PAEONIA

[noelledeltarune]

nothing beats being into something with a really small fandom because you'll get like 7 notes on a post and it's like WOAHHH THE GANG'S ALL HERE ‼️‼️

[leona-florianova]

Stephen felt the weight of Dil's unwinking scrutiny:

he scratched himself in silence and listened to the now violent pounding of his heart.

'Oh, oh, oh,' she cried at last, rising and placing her thin hands together like a temple-dancer. 'Oh, oh, I understand it now.' She writhed and stamped and swayed, chanting, 'Oh Krishna, Krishnaji, oh Stephen bahadur, Sivaji, oh melter of hearts - ha, ha, ha!' her mirth overcame her dancing and she fell to the ground. 'Dost thou understand?'

'Perhaps not quite as well as thou.'

'I shall explain, make clear. She is wooing thee - she wishes to see thee by night, oh shameless, ha, ha, ha! But why, when she has three husbands? Because she must have a fourth, like the Tibetans: they have four husbands, and the Frank women are very like Tibetans strange, strange ways. The three have not given her a child, so a fourth there must be, and she has chosen thee because thou art so unlike them. She was warned in a dream, no doubt: told where to find thee, so unlike the rest.'

'Wholly unlike?'

'Oh yes, yes! They are fools - it is written on their foreheads. And they are rich and thou art poor; they are young and thou art ancient; they are handsome red-faced men, and thou - most holy men are hideous, though more or less innocent.

-H.M.S. Surprise

[usafphantom11]

U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-2 Dauntless dive bomber pilot and his pet dog. Battle of Midway 1942.

@colour_history via X

[sandersstudies]

My Shakespeare students (they are 12) wanted to summarize the lessons they learned this semester. If. Um. Anybody would like to see.

[sandersstudies]

I cannot emphasize enough that they made these with very little input from me.

Henry the Fifth

- ALWAYS encourage others to do their best.

- NEVER talk about people behind their back.

Antony and Cleopatra

- ALWAYS check your produce for pests. [They liked this one so much made a rap about it.]

- NEVER count your chickens before they hatch.

Hamlet

- ALWAYS act decisively

- NEVER tell your girlfriend to go to a convent and become a nun [Oh boy they REALLY liked this one]

Romeo and Juliet

- ALWAYS collect all the important information before making an important decision

- NEVER bite your thumb at us, sir. [They enacted this scene in the original language a lot, except they swapped every “sir” for “bro.”]

The Merchant of Venice

- ALWAYS pay your debts.

- NEVER judge based on appearances, because “all that glisters is not gold.”

The Tempest

- ALWAYS try to forgive others.

- NEVER be a colonizer. [Yes, a middle schooler said this]

Midsummer Night’s Dream

- ALWAYS stay on forest trails

- NEVER fall in love with an ass. [They were excited about this one for obvious reasons.]

Twelfth Night

- ALWAYS stay in touch with those important to us

- NEVER read other people’s mail

Macbeth

- ALWAYS wash your hands. [One of the girls performed Lady Macbeth’s entire Out Damn Spot monologue at the end of the semester]

- NEVER succumb to peer pressure.

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[carpe-mamilia]

[cuppatealove]

People do not die of little trifling quests!

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[thememedaddy]

[freenarnian]

@scarvenartist

[frankencain]

do you guys also have favourite The Characters in-law. like characters from media you know nothing about but you just kinda like looking at them when your mutuals put them on your dash

[mynowherenothing]

[peonymoss]

[scarvenartist]

Five Word WIP

@four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat tagged me! Thank you! Creating a new post, because the original was getting long.

Rules: Describe the plot of your story/WIP in five words or less, then tag five people!

Wanted: shapeshifter prodigy, preferably alive.

@isfjmel-phleg, @freenarnian, @awesomebutunpractical, @cuppatealove, @eomira (if you like!)

[cuppatealove]

Writer stuck in personal arc.

@spacecasewriter13 @everyhazyday @peonymoss @rowenabean @writing-my-mind-ink

[peonymoss]

One darn thing after another

[peonymoss]

HARVEST SUPERMOOOOOOOOON

Shine On Harvest Moon

[greater-than-the-sword]

Modern retelling of the Ugly Duckling

[misscrazyfangirl321]

I'm listening

[greater-than-the-sword]

It's exactly the same. The ducks are in 2025 instead of 1850

[purpleisnotacolor]

#How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ernest Fiene, 6th Avenue El, 1940s. Oil on canvas board.

Photo: Helicline Fine Art

[route22ny]

Some cleverly restored video takes us on a tour of Brooklyn in the late 1940s. I even caught a glimpse of the A&S store downtown where my mother once worked. About ten minutes long and pretty great.

[the1920sinpictures]

1926 Jean Patou day dress of silk or rayon plain weave with cotton plain weave trim. From RISD Museum.

[magpie-trove]

A concept: film noir mystery Cinderella

[magpie-trove]

The prince fills the role of cynical detective who’s seen too much of the sleazy side of power and human nature but in Cinderella he found a glimmer of hope that there was yet one honest individual in the world. She makes his grizzled cynicism appear like a lie. And then she disappeared. Nothing left but a shoe in an alley and dead certainty he will solve this mystery if it’s the last thing he does