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pedroam-bang · 3 months

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Carrie Frances Fisher (1956-2016)

#1956 #2016 #film #movie #portrait #Carrie Frances Fisher #Carrie Fisher #Princess Leia #Leia Organa #Star Wars #Episode VI #Return Of The Jedi

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ihatecensorship69 · 25 days

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Carrie Frances Fisher

#women #Carrie Frances Fisher #carrie fisher #actress #usa #🇺🇸#ihc69

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tonsillessscum · 8 months

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I’m a little embarrassed to post this, because I only actually got drawing software last night so,,, bear w/ me. But. I knew that I had to draw something for Carrie Fisher’s birthday. As someone with bipolar disorder, she gave me immense hope for the future. She was an amazing woman who should not have had to deal with the stuff that a young actress in ‘70s Hollywood had to deal with. She was a woman to be reckoned with, and was gone far too soon.

#star wars #carrie fisher #Carrie Frances fisher #Princess Leia #leia of alderaan #leia #leia skywalker #leia organa #star wars art #star wars fanart #star wars a new hope #graphic art #procreate #ristarwars

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perfettamentechic · 5 months

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27 dicembre … ricordiamo …

27 dicembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2019: José Varela, regista, attore e scrittore francese. Sospese l’attività cinematografica in seguito agli eventi del maggio 1968 prima di dedicarsi alla televisione. Ha lavorato come reporter senior per quindici anni, realizzando documentari e serie di fiction. Ha anche scritto sceneggiature e romanzi polizieschi. (n.1933) 2017: Thomas Hunter, attore statunitense. Dopo un fortunato esordio…

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nachosncheezies · 1 year

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G'nite Fuck-o's

#a handful of glitter #this is a carrie frances fisher post #hollywood walk of fame #drowned in moonlight

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prozac-shaped-urn · 4 months

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…..I caved.

#irl post #I never change my Lock Screen from Carrie Frances Fisher but yeah.#this fosca spread does something to me #it’s that little one on the right #i can’t explain it

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sw95ws · 1 year

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Obejrzyj film „Celebrating Carrie Frances Fisher on the Walk of Fame” w YouTube

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#„Celebrating Carrie Frances Fisher on the Walk of Fame”#Youtube

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thefudge · 3 months

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If I may dare ask what are your favourite romance novels?????

this will sound obnoxious, but i tend to love romance best when i encounter it in other genres (and i could definitely make a list of novels from different genres where the romance isn't the point but it goes so hard for me, and i think i have made some lists like that in the past? i really have to organize my books/book recs/book rec tags. and maybe make more lists)

but if we're going by novels that are considered and (could be) classified as romance, here's an imperfect list:

all of austen of course, but especially pride and prejudice and persuasion

jane eyre by charlotte bronte

the age of innocence by edith wharton

anna karenina by tolstoy (where i think i'm fonder of the kitty/levin pairing)

doctor zhivago by boris pasternak

gone with the wind by margaret mitchell (hate/love relationship but i am not immune to it, i'm afraid! i will say i prefer the book to the movie)

excellent women by barbara pym (god, i love the grumpy hero/heroine pairing here)

bridget jones's diary (the first book especially)

girl with a pearl earring by tracy chevalier (the movie too! colin firth and scarlett johansson had such good chemistry, it was surreal)

the blue castle by l.m. montgomery (love that we have a genuine "plain jane" heroine that doesn't turn out to be beautiful if she lets down her hair or any of that nonsense)

the french lieutenant's woman by john fowles (a postmodern romance, in many ways, but the yearning is so good)

spring snow by yukio mishima (i do think this is a romance, first and foremost, and my goddd, the angst and the yearning)

eligible by curtis sittenfeld (a modern p&p retelling; i know a lot of ppl hate this one but i really like it, though it could have been shorter. some of the lizzy/darcy moments in this book made my brain go brrr. the humor is great too)

sofia khan is not obliged (but just the first book in this series - another fun p&p retelling with a muslim heroine)

conversations with friends by sally rooney (i promised i wouldn't stretch the genre but this to me read as more of a romance than anything. and though i struggled with some parts of this book, i will admit that the affair between frances and nick did get to me. there were some particular sex scenes where rooney was doing what i like with the smut in terms of revelation and vulnerability)

the princess diarist by carrie fisher (okay, i'm doing it again, this is technically classified as memoir but again, the sections about harrison ford?? INSANE in terms of romantic anguish and angst. theee RPF of all time)

who's that girl by mhairi mcfarlane (some scenes in this book literally made my heart skip a beat?? this is a celeb/journalist romance that really worked for me. mcfarlane doesn't always strike the right chord with me but here, omgg. i hated her a bit for that ending, but some of the moments between the hero and heroine made me kick my feet like a lil kid)

birthday girl by penelope douglas (i don't know if i'd call this favorite, but it did the age gap thing right, while also being hot and well-written. it didn't toootally win me over, but i appreciate it when an author takes the "fell for my boyfriend's dad" trope seriously)

#replies #romance books #romance recs #books #book rec #book recs

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moontrinemars · 2 years

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TENTH LORD in VENUS NAKSHATRAS

As always, recorded for my own benefit, published for yours. Sidereal placements used. General disclaimer is in my bio. Credit to KRSchannel for inspiring this series.

Find your 10th lord here, and find your 10th lord's nakshatra here.

The 10th house rules our life's honor. It represents the services we perform for society as well as the reputation we earn as a result. It is associated with the father and the career because traditionally, this is where both our standing in society and the role we performed in society would come from - inherited through the father's family line. However, in our contemporary world, this isn't always the case, which is why it's important to know the grander themes at play.

The three Venus-ruled nakshatras are Bharani, Purva Phalguni, and Purva Ashadha.

Venus is a planetary object that represents one's ideals and values. It is where we seek harmony and practice negotiation. We must look to Venus for earthly matters - beauty, pleasure, but also wealth and business. Venus is sensual and romantic, but also practical and tangible. Above all, it is not just about what is appealing, but what is useful. Hence, Venus has correlations not just to the arts, and to music, but also to mathematics, finance, logistics, and real estate.

Do you have your 10th lord in a Venus-ruled nakshatra? That means you...

Priscilla Presley, Carrie Fisher, and Chloe Sevigny all have their tenth lords in Venus ruled nakshatras. Priscilla's is in Bharani, Carrie's is in Purva Phalguni, and Chloe's is in Purva Ashadha.

... rely on your in-born charms, connections, as well as cooperative abilities to navigate public life.

Individuals with this placement are era-defining trend-setters. They have particular opinions about the way everything is done, and are talented at coming up with ways to improve the world, but actually gritting their teeth and implementing real change does not come quite as naturally. Work bores them, but they negotiate brilliantly. They may get distracted by their own need for entertainment.

When it comes to famous natives with this placement, it all boils down to relationships, relationships, relationships. In some cases, this means nepotism babies. It might be that a famous partner or friend puts them in the public eye. Other times it just means they are such a pleasure to work with, people keep recommending them to others in need. It helps that these people are usually generous and willing to lend their services however they can. However, they can fail to take their responsibilities seriously.

More on the specifics of Bharani, Purva Phalguni, and Purva Ashadha below!

If BHARANI RULES the TENTH LORD, you...

Priscilla Presley, Chris Rock, and Ginger Rogers all have their tenth lords in Bharani. Others with this placement are Lucrezia Borgia, Madame de Pompadour, Bono, M. C. Escher, William Butler Yeats, Empress Josephine of France, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Rely on chemistry - sensual or platonic - with peers to get by.

Generate beginnings and endings more than prolong the current.

Are often asked to shoulder more than a fair amount of burdens.

Help create a workplace that is suited to artistry and comfort.

Have strong opinions and are quick to judgment in office politics.

and you may find...

You alternate between binging and fasting at work, in terms of both food and distractions.

Your profession surrounds you with beauty, or increases yours.

You like to keep your public and private life separate, and are thought of as mysterious or coy in the workplace because of it.

Superiors and peers actually react more favorably to public or professional projects you've procrastinated on.

Traveling for work usually goes poorly for you - everything that can go wrong will go wrong, late flights, traffic jams, accidents, or maybe the journey is so boring it throws you off your game.

You end up interacting with children a fair amount regardless of whether you actually like them or are in a related profession.

BHARANI is the Star of Restraint. Industries and career types favored are those involving food, child and animal care, midwifery, anything involving birth and/or death, event-based entertainment like dance and theme parks, contracting, and the court system.

If PURVA PHALGUNI RULES the TENTH LORD, you...

Lana Turner, Jane Russell, and Bruce Springsteen all have their tenth lords in Purva Phalguni. Others with this placement are Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly, Kim Kardashian, Lucille Ball, Matt Schultz, Michael Caine, and Estelle.

Have a carefree approach to responsibility and public life.

Are naturally adept at networking, making friends with all the right people sometimes unintentionally.

Have a dynamic voice with an effortlessly appealing sincerity that demands to be heard without being overbearing.

Can be reckless, impulsive, and driven by stimulation.

Harbor an underlying vanity, and can react vindictively to those that question or even criticize you in public forums.

and you may find...

You tend to meet your significant others at work or through the public sphere, such as at political events or through the state.

Inheritance plays a role in the way you interact with the public - whether such you leave or such you attain, or maybe even just in that you have to deal with a lot of nepotism in your field.

Superiors irritate you regardless of whether you get along or not, as your independence makes you chafe against hierarchy.

Rule-breaking you might let slide in your personal life agitates you in work and public settings, and you act accordingly.

Drugs or promiscuity may be normalized in your workplace.

You have a unique ability to revive dead projects or projects in hiatus - somehow your presence breathes new life into forgotten, neglected, or even disparaged work.

PURVA PHALGUNI is the Fruit of the Tree. Industries and career types favored are those involving design, music, media, marriage, luxury items, diplomacy, events and performances, products used for cleansing and refreshing, and beauty and clothing of the body.

If PURVA ASHADHA RULES the TENTH LORD...

Elvis Presley, Paul Newman, and Frida Kahlo all have their tenth lords in Purva Ashadha. Others with this placement are Jude Law, Donna Tartt, Peter Steele, Simone de Beauvoir, Nancy Spungen, Robert Duvall, Finn Wittrock, Louisa May Alcott, Jennifer Garner, Stephen Sondheim, and Patti Smith.

Are capable of rising to great heights out of ambition, but may prefer the type and amount of work handled by lower ranks.

Have a strong internal drive to better yourself and your station, but also to reach a higher state of being through the public.

Are faithful and loyal to peers and friends, even to a fault.

Can be driven to great passions by politics and by your career, both out of frustration and out of concern or enthusiasm.

Highly value popularity, and may seek local or national fame as a means of validating your overall worth.

and you may find...

Engaging with the public through volunteering and service has a cleansing effect on you in an emotional and spiritual capacity.

Simply being present seems to fan the flames of excitement of the workplace or in public - whether conflicts or celebrations.

You have a natural intuition for sensing the secrets or fears of coworkers, and of your society as a whole, but this does not extend to yourself - often, you have to have your own flaws or unhappiness pointed out to you by others in public settings.

You feel forced to settle for less than you deserve in return for your service, which leaves you sensitive to having other forms of control taken away, driving you to acting obstinate or inflexible.

Persuasion, especially of peers and the public, comes naturally.

Overseas travel for work or for service actually go more smoothly for you than those that require journeys only over land.

PURVA ASHADHA is the Invincible Star. Industries and career types favored are those involving motivation, management, art, pop culture, processing, hosting, debate, trade, public speaking, water and hydration, and travel or shipping by air and sea.

Hope this was helpful. Feel free to message with any questions, thoughts, or ideas. Part 3, focusing on 10th Lords with Sun Nakshatras, will be next! ♡

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dadbastiandisaster · 1 year

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Fuck it

🕸️🕷️✨Claude headcanons✨🕷️🕸️

Yes i know his characterisation is utter shit and yes i am taking a marie kondo approach to the s2 canon

Sebastian had at least been around humans before his contract, so he at least had a passing idea of how to Human. Claude had not. Only interacted with humans ever if murder counts.

He’s actually short-sighted (someone on a wattpad book Black Butler Headcanons I can’t find for the life of me because wattpad utterly fucked up their search system suggested this was because his true form has eight eyes and I love it. I think the person who wrote it was called something like ‘The King Fisher’, so if that sounds familiar, say and I’ll tag you)

He has very little concept of social norms. Alois will be like ‘men are supposed to wear trousers and women are supposed to wear skirts >:(‘ and claude will be like

They’re both coming at the ‘gender is bullshit’ thing from two very different places

Sebastian is over-achieving as far as Claude’s concerned. He’s got three other Demons working for him and he’s going to make the most of it, there is no benefit from doing more than he has to.

He has mixed feeling about Alois. On the one hand he does know that Alois’ situation is not great and has even grown somewhat fond of him (platonically i swear to fuck some people in this fandom) but on the other there are few people on the planet less equipped to help than him.

Jokes aside, I imagine it’s a he/they/it situation, but it’s the Victorian era so Alois was like ‘well you’re probably not a woman so unfortunately that leaves you with one other option’ and Claude was like ‘that’s fine, how long could these contract things last anyway?’

His life pre-contract was basically just surviving in Hell, which has left him with extensive knowledge of nature and no sense of identity

Hates people, loves animals!

Took the contract more out of curiosity than anything else. He fucked around and found out!

Most of Alois and his contract is ‘if you have no idea what you’re supposed to be doing and I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing who’s driving this ship?’

The answer is Hannah obviously

My interpretation of the Hannah-Claude situation is that Claude (somehow) knows that Hannah killed Alois’ brother and that chasing after Sebastian is totally pointless, but if he tells Alois, Hannah will kill him (I hc Hannah as a very old, very powerful Demon). Hannah obviously doesn’t want Alois to find out the truth, so she has to sabotage quite a lot of Alois’ plans (which Claude has to carry out, so it makes his life a lot harder, which is Not A Vibe as far as Claude’s concerned)

Plus Hannah is like ‘actually you’re doing a shit job with Alois’ (true) ‘and if I had this contract instead of you he would be fine’ (not true)

Sort of mid-level Demon. Like he’s in pretty good health (aside from the crappy eyesight) but he’s not especially skilled in combat. He’s just sort of meh.

He likes knitting, crocheting, sewing, lace-making etc because it’s similar to web-building and he finds it relaxing

Sebastian fucking hates him after the Ciel kidnapping incident but the hatred is entirely one-sided. Claude does not give a singular shit about Sebastian, just thinks he’s (as the kids say) a bit of a try-hard

Knows for a Fact that Alois is a lot smarter than he lets on. Doesn’t rat him out on it though, he doesn’t get paid extra to be a snitch, and he’d probably do the same if the situation allowed

I’m torn between ‘totally non-judgemental’ and ‘is a massive bitch’, so I think it’s both. Totally non-judgemental is he’s ambivalent to/likes you, if he dislikes you he is judging you on everything you do right down to how you butter your toast and will chat shit behind your back

Even he didn’t like the previous Earl Trancy

Really not a fan of physical affection

I think if he and Aunt Frances met, it would be a case of unstoppable force (Aunt Frances knowing that Claude is doing 10000 things wrong and cutting so many corners he now has a circle) vs immovable object (Claude doesn’t care). The Sebastian - Aunt Frances dynamic heavily relies on Sebastian caring about her opinion and Claude simply does not have that problem.

Unlike Sebastian, he sometimes sleeps.

I don’t think he’s aro/ace he’s just never really had much of a chance to explore any of that,

Anyway, I will stop for now, this is already very long. I might make ones for Hannah and the Triplets because I will simply never stop talking about the kuro demons

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #claude faustus #black butler 2 #black butler season 2 #black butler headcanons #headcanons #i have such a specific characterisation of claude in my head #and it bugs me far more than i should when i see people with other ones #like i don’t actually think im right but also im the only person who can write claude correctly #and everyone else should check with me before posting any claude Faustus content #hes a nerd hes a freak he likes knitting hes judging you for what order you eat the food on your plate #using he/him bc thats what the show uses #original post

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thelonelybrilliance · 5 months

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2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

#booklist #my reading #my booklist #2023 booklist #2023 reads #my reads #2023 wrapped #bookblr #book recs

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pedroam-bang · 8 months

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Carrie Frances Fisher (1956-2016)

#1956 #2016 #film #movie #portrait #Carrie Frances Fisher #Carrie Fisher #Princess Leia #Leia Organa #Star Wars #Episode VI #Return Of The Jedi

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mariacallous · 7 months

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (also rec’d by John Irving)

“This may not just be my favorite Dickens novel, but my favorite novel period. I read it regularly, and every time is an undimmed pleasure. More, every time it feels fresh. That is the mark of greatness. Although the comic characterization is as juicy as ever, and it’s impossible to read without laughing out loud, Dickens here gives the fullest expression—through the hero who tellingly bears, if back to front, his initials—of horror at the heartbreak, savagery and injustice of the world. It is the ultimate bildungsroman and the truest story of how a person comes to be. Not for nothing was it Freud’s favorite novel.” -NL

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

“This is a nuanced and powerful novel about growing up, the mother-daughter relationship, female identity, sexuality, cultural dissonance, privilege, poverty and the pernicious legacy of colonialism. Kincaid’s style is both immediate and headily intense. A glinting, multifaceted work within relatively so few pages.” -NL

Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

“This book was my late sister Thomasina’s favorite as a child, though it is close to my heart for other than sentimental reasons, too. Within its prettily illustrated story about a fussy eater, it is understanding and touching about the fears and joys of food, and of childhood. So enduringly touching.” -NL

Persuasion by Jane Austen

“Sparer, more savage and so much more poignant than ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ (a great book, too, and I don’t mean to disparage it at all,) ‘Persuasion’ is a novel that tells us, as only Jane Austen can, about the vanities and follies of being human with such memorably dry wit.” -NL

Middlemarch by George Eliot (also rec’d by Bret Easton Ellis, Carrie Fisher & Zadie Smith

“Despite its grand place in the literary canon, ‘Middlemarch’ is really a rich, gossipy boxed set of a novel. I first read this as a teenager in short bursts nightly with a torch after lights-out, and it gripped me like a soap opera. The foolishness of the human condition, the urgency of its whims and fancies, and the often blinding need to find meaning are unsparingly chronicled in this feast of a book.” -NL

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

“PG Wodehouse is not a writer for those who want to read about the rah-rah world of aristocratic fops, he’s a writer for those who love reading sentences that shimmer with brilliance and wit. He is the preeminent English stylist, and I find it impossible to read him without purring with pleasure and hooting with laughter. This particular Jeeves and Wooster novel is a real corker.” -NL

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

“Haunting and transcendentally compelling, this is a prose-poem of a novel about grief, loss, suffering and family. But saying what a Marilynne Robinson novel is ‘about’ seems such a brutish vulgarity: it’s the melancholic yet ecstatic beauty of her language that makes her writing just seep into me, and stay with me.” -NL

The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron

“Reading a book is like making a friendship, and Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest (and cleverness and wisdom are not the same things at all, and rarely coexist) friend you could have. I really didn’t know whether to proffer Heartburn here or this volume, and in the end I went for this anthology, as it’s impossible to read it (and it does have excerpts from Heartburn,) without having to go on to read everything else Ephron wrote.” -NL

‘Tonio Kroger,’ included in Death In Venice, And Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann

“I know that the novella ‘Tonio Kroger’ is not Thomas Mann’s greatest work. There is some part of me that feels that I should be putting up ‘Buddenbrooks’ or ‘The Magic Mountain’ here. And there’s a strong case for ‘Death in Venice,’ too. But this is the book of his that felled me completely when I read it as a German student in my teens. All Mann’s enduring themes are here: the struggle between duty and love, between the febrile pleasure and teutonic responsibility; and the lethal vulnerability of the lover, set against the wanton cruel power of the beloved. It’s an anguished worldview, which is what spoke so directly to the adolescent reader I was, but no one reads Thomas Mann for woo-woo life-enhancing sentimentality.” -NL

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

“It would be a mistake to think that this memoir by Gabrielle Hamilton, chef proprietor of Prune, is solely for those interested in food. It is one of the most searingly honest autobiographies I have read: it is the story of a woman struggling to find her place in the world, the story of a lost childhood and a recovered self. This is no self-pitying misery memoir: it’s full of grit and passion, combining vigor with sensitivity, and I am as hungry for her words as I am for her food.” -NL

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secondaryartifacts · 8 months

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Today is the birthday of Carrie Frances Fisher who would have been 67 today

#carrie fisher #actress

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vintage-every-day · 2 years

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Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956, in Beverly Hills, California, to actors and singers Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

#vintage #old hollywood #golden era #Carrie Fisher #eddie fisher #debbie reynolds

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metaphysicalpistolsoraclemine · 2 months

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STARFIRE CEREMONY

It has been observed that during the height of the Sumerian-Egyptian timelines, there were those in the priestly caste that would harvest women's' menstrual blood for the purpose of carrying out a Starfire Ceremony in which the Annunaki races and others were drinking the menstrual blood for the purpose of increasing physical vitality and longevity.

During the lunar transfiguration process of the sacral center for female biology, this menstrual code memory has surfaced for compassionate witnessing, for the purpose of reclaiming starfire codes. The following is a placeholder for continued research.

Reference: Genesis of Grail Kings

From the viewpoint of ancient civilizations, primarily Sumerian and Egyptian, a substance called Star Fire was considered to be nothing less than the life-giving extract from the divine menstrual blood of the Goddess. In its original form, Star Fire was the lunar (menstrual) essence of one of the fourteen birth Goddesses. But even in the mundane, menstruum contains the most valuable endocrinal secretions of the Pineal and Pituitary glands. The Oxford English Dictionary even goes so far as to describe the menstrual action as an alchemical parallel with the transmutation into gold.

In ancient Egypt and other parts of the Mediterranean, menstruum was ritually collected from priestesses, known as the Scarlet Women. These women were known in the original as beloved ones, and via various translations, as whores. Originally, the earliest patriarchs were apparently weaned on the menstrual blood of the Goddesses (aka Scarlet Women), in order to ensure their longevity and abilities.

Reference: Line of Cain

Women carrying the Anunnaki bloodline were kept in the holy temples and used as a star fire supply for the kingship line. These producers of the Star Fire were called ‘Flow-ers’ and all were given the names ‘Lil-y’ which derives from the name ‘Lil-ith’, Cain’s twin sister and wife.

The menstrual blood coming from the flow-ers was called the nectar of the goddessess. This was described as nectar being contained in the dew cup which was symbolized by the red cross within a circle. The kingship lines or the lines of Cain that fed from the star fire also used this symbol, which were the dragon kings, draconians and the serpent kings of the Merovingians (Fisher kings of France.)The Sumerian priests of Anu (father god of Enlil and Enki) perfected and elaborated medical science of living substances. They used the Star fire for the treatment of just about everything. Although it was used as medicine, it was also fed daily to the kings of the succession.

After the Annunaki left and the Star Fire of the goddesses was no longer available, the priests devised a breeding program creating their own Anunnaki hybrid women specifically for the production of the Star Fire. These women were ‘milked’ for their nectar and the kings of the succession were able to continue feeding off this supplement. These Flow-ers were given the name of ‘virgin priestesses’, ‘virgin queens’, ‘virgin ladies’ and ‘ladies of the water’. Later their titles became ‘temple prostitutes’ and Scarlet Women.

The red of the cross was given the Asiatic name Ritu, meaning ‘Gold of the Gods’ or Red. It was also defined as Red Gold of the Golden Star Fire. Red and gold become synonymous with one another and the Ritu becomes the name for the collecting of the Starfire. Red then became synonymous with Black. In India, the goddess "Kali" is said to be both red and black. Kalimath, who was the original model for the Indian goddess "Kali" is depicted as both red and black.

The word secretions references the menstrual blood of these virgin priestesses. The word secret comes from the people who knew the power of the secret-ions. It comes from the early priests, the Temples of the Dragon Courts, who kept the secret or secret-ions. The secretions were the key secrets behind the mystery schools that upheld the ‘star fire rituals’. This is one of the secrets that Freemasonry says has been lost.

References

Laurence Gardner; Genesis of Grail Kings

THE LINE OF CAIN - THE TWO GODS OF THE BIBLE - LEGEND OF VAMPIRES BY MARY SUTHERLAND