#beatrice e. ⇨ study

[smthscoming]

introducing a new verse and group of muses! here's a quick overview of the muses populating the enfield project verse; more details below the cut. leave a like if you'd like to plot with any of these muses!

rohan ojha, 30, he/him, dev patel → available

ash dizon, 31, he/him, manny jacinto → selective / mutuals only

isa yousry, 32, she/her, may calamawy → available

kyrie pierce, 26, she/her, maika monroe → available emerson pierce, 26, she/he/they, maika monroe → available

mitzi morino, 21, she/her, devyn nekoda → available

river mccourt, 27, he/him, barry keoghan / paul mescal → selective / mutuals only

sadie almira, 22, they/she, lizeth selene → available

dimitri enfield, 45, he/him, hugh dancy → available

andromeda vidal enfield, 37, she/her, caroline dhavernas / rebecca ferguson → available

beatrice enfield, 43, she/her, morena baccarin → available

fortysomething years ago, a man named godwin enfield decided, in a show of breathtaking ego, to adopt a bunch of children and train them to be ruthless killers. it did not work out well; while enfield's physical training was exceptional, he did not care for the emotional and developmental needs of his adoptive children, and they turned out... not so well. this was in part the cause of a few deaths, and more than a few catastrophic fights. only three enfields remain in contact today: andromeda, beatrice, and dimitri, the last of which took it upon himself to continue his father's legacy with a new batch of children. although he's certainly trying to be better than his father was, dimitri's kids haven't exactly grown up to be very stable themselves. at least he didn't insist they all take his last name.

muses

dimitri enfield, 45, he/him, hugh dancy the only remaining enfield sibling interested in continuing his father's legacy. a significant leg injury when he was 25 rendered him basically useless in fights; he's still a crack shot, though. a decent father figure, but not responsible enough to handle the messes he creates.

andromeda vidal enfield, 37, she/her, caroline dhavernas / rebecca ferguson possibly the most well-adjusted enfield sibling. after she left her father's estate, she joined the service; now she's off active duty and remains a handler at quantico. married, then divorced, a man she worked with. she doesn't approve of dimitri's project, but still harbours a lot of affection for him, and enjoys spending time with his kids.

beatrice enfield, 43, she/her, morena baccarin unstable kinda evil wine aunt. nobody really knows what it is she does and she's quick to shut down any attempts to find out. she probably likes dimitri and his kids, but she also thinks throwing unexpected knives to test their reflexes is fun, so it's anyone's guess.

rohan ojha, 30, he/him, dev patel one of dimitri's first children. he sees himself as the older brother who should look after his siblings, but is beginning to realise the limits of his father's ability, and by extension his own. the model grumpy protective assassin old man enfield would have loved. does not get on well with his brother ash.

ash dizon, 31, he/him, manny jacinto one of dimitri's first children. tough to train as a kid; the trouble he caused nearly led dimitri to shut the programme down before it got off the ground. quit to be a boxer. has a soft spot for the younger ones, and loves to push rohan's buttons.

isa yousry, 32, she/her, may calamawy successful graduate of dimitri's programme. something of a passionate bleeding heart but very aggressive about her cause too. lawyer by day, vigilante by night. she is clearly their father's favourite, and her brothers do not begrudge her this role.

kyrie pierce, 26, she/her & emerson pierce, 26, she/he/they, maika monroe twins who absolutely do not get along. emerson is older, callous and dismissive. he ran away to join a criminal gang at 18, returning after 3 years. kyrie is charismatic and calculative, and often acts as her siblings' lure; she always cries while cleaning up the blood.

mitzi morino, 21, she/her, devyn nekoda their guy in the chair. she knows the ins and outs of any place with a working digital system, and enjoys delivering a running commentary in her siblings' ears as she watches them go about their job through the cameras. not even one of dimitri's kids; she figured their situation out and hunted the enfields down when she was 13.

river mccourt, 27, he/him, barry keoghan / paul mescal the other guy in the chair. he likes analysing fight styles and coming up with strategies, not that anyone ever takes his advice. wanted to be out in the field too, but he gets too stuck in his own head to be a good fighter.

sadie almira, 22, they/she, lizeth selene deeply awkward with expressing genuine emotions, but mean comments come easy to them. a great actor, though; they're always the one sent in for infiltration and reconnaissance. an amazing baker.

writer's notes

yeah so this is my umbrella academy take. second generation for more trauma babey! i didn't wanna mess with superpowers this time so i worked with assassins; equally lethal, less supernatural, less ethically inclined. was this incredibly ambitious? yes! was it also fun to do? absolutely.

i made this verse in a way that leaves space for a lot of other characters of either generation, and i would LOVE to have affiliates with it! (mutuals only please)

some fcs i would really like to see in this verse: jacob anderson, charlie cox, emma d'arcy, courtney eaton, colin farrell, gong yoo, kathryn hahn, boyd holbrook, oscar isaac, devery jacobs, lee dong-wook, matilda lutz, cristin milioti, murakami nijiro, keke palmer, rosamund pike, sebastian stan, dan stevens, aaron taylor-johnson, umbrella academy faces, hannibal faces

i'm playing fast and loose with ages here. the older kids probably see dimitri less as a dad and more of an older brother; he did legally have custody of them at some point (except mitzi) so he's technically dad to everyone

i just KNOW beatrice calls him mimi to press his buttons

isa is clearly the favourite but rohan and ash have some sort of a complex going on between them when it comes to dimitri. he sees rohan as compensation for his own failings to his father, while all ash can see are dimitri's failures as a parent. yes rohan does fight big and heavy and ash fights fast and wiry. why do you ask?

yeah isa is just daredevil. i'm being derivative

andromeda is recycled from an existing muse that wasn't really going anywhere

the first gen muses are probably more secondary but i wanted to have a glimpse into that world too, like, what would it be like to be incredibly talented but also deeply damaged from being parented purely to develop that talent? and how would one function as an adult?

while i was casting this i realised how i don't really like fcs that are only from sitcom-type shows / pure drama series because they don't have a range of motion and the framing is boring... lizeth selene is on thin ice for this but i really like their look

as usual assume all muses are queer unless stated otherwise. if anyone had to be straight it would probably be isa but that's boring.

[queerographies]

[Teoria Crip][Robert McRuer]

Più interessato a porre domande che a trovare risposte, in Teoria Crip Robert McRuer sceglie una strada pericolosa, determinato a scuotere il sistema dalle fondamenta.

Analisi sulla disabilità e sulla queerness ormai sono al centro del dibattito in ogni società. Entrambi i campi di studio si occupano d’altra parte di corpi, piaceri e identità, eppure il modo in cui questi due ambiti disciplinari si intrecciano e si scambiano informazioni è ancora tutto da scoprire. Attingendo alla teoria femminista, alle teorie culturali afroamericane e latinoamericane, alla…

[eesirachs]

For a school assignment, I'm assembling an anthology around the theme of queer divinity and desire, but I'm having a hard time finding a fitting essay/article (no access to real academic catalogues :/ ), do you know of any essays around this theme?

below are essays, and then books, on queer theory (in which 'queer' has a different connotation than in regular speech) in the hebrew bible/ancient near east. if there is a particular prophet you want more of, or a particular topic (ištar, or penetration, or appetites), or if you want a pdf of anything, please let me know.

essays: Boer, Roland. “Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or How to Organize a Prophetic Sausage-Fest.” TS 16, no. 1 (2010b): 95–108. Boer, Roland. “Yahweh as Top: A Lost Targum.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 75–105. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Boyarin, Daniel. “Are There Any Jews in ‘The History of Sexuality’?” Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, no. 3 (1995): 333–55. Clines, David J. A. “He-Prophets: Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and Their Interpreters.” In Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll, edited by Robert P. Carroll, Alastair G. Hunter, and Philip R. Davies, 311–27. JSOTSup 348. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Graybill, Rhiannon. “Yahweh as Maternal Vampire in Second Isaiah: Reading from Violence to Fluid Possibility with Luce Irigaray.” Journal of feminist studies in religion 33, no. 1 (2017): 9–25. Haddox, Susan E. “Engaging Images in the Prophets: Feminist Scholarship on the Book of the Twelve.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. 1. Biblical Books, edited by Susanne Scholz, 170–91. RRBS 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013. Koch, Timothy R. “Cruising as Methodology: Homoeroticism and the Scriptures.” In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone, 169–80. JSOTSup 334. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 2001. Tigay, Jeffrey. “‘ Heavy of Mouth’ and ‘Heavy of Tongue’: On Moses’ Speech Difficulty.” BASOR, no. 231 (October 1978): 57–67.

books: Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Bauer-Levesque, Angela. Gender in the Book of Jeremiah: A Feminist-Literary Reading. SiBL 5. New York: P. Lang, 1999. Black, Fiona C., and Jennifer L. Koosed, eds. Reading with Feeling : Affect Theory and the Bible. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019. Brenner, Athalya. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and “Sexuality” in the Hebrew Bible. BIS 26. Leiden: Brill, 1997. Camp, Claudia V. Wise, Strange, and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible. JSOTSup 320. Gender, Culture, Theory 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Chapman, Cynthia R. The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter. HSM 62. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004. Creangă, Ovidiu, ed. Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. BMW 33. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. God’s Phallus: And Other Problems for Men and Monotheism. Boston: Beacon, 1995. Huber, Lynn R., and Rhiannon Graybill, eds. The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality : Critical Readings. London, UK ; T&T Clark, 2021. Guest, Deryn. When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics. London: SCM, 2005. Graybill, Rhiannon, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice J. W. Lawrence, eds. Rape Culture and Religious Studies : Critical and Pedagogical Engagements. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019. Graybill, Rhiannon. Are We Not Men? : Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets. New York, NY: Oxford University Press USA, 2016. Halperin, David J. Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Jennings, Theodore W. Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. New York: Continuum, 2005. Macwilliam, Stuart. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. BibleWorld. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. Maier, Christl. Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2008. Mills, Mary E. Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. LHB/OTS 479. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2007. Stökl, Jonathan, and Corrine L. Carvalho. Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East. AIL 15. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2013. Stone, Ken. Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. Queering Theology Series. London: T & T Clark International, 2004. Weems, Renita J. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. OBT. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.

[knaveumineko]

Umineko Episode 1 Blog: A Seance

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Let's finally talk about Kinzo, who is impressively active for a man of his age who is also dead.

Kinzo is the only character in the entire story who never appears in any 1st person scene (unless you want to make some roundabout argument about Beatrice). He is in his study in every scene, until he disappears and his body is discovered in the incinerator.

Putting our meta hats on, it's easy to think that Kinzo may have been dead for the entire story, and every scene featuring him is fake. It's definitely the sort of twist that the narrative device of changing POV is designed to facilitate, and it provides a payoff for everyone constantly talking about how weird it is that Kinzo has survived so long (as well as Nanjo's vagueness about how long he's got left). Still, if Kinzo is dead, then this has some implications. Namely, who is in charge of the estate right now? Does everyone living in the house know that Kinzo is dead?

The "furniture" must know, because they are the closest ones to Kinzo and the story constantly drives home that they are uniquely permitted to enter the study. Nanjo knows because he would have confirmed Kinzo's death on the scene. Natsuhi would have to know about Kinzo being dead, because there is no other reasonable explanation for Kinzo's "disappearance": if Kinzo is dead, then he clearly wasn't in his study when Natsuhi said she checked on him. If we take a page out of Battler's book and "spin the chessboard around," maintaining the lie that Kinzo is still alive can't possibly last forever. It is blatantly a stalling tactic, which only benefits the people currently managing his finances: Krauss and Natsuhi.

An indication that he knows something, or simply dramatic irony?

Whether Krauss knows is harder to deduce. On one hand, the scheme seems designed to benefit him, and he is the one who always goes to try and fetch Kinzo. On the other hand, Krauss is always depicted as not actually entering the study on these visits, and Natsuhi has this whole character trait where she's frustrated by her husband's lack of appreciation for everything she does to help him.

Natsuhi is also characterised by a fixation on the prestige associated with the Ushiromiya name, and maintaining appearances like this seems in-character for her. She even seems to be the de-facto head of the house. She's always the one giving orders to the servants and she's even hiring her own staff now.

Gohda and Jessica could feasibly be in the dark on the whole thing. In general, I lean toward thinking that the younger characters are honest about important matters. I really can't see any of the siblings sharing any kind of conspiracy with the grandchildren, given their general contempt for them. Gohda is the only servant who isn't furniture, and isn't allowed in the study, so he could probably be tricked as long as he follows orders and doesn't go poking his nose where it doesn't belong.

Kinzo's death would also neatly solve the problem of his ring. There is no need to steal it from him if he was already dead. This does open up the question of what Natsuhi thinks has happened to the ring. She eventually seems convinced that the servants have it and are behind the letters, which is why she threatens them, but what about before then? Does she think the ring has been stolen by the killer?

Speaking of Natsuhi, her interaction with "Kinzo" reflects a lot about her frustrations.

He seems pretty out of character here. Kinzo is the patriarch of a deeply hierarchical family structure. The idea of him making that comment about how Natsuhi would be a suitable heir if she were a man seems pretty implausible, to say nothing of him not caring about Natsuhi entering his study. In this scene, Kinzo takes the role of a stand-in for the Ushiromiya family legacy and Natsuhi's relationship with it. If we trace Natsuhi's emotional arc here, I think this scene is really about Natsuhi's decision to continue her deception, after the difficult emotional circumstances from yesterday had her reconsidering her path.

The me, the most apparent potential readings of Kinzo's scenes are the following:

"Kinzo" is essentially a ghost: he serves as a stand-in for the will of Kinzo when he was still alive, or other people's interpretation of that will.

Kinzo is a metaphor for the awful baggage of the Ushiromiya family. He's patriarchy and unchecked power and abuse personified. Regardless of the who the culprit turns out to be, the true source of the killings is the rot at the heart of the family, which Kinzo embodies.

Kinzo is actually a stand-in for the real Head of the Ushiromiya family, similiar to how the butterflies are used to conceal "Beatrice" (the killer). This would make sense if that random guess I made about someone solving the epitaph and secretly becoming the Head of the family is actually true. Come to think of it, Kumasawa is very open about the fact that the house has two masters: one of the day (Kinzo) and one of the night (Beatrice). There's definitely a coherent motif indicating the existence of a secret Head here. Regardless, this is the Kinzo post, not the epitaph post.

Kinzo is actually Shannon in disguise, which is ingeniously foreshadowed by Battler never seeing the two of them in the same room at the same time. This explains why Kinzo disappeared the same day that Shannon got killed, and the corpse in the incinerator is Shannon's body, which Kanon wanted to give a proper Viking funeral before he was unfortunately killed himself. It also explains why Kinzo and Shannon are the only two characters who are both described as having rings. Ryukishi has done it again.

Kinzo is actually alive and participating in events up until his death, and Battler's theory about him hiding was necessary for him to create a more mysterious death by suddenly reappearing in the boiler room.

These are all equally plausible readings.

The ones responsible for the killings probably got their information on the magic circles from Kinzo's grimoires, since Battler's POV confirms that books on the topic exist in the study. This provides additional circumstantial evidence of the staff co-operating with the killers to perpetuate the myth of the witch.

Needless to say, Kinzo being dead is more compelling to me than him being alive by a lot. It lets us get more interesting readings from his scenes, it provides an new dimension to Natsuhi's character, and to me it fits better with the killings. If we stick with our earlier theory that the initial killings at least happened naturally, rather than being part of the witch conspiracy, then it seems strange that the servants would assist in a scheme that requires assassinating their own master eventually.

Natsuhi is presented in a very positive light for most of the story, which is pretty suspicious in itself, but this Kinzo theory really raises the question of what on Earth Natsuhi thinks is happening at any point during these events. Maybe we'll get into that toward the end of chapter 1, which we're finally approaching!

I for one can't wait to read the Tea Party and find out that the first line is "It's me, Beatrice. I'm real and I'm here to tell you that Kinzo was alive the entire time and he was actually Kanon in disguise."

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Critical Theory Recommended Reading List:

Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)

Wage-Labour and Capital Value, Price and Profit (Karl Marx)

Das Kapital (Karl Marx)

The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)

On Practice & On Contradiction (Mao Zedong)

The Motorcycle Diaries (Che Guevara)

Latin America Diaries (Che Guevara)

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (Che Guevara)

Guerilla Warfare (Che Guevara)

Che (Jon Lee Anderson)

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels)

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Friedrich Engels)

Orientalism (Edward W. Said)

The Unwomanly Face of War (Svetlana Alexievich)

The Wretched of The Earth (Frantz Fanon)

A Dying Colonialism (Frantz Fanon)

Black Skin White Masks (Frantz Fanon)

Inglorious Empire (Shashi Tharoor)

Remembering Che (Aleida March)

Against Empire (Michael Parenti)

Blackshirts & Reds (Michael Parenti)

Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton)

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins)

The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould)

The State and the Revolution (V.I. Lenin)

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (V.I. Lenin)

Imperialism in The 21st Century (V.I. Lenin)

Liberalism A Counter History (Domenico Losurdo)

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang)

October (China Miéville)

Kill Anything That Moves (Nick Turse)

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (Norman Ohler)

Late Victorian Holocausts (Mike Davis)

Ten Myths About Israel (Ilan Pappe)

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rooney)

Reform or Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg)

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (J. Sakai)

Killing Hope (William Blum)

Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism (Arghiri Emmanuel)

Unequal Exchange: A Study of Imperialism and Trade (Arghiri Emmanuel)

The Wealth of Some Nations (Zak Cope)

Divided World Divided Class (Zak Cope)

The Law of Worldwide Value (Samir Amin)

Unequal Development (Samir Amin)

An Economic History of the U.S.S.R (Alec Nove)

Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Albert Szymanski)

Is the Red Flag Flying? (Albert Szymanski)

Soviet Democracy (Pat Sloan)

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia: The Socialist Offensive (R.W. Davies)

Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation (Sidney and Beatrice Webb)

Socialism in the Soviet Union (Jonathan Aurthur)

The Soviet Form of Popular Government (The U.S.S.R Academy of Sciences)

Workers Participation in the Soviet Union (Mick Costello)

The Great Conspiracy (Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn)

The Soviets and Ourselves: Two Commonwealths (K.E. Holme)

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq (Hanna Baratu)

South Yemen A Marxist Republic in Arabia (Robert W. Stookey)

The Arab Left (Tareq Y. Ismael)

Post-Marxism and The Middle East (Feleh A. Jabar)

The Unmaking of Arab Socialism (Ali Kodri)

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (Rashid Khalidi)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Ilan Pape)

A Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)

Roadside Picnic (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

Blood in My Eye (George Jackson)

Why You Should Be a Trade Unionist (Len McCluskey)

The Pitfalls of Liberalism (Kwame Ture)

[enbysiriusblack]

For the follower event (my phone keyboard is stupid and doth hate emojis):

Queen--- Marylene please!

The Works---I REQUIRE actually shitty doodles of Peter Pettigrew, my favorite slimeball

A Kind of Magic---Lily Evans Potter

Congrats so much on reaching 2000, that is so amazing holy shit! And thanks so much for doing this event!

your marylene drabble:

"If you want to study, I'm not going to stop you."

Marlene glanced over to Mary, flicking through a muggle magazine.

Marlene shrugged, "I guess I could take a break", she closed her book.

Mary smiled, patting a spot on the bed next to her. Marlene came over.

"How about this?" Mary pointed to a dress Marie Helvin was wearing.

"It's nice?"

Mary laughed, "Nice?"

"I don't know", Marlene huffed, "You'd look in anything."

"Oh yeah?" She quirked a brow.

"Yeah."

Mary smiled and closed the magazine, "I'll wait for Emmeline... why don't we do something else?"

"Like what?" Marlene inched slightly closer to her friend.

Mary winked, "Grab your book, I'll quiz you!"

"Oh."

"What you don't wanna study anymore?"

"No, no. It's fine. Let's do it", Marlene lifted herself off the bed and made her way over to the desk.

"Great", Mary clapped, "Oh, I'll just grab my quill, I left it in the common room."

As Mary shut the door behind her, Marlene sighed and jumped down onto her own bed.

The bathroom door opened and Lily came out, a towel wrapped around her, "What's up with you?"

"Mary."

"Ah", Lily nodded, knowingly, "Good luck with that."

your shitty peter drawing:

your lily evans character variants:

topanga lawrence (boy meets world)

anne shirley-cuthbert (anne of green gables/anne with an e)

pj (bottoms)

donna pinciotti (that 70s show)

shauna shipman (yellowjackets)

sloane peterson (ferris bueller's day off)

nancy wheeler (stranger things)

abby hammond (santa clarita diet)

marian (drive away dolls)

beatrice (much ado about nothing)

[loneberry]

Make me a poet: eat my heart

“In chapter III of Dante's Vita Nuova the poet returns to his home "overcome with ecstasy" at having been greeted, for the first time as an adult, by his beloved Beatrice. His joy is short-lived, however, since he is soon upset by a "marvelous vision" that appears to him in his sleep. A figure who identifies himself as Dante's "master" holds a woman, naked except for a crimson cloth, in his arms. The figure holds a "fiery object" in his hands, telling Dante, "Behold your heart." The figure then holds Dante's heart up to the woman, who proves to be Beatrice, and makes her eat it from his hands. After a short while the figure begins weeping bitterly, and weeping, he folds his arms over the woman and together they ascend towards the heavens. At this point Dante awakes, and is inspired to write a sonnet addressed to "all Love's faithful subjects" in which he requests help in interpreting his vision.

“Rossi traces the various responses Dante received from those who had read the poem. Cino da Pistoia saw the heart as representing Dante's love, and the act of eating the heart as representative of his beloved's growing awareness of his feelings. However, he ignored the sense of horror that the vision evoked in Dante, as well as the bitter sadness with which it ended. In the first part of his response, Guido Cavalcanti emphasized the state of Grace provoked in Dante by the ecstasy of his love. The bitter weeping, he believed, resulted from the fact that falling in love was, on the lady's part, a sorrowful event, or perhaps a prelude to her death. Later, Cavalcanti suggested perhaps that eating the heart could be an antidote against death (vv. 9-11):

Di voi lo core ne portò, veggendo

che vostra donna la morte chedea;

nodrilla de lo cor, di ciò temendo.

“According to Rossi, the vision of Beatrice eating Dante's heart, confined as it is to the level of dream, serves to sanctify their love (even if Beatrice initially resists it) and to unite their hearts, consequently transforming Dante, the "amante gentile", into a poet. Dante goes beyond metaphor into the realm of the symbolic. The renunciation of earthy gratification, represented by Beatrice's ascent after having eaten his heart, is a necessary antecedent to his acquisition of the poetic word and the exemplary pilgrimage that was to result from it. The vision was, in Rossi's opinion, a stopping point on a more complete voyage towards the truth: "al di là dello speculum egli aspira infatti al rapporto facie ad faciem; al di là dell' 'essemplo' egli vuole arrivare a vedere la 'bellissima figura' del Cristo". Thus, for Dante the eaten heart motif is taken up to portray a symbolic sacrifice that anticipates his poetic initiation. The experience of a Reality beyond the senses, previously deemed impossible unless evoked through mystic inspiration, can now be realized, through the force of the intellect, in poetic language.”

(C. Si.) Rossi, L. "Il cuore, mistico pasto d'amore: dal 'Lai Guirun' al Decameron." Studi Provenzali e Francesi 1982. L'Aquila: Japadre, 1983. pp. 28-128.

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[ggren-mainz]

Umineko - question arcs playthrough -> ep 1 - 7

last part - All parts and episodes - next part

If i continue like this i might en up needing to make a master list with all the links, cause apparently there's a limit to how many links and photos you can have in one post. Oh well, an issue for future me.

The witch! It's the witch! They're real and very witchy!! Death to non-believers!!

Ok but a non-witch theory, hmm it wouldn't be impossible for someone to fake all of these, at least for now it's pretty simple. And the butterflies could be just a trick of light. But eh, it's more fun to think that witches exist now, isn't it?

Betting on them discovering a body or something like that.

Dead dead DEAD D E A D.

The perfect stuck together with a body mystery, am I right? Can't get out of the island, no contact with the outside. Reminds me of that one Agatha Christie play (and i do know this is a very common theme in her works but this is the one i saw) The Mousetrap. Very fun.

Hell yeah, erasing the evidence. Gonna help the mystery for sure.

oooh la la, 2 with one stone, not like i am complaining! But unfortunately i do know that he will live so yeah. All else i know is that George, Jessica, Kanon and Sayo live at least until answers arc, Rosa at least until ch2 where she pulls out a gun(????) and Beatrice and Battler the entire game. yeah, that's kind of it.

ok wait a second let's think. This makes...5 people.

... so prob someone else is also missing which would make 6. Huh so this is...the start of the witch's epitath huh. And i assume the two who are close are Sayo and George. We also know at least 5 people will be left alive after the 3rd night. Interesting.

Natsuhi Entered Kinzo's study and he basically said she's an Ushiromya in her heart, and he's so right. She does everything for this damned family, while the siblings all try to tear it apart. You might be insane and probably evil Kinzo, but this one was right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day or something.

Still waiting for the toxic yuri + hate sex between these two. Bet it exists.

yep, knew it. Well there goes the 6th one. Now as I have mentioned, i know they aren't dead but i am curious over where they are and what will happen to them

wait huh did they find their bodies?? one body? someone's body, or at least someone gravely hurt??

I was about to say that I hope Maria doesn't join them. Good cause i doubt it will be a pleasant sight.

Ooook.... I don't know if i should say i expected this or not. Like on one hand i did, on another i didn't. So they'll come back but...how? I am sure they will, at least some of them but again...how??? Love Jessica's voice acting tho.

Back with the bold text, and yeaa... yea. Poor battler, i genuinely feel so bad for him. And i wonder how Maria will react, thank god she didn't come.

Also thought, but was Natsuhi supposed to be one of the victims, but because of the charm she was saved? And mayhap Gohda was taken instead of her? Just an idea. Also the tips represent how much their faces were fucked up, good to know. And also probably where they were originally stabbed, looking at the other red dots. Quite small tho...

Gosh this is so depressing... Poor George, poor Jessica, poor Battler, poor Maria POOR EVERYONE.

THAT'S THE KEY! The key that chose them! I think at least, because it seems like a pretty unimportant detail to press so much on, and especially draw like this.

So basically after this Kumasawa comes and cries about blood in the dining room, and after a bit of investigation they conclude that that must be the crime scene. They all leave with a bitter taste in their mouth. And after that the most unexpected thing happens (sarcastic)

yeppp....no one expected this.

I wonder if the typhoon will last longer, as for all of the days said in the epitaph to happen. I mean it would be a bit anticlimactic if the police just arrived and they're all escorted.

Anyways just realized i talked a lot here and i should've probably cut it up at the end of last chapter ooopsss. See you next post ;P

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Soprano Maria Pedrini - Norma "Casta Diva" (Scena, Aria e Cabaletta) Live 1952

She studied at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Edvige Ghibaudo, and made her debut in November 1931 at the Teatro Adriano in Rome as Elena in Boito's "Mefistofele". At the Opera of Rome she appeared as Mozart's Countess in 1934. In 1936 she sang in the premiere of Malipiero's "Giulio Cesare". Her La Scala debut took place in 1939 as Fattoumah in Rabaud's "Marouf" and in 1946 she sang at La Scala in the first stage performance after the Second World War as Abigaile. In 1953 at the Opera of Rome she sang in the world premiere of "Medea" by Canonica Her repertoire included Aida, Amelia in "Un Ballo in Maschera",Elvira in "Ernani", Elena in "I Vespri Siciliani", the Trovatore and Forza Leonora, Elisabetta in "Don Carlos", Desdemona, Norma,Beatrice di Tenda, Paolina in "Poliuto", Lucrezia Borgia, Rossini's Mathilde and Amaltea / Sinaide in "Mosè in Egitto", Tosca, Gioconda, Maddalena, Asteria in Boito's "Nerone", Refice's "Cecilia", Chrysotemis,and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. She retired from the stage early in 1957. She is certainly of those who should be classified as a dramatic soprano with agility.

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Biografia Daniela Ferolla Giornalista e Modella ex Miss Italia

Facciamo adesso la conoscenza della bella Daniela Ferolla, nata a il 7 maggio del 1984 a Vallo della Lucania , ridente comune in provincia di Salerno. E ovviamente la donna può vantare anche il titolo di Miss Italia conseguito nel 2001.

Vita Privata di Daniela Ferolla.

Come vi dicevamo la bella campana è nata a Vallo della Lucania o semplicemente Vallo e attualmente risiede a Ceraso sempre in provincia di Salerno. Ha conquistato la fascia di Miss Moda Calabria ovviamente nella stessa regione, ove si trovava a trascorrere le vacanze e l'anno successivo è stata eletta Miss Italia, venendo incoronata addirittura da Sophia Loren, vincendo al tempo stesso il titolo di Miss Chi. Daniela Ferolla è stata l'ultima miss Italia con meno di 18 anni che abbia vinto il programma. Ha fatto studi liceali alle superiori e si è laureata in Scienze delle comunicazioni all'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Inizia quindi la sua carriera lavorativa nel 2005 con la conduzione di Italia Teen Television dove si occupava di Musica Hip Hop , con lei alla conduzione c'era il rapper Mas-T. Mentre l'anno successivo la ritroviamo sulla serie per il piccolo schermo Orgoglio e don Matteo. Passano 5 anni e la ritroviamo sempre in Rai , ma a Rai5 alla conduzione del programma Dentro la Moda e nel video clip di Zucchero Fornaciari Vedo Nero proprio nel ruolo di modella. Mentre nel 2011 il ritorno a Miss Italia a fare la spalla a Fabrizio Frizzi alternandosi con altre modelle di eccezione fra cui citiamo Pamela Camassa, Beatrice Bocci , Dayane Mello e altre. Arriva quindi l'anno 2012 che rappresenta la svolta per la sua carriera professionista, infatti si scrive all'albo dei giornalisti della Lombardia come giornalista pubblicista. Quindi nel 2012 è inviata di Mattina Estate e successivamente della vita in Diretta. Mentre nel 2014 2015 la troviamo a Linea Verde con Patrizio Roversi e Federico Quaranta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSevKOjsQg

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La modella è figlia di un ex Maresciallo dei carabinieri , purtroppo la madre è morta nel 2015 di un male incurabile. Ha 3 sorelle, Giusy , Gabriella e Miriam, anche lei ha partecipato a Miss Italia nel 2019 conquistando il titolo di Miss Cinema Campagnia. Non ha figli, anche se è sentimentalmente legata al suo manager Vincenzo Novari dal 2004, i due non si sono sposati ma hanno deciso di instaurare un rapporto di convivenza.

Scheda Biografica Daniela Ferolla

- Nata a Vallo della Lucania (Salerno) - Nata il 1984 - Residente a Salerno - Età 39 anni nel momento in cui vi stiamo scrivendo - Altezza 1,79 cm - Peso 62 Kg circa - Occhi Verdi - Capelli Castano scuro - Segno Zodiacale Toro - Hobbies le piace viaggiare e leggere - Professione giornalista e modella - Pagina Instagram Daniela

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A Stork Beneath London Bridge

A Stork Beneath London Bridge https://ift.tt/czNMAEF by MarvelMerlin Henry was supposed to be enjoying his first fully American Thanksgiving, filled with first hand witnessing of the Turkey Horrors and strangely sweet vegetable dishes. But in a single whispered phrase the world turns immaterial, Alex is his only anchoring point, and the black suit carefully packed over every single trip is being laid out on the pretty pink bedspread. Beta-read by starburstcosmos Words: 7583, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Alex Claremont-Diaz, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Martha Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Philip Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Nora Holleran, June Claremont-Diaz, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Ellen Claremont, Leo (Red White & Royal Blue), Catherine Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Shaan Srivastava, Zahra Bankston Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Alex Claremont-Diaz & Martha Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Alex Claremont-Diaz & Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Philip Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: The Queen Dies, henry's grief, Martha's pregnant, Alex supports henry, The author knows way too much about the C of E and needed to write about it, The author also knows way too much about the monarchy and needed to write about it, Philip's done off camera work to try to fix things, Henry Fox-Mountchristien-Windsor Character study, POV Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor via AO3 works tagged 'Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor' https://ift.tt/jZ9yK0b August 08, 2023 at 10:58PM

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Love is the starting point and the end of the narrative of Dante’s journey to the afterlife. It is love which moves Beatrice to intervene and ask Virgil to come to his rescue when he is lost in the dark wood at the beginning of the poem (amor mi mosse, she tells him, Inf. ii 72: “love moved me”). Dante appeals to Virgil in the name of ’l lungo studio e ’l grande amore (“the long study and the great love”) he has devoted to Virgil’s work. Near the end of the poem, as Dante draws closer to his goal, a famous image describes the whole of creation as the scattered pages and gatherings of a book. Dante finally sees those pages legato con amor in un volume (“bound with love in one volume”). The multifariousness and fragmentariness of the created world and human experience makes sense as a single artifact, intelligible and meaningful. It is love that binds the book, love that holds everything together. In the final lines of the poem, when he is absorbed in the beatific vision, Dante’s desire and will are attuned to and move in harmony with those of his maker.

Prue Shaw - Reading Dante_ From Here to Eternity-Liveright (2014)

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"Giugno nel bosco"

Ilenia, Beatrice e la fototrappola…….. Mi chiamo Ilenia Pamela De Cet, ho vent’anni e frequento il corso di Laurea di Scienze Naturali e Ambientali presso l’università degli studi di Genova. Fin da piccola ho sempre avuto la passione per la Natura e per tutte le sue creature. Sono cresciuta in una piccola villetta circondata dagli uliveti sulle colline di Camogli, ed è proprio questo luogo che…

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"'WHY CONDEMN INNOCENT BOY?' MOTHER ASKS," Toronto Star. November 10, 1933. Page 1 & 2. --- Howard Every Removed From His Home to Children's Shelter ---- GOING TO ORILLIA ---- 85 Children in Toronto Reported in Need of Institutional Care ---- Late yesterday afternoon, immediately after a conference between Robert E. Mills, director of the Toronto Children's Aid Society, and James W. McFadden, crown attorney, Mrs. Helen Lawrence, investigator for the society, called at the home of Howard Every and took possession of the seven-year-old boy who figured in the death of "Bunty" Hillier. He is now in the quarters of the Toronto society, awaiting transfer to the government hospital at Orillia, as soon as it can be arranged.

"Neither Howard nor his mother raised any fuss," Mrs. Lawrence stated. "Mrs. Every said a few things against the people who were taking Howard from her, but she did not refuse to let us have him."

Beatrice Every, 14-year-old sister, went with Howard to the society's shelter for a few days, until he gets used to his new surroundings.

Howard's mother was disconsolate last night.

"Why do they condemn an innocent little boy of seven?" she demanded, between sobs.

Howard never touched the Smith baby at Port Perry. He would have been drowned himself if he had carried the baby into the water. There's no beach there. The ground drops right into deep water."

With a rueful shake of his head, the Every boy's father said he would take no legal action to oppose the transfer of Howard to Orillia. "What's the use?" he asked hopelessly. "The Children's Aid Society has the power to put him there and will use it. Our only hope is to show the evidence against Howard is false."

"Rather than put them in an institution, we have been trying other methods of dealing with these cases, of which there are a great number in the province," said Hon. Dr. J. M. Robb, discussing to-day the report that there are 85 children in Toronto in need of institutional care. "We are adopting the system of prevention rather than cure. Our medical officers of health have established clinics where they are being studied carefully and the information handed on to the parents. In this way we have kept 500 children in the province out of institutions."

Dr. Robb agreed that a child who was a menace should be sent to an institution.

"We have accommodated between 500 and 600 in the last few years," said the minister, "and we can always take some, but not 85 at once."

Seems Happy In Shelter Howard Every seems happy in his surroundings at the Children's Aid Shelter, officials said to-day. Howard, who was taken there yesterday, was accompanied by his 14-year-old sister Beatrice, at the suggestion of the shelter officials.

"Did he cry at all for his mother?" The Star asked. "No, not at all. But he appeared to be a bit restless when it was time to go ta bed. But 'Betty' was there to talk to him and he quieted down all right." The sister will probably stay with him three or four days. She and Howard were playing happily in the shelter yard to-day.

Although Mr. and Mrs. Every, parents of the child, had left home shortly after 9 a.m., according to Alan Every, their 17-year-old son, to visit Howard and Beatrice, they had not arrived at the shelter by noon.

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Giovedì 9 maggio 2024 alle ore 17.30

presso il Salone monumentale della Biblioteca Marucelliana, via Cavour 43, Firenze

verrà inaugurata la mostra

Arco Teso. La musica a Firenze al tempo dei «Canti Orfici»

I curatori, Silvia Castelli Roberto Maini, Gregorio Nardi, Maria Beatrice Sanfilippo, attraverso l’esposizione di documenti, autografi, lettere, disegni, manoscritti musicali, partiture, libri, riviste, fotografie, spesso inediti, si propongono di interpretare il dialogo, talvolta inesplorato, esistente fra il mondo letterario e quello musicale nella Firenze negli anni 1907-1917.

Interverranno i Curatori, i Presidenti del Centro Studi Campaniani Gianna Botti e Walter Scarpi, e gli Autori dei saggi presenti nel catalogo edito da LoGisma.

A seguire alle ore 18.30, Gregorio Nardi interpreterà al pianoforte un programma di autori dei primi due decenni del Novecento: F. Boghen, F. Busoni, M. Castelnuovo Tedesco, S. Copertini, E. Del Valle de Paz, G. Maglioni, G. Modona, R. Nardi, I. Pizzetti, G. Puccini, A. Savinio, E. Scarlino.

Venerdì 10 maggio alle ore 17.30 verrà presentata la Trilogia campaniana per violino, viola ed elettronica, composta appositamente da Alessandro Magini

Preludio scordato della sera

Interverranno l’autore e il violinista Alberto Bologni.

La Biblioteca Marucelliana conserva dal 2005, grazie alla Fondazione CR di Firenze, il manoscritto di Dino Campana Il più lungo giorno. Con la mostra Arco Teso. La musica a Firenze al tempo dei «Canti Orfici» e col relativo catalogo, continua l’impegno a promuovere e valorizzare le pagine del poeta marradese.

La mostra, ad ingresso libero, sarà visitabile fino al 20 settembre, il lunedì, mercoledì, venerdì dalle 8.30 alle 14.00 ed il martedì e giovedì dalle 8.30 alle 17.00.