ah, hello

My darlings, I am BijouLilou scorpio. bibliophile. cook and stuff.

[charlotte-queen-deactivated2026]

[Eli first meeting with Creighton]

Aiden: Eli this is your new brother his name is Creighton and he a little younger than you so that makes you his older brother

Eli looking at Creighton:

Creighton who is shy and doesn't like to interact with people and is finding behind Aiden leg:

Eli: so he my baby brother now

Elsa petting Eli head lovingly: yes he is and you will protect him

Aiden: right Eli

Eli coming closer to Creighton:

Creighton pulling on Aiden pants trying to hide from eli:

Eli getting closer to Creighton: so he my baby brother

Elsa: yes

Eli picking up Creighton like in the Lion King: MAHAHAHAHA FINALLY I HAVE A BABY SIBLING TO SHOW OFF WAIT UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN LANDON I HAVE AN ADORABLE BABY BROTHER WHO CUTTER THEN HIS BABY BROTHER MAHAHAHAHA

Aiden knowing that Eli would do this because he gives Landon death glare and get very jealous whenever Landon said how he loves to have a baby brother: CALLED IT

Elsa: hmm I don't know if I should be concerned or not

Creighton confused and about to cry and also not knowing who Landon is yet:

[helenaferron]

BARK BARK BARK

[saint-stanthony]

A traditional prayer to St Expedite💸

St expedite is a wonderful spirit to include in your money potions and financial related work! I include him as one of my spirits in my money bowl I petition, and often go to him when I need some cash in a pinch. Wednesday’s are good money magic days and when I give him offerings, so I’m sharing this traditional prayer that I use! 🪙

Dear Saint Expedite, you lay in rest,

I come to you and ask that this wish be granted

(express what you want, asking him to find a way to get it to you) Expedite now what I ask of you. Expedite now what I want of you, this very second. I know your power, I know you because of your work. I know you can help me.

Do this for me and I will spread your name with love and honor so that it will be invoked again and again. Expedite this wish with speed, love, honor, and goodness.

Glory to you, Saint Expedite!

[bijoulilou]

Saint Expedite has helped me immensely, I promised him a red candle, three pennies and a Sara Lee Pound cake and he came through!!! Highly recommend

[saint-stanthony]

A St.Expedite Prayer💸

Sharing another St expedite prayer I like to use, this is one known for calling on St expedite for desperate causes and urgent needs. Please feel free to use and share this! (noting that any part of this prayer can be personalized, omitted or changed if needed for comfort! Don’t pray something that makes you uncomfortable!)💜

My Saint Expedite of urgent and just causes,

please intercede for me with Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Succor me in this hour of affliction and despair, my Saint Expedite.

You who are a Holy warrior, You who are the Saint of the afflicted, You who are the Saint of the desperate, you who are the Saint of urgent causes, Protect me, Help me, Give me Strength, Courage and Serenity.

Hear my plea: (Clearly express what you want, and ask him to find a way to get it to you.)

My Saint Expedite, help me to prevail through these difficult hours, protect me from all those who want to harm me, respond to my plea with urgency.

Bring me back to the state of peace and tranquillity, my Saint Expedite.

I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life and I will speak your name to all those who have faith.

(promise to give Saint Expedite a specific offering when your petition is fulfilled!)

Amen

(one Our Father, one Holy Mary, sign of the cross.)

[may12324]

The endpaper artworks I drew for Litjoy crates The Stolen Heir and The Prisoners Throne ❄️🌰🫀

[draconym]

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

[draconym]

Me, 3am: But am I even deserving of love

The Steve Irwin That Lives In My Brain: Crikey, get a look at this art teacher! These are so important to the local area, right, because they create habitat for heaps of vulnerable critters like juvenile nerds, goths, and furries. I love finding these because they often have these great ornamentations that they can use to identify one another. Take a look at the piercings and tattoos, here. Absolutely gorgeous! Let's let this one get back to sleep.

[herliterarydreams]

The Seer | Elain Archeron

So excited to share this drawing of Elain that I did! It started as a lighting practice and then turned into our favorite gardener.

[goth-queen]

[elrieluniverse]

Azriel arrived first, no shadows to be seen, my sister a pale, golden mass in his arms. He too, wore his Illyrian armor, Elain’s golden-brown hair snagging in some of the black scales across his chest and shoulders.

He set her down gently on the foyer carpet, having carried her in through the front door.

Elain peered up at his patient, solemn face.

Azriel smiled faintly. “Would you like me to show you the garden?”

[the-font-bandit]

One of the most frustrating things about being ADHD is the way hyperfixations and skill levels work.

So I, an ADHD person, will get obsessed with A Thing. I will research, I will practice. I'll check out library books, watch YouTube videos, seek out podcasts, all to learn everything I can about The Thing.

Thiat Thing is often a skill or hobby. Painting, writing, candlemaking, baking, mixology, tea blending.

But the thing with ADHD is that you'll be obsessed with it only to a certain skill level. Something where all the mystery is gone. It's not as fun once the learning part is over and it's just boring practice to get better.

Then abruptly, you'll lose interest and move to another fixation.

That skill level you've earned may be higher than your average person with a passing interest. But it's also lower than someone who specializes in said thing, who has put in those hard hours of practice and work.

So you start just forming this miscellaneous collection of things that you're good enough at to earn some praise, but still leave you feeling like you're just never *quite* good enough at anything because you can't just choose anything.

And you want to pick a Thing. To find Your Thing. The thing that fits, that you can finally excel at. But you just can't seem to.

[msfbgraves]

Listen, sweet child. Listen.

Your thing is that you can see things that aren't there yet. You can combine things that other people would never think of. Because they don't go together. But they do in your brain. It's not always world changing, but it can get you solutions that other people don't have the knowledge to consider. Experts often miss pieces outside of their field.

Also - experts love to info dump, and you can probably ask insanely good questions. A friend of mine started dating a mathematician, and when I asked him whom he admired, and he got that strained look thinking: "Here I go baring my soul, and they're going to be like ...nice... and change the subject."

But I said: "You like Gauß? I read this hilarious book about him. Do you know it?" He did not know it, as he does not read German. So I got him a translation. Is there anyone in his life who could have said this? No. If he were German, sure, as the book is quite well known over there, presumably among mathematicians too. But how many of them live in the Netherlands? Not many! There's better mathematicians than I in the world, and the book in Germany is well known but not in Holland so what are the odds of a Dutch mathematician finding it? Not very high because who would look for books about Gauß in Dutch? In this person's context, it's not going to come up. But you have so many contexts! And I may not ever star in a production of Oliver! but knowing "You gotta pick pocket or two" can in handy when hanging out with a group of theater kids who had all staged Oliver! at one point. You can't prepare for these moments. You grab them and enjoy life.

[taraljc]

thinking around corners is absolutely an ADHD superpower. also you can see things like bullet time in The Matrix. Unfortunately the trade-off is having ADHD.

[finnglas]

"Unfortunately the trade-off is having ADHD" just made me laugh and cry at the same time.

[taraljc]

IKR?

[lovelyfawnxx]

After Lili Reinhart posted that tiktok (iykyk), I couldn’t get it out of my head- so, what better way to enjoy it than to have our favorite couple give it a go?

Here we have Azriel helping Elain get home after a long day of gardening, carrying both her and her flowers like the gentleman he is 💜

Thank you SO SO much to @aknightsrepose for bringing this trend to life with our gentle seer and shadowsinger, you were SUCH a gem to work with and really captured how sweet these two are with each other 🥹🫶

🎨 art by @aknightsrepose

🌸 commissioned by me

Please no reposts without permission!

[palaeosinensis]

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back. Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands.

[tragiclore]

The whole point of Nesta’s book was us hating her so the story could show us otherwise.

The whole point of Elain’s story will be underestimating her so the story can show us otherwise.

Let these flawed, complex characters show us what personal growth looks like, hmm?

[tragiclore]

“Azriel and Elain’s aesthetic doesn’t fit well—”

Elain wants someone to hear her through the noise → Azriel is the Master of Sounds (Shadowsinger)

Azriel wants someone to see his struggle → Elain is the Master of Seeing (Seer)

They’re made for each other, y’all.

[kaipaedyn]

judecardan matching eachother's FREAKUENCY

🎨: gracer studios

[kdramamilfs]

'i cant believe shes 50 shes still so beautiful' 'she hasnt aged one day past 30' 'how is she STILL gorgeous??' you people are so weak. how about aging is hot and signs of age are sexy and shes getting more attractive every year. how about that

[miketalkstrash-deactivated20170]

Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month

The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 

That’s excellence.

[latinagabi]

Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.

[princessnijireiki]

Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:

chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.

grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet

he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.

even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).

(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)

famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”

for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.

and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

SWAG

[sugaryumyum-deactivated20170907]

I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.

[elodieunderglass]

when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically

daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman 

he invaded egypt

the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”

then napoleon showed up

napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus

the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”

this did not make napoleon happy

in fact it made him jealous

napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud

[liza-not-lisa-deactivated202401]

I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.

[petermorwood]

General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…

…and like this…

…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…

:-D

I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…

…he was also a foodie.

[sicktress]

He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER. 

[biblioaesthetica]

His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:

Project Gutenberg offers 73,007 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

And for those of you who would like to try audio versions, this is what is on LibriVox, the free, volunteer run audiobook version of Project Gutenberg:

LibriVox

[thelast33yearsinohio-deactivate]

And technically, the Three Musketeer bar commercials are what they’re supposed to look like.