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diivdeep · 6 days ago
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diioonysus · 1 year ago
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flower crowns + art
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fictionadventurer · 11 months ago
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Potential January Reading:
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn Green
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Something by Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger
A classic (new-to-me or reread)
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gameofthunder66 · 2 years ago
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'Birdman' (2014)
-watched 2/12/2023- 4 stars- on HBO max
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seesree · 10 months ago
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Wolf Pretty 🐺 Mula Nakshatra(Mini Observation)
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Mula ASC, Priscilla Presley
This dreadful, tikshna nakshatra tend to possess a wolf-like mysterious beauty which reminiscent us of the moon at night completing cycles while wolf howls
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The nose of Mula’s tend to be wider and their noses are generally straight. They tend to manifest very ghostly, intense eyes. Their eyes give off an effect of them not being in touch with the real world but in some other dimension instead. Their eyes are generally bigger in shape, and downturned sometimes hooded. The lips of Mula tend to be long and full but very distinctive (similar to Ashwini). The eyebrows are generally thin.
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Edwige Fenech, Mula Sun
Big Gorgeous Dark Eyes with long, full lips with thin brows
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Mula Natives; Amy Winehouse(Moon), Priscilla Presley(ASC), Anita Sirene(Sun), Amy Jackson(Moon), Honey Bees Tarot(Moon) A liking for darker shades in their aesthetics and they often have distinct, unique hairstyles/hair.
I forgot to mention Mula’s tend to have dark thick hair just like the other 2 Ketu nakshatras. Ketu Blessings
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Mula Natives; Brooke Hogan(Moon), PriscillaPresley(ASC), Honey Bees Tarot(Moon), Naomi Watts(Moon), Emma Watson(Moon), Neve Campbell(Moon), Hoyeon Jung(Moon), Yaya DaCosta(ASC) and Judy Garland(Moon)
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Mula Moon, Rosie Huntington Whiteley
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p1325 · 2 years ago
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My book collection so far
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence
Jane Austen - Emma
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons
Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias
Henry James - Washington Square
Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls
Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)
Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)
Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville
Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
Henry James - The Wings of the Dove
Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Jane Austen - Juvenilia  
George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)
George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)  
George Sand - Nanon
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree
Edith Wharton - Summer
George Sand - Indiana
Henry James - The Bostonians
George Eliot - Silas Marner
Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)
Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)  
Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep
Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple
Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 
Fanny Burney - Evelina 
George Sand - Little Fadette
Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House
Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I
Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II
Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana
Theodor Fontane  - Effie Briest 
Edith Wharton - The Cliff
Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality
Louisa May Alcott - Moods
Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist
Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)
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reccyls · 1 year ago
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Chev's birthday story for this year: Emma wants to throw a surprise party for Chevalier and enlists the help of Clavis, Nokto, and Luke. Emma distracts Chevalier and comes up with an excuse for them to leave his bedroom and the others will sneak in to decorate, and throw a surprise. Since they had all initially protested at the idea, Emma assumes they'd just decorate and then leave, but...
Chevalier's room was normally neat and tidy, but now colorful garlands were hung around everywhere.
My homemade sweets were set up on the table they had prepared, along with some vintage rose wine that Nokto had procured from an acquaintance.
There were some small bottles of honey surrounding the whole thing like it was some sort of demonic ritual.
And then also some... extravagantly colored things that may or may not have been food.
(Looks like they set up everything while Chevalier and I were out.)
(They were able to pull off their parts successfully, so the surprise should be-)
But Chevalier was not looking at the table at all. Instead he was standing in front of his normal desk with his brow furrowed.
And then he reached out his hand and yanked Clavis out of the shadows.
(Huh...?)
(Clavis did say, "We'll leave you two alone afterwards because he'd kill us otherwise", I'm pretty sure...)
I initially suggested that we all celebrate together, but the three of them had refused.
So I thought that they'd all just set up the surprise and then leave...
Clavis: Oi! If you pull on my collar like that I'm going to choke!
Chevalier: Everyone else, come out. Unless you want me to pull you out like this?
Chevalier effortlessly dangled Clavis by the collar. Then slowly, Luke emerged from behind the curtain, and Nokto stepped out from the shadow of a bookshelf.
Nokto: Ah, damn. I did kind of want to see his surprised face.
Luke: We got totally found out. Even though I was doing my best to hide.
Clavis: Urk...
Nokto: Yeah, yeah, all intruders get out, right?
Luke: Too bad, Emma. I thought he'd be a little more excited.
Clavis: ...You guys... Your dear older brother... is being murdered right now...
Nokto: See you, you two have a good time together.
Luke: The honey I brought is really good so enjoy it, all right?
Emma: Okay. Thanks for helping, guys.
Nokto and Luke waved as they left Chevalier's room, and Clavis was thrown out after them.
Clavis: Why... are none of you... helping me.........
Clavis: Hey, you! Don't drag me along like this, be more humane, you-!
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turneradora · 2 months ago
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Here is a new press article concerning "Rivals", with the new pic of Aidan as Declan O'Hara !
Thanks to Emma Jones for the written version 🙏🥰 ❤️🌹
EXCLUSIVE The secrets of autumn's biggest bonkbuster Rivals: Why Emily Atack ended up giggling through the sex scenes... and Jilly Cooper's inspiration for the real-life Rupert Campbell-Black
By Sarah Oliver For Weekend Magazine
Published: 06:52 EDT, 4 October 2024 | Updated: 06:54 EDT, 4 October 2024
Hard as it may be to imagine anyone eclipsing the sex appeal of Ross Poldark by being darker, sexier and even better with horses, someone has. Yes, ladies of Great Britain, Rupert Campbell-Black has landed straight from the pages of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 bonkbuster Rivals on your screens here in 2024, and you are all in trouble. A lot of trouble.
Rupert gives the best riding britches and bronzed biceps since Aidan Turner was seen scything topless. He’s hot hot hot, joining the Mile High Club on Concorde and serving up a scorcher playing naked tennis in the sun. Even dressed as Santa come Christmas, he’s the gift that keeps on giving.
So hat tip here to Alex Hassell, whose swarthy looks and CV as a serious Royal Shakespeare Company actor (he was garlanded for his Henry V) don’t immediately suggest him to play a blond-haired, blue-eyed, tabloid headline-hogging love rat. ‘I was slightly concerned at first,’ says Jilly, ‘because my Rupert in the book is blond and blue-eyed, and Alex is very dark-eyed and olive-skinned. But he’s such a good actor.’
From the moment he strides out of the loo having had supersonic sex (he makes Mach 1 at the same time as the plane) with the Daily Scorpion journalist ghosting his memoirs, Alex Hassell owns RCB, as Jilly fans call him. ‘I always believe in laying one’s ghost,’ he sighs as he swaggers back down the aisle, and the millions of women who grew up fancying the rotter know they’re in safe hands.
It wasn’t all plain sailing for Alex though. ‘Some days I’d be quite intimidated because the scene would describe Rupert walking into a room and everybody stops and looks at him and swoons,’ he says. ‘I was nervous about that, but everyone was told to act as if I was Harry Styles, and then my day turned into a wonderful day.’ So what does he think of Rupert? ‘While he is in many ways a s***, he’s not a bad man.’
Rivals is a riot and a romp, faithful to the book but with some sinuous updating to make what was the ultimate 80s tale of wealth, power and corporate backstabbing more nuanced. It is shagtastically good fun and if you’re old enough to have properly enjoyed the 80s, you’ll be drowning in nostalgia for those brash, optimistic champagne-fuelled years.
There are chaps in pinstripes and scarlet braces; women in power suits with root perms and earrings the size of a bin lid. Desk toys have an un-ironic place on boardroom tables and chintz runs amok in the English country house. Everyone is somewhere between slightly tight and completely plastered a lot of the time and can get up to mischief without being found out by their phone. The soundtrack alone will make you cry with longing.
‘We do it lovingly, but as the series goes on we address feminism, racism, sexuality, homophobia and snobbery,’ says showrunner Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who sees Jilly Cooper as a social commentator on a par with Austen or Dickens. ‘Rivals is a raucous party that gets darker. We keep our moments of joy, but the party gets a bit more warped.’
That’s not to say this new Disney+ eight-parter is any less fruity than the book. ‘If you had that copy you borrowed from your friend and it fell open at various pages – we’ve done all those bits,’ he acknowledges.
That classic Cooper sauce is still in there too. ‘How long do you spend on a cock?’ one guest asks Lady Monica Baddingham at a pheasant shoot. ‘Well, generally speaking, I can finish one off in 15 minutes or less, but my hands aren’t as quick as they used to be,’ she replies.
Or when TV technicians prep Rupert for his interview with TV journalist Declan O’Hara (played by Aidan Turner, yes, he of the topless scything). ‘The make-up artist is going to touch you up,’ they tell him. ‘I’d love her to,’ says RCB, ‘but I’m just about to appear on national television.’
There’s lashings of this since we are back in the (imagined) county of Rutshire, deep in the (real) Cotswolds, the setting for Jilly Cooper’s multi-million-selling Rutshire Chronicles series of novels. Riders, the first book, introduced Rupert as he chased Olympic showjumping gold. In Rivals, the second, Rutshire’s commercial TV station Corinium is up for franchise renewal and RCB is again at the heart of the action. ‘In bedroom and boardroom,’ promises Jilly, ‘the fight to capture the Cotswold Crown is on.’
Lord Tony Baddingham is Corinium’s boss. He’s on Concorde too, locking horns with Rupert, now a rising star in the Thatcher government, two of the ‘rivals’ of the title. He is played, with just the right amount of aristo-executive villainy, by David Tennant, persuaded to take the role by his wife, Georgia, also an actor and a huge Jilly Cooper fan.
‘I had my research fellow, who I live with, who could tell me anything I needed to know,’ laughs David, adding his casting caused a frisson at the school gate. ‘It’s a certain generation of women who go a bit giddy at the thought this has become a TV show. I just hope we can meet everybody’s fantasies…’
Well, if those fantasies include seeing Aidan Turner’s bare bottom you can tick that one off the list though he is, unusually for Rutshire, bedding his own wife at the time, rather than someone else’s. Declan O’Hara is Lord Baddingham’s star hire, married to fiery Maud, a man-hungry former actress.
Maud is played by Victoria Smurfit who really, really wanted the role and went full ‘Rutshire’ to get it. ‘I made this big decision where I thought, “Go big or go home.” It was December: freezing cold, ice on the ground, snow coming down through London. And when I arrived at the audition space, I had my coat on, and I walked in to meet the team who were in hats and gloves because it was even cold in the studio. I said, “Hello, I am Maud. You’re all dressed for London in December and – I threw my coat off and had this flimsy dress on underneath – I’m dressed for summer in the Cotswolds, darling!” Going home was quite chilly, I’m not going to lie, but it was worth it.’
In Rivals she specialises in making an entrance: do enjoy the scene with the camel.
As for Aidan Turner, with an absolute whopper of a moustache, Day-Glo yellow socks and a battered old Mini Cooper, he’s more workaholic dad than sex god. ‘That car, it’s got four gears but only three work,’ he groans. ‘The floor has holes in it. I think we maxed at 42mph. It was like driving a go-kart.’
Like all the actors, he knows his Mini isn’t the only bit of Rivals that could have looked clapped out in 2024, if not for the clever screenwriting. ‘I think we’re saying, “These are examples of the problematic behaviour that was acceptable at the time,”’ he reflects. ‘Some of it still does exist, but a lot has changed. It’s interesting to watch a show like ours and think, “We’re still doing that, maybe we should have left it in the 80s.”’
That said, ‘people having sex’, as David Tennant gleefully points out, ‘is timeless’ and all the characters are still aboard a classic Jilly Cooper sexual carousel. Baddingham is having an affair with his brilliant American TV producer Cameron Cook (now a black character), and Rupert is fending off Maud while falling in love with the eldest O’Hara daughter Taggie (played by Sex Education’s Bella Maclean), who’s only 20.
Electronics mogul Freddie Jones (Danny Dyer) and his wife Valerie are the nouveau riche trying to crampon their way up to social acceptance, but Freddie has feelings for novelist Lizzie, whose husband is Corinium’s ghastly news anchor James Vereker. Then there’s disgraced deputy PM Paul Stratton, newly married to his mistress Sarah (Emily Atack), who we first meet playing naked tennis with Rupert.
It’s a legendary Rivals scene (inspired by the tennis court at Jilly’s own house in the Cotswolds) where the tennis ball isn’t the only thing bouncing over the net. ‘The tennis scene was probably one of my favourites,’ says Emily. ‘It was a beautiful sunny day and I’d been exercising, I’d been – I wouldn’t say dieting, I love wine and pasta too much – but I’d been doing my sit-ups and my squats, and I was ready to do this naked scene!’
So it really is Love All, even among Rutshire’s lusty teenagers, for whom ‘I’ve got some Malibu upstairs’ is still a winning pick-up line. And this only takes us to the mid-point of the series: there are four further episodes and a lot more bed-hopping and dastardly boardroom behaviour to come.
It’s hard to overstate the scale, complexity and gleaming polish of the show, with its ensemble cast and Cotswold locations crammed with pale gold mansions, buttercups, bluebells and red phone boxes. (You might recognise 16th-century Chavenage House near Tetbury, which becomes the O’Haras’ home, The Priory, because that too was in Poldark.) There are sweaty horses, bounding hounds and huntsmen in their pinks.
Dinner parties start with pheasant and finish with pavlova, and guests disco dance until it’s time for a Survivors Breakfast. Picnics are enjoyed out the back of a Land Rover – green, what else – and Rupert Campbell-Black is secretly so lonely he shares his bath with his favourite black Labrador, Beaver.
The original book was 720 pages long and they’ve done it proud. Some days, according to Alex Hassell, there were 42 main characters on set at the same time, making it, he thinks, the biggest film unit in Europe.
Vintage Ungaro and Laura Ashley were sourced for the women, 80s-style suits handmade for the men. A safe had to be brought in to stash the 80s watches which are now worth an eye-watering amount. Someone’s mum knitted a bunch of pre-divorce Diana jumpers, Nafessa Williams, who plays Cameron Cook, modelled her ponytail on Sade’s and Danny Dyer drew on his own experience of snobbery as he, a working-class untrained actor, fought to break into theatre.
Emily Atack took to watching reruns of Top Of The Pops in which her own mother, the actress and singer Kate Robbins, appeared, by way of research. Everyone is wearing Wayfarers. Cadbury’s Fruit And Nut still comes in paper and gold foil while Wham!, Roxy Music, ABC and The Communards are on the radio. You can virtually smell the Elnett extra strong hold hairspray, the Drakkar Noir aftershave and the garlic chicken vol au vents warming through in an Aga somewhere.
Like the rest of the cast, Nafessa Williams knew what she was getting into with her sex scenes (Cameron has relationships with first Lord Baddingham and then Rupert). ‘I mean, we all knew what we were coming to do, so there were no surprises. I think it’s a matter of making sure you’re comfortable with each other and you’re listening and asking questions: is it OK to do this? Is it not OK to do that? It is a dance, so you essentially have to practise that dance before going on the dance floor.’
Plus, because Rivals is a bonkbuster – a label which has both supporters and critics among the cast – there was safety in numbers, as Emily Atack explains. ‘When we were doing all these scenes, we flocked to each other to talk about it, and support each other and really big each other up and we laughed about it. They were such a huge part of our bonding as a cast and as friends. It really interested me to see what nudity does to human beings – we were all like giggling teenagers, hugging each other, high-fiving each other, going, “Oh my God! Yes! You did it!”’
That said, they were all rigorously policed by not one but two intimacy co-ordinators, something which would not have happened had Rivals been turned into telly closer to the time the book came out. The intimacy team placed a partially deflated fitness ball between some of the actors so they could rock and create rhythm while having a physical barrier. Others were encouraged to use a tap-in tap-out psychological technique, clapping their hands before a take to signal to themselves they were in character, and then clapping at the call of ‘Cut’ to signal they’re themselves again. ‘We’ve been equal opportunities with sex,’ says Dominic Treadwell-Collins. ‘You will see an awful lot of willies.’
It was the only way to film the lovely, unbridled sort of sex synonymous with Jilly Cooper and the author, now a venerable 87 years old, is characteristically relaxed and happy about the outcome. ‘I trusted Dominic like mad,’ she says, ‘I knew it would be all right!’
A superstar writer since the 60s, made a DBE for services to literature and charity in this year’s New Year Honours, she wasn’t at all bothered when one of the actors, Lara Peake who plays Corinium PA Daysee, failed to recognise her at a read-through. ‘She came over and said, “Oh, you’re the lovely Daysee,”’ Lara recalls. ‘I said, “Yeah, I’m so excited. Who are you playing?” She was like, “No, darling, I’m Jilly…”’
‘Rivals is my favourite novel,’ confirms the author ahead of the series dropping later this month, ‘because I love the characters so much. Even the most ruthless display moments of vulnerability and the shyest show courage and integrity as true love blossoms.’
But can you believe it, RCB almost wasn’t in the book. ‘Originally, I intended to leave out Rupert, my hellraising hero, because in Riders he was cruel both to women and his horses,’ says Jilly. ‘But I missed his glamour and humour.’ She belatedly wrote him back in as a lead, reinforcing his place as one of the most lustworthy men in British fiction.
She says she loves the ‘ruthless glamour’ Alex Hassell brings to her creation, while admiring the greater vulnerability and tenderness the Rivals writers’ room has imagined for RCB today.
His casting has been the subject of heated debate everywhere from Mumsnet to The Tack Room, the online chat area of Horse & Hound. The actor almost withdrew from the first audition because he couldn’t see himself making everyone swoon but, by golly!, to borrow a Jilly Cooperism, he does. So much so he was sad when the shoot was over. ‘No one was looking at me like I’m the most sexy man on the planet any more,’ he says. ‘It was tough.’
Anyway, if you’d like to watch him make your screen melt, are old enough to remember the 80s, or young enough to think it must have been cool to be there, then clear eight hours in your diary because you won’t be able to stop watching Rivals.
But start early or you’ll be late to bed, and that would never do, not in Jilly Cooper’s world.
All episodes of Rivals are exclusively on Disney+ from 18 October.
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lola-jo · 1 year ago
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Mula Nakshatra Female Appearance
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The Last One Standing
Mula Chandra (Moon) Beauty (Type 1)
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Left to right: Joan Fontaine, Reese Witherspoon, Lea Seydoux, Naomi Watts, Vanessa Williams, Kelis, Kelly McGillis, Alice Faye, Maria Sharapova.
These type 1 beauties: - Are low in contrast. - Are very blended looking (no particular feature stands out). - Have understated (classic) beauty. - Have a slight pointed butt chin. - Have a full oval face. - Are fleshy on the eyelids and mid portion of their face. - Look wise and enlightened. - Have an old soul but youthful/naive aura about them. - Look dreamy. - Cannot be underestimated. Mula Chandra (Moon) Beauty (Type 2)
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Left to right: Adele, Amy Winhouse, Judy Garland, Myself, Rose McGowan, Camilla Cabello, Myself (Again), Anais Nin, Patrizia Reggiani.
These type 2 beauties: - Are higher in contrast. - Are magnetic. - Look spiritual/witchy. - Have big bedroom eyes (eyelids/eyebrows droop and look sleepy). - Are transformative. - Have big full lush features on top of sharp but delicate bone structure. - Have 'birdlike' low septum nose. - Have a slightly sharp jawline or pointed butt chin. - Look frozen in time (been through many past lives). - Can manifest. Mula Chandra (Moon) Beauty (Type 3)
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Left to right: Emma Roberts, Emma Watson, Keke Palmer, Willow Smith, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, LeAnn Rimes, Taissa Farmiga, Barbara Eden, Hillary Swank. These type 3 beauties: - Have a sharper look (jaw, eyes, lips, nose). - Have a longer oval face. - Look ethereal and dramatic at the same time. - Have a pixie-like beauty. - Are radical but delicate. - Look like they have a rebellious side. - Have intellect beyond this earth and multifaceted talent. - Keep the look natural and are natural beauties. - Can pull off many different looks. - Are contemplative. - Are in tune with their shadow side. - Can stare through your soul. Mula Lagna (Ascendant) Beauty will be up next xxx
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franklycharmed · 4 months ago
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TASK: TALENT SHOW
WEDNESDAY EVENING | SEPTEMBER 7, 2005 ♡ THE SPARE ROOM, WOODROW HOUSE
Before, when Frankie hadn't been standing in front of the most accomplished group of people she had ever known with two handles of liquor and sixteen glass teacups lined up as surrogate shot glasses, this really had seemed like a good idea.
But like the hosts of TRL said, probably, the show must go on.
Frankie clapped her hands. "Alrighty! Let's give a round of applause for fencing! You're going to have to show me how to do those moves, Mick." She dropped a wink in her direction. "I think I have a few exes where they could be put to good use."
With a press of the play button on a small CD player resting on a stool at her hip, the dreamy strings and first warbling notes of Judy Garland's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas started up. Frankie turned back to the tea table before her and picked up a bottle of grenadine, pouring it into a metal shaker.
"So, you all know that Richard was–" her pour slipped, splashing a bit of sticky liquid onto her hand. "Sorry!" she said quickly, shooting an apologetic look at Mrs. Tristan. She took a steadying breath, "You all know Richard is, like, super old. Spiritually, I mean. Old books, old scotch, old movies. TCM's biggest fan."
There was a bucket of crushed ice next to the glasses, and she dumped a large scoop into the shaker with a light laugh. "I remember I tricked him into seeing Clueless with me because I told him we were going to see an Emma adaptation. He was so pissed after, but you know, in his Richard way. Instead of grounding me, he made me read the book."
She grabbed a can opener and affixed it to a can of pineapple juice, chattering all the while. "Anyway, the only old movie we both like is The Wizard of Oz. Which Judy Garland is in, but we don't have a CD for that; I could only find Meet Me in St. Louis so we're listening to that instead." She gestured vaguely as she poured the pineapple juice into shaker as well. "But I feel like it still works."
The vodka bottle was cold against her hand, which was helpful, because Frankie was feeling increasingly hot, particularly behind the eyes. She swallowed thickly as Judy sang about golden days of yore.
"We would watch The Wizard of Oz, and omg he loved to talk about what a technological feat it was, doing the movie in color." One splash of vodka. On second thought, two. "That's why he thinks I liked it so much as a kid."
Grabbing the blue curaçao, she smiled at the room, a fragile, close to shattering thing. "It was the color, but it wasn't because it was cool."
Someday soon, we all will be together–
"It 's because that's how it felt coming to Woodrow House."
–If the fates allow–
"Like everything was black-and-white wherever I was before, and suddenly my life was technicolor."
Blinking quickly, Frankie added the curaçao, topped the shaker with a strainer, and one by one, filled the clear teacups with color. Blue. Green. Yellow. Orange. Red.
Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow.
For a moment, all Frankie could do was stare down at her work, lips pressed thin, eyes dangerously wet for someone wearing a thick application of mascara.
Then she inhaled sharply and lifted her head with a forced smile, spreading out her hands in a ta-da gesture. "'Somewhere Over the Rainbow Shots'. I thought everyone could use a pick-me-up to make things more fun. That's my talent."
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fragileizywriting · 15 days ago
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"papa," emma says, on her tippy-toes because she gets excited when she runs and gets the zoomies and can't exactly stay still as she looks over his desk. adrien looks away from his papers, over to the young girl who has eyes like marinette's and a mischievious little smile like luka's. "can you and i get married?"
adrien does his best. he really does.
"why do you want to get married?" he blurts out, putting down his pen. he's curious. and interested. and anything about emma is more important than these ridiculous briefing notices, anyway.
"cause it's what you do when you love someone."
behind her, her tail is slowly flicking back and forth. she's a cute thing, almost wiggly by inherent nature; she's a playful and joyful little girl, filling the palace with her giggles and laughter the way that it so desperately needs. her and her brothers are a handful, and he loves the ecclectic lifestyle that they all bring, making every day unique and fresh and experimental. right now, she's the epitome of a little princess— he'd dressed her this morning, made sure her stockings weren't ripped, and had made sure to button every single little button on her dress. she's missing the hairband he'd put on her during breakfast, and somehow has replaced it with a glittery hairtie that can only mean marinette found her at some point, because it's shiny like tinsel and reminicent of the garlands they put on their christmas tree yesterday.
adrien tries not to grin. "w-well, yes, but—"
"so, i love you." she shrugs like it's obvious, bringing out her arms in a way to gesture a what are you going to do? that is just so, so like her mother. "marry me."
"you're too young to get married."
"when i'm older, then."
adrien tries not to make a face. oh, she's smart. far too smart for a six year old. "i can't marry you."
oh! her little face! she's absolutely horrified, miffed like her last grape has been eaten by luka without her looking. "what? why not?"
"because," adrien tries, really tries, holding back a snort of the ages. "i'm already married to bampas and mama."
"what's one more?"
"i already married a girl."
emma goes silent for a few seconds, just enough for adrien to think he's won. "stop being married to mama," she says, succinct in her solution. "marry me instead."
here's where adrien breaks and starts to laugh. he picks her up even though she tries to flee from his hands; hoists her up against one of his hips and walks out of the study room. she's brave enough to not hold her arms around his neck anymore, but doesn't pitch a fight and try to wiggle out of it because she knows that if she does, he'll carry her like a sack of potatoes over his shoulder. "i can't do that, silly. i love your mom too much."
"but—"
"you gotta marry someone outside the family. that's how that works."
"but why?" she groans. "i don't like anyone that isn't family."
"you have to be friends with them, first."
"aren't you my friend?" she huffs.
they're still making it down the hall. in particular, adrien's following the scent of a particular woman— marinette's coming by, finished with her shower and adrien can smell that perfumed soap coming off of her in beautiful waves, and guides himself to her like a sniffer dog. there she is. absolutely gorgeous. her nose is crinkled in delight, a common habit when she smiles and sees him or luka carrying one of their kids, already affectionately rolling her eyes.
"what's that in your hands?" she teases. "did you catch one of the mice trying to steal food again?"
"mama," emma announces, cutting adrien off before he can even speak. she claps both of her hands over his mouth just to emphasize that she wants to speak. "when i'm older, can you marry me?"
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uncertainwallflower · 6 months ago
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Amongst the swollen heads bounced honey-breasted chats, gorging themselves on seeds and singing in their merry way. Their birdsong was lead by a young child, long of hair and light of foot. Her tresses were a bright as flame, and her face so soft and beautiful she could only be a faery’s child. Her lips were sweet with meadow song, softly smiling around the syllables as her nimble fingers worked at a garland of fragrant thorny gorse.
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We will hasten, my fair, to the opening glades, The quaintly carv’d seats, and the freshening shades; Where the fairies are chaunting their evening hymns, And in the last sun-beam the sylph lightly swims.
— John Keats, To Emma
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...the world existed only for them. The hill’s side was their hillside, the birdsong belonged to them, the hawthorn was their secret, the babbling brook their bower, and the rose blossoms the very symbol of their love.
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So fondly I’ll breathe, and so softly I’ll sigh, Thou wilt think that some amorous zephyr is nigh; Ah! no–as I breathe it, I press thy fair knee, And then, thou wilt know that the sigh comes from me.
— John Keats, To Emma
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thatchronicfeeling · 1 year ago
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It has come to my attention that it's Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023. I love period dramas and grew up watching them. They have been a formative part of my life and I'm now too disabled to watch video. Even gifs are too difficult for my brain to process. It is also Bi Visibility Week and I'm posting this on Bisexual Visibility Day. Since I can't safely post a pile of gifs, here is a list celebrating actors/characters/moments from period dramas that have been significant to my bisexuality. [Yes, this is a big list. I am missing out on watching and re-watching A Lot of awesome period dramas and I hate it. This list is helping me reclaim a bit of joy. Also I've probably forgotten some favourites and may update this.]
Lori Petty in A League of Their Own
Jodhi May in any period drama
Mary Wickes in any period drama
Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View
Anne Hathaway playing cricket in that rust-coloured dress in Becoming Jane
Esther Summerson (disabled heroine!) & Allan Woodcourt in Bleak House
the freshly-painted yellow cabin door swinging shut with the names 'Calam & Katie' painted on it in Calamity Jane
the sequence where Doris Day sings 'Secret Love' in Calamity Jane
Michelle in Derry Girls (and James too, a wee bit)
George Eliot & Lenore in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party
the moment where Emma and Mr Knightley start dancing together and it feels like you're inside the music in Emma
Polly Waker's haircut in The Enchanted April
Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From the Madding Crowd
Idgie & Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes
Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack
recognising Marian Lister as a bisexual who hasn't realised it yet in Gentleman Jack
Mary Agnes McNue in Godless
Bel & Freddie in The Hour
June Allyson leaping over a hedge (or is it a fence?) as Jo March in Little Women
the Patricia Rozema adaptation of Mansfield Park
the whole sequence where Judy Garland strides onto the neighbours' porch to sock The Boy Next Door in the jaw in Meet Me in St Louis
Katie the cook in Meet Me in St Louis
the moment where Benedick braces his arm against a doorframe in a desperate panic to stop Beatrice from going to eat Claudio's heart in the marketplace in Much Ado About Nothing
Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing
Mr Thornton's hands (ok, and also his face) in North & South
tomboy Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay
Valentine in Parade's End
all of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Papi in Pose
Lizzy Bennet declaring that she would never marry someone she did not love in Pride & Prejudice
Mr Darcy diving into a pond in Pride & Prejudice
both Angel and Joanne in Rent (the 2008 broadway version)
Martha the maid in The Secret Garden
Lelia Walker in Self-Made
swashbuckling Margaret Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility
the dance sequences in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
the whole Thomas Kent situation in Shakespeare in Love
Maria (when she is not a nun) in The Sound of Music
Kitty Butler onstage in Tipping the Velvet
Annie and Janette and Jacques and Linh in Treme
Audra McDonald and Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in that promotional photo for Twelfth Night
Julie Andrews and her male co-star singing a version of 'Home on the Range' with the line 'and the deer and the antelope are gay' in Victor/Victoria
Justine Waddell in Wives & Daughters
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sqwintersolstice · 10 months ago
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Title: Wary Hearts And Cardboard Stars [Art] Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53236135 Artist: namelessranger Rating: General Audiences Warning(s): No Archive Warnings Apply
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Title: Wary Hearts And Cardboard Stars Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53235004 Writer: namelessranger Word Count: 8k Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warning(s): No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: She prepares for the worst but when she spots Emma in a corner working on a garland by herself, she curses Henry for signing her up for this. And then herself for giving in and going. She marches over there. “What the hell are you doing here?” Emma looks up, startled, and takes an earbud out of her ear. “Huh?” “You. Here. Why?” She does not have the patience for this today. “Oh, yeah. Henry signed me up.” “That little-“ Regina sighs. She looks around the gym, avoiding meeting anyone’s gaze at all cost. “Me too.” Emma tilts her head. “He didn’t say.” “Indeed, he did not.”
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non-un-topo · 8 months ago
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13 Books Tag Game
Was tagged by @disregardandfelicity Thank you! This is really getting me back into the spirit of reading. I needed this <3
1) The last book I read:
Coma by Alex Garland. I love him as a director, and I just recently found out he's also written some books. It was fun and mind-bendy, sort of reminded me of the stuff I try to write. Also really fast. I think I finished it in one or two hours.
2) A book I recommend:
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo. I recently formed a little book club around this book because I just think it's so special. And almost no one has heard of it, which is such a shame! Everything this author writes is just stunning. Heartbreaking, guttural, sometimes disturbing, but always always stunning.
3) A book that I couldn’t put down:
Pillars of Light by Jane Johnson. Became one of my all-time favourites almost immediately, and I plowed right through it. I've been itching to read it again, actually. Oh, John the sad gay foundling, I miss reading from your pov...
4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):
For some reason I've read Room by Emma Donoghue twice. I wouldn't be able to stomach it now, but I guess it did something for me at the time. If anything, it's a fast read once you get used to the five year old's voice.
5) A book on my TBR:
So, soooo many... After the book I'm currently reading, I was hoping to pick up White Noise by Don DeLillo or Foe by Iain Reid.
6) A book I’ve put down:
Cloud Atlas, for now. Just sort of fell out of it by accident.
7) A book on my wish list:
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott. I've read her other book, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, and I genuinely think it's one of those must-reads for any Canadian (or non-Canadian) interested in Indigenous lit.
8) A favorite book from childhood:
I was partial to The Spiderwick Chronicles. In earlier childhood, though, it was The BFG by Roald Dahl.
9) A book you would give to a friend:
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. I know what you're thinking --- kind of a depressing book to give to a friend. And yes, it is depressing and very rough. But it opened something in my heart, idk. I felt comforted by it. I would also give a friend The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan. Basically, books that have made me cry and hug them after I finished them.
10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own
Can't remember the titles off the top of my head, but I have some Neruda. My partner is the poetry reader.
11) A nonfiction book you own:
Oh, sooooo many. I used to only read non-fiction for the longest time. But I'll go with the one that makes me look the most pretentious: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler. Found in the special little book sale room at the library I work at.
12) What are you currently reading:
The Kite Runner, for the first time. It's as gorgeous and heartbreaking as promised.
13) What are you planning on reading next?
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones. I bought a copy last year, got a few chapters in, then gave it to my dad for Christmas because we're big Dan Jones fans and I couldn't find another copy anywhere. I waited months for my new copy, so I have to read it now!
Hmm, tagging @spacegirlsgang @raedear @captainshakespear @maddielle @polarcell @knoepfchen but no pressure ofc
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frogyjones-writes · 1 year ago
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General info:
I'll only do requests that interest me this is something I do for fun in my free time so you might get an answer awhile after a submission :]
Most likely to get through headcanons/short prompts done first!
Characters I write for:
Don't be afraid to ask for a character from the same Fandom however! I'm just better with these guy's characterization :]
The Last of Us: Ellie Williams, Dina, Abby Anderson
Dead By Daylight: The Trapper (Evan MacMillan), The Nurse (Sally Smithson), Ghost Face (Danny Johnson), The Huntress (Anna), The Pig (Amanda Young), The Plauge (Adiris), The Onryō (Sadako Yamamura)
Silent Hill: Lisa Garland, Maria, Mary Shepard-Sunderland, James Sunderland, Angela Orosco, Harry Mason
Misc: Sadako Yamamura (ringu), Selene (underworld), Carol Aird (Carol),
Resident Evil: Alcina Dimitrescu, Bela Dimitrescu, Cassandra Dimitrescu, Daniela Dimitrescu, Donna Beneviento, Jill Valentine, Claire redfield (games/movies), Alice Abernathy (movies), Rebecca Chambers, Helena Harper
The Quarry: Emma Mountebank, Abigail Blyg, Kaitlyn Ka, Laura Kearney, Max Brinley, Nick Furcillio, Jacob Custos, Dylan Leviny, Ryan Erzahler
Until Dawn: Sam Giddings, Ashley Brown, Emily Davis, Jessica Riley
Life is Strange: Maxine "Max" Caufield, Chloe Price, Rachel Amber, Kate Marsh, Victoria Chase, Dana Ward
Tomb Raider: Lara Croft (better with the survivor series), Sam
Saw: Amanda Young, Adam Faulkner Stanheight, Lynn Denlon
(More to be added later!)
Do's:
Character x Reader, Character x Character, Some OC X Characters, Polyships, LGBTQ+
Heavy angst/sensitive topics
AUs and alternative settings
Accept headcanon requests for multiple characters
Dont's:
NSFW (suggestive stuff is fine but I'm not writing smut)
Incestual/pedophilic ships (yes this includes adoptive family or parental/sibling figures don't test me)
Any dead dove sort of shit
General NoNo's
Writing examples
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