aslanay-vonholle
Tales - Mythology - Esoterism - Antrhopology
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“I can fix her” but this is her:
chelsea g. summers, a certain hunger / ginger snaps (2000) / joan macleod, the shape of a girl / L’AQUART - jade medusa, 2020 / john collier - lilith, 1887 / florence + the machine, “howl” / battle royale (2000) / brenna twohy, “swallowtail” / caravaggio - judith beheading holofernes, 16th c. / herbert james draper - ulysses and the sirens, 1909 / william etty - the sirens and ulysses, 1837 / alicia ostriker, “in the 25th year of marriage, it goes on” / gone girl (2014)
a monster in the shape of a girl
One day, I'm gonna travel the word doing concerts, visiting your country. You're gonna hear my music from your local radio station
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I’m sorry but this is literally peak humor to me
all the poetry recited in penny dreadful
which no one asked for, but i listed, because i’m too dedicated to the aesthetic and i like to waste my time. i most certainly could have missed some, so, you know. please note that the last entry is different from its earlier recitation.
season 1
episode 2, vanessa and victor together: “if this belief from heaven be sent, / if such be nature’s holy plan, / have i not reason to lament / what man has made from man?” - wordsworth, “lines written in early spring”
episode 3, victor: “there was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / the earth, and every common sight, / to me did seem / apparell’d in celestial light, / the glory and the freshness of a dream. / it is not now as it hath been of yore; - / turn wheresoe’er i may, / by night or day, / the things which i have seen i now can see no more.” - wordsworth, “ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood”
episode 5, sir malcolm as the devil: “darkling i listen; and, for many a time / i have been half in love with easeful death, / call’d him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, / to take into the air my quiet breath.” - keats, “ode to a nightingale”
episode 6, victor: “no more let life divide what death can join together.” - shelley, “adonais”
episode 7, vanessa repeats the shelley line to victor; ethan as the devil repeats the keats line
episode 8, caliban: “o fleeting joys / of paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! / did i request thee, maker, from my clay / to mould me man?” - milton, paradise lost
season 2
episode 2, john clare: “to see a world in a grain of sand / and a heaven in a wild flower / hold infinity in the palm of your hand / and eternity in an hour.” - william blake, “auguries of innocence”
episode 3, the cutwitch: “by the pricking of my thumbs, / something wicked this way comes.” - shakespeare, macbeth (not really poetry, i know, but i still had to include it)
episode 5, vanessa and john clare: “i am–yet what i am none cares or knows; / my friends forsake me like a memory lost; / i am the self-consumer of my woes– / they rise and vanish in oblivious host, / like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes / and yet i am, and live–like vapours tossed…i long for scenes where man hath never trod / a place where woman never smiled or wept / there to abide with my creator, god, / and sleep as i in childhood sweetly slept, / untroubling and untroubled where i lie / the grass below–above the vaulted sky.” - john clare, “i am!”
season 3
episode 1, mr. lyle: “i hold it true…‘tis better to have loved and lost / than never to have loved at all.” - tennyson, “in memoriam a.h.h”
episode 1, vanessa: “beat, happy stars, timing with things below, / beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell, / blest, but for some dark undercurrent woe / that seems to draw–but it shall not be so; / let all be well, be well.” - tennyson, “maud”
episode 4, john clare: “i have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, / and what can be the use of him is more than i can see. / he is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; / and i see him jump before me, when i jump into my bed.” - robert louis stevenson, “my shadow”
episode 4, john clare: “i can never get back by day, / nor can remember plain and clear / the curious music that i hear.” - robert louis stevenson, “the land of nod”
episode 7, vanessa: “i have made my bed / in charnels and on coffins, where black death / keeps record of the trophies won…” - shelley, “alastor; or, the spirit of solitude”
episode 9, john clare: “there was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / the earth, and every common sight, / to me did seem / apparell’d in celestial light, / the glory and the freshness of a dream…but there’s a tree, of many, one, / a single field which i have looked upon, / both of them speak of something that is gone; / the pansy at my feet / doth the same tale repeat: / whither is fled the visionary gleam? / where is it now, the glory and the dream?” - wordsworth, “ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood”
Today we bring to you perennial fan-favorite Terry Jeffords!
Terry Jeffords is one of the main characters of Brooklyn 99, a Mike Schur and Andy Samberg project which aired on Fox in 2013, which moved to NBC for its final seasons from 2019 - 2021. Portrayed by Terry Crews, Jeffords is first the sergeant then lieutenant of the eponymous 99th precinct, and has variable roles throughout the series’ tenure, most often filling the niche of mother hen adjacent to Captain Holt’s stern father figure.
Given of course that he is played by Terry Crews, we can be assured that this man is beefcake central. Although it is often hidden under tasteful pastel shirts and ties patterned en vogue, Jeffords’ physique is remarked upon at least once per episode, with the occasional episode centering around his stature. In one notable instance, he is unable to perform a undercover operation and must train Jake Peralta in his workout routine so that he may take his place – what actually takes place is a montage of Peralta desperately working to make up the lack in his physical prowess before giving up. This happens multiple times throughout the series. In another instance, Peralta takes a running leap at Terry, causing him to drop his coffee in favor of catching Peralta. When asked if it was any effort at all to hold up a grown man, Jeffords replies that it’s about the same as holding a couple of grapes. Indeed, the entire precinct knows what’s up with Sergeant Jeffords – and if it were not clear to the audience, we have regular reminders from Gina, for whom it is a running gag to attempt to get Terry to remove his shirt. Queen Gina speaking for all of us, as usual.
Now if you have been following this blog for a while, you will know that one thing that we value just as much as having the skill to make one’s pecs dance (which we see Terry do onscreen multiple times), it is a family man, and Terry’s a family man to a T. His introduction to the series and the first major character arc that he goes through has to do with the anxiety he feels as a new parent of twin baby girls - what would they and his lovely wife do if he were to fall in the line of duty? He overcomes this anxiety with the help of Gina and Captain Holt (and much departmental mandated therapy), but his love and respect for his wife and daughters shine through in every episode thereafter, and quite often carry over into all of his other relationships with the team. Terry could easily be played off as the stereotypical aggressive black man, but the show’s narrative emphasizes that Terry’s heart is as big as his muscles, and that he values his wife and all of the women in his life just as much as he does the yogurt in his fridge.
And it is clear that his comrades value him all the same. This author would hesitate to call a married and devoted man a slut (although we do learn that he and his wife conceived their children to Beyonce, so mad respect for that game), but we do know that Terry is a major Chad, having earned the respect of everyone in the 99 - indeed his team’s reliance on his opinion of them often leads to some comedic miscommunications, such as when Amy and Gina discover that Terry is writing a childrens’ book for his twins and that the two female leads are inspired by them. They bicker and argue over what this means until Terry delivers a rousing speech in the elevator about how they should come to trust and respect themselves a little bit more (which veers into charmingly awkward territory as the elevator ride only commences when Terry has finished). And Jake, main character that he is, has never had a bad thing to say about Terry that he hasn’t immediately corrected.
If Terry is to have a flaw in himbodom, impeccable specimen that he is, it is that he is too intelligent. It would be easy to write it off as simply detective-savvy - the man is the sergeant of a major precinct in the largest local police organization in the world, after all - but we see demonstrated time and again that not only is Terry a genuinely intelligent man with a lot to offer in many academic pursuits, he’s actually a huge-ass nerd. A notable instance is the case he insists on solving for the protection of a JRRT-GRRM-esque author that Terry has idolized since his childhood, using the book’s lore and the author’s own professional history to solve the case. Indeed, resident bookworm Amy indicates in one episode that if anyone in the precinct were to solve a particularly hard word-puzzle, it would be either her or Terry. Bold words from someone with more than a dozen organizational binders.
This author’s ambivalence cannot be overstated when we say with certainty: that man is not a himbo.
Total Himbo Score: 21
♡ costumes in the sissi trilogy – 39/50 ♡
sissi’s floral white dress
De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccacio.
A collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361-62. It is the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature. Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) at the same time of his compilation of De Mulieribus Claris.
Herb and Flora Properties
A
Acacia: Exorcism, banishing, money, love, to be burned for alter offering, aiding in psychic powers, meditation, protection
Acorn: Strength, money and wealth, protection
Adam and Eve Roots: (TOXIC) Attract love, happiness
Adders Tongue: Healing, divination
African Violet: Protection, promote spirituality
Agaric: (TOXIC) Encourage fertility
Agrimony: Protection, banish negative energy-entities, reverse spells, break hexes, promotes sleep, psychic protection, returns spells to their senders
Ague Root: Protection, break hexes
Alder: Whistles entice the Elemental earth, water magic, strength
Alfalfa: Abundance, prosperity, money, anti-hunger, frugality, providence, place in the kitchen
Alkanet: Repel negativity, attract prosperity, purification All Heal- Mental powers
Allspice: Money, luck, healing, prosperity when burned, courage, magickal power, love, lust
Almond: Prosperity, success in business ventures, money, wisdom, love, anger management
Aloe: Protection, luck, money, repel evil, healing, beauty, success, peace
Aloes, Wood: Love, spirituality, money, protection Althea - protection, psychic power, attract good spirits
Alyssum: Protection, calm anger
Amaranth: Healing, protection, healing heartbreak, invisibility Amber: Healing
Ambergris: Lust, sex Anemone - health, protection, healing
Angelica: Protection, exorcism, remove curses and hexes, healing, visions, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house, increases life energy bringing warmth of Fire element, wards off negativity when sprinkled around the house
Anise: Divination, psychic awareness, joy, dreams, luck, love, enthusiasm, Winter Solstice, entices the spirits to aid in spells
Apple: Love, healing, garden blessing, buried in the garden on Samhain as food for the departing spirits, to be shared with one you love, immortality, happiness, luck, broken heart, spirit food, the goddess
Apricot: Love
Arabic Gum: Purification, spirituality, protection
Arbutus: Exorcism, protection
Arrowroot: Protection
Asafetida: Purification, protection, exorcism
Ash: Prosperity, protection, healing, love, wands, leaves for prophetic dreams, sea rituals, longevity, peace, luck, purification, study, enhances magic, besom
Aspen: Protection, eloquence, anti-theft
Aster: Love
Astragalus: Fortification, Strength
Avens: Exorcism, love, purification, Exorcism, purification, love
Avocado: Beauty, love, lust
B
Bachelors Buttons: Love
Balm of Gilead: (TOXIC) Love, manifestations, ease a broken heart, protection, healing, love
Bamboo: Protection, luck, break hexes, wishes
Banana: Prosperity, fertility, potency
Banyan: Luck, happiness
Barley: Healing, protection, love
Basil: Exorcism, love, protection, prosperity, wealth, repels negative energy, sympathy, wealth, flying, courage, business, fertility, healing relationships, ensure faithfulness on masses
Bay: Psychic powers, protection, healing, purification, strength, wish magick, wisdom, good luck, fertility, banish negativity, energy, insight, divination, victory, prosperity, employment, mental power, burn for psychic powers
Bayberry: Employment
Bean: Love, protection, exorcism, wart charming, reconciliation, potency
Beech: Creativity, wishes, fertility, balance mental health
Beet: Love
Belladonna: (TOXIC) Visions, astral protection, divination
Benzoin: Purification, prosperity, astral projection, confidence, protection
Bergamot: Success, money, confidence, protection, prosperity, employment, unwanted advances
Be-Still: (TOXIC) Luck
Betony: Love, healing, burn at Litha for purification, protection; place under pillow to be rid of nightmares; sprinkle around doors to ward off despair, psychic awareness
Birch: Purification, protection, exorcism, cleansing, beauty, catalyst, blessing, health, besom, beginnings
Bistort: Fertility, psychic powers
Bittersweet: (TOXIC) Protection, healing, broken heart
Black Cohosh: Courage, love, protection, potency
Black Hellebore: (TOXIC) Invisibility, exorcism, astral projection
Black pepper: Courage, protection
Black Snakeroot - Love, lust, money
Blackberry: Healing, protection, prosperity, money, pies for Lughnassadh
Blackthorn: Returns evil to it's sender
Bladderwrack: Psychic powers, protection, money, water or sea spells, wind spells, travel, psychic Clarity
Bleeding Heart: Love
Blessed Thistle: Protection, animal healing, abundance
Bloodroot: (TOXIC) Love, purification, protection
Bluebell: Luck, truth
Blueberry: Protection
Blue Cohosh Root: Courage, balance, protection
Blue Flag: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, success in business
Bodhi: Wisdom, fertility, protection, meditation
Boneset: Protection, exorcism
Borage: Courage, psychic powers, carry leaves for protection
Bracken: Protection, healing, fertility, prophetic dreams, rune magick
Brazil Nut: Love
Briar: Add to tea for clairvoyant dreams, protection
Briony: (TOXIC) Mage magick, protection, money
Bromeliad: Protection, money
Broom: (TOXIC) Divination, wind spells, purification of the circle, hung indoors for protection
Bryony: (TOXIC) Pleasure, reveal secrets
Buchu: Prophetic dreams, psychic powers
Buckeye: Luck, divination, money, wealth, prosperity, gambling
Buckthorn: Protection, exorcism, wishes, legal matters
Buckwheat: Protection, money
Burdock: Protection, healing, wards off negativity, purifies, protects (washing floors or dried root on red string around the neck), happy home, clears space & holds the space safe, spirit of north
C
Cabbage: Luck
Cactus: Protection, chastity
Calamus: (TOXIC) Luck, protection, healing, money, purification
Calendula: Stress management , opening to the 3rd Chakra, helps energy move outward from center of body extending in all directions
Camellia: Prosperity, wealth, luxury
Camphor: (TOXIC) Healing, divination, chastity, past lives, prophetic dreams, purification, psychic awareness, unwanted advances
Caper: Lust, love, potency
Caraway: Protection, lust, healing, mental powers, repel negativity, psychic healing, vitality, energy, magickal power, anti-theft
Cardamon: Lust, love, burned in love spells and in love sachets
Carnation: Protection, strength, healing, altar offering to the goddess, strength
Carob: Protection, health
Carrot: Fertility, lust, vision, the God aspect
Cascara Sagrada: Protection, money, legal matters
Cashew: Prosperity, money, communication
Cassia: Psychic awareness, spirituality
Castor: (TOXIC) Protection, repel negativity
Catnip: Love, beauty, happiness, power, courage, positive cat magik, friendship, joy, anger management, depression management, familiars
Cat Tail: Lust
Cayenne: Exorcism, healing
Cedar: Healing, purification, money, protection, cleansing, courage, stopping sexual harassment, prosperity, aura field and space
Celandine: Joy, protection, happiness, escape, legal matters, depression management
Celery: Lust, psychic powers, mental clarity, concentration, peace
Centaury: Snake removing
Chamomile: Purification, tranquility, money, sleep-rest (tea), love, luck, meditation, prosperity, incense for the God, gambling, hex breaking, legal matters, peace, dreams, dexterity, protection
Chapparal: Fire element rituals, Protection, Spirit of South
Cherry: Love, divination, burn chips at sabbats, creativity , victory
Chestnut: Love
Chickweed: Love, fidelity
Chicory: Favors, frugality, remove obstacles, invisibility, frigidity, liberation
Chili Pepper: Fidelity, love, break hexes
China Berry: (TOXIC) Luck, change
Chrysanthemum: (TOXIC) Protection
Cilantro: Health
Cinchona: Protection, luck
Cinnamon: Prosperity, success, spirituality, healing, lust, protection, love, psychic powers, passion, power, dreams, strength, astral projection, courage, money, purification, personal empowerment
Cinquefoil: Money, protection, sleep, prophetic dreams, purification, lust, prosperity, divination dreams
Citron: Healing, eaten to increase psychic powers
Civet: Love, lust, sex
Cloth-of-Gold: Animal communication
Clove: Protection, exorcism, purification, love, money, mental clarity, burn for wealth, wards off negativity, counter spells, cleansing, divination, luck, depression management, psychic awareness, prophetic dreams, happiness, gossip
Clover: Success, protection, money, exorcism, love, fidelity, consecration, beauty, luck, youth, healing, faeries, prosperity
Club Moss: Protection, power
Coconut: Purification, protection, chastity, Water
Cohosh, Black: Courage, protection, potency, menopause
Coltsfoot: Love, psychic visions, healing, wealth, prosperity
Columbine: Courage, love
Comfrey: (TOXIC) Money, root or leaves for healing, carry for safe travel, protection, stress management, safe Journeys (Worldly or through Meditation) , Winter Solstice
Copal: Love, purification, exorcism, protection, spirituality, earth element, sets sacred space, allows guides and guidance to come
Coriander: Love, health, healing, protection, longevity
Corn: Divination, protection, luck, money
Cornflower: Psychism
Cornsilk: Water element, stimulates flow
Cotton: Luck, healing, protection
Cowslip: Youth, healing, treasure finding, luck, love, psychic dreams
Crocus: Love, visions, wisdom
Cubeb: Love
Cuckoo-Flower: Love, fertility
Cucumber: Healing, fertility, chastity
Cumin: Exorcism, protection, prevents theft, fidelity, love
Curry: Protection, exorcism
Cyclamen: Fertility, protection, happiness, lust, broken heart
Cypress: Healing, protection, comfort, longevity, peace, sleep, liberation
D
Daffodil: Love, luck, fertility
Daisy: Love, lust, Luck, depression management, faeries and elves, happiness
Damiana: Divination, love, lust, sex magick, dreams, visions, psychic powers, opens door between worlds
Dandelion Leaf and Root: Purification, divination, wishes, calling spirits
Date Palm: Potency, fertility
Datura: (TOXIC) Protection, sleep, break hexes
Deerstongue: (TOXIC) Lust, psychic powers, gossip management
Devil's Bit: Love, protection, luck, exorcism
Devil's Shoestring: Protection, luck, gambling, power, employment
Dill: Love, lust, seeds draw money, leaves for protection, flowers for love
Dittany of Crete: Manifestations, astral projection
Dock: Money, healing, fertility
Dodder: Love divination, knot magic
Dogbane: Love
Dogwood: Protection, wishes
Dong Quai, Slices: Health, vitality, fire element rituals
Dragons Blood: Power, protection, exorcism, potency, love, courage, fortune, catalyst, magick power, strength, purification, stimulates action of other herbs in incense blend, stimulates movement of energy
Dulse: Harmony, lust
Dutchman's Breeches: Love
E
Ebony: Protection, power
Echinacea: Strengthening spells, health, strength, wards off negativity or undesirable energies
Edelweiss: Invisibility, bullet-proofing
Elder: (CAUTION: SEEDS ARE POISONOUS, TOXIC) Money, wishes, theft protection, exorcism, healing, prosperity, sleep, wards negative thoughts when used as wind chimes, blessings, do not burn the wood of elder for it is sacred to Hecate, see fairies in the trees at Litha, flowers used as an alter offering, berries for esbat wine, flowers added to candle spells directed at hecate during the new moon, cleansing, offering
Elderberries: Prosperity, protection, sleep, joy, visions, banishing, energy, ancient wisdom, contactwith elementals, invoke magic
Elderflower: Purifying, healing
Elecampane: Love, protection, psychic powers, anger management
Elm: Protection, love, attracts elves
Endive: Love, lust
Eryngo: Peace, love, lust, traveler's luck
Eucalyptus: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, joy, purification, air element rituals
Euphorbia: (TOXIC) Protection, purification
Eyebright: Joy, psychic powers, mental clarity, mental ability and clarity, visions
F
False Unicorn Root: Connection to magical realm, contains energy and intention
Fennel: Protection, exorcism, healing, purification, virility, sacred to the God, hung over doors at Litha, strength, courage, money
Fennel Seed: Stimulates movement
Fenugreek: Prosperity, wealth, money, mental powers, clearing
Fern: (TOXIC) Money, wealth, eternal youth, protection, outside for rain, luck, riches, health, exorcism
Feverfew: Protection, wards sickness, wards accidents in traffic
Fig: Divination, fertility, love
Figwort: Protection, health
Fir: Health, prosperity, birth and rebirth
Flax: Luck, money, protection, purification, beauty, psychic powers, healing, health, initiates flow
Fleabane: Exorcism, protection, chastity
Forget-Me-Not: Mental powers
Foxglove: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Faeries and elves, lust, grow in garden for protection of the house and yard
Fragrant Bedstraw: Love
Frankincense: Exorcism, purification, protection, spirituality, power, meditation, blessing, concentration, banishing, courage, divination, healing, love, purification, consecration, sets sacred space, sets safe space for guides to come in, spirit of east or north
Fumitory: Money, exorcism
Furz/egorse: Burn at Ostara for protection and as a preparation for any conflict
Fuzzy Weed: Love, hunting
G
Galangal: Protection, legal matters, lust, health, money, psychic powers, break hexes, energy, strength, courage
Gardenia: Love, peace, healing, spirituality, psychic awareness
Garlic: Protection, healing, health, exorcism, lust sacred to Hecate, flowers for altar offerings, cloves for protection, anti-theft, wishes, relief from nightmares
Gentian: Power, love, break hexes, wishes, theft
Geranium: (TOXIC) Courage, abundance, health, love, protection, fertility
Giant Vetch: Fidelity
Ginger: Love, money, success, power, aphrodisiac, psychic ability, apathy, lust, good health, magickal power, fire element rituals, brings into existence, bringer of the manifestation, 3rd chakra vitality, inner strength, stimulates flow of energy, spirit of south
Ginseng: Longevity, sexual potency, protection, healing, love, lust, wishes, beauty, vitality, fertility, desire, encourages a long lasting affect, strength
Goat's Rue: Healing, health
Goldenrod: Prosperity, money, divination, luck
Goldenseal: Money, healing
Gorse: Protection, money
Gotu Kola: Meditation
Gourd: Protection
Grain: Protection
Grains of Paradise: Love, lust, luck, money, wishes
Grape: Mental clarity, money, fertility, garden magick, happiness
Grass: Psychic powers, protection
Ground Ivy: Divination
Groundsel: Health, healing
Gum Mastic: Magickal power
H
Hawthorn: Happiness, fertility, powerful wands, protection, chastity, fishing magick, faeries and elves, purification, business, depression management, purity, cleansing
Hawthorne Berries: 4th chakra strength and vitality, love, contentment
Hazel: Luck, fertility, protection, wishes, nuts strung on cord in house or ritual room to invite the help of plant fairies, used for wands, healing, anti-lightning, love, aphrodisiac, wisdom, divination, mental powers, intelligence, inspiration
Heather: Luck, protection, red to start or end an affair, white for protection, purple for spiritual development, use at samhain to invite spirits to visit, rain making, spirituality
'Heliotrope: (TOXIC) Exorcism, prophetic dreams, healing, wealth, invisibility, money, spirituality, prosperity, psychic awareness
Hellebore, Black: (TOXIC) Protection
Hemlock: (TOXIC) Astral projection, diminish libido, power, purification, charging, alignment
Hemp: Healing, love, visions, meditation
Henbane: (TOXIC) Love, luck, divination, invisibility
Henna: Healing, health, love, change, dying material
Hibiscus: Love, lust, divination, 5th Chakra
Hickory: Legal matters
High John the Conqueror: (TOXIC) Strength, confidence, health, love, money, success, happiness, break hexes, increase strength, legal matters, anointing, victory
Holly Thistle: Purification, break hexes
Holly: Protection, luck, dream magic, anti-lightning, balance, dreams, enhances magic, holiness, consecration, beauty
Honesty: Money, protection
Honeysuckle: Protection, money, psychic powers, confidence, broken heart, luck, happiness, healing, depression management
Hops: Healing, sleep, stress management, opens the channel in and out of the body in relationship with the universe
Horehound: Exorcism, healing, purification, protection, mental clarity, balance, banishing, opens air element within body & in the world, opens channel for clear communication
Horse Chestnut: (TOXIC) Healing, money
Horseradish: Exorcism, purification
Horsetail: Fertility
Houseleek: Love, luck, protection
Huckleberry: Protection, luck, dream magic, break hexes
Hyacinth: (TOXIC) Business, court cases, sleep, depression management, love, protection, happiness
Hydrangea: Break hexes
Hyssop: Healing, protection, purification, wards negativity, prosperity, money, banishing, dragon energy
I
Indian Paint Brush: Love
Iris: Purification, wisdom, courage, reincarnation, spirituality, happiness
Irish Moss: Luck, money, protection, opens throat, opens channel for clear communication
Ivy: (TOXIC) Divination, protection, healing, fertility, love, fidelity
J
Jasmine: Divination, love, money, prophetic dreams, sleep, prosperity, spirituality, visions, confidence, broken heart, astral projection, business, court cases
Jimson Weed: Protect against evil spirits
Job's Tears: Luck, wishes, healing
Joe-Pye Weed: Love, respect
Juniper: Protection, love, exorcism, health, anti-theft, banishing, peace, wishes, aphrodisiacs, sets sacred space, spirit of north
K
Kava Kava: Lust, protection while traveling, astral projection, visions, luck, visions, protection, love, opens one to receiving guidance and guides
Kelp: Wind spells, psychic powers, protection, connection to divine source through the physical and spiritual, unity, life-force strengthening, spirit of center
Knotweed: Health, binding spells, protection
L
Lady's Mantle: Love, self control
Lady's Slipper: Protection
Larch: Protection, anti-theft
Larkspur: Protection, health
Lavender: Protection, call in good spirits, love, sleep, longevity, happiness, peace, healing, burn for purification, peace, use in bath for purification, burn at Litha as an offering, psychic awareness, chastity, liberation, menopause, childbirth, grief or loss, youthful vigor, stress management, travel, anger management, attracts elves
Leek: Exorcism, love, protection
Lemon: Purification, love, friendship, longevity, cleansing, healing, peace, success, broken heart, anger management, devotion
Lemon Balm: Love, success, healing, depression management, aphrodisiac, soothe emotional pain after relationship ends
Lemon Verbena: Protection, purification, love, power, beauty, youth, happiness, peace, mental and emotional balance, summer solstice
Lemongrass: Psychic powers, mental clarity, lust, repel snakes
Lettuce: Love divination, sleep, protection, chastity, luck
Licorice: Love, lust, fidelity, aphrodisiac, meditation, harmony
Life-Everlasting: Health, healing, longevity
Lilac: Eorcism, protection, purification, beauty, love, peace, psychic awareness
Lily: Protection, exorcism, repel negativity, truth, break love spells, strength, purification, breaking hexes
Lily of the Valley: (TOXIC) Mental clarity, happiness, insight, depression management, peace
Lime: Healing, love, protection, cleansing, happiness, purification
Linden: Healing, protection, luck, love, sleep, bark for protection, leaves and flowers for immortality, good fortune, youth, attraction, longevity
Liquid Amber: Protection
Liverwort: Love, protection
Lobelia - (TOXIC) healing, love
Loosestrife: Peace, protection, harmony, purple restores harmony and brings peace
Lotus: Protection, spirituality, love, lock opening, liberation, mental powers
Lovage: Love, attraction, cleansing, purification
Love Seed: Love, friendship
Lucky Hand: Protection, luck, money, travel, employment
M
Mace: Psychic powers, mental clarity, divination'
Maguey: Lust
Magnolia: Fidelity, past lives, peace, sex, broken heart, beauty, wisdom
Mahogany, Mountain: Anti-lightning
Maidenhair: Beauty, love
Male Fern: Luck, love
Mallow: Love, protection, exorcism
Mandrake: (TOXIC) potency, exorcism, protection, fertility, money, love, health, protection, catalyst, prosperity, divination, increase psychic powers, aphrodisiacs, cursing enemies, building, banishing, protection in the subconscious, unconscious and underworld,
Maple: Money, longevity, love
Marigold: Prophetic dreams, protection, legal matters, marriage spells, enhanced psychic powers, pick in full sun, business and legal matters, clairvoyant dreams, mixed with water and rubbed on the eyelids to see fairies
Marjoram: Protection, love, happiness, health, money, depression management, prosperity
Marshmallow: Healing, friendship, boundaries, love, protection, strength, emotional balance'
Masterwort: Protection, strength, courage
Mastic: Psychic powers, lust, manifestations, love, magick power
May Apple: (TOXIC) Money, prosperity
Meadow Rue: Love, divination
Meadowsweet: Love, divination, peace, happiness, harmony, 3rd chakra
Mesquite: Healing
Milk Thistle: Creativity, protection, dispel, transformation
Mimosa: Love, protection, prophetic dreams, purification, past lives, visions
Mint: Exorcism, protection, money, lust, healing, travel, alter offering for helpful spirits , love, luck, anger management, dreams, abundance, prosperity, rejuvenation
Mistletoe: (TOXIC) Healing, protection, love, fertility, health, exorcism, hunting, success, catalyst, lust, liberation, sexual potency
Molukka: Protection
Moonflower: Liberation
Moonwort: Love, money, divination
Morning Glory: (TOXIC) Peace, happiness, depression management
Moss: Luck, money
Motherwort: Balances within, self empowerment, 2nd chakra
Mugwort: Astral projection, strength, psychic powers, protection, prophetic dreams, healing, divination, rub fresh herb on crystal balls and magick mirrors to increase their strength, pick on full moon night, clairvoyance, purification, sex, renewal, fertility, clearing, sleep, visions, opens one to the teachings of the subconscious and unconscious self, 6th and 7th chakras
Mulberry: Protection, strength
Mullein: Exorcism, health, protection, courage, love divination, calling spirits, dreams, opens life energy flow through the body
Musk: Purification, sex
Mustard: Fertility, protection, mental clarity, health, money
Myrrh: Spirituality, purification, protection, healing, exorcism, wards negativity, burn for purification and consecrations, banishing, sets sacred space, ancient wisdom
Myrtle: Peace, money, love, youth, fertility, sleep, healing, prosperity
N
Narcissus: Peace
Nasturtium: Healing
Neroli: Love
Nettle: Exorcism, protection, healing, lust, abundance, 3rd and 6th chakra, banishing, stress management, gossip management
Niaouli: Protection
Norfolk Island Pine: Protection, anti-hunger
Nutmeg: Protection, money, health, luck, fidelity, break hexes, burn for prosperity, love, psychic awareness, relief from nightmares
Nuts: Fertility, prosperity, love, luck, use for tips on wands, gifts, communication
O
Oak: Protection, health, money, healing, potency, fertility, luck, the God, wands, burn leaves to purify the atmosphere, acorns draw money, burn wood for good health, acorns draw money, power, balance, prosperity
Oak Moss: Court cases, money, protection
Oats: Money, offering to the god, stress management
Oleander: (TOXIC) Love
Olive: Healing, peace, fertility, potency, protection, lust, victory, spirituality
Onion: Exorcism, healing, protection, purification, money, prophetic dreams, lust
Orange: Love, divination, luck, money
Orange Bergamot: Prosperity, success, energy, joy, friendship, success, prosperity, psychic awareness, peels for love, incense for good fortune
Orchid: Love, psychic powers
Oregon Grape: Money, prosperity
Orris: Divination, protection, love, prosperity, money, clairvoyance, sex, psychic awareness
P
Palmarosa: Hhealing, love
Palm Date: Fertility, potency
Pansy: Love, divination, rain magick, mental powers, strength
Papay: Protection, love, wishes
Papyrus: Protection, wisdom, self-insight
Parosela: Hunting
Parsley: Purification, protection, lust, love, fertility, prosperity
Passion Flower: Peace, sleep, friendships prosperity, increase libido, popularity, anger management, stress management
Patchouli: Money, fertility, lust, break hexes, incense for drawing money, earth, underworld, business, confidence, court cases, love, desire, prosperity, protection, success, sex, enemies
PAU D'ARCO: Fertility, wards off negativity, clears
Pea: Money, love
Peach: Exorcism, love, fertility, wishes, longevity, broken heart, youth
Pear: Love, lust
Pecan: Money, employment, prosperity, dreams, discipline
Pennyroyal: Exorcism, consecration, strength, protection, peace, healing
Peony: Exorcism, protection, purification
Pepper: Exorcism, protection, use in amulets or grow for protection, wards negativity
Peppermint: Purification, sleep, love, healing, psychic powers, divination, money, apathy, exorcism, insight, lust, menopause, clears energy and space
Pepper Tree: Protection, purification, healing
Periwinkle: (TOXIC) Protection, money, love, lust, mental clarity
Persimmon: Healing, luck, changing sex, insight into others
Petitgrain: Protection
Pilot Weed: Protection
Pimento: Love
Pimpernel: Protection, health
Pine: (TOXIC) Protection, exorcism, money, healing, fertility, brush outdoor ritual area with a branch to purify and sanctify, burn for cleansing, needles in money spells, spirituality, gambling, dreams, cleansing, banishing, purification, prosperity, employment, birth, rebirth, strength, life and immortality
Pineapple: Luck, money, chastity, hospitality, protection
Pipsissewa: Money, calling in good spirits
Pistachio: Breaking love spells
Plantain: Protection, healing, strength, snake repelling
Plum: Protection, love, healing, self-confidence
Plumeria: (TOXIC) Love
Poke: (TOXIC) Courage, break hexes
Pomegranate: Divination, luck, wealth, wishes, fertility
Poplar: Money, astral projection, success
Poppy: Fertility, love, sleep, money, luck, healing, invisibility
Potato: Healing, image magick, astral projection, separation, foundations, earth energy
Prickly Ash: Love
Primrose: Protection, love
Purslane: Protection, love, happiness, luck, sleep
Q
Quassia: Love
Queen of the Meadow: Power, protection
Quince: Protection, love, happiness
R
Radish: Protection, lust
Ragweed: Courage, faeries and elves
Ragwort: Protection
Raspberry: Healing, visions, protection, love, alleviates labor pains, spirit of center, spring equinox
Rattlesnake Root: Protection, money
Red Clover Blossoms: Abundance, love, money, protection, success, summer solstice
Red Root: Clears energy, dispels
Rhubarb: Health, protection, fidelity
Rice: Protection, money, fertility, rain, blessings, weather magick
Roots: Protection, divination, power
Rose: Beauty, protection, purification, love, psychic powers, healing, divination, peace, luck, courage, catalyst, sex, sleep, prophetic dreams, anger management, love divination, abundance, attraction, prosperity
Rose Geranium: Protection
Rose Hips: Healing, luck, call in good spirits, abundance, strength, fall equinox ceremony
Rosemary: Exorcism, protection, healing, love, lust, mental clarity, sleep, youth, burn for purification, wards negativity, love, blessing, consecration, cleansing, strength, wishes, dreams, beauty, theft, healing, psychic ability, spirit of south, grow to attract elves, blessing
Rowan: Protection, success, psychic powers, healing, power, wands and amulets for knowledge, incense of leaves and berries for divination, fires to call upon spirits for help, grow for protection of the home, inspiration, wisdom, enhances magic, attracts faeries
Rue: Exorcism, protection, purification, break hexes, health, mental clarity, healing, blessing, consecration, use in altar oil, love, money and wealth, gossip management
Rye: Love, fidelity
S
Saffron: Love, lust, healing, strength, happiness, psychic powers, wind raising, depression management
Sage: Purification, protection, wisdom, longevity, wishes, health, immortality, intuition, divination, luck, prosperity, money, spirituality, menopause, psychic ability, clears, inner guide, longevity, vision
Sagebrush: Exorcism, protection, purification, joy, peace
St. John's Wort: (TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, courage, strength, happiness, health, love divination, burn at Litha to send away negativity, wear for invincibility, willpower, gathered at Litha, power, stress management
Saltpeter: Unwanted advances
Sandalwood: Protection, exorcism, purification, wishes, healing, spirituality, full moon esbats, wards negativity, spirit offering, luck, sex, banishing, astral projection, business, success, mental powers
Sarsaparilla: Love, money, inner strength, grounding, purification
Sassafras: Money, health, healing
Senna: Love
Serpentaria Root: Love, aphrodisiacs
Sesame: Money, success in business, lust, happiness, gambling
Shallot: Purification
Shamrocks: Faeries and elves
Shepherds Purse: Sleep, depression management, healing
Skullcap: Peace, love, fidelity, stress management, anxiety management
Skunk Cabbage: Good fortune, legal matters, legal matters
Slippery Elm: Halts gossip, aids verbal communication and development, enemies, friendship, ends disputes
Sloe: Exorcism, protection, banish negative energy/entities
Snakeroot: Money, luck, break hexes, love, lust
Snapdragon: Protection, break hexes, exorcism, prophetic dreams, prosperity, gossip management, money and wealth
Solomon's Seal: Love, exorcism, protection, an offering to the elementals for their aid
Sorrel, Wood: Healing, health
Southernwood: Love, lust, protection, faeries and elves
Spanish Moss: Protection
Spearmint: Healing, love, mental clarity
Spiderwort: Love
Spikenard: Health, fidelity, love, luck, strength, wisdom, mental powers
Squill: Protection, money, break hexes, business
Star Anise: Psychic powers, luck, good fortune, spiritual powers
Stephanotis: Lust
Stillengia: Psychic powers
Straw: Luck, attracts fairies, do not burn magik infused straw, it will bring ill-fortune, used as an image to protect an area, image magick, fertility
Strawberry: Love, luck, joy, broken heart
Sugar Cane: Love, lust, prosperity, sympathy
Sumbul: Psychic powers, love, luck, health
Summer Savory: Mental clarity and strength, mental powers
Sunflower: Wisdom, health, wishes, fertility, happiness, friendship, prosperity
Sweetgrass: Calling in good spirits, bringer of positive energy, clears, seals In, burned after white sage which clears, spirit of east
Sweetpea: Strength, courage, friendship, chastity, truth, love
T
Tamarind: Love
Tamarisk: Exorcism, protection
Tangerine: Magickal power
Tansy: Healing, health, longevity
Tea: Strength, courage, prosperity, riches, health
Thistle, Holly: Purification, hex breaking
Thistle, Milk: Exorcism, protection, healing, strength, break hexes, snake enraging
Thyme: Purification, courage, psychic powers, sleep, wards negativity, burn for purification, and healing spells, love, renewal, youth, divination, prophetic dreams, faery folk, romance
Ti: Protection, healing
Toadflax: Protection, break hexes
Toadstool: (TOXIC) Rain making
Tobacco: (TOXIC) Healing, purification, offerings
Tomato: Protection, prosperity, love
Tonka: (TOXIC) Courage, love, money, wishes, luck, friendship, prosperity
Tormentil: Protection, love
Trefoil: Decorate alter, protection, luck, when taking one, leave a bit of ginger or milk poured into the ground as payment to the fairies
Trillium: Love, luck, money
Tuberose: Love, lust, peace, psychic awareness
Tulip: Protection, prosperity, love
Turmeric: Purification (used with sea salt), fortification, strength, clears aggression
Turnip: Protection, endings, banish negativity
U
Uva Ursa: (TOXIC) Psychic powers
V
Valerian: Protection, purification, love, sleep, prophetic dreams, peace, sex, friendship, anxiety management, self esteem
Vanilla: Love, lust, mental clarity, money, confidence, attracting people, magickal power, prosperity, success, wishes
Venus Flytrap: Protection, love
Vervain: Sleep, protection, purification, love, money, peace, healing, gather/burn at Litha, altar offering, brings riches, creativity, wards psychic attack, youth, chastity, astral projection, unwanted advances, anger management, prosperity
Vetch, Giant: Fidelity
Vetivert: Love, luck, money, break hexes, wards negativity, anti-theft, exorcism, wishes, peace, protection, prosperity, divination
Violet: Protection, healing, love, lust, luck, wishes, peace, sleep, insight, visions
W
Wahoo: (TOXIC) Courage, success, break hexes
Walnut: Health, mental clarity, wishes, infertility, spirituality, travel
Watercress: Healing
Wax Plant: Protection, power
Wheat: Money, fertility, prosperity
White Willow Bark: Healing, blessings, binding, sacred earth connection between human and earth and spirit, protection, spirit of east
Wild Lettuce: Love divination, protection, sleep, opens to the deeper consciousness, attunes to deeper meanings
Wild Plum: Healing
Wild Yam: Fortification, grounding, release, 1st chakra
Willow: Protection, healing, love, burn bark with sandalwood for divination, vitality, energy, ending pain, moon magic, wishing, spirits, death passage, besom, inspiration, pyschic energy
Wintergreen: Protection, healing, break hexes, strength, good fortune, opens channels
Winter's Bark: Success
Wisteria: Spirituality
Witch Grass: Exorcism, happiness, love, lust
Witch Hazel: Protection, chastity, healing, beauty, unwanted advances
Wolf's Bane: (TOXIC) Protection, invisibility
Wood Betony: Love, purification, protection
Wood Rose: Luck
Wood Sorrel: Healing, health
Woodruff: Protection, money, victory, add to Beltane wine to clear away barriers, success, changes, psychic awareness, prosperity
Wormwood: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, BURN IN WELL VENTILATED AREA, PREFERABLY OUTDOORS TOXIC) Exorcism, protection, love, psychic powers, calling spirits, protection while traveling, evocation, divination, scrying (stronger when combined with Mugwort) at Samhain, sacred to the moon, good luck, clairvoyance, divination, safety in cars
Y
Yarrow: Hhealing, divination, exorcism, protection, courage, love, psychic powers, happy marriage (wedding bouquet), wards negativity, defense, protection, gather at Litha, happiness, fidelity, broken heart, prophetic dreams, spirit of south, clears, stimulates movement
Yellowdock Root: Clears stuck energy, fortification
Yellow Evening Primrose: Hunting
Yerba Mate: Love, lust, fidelity
Yerba Santa: Protection, healing, psychic powers, beauty, clears channel to divine life force
Yew: (CAUTION: POISONOUS, TOXIC) Yule symbol for death and rebirth, used for dagger handles, raising the dead, psychic awareness, spirits
Ylang Ylang: Insight, love, past lives, peace, sex, visions
Yohimbe: (TOXIC) Love, lust
Yucca: Protection, purification, transmutation
Little Dark Age - Foreign animation These are the foreign animations that deserved love. A response to Oscar. Version: Vimeo GD Youtube (Extended)
Song: Little Dark Age - MGMT Inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae1m2Z6fQ0&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwlCXVujrWE&t=28s
List of the clips (including overlays): Breadwinner Song of The Sea The Secret of Kells The Phantom Boy The Illusionist Birdboy: The Forgotten Children The Swallow of Kabul Klaus The King of Pigs The Congress Waltz with Bashir The Tragedy of Man April and The Extraordinary World Calamity, A Childhood of martha Jane Cannary The Bear’s Famous Invasion of Sicily. Flee Johnny Corncob Son of The White Mare Wolfwalker Yellow Submarine Where is Anne Frank? The Swallows of Kabul Have A Nice Day Gandahar The Time Masters Fantastic Planet The Triplet of Belleville The Rabbi’s Cat Nocturna The Cat in Paris Felidae Plague Dogs Watership Down The Prophet Chico and Rita Another Day of Life MFKZ Funan Cinderella The Cat The King and The Mockingbird I Lost My Body Kirikou and The Sorceress The Crossing Marona’s Fantastic Tales Long Way North Josep Mia and The Migoo The Summit of Gods Ernest and Celestine Eleanor’s Secret My Life as a Courgette Aya of Yop City One Night In City The Big Bad Fox and the Other Tales Ruben Brandt Collector The Painting Loving Vincent Azur and Asmar The Red Turtles Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles Crulic Allegro Non Troppo The Nose or The Conspiracy of Maverick Wrinkles My Sunny Maad Ethel and Ernest
Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"
Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective
Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos
The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities
Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona
we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name
MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch
In Search Of A Flat Earth
Envy
The Commodification of Black Athletes
The Lies Of The Lighthouse
The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity
Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
Time Loop Nihilism
How Bisexuality Changed Video Games
The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)
Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline
The True Horror Of Midsommar
a few more -
You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)
Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History
It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY
Adaptation.
The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
Music Theory and White Supremacy
Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕
Oscar Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony, 1882.
These photographs were taken in January of 1882, when Wilde had first arrived in America for his year long lecture tour. All were taken in the studio of the most famous portrait photographer of the time, Canadian born Napoleon Sarony. The various furs, capes, velvet jackets, and stockings Wilde wore for the photo shoot reflected the attire he would wear to his lectures.
It certainly surprised me when I found out that the majority of Wilde’s most iconic images came from the same session, and were taken in the U.S. when Wilde had only published a yet to be produced play, Vera; or, the Nihilists, and a single book of verse (which Wilde can be seen holding in the first and second photographs).
ANGELS WINGS in movies & tv-series :
Passion Play (2010) Dogma (1999) Hellboy 2 (2008) Supernatural (2005-2020) Good Omens (2019) Constantine (2005) Lucifer (2015—) Date with an Angel (1987) Legion (2010) Dominion (2014-2015) Wings of Desire (1987) Michael (1996) Angels in America (2003)
horror movies / paintings
ginger snaps / ilya repin
dean cornwell / hannibal
the exorcist / rené magritte
francis bacon / alien
the blackcoat’s daughter / dean cornwell
georges roux / crimson peak
ready or not / gustave moreau
rené magritte / evil dead 2
saw / jenő gyárfás
john singer sargent / the loved ones
Dido Belle and Jane Austen's Fanny Price
With the critical success of the new film Belle, there’s a lot of interest in the life of its heroine, Dido Belle. Many have even hailed the movie as as Austen-esque, with it being centered around a headstrong, 18th century woman who doesn’t quite fit in with her stuffier surroundings. And yet, there is quite a bit of (circumstantial) evidence that suggests that it was Jane Austen who was inspired by Dido’s story for her novel, Mansfield Park.
About a year ago, I wrote a research paper on the historical and literary events that may have influenced Austen’s Mansfield Park. If you’re interested in the subject, here’s some excerpts from that paper, including some of the sources I used:
“Historically speaking, the characters of Fanny Price and the Lord and Lady Betram seem to have been loosely based on the life of Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Admiral and African slave, who was sent to live with her uncle in England…
There is evidence to back up the fact that Austen knew about the life of Dido Belle and the Mansfield family. Lord Mansfield was a Lord Chief Justice and a distinguished figure of society, whose “public image…[was] of a brilliant judge and a man of impeccable integrity… famous for his silver-tongued oratory” (Adams 1). In 1772, he made a controversial decision in the case of a black man, James Somerset, who was being forced to leave England to be sent back the American colonies as a slave. Lord Mansfield ruled in Somerset’s favor, essentially freeing the man from his enslaved state. This case became “widely interpreted to mean that all enslaved people in England must be ‘discharged’… [giving] great momentum to the movement of abolition”(Jones). The circumstances of this case is believed to have partially influenced William Cowper’s poem The Task, a poet whom Austen is known to have read and alluded to in several of her books, including Mansfield Park (Pemberly). Christine Kenyon Jones, in her essay “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family,” sees the following lines as evidence of Mansfield’s ruling as being influential in Cowper’s writing: We have no slaves at home—then why abroad? And they themselves, once ferried o’er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall. (2.37-42) The imagery of the first line compares “slaves at home” to slaves “abroad,” making the case that it is hypocritical to want one’s own immediate surroundings to have the appearance of moral uprightness, while simultaneously profiting from slavery abroad and away from view. One can apply this to Mansfield’s own household, as well as Sir Thomas’ in Mansfield Park: once Sir Thomas returns from his plantation in Antigua that he desires to treat Fanny as an equal instead of as the kind of servant she is used to being treated as; likewise, it was widely speculated at the time that Mansfield’s ruling was partly influenced by the presence of his niece, Dido, who was, after all, the product of his own nephew’s capture of a slave woman and taking sexual advantage of her. That is, his first-hand experience with slavery and its effects may have given him a fuller perspective of the horrors of enslaving human beings.
In addition to the possibility of Austen being influenced by Cowper’s poem and Lord Mansfield’s reputation, she was also acquainted with Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton, who was the cousin and childhood companion of Dido Elizabeth Bell. Citing Austen’s letters as evidence, Jones suggests that her association with Lady Elizabeth inspired the “elegant-but-dumb” character of Lady Bertram of Mansfield Park and even Lady Middleton from Sense and Sensibility. In a letter to her sister Cassandra, Austen imparts her meeting of the Hattons in August of 1805: “Fortune was also very civil to me in placing Mr. E. Hatton by me at dinner. I have discovered that Ly. Elizth for a woman of her age & situation, has astonishingly little to say for herself…” (CE, #45). Jones believes that Austen’s remarks suggest that “she was aware of Lady Elizabeth’s ancestry and origins, and was disappointed not to find her a more interesting person or forthcoming I conversation.” In her later letters, however, this disappointment in Lady Elizabeth’s lack of personality becomes amusement for Jane and Cassandra, just as Lady Bertram’s presence in Mansfield Park provides comic relief. In another letter, Austen briefly mentions her with some mocking: “Lady Eliz. Hatton & Anna-maria called here this morng;-Yes, they called,-but I do not think I can say anything more about them. They came & they sat & they went” (CE, #91). Here, Lady Elizabeth’s presence is mute and unremarkable; yet despite her seeming lack of personality, Austen mentions her several times in her letters in much the same way, suggesting that while colorless and dull, she was worth mentioning for this same reason. In Mansfield Park, nearly every mention of Lady Bertram is irrelevant and unrelated to the plot—she is referenced as a side note or afterthought.
Austen often mentions her in terms of her non-presence, as in her unenthusiastic, almost lifeless responses to the events that occur around her. Often, “Lady Bertram [makes] no objection” (89), “[makes] no opposition”(41) or is “perfectly quiescent and contented, and with no objections to make” (264). Austen seems to be consciously making correlations between Lady Elizabeth and Lady Bertram. The luxurious lifestyle of both women contrasts greatly next to their relationship with their less fortunate relatives, Dido and Fanny, and the similarities of their stories do not seem coincidental. It is almost a certainty that Austen knew of Dido Belle’s story, and makes use of it in her creation of the character of Fanny Price.
Dido Belle and Fanny Price have a lot in common. Both begin life with disadvantages. While Fanny is born into a poor, overcrowded household, Dido was born to a slave. Both girls were sent to live with wealthy relatives who could better provide for them. Because of her mixed-race status, Dido’s role at Kenwood was rather unclear, much like Fanny’s presence at Mansfield. When Fanny arrives to Mansfield, she is made to believe herself unequal to her cousins, and is treated like a servant by Mrs. Norris and Lady Bertram. An invitation to live with rich relatives should have been a privilege to appreciate, but as Christine Kenyon Jones points out, Fanny is, at first, made to feel reliant on their benevolence. Jones explains that though Fanny receives “the advantages of comfort, wealth, and education…Fanny was a poor relation whose status at Mansfield was unregulated and totally dependent upon the good-will and affection of those around her.” Dido Belle, while given better treatment than most slaves or even servants, was still considered unequal to her cousin, Lady Elizabeth, who also lived at Kenwood. Thomas Hutchinson, an American who visited Kenwood, made detailed observations of Dido Belle in a 1779 diary entry. At one point, he speculates that Dido is some kind of glorified servant: “And she was called upon by my Lord every minute for this thing and that, and shewed the greatest attention everything he said” (Adams). Jones concludes her argument for the connection between Dido and Fanny: “While neither the novel nor the painting is ‘about’ slavery, both evidently allude to its effects and probe the uncomfortable realities of inequality, power, and obligation concealed beneath the smooth surface of family representation.” Austen’s allusion to Dido’s life adds depth to Mansfield Park beyond its rags-to-riches storyline.”
Works Cited:
Adams, Gene. “Dido Elizabeth Belle: A Girl at Kenwood.” Camden History Review 12 (1988). Web.
Jones, Christine Kenyon. “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family.” Persuasions Online 31.1 (2010). Web.
Slavery and Justice at Kenwood House. n.d. Web.
(To cite my essay, please refer to MLA handbook and use “Violet Pamplempousse” as the author)
Rations for various RPG Races
[[ Source. Original creator: wats6831. Additional information and images linked under each one. ]]
Universal:
Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.
Discussion thread here.
Dwarf:
Garlic chicken livers, smoked and peppered cheese, spiced pork sausages, hard tack, dried vegetables, dried wild mushrooms.
Discussion thread here.
Elf:
Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.
Discussion thread here.
Halfling:
From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.
Discussion thread here.
Half-Orc:
Wrapped in cheesecloth and tied in burlap package. Forest strider drumsticks, molasses sweet wheat bread “black strap”, aged Munster, hard boiled eggs, mixed wild nuts.
Discussion thread here.
Orc:
Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].
More images here. Discussion thread here.
Gnome:
Pan fried Delimbyr smelt, spiced goat cheese (paprika crusted hand pressed Fontina), Gnome shortbread (savory pistachio), glass travel jar filled with Secomber Red (wine), hard boiled quail eggs packed in rolled oats (to keep safe), dried figs from Calimshan, and Southwood smoked goat sausage (blood sausage).
More images here. Discussion thread here.
Lizardfolk:
Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!
More images here. Discussion thread here.
Drow:
From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).
More images here. Discussion thread here.
This book in Hannibal’s kitchen is Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck, volume 1.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is the result of a collaboration among Julia Child , Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, illustrator Sidonie Coryn, and Paul Cushing Child (Child’s husband), and was the impetus for Child’s long and successful career as a pioneering television chef.
Julia Child’s goal was to adapt classic French cuisine for mainstream Americans. The collaboration of this cookbook proved groundbreaking and has since become a standard guide for the culinary community. Mastering Volume 1 was originally published in 1961 after some early difficulties. Volume 1 was a broad survey of French flavors and techniques, and grew out of the work the three women had done for their Paris cooking school, “L'École des trois gourmandes”. Mastering Volume 2, released in 1970, again a collaboration between Julia Child and Simone Beck but not Louisette Bertholle with whom the professional relationship had ended, expanded on certain topics of interest that had not been covered as completely as the three had planned to in the first volume (particularly baking and charcuterie).
Taken together, the two volumes are considered one of the most influential works in American cookbook history. Julia Child has long been accorded near-universal respect in the cooking world, in part due to the influence of these books.
Sending love and puppies to xshiromorix for identifying the book. :-)
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All books in Hannibal are here.
Matilda —¿Siempre es así de dura la vida o nada más cuando se es chico?
León— Siempre es así.
📽 : The Professional (1994)
The River
Directed by Joelle Grace Taylor and Laura Estrada Jewelry, featured in French Fries Magazine.
disco magic 💃⭐️🍸 a playlist for a funky night out (click here to listen)
you should be dancing - bee gees (1976) | hot stuff - donna summer (1979) | sunny - boney m. (1976) | summer night city - abba (1978) | last train to london - electric light orchestra (1979) | boogie shoes - kc & the sunshine band (1975) | don’t stop ‘til you get enough - michael jackson (1979) | upside down - diana ross (1980) | da ya think i’m sexy - rod stewart (1978) | miss you - the rolling stones (1978) | i wanna be your lover - prince (1979) | one way ticket - eruption (1979) | le freak - chic (1978) | he’s the greatest dancer - sister sledge (1979) | brick house - commodores (1977) | every 1’s a winner - hot chocolate (1978) | stayin’ alive - bee gees (1977) | that’s the way (i like it) - kc & the sunshine band (1975) | boogie wonderland - earth, wind & fire (1979) | funkytown - lipps inc. (1980) | ladies night - kool & the gang (1979) | heart of glass - blondie (1978) | december, 1963 (oh what a night) - frankie valli and the four seasons (1975) | sunset driver (demo that didn’t make it on 1979s “off the wall” album but too good to pass up) - michael jackson | weekend - earth and fire (1979) | voulez-vous - abba (1979) | sorry i’m a lady - baccara (1977) | i feel love - donna summer (1977) | i’m coming out - diana ross (1980) | play that funky music - wild cherry (1976) | golden years - david bowie (1976) | night fever - bee gees (1977) | disco inferno - the trammps (1976) | i can’t stand the rain - eruption (1978) | the hustle - van mccoy (1975) | fly, robin, fly - silver convention (1975) | ma baker - boney m. (1977) | blame it on the boogie - the jacksons (1978) | september - earth, wind & fire (1978) | grease - frankie valli (1978) | get down tonight - kc & the sunshine band (1975) | gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight) - abba (1979) | tragedy - bee gees (1979) | burn this disco out - michael jackson (1979)
Ekaterina Maximova as Spring Fairy in the 1960 ballet film “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper”.
Hi! I'd like to see different ballet styles, productions and footage, and was wondering if you had links to some of them! Thank you so much.
French Ballet
Pierre Lacotte Reconstructions
La Sylphide 1972 | 2004
Paquita
Coppelia
Giselle
Rudolf Nureyev
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty 2005 |2013
Bayadere
Nutcracker 1989 | 2012
Raymonda
Don Quixote 2002 | 2012 (I, II)
Romeo and Juliet
Cinderella
Bournonville Ballet
La Sylphide: Danish Ballet
Etudes 1969 (II) | 2005
Flower Festival in Genzano Danish Ballet | POB | Mariinksy | Royal Ballet
Napoli
The Kermesse in Bruges
A Folk Tale
The Bournonville School
Russian Ballet
Marius Petipa revivals (originally premiered/staged at the Paris Opera)
> originally by Jules Perrot
La Esmeralda Mariinksy 1982 - 2012
Giselle Bolshoi: 1956 - 1975 | ABT 1969 - 1977 | La Scala | Mariinsky | ENB
> originally by Arthur Saint-Léon
Coppelia Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction)
> originally by Joseph Mazilier
Le Corsaire Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction) | Mariinsky
Marius Petipa
La Bayadere Mariinksy: 1964 - 1979 - 2014 | Bolshoi (Act III)
Don Quixote Bolshoi (I, II, III, IV) (2011) | Mariinsky | Mikhailovsky | ABT
Swan Lake: Bolshoi 1957 - 1983 - 2015 | Mariinsky 1986 - 2007 | Wiener Staatsoper
Sleeping Beauty Mariinsky 1969 | Bolshoi | ROH
The Nutcracker Mariinsky | Bolshoi
Raymonda Mariinsky | Bolshoi | La Scala (Vikharev Reconstruction)
La Fille du Pharaon (Lacotte Reconstruction)
Soviet Ballets
Romeo and Juliet Mariinsky (Lavrovsky) 1955 - 2013 | Bolshoi (Grigorovich) 1979 - 2013
Cinderella
Flames of Paris
Laurencia
Hamlet
Anyuta
Gayane (Armenia) Bolshoi 1980 | Mariinsky 2014
Shurale
Yuri Grigorovich
The Legend of Love
Spartacus 1970 |1977 | 2008
Ivan the Terrible 1975 | 1977 | 2015
The Stone Flower
English Ballet
Frederick Ashton
Sylvia
La Fille Mal Gardee
Swan Lake
Cinderella
The Dream ROH | ABT
La Valse
Kenneth MacMillan
Manon Danish Ballet | Royal Ballet
Romeo and Juliet
Mayerling
Anastasia
Balanchine - American Ballet
Symphony in C: NYCB | POB
Jewels: NYCB (Emeralds Diamonds) | Mariinsky
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Serenade
Agon
Apollo 1960 |1968 | 1979
Theme and Variations: NYCB
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: NYCB | POB
Vienna Waltzes
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux NYCB | Royal Ballet
Ballets Russes
Les Sylphides: Bolshoi | ABT | Kirov | Royal Ballet
Scheherezade
L’Apres midi d’une faune
The Firebird: Mariinsky | Bonus
Le Spectre de la Rose: POB
Petroushka: 1976 | 1992 | 2011
Rite of Spring: Joffrey Ballet | Mariinsky
El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Le Train Bleu
Parade
Les Noces: Royal Ballet | Mariinsky
The Prodigal Son
Documentaries
The Romantic Era
Giselle: A Documentary
Diaghilev
Classical Ballet
Agrippina Vaganova: The Great and Terrible
Ballerina: A Documentary in Four Parts
Tout prés des étoiles
The King Who Invented Dance
The Art of Baroque Dance
The Rite of Spring
The Children of Theatre Street
American Masters: Balanchine
Ballet Heroes
Les Enfants de la Danse
Historic Footage
The Art of Russian Ballet (Dudinskaya/Maximova)
Kirov Ballet Gala 1981
First Moscow International Ballet Competition, 1969
Galina Mezentseva
Irina Kolpakova
Ekaterina Maximova/Vladimir Vasiliev
Bolshoi Ballet, 1967
Maya Plisetskaya Dances, 1964
Yvette Chauviré
Anna Pavlova I | II | III | IV | V
Tamara Karsavina I | II | III | IV
70s Disco moodboard ✨
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka is a 1961 fairy tale fantasy Soviet film directed by Alexander Rou. It is based on Nikolai Gogol’s collection of short stories of the same name (specifically based on the short story The Night Before Christmas). In a small Ukrainian village, a young blacksmith, Vakula, is in love with the village beauty, Oksana. Oksana is a capricious girl who states that she will only marry Vakula if he brings her the slippers that Empress Catherine the Great wears. At the same the Devil aims to get back at Vakula for painting an embarassing picture of him. The Devil steals the moon, in the hopes of creating chaos and visiting Vakula’s witch mother. Vakula, however, tricks the Devil into taking him to Saint-Petersburg. [watch]
Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka is a 1961 fairy tale fantasy Soviet film directed by Alexander Rou. It is based on Nikolai Gogol’s collection of short stories of the same name (specifically based on the short story The Night Before Christmas). In a small Ukrainian village, a young blacksmith, Vakula, is in love with the village beauty, Oksana. Oksana is a capricious girl who states that she will only marry Vakula if he brings her the slippers that Empress Catherine the Great wears. At the same the Devil aims to get back at Vakula for painting an embarassing picture of him. The Devil steals the moon, in the hopes of creating chaos and visiting Vakula’s witch mother. Vakula, however, tricks the Devil into taking him to Saint-Petersburg. [watch]
(ENG) Intensive learning of the cyanotype process with @vera_eikona and @annelou.buzot these last days. Thank you 🤩! I’m so much happy and enthusiastic about this technique straight out of the 19th century. I was able to experience it on two of my photos. There is no doubt about it, it’s an other charm than a digital print! Silhouette lost in the night 🌙 Now I will need a lot of perseverance to assimilate all this knowledge and continue this learning… What do you think? . . (FR) Apprentissage intensif du procédé cyanotype auprès de @vera_eikona et de @annelou.buzot ces derniers jours. Un grand merci 🤩 ! Je suis tellement contente et enthousiasmée par cette technique tout droit sortie du 19ème siècle ! J'ai pu l'expérimenter sur deux de mes photos. Il n'y a pas à dire, c'est un tout autre charme qu'un tirage numérique ! Silhouette de nuit perdue. Maintenant il va me falloir beaucoup de persévérance pour assimiler toutes ces connaissances et pour suivre cet apprentissage… Vous en pensez quoi ?
Fav Period Dramas <3
Well, @nightmaredaisy asked me about this and so I made a little list :D these are some of my favorite period dramas. Be aware that some of these are biographical films and/or short television serials, mostly produced by BBC and thus can be quite long XD
Andersen, Life Without Love (2006) [biographical fiction film based on the life of H.C Andersen]
Jane Eyre (2006)
Chéri (2009) [My personal fave <3]
Les Miserables (1998)
Mary Reilly (1996)
A Little Chaos (2015)
The Piano (1993)
Bright Star (2009) [biographical fiction film based on the life of John Keats]
Modigliani (2004) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Amedeo Modigliani]
Creation (2009) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Charles Darwin]
North & South (2004) - [My mom’s favorite :3]
Neverland (2004) [biographical fiction film based on the life of James Barrie]
Amadeus (1984) [biographical fiction film based on the life of W.A.Mozart]
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
The Scarlet Letter (2015)
The English Patient (1996)
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
The Great Gatsby (1974) [I like the Robert Redford movie better than the Di Caprio one.]
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Elisabeth the Golden Age (2007) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Queen Elisabeth I]
Goya’s Ghosts (2006) [biographical fiction film -partially- based on the life of Francisco Goya]
Special mentions even if these aren’t ‘real’ period dramas:
Midnight in Paris (2011)
The Theory of Everything (2014) [biographical fiction film based on the life of Stephen Hawking]