#elizabeth-karenina

[montanabohemian]

Happy Birthday, Madison! I hope your day is filled with joy, good friends who love you, and of course, cake. May you see many more! Lots of good vibes and love to you, my friend.

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love and appreciate you always <3333333333333333

[ofallingstar]

The way your Keke Palmer BD reference on that Cillian Murphy photoset made me cackle!😂😂 You have no idea how badly I needed that laugh.

I'm glad you found it funny 😂

[girlintheafternoon]

Literary Heroines + Bedrooms

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Black dresses

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semifinals Finals

Winner: Li Haolan's dress, from Legend of Haolan

Costume designer: Xiaotao Song

[ladywatereton]

“My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

[be-loved-moon]

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Keira 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Merch 26,1985

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

26 Marzo 1985

[island-in-the-shadows]

My brain has this weird chip thing it, apparently? Now it keeps mentally dressing Felix Catton up in different costumes Keira Knightley was worn. Whoops?

[greeksorceress]

💌 Hey Alice, hope everything is well with you!

oh my gosh, elizabeth! it's been such a long time! i'm so happy to hear from you! 🥺 I'm doing better as of now! i hope everything is going well! whenever i see the bridgerton teasers they're dropping in instagram for the next season i think of you <3

there are a few more things that come to mind when i think about you: a mug of freshly made coffee, the smell of both old and new books, penelope featherington, gothic architecture, cottage houses, period dramas and renaissance royal dresses 🌸🤍

[stray-kaz]

I liked the Rafal drabble! It was very like him, to be nonplussed about someone’s fear! I’d like to see one for Rhian, too! Maybe a library scene like in Beauty and the Beast, or a ball like in Cinderella (obviously Disney has rotted my brain lmao!). I do love your short stories. I always look forward to them.😊

Aw, thank you so much! I am always pleased when I spot your name.

I have a snow ball themed oneshot for Rhian in my drafts to work on, but a library one would be nice, too!

Any particular details?

🤗

[sweatygardengoatee]

Hope in the Face of Pain: The Story of Faraj and His Struggle with Cancer and Displacement

Every person carries a story. Some are told and heard, while others remain in silence, etched deep within the heart. My story goes beyond pain; it is a continuous battle with cancer, set against the harsh backdrop of displacement, the loss of my father, and our home that once served as a safe haven for my family.

My Journey with Illness and Displacement

Cancer entered my life uninvited, adding a new layer of suffering. Every moment of treatment is challenging, and pain accompanies me constantly, but I hold on to patience and hope for my family and for my child, who needs me. While I fight the disease, displacement was forced upon us, and we lost the home that represented safety and stability for us.

Losing my father, who was my support, only added to the weight of my suffering. We now live day by day, trying to adapt to the difficult conditions in the absence of security and stability. The memories of childhood that fill every corner of our lost home make each step in this journey even harder.

Fatherhood Amidst Pain

I waited nine years for my child, and when he came into the world, I couldn’t be by his side as I had dreamed. The hardships, the illness, and the displacement deprived me of precious moments with my child—moments every father yearns to experience. But here I am, burdened with the pain of separation, trying to find my way back to him, to be the father he deserves.

Every bit of support you offer is not just a financial contribution; it is a message of hope. It’s a reminder that there are people standing beside me, reaching out to help, and wanting me to reclaim the moments I’ve lost. Your support eases the weight of this battle and brings back a piece of the life my family deserves.

Why We Need Your Support

We’re not asking for the impossible, nor are we seeking luxury. We just need a fresh start, a simple life that brings my family together, far from fear and pain. Every donation from you is a new life for us, a new beginning that allows us to build a better future and face the difficulties with strength and resilience.

My story is not merely a personal one; it’s a voice for everyone who suffers in silence, for everyone who struggles to survive and hold onto hope. With your support, we can realize the simple dreams we seek, and we can regain even a little of the life we lost.

How You Can Help

You can be part of our journey through your donations, which bring us hope, and by sharing our story with those around you, so other hearts may respond to our plea. We need you; you are part of our strength in this battle, you are the hope that drives me to continue.

In Conclusion

My story is just a small example of a greater suffering, but I believe that your kind hearts can change this reality. Every bit of support, every word of encouragement, every prayer gives us hope and brings us closer to the life we dream of. My deepest gratitude goes to all of you for your support and for standing by us in this difficult time.

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[girlintheafternoon]

Although one finds it difficult to imagine Cleopatra afflicted with jealousy (the notion is ludicrous, rather like imagining her laid up with migraine on that perfumed barge, equipped with Fiorinal and an ice bag), she wanted to know the height of Antony's bride, to know the colour of her hair - betraying her vulnerability even as most of us have done. Imagine anyone who has not known jealousy. "He had betrayed me and wanted to shame me besides," cried Iseult the Fair (quite unfairly) of her doggedly faithful Tristan; "I may never believe you," said Guinevere, although the facts belied her, to Launcelot. A few centuries later, Emma Bovary would insist hysterically that "there are more beautiful women, but I know how to love better."

What each of them has suffered is not, no matter what the love songs say, jealousy. They have suffered instead the inability to cope with jealousy, the incapacity to control an impulse common to us all. The love-death is literary convention, a delusion of courtly love, and few die of jealousy. Anna Karenina, but there you are.

Because extraordinary beauty or intelligence or success in anyone, however deserving, presents a subtle threat to our self-esteem, we love best those possessed of some fatal flaw, some saving evidence of their own mortality. Few could be jealous of Elizabeth Taylor's beauty when she was ill: few could fail to see the ritual logic in Marilyn Monroe's inability to find the bluebird. Our favourite stories prove again that man was driven out of Eden: consider Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, the Titanic.

Jealousy is commonly harboured for people one does not know: for the golden girl, the apparently totally blessed. To cure that jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, mediaeval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one's sister, and a stranger in a pink hat seen once and admired on the corner of 55th and Madison.

Joan Didion, “Jealousy: Is It a Curable Illness?” (Vogue, June 1961)

[myokk]

what are eloise's fav books? 👁️👁️

Sorry it took me a while to respond, I woke up and saw this…and I’ve been thinking about it on and off all day while I pondered🤔💓

First, Eloise LOVES reading🥹📚🫶

She is also very introverted and thinky…Eloise tends to gravitate towards books that are more about capturing the essence of what it is to be human than plot-based books. She is living in the PERFECT ERA FOR THAT😇🙏😇🙏😇🙏

Also, for some reason I feel like the wizarding world is not renowned for its literature….they spend so much time mastering magic and studying it that I really doubt they spend much time reading novels 😔🙏 but Eloise was NOT in the wizarding world…she spent FIVE years in a muggle finishing school after she was believed to be a squib…none of the muggle girls really liked her bc she never understood what they were talking about, and she never made an effort to try and fit in, so she turned to reading for the first time in her life😇😇😇 gobbling up books like Matilda😇😇😇

(now she has a whole mini-library under her bed at Hogwarts, and has gotten a lot of the fifth-years passing around books that progressively get more worn down and loved)

…ONTO THE BOOKS😤

Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice. Eloise has never felt like she was in charge of her life, so she loves reading about Elizabeth Bennet (her complete opposite but someone she admires so much bc she wishes she could have more of a backbone). Elizabeth isn’t afraid to speak her mind and doesn’t always follow social niceties if it means compromising her happiness😇

Middlemarch by George Eliot. A beautiful case study on being human (actually all of these books are…)

She LOVES the Russians…Tolstoy (Anna Karenina), Dostoyevsky (The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov…), Gogol (Dead Souls)…

Little Women by Luisa May Alcott

I feel like Eloise would have also read Picture of Dorian Gray, but it came out in 1890 and I doubt she was up-to-date with new things being published bahahahaha. Maybe she’s not so interested in Frankenstein until she actually reads it, and it also becomes a favorite💓

I personally have a lot more favorite books from this time period, but these are the ones I thought Eloise would especially like💓💓💓 (I had to give a fellow bookworm good taste😇) (yes I think I have good taste in books…doesn’t everyone think that of themselves?💓)

Anyways if you’re interested here is the list of MY top 10 books…some of them are from after the year 1900 but ELOISE WOULD HAVE LIKED THEM TOO😤

[ladywatereton]

This text is inspired by a meme I saw on Pinterest.

[orlaite]

My favourite first reads of 2024! In chronological order:

The T.E. Lawrence Poems by Gwendolyn MacEwen

Orientalism by Edward Said

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

My absolute favourite book was Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (which also made its way into my favourite first watches of 2024, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk).

tagging @ailichi @lifespan @marlocandeea @nurseadriansbrother @cavarage @bethegaycowboy @andalusiya @verbnanedilya if you guys want to, and ofc anyone else who wants to do it!💛

[materialki-ff]

period drama list (2000-2025)

a/n: Beim Durchstöbern von einigen Faceclaim Listen auf Tumblr fiel mir auf, dass ich total viele Filme und Serien gar nicht kenne und vielleicht geht es einigen von euch genauso. Daher dachte ich mir, für alle, die sich gerne einen period drama fc für boaf suchen möchten oder auch Interesse an The Voice of the Rose von @shellyscosplay haben, sei das sicherlich ganz praktisch. c: Hoffe ich zumindest. Einige europäische und koreanische Produktionen sind auch mit dabei. Aber sicherlich sind mir auch einige Filme und Serien entgangen. Es gibt definitiv zu viele Werke, die The im Titel tragen. 😅

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100 Days my Prince (2018)

1899 (2022)

A,B,C.

Anna Karenina (2012)

Anne with an E (2017)

Beecham House (2019)

Becoming Jane (2007)

Becoming Elizabeth (2022)

Belgravia (2020)

Belle (2013)

Bridgerton (2020)

Borgia (2011)

Charité (2017)

Cinderella (2015)

Crimson Peak (2015)

D,E,F.

Die Glasbläserin (2019)

Dickinson (2019)

Doctor Thorne (2016)

Downton Abbey (2010)

Eiffel (2021)

Emily (2022)

Emma (2009)

Emma (2020)

G,H,I.

Great Expectations (2023)

Harlots (2017)

Howard’s End (2017)

J,K,L.

Jamestown (2017)

Jane Eyre (2011)

La Belle et la Bête (2014)

Little Women (2017)

Little Women (2019)

M,N,O.

Mansfield Park (2007)

Mary & George (2024)

Merlin (2008)

Mirror, Mirror (2012)

Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022)

Mr. Queen (2020)

My Lady Jane (2024)

Northanger Abbey (2007)

North and South (2004)

Nosferatu (2024)

Outlander (2014)

P,Q,R.

Persuasion (2007)

Poldark (2015)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

Radioactive (2019)

Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung (2019)

S,T,U.

Sanditon (2019)

Secret Royal Inspector & Joy (2021)

Shōgun (2024)

Sisi (2021)

The Artful Dodger (2024)

The Buccaneers (2023)

The Empress (2022)

The English Game (2020)

The Favourite (2018)

The Great (2020)

The Gilded Age (2022)

The Medici (2016)

The Musketeers (2014)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

The Pursuit of Love (2021)

The Scandalous Lady W (2015)

The Serpent Queen (2022)

The Spanish Princess (2019)

The Tale of Nokdu (2019)

The White Princess (2017)

The White Queen (2013)

Tom Jones (2023)

Under the Queen’s Umbrella. (2022)

V,W,X,Y,Z.

Vanity Fair (2018)

Victoria (2016)

Widow Clicquot (2023)

Wuthering Heights (2011)