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[vintgies]

Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (1938) dir. W.S. Van Dyke

[ktz-tl]

March 17, 2024.

[queenmelancholy]

The Other Houses in S6

"I can't see the future. But then I suppose none of us can."

“I have always enjoyed country houses. There is something about their completeness, with their different rooms and offices catering to almost every need, making up a microcosm of a complete world, that is very satisfactory to me. “But, as a child, wandering around the homes of my parents' friends and relations, I was aware that I was looking at the remains of a way of life that, with rare exceptions, was no longer being lived in by them. Those empty attic rooms, often still boasting an iron bedsted or a dusty cupboard with vacant nameplate holders on the doors, spoke of a once-crowded place, peopled then only by ghosts. Those echoing stables, full of abandoned toys and rusting gardening equipment, those vast kitchens, jammed with discarded luggage and broken bicycles and signs for use in the village fete, were haunted to my childish eyes by shadows of what used to be.” - Julian Fellowes, "Foreword" in The World of Downton Abbey

[thedumpofrps]

under the cut are #101 rp icons of elodie yung as hathor in gods of egypt. all of the caps are mine, but feel free to edit these as much as you want to. just credit me if you re-release them. please like and/or reblog these if they help you at all. 

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[the--write--way]

Stage photo of Kizzy Matiakis as Marguerite in the 2019 RDB production of "The Lady of the Camellias" by John Neumeier.

Favourite Marguerite I have seen to date. Such fond memories.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[the--write--way]

It sums up Rosalie's character pretty well.

[moral-may-challenge]

Welcome to the 2025's Moral May Writing Challenge!

Look Before You Leap

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Much Wants More, and Loses All

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Easy Come, Easy Go

Avoid a Remedy Worse Than the Disease

No Argument Can Embolden the Coward

Even the Strongest Armor Holds a Weakness

Where One May Live, Another May Starve

Acquaintance Softens Prejudice

Who Acts in Haste Repents at Leisure

Traitors Should Expect Treachery

Don't Throw Stones From a Glass House

There is No Believing the Truthful Liar

Stoop to Conquer

Don't Keep All Your Eggs in One Basket

To Each Their Own

Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Promises of a Suitor Must be Taken With Caution

Pride Precedes Destruction

Appearances Often Decieve

In Union Is Strength

Attempt Not the Impossible

Hope Not To Succeed in Borrowed Attributes

Keep Your Friends Close-- Your Enemies Closer

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Lead By Example

The Greatest Weakness may be the Greatest Strength

Better Late Than Never

Curiosity Killed The Cat

All Good Things Must Come to an End

ALT PROMPTS:

⦁ Sins hidden in the heart turn all to decay ⦁ Innocence is an illusion ⦁ Even one with nothing can still offer their life ⦁ Truth is subjective ⦁ The wise man learns from the folly of others ⦁ A mind without purpose will wander dark places ⦁ To aid the vicious is to become partner in their guilt ⦁ Die if you must, but not with your spirit broken ⦁ To war is human

Rules!

AI use is not permitted. All work must be written by you, personally, and can be any length or form (poetry, short story, fable, etc).

These morals can be taken as black, white, or as grey as you want them to be!

Tag your submissions with #MoralMay and #MoralMayDay_ , where the blank is the prompt number. (ex., #MoralMayDay12). Follow this tag rule for a chance to be featured on the blog!

While this is primarily a writing challenge, visual art is also permitted if accompanied by a quote or blurb.

While you can use an alternative prompt at any time, you cannot repeat one once used.

Join in at any time! You do not have to complete every day, and late submissions still have a chance at being reblogged (as long as it is in the month of May).

Any fandom work is welcome! All original work is welcome!

Completionist Rule: Post for every daily prompt, every day, in order. Tag #MoralMayCompletionist on Day 31 so I can find you and give you a shoutout!

FAQ

"I don't understand the prompt/challenge, help!"

Worry not! These morals are up to interpretation and the aim is to spark creative responses. Don't forget, you can also replace any day with any Alt Prompt!

"Is there a banner I can use?"

Yep! I'll put it at the top of this post, though it's not mandatory.

"Do I need to tag NSFW/triggers?"

I ask that you do for the sake of other readers, but if you forget to, your work won't be disqualified. It's just a courtesy that should be followed for everyone's safety and comfort.

"I disagree with this moral."

Excellent! Write something that challenges it or twists it! Creativity is the goal.

[falsenote]

Ludwig (1973)

[borgialucrezia]

Romy Schneider and Sonia Petrovna as the sisters Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria in ’Ludwig’ (1973)

[hannahlockillustration]

Commission for Danicka for her partner of their three housecats, for their wedding anniversary.

[valsedelesruines]

“For some reason it is a woman’s lot to know people cannot live on love”

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Salad Anniversary, Machi Tawara

[nobrashfestivity]

Vilhelm Hammershøi Sunbeams; Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams 1900 oil on canvas

[miriogumi]

sakihi miyu in spring snow — 2012.

[classicslesbianopinions]

"aphrodite is also the goddess of the blanket under which lovers unite, whether or not their union is lawful or heterosexual" --schneid and svenbro, the craft of zeus. i had a dream that told me to buy and read this book, and now it’s explaining to me that socrates and alcibiades were effectively married since they shared a cloak/blanket, the same way that sappho’s buddies gorgo and archeanassa were effectively married. how to marry your lesbian lover in ancient greece: share clothes

wow why don’t my dreams tell me useful things like this

i’m going to hope that this applies to lesbian lovers now as well and next time i meet a cute girl i’ll just hand her a t shirt and we’ll be married

[asteriaeos]

Thiasoi

The thiasoi were communities of women, the existence of which is documented not only in Lesbos where, as well as Sappho’s thiasos there were also the thiasoi of her rivals Gorgo and Andromeda, but also in other areas of Greece, especially in Sparta. What sort of communities were these? They were not simply ‘finishing-schools for young ladies’, as some definitions have suggested, where purely spiritual loves flourished between the girls. The thiasoi were something different and more complex. They were groups with their own divinities and ceremonies, where girls, before marriage, went through a global experience of life which - leaving aside the differences attributable to differences of gender - was in some way analogous to the experience of life that men had in corresponding masculine groups. And the girls received an education within this community life. With reference to Lesbos, in particular, the Suda names three mathe-triai, meaning three 'pupils’ of Sappho, who was called didaskalos, or 'schoolmistress’. What did Sappho teach her pupils? First of all music, singing and dancing: the instruments which transformed them from uncultivated little girls, which is what they were when they came to her, into women whose memory might live: But when you die you will lie there, and afterwards there will never be any recollection of you or any longing for you since you have no share in the roses of Pieria; unseen in the house of Hades also, flown from our midst, you will go to and fro among the shadowy corpses. Sappho writes this to a rival, who has not learned from her those things which would have allowed her to escape from ignorance, and thus from oblivion. But Sappho was not only a mistress of the intellect: her girls also learned from her the weapons of beauty, seduction and fascination:  they learned the grace (charis) which made them into desirable women.  From this point of view, the definition of Sappho’s circle as 'a finishing-school for young ladies’ is not mistaken. But the description is certainly inadequate: in these 'ladies’ clubs’ the girls of Lesbos (and of other cities, given that Sappho’s pupils included Atthis of Miletus, Gongyla of Colophon, Eunica of Salamina) went through an experience which, in our eyes, was quite unsuitable for 'respectable young ladies’ - they loved other women.

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[finelythreadedsky]

female personal names in sappho

Δωρίχα (Doricha): 7, 15B

Ἄτθις (Atthis): 8, 49, 96, 131

Ἀνακτορία (Anaktoria): 16

Γόγγυλα (Gongyla): 22, 95

Γόργω (Gorgo): 29C, 144

Γυρίννω (Gyrinno): 29H, 82Α

Ἀνδρομέδα (Andromeda): 68A, 131, 133

Μεγάρα (Megara): 68A

Μίκα (Mika): 71

Δίκα (Dika): 81

Μνασιδίκα (Mnasidika): 82A

Εἴρανα (Eirana): 91, 135

Κλέις (Kleis): 98B, 132

Γέλλω (Gello): 168A