#madamescarlette

[itspileofgoodthings]

Happy birthday, Maria dear heart! You are such a blessing to me always and I'm so gladdened by the fact you exist! I hope this year brings the most hope and warmth and wonder and bright joy to you! Love love love 💛💛💛💚💚💚💖💖💖

A birthday just wouldn’t be the same without an Eden birthday blessing!! You are the blessing here imo!! 💜

Also I still reread the birthday poem you wrote me a few years ago—makes me CRY. The one about the mountaintop, you know?

Sending all the love and wishes right back to you!

[wearetakingthehobbitstogallifrey]

Monicaaaaaa just have to say it's the BEST to see you hope you're doing well beloved 💛💛💛💛

Hello Eden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sorry I'm hardly ever on here but thank you I am doing well! Just started back with my kids at school, and have been spending a lot of time helping my sister with wedding preparations :) I also just finished reading a book of Nordic fairytales which was really lovely

I hope you are doing well, too--your blog remains a beautiful and comforting place, reflective of yourself <3

[thelonelybrilliance]

Emma you must know I can never really assign a song more strongly to you than hoax by now, if only most pertinently because Maria's is peace to match along with it!! But also Death by a Thousand Cuts because I feel like truly all of your work as a poet shares such strong DNA with that song that it just belongs to you in a way! 💖💖💖

I reallyyy love these choices, thank you, Eden! DBATC has felt SO me since forever. It's jam-packed full of words and emotions, precisely identified. It's like the inside of my heart & mind in one.

And hoax...I've always heard it as a love song. Even now.

[werewolfcave]

Trying to Want to Live Despite it All

I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; "Sally", Claire C. Holland // Ep 4: Joseph Campell and the Power of Myth - 'Sacrifice and Bliss', Joseph Campell // Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World! - November 6, 2013 // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Voung // @/lucidloving // mid-evening, r.a. @boymiffy // @/softsweetwhispers // unknown // unknown // @/madamescarlette // @/death-born-aphrodite // @/hjarta // @/octoberloved // Bee in Jar, Molly Brodak

[inklings-challenge]

Team Lewis 2023

Announcing the 2023 Inklings Challenge team assignments!

Members of Team Lewis are challenged to write a science fiction or fantasy story within the Christian worldview that fits into one of these two genres:

Portal Fantasy: Stories where someone from the real world explores a new world

Space Travel: Stories about traveling through space or exploring other planets

These genres are open to interpretation, and creativity is encouraged. You can use either or both of the prompts within your story, or if you’re feeling ambitious, you can write multiple stories.

Members of Team Lewis are also asked to use at least one of the following seven Christian themes to inspire some part of their story.

Feed the hungry

Give drink to the thirsty

Clothe the naked

Shelter the homeless

Visit the sick

Visit the imprisoned

Bury the dead

Writers are challenged to complete and post their story to a tumblr blog by October 21, 2022, though they are encouraged to post earlier if they finish their story before that date. There is no maximum or minimum word limit. Writers who have not completed their stories before the deadline are encouraged to post whatever they have written by October 21st and post the remainder at a later date.

Posting the Stories

All stories will be reblogged and archived on the main Inklings Challenge blog. To assist with organization, writers should tag their posts as follows:

Mention the main Challenge blog @inklings-challenge somewhere within the body of the post (which will hopefully alert the Challenge blog).

Tag the story #inklingschallenge, to ensure it shows up in the Challenge tag, and make it more likely that the Challenge blog will find it.

Tag the team that the author is writing for: #team lewis, #team tolkien, or #team chesterton. 

Tag the genre the story falls under: #genre: portal fantasy, #genre: space travel, #genre: secondary world, #genre: time travel, #genre: intrusive fantasy, #genre: adventure

Tag any themes that were used within the story: #theme: food, #theme: drink, #theme: clothing, #theme: shelter, #theme: visit the sick, #theme: visit the imprisoned, #theme: burial

Tag the completion status of the story: #story: complete or #story: unfinished

Team Members

The writers assigned to Team Lewis are:

@aparticularbandit

@ashknife

@batmantaking-hobbits2gallifrey

@butterflies-and-bumble-bees

@bytes-and-blessings

@casa-anachar

@confetti-cat

@cuppatealove

@cygnascrimbles

@dimsilver

@f1ve-more-minutes

@freenarnian

@glassheadcanon

@heniareth

@incomingalbatross

@kanerallels

@ladygobpire

@ladyphlogiston

@larissa-the-scribe

@lemonduckisnowawake

@lydia-hosek

@madamescarlette

@mademoiseli

@magpie-trove

@mels-library

@mrgartist

@muse-write

@phoebeamorryce

@poetry-vs-depression

@rockinlibrarian

@rosesnvines

@saxifrage-wreath

@secret--psalms--saturn

@secretariatess

@swinging-stars-from-satellites

@thatsastepladder

@thebirdandhersong

@west-toasty

@wildlyironicbee

Writing resources, including the Challenge overview, FAQ, writing prompts, and discussions of the genres are available at the Inklings Challenge Directory. Any writers with further questions can contact the Inklings Challenge blog for guidance.

Welcome to the Inklings Challenge, everyone! Now go forth and create!

[lilaccatholic]

This trend is going around simblr, but almost none of my mutuals are on simblr SO I'm bringing it here!

Here's mine:

Tagging: @monstrousgourmandizingcats @theblogofaveryoddfellow @mickiestardust @smol-catholic-bean @womaninwinter @mademoisellesarcasme @roccondil @mariposasmonarch @madamescarlette @imnotacommittee and anyone else interested in playing!

[whenthegoldrays]

rogerhamleys -> @whenthegoldrays

some quick tags for the mutuals who’ve joined recently: @madamescarlette @rj-anderson @eddis-not-eeddis <333

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Tagged by @batmantaking-hobbits2gallifrey to do this picrew and post my last song - this was so cute!

I loved the shirt colour options but listen I literally have a mcr t shirt what was I meant to do. My last song was Secret For The Mad by Dodie because sometimes you have to remember being fourteen and look at how far you've come.

IDK who's already done it, tagging @elliteracy @flickeringflame216 @swinging-stars-from-satellites @permanentreverie @madamescarlette and anyone else who wants to do it!

[itspileofgoodthings]

HI I am not an anon but just want to say love love you and have there been any poems on your mind/heart lately?? Inquiring minds would love to know! 💛💛

Edeeeeeeen!!! Thank you for getting this party started!! 🧚♥️✨💚

okay so YES! I have a few. First there’s Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 which I’ve just finally gotten down by heart! And then there’s Hopkins’ Spring and Fall. I’m contemplating teaching this one (and am slowly memorizing it). I’ve heard it quoted for years but have never taken the time to try and understand it and I really really love it. Also the rhythm!!!! Everything.

Also. I found this one the other day! And it made me smile because I had just lain under a tree and stared at the branches (wow embarrassingly ya protagonist coded of me I know but).

I love love love The Beautiful Changes by Wilbur and am thinking of it always and the Any Morning one just went right to my heart.

Also I follow the #wendellberry tag on Instagram and so I am always reflecting on and sharing his poem The Peace of Wild Things.

Finally, Emma sent me this poem the other day and I am REFLECTING.

Love you (x3, xinfinity) thank you for playing!!!!

💜🫐⛲️

[thebirdandhersong]

Tagged by @theamiableanachronism (thank youuu Anna!) and figured I might fill it out while I'm still here!! (I see other notifications for tagged things too, which I shall go through more thoroughly when I make a return post-August!)

Last Song I Listened To: Never Enough (Loren Allred), Choux Pastry Heart (Corinne Bailey Rae), Lacrimosa (which I have been listening to a lot these days thanks to @magpie-trove!!!), golden hour (JVKE - was introduced to this song by Joy Clarkson), Magnificat (Waterdeep - has been on repeat since August 15 tbh)

Currently Watching: I have just begun The Bridge to Terabithia, which I already feel in my bones that I will regret watching (this is going to Hurt). I am also in the middle of a long-overdue Sound of Music re-watch. I just watched Barbie in the theatres(!!) and completed another long-overdue rewatch of Alice Syfy :D many thoughts!!!

Currently Reading: An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (it is SO sweet), What Anglicans Believe (Samuel Wells), The Adventures of Miss Petitfour (Anne Michaels - this is a really sweet and whimsical children's book), George Herbert's The Temple (I just finished writing an essay on Prayer (I) yesterday!)

Current Obsession: There's this Catalan Christmas carol and lullaby that I found out about today that's called "The Song of the Birds"……. you guys. This is the coolest thing ever. I LOVE it. Every verse features a different bird singing about the Incarnation. It's fantastic. (Read about it here. As a girl with a bird blog name, this makes me SO happy.)

Tagging: @magpie-trove @laurelindorenan @lovesodeepandwideandwell @imissthembutitwasntadisaster @contagiousgrace @madamescarlette @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord (sorry if you've already been tagged/already done this.... I am a bit behind on the times! And shall continue to be until September)

[dimsilver]

5 things that make me happy - thanks for the tag @sunflowerjune!

1. The sunsets are getting earlier (making it more likely that I’ll see them)! I saw the loveliest pale pink and Prussian blue one the other day as I was leaving the house :)

2. When I’m swing dancing and a move just clicks into place with my partner and the music. Gives me confidence like nothing else!

3. Reading aloud with my housemate :) A story just comes to life better that way, and it’s amazing to share the moment with someone else - especially when it’s a story you love and they’re hearing it for the first time.

4. Finishing an interview (for journalism) with a fellow Christian - we start out not knowing each other and often by the end we’ve built enough of a connection that I know how I should pray for them. The family of God is amazing.

5. Marco Polo chat with my sisters is thriving. I love hearing from them and staying connected even states away. And the younger ones who don’t have phones yet borrow my mom’s and call me randomly now :)

I’d love to hear your small delights! tagging without pressure: @madamescarlette @violadawson @lady-merian and anyone else so inclined

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Eden @madamescarlette said that my Ellie icon suits me, I'm going to get a good grade in Tumblr icon, something normal to want and possible to achieve-

[brown-little-robin]

brb trawling @madamescarlette's blog. yeah finding treasures. yep great taste. yep wonderful vibes, real grace and peace washing over me. yeah I DO wish I could follow more people

[inklings-challenge]

2023 Inklings Challenge Participants List

This is an ongoing list of writers who have expressed interest in participating in the 2023 Inklings Challenge. I will be updating this list until October 1st, 2023, at which date everyone on the list will be assigned to one of the three Challenge Teams.

I have erred on the side of including people, so if you’re on the list and you do not want to participate, let me know and I’ll remove you. And it’s very possible I’ve missed names in the shuffle, so if you’re not on the list and you do want to participate, let me know so I can add you.

@ablatheringblatherskite

@allisonreader

@angedemystere

@aparticularbandit

@as-dreamers-do

@ashknife

@atlantic-riona

@brievel

@butterflies-and-bumble-bees

@bytes-and-blessings

@caffeinecath

@caitriona-3

@casa-anachar

@catkin-morgs

@challenger2013

@christian-latte-anon

@clarythericebot

@confetti-cat

@cuppatealove

@cygnascrimbles

@delightfulstrawberrygalaxy

@dimsilver

@dragonladyzarz

@ellakas

@enjoliquej

@esters-notepad

@ettawritesnstudies

@faeriefully

@fairytale-lights

@fictionadventurer

@five-more-minutes

@frangipani-wanderlust

@freenarnian

@friendrat

@frominsidetheblanketfort

@gailyinthedark

@galahadiant

@heniareth

@iamwritehere

@incomingalbatross

@justhereforthesherlock

@kanerallels

@k-she-rambles

@ladygobpire

@lady-merian

@ladyphlogiston

@larissa-the-scribe

@lemonduckisnowawake

@leng-m

@lilflightlessbird731

@lover-of-the-starkindler

@madamescarlette

@magpie-trove

@maltheniel

@misscrazyfangirl321

@mrgartist

@muse-write

@musicofthedaylight

@olyia-stories

@onewingedsparrow

@on-noon

@phoebeamorryce

@physicsgoblin

@plainshobbit

@poetry-vs-depression

@politicalmamaduck

@popcornfairy28

@praise-the-lord-im-dead

@pinkbanditmusings

@queenlucythevaliant

@rachellesedai

@ranger-melany

@reneethegreatandpowerful

@ripple-reader

@rockinlibrarian

@ru-tabega

@scarvenartist

@screwtornadowarningsimsouthern

@scribbly-bear

@secret--psalms--saturn

@septembersung

@siena-sevenwits

@soulwindproductionsblog

@swinging-stars-from-satellites

@taleweaver-ramblings

@teabooksandsweets

@thatsastepladder

@thatoneweaver

@thebirdandhersong

@thejonderettegirl

@theworldiswhispering

@toothanddraw

@tzarina-alexandra

@ughnofreeusernames

@west-toasty

@what-the-dickens

@wildlyironicbee

[lilaccatholic]

I was tagged by @monstrousgourmandizingcats to post a screenshot of the song I was most recently listening to. I was listening to my Spotify discover weekly, so here's what we're working with:

Decent all things considered, but not my normal listening!

Tagging: @theblogofaveryoddfellow @mariposasmonarch @womaninwinter @mickiestardust @mademoisellesarcasme @smol-catholic-bean @distance-does-not-matter @thiinka @drharleyquinn-medicinewoman @francesderwent @purple-purple-pink-purple @madamescarlette and anyone else who wants to play!

[whenthegoldrays]

shoutout to @madamescarlette for putting so many cool and interesting things on my dash (and putting so much enthusiasm and joie de vivre into the tags)