#doyenne

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

La Japonaise Tomiko Itooka est décédée à 116 ans dans la ville d'Ashiya, où elle vivait.

Elle est née le 23 mai 1908 à Osaka au Japon, la doyenne de l'humanité est morte dimanche 29 décembre 2024 "de vieillesse" dans la maison de repos où elle résidait. Elle avait été inscrite en septembre dernier dans le livre Guinness des records comme la personne la plus âgée du monde encore en vie, à la suite du décès de l'Espagnole María Branyas Morera, qui a vécu jusqu'à l'âge de 117 ans.  

[andre-kevin]

Nike SB x Doyenne

[conatic]

La doyenne de l'humanité est décédée. Elle était Espagnole et avait 117ans.

[doyennearchive]

Tabitha on set, 2022

[bestfattsong]

ROUND 1, BRANCH B, FIFTH POLL

[fourteenfishteen]

first impressions of TAZ: versus dracula from ep1: it feels like the theme song is Really trying to hit "taz balance... 2!!", though i dont think the tone of the actual episode was really like that imitative. i think it's fun though, i like "alright, this is just a series about killing a dracula". its weird how there's like music playing under every moment--like... i don't hate it, but it's weiird. will take some getting used to if i stick with it.

[landrepas]

Les doyens et doyennes disparus - Hommage aux doyens et doyennes

❤️Le site : http://starsdisparues.free.fr/

[not-from-the-absence-of-violence]

Surge and janey are the otter guy and his very cool gf in twilight mirage

THANK YOU I'm so bad at names,,,,

[amagurith]

the only good thing about summer (for me personally) is summer fruit

today i got strawberries and nectarines and peaches and golden kiwis and i still have bananas and cherries as well and i'm so excited to eat them all 🍓🍑🥝🍌🍒

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 84 years ago (19 September 1940): effervescent and eccentric fuchsia-haired doyenne of British fashion, Dame Zandra Rhodes. She is of course the undisputed queen of the elaborately bejeweled float-y chiffon caftan, but I prefer Rhodes’ response to the rise of punk in 1977. To the revulsion of punk purists, Rhodes launched her own deluxe haute couture interpretation of punk fashion, with artful jagged rips and tears, embellished with glittering safety pins and chains! Some have claimed this made her “the high priestess of punk”, although I suspect the late Vivienne Westwood disagreed. Anyway, over the decades her clientele has numbered international jet set superstar names like Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy, Cher, Bianca Jagger, Barbra Streisand and Princesses Margaret and Diana. But as far as I’m concerned, no one looked better in Rhodes’ signature caftans than drag mega-star Divine! (Rhodes and Divine were friends in the 1980s and in fact the only times I’ve ever spotted Rhodes socially, it’s been backstage at John Waters’ events in London, accompanied by Helena Kennedy QC and the late transgender trailblazer April Ashley). Pictured: portrait of Rhodes by Simon Emmett, 2018.

[ssivinee]

❇︎Mortal Gods❇︎

A Series ⇒ Bada Lee x OC Team! F Reader [𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙽𝚄𝙴𝙳]

Summary: Imagine a ninth team becoming part of the dynamic Street Woman Fighter 2 cast. These remarkable dancers don't only showcase their incredible moves; they possess an enchanting charm that sweeps not just the audience but also the hearts of their fellow competitors.

Status: Work in Progress, probs slow updates Warning(s): dark humor, more to be added...

❇︎ Files ❇︎

Profiles ⇒ Professional Lover Girls

Episode 00 ⇒ Meeting Doyennes

Episode 01 ⇒ Global Domination

Episode 02 ⇒ Subtle Vivacity

Episode 03 ⇒

Episode 04 ⇒

Episode 05 ⇒

To be continued…

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[notbecauseofvictories]

It's heartening sometimes to realize how incredibly ordinary historical figures looked. If you watch a bunch of period dramas, you come away thinking that history was made exclusively by shockingly attractive people---when actually, famous poets with burnished names look more like Jim, The Local Bank Manager; artists who broke the mold wouldn't look out of place scrolling through their phone on the subway. You could walk past the absurdly wealthy doyennes of society in the grocery store and never give them a second glance.

[doyennearchive]

[omgthatdress]

The teeth are probably "milk tooth jewelry," made with children's baby teeth as a keepsake. like hairwork, it COULD have mourning connotations, but it didn't ALWAYS. and good gods, OOP is a pill. yikes. keep fighting the good fight, OMGTD!

(although I'm not sure I totally agree with the assessment that mourning unilaterally sucked- it COULD definitely be a financial and social burden on people, but you also see plenty of etiquette manuals- which we all know are infamous for trending towards unrealistic propriety -reminding readers that mourning is personal and intended to prevent unintended rudeness to or demands upon a bereaved person. many outright oppose putting small children in mourning clothes, for example, since they're too young to understand what happened. the were spans involved were also rather shaky; I found only a few primary sources for the infamous "widows mourn for a year and widowers for six months" statistic, and more opining that the death of a spouse meant a year's mourning regardless of gender. there were also garments that could be suitable for both mourning and non-mourning purposes, even the earlier stages if shiny or contrast-color trim could be removed, thus saving a family money)

(I have historian friends who've lost loved ones and say they wish there were some codified way to show their bereavement nowadays, so people would know to be gentle with them. which was the intent- though not always the extent -of Victorian mourning practices)

(but it's not either/or across the board, of course! a cultural practice can be good for some and less so for others! I'm sure being at the social mercy of some strict doyenne could make mourning a burden rather than a genuine expression of grief- it depended upon the understanding of the people around you)

yeah, all of this is true!

But the pieces in the post were all like really obvious modern pieces with modern design and adult teeth so yeah those aren't actual Victorian pieces.

[copperbadge]

For NaClYoHo you recommend putting on a 20 to 40 minute podcast episodes to clean to. Can you make any recommendations? The majority of mine run well over an hour for each episode.

I feel like podcasts have kind of gotten longer in general, is that just me? Maybe it's the pandemic, or maybe just my tastes shifting. In any case, a lot of mine run long now too, but looking at my playlist here are some shorter podcasts I recommend:

PEMcast -- put on by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, they cover a wide variety of artistic and local cultural topics (their latest is about the bats the museum is hosting!)

99% Invisible -- about "invisible" designs that shape our world. "Used To Be A Pizza Hut" is a great episode, and their partnership with Articles Of Interest about Hawaiian shirts was brilliant.

Criminal -- True crime reported on by an extremely smart woman with a beautiful voice. It's not the typical true crime podcast in that she approaches it more like longform journalism, and sometimes the crimes themselves are very whimsical. She also does "Phoebe Reads A Mystery" where she reads one chapter of a public domain mystery novel each day; I recommend Dracula and The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, although there's a variety of lengths on those.

Bridgewater -- A fiction podcast featuring Misha Collins as a skeptical specialist in mythology who delves into the mystery of his father's death many years before. I stopped listening after season one, a bit disappointed in the denoument, but most of season one is great and I am actually going to try to listen to S2 as part of NaNo.

"City Cast" Your Local City -- not every city has them, but City Cast is a locally hosted show in most major cities about what's happening. City Cast Chicago is EXCELLENT.

Mailin' It -- the official podcast of the USPS, which sure is....something. It's fascinating to listen to in an anthropological sense, but also the subject matter is occasionally quite compelling. I especially like episode 7, "Stamps, An American Obsession".

The Allusionist -- all about how words shape our lives. I got into it with 145, "Parents", about gender identity and pregnancy/birth, which informed both Infinite Jes and Royals/Ramblers.

Levar Burton Reads -- Levar Burton reads SFF short stories charmingly. (This is on the longer side but most are still under an hour.)

Cautionary Tales -- Tim Hartford looks to history and what it can teach us; I run hot and cold but I stick with it because of gems like "The Art Forger, The Nazi, and the Pope", "Wrong Tools Cost Lives" and most recently "Photographing Fairies" (about the Cottingley Fairies and how Elsie Wright was, actually, the photoshop genius of her day.)

Mob Queens -- I will forever recommend Mob Queens, a single-run series about Anna Genovese, who dunned in her mobster husband, took over some of his business, and lived a queer and fabulous life with her butch partner as a gay nightclub doyenne in midcentury America.

Also most don't include lengths but the Participation Form Results Sheet has a spot for "what media are you going to use" and people have been putting suggestions. Readers, feel free to add your own suggestions in comments or reblogs. (Remember, I don't repost asks sent in response to other asks!)

Happy listening everyone!

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Variety: ‘With Love, Meghan’ Is a Montecito Ego Trip Not Worth Taking: TV Review

How Meghan Markle's relationship w/Variety & WME began:

How it's going:

In the first episode of Netflix’s new series “With Love, Meghan,” the series’ host is visited by a friend from a past life. Make-up artist Daniel Martin has known Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, “for the before, during and after, shall we say,” she tells the camera. In other words, he’s been around since she was simply the television actress Meghan Markle (a name, she later tells guest Mindy Kaling, she no longer uses), before the media circus that attended her wedding to Prince Harry and their subsequent break from the royal family, up to the present day in her life in glam exile in Montecito. A friend of such long standing deserves to be celebrated, and so, over the course of a whirlwind episode, Meghan prepares “teabags” of bath salts; arranges flowers; harvests honey; makes a pasta dish, crudité, and beeswax candles; frosts a cake; and brews “this elixir that I think will be so healing” for Martin’s allergies.

Mar 4, 2025 12:42pm PT By Daniel D'Addar

In the first episode of Netflix’s new series “With Love, Meghan,” the series’ host is visited by a friend from a past life. Make-up artist Daniel Martin has known Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, “for the before, during and after, shall we say,” she tells the camera. In other words, he’s been around since she was simply the television actress Meghan Markle (a name, she later tells guest Mindy Kaling, she no longer uses), before the media circus that attended her wedding to Prince Harry and their subsequent break from the royal family, up to the present day in her life in glam exile in Montecito. A friend of such long standing deserves to be celebrated, and so, over the course of a whirlwind episode, Meghan prepares “teabags” of bath salts; arranges flowers; harvests honey; makes a pasta dish, crudité, and beeswax candles; frosts a cake; and brews “this elixir that I think will be so healing” for Martin’s allergies.

The grind, for a star for whom this show may represent a last stand at holding on to her place in the public eye, never stops. And yet all of this effort is carried across in an on-camera attitude that resembles Meghan’s on-camera wardrobe: Well-tailored and beige. In that first episode, Meghan — less-than-adept at speaking on her feet — tries out seemingly endless repetitions of the one-and-a-half-entendre “let’s get some honey, honey.” She reaches for a we-get-it metaphor about how the cake she frosts might not be appreciated for its exterior until one discovers the wealth of filling within. And she’s fleetingly haunted by the spirit of “it’s a good thing” domestic doyenne Martha Stewart — a figure who, vastly more than any of Meghan’s royal in-laws, looms over these proceedings — while picking berries, telling the camera “the sweetness of this fruit is a real thing.” When her old friend remarks that the peas Meghan serves are particularly beautiful, “like green pearls” (in other words, you know… peas), one senses that, in him, Meghan has found a kindred spirit. 

That’s because “With Love, Meghan” exists as a sort of celebration of all things Duchess of Sussex — and, as with past of her media outings, no amount of praise seems enough. Each episode features a jumbled timeline whereby Meghan hosts a friend of hers, famous or not, then jumps back in time to show how she prepared the food or the tablescape. Then, back in the present, she once again recaps what we just saw, so that the guest may marvel at Meghan’s ingenuity. All play along — many guests are Meghan’s real-life friends. But some lay it on thicker than others. Kaling recalls receiving a jar of preserves from Meghan’s brand American Riviera Orchard, which was entirely retooled before its new launch under the name As Ever. Those preserves, Kaling says, represented “probably one of the most glamorous moments of my life.” 

To get to visit Meghan’s serene, unruffled world represents a sort of fantasyland moment for her guests (not least because, as Meghan indicates, the show is not in fact shot in her home but in a house provided for the purpose — raising the question of what this show, billed as a look into Meghan’s homemaking style, is even about). “I feel like this is all fake,” Meghan’s makeup artist friend tells her, as they gaze out on a mountain vista after a jam-packed day of little projects. He said a mouthful: Meghan’s particular sensibility, a clean and unruffled traditional-meets-modern mélange, runs up against the limits of having to fill eight long episodes with only a certain number of new ideas. And so, through repetition, Meghan’s quirks come to seem like affectations, from the multiple times she remarks on the beauty of an egg yolk to her dedication to placing “edible flowers” on just about any comestible.

This show follows in the wake of various other Meghan-branded projects, from the upbeat podcast “Archetypes” to the revealing Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” that have failed to connect: The podcast was perhaps too vague, while the targeted and tactical approach of the doc left viewers wondering whether Meghan had anything specific to say not rooted in her experience of the royal family. “With Love, Meghan” makes that answer seem further away, as its star seems unwilling to step outside the role of perpetual A student. In one episode, she bakes donuts for the chef Roy Choi, telling the camera “I need to impress this man! Not just with my donuts — with my tidiness, with my kitchen savvy, my cleanliness.” It’s unsurprising that, on presenting Choi with the treat, she says in a rushed, breathless tone, “Do you believe my little donuts? I made them for you,” but it is a little surprising that this moment was left in the cut. 

Martha Stewart, who modernized the homemaking-show template in which Meghan now operates, lives in a state of serene superstardom; Ina Garten, for my money the best to ever do it, exudes let’s-have-a-drink chill in part because her knowledge is genuinely boundless. Meghan either lacks similar competence or feels constrained from sharing it, and so her insights, or the way she talks about them, can feel as canned as a limited-edition American Riviera Orchard preserve. She muses to the camera that it’s possible one might want to label a jar of homemade chili oil, but it’s not strictly necessary: “Your cue on this one will be, you see the chilis in it.” (Thanks, Meghan.) When informed that the dumplings she may dress in said chili oil are called “ingots” for their resemblance to forged bits of gold, she replies, “I love hearing the meaningful stories behind things!” 

That’s precisely the problem. So much of “With Love, Meghan” is devoted to trying to gin up capital-M Meaning that Meghan seems to forget that the only reason anyone would do any of this — whether that’s bake a cookie dappled with edible flowers or watch a lifestyle show — would be because it’s fun. Since her first forays out in public life after the genuinely sympathetic Oprah Winfrey interview of 2021, Meghan and her husband Harry both have seemed confident that interest would naturally follow them. But there isn’t enough here to justify the running time, nor its star’s belief we’ll keep watching.

The show plays out like a forced march, one in which Meghan’s guests must, as the price of getting to share an afternoon in a made-for-TV kitchen with her, praise her first. It’s no less than Alice Waters, the effective inventor of a California-upscale culinary aesthetic in which Meghan now exists, who comes to help Meghan prepare a brunch party to thank her loved ones for their support as she tries to launch an all-around lifestyle brand. But she’s gone by the time the frittata is served. “Thank you for loving me so much and for celebrating with me,” she tells the assembled parties at the season-closing brunch; she also announces that Waters helped her prepare the food, to which an unidentified guest says: “Amazing. Wow.” 

Then, in his one appearance on the series, Prince Harry, Meghan’s husband, calls out a toast. “To you!” he shouts. To Meghan, indeed. “With Love, Meghan” is made with a great deal of love — in the sense that the greatest love of all is the one that a person has for herself.