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[chiquititaosita]

hi hi omg thank you for the tag

are you named after someone?

no, but everyone growing up thought I was named after the 70s song Layla. My mom just loved the Polynesian meaning of Leila meaning Heaven. But mostly I’ve been often told about the Arab love story Layla and Manjun. And the Arab meaning of my name that shit made me cry

When was the last time you cried

easy may 24 2023, 7:30 pm, I cried watching the new little mermaid private screening.

do you have kids?

no 🩷 but do animals count?

do you use sarcasm a lot?

yes all of the damn time.

what sports have you played?

football(soccer), kickball, gymnastics and tumbling, competition cheerleading (never again),

the first thing you notice about people?

their voice, and aura. (Even facial features,)

eye color

soil brown like a nice chocolate brown or soil in the ground of the garden. halfway close to black brown though

scary movies or happy endings

idk I don’t like being overstimulated, but I do love scary movies 🫶🏼 happy endings in movies need to step up their game fr 🙄😠

special talents

I’m double jointed, and I can move my calf like a helicopter (as well as my hand), also I can sing (ew not me sounding like a pick me), also I can

Where were you born

your mom PFTAHAHAHA jk jk, really United States my family is Mexican American. (Both sides) 🇲🇽🇺🇸

hobbies

I love playing bingo (it’s becoming an addiction smh 🤦🏽‍♀️), doing my nails, crochet, shopping, self care, gym, watch people play horror games because that’s my humor.

pets?

yes, four dogs and one cat. (4/5 of these animals are rescues 😭🩷)

how tall are you?

5’1 ft (157 cm)…

fave subject

your mom, jk jk science and literacy

dream job

if money didn’t matter, I’d be a musician, but in this case ultrasound reader/ technician , and radiologist

tagged by @cursedvibes :)) ty

ok 15 questions 15 mutuals lets go

1. Are you named after anyone?

nope

2. When was the last time you cried?

uh idk probably a month or two ago? was feeling very bad </3

3. Do you have kids?

no lol

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

eh, here and there. mostly not because i dont want to be misunderstood or accidentally offend someone

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

i used to play tennis and badminton when i was a kid. joined a martial arts club two years ago but idk if that counts

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

their mouth and their face. mouth specifically mentioned from face cause i have to look there when someone is speaking to understand what theyre saying. also when i look at someone my gaze travels up cause it feels awkward looking in their eyes directly

7. What’s your eye colour?

dark brown

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

theyre not mutually exclusive but ummmmm happy endings. i just like sleeping at night i guess lmao

9. Any special talents?

i can draw lol

10. Where were you born?

in a hospital !!

11. What are your hobbies?

drawing, writing. i also write a lot of analysis essays in my free time for fun but im too shy to post any of them here ghrfsghjkbgfsgkj my posts on here are all cleaned up and nice. i practice using nunchucks too :)

12. Do you have any pets?

two birds

13. How tall are you?

170cm

14. Favorite subject in school?

drawing/painting and web development

15. Dream job?

i think i want to be a math teacher. but if we're talking ab a hypothetical job with no drawbacks or harm that would hypothetically support me in all ways then i would love to be an animator or illustrator

i cant think of 15 off the top of my head but tagging @terroristiraqi @cairenes @that-one-queer-poc @zukkaoru @that-was-anticlimactic @bathtublawyer @themeoflauramp3 and anyone else who wants :))

[j3lle]

she’s a runner she’s a track star

[monachopism]

someone on tiktok said that shemar speaks in bullet points and I think about it every day

[fromtheringapron]

WWE WrestleMania XXVI

Date: March 28, 2010.

Location: University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. 

Attendance: 72,219.

Commentary: Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Matt Striker. 

Results:

1. WWE Unified Tag Team Championship Match: ShoMiz (The Miz and Big Show) (champions) defeated R-Truth and John Morrison 

2. Triple Threat Match: Randy Orton defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr. 

3. Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Jack Swagger defeated Christian, Drew McIntyre, Dolph Ziggler, Evan Bourne, Kofi Kingston, Kane, Montel Vontavious Porter, Matt Hardy, and Shelton Benjamin. 

4. Triple H defeated Sheamus. 

5. Rey Mysterio defeated CM Punk (with Serena and Luke Gallows).

6. No Holds Barred Lumberjack Match: Bret Hart defeated Vince McMahon. Bruce Hart was the special guest referee.

7. WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Chris Jericho (champion) defeated Edge. 

8. Layla, Alicia Fox, Maryse, Michelle McCool, and Vickie Guerrero defeated Kelly Kelly, Beth Phoenix, Mickie James, Gail Kim, and Eve Torres. 

9. WWE Championship Match: John Cena defeated Batista (champion) to win the title. 

10. No Disqualification Career vs. Streak Match: The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels. Per stipulation, Michaels retired.

My Review

WreslteMania XXVI is a difficult show to sum up. It’s a pretty good WrestleMania, but also one that happens to be all over the place in tone and focus. Perhaps its reflective of how indeterminate the future of the WWE felt at the start of the 2010s. The roster was such a mishmash of eras that you’d be forgiven of not having a clue where the hell the company was going. John Cena, Batista, and Randy Orton were at the top of the card after their rise to superstardom in the 2000s, but the spotlight was still shared guys who rose to stardom in the ‘90s like Triple H and The Undertaker. Then there was a new generation of talent—The Miz, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, etc. — bubbling in the undercard who seemed poised to rocket into the top at any moment. But wait! Time was also given to  . . . the 13-year-old feud between Bret Hart and Vince McMahon?!? Suffice to say, with the show splintering off in so many different directions, it’s not surprising it has some misfires.

Let’s start with the good stuff, though. The main event between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels is fantastic and I’m gonna throw it out there that I like it more than their match from the previous year. The stakes feel higher, the suspense level feels higher, and there’s more of a story here than just Shawn needing to beat Taker. He puts his entire career is on the line here, for heaven’s sake! And speaking of his career, like many at the time, I didn’t have a clue this would be Shawn’s last match. Most on-screen wrestling retirements are never legit, so there was plenty of basis to believe this one would be no different. But alas, this one was different, and we get about as good a sendoff as we could’ve gotten for someone who’s been dubbed Mr. WrestleMania.

On another show, the WWE title match between John Cena and Batista would’ve been the main event. Their match here is great fun. It’s actually an end of an era for the two men who were crowned as the leaders of the next generation at WrestleMania five years earlier. Batista would move on to Hollywood shortly after this and, while certainly not his last WWE run, it would mark the end of his career as a full-timer. Interestingly enough, Batista was really coming into his own as a heel at the time of his departure, even winning over fans who previously couldn’t stand him. He would resurrect his heel run in 2014 and 2019, again only for a short spell. A shame we haven’t been able to spend much time with arrogant heel ‘Tista and his impeccable designer fashion, but then I guess that’s what makes it so special.

As for what doesn’t work, I probably don’t need to go into much detail about the Bret/McMahon clash. The basics of the story are solid — Bret gets his long-awaited revenge on McMahon, with his family right by his side. It’s just not super fun to watch in execution, however well-meaning it may be. They match is dragged out much longer than it should and it takes the crowd completely out of it. Another misfire is the Money in the Bank match. This would be the final iteration of the match at WrestleMania before it becomes its own pay-per-view. It’s clear the concept needs some rejuvenation by this point as it’s now a lazy, bloated affair where everyone gets in their allotted number of spots and there are way too many participants. To cap it all off, the ill-advised decision is made to push Jack Swagger into the main event scene, an idea which would run out of gas in a matter of months.

The show seems to have some weird pacing issues as well. In the era of the Network, I’ve grown so accustom to Manias being stretched to the point of exhaustion, so it’s always little odd to go back and watch one that feels like it doesn’t have enough time. It’s almost like it’s struggling to figure out how spread out time across a card so stacked. The tag opener and Rey Mysterio vs. CM Punk feel like abridged versions of the matches we would’ve otherwise gotten, while Bret vs. McMahon gets more time than either combined. Even Money in the Bank feels somewhat rushed. I’m definitely not a huge fan of WrestleMania becoming a seven-hour event, and WWE has proven they struggle with time management on longer Manias, but this is one show where it seems an extra hour absolutely would’ve been to its benefit.

At its best, WrestleMania XXVI is a nice sampler plate of eras, even if struggles to give you equal portions for all of them. The multi-generational makeup of the card ensures there’s a little something for everyone and even closes the books on a couple of legendary careers. You’re bound to dislike some it but for better or worse, and this is a cheeseball thing to say, it definitely puts the “showcase” in the Showcase of the Immortals.

My Random Notes

No joke, I really did not think this would be it for HBK and even seriously thought Taker’s streak was in jeopardy. Am I a fool for thinking that? Maybe, but I like that wrestling conned into believing it in a way it hardly ever does anymore.

I feel like the temple entrance set is something that should’ve been more impressive than it is in actuality. They just stacked LED screens on top of each other and just rolled with it. It looks like something from Minecraft.

Ah, this show reinvigorates my fond feelings for Matt Striker. Such a handsome chap! Not surprising at all he would appear on a Bachelor ripoff a whole decade later.

I chuckled at Bruce Hart being the special guest referee for Bret vs. McMahon. You just know he huffed and puffed his way into that one, much to Bret’s annoyance.

I also chuckled at Diana Hart-Smith walking down to the ring with her best “evil, vindictive femme fatale on the cover of a pulp novel” look. God bless her. She needs to write another book.

I know Rey singing Happy Birthday to his daughter is meant to be a heart-warming thing but if I were a kid in the same situation, I would be traumatized. Just think of how uncomfortable it is when a room full of people is signing at you and then think of enduring that in an arena filled with thousands of people. CM Punk did her a huge favor by crashing the moment, as far as I’m concerned.

Not saying anything new here, but the whole Spear thing with Edge is cringe as hell and it’s for the best that it’s been forgotten in the annals of his career.

I know some people like to mock Vickie Guerrero doing Eddie’s frog splash, but I personally thought it was a sweet moment while staying true to comedically heel Vickie.

The official theme song to this Mania is “I Made It” by Kevin Rudolf. A time-period appropriate choice, I must say. I feel like the dawn of the 2010s is the only time a Kevin Rudolf could be a success.

I identify myself as someone who will always be more embarrassed by John Cena haters than Cena himself and I gotta say him posing next to the guys in the front row hating his guts is fucking hilarious. Cena is funny sometimes when he just straight-up trolls.

On the Legacy fallout: The storytelling for this was weird as hell. Am I the only who remembers that one time on Raw where they teased Ted turning face and the crowd was actually kinda into it? Then they completely abandoned it for whatever reason and just had Randy be the breakout face (as if he needed it) and dunk on both Cody and Ted at WrestleMania. I feel like Cody’s AEW origin story more or less began here.

Awwwwe, this show has little baby Drew McIntyre. It’s so interesting watching this with the benefit of hindsight. I remember a lot of people Not Feeling It when he was anointed as the Chose One, and truthfully I wasn’t feeling it at the time either, but watching it back really makes you appreciate how much hard work he put in to get to where he’d be a decade later. A lot of folks were dreading the inevitable Drew world title run in 2010. The title run did happen, but it was much later and much more welcome than anyone back than anyone could’ve imagined.

[punkjinshi]

Used my uncles wwe thing to watch raw from 2008, cm punk came out with his long ass hair and I gasped cause I almost didn't recognised him, he fought Cody Rhodes lmao

I forgot how I missed Layla and William Regal together

Shawn Michaels was JBL's bitch

Shawnter is REAL

John Cena was.. Fucking everywhere man

[imasallstars]

GAME MECHANICS UPDATE - Photo Studio Update

The Photo Studio has been updated with new poses and locations! These new additions require exchanging「Star Pieces」to obtain them, and are :

[ STAGE ] Summer Carnival1!

[ POSE ] Kana-like

[ POSE ] Mirei-like

[ POSE ] Atsumi-like

[ POSE ] Hajime-like

[ POSE ] Haru-like

[ POSE ] Layla-like

[ POSE ] Yasuha-like

[ POSE ] Seira-like

[ POSE ] Tomoe-like

[ POSE ] Yoshino-like

[ POSE ] Emi-like

[ POSE ] Reina-like

※ STAGES require 5 Star Pieces to exchange, while POSES require 3.

Mika Jougasaki’s CM solo song 「Escalating HEARTBEAT」is also now available to be played through the Photo Studio. Watch any idol dance to the choreography ( with 360 vision ), and maybe learn it for yourself!

[tenementfun]

Rules: answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people who you want to know better. I was tagged by @lowkey-gilmour (thank you so much :) :) )

•Nickname: my name is both too short, and more importantly I don’t have enough friends to have one.

• Zodiac: Leo

• Height: roughly 178 cm

• Last Movie: I watched The Wild Party by Dorothy Arzner last night.

• Last Thing I Googled: Clara Bow the wild party because I have a thread of the movies I watch over on my twitter

• Favorite Musician: this might come as a surprise to people, who follow this account but.... Arctic Monkeys (and yeah one band count as one musician today, bite me.)

• Song Stuck In My Head: Derek and the Dominos - Layla because I listened to it not five minutes ago.

• Other Blogs: my main acc is @yalasyardeen and I used to have a comics sideblog too, but it got caught up in the whole “thing” back in December

• Do I Get Asks: on this blog? No. On main? Occasionally 

• Blogs Following: I’m currently following 195 blogs

• Amount of Sleep: I don’t know, I’m either always asleep or never asleep.

• Lucky Number: idk actually

• What I’m Wearing: Orange roll neck sweater and jeans.

• Dream Job: I start my Journalism BA in about 3 weeks, and I can’t waaait, because it’s my dream to work with something in a journalism kind of field.

• Dream Trip: there’s too many places, I wanna go.

• Favorite Food: I’ll eat practically anything with pasta in it.

• Play Any Instruments: the guitar, (badly)

• Languages: Danish, English, German (although I think I’ve forgotten a solid chunk since hs.)

• Favorite Songs: This answer varies wildly depending on what day you ask me, but - The Jeweller’s Hands by Arctic Monkeys, Lover Leaver (Taker Believer) by Greta Van Fleet, Calm Like You by The Last Shadow Puppets, Crazy on You by Heart, Dragon Attack by Queen (I could probably list another twenty at least, but I feel like this is a good number.)

• Random Fact: I saw The Wall live when I was 16 with my dad.

• Describe Yourself As Aesthetic Things: Black coffee, when it’s raining so hard you can hear it drumming against the windows or the roof, clear and starry nights, gold eyeliner, black leather jackets, corduroy, old fashioned logos.

I think I’ll tag @queenstan @adorablebonzo @allisontaco @unzippedyourharrington

[abstructmylife-blog]

I was tagged by @tellmetheteruth , thank you, I love tag memes ^__^ (Also a special shout out to Tumblr for sending me the notification two days later) 

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag people you would like to get to know better

(Click the read more if you’re actually interested to read all this information about me)

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Aries

Height: 167 cm (it’s about 5'6" I guess?)

Favorite Bands: Buck-Tick, The Cure, Plastic Tree, ABBA, The Gazette, Nine Inch Nails

Favorite Solo Artists: David Bowie, Akira Yamaoka, Kamijo, Gackt, Scandroid, Joe Hisaishi, Mylene Farmer

Current Favorite Song: Usually my favorite song is the one I listen the most at the current moment. But the thing is I can completely forget about the previous favorite song when I find a new one. So I created the ultimate list of songs I'll never forget (And I still love them after 10 years):

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged Version)  (here's the original by Derek And The Dominos)

The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (also Johnny Cash's cover of this song because it's a masterpiece, and NiN + Bowie version because why not)

Last Movie I Watched: The Room, but that was my 5th or 6th time I guess (I have no idea why I love this movie so much, it’s tearing me apart), and the last movie I watched for the first time was Relative values.

Last TV Show I Watched: Goblin

When I Created This Blog: In January 2018

What I Post: visual kei bands, 80s/90s rock bands, movies, more rarely something dark or gothic

Last Thing I Googled: “the angler fish reproduction” (it's both bizarre and unique)

Any Other Blogs: Yep, pastel blog

Do I Get Asks: lol no

Following: 51

Followers: 32

Favorite colors: Pastel colors, dark teal, dark red

Average Hours Of Sleep: 5

Lucky Number: 1... I guess?

Instruments: Piano in early childhood, but now I don’t remember how to play at all

What I’m Currently Wearing: Simple a-line black dress with some accessories

How Many Blankets I Sleep With: Two, but extra thick

Dream Job: Astronomer

Dream Trip: To space? 

Do I Have A Crush: Nope. I'm a lone ranger, lol. Except Anders from Dragon Age, but he’s imaginary.

Favorite Animal: Bunnies

Hair Color: Light/middle brown

I tag.. No one lol. Personally I like to do tags, but dunno about others. If any lost souls read it all to the end and want to join of course they are welcome.

[demonichunny]

While watching playthroughs of the Cuphead game, I noticed skeletons and ghosts in the game and thought “Hey! Why not a mummy?” So I present Layla. She was once a great queen who died young due to unknown reasons that she refuses to talk about. After discovered, she was sold on the black market and wound up in a Voodoo shop in Louisiana, US. With the help of a spell by the shop owner, she awoke in a new world but with dark powers. She learns fast and knows she can’t take over to be queen again...at least not yet. In her readings, she found out about the Devil’s Casino and decided to check it out to see if there was anything he could do to help her. Instead, she ended up as more of a customer, intrigued by the place and how society has changed. She hardly ever talks and is very hard to please. However, there is one person she has the hots for but likes to keep the staff guessing who. Because of being in the States for so long, she developed a Louisiana accent. She’s also not very tall, only 5′5″ or 165 cm, but her powers make her very intimidating. She can conjure shadow demons, create and summon sand to use as either a sand storm or crush people with it (Much like Garra from Naruto), and has a kiss of death. I want to give credit to @nursepuppo / @pumpkin-patches-farm because I kinda used her oc Patches as sort of a reference and kinda inspiration for her, so thank you so much ^^

[kashilascorner]

Thank you for tagging me @michi-gone 😄😄

Rules: Answer 30 Questions and tag any blogs that you would like to know better.

Nicknames: Layla, Lau, Laurita

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Taurus

Height: 157 cm

Time: 13:00, 13.12.17

Birthday: 5th May

Favorite bands: in rock my fave is probably Pink Floyd, in kpop it’s BTS and EXID, in punk it’s The Clash…

Favorite solo artist: Halsey, Lorde, Gallant, IU, Lana del Rey, Lou Reed… tbh just check the “music” tag

Song stuck in my head: Drip Drop by Taemin

Last movie I watched: Batman vs. Robin lol

Last show I watched: Narcos season 3

When did I create my blog: this one was back in 2013 or 14 I think… Though I started using it much later.

What do I post: anything I feel like posting. Just look at my bio 😂

Last thing I Googled: how to quit permanent nail polish (for my mom)

Do I have other blogs: yes, one for rock that I am not using lately, and another one for kpop

Do I get asks? Nope. Guys, give me some love 💘

Why did I choose my URL: kashila is a nick I have been using online since I was like… 12 lol that’s it. It’s my corner 🤗

Following Blogs: 400 ish?

Followers: 260 aprox

Favorite Colors: purple, blue, black

Average hours of sleep: lol in the week 6 of 5, from Thursday to Saturday 8 to 10 hours (because Im tired of the previous days) and Sundays 2 to 4 hours if I’m lucky 😂 (because I have been sleeping too much the weekend)

Lucky number: idk, I like 21 and 19 tho

What am I wearing: jeans, sweater, snickers

How many blankets I sleep with: too many lol

Dream job: next question

Dream trip: I really want to go to Hong Kong but like also Berlin and all of Vietnam and about any other part in the world tbh

Favorite Food: I just love food in general

Nationality: Colombian/Spanish

Favorite song now: right now I am very passionate about Riders on the Storm by The Doors

I tag: @pynchmee @eine-krone @b-l-u-e-s-t and @wholockedhousekeeper 💙💙

[j3lle]

[monachopism]

my various headcanons about aaron hotchner (these are both x reader [nsfw] and just random lil things)

• he's a switch. he loves to please you and is happy to let you take the reins, but sometimes needs that extra control in the bedroom after a long day of trying to control his children agents

• Aaron Hotchner is a god of aftercare. He's a natural caregiver and loves watching you revel in the pampering he's giving you

• he also loves thighs. just goes wild for them

• in bed, he calls you sir. it doesn't matter who you are, when he's in subspace, he will call you sir. and it's hot as fuck

• (I wrote a oneshot about this and you can find it if you dig deep enough) he made friends with the custodial staff and makes sure that they know they can sleep on the couch in his office any time.

• tea drinker!!!!!!! he loves to sit early in the morning and sip his tea. he drank coffee the two or so years after haley died, but after that brief stint he never went back. his favorites are earl grey and english breakfast

• he loves watching his s/os get ready. not just you, but everyone. (I wrote a separate hc for this one too)

• he loves sweatpants and flannel. he refuses to lounge around the house in anything else. emily finds his stash of flannel pajama pants while investigating his disappearance but never says anything

• he's only jealous when the relationship starts, after a while he couldn't care less who you're interacting with as long as you're being safe

• he says his favorite snack is trailmix but it's actually funions. JJ catches him in his office one night just scarfing them down, and he makes her swear on her own grave not to tell anyone.

• Aaron Hotchner wears reading glasses, and it's adorable. they're little oval lenses and he wears them around his neck when he's doing paperwork. he looks like a cute lil mouse

• he goes to therapy, or at least tries to when he's not traveling. he's been with the same therapist for like 8 years because it takes him forever to trust people. he could barely speak to his poor therapist the first three years, but now it's a bit better :)

• he makes sure to get in the spirit of christmas and easter for Jack, but in reality he despises religion. he hates church with a burning passion.

• sometimes when he gets worked up on a case, he'll accidentally slip into his deep southern accent from childhood and the team has to hold in their laughter

• he knows how to play the guitar and sing. jack is the only one who ever gets to hear it, but sometimes the team can catch him humming to himself in quiet moments

• early bird. will wake up at 5am, will go to sleep at like 8pm.

• the man has a sweet tooth. he buys candy to "hand out to kids on halloween" but in reality he just hoards it for himself

• he hates being photographed. he can present cases, but the moment a camera is involved, it activates his fight or flight

that's all I can think of for now! might add on later but idk lol

[mykingjon]

Thank you so much @arya4queen for tagging me, you’re the best :’) 

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to know better (WOW 20??? I’ll do 10 okay... :D)

1. nicknames: most frequently used are Nati (you pronounce it Na-tee) and Nan, but man, there are a lot of them, people love to torture me, cause I prefer my full first name

2. gender: female 

3. star sign: Sagittarius 

4. height: 169 cm, 5 ft 6″

5. time: 5:40 p.m.

6. birthday: 11th December

7. favorite bands: I have like thousands, so I’ll stick to the five which come to my mind right now: Muse (!), The Neighbourhood, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief, Of Monsters and Men

8. favorite solo artists: again, there are too many, so accidental 5: Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Vance Joy, Zella Day, Layla

9. song stuck in my head: Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Killing me to love you

10. last movie I watched: Oblivion

11. last show I watched: ... Game of Thrones

12. when did I create my blog: the last week of July 2017                                 

13. what do I post: GoT only

14. last thing I googled: John Legend

15. do you have any other blogs: two, but just one works and I’m not as active there as I used to be before I made this blog

16. do you get asks: @arya4queen just made me realized today that they were off until now. so, no comment.

17. why did you choose your url: because Jon Snow being called ‘Your Grace’ is my favourite. thing. ever.

18. following: 211

19. followers: 51

21. average hours of sleep: my sleeping patterns are seriously fucked up, but let’s say it’s 5-8 hours per night

 22. lucky number: 13, I even have it in my adress and I’m super chill about it

23. Instruments: none, I used to sing in a choir but does that count?

24. what am I wearing: black leggins + black oversized T-shirt

26. dream job: translator or psychologist, but I study Law (because fuck me that’s why) so judge Judy will do

27. dream trip: I NEED to come back to Venice and Paris. also want to see Florence so, so bad.

28. favorite food: chicken in any form (I ship me x Sandor)

29. nationality: Polish

30. favorite song right now: Royal Blood - Better Strangers :’)

The search for number 20 and 25 continues.

Tagging some of my favourite mutuals, it’s okay if you don’t want to do it though :’) 

@clegayne, @princessdany, @junsnuh, @teammcarter, @bloodofdragonstone, @atimefordragons, @klarostark, @khaleesiwhitewolf, @gendryxaryatrash, @easybriezi

[mmwm]

Welcome to day 9 of 28 Days of Have Heaven, a short month of posts about heaven, paradise, perfection and desire, perfect places, art, theology, gardens, and more, using the Enya song “China Roses” as a jumping off point. Each post will look at these elements in itself, which may not obviously connect with the others, and which may only peripherally be related. I won’t attempt to tie the posts together. They’ll all be listed here, as they are posted ________________________________________________________________

We’re in the midst of a dozen days or so playing with some of the lyrics and elements in the song “China Roses.” It’s packed with interesting plants and allusions, and since I don’t know what was in lyricist Roma Ryan’s head when she concocted this magic, I feel I can construe the lines as I wish (“who can say the way it should be?,” after all).

Yesterday, the topic was the key of heaven. Today’s topic is a thousand nights and one night.

As I mentioned at the start, taken as a whole, the lyrics span time from dawn through day to evening, night, and moon rise, evoking an exotic Eden, mythic and romantic, scented with heady fragrances, planted with unusual specimens made lush by rain and river, under a swirl of celestial motion. Explicit in the words and implicit in the connotations, histories, and mythologies are repetitions and reverberations of these conjurings, a journey through time in a day, time in an eon, eternity in the cosmos.

Here again are the lyrics:

China Roses

Who can tell me if we have heaven, Who can say the way it should be; Moonlight holly, the Sappho Comet, Angel’s tears below a tree.

You talk of the break of morning As you view the new aurora, Cloud in crimson, the key of heaven, One love carved in acajou.

One told me of China Roses, One a thousand nights and one night, Earth’s last picture, the end of evening Hue of indigo and blue.

A new moon leads me to Woods of dreams and I follow. A new world waits for me; My dream, my way.

I know that if I have heaven There is nothing to desire. Rain and river, a world of wonder May be paradise to me.

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a thousand nights and one night:

There are some plant varieties named Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, and Aladdin, though none I could find called 1001 Nights or any version of that.

Dahlia ‘Arabian Night’ has “profuse and showy warm, deep-red flowers, almost black looking with slightly incurved petals. … The fully double flowers, up to 4 in. wide (10 cm), feature small green floral bracts in their center.”

There’s an “Arabian Night” lavender (Lavender x intermedia ‘Arabian Night’), a cross between the English lavender hybrids (or lavandins) — from which its scent derives — and the French lavender, with dark purple foliage and a low, sprawling habit.

‘Arabian Nights’ jasmine (Jasminum sambac ‘Arabian Nights’) blooms at night and is similar to the ‘Grand Duke of Tuscany’ cultivar, but smaller. It’s native to a small region in the eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and neighbouring Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, but is cultivated and naturalised in many spots, including southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.

There ‘Aladdin’ petunias (Petunia x hybrida Aladdin™ Arabian Nights Mix)

and a Tulipa ‘Aladdin’, an elegant lily-flowered tulip sporting scarlet goblet-shaped flowers with fine yellow edges.

A variety of orienpet, which is a hybrid oriental x trumpet lily, is called ‘Scheherazade’. It’s huge, from 4-8 feet tall on a rigid stem, waxy, very fragrant, with dinner plate-sized deep red flowers edged with gold to white. It’s fragrant in the evening. As one article puts it, “Scheherazade lives on in our gardens as a dark, red, fragrant lily with recurved flowers edged in gold with white margins. Like its timeless namesake this lily is hardy and perennial.”

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Flower names aside, almost certainly “a thousand nights and one night” in the song refers to the famous, fabulous collection of stories dating back to the 9th century commonly called “1001 Nights” or “The Arabian Nights.” For one thing, the sleeve design for the album The Memory of Trees, on which “China Roses” appears, is an adaptation of The Young King of the Black Isles, a Maxfield Parrish painting (1906), shown on the left below, that’s based on the story of the same name from The Thousand Nights and One Night; Enya herself is shown as the crying young king on his throne (right).

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Each of the “1001 Nights” stories, told by Scheherazade to King Shahryār to prevent him from killing her, ends when dawn — the break of morning — arrives, the dangerous time when 1,000 women before her were executed dawn by dawn by the king.

The collection conjures an exotic world. That world may not seem a heaven to me, but it has become a sort of dreamy (also nightmarey) land of jinns, ghouls, magic lamps, flying carpets, sexual and romantic love, and of the power of fate, destiny, and stories themselves in our lives. As novelist A.S. Byatt remarks in “Narrate Or Die: Why Scheherazade keeps on talking” in the New York Times (1999), “[i]n British Romantic poetry, ‘The Arabian Nights’ stood for the wonderful against the mundane, the imaginative against the prosaically and reductively rational.”

“The Tale of the Eldest of Three Ladies of Baghdad” – Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen

Byatt, in the New York Times article cited above, connects Scheherazade’s storytelling with our own narratives, with storytelling in general, in its ability to keep us alive and hopeful:

“This story has everything a tale should have. Sex, death, treachery, vengeance, magic, humor, warmth, wit, surprise and a happy ending. Though it appears to be a story against women, it actually marks the creation of one of the strongest and cleverest heroines in world literature. Shahrazad, who has been better known in the West as Scheherazade, triumphs because she is endlessly inventive and keeps her head. The stories in ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ (interchangeably known as ‘The Arabian Nights’) are stories about storytelling without ever ceasing to be stories about love and life and death and money and food and other human necessities. … [S]torytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.

“Storytelling in general, and ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ in particular, consoles us for endings with endless new beginnings. … Storytellers like … Scheherazade can offer readers and listeners an infinity of incipits, an illusion of inexhaustibility.”

That infinity of new beginnings, new auroras, that storytelling offers perhaps consoles us because it reminds us, below consciousness, of the ever-new eternity of heaven.

“If you think about why any story moves us, it’s because of a quaking moment of recognition. It’s never the shock of the new, it’s the shock of the familiar.” — Joshua Oppenheimer

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“The Thousand Nights and One Night” (Persian Hezār-o yek šab, Arabic Kitāb ‘alf layla wa-layla) is a collection of tales that trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish, and Turkish folklore and literature. The earliest Arabic versions, dating from the 9th century in Syria, contained about 300 nights, with the rest added by Arab writers and European translators over time. A 14th-century Syrian manuscript has no narrative ending, while an early 19th-century Egyptian publication ends with the King pardoning Scheherazade.

The first publication in Europe was a French translation (Galland’s) in the early 1700s, loosely adapted from a 14th-century Syrian text. Richard Burton’s 19th century version is probably the most famous. Translations and editions by Malcolm and Ursula Lyons (2008) and Joseph Charles Mardrus (French, 1926-1932) are also considered standards now. The stories best known to Westerners (especially those who watch cartoons and Disney movies) are “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” (where ‘Open Sesame’ comes from) and “Aladdin” (both added by Galland) and “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad,” from a 1637 Turkish edition.

“The Overseer’s Tale” – Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen

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The Thousand Nights and One Night is a frame story, i.e., the tales are told within another story, the story of a Vizier’s daughter, Scheherazade, and a betrayed and vengeful King Shahryār. Wikipedia summarises:

“Shahryār is shocked to learn that his brother’s wife is unfaithful; discovering that his own wife’s infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her killed. In his bitterness and grief, he decides that all women are the same. Shahryār begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonor him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade …, the vizier’s daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins another one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion of that tale as well, postpones her execution once again. This goes on for one thousand and one nights, hence the name.

The tales include “historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques, and various forms of erotica. Numerous stories depict jinns, ghouls, apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally. … Sometimes a character in Scheherazade’s tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.”

Scheherazade tells her stories and is pardoned each morning for three years, during which she bears three sons by the king, until finally she tells him she’s out of stories and is prepared to be killed. But! The king has fallen for her and her entrancing stories; he  declares her wise and makes her his forever Queen.

“The Tale of the Third Dervish” – Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen

The themes of the stories include fate, destiny, self-fulfilling prophecy, coincidence, guarded treasures, good and evil, love, the rise from poverty to prosperity, the oppressor and the oppressed, trust and betrayal, et al.  The clever Scheherazade incorporates foreshadowing, allegory, fantasy and magical elements, parables, the use of an unreliable narrator, repetition, poetry, satire, and stories-within-stories as she weaves her tales that span genres of romance, fairy tales, crime fiction, horror, fantasy, and even science fiction.

As Jaimie L. Elliott writes in an article at Myth Conceptions, “A Thousand Nights and One Night is vulgar, satirical, humorous, sexist, racist, xenophobic, violent, and brimming with magic. A Thousand Nights and One Night is also lyrical, profound, tragic, tolerant, serene, beautiful, and replete with the mundane.”

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The orchestral suite “Scheherazade” (1888) by Russian composer Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov was inspired by The Thousand Nights and One Night and tells the story with “a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images.” The suite is structured in four movements, originally untitled but later given names by one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s students; the composer himself didn’t intend for the suite to portray the tale as a whole or in part but rather “meant these hints [themes] to direct but slightly the hearer’s fancy on the path which my own fancy had traveled, and to leave more minute and particular conceptions to the will and mood of each” (Rimsky-Korsakov quoted in an essay at Britannica)

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The illustrations here are from watercolours by Danish artist Kay Nielsen, painted by him in during World War I but never published until 2018, by Taschen. (More)

Some Resources: Literature / Arabian Nights at TV Tropes frame tales: comparison of Decameron and 1001 Nights by Douglas Galbi at purple motes The 10 Greatest Stories From 1,001 Nights by Courtney Stanley at Culture Trip, 28 October 2016 A Thousand Nights and One Night by Jaimie L. Elliott at Myth Conceptions One Thousand and One Nights at Wikipedia

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Tomorrow: Earth’s last picture

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Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

“Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.” —Reuters, 8/24/2011

Like the universe’s largest engagement ring, it twirls and sparkles its way through infinity. The citizens of the new world know about luxury. They can live for a thousand years. Their hearts are little clocks with silver pendulums pulsing inside, Eyes like onyx, teeth like pearl. But it’s not always easy. They know hunger. They starve. A field made of diamond is impossible to plow; shovels crumble and fold like paper animals. So frequent is famine, that when two people get married, one gives the other a locket filled with dirt. That’s the rare thing, the treasured thing, there. It takes decades to save for, but the ground beneath them glows, and people find a way.

On Earth, when my wife is sleeping, I like to look out at the sky. I like to watch TV shows about supernovas, and contemplate things that are endless like the heavens and, maybe, love. I can drink coffee and eat apples whenever I want. Things grow everywhere, and so much is possible, but on the news tonight: a debate about who can love each other forever and who cannot.

There was a time when it would’ve been illegal for my wife to be my wife. Her skin, my household of privilege. Sometimes, I wish I could move to another planet. Sometimes, I wonder what worlds are out there. I turn off the TV because the news rarely makes the right decision on its own. But even as the room goes blacker than the gaps between galaxies, I can hear the echoes: who is allowed to hold the ones they wish to hold, who can reach into the night, who can press his or her own ear against another’s chest and listen to a heartbeat telling stories in the dark.

Featured image: The cover of volume 2 of The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights, Malcolm & Ursula Lyons., Penguin Classics.

Write 28 Days: Have Heaven ~ Day 9 :: Fairy Tales Welcome to day 9 of 28 Days of Have Heaven, a short month of posts about heaven, paradise, perfection and desire, perfect places, art, theology, gardens, and more, using the Enya song "China Roses" as a jumping off point.

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4 in 1 meme

Once again, my dear @francisperfectionbonnefoy tagged me. thanks, lad ;)

Name: Leonie Nickname: Leo, Lewis Height: 166 cm Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw (Sometimes Slytherin, depends on the test) Go to ssbb character: Lucina (I’m Fire Emblem hyped and she'S one of my fictional favourites) Fictional character i’d date: Thomas Shelby (actually better not the risk of getting in bad company is too high), Courfeyrac (Les Misérables) Favorite band or artist: Amy McDonald, Sting, Dire Straits, die Ärzte, Lhasa de Sela When did i make this blog: 2012 (ye ol’ good times) Do i get asks on a regular basis: No, they are rare (lately I got asked what "hones" means,. why?!) Aesthetic: wooden rooms, the sour yet sweet smell of books, conceptual art, silent libraries, herb gardens (and their scent) Relationship status: tyrannized by my busy scheduel Favorite Greeting: call me old fashioned still I like handshakes. Got used to the hugging thing still I find it weird. Pets: 8 PET bottles I should bring to the recycling spot Last song I listened to: Layla by Eric Clapton Favorite tv show: The Man in the High Castle, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirrors, Äkta Människor, Horrible Histories First Fandom: *whispers* Hetalia *sinks into shame*, even earlier it was W.I.T.C.H. Hobbies: reading, drawing, going on walks, traveling, visiting museums, cooking Books I am currently reading: An uncommon reader by Alan Bennett Worst thing to have graced my taste buds: Sweet-sour or sugar-salt dishes. Caramel - I don't even know why I simply dislike the taste, even more the sconsistence of it... Favorite place: The hiking paths of La Réunion, New York State(USA), Celje (Slovenia), Genf (Switzerland), County Kerry (Ireland), Hamburg (Germany) Coke or Pepsi: Neither. Disney or Dreamworks: Dreamworks because Disney is indeed excellent for most of the stuio's but I find the fuzz about it to exaggerated. And nothing beats Sherk. Anyway I'll choose Studio Ghibli over all of them anyway. Coffee or tea: Tea Books or movies: Books and movies (except when the movies are bad book adaptions) Windows or Mac: I don’t answer trick questions! DC or Marvel: Marvel for story and heroes, DC for the villains Xbox or Playstation: I never possed either Dragon Age or Mass Effect: Never played either Night owl or early riser: Night owl, even though I rise early when traveling. Cards or Chess: Both Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolat (dark though) Vans or Converse: Do I Look like I would care for brands. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar: ??? Paragon or Renegade: ??? the second Star Wars or Star Trek: No trickquestions! One episode per week or binge watching: guilty of binge watching… Gandalf or Obi-Wan? Gandalf. More wit, more wisdom, but bonus points for Evan McGregor Heroes or Villains? It this some edgy question? I would say it depends largely on the writing which side or character is better. John Williams or Hans Zimmer? Hans Zimmer as I find him more soothing. Anyhow the Star Wars main theme is great as well. Disneyland/Disney World or Six Flags? I’ve never to any of these places, so I can’t judge. Forest or sea ? Forest Flying or reading minds? Reading minds would make many social interactions way easier. Twin Peaks or Northern Exposure? Haven’t seen neither Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? …Both? I like both for different reasons. John Watson (BBC Sherlock) or Joan Watson (Elementary)? I haven’t seen Elemantary, again, who would I be to judge? AU tropes: fake or secret relationship? Neither, I find them overrated. 5 things that make you happy: Art, broad forests, passionate people, good food, well mannered attitude 5 things that make you sad: Heat, passive aggression (well I get more badly irritated), contemporary politics, many singers getting tons of money without being even able to sing, people using politics as excuse for hurting behavior.

Name: Leonie Birthday: 5th April Age: legal adult enough to drink in Europe (not in puritan US though) Sexual Orientation: Eddie Redmayne/Isolda Dychauk School Status: 1st semester of university

YES/NO Drink?: Occassionally to a good meal, in small measure but never for fun. Smoke?: Rarely, only when physically and mentally completely stressed out. Eat cake?: yes! (No cream tarts though) Believe in true love?: yes, but I don’t think there’s the “one”. Some people fit, but regarding the numbers of world's population it's technically impossible that there's only one person amde for you. Afraid of the dark?: No Cat person?: Do I get lynched if I reply that I like dogs as well?

FAVORITES 

Shampoo: No real favourite but I prefer fresh over sweet scents. Disney song: “comme un home” Mulan (I know most Disney songs only in Fernch) Actress/Actor: Cate Blanchett, Cillian Murphy, Cher (?), Peter Lorre, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Car: don’t have a liscence but I have a faible for old timers Person: celeb or from my environment? Type of Weather: Rain in autumn, while curling up with a pile of cookies, a mug of cacoa and a good book. 19 degrees for a walk in spring. 90s Sitcom: No idea. During this time my father watched Star Gate with me.

up to you to share your biographic details with the world wide web: @jagiellonka, @tenchan2077, @valentinevilleforts, @mariuszpontmercy, @natsumi82 (Thanks for following btw), @youbuggingme, @incblackbird, @al-cantrez

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ALL THE TAGS

Wowie Wozers. So many tags, I’m doing them all at once. Thanks to all new pals for thinking of me TT_TT

Tag 20 people you want to get to know better!

I was tagged by : @nica-sun, @jrockmama, and @taesstory 

Nickname: Lane, Laney (don’t call me that tho), Laney-bae, Laney-Lover, Star-child, Angel-Bae, tbh anything you can think of is gold.

Zodiac sign: Gemini

Height: 5′6” / 169 cm

Last thing I googled: The email account for a student group I co-manage

Favourite Music Artist: Queen

Song stuck in my head: Africa- Toto

Last movie I watched: It’s been a while since I’ve seen one, I’ve been listening to a lot of Malcom X speeches on YouTube…if that counts??

What are you wearing right now: My Monty Python shirt :P

What do you post: I don’t even know anymore, it was supposed to be aesthetic, but I’m trash sooo…

Why did you choose your URL: it’s fairly random

Do you have any other blogs: yeah. I have my personal blog @siosios, some of you follow me… it’s a flaming pile of horror, trash, history, communism, vegetarianism, books and crap.

What did your past relationship teach you: Punch Nazis right in their schnozzles

Religious or Spiritual: I was raised Roman Catholic… but now I’m a filthy nihilist/existentialist. Nothing is real. Nothing matters… let’s just have fun and be nice to one another okay?

Favourite colour: Blue, Grey, Black

Average hours of sleep: I aim for 6 hours a night. I usually get less than 5

Lucky Number: idk…

Favorite Character: idk...

How many blankets do you sleep with: all of them?

Dream job:  Archivist or (Academic) Library Technician … I study information technology (and History)

Ten Song Shuffle:

I was tagged by: @deme-lu 

1.     Layla – Derek and the Dominos

2.     Rabbit Heart – Florence and the Machine

3.     I Don’t Love you – MCR

4.     Luciforms – the Mars Volta

5.     The Water’s Edge- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

6.     From Heads Unworthy- Rise Against

7.     We Both Go Down Together – the Decemberists

8.     Space Oddity- David Bowie

9.     Love Her Madly – the Doors

10.  No. 1 Party Anthem – the Arctic Monkeys