#reception

[oldshowbiz]

1982.

The Sound of Toronto Radio.

#toronto #ontario #yonge street #sam the record man #aircheck #static #radio #CBL #reception #Youtube

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got bitten by a snake at a wedding reception and had a seizure.

#dream #bite #injury #snake #snakes #snake tw #snakes tw #wedding #wedding reception #reception #seizure #nightmare

[mrs-trophy-wife]

#reception #wedding #florals #flowers #roses #rose #white roses #wedding reception #nuptial #nuptials #white florals #beige

[microgeneration]

From @y2kaestheticinstitute

#80s #interior design #decor #reception #corporate #glass bricks #vaporwave #aesthetic

[finelythreadedsky]

wait i think actually madeline miller's circe is the heir to margaret atwood's penelopiad, unintentionally, in the way it thematizes the impossibility of real solidarity among women.

bc it's such a major part of the penelopiad how penelope creates what she thinks is a real community, a sort of family, with these young women in her household only be to reminded and continue to reinforce that they are slaves over whom she (among others) holds the power of life and death. and penelope ultimately does not or cannot hold a lasting grudge against odysseus on their behalf. she aligns herself, or circumstances force her to align herself, with odysseus instead of with other women whose positions are even more dangerous than hers. the world they live in does not allow solidarity between women across lines of class and enslavement, and penelope is also complicit in maintaining that world and her place in it.

and then the thing i found so frustrating about circe was that at every turn miller forecloses the possibility of real connections between women-- but the thing in this world that prevents that is just, like, jealousy over men. and totally needlessly. the other nymphs are prettier. glaucus loves scylla and not circe. her mom never liked her. hermes doesn't really think she's hot. athena is a rival for odysseus' attention. and the book doesn't do anything with this, it's not due to structural power imbalances or a society built on enslavement or even how patriarchy pits women against each other (circe lives alone on an island outside of society that could be another writer's lesbian separatist utopia!), it's just that circe doesn't like other women and they don't like her. end of story.

much as i don't love what atwood does with helen, it does make sense in the context of the penelopiad! thematically and in terms of characterization. atwood's penelope has internalized this idea of what it means to be a good woman and, willingly or not, she's staked everything on being seen by men as a good woman. it makes sense that she's desperately trying to pull herself up or even just cling to what little she has by dragging other women down. she does to helen what she ultimately does to the maids. she's with and for odysseus, always, not helen, and not the maids. that's the kind of world she lives in, and while she likes to think that she's resisting it with a sort of radical female community, in the end she is its agent. even if she feels bad about it. she's here to tell a story about odysseus, not about the girls he killed.

#makes me think of how emily wilson translates φιλη Ευρυκλεια as 'the slave who loved her master' or something similiar #which is the same sort of characterization atwood gives eurycleia. an enslaved woman who puts her master above other slaves and other women #and on the one hand of course she does! that's how she survives! can you blame her? #she lives in a society that pushes her at every turn to betray her fellow enslaved women! #but on the other hand it's still sad and somehow you can blame her #mine #reception #retellings #i think i finally get the penelopiad now. after reading the novel twice and seeing the play three times. #long post

[xiaq]

Having your reception at your parents house means you can start setting things up the weekend before.

Look at all that thrifted goodness—my vision is taking shape and I’m more or less rubbing my hands together and cackling about it. Also my little blackboard signs are turning out so cute!

#reception #diy wedding #mylife

[opendirectories]

#open directories #reception #front desk #aesthetic #interior #roomcore

[sweetoothgirl]

Salted Caramel Frosting Recipe

#salted caramel #caramel #frosting #food #autumn #reception

[succulentsiren]

Once you believe you are deserving of the best that’s what you attract.

#succulentsiren #writers and poets #attraction #witch #dark feminine energy #divine feminine #feminine #energy #feminine energy #affirmations #attract #receive #reception #loa #law of attraction #magic #witchcraft

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Art is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

- Maria Callas

#callas #maria callas #quote #singer #opera singer #opera #diva #singing #classical music #music #art #artist #art as domination #reception #arts #ugly ducking #voice #culture #greek #femme #la traviata

[liminalspacesandplaces]

#liminalcore #liminal vibes #liminal #liminal aesthetic #liminal places #the liminal zone #liminality #backroom #creepy #backrooms level #found the backrooms #backrooms #fellowship hall #reception #mess hall #ai liminal #ai #ai generated

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Father and Bride, circa 1980

#vintage #wedding #bride #reception #collection 17

[mrs-trophy-wife]

#cigars #wedding #reception #party #flowers #lilies #hydrangeas #florals #matches

[princesscatherineblog]

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attends a dinner hosted by the Governor General of Jamaica at King's House on March 23, 2022 in Kingston, Jamaica.

#kate middleton #catherine middleton #duchess of cambridge #royal tour #caribbean #jamaica #reception #british royal fandom #princess kate #catherine princess of wales #royal style #british royal family

[the-brown-man]

#punjabi #me #wife #punjab #reception #wedding #formal #desi #desiblr #ray ban #sunglasses #photo #picture #beard #jewellery #photograph #selfie #tikka #necklace #couple #relationship #married

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

#thinking of how her last four novels between 2004 and 2008 show a progressive blossoming of interest in classical literary traditions #following nearly half a century's worth of a career where she seems to actively avoid the influence of classical or medieval europe #idk. but i think this explains annals of the western shore as much as lavinia. #she gets so interested in what it means to share the same stories across space and time (and class and gender and nationality) #to be united in a community by having the same poetry #and in such an obvious way thinking about classics as a discipline is an incredible way to work through that #and i do think its an interest that must come out of having witnessed her own work unite people in community across time #if you're talking about the way stories and poems bring people together across time... #i read the texts passed on to me by renaissance humanists and 19th century philologists and byzantine monks and late antique scribes... #and they're the same across time and space but they're also not #and to have seen her own work reach people across space and time and be the same but also not... that must have been incredible #so: did living long enough to see her own early books read in a different context and to think about what that means #drive her to think about classical literature as she clearly was for the better part of a decade? #mine #reception #anyway i gotta think about this and email [redacted] tomorrow