#anyway dorothy 🫶

[leojurand]

you need so much brain power to read dunnett in part because you're constantly trying to figure out why characters are doing whatever the fuck they're doing. this information will not be presented to you in a clear and concise way. sometimes the characters themselves don't even know the reason they're doing those things, so you have to figure out things that are hidden from you by the author, and from the character because repression/self-denial/trauma/etc. sometimes they know exactly why they're doing all of that, but they have so much more information than you do, so you're at a disadvantage still. if you're lucky you'll be following a character who is honest and open about their feelings... but this is a dorothy dunnett novel so those characters are 1 out of a 100.

and i wouldn't have it any other way!! i can imagine how these books would be written by someone who didn't love subtlety as much, or someone who didn't trust their readers enough. they'd be so, so much worse, that's for sure

[littlecoffeeadict]

Bridgerton DR Script✨️👗🩵

-Princess Natalia Dorothea of Brussels

-Sister of Prince Henry of Brussels

-Niece of Queen Charlotte

-I Went away from Home at 16 and startet to travel the world by ship

-I'm now 23 years of age

-Came to London to see my brother, but arrived a few days before the season began

-I'm staying at the palace of the queen, who adores me

-The King also likes md, and the Queen likes to say I've turned him into quite the feminist

-I'm called Natty by Eloise, Collin and Antony Brigderton and by Penelope Featherington, Dodie by my brother Henry, and Dorothy by Benjamin and Daphne Bridgerton

-I'm a feminist

-I have a wild spirit

-I'm amazing at fencing, know how to sail realy Well and have exelent horsemenship, also a good dancer

-Dresses in dark red and brown shades, dark greens, dark orange, Black and white, and also a dark Violett

-I Speak german, english, french, spanish, greek, latin, Hindi, italian, russian and sweedish, because I was taught as a child and traveled to those countrys

-I Have been close friends with all the Bridgertons, esspecialy with Eloise and Ben, since I was 6

-My parents send me to my aunt and uncle when I was little, where I met the Bridgerton children on the market and became friends with them

-Visited them till I was 14

-Ran away with 16 and startet writing Letters to the Bridgertons

-I have a dog named Nick who is currently 3 years old. I picked him up in the streets of venice as a pup, and he has been at my side ever since. He likes to play and protects me at all cost. He likes to cuddle a lot and to run side by side with the horses when they run.

Nick:

Face Claim:

So Yeah thats it, a little different today cause I originally made that script on Samsung Notes but was to lazy to edit it completly.

Anyways have a great Day byeee✨️🫶

[dteamain]

Hello! Happy June! It's Pride and I have another question (8/30)

HiHi, today we are again diving into the evolution of another word: queer!

The word queer entered the English language around the 16th century, and initially meant "strange", "odd" or "eccentric". (This is a slightly unrelated sidenote; as someone whose dialect of English is Hiberno-English, the word queer is still very commonly used to still mean this, and has also evolved to the word "quare" which can be used in place of "really" or "very" to provide adverbial emphasis <- like if someone is "quare tall" they're so tall that you're kinda in a little disbelief about it. Anyway just thought this was a fun side note because I really had not realised this word was controversial for people until I was on the internet)

Anyway, onto the late 19th century, the word queer began to have the connotation of "sexual deviance", before then starting to be used specifically about the "sexual deviance" of "feminine men".

The first, or at least one of the first, recorded time that the word queer was used as a pejorative for gay was in a letter written by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquis of Queensberry, about his son's relationship with Oscar Wilde. This letter was read out in Wilde's trial in April 1895 (in which he was being tried for "gross indecency" or "homosexuality"), and in it Douglas refers to Wilde and other gay men at the time as "Snob Queers". It is believed that American newspapers picked up this phrase and began using it themselves, thus spreading the pejorative to the US's vocabulary.

"The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang" (1937) defined the word queer as "Homosexual. Derogatory from the outside, not from within. US, 1914", which tells us both that by 1914 it was a common pejorative or insult for gay people, but also, that queer people were using the word to refer to themselves as well. Around this time, queer, fairy, trade and gay all signified distinct "categories" of homosexual men. Historian George Chauncey notes in his book ("Gay New York") that queer would've been the self-identifier of ""masculine"" gay men.

We can also assume that this is what was happening in the U.K. as well, as a letter held in the National Archives shows us (you can look up the letter in full, search the full name of the person and "My Dear Billy"). This letter was written by a man named Cyril Coeur de Leon to ‘My Dear Billy’ in 1934. Billy was the owner of "The Caravan Club", a ""disorderly house"" of ""male prostitutes"", and in it he writes "Just a note to say that I am very disappointed about you. I honestly thought you were queer, but different from the others, and I liked you very much […] I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I knew nothing about it." This use of queer is arguably ahead of it's time, given that at this point queer was exclusively about gay men, whereas de Leon mentions he "still likes girls occasionally".

Over the years though, queer has evolved from the narrow definition of "gay man" to "gay men and lesbians" to "anyone not heterosexual" to "not heterosexual and/or not cisgender". And despite the fact that for the majority of the time that it has meant "gay" it has been used by the community, some people are still of the opinion that the word is "too offensive" to be used, but thankfully, this argument isn't as common as it was in the 90s and 00s, though still annoying persistent.

And as for my question, today I want to know firstly, if you use the word queer yourself? and secondly, what is your favourite word/way to refer to the queer community? (for example, "friend of dorothy" is funny to drop into conversation, and today I spoke to some who said they were "looking forward to meeting other *limp hand movement* at [pub name] tonight!")

Happy Pride 🌈 🎉

i do use queer on myself it is probably the most comfortable term for me 🫶

[drjohndisco]

WAIT HELLO HI I know I saw the RDA pfp in my notifs when you followed me & I went 👀, but then when I saw the name Killian in the tags just now… I was like wHO IS THIS & ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT MY KILLIAN? 😭

I absolutely love the url for your carrd! Relatable!!! August is such a good choice for a OUAT f/o, I def thought he was pretty but tbf I have like 7 or 8 crushes from that show, last time I remembered. Yes, Killian is one of them 💀 he has a whole tag on my blog lol I’m so basic.

Anyway, it’s nice to meet another OUAT shipper & I’m excited to see more of your content 🫶🏻

(Help. Not the RDA icon callout. 😂 Jack's the only thing in my head at the moment.)

Anyway. Hello!! I apologise for the tag dump in your notifications, I didn't mean for it to get that long. Also, being basic isn't a bad thing.

I do also have Ruby/Belle canon and Ruby/Dorothy canon (with beetle - my other si), but don't talk about them as much. The AugustRain canon is certainly far more fleshed out. And that's not even mentioning my other misc. aus. (I'm incapable of being normal about my interests.)

Also? All I've seen of your content (so far) has been so good. Immaculate vibes!! :D

Feel free to come into my inbox anytime.

[leojurand]

—Dorothy Dunnett, The Lymond Chronicles / King Hereafter / House of Niccolò