#sylvia bishop

[classicliteratureprincess]

Recent writers I been introduced to -

Theodore Roethke

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Hayden

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Lowell

W. D. Snodgrass

Eudora Welty

Sylvia Plath

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Lorraine Hansberry

Ralph Ellison

Amiri Baraka

[dk-thrive]

“Too excitable” is how Sylvia Plath once saw a vase of “too red” ones

Early each morning I went for a walk. It was my chief pleasure in a dearth of pleasures, observing day by day the arrival of a new season: the magnolias putting out their petals and—so poignantly soon, as it seemed to me every year, but never more so than the spring of 2020—shedding their petals. The cherry blossoms, even lovelier—loveliest, agreed—but likewise short-lived. The daffodils and the narcissus—narcisusses? narcissi?—and the gaudy tulips that seemed almost like wild mouths screaming for attention. “Too excitable” is how Sylvia Plath once saw a vase of “too red” ones. Like Rilke’s frightened flowers “rising up to say: Red.” To Elizabeth Bishop, the spots on the tips of the dogwood petals were like burns from a cigarette butt. Poets.

— Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables: A Novel (Riverhead Books, November 7, 2023)

[lajulie24]

For the fanfic writers ask- would you mind answering R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing?

R. Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing?

This is a really interesting question! For writing outside fandom, I would say bell hooks (whose mind just continually amazed and challenged me, and whose writing was both lyrical and accessible, I wish she were still with us), Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar is wickedly funny even as it is heartbreaking), Sandra Cisneros (her poetry is funny and powerful and beautiful and truthful all at once), and various other poets or essay writers (Naomi Shihab Nye, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Maree Brown, Lindy West). Anne Lamott has great advice about how to get out of your own damn way for writing, though ironically I am not a fan of her novels. My beloved Carrie Fisher sort of straddles the fandom and non-fandom worlds, and I’ve enjoyed her novels but her memoirs and essays are the things that have most influenced me.

For fandom writers, I’m going to start with some commercial Star Wars writers, because I think writing in the GFFA is sort of a different beast. Of the commercial writers, I especially love Claudia Gray (big fan of Leia, Princess of Alderaan, less so of Bloodline though it’s still well-written), Martha Wells (who really has a great sense of Leia’s character), and Rebecca Roanhorse (Resistance Reborn is SO GOOD, somehow managing to make the events of The Last Jedi make any kind of narrative sense as well as bringing some characters I LOVED back in believable and in-character ways). Aaron Allston’s X-Wing novels helped me get to know the Rogues and the Wraiths, and really do this great mix of action and character arcs that I strive for when I’m writing fic — he creates worlds that are so full and the characters feel fully realized too.

I feel like just about everyone who writes and shares HanLeia fanfic has influenced me and my writing in some way. I joined Tumblr so I could read more of @madame-alexandra ‘s snippets and fics on a regular basis. Bouncing ideas around with folks like @otterandterrier, @organanation, @graciecatfamilyband, @yoyomarules, @soloorganaas, and others has been incredibly influential. I blame @drinkupthesunrise (in the most grateful possible way) for my affection for Wedge Antilles and the Rogues, and for my Luke/Wedge shipping. Reading @chancecraz’s fics has caused me to think about Leia and the galaxy in brand new ways (and also to cry about droids damnit), and introduced me to @this-acuteneurosis’s Don’t Look Back series which shows what one can do with a mix of politics and relationships and the Force and so much more in the GFFA. And I’m not kidding about other folks influencing me — every time I read a different person’s perspective on the Rebellion, or on Leia’s state of mind, or on how Han’s past has influenced his approach to life, or Han and Leia’s interactions, or how Luke fits into everything, or different takes on our heroes’ sexuality or gender identity, or mental health, or what would happen IF, I feel like I have a better sense of who these characters are to me, and what’s possible.

Wow, that was long-winded. Thank you for your patience, and for the ask!

Fanfic writer ask meme

[nepoupdates]

spotted // teagan and rosalind dancing intimately at citi field

is  dancing  intimately  code  for  something  else  ?  this  isn't  news  .  i  guess  the  real  question  is  ,  where  was  miss  josette  when  all  of  this  was  going  down  ?  it's  usually  the  three  of  them  (  @teagvns  ,  @rosbella  ,  @delicatlueur  )

[incorrect-no-more-heroes-quotes]

[vintage1981]

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[perfettamentechic]

17 ottobre … ricordiamo …

17 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2019: Bill Macy, nome vero Wolf Martin Garber, è stato un attore televisivo, cinematografico e teatrale americano, meglio conosciuto per il suo ruolo nella serie televisiva Maude. (n. 1922) 2017: Danielle Darrieux, all’anagrafe Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux, è stata un’attrice francese, attiva dagli anni trenta.  (n. 1917) 2015: Danièle Delorme, all’anagrafe Danièle Girard, è stata…

[metamorphesque]

💌 some of my favorite poems for World Poetry Day 💌 

A Cloud in Trousers by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Don’t leave the room by Joseph Brodsky (the original)

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

a splinter of my imagination by Halina Poswiatowska

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)  

Before You Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz

Dogfish by Mary Oliver

Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück

Scheherazade by Richard Siken

The End of Poetry by Ada Limón

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

Poems for Blok by Marina Tsvetaeva

I’m Glad Your Sickness by Marina Tsvetaeva

Wait for her by Mahmoud Darwish

The Guest by Anna Akhmatova

Listen! by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Carousel by Vahan Teryan

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light by Richard Siken

Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong

Headfirst by Ocean Vuong

Advice from Dionysus by Shinji Moon

[isadomna]

Princess Mary and Francis I of France

It seems almost unbelievable that Henry VIII seriously considered giving his daughter to the French King. She was only eleven years old, and when the French ambassadors saw her in the spring of 1527, they concluded that she was “so thin, spare and small as to make it impossible for her to be married for the next three years”. Louise of Savoy, sensing that the marriage proposal might have been a trap to keep Francis out of the imperial alliance, suggested a solution that even the English ambassadors found shocking. If anyone believed that Princess Mary was too young to be married to the man twenty-two years her senior, Louise saw no danger because “she herself was married at eleven”. She suggested that Francis I and Henry VIII should meet in Calais, where the marriage between her son and the English King’s daughter should be solemnized. After the ceremony, Francis and Mary should consummate their match to ensure its validity; it didn’t have to be a long consummation, it sufficed that Francis might “abide himself for an hour or less with the princess”. Louise assured that her son was “a man of honour and discretion and would use no violence”. This, Louise claimed, would be means of assuring that Francis was legally married to the English princess and Henry VIII could take her back to England “unto such time as she should be thought more able”. The English ambassadors thought the proposal “very strange” and, indeed, such proceedings were unheard of even in the sixteenth century.

Princess Mary, small and undeveloped for her age, was probably not menstruating and thus wasn’t a fully grown woman in the eyes of her contemporaries. Although girls were allowed to marry at the age of twelve, sexual intercourse was advised to take place when a girl reached her sixteenth birthday. It stemmed from the belief that between twelve and sixteen, a girl was too young and too fragile to survive the perils of pregnancy and childbirth. Henry VIII’s grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, was the best example of what happened to a girl when her marriage was consummated too early. She gave birth when she was only thirteen years old, and this traumatic experience left her damaged and unable to have more children by her successive husbands. Bishop Fisher, Margaret’s friend and admirer, marvelled: “It seemed a miracle that of so little a personage anyone should have been born at all”. Margaret had certainly believed so as well because many years later she ensured that her young and fragile granddaughter, Margaret Tudor, was not sent to be married to the King of Scotland too early, lest her much older husband would not wait for her to mature “but injure her, and endanger her health”. She would have certainly felt the same way about Princess Mary, who, like her grandmother and aunt, was small for her age.

Princess Mary would have reached her twelfth birthday (the age of consent) on 18 February 1528, more than a year after the proposed consummation, and even this would not mean that she was able to have intercourse. Indeed, the English ambassadors who thought this proposal was outrageous were loath even to put it in writing. Needless to say that Henry VIII rejected it immediately, arguing that his daughter “was of tender age and there was plenty of time to talk about marrying her”.

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Henry VIII and Francis I

[coastalcowplant]

sylvia bishop lookbook ☆

01. top | skirt | boots | necklace | earrings | bracelets (werewolves) | rings | septum 02. top | skirt | shoes | necklace | earrings | bracelets (werewolves) | rings 03. top | skirt | shoes | necklace | earrings | bracelet | rings  04. top | skirt | shoes | necklace | earrings | rings | belt accessory | stockings hair 1 | hair 2 | eyes | brows | tattoos | eyeshadow | eyeliner | blush | lipstick 

a big thank you to the cc creators !! @lijoue @caio-cc @serenity-cc @arethabee @twisted-cat @joliebean @imvikai @trillyke @oydis @clumsyalienn @greenllamas @simcelebrity00 @simstrouble @sunivaa @poyopoyosim @herbalia @crypticsim @northernsiberiawinds

[godlizzza]

Could i prompt some danbert flirting on the clock ❤️ i love when they are in a mundane setting and your writings are all amazing!

"Hey, doc. You seeing anyone right now?"

Herbert looked up from the sink to see Dan leaning casually against the wall, one hand braced on the plaster, the other propped on his hip, pushing his doctor's coat back. Herbert had always thought he looked especially dashing in the doctor's white, but the way Dan was currently staring at him, his eyebrows raised suggestively, had Herbert reconsidering that assessment.

"I don't have any more patients today, as you well know," Herbert replied, flicking the soapy water from his hands and straightening up.

Dan rolled his eyes. "You know what I meant."

"And I know that you know I told you I'm not going to pretend that we're strangers, meeting for the first time," Herbert shot back, eyes narrowed.

Dan sighed, dropping his hand from the wall and letting it flop down by his side. "You're no fun."

"Work isn't supposed to be fun," Herbert said curtly, then turned around and briskly set off down the hall.

There was the sound of Dan's footsteps rushing to catch up with him, his sneakers slapping on the linoleum floor. A moment later he was at Herbert's side, pushing the hair back, out of his face. He was finally letting it grow out again after he'd gotten it cut, much to Herbert's dismay. Herbert secretly hoped he'd keep it like that a while longer.

"It should be," Dan argued, "when you're working with your husband."

They weren't legally married, but Herbert chose to ignore that for now.

"You shouldn't let yourself get distracted at work, Dan," Herbert told him primly. "We wouldn't want another meeting with Bishop, now, would we?"

Dan wrinkled his nose just at the mention of the hospital director. Clarence Bishop, who signed both Dan and Herbert's paychecks was someone Herbert preferred to keep both out of sight and out of mind. Herbert was aware that Bishop was aware of his and Dan's relationship but seemed to have dealt with that information mostly by ignoring it, which worked just fine for Herbert. However, when an orderly had complained of inappropriate conversations happening in staff bathrooms, the two of them had been called into Bishop's office and sat down to have a conversation about professional conduct.

Herbert had sat through it all stoically, while Dan had been apologetic and embarrassed. Dan had been awkward and quiet on the drive home, while Herbert had been stewing over the fact that he knew it was Sylvia who'd made that complaint against them, that bitch.

Clearly though, Bishop's scolding hadn't been enough to completely deter Dan from his natural state of flirtation.

"Well, am I allowed to get distracted after work?" Dan asked. When Herbert paused to flick a glance at him he went on. "Let me take you out for dinner tonight. We've both been working so much lately, I feel like we haven't had any...quality time together."

His voice dipped on the last few words, deep and smooth like melted chocolate. With the way Dan's hooded eyes were trained on him, Herbert got the feeling he'd like to be spending some real quality time with him right that second, preferably in the closest sleep room.

Herbert hummed, eyeing him back. "You know how much I hate big, crowded rooms."

Dan smirked. "And yet, you work in a hospital. Don't worry, I'll take us somewhere nice and quiet. Intimate."

Herbert tapped his chin, considering. Really, it was ridiculous to even entertain it. Dan was right that they both had been working so much lately, leaving little time for work at home. He was already behind on his internal schedule for the month, test that should've been run days ago still sitting, incomplete, in the lab. To waste a few precious hours by going out to eat when they already had food at home just seemed a wasteful practice.

But Dan was looking at him so hopefully with those big brown eyes of his. Herbert knew how much little dates like these pleased him, and if there was one thing he'd learned over his time cohabiting with Dan, it was that he needed a treat thrown his way every now and then to placate him. If they went out for dinner tonight, Dan would be more amicable and willing in the lab. He'd also likely not bother Herbert about it again for at least a week.

Considering all of this, Herbert sighed and relented. "Fine. But you're paying."

Dan's answering smile nearly blinded Herbert with its brightness. "Deal."

His smile dipped suddenly, morphing into a pout, and Herbert let out an exasperated noise.

"What now?"

Dan pursed his lips, looking intently at Herbert's mouth. "I was just thinking how much I want to kiss you right now but I can't because we're at work and that would be unprofessional."

He emphasised his disdain for working professionalism with air quotes and Herbert snorted. Dan really did have a one-track mind, even in a building surrounded by the sick and dying.

He gave Dan's arm a pat as he passed him by. "Just try to get through the day, Dan. We're still on the clock."

"Fine. But I'll see you in a few hours!"

His voice trailed after Herbert as he made his way down the hall, smiling with his back to Dan.

[catalinadearagonsblog]

The conservative party saw their chance to strike and supplant Anne Boleyn with Jane Seymour, who, they hoped, would convince the King to return to the Catholic Church and Princess Mary legitimised and reinstated to the line of succession. By April 1536, Mary was informed by her friends who conspired against Anne Boleyn that “very shortly her rival would be dismissed”. Mary took a keen interest in the unfolding conspiracy and firmly believed that her father would soon divorce Anne. She instructed Eustace Chapuys to “watch the proceedings, and if possible help to accomplish the said divorce”. Mary was eager to emphasise that she did not wish for the King’s divorce from Anne Boleyn “out of revenge for the many injuries inflicted on her mother, the late Queen, and on herself” because she had forgotten and forgiven them “for the honour of God, and she now bore no ill-will to anyone whomsoever”

It is evident that neither Mary nor Anne Boleyn’s enemies were aware of what was about to happen. They often used the words “dismiss” and “divorce” interchangeably when speaking about Anne’s ruin. This clearly points out that they expected Henry VIII to divorce Anne and send her away from court in disgrace.

On 27 April, John Stokesley, Bishop of London, was approached to give his opinion “as to whether the King could or could not abandon” Anne Boleyn, but he wisely refused to give his verdict unless invited to do so by the King himself. Clearly, the conspirators tried to ascertain whether there were any legal grounds that the King could use to annul his marriage to Anne.

At some point, however, the conspiracy turned deadly. Thomas Cromwell soon began interrogating Anne’s ladies-in-waiting, hoping to build a case against the Queen. On 2 May, Anne Boleyn was arrested on multiple charges of adultery, incest with her brother George and plotting the King’s death. She was executed on 19 May.

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, The Forgotten Tudor Women: Gertrude Courtenay. Wife and Mother of the last Plantagenets

[hollie47]

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite!

Thank you @figachilles for the tag!

I tag: @puzzlebean @aimmyarrowshigh @yesdatsme @lilmonkey5458 @t-rina

[hatchetfieldgazette]

it’s an emoji based starter call : react with one or multiple to let me know who you want a starter from, specify your muses if you are a multi!

also note : all of these will be put in a queue when i write them and will slowly be dropped onto the dash!

🎭~alice woodward

🚬~alexandra “lex” foster

📝~axel bartholomew caddel

🪡~blair adkins

👓~cassie hughes

🎨~charlie finch

🥂~cj valentine

✝️~grace chasity

📿~girl jeri

☕️~hazel winters

🏈~jason jepson

✉️~jenny marley

💋~lottie hart

🦍~lucy stockworth

🔮~matilda bishop

🎶~miss holloway

💖~ nibblenephim

🤓~ reese harrington

🎸~ rose williams

🦕~ ruth fleming

🖊️~ sylvia stirling

📙~tessa gray

🪚~tom houston

🟨~ t'noy karaxis

🩰~winter clauger

💰~woman

🔥~zoey chambers

[nepoupdates]

Any potential couples you can see? 👀

josie  ,  rosalind  and  teagan  .  the  potential  is  right  there  .  they  showed  up  as  each  other's  dates  to  the  valentine's  day  ball  .

lulu  and  sofia  .  i  think  they'd  be  cute  .  their  personalities  compliment  one  another  so  i  can  see  something  there  .

duke  and  tomas  .  it  seems  random  ,  i  know.  they'd  get  along  purely  because  they  don't  get  along  with  a  lot  of  people  .  i  will  not  be  elaborating  any  further  .

  (  @delicatlueur  ,  @rosalindisms  ,  @teagvns  ,  @racingfm  ,  @flowcrbcds  ,  @jaspersalvo  ,  @elitisms  )

[aromanticduck]

Tagged by @paradoxspaceheater and finally getting around to it!

Last Song: In a Crowd of Thousands but it's gay

Favorite Colour: yellow

Last Movie/TV Show: Richard Osman's House of Games

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Spicy, but spicy is at its best when combined with either sweet or savoury.

Relationship Status: both 'single' in that I'm not in a relationship, and 'taken' in that I'm not available for one.

Last Thing I Googled: 'Old Jamaica Ginger Beer parent company'

Current Obsession: I'm kind of drifting between a few things at the minute. Haven't had a really strong fixation for a while.

Last Book: the last book I finished was On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop. I'm currently reading Sisters of Sword and Shadow by Laura Bates (about halfway through).

Looking Forward To: seeing my friend tomorrow for his birthday lunch :)

I extend a tag, an invitation not an obligation, to the following people:

@a-walking-fandom-reference, @thegrimcaptain95, @bittersweetnightshade, @somewhatvellum