tonight i'll burn the lyrics

Sara. A daydreamer, a believer, a realist, a cynic. An extroverted introvert. Can't pick a favorite color or a favorite anything, not because of a lack of opinion, but more because who said I had to? Book lover, amateur poet, kitchen dancer, shower singer, French freak, Texas gal. Hi. [Mainly here for Captain Swan, Liamma, OUAT, Colin O'Donoghue, the Avett Brothers, Outlander, Downton Abbey, Sara Bareilles, House, LOST, Harry Potter, and the Hunger Games. But being of a whimsical nature, anything that strikes my fancy is fair game!]

[littledigest]

The Muses in Astrology - Inspiration and Creative Talents Personified

There are 3 Boeotian Muses and 9 Olympian Muses in ancient Greek mythology.

56, 600, 57, 22, 84, 27, 23, 18, 81, 62, 33, 30

3 Boeotian Muses

The Boeotian Muses are the original muses in ancient Greece: Mneme (memory), Melete (thought, meditation), and Aoede (voice, song). Unfortunately, I could find only one asteroid named after them, Melete.

Melete 56

Named after Melete, one of the Boeotian Muses associated with thought, meditation, ponderance, contemplation, and practice

All art, science, and inspiration, in general, come from contemplation

Meditating, brainstorming, practicing skills, deep thought, developing skills

Overthinking, anxiety

9 Olympian Muses

The Nine Olympian Muses are Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, and Urania.

Musa 600

Named after the 9 Olympian Muses in Greek mythology

Being a muse and inspiration to others; being inspired often

Artistic, creative, grace, beauty

Praise, entertaining, fascinating

Mnemosyne 57

Named after Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and mother of the Nine Muses

Good memory, bad memory

Ability to tap into collective subconsciousness

Kalliope 22

Named after Calliope, the Muse of eloquence, epic poetry

Calliope means "beautiful-voiced"

A strong voice that makes others listen, a way with words

Singing ability, story-telling especially epic stories about heroes, praising others or praised for heroic or good deeds

Klio 84

Named after Clio, the Muse of history

Means "to recount", "to make famous", "to celebrate"

History buffs, digging into the past, work related to historical events

Can be a fame asteroid; leaving a mark in history

Euterpe 27

Named after Euterpe, the Muse of music, flutes, lyric poetry

Means "to delight", "to rejoice", "to please"

Musicians would look to Euterpe for guidance in their compositions

Musicians, songwriters, playing wind instruments

Thalia 23

Named after Thalia, the Muse of comedy, idyllic poetry

Means "joyous", "flourishing"

Comedians, humor, spreading joy

Melpomene 18

Named after Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy, chorus

Means "to sing", "melodious one", "to celebrate with dance and song"

Tragic themes in art, drama, satire, theater

Singing and dancing ability, acting

Terpsichore 81

Named after Terpsichore, the Muse of dance, chorus

Means "delight in dancing"

Dancers; professions or hobbies where body movement is important

Erato 62

Named after Erato, the Muse of erotic poetry, lyric poetry, mimic imitation

Means "desired", "lovely"

Love songs, love poetry, love letters, erotic writing, art that is provocative or sensual

Sweet talker, charming, expressing affection

Polyhymnia 33

Named after Polyhymnia, the Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance, eloquence, agriculture, pantomime, geometry, meditation

"Poly" means "many"; "hymnos" means "praise"

Serious, pensive, meditative demeanor

Multi-talented; many hobbies and skills

Very talented in artistic/creative/music fields; receiving many praises

Urania 30

Named after Urania, the Muse of astronomy, Christian poetry, Universal Love

Means "heavenly", "of heaven"

Majestic, beautiful, graceful demeanor

Philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, fortune teller, prophet

Religion, math, abstract ideas, theories

[aneurins-barnard]

CAITRIONA BALFE as CLAIRE RANDALL OUTLANDER 1.05: Rent

[mccallhero]

favourite otp meme: captain swan

[2/5] looks: season 3

[animations-daily]

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) dir. Garry Marshall

[graayson]

Every Killian Jones Scene (6/???) ↳ S02E04 - "The Crocodile"

[shealwaysreads]

Said this to a dear and much-loved friend today, but I think maybe we all might need to see it:

Long-fic is not the rent you pay to be a part of fandom.

Fic, full-stop, is not the rent you pay to be a part of fandom.

Art is not the rent you pay to be a part of fandom.

Constantly creating is not the rent you pay to be a part of fandom.

Fandom is a community, not a corporation, your productivity is not a payment you have to make to be here.

[stydixa]

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY AND MATTHEW MACFADYEN AS ELIZABETH BENNET AND MR.DARCY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright

[allthingseurope]

Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

[queens-of-my-life]

Caitriona Balfe = ray of sunshine

[thoughtportal]

Opinion Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it

When the public health emergency around covid-19 ended, vaccines and treatments became commercial products, meaning companies could charge for them as they do other pharmaceuticals. Paxlovid, the highly effective antiviral pill that can prevent covid from becoming severe, now has a list price of nearly $1,400 for a five-day treatment course.

Thanks to an innovative agreement between the Biden administration and the drug’s manufacturer, Pfizer, Americans can still access the medication free or at very low cost through a program called Paxcess. The problem is that too few people — including pharmacists — are aware of it.

I learned of Paxcess only after readers wrote that pharmacies were charging them hundreds of dollars — or even the full list price — to fill their Paxlovid prescription. This shouldn’t be happening. A representative from Pfizer, which runs the program, explained to me that patients on Medicare and Medicaid or who are uninsured should get free Paxlovid. They need to sign up by going to paxlovid.iassist.com or by calling 877-219-7225. “We wanted to make enrollment as easy and as quick as possible,” the representative said.

Indeed, the process is straightforward. I clicked through the web form myself, and there are only three sets of information required. Patients first enter their name, date of birth and address. They then input their prescriber’s name and address and select their insurance type.

All this should take less than five minutes and can be done at home or at the pharmacy. A physician or pharmacist can fill it out on behalf of the patient, too. Importantly, this form does not ask for medical history, proof of a positive coronavirus test, income verification, citizenship status or other potentially sensitive and time-consuming information.

But there is one key requirement people need to be aware of: Patients must have a prescription for Paxlovid to start the enrollment process. It is not possible to pre-enroll. (Though, in a sense, people on Medicare or Medicaid are already pre-enrolled.)

Once the questionnaire is complete, the website generates a voucher within seconds. People can print it or email it themselves, and then they can exchange it for a free course of Paxlovid at most pharmacies.

Pfizer’s representative tells me that more than 57,000 pharmacies are contracted to participate in this program, including major chain drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens and large retail chains such as Walmart, Kroger and Costco. For those unable to go in person, a mail-order option is available, too.

The program works a little differently for patients with commercial insurance. Some insurance plans already cover Paxlovid without a co-pay. Anyone who is told there will be a charge should sign up for Paxcess, which would further bring down their co-pay and might even cover the entire cost.

Several readers have attested that Paxcess’s process was fast and seamless. I was also glad to learn that there is basically no limit to the number of times someone could use it. A person who contracts the coronavirus three times in a year could access Paxlovid free or at low cost each time.

Unfortunately, readers informed me of one major glitch: Though the Paxcess voucher is honored when presented, some pharmacies are not offering the program proactively. As a result, many patients are still being charged high co-pays even if they could have gotten the medication at no cost.

This is incredibly frustrating. However, after interviewing multiple people involved in the process, including representatives of major pharmacy chains and Biden administration officials, I believe everyone is sincere in trying to make things right. As we saw in the early days of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, it’s hard to get a new program off the ground. Policies that look good on paper run into multiple barriers during implementation.

Those involved are actively identifying and addressing these problems. For instance, a Walgreens representative explained to me that in addition to educating pharmacists and pharmacy techs about the program, the company learned it also had to make system changes to account for a different workflow. Normally, when pharmacists process a prescription, they inform patients of the co-pay and dispense the medication. But with Paxlovid, the system needs to stop them if there is a co-pay, so they can prompt patients to sign up for Paxcess.

Here is where patients and consumers must take a proactive role. That might not feel fair; after all, if someone is ill, people expect that the system will work to help them. But that’s not our reality. While pharmacies work to fix their system glitches, patients need to be their own best advocates. That means signing up for Paxcess as soon as they receive a Paxlovid prescription and helping spread the word so that others can get the antiviral at little or no cost, too.

{source}

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Holy shit, please reblog this. This is incredibly useful information! Paxlovid not only helps reduce the severity of covid but also goes a decent way to preventing long covid. I cannot stress this enough — even if you think this isn’t relevant to you because you’re perfectly healthy, you could get covid TOMORROW and permanently have long covid a month from today if you got unlucky.

And, of course, if you suspect you have covid, take a test or see a doctor ASAP. Paxlovid MUST be taken within the first five days of developing symptoms. The Paxcess copay card seems really easy and quick to fill out, though!

[colinodonoghue]

[nitw]

i fucking hate being an adult with a slowly increasing number of responsibilities its like one day you wake up and youre like aw fuck when was the last time i descaled the coffee machine

[nitw]

"theres gonna be a power outage tomorrow welp i better boil some water in advance!" "oh gee looks like its time to vacuum the carpet!" GET REAL?????? YOU SOUND INSANE

[nitw]

someday youre gonna be out of baking soda when it matters most and its gonna destroy you

[fullcravings]

Caramel Apple Pie Macarons

[queenmoriarty]

A poet is a nightingale

Who sits in darkness

And sings to cheer its own solitude

With sweet sounds

[stultiloquentia]

I am reading scholarly works about Jane Austen and having hearteyes about obscure details in the Pemberley chapters of P&P that indicate Mr. Darcy’s sustainable land management praxis.

[stultiloquentia]

Okay, let’s talk about Pemberley!

Austen, as a rule, doesn’t spend many paragraphs describing locations. There’s often information to be gleaned from their names (Sense and Sensibility is full of lurking references to sexual scandals and Mansfield Park to slavery), but Longbourn just means “long stream” or “long boundary,” Netherfield means “lower field,” and Rosings’ original owner was a redhead. Meryton, a pun on “merry town,” is kind of fascinating, given the installment of the militia and the threat to stability and serenity they represent. Partying and shenanigans. Possibly a Shakespeare ref.

Longbourn barely gets any description at all. From the get-go, everyone who lives there is obsessed with other places, with getting out (except Mr. Bennet, who never wants to leave his library, never mind the house). Lady Catherine deems it small and mildly uncomfortable, which is in keeping with the theme of confinement, but also it’s Lady Catherine talking. Netherfield can’t tell us much about Bingley, who is only a tenant. Rosings is expensively, ostentatiously modern and gaudily furnished, though it has a handsome park that Lady Catherine and her stifled daughter never set foot in but Elizabeth and Darcy both frequently escape to during their stays.

So it’s notable and wonderful that Austen goes out of her way to describe Pemberley as an old-fashioned, highly successful, working estate. Its practical old Anglo-Saxon name means “Pember’s clearing.” A pember is a man who grows barley. Darcy most likely still does. As Elizabeth and the Gardiners approach and tour the house, they notice and admire its beautiful surrounding woods, and then when they wander outside, the specific word Austen uses is coppice woods. A coppice is a woodland filled with tree species that grow new shoots from their stumps when you chop them down. Darcy probably has oaks on a fifty-year cycle as well as faster-growing species such as hawthorn and hornbeam for firewood, timber and cattle fodder. Coppice forestry is functional and sustainable, and provides habitat for beasts and birds.

Darcy is the anti-John Dashwood (Dashwood, srsly), the brother in Sense and Sensibility who inherits Elinor and Marianne’s childhood estate of Norland, whose wife immediately starts making plans to hack down trees (not even coppice trees, but big, gorgeous, venerable hardwoods) to make way for a folly. Jane Austen hated follies. Also, it ought to be noted that timber was so valuable in Britain at the time that estates often had inheritance clauses that detailed who was and wasn’t allowed to chop down what.

Darcy’s a food producer and land conservator, prefers nature over fussy, ornamental landscape design, his servants and tenants like him, he gives money to the poor… and… he’s a trout fisherman! He shoots, too, as do Bingley and Hurst and Mr. Bennet, but it’s a particular mark in his favour that Austen singles him and Mr. Gardiner out as anglers. It’s a pastime that signifies a taste for contemplation and quietness and appreciation of nature, as blissfully described in The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation, a hugely popular travel book first published in the 1600s and reprinted often for 18th C libraries. The plot of The Compleat Angler is about the conversion of a hunter (pastime of the ultra-rich) to a fisherman who learns to love the peaceful sport. We receive ample evidence elsewhere that Darcy is a man capable of swift, decisive action and formidable effectiveness. But at Pemberley, Austen takes care to show us how he’s balanced.

Most of the information in this post comes from Margaret Doody’s Jane Austen’s Names. 

[downthepub]

I didn’t know any of this!  I always thought it was a bit odd how her viewing the estate changed her views of the man himself, as if it was about how big the place was.  Instead it was how he cared for the land / people.  Fascinating!  Completely missed that.

[stultiloquentia]

It’s literally his character reference! Most women at the time had to marry for financial security, yet marriage was horribly risky, because divorce was almost impossible. If you married someone you didn’t know well, and he turned out to be lazy, irresponsible, or abusive, you were stuck. 

This is why so many Austen heroes are mature, almost frumpy men the heroines have known for years. Local fellows with family ties. They don’t offer breathless romances; the happy endings they offer are happy because they are safe.

Darcy is not a local boy. Darcy is not a fully formed, baggable Austen hero when he proposes at Hunsford, not just because he’s rude af, but because Lizzy doesn’t know him well enough yet. She has no real way of knowing how he would treat her. Austen sends Lizzy to Pemberley not to dazzle her with Darcy’s wealth, but to provide her with good, hard evidence of his treatment of the people under his protection, including his tenants, his sister, and the intelligent, dignified housekeeper who has known him since he was a toddler.

Character references established, we may proceed with the romance.

(n.b. He doesn’t know her either, until she’s rejected him. He proposes, despite his giant pile of reservations, because he’s so horny for her he can’t stand it (at least, to his credit, he’s turned on by her brains as much as her hot little bod), but only after her refusal does he realize how completely he has failed to understand this woman or make himself worthy of her. He falls in love for real only after she has demanded that he live up to his own high standards. Refreshing, ain’t it?)

[moramabel-moved]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (2021 – ) S04E01 | Once Upon a Time in the West

[tersaseda]

Annnnnd...4 years later...

Not sure what I’m peeking back into, but in case anyone is still active, hello.

It’s been 4 years since I’ve been active on tumblr.  Life has changed in so many difficult ways.  I don’t have much to say other than a friendly wave to anyone who needs it today.

Much love, Sara

[tersaseda]

And 4 years (wow!) after this post—hello, tumblr. It’s a bit odd here now. What is with the ads, which one now has to pay to make go away?

Lots of deactivated accounts.

Still a surprising amount of Captain Swan/OUAT. Interesting. 🤔

If anyone sees this: hello.