#fay/fable

[ink-stains-and-constellations]

Pronouns List

Instead of having all my pronouns in the description/bio thingy, I decided to just make a post about it. I will usually use different sets for myself (my preferred sets change depending on the day), but use whichever pronouns you want for me from this list.

Also, I'm always looking for new neopronouns, so if you have any suggestions, feel free to tell me!

She/her/her/hers/herself Example: Inky went out by herself to see that friend of hers. She is probably on her way there right now. She forgot her phone - how typical of her.

Fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself Example: Inky went out by faerself to see that friend of faers. Fae is probably on faer way there right now. Fae forgot faer phone - how typical of faer.

Ink/ink/inks/inks/inkself Example: Inky went out by inkself to see that friend of inks. Ink is probably on inks way there right now. Ink forgot inks phone - how typical of ink.

Art/art/arts/arts/artself Example: Inky went out by artself to see that friend of arts. Art is probably on arts way there right now. Art forgot arts phone - how typical of art.

Star/star/stars/stars/starself Example: Inky went out by starself to see that friend of stars. Star is probably on stars way there right now. Star forgot stars phone - how typical of star.

Myth/myth/myths/myths/mythself Example: Inky went out by mythself to see that friend of myths. Myth is probably on myths way there right now. Myth forgot myths phone - how typical of myth.

Lore/lore/lores/lores/loreself Example: Inky went out by loreself to see that friend of lores. Lore is probably on lores way there right now. Lore forgot lores phone - how typical of lore.

Lyr/lyric/lyrics/lyrics/lyricself Example: Inky went out by lyricself to see that friend of lyrics. Lyr is probably on lyrics way there right now. Lyr forgot lyrics phone - how typical of lyric.

Paint/paint/paints/paints/paintself Example: Inky went out by paintself to see that friend of paints. Paint is probably on paints way there right now. Paint forgot paints phone - how typical of paint.

Rai/rain/rains/rains/rainself Example: Inky went out by rainself to see that friend of rains. Rai is probably on rains way there right now. Rai forgot rains phone - how typical of rain.

Coff/coffee/coffees/coffees/coffeeself Example: Inky went out by coffeeself to see that friend of coffees. Coff is probably on coffees way there right now. Coff forgot coffees phone - how typical of coffee.

Ast/aster/asters/asters/asterself (as in, the Latin word for 'star') Example: Inky went out by asterself to see that friend of asters. Ast is probably on asters way there right now. Ast forgot asters phone - how typical of aster.

Quill/quill/quills/quills/quillself Example: Inky went out by quillself to see that friend of quills. Quill is probably on quills way there right now. Quill forgot quills phone - how typical of quill.

Wish/wish/wishes/wishes/wishself Example: Inky went out by wishself to see that friend of wishes. Wish is probably on wishes way there right now. Wish forgot wishes phone - how typical of wish.

Lune/lunar/lunars/lunars/lunarself Example: Inky went out by lunarself to see that friend of lunars. Lune is probably on lunars way there right now. Lune forgot lunars phone - how typical of lunar.

Ae/aer/aer/aers/aerself Example: Inky went out by aerself to see that friend of aers. Ae is probably on aer way there right now. Ae forgot aer phone - how typical of aer.

Kie/kier/kier/kiers/kierself Example: Inky went out by kierself to see that friend of kiers. Kie is probably on kier way there right now. Kie forgot kier phone - how typical of kier.

Cherry/blossom/cherrys/blossoms/blossomself Example: Inky went out by blossomself to see that friend of blossoms. Cherry is probably on cherrys way there right now. Cherry forgot cherrys phone - how typical of blossom.

Fay/fable/fables/fables/fableself Example: Inky went out by fableself to see that friend of fables. Fay is probably on fables way there right now. Fay forgot fables phone - how typical of fable.

Kit/kitsune/kitsunes/kitsunes/kitsuneself Example: Inky went out by kitsuneself to see that friend of kitsunes. Kit is probably on kitsunes way there right now. Kit forgot kitsunes phone - how typical of kitsune.

Dae/daem/daer/daers/daemself Example: Inky went out by daemself to see that friend of daers. Dae is probably on daer way there right now. Dae forgot daer phone - how typical of daem.

Nyct/nyct/nycts/nycts/nyctself Example: Inky went out by nyctself to see that friend of nycts. Nyct is probably on nycts way there right now. Nyct forgot nycts phone - how typical of nyct.

Fey/fen/feyr/feyrs/feyrself (this one can also use fem instead of fen) Example: Inky went out by feyrself to see that friend of feyrs. Fey is probably on feyr way there right now. Fey forgot feyr phone - how typical of fen.

[zerozeroren]

Fay and her quirky girlie fashion

(She sews these herself with her mom's assistance, but embroidery is entirely made by her, she loves embroidery)

[dragondawdles]

is this anything

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Theresa

throughout the ENTIRE series shes pulling the strings and commiting VERY morally questionable acts and also ruining certain characters lives for "the greater good" of albion, which ITSELF becomes extremely questionable as the series progresses. literally thee ultimate morally grey girlboss

Morgana Pendragon/le Fey

Sure, she did brainwash merlin into killing Arthur, also tried to kill Merlin, and took his magic, plus kill some of the knights (gwaine and lancelot). But like she was taught to fear magic then found she was magic and fear took over. Plus merlin poisoned her, hurt morgouse, hid his magic and pushed her down the stairs. Oh and Uther turned out to be her father and what is more damaging than finding out you're related to him through blood, and no less because of a affair, cheating on a woman who's death caused a kingdom-wide ban on something that morgana didn't get to choose, and possibly others didn't choose either. Also her outfits are absolutely awesome, even when it's 'crazy homeless woman in the woods chic'. Also I'm convinced she's the one that told Arthur those threats he used in the first episode. She defo sussed he's bi and decided to help.

She was a straight up hero in the first season, then spent some time with her sister and came back evily smirking everywhere. She is played by Katie McGrath so of course she's girlboss (also she's royalty)

[queersrus]

Literature theme

[literature theme]

types of literature, a general theme with nothing too specific picked out

mystery theme(link)

(Nick)Names:

auto, autobio, autobiogra, autobiographi/autobiography, aca, acade, academ, academe, academi, academia book, bookette, booketta, bookelle, bookella, bookine, bookina come, como, comedi/comedy

drama, dys, dysto, dystope, dystopi, dystopia, dystopian esse, essey/essay/essae, essie fictia, fiction, fanta, fantasy, fable, folk, folklo, folklor/folklore, folktai, folktale, fae/fay/fai/fey, fairy/faerie/fayrie, fairytale/faerietale

gen, genre, genra/genera histo, histori/history, historia, historica, historical, histfi, historfi, histofi, histoficti, horr, horro, horror litera, literatura, literature, literaturette, literaturetta, literaturelle,

literaturella, literaturine, literaturina, literar, literari/literary, lege, legend, legenda, lyr, lyre, lyri, lyric, lore myth, mytha, mytho, mythos, mythic, mythica, mythoca, mythaca, mytholo, mythology/mythologi, mag, mage, magi, magic, magica,

magical, mem, memo, memoi, memoir novel, novela/novella, nonfi, nonficti, nonfictia prose rome, roma, roman, romanti, romantic, romantica, romana, romanta,

romantica, romance, romancia, rev, revi/revie, review, rea, real, reali, realis, realism, realisme, realisma scifi, sciefi, sciefic, scienfi, scienfic, scienficti tale

1stp prns: i/me/my/mine/myself

li/le/ly/literarine(literaturine)/literaturself li/litere/literacy/literarine/literaryself(literacyself) bi/be/by/bookine/bookself gi/ge/genry/genrine/genreself

2ndp prns: you/your/yours/yourself

lo/literature/literatures/literatureself lo/literacer/literacers/literacerself(literacyrself) lo/literaryr/literaryrs/literaryrself bo/booker/bookers/bookerself go/genrer/genrers/genrerself

3rdp prns: they/them/theirs/themself

lit/literature, lit/erature, liter/ature, litera/ture, literature/literatures, litera/cy, literacy/literacys, lit/eracy, lit/literacy, lit/literary, liter/ary, litera/ry, lit/erary, literary/literarys bo/book, boo/k, bo/ok, bo/ook, book/books, book/mark gen/re, genre/genres, gen/genre

Titles

the literacy expert, the literary device, the literature librarian, the literature reader, the reader of literacy/literature, the writer of literature, the author of literature

*one who writes literature, one who reads literature, one who oversees literary devices, one who hoards books of literature

author, writer, reader

*one can be replaced with any prn.

feel free to ask to be tagged when we post

[astarab1aze]

bringing the magic school quiz back because yes-- password is hellhawk!

House Scrivener

House Scrivener was named after Beatrix Marie Scrivener, who fought her fate to the death in order to master the taxing, inordinately difficult, and numerous schools of divination, forging a path for true diviners to become commonplace in the modern and sorcerous worlds. As such, this house is dedicated to the practice and fine-tuning of divination and illusion sorcery, favoring neutrality, flexibility, an open mind, perseverance, and compassion in the face of disturbing and unchangeable circumstances where everything and nothing are at stake. Divination requires serenity and patience, a mind capable and willing to solve the riddles of fate, and a gentle spirit, and though the price of foresight is the terror of the known, students of House Scrivener are steadfast and unwavering in their resolve to face it; Such may become clairvoyants, fortune-tellers, illusionists, charmers, palmisters, seers, and more. Oddities and synchronicities are welcomed by House Scrivener. Their mascot is the fabled Mothman, who, in 1966-1967, foresaw the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant and warned the townspeople by taking flight overhead until the bridge's inevitable collapse. Dean Belegerande was a Scrivener.

House Bell

This is house was once named for the founder and former dean of Belegerande School of the Arcane, Alistair Belegerande, who was principled and wise, and spearheaded a magical exodus from both Britain and France in the 15th century. It was renamed in the 1820s after his great-grandson and current dean, Spira Belegerande, thought it didn't quite fit the spirit of this House and came across as overtly vain. At the time, the spirit of an incredibly powerful witch known only as the infamous Bell Witch was disturbed in her rest, where she proceeded to viciously haunt the Bell family. Naturally, this house is dedicated to the disciplines of necromancy and summoning sorcery, prizing discernment, conviction, respect for the dead, and hunger for knowledge above all. Students in House Bell are often well-learned, lovers of poetry, observant, pragmatic, and reserved, approaching life's obstacles with caution and thoughtfulness; Such may become observers of funerary rites, morticians, ritualists, gravekeepers, mediums, and arcane researchers, among other things. Vampires are commonly sorted into this house. Their mascot is the Poltergeist, a haunt that attaches itself to an individual and causes all manners of disturbances both innocuous and violent.

House Laveau

Formerly named for Marguerite de Mailly, descendent of the Wizard King of France, who was herself a bold leader and master of the transformation art. Before the turn of the 20th century, it was renamed in honor of the great Marie Laveau, celebrating her life as a pillar of her community as a respected herbalist, midwife, nurse, and ardent practitioner of Voudoun - as well as her legacy. This house is dedicated to the disciplines of transformative, defensive, and offensive sorceries, valuing utmost dedication, ferocity, cunning, and kineticism. Students in House Laveau are often physical and fluid in nature, resourceful and spirited, but above all, they are self-disciplining and take initiative, often becoming powerful duelists, bodyguards, talented flyers, dancers, combatants, and more. Shapeshifters are commonly placed in this house. Their mascot is the Rougarou, or werewolf of Cajun legend, a most terrifying shapeshifting creature.

House Le Fay

Named after a sorceress whose legacy rose to mythological status, House Le Fay celebrates the natural and unpredictable duality of a sorceress (and world) with the capacity for good and evil. Respect is paid to the enchantress, sorceress, and goddess who lent King Arthur himself her aid; Some say she is Fey, others a goddess, and the rest see her as all things, a complicated, ambivalent woman. She was a master of all major schools of sorcery from shapeshifting to telekinesis, necromancy to herbalism, flight to telepathy, and has gone down in history with the likes of Merlin as one of (if not) the most powerful sorcerers to ever live. Naturally, this house is dedicated to the disciplines of herbalism, alchemy, and enchantment, prizing experimentation, vision, honesty, and the 'take no shit' principle. Students of House Le Fay are often lovers of the natural world, immersing themselves in greenhouses and forests, sequestering themselves in gemstone outcroppings, and experimenting with herbs, other plants, and the process of enchanting. They lose themselves in their work, nursing the miracle of creativity and life, and sometimes never leave it; Such may become jewelers, healers, nurses, midwives, farmers, horticulturists, herbalists, arcane archaeologists, and more. Their mascot is the Jersey Devil, a child cursed to monstrous form by its mother, who lurks within the haunting Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. Home to all who need one.

[themarshmush]

Check round 1 for context.

If you notice some different options than before, that's because I eliminated some things of my own accord. This tournament is to decide my username, so I will ultimately be the one making the decisions. The purpose of this tournament is to help me do so by providing outside input.

Here are some unfinished names. Feel free to add onto them in the notes.

waning(moon-related thing here)

lunelo

mythic

fable

spectral

popcorn

toffee

truffle

illuminary

zest

zesty

izu

vendetta

lunar

fruity

(???)jam

cryptid

popit(???)

stellar(???)

creative

(???)roni

cosmic(???)

motley

celestial

polar(???)

plush

jolly

piko (pee-koh)

lush

shroom

jingle (i really like this one)

float

mismatched(???)

chronic

ender

[fay-and-the-forest]

First Tumblr post!

Hi everyone! I decided to create this Tumblr blog to publish all Fay-related content.

Let’s address a few subjects first…

-What is Fay?

Fay, or Fay’s story, is the provisional name of my literary/creative project. Fay’s story is a fable/fairytale-like short novel with an episodic estructure.

The story features talking animals and plants who live normal lives in a forest in the way you’d expect. But the forest has a peculiarity: every year, a small and magical creature called Lumin is born. Lumins are pixie-like creatures who ensure the forest creatures have a peaceful and happy death. The novel follows the story of Fay, a curious and innocent Lumin, as she helps animals and plants and learns what life is (and what her life is) along the way.

In Fay’s story, you might find a taste reminiscent of other works such as The Little Prince, The Moomins, and just fables in general. I intend for it to appeal to children and adults alike.

-How will the novelette be?

It will have some illustrations with a vintage feel – just like an old children’s book!

Don’t expect lots of action. Although Fay and friends have little adventures around the forest, the novel is mostly conversational.

Each chapter covers the wish of a dying forest creature. It will have a prologue and six chapters (this may change in the future).

-What will we find in this blog?

Any kind of content about Fay’s story I come up with: Illustrations, character designs, fragments, sneak peeks, character info…

-What stage of the process is the project at?

The novelette is currently being proofread/changed/rewritten (all by me). The illustrations are in the making too.

-Will we be able to read it?

Yes! I intend to publish it for free, although I don’t know in what medium, as I’m not really fond of Wattpad and the like. That’s something I will have to consider in the future.

Another thing to point out is that the novel is being written in Spanish, my mother language. If there’s interest in the project, I might consider writing it in English too, once the Spanish version is finished.

-When will it be finished?

I don’t know. Since this is a project I’m doing for fun and for free, I have to prioritize lots of other things in my life as of now. There are also my health problems: although I can live and work with them, there are times when I go through a worsening that makes me bedridden for a week. This is why I don’t feel comfortable setting a deadline. However, if I see there are people interested in the project, I might try even harder!

-Can we see your other works?

You can see my illustrations, doodles, etc. on my Twitter account (@erin_draws_)!

I have written several short stories for fun or for writing class. I’ll consider uploading them to Medium or another site.

That’s all for now! Thanks for reading. :)

[xtruss]

Mohamed al-Fayed, Tycoon Whose Son Died With Diana, Is Dead At 94

An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was all overshadowed by a fatal car crash that stunned the world.

— By Robert D. McFadden | September 1, 2023

Mohamed al-Fayed in 2003 outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where a judge was asked to consider whether the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and his son Dodi, was caused deliberately. Credit...David Cheskin/Press Association, via Associated Press

Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian business tycoon whose empire of trophy properties and influence in Europe and the Middle East was overshadowed by the 1997 Paris car crash that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, the Princess of Wales, died on Wednesday. He was 94.

His death was confirmed on Friday in a statement by the Fulham Football Club in Britain, of which Mr. Fayed was a former owner. It did not say where he died.

The patriarch of a family that rose from humble origins to fabled riches, Mr. Fayed controlled far-flung enterprises in oil, shipping, banking and real estate, including the palatial Ritz Hotel in Paris and, for 25 years, the storied London retail emporium Harrods. Forbes estimated his net worth at $2 billion this year, ranking his wealth as 1,516th in the world.

In a sense, Mr. Fayed was a citizen of the world. He had homes in London, Paris, New York, Geneva, St. Tropez and other locales; a fleet of 40 ships based in Genoa, Italy, and in Cairo; and businesses that reached from the Persian Gulf to North Africa, Europe and the Americas. He held Egyptian citizenship but rarely if ever returned to his native land.

Mr. Fayed lived and worked mostly in Britain, where for a half-century he was a quintessential outsider, scorned by the establishment in a society still embedded with old-boy networks. He clashed repeatedly with the government and business rivals over his property acquisitions and attempts to influence members of Parliament. He campaigned noisily for British citizenship, but his applications were repeatedly denied.

“It’s the colonial, imperial fantasy,” Mr. Fayed told The New York Times in 1995. “Anyone who comes from a colony, as Egypt was before, they think he’s nothing. So you prove you’re better than they are. You do things that are the talk of the town. And they think, ‘How can he? He’s only an Egyptian.’”

Mr. Fayed at a party at the venerable London department store Harrods in 1989. His takeover of the store in 1985 struck many Britons as akin to buying Big Ben. Credit...Fairchild Archive/WWD, via Penske Media, via Getty Images

He reveled in the trappings of a British aristocrat. He bought a castle in Scotland and sometimes wore a kilt; snapped up a popular British football club; cultivated Conservative prime ministers and members of Parliament; sponsored the Royal Horse Show at Windsor; and tried unsuccessfully to salvage Punch, the moribund satirical magazine that had lampooned the British establishment for 150 years.

His takeover of the venerable Harrods in 1985 struck many Britons as shameless brass, something akin to buying Big Ben. A year later, as if securing a jewel in the crown of British heritage, Mr. Fayed signed a 50-year lease on the 19th-century villa in Paris that had been the home of the former King Edward VIII of Britain and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorced American woman for whom he abdicated his throne in 1936.

But Mr. Fayed’s triumph as an Anglophile was the made-for-tabloids romance between his eldest son, Emad, known as Dodi, and the Princess of Wales, who had recently been divorced from Prince Charles (now King Charles III) and alienated from the royal family. It began in the summer of 1997, when Mr. Fayed invited Diana and her sons to spend some time at his home on the French Riviera and on one of his yachts. Dodi was there too.

The Egyptian-born nephew of the Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Dodi was a notorious playboy who gave lavish parties, financed films, dated beautiful women and was once briefly married. He and Diana had been acquainted, but by many accounts they fell in love on the Mediterranean sojourn. As their romance bloomed, the British press pounced. Paparazzi hounded the couple everywhere they went.

A cameraman filmed the site of the car accident in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and Mr. Fayed’s eldest son, Dodi al-Fayed, in 1997. Mr. Fayed declared that they had been murdered by “people who did not want Diana and Dodi to be together.”Credit...Jacques Demarthon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997, a Mercedes-Benz carrying Diana and Dodi and driven by Henri Paul, a Fayed security agent who was drunk and traveling at a high speed trying to elude carloads of pursuing paparazzi, slammed head-on into a concrete pillar in a tunnel in Paris. All three were killed.

Controversy exploded over the cause of the crash and the implications of the affair. Some tabloids suggested that an immigrant had been an unfit suitor for a princess. But friends said that the couple had planned to marry, and that the Fayed family had offered Diana and her sons a warmth that contrasted with the way Britain’s royal family had shunned her after the divorce.

As rumors and conspiracy theories swirled, Mr. Fayed declared that the two had been murdered by “people who did not want Diana and Dodi to be together.” He said they had been engaged to marry and maintained that they had called him an hour before the crash to tell him that she was pregnant. Buckingham Palace and the princess’s family denounced his remarks as malicious fantasy.

The deaths inspired waves of books, articles and investigations of conspiracy theories, as well as a period of soul-searching among Britons, who resented the royal family’s standoffish behavior and were caught up in displays of mass grief. In 2006, the British police ruled the crash an accident.

And in 2008, a British coroner’s jury rejected all conspiracy theories involving the royal family, British intelligence services and others. It attributed the deaths to “gross negligence” by the driver and the pursuing paparazzi. It also said a French pathologist had found that Diana was not pregnant.

Mr. Fayed called the verdict biased, but he and his lawyers did not pursue the matter further. “I’ve had enough,” he told Britain’s ITV News. “I’m leaving this to God to get my revenge.”

Mr Al Fayed, with his wife Heini, at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, Dies in a Crash in Paris. August 31, 1997.

Mohamed al-Fayed was born Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed in Alexandria, Egypt, on Jan. 27, 1929, one of five children of a primary-school teacher, Aly Aly Fayed. Details about his early life are murky.

His accounts of growing up in a prosperous merchant family were discounted by British investigators. He sold sewing machines and joined his two younger brothers, Ali and Salah, in a shipping business. In the early 1950s, Adnan Khashoggi set the brothers up in a venture that exported Egyptian furniture to Saudi Arabia. It flourished.

In 1954, Mr. Fayed married Mr. Khashoggi’s sister, Samira. Dodi was their only child. They were divorced in 1956. In 1985, he married Heini Wathén, a Finn. They had four children, all born in Britain: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla and Omar.

Information on survivors was not immediately available.

The Fayed shipping interests profited handsomely from an oil boom in the Persian Gulf in the 1960s. Acting as middlemen for British construction companies and gulf rulers, they helped develop the port of Dubai, the Dubai Trade Center and other properties in what is now the United Arab Emirates.

Mohammed Al Fayed stands in front of the east stand of Craven Cottage, home of Fulham. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Mr. Fayed at the Craven Cottage stadium in London in 2012 before an English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Sunderland. Mr. Fayed was Fulham’s owner and club chairman. Credit...Alastair Grant/Associated Press

Mr. Fayed, who made all his family’s major investment and financial decisions, moved to London in the mid-1960s. He added “al-” to his surname, implying aristocratic origins. After buying the Scottish castle, he expanded its estate to 65,000 acres; after acquiring the Fulham Football Club, he built it into a top team in a nation infatuated with the sport. (He sold the team in 2013 to a Pakistani American businessman.) A heavy contributor to the Conservative Party, he nurtured relationships with members of Parliament and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

In 1979, the Fayed brothers bought the fading Ritz Hotel in Paris for under $30 million and, with a 10-year, $250 million renovation, turned it into one of the world’s most luxurious hotels. Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed dined in the Imperial Suite before their fatal crash.

In 1984-85, in their greatest commercial coup in Britain, the Fayeds paid $840 million for the House of Fraser, the parent company of Harrods and scores of other stores, and invested $300 million more to refurbish the chain’s flagship, in London’s exclusive Knightsbridge section.

After the sale of Harrods to Qatar in 2010 Mr Al Fayed stayed on as honorary chairman for six months

Mohamed Al Fayed in the Harrods food halls. Photograph: Mark Richards/Daily Mail/Shutterstock

Prodded by a business rival, the government investigated the Harrods deal and in 1990 concluded that the Fayed brothers had “dishonestly misrepresented” themselves as descendants of an old landowning and shipbuilding family. The government report said the money for Harrods had probably come from the Sultan of Brunei. The sultan denied it, and Mr. Fayed, who was not accused of wrongdoing, called the report a smear.

In investigative reports by the press and the police, Mr. Fayed was accused by many women of unwanted sexual advances, job-related sexual harassment of female employees at Harrods, and even sexual assault involving teenage girls. He denied the allegations and, although he was questioned by the authorities in Britain, he was never prosecuted on such charges.

Mr. Fayed was bitter about being stymied in his quest for British citizenship, although all his children by his second wife held that status. As he noted, he had lived in Britain for decades, paid millions in taxes, employed thousands of people and, through his enterprises, contributed mightily to the economy.

Mohamed Al Fayed leaves the High Court in London, after giving evidence at the inquest into the death of his son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

“They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me,” he told reporters. He sold Harrods in 2010 to Qatar Holding, the sovereign wealth fund of the Emirate of Qatar, for more than $2 billion, and announced his retirement.

— Robert D. McFadden is a Senior Writer on the Obituaries Desk and the Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. He joined The New York Times in May 1961 and is also the Co-Author of Two Books.

[lavinialeguin]

What if the entire Ever After Academy cast and story took place in a more Wolf Among Us Setting?

Whitethorn becomes a town in Connecticut filled with fairy tale characters who've escaped the magical realm after a great war that caused most of the realm to be destroyed by the fae who wished to take over the land for themselves.

The triad becomes the peacekeepers integrating the fables into the non-magical realm, giving them a temporary place to stay while war wages in the magical realm. The story starts with the funeral of FMC and MMC's uncle who is suspected to have been murdered by a fable, though they don't have enough proof to determine which fable did it. FMC takes it upon herself as the newly ascended Path Finder to find her uncle's murderer.

MMC works as the Light Keeper, keeping the lighthouse light on and being a welcoming presence to any new fables that come through the portals. His job is also to keep the Whitethorn trees alive and well to help keep the fae from finding them.

Arin still works as the Guardian, protecting the magic library, and labyrinth, and assisting FMC and MMC in helping stomp civil disputes between the fables living in Whitethorn.

Nora Le Fay is an ally of the triad, assisting with magical barriers and upkeep of the magical library. Nora is also the team's main healer, assisting in treating fables who are infected with hexes or curses from the fae. She currently acts as a librarian at the university library as her cover while assisting with the magical library and labyrinth underneath the school.

Lucas Charming is the heir to the Garnet Throne, his family sent him to Whitethorn in a show of trust to the White Queen, who is assisting them in keeping the fae at bay in their kingdom. Lucas works as a type of bodyguard for MMC as well as assisting in keeping more rowdy fables in line. Lucas works as a docent at the lighthouse, assisting with tours and showing fables around.

Abel is a brooding woodsman, tasked by the White Queen to tend to the Whitethorns, keeping the plans around Whitethorn alive. He's the most muscular of the group and acts as the team's tank fighter when in need, however, he's distrusting of most people and is rude when provoked, making him not as effective as an ally in the beginning.

Lavinia La Guin, the Snow Queen, travels to Whitethorn due to FMC's family promising to return her heart in exchange for help creating stronger barriers to keep the Fae away, as the Winter Kingdom is currently untouched by the Fae due to the Snow Queen's intense protective spells around her kingdom. However, with the death of the previous Pathfinder, FMC is left to strike a new deal to get the witch's help in finding her Uncle's killer. Lavinia resides as the owner and bartender of an Ice Bar in Whitethorn, a common hangout for some of the less moral fables.

Jack Frost is Lavinia's younger half-brother, another child of Titania, Jack assists Lavinia in keeping their kingdom safe. He communicates between the two realms using a communication stone.

Ezra Wolf works as a bouncer at the Ice Bar Lavinia owns. He is a gruff and well-respected security presence at the bar as well as a great keeper in intel due to his ability to sink into the shadows.

More to come, but just the first bunch of ideas.

[ink-stains-and-constellations]

I officially have three spellings of 'fae' in my neopronoun collection. This was not originally intended, but I am not unhappy with how it has turned out. (Can you tell I like faeries lol)

[zerozeroren]

Been thinking about Fable lately

Also her aesthetic is basically a quirky Disney Channel teen XD

UPD: reuploaded after @piperjistic spotted a floating necklace XD

[d1rlin]

☆﹔Fairytale themed pronouns

﹐castle/castles/castleself﹒princess/princesses/princesself

﹐prince/princes/princeself﹒story/storys/storyself

﹐page/pages/pageself﹒word/words/wordself

﹐forest/forests/forestself﹒fairy/fairies/fairyself﹒faer/faers/faeself

﹐myth/myths/mythself﹒tale/tales/taleself﹒fable/fables/fableself

﹐tiara/tiaras/tiaraself﹒royalty/royaltys/royaltyself﹒tower/towers/towerself

﹐damsel/damsels/damselself﹒wand/wands/wandself﹒dragon/dragons/dragonself

﹐dwarf/dwarves/dwarfself﹒elf/elves/elfself﹒Knights/knightself

﹐Dark/darks/darkself﹒Astra/astras/astraself﹒Book/books/bookself

﹐Quill/quills/quillself﹒Ink/inks/inkself﹒Write/write(r)s/write(r)self

﹐Page/pages/pageself﹒Poet/poets/poetself﹒Poet(ry)/poetrys/poetryself

﹐Pen/pens/penself﹒Pen(cil)/pencils/pencilself﹒Study/studys/studyself

﹐Read/reads/readself﹒Word/words/wordself﹒Night/nights/nightself

﹐Star/stars/starself﹒Quiet/quiets/quietself﹒Soft/softs/softself

﹐tired/tireds/tiredself﹒📖/📖s/📖self﹒🖊/🖊s/🖊self

﹐tired/tireds/tiredself﹒☕️/☕️s/☕️self﹒⚰️/⚰️s/⚰️self

﹐🍁/🍁s/🍁self﹒🍂/🍂s/🍂self﹒💼/💼s/💼self

﹐📜/📜s/📜self﹒🕯/🕯s/🕯self﹒🕰/🕰s/🕰self

﹐🧳/🧳s/🧳self﹒🏰/🏰s/🏰self﹒🎠/🎠s/🎠self

﹐🪄/🪄’s/🪄self

︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶ ୨୧ ︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶ ୨୧ ︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶ ୨୧ ︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢ ︶︶ ֢ ⏝ ֢

☆﹔Fairy themed pronouns

﹐moss/mosses/mosself﹒shroom/shrooms/shroomself﹒bloom/blooms/bloomself

﹐dust/dusts/dusts/dustself﹒spring/springs/springself﹒dew/dews/dewself

﹐shine/shines/shineself﹒fay/fays/fayself﹒fae/faes/faeself

﹐elf/elves/elfself﹒flower/flowers/flowerself﹒honey/honeys/honeyself

﹐sprite/sprites/spriteself﹒fae/faen/faenself﹒aos/aes/aeself

﹐wing/wings/wingself﹒seelie/seelies/seelieself﹒unseelie/unseelies/unseelieself

﹐changeling/changelings/changelingself﹒iron/irons/ironself﹒charm/charms/charmself

﹐rowan/rowans/rowanself﹒magic(k)/magic(k)s/magic(k)self﹒spell/spells/spellself

﹐little/littles/littleself﹒hidden/hiddens/hiddenself﹒brownie/brownies/brownieself

﹐tree/trees/treeself﹒🧚/🧚’s/🧚self﹒🪴/🪴’s/🪴self﹒⚙️/⚙️’s/⚙️self

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket is up! Matchups are in text form under the cut. Reminder that all of these matchups were chosen randomly, and that this bracket will be run in a double elimination style, so a character failing out in round one does NOT prevent them from proceeding into the tournament.

Ursula Boulton (Merge Mansion) vs. Betty Grof (Adventure Time)

Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) vs. The Coin / Boss (Blaseball)

Morgan Le Fay (Fate) vs. Edelgard Von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

IMOGEN (Stellar Firma) vs. Amalexia (Elder Scrolls)

Maeby Funke (Arrested Development) vs. Manon Blackbeak (Throne of Glass)

Taylor Hebert / Skitter (Worm) vs. GLaDOS / Caroline (Portal)

Cleo DeNile (Monster High) vs. Nico Robin (One Piece)

Helen Richardson / The Distortion (The Magnus Archives) vs. Calanthe (The Witcher)

Irving Braxiatel (Thieves & Tardises) vs. Nefera DeNile (Monster High)

Alina Starkov (Shadow & Bone) vs. Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song Of Ice & Fire)

Eclipsa Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) vs. Jennifer Check (Jennifer’s Body)

Moira O’Deorain (Overwatch) vs. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribbean)

Iron Maiden Jeanne (Shaman King) vs. Artemis (Greek Myth)

Tomie Kawakami (Tomie) vs. Dame Obsidian (Murdle)

Rachel (Animorphs) vs. Juri Han (Street Fighter)

Shego (Kim Possible) vs. Asajj Ventress (Star Wars)

Tabitha Scarlet (Scarlet Hollow) vs. Morte Asherah (Sands of Destruction)

Theresa (Fable) vs. Morgana Pendragon/Le Fey (BBC Merlin)

Nailgun Sue (IRL) vs. The Witch (Into the Woods)

Chara / The Fallen Human (Undertale) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Klaasje Amandou (Disco Elysium) vs. Margot “gottiewrites” Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise)

Prince Ianthe Naberius the First, the Lyctor Prince, the Saint of Awe, previously known as Ianthe Tridentarius, the Princess of Ida, heir to the House of the Third, Mouth of the Emperor, the Procession, House of the Shining Dead (The Locked Tomb) vs. Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade Series)

Anna Croft (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint) vs. Sailor Galaxia (Sailor Moon)

Ms. Pauling (Team Fortress 2) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil)

Charlie Magne/Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel) vs. Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Willie Jack (Reservation Dogs) vs. Gretchen Klein (The Wilds)

Rachel (Tower of God) vs. Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)

Charlie (Don’t Starve) vs. Pomegranate Cookie (Cookie Run)

Rose Quartz / Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Filo (Shield Hero)

Tokiko Shigure (Ai: The Somnium Files) vs. Sandy (TokiDoki Cactus Friends)

Shion Sonozaki (Higurashi When They Cry) vs. Banica Conchita (Evillious Chronicles)

Mima (Touhou) vs. Yūko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Yuno Gasai (Future Diary) vs. Laerynn Coramar-Seelie (Critical Role)

Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights) vs. Susie Haltmann (Kirby: Planet Robobot)

Lae’Zel (Baldur’s Gate 3) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Angela (Library of Ruina)

Miranda Vanderbilt (Monster Prom) vs. Jinx (Arcane / League of Legends)

Rose Thorburn Jr. (Pact) vs. Eva (Umineko When They Cry)

Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek) vs. Shiv Roy (Succession)

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses) vs. Akua Sahelian (A Practical Guide to Evil)

Poison Ivy (DCEU) vs. Nickel (IDW Transformers)

Joyce Messier (Disco Elysium) vs. Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)

Kalina (Fantasy High) vs. MegaGirl (Starship)

Sloane Parker (Eidolon Playtest) vs. Power (Chainsaw Man)

Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Raiden Ei / Beelzebul (Genshin)

Patty Bladell (Insatiable) vs. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley (House MD)

Tanya von Degurechaff (The Saga of Tanya the Evil) vs. Fang Runin (The Poppy War)

Nomi Malone (Showgirls) vs. Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint)

Wu Zetian (The Iron Widow) vs. Lariska (Bionicle)

Teresa Agnes (Maze Runner) vs. Emma Perkins (Hatchetfield Series)

Lucrecia Mux / Maligula (Psychonauts) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Akako Koizumi (Magic Kaito) vs. Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa)

Blackberry (Chicory: A Colorful Tale) vs. Malva (Pokemon)

Vermouth (Detective Conan) vs. Kumoko / Shiraori (So I’m a Spider So What)

Eleanor (Do Revenge) vs. Bryony Halbech (Red Valley)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)

Leliana (Dragon Age) vs. Archbishop Rhea/Seiros (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Grimora (Inscryption) vs. Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Audrey Redheart (Wandersong) vs. Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magic)

Fujiko Mine (Lupin III) vs. O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill)

Anne (WOE.BEGONE) vs. Gwendolyn Poole (Marvel Comics)

Lappland Saluzzo (Arknights) vs. Avrana Kern (Children of Time)

Harley Quinn (DCEU) vs. Cassandra Jones (Rise of the TMNT)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalte / La Signora (Genshin Impact)

Revan (Star Wars) vs Rue Kuroha / Princess Kraehe (Princess Tutu)

Eve (The Bible) vs. Prospera Mercury (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury)

May Angelica Jones Goodwin (It Takes Two) vs. Elle Williams (The Last of Us)

Marina (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Naksu / Mudeok (Alchemy of Souls)

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) vs. Sucre (OFF)

SHODAN (System Shock) vs. Cocolia (Honkai: Star Rail)

Alana Bloom (NBC Hannibal) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Delirium of the Endless (The Sandman) vs. Arcee (IDW Transformers)

Morganthe (Wizard 101) vs. Wu Zetian (History)

Jude Duarte (Folk of the Air) vs. Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359)

Perihelion/ART (The Murderbot Diaries) vs. Kanamori Sayaka (Keep your Hands off Eizouken!)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Anais Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Croix Meridies (Little Witch Academia) vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Harrowhark Nonagesmius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Big Mama (Rise of the TMNT)

Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries) vs. White Gladys the Orca (IRL)

Doctor Carmilla (Doctor Carmilla & the Mechanisms) vs. The Handler (Umbrella Academy)

Catra (She-Ra & The Princesses of Power) vs. Liliana Vess (Magic: The Gathering)

Jasnah Kholin (Stormlight Archive) vs. Liraz (Daughter of Smoke & Bone)

Lilith Clawthorne (TOH) vs. Medea (Greek Myth)

Odin (The Bifrost Incident) vs. Enma Ai (Jigoku Shoujo)

Mordred (Fate) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight)

Beatrice (Umineko When They Cry) vs. Hester Shaw (Mortal Engines)

Balalaika (Black Lagoon) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. W (Arknights)

Angelica Pickles (Rugrats/All Grown Up) vs. Eleanor Guthry (Black Sails)

Asha Rahiro (Kubera One Last God) vs. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Administrator (Team Fortress 2) vs. Shadowheart (Baldur’s Gate 3)

Noi (Dorohedro) vs. Leopardstar (Warrior Cats)

Sue Miley (Your Turn to Die) vs. Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)

Juliette Cai (These Violent Delights) vs. Rat God (Mad Rat Dead)

Petra Solano (Jane the Virgin) vs. Kycilia Zabi (Mobile Suit Gundam)

Franziska Von Karma (Ace Attorney) vs. Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Anne Boleyn (History) vs. Cinder Fall (RWBY)

Kokomi Teruhashi (Disastrous life of Saiki K) vs. Major Margaret Houlihan (M*A*S*H)

Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd) vs. Enyo (Granblue Fantasy)

Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Essun/Syenite/Damaya (Broken Earth Trilogy)

Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke) vs. Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower (Bloodborne)

Entrapta (She-Ra & The Princesses of Power) vs. Ilsa Faust (Mission: Impossible)

Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs. Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)

Samantha Groves / Root (Person of Interest) vs. Charlotte “Lottie” Matthews (Yellowjackets)

Shanoa (Castlevania) vs. Sally Reed (Barry)

Evil Lynn (He-Man) vs. Makima (Chainsaw Man)

Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) vs. Raphaella La Coginzi (Doctor Carmilla & The Mechanisms)

Edalyn Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher)

Toriel Dreemurr (Undertale) vs. Monaco (Hetalia: Axis Powers)

Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Carribbean) vs. Vala Mal Doran (Stargate)

Wanda Maximoff (MCU) vs. Adelina Amouteru (Young Elites)

Mapleshade (Warrior Cats) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) vs. Hornet (Hollow Knight)

Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) vs. PearlescentMoon (Double Life SMP)

Lady Bone Demon (Lego Monkie Kid) vs. Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson Series)

Jung Sun Ah (Devil Judge) vs. Muu Kusonoski (Milgram)

Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who) vs. Electra (Starlight Express)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Akane Kurashiki (Zero Escape)

Wen Qing (The Untamed) vs. Yubel (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Ponyo (Ponyo) vs. Renata Glasc (League of Legends)

Aubrey (OMORI) vs. Menou (The Executioner and Her Way of Life)

Olivia Octavius (Into the Spiderverse) vs. Anna Limon (Mabel)

HG Wells (Warehouse 13) vs. The Shapeshifter (Odd Squad)

Miles “Tails” Prowler (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Isabella (Promised Neverland)

Riley Grace Davis / Bonesaw (Worm) vs. The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Misty Quigley (Yellowjackets) vs. Nami (One Piece)

Olivier Mira Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

[sicklysidecharacter]

Rating Edgar Allen Poe stories from my book

The Gold-Bug: period typical racism, only reason it scores above 1 is because the cipher solution was sherlock holmes style and i like that 3/10

William Wilson: the answer to would you fuck your clone being no i would murder him and kill myself in the process 7/10

The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar: oh no the guy i kept alive through hypnosis wants to die and becomes dust after months of his body decomposing 😭 narrator annoyed me 4/10

The Island of the Fay: fae rides boat 3/10

The Sphinx: scary bug 4/10

MS in a Bottle: ghost ship? 7/10

Eleonora: wuthering heights but the characters are normal 4/10

A Descent into the Maelstrom: felt too close to MS in a Bottle, idk why they put them so close together 4/10

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion: the world is dead 5/10

The Murders in the Rue Morgue: i love a good detective story 8/10

The Mystery of Marie Roget: knowing this was based on an actual crime unnerved me slightly and also i didn't like that there was no attempt to solve the fictional version of the crime 6/10

The Purloined Letter: felt like A Scandal in Belgravia, except funnier because Dupin just stole the letter 9/10

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade: did not vibe 5/10

The Fall of the House of Usher: delicious finally, some good fucking gothic 9/10

The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall: man riding a hot air balloon to the moon aged like a fine milk 1/10

The Pit and the Pendulum: there is a pit and pendulum 8/10

The Domain of Arnheim: whyyyy was this so boring 1/10

Landor's Cottage: this was also dull 1/10

The Premature Burial: i felt like there wasn't really a plot but it was still kind of enjoyable 5/10

The Assignation: i barely remember it lmao 3/10

Shadow - A Parable: it kind of didn't do anything 4/10

The Black Cat: the animal cruelty was genuinely horrific, but the tone kinda comes across like an entitled cishet guy doing an AITA post 4/10

The Masque of The Red Death: kill the rich! make them suffer! give them plague! 7/10

The Spectacles: what an idiot 4/10

The Cask of Amontillado: i had seen the memes and somehow the story was worse 9/10

The Oval Portrait: this was quite sad 7/10

The Tell-Tale Heart: kind of disappointing after all the memes 8/10

Ligeia: i don't really understand how the twist works but i guess it's just ✨ghosts✨ 7/10

The Oblong Box: a pretty good twist i didn't see coming 8/10

Metzengerstein: evil horse? 4/10

Silence - A Fable: again, too short to really care 3/10

Hop-Frog: i think i was supposed to be horrified but i enjoyed the ableists being brutally murdered tbh 6/10

The Man of the Crowd: i don't really understand what the point of this was 4/10

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains: a pretty good twist i didn't see coming 8/10

The Imp of the Perverse: girl help i keep acting on my impulsive thoughts so i murdered someone 😔 get over yourself asshole 2/10

Some Words with a Mummy: ughhhh this was racist and scientifically stupid i hated it 1/10

The Devil in the Belfry: wtf did i just read 2/10

The Balloon Hoax: stop with the balloons edgar allen poe 1/10

"Thou Art the Man": i loved this, it seemed very predictable and then there was a twist i did not expect 9/10

The book I read was The Fall of the House of Usher and other stories, published by Marshall Cavendish in 1986

[oldshowbiz]

Selected comedy revues of the 1920s include: Raymond Hitchock's Hitchy Koo. Ed Wynn's Carnival. Ed Wynn's Grab Bag. Ed Wynn's Laugh Parade. Ed Wynn's The Perfect Fool. Harry Delmar's Revels. Frank Fay's Fables. Ned Wayburn's Gambols.

In the 1920s the phrase "revue" indicated sketch comedy before the term sketch comedy existed.