#plaidy

[an-albino-pinetree]

2023 was a hard year for me, but I learned a lot, my family, as a whole, did a ton of growing, and towards the end of it, I found all of you. So thank you. 🥂

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆🎇

@sm-baby

@gummy-axolotl

@hootbon

@unfunnyaceartist

And allll the rest of ya I couldn’t fit in this page ; ;

I feel so honoured to get to be a part of this close lil circle, that I’ve found in this fandom- you guys are awesome and so damn talented. The aus I’ve seen have blown my mind.

The Jax’s have broken into the port wine, and I’ve made us all the ancient recipe, of grasshopper pie -v- (grasshoppers not included)

[an-albino-pinetree]

You good?

A couple doodles of my TADC OC, Dizz!! I never showed him on my tumblr, but the basic inspiration for him was a spinning top and wooden doll! Other character inspirations include Snufkin, Wirt from OTGW, Dipper from Gravity Falls, Noddy, characters like that!! Considering drawing an actual model sheet for him, where I can actually go deeper into his personality and details!!

[period-dramallama]

Jean Plaidy covers are so lovely and for WHAT

[lovesickgoose]

Me n @bearfag 🪿🐕

MAKE YOURSELF💥

[shinyasahalo]

Writing a fem character as a villain by making her abusive toward her children, have her obsess over a man, and be vain about her appearance, makes her a boring villainess.

[angelfall33]

Mi Opinión: Madame Du Barry; Amante Real – Jean Plaidy 

[an-albino-pinetree]

Not me falling head over heels for another au-

Freakshow/Sideshow au belongs to @hootbon and @ask-the-ultimate-baseball-star

[littlealienproducts]

Plaidy-pus the Platypus PDF Sewing Pattern 30" by MaureenLeeDesign

[messyturtlequilts]

Our Flag, Our People

The quilt was my entry in the 2024 Cherokee Nation Homecoming Quilt show. The theme for the weekend was "Weaving our Future."

I used the colors of the Cherokee flag - orange, yellow, brown, green, white and black. The extra red stripe was in honor of MMIW. You probably can't tell, but the white fabric actually has symbols from the Cherokee Syllabary on it, which I ordered from Spoonflower.

Pattern was Plaidy Cake by Allison at Cluck Cluck Sew

[poem-today]

A poem by Robert Burns (for Burns Night)

Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast

Oh wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee: Or did misfortune’s bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a’, to share it a’.

Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare, The desart were a Paradise, If thou wert there, if thou wert there. Or were I monarch o' the globe, Wi thee to reign, wi thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Glossary

lea = meadow airt = the direction, or quarter, of the wind blaw = blow bield = shelter

Note: Robert Burns composed this song in honour of Jessie Lewars (1778-1855), a friend of the family, who nursed him during his final illness and, from January 1796, helped his wife, Jean Armour, with their many children. As he was rarely able to leave his room, Jessy rendered invaluable services in helping Mrs. Burns nurse her husband. The poet could not repay her kindness in money so he asked what her favourite song was. She sang a song which was popular at the time and which told of a wren describing how he would never let the robin stay out in the cold if he had “an auld clout” to wrap him in. Burns wrote these new words to the same tune.

Image: "O, wert thou in the cauld blast" by the Scottish sculptor Ronald Rae is located in front of the Milton Keynes central railway station.

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

rereading Jean Plaidy's Queen Victoria series, i suddenly, although understandably, find myself in the mood to watch Lord Melbourne tell John Conroy to go choke on a dick. or "i bid you a good day", as they put it back then

[period-dramallama]

Me when an article I'm reading calls Jean Plaidy 'one of the greats in historical fiction'

[zippocreed501]

AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Respect your characters, even the ­minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.'

'Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I've got there, because I know that by doing that I am inching the book forward. Those 1,000 words might well be rubbish–they often are. But then, it is always easier to return to rubbish words at a later date and make them better.'

'Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . .'

'. . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too.'

Author Extraordinaire Sarah Waters

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

I loved the Friedrich Harding you posted!! Are there any books or authors for that time period you would recommend?

Oof. Not off the top of my head. I jave certain authors who write period books that I don't mind.

Carolly Erikson

Lauren Willig (pink carnation series is french revolution and I loved it)

CC Humphreys

Margaret George

Jean Plaidy

Robin Maxwell (Mademoiselle Boleyn is a fave of mine)

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Jane Crowther

My 2024 Booklist

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson The Color Purple by Alice Walker Maskerade by Terry Pratchet (#18 of Discworld) The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey The Great Gatzby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

[m-andrade-87]

LECTURAS Y PELÍCULAS VARIAS

Hola mis pequeños dragones, hoy, bajo un título tan genérico, os traigo un pequeño resumen de algunas cosas que he estado viendo y leyendo durante los últimos días y que, si bien no voy a dedicarle una entrada como tal, si quería hablar un poco sobre estas cosillas. Como siempre espero que alguna de estas cosas os resulte interesante. Empezamos BBC SIX WIVES WITH LUCY WORSLEY En este primer…