La boue, mais l'âme.

And May came home with a smooth round stone As small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we loose (like a you or a me) It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

[bloomsbumyst]

Yuletide reveals

Hello everyone,

Seeing as we are nearing the end of January, I thought I would finally do a little round-up of everything I got/wrote for Yuletide.

First, I received the most wonderful Yuletide story:

Eminent Edwardians (Bloomsbury Group) from disenchanted (@prancy here on tumblr)

Bloomsbury bloomsberries bloomsbuggering.

It was written in response to my prompt on the Bloomsbury Group and it is just the best.Bloomsbury.story.ever. I wanted to know all about the group’s emotional life and sexual escapades and I got so much more than that. The title says it all, really 8). I have a suspicion that Allen aka prancy is actually an Edwardian time travelling spy in disguise. He already wrote my gift last year, and it was also fantastic. Go go read them!

Then (or, I should say, simultaneously), I wrote two fics:

Conscience and Cowardice (The Picture of Dorian Gray) for mikkey_bones.

Lord Henry always had his favourites.

+ a Yuletide treat I managed to squeeze in before the deadline and that was posted in the New Year’s Resolutions collection because of a technical problem. Whoops.

Stone in Time (Piazze d'Italia - Giorgio de Chirico) for faceofstone.

Both of them mean a lot to me and were a pleasure and a challenge to write. I am not quite sure what to write about them, or how to describe my process writing them, or even if I really want to, since they somehow feel so personal to me. Re-reading them now, I am struck by how much they reflect (though obliquely so) some of what I felt at the time and how I experienced, internalised and processed a lot of what was going on around me.

So, happy reading I guess! :)

[bloomsbumyst]

Taking a break from tumblr, and social media in general, to focus on building a healthy and serene headspace for myself.

and also, importantly, to work on my Master’s degree.

Love to those who care x

[kohdiphoto]

A personal favorite. Ties in well with “look deep, ponder, and recognize all that is hidden.” Wish we had more of the Regeltavok Oorpah to study.

[bloomsbumyst]

[mizzerablyquotes]

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Vol 5, Book 1

[lonequixote]

Weeping Willow by Claude Monet

(via @lonequixote)

[jeannmoreau-blog]

les parisiens, checkez le hashtag #porteouverte sur les réseaux sociaux pour trouver des abris sur Paris, protégez-vous, ne sortez pas !

[sealpremacy]

TO EVERYONE IN PARIS PLEASE CHECK #porteouverte ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO FIND SHELTERS

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

bell hooks (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[onlyblackgirl]

WHAT WAS THE FIRST ALBUM YOU EVER OWNED?

I got Mariah Carey’s “Emotions” & Janet Jackson “Janet” album at the same time on cassette tape. 

[marqweabyss]

“Rugrats the movie” soundtrack lol on cd!

Take me there i wanna go there, take me there let’s go there!

[audio-sexual]

Perfect Gentlemen “Rated PG”. & if you actually know who they are…you’re old like me.

[sourcedumal]

The Bachelor from Ginuwine

[knitmeapony]

Paula Abdul, Forever Your Girl.

[drivefasterboy-deactivated20151]

Millennium by Backstreet Boys.

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

Beauty and the Beast soundtrack CD.

[kingdomofcools]

Nelly, Country Grammar.

[iamp0pe-blog]

Get Rich or Die Tryin

[queen-shenaaaa]

B2k first album

[mncarys]

Get Rich or Die Tryin lol

[queen-shenaaaa]

Seriously? Lol it was good but not good enough to buy lol

[annieskywalker]

TLC Fanmail

[tehsingsongwalrus]

Green Day American Idiot

[fighter-dreams]

Fergielicious by fergie

[onlyblackgirl]

*The Dutchess

[eat-your-pants-bitch]

2014 forest hill drive by j. Cole

[negromanticshade-deactivated201]

Evanescence Fallen

[ravenintheupdraft]

Halo 2′s Soundtrack by Martin O’Donnel and Michael Salvatori

[solarine]

Chayanne “Tiempo de Vals” in 1990. Still so gooood. 

[captainjazzbeard]

Not going to lie.

It was NSync’s “No Strings Attached”.

[catscratching]

First one I remember owning (I listened to a lot of radio and made mix tapes like a madwoman) is Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette).  I bought it from Columbia House because I had a job for the first time and $0.01 for 8 cds seemed like such a great deal.

[nineprotons]

I don’t remember exactly what the first album of my own (meaning not one of my parents’ or siblings’) that I had was, but among the earliest ones I remember having on cassette were The Bangles’ “Different Light”, and Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine’s “Let It Loose”.

[redhawkfg]

Men At Work, Business As Usual. On vinyl.

Yes, I’m old. Bite me.

[tehjai]

Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” in 1993. Used my birthday money to buy it.

[catpella]

Still Waters, by the Bee Gees.

[bloomsbumyst]

Paradize, by Indochine. 

(didn’t buy it with my own money though, but it was the first CD I owned)

[lmv-h]

A qui me louer? Quelle bête faut-il adorer? Quelle sainte image attaque-t-on? Quels coeurs briserai-je? Quel mensonge dois-je tenir? - Dans quel sang marcher?

Une Saison en Enfer (Mauvais Sang) - Rimbaud

[welovejameswilby]

♥

[unicorn-power]

Do you ever go to sleep and forget you have an assignment to do so it’s just like

[theijeoma-deactivated20180827]

so, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. never enough for both.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, diaspora blues (via splitterherzen)

[descrayonsbleus]

“Ten thousand soldiers lack shoes. You will take the shoes of all the aristocrats in Strasbourg and deliver them ready for transport to headquarters by tomorrow ten a.m.“

Œuvres complètes de Saint-Just, Vol. II, p. 147

[funnywildlife]

A young Eagle Owl has a Marilyn Monroe moment as her feathers get ruffled in the wind exposing her little furry legs Picture: Assaf Gavra/Solent News

[harrisonarchive]

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Always playing. He [George Harrison] always had a, a beat-up old acoustic by the fireplace. There are two. They’re still there by the fire. Dhani comes in, sits down, and picks them up in exactly the same way. It’s so funny, same body language, he sits down, grabs a guitar and then his pick… He just had a beautiful touch and a beautiful tone, and to this day when I hear someone strum an acoustic guitar, I hear something - but I also hear what’s missing. It’s a strange thing, I always think, I would know if that was him strumming, honestly. Because I’m around, you know, musicians and I hear, you know, a lot of guys sit around after dinner, pick up a guitar, strum a guitar and I always think, ‘wow, he’s not here. That’s not - doesn’t sound - it’s the same guitar, does not sound the same.’

Olivia Harrison in response to the question, “When it was just the two of you around, would he often pick up a guitar, was he still playing for pleasure?”, BBC Radio 4, Front Row, 2014 [x] (Thank you very much to friarparksoulclub for bringing this interview to my attention!)

[lonequixote]

walk beside me — Albert Camus

(via @lonequixote)