#evelyn eckhart

[saneijeijei]

Evelyn Eckhart and Penelope Eckhart - mother and daughter from AU "Little Princess".

It was the first time I drew something like this, so I'm sorry if it seems to you that the pose is strange and it looks unnatural, I couldn't find a suitable reference for the drawing....

[penelope-regulus]

Headcanon #7

When they were little, Ivonne loved to be spoiled and babied by her older brothers, so she made them do everything for her instead of her servants.

Every morning, she would jump out of bed and tell her second brother to wake up by jumping all over his bed and get him to do her hair, making Reynold an expert hairstylist, then she would drag him to Derrick's room and they both would start yelling at him to get up so that he would make her breakfast, and in this way, he ended up an amazing cook and baker (and he made her lots of cute unicorn cupcakes too that they both said were Reynold before gobbling up).

She would also have them teach her etiquette instead of actual etiquette teachers, so Reynold and Derrick had to learn noblewoman etiquette for her. Of course, she would do the opposite of whatever they said and insisted she was going to learn the etiquette for men since she wanted to be like her brothers, but instead of getting annoyed, the brothers tried convincing their parents to allow her to live how she wants and supported this. They taught her dance as well -- with Derrick being her supposed partner, Reynold crossdressing to be a girl and demonstrating the dances so that Ivonne could learn.

There was this one time when Reynold and Ivonne forced Derrick to cross dress and play the role of the noble lady while Reynold did the steps her partner would too, but they couldn't continue this practice because Reynold failed Ivonne by turning out to be a terrible dancer and not fit to lead the dance like Derrick was.

After this, the trio would have to separate to learn the education that was their own individual level and suited to the roles they would take on in the future, and this made them all really sad and lonely and miss being together. At first, they tackled this problem by sneaking out of class whenever their teachers turned around to write or left to get notes and meet up in the garden for tea parties (they actually drank cotton candy milk dyed the color of tea, which of course Derrick made for them), but got lectured by their parents about how they weren't allowed to skip classes and needed to learn for their own sakes and better futures, and so on and so forth, and had to stop. So instead, they did a tête-à-tête and came to the conclusion that they should become pen pals.

Thenceforth, whenever they somehow ended up in different rooms of the estate, they would begin writing letters to each other, giving updates on their lives since the last time they met, reminiscing old times (the moments less than 15 minutes ago when they were still allowed to see each other), and saying things like "I miss you ever moment of my life, even as I endure this terrible suffering far from your reach", "Do you still remember me? I used to be your sibling, once upon a time...", "I don't remember you... how do you remember someone you never once forgot?", "Oh this world is so cruel for separating us", and "I sincerely pray I will get to see you once more, even if for a few moments in this life... Otherwise... I'll be sure to meet you in the next...!" (Even Derrick) and have the servants deliver these letters to the addressed person.

Their parents learned of this and decided to have their study sessions at different times so that when Derrick was studying, Ivonne and Reynold could stay by his side and ease his suffering, when Reynold was studying, Ivonne and Derrick could do that, and when Ivonne was studying, her brothers could make sure she didn't feel sad. They also helped Ivonne do her homework, despite it being cheating, but the duke and duchess gave up at this point. Their study sessions were literally one hour each and they couldn't handle that.

ALSO!! Ivonne was so cute, Derrick and Reynold were constantly fighting over which of the two would get to take her hand in marriage in the future! They would duel over her, propose to her in really romantic (cute) ways, argue like crazy over which brother would be her husband when playing house (she would eventually have them become either her mother and father or her sons), dress up really fancy just to impress her (Reynold wore every piece of jewelry he could get his hands on and dress in glittery tuxedos while Derrick would find her favorite story book and dress exactly like the princes Ivonne fantasized marrying in the future), had competitions like 'who can pick the prettiest flower for Ivonne', holding her judge, and even wrote love letters and poems to her about how much they loved her.

This led them to become really knowledgeable when it comes to flowers -- whenever they would have the flower picking competitions, which was often because Ivonne loved flowers, they would try to convince her to pick them by telling her the pretty meaning of their flowers and fascinating facts and stories about them.

Ivonne was petty, though, and turned them both down every time, because she enjoyed showing them attitude and getting them to try even harder to woo her by insisting that she would marry their father, even if they flattered her a lot by doing these things.

Additionally, Ivonne loved to play in the garden with Reynold and Derrick, and they spent most of their time outdoors, and Reynold loved to dig around in the garden. Ivonne would be continuously swearing at him for ruining such a pretty thing, and Reynold learned swearing from her (she, in turn learned swearing from spying on her father during his meetings, and when Reynold gets into swearing, they hide behind the door and listen to the meetings together and 'increase their vocabularies'. Their club is called the swearing corner and Derrick never learns about this).

One time, Reynold was playing in the dirt and kicked up an ancient horseshoe that, after being examined by a professional archeologist, turns out to be thousands of years old from the Viking times. Ivonne, who was there and swearing at Reynold until he unearthed it, took all of the credit, and the Duke and Duchess held a party for her where she got to show off her incredible achievement. Reynold is bitter about this to date.

Did I mention Harry Potter exists in the vadd world? Derrick is a huge fan and reads the series and tells them about all the things that happened, and then they play Harry Potter together, where Derrick is Harry Potter, Ivonne is Hermione (she holds a book upside down and pretends spells are written in them), and Reynold is Ron and they run around trying to kill Voldemort and being betrayed by the house servants who are actually just telling them to stop and behave themselves.

One day, during these adventures, Reynold was pretending to be chased by an evil magician and climbed the walls using torches and wall decor as leverages, and Ivonne had the game stopped immediately and demanded he teach her. After that, they spent a huge amount of time freaking the entire household out by climbing all over the walls and hanging from the ceilings. Derrick was too heavy for this, so he had the role of catching them when they let go or running to get their parents to help the two children down whenever they felt like they were losing their grips and started screaming. They somehow never got hurt doing this.

Other things they would do include running around all day long having pretend adventures where they, for example 'discovered ancient and magical books/scrolls' in the library, pretended to take over the royal palace or met magical creatures in the garden. They also wrote stories together (mostly romance where Ivonne was the protagonist and married a fair and handsome and just prince) and played with dolls and stuffies (including Derrick).

After this, at the end of the day, they would sit together as a family for dinner and tell their parents all about their amazing adventures and the duke and duchess enjoyed listening to their stories and found it very cute.

Another thing: Ivonne turned out to be great at horse riding and learned it even before her older brothers and would often pretend from that point forward to be a prince and that her brothers were princesses and had them sit behind her and hold onto her while she took them for a ride. She also forced them to ride side-saddle for 'maximum princess experience' and they actually did it, too, since neither of them could deny her. When she was riding with Reynold, she would get the horse to move really fast too, just to get him to start screaming like a girl and make fun of him later.

And then, at the end of the day, she would have them read her bedtime stories. Derrick would read her a children's storybook while Reynold would draw cute pictures to go with what Derrick was saying and she would also sometimes have them act out a bedtime story before going to sleep. Other times, she would tuck them into her bed and read them bedtime stories and kiss their foreheads goodnight just to be cute.

Which reminds me, when she wasn't calling her brothers 'Boring Brother' (since he's always telling her off for not behaving like proper nobles and lecturing them, even if at that age it was only to show off his knowledge and not be called dumb by his little sister) and 'Dumb Brother' respectively, she called them her babies and pretend to be their mother and scold them and boss them around like their mother sometimes did and babied and cooed them all day long because she insisted that after she married their father, she was going to become their stepmother. The babies in question pretended to dislike this (actually disliking the thought of her marrying, as Reynold liked to say "their old man" instead of handsome 'men' like them), they enjoyed the affection they received from her in this way and found her scoldings really cute.

Lastly, to reward her brothers for being so nice and as a token of affection, Ivonne did cute crafts for her brothers and made them things like tassels (she picked strings out of her dresses (consequently ruining them), put them together, and tied a knot), paintings, and origami (Ivonne was a master at origami) and sometimes dragged them to a really scenic place by their hand, sat them under the shade of a tree, waited for a gentle breeze to rustle her hair and have a leaf get into theirs for maximum dramatic and romantic effects, and picked the leaf out, wear a charming smile, and whispered "I love you to them" in the sweetest way possible.

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What about...

Mr Verdandi and Duke Eckhart, when they were young 🔮⚜️

The original art belongs to SUEUN (@A_Sueune on Twitter). What Marquis Verdandi looks like is just my guess!

Winter's father is mentioned only once, in chapter 68 of the novel (or chapter 63 of the manhwa).

All that is said is that Winter was still very young (I think around 18-22 years old) when he lost his father. Also, the good relationship between Winter and Duke Eckhart was explained by the fact that the duke was friends with the former Marquis Verdandi. But what was the cause of the elder Verdandi's death?

However... what if Winter's father died fighting the Laila clan? Could he also have been a sorcerer? Was he as ideological and charitable as his son?

Most people know what a powerful wizard Winter really is. But he couldn't have learnt everything on his own, could he? Someone had to guide him and teach him how to control magic. Could it have been his father or his wizard friends? According to Verdandi himself, people who have a lot of mana cannot be called wizards if they do not know how to control it.

Okay, I think Winter has taken a lot from his father, but I'm interested to hear your opinion on this and the interaction between the Duke and the past Marquis...

By the way, is Winter's mother dead too?

In this world, it's not enough that fathers don't have their own names, but all the mothers of the main characters are killed here???

P.S. (with spoilers) I just realised that the Duke had seen his wife, daughter, and best friend die, and then he had seen his son almost killed. That the duke himself was almost eaten by a monster, and that he also survived the war... and then realised how he had ruined the lives of his children...

Listen, we need a separate post about Duke Eckhart. He's also an interesting character, but he doesn't have his own name.

Imagine, there are actually many details in the VADD universe that have not yet been fully revealed. Many characters were not revealed, even though they would have little impact on the plot.

[bluebutterflyrose]

No episode today. Episode 143 will be available on May 1st.

[quiltedcottage]

tagged by @dreamyghostie, thank you!

rules: list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

Contact by Carl Sagan

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Devotions by Mary Oliver

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Read

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

no pressure tags: @almondmilkcore @velvethopewrites

[leonbloder]

Behold

Behold. 

If you want to talk about excellent words that have fallen out of use in our everyday discourse, I'll put "behold" up there on the list. 

I'll also include "posthaste" and "forsooth," but that's beside the point. 

Behold is the kind of word that carries with it a sense of gravitas, a jen a sais quoi, if you will.  It can't easily be placed in a box or described.  It's the kind of word that, if used properly, can provide the very thing you're looking for when you are feeling fairly awesome about something you are sharing with others. 

"Behold, I have made the perfect casserole."  "Behold, I have arrived fashionably late for the party, looking fabulous."

"Behold, my Christmas lights are on point this year."   

"Behold, I have created the perfect Instagram post." 

Bringing back behold is something I can put my arms around.  I know there are probably more seemingly important things to channel my energies doing, but I've got some to spare, so behold is going to benefit because of it. 

Advent seems like a good time to do this because so many Christmas carols employ the word "behold." After all, it is a massive part of the Christmas story, particularly in the King James Version of the Bible.    

In the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "behold" is defined this way: 

To see or observe (a thing or person, especially a remarkable or impressive one).

Here's the thing, though.  Far too many of us end with beholding.  At Christmas, we symbolically gather around the manger with the shepherds, Mary and Joseph, and a host of fairly tidy farm animals, and we simply behold. 

And then we move on.  We return to whatever we did before the moment's wonder and quietly believe it was enough to simply behold.  

But author Evelyn Underhill puts it like this: 

Beholding his glory is only half our job.  In our souls, too, the mysteries must be brought forth; we are not really Christians till that has been done.  "The Eternal Birth," says [Meister] Eckhart, "must take place in you."  And another mystic says human nature is like a stable inhabited by the ox of passion and the ass of prejudice; animals which take up a lot of room and which I suppose most of us are feeding on the quiet. 

If we are to become the people God longs for us to be, we must do much more than be beholding.  We must learn what it means to be reborn every single day of our lives. 

And when I say "reborn," what I mean is that we awaken with the knowledge that we don't have to live as we did yesterday if how we lived yesterday was life-giving and love-spreading. 

We don't have to give in to the passions that would lead us to turn from God's glory in order to seek our own.  We don't have to be filled with prejudices that keep us from loving our neighbor.  We can be reborn. 

So, during this Advent season, practice what it means to behold, and then learn what it takes to let the glory you are beholding shape and transform you through the mystery of Salvation, which is renewed every morning. 

May it be so, and may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us now and forever. Amen.  

[bluebutterflyrose]

@eloise175 I think I just died of cuteness!

Eckhart Cat Café AU

*claps hands* OK SO

The duke and duchess(Evelyn) run a cat café together

All of their children are cats

The duke is a cat person and responsible for like 99% of the strays that end up at the café no that is nonnegotiable

Penelope was a kitten on the streets whose mother was sick and died of starvation as well

The duke found her bc Yvonne scampered out and they have a tracker on the pink-haired sibs bc they are escape artists

So the duke with his bleeding cat lover heart brings kittylope back, with kittylope snuggling up and being all cute

She is a prolific mewer- uses that and kitty eyes to beg for food

Fights with Reynold a lot

likes to bap his nose and patpatpat away

Also hisses and acts feral with him

In retaliation, he kicks her out of the tallest part of the MEGA CAT TREE(the equivalent of the attic)

Reynold was scolded after he shoved her out and she went smack onto the floor

Kittylope can and will nom at Derrick's tail- she likes to grab at it

He's like "no" and pushes her face down with his front paw

But BC THIS IS MY AU DERRICK IS NOT A BITCH

He'll let her and Yvonne clamber all over him and he sits there like "this is fine"

Derrick is an Ojos Azules breed, known for their distinctive blue eyes, and he has dark fur

Yvonne and Reynold are both Ragdolls

Kittylope. SCREECHES- she is a babie munchkin, looks white but a closer look reveals she has very faint ginger patches, like the Ragdoll sibs

THE WIDEST MOST INNOCENT LOOKING EYES EVER

Derrick has a dark blue collar with a green diamond-shaped resin charm

Penelope and Reynold have collars with teal-blue charms, Penelope's collar being deep purple while Reynold's is orange

Yvonne has a light blue collar with a yellow bow

Evelyn does the thing where if you watch Jun'sKitchen he's cooking and he lets his cats smell the ingredients

The duke is soft. yes. he knits. this is my headcanon rn babyyyy

he knits little sweaters and hats for the kittens and Evelyn posts them on Instagram and Twitter smth

they all have little cat socks- Reynold has to be wrestled into wearing them

Yvonne can be found just sleeping in the duke's basket of yarn when she finds it, bc its warm!! and yarn!!

Derrick though hates the sweaters as much as he hates getting dirty

cant do anything abt that

Derrick likes to scamper to the duke's old friends when they visit bc they give good scritches

Penelope is mostly in a cat sling in Evelyn's chest at the beginning

Bc she kept running around and skidding everywhere and trying to escape

SHES BEEN CORRUPTED BY THE PINK SIBLINGS

There are videos of Kittylope kneading that have gone viral

#kittylopebaker

Especially since the duke knitted pillows that looked like bread where she was like "hm yes mine now" and yoinked them to her bed

She has a tiny outfit a fan sent: a little apron attached to the collar, with the tiniest embroidery reading "#1 cat baker", and a baker hat

Yvonne also has her own spotlight of fame- there is a picture of her holding down the duke's hand when he's about to stop patting her

it got turned into a popular meme template

"When happy chemical is leaving"

Reynold is this universe's version of CatJAM, he got turned into a twitch emote

Derrick was a show cat- he has awards but is retired

Derrick and Penelope are the only ones who are allowed to get basket rides with Evelyn when she does small grocery runs or visits her friends at the local university on her bicycle

The other two love escaping too much

Emily is studying to be a veterinarian, she's the assistant of the vet they take the cats to

Winter is one of the duke's friends through his father, pretty young and all the kitties love him

Yvonne and Penelope like him bc he gives treaties

I love this au sm

[boredmariedelline]

Penelope: Mom, whose your favorite child?

Evelyn: I love all my children equally.

Penelope: Whose your least favorite child right now?

Evelyn: Reynold. He finished the entire bottle of wine I saved.

Penelope: Well, that was fast.

[skonnaris]

Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

                          - An Unfinished Marriage

                          - A Walk on the Beach

                          - A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

                        - The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

                         - Living, Loving & Learning

                         - Personhood

                         - Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

                          - Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo -  Adultery

                           The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

                    - The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

                    - The Great Santini

                    - The Lords of Discipline

                    - The Prince of Tides

                    - The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

                             - Great Expectations

                             - A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

                         - Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie 

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

                     - The Power of Intention

                     - Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

                       - Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

                            - The Last American Man

                            - The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

                               - Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

                              - David and Goliath

                              - Outliers

                              - The Tipping Point

                              - Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

                          - The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

                         - Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

                            - Narcissus and Goldmund

                            - Peter Camenzind

                            - Siddhartha

                            - Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture 

                          - Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

                  - How Children Learn

                 - Learning All the Time

                 - Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

                        - Neurosis and Human Growth

                        - The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

                        - New Ways in Psychoanalysis

                        - Our Inner Conflicts

                        - Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

                       - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

                      - Metamophosis

                      - The Trial     

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You  

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

                         Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al  - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind         Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

                              - Motivation and Personality

                              - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

                             - Toward a Psychology of Being                            

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

                                        - Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

                          - Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

                                - Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

                      - Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

                         - The Last Anniversary

                         - What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

                       - Me Before You 

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

                            A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

                         - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

                     - The Four Agreements

                     - The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

                       - The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

                                   - Much Ado About Nothing

                                   - Romeo and Juliet

                                   - The Sonnets

                                   - The Taming of the Shrew

                                   - Twelfth Night

                                   - Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

                      - The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

                       - Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

                                - Polar Express

                                - Sweet Dreams

                                - Stranger

                                - Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

[lostitjohannahairas]

Frankenstein Adaptions

1823: Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin at the English Opera House.

1826: Henry M. Milner's adaptation, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein opened on 3 July at the Royal Coburg Theatre, London.

1887: Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim was a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).

1910: Edison Studios produced the first Frankenstein film, directed by J. Searle Dawley.

1915: Life Without Soul, the second film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, was released. No known print of the film has survived.

1920: The Monster of Frankenstein, directed by Eugenio Testa, starring Luciano Albertini and Umberto Guarracino.

1931: Universal Studios' Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, and Boris Karloff as the monster.

1935: James Whale directed the sequel to the 1931 film, Bride of Frankenstein, starring Colin Clive as Frankenstein, and Boris Karloff as the monster once more. This incorporated the novel's plot motif of Frankenstein creating a bride for the monster omitted from Whale's earlier film. There were two more sequels, prior to the Universal "monster rally" films combining multiple monsters from various movie series or film franchises.

1939: Son of Frankenstein was another Universal monster movie with Boris Karloff as the Creature. Also in the film were Basil Rathbone as the title character and Bela Lugosi as the sinister assistant Ygor. Karloff ended playing the Frankenstein monster with this film.

1942: The Ghost of Frankenstein featured brain transplanting and a new monster, played by Lon Chaney Jr. The film also starred Evelyn Ankers and Bela Lugosi.

1942–1948: Universal did "monster rally" films featuring Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Included would be Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The last three films introduced Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster.

1957–1974: Hammer Films in England did a string of Frankenstein films starring Peter Cushing, including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. Co-starring in these films were Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. Another Hammer film, The Horror of Frankenstein, starred Ralph Bates as the main character, Victor Frankenstein.

1965: Toho Studios created the film Frankenstein Conquers the World or Frankenstein vs. Baragon, followed by The War of the Gargantuas.

1972: A comedic stage adaptation, Frankenstein's Monster, was written by Sally Netzel and produced by the Dallas Theater Center.

1973: The TV film Frankenstein: The True Story appeared on NBC. The movie starred Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, and Jane Seymour.

1981: A Broadway adaptation by Victor Gialanella played for one performance (after 29 previews) and was considered the most expensive flop ever produced to that date.

1984: The flop Broadway production yielded a TV film starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, and John Gielgud.

1992: Frankenstein became a Turner Network Television film directed by David Wickes, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. John Mills played the blind man.

1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein appeared in theatres, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter. Its all-star cast also included John Cleese, Ian Holm, and Tom Hulce.

2004: Frankenstein, a two-episode mini-series starring Alec Newman, with Luke Goss and Donald Sutherland.

2006: Frankenstein, A New Musical, composed by Mark Baron, book by Jeffrey Jackson, and based on an adaptation by Gary P. Cohen.

2007: Frankenstein, an award-winning musical adaptation by Jonathan Christenson with set, lighting, and costume design by Bretta Gerecke for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.

2011: In March, BBC3 broadcast Colin Teague's live production from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, billed as Frankenstein's Wedding, Live in Leeds. About the same time, the National Theatre, London presented a stage version of Frankenstein, which ran until 2 May 2011. The play was written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature. The National Theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide on 17 March.

2012: An interactive ebook app created by Inkle and Profile Books that retells the story with added interactive elements.

2014: Penny Dreadful is a horror TV series that airs on Showtime, that features Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature.

2015: Frankenstein, a modern-day adaptation written and directed by Bernard Rose.

2015: Victor Frankenstein is an American film directed by Paul McGuigan.

2016: Frankenstein, a full length ballet production by Liam Scarlett. Some performances were also live simulcasts worldwide.

Loose adaptations: 

1967: I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical), are a pair of musical comedies written by Bobby Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The casts of both feature several classic horror characters including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster.

1971: Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by Edward di Lorenzo. The strory begins when Dr. Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue with his experiments.

1973: The Rocky Horror Show, is a British horror comedy stage musical written by Richard O'Brian in which Dr. Frank N. Furter has created a creature (Rocky), to satisfy his (pro)creative drives. Elements are similar to I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night.

1973: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Usually, Frankenstein is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far, but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding.

1974: Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks, this sequel-spoof has been listed as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made, even prompting an American film preservation program to include it on its listings. It reuses many props from James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and is shot in black-and-white with 1930s-style credits. Gene Wilder portrayed the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein (who insists on pronouncing it "Fronkonsteen"), with Peter Boyle as the Monster.

1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show (1973), written by Richard O'Brien.

1984: Frankenweenie is a parody short film directed by Tim Burton, starring Barrett Oliver, Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern.

1985: The Bride starring Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster.

1986: Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, is the story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson.

1988: Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a manga adaptation of Shelley's novel by Junji Ito.

1989: Frankenstein the Panto. A pantomime script by David Swan, combining elements of Frankenstein, Dracula, and traditional British panto.

1990: Frankenstein Unbound.Combines a time-travel story with the story of Shelley's novel. Scientist Joe Buchanan accidentally creates a time-rift which takes him back to the events of the novel. Filmed as a low-budget independent film by Roger Corman in 1990, based on a novel published in 1973 by Brian Aldiss. This novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above.

1991: Khatra (film) is a Hindi movie of Bollywood made by director H. N. Singh loosely based on the story, Frankenstein.

1995: Monster Mash is a film adaptation of I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night starring Bobby Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. The film also features Candace Cameron Bure, Anthony Crivello and Mink Stole.

1998: Billy Frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the Frankenstein monster to life. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray.

2004: Frankensteinmade-for-TV film based on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.

2005: Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, a 90-minute feature film homage of classic monsters and Atomic Age creature features, shot in black and white, and directed by William Winckler. The Frankenstein Monster design and make-up was based on the character descriptions in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel.

2009: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a short film from Chillerrama.

2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book.

2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time, a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in the real world.

2012: Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name.

2012: In the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King removes body parts from all the princesses that rejected him and creates a jigsaw wife to love him.

2012: A Nightmare on Lime Street, Fred Lawless's comedy play starring David Gest staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

2014: I, Frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film. The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein and Bill Nighy. The film is based on the graphic novel.

2014: Frankenstein, MD, A web show by Pemberly Digital starring Victoria, a female adaptation of Victor.

2015: The Supernatural season 10 episodes Book of the Damned, Dark Dynasty and The Prisonerfeature the Styne Family which member Eldon Styne identifies as the descendants of the house of Frankenstein. According to Eldon, Mary Shelley had learned their secrets while on a visit to Castle Frankenstein and wrote a book based on her experiences, forcing the Frankensteins underground as the Stynes. The Stynes, through bioengineering and surgical enhancements, feature many of the superhuman features of Frankenstein's monster.

2015: The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series, starring Sean Bean as John Marlott and Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley.

2016: Second Chance, a TV series known at one point as Frankenstein, was inspired by the classic.

[cerealla]

Twin Peaks!

Favorite character: It’s always either Cooper or Laura, and more often than not, I find myself leaning toward Laura.

Least Favorite character: John Justice Wheeler, easily. I was about to put Ben, Leo, Jacques, Hank, Jacoby, or Richard Horne, but even those guys can be enjoyable to watch (in Richard’s case, you hate him so much, watching him die more than makes up for it). Wheeler is just… nothing. If personality was a physical person, they’d avoid him at every cost. You could pluck him out of season 2 and Audrey would still end up where she is in season 3. He made zero difference. He was also a terrible waste of Billy Zane’s corny charm factor. Other contenders: Evelyn and her not-brother/lover, Thomas Eckhart, Lana, and I guess Randy (the concierge at the Great Northern) for being rude to Audrey over her genuine attempts to be helpful around the hotel. 

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Considering how often romance goes wrong in this universe (and my growing indifference toward romantic ships in general), I don’t have a whole lot to list. Andy x Lucy are obvious because they are sugary sweet cupcakes that deserve each other. Chet x Sam. Harry x Albert as well. I used to be pretty big into the OT3 with Cooper, but now I can’t really see Coop having any kind of romantic/sexual relationship. I’m kinda developing a fondness for the rarest of pairs James x Bobby, mostly because I love the “idiots-who-hate-each-other-actually-have-deeply-repressed-crush-on-one-another” dynamic.

Character I find most attractive: I can’t pick just one! Cooper, Bobby (especially as a silver fox), Laura, Maddy (just Sheryl Lee in general), and older, buzz cut James. 

Character I would marry: In true Twin Peaks fashion, I’d chose any of the old rich men, either to kill them in a convoluted plot for their money, or get revenge on behalf of the mysterious person who hired me.

Character I would be best friends with: Annie probably. She’s cute and I want to take her on fun adventures. 

A random thought: Nadine and Ed both like to build and fix stuff. Ed with cars and motorcycles, Nadine with her drape runners. I wish this was expanded on more, because that’s at least one thing they could have bonded over.

An unpopular opinion: I’ve mentioned some of these before: James isn’t all that cool, but he is a sweetheart that needs a hug. He never deserved all that hate. Same applies for Annie. Ed was not a good parent to James (a good friend, but not parent, which is what the kid needs). Major Briggs and Betty have communication problems. Hawk could be pretty clueless too.

My Canon OTP: Again, Andy and Lucy. 

My Non-canon OTP: Chet x Sam (despite my denial). Audrey x happiness. Laura x some god damn peace and quiet.

Most Badass Character: Laura, for going through all that bullshit. Bobby for pulling himself together. Margaret Lanterman for existing. 

Most Epic Villain: Leland is hard to top. 

Pairings I am not a fan of: Cooper x Audrey (as if it needs to be said). Cooper x Laura (as if that also needs to be said). Cooper x Diane, Cooper x Janey-e, Cooper x Annie to some degree, Cooper x Windom… Are you seeing a pattern here? 

Character(s) I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Please direct your attention to the second half of season 2. Annie and Windom had so much more potential in them, but Windom quickly became a cartoon and Annie was never fully utilized. Additionally, James and Donna were underwritten, and Maddy had so much more to offer, but it’s like the writers didn’t know how else to apply her connection to Laura besides making James horny all over again.

Favorite Friendship: I reeeaaallly want to say Cooper and Laura, but they technically have never had a normal interaction, so it’s not really canon (yet, or so help me god, David). James and Freddy are sweet, and the family dynamic between Harry, Andy, Hawk, and Lucy is precious. The tiny moments between Pete and Audrey are incredibly endearing and I wish we had more. 

Character I most identify with: Donna. Struggling bisexuals that aspire to be cool and fail miserably at it. 

Character I wish I could be: Wally. Boy’s got his head on straight. 

[saneijeijei]

Evelyn and Penelope from AU "Little Princess"

[penelope-regulus]

Ok so we have Penelope and the male leads' birthday, age, height, weight, species, and favorite food (haven't forgotten we don't know Duke Eckhart, Evelyn Eckhart, or Judy's birthday, Callisto and Penelope's and Duke and Evelyn Eckhart's wedding anniversaries), but where their shoe sizes, foot widths, waist lengths, pant sizes, chest, hip, neck, hand, bicep, and thigh measurements, collar sizes, sleeve lengths, head circumferences, wrist circumferences, shoulder widths, shirt lengths, ring sizes, average body temps (ik Winter's is probably 150-something °F), resting heart rates, blood pressures, PAIs, blood oxygen levels, and hours slept, prescriptions, PDs, scents, DNA codes, genotypes, alcohol tolerances, number of glasses of water consumed a day, marital status after 40 for the other male leads, info on whether or not they wear socks, dermatologists, lip flavors, hobbies, dreams, favorite colors and genres, best memories, and info on how they spend their free time at?

*eyes sparkle*

[carlmccolman]

Let’s explore some of the classic writings of the great mystics together! This year I began a program through Patreon that I’m calling “The Contemplative Study of Mystical Writings.” We are devoting the entire year to studying the classic work of 20th century Christian/Hermetic mysticism, “Meditations on the Tarot.” It’s been a wonderful experience (and if you sign up on my Patreon page at the “Visionary” level, you can join in and receive all the study materials as I publish them). For 2023 I thought it might be a more enjoyable experience to study several shorter works, rather than one lengthy book. So I polled my current Patreon members to see what books people would like to explore and we’ve narrowed it down to seven amazing titles: • Evelyn Underhill, “Practical Mysticism” • Julian of Norwich, “The Showings” • Howard Thurman, “The Way of the Mystics” • Meister Eckhart, “Selected Writings” • Simone Weil, “Waiting for God” • Gerald G. May, “Will and Spirit” • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Divine Milieu” I don’t expect us to get through all seven books in a year’s time, probably we’ll get through 3 or 4, but I want to remain open to the Spirit and move through the books at a contemplative, meditative pace. Like I’m doing this year, I will prepare study guides, highlight key quotations, and draw up meditations or special exercises based on the wisdom teachings in these books. Then we will gather on a regular basis (at least once a month, maybe more frequently if people want it) to share silent time for contemplative practice and time to reflect together on the key themes of each book. Sound like something you’d enjoy? Join me on Patreon (click on the link in my bio). #books #bookstagram #mysticism #spirituality #wisdom #prayer #contemplation #meditation #Christianity #Patreon (at Clarkston, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkM2Td0ulP9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bluebutterflyrose]

Fanfic Idea!

Penelope, Callisto, Reynold, Derrick, Thalia, Yvonne, Vinter, and Emily having s group chat through texting!

Bonus appearances from the Duke (Leopold), Duchess (Evelyn) and Cedric!

Yey or nay?

[psychic-readingonline]

Mysticism Definition In Music

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