#duke of york/perseus

[osinfulserpent]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: Gen

Fandom: 碧蓝航线 | Azur Lane (Video Game)

Relationships: Akagi/Shoukaku (Azur Lane) Duke of York/Perseus (Azur Lane)

Characters: Akagi (Azur Lane), Duke of York (Azur Lane), or. their META versions anyway

Additional Tags: Loss, Arson, Murder, Past Character Death

Summary:

'She had never met the light carrier, but she knows so much about a ghost. The books she reads, the games she plays, the way she likes her coffee - York is just as haunted as her, it seems.'

or, grief, and how it changes someone

[cursedalthoughts]

The Duke and her little Owl

[cursedalthoughts]

addendum because i love these 2 a lot but i just don't really know how to word it. my brainrot comes from you and your work, which is mainly why I struggle putting it into words. this is brainrot through osmosis basically.

doy and perseus. they fit so incredibly well. doy could absolutely dominate perseus at any moment, she'd be defenseless to the duke's actions - she could be her little plaything. instead, DoY is madly in love with perseus, who just refuses to acknowledge such a powerful and beautiful woman has fallen for her. maybe she just genuinely can't tell the signs, no matter how obvious DoY makes them, but this won't make her falter.

it's easy to ship DoY with a lot of other women. scharndoy is a great example of that. however doyseus is amazing.

seriously though, top 5 kansen who aren't already in your usual list of favs

ok there's a lot of candidates of shipgirls that are too cool/hot/cute/combination of the 3 but there's a tiny little thing that doesnt put them within my Absolute Faves.

to pick 5 random shipgirls among them:

fdg. i love that woman. she's a calm, calculating, cold, sinister yet warm leader. her plans are 5 steps ahead of even the sirens yet her emotions still get the best of her sometimes. she cares so much about everyone, she truly just wants the best for her comrades. which is a shame because she's equally as hot when portrayed as a villain, but i like her being IB's cool mom

kii!!!! she's honest as hell, loves fighting, has A HUGE PONYTAIL AS BIG AS HER WHOLE BODY HOW DOES THAT WORK, i bet she loves loves loves getting drunk and having friendly yet bloody fistfights with hyuuga and then make out while covered in blood. if that means anything.

roma. general roma, unbreakable roma, war criminal roma, roma denier of the geneva convention, bratty morally superior roma, she knows how to do things right and oh how pity that you don't know how, dont worry, she will guide you. also roma x fdg from you-know-where. wont name it because it's spoilers shhh.

kronshtadt. big, russian woman that i hc as having 8-pack abs, a spy that is just too good at her job and she spends all of her free time getting drunk with her gf arkangelsk, who prefers tea but she'll drink with kronk. kronshtadt, who has a rocky relationship with chkalov, yet chkalov respects how fearless the large cruiser is. kronshtadt, the right-hand woman of soyuz, who is surrounded by powerful and loyal sisters yet she trusts this spy more than anyone else.

enterprise. unwavering yet broken, vengeful yet riddled with trauma, her coping mechanism is driving her body to the edge of utter collapse. enty, who detests akagi, yet will let her sworn enemy cry on her shoulder during her moment of weakness. enty, who both despises belfast yet doesnt know what she'd do without this weirdly annoying maid. enty, who still has no clue how to react to Hornet II and Yorktown II despite almost a year with them, because are all her efforts in vain, or should she celebrate until the last of her days?

anyway yeah

[mailoveforu]

oc ethnicities and/or (irl) nationalities

twst

mcs

yume - japanese; lives in okinawa 🇯🇵

sarai - hmong; lives in chiang mai, thailand 🇹🇭

aikaterini - greek macedonian; lives in nymfaio 🇬🇷

u - american; lives in los angeles, california 🇺🇸

shayde - xeglanian; lives in acretis kingdom

melody - sudanese arab; lives in kassala 🇸🇩

senalat - oromo; lives in london, england 🇪🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

roy - scottish; no permanent residence or homeland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

atajan - turkmen; lives in maine, usa 🇹🇲🇺🇸

galina - serbian; lives in zlatibor 🇷🇸

yudai - ainu; lives in enoshima, japan 🇯🇵

mary-annie - ecuadorian; lives in new york, usa 🇪🇨🇺🇸

mi-gyeong - korean; lives in daejoon 🇰🇵🇰🇷

eden - ianndelarian; lives in thaekya empire

gia - acrurgan; lives in fliedal

galadriel - xeglanian; lives in acretis kingdom

nrc

heartslabyul

arledge - british 🇬🇧

drake - half-british, half-guyanese 🇬🇧🇬🇾

ilsolvic - guatemalan; lives in florida, usa 🇬🇹🇺🇸

savanaclaw

beowulf - inuit 🇬🇱

macbeth - scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

caleb - tanzanian 🇹🇿

talon - igbo 🇳🇬

sadia - cameroonian 🇨🇲

octavinelle

gavin - turkish 🇹🇷

blake - surinamese 🇸🇷

claudius and marcus - venezuelan 🇻🇪

malacoda - italian 🇮🇹

scarabia

bassel - egyptian 🇪🇬

heera - punjabi, lives in india 🇮🇳

faqeed - kuwaiti 🇰🇼

pomefiore

noir and sommeil - french 🇫🇷

duyao - han chinese 🇨🇳

jermaine - ashkenazi jew; lives in california, usa 🇺🇸

ignihyde

nikolaos and pavor - albanian with greek ancestry 🇦🇱🇬🇷

evander - greek 🇬🇷

diasomnia

severus - french; lives in breton 🇫🇷

franco - filipino; lives in england 🇵🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

vulcan - maltese 🇲🇹

nrc staff

sargon - swiss 🇨🇭

nova - slovakian 🇸🇰

persinette - liechtensteiner 🇱🇮

warren - american; lives in tennessee 🇺🇸

rsa

inferwitz

lewis - british 🇬🇧

harlan - armenian 🇦🇲

charles - navajo; lives in utah, usa 🇺🇸

bunky - moldovan 🇲🇩

ellis - british 🇬🇧

bruyerosa

ambrosi - french 🇫🇷

fleuri - scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

faunus - cornish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

mist - scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

minhara

jibril - arab; lives in iraq 🇮🇶

kahlil - bengali; lives in iraq with jibril 🇧🇩🇮🇶

weissieben

alvar, ??? - german 🇩🇪

denarius, roux, cobalt, jett, beryl, kessler, and larimar - swedish 🇸🇪

eli - cypriot with french ancestry 🇨🇾🇫🇷

mythiroas

hector - greek 🇬🇷

perseus - half greek, half persian 🇮🇷🇬🇷

miles - romani; lives in greece 🇬🇷

chryses, castor, thales, theodore, melanthios - dominican; lives in greece 🇩🇴🇬🇷

ciniscram

winston - canadian 🇨🇦

pietro - maya; lives in el salvador 🇸🇻

tristan - czech 🇨🇿

tigre - khmer; lives in cambodia 🇰🇭

otus - estonian 🇪🇪

rsa staff

duke - french 🇫🇷

koen - aboriginal australian 🇦🇺

simone - jamaican 🇯🇲

faron - french 🇫🇷

jia-hao - han chinese 🇨🇳

ivan - irish; lives in pennsylvania, usa 🇮🇪🇺🇸

mon - american; other information seems to be classified 🇺🇸

awi

rubicarte

juno - british 🇬🇧

henrietta - spanish 🇪🇸

rosalyn - trinidian 🇹🇹

carmine - argentinian 🇦🇷

emerald - latvian 🇱🇻

vitaking

imara - wolof; lives in kenya 🇸🇳🇰🇪

zuri - kenyan 🇰🇪

keletso - half filipino, half motswana 🇵🇭🇧🇼

cesealia

iris - italian 🇮🇹

jessamine and forsythia - danish 🇩🇰

kitch - moroccan; lives in france 🇲🇦🇫🇷

cobralmas

ritika - arab; lives in iraq 🇮🇶

alya - bolivian; lives in iraq with ritika 🇧🇴🇮🇶

leila - saudi arabian 🇸🇦

giftschnee

ellie - half vietnamese, half german 🇻🇳🇩🇪

serenity - luxembourger 🇱🇺

meili - han chinese 🇨🇳

nekroskull

helena and andrea - greek 🇬🇷

reveaute

maria and deirdre - irish 🇮🇪

sydney - hungarian 🇭🇺

daenerys - andorran 🇦🇩

awi staff

headmistress - ???

collector - polish 🇵🇱

vanita - german 🇩🇪

sorceress miriam - british 🇬🇧

yvonna - peruvian 🇵🇪

khaltmaa - mongolian 🇲🇳

bonnie - costa rican 🇨🇷

glynda - venezuelan, with spanish descent 🇻🇪🇪🇸

jayda - british 🇬🇧

gautami - gond; lives in india 🇮🇳

extra

maximilian and margaretta - eritrean; lives in germany 🇪🇷🇩🇪

rouge - monegasque 🇲🇨

thirteen - irish 🇮🇪

yuehai - han chinese 🇨🇳

ma/zhang - manchu 🇨🇳

long/haoran - half malagasy, half hong konger 🇲🇬🇭🇰

aponi, odina, and nuka - powhatan; lives in virgina, usa 🇺🇸

virgo - akan; not specific to any nation

pisces - norse; not specific to any nation

akuneko

mcs

nimue - bulgarian; lives in sofia 🇧🇬

yareli - half mapuche, half lebanese; lives in santiago, chile 🇱🇧🇨🇱

kimiya - ryukyuan; lives in kagoshima 🇯🇵

jace - liberian; lives in new york, usa 🇱🇷🇺🇸

camilla - african american; lives in louisiana 🇺🇸

lenore - dutch; lives in north brabant 🇳🇱

butlers

andre - welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

hadwin - half finnish, half hmong 🇫🇮🇨🇳

obey me

mcs

eve/adam - korean; lives in yongsan-gu, seoul 🇰🇷

noa/noah - egyptian; lives in alexandria 🇪🇬

ruth/matthew - yoruba; lives in lagos 🇳🇬

deborah/barack - formosan; lives in tamsui, taiwan 🇹🇼

susanna/daniel - half persian, half japanese; lives in suginami 🇮🇷🇯🇵

abigail/david - welsh; current location unknown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

judith/achior - indonesian; lives in jakarta 🇮🇩

esther/mordecai - half indian, half baganda; lives in mumbai 🇮🇳🇺🇬

miriam/aaron - chilean; lives in valparaiso 🇨🇱

lydia/silas - swedish; current location unknown 🇸🇪

priscilla/aquila - italian jew; lives in calabria 🇮🇹

martha/lazarus - thai; lives in birmingham, england 🇹🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

berenice/herod - romanian; lives in bucharest 🇷🇴

tabitha/peter - ghanaian; lives in new jersey, usa 🇬🇭🇺🇸

zillah/lamech - belarusian; lives in lida 🇧🇾

other

crocell - assyrian; lives in calabria, italy 🇸🇾🇮🇹

legion - jordanian; lives in calabria with priscilla/aquila 🇯🇴🇮🇹

ereshkigal - iraqi 🇮🇶

ishtar/inanna - iraqi 🇮🇶

hypnosis mic

asuka - ???; lives in enoshima, japan 🇯🇵

fumio - half danish, half japanese; lives in enoshima, japan 🇩🇰🇯🇵

koyumi - japanese; lives in gion, kyoto 🇯🇵

honoka - japanese; lives in gion, kyoto 🇯🇵

moriko - half south african, half japanese; lives in gion, kyoto 🇿🇦🇯🇵

jay mi - ???; lives in ikebukuro, japan 🇯🇵

emu - vietnamese; lives in shibuya, japan 🇯🇵

fragaria memories

vianali and caomint - totonac; lives in mexico 🇲🇽

unnamed shirousa and kurousa girls - okinawan 🇯🇵

ensemble stars

wakana - japanese; lives in tokyo 🇯🇵

ranma - japanese; lives in hawaii 🇯🇵🇺🇸

kira kira

kuro - japanese; lives in yokohama 🇯🇵

souvanna - half lao, half japanese; lives in yokohama 🇱🇦🇯🇵

katawaguruma - japanese 🇯🇵

18trip

harumi, natsuhisa, akie, fuyuyoshi - japanese; lives in yokohama 🇯🇵

[helmetkeeper]

Hello! I'm looking for some masculine name ideas for a Sniper-kin ; if you want to experiment with making it earth/forest/canine themed that'd be really swag

hello!! wasn’t too sure about how masc some of these names feel, but i hope you find something you like regardless!

there's not as much as i normally end up doing, but it's still quite the list so i put them under the cut 👍.

acacia

acacius

ace

ackley

acorn

affie

alaska

alfie

alpine

arbor

arc

archer

archie

arctic

aries

arthur

artus

ash

asher

ashford

ashton

aster

atlas

august

augustin(e)

augustus

avens

avery

bandit

baron

basil

bass

basset

bay

bear

beaumont

beck

beetle

ben

bengal

benji

benny

bentley

benton

berry

birch

birk

blackjack

blaze

blue

blume

bo, boe

bolt

bone

boomer

borage

border

boxer

bracker

bracket

bramble

briar

brick

brin

brock

bryce

bryn

buck

bud

bull

burr

bush

busher

bushie, bushy

butch

buzz

caelum, caylum

callum

cane, kane

canid

canine

canyon

cas

casey

caspian

cedar

cerberus

charcoal

charlie

cheddar

chen

chez

chow

cider

ciel

cinder

citrine

citron

citrus

clay

clement

cliff

cloud

coal

coast

cobalt

cobolt

cocoa

collie

colt

columbine

columbo

columbus

conan

cooper

copper

cove

coy

coyote

crane

crimson

crispin

crow

curry

cyan

cypress

dagwood

dak

dakota, dakoda

dale

dane

dante

darrah

darren

darrow

david

dawson

deacon

dean

declan

den

denis, denys

deniz

denver

derry

dhole

digger

dill

dingo

dipper

douglas

drake

duff(y)

duke

dulce

dune

dusk

dust

dustin

dusty

dutch

dutchen

east

eden

elvis

elwood

emerald

emerson

emery

everest

everett

evergreen

falcon

fallon

fang

farley

fennec

fennel

fergus

fews

fin, finn

finch

finley, finnley

fir

firth

fish

fisher

flax

flint

florence

florent

flynn

ford

forest

forester

frank

frankie

franklin

fraser, frazier, frasier, frazer

frost

gale(n)

gardner

gene

genesis

ginger

goldie

grain

grey, gray

grove(s)

hades

harvest

hawk(e)

hazel

heath

hercules

hive

holland

hound

hugo

hum

hummer

hunt

hunter

huntie, hunty

jack

jackal

jackie, jacky

jason

jasper

jay

jett

joey

jove

july

june

juniper

juno

jupiter

kai

kale

kestrel

kip

kippy, kippie

koa

koi

lake

lark

leo

loch

locust

lodge

lotis

lotus

lucky

lumen

lupin(e)

lupis

mace

magnus

mane(d)

mango

march

marley

marlow

marsh

marshal(l)

matchbox

maverick

max

meek

meer

merlin

mickey

mint(y)

mob(y)

moose

morgan

morris

moses

moss

mossy, mossie

nash

nasher

nicholas

noble

norman

north

nox

oak

oakie

odie

odin

oleander

olive(r)

olivier

ollie

oto

otter

otto

ottoman

packet(t)

pear

percival

percy

perry

perseus

picard

pickle

pine

pongo

prairie

prince

red, redd

reed, reid

ren

rhodes

rhody

ridge

rock(e)

rocky, rockie

roman

ronat

rook

root

rory

rover

rudy

rune

russel

salmon

samsun, samson

scruff

scruffy, scruffie

silver

silvester

skylark

smokey

sol

solei(l)

solomon

sorrel

south

spade

sparrow

spot

spruce

stag

sterling

stone

sun

sunray

talon

tawny

terran

terro

terry, terrie

theo

thistle

thor

thyme

titan

toms

trip

tunnel

turtle

velvet

vulp

vulpes

wade

wane

warbler

wax

waxer

weaver

wells

west

whistler

winston

wolf(e)

wood

woodrow

woodson

woody, woodie

york

zeus

[sangvinaria]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 碧蓝航线 | Azur Lane (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Duke of York/Perseus (Azur Lane) Characters: Perseus (Azur Lane), Duke of York (Azur Lane), Vampire (Azur Lane), Howe (Azur Lane), Z24 (Azur Lane), Roon (Azur Lane), Monarch (Azur Lane), Littorio (Azur Lane), King George V (Azur Lane), Prince of Wales (Azur Lane), more character tags to be added Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Mystery, Ghosts, Paranormal, Slow Burn, Rated For Later Events, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

It began, like many ghost stories do, on a cold and stormy winters day.

But Perseus isn't one for ghost stories, and despite her apartment's phenomena, she refuses to believe that anything out of the ordinary is going on.

That is, until events in motion push her (and the stray cat she found) into a mystery of supernatural events revolving around her ghostly roommate-turned-partner-in-crime and the circumstances of her haunting.

After all, secrets rarely stay buried, and it looks like the dead don't either.

[l-crimson-l]

how hot - duke of york, perseus, surtr, and pramanix? ty for the food though, its so hard finding even semi-sfw azur lane pics, you truly do us all a service - azurlaneimagines

Mmm Mmm yes comf ship ladies are the best :3 Duke of York Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY Powerful vampire lady with the firepower and drive to obliterate anything you put in front of her? *Chefs Kiss* i haven't 120'd her yet but i do appreciate how her voice lines change after oath. While not one of my top KGV ships def one of my favorites. just don't tell her i also oathed Howe

Perseus Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY  Honestly, Wow. Her art is better than some PR ships! Owls Cools!! But aside from her cute Tsun/introvert act she puts on (before you oath her, bonus points for extra lines after oath) she genuinely seems like someone you’d wanna just spend the day with on a nice fall/spring day just vibin. That aside her whole, Tsun to friendly, thing low-key reminded me of myself (im super introverted before im comfortable with someone) so bonus points there too! Yostar plz give her a comf skin

Surtr Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Ya know it wasn't until Reed that i was awakened to Horns and then it was Surtr that took that and added an Unstoppable (if ya do it right) Fire Demon Waifu on top of that and WOW I HAVENT LOOKED BACK

Pramanix Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

I haven’t used her a ton but peeking through her file instantly makes her the first pick for the bookstore trip. Also Top Tier Comf tail?? Plz let me cuddle the tail?? the Mofu Mofu is strong! also lol at her faceplant when you deploy her

Not that you asked but

Ayanami Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

Look. Look. Im weak against petite blonde women. Now make that petite blonde a GAMER ABLE TO ABSOLUTELY ERASE ENEMIES BOTH SIREN AND VIRTUAL ALIKE??? HAVE HER ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE TIME SHE HAS WITH HER FRIENDS AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SHE JUST TREASURES AND LOVES EVERYONE SPECIAL TO HER??? MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... she’s been oathed for a very Very long time. I absolutely love my fun sized Torp Queen <3

[trans-and-baby-names]

Masculine Names

Aaron  Abdul Abe  Abel Abraham  Abram Ace Achilles  Adair Adam Adonis Adrian Adriel  Ahmed Ajax Ajay Aiden Alan Albert Alejandro Alex Alexander Alfonso Alfred Alistair Alister Allen  Alonzo Amadeo Amadeus Amani Amari Ambrose Amir Anders  Anderson Andre Andreas Andrew Andy Angel Angelo Angus Ansel  Anson Anthony Antonio Apollo Aries Archer Archie Aristotle Arlo  Arnaldo Arnold Arsenio Arthur Arturo Arwin Asa Asher Aslan Atlas  Atticus Aubrey August Augustin Augustine Augustus Aurelio Aurelius Austin Axel  Aziz

Balthazar  Bane Barnabas  Barnaby Barney Baron  Barrett Basil Bastian  Bear Beau Beck Ben Benjamin  Benji Bentley Bernard Bertram Bertrand  Blake Blaze Blue Bobby Bodhi Booker Boris  Boston Bowie Boyd Brad Bradford Bradley Bram  Bramwell Bran Brandon Brandt Braxton Braylen Brayden Brendon  Brent Brett Brian Briar Brick Bridge Bridger Brock Brody Brogan  Bronx Brook Brooks Bruce Bruno Brutus Bryce Bryson Buck Bud Buddha  Buddy Buck Burt Burton Buster Buzz Byron 

Cade  Caden Cain  Cairo Caius Calder  Caleb Callum Calvin Cam  Cameron Camillo Campbell Carl  Carlisle Carlito Carlo Carlos Carlton  Carmine Carson Carter Casper Caspian Cassian  Cassias Cato Cecil Cedar Cedric Cesar Chad Chadwick  Chance Charles Charlton Chase Chauncey Chester Chidi Chip  Christoff Christoph Christopher Christian Chuck Cian Cillian  Clarence Clark Claud Clay Clayton Cliff Clifford Clint Clinton  Clyde Coby Cody Colby Cole Collin Colt Colton Conan Connor Conrad  Constantine Cooper Copper Corbin Cornelius Cory Cosmo Cosmos Costas Craig Crispin Cruz Curt Curtis Cyrus

Dale  Dallas  Dalton Damien  Damon Dan Dane Daniel  Dante Darius Darrel Darren  Dash Dashiell Davey David Dawson  Dax Daxton Deacon Dean DeAndre Declan  Demetrius Denali Dennis Denny Denzel Derek  Derrick Des Desmond Dewey Dex Dexter Diego Diesel  Dion Dirk Dixon Dmitri Dominic Donatello Donovan Dorian  Doug Douglas Draco Drew Duke Duncan Dustin Dusty Dwayne Dwight  Dylan Dyson 

Earl  Easton  Edgar Edmund  Eduardo Edward Edwin  Egon Eli Elijah Elias  Elliott Ellis Elroy Elton  Emanuel Emeric Emerson Emery  Emil Emiliano Emmett Emrys Enrique  Enzo Eric Ernest Ernesto Ernie Esteban  Ethan Eugene Eustace Euvan Evan Evander Everett  Ezekiel Ezra 

Fabian  Fabio Falcon  Faustus Felix Ferdinand  Fergus Ferguson Fernando Fidel  Fido Finbar Findlay Finn Finnley  Fionn Fisher Fitz Fletcher Flint Florence  Florian Ford Forrest Fort Foster Fowler Fox  Francesco Francis Francisco Franco Frank Frankie  Franklin Fred Freddy Fredrick Frederico

Gabe  Gabriel  Gael Gage  Gale Galen Garfield Garrett Gaston Gatsby  Gavin Geoffrey Geordie George  Gerald Gerard Gideon Gil Gilbert  Gilberto Giovanni Glenn Gordon Gordy  Grady Graham Grant Gray Grayson Gregg  Gregory Grey Griffin Griffith Grover Gunner  Gunther Gus Gustavo Guy 

Hades  Hal Hamilton  Hank Hans Harley Harrison  Harry Hawk Hayden Hayes Heath Hector  Henrik Hendrix Henry Herb Herbert Herbie  Hercules Hermes Hershel Hiram Holden Howard  Howie Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hux Huxley 

Ian Igor Iker Irvin Isaac Isaiah Ivan 

Jace  Jack Jackson  Jacob Jaques Jaden  Jake Jalen Jamal James  Jameson Jared Jason Jax  Jay Jed Jedidiah Jefferson  Jeffrey Jeremiah Jeremy Jerome  Jerry Jesus Jethro Jett Jim Jimmy  Joe Joel Johan Johannes John Johnny Jonah  Jonas Jonathan Jones Jordan Jose Joseph Joshua  Josiah Juan Juanito Judah Judas Judd Jude Jules Julian  Julien Julio Julius Junior Jupiter Jurgen Justice Justin Justus 

Kaden  Kai Kaiser  Kale Kaleb Kane  Keane Keanu Keaton  Keegan Keenan Keith  Kellen Kenan Kendrick  Kenneth Kenzo Keoni Kevin Khalid  Kian Kieran Kiernan Kingsley Kingston Killian  Kip Kwan Kyle

Lachlan  Lake Lamar  Lance Lancelot  Landon Lane Larkin  Larry Lars Laurence Laurent  Lawrence Lawson Lazlo Legend Leif  Leith Leland Leo Leon Leonardo Leopold  Leroy Levi Liam Lincoln Linden Logan Loki  London Lonnie Lonny Lorcan Lorenzo Lou Louie  Louis Luc Luca Lucas Lucian Lucky Luke Lupe Luther

Maddox  Maksim Malachi  Malachy Malakai Malcolm  Malik Manfred Manny Marcel Marcello  Marcellus Marcio Marcius Marco Marcos  Marcus Marian Marino Mario Marius Mark  Marlin Marlon Marmaduke Marques Mars Marshall  Martin Marty Marvel Marvin Massimo Mason Matt Matteo  Matthew Maurice Maverick Max Maximilian Maximus Maxwell  Melvin Mercury Meredith Merritt Micah Michael Miguel Miles  Milo Mitchell Moe Monte Montgomery Murdoch Murphy Murray Murtagh  Murtaugh Myles

Nathan  Nathaniel  Ned Nelson  Nemo Neo Neon  Neptune Neville  Newt Newton Nick  Nicky Nicola Nicolai  Nicholas Niko Noah Noel Nolan  Norm Norman Novak 

Obadiah  Octavio Octavius  Odin Olaf Oleg Oliver  Olivier Omar Orion Orlando  Orville Osborn Oscar Oso Osvaldo  Oswald Ottis Otto Owen Oz Ozzy

Pablo  Palmer Panther  Parker Pascal Patrick Paul  Paxton Pedro Penn Percival Percy Perseus  Peter Peyton Phil Philip Phineas Phoenix Pier  Pierce Pierre Pilot Pluto Porter Poseidon Preston  Prince Prosper

Qadir  Quincy Quinn  Quinton 

Raiden  Ralph Ramone  Ramses Randall Randolph  Randy Raphael Ravi Ray Raymond Red  Reece Reggie Reginald Regis Reid Remington  Reuben Rex Reynald Reynaldo Reynard Rhett Rhys  Ricardo Richard Richie Richmond Rick Ricky Rico Ridge  Riley Rio Riordan River Robert Roberto Robbie Rocco Rocky  Rodney Rodrigo Roger Ricky Riley Rod Rodrick Roger Roland  Roman Romeo Ross Rowan Rudy Rufus Russell Ryder Ryker Rylan Ryland 

Salem  Salvador  Salvator Sam  Samir Sampson Samson  Samuel Sander Sandford Sanjay  Santiago Saul Sawyer Scott Sean Sebastian  Septimus Serge Sergio Seth Seus Seymour Shane  Shawn Shayne Sheldon Shepherd Sherlock Sherman Shin Sidney  Sigmund Silas Silver Silvester Simon Sinclair Sinjin Sirius  Slade Slate Sol Solomon Sonny Sparrow Spartacus Spencer Spike  Soren Stan Stanford Stanley Steele Stephen Steven Stevie Stone Sven Summit  Sullivan Sully Sylvester

Tad  Tag Talon  Tanner Tate  Ted Teddy Teo Teodor  Teodoro Terence Terrell  Terry Tex Thad Thaddeus Thane  Thatcher Theo Theoden Theodore Thomas  Thor Thorn Tiberius Tiger Tito Titus Timothy  Titus Tobias Toby Tommy Tony Topher Trace Travis  Trent Trenton Trev Trevor Trey Tristan Troy Truman Tucker  Tudor Tullio Tullius Tully Tycho Tyler Tyrell Tyrese Tyrone  Tyson

Uberto  Ulric Ulrich  Ulysses Uriah Urban Urijah  Uriel

Van  Vance  Vaugn Victor  Vince Vincenco Vincent  Vinny Virgil Vlad Vladimir 

Wade  Walden  Waldo Walker  Wallace Wally Walt  Walter Warner Warren  Watson Waylon Wayne Wendall  Wesley Westley Weston Wilbert  Wilbur Wilder Wiley Wilfred Will William  Winston Wolf Wolfe Wolfgang Woodrow Wyatt 

Xander  Xavier Xavion  Xenon

Yael  Yahir York Yosef  Yousef Yusef

Zac  Zach Zachariah  Zacharias Zachary Zack  Zander Zane Zayden Zeke  Zeus Ziggy Zion Zoltan

[curioushistorian]

Contemporary art reflective blog

My name is Helen, I am a mature first year undergraduate History of Art and Museum Studies student. For the contemporary art module, we have been asked to create a blog on how we understand and connect to contemporary art. This is where I have to confess that out of all the modules that we have studied this is the one that I feel I connected to the least.

I am hoping by the end of this blog and through my own research to have deepened my understanding and gained a better insight into contemporary art.

I have grown up in and around Renaissance art having spent a quite a bit of time in Florence with the family I have there, the time spent in art galleries like The Uffizi, The Accademia and the Pitti Palace deepened my love of all things ‘old’ so the modern contemporary art I just do not feel like I understand quite so well.

 Medusa with the Head of Perseus

'Medusa with the Head of Perseus', by artist Luciano Garbati. COURTESY OF MWTH PROJECT AND THE ARTIST

 Luciano Garbati is an Argentine-Italian artist who grew up in a little village just outside Florence. In the Piazza della Signoria sits the famous Cellini sculpture for all to see. In this sculpture Perseus stands naked atop of Medusa’s corpse, holding her head aloft in victory over the crowds that gather in the square, every child in Florence knows the story.

As Garbati told Quartz’s Annaliese Griffin in 2018, seeing the work as a child led him to imagine a reversal of its dynamic.

“There are lots of depictions of Medusa, and they are always describing the myth at its worst,” the artist said. “… What would it look like, her victory, not his? How should that sculpture look?”

Medusa was a handmaiden of Athena’s sacred temple and one day Poseidon tried to seduce her, she rebuffed his advances as it would jeopardise her position in the temple, not taking no for an answer Poseidon raped Medusa. When Athena found out she, in a fit of rage for defiling her temple, turned Medusa into a Gorgon with deadly snakes for hair and a gaze that would turn anyone she looked at into stone, she banished Medusa from the temple.

A number of years later Perseus was sent on a seemingly imposible task to kill Medusa and cut off her head as a gift. Not being able to look directly at Medusa Perseus used the reflection in his shield to complete the job and take her head.

In Garbati’s sculpture things are a little different, Medusa’s lithe body is naked, she still has the snakes for hair and she is still a beautiful maiden, but in one hand she clutches a sword and in the other the severed head of Perseus (modelled on the artist) but its her gaze that catches the attention of the viewer, head tilted slightly downward, there isn’t a glee to her victory just a quiet resolution that she got the job done and woe betide anyone else who tries to take her life from her, inviting the narrative that she as a rape survivor, she will rise and that victim shaming is both wrong and immoral. This has been highly publicised recently in the media with the #metoo movement.

Photograph Jeenah Moon for the New York Times

Although Garbati created Medusa with the Head of Perseus in 2008 the sculpture was chosen to be erected in 2019 directly opposite the New York County Criminal Court, where Harvey Weinstein stood trial prompting a mixed reaction from the #metoo movement. Medusa has been reinterpreted as being symbolic of the victim-blaming suffered by rape survivors. “How can a triumph be possible if you are defeating a victim,” Garbati said in a statement.

On his Instagram page, Garbati wrote, “The place chosen is not accidental, since there they judge cases for crimes related to violence against women. We are already in the final stage working on the last details of this sculpture that became a symbol of justice for many women.”

Photograph Jeenah Moon for the New York Times

Some women were outraged that a male artist was chosen to represent their voice saying that Medusa’s body was too perfect and Poseidon’s or Athena’s head ought to be at Medusa’s side, not Perseus’s as they were the initial perpetrators.

Regarding Medusa’s model-esque figure, Mr. Garbati suggests that critics consider the literature from a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that chronicles how artistic depictions of Medusa morphed from beastly to beautiful starting in the fifth century B.C. You can find that information here https://issuu.com/metmuseum/docs/dangerous_beauty_winter_2018_bullet

The feminist activist Wagatwe Wanjuki, who has written extensively on violence against women, wrote on Twitter, “#Metoo was started by a Black woman, but a sculpture of a European character by a dude is the commentary that gets centered? Sigh.”

But what if we have the story wrong, what if it’s been interpreted incorrectly all this time? What if Athena was in a fit of rage because her maiden had been raped? What if she was so angry that she turned the beautiful Medusa into a Gorgon to protect her from being a powerless victim? What if she sent her away to safe place where no one would find her? What if, what if, what if….

You can find Luciano Garbati’s web page here https://www.lucianogarbati.com/

  Faith Ringgold

 I first came across Faith Ringgolds work in a lecture we had about the Harlem Renaissance and the impact of the Windrush generation on art at that time, how black artists were using art, music, dance and other mediums to comment on the political status of the era and the black community’s social standing.

What first caught my eye was the riot of beautiful colour Ringgold uses, also that she uses the traditionally ‘gentle’ medium of quilting to depict such abject horrors such as racism, segregation, riots and street violence.

This led me to find out more about her life as an artist and civil rights activist, she is a mesmerising character and I watched many interviews with her, this one was particularly interesting as she was accompanied by her black feminist author and cultural critic daughter Michelle Faith Wallace. Watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6G-S33V6w

 Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem New York in 1930 at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem welcomed thousands of African Americans from the southern states of America, they moved to escape the prejudice and persecution that was going on at this time. Many famous people settled in Harlem such as Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald also authors, artists, musicians and athletes flocked to this area. It was an exciting time in Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance was born.

Faith Ringgold attended City Collage New York where she studied art from the European Masters such as Da Vici, Van Goch and Titian. Although she learned from them, she thought “I am black, I am a woman and I am of African descent” so she started to look at African art that was brought to Harlem by her relatives, she started to make quilts with her own twist on the designs, this led her to making her quilt stories, a series of quilts depicting the plight of African Americans in Harlem at this time, dedicating her career to activism, fighting gender and racial equality and highlighting the horrors of the race riots.

Echoes of Harlem 1980 is the first quilt of the series. This was a collaboration with her mother (who she called Willy) and was made the year before Willy died, this was the only one they collaborated on together. It features all the faces of her neighbours and friends in Harlem and takes the traditional tanka for inspiration. The fabric was quilted on to wadding and then the images were painted directly on to the fabric. This meant she could roll them up and easily transport them to various galleries as she found her paintings too heavy to lift and did not want to wait for her husband to arrive home from work to help her lift her canvases.

Echoes of Harlem 1980 photo Artsynet

Street Story 1985 This a quilt that features her house in Harlem, 222 West 146th Street. It also shows the burned-out houses of her neighbours after the civil rights rioting took place.

Street Story 1985, photo metmuseum.org

 Sonny’s Quilt 1986 This quilt depicts her legendary neighbour saxophonist Sonny Rollins who would practice playing his tenor saxophone on the Brooklyn bridge to get away from complaining residents.

Sonny’s Quilt 1986, photo Artsynet

 Tar Beach 1988 This quilt depicts the hot summers of Faith Ringgold’s childhood, no one had air conditioning and the families of Harlem could not afford holidays so instead they would use the roofs of the apartment blocks to get away from the stifling heat of the city. This was as a place to spend recreational time. They called it Tar Beach. Families would gather with friends and neighbour’s, children would fall asleep under the stars as the adults played card games, listened to music and told stories passed down for generations. This quilt captures the magic she felt on the roof top, the George Washington bridge in the background, the stars above their heads.

 Tar beach1988, photo Artsynet

 When Faith was a child, she was sick much of the time with asthma so consequently spent a great deal of her time absent from school, the roof top was where her fashion designer mother Willy taught her to sew. On the days that she was well enough her mother would take her to the theatre to watch Jazz performances, these are portrayed in later story quilts.

Harlem reflects heavily in Ringgold’s work, from the connection and love she felt with friends and family to the outpouring of rage, despair and inequality felt by the Black community at the time. She used her work to depict the political tensions on the streets of New York.

To find out more about Faith Ringgold’s extraordinary life and works of art including paintings, books, and many more quilts please start by taking a look here www.faithringgold.com  

   Tracey Emin, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995

Photograph Wordpress

 Tracey Emin is a British artist most associated with the art movement of the late 1980’s early 1990’s in London called the Young British Artists or YBA’s, with most of the artists graduating from Goldsmiths or the Royal Collage of Art.

Emin hand stitched and appliqued over 100 names of everyone she had ever slept with up until this point on a tent. The tent filled her small living room floor for six months whilst she worked on it, having to put her television inside it to fit it in the room.

I find this piece fascinating for a number of reasons, firstly the way the media reacted to it. The Tent as it is sometimes known, got such bad press as I think it was just too much information about Emin’s sexuality and private life for most of the general public, jumping to the hasty conclusion that all the names in and on the tent were sexual partners when in fact the literal meaning of the word ‘slept’ in the title was including all the people she had ever fallen asleep in the same place as, names included her Grandmother who she used to fall asleep besides listening to the radio, her teddy bear, two unnamed aborted foetuses and school friends. Of course, Emin had the names of past and present lovers and one-night stands in there also, but the deliberately provocative title of the piece meant that people jumped to their own conclusions without considering that there may be names of people in there with innocent connotations.

Photograph Wordpress

 The second reason I like this installation is because it reminds me of Duchamp’s ‘Readymades’. Emin has taken a mass-produced boring plain two-man tent and added something to make it extraordinary, and thought provoking. So, I find myself thinking would it be as striking and controversial if it wasn’t for Tracey Emins brash, eccentric, feisty and at times unpredictable personality? After all it is just a tent with some names sewn on.

The Tent was first shown at Minky Manky at the South London Gallery and the brainchild of Carl Freedman (who Emin was in a relationship with at the time) He was a friend and collaborator of Damien Hirst who also exhibited in the gallery along with YBA’s such as Sarah Lucas and Gilbert and George. This gave Emins work a much-needed boost as she was not as well-known at this point.

Emin tells Widewalls ‘At that time Sarah (Lucas) was quite famous, but I wasn't at all. Carl said to me that I should make some big work as he thought the small-scale stuff I was doing at the time wouldn't stand up well. I was furious. Making that work was my way at getting back at him. One review was really funny, the journalist had written something like 'She's slept with everyone – even the curator'!

Charles Saatchi the well-known art collector, Gallery owner and wealthy patron of Hirst and many of the YBA’s wanted to buy The Tent but Emin wouldn’t sell it to him due to his advertising work for Thatcher administration. Saatchi eventually bought it on the secondary market from another dealer and put it into his storage facility at the East London Momart warehouse where it was destroyed by fire along with many other valuable pieces of art.

In 2008 during her Edinburgh retrospective show, Emin claimed that she was offered £1 million by the Saatchi Gallery to rebuilt The Tent, but that she cannot do it since it was very personally despite the fact she recreated few smaller pieces for that show. (Widewalls 2020)

To find more about Tracey Emin’s tent watch this short clip https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/tracey-emin-everyone-i-have-ever-slept-with

 Eve Provost Chartrand

In mid-February we had a guest lecture by the Canadian artist Eve Chartrand, I found her work quite disturbing to look at at first, her organic matter looking creations that incorporate teeth, wax, fabric and living fungi can look like something out of a horror film. But then listening to what motivated her to produce her works really resonated with me.

Chartrand has been observing in her art how ‘she experienced first-hand how disabled and “disgraceful” bodies trigger unease, contempt, and/or indifference, even violence. Living in a culture that equates old age with disease and decline (Calasanti 2005) compelled me to find ways to resist and transgress such discriminative gazes’.

As a woman of 44 I can tell you that I am treated differently now to how I was treated in my 20’s. It is like you become invisible or perhaps treated as a slight inconvenience, like your opinion does not count as you are not young. How the adverts on television are reminding you that you must not age, to stay thin and retain the appearance of a perpetual twenty something with long thick lustrous pigmented hair, wrinkle free and with the perfect figure. And the cruel reality is as you start to feel the most comfortable with yourself that’s when your body starts to age and diminish the youthful lustre it once held. When did it become the norm for the media to tell us that the aging process is not acceptable, beautiful or inevitable? Is the media the new male gaze?

Chartrand’s work challenges the viewer to see beauty in ageing, unconventional bodies, frailty and diversity.

 Chartrand’s work entitled ‘Is there anybody home?’ was inspired by losing elderly relatives, witnessing the aging process and using childhood memories to create sculptures that conveyed the smells, tastes, vibrations of previous experiences. This body of work particularly stuck a chord with me as I have elderly parents and recently lost a most beloved Aunt, Chartrands work made me think about what I hold dear and after my loved ones have gone what would I have to remember them by.

Is There Any Body Home? Specimen #5: A Hair Brush. 2018 Eve Provost Chartrand

 Chartrand explained in her lecture that she made this after rummaging through a box of mementos and keepsakes of her Grandmother who she was afraid of when she was a child. The poetry is typed on velum to mimic the fragility of aging skin mirroring it with a slightly translucent quality.

The bacteria grown in the petri dish was taken from a swab of Chartrand’s Grandmothers 80 year old hair brush. The idea that you can resurrect a living organism (all be it bacteria) from a relative or loved one’s belongings I find fascinating and macabre at the same time. The thought is comforting to me that even when someone is long gone a part of that person still remain and can bloom into life once more.

Is There Any Body Home? Specimen #2: Dentures. 2018 Eve Provost Chartrand

 Find more of Chartrands work here https://www.eveprovostchartrand.com/

  Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a site-specific artist who works outdoors with natural found materials such as leaves, twigs, rocks, ice and water. He uses these materials to compliment the landscape and documents the breakdown or decay of the installations by photographing them at different stages. His work is none permanent and open to elements which give them a fleeting beauty.

“It's not about art,” It's just about life and the need to understand that a lot of things in life do not last.” He told the Guardian

Photograph by Artsynet  

 Instead of using canvas, paints, clay, tools and other traditional artist materials Goldsworthy instead opts for what nature provides him. Choosing not to paint landscapes but rather paint on them, in them or around them, incorporating the seasons, the weather and the tides. Nothing he creates is permanent and every component as natural, even down to the thorns he uses to fix leaves in place.

Photograph Artsynet

 I think Goldsworthy’s art is particularly poignant at this current time. The global pandemic rendering travel out of the question so people have been able to explore the countryside around them, many of them for the first time. Busy lives, jobs, and schooling have us all on the giant treadmill of life, it has taken a catastrophic advent for all to slow down and enjoy walking in the countryside, local parks, gardens and shorelines of Britain, watching seasons come and go, watching nature in her great cycle realising that to take care of our earth provides a wonder for us all and our future generations.

Goldsworthy states in his book Passage ‘An artist makes things that become a focus for feelings and emotions - some personal, some public, some intended, some not. At best a work of art releases energy that is a shock to both the artist and the viewer – I do not mean shock in the conventional sense but an emotional tremor that articulates a feeling that has been in search of form’ (page 69)

The transience of Goldsworthy’s art can also be likened to the way that contemporary art is fleeting, what is considered to be contemporary at this present moment in time will undoubtedly be not what we would consider it to be in 10, 20 or 50-years’ time. Art that is created today is considered contemporary but all art was created ‘today’ that day and then we will have to find another name to call it, another category to fit it in to.

I have learned in the duration of completing this blog that I very much enjoy some contemporary art, I may need to do some research into the piece that I am looking at to understand the artists meaning behind their work, or that I may have to understand the actual artist and their background before I can fully appreciate what they are communicating, I know now that I will be slowing down in the contemporary art room in the Walker Art Gallery the next time I visit instead of rushing through, I will take time to read the information the galleries provide and continue to learn, who knows, maybe I will find a new passion I did not think possible.

[corvidaeart]

Male identiy

Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini, made around 1545 in Florence, Italy. Cast in bronze.

The sculpture was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke who had “cut off the head” of the republic, and had gained control. During this time societal standers were very high for men, to be strong and brave and powerful, perpetuated by statues like this. These notions carry on into modern life which has a damaging effect on male identity, as men are taught to be strong and powerful and brave but are misguided when it comes to processing emotion, a stereotypically female thing to be in touch with and therefore something that is discouraged in men, as they are taught that female attributes are insecurities that should be suppressed.

The sculpture conveys power and strength through the use of bronze and marble, these are typically strong materials that last a long time. The use of these materials illudes to the artist incorporating this element of power and fulfilling the patron’s wishes to continue to circulate ideals of toxic masculinity.

These ideals are also hinted to in the fact that the figure is presented with defined muscles which have been used to kill a creature. This decision by the artist may have been second nature as at the time men were idealised if they were strong and killed things, however it is in recent history that men are coming to the conclusion, or being shown that physical strength and being emotionally withdrawn is unhealthy for their mental wellbeing. The fact that this is only recently being widely discussed is a positive step towards a better understanding of mental health and wellbeing, however as these ideals have circulated for so long it is going to take a long time to educate people that these aren’t beneficial for anyone.

Bibliography:

Visittuscany.com. (2020). Statue of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini in Florence | Visit Tuscany. [online] Available at: https://www.visittuscany.com/en/attractions/perseus-with-the-head-of-medusa-by-benvenuto-cellini/ [Accessed Feb. 2021].

‌Abrahams, S. (2021). EPPH | Cellini’s Perseus (1545-54). [online] Everypainterpaintshimself.com. Available at: https://www.everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/cellinis_perseus [Accessed Feb. 2021].‌

What Is Toxic Masculinity? (Published 2019). (2021). The New York Times. [online] Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/toxic-masculinity.html [Accessed Feb. 2021].

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[osinfulserpent]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: 碧蓝航线 | Azur Lane (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Duke of York/Perseus (Azur Lane) Characters: Perseus (Azur Lane), Duke of York (Azur Lane), Vampire (Azur Lane), Howe (Azur Lane), Z24 (Azur Lane), Roon (Azur Lane), Monarch (Azur Lane), Littorio (Azur Lane), King George V (Azur Lane), Prince of Wales (Azur Lane), more character tags to be added Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Mystery, Ghosts, Paranormal, Slow Burn, Rated For Later Events, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

It began, like many ghost stories do, on a cold and stormy winters day.

But Perseus isn't one for ghost stories, and despite her apartment's phenomena, she refuses to believe that anything out of the ordinary is going on.

That is, until events in motion push her (and the stray cat she found) into a mystery of supernatural events revolving around her ghostly roommate-turned-partner-in-crime and the circumstances of her haunting.

After all, secrets rarely stay buried, and it looks like the dead don't either.

[cursedalthoughts]

im not gonna delete the shipgirl appreciation post i did for duke of york because a lot of ppl liked it and i want ppl to find it and reblog it, but im gonna be honest gang, she's fallen off so much on my rankings - due to no fault of her own.

you know when you meet someone that makes you see things in a different way (in this case about a fictional character)? yeah, well, lets say that sort of person can (at least for me) end up doing the complete opposite too. there's a bunch of shipgirls i really really love that now talking about them feels sour. perseus and dido were on my list of shipgirl appreciation day posts but i dont wanna write about them anymore, you know?

sorry for bringing personal ramblings to this blog but i just felt i needed to let that out.

[dangeroussicilianhousewife]

I wrote a few days ago about Villa Niscemi, once home to Fulco Di Verdura, the Sicilian duke whose memoir so enchanted me. As an adult he moved to New York and became a jeweller. His dazzling artistic legacy has Sicily in every jewel.

First let’s look at this elephant:

He was inspired by the iconic landmark of Catania. The statue is made of the black rock from Etna that covers the beaches around eastern Sicily.

Now for some legacy. These are medieval Sicilian crowns:

Here are the crosses and other jewels that they inspired Fulco to design:

You can’t visit Sicily without falling in love with the beaches and their exciting shells. There are even some beaches in Sicily where amber washes up, and every one has golden sand and sparkling pebbles. Fulco recreated them in pure gold and precious gemstones.

His love of nature shows in all his work. In his memoir he described how happy he was playing out of doors in the plants and dirt. He was fascinated observing leaves and insects.

The pomegranate is still regarded as a symbol of fertility in Sicily. I was given pomegranates as gifts when I became engaged to Hubby. Fulco interpreted this traditional Sicilian symbol in rubies and diamonds:

Do you recognise this mosaic? It adorned the bedroom of King Roger, in the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo.

Fulco interpreted it in various forms of leopards.

Here’s a picture of this talented Sicilian.

Portrait of jewelry designer Fulco di Verdura. (Photo by Horst P. Horst/Conde Nast via Getty Images)

Here’s one more piece of work with a connection to Sicily that some people may not recognise at first. The snakes represent the hair of Medusa, that monster of ancient Greek mythology whose face was so ugly it could turn people to stone with one glance. This was a Greek myth, so why was it Sicilian?

Siracusa, on the south-east corner of Sicily, was a Greek colony so large and successful it overshadowed Athens itself. And it is filled with Medusa sculptures absolutely everywhere. Why were the so obsessed with her? She was used to ward of the evil eye, or envy. The idea was that if anyone was having evil thoughts about the city, Medusa’s ugly face would bounce them right back upon the evil-wisher. When you’re the richest city in the known world, such precautions are vital.

I think Fulco put a jewel in the centre, in place of her face, because of the legend of Perseus. He managed to kill Medusa and cut her head off, so the legend goes, by fighting her backwards and only looking at her by using his gleaming polished shield as a mirror.

Here’s a picture of one of the many, many depictions of Medusa from ancient Siracusa:

Now I shall leave you with a selection of Fulco’s finest.

Sicilian card games!

The perfect stocking filler.

Participate in a Sicilian tradition by buying a book of Sicilian card games on Amazon. 

Buy the bestselling pocket edition or the full colour large format edition with three bonus games. Also now available in the Italian language!

You can also buy packs of Sicilian playing cards on Amazon and many websites.

  Sicily in Jewels: The precious legacy of Duke Fulco Di Verdura I wrote a few days ago about Villa Niscemi, once home to Fulco Di Verdura, the Sicilian duke whose memoir so enchanted me. 

[mellonmarsh042-blog]

ManOU, MinOs, Mises, MOses 

JOseph, JesUs, 

“O” Words:  GOd, LOrd, gOds, gOdesses, Old, JehOvah, CristO, ChOsen, GOne, One, ALOne, LOnely, Only, WOn, WOrLd, WOrd, SwOrd, VOice, COntainer, COntained, SpOken, ChOke, TOday, SwOrn, WOrn, MissiOnary, MissiON, PermissiOn, SOrry, SOft, CeremOny, COntact, PrOvidence, PrOphecy, JOan Of Arc, PrOphet, TraditiOnal, AdditiOnal, SOn, HOspital, BOrn, LOck, VOw, SwOre, COvenant, RainbOw, Ordained, Order, ChaOs, Organize, COmmitment, COmmit, COmment, CO-(ed), Ordinary, ExtraOrdinary, PrescriptiOn, WOman, BrOad, ROyalty, POwer, POwerful, BOdy, BOne, BOLd, PersOn, PeOple, BOard, WhOre, HOe, ShOvel, HOse, BrOthel, HerO, HerOin, NOn, cannOn, IrOn, IrOny, FOrward, TOward, DirectiOn, COntrast, ZerO, HOLe, HOLy, CrOss, ArrOw, VisiOn, HOrn, HOrny, HOrdes, HOLLy, DOnkey, GOlden, LOve, ErOs, ROse, ArOse, TOast, MemOry, COde, COdex, SOlved, ResOlved, COt, COtTen, COrn, COrner, HOme, HOtel, POrtal, POrt, POrtland, Oxygen, HydrOgen, FOrth, COmmand, MOrtal, ImmOrtal, AtOmic, AtOm, BOmb, BOmbsheLL, BOmbard, ArmeggedOn, AnnihiLatiOn, WOw, Ow, LOst, LOsing, MOney, COst, DOLLars, COins, StOne, DiamOnd, COincide, FreedOm, MacrO, MicrO, MicrOw, MicrOwave, TheOry, COven, Oven, StOve, COLLege, COver, COrrect, HOney, POwer, PLOw, Owned, CrOwned, SLOwer, ShOw, ShOwer, FLOw, Over, COver, HOver, ON, Off, NO, NOrth, NOt, KnOt, NOte, SOng, WrOng, LOng, LOnging, LOdge, TrOt, TerrOr, TerrOrism, StatiOn, WOOd, LOg, ALLOw, ALLOwed, HaLLOwed, ShaLLOw, LOw, BeLOw, BeyOnd, CLOthes, Origin, Original, POcket, ConstellatiOn, NatiOn, CivilizatiOn, ExpressiOn, SLOw, Oh!, BOise, IdahO, JerOme, New YOrk, CalifOrnia, CalifOrnicatiOn, ChicagO, MexicO, AppOintment, CancellatiOn, SOda, DOS, Operating, OS, TaO, COme, GO, StOp, GO, HOt, COld, FrOzen, DOwn, DrOwn, Own, FrOnt, TOp. AtOp, TOtal, FOrever, FOnt, DOes, SOng, ROck and ROLL, ROLL, ROLe, TOne, ALLegrO, ChOir, ChOrd, Orchestra, TempO, TOnal, AtOnal, TenOr, SaxaphOne, PianO, KeybOard, BanjO, CellO, ObOe, TOm TOm,  NOva, MOre, LOcate, FOrce, COpe, HOpe, NOpe, COre, MiLLiOn, BiLLiOn, ZiLLiOn, SpOt, PrO, COn, COngress, COck, Ostrich, MOnkey, FOx, GOat, WOLf, CrOw, COLLie, WOLverine, WerewOLf, ALLigatOr, LiOn, DOg, HOrse, POny, FOx,  DOve, OwL, FOwL, COw, LivestOck, POrk, HOg, BacOn, HOwl, FLOwer, Oats, COward, MOnday, NOvember, TObber, COp, POlice, DemOn, DaemOn, DemOnstrates, FOretell, Oath, MarjOrie, FLOat, MOtel, MOnster, MOre, MOvie, ShOw, RadiO, StereO, IgnOre, IgnOrance, SnOr, SnOt,  COmbat, PrObLem, PrOgrammed, PrOgrammer, LOse, VenOm, FOrty, BOx, BLOck, BOxing, SpOrt, TOLd, StOry, HistOry, BOnd, BLOnd, StrOng, LOng, HOld, MOld, BOld, RatiO, RatiOnal, ALmOst, AwesOme, MOst, MOist, POpe, POp, VOwel, IOn, RadiatiOn, ThOr, ROme, ROam, ROman, MegaphOne, TOmb, MOlest, SOviet, Over, TOss, POssess, Obsess, Observe, MOve, RemOve, DrOve, TOe, PrOverb, PrOverbial, COat, COte, COLt, ROcket, SOlve, AbsOlve, Olive, WrOng, SnOw, FrOst, NOw, NOel, ExpeditiOn, ROad, SchOlar, POrtal, Open, CLOse, CLOth, CLOthes, SOcks, COmpact, NOse, NOstril, ThrOat, IvOry, ThOse, TOes, DO, DOn’t, DOes, DOesn’t, DOing, SO, TO, Or, GrOss, DepOsit, RepositOry, ROck, ROLL, COntext, BLOw, BLOwn, BOw, BOwel, BOwl,  BrOwn, CrimsOn, ViOLet, ViOLence, CinnamOn, Orange, Ox, AffOrd, FOr, FOrty, FeLon, FeLOny,  ELabOrate, Orate, Ornate, IncantatiOn, WOrk, JOb, SOrcerer, SOrcery, SOre, SOar, Oar, WOre, LeprOsy, Odd, Odyssey, WhOle, Odin, Osiris, DragOn, COmb, COmbine, ChOice, TOgether, TOad, SOme, SOnnet, SOnic, SOnar, WOrry, SOap, Opera, NOah, MOses, JOhn, JOe, BOb, Obese, JOin, GhOst, HOst, HOstile, MeLOn, LOnely, LOan, Ocean, IcOn, IdOL, DOLL, AndrOid, DrOne, CLOne, CybOrg, AndrOmeda, CLock, CLOak, JOke, JOker, VOLt, RevOLt, ByrOn, AmbrOsia, BrOther, Other, AnOther, Offering, MatrimOny, MOther, POke, NOne, NOise, POint, AppOint, AnnOinted, HarmOny, FrOm, FOrm, InfOrm, POverty, Overt, DOpleganger, Orgy, Ogre, DOck, ROt, MaggOt, FaggOt, BOat, MOat, ROmance, InnOcent, HirOshima, GOdziLLa, WOrst, ShOrt, LOng, PerfectiOn, SOciety, SOcial, POrt, POrtland, KnOw, KnOwledge, WhO, HOw, AnatOmy, CLOset, FLOck, LOcket, LOcker, Object, Okay, OK, PrOmise, PrOcreate, FOrnicate, MethadOne, NarcOtic, SOmething, NOthing, GnOme, LOt, WeapOns, EOn, NeOn, TOnight, BOy, SaLvatiOn, ELation, RedemptiOn, AttentiOn, Omen, MirrOr, DeceptiOn, COexist, TOrn, LessOn, StOrm, NeOphyte, DefinitiOn, ScOre, PrisOn, POise, POse, POser, PastOr, COttage, CathOLic, MethOdist, EpiscOpalian, TelepOrt, InvasiOn, EvOLve, InvOLve, COLLar, InvestigatiOn, ImaginatiOn, NOrth America, ApOstle, ImpOssible, POssible, PrOtein, CarrOt, LOad, ReLOad, AmmO, DeveLOpe, ELOpe, WrOte, ROte, WindOw, WidOw, NegrO, Oriental, Orient, AdOre, AmOre, BeLOved, SmOke, TOke, DOpe, WOrthLess, TwO, HedOnistic, MOnastic, POLygamy, Once, SecOnd, DestrOyer, WeapOn, StOmach, ReligiOn, GOvernment, DemOcracy, POLOtics, DemOcrat, PLatO, AristOtle, GenOcide, Official, POLand, NOrway, HOLLand, FOreign, SeasOn, ReasOn, TreasOn, InvasiOn, HarbOr, MOnths, POst, Offensive, ShadOw, VictOry,  BOth, BOther, COmplex, RecOrder, RepOrter, BrOken, TOy, COma, COmma, PeriOd, COmply, FOrnicate, SymbOL, ErectiOn, StOckings, TOLe, TOLL, Oak, YeLLOw, RibbOn, HeLLO, COncave, CONvex, MOtive, SeniOr, FictiOn, MOment, VOmit, VibratiOn, ElatiOn, DistOrt, TelevisiOn, DimensiOns, ReceptiOn, DeceptiOn, MOde, MOLe, AcceleratOr, AcceleratiOn, NOwhere, SOmewhere, VapOr, VapOrize, PrOper, ExOrcist, RadiOactive, SeniOr, MOrning, WOrms, POd, SelectiOn, DetectiOn, GrOw, GrOans, MOans, AbandOn, MeditatiOn, DevOte, ApparitiOn, WOnder, WeLcOme, FOrmat, PrOgress, AttentiOn, Offspring, AnalOgy, MOdify, MOdified, ExpLOde, ImpLOde, Ode, ManifestatiOn, WisdOm, IntentiOns, FissiOn, ReactOr, ReactiOn, DetOnate, BOast, NOde, CLOnazepam, MethadOne, TOwn, EscOrt, TestimOny, WhOa!, LiberatiOn, CannOt, PerfOrm, InfectiOn, COmic, COmedian, COmely, HOmely, BOnd, Oil, PrOfit, COmpetative, POverty, PrisOn, BigOtry, Offensive, SOciety, PrOject, JOy, ArrOgant, CherOkee,

 “OO” Words:  GOOd, COOL, FOOL, VOODOO, BOOst, SchOOL, BLOOd, COUpLe, COntrOL, COOk, MOOn, HOrrOr, POisOned, COnsOlidatiOn, OperatiOn,  DOctOr, DetOnatiOn, RObOt, EcOnOmics, OvercOme, FOretOLd, CartOOn, BOOb, COOperate, COrrespOndence, COrpOratiOn, NeighbOrhOOd, EpisOde, MicrOscOpe, COrpOreality, SpOOf, OctOber, DOgsbOdy, OverLOrd, GOOgle, POOr, POOp, OriOn, OniOn, CrOOk, CrOOked, HOLLOw, EmOtiOn, HOLOgraphic, LOOk, LOOse, ZOOm, BOOm, SOmehOw, BLOOm, CacOOn, FOLLOw, PrOOf, POOL, SnOOp, FOOt, TOOth, FOOd, TOmatO, POtatO, NOOn, MicrOphOne, BOOk, PhOnOgraph, PhOtOgraph, COmpOser, MOnO, POrnO, ShOshOne, NOOdle, POOdle, HydrOcOdOne, KLOnOpin, MOOr, SOOthsayer, PrOtO, LOOp, LOOphOLe, SOrrOw, TOmOrrOw, COnsOnant, COmmOn, COmmOnplace, COOrdinate, COOrdinates, CrOssbOw, OverdOse, COLLabOrate, TOO, ChOOse, POsitiOn, POtiOn, MOtiOn, LOtiOn, POseidOn, MOnOgamy, AlcOhOl, KangarOO, MOOse, GOOse, MOOd, MOOdy, SpOOn, ApOstrOphe, COnsideratiOn, HOrizOn, InfOrmatiOn, PrOtOtype, PrOtectiOn, PrOtectOr, PrOmOtiOn, AstrOnOmy, AncestOrs, AstrOLOgy, PrOcreatiOn, PsychOLOgy, TelepOrtatiOn, COLLabOratiOn, APOLLO, ApOLOgy, POLiO, BOttOm, OdOr, TOOL, ROOt, RebOOt, SpOOf, ALOOF, ROOf, FLOOr, DOOr, BrOOm, ROOm, GLOOm, DOOm, SOOn, SOOner, ZOO, TOrsO, AnglO-SaxOn, MOngOLOid, MOngOlia, StOOd, COLLabOratiOn, EcOnOmy, TrOOps, OppOsite, BOOth, COLOr, FOrnicatiOn, OverLOad, NOn-fictiOn, DistOrtiOn, POrtiOn, MOLestatiOn, VapOrizatiOn, PrOcreatiOn, PrOpOse, DevOtiOn, COmfOrt, DiscOmfOrt, KLOnOpin, COmpetitiOn, TechnOLOgy, COnditiOns, LOOt, LOOting, BOngOs,

“U” Words:  QUeen, ZeUs, PerseUs,  DaUghter, SUn, TrUth, TrUe, GUard, GUardians, GUide, RULer, ILLUminate, LUnar, JerUsalem, MUslim, MUst, ReqUired, PersUade, EqUaLity, QUality, CUp, RetUrn, TUrn, SUpernatUral, SUperhUman, Unimaginable, BULL, AssUmed, HOcUs-POcUs, NatUre, NatUral, HaUnt, RegULar ThUnder, TUnnel, SatUrated, FUnnel, CUnt, ShUt, HUt, SLUt, JUnk, TrUnk, JUgs, FUck, SUck, SpUrt, ActUal, MinUte, ErUpt, ErUpted, CrUsh, CrUelty, HUnk, DUke, AbUndance, FUnk, ULtimate, NUn, PUre, PUrity, DUst, BUry, BUrial, AttitUde, StUff, ApplaUse, FigUre, PaUse, HUnt, HUnter, BUnk, BUnker, PUssy, BUrn, BLUrred, BUrned, BUrns, BUrnt, AdjUst, Church, RepUblican, RepUblic, UntiL, HUrt, Umber, Um, Uh, DUmp, DUmpster, MUm, NUmb, NUmber, QUarter, MUrder, Unarmed, CUrse, CUrtain, CUrtail, CUre, VersUs, BUs, StUpid, DUmb, SUccUbUs, IncUbUs, SUrge, SUrgical, LUggage, TrUck, HUb, HUh, HUge, TrUst,  AnnOUnce, CULtUre, TrOUnce, TrUmp, VacUUm, GUy, CrUd, ThUd, FUzz, AbsUrd, AUnt, Uncle, IssUed, AssUaged, PLUg, BUd, NUts, BUy, SecUrity, CPU, CirUit, BULb, InpUt, RUin, JanUary, FebrUary, JUne, JULy, AUgUst, PaUL, FrUit, HUmingbird, BUt, FUtUre, BrUsh, InsinUate, InsULate, EmascUlate, FUn, FUnny, HUmor, HUman, HUmane, VaLUes, VirtUes, EvaLUate, DrUid, BeaUtiful, BeaUty, MaUdLin, Uber, Use, Used, FUse, FLUsh, PUnch, NaUght, NaUghty, LaUnch, LUnch, AUdience, AdventUre, Under, BUddha, JesUs, JUdas, U.S., Us, United, Unity, PUblic, Pubic, University, StUdent, StUdy, PUberty, DUal, DUality, DUet, DUel, DUdes, DUds, SpUd, SpUtnic, SUds, DUes, HUndred, BUcks, TUb, GUt, LUng, BUtt, SUicide, SUpper, CrUst, MUmmy, SecUre, InstrUment, MUse, MUsic, SUng, ALbUm, BLUes, BLUegrass, TUne, TUba, TrUmpet, GUitar, FLUte, LUte, DrUm, TUrn, PUt, RaptUre, RUptUre, Fur, DrUgs, PUnk, PUke, SUit, SUite, NUit, MUg, MUgger, SkULL, Underling, LangUage, CaUse, Fury, NUisance, BUg, RUg, PLUme, SUbmarine, SUbway, FLUke, LUcky, TUna, SaUce, BUrger, PLUm, LettUce, SaUcer, CUt, Up, AUdible, FUn, FUnny, LaUgh, UnpLUg, LUcid, SUcculent, MUtiny, MUck, CUte, VUlgar, PLUck, CUm, Urine, Urinate, Urinal, TUrd, DUng, FraUd, PLUck, DUck, JUice, DUke,  DrUnk, PUrple, BLUe, TUmble, RUmble, StUmble, AssUme, ResUme, SUb, StUb, SnUb, SnUg, NUtrients, SUpply,  Universe, MUlti-Verse, JUpiter, SatUrn, MercUry, VenUs, UranUs, TUesday, SUnday, ThUrsday, SatUrday, BUiLd, RebUiLd, BUiLt, Dupe, MULe, PlagUe, FLU, VirUs, StatUe, EnUciate, ExecUte, ExecUtive, AccUmULate, UraniUm, NUclear, ExcUsed, SULLen, MUndane, SUpra-mUndane, CULtUre, GUest, GUess, QUest, ReqUest, QUeer, MarijUana, AUthentic, SUper, SUper NOva, SUpreme, SUrprise, LiqUid, SqUid, SqUirt, UniqUE, BUsted, BUst, AUstralia, QUiet, QUit, QUiLt, Unitary, AqUariUm, AquariUs, PlanetariUm, SanitariUm, HaLLUcinate, PLeasUre, SUre, AssUre, Um, Urn, SUpplant, SUrvey, SUrreal, SUbmit, SUmmit, SUmmer, MUtants, VULgar, QUe, TUmble, Uber, JUstice, JUst, UnJUst, JUdge, HUng, JUry, SUrrender, CaptUred, DUty, DULL, FULL, PUsh, PULL, PULse, FUeL, CULL, CaUght, SpiritUal, RitUal, Bi-LingUal, AngUish, DistUrbing, Unthinkable, GradUate, GradUaLLy, GUiLty, QUakers, JUvenile, PUnish, ArgUe, GUiLe, BegUiLe, GeniUs, GUns, HUrry, RUn, AbUndance, StrUctUre, PrejUdice, HUnger, SUffering, 

“OU” Words: SOUL, YOU, YOUr, YOU’re, COnsciOUs, UncOnsciOUs, SUbcOnsciOUs, ResUrrectiOn, SUbAtomic, YOUng, YOUth, IntUitiOn, QUestiOn, SUrvivOr, TOUch, COUntry, PrOstitUte, AssUmptiOn, COUntry MUsic, COUnty, COmpUter, COmpUtatiOn, MUtatiOn, ExpLOsiOn, COmmUtatiOn, EnOrmOUs, InnOcUOUs, AmmUnitiOn, JUniOr, PrOdUced, PrOcedUre, COmmUne, COmmUter, ResOUrce, InstrUctiOn, MiracULOUs, COmmUnicate, COmmUnicatiOn, COM, StUbbOrn, BrUtaL, ShOtgUn, MOnUment, COmply, COnstrUctiOn, OUtward, SitUatiOn, HOrUs, VirtUOUs, COmpUtation, ROUte, SOUth, SOUthern Baptist, UnknOwn, AUthOR, AUthOrize, POUr, SOUnd, ArrOUnd, FOUnd, PrOfound, JOUrnalism, OUt, WOUnd, SOUnd, FOUL, MOUth, SnOUt, LOUd, DUngeOn, PrOUd, HOUse, BOUnce, BOUnd, AbOUnd, WOnderOUs, JOUst, WOUld, COUld, ShOUld, OUch, POUch, SOLUtiOn, ThOUsand, AUtObiOgraphy, AUtOmObiLe, AUtOmatic, SOUr, SOUp, HOUr, cOntrOLLed SUbstance, MeasUre, DevOUr, POpULatiOn, ViciOUs, VenOmOUs, FUriOUs, DeleriOUS, InnOccUlate, OccUpy, ReligiOUs, COmpOUNd,  FOUr, FOUrth, PrOnOUNce, PronOUn, PrOnUnciatiOn, RenUnciatiOn, EnUnciatiOn,  RUmOrs, TUmOrs, RenOUnce, COUrt, COUrting, NOUn, RebOUnd, CaUtiOn, MOUse, LOUse, BLOUse, UndO, UndOne, FLOUnder, NauseOUs, SUbcUtaneOUs, AUdiO, FamOUs, MOUse, IbUprOfen, MOUnt, MOUntain, FOUntain, POUnd, OUnce, BOgUs, TrOUbLe, BOUght, ThOUght, ThOUgh, ALthOUgh, BrOUght, COncLUsiOn, ILLUsiOn, POdiUm, ShOULder, BOUlder, HUmOr, HUmOrOUs, AmOrphOUs, ArOUse, PLUtO, COnstrUct, COnstrUctiOn, SUrrOUnd, ArOUnd, ArOUse, PerniciOUs, DrOUght, FOUght, OUgt, SOdiUm, PLUtOniUm, OUtbreak, MOULd, HOUnd, MOUnd, FOUnd, VariOUs, NefariOUs, HilariOUs, ROUtine, SOviet UniOn, RUssia, POLygamOUs, MOnOgamOUs, DangerOUs, COUnt, COUnter, AccOUntant, ObLiviOUs, LasciviOUs, POUt, GOUt, OUtpUt, PUrpOse, PUrpOsed, GhOUL, MysteriOUs, DeliriOUs, DeliciOUs, PreciOUs, NOUrish, FLOUrish, RidicULOUs, BUttOn, OdiOUs, ROsebUd, HarmOniOUs, GlOriOUs, SagitariOUs, COmmUniOn, UniOn, RighteOUs, COmmUne, FOUnder, InstitUtiOn, COmmUnists, InvOLUntary, PsychOLOgy, BiOLOgy, NeurOLOgy, PhiLOsOphy, FLOUnder, OminOUs, COntinUes, UnLOck, SeriOUs, WarLOck, SpOUt, RevOLUtiOn, EvOLUtiOn, MiracULOUs, UnifOrm, CUneifOrm, EUrO, EUrOpe, AstrOnaUt, COstUme, ROUgh, PrOcUre, PrOdUce, PrOdUctiOn, ObscUre, MOUrn, TOUgh, OccULt, AstOUnding, NUmerOLOgy, EdUcatiOn, ALOUd, UFO, PetrOLeUm, HippOpOtamUs, ManipUlatiOn, COrrUptiOn, SUperstitiOns, ResOUrces, COmmUnity, POmpOUs, ManitOU, 

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 碧蓝航线 | Azur Lane (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Duke of York/Perseus (Azur Lane) Characters: Duke of York (Azur Lane), Perseus (Azur Lane) Additional Tags: Sonnets, Coma, Poetry, Flower Language, Angst, Grief/Mourning, Iambic Pentameter Series: Part 8 of femslash feb 2024 Summary:

'poor Muse, alas! what ails thee now? for thy great hollow eyes with sights nocturnal burn, and in thy changing pallor I descry madness and frozen horror, turn by turn.'

- La Muse malade, Baudelaire (translation by Lewis Piaget Shanks)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 碧蓝航线 | Azur Lane (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Duke of York/Perseus/Repulse/Scharnhorst (Azur Lane) Characters: Perseus (Azur Lane), Duke of York (Azur Lane), Repulse (Azur Lane), Scharnhorst (Azur Lane) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Ghost Hunters Series: Part 4 of Halloween Haunts Summary:

‘Hello Youtube, I’m Repulse, my partner is Perseus, and we’re here to investigate this haunted house in todays episode of ‘Spectre Seekers!’ ‘ Possibly haunted house.’ ‘Aww, don’t be such a sceptic, Perce!’ ‘That is literally my entire dynamic in this. You get spooked at everything and call it a ghost, I point out that the window is open. I’m here to find empirical evidence that a ghost exists. You’re here because… I don’t know, you actually enjoy walking through mould and rat droppings?’