#the Beautiful ones

[thecozybimbo]

“Do you remember what it was to be young?” She asked.

“Every trouble would be solved by sundown, and every dawn you'd have a new chance to remake the world.”

— the beautiful ones, silvia moreno-garcia

[bluedahlia912]

Finally posted chapter four of “The Beautiful Ones” & Regulus goes to Hogwarts (and meets James)

[3majorursaminor77]

Oh don't mind me, I'm just reliving the absolute and total euphoria I felt when the season 2 teaser for Our Flag Means Death was finally released. The ecstasy I felt as the first opening lines of The Beautiful Ones played simultaneously with Stede's romantic speech as he sighs and moons over Ed and then Ed emerging from the waves and then sword hacking a british colonizer so hard he flips into the air as he gracefully slides underneath him in the sand is still just absolute *chef's kiss*. I salute whoever made that trailer it's so beautifully edited.

And I don't care what the haters say, the second season absolutely lived up to the excitement and expectation I felt watching that trailer over and over and over. I love this show so much.

[mercurydeep]

It's another cereal scene ? Kyle Soller: oh yeah yeah,Denise Gough:now that's is an Olivier award winner if ever I saw one😁 Kyle:I'm better when I don't speak 😂 these two are the best performances in Andor🥰

[purplehassan]

I contributed an article to this fantastic ongoing magazine celebrating 40 years of Prince’s Purple Rain album and film. If you want to know how this cult classic changed Hollywood musicals and paved the way for Black Cinema to thrive during the 1980’s then please pick this bumper (180 pages!) Magazine up and give my article a read. It also features contributions from other Purple fams and Artists who cover everything from the Purple Rain album, film, tour and all the flowers in between.

I have to say a BIG thank you to Barbara for reaching out to me to contribute to this project, it was an honour and privilege to be a part of this group of Purple fams who all paid our respects to the GREATEST artist of all time in our own special unique way. 💜

Link to order: https://purplemusic.es/tienda/revistas-purple-music/purple-music-no-5/

[ladyeowyn]

“How did I ever find you?” he asked as he moved to her side. “You didn’t. I found you. At the library of the De Villiers, at the party of the Haduiers, and that night I went to Boniface,” she said lightly. He thought that truly it had been so, but that he had also been drifting toward her since the beginning, magnetized, a compass that had spun wildly and then gently settled upon a true north. Not love at first sight, because those fancies were best left for books and songs, but she had extended her hand and invited him to follow her into a dance, and he had found after a few steps that though he had never danced it before, he did not want to stop.

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

[trexalicious]

This year is the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain 💜

[she-wolf09231982]

Not that this is really important enough to post to any social media platform…but because this is Tumblr and I know some of you are just as weird as I am and would possibly appreciate this…

I’ve been waiting for months for my first Ross McCall dream. He finally arrived last night and not only did he show up, but I also shared a passionate kiss with him that felt real enough for me to instinctively slack my mouth open to allow him to intensify the make out session while actively moving forward in my bed to find his lips 😮‍💨

(I’m a very active dreamer 🤣 and yes, I do talk in my sleep as well)

Ross McCall dreams are now my most favorite dreams. 💚 Best…Dream…Ever

As you were ☺️🫡

[jamiestarr777]

🎶oh baby baby baby, don’t my kisses please you right?…🎶💜 🎶

[thecozybimbo]

the beautiful ones by silvia moreno-garcia | book journal spread

[bluedahlia912]

Finally posting chapter 3!

[youritalianbookpal]

Top 10 books for 2023

I tried to give this some order but I am not the most organized being alive. I am proud of having read 49 books, and I take it as a symbol of the fact that I have finally been able, in the past few years, to go back to reading. My love for books and words got me through hard times, and now that I'm doing better and I can make more time for myself, I'm glad I can dedicate myself to this.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Most beautiful and haunting book I've ever read. Kind of hope no book will ever hurt me like this ever again. I loved it but at the same time I had to talk to my therapist best friend multiple times about this because the damage it could have done to me...

Still. Most beautiful book of the year.

2. Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney gets me in ways I'm not sure I want people I know to get me, let alone a random book I pick up because I liked Normal People like three years ago.

3. Palestinian Trilogy by Mahmoud Darwish

Anthology made up by Journal of an Ordinary Grief (1973), Memory of Forgetfullness (1987), and In the Presence of Absence (2009). It's one of the most poetic and heartbreaking books I've ever read, and one of the books I have been recommending since I finished it in early 2023.

4. Ghosts by Dolly Aderton

Dolly Alderton also gets me in ways I'd rather perople not get me, and she makes me laugh a lot. And cry.

5. The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia could write a grocery's list and I would read it and love it.

6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Technically a reread, but this was my favorite book at 17 and I'm glad it still is as beautiful as I remember.

7. The Wicked King by Holly Black

I technically rated Queen of Nothing higher than Wicked King but... I think this is more dramatic and iconic and if I have to choose between a kidnapping and an exile I'll always choose the kidnapping.

8. Tutta intera by Espérance Hakuzwimana

Best Italian novel I read in several years. If it doesn't get translated in 204610464 languages then what's the point.

9. Tre ciotole by Michela Murgia

This year we also lost author and activist Michela Murgia. It still feels like I lost my cool auntie, and I know it shouldn't, but it does. To cope I read this and... yeah.

10. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

If we consider how short it is and how much I cried reading it... it was probably a sob every two pages.

Honorable mentions:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (not incluced because I wanted to keep only 1 book per author).

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong (extremely tough decision between this and Genki Kawamura, but I had to go with the book that made me cry the most. I will remember 2023 as the year of the Shanghai duologies though, and this is by far my favorite book of the series).

[freckles-and-books]

Rereading this was the right decision. I think I like it even more the second time around.

[viciousland]

the way i need the version of prince's the beautiful ones used in the ofmd s2 trailer is insane. I FUCKING NEED IT DO YOU HEAR ME?!

[hemipteran]

thinking of the beautiful ones