Emilie

She/Her. 19.

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Mary Sackville

A Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, baroque

Lady Mary Compton (1669-06.08.1691) was the daughter of James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northhampton and The Honorable Mary Noel.

Mary married Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset. They had two children together; a son, Lionel Canfield Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset and a daughter, Lady Mary Sackville.

She died at age 22 of Smallpox.

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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “In a dream”

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The Party on the Stairs, by Adelaide Claxton (1875).

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i’ll watch them unravel you

credit : @nonalimmen

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Victorian Dark Aesthetic

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But he who dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose

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tiny e-girl

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Saint Sebastian

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*fading into green foliage*

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892, oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm. National Galleries of Scotland - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest - Shop

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Our Wish for the End, Me, Digital Collage, 2020

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R F Kuang asking the right questions here 💆🏾‍♀️ here's some good recs from the replies that I added to my own tbr:

The buried giant, kazuo ishiguro (subversive arthurian tale with dreamlike prose. everyone's memory is in flux so details shift and waver. intergenerational trauma and historiography but has a melancholical and anchored character story).

Lancelot (the arthurian tales series), giles kristian

The mabinogian tetralogy, evangeline walton (retelling of welsh mythology. weird, eerie, beautiful and just gorgeously written)

The traitor son cycle, miles cameron

The dragon and the unicorn, aa attanasio (very weird arthurian prose. merlin is an astral shark demon made of electricity. creepy, dark, and dramatic).

Sistersong, lucy holland

Book of the new sun, gene wolfe (like walking through a black Magic the Gathering Card, or if Pere La Chaise stretched endlessly, in every direction, throught time).

The dragon waiting, john m. ford

The wolf and the woodsman, ava reid

City of saints and madmen (ambergris series), jeff vandermeer (like slowly unearthing a strange and unfathomable artifact that you gradually piece together into an incomplete picture).

Silver in the wood (the greenhollow duology), emily tesh (chaotic, lush and haunting and canonically promises the m/m energy that feels promised but not guaranteed by the green knight trailer)

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books that actually hurt my heart

I think I’m an empath and whenever I read something special, a pain travels up my left middle and ring finger, through my arm, and to my chest, a very real, physical pain.

a book list

THE PAINTED VEIL // Somerset Maugham

I felt so much emotion as I binge read this in a day that when I finished (I remember, I was sitting on the top step in my home) I was left drained, empty.

PERSUASION // Jane Austen

the scene - you know the scene - was like a punch to my chest. I felt a gaping hole where Austen’s words had carved my heart out. and it wasn’t even sad

WASHINGTON SQUARE // Henry James

I keep Henry James on my shelf because of how much hatred I have toward him. no other author has instilled such passion from me. the only time I physically threw a book down was when I finished this. (it’s a thing now, among my family members, I hate Henry James’s endings)

HOWARD’S END // E. M. Forster

the passion in this was slow, gradual, an injustice rising. I recommend watching Parasite (2019) near to the time you read this. find the similarities. cry for leo

MEN AT ARMS // Evelyn Waugh

the pain in this is subtle subtext. beautifully written yet painful when you think about everything that has happened. one scene in particular left a hole in me that no other piece of media or life! has yet to fill.

THE IDIOT // Fyodor Dostoevsky

this is my favorite book of all time. I’ve yet to reread it because I’m scared of how it will leave me. this book terrifies me. “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” 

(read it and weep)

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Sonea and Akkarin from the Black Magician Trilogy

Credit:

“First Impressions” - 0palesque, deviantart

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The Black Magician Trilogy

What are the books about? 

As Wikipedia says: “ The Black Magician trilogy is a fantasy novel series written by Australian author Trudi Canavan. The books follow a slum-dwelling girl named Sonea who, although born and raised in the slums of Imardin, discovers that she has natural magical abilities usually restricted to the upper classes. They describe her attempts to escape capture by the Magicians' Guild and gain control of her powers, her struggle to fit in and learn magic, and ultimately her attempts to save Kyralia using the one type of magic forbidden from use. In the early parts, she is frightened and distrustful of the powerful magician Akkarin, eventually coming to trust him, and the two of them fall deeply in love - with Akkarin finally dying in battle with the evil Ichani, the grieving Sonea left to bear his child and carry on his magical work. “

What did I think of the Books?

Personally, I think that the first Book dragged on way longer than I’d liked. The second one I liked way more, because I found out more about Sonea herself and the Magician’s Guild. Dannyl’s sidestory was interesting at first, but as the Book continued, the sidestory was often pushed in in parts of Sonea’s story when it got interesting... The third book was my favorite, by far. Even though I would’ve liked to see Sonea’s and Darriel’s love story unfold, I was completely enthralled by Sonea and Akkarin’s love (and, of course, devastated when it ended). 

Would I read the Prequels/Sequels?

No. Usually, I’m a big fan of Sequels, but in the Black Magician Trilogy I knew I didn’t want to continue reading about adult Sonea and her son, because of my crush on Akkarin. It ended on a nice note and I just don’t feel like reading on.

What is my overall rating out of ten?

A solid 8.5. 

I liked everything, even though the story had a long start but I had to give deductions for the fact that a) Sonea and Akkarins love story developed in the last half of the third Book and b) there were a lot of specific names that I had to use the Glossary, which interrupted my reading flow.