#Yasmine Reza

[space--butterflies]

so i just finished The Sacred Beast and like... Whatever happened to our little brother? Little guy just kinda vanished midway through chapter 1. Yeah, Yasmin mentions him once or twice in chapter 2 but beyond that... Hope we were able to save him at least.

[maddsmallow]

"dress up time princess: everyone has major fucking issues—the story"

except these two <33 hot mama yasmin who gets soft feelings for us and then we get a lil baby corey at the end?? yes PLEASE

[gayfrasier]

i watched tape (2001) and the entire time i was like WOW!!! I love this movie!! i want all the movies i see to be like this!! i love that it’s a small cast and the plot is just one big argument!!! i love that its so focused on the relational conflict between the characters!!! this is so cool!!!! is this what all independent films are like?? i should watch more independent films!!! and then. then the credits rolled. and i realized i just like plays

[pyra-morgana]

The Sacred Beast said ✨Gay Rights✨🏳️‍🌈

[henriduree]

Zitat d. W. 19

[girlactionfigure]

Spotted at the pro-Israel rally in Washington: Yasmine Pahlavi, wife of Persian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

The Iranian royal family lives in exile in America, where they remain strong supporters and allies of Israel.

[emylilas]

I know Love Actually is a Christmas romcom but my fics are never ready on time (the Easter chocolate hunt fic is staring at me in my WIP files).

Now, the real question is, should I write this 👇?  I did spend way too long writing that plot that was supposed to be short.

Vincent is a stage actor. The company he’s in will be playing God of Carnage, from the French playwright Yasmina Reza. This play presents two couples seemingly politely discussing the fact that one of the sons hit the other. Vincent is one of the fathers and Adriel plays the other one. Unlike Vincent, Adriel has made his career in Hollywood, he is well-known and well-loved by the public. Adriel’s ego makes him insufferable for everyone in the company but that’s not why Vincent is having such a hard time working with him. No. They have history together, and Vincent hasn’t forgotten that. 

Beatrice, the play director ー said to be one of the most promising directors of her generation ー is trying her best to ease the tensions between her two male leads because the words have gotten out that movie-star Adriel and his co-star could not stand each other. She doesn’t want that kind of press for her play. Ava, working at the opening, lets her know whenever journalists are trying to get information. 

Ava dreams of being a movie star. Waiting for an opportunity to present itself, she shares an apartment with her older sister, Shannon, and Shannon’s friend, Lilith. 

Shannon has graduated with a journalism degree and is now struggling with her debuts. As for Lilith, she works in a small flower shop. 

SEPTEMBER, 29th. That’s where she meets Camila, a student in computer science who likes to do random good things for people and who has decided, that day, to pick flowers for people in the nearest hospital. Shannon, passing by the shop to drop Lilith’s keys she forgot in the morning, sees Camila struggling with the many bouquets she has ー she offers to help her.

Mary works in this hospital as a nurse in oncology. Her patients find Camila’s initiative lovely. As a public hospital underfunded, nurses and doctors are overworked, there aren’t enough beds, patients must sometimes be left waiting in the hallways and wait for hours before someone can come check on them. It’s a shock for Shannon, because she can tell it’s not a lack of care from the staff, it’s a fault in the system.

Shannon wants to do something. She asks Mary what she thinks of the possibility of Shannon writing an article about the current situation in collaboration with nurses and clinicians. She doesn’t want sensationalism, she wants to raise awareness and point fingers where the fault lies. Mary is reluctant at first but eventually notices Shannon only means well. She suggests she talks to upper directions.

Mary’s best friend is Suzanne, a teacher, who’s Vincent’s little sister. Between her clumsy enthusiastic assistant, Yasmine, who means well but requires a lot of her time, her kind yet exhausting pupils and her brother’s awful mood because of Adriel, Suzanne has been begging Mary for a weekend away, just the two of them, to flee the stress of her everyday life. This little getaway would also be a great opportunity for Suzanne to set Mary on a date with a perfect stranger, since Mary has rejected anyone Suzanne knows.

OCTOBER, 15th. Tonight is the opening night and it couldn’t possibly be worse. Vincent and Adriel aren’t talking to each other, they refuse to get out of their respective lodge for the finale rehearsal and Beatrice has no other choice than to call their respective agents. She regrets her decision the moment she realises Francesco Duretti, Vincent’s agent from O.C.S, and Jillian Salvius, Adriel’s agent from F.B.C, are sworn enemies in their own business, constantly trying to steal each other’s actors. Despite their mutual contempt, they need to get the two actors back on stage before tonight, which won’t be easy considering Adriel won’t talk to Jillian and Vincent is ignoring Francesco’s calls.

Ava is the one who suggests to Jillian that she tries talking to Vincent’s sister because she’s the only one who scares him enough to get him to do anything. Ava has overheard Suzanne mention her students once, but she’s not sure which school it is, just that it’s nearby. Jillian visits three schools before finding the right one. Suzanne finds it weird, yet not completely not funny, to know that this stranger has been looking for the most part of her afternoon so she agrees to talk to her brother. Vincent eventually agrees to come out of his lodge and if Adriel doesn’t want any bad press, he has to play along.

The opening night goes smoothly, as opposed to the entire day. Everyone is in the room. Yasmine came with her roommate Camila who came with Lilith who herself came with Ava and Shannon. Mary came with Suzanne. Jillian and Francesco are there to make sure their actors won’t try running away during intermission. Everyone gets to stay for the After Party, Beatrice lets Ava know her friends are more than welcome.

Suzanne gets to meet Shannon and she quickly notices her interest in Mary that has grown while the two of them were working together for the article. And Suzanne has heard a lot about Shannon from her friend. She just needs to get Mary to be brave enough to ask Shannon on a date. 

Yasmine, Camila and Lilith hang out together, they like staying near the buffet and try to guess people’s most embarrassing secrets.

Ava gets the courage to tell Beatrice that she inspires her. Beatrice could faint but eventually confesses to her that she kept her distance because she was scared Ava’s attempt at getting closer only was to get a first role somewhere. It hurts Ava that Beatrice would think something like that but she understands it must have happened before for it to be such a strong fear. She promises she has no secret interests behind her willingness to get to know Beatrice better.

Jillian manages to steal Suzanne from her brother, Francesco and their friends for a few minutes. She thanks her again for allowing the situation to go back to normal. Suzanne is reluctant to talk to the agent, Francesco has warned her about Jillian Salvius’ questionable methods. Jillian ensures her that her brother is not the one she’s interested in. She tells Suzanne that if she ever gets bored of the five men she seems to be destined to spend her evening with, she can come find her later. Later that night, Suzanne gets a text from an unknown number:

“You didn’t come.” “How did you get my number?” “Questionable methods ;)” “You had already left.”

Jillian actually asked Ava if she could ask Suzanne’s number to Vincent. Ava instead asked her sister to ask Mary. Jillian had left the party in a hurry after a call from her babysitter informing her that her son, Michael, was running a fever. Her 8 years old only recently recovered from leukaemia. His first nurse when he was 4 was Mary.

NOVEMBER, 2nd. Taking a walk in the city with Suzanne, Mary recognises Jillian and Michael in a park. She tells Suzanne she needs to say hi. That’s how Suzanne meets Michael for the first time and how Mary understands Jillian is the woman Suzanne has been talking to since the opening night without ever agreeing to meet her on a proper date. Michael tells Mary that, for Halloween, he was dressed as Dr Noru, the scary chief of oncology. Mary laughs, because Dr Noru was indeed terrifying. Later that day, Mary offers Suzanne a deal: if she goes on a date with Jillian, she’ll ask Shannon out. It’s a deal.

NOVEMBER, 10th. Ava knows it’s Beatrice’s birthday. She asks Lilith and Shannon to disappear for the night so she can have their place. She cooks, bakes, and decorates the room for Beatrice. She buys her flowers, the English tea that Ava has noticed Beatrice had run out of, and she has collected all positive reviews about the play and specifically Beatrice as a director in a journal that she’ll give to her. She knows Beatrice doesn’t have plans so she calls her and asks her to come over because she has some very important news to share with her. Beatrice is grumpy when she shows up, thinking Ava is going to tell her she was offered her first role and would soon have to leave. She bursts into tears when she realises what Ava has done for her. It turns out Ava is a great baker but a terrible cook. They end up ordering food and spend the entire evening talking. Ava asks if Beatrice wants to stay over. They fall asleep in Ava’s room, watching a movie together.

In the meantime, Lilith is enjoying board game night at Yasmine and Camila’s. They have invited their friends Hans, Todd and Chanel to join them and Lilith really enjoys Chanel’s company. 

Shannon has asked Mary if she was free tonight because her sister was kicking her out of home. Mary’s shift supposedly ended at 8pm. It’s 10 when she finally gets out. She’s too tired to go anywhere and Shannon offers to just make them both dinner and then let Mary sleep. Mary tells her she can stay. Shannon is shy and doesn’t want to cross any boundaries so when Mary is asleep, she leaves a note on the kitchen counter and goes back home where she finds burnt cannelloni in the shrink.

DECEMBER, 14th. Suzanne’s class goes to visit the Science Museum with another class that turns out to be Michael’s class. He’s happy to see her, she’s been at his home a few times lately but has never stayed long. He spends the whole visit holding her hand. When it’s time for parents to come pick their children, Michael’s teacher complains that Jillian is late again. Suzanne tells her to go, she’ll bring Michael home, she knows his mother. When Jillian opens the door, she’s paler than usual and she’s slightly shaking. Food poisoning, she explains to Suzanne. There’s no risk for Michael to catch it so they should be fine. She thanks Suzanne for bringing him home. Suzanne doesn’t leave her a choice and walks in. She helps Michael with her homework, makes Jillian rest on the couch with a bucket on the ground for emergencies and busies herself with making something for dinner that Jillian’s stomach might not immediately reject.

DECEMBER, 20th. Love actually is a Christmas movie so it’s Christmas!

It’s the last day the theatre is open for the season and the last representation of Gods of carnage tonight. They’re having a little Christmas party after. It’s just them, it’s nothing much but Ava insisted they did a Secret Santa this year with the possibility of only giving something homemade. After the party, Ava asks Beatrice what she’s going to do for Christmas. Beatrice won’t fly home. There’s nothing stopping her from accepting Ava’s invitation to come celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas and Post Christmas with her, her sister and their friends. Neither Ava or Beatrice are very certain of what they are to each other. Both hope.

Lilith invited Camila and Yasmine and told them to bring Hans, Todd and Chanel if they had nothing better to do. Todd will spend the holidays with his family but Hans won’t go back to Switzerland and Chanel has lost contact with her family, they’re delighted to have this Christmas time with their friends. Shannon and Ava can’t stop teasing Lilith at how delighted she is to learn that Chanel will be here.

Shannon knows Mary will be working on Christmas and asks if it’s okay if she comes to the hospital to spend time with her during her breaks. She could bake Christmas cookies for the patients and the staff. Mary tells her that will make a lot of Christmas cookies. Shannon spends the whole day baking to make sure there are enough for everyone.

It’s the last day of school and when Suzanne hands the last kid to his parents and tells them to enjoy the holidays, she notices Yasmine coming back with Michael’s hand glued to hers. “He was looking for you.” Michael wants Suzanne to spend Christmas with them. Disclosed reason: she needs to save them from Jillian’s cooking. Secret reason: he saw mistletoe at the flower shop near their house and is planning to buy some for his mum and her friend who should really be her girlfriend instead. Suzanne calls Jillian to make sure she doesn’t go into cardiac arrest when Michael’s teacher tells her he’s already left. Suzanne drops him home and before she leaves, Jillian shyly asks what her plans for the holidays are.

CHRISTMAS filled with Christmas activities (hot chocolate, gingerbread houses, decorating a tree, Christmas cooking, Christmas movies, board games, ice skiing, snowball fight, building a snowman, cuddling by the fireplace, kissing under the mistletoe, last minute Christmas shopping…)

SO, should I write this?

[bitter-as-wormwood-13]

Aughhhhhh Not to time princess blog but I'm playing the Sacred Beast for the first time and Ive done the Yazdan route and I'm in the middle of the Reza route and like..... is Reza gonna be Anson 2 for me? like the guy who is at least objectively somewhat evil but acts nice at the start and is a romantic interest so you're not even starting with the premise of Villain romance (fine and normal enough) you're just going "oh I like this guy! ...what do you mean he's evil?"

I mean. tbh Reza is in a worse spot than Anson for me rn because part of his actions were the inherent story setup of Rae and Zackarias are engaged because I didnt choose that. To some extent you the player are supposed to have choices but if I the player had the choices I wanted, I would not be engaged to Zackarias and Anson wouldn't be kidnapping Rae to trap her in a time loop because I would just. be his girlfriend. it's not an excuse for the kidnapping obviously, but the way the story jumps around really lends to the "well I would simply not do that" vibe because it HAS to go the same because that's how you get to the first part of the story.

Meanwhile, Reza...... like, respect for taking action I guess and its not like the people in power were good but.... He's just doing stuff. I'm assuming there's a neutral ending where maybe he turns out ok, especially based on the valentines(?) event where Anson went to Persia (which is uh. really funny looking at it now with the comparisons I'm making) but right now he's just a meaniehead

...when I started the story I thought that maybe, MAYBE there would be a route where Yazdan/Reza happened because of that one CG but I'm doubting it now. If they won't do it I will. Gimme the yaoi ray (and the yuri ray. Asha/Yasmin too)

[ldagence-royal]

Princess Noor Pahlavi is the first Child of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Princess Yasmine Pahlavi. The Iranian lmperial Family around Princess Noor Pahlavi had to flee into Exile

[loreofthelost]

Jadir Al Jazirat Aldaayiein

Legal Name: Jadir Al Jazirat Aldaayiein

Nicknames: Jay

Aliases: The Cobra Prince, Knife of the Cliffs, Price of Thieves

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Height: 6'2

Hair: Brown

Scars/Birthmarks: Scar across right cheek & eye, scars across back and hands

Other Distinguishing Features: Gold and Ruby jewelry, Red eyes, fairy tattoo on left pec

Appearance: Red, Yellow and Brown clothes, pockets, snake motifs

Birthday: 15th March

Gang: Fae Syndicate

Known Family: Sadira (Mother), Jafer (Father), Yasmine Al Jazirat Aldaayiein (Twin Sister), Cormac Stabbington (Brother), Reza Vizier (Brother), (Other Relatives)

[purpledragongifs]

Asha with Yasmin, Reza, & Yazdan (respectively) ~ The Sacred Beast Time Princess ~ IGG, Inc.

Gifs made by purpledragongifs. All gifs are 220px wide.  Please do not delete credits.

[silverloreley]

Very disappointed that the Valentine story was set in Sacred Beast but was all about that Anson twink who I had literally no attachment to since I didn’t even consider playing House of Horrors. I mean, I had Yazdan, Reza and Yasmin there but I had to romance the sickly (possibly dead) victorian child? Meh

[hottakesdutp]

It's pride month y'all!

🏳️‍🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈

[raindropsonroses123]

Books Read in 2022

rereads in italics, favorites in bold

1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling

2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling

3. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang

4. Saints by Gene Luen Yang

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling

6. Topaz by Leon Uris

7. Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

8. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling

10. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

11. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

12. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War by Charles B Dew

13. The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling

15. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone by Seamus Heaney

16. The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

17. Hidden Mercy: Aids, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear by Michael J O’Loughlin

18. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

19. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W Blight

20. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

21. Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

22. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry

23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling

24. Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian

25. Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay by James Alison

26. Richard III by William Shakespeare

27. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

28. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

29. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

30. The Fortunes of War by Patrick O’Brian

31. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab

32. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

33. The PIllowman by Martin McDonagh

34. Free Thought and Official Propaganda by Bertrand Russell

35. The Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

36. The Open Society and its Enemies, Volume One: Plato by Karl Popper

37. The Problem of Pain by C S Lewis

38. The Open Society and its Enemies, Volume Two: Hegel and Marx by Karl Popper

39. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

40. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer

41. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

42. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

43. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

44. Persuasion by Jane Austen

45. Dead Cert by Dick Francis

46. Art by Yasmin Reza

47. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik

48. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

49. The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A Hayek

50. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

51. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

52. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

53. Blackout by Simon Scarrow

54. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

55. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

56. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

57. The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol

58. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton

59. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

60. Recitatif by Toni Morrison

61. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw

62. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

63. How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

64. The Trial by Franz Kafka

65. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

66. The City of Brass by S A Chakraborty

67. Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett

68. Common Sense by Thomas Paine

69. The Crisis by Thomas Paine

70. Dracula by Bram Stoker

71. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States by Ronald Grigor Suny

72. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

73. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

74. Angels in America by Tony Kushner

75. Melmoth by Sarah Perry

76. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

77. How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell

78. The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper

79. The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth

80. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

81. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

82. Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease

[considerandos]

Envelhecer

Contrariamente ao homem, que pode entregar-se ao desânimo e à melancolia. A partir de uma certa idade, a mulher está condenada ao bom humor. Quando ficas de trombas aos vinte anos és sexy, aos sessenta és uma chata.

Yasmine Reza

Esta constatação de Yasmine Reza, controversa e cheia de excepções (que só confirmam a regra), parece-me esconder algo de verdadeiro e que justifica reflexão.

A primeira constatação evidente é que as mulheres, por regra, são muito mais sociais do que os homens. Por isso, para a maior parte delas, fechar-se entre a casa e o trabalho não é uma opção. Isso seria morrer, entregar-se ao processo de envelhecimento, que elas retardam a todo o custo, incluindo cosméticos car��ssimos, com alegados poderes de rejuvenescimento, roupas coloridas e vistosas, por vezes exibindo ousadias que não possuiam em jovens, ginásios de fitness, de wellness e de tudo o mais, que possa revitalizar o corpo e a alma, dietas rigorosissimas, para manter a linha e mais toda uma panóplia de práticas e mezinhas para se manterem jovens, se não de corpo, pelo menos de espírito.

Já os homens estão, geralmente, completamente a borrifar-se para os laços sociais. Por estranho que possa parecer, os homens são extremamente egoístas, no seu relacionamento com as outras pessoas. Dos outros ou esperam dinheiro, ou poder ou sexo. Se estes mobeis desaparecerem, ou se suavizarem com a idade, ficam perdidos e entregam-se ao trabalho, à depressão, ao álcool e ao colesterol.

Quem anda nos ginásios e a encher-se de proteína não são os velhos, que mais disso precisavam, mas os novos, para engatar gajas.

Os homens, a partir dos cinquenta, até podem fazer algumas concessões à dieta, sempre contrariados e por imposição médica, relembrada à exaustão pelas mulheres e as filhas, quando as têm. Não é por convicção, não é por brio ou vontade de parecer mais novos que as fazem, é mesmo por obrigação, que no entanto quebram logo que podem, assim que a polícia doméstica virar as costas.

Vivem as crises de meia idade com carros mais potentes, com implantes de cabelo, mas sobretudo com bons restaurantes, whiskies caros, viagens às Maldivas. Tudo em nome de um estatuto social que lhes encha o ego e o estômago e lhes permita afirmar, perante os outros, que são bem sucedidos na vida.

Enquanto as mulheres procuram integrar-se, criar laços, retomar amizades antigas, os homens atiram à cara do mundo que estão velhos e barrigudos, mas andam de Mercedes e comem nos melhores restaurantes. E se isso lhes cria laços, não são seguramente de amizade, mas de interesse, de inveja. No entanto, isso chega-lhes. A inveja é a prova do sucesso.

Isto os que podem, naturalmente. Porque os outros, se os há que tentam ridiculamente impressionar os demais com um telemóvel de última geração ou um SUV, daqueles que toda a gente tem, que estão a pagar a prestações, só para não ficarem atrás dos outros, também há quem se entregue à solidão do trabalho ou da reforma, temperados com álcool e antidepressivos.

Não é uma atitude muito inteligente, reconheço. Mas a inteligência não tem muito a ver com a natureza. Não está na natureza do sexo masculino a grande sociabilidade. Quando se manifesta, até faz levantar suspeitas de homossexualidade. O homem não tem prazer na conversa, excepto sobre futebol e mulheres e só alguns. A geração anterior ainda gostava de discutir política, mas o descrédito da política é tal, que são cada vez menos os que se interessam pelo assunto. A menos que estejam nela envolvidos, que tenham alguma coisa a ganhar ou a perder, pessoalmente, com os resultados eleitorais. Mas nesse caso é o interesse a falar, não é a sociabilidade ou os laços de amizade.

Afinal onde está a amizade dos homens a partir dos cinquentas? Pelas ruas da amargura. É uma idade em que a vida já nos deu tantas lições, que nem nos amigos se confia. Por isso não se tem amizades, tem-se contactos, conhecimentos, parcerias. É tudo um jogo de influências, de aparências e de interesses.

E o que fazem as mulheres com os seus laços sentimentais? Falam muito, é um facto, como se o falar lhes desse nova vida, as afastasse do eterno fantasma da morte. Falam tanto que, quando largam umas, vão falar com outras, geralmente a dizer mal das primeiras e vice-versa. Também exibem vaidades, comparam roupas, quilos, o sucesso dos filhos e dos maridos.

No fundo nada disto tem muito de inteligente. De uma forma ou de outra, as pessoas distraem-se para evitar terem que pensar naquilo que não querem, de confrontar os problemas e a realidade. É um alheamento conveniente, uma entrega instintiva ao fútil, para disfarçar os traumas que a vida lhes causou e pior, os que ainda estão para vir, quase a bater-lhes à porta.

Será que conseguem alguns momentos de felicidade, entre tantas futilidades?

Isso sim, seria motivo de inveja.

30 de Janeiro de 2024

[loraculis]

i am one again asking for everyone on the dutp fandom to read the sacred beast. there’s romance for the wlw, for those who love handsome guys, and for those who wants to suffer