#Under the fig trees

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

Sous les figues (Under the Fig Trees) (تحت الشجرة)

2022. Drama

By Erige Sehiri

Starring: Fedi Ben Achour, Firas Amri, Ameni Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Fide Fdhili, Gaith Mendassi, Abdelhak Mrabti, Leila Ouhebi, Hneya Ben Elhedi Sbahi, Samar Sifi

Country: Tunisia, France

Language: Arabic

[annaoisk]

[suchawrathfullamb]

I need this Will and this Hannibal falling in love and fucking tenderly hard in this aesthetic

[frodo-with-glasses]

In the Barrow, Part Two

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[saint-hymn]

hymn dearest hymn. what say you to a fic that rewrites the whole “revivebur making a deal with dreamxd” thing the way i thought it was gonna go before that stream happened. ft cwilbur experiencing the totality of the universe and also the end poem and basically having a transcendentalist mindfuck acid trip that was mostly just a test from dreamxd to see if his love or lack of faith was stronger

WHERE

[r1errr]

no, you don’t understand, real girlhood is eating chocolate cupcakes at one am and thinking about the Roman Empire, Sylvia Plath, 45 kg, about Lana Del Rey’s book, Cillian Murphy, finding inspiration for poems, films, Lady Jane Gray, Joan of Arc , why am I so ugly, Greek myths, pomegranate and fig tree, Camilla from secret history, books, self-hatred, will prayers come true, thirst for all the knowledge of the world, twentieth century, symbolism of the deer, fashion, history, and what to do after death

[lifewithdream]

Like some trees, some memories are evergreen

[littlemissbigears]

Girls be like, “This character gets me!” and the character is having an emotional breakdown

[presidentkittycherk]

my thing with jeffmads is i think jefferson likes to talk BIGGG on his freak and talk about all the things he wants to do to madison and i think he even ties him up and is lowkey dominant during foreplay etc but one it gets down to the nitty gritty i feel like it always ends up with madison booty blasting him. like i imagine him obviosly enjoying what jefferosn is doing but like lowky smug thinking like "ong im abt to rock his world!!!" while jefferson has him poorly tied to a chair or some shit giving him head idk... like on god the wholetime he knowssss hes got real control in this situation he just loves seeing jefferson do what he likes. (and something something hodling back his BEAST MODE FREAKKKKK meheheheheheheheheee)

cuz i think jefferson lovees tying him up and seeing the way his muscles look when restrained and the feeling of being dominant over his partner (that he also smugly knows is about to BOOTY BLAST HIM). my thing is i think hes

1. really bad at tying knots

2. hes alwasy doing some dumb shit like tying madison to the lamp on the nightstand and the whole time hes there madison has to make sure NOT to move his hands cuz he dont wanna make jefferson feel bad abt it or break anything!!!

but again, in the end i feel like the important takeaway is that jefferson is typically the one taking it up the butt even though he talks big!

[foundationsofdecay]

fruits!

[coralreeferband]

After forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: The one where George Washington is Hamilton's real dad, and he gets to be a dad this time. (The Aegisverse spinoff.)

Author: @herowndeliverance

[alessia-photography]

Caravaggio's Rome is My Rome the book I've been writing for the past 20 years

When I first moved to Italy in 2003 I began researching, writing, taking photographs, collecting recipes, stories, experiences; I began gathering together the material that would become The Book, My Book

The book, my book began its life as "Under a Fig Tree in Rome", my love letter to the five years I lived on the streets, named after my first home, a fig tree on the Tiber Island.

In first-person narrative I told the tales that weaved together those five years. A way of apologising, forgiving, celebrating, remembering those faces & places. An exorcism of ghosts of sorts as most of the characters i wrote about are dead now. My book is a memorial. A glorification of the inglorious. But it was no Kerouac. I printed and bound "Fig Tree" and placed it in my bookcase.

My obsession with Rome remained a roaring fire in my heart after i left the city in the summer of 2007. By 2009 I enrolled in the history of art program at Birkbeck, University of London, graduating with a Masters degree in 2017, the majority of my credits being Roman/ Renaissance modules. I had learnt a great deal which made me aware that I knew absolutely nothing.

In 2016 I began writing about Rome again, but from a different angle. My boyfriend had a rickshaw which he used to transport tourists around the city. I realised the rione of Rome I had lived in & written about in The Book, My Book was also the backdrop of Michael Merisi da Caravaggio's twelve years in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth century.

I began to draw different lines on the same map, joining dots, making connections. I wrote another book, based on a series of walks in which you saw the paintings of Caravaggio as well as where he lived, where he drank, where he worked overlayed with where I lived, where I drank, where (and what) I wrote. Caravaggio's Rome is My Rome.

The lockdowns of 2020-21 changed everything for Francesco & I. No tourists, no work. Required by law to stay at home, 25 km east of Piazza Navona, I began to explore my patch the city, Giardinetti, just off exit 18 of the Grande Raccordo Anullare, the ring road around Rome. My geography had changed. & then our circumstances changed too.

In December 2022 Francesco had a car accident that left him semi-paralysed. From the moment he was discharged from hospital in February of this year I became a cook, cleaner & carer. My Rome work became a Mrs Beaton-like grimoire of recipes, household management tips, hedgewitchery and notes on a nightmare commute - with a wheelchair - across the city relying on (extremely unreliable) public transport.

My role changed, so my Rome changed and the book, my book gets re-written, again. More like a Cy Twombley painting than ever - scribble, scribble, scribble, WORD IN CAPITAL LETTERS, whitened, sanded back, text comes through the titanium white.

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about how little things about someone you lost stick with you

[neil-gaiman]

Hey Neil, I had Good Omens S1 on yesterday for noise while I was doing work, and I remembered that there's been debates over of it was really an apple that Eve picked, or if it was a pomegranate or some other fruit. Did y'all choose to keep it an apple to have it universal? What was the decision on that for the show?

The bible only talks about the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing about what kind of fruit it was apart from that. It might have been (according to various theologians) a fig, a grape, a pomegranate, wheat, a psychoactive mushroom, even a banana. The apple theory is based on a Latin pun, according to some scholars, and according to one book I read long ago but cannot find with a google search, was pushed by the Church of Rome trying to get the Irish and British Churches back under their control as they were using cider as their communion wine.

(More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruit)

Fortunately, Terry and I were not called on to solve this problem. We were writing a funny book, and were thus able to do lots of jokes about eating apples, and didn't need to do and explain the banana jokes.

[thebestbrunettee]

imagine chiron sitting in his cave, and peering outside for just a moment. he sees a boy with messy dark waves and another with golden hair, chatting under a fig tree. for a moment he thinks it’s achilles and patroclus.

no.

it’s will and nico.

achilles and patroclus are dead, chiron… dead.