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ann fleming as lizzie saltzman quotes // pt. 1

#{ it's no longer fashionable to be dull } ; ann #aboutann

( warning long post lol I’m sorry I got carried away also some triggering topics about ann’s life )

GETTING TO KNOW THE MUN :

NAME : Danielle NICKNAME : Dani FACECLAIM :

PRONOUNS : she / her HEIGHT : 5′3 BIRTHDAY : January 25th AESTHETIC : Lots of t-shirts, jeans, I wear bows in my hair a lot, I almost always wear mascara but sometimes I like to wear the whole eyeshadow, foundation, eyeliner, lipstick, etc. LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO : Ashes by Celine Dion FAVORITE MUSE (S) YOU’VE WRITTEN : My top 3 favorites have been 1. Ann (this blog) 2. Semira from underworld @ my multimuse @inacciaio and Marisa Coulter, who I’ve yet to play on tumblr, mainly because there isn’t a His Dark Materials/Golden Compass fandom on tumblr but with the BBC/HBO show coming out soon, hopefully that will change~

GETTING TO KNOW THE ACCOUNT :

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO TAKE ON THIS MUSE : I am insanely fascinated with Ann Fleming’s life. Like I’ve always been a James Bond fan, ever since I was a child, and I’ve also always been into history, so when a biopic miniseries came out called Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, I was really intrigued by that, so I began doing research on Ian Fleming, Ann Fleming, and when I started researching them, I kept having more questions, and those answers led to more questions because they were very complex people with very complicated lives and relationships, especially their relationship in particular. But after a while of researching Ann, I began forming an attachment to her honestly, like her life was hard, man. People made her out to be this person who had it easy because she was rich and because she came from a good background but like 1. her family didn’t even really want her, like her mother died when she was young, and her father wanted nothing to do with her until adulthood where they somehow became friends like ??? okay 2. she had such a lack of affection growing up plus physical and emotional abuse and neglect gave her such a warped view of affection and love, like it hurts me 3. her relationships were honestly so broken and painful and it’s complicated to describe them. like Ann enjoyed cruelty. she found comfort when her partner was cruel to her. at her core, in her subconscious, she craved things like agony, violence, meanness, and her last husband Ian Fleming had similar childhood abuse that led him to crave the same things, which was why they were both so connected with a deep understanding of each other, yet so volatile and destructive towards each other. and they both thrived yet were barely holding on by a thread at the same time with this kind of mentality and desires. they both insisted that they were each other’s true loves however, being very passionately in love and having a surprisingly loving and affectionate relationship despite all of the ways they hurt each other, and the only time their relationship ever truly “died” was when they got older, their sex life slowly diminished, and Ian began seeing other women, then Ann seeing another man out of spite. 4. she outlived almost everyone she ever cared about. She outlived a. her parents, b. all three of her husbands c. her youngest sister who died of alcohol poisoning d. a lot of her best friends e. she had a miscarriage d. and probably the most painful, her youngest son killed himself in his early 20′s. Like her life was tragedy after tragedy and in the end she had to face it almost completely alone. By the time she was near her death, now diagnosed with cancer, the only people who were really close to her and still alive were her two children Raymond and Fionn who both had their own lives and responsibilities, living far away, etc. So yeah, I became extremely attached to her and there have been so many times during researching her life I’ve just straight up cried. Was she a perfect person? No, of course not. But she also had a lot of wonderful qualities among her faults, like she was a wonderful friend who genuinely liked putting others before herself, she so badly wanted to be a good person and tried her hardest to be, and she recognized most of her faults when she either realized them or someone pointed them out to her. So me being so passionate about this person + the miniseries coming out, of course I had to make Ann into a muse. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE ASPECTS OF YOUR CURRENT MUSE : I love how charismatic Ann is. Like she can talk her way into a lot of things, she is friendly to pretty much everyone, and she can blend in to practically any crowd. Even people who are wildly different from her with wildly different opinions, 9/10 times she still wants to be friends with them. Also I 100% love writing all of the crazy shenanigans she got into. Like I have a book of letters written by her, to her, about her, etc. and so many of them contain fucking gems of wacky stories, wild adventures, quirky little happenings in life and her friends lives and they’re a a joy to read and a joy to portray. WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST INSPIRATION WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING : When it comes to writing Ann, a lot of music and any kind of scenes from movies or tv shows that remind me of her or her life. The miniseries is especially an inspiration, Lara Pulver’s portrayal of Ann was absolutely perfect and it’s why Lara Pulver is my face claim for Ann. Her book of letters is also a huge inspiration to me, so if I ever need inspiration for writing Ann, I’ll usually either 1. listen to her ever growing playlist 2. watch the miniseries again or 3. read her letters FAVORITE TYPES OF THREADS : I love shenanigans. They’re probably my favorite of all time. Along with that though, I also like shippy things, angst things, with Ann they usually go hand in hand, but there will still be a lot of fluff in between. Some of my favorite letters between Ann and Ian are the ones talking about how much they love each other and how wonderful they think the other is, some of their letters are honestly so sweet and mushy, it’s adorable. BIGGEST STRUGGLE IN REGARDS TO YOUR CURRENT MUSE : Writing some of the hard stuff is definitely a struggle. I’m always partially afraid of writing it because I don’t want to upset anyone who might be going through/has gone through some of these things, though that’s why in my blog disclaimer in my rules, I try to get across that I am going to be discussing these really hard topics on this blog, because they were huge parts of Ann’s life and personality, like without these things, Ann wouldn’t be an accurate representation of who she was. And speaking of accuracy, of course with Ann being a historical figure, I always worry that there may be certain things of my interpretation that are grossly inaccurate, or disrespectful, and it’s never my intention and I hope that this is never the case because as said above, I genuinely care about Ann. I love and adore her, if I could meet any historical figure ever, without a doubt it would be Ann. Not because she’s the best historical figure or anything, but because she’s so fascinating to me and I feel such a bond with her as stupid as that probably is. Like I’ve been researching her since I was 17 and I’m 23 now, I care about her honestly more than I probably healthily should lol. Ann means a lot to me and I hope that my writing is doing her justice, and I hope that I’m portraying her as accurately as I can without the ability to do something like interview her or have every single piece of information about her life.

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Leading Personality Traits

INDEPENDENCE

You don’t set out to be different for its own sake; you are more easily guided by what interests and moves you. You are more concerned about what is right for you than about the pressure to fit in. In sex you are more aware than others of impulses which are not entirely conventional. You know the value of selective irresponsibility, of forgetting occasionally about being ‘good’.

SENSITIVITY

You have delicate, sensitive perceptions; you can be deeply moved by appearances – the right light in a room, or good food, or the texture of a piece of clothing. Expressive, intelligent language has a powerful hold on you; your mind works better when it is inspired and provoked by vivid imagery. It can be sad to live in a world which is often so ugly and not properly looked after. But you know that things can be otherwise, and you have the ability to appreciate the world at its best.

EXHIBITIONISM

There’s a strand in your nature which loves making an impression – perhaps with your clothes, or conversation, or in a self-revealing blog or a novel. You like to dramatise yourself, to pose as a unique, perhaps mysterious person, to joke or exaggerate your part in adventures. Though you might more than once have been called a show off, it is actually a generous tendency: you want to please and entertain others. It could be the start of good teaching and leadership.

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A N G S T M E M E

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ANIMAL: shrike COLOR: scarlet MONTH: August SONG: angry too // lola blanc & gods and monsters // lana del rey NUMBER: 9 DAY OR NIGHT: midday PLANT: rose SMELL: floral perfume SEASON: summer FOOD: seafood MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: piano ELEMENT: fire DRINK: champagne, vodka, tea

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I was in the bathroom when she appeared and was so amused that I remained with an ear glued to the door. Finally she asked (Esmond) to dine with her and he said "I must ask Ann, where is she?" "Here" I replied, stepping out of the loo, a most enjoyable moment for a horrid bitch like me.

Ann, calling herself a bitch for probably the thousandth time

“The Letters of Ann Fleming”

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posting this bc I keep needing to re-find it bc I love telling this story about ann to everyone

Random fact about my muse: Ann was on the fucking craziest yachting accident. She got on this yacht that basically consisted of: 1. Rich Americans 2. Really fucking drunk sailors 3. And several million dollars worth of jewels and diamonds So a storm breaks out, the sailors so fucking drunk off their asses, and somehow they crash on some coral. And it was a giant crash too, because a bunch of stuff, including some of the most expensive jewels in America, went overboard. Now apparently, four of these rich Americans jumped in to try saving the jewels. One of them, I think, was pushed in against her will. She had the world’s 4th largest diamond shoved into her cleavage in order to save the diamond. This apparently caused actual wounds. Everyone else was loaded up with diamonds too, shoving them in their clothes, also giving them wounds. Ian (Ann’s lover at the time) and Noel Coward (author and their beloved gay friend) pulled the Americans out of the sea and were all what the fuck, did you fuckers jump in after the diamonds? and they’re like, soaking wet and bleeding. Ann went to help them. She’s quoted as saying “I poured disinfectant into the diamond wounds”. Then somehow, things were all good again. Noel played music, they all got fucking drunk because why the hell not at that point, and then Noel went home with some sailors, quoting Ann; “Noel took the prettiest sailors to the nearest hotel and rubbed them down with brandy” ???? I don’t even know. Then the next day, they went back to the beach to see if they could go swimming in the ocean and find anything. Noel apparently found a small, expensive piano ???? Idk how the fuck, Ian found bottles of gin (because of course the alcoholic found that) And Ann found two bamboo chairs and a canasta tray. They were looking for jewels, but damn, those Americans must’ve grabbed every single one. Also yeah, this is a real story by the way, I could not make this shit up. Ann, in this letter, (she tells this story as like a random anecdote to Diana Cooper) describes this story as “Our greatest excitement (of that week)”.

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