#migonette

[ltwilliammowett]

The case of the Mignonette

"Attention it is about cannibalism"

In 1844, an Australian lawyer John Henry Want, eager to impress his fellow sailors back home, bought an aging but primarily British yacht named Mignonette in England. There he found a crew to sail the ship from Southampton to Sydney, inadvertently securing the fate of four men: Thomas Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks and Richard Parker.

Sketch of English Yacht Mignonette by Tom Dudley (1853-1900)

As the Mignonette sailed towards the Cape of Good Hope, a fierce storm blew up. The yacht, built of rotten wood, sank within minutes. In their haste, the four sailors took refuge in a four-metre long dinghy with two cans of turnips but no water. The dinghy drifted westwards, towards South America, some 3,000 kilometres away. But without water, the continent offered little salvation. Days turned into weeks, and the men grew weaker and weaker. In such desperate situations, sailors invoke the seafaring custom of casting lots to decide who will be sacrificed for food so that their comrades can survive. But rather than leave it to chance, Captain Dudley and his first mate Stephens decided that Parker, a 17-year-old orphan and Cabin Boy who had become delirious after drinking seawater, was the obvious choice. Dudley stabbed Parker to death, and the three remaining men feasted on the young man's flesh. Only four days later, the German Bark Montezuma rescued the survivors. Back in England, Dudley and Stephens were convicted of murder, although they were not the first sailors to resort to cannibalism. What set them apart, however, was that they departed from the customs of the sea by deciding for themselves which man should be killed and eaten - a presumptuous decision that Victorian England considered too encroaching and against all ethics and morals. But the survivors' story of desperation and the fact that Parker would probably have died anyway eventually aroused public sympathy, and Dudley and Stephens were spared the death penalty. They only had to serve six months in prison for killing the teenager.

What happened to Dudley and Stephens was enshrined in an infamous precedent in England that the taking of a life can never be justified - even if it is to save one's own life - and since then, compulsory cannibalism at sea has also been punishable - because it need not always be the case that the victim had already died before being eaten. A fact that had always been disregarded in other cases at the time and the people involved had therefore always been acquitted.

[athenxt]

sometimes while im watching princess diaries two: the royal engagement, i remember that mia and nicolas are technically related????? and then i have to stop myself from thinking about it too hard bc dang, that happens in real life too with royal families

[dearest-lady-disdain]

the only monarch i will stan is amelia migonette thermopolis renaldi

[fenth-eiria]

I don't think I have posted her redesign, but here she is!

All-Maudra LavenderRose!!!!!!!!!

Nettie is the nickname for Migonette, her wife.

[singsongstardust]

This new rom com is lovely but I honestly didn’t need to see Princes Amelia Migonette Thermopolis Renaldi orgasm , ya know?

[gaygingersnaps]

Princess Amelia Migonette Thermopolis Renaldi for character bingo 👸🏽

dare i say, first blorbo???

[fenth-eiria]

Can you do LavenderRose and her wife, Migonette?

Every year, I do a big Gelfling Oc Project. The past two years, I only asked IG because I see more Gelfling Oc posts, and it's kinda easier to manage the number of people than a post on Tumblr that can get pushed farther down my page.

12/15 slots have been filled, and I think 3 (maybe 5 if I'm pushing it) is easier to keep track than 15.

If you'd like to have your Gelfling or Podling Oc featured in my year's end piece, please comment below and send me refs of the Oc you'd like via messages once I've replied back, please.

I don't start drawing this now, usually around October/November. So it'll be a while before it's done.

[pimento-playing-hopscotch]

Well I know why Genovia has to be fictional, because the people in charge there are too good for this world…. Like first Clarisse is the queen and then Mia but also the prime minister! In the first movie when Mia eats too much of the sorbet, him and his wife their reaction is “we have to do that too so it doesn’t look weird!” Like ZERO hesitation between Mia eating too much sorbet and the three of them hopping up and down with brain freeze. Like who will ride or die as hard as the prime minister and his wife!

Well Joe.

BUT WHO ELSE I ASK YOU.

[minerva--mcgee]

there is only One Man i would trust with my life

[kinetic-empathy]

does anyone else ever look back on media they consumed as a child and think “oh so that explains a lot about who i am as a person” or is that just me?

[anarchistbitch]

Me reading the entire princess diaries series in a week : can a depressed person do this?

[toricotte]

↟⌂ ∞↟⌂ toricotte 🕊 ＊ アタマばっかりUPしてる^^;🐻🐾 優しいお色のモヘア。 ずっとこのモヘアを 使いたかったんだけど 毛足が長め＝大きめ のコʕ •ɷ•ʔฅ の勇気 がなかなか出なくて。 委託先では20cm以��� のウサっコ🐇やヒツジ っコ🐑が完売になる ので、勇気を出して クマっコ🐻も❣️ ＊ antique toricotte🗝 ちょこちょこ、バイヤーさんよりちっこいコ たちが到着してます♡ ＊ ＊ ＊ ∞∴∵∴∵∴↟⌂  #toricotte #teddybear #bisquedoll #easterbunny #migonette #ドライフラワー #ドライフラワーのある暮らし

[incomprehensiblelentils]

1, 39, 43, 133

1. a book that is close to your heart

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth, which I think I've blogged about before. It's about a young lesbian growing up in an extremely oppressive religious environment and struggling with guilt over her parents' deaths, and in the second half of the book her guardian sends her to conversion therapy. There is a movie, which I haven't seen and don't plan on watching, because by all accounts the movie mostly focuses on the conversion therapy half of the book and that's not why I connected so strongly with it. So much of the first half of Cameron's story reminds me of myself; I didn't start figuring out my sexuality until nearing the end of high school/beginning of college, but even as a kid I could tell something about me was different (besides being biracial Chinese in a largely white community and also being undiagnosed autistic, lmao). Cameron's experiences resonate more strongly with me than almost any other fictional character, even if I didn't literally have most of them. (I should caution, this book is quite old by queer YA standards and thus may not be as resonant to readers who are used to a different bookish climate: it contains the T-slur once and some questionable depiction of a two-spirit character, along with pervasive and at times violent homophobia and secondhand descriptions of self-harm. If someone would like more info I'd be happy to elaborate via private ask.)

39. a book featuring your favourite character

You know...I'm gong to have to go with Amelia "Mia" Migonette Thermopolis Grimaldi Renaldo from the Princess Diaries series on this! And I guess the one I would choose to highlight is Princess in Love, my favorite, because I think it's the one with some of the best plot shenanigans and also I'm a sucker for the incredibly cute ending. I started reading these books when I was 13, right after I saw the movie (I didn't see it until it had been out for several years), and I've read every single one at least three times and the older ones probably more like five or six times at this point. These characters genuinely feel like old friends to me. Mia is such a fun character and her growth is so great to watch as the series progresses. I like the movie version as well but she really doesn't hold a candle to book Mia.

43. a book that you have read more than three times

Actually both of the above books qualify, lmao. But in the interest of bringing it up again, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, which is my Cool Literary Answer to "what is your favorite book." I've read this four times now and every time is just as good if not better than the last. I notice something new every time I read it. (I also feel this way about her first book, Everything I Never Told You.)

133. a book that you came across randomly and fell in love with

I'm not........a huge fan.....of Maggie Stiefvat3r in general but when I was in high school I read The Scorpio Races, which is a horse girl book with graphic man-eating horse violence, and I've read it like five more times by now lol. I think the horse girl market is wildly untapped once you get out of like, middle grade, and this book has bonus fantasy horses that can EAT YOU and a dangerous horse race and a plucky heroine trying to save her family's farm and a boy who has a bond with a man-eating horse and they don't even kiss till like the last page so you can ignore that part if you want to and most of it is about how much they love their respective horses tbh and I just really love it a lot!

[upstartly]

Last year I tried my hand at growing some plants from seeds

I ended up with 2 courgette plants, 1 cucamelon plant, and roughly 50-60 tomato plants (I only kept 3)

I've started properly this year and done actual research and germinated at the proper times

So far about 12/15 of my cucamelon seeds have sprouted which is a disaster because I was expecting 3 max based on last year but hopefully I'll actually be able to harvest a cucamelon this year

This time I have cucamelon, courgette, wild red strawberry migonette, sweet peas, chocolate cherry tomatoes, melon ogen, pineapple berry, thyme, basil, dwarf basil, red basil, common lavender, some other type of lavender???, And pomodorini which I harvested seeds from last year and am trying to breed into 4 distinct fruiting plants because of course I want to play god

Last year ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[fenth-eiria]

May I introduce Migonette? She was the reverend Sifa Maudra, and LavenderRose’s beloved wife.

[princess-of-songs]

My 100 favorite female characters

95. Amelia Migonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldi “Mia”

“And you know what? Maybe Michael didn’t write those notes. And maybe he doesn’t

think I’m the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that’s all that matters to me.”

Fancast for Mia- Ella Rae Smith

Fancast for Helen Thermopolis- Naomie Harris

Fancast for Phillipe Renaldi- Daniel Craig

Fancast for Grandmere- Judi Dench

Fancast for Michael Moscovitz- Wolfgang Novogratz