

her senses were out of control for a moment. A light being pointed in her eyes. Her eyes tried to follow the light for a second.

“ You’re name? Do you remember it.” She could physically hear the women voice now. As her eyes lowered for a moment “ Hey, keep your eyes open.” She felt someone turned her head

to look at the doctor he now leaned over the table. “ do you remember.” He ask once again with determined tone of his. Maybe it was he had faith that she’d make it through this did he believe that

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The doctor stared down at her for a second reaching toward the oxygen mask than. It was a barely whisper “ Marya. Belyaev.” She muttered now he pressed his hand against the table

” who did this ?” He ask as he looked over at the nurse who looked at this holding a clipboard. Marya now tried turning her head the other way.

” It’s okay, it’s okay. You can tell us later .” The doctor said realizing overstepping his boundaries . Oddly enough the doctor had a American accent. “ just rest.” He simply stated

She now rested her head. Feeling she was shifted to a bed as they moved it to a room so she could, as they proceed to hook her up to a heart monitor. Turning off the lights as the staff left

even in this state she found herself looking off into the corner, as numbers dates flashed in her eyes for a moment, faces. That were implanted in her head

We got a job to do .

the words keep repeating in her head, before closing her eyes now to rest up now .

[ next chapter will be a perspective , mainly through her thoughts . Might chance it up after .]

[goopi-e]

Russian name for dandelions is "одуванчик", which roughly translates to "the one that can be blown off" :з.

We also have other banger flower names, such as:

Мать-и-мачеха, "mother-and-stepmother" (tussilago), because one side of their leaves is soft like mother's love, and another is not.

Иван-да-марья, "Ivan and Marya", a colloquial name for a few plants that have two distinct flower colors on a single plant; usually it refers to Melampyrum nemorosum, known as "natt och dag" (night and day) in Swedish. There's a mini-legend that explains the name, something about two lovers in a doomed relationship. Also apparently it originally was named after the pagan Slavic gods, but got renamed after the spread of Christianity.

Безвременник, something like "the out-of-time one" or "the timeless one", a name of a whole genus, Colchicum, aka autumn crocus. Pretty obvious imo.

Вороний глаз, "crow's eye" (paris). It's a single tiny black berry sitting in a massive four-leaf socket; the eye imagery is kinda fitting. And it's toxic, so probably witch imagery plays a part in it as well.

Волчье лыко, "wolf's bast fibre"/волчеягодник, "wolfberry" (daphne). Also poisonous, but other than that, no idea what the wolves have to do with anything.

Подорожник, "the one that grows by the road" (plantain). Fun fact: one of the English names Wikipedia lists is "white man's footprint", which, uh, lol. Literally named for being an invasive species.

english flower names are so evocative. snapdragon. wolfsbane. even as loanwords they're still pretty; dandelion traces back to old french for "lion's tooth". meanwhile the actual french word for dandelion means piss-the-bed

[benevolenterrancy]

drawing of @general-sleepy‘s post because i can HEAR that in marya’s voice and it gives me life

hogan is so tired

[whatisthismandoinghere]

My small one!

Did you know Nita Talbot received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Marya in Hogan's Heroes? I thought that was really cool!

[dwellordream]

because i wanted to drop some expanded folklore/retelling/alternate interpretation recommendations:

the mere wife by maria dahvana headley: inspired by the epic Beowulf, the mere wife centers around dana, a traumatized young veteran who returns to her rapidly gentrifying mining home town to raise her son gren. mistrustful of society and humanity in general and terrified of losing gren, dana raises him in near total isolation in the mountains bordering herot hall, the first of many shining new suburban expansions.

as gren grows, he becomes curious about the world outside their cave dwelling and eventually befriends dylan, the troubled son of willa, a neurotic socialite with her own baggage. gren and dylan’s unlikely friendship becomes an increasing risk as they age into teenagers, as gren is everything the pampered, bigoted and fearful residents of herot hall have trained themselves to hate.

the mere wife is an extremely compelling tale of two scarred mothers as it switches perspectives between the privileged and dissonant willa and the hardened but loving dana, both of whom are trying to protect their children from the abuse and trauma they suffered as they grew into adulthood.

also a pretty searing look at police violence, the intersection of racism, classism, and homophobia, and the military industrial complex’s exploitation of impoverished black and brown youth to fight its wars.

i, tituba: black witch of salem by maryse condé: i, tituba is a satirical in one sense but deadly serious in another take on tituba, the slave accused of spreading witchcraft to the young puritan girls of salem.

it tells the epic life story of tituba, from her conception aboard a slave ship headed to the caribbean to her childhood as an orphan raised by her foster mother mama yaya, who teaches her the power of healing and communion with the dead.

while tituba grows up technically a free woman, living in the shadow of the plantations but without an owner, she willingly enters slavery again to be with her beloved john indian, and winds up sold to the cruel and tyrannical reverend samuel parris and transported to boston and then salem massachusetts alongside his terrified family.

i tituba systematically unpacks ‘the protestant work ethic’ of the ‘upright and noble pilgrims’ who carved out their existence on the backs of the enslaved and the indigenous population.

tituba suffers just about every abuse and humiliation imaginable but refuses to allow herself to be dissuaded from practicing her own spiritual practices and actively seeks to show compassion and care towards her captors, despite it repeatedly backfiring.

ultimately she survives the witch trials and finds herself back in barbados, where her final fate as a devoted rebel against the plantation system that killed her parents awaits.

the bloody chamber by angela carter: probably carter’s most well known and popular set of short stories, the bloody chamber is a series of original takes on the most gothic and disturbing of european folklore, from bluebeard and his murdered brides to beauty and the beast to all sorts of werewolf and vampire mythos.

carter’s language is as lush and purple prosey as ever, and she vividly paints a series of terrifying and alluring pictures of decrepit castles and manor houses, unhinged inbred aristocrats preying on the peasantry, vampiric maidens and girls raised by wolves, men turned into beasts and beasts turned into men, and lots of sex, gore, ghostly music, and rustling taffeta.

deathless by catherynne m. valente: yes, endlesssly overhyped by tumblr but still a very compelling take on the russian folklore of koschei the deathless and his mortal turned goddess bride, marya morevna, this time set in parallel with the unfolding of russian history in the 20th century.

valente gives an absolutely merciless look at the spiteful and selfish whims of gods and what it means to give up your humanity for love, as well as a tortured narrative surrounding power and control in intimate relationships and questions of gender roles and sexuality.

deathless is probably a most capital R Romantic romance, mostly because both marya and koschei have heaps of charm and beauty and passion... and heaps of obsession, jealous violence, and power hungry ambition.

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys: should be required reading for everyone who has devoured Jane Eyre, rhys’ novella tells the take of the reviled and scorned first wife of rochester.

born to a plantation owning family whose fortunes are crushed when the british empire bans slavery, antoinette grows up a lonely and emotional child, rejected by her grieving and closed off mother and longing for a family and place in the world.

as a young woman her stepfather arranges her marriage to rochester, who wants what’s left of her inheritance, and antoinette finds herself caught between her island home where she is still seen as the hated daughter of slave holders, and england, where she is seen as an impure creole woman who will never be able to conform to victorian propriety.

although initially hopeful of a loving marriage, antoinette quickly realizes that rochester’s passion for her is propelled by fear and insecurity, which quickly makes itself known as he turns against her, labeling her ‘bertha’ after her ‘insane’ mother and treating her as a mentally unstable invalid and then as little more than a prisoner.

lovecraft country by matt ruff: lovecraft country both skewers and embraces the eldritch abominations of hp lovecraft, and tackles his own inhuman racism head on, through the perspectives of the courageous and clever atticus turner and his eccentric and loyal extended family. their adventures take them all over america and into a series of increasingly horrifying encounters with cults, monsters, and white supremacy - sometimes all three at once.

circe by madeleine miller: not nearly as discussed as its predecessor The Song of Achilles, Circe tells the story of Circe, daughter of the arrogant sun god Helios and by some accounts, the ‘first’ witch and sorceress to walk the earth.

exiled to her own desolate island kingdom after defying the gods, Circe becomes a powerful and infamous enchantress, painted as a villain while the gods, who amuse themselves by tormenting and impulsively rewarding men in turn, are honored and venerated. circe quickly realizes her growing powers make her a threat to mortals and gods alike, and must decide what her legacy will be and if she cares at all.

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Entomology Specimens stitched by Skittle_kittle.

My entomology cross stitch project, 3 years in the making! I started this project because I wanted to collect real specimens, but at the time it was too much money for the size of the collection I wanted! I had also just started cross stitching, my first project being a butterfly, so i kept at it and here we are! 

[The VW Beetle] was my husbands idea and at first I was like no that’s dumb but now I love it!

At the end, these past few months, I specifically looked for blue and purple insects to make the rainbow, not a ton of purple out there!

Here’s all the patterns:

Leaf Katydid - Marabout Insects book

Yellow and black beetle - Magazine Capolavori del Punto Croce #13

Leaf Bug - Oiseaux, Papillons et Petites Betes au point de croix book

Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly - Riolis patter

Atlas Moth - Russian pattern by Marya Iskusnitsa 14.001.08 “Butterfly”

Ulysses Blue Butterfly - Riolis patter.

Monarch Butterfly - self drafted pattern

Firefly - BigGalDesigns on Etsy

Harlequin Beetle - Oiseaux, Papillons et Petites Betes au point de croix book

Dragonfly - bought from CrossStitchStringArt on Etsy

Green and yellow beetle - self drafted pattern

Cuckoo bee - Marabout Insects book

Brown, green, and tan beetle - Marabout Insects book

Madagascar Sunset Moth - self drafted pattern

Darwin��s Beetle - Marabout Insects

White, black, and red butterfly - Marabout Insects book

Blue Morpho Butterfly - TalkingMoths on Etsy

Jungle Nymph - Marabout Insects

Stag Beetle - Magazine Capolavori del Punto Croce #13

Sabertooth Longhorn Beetle - Magazine Capolavori del Punto Croce #13

Red Shield Bug - Marabout Insects book

Praying Mantis - Marabout Insects book

Stick bug - Marabout Insects book

Spanish Moon Moth - Marabout Insects book

VW Bug - self drafted pattern

Bumblebee - Marabout Insects book

Purple Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly - TalkingMoths on Etsy

Comet Moth - Marabout Insects book

Orb Weaver Spider - self drafted pattern

Blue and Orange Butterfly - pattern by Rico Design

Ant - self drafted pattern

Teal and green beetle - pattern unknown (honestly cannot find the pattern I used at all, I made it about 3 years ago)

[radarsteddybear]

Ok but what if Major Hochstetter is Nimrod and Colonel Hogan is basically his Marya, constantly interfering with his plans in dangerous and unpredictable ways that always end up working out in the end.

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Propaganda for General Prelim Poll 3

(Vote here)

Ruby (Steven Universe) :

No propaganda yet

Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder) :

"Ok so there are four characters named edmund blackadder who are all direct descendants of the previous, they're all devious and cunning and chaotic neutral and i love them all"

Azur (Azur & Asmar : The Princes' Quest) :

No propaganda yet

Bernard Ludwig Black (Black Books) :

No propaganda yet

Marya Parmanova a.k.a. The White Russian (Hogan's Heroes) :

"she's here to cause problems on purpose and we love that for her"

Mortimer "Mo" Folchart a.k.a The Blue Jay (Inkworld trilogy) :

No propaganda yet

Pinky the Chihuahua (Phineas & Ferb) :

No propaganda yet

Time Green (Super Sentai) :

No propaganda yet

Blue-Eyes White Dragon (Yu-Gi-Oh !)

"Bro he got blue eyes and is a white dragon!!!!!! Woahhhhhh"

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Russian Wizarding World | Koldovstoretz

Koldovstoretz (Russian: колдовсторец) is the Russian wizarding school. It is one of the eleven schools registered with the International Confederation of Wizards.

Article in russian Волшебный мир России | Колдовстворец

Russian: колдовсторец

Location: Russia, Island of Buyan

Mysterious island in the ocean with the ability to appear and disappear using tides.

Permanent residents:

Koldovstoretz students

Koldovstoretz staff

Entities, spirits and unquiet dead

History

Buyan was discovered by Prince Gvidon, son of Tsar Saltan. His aunts arrange to have the baby Gvidon and his mother sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island.

Koldovstoretz was founded around 1050 - 1100 A.D. by wizard and the shape-shifter Volkh Vseslavich (Russian: Волх Всеславьевич) and his wife Marya Yaroslavna (Russian: Марья Ярославна).

Pelageya "The wizard and the werewolf Prince" (text)

In the sky of the wolf shadow Finish your day The squad shunned The wizard and the werewolf Prince

School

Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What (Russian: Пойди туда, не знаю куда, принеси то, не знаю что)

Coat of Arms

Firebird (Russian: жар-птица) In Slavic mythology and folklore, the Firebird is a magical and prophetic glowing or burning bird from a faraway land which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor.

Known students

Ivan the Fool (Russian: Иван-дурак)

Vasilisa the Wise (Russian: Василиса Премудрая)

Marya Morevna (Russian: Марья Моревна)

Fyodor Alexeyevich Basmanov (Russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Басманов)

Solokha (Russian: Солоха)

Margarita Nikolaevna (Russian: Маргарита Николаевна)

Administration

The highest position of staff was the Rector.

Prorektor (deputy rector) assisted the rector in his duties.

Master who is in charge of a class.

Teacher instructs or trains students.

Core classes

Mandatory disciplines:

practical magic

charms

alchemy

potioncraft

dark discipline

divination and runic magic

levitation

Jerel's song theater "OI on Ivan Kupala" (text)

Potion searched twigs weaving Oh Ivan , the one on Midsummer On the blue waves that they and embark Oh Ivan , the one on Midsummer

Students can choose from three learning paths

light line

protective magic

apotropaic magic

curse removal

barrier magic

defensive magic

natural line

shamanism

herbalism

magical creatures

medical magic

dark line

necromancy

undead manipulation

demonology

blood magic

curse

Electives

history of magic

divination

teleportation

art

Terem

Melnitsa "A Bride for Poloz" (text)

Fog has shrouded the glade - Serpent king is awaiting you there, You are his betrothed

Class room

Dormitory

School territory

Library

Uniform

Jenia Lubich "Ritual Song" (text)

Time is a fast river, no one will be spared. Waiting for the groom's bride. Waiting like the hour. In white color dressed, accurately in a shroud is worth. The rest is doomed, the wedding bell is ringing.

More songs

Pelageya "Lullaby" (text)

Pelageya "Valenki" (text)

Anna Pingina "The Swallow" (text)

Anna Pingina "Lullaby" (text)

Melnitsa "Werewolf" (text)

Melnitsa "Olga" (text)

Melnitsa "Sister" (text)

Alevtina "Sun"

Lyube & Melnitsa "Plumelet" (text)

[abacus-and-paper-money]

Comet Theory Thursday: Color Theory & The Great Comet of 1812

This topic won by an absolute landslide this week! It had more votes than the other two combined!! Possibly because of my 'all the baddies wear green post lmao' So I'm gonna try to deliver here. Content under the cut!

First, let's find what we can use for this analysis in the show. What has colors? Costumes, obviously. Lighting. The stage itself, of course. And also any mention of colors in lyrics.

Section I: Lyrical Mentions of Color

There really aren't that many here. The only notable one (that I can think of right now) is the word scarlet, which Natasha uses when she first meets Hélène ("I blush scarlet,") and Hélène uses during Charming. ("You are not a child when you're draped in scarlet and lace.") The word scarlet itself is interesting, as it means a specific shade of red, not just red in general. Scarlet evokes feelings of maturity, luxury, and so on. Both times are when Natasha is interacting with Hélène, and being introduced to the lavish life of Moscow, as well as discovering sexuality.

Section II: Costumes

(Im not going to go back into the all-the-baddies-wear-green-theory right now, I already talked about that in a different post.) Natasha and Sonya wear white throughout the whole play. White often evokes the impression of kindness, angels, purity especially, etc. It's also the color of snow, which is mentioned a few times. So it can give off either pure/good vibes, or it can be cold, stark, and harsh. White also gives off feelings of luxury. Anatole also wears white when we first meet him, and later, white and black. (Before his green coat.) In Act II, Natasha adopts Anatole's affinity to white and black with her dressing gown.

We have our allies, our 'good guys', in warmer, more inviting colors. Marya in red, Pierre in yellow. Red gives off the feelings of luxury, royalty, dignity, anger, and passion, as well as other things. A fitting choice for Marya. It's also a color of celebration in a lot of cultures, so that's fun! Yellow, especially warm yellow like that of Pierre's waistcoat, is most oftenly associated with softer, gentler feelings of kindness. Like comfort and happiness. It's also a color associated with alcohol. Another fitting choice.

Then we have our other characters in black and white. Princess Mary, and my boy Dolokhov. These are as far apart on the brightness scale as possible (duh) and may represent some kind of internal conflict. We see both characters going through some shit. Mary with her... everything, and Dolokhov with his own debate of whether or not to keep supporting the abduction.

Section III: Lighting & The Stage Itself

We all know that GC has an absolutely fucking BONKERS stage. But we're just gonna talk about the colors for now. The stage is red with mostly gold railings. It feels very Russian, and very luxurious and fancy. Royal, even. It brings you into the world before the show even begins.

Then, we have the lighting. Oh boy, the LIGHTING. I could go on about the lighting for HOURS. But c'mon Audrey, just the colors right now. Of course we have the normal, warm lights for a lot of the play, which are good in setting the mood along with the stage. When Anatole first shows up, we get this huge fucking BURST of BRIGHTASS WHITE LIGHT. Bitch is ANNOUNCING HIMSELF. Remember the feelings of coldness, luxury, and shit I mentioned earlier? Yeah. We have that here.

Also we've got some beautiful blues during No One Else, which I just have to mention, because it makes Natasha look like a fucking ANGEL. "How beautiful you looked in the snow" DAMN RIGHT SONYA-

Then of course we have whatever the fuck's happening during The Duel. The bright flashing at the beginning disorients you, just like you'd feel if you were in an actual club/drunk. Then we have the lights mostly dimmed with a bluish tone to them, while the ensemble runs around in their fuckin light-up sketchers and shit. The bright neons definitely bring out the club feel more.

All in all, GC does some great shit with colors. Big brain, guys. Round of applause. Sorry this is a bit rushed and stuff- hope you enjoyed! Remember to vote for next week's topic!

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