#the romance of the rose

[enchantedbook]

Illustration from an old french poem: The Romance of the Rose - Ydelnesse ' of 12th century illustrated by Jessie M. King.

[j-august]

It is very foolish for a great man to be miserly; no vice is so harmful to a great man as avarice, for a miser cannot win lordship or great territory, because he does not have a large number of friends with whom he has influence. The man who wants friends should not be too attached to his possessions, but should acquire friends by giving them fine gifts, for just as the magnet subtly draws iron to itself, so the gold and silver that we give attracts the hearts of men.

The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (tr. Frances Horgan).

[book0ftheday]

The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, translated and edited by Charles W. Dunn, cover design by Milton Glaser, first published in Old French around 1405, English edition 1962.

[lunacy-fringe]

𝕹𝖔𝖘𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚 (𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟦) — 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙀𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨

[oh-dear-so-queer]

The illustration to a poem from The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (1200-40) shows two girls kissing in an imaginary garden of pleasure, an idyllic scene of women's happiness, where women dance, argue, do handstands and kiss.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[casasupernovas]

Remember ages ago when I said Freema did an interview talking about Martha and what she was and wasn't happy with in regards to the story? I found it!

Transcript:

Interviewer: ...Do you still think about her? How do you think about Martha in the year 2019.

Freema: Ah yeah I just did a convention with David [Tennant] recently actually and he said something that um, I hadn't heard before, and he was asked about that relationship between the two chatacters and he said 'I think that the Doctor wasn't fair on her' and I sorta looked at him and I was like...I've never heard your take on that before because I knew at the time you know she was...for me there was definitely a kind of beat that they struck on that stayed maybe a little bit too long. It was the unrequited storyline an I think they stopped exploring her as a fully rounded human being in light of that and Russell [T. Davies] did say you know, it's important to him though that people can sometimes see that...you know love doesn't always have to be reciprocated and it's okay to kind of...most of us probably have that in common that we have unreciprocated...emotions than reciprocated and I was like no that's cool I get that but people also tune in for escapism and for romance and all of the magic and the, you know, the imagination so sometimes to be like grounded back down into hard truth isn't very attractive. *Laughs* So I kind of felt like she got stuck a little bit amd when people ask me if if I would go back it would only be to explore her as a fully rounded person more and she had so much going on and then it got stuck for whatever reason. But I had the best time and I feel like there's so much more potential to that person.

[margonika00]

The bride of a dead man. 🥀

[sweetpetaldreams]

[madeleineengland]

Nosferatu (2024), dir. by Robert Eggers

[the-crooked-library]

i think i've mentioned it before in passing but it still fucks me up how Orlok is a physical manifestation of every "wrong and sinful" desire that Ellen tries to repress, as well as the panic that is associated with them.

the first sexual urges of her puberty (he claims her "ever-eternally"). the desire to dominate her husband (he dominates Thomas at the castle, demanding the subservience she never could). her queerness (he drinks from Anna, long and deep, and destroys Harding's family). the desperate longing for companionship, regardless of how dark and abnormal she believes herself to be (he answers her call from miles away, crosses an ocean for her, wants her, wants her, wants her - but she cannot imagine being wanted without repercussions, and so he brings the plague with him, a punishment for the sin of receiving what she craves).

Ellen is a mess of crushing guilt. she only ever sees ugliness in herself and i think it's so compelling to see her being desired above all else - not despite, but because of that ugliness, y'know?..

[j-august]

"I must avoid baseness and slanderous gossip and be prompt in offering and returning greetings. I should refrain from using coarse language, and always do my utmost to honour all women. I ought to avoid pride, keep myself elegant, and become gay and agreeable; and I should abandon myself to generous impulses and give my heart entire and undivided."

The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (tr. Frances Horgan).

[astrowitch]

My roommate sent this to me and I have never felt more seen

[eldritchxh0rr0r]

[metacrisisdoctor]

I think you need a Doctor.

[carm3n-carm3n]

come to me

[hektor-world]

Good night