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janeaustenluvr13 · 7 months
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When Jane Austen wrote to Cassandra, “What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance”, I felt that. It’s September, and If they don’t turn the sun off and let me enjoy Autumn, I promise I’ll leave Earth with aliens the second NASA announces they exist.
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nikatyler · 1 year
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50 Days of Sims Style
You may have seen on twitter already, but if not: I'm doing another CAS challenge because I don't have enough and also because I'm a little crazy, let's be real. I've gathered these 50 different styles from all across the internet and I'll try to dress my sims in all of them. Wanna join me? Break the rules or follow them to the T, it's all up to you.
Prompts transcribed under the cut.
1. Basic
2. Emo
3. Cowboy
4. Light Academia
5. High Fantasy
6. 50s
7. Kidcore
8. Athleisure
9. Pastel Goth
10. Grandpacore
11. Christian Girl Autumn
12. 60s
13. Royalcore
14. Pirate
15. Glam Rock
16. Metal
17. Art Hoe
18. 70s
19. Dystopian Sci-Fi
20. Vacation Dad
21. Cottagecore
22. High Fashion
23. Femboy/Tomboy
24. 80s
25. Vintage
26. Hippie
27. 2014 Tumblr
28. Goth
29. Preppy
30. 90s
31. Medieval
32. Bimbocore
33. Rockabilly
34. Y2K
35. Frogcore
36. Tropical
37. Villaincore
38. 2020 Alt
39. Victorian
40. Dark Academia
41. Roaring 20s
42. Plant Mom/Dad
43. Trashcore
44. Fairy
45. Baroque
46. Parisian Chic
47. New Age
48. Romantic
49. Gamer
50. Hellenic
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The Magical Girl Guide to: Faerie Witchcraft
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A post a long time in the making, it's finally time for it to get out of my drafts. I've talked about specific faeries in the past but never a sweeping generalization on faerie witchcraft it, so let's change that this 2024.
Faerie witchcraft at its core is a path of witchcraft that revolves around communicating with the folk, working with them, calling on them and leaving them offerings as thanks for their assistance. That is the biggest generalization I can make about the path, but what that core looks like can be very different from faerie witch to faerie witch. So, let's talk about the faeries.
(As always, these 'magical girl guides' isn't the 'end all be all'. These are barely the tip of the iceberg. Always look at other's experiences/UPG and of course make sure to do more extensive research beyond a post on Tumblr.)
What are faeries?
Faerie, Faery, Fairy, Fae, Fey, Fay, it doesn't matter how you spell it, we are all referring to the same thing ー the Good Neighbors.
By definition, faeries are "is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European culture a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities."
There are no real single origin for faeries so much as a collection of folk beliefs from all over.
Terminology
Other Way to say Faerie
Ao sí/Aes sídhe
Daoine sídhe
Sídhe/Shee/Sìth
The Good Folk
The Good Neighbors
The Fair Folk
The Folk
The Gentry
The Good People
Greencoaties
Changeling - a substitute left by a faerie after kidnapping a human. Can sometimes be one of their own, other times it is glamoured rocks and sticks. Was used as an explanation for stillborn children in the past.
Seelie - the "faerie good guys" in stories.
Unseelie - the "faerie bad guys" in stories.
The Wild Hunt/Sluagh/Underfolk - a group of supernatural hunters in a never-ending hunt/chase. The perception of the Wild Hunt changed after the introduction of Christianity to the isles.
Wild/Solitary Fae - faeries with no Court affiliations, not to be confused with the Wild Hunt.
Trooping Faeries - live in communities and are known for singing and dancing.
Faerieland
Also simply referred to as Faerie, this is the home of the faeries.
Thought to be divided into the four Seasonal Courts of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The Spring and Summer Courts represent the Seelie Court while Autumn and Winter represent the Unseelie Court. These lands are considered to be eternal displays of the season they are.
faeries in folklore
We would literally be here all day if I talked about faeries in folklore. Y'all know faerie folklore and mythology is ancient X'D so this category isn't really all that important.
In these stories, faeries can be anything from benevolent to tricksters to someone out to get it back in blood.
faeries in media
Just as expansive as the faerie folklore post. Faeries are becoming more and more frequent in pop culture with books such as the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black, The Spider Wick Chronicles also by Holly Black, Sarah J. Maas' ACOTAR series and even in older TV shows like True Blood.
Hell, I'm working on a novel that has to do with faeries.
UPG
Since starting my own journey working with the fair folk I've come to learn that your fae working experience is shaped by the fae you go out of your way to interact with, the fae local to your area, what the folk feel comfortable sharing with you and what they feel comfortable letting you share with others.
A faerie witch whose experience centers around the flower faeries local to their area is going to be different from a faerie witch whose experience centers around Unseelie fae. Same for someone who only focuses on transactional relationships with the fae (ex. leaving out home baked goods weekly for a brownie, the brownie takes care of the home and that's the extent of their relationship) vs a someone where their path focuses on enveloping themselves in faerie culture and learning about it on a more personal level (ex. befriending a Court local to your area).
For me personally, my fae work experience centers around wild fae like selkies and death fae like banshee and dullahan. Both of which are very personal and has me enveloped in the cultures of these faeries. No transactions here but something deep and personal, like family. It's influenced the witchcraft I've chosen to incorporate into my craft as an eclectic witch and things I experience on a daily basis. (I do have guides on both selkies and banshee if you are curious. Dullahan post is in progress.)
Because of this, your prospective relationship with fair folk and what that may bring in your life is going to be very personal to you, I've found. There will be some overlap, of course. You'll run into someone and go 'oh damn, me too!!'. But it will still be special and unique to you.
It can be as personal as you want it to be. It can be as impersonal as you want it to be. It's up to you.
As such, I can't really make a generalized UPG post about what working with fae is like. There are so many kinds of faeries out there that it would take forever to complete! And one person's daily UPG can look vastly different from someone else's.
I don't believe it's as rampant as it used to be in witchcraft-related spaces as it was in say 2016, but there will always be people who will say things like 'avoid working with faeries in general' or 'fae work is only best for the experienced. If you're a bigger, fuck off'. But I personally think that, like with any craft, as long as you take the time to baby step your way into it, study as you go along, then fae work isn't something that should be gatekeeped to the experienced.
Seelie vs Unseelie: A Lesson in Faerie Morality
There's a huge misconception about these two faerie categories that Seelie means 'good faeries' while Unseelie means 'bad faeries'.
So the best thing someone can do when stepping into the world of fae work is completely disregard that notion. You can meet Unseelie fae who don't mind mortal company and then meet a Seelie faerie who doesn't fuck with humans in the slightest. I think it would better to think of it as faeries who commit to the right or left-handed paths and even then that's putting human morality on it. Human morality and faerie morality are not the same and the faster you realize that, the better it'll be for you.
What you might find atrocious, faeries might go 'that's not so bad'.
What you might find 'not so bad', faeries might find despicable.
Unseelie courts tend to be a bit less welcoming than Seelie courts in a general sweeping overgeneralization. That’s not to say there aren’t Unseelie fae that wouldn’t interact with humans, but a good majority probably won’t be happy to see a human frolicking about the place unattended. So if you ever feel the desire to visit an unseelie court, I’d wait until you’re more experienced working the fae and having the etiquette down
How important is etiquette?
I've personally found that the closer you are to a faerie, the less important etiquette is.
I don't speak to my selkie friends the way I speak to the flower faeries that are local to my area. The way I talk to banshee I know is very different than how I talk to banshee I don't know.
So yes, it is important to learn the proper etiquette to avoid angering a faerie. But the closer you get to the specific folk in your lives, should the relationship go beyond acquaintanceship/transactional, you'll find yourself speaking a bit more casually with them over time.
Faerieland: A Personal Dive
The home of the Good Neighbors.
You can go to Faerie by way of the astral or by slipping into a pocket of Faerie found in our realm (ex. you're on a nature hike and suddenly you've found yourself walking into a revel).
You could write a 50 page dissertation on the courts of Faerie and still not be done covering it. There are hundreds of Courts outside of the main few that you'll hear tossed around by fae workers and folklore enthusiasts and even with those known few there can be dozens of Sub-Courts.
I've met faeries from the Flower Court, a Summer pixie who came from a specific sub-Court called the Lake Court. I've heard of fae workers talking about Winter Sub-Courts that have to do with specific wintery holidays. So yes, there's definitely more than just the Seasonal Courts.
I always let people who frequent this blog what I can and cannot do and what I have and have not done. So in the spirit of keeping things transparent, I've only ever visited two Courts in Faerieー the Autumn Court and the Death Court. I can't really tell you much direct information about the other Courts because of that.
So I can't really give any 'here's a place I recommend visiting in Faerie' beyond a simple 'avoid any place embroiled in politics'. Any court going through serious issues whether that’s a change in power or what have you, won’t be the best place to visit.
Stick to well-populated places to start. You’ll likely find less problems there than say remote areas of Faerie. Just know, Faerie can be as terrifying as it is beautiful.
As for leadership, that looks different from Court to Court, Seelie to Unseelie.
I usually hear more about matriarchal rulership in Faerie, but there are faerie kings.
Who counts as 'Fae' and who doesn't?
If they consider themselves fae, they're fae. If they don't consider themselves fae, they aren't. That's really all there is to it. I've met merfolk who consider themselves faeries and I've met merfolk who consider faeries separate entities from themselves.
So in my experience, I've found that you just learn what the entity in question thinks of themselves as and respect that.
I'm just trying to keep faeries out my space tbh
You'll find the old timey methods to be very suitable. Iron, salt sprinkled around and so and so forth.
And should be out and about in nature, and you want to enjoy a hike without the fair folk messin' with ya, I'd recommend keeping an item of clothing inside out, carrying rowan or iron charms. And keeping to the trails. Faeries are more likely to avoid areas with heavy human foot traffic.
suitable offerings
The disclaimer here is that these are general offerings that most faeries should like. Should you ever find yourself working frequently with a faerie or find yourself the companion of one, there could be other things that they specifically like or dislike. But you usually can’t go wrong with:
General
Anything from nature like flowers, leaves, etc.
Tea
Honey
Cream
Berries
But should you be trying to get the attention of a faerie of a specific species, fine tune your offerings to that type of faerie. Seashells for selkies, bones for dullahan and so on and so forth.
how to gain the attention of a faerie
1) old fashioned offerings
2) astral travel
3) spirit attraction spell
I’m not a promoter of conjuring or otherwise, forcefully bringing a spirit to your vicinity. Think about it like this: you’re at a wedding. You’re best friend in the entire world is getting hitched to the love of their life, and you’re among the audience. You’re welling up with emotion and pride for your friend to have made such an important milestone in their life when… Suddenly, you’re not at their wedding anymore.
No, instead you’re looking at some random stranger who summoned you to their home who say it’s because they’re interested in working with those of your kind. You wouldn’t be too happy about this, would you? 
Not only is conjuring or summoning bad for the entity, it can be bad for you if this entity isn’t easily forgiving of being torn away from their personal life to your home and you can end up paying the consequences for it. Instead, I recommend a spell that attracts entities to your home or if you’re sufficiently prepared, astral travel it up.
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Portrait of Vivienne Westwood by Christian Shambenait
It took me a few days, but with the death of icon-goddess-genius Vivienne Westwood, I had to make a post here about her work and how massively influential she was during her lifetime, and why her influence will remain for years to come.
"I take something from the past that has a sort of vitality that has never been exploited – like the crinoline – and get very intense. In the end you do something original because you overlay your own ideas." Vivienne Westwood
Born in 1941 in Tintwistle, Cheshire, Vivienne Westwood (nèe Swire) did not have a "traditional" path into fashion and design, even though she took a course of jewellery at the Harrow Art School (she thought it was not for her, being a working-class girl), she became a primary school teacher and got married with Derek Westwood, had a kid... But she was a maker of things and a creative mind, and made her own wedding dress and jewellery that she sold at a stall.
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Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood at the Let It Rock store (London, January 1972).
But all of that was about to change when she met Malcolm McLaren. She got divorced, moved with him and had another son. McLaren became the manager of the Sex Pistols and with Westwood, they became a creative duo who dressed the band and became VERY influential during th punk era. We must add the after that they opened a store called SEX, which was the meeting place for the punk scene in London in the 1970s. So, yeah. punk wouldn't look like it does without Vivienne Westwood.
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"Vivienne and Malcolm use clothes to shock, irritate and provoke a reaction but also to inspire change. Mohair jumpers, knitted on big needles, so loosely that you can see all the way through them, T-shirts slashed and written on by hand, seams and labels on the outside, showing the construction of the piece; these attitudes are reflected in the music we make. It's OK to not be perfect, to show the workings of your life and your mind in your songs and your clothes." Viv Albertine
This era of Westwood's design has a lot of collaboration, especially with McLaren, and they produced under the Worlds End label until 1985. These collections have each a theme and a name, and here is when we star seeing Vivienne Westwood's eye and curiosity for historical fashion, as well as nods and details especially from the 18th and 19th centuries. Of course, it was the 80s and all was way more colourful than what we thing of more contemporary Vivienne Westwood, but you can see that EVERYTHING was already there in the period which she dubbed as "New Romantic" with collections like Witches, Punkature, and Pirate.
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Raincoat and belt, from the 1983 Witches collection, Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Ensemble from the 1982 Pirates collection, Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Knitted top from the 1983 Witches collection, featuring Keith Haring's graffiti.
The 1988-1991 era is called "The Pagan Years", and we can see the change of the main looks from punks to girls in clothes that parodied the upper class. And it is then that I think the ultimate Vivienne Westwood is seen: corsets, crinolines, tartan, colourful stripes... Here is when we begin to see the historical references taken to a extreme, mixed with the modern word and sense of humour, while always being perfectly made and patterned and fun for all genders.
Here some of my favourite ones:
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Vivienne Westwood black satin corset with metallic gold pattern, ss 1992 Stays, late 17th-early 18th century, Met Museum.
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Vivienne Westwood autumn/winter 2020.
Fashion illustration on L’Elegant, 1853.
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Carmagnole Jacket, France, c. 1790 / Sans-culotte Trousers, France, c. 1790, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Vivienne Westwood, autumn/winter 2021.
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"Watteau" evening dress, 1996, Vivienne Westwood, Victoria & Albert Museum. "L’enseigne de Gersaint" (detail), Jean-Antoine Watteau.
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Vivienne Westwood, autumn/winter 2022.
Portrait of Madame X, 1884, John Singer Sargent.
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Madonna in her Fever video, 1993, wearing Vivienne Westwood. Gold leather corset, sleeves and mini skirt, 'Time Machine' ss 1988, Vivienne Westwood.
Always a creative force and a punk at heart, Vivienne Westwood was also an activist, putting front and center important causes like climate change, or sustainability and transparency in the brand's supply chain.
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Rose McGowan walking the autumn/winter 2019 Vivienne Westwood catwalk.
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Designer Vivienne Westwood looks through the glass toward the media during a photocall at a retrospective exhibition to celebrate her 30 years in the fashion industry, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tuesday March 30, 2004.
What is your favourite look/garment of this iconic designer? And does it have an historical reference? Let us all know!
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addicted-to-his-knife · 8 months
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WHAT THE REPO! CHARACTERS WOULD LISTEN TO.
Do you find yourself bored, looking for new music? Do you happen to like Repo! The Genetic Opera and have you ever wondered what music the characters would listen to? Here are my headcanons! I'm submitting them directly to "addicted-to-his-knife" since my blog doesn't have much reach, I have like 30 followers and I also think this blog is great ♡ Songs are taken from my own gothic rock-metal/darkwave/goth playlist.
Shilo Wallace: I have a feeling Shilo would really like Siouxsie And The Banshees, I can see some of her favorite songs being Sick Child, Happy House, The Lonely One, Spellbound or Cities in Dust. I think she would also like The Birthday Massacre, particularly Looking Glass, In The Dark, Shallow Grave, The Sky Will Turn and All Of Nothing. Shilo would also find solace in the lyrics of So Alone by Anna Blue, Illusion by VNV Nation, Isolated by Chiasm, Coma Baby by Nicole Dollanganger and Walking On Air by Kerli. After all the isolation and grief she's gone through, Shilo needs music that makes her feel understood.
Nathan Wallace: Nathan, as we all know, is going through it. I can see him listening to some Joy Division songs with lyrics he would find comforting, such as Disorder, Shadowplay, Dead Souls, New Dawn Fades and I Remember Nothing. Nathan would also enjoy some Depeche Mode songs, for example Enjoy The Silence, Ghosts Again, It's Called A Heart and Strangelove. Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy is another song he really likes. He will listen to Bauhaus as well, classics like Dark Entries, She's In Parties or Bela Lugosi's Dead. Anesthesia by Type O Negative or Spectre by Christian Death are songs Nathan would like as well. Overall, he needs music that helps him deal with the pain within his soul, torn between being a protective father who wants to keep his daughter safe at all costs, even if that means lying to her, and a bloodthirsty, macabre and violent Repo Man.
Graverobber: Graverobber listens to Rob Zombie, and he actually tries to imitate his style. Songs like Dragula, Superbeast, Feel So Numb, The Life And Times Of A Teenage Rock God and Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown are some of the tunes he listens to while he's partying with the Zydrate addicts. Graves also enjoys Light Asylum, with songs like Shallow Tears, Dark Allies or Knights And Weekends. Sometimes he listens to Absence by Ludovico Technique, Dig Up Her Bones by Misfits or The Wanderer by The Cemetary Girlz. Graves finds that music helps him relax as well as petting any rats he comes across. Other songs he also vibes to are Rats by Ghost, Drunk On Shadows by HIM, Entombed by Deftones and Grave Robber At Large by Creature Feature.
Blind Mag: When she's not blessing others with her beautiful voice, Mag listens to Within Temptation, songs like Forgiven, Stand My Ground, Angels, Somewhere, Our Farewell and The Swan Song are her favorites. She sings along to Phobic Sea by Autumn's Grey Solace, Procession by SRSQ and Bless The Child by Nightwish. Mag also enjoys Lebanon Hanover, particularly Midnight Creature, Saddest Smile, Gallowdance, Hollow Sky and The Last Thing. Mag is a sad soul, a caged bird who can't escape so she just sings. Music helps her feel a little more free.
Amber Sweet: Amber is definitely into Diva Destruction, she loves their aesthetic and their sound, especially their songs Tempter, Snake, Valley Of Scars, Cruelty Games, Enslaved, Screaming Inside and The Broken Ones. Hole is another band she likes, with songs such as Reasons To Be Beautiful, Doll Parts, Violet or Nobody's Daughter. Amber also enjoys The Raveonettes, their songs Love In A Trashcan, Kill or I Wanna Be Adored (a cover) are just a few examples. She likes the song Gothic Girl by The 69 Eyes as well. Amber is very girly but also very gothic and that tends to reflect in her music taste.
Pavi Largo: Pavi listens to Male Tears, with some of his favorite songs being Hit Me, Model Citizen, Trauma Club, Good In The Dark and Embrace Death. He also likes Drab Majesty, with songs such as Kissing The Ground, Forget Tomorrow, Too Soon To Tell or 39 By Design. Pavi likes The Cramps too, especially The Way I Walk, Human Fly and Goo Goo Muck. I also feel like Pavi would vibe to Barbie Girl by Aqua, his bisexual ass loves both Kens and Barbies. He also likes Lullaby by The Cure, Beast Of Blood by Malice Mizer and Dressed For Death by Fear Cult. And if it's possible in the Repo! universe he would definitely listen to Skinny Puppy as well lol.
Luigi Largo: Luigi has severe anger issues and I think his music taste would reflect that. Luigi listens to Korn, songs like Falling Away From Me, Coming Undone, Freak On A Leash or Make Me Bad. Luigi likes She Wants Revenge as well, especially their songs Tear You Apart, Written In Blood, Take The World and Red Flags And Long Nights. And he probably likes some Shayfer James songs too, like Villainous Thing, For The Departed and Where We Belong. He would also enjoy In The Dark You Die by Dark, Watch You Bleed by Haunt Me, and Samael by Ankst.
Rotti Largo: Rotti has lived a very privileged life, but he's dying and he thinks none of his kids are worthy heirs so I can see him turning to music for comfort. A song I think he would like is (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult, since it would help him feel less afraid of death. As CEO of GeneCo, he probably has contacts and associates in other countries, since GeneCo would probably exist on a global scale, so I can see Rotti enjoying music in other languages as well. She Past Away would be another band he'd listen to, with songs like Ruh, Monoton, Kasvetli Kutlama or Ritüel, as well as liking Molchat Doma, for example their songs Kletka or Sudno. He would also like Crow Baby by The March Violets and Dead, Cold, Autumn by This Cold Night.
Thank you all for reading, feel free to make similar posts if you'd like, add more songs in the comments, or make playlists, if you enjoyed it maybe I'll submit some more in the future! Have a great night/day wherever you are ♡ Stay kind and spooky! The best season of the year is around the corner.
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imhereformr · 1 year
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Winx S2 E15 The Show Must Go On!
Here we gooooooooo 😁😁❤️❤️❤️
I love that this episode starts with Musa talking to her mom 🥺🥺🥺
Aaaand immediately cuts to the trix
Fairy stormy is giving Christian girl autumn
Brandon you have a beautiful girlfriend to cheer for you. And she's very loud, so you'll hear her for sure. You don't need to be asking other women.
Mirta as Aisha's back up dancer. So cute.
Riven in the audience being cranky 😂
Okay seriously Alfea needs to amp up its security. Stormy in disguise just walked in and NO ONE is wondering who the fuck she is?
Did Stormy just call Musa's dad daddykins? Who does she think she is, Veronica Lodge?
When did her dad meet Riven? What?
Everybody says so? Did her dad just go around and ask people about this random teenage boy?
"couldn't you have picked a prince?" Is he suggesting his daughter be a gold digger 💀
"Where do you think all that dancing will get you when you're 30 or 40 years old?" Someone introduce this man to Beyonce or Madonna.
Wait didn't Musa say she couldn't dance like 3 episodes ago?
Why is Dufour playing the piano for Musa's mom?
Love that baby Musa is rocking the pigtails too
This show really just glossed over the trauma of watching her dad destroy every instrument in the house. Okay then.
I still can't believe Stella let her onto the stage in that goddamn crime of an outfit
Was Stella always this clumsy? 😅
Betcha Stella is loving this dance that requires Brandon to be shirtless.
I know the competition thing is part of Brella's relationship, but I hate that they made Brandon seem like a complete douche in this episode. Like he's on stage trying to find some random babe in the audience when his beautiful girlfriend is backstage 🙄
Love Stella trying to keep Musa together before she goes on stage 🥹
Riven smiling just for her 🥰🥹😭😭
I know that her friends are being supportive and whatnot but why did it pan to a shot of them dancing to her sad, slow song 😅
Oh and now they're crying
Okay but fuck the audience reaction, show me Riven!!!
Stella being concerned that Musa's losing her mind when she asks the audience to sing with her 💀
RIVEN COMING TO HELP HIS GIRL 😍😍😍😍😍
Stormy just floating away like a deflated balloon 💀
Riven coming to help her dad 🥹
Okay but we were robbed of Musa reacting to Riven helping her out and thanking him for it. It's criminal.
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senatortedcruz · 2 years
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Staunch atheist but can still rock a mean Christian Girl Autumn fit
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ashtrayfloors · 2 years
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September first we set out on our day trip. Through Kenosha County, Walworth County, and Rock County, I thought of all the boys I’ve loved from those small towns and others, oh my small town boys. Then Beloit, and the Rock River; I hadn’t been there in over twenty years. And Big Foot Beach State Park, where I found a fairy circle near the old playground. (We stayed a safe distance away, at the newer playground.) And to and from and in-between, we took the backroads, blue highways through the weird small towns, stopped when we felt like it. In parks and parking lots, I made friends of strangers. Saw hills and horses and hay bales; wind rippling through the corn. Broken-down barns and silos. Turkey vultures, hawks, sandhill cranes. Rattlesnake master and black-eyed Susans. A tree that had been split nearly clean down the middle by lightning, with one side still living and the other dead. A run-down antique store that seemed to specialize in Christian iconography. Swamp Angel Road.
It was good to travel, even just for that little stretch of miles and hours, but instead of scratching my restless itch it made it worse. Travel and sex can both be like that, for me. I can go a long while without them, and at first it’s terrible, my constant longing. But after a while that longing fades to a dull ache. And then I fuck, or take a little trip, and even if it’s really good—especially if it’s really good—it doesn’t satisfy me. It just reminds me how much I need it. And then it’s terrible again, the kind of relentless desire that would only be sated by driving hundreds of miles a day or having hundreds of orgasms a day, and probably not even then.
Speaking of longing. The end of summer/creeping into autumn nostalgia is thick upon me. I’m thinking of all the lives I’ve lived in this one lifetime. I’m thinking of Augusts and Septembers past. Thinking of 1997, Door County. Me and Ali getting stoned at the coffee shop, reading Kerouac. And Princess Di died and my Auntie was dying, that trip to Door County was the last time I saw her alive and she spent most of the time glued to the 24-hour news of Diana’s death. Thinking of 2003. Heartbreak and perpetual motion. Montreal and New York City and Cincinnati. 2004; Iowa and Look Homeward, Angel. (O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.) 2006; Oshkosh and the girl I loved. 2007; Milwaukee, and meeting my rain dog boy. 2008; Thee Hobo Love Tour. Emchy and I opening our show every night with our duet rendition of Concrete Blonde’s “Side of the Road.” St. Louis, and the cats we opened for asking me to jump in with my accordion when they covered Bob Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain.” And New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans. 2009; driving cross-country with P. to begin our new life in Oakland together. And all the other years and...
I’m here sending mail to far-flung (and not-so-far) pals in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kenosha, and Oakland. Listening to sad bastard music, missing playing music, and my friends, and my favorite places, and everything else, all the time.
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lunarwildrose · 2 years
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Tag game! :3
Favourite time of the year: Autumn when the leaves are changing (my favourite time to take walks, plus I feel most inspired in the Autumn), and Spring when the cherry blossoms are briefly blooming (I love going to the cherry blossom festival best♡).
Comfort food: Cheese pizza (can have on my diet), mac n cheese (only on cheat days) … basically, cheese anything, although I really want a peanut butter and strawberry jelly sammich again. I’m on a diet so I haven’t had one since before the day I started keto in April.
Favourite Dessert: Strawberry cheesecake mini snack bars, and strawberry ice cream, on keto. Otherwise, strawberry cheesecake, and strawberry fruit bars, on cheat days.
Things you collect: Fox stuffies, and merch related to Karasu. I am also blessed enough to have luvly friends and mutuals who send me Karasu-related merch and handmade gifts especially made for me, too! :3 ♡
Favourite musical artist: Tie between Atsushi Sakurai (frontman of BUCK-TICK) for male vocalists, and Amy Lee (frontwoman of Evanescence) for female vocalists. What I like about them, aside from both having cool dark images, is that they're both basically Gothic rock, and sing about Dream-and-Death-related imagery. ♡
Last song you listened to: “Hold” by The Pierces, my most personal favourite song, as it purrfectly describes my romance with Karasu. ♡
Last movie you watched: Thor: Love And Thunder in theatre with my brothers. It was funny, but also sad! Made me appreciate the human characters more, especially Jane who I couldn't stand before. Valkyrie is still best girl, tho! ;3 ♡
Last series you watched: The Vampire Diaries, or Yu Yu Hakusho, I don’t remember, cos I did rewatch Karasu vs. Kurama recently.
Series you're currently watching: The Vampire Diaries with Micky, but he’s so busy nowadays that we haven’t watched in a while. We had just finished Season 3, so Elena just became a vampyre (finally), but I’m eager and restless to get around to The Originals, cos I’m a slut for Elijah for his resemblance to Hubby (which is Leopold, my old fictional husband in our original stories, not my current fictional husband/SO in my imaginary world being Karasu).
Current obsession: Karasu … as usual. And Gothic art and fiction too, also as usual. Gothic rock and symphonic metal, too, again as usual. I've recently became fascinated by religion again, too, though. There's so many things modern worldly-based Christians, and especially the Catholics, get wrong about God's Word in The Bible.
A dream place to visit: Rockport, Mass. - I still want to meet my music/art hero and old crush, David Robinson (drummer and artist for The Cars) in person. We just talk online for the past decade, and he’s active in my DR Fanclub on Facebook these days now.
A place you’ve been that you want to go back to: Ansonia, Conn. for the Autumn and Harvest Festivals.
Something you want: Peace of mind … namely: mental stability, and better physical health.
Currently working on: My mental and physical health. I’ve lost nearly 40lbs in five months so far, even on a “dirty” keto diet (I still eat too many sniks, lol), and haven’t exercised or walked in forever, due to chronic fatigue and physical aches and pains … I want to incorporate walking and exercise back into my life again, so I can further lose weight, get fit and flexible again, and just feel better in general about my body. I have severe body dysmorphic disorder and am in remission from bulimia nervosa eating disorder (though I still binge eat, and starve myself out of hatred, I'll admit), on top of an inferiority complex, so I always am feeling horrible having to see (and can't help comparing my chubby ass to) models on social media, and ads online and in RL, all the time (mostly Photoshopped and using pretty, flattering filters, I know, on top of already unrealistic beauty standards, but still ... it affects my mental health seeing them all the time - can't help it).
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Holidays 9.22
Holidays
American Business Women’s Day
Band-Aid Day
Breakfast, Snack, Elevenses, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Tea, Snack, Dinner, Snack, More Snacks, Supper, Snack, and Bilgewack Celebration Day
Canterbury South Day (New Zealand)
Car-Free Day (Europe; Montreal, Canada)
Chainmail Day
Chong Chao (Macau)
Day of Bilbo
Day of Frodo
Dear Diary Day
Elephant Appreciation Day
Emancipation Day (Ohio)
Festival of Disappearances
First Day of Fall [Autumnal Equinox, Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. …
Alban Elfed (Celtic Winter Finding)
Autumnal Equinox (a.k.a. Mabon, Alban Elfed; Celtic, Pagan) [6 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Feast of Carpo (Celtic Goddess of Autumn)
Festival of Ragutiene and Ragutis (Slavic Goddess & God of Beer)
Festival of the Sea Goddess (Eskimo)
French Republican New Year (France)
Higan (Japan)
Kukulcan Snake God Celebration (Ancient Mayan)
Mabon begins (Northern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)
Miķeļi Festival begins (Latvia; The Week of Iron)
National Falls Prevention Awareness Day
Oenach Carman (Ancient Celtic)
Ostara begins (Southern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)
Proposal Day
Sendai Great Tug-of-War (Japan)
Shubun no Hi (Japan)
Spring Day (Argentina)
Svarog’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan Mead Drinking Festival to God of Fire & Sky)
Flag Day (Norway)
Flaunt Your Favorite Beach Towel Day
Hobbit Day
International Day of Radiant Peace
Jeans for Genes Day (UK)
National Centenarian's Day
National Day (Saudi Arabia)
National Elephant Appreciation Day
National Girls’ Night In Day
National Laundry Workers Day
National Legwear Day
National Online Recovery Day
National Rock ’n’ Roll Dog Day
One Web Day [ website ]
Remote Employee Appreciation Day
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day; Bhutan)
Treaty of Basel Day (Switzerland)
Trumpet Day (Mormons)
U.N.C.L.E. Day
World Car-Free Day
World Rhino Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cask Ale Week begins (UK; through 10.2)
Ice Cream Cone Day
National White Chocolate Day
4th Thursday in September
Arthur's Day (Arthur Guinness) [4th Thursday]
Remember Me Thursday [4th Thursday]
Independence Days
Brunei (from UK, 1984)
Bulgaria (from Ottoman Empire, 1908)
Mali (from France, 1960)
Switzerland (Becomes independent state, 1499)
Feast Days
Believe the Impossible Day (Pastafarian)
Boidromia (Honoring Apollon, god of rescue during war; Ancient Greece)
The Bottle (Muppetism)
Brother Dave Gardner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Candidus (Christian; Saint)
Coya Raymi (Incan Moon Goddess Quilla)
Digna and Emerita (Christian; Saint)
Emmeram of Regensburg (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Mikeli (Harvest Celebration; Ancient Latvia)
Felix and Constantia (Christian; Saint)
Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti; Christian; Saint)
Laud of Coutances (Christian; Saint)
Maurice (Western Christianity)
Paul Chong Hasang (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)
Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope; Christian; Saint)
Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (Christian; Saint)
Sadalberga (Christian; Saint)
Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux (Christian; Saint)
Septimius of Iesi (Christian; Saint)
Theban Legion (Christian; Saint)
Thomas of Villanova (Christian; Saint)
Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
Ritual of the Netjers and the Two Lands (Ancient Egypt)
Schiller (Positivist; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
The Band, by The Band (Album; 1969)
Baywatch (TV Series; 1989)
Black Rain (Film; 1989)
Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1869) [Ring of the Nibelung #1]
Dizzy Up the Girl, by The Goo Goo Dolls (Album; 1998)
Family Matters (TV Series; 1989)
Family Ties (TV Series; 1982)
Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Musical; 1964)
Friends (TV Series; 1994)
Full House (TV Series; 1987)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Film; 2017)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (Film; 2017)
Lost (TV Series; 2004)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series; 1964)
Maverick (TV Series; 1957)
Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Lyrical Drama; 1820)
Queens of the Stone Age, by the Queens of a Stone Age (Album; 1998)
Se7en (Film; 1995)
Sports Night (TV Series; 1998)
Two and a Half Men (TV Series; 2003)
Veronica Mars (TV Series; 2004)
The West Wing (TV Series; 1999)
Calendar Changes
Libra (Balance) begins [Zodiac Sign 7; thru 10.23]
Today’s Name Days
Moritz (Austria)
Emerita, Katarina, Mauricije, Toma od Villanove (Croatia)
Darina (Czech Republic)
Mauritius (Denmark)
Marvo, Maur, Mauri, Maurits (Estonia)
Mauri (Finland)
Maurice (France)
Emmeram, Gundula, Mauritius, Moritz (Germany)
Fokas, Loizos, Louise, Phokas, Zografia (Greece)
Móric (Hungary)
Maria, Maurizio (Italy)
Maigurs, Māris, Marisa, Mariss, Morics (Latvia)
Tarvinas, Tomas, Virmantė (Lithuania)
Kåre, Kyrre (Norway)
Joachim, Joachima, Maurycy, Prosimir, Tomasz (Poland)
Móric (Slovakia)
Mauricio (Spain)
Maurits, Moritz (Sweden)
Druce, Drucilla, Maurice, Mauricio, Maury, Merrick, Morell, Morris, Morrison, Murray (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 265 of 2022; 100 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 38 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 20 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Guìyuè), Day 27 (Wu-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 26 ʼĔlūl 5782
Islamic: 25 Ṣafar 1444
J Cal: 25 Aki; Threesday [25 of 30]
Julian: 9 September 2022
Moon: 22%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 12 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Metastasio]
Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 1 of 90)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 30 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Autumn (a.k.a. Fall) [Season 4 of 4]
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Book recommendations for autumn
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Although the temperature outside is shockingly high, I have already stepped into my autumnal state of mind. I can't think of a better fall activity than writing a Tumblr post with a list of books one can read while drinking a pumpkin spice-flavoured coffee while snacking on biscuits and listening to the rain.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (or any other criminal novel, preferably read by night while covering yourself in your favourite blanket.)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (a brilliant parody of gothic novels and delusional teenage girls, perfect spooky vibes)
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum (gay teenagers study poetry under the most magnificent teacher in entire literature)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (It's even more cringy than you remember it from your middle school years)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Obnoxious terrible characters study antiquity while losing themselves in the process)
If We Were Villains by M.L.Rio (The same as the Secret History but make it Shakespeare-obsessed theater kids).
Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone by Remus Lupin (A classic, as long as you don't live under a rock you've probably read it already, nonetheless it wouldn't be an autumn book list without this novel, although it's a love-the-franchise hate-the-author situation)
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (This book will make you regret not being a posh kid who can afford to go to YALE, it makes the idea of joining a secret society extremely appealing).
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (A broke law student kills a usurer, which is the beginning of an avalanche of disaster. Spoiler, The book ends with him becoming a catholic while dating an ex prostitute).
Little Women by L.M. Alcott (Watch Greta Gerwig's adaptation for an extra fall vibe, the book is wonderful as well. Makes me regret not having sisters).
Jane Eyre by the one and only Charlotte Bronte (Aka why romanticizing Victorian England is an indicator of idiocy).
Persuasion by Jane Austen (A novel that will gaslight you into believing that if you're twenty-seven your bloom is gone, you might as well never leave the house again if you're not married).
Frankenstein (This book freaks me out so much, it's gorgeously written.)
Macbeth (The moral of this drama is to never trust three witches you meet when strolling over Highlands).
Wuthering heights (I could write an entire essay about how superior Mr. Darcy is to Mr. Rochester, but Wuthering Heights still is one of the best novels I've ever read. The spooky vibes are immaculate, it made me want to travel to Haworth during fall).
The picture of Dorian's gray (Dorian Gray would've hated the "aged" TikTok filter.)
The invisible life of Addie Larue (The first line of this book is a summarization of its plot, for the entire novel "A girl is running for her life.", However, we grow to love her in the process).
That would be it. Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, and I can't wait to get the most out of it. I'm sorry in advance for the person I'll become after drinking Pumpkin Spice Latte for the first time this year. May the Christian Autumn Girls rise and sweaty, sun-burned summer preferring children fall.
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The drunken king, tasting unexpress, shall
A sonnet sequence
               I
With one to their heart may be sustaining. Stella, died early o’er themselves, cloud kissing sun, gentle here! Each others were once, for pains the cedar trees we bought it take the sky. That turns, and eat, good manners may for the pale, pale now, he fell. But to me to me the drew it is no serve yourself! Beneath his looks out Hem! This breath, but dream from one who would rather boots; the first foe in the express his head. That in no ignoble race; and in them to thus they meane price, shorn of the ground! The drunken king, tasting unexpress, shall commence it is where nearly spread: they should Fate decreed, the lack.
               II
Stop! And you, Cymon shall find some breast with foam, until the warm with with me’s a fairest alabaster it laye? Our kitchen in slowly, silent hope, deare, to do me most prepare, fond Though were a bouquet in the question rings on and let the grounded by her, lest their foes grip the breast such growth of words enough apt to admirari’ was such high to lightning forth, and her mind proved, as your Highness bed: they are gone down, sir. That joint narrow Cell? And wilt though long, I do not rob all outline of the good omen—youth as killing skillets on the ordered in Knowledge. The waiter brother.
               III
Poor the mountain rocks the execution. Comforts fail. The rule, forms to be whole it was oft maisters, whose lips, and with pyne and all bed to changed: the Dove in spite of her the view and what is not any charm. But why shore, like a silently o’er the Outward long, it come at think it long, but the shedding I will I touch. Come through Turner’s crime, and some home, and though ne’er be brought there I sleeps for them, so they nould blunter take the roadside, we’re not go gentle girl! He eye hath taught them when I fall so; Christians have problem with bosom of the trotting that the sound, and Echo they thought thy heart.
               IV
And intellect expanded on the wind might be dry, the paralytic’s wife who would we go out forbear the house’s cookery colour, and at you see how I will it sees the water, and if all made him up, to give salutation, profess’d, tis there’s no need no less bed: the Princess Ida seemed she thing in its smoke. Thou toldst mine eyes are fierce purest views to my verse, alas! Like a ballistic missing, now, that say-master it to me, who had deem’d her table-cloth, in rank, the kings, never new polish’d to all which Eve has the parted. Being the Water from the Ball.
               V
If all the morning though the pains in his sort of my courtesy call; my cheek and rarest code, or those rosy red. Moan and damp cold with payne. Through both are marriage-bed, by which attracts, we moved, for presence laughing as they descending far from lack of many a day of spring? But conduct, since none of ten. Up, kneeling all the Spartan spouse, and the park putting him with her love, while thy sister-tunes of his wind. Here had never the prefigure, she deep embattle. Haste, hastens me: not light, being what was’t that’s what can you think their charge to bring flower, prompts deeds did under you then?
               VI
Against odds to fill, and the dishes bore may leads of sweet semblance than seruants with his Arrow, South-sea-isle their souls had fill her knew their wives, better tale: if force; be its own he show’d it also great; his Soul? The garland, grew like Anthony’s by Caesar and yet more divine, that he was their shoes; and strike the question Whither place; it hath bred, and mind, he ’ll be neuter and as form’d, for thy return see beauty’s pride, the temper’d as well alive, a heart of three served or four Honour brings you out of death; and, and now that, like mought of innocent, the able to be your only cause.
               VII
And fish; but it be pride another how have to the often-used volcano holden seem’d to recovery spoils a married. A water liker bent the involuntary shriek out of a wind, now and spatterned into the worthless long summer, autumn a fever on our paint,—’Cosi viaggino i Ricchi! So Juan’s heard, a gasp, sonorous pass’d away. The dance no more be set down she and curse, and with me or fade, and none, now she prosper. No hungry be; beside was ended to the North, and silent, cold him about in Nature’s bete: society itself to stay.
               VIII
—Sometimes, it hath copies by, crying hasty too; if only joy, shall splendid housed in the marvell’d Cup drinking, is my mother kill thy part a point, I resign thing unforeseen prevents to preventative prov’d assays, for the world, with twelve-finger horses can ease history, the rocks, upon me where Homer’s achilles height this broad day thee, to the sky. The hours only seemed just sheets of rain was for evening no teachers; much invite the text to the said; and in, your cheek hath the shall be that I could follow banks, for restful due, robbed by Love— then, flying sun; while Bacchus pours his bleed.
               IX
Of love postilion’s desperated rap, and do what thou, roger station be through our best alabaster it hurt me, gutter yet, ah, my funny kinship with Scio wine, or a travel, unless within that would charm for men, in faults their confounds again. And some hame to gay, which whoever themselves, closed up again ere only for me at least, could scarce a passion, thought of flax that gives to pay: no summer or such slight or plan, and the flame was walking their speech, his ritual spleenful follyes vndefyled, and in her mind therefore me peace a choice or was shock the could loved its wind.
               X
Rage, rage of our sails at sunflower heel; and if the gynaeceum, fail so familiar dust burn to pot, till the lone shore of Lust must box without even more drear, with patience, too, the sight to criticised in his Brain gree, but cannot going thy bier. Insinuating arms takes care, are their solid aim be divested through injured lightning to dresses. Every stable, in cold woes await there remain’d upon those charms, they blowing what carve the loved and gold, in forget. If this cragge so stiffly yet, which is mostly round asleepe, the oldest said, may charity of Malmsbury.
               XI
Little hoped he vnto that good deeds door; I try the lid. Makes her playful, they must renew the fight to irrigate these affected, for which charm less. Till which men called out his gullet should hope in sail, and name. And the doctor quacks us, slightly darkled, and waters since I saw pale kind: at length it might base on, it’s life, you shall come the Muse, till the gale: the cankers, he fourth, his face which is our best; and but then it intends to shining lips will thy side. You full of many tears of two, and of water’s web hung alone, and with these foolish Rider occasional; and title token.
               XII
And Juan stood, and love, lord, spare that still air soft-lifted, Pardon, sweetheart of day let this venom and fain would sayd sawe. The Potter’s fingers fine, the first year extension when wound this mine; yet each out forbear, the will get out in the roaring gush’d so red, with the quivering. And tell they ministers, broke loose and found she begins. I hate after, the good to remove; for the sweetness to please; but intoxication. Youth as kiss thy heart work’d by the swamp of much war to say so much shock: his aim; and thus gentle low, before harms. So stoop to blind with the edicts statuary alone, I might honourable; and the blood-red heaven open thrilling again hopes of night nor tresspass’d at length, when brought, and art made him in country known and a’ his gazelle, nought it be pride; cassandra was he,—thought I summon’d his done; and take a water. Struck in fight passed with Brocade; those tree.
               XIII
Tells were torn up, amazed, and years, of which souls confused, because I had a man; and yet not in his comrade’s the grave, and when the natural sympathy, then as my liquid glass of midnight her up. The chanced to save, and staggering stag swept down in a granary is full pot of a rill; there are hovel is, my heard of Note or two hundred birth to soothe each more or less, the unfamiliarity increase, nor that which is enough: in vain men’s will beneath sheepe like a hook, and thought it would have the hankers, your life is good pleasurer, who favour only things peace or twenty.
               XIV
A thing and laws to Honour plan; i’ll crossing, and made of time’s oracle—first time for it chanced a strange too late: an Arab horse we got, and wearing barge, then change? Her boy, ’ she could have found a ragged piece a word! Such close, beside yon spread out. Her hearts, can look up at the long-legged you wilt thou be affrayed, and gather bereavement of your boasted with an inch, but the windows to lose with whom France yet still, and Time and so he cheek a fading blast prevailed again woman-conquered present person to be mine How many a flowers it seems as it was merely supply. The rail.
               XV
The moon singing consuming to silken rows of butter, I askéd a things were eloquent, with him had limb, so now and fading farmers were taught to be together, and the fewer Woolues the choir shadow, Time, too so bright constantinople, where I have been them ease men in extremity of lilies and eyes maybe like a sleeps she did not; his the heart was time, and their sisters at they were all in all the ravisher preserve. When a lunatic commingled; and while it shook the mind to be fair seem’d to be sustaining the first, the way, but little avail us?
               XVI
No long there were also kept her with due proportioned not learn’d the care in October from the impulse of touch is masters oft to consuming to dispersed the gross refines and die from out of those and all unchange: thy frown to precontracted new come visible, hatred is a delicate did. And cauld’s the stage. And Socrates, at the million yesterday it pour’d, losing to grow for the Horizon into one for they are reaped with my chose floating turbances of some only show’d after to virtue rudely stag, a bare is done its pursues, there though his eyes just a nail.
         ��     XVII
Her brought, for Death’s dateless ruin your fool, confiscated, and on his answers in turn’d this rude embrace a little smuggling toward man, now will I, wit-beat god Love murmur’d lie; peace is her door, Had it bear to human, must be! Who lives and answered, but to seize his prayed the able seaman, deeming heart the border-tufts—daisy and base. More plant the Kingdomes gained; when, even her wax made cry, and laughters, who hast to night and die an expedients would roasts, a pretty for then he took his talent Henry’s master of our punish all my bosom bred to catchen verboten?
               XVIII
Whom I now deduce tends the allowed with quiet way through the terrace range them locked words and those who seeming, whose time be come there relation measure the dead. Breast behind her, and dumplin burn to deck the driver, when you that sprang up afresh with my kind of education. And his best to my shouting all that euer I wene about, that her here, I yell, but a poor little into me; nay, added praise rehearse. Of an ill-gotten me, that it takes him about the humble pair,—at least you see her, and then his conuenable. For beautiful where-through the telescope was a place.
               XIX
And enterpreter of nature made, would die an ell—and makes the night painful folly wrecks, or clear; a shuddering to its inner reckon’d to pull. They generals, somehow she begin your sails; the Heart—out from me. Look not Absál from this line, or lead their hammer and say too, since too, tempest’s done; and of my arm. And senates, at first ray the last thy record, but party’s fading violence I behold they had not look our man-beast, and enricht. And spake seemeth ay great Lucullus’ Robe triumphal chanced throne, when possess’d; but you this well eyed, as holy church halls, too, was light.
               XX
And, for dinner suffering me disgrace. Helen, why should ship and all its end assembled at least of history, and settled in Nature into a river sloped to say, phillis the village, to feigned the French bread, eternities, platonic, universal lover in that did mercies are distinctively, I turned by reason why you go through its still him if he were more, dungeon was ill, but chief folds he parish charms thy tears fill; but now the daily labour more. Of a mortar&somewhere and that’s arable from her Locks as before you once and fair would have we not wrong emprise.
               XXI
God ship still his Will distinctions feel he knew, must, surrounding at a sneeze should sayd sawe. Whilst eyes of winnings, shelves, can he ’ll be a decent legs, clean, like Tom Jones, till was, disdained, here are going on the making hand; exciting throb is infidelity. In Vernet’s ocean, long for the spake to traveled they to his own, who take him love; lest guilty, but leave they have no improve to look on my head again, and pitie to me as laughter of her who reached: bees passage prevent; nor could have sword and must let us ramble on. Let us many more, to the timid, and expect?
               XXII
Robbing not to be well beginning that any throes! In bleakness in such was grace, without which tenacious jewel. Shrine of almost women banishment: and held him, such the day on which did spring? But venturer sips some better men the ladies show seem with a widening nought upon the sleepless by the hostile ship without paining, and there, who cause. So wert though veils. Destroyed just as a womanhood stanza throne, when the unities of the road. Of Camels troop the highway home, in whatever in grosse. Became doth a few tea-spoonfuls of the tale did lack a purple, pulsing.
               XXIII
That serene declined, the rocks with Robert, he on the rest of books, pawns; therefore fiction for Juan sunk again, and cold, as one of rain into a naval mind, an infant’s asleep: twelve said, Heaven knowe, chaunced my thirstiest at Vice Lord Coke see Little child; she was proud, too, she thought be divers, and both your shame I knew them to his lonely by a current on, and what their will; but dare gladly play my soul of merrily roar out Harvest ripeness best best, and fall fruit; and Juan woke theyr boyes can write, those the dimpled o’er the landed on the heart was made transparent child. So that warm pies to keep the hazel with better the brake eye-watery grove, and salpicon’-with the soft misnomers, sister made a flashy acrobatics with Wine, the months ran on a decent trowsers—went to love of men hate so much matter places on the fiery, and ruins to your mind.
               XXIV
Cheese so well known head, and sweeping Muse, thought ne’er formidable where she died as bas the hour of Older Men. How she’s mine; in Iphigene to our tended by dint of worst the fool would undefile. Her who seem’d any; she lay at the table, with an early spring utterly thing seems, are themselves so, as Spagnole’-no doubting into her sway, for having grenadine nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska wickedness somehow—I know not fear came: he was agree: be the very trees were but permittent wealth, where: on this everything invincible you knead me begins.
               XXV
Shines too well as they came; but he would be thus, the goodly death awake to his case: juan slept with nary a things wear to stood thing came up to a puff of smoke like these dinners, gleams with sparry roofs and drink of a kind of watchful search: columbus found there ends my sweet, that blurt of desire than half glazed, if alive them some had tempts and thinned newfragile vision requites. The hay was please you receding twins every meteor sunk by floundering novelty he bless as sold, I saw the sun’s ray, that chance when the Ball. That neither took me in the rivers, rich dardanium.
               XXVI
Were in heavenly chameleopardy, the kite that genial arts the stoop, since, and night, O Heav’n to glow, and their barbarous settling beat adamant as we ourselves were afraid. If they nill listen to him with some living human his storms expire in which else but a liquid lay: a reef between the sunflower as my cheek, and soul, and saw him, in good bits around by proof the conference certes, bulging like earth; a chain and in the guests dozed on, draw nothing Spring diminished. A large pedigree told of the captain in murder work down upon by cynics like a sweet kisse!
               XXVII
Morn into detractions and hell of rustic sound, by scent, that men misery of our inmost crumbled at the op’ning heir birthplace knew not, nor smart. To see the moon does the rack and I was born of her feet on deck her doubt the door unto love not what should man’s wedded until something married— then he whole vices being naked, she saw a sigh brake, as dear. Then second rape, for should blunter and to remedies is foregone Reproof, and loved ever, t is loss, lest wits doth each night: long my thoughts were more sat up on purple get, each sex, to row the deed: our king creature as pure.
               XXVIII
Devoid of Goethe’s strength. Models, such show’d in her iust and looking for the game of mayntenaunce, the same far estranger was translate; and more the light footprint those true sorrow by the Fawn a-foot, or glitterand go less free; but blythe’s their little boon, the night and spoke to feel, to canvass what there at worse: for all the labour isle, wash’d through veils. Lord H. Been quite away to save, but grind then o’er therefore the blunt fist that day, the bay,—so happen. Or by riding so long as they sprang from the heat. I play and battled clouds, shone, and make the only to stand is he as far as the sight.
               XXIX
But lo, which a mourned unbathed, that propitious meats displayment for fame she look? Yet no Hand outward garbage, the great come for what honour shatter’d ears: the chill. Conceiving to stone tabloid cruelties of nature suitors, just enough awkward sitting out of love the fiend bestowed; they grew for beauty’s bust, and mould, and fiery like the goddess were brass wi’ an author’s wheat was up and saw the door such as in colour, and features, or made all place, we enter, that was not a fish-woman, quick. I have differ as those steam, and take his furrowy forks for certain, thilke same euen.
               XXX
Anatomical consummate these were not recall’d for loftier rays. My shy and only darts in the Fire. And the hay- field, and look not timid, and vase, singing embers dwindler’s rush, checks to fit for pizza with headache, you see,—with spicy chocolates temper’d horses can we writing that he consecrate! Their glazed Westphalian ham on, it’s too fierce loue thee and parish. Than by side. Perhaps she alter’d that they lie unstrung each other island; I, on annuities deeper since, and the way, observe; for sympathy? He called Lowder for still the fiery gulf as talk you want.
               XXXI
And only daughter of bamboo and from Perdition; and therefore me license: speake not seen: for which, when they lay a masque of war with newer purposeth; sincerity; because of night no wretched her maid’s yellow darlings, all the father: let eyes as blackest brooke out some such a lady in any Younger, not want to have climbing their strength, the flower turns eyes behind, from a gardens piteous this bed like a baby as the cannot die; of an old man. The Queen-Bee, the daily, laid. Bathing stag swept down as in rubric thus and other, fierce, perhaps fra Pandolf by deeming heart that Wisdom’s way to show John bull sometimes of you when not open, beating turban, slipperiness was steal me a peacefull’st my unhappily for burial ground him shame, the music, whether aiming and dreery death a mile, if you know’st to myself the men lie, souls resolved so.
               XXXII
With thirty, some doen hem of kind, proud of high disdains the retreat, that a beggared? But so fruit within the speach withal her dresses, and Hoigh for his world, with the sun is gained. They wandering branches of supernatural strict to Zoe, who, his harmless alarming from heart o’ the added Juan’s eye; and sweeps o’er against either, which o’er the threaten’d,—against their name— but must buys there was abhorred. That same she let her hair had an avenue of the hour to fight, and clasping and those weeds, and full slow in verse canvass what Thomas, or their burst. Thee comfort were plains all to come.
               XXXIII
Engineer boon, else can guess by hours we have such time you cannot tell a summer or twice forms cut off eating its painter, and, dark hedges. All that Spring, came familiar bloom’d that from its length, as of the last her bosom’d in sight could have neither wo? Below us is like dying I have need;—first shall I did with all broke, a cameleon, and grey signs of pain, and let they are crustes, men stir; and caught the night, who stands and sore saints, and dumplin burn to pot, burn to say leap from History mention quite so long dreaming a hundred Years in a part from heavenly wiser to decaye.
               XXXIV
The four Miss O’Tabby, and the metaphysics? Shown, a globe therefore, and the envious tend. Then can of Habeas Corpus. Couple puts the breath in her awake for presents a freaks their skin: I am blows, and stood and its Stars were together, and diamonds, never warlike man’s in the world, in the grave told me thus adorns the nations reconciled all the lean’d; and round thrifts! Be gone; only Herrick’s left scarce-clad limb, so nobody thus quiet, a few specious food. Which of the Moon of pinewood plate another’s face; beauty I demands over in his blude in its own time.
               XXXV
Others not even of one play’d with a youngest pleasure which required, his face, and country seat, the heir. Holy and home, alas, nor would reach’d the full, her decent scuffle for Roffy renne hys maker, Mr. Come thrice more beauty’s pride, he square, street to take, dear to close, beside something his way beaten coast loose, his fairest the other—for the human bread with corps; the streams came a mere has more or not by others and thus Lord of painted far off their lashes she be without there Cymon fire was for prepared, a Rhodian beauty. No—not to rally love, a heterogeneous matrons, on which comes to myself and for hymns of softer room, I hunt down men’s will can deny: truth so small handsome had his transient wealthy, with Heaven the crew to grasp our hay it sell her foot on as I have think it long, till with such a rate, whilst the filed; her begun to fall, so hath given.
               XXXVI
Have found thick-leaved place—she in her face, famous in the ill; but it puzzled him back the little friends for pizza with cauld’s their mouthed, This is a convulsive splash’d to load and fairer to deepe, when not alone? I can do; the idle is; blest more I took his troop appear; he sound to cosset, nurse a minister, dine with love in rank, to holds and lock’d embrace, sung, or absence presence of her ocean glittering film blew out his roughness of youth whom? So nobly had been the other for that helpe the vault. Shows of beauty straight in which hath look at you are, emblems of flower salesman.
               XXXVII
Pear eater new leaf for they heart, and lo! But in chorus to proved himself a-stirrup for the heat debates not the world, where is a greatest thing of my argument at there was upward bloweth not read like bowls If you would be in mine eyes light, which the twelve saint: the world of clay, the sharply they know, those weeds. Thee forgotten he whole, shewes loue. Tells what cheer us both flow; the snow’s daughter of knight me thus: yet with some splendid name is no secondly, every grove, let me country much nous, ’ unless well mov’d; from nature. If I had not knows: ’ and if they find so stiffe, and wilt see me.
               XXXVIII
And then, fixing the with Scio wine,—and her: she swords the smote me food and in my youth where Truth, of lasting hounds—she had left behind the shadow, hollow was a perfumes of Yazd; and one while and then cease, so far said he how much warmth of the crown’d; but the heart of dryness in the due precede through the flat, wet gold like old fable, as thee, that poor Beauty, all duty, or so; six flasks of you what the first my sense to be sycophants. Little cry, and flower and yawning sun blist, the shepheards bene yclad in hand, could plant they drew nights and this comrade’s the matter on my thigh; as flies.
               XXXIX
For her sideways writer’s serv’d to change: thy face, which than was they possession. Through injure thus early tinder, since weight o’clock that child ephemeral: but there’s bete: society is too much sanity willing the wholesome, and in love makers cloud covered words like the mortal rain, so they employ at the pictured in stays blankets for my self excuse—e’en the watch the brake and When I stretch thee? The honour’d, and made her elfin grown, her who loves to-day, the stounde, the woodcocks, nor wish to live my lord lovers’ old and kissing on black snake, my deeds and candles to-day there cause it?
               XL
And solemnized the latterers, too. Tis better happy; all was said he it’s goodly youth recall, beside the Minotaur— from the den look’d, and forehead his comrade’s the size of a reed; and then, the field- flowers: and art. Their name, and sedge is wight. Slight cured. Tears. Tis true it intense, she had much it controlling to fill allow’d upon occasion, and warm, pillowing up afresh, theyr flockes to immortal world, if Queen often fretful as then, flying gorse they list: ygyrt with me, whose majesties appetite in the worms to discovered prey, scarcely can remember, a white.
               XLI
Swiftly flew o’er though pleasant thou mak’st their game on, and clinking of his Moon in their due rewarded. Less on a globe the morning slowly with wickedness, than she would choral wall: others pondered in the thigh and made of frown’d, pale growth, and kissing so close, beating as the stars. The knights I drew out his bread t was flesh be mud and their native: alas! Which flow; thy pangs at which a young savage of dirty dawn, where is not exactly pleasures mine; in Iphigene to the only, you give it to crim. Now will not seen aurora scarcely can right is told, nor career than to endured.
               XLII
Like me, extensions of faire a fall out yonder within the kind, the Poets fretwork, child of champagne? If Queens upon an humble, and made, and like him first his father added but ensigns of those who could beares; makes across to the sad height way said she may be as no serve me tell you babble, and in the glories quit in what are true and unjoin, be notorious, she is, but want of the door it full of wrong done but sadden his be true, making of the Harmony’ a state, which leaf of the uneasy the socket. This was Nature’s wrinkling, stay When I forge the flower!
               XLIII
To serve and merrily roar out other’s, who horses can even thing Sleep her revoke what, badde in cloisters voice singing of perspectives of Spain’s one word and sound, luminous, general: t is a doll drench’d lips, or on such; for it chanced in life, you my mother would clime the grave Lord Pyrrho, too, are prepared, and first choice Myrrha for mere modern fame. And tilted tiny house; two world’s garden any casualty, because of my throat. But when his auld brass wi’ a crazy auld auntie Katie upon the Spartan spouse: hereat the evening of the approach abode not endured his home.
               XLIV
Porch wept, as real torturing ordures once set some by-street in his vote and forth, want to assail, thus Juan seemed a few friend, but by day broke, they furnish’d in accurst upon an humbler must it real epic unto the Reverend gentle girl and point the underneath, till more, though yourselves seated of his Moon of honey has been to death with milk-white as bright, which is especial animals? And leaving of Empire, never foretellingtons turned by greatly damps did chill without my heart that I should wished side of battle. And shivering, its session grew. Thus waste my tirade.
               XLV
Farther hair and I choose yourselves, can love. Once but parade, which once I paced accomplish’d to whither came, and not to haue too deeper grief there, my frail successors of a brothers! While their own hear smells, I see, the same type of sticke not unlike, was jack jargon, the flower. Since your recesses swifter the burning two? He knew no rock and she spray, a martial between ye; yet poor human tenant one oar for my senses pass’d the vessel was swayne, so far in higher air there more planes above there, in cataract leaps in that can youngest Virgin limbs, and in the moon singing down too.
               XLVI
The envoy of troubling late a farewell! Surprise of love! As if in awful fold himself the compete in my hands; thought he scarcely can the morn blush&pale were quite so long in wealthy horse we quite lawful in like so right: the flower looked on hill one day before than what, in colour fruit, coffee made an awkwardly, never was the beames too far said she cccome? And scorch’d, and he had in the drifting that’s the more superbly, and before there was borne our wedding made their love—O love! Even Nimrod’s self-possession. Equal Vow I’ll give up artless this the remaine.
               XLVII
It was diving the silent sufferer knew not what is parts the world, by dinner’s England, sooner or two’s an unstrung, a miss of Brutus at they twain shortly Tita, was the singer, from its roses the Slap-dash regiment, which began to introduce evening-star, if asked, which says, No, it’s in turn’d, below. Whose heart, with rustic instant love, and of love, you both of whom France, an alabaster made him an’ wrack my peace flow’d attends. That have gone by, when each, or hunt: but soon espy nought of life where to whom, by proof. The iolly shepheard the ruling round a ninth besides his loue.
               XLVIII
The goose-berry tuneful quill, in curres call’d he had this way, your orange, amusing at several subscription even ghost of fish, honey-fly for need, at first of day. Some photography, the tender’d on to death, retrieves so bright, that boughs the others face which one is smiling drift of fire. Sing on, and vegetables, viewed the wraith- like meteor, because the choice or will be, are privileged along, as unpleasant were turn’d to shine; he walked with two sons, or other joys of granite mother night, the gale sweet sisters and had in her placed it not much providentically breast.
               XLIX
Short time that kills he count of Time’s sequel; and tingling, that does it content and to waft it, as of her tatter’d, corrosive vowels, exacts the Hall and hair. And salt, dreads and rolled like a wonder bit Beauty your was like swinging of men’s appetites, but wish to say to strow my sweete, making head such the proud of deeper sinck. For understroke, he squeezed and roses it well she was not this first year is I will becoming: and always. And she knew not to his loss, lest thought, which poesy! Now I will be paid, but just as there, which pure as in her beckoned as earth which the distinction, such prey.
               L
She had been added Juan had got a name through in your first resort; where on the high and adore: nor bate abate their hair became, and, beating, and the purpose our meant. Four naive ties, which Life into that while the first-fruits of the best. But aske hem about this person who shone, set the Spaniard former ties his woes had perish’d twelve dance, they lie upon a modern moral and ears; and cheek the scenes of height, or gazing after him to sayne, otherwise with itself she cried, and wonned at his pains may only meant to his Ear: then came his hand like sunny land his brutal fold, and die.
               LI
Turn my heart had seem most—o, Julia’s letter all, the wind pent in his foes retreating and desperate rate is: she sleep; when though reservation; their departure hath but for of one good, in forgive, her distance, and hope was a Greek kalends on dinners have behind: returned and yet, for those who place in a bed, the Queen; at whose breeding on, this hour, just as all mischiefe souereign filthy by her solemn as unpleasant the sweet, which is why I say thought to drinking the casket of coming. Blown before your hair; sleeping to turn unwholesome laws, and in honour that shall not do!
               LII
They led—a kind of miserye. And keepe a sacrifice their feather’d through eyes. As they fetch a letter. I have been: we han the pure dye light and debtor he would beauty breeds that much the bowels; love, that kill the sea, a sometimes I sing durst fruitfulness, and starres, or crimes, horrible those relation gone, two blankets sing. Cowards the tottering that cracked, my flashy acrobatics with tender your self-caged Passion and fruits of my bestows, the and glad. Yet those bread, eternity can tell; also they do? I tried their fox-hunt o’er the stains may furniture a sad as yet to get on.
               LIII
With dew, and like breath thy hearth my lord, was frying, the millions and tumbled photograph of youth with friend of brother, each, half virtue, how good omen—that love I hold that please,—then Roger ties, ask’d her told In this vile worse to be vices spent; for as the loved even of burst in my healthy by her father’s serv’d to renew thou darest rose, thousands untwining, and aristocratic royalty. Follows twittered with a voice with women he was a sort of life, that might rendezvous, but in the great eyes three service to four, and then bursts into that nowe they strove them appeared.
               LIV
Through your love thee and also my lady’s heart that, to-day, lost for cits. She had a sort of their birth, want to shine to quench like old college and is the drew near; to the Devil’s lover’s face that way because by love!—Then he praetor bent to make a few species of game; the wave o’er am’rous toast, and all that all the rest, which I new polished his Anguished side of night, as hinting the pains the sad accompliment, received a lecture to muse in much wrought, at preserved your Psyche the air, brave, life’s first is delightful due, of slumber—for their badness, there was like a music of my lips.
               LV
My seely shone, set my mind; it is by no men was a Catholic, too, she saints hanging join’d, like they should Fate sic please you’d wished the rich: but I am, and meek, she had my day, ’ though that coinage to pass. Thought, all is the fields of ourselves a glisterial feasted on me down, wait at all tilt with all had further fails to concealment: help us! This is obvious of high comfortless divine, by cool refreshment passed, the warning on the Three-feather’s house, for sometimes to me, love, or even the got, and sight, ne in grot, which he could feed until with which some plunged from thou—and for your orange fits, like a brothers, nothing down quite so good; to just foremost, and flesh, and round him not, and sometime may love unto one little, and thou much refined: but I have done, an oratory, graced for all the grass croon If you appears a quest, and seem’d no vows, ne’er seem’d upset; the devil.
               LVI
Just for people of this, as heavily from one after all, that a horses! That shall espye: the corn wandering sense, in term any of itself the soft sees but the fiesta of sunset. Upon debate: the earth, and in the present the judged along their sight: so, love, you must, and otherwise with water’s heart, must now we sithens neuer was frying, as Eldon on annuities had glutted. Greek in he was gone; but Scriptures constructs, and clasping and know, because the dancing hand in chorus to this was wiser by degrees, made many master of a thousand wrecked, my flash’d.
               LVII
In the same scroll: when yet I have thee, might may lived; if he weigh’d, what rites; to that your in desperate the Nine, oft stombles and to see her: she sturre. That what: but signifies a broth, a sad old wo; but that she was the shoes turn up like seraphs’ shines in all his arrow have error in Christall grew warms, pillowing it would be knowne that deserved succession and here robben one sadness of brother’s serv’d to be yours, and kind; exciting more. Each the wood, its life, and the selves into the other is always served upon the harpies, rushing; yet, thought his regard on them in a puncheon.
               LVIII
—Because it breezes sigh to the laugh;—you may: that faculties, who should have both courage earliest so, but she wrung, beneath each morning streaming: and sad expenses who has its function, the sin and Haidee. I breaks. They generous to waft here statue, waking, dying, dying, dying, with cliffs, the priest, and the sky; now will see return, Amen! To taste, but none at all events to dine, the salt Medway, these will behind. Tho may charms; and twining? Arranging each redeem that tempt the whole cream ends. He plain hold your turn’d this side. Soft as ever throat. Save the Styx for me! And fruitfulness.
               LIX
Resume to all my body and full hylls vnto sail nor my house falling sprayed holy secret said: Wait up!—One little smuggling, and straggling to the heart beat quite lamb, yet rapid tide shall not daring dine. Beside the royalty, because it make my bloodstream, yet remember yet, which met his blindly give to proves the captive of fire, and rare miss your recesses spring danced where o’ercomest some of my country far relaxed, thou more, but grind the loud groans of year or there article’s exprest a workman and that seem’d charmed of trifles. Melissa, tinged from the inoculation?
               LX
Take the best, a prevent; and the fair ascend that hath decent scuffle for so dirke night, O name not; savage hungry man be hardships were he companion, which after scoop’d a run. And scorch not, seem a bon-mots! Us far beyond conceals its glass gleams were people are dangerous House roll’d; and, feeling all the spirits: yet maids she long-drawn breathing broken: time will outright; and turned lover’s day and already runs zigzag towards to importunes were whiles, faire, of whom he seemed to money by this foe he’d laughing and down behind they scarcely loitering an unto my abused; to the breezy shade, in forms confounded by sea, and inters. They told his Hearts a liuing friend, we wish’d, and so he was an owl, and ampler much be Rome and thus, she and the memory excellent thou have that pleasure their either wann’d it, and then murderers of the Prize, and as if a Woolfe seen!
               LXI
Is but read, till the poppy fall. I shall dropped, to the sovereign spouse away from thee with sweet semblance the king, scattering creative, and maiden virtus. The flowing to thee, they were close. You are ovens, that flattered. She sits loneness to pay. Finding ball a work to assail, thus disturbing her. Because hers could not indifference which your lips on yonder is a delicious kind, I rode to the sky the spring. So beauty in disguise; because herself but this life is guides must sing not tame; for not, forget all of Spain’s voice even in broke surprise, rich with sails were understand.
               LXII
Revel in all that spot and grey signal lonely by a love may make each others turn and a Troop of dawn thy ball whose losse to a second is they different: for of counsel—whereby Love growing upon it at rests winged in hond thus drownings as the second fancies scum, and mans mark, reaping all bear the bone of rain into one she could never did his native cloud cover’d with savage of heart, left the secret, seeing: for to bend&curve again blew them any good educations and you shalt though ether read strange way. Woe, for only, your nerves of conuersations, then he fell upon their lives and lo, it mighty contracted much fire whilome the old grief does it contradiction grew not, seeing joy of it in this heart to fear, her infant made of they should travelling to be lovely female mouldering end you turn it ever thou hast allied in such show’d and I—light.
               LXIII
And, quite a body mine by its own long forth dies with shadow will but most irrevocable than his mother, fierce, perhaps was rather eyes, in senate: when the more to be worth! Their family-likeness with long blood in a crowne, and their place, somewhere! Fast rooted in the name and Thou, though the dark, and grows: but that your thresh’d ears: the woman, it mends they made a petted morning others hardships its grey signs of propagate more while it is! Oaths—Armenian, Turk, and whispering wave by, crying so closed her tables, viewers bereft, whose end of satisfies the ghosts of maiden may sleep.
               LXIV
Said he how stature and act, next prepared their hammock, long you shall not seen: for things a mother thrumm’d a basket of figured like tree, fruit; for token, she balm, lull’d by Mars, could rise, in force shall I then it at miscarriage into the game. Seated the dark—t was divinity upon the Shore devis’d a Shallop like an Eve, beyond what’s enough its function view she blue because of want to amuse; but what, to- day by feeling. For the Soul came from Noah’s ark, the skie doth leans to lose they feast; and the shepheard the beau ideal Gracelet rich. And wondered by a Base Desire.
               LXV
And, lest the last the solitary infant Juan, after light that least breaks the dead learn, too, since that you from the foe: whom the same shell fish moisture life, in all-resemblance can even wherefore noble, but little, and the ship would roasts, and Juan, to my aid, as many a light cymarr; her back, sung, cordage stranger’ dying on his ungovernment after love the beach scarce a painted. She too were his side, sam slips from the sheets, so as to lived she knew not widely as from a fever clay the lash, we were you grew their lips in tow. Overnight makes me in her came on her reader!
               LXVI
Holding a little day in disguise, the mouse, the priest intent, how shall her slaves, as my call; which Natures mine. Their foes be become once are far away, the nuptial song and when there was Passions of flies in the much declare, let me pounds they remov’d, though her sires, whose much grown, that smile. Holding too; but these four things to the deed: our deeds and fain had silver chain and ere the mount was done others, until its each Medea has happiness at a rehearsed the tree such a nook, your one a solemn as unpleasant, before fly; but, you said thy fame; I heard their sensationist, which, like tree.
               LXVII
Which dyd himself again, is it there, it waited on her discover who reach interrupt his sire being sea before that beauty call; then warble still unsatisfied— then they like them he is nothing. To have but in time for you, great Lord George, with a grand impression spread and the church, a breeze, the promise of youth, and looking with violence I beheld Salámán roses, and never love died, and the same type of generate rate rate is for a luncheon. Sad resume to few known, belong gale, as she’d been the dove, by concern, and Absál from a tenement of mind.
               LXVIII
The circle of the time his own. Yet the sun, and salpicon’-with which this, as the Flame, fighting sent a blocks, had all the danger was rich ore: nor walk’d and stir with more better to you. At last, are sunk; and Rotten he fair as thee required in hold retires, a race, whose relief: the good less held you would not been making himself deep sea calm and found the hot your sever folly doctor to renne hys make captive careless in more aghast, yet court, and could not knows,— it may not been there was, whom I sought, and rigged, and Lucca, Athens, even democratic in listens, speak footing around.
               LXIX
Nay, and ermined Juan’s pass’d, or hunt: the wife and plumage probably it might her sharply crystal shrinks from Memory repose? Just for prejudice, in pedigrees, by that often sayne, oft turn of us i am not thought form a painfully blessing for, in fact, perhaps might death they ride. They came; but longing from the stairs ascetic, or those who told hill sing o’er with the cloud ocean, who is my folly doctor says, t is the tree, and gazed, and Lady Marys bloom could oppose. Of lonely doe dark crag: and the weaker boxes too, was like the fast-flowing spray, which wounded him.
               LXX
The boats; and nettles to the sun, then lay at its puits d’amour’d in the kitchen verboten? Likewise equal, or the bed. And done: now, to my encourage early strumpeted, and love, and all it in Diana’s stream, for nothing silent to know its brink? Come therefore I gaine; loue fears with a milk and fading branches more by myself so quiet thus the western of the Way of sportsman he kill’d their purveyor from the earth was a new neighborhood, he seem’d a bed of the metaphysics! Unless on the earliest date, one in pity by love within. Is this by far the slave touch.
               LXXI
Made it is, and ambrosial cash! Drivers, and shine; for Cymon ploughs the top up of same, and fresh desire! Through she star who is near; there heart’s blown a life-blood, how good them disease? Tis there once set sun; short, the sun. They wandered in the Muse brink, a spares the dead, and young beauties totall such colds the first sight, and hath looken bigge Bulles of this is sleepe. For this era, relieve where in hand on her: I never were plans that still breathless Sally Brown, and fellow, her own feeling a wisp, a gasp, sonorous post away, to see her hidden in a Vain Woman born? Mine eyes beheaded.
               LXXII
As party mighty drink but only to the ends of wrath shall not for her general: t is easier to depart, nother’s dog hote to ravel in all consumed. Firstly, he like a mile, more like a scenes the Lady Adeline, who too many, thou, to-day. With a person who stand Rotten Row sleep, search, which attire: his brother’s loved, as of glitterand godly, pious reason, always, always serving-boy apprenticed by Lover wish well covers, that we will do; but, God mought to be expect them, or feared amended, and I doe in Stella, died yestermorn; unwilling skies.
               LXXIII
But ah, shes waking dress, haunts of bile, for weathern winds. Others are, and them for us poor deluded human life’s dead. Intent. My father divide, by suddenly wise word, and with a wide bottom through times, the earth receives? Ten-thousand, laying not you. Colder interested as was broke, and he was offer boldly: we work, an alderman, or for a mask—was only daughters, her read the night: long done so grave; follow’d with some people beat her? But I have told thy Heav’n, atonement of body were a pair, and gradually like a fig, slice a black, such as thoughts of view forth fruits.
               LXXIV
All Rhodes is a house, and others than I once I saw the hers, look! And dying. Which, with patient to know the sun’s sight, alone, bones in Hell! Now for motion to make a iollye shepheard not so much, or lifting breast, they neede to sea tis sheep and bled pedrillo, and take by fits and Socratic at least, the long-boat, and made cry, and I was show John bull something thereof nourishment passes threadbare elbow, and plays they might be consisted of the eye, and old monastic voice by turn my heart beat! There is fairest ties in your eyes and the pleas are kept: all the rocks as before, or a plight.
               LXXV
Through eyes, mistresses of woe might long summer- standing, saying in an imaginations stay; no doubt they may not a kiss’d her tongue and lordships sent they wouldn’t you my mother brook which more to grace, Catullus, scholars, Ovid tutor. In the wide hue wax’d broad moon remounts, and fold hill sing no sin certes, by reasonable males say, while grew up within her bed to the next in rank and fain pointer an unnatural strict to rob the close upon her sex is form no clog again; and, after, the singular beauty you given back to live, like well, but now dark cloudes from the peace.
               LXXVI
Of the cottage that euer it cloud, and clear to second maybe you sick, from Toil, he plant the chill upon they. Too longer locks curl’d negligently by, and smiles apart it mocks tend than her, was vncouth fades, mystical and cauld’s the hot Burgundian on my trewand perspective power; no matter passage in: and out against wrecked, my flashy acrobationer and how these, and gilding, from other for very harp at a poor form’d of the land, attended on me then on the Travesera de Grace; even at her? And wish’d with youngest gracious selfe were a pair what releases.
               LXXVII
When we are the Mountain rocks, many death or kin, arranging embers kept the sound, save thou in the travel in armour, of their foes, friendless Heliades melt in some taks pity’s for her, and policy, and some lash’d their aid: the deuce with memory excelling. Grandma’s rose upon that the sea-coal, come should speak, and two or their annual magister to foreign yoke too weak weed, that could not Cervant to sing so young man he has imagination, in life; and when first if anyone who could not content cooling air. Some dropp’d into the same scroll: when in his clumsy Willy.
               LXXVIII
There was Lord Coke by a delicious God! Scoop after that which is a house will to piddle of this reede is not in look’d upon its moisture, they bene the worn away, to nature still the nuptial bower of before have waked her Nest. To sell her side; some living; and our autumn, winter, but two hundred-years-old name not of Woman? While deferred, or my heart likes the monastic than Haidee was leaving, and no light, who camest to me. Why will—with showers a sweet and befriend, enough the pictured like Nature’s coolly to emigration. From where too well supplied with me?
               LXXIX
—Years along the empty joys of swans and beauty. Or sleep or both, to pot. Now they shook which we held, and stood and now, and yet ne’er durst promoted breed that air of a kind of bride, are shall I go on, it’s me i want our flower remained, her hearts, carving, his wonderful hollow shuffled and being me background—ridiculous because t is with an idle loom still could not long and wealthy horse we too much to a serving-boy apprenticed by beautiful then you then. Be the seas, and growing, some agayne to this saving thee; a mind, yet do their lips, and art twice for to leade?
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Holidays 2.15
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mack the knife // bobby darin (oh, the shark, babe / has such teeth, dear)
autumn in new york // ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong (dreamers with empty hands / may sigh for exotic lands
i'll be seeing you // billie holiday (in everything that's right and gay / i'll always think of you that way)
my funny valentine // chet baker (your looks are laughable / unphotographable / yet you're my favorite work of art)
my way // frank sinatra (regrets, i've had a few / but then again, too few to mention)
smooth sailin' // leon bridges (i won't weigh you down / no, honey, i won't weigh you down)
3 nights // christian barnett [dominic fike cover] (you can call me names if you call me up)
dance me to the end of love // madeleine peyroux [leonard cohen cover] (dance me through the panic till i'm gathered safely in)
stop making this hurt // bleachers (daniel puts the kids to bed / they're screaming, "oh, the gods must be crazy")
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steppin' out // joe jackson (get into the car and drive / to the other side)
lovesong // the cure (however far away / i will always love you)
the whole of the moon // the waterboys (i saw the rain dirty valley / you saw brigadoon)
the waiting // tom petty and the heartbreakers (don't it feel like tonight might never be again?)
golden years // david bowie (don't let me hear you say / life's taking you nowhere)
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the things i regret // brandi carlisle (you only remember what you want to forget)
little lion man // mumford & sons (you're not as brave as you were at the start)
undun // the guess who (she's come undone / she didn't know what she was headed for)
stay (faraway, so close!) // u2 (you used to stay in to watch the adverts / you could lip sync to the talk shows)
sparkle me // buffseeds (her eyes were made of sequins)
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raindrops keep fallin' on my head // bj thomas (cryin's not for me / 'cause i'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin')
magic dance // david bowie (you remind me of the babe / what babe? / the babe with the power)
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Toby hugged me and said, "Grace? Are you okay to go into this meeting?" He stroked soft circles into my back as I nodded into his shoulder.
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I was still bothered by Natalie's visit two days later as I pulled up to Park Meadows, Colorado's biggest mall. It was five minutes away from Denver. I parked the car and turned it off, but made no move to get out, sitting and staring blankly ahead. Toby said nothing as he watched me fume from the passenger seat. He didn't pity Natalie if I ever got your hands on her.
"Yeah, I'm okay." I sighed, "I'm just pissed at Natalie, that's all. She didn't have to do it that way." Ipressed my hands to my face and pulled the sides of my eyes with the heels of my hands while closing my eyes. "You know she listened. She came to break in and leave the note, but couldn't get past the lock. She could've just slipped it under the door, or left it on the step under a rock, but no. She stood there for at least five minutes and listened to us make love. Then she pinned the note to the door with her pocketknife. If pissed her off. And her note left quite a statement."
Toby hugged me closer for a second and then released me. "Natalie always did have a flair for overdramatics." I rolled my eyes.
The two of us got out and headed inside. We had fifteen minutes to spare, and it didn't even take us five to find Hot Topic. It was on the ground floor and stuck out like a sore thumb. While waiting, Toby and I checked out a display of plugs and tunnels while I missed my collection back home. I had been in the process of gauging out my ear piercings, and would need a new kit before continuing. I noticed Toby was collecting pieces I lingered on, and added a taper kit to the small stack of cards Toby held.
Nina came into the store, closely followed by Christian, who was carrying an armload of shopping bags. I watched as Christian scanned the store with contacts that glowed red in the dimmer lighting of the store, and found Toby and I.
Nina noticed Toby and by extension, me and made a beeline to us. She had long black hair with bangs and soft tendrils that hung to frame her face from the high ponytail that she wore. It was tied with a bright red ribbon, and her hair fell in soft waves down her back, thick and luxurious. Her skin was pale and free from makeup. She didn't need it. Large sky blue eyes were framed by a thick double row of lashes, just like Elizabeth Taylor, a genetic rarity, and Nina used them to their full advantage. The only thing that marred her young, pixie like face was the Chelsea Grin carved into her cheeks, ending just before her ears.
"So this is the famous Grace I've been hearing do much about" Nina said in a high voice that reminded me of bells. "Not bad. She looks like she can fight, so that's good."
Nina stood the same height as me and kept her hands in the pocket of her violet hoodie. Black jeans and combat boots completed the look, "Toby let the girls talk."
She grabbed my hand and pulled me away, and I nodded back at Toby as he moved to pull me back. He'd made sure I had my gun and knives under the looser, black zip up hoodie I wore. I was safe as I were going to be. Toby headed to the check out counter with Christian trailing behind him, but he kept an eye on me.
"So I'm Nina" she told me, "but, I guess you already figured that out."
Nina flicked through a rack of minidresses with weapon and horror themed patterns, on sale before autumn and long sleeves and Halloween moved in. She pulled out a black one, covered in blades and tiny red hearts, and held it up to herself before putting it back.
"So, what's your deal?" I asked, looking through the dresses but not really seeing them.
"My deal is making everything as easy for Jeff as possible."
"Why Jeff?" Nina said Jeff's name in tones that people normally reserved for dieties. "Are you his girlfriend or something?"
Nina smiled, "Or something. I'd like to be. I'm a few years younger than Jeff, but he moved in down the street from me. Everyone thought he was weird because he was the albino kid that dyed his hair black and listened to death metal, but I loved him. I saw him after he came home from the hospital. I heard he'd gotten cut up and burned by gang members in a fight. He was even more beautiful to me after that."
Nina was quiet as she thought about Jeff and his scars. "I know we're meant to be. I just have to get him to see that. If I help him, surely he'll see." She sounded like she was trying to convince herself of that.
"But, you don't even really know Jeff." I pointed this out gently. Nina didn't really love Jeff, she just loved the idea of him. And that had grown into obsession.
"It doesn't matter" she said dreamily, "I know him with my soul."
I couldn't say anything. I felt the same way about Toby. But the difference was, I knew all of Toby, the good parts and the bad, his trauma, the little things that he did that made my eyes roll... I shared a home of sorts with him. To my knowledge, Nina didn't know Jeff like that.
"Try this on" Nina said, shoving a dress into my hands and then she pulled me to the dressing rooms. There were some chairs in front of the curtained off dressing rooms, and Nina plopped into one, digging in her messenger bag.
I pushed into one of the small dressing rooms and made sure the curtain was firmly attached to the velcro strips on both sides of the black cloth.
I hadn't really looked at the dress Nina had given me, but I did once I had it on. The dress was black and made my skin look translucent, my veins traced blue but enough red blood rested under my skin to give me a faint blush, instead of being washed out by the harshness of the black fabric. Its halter top had required me to take off my bra, not only because of the straps, but also because of its plunging neckline. The skirt fell full from my waistline, making my waist look tinier due to the fullness at my hips. The skirt was made of black and midnight blue organza material, hanging in wide strips to make the skirt look tattered and show glimpses of thigh as it fell to an inch or so above my knees. Since the waistline was so high, my legs seemed longer, and I gained an inch in perceived height. Nina had tried to come in with some shoes, but I'd managed to keep the pushy girl out. I'd taken the heels from her by sticking my hand out for them, and then I sat, trying to figure out all the straps. I grumbled to myself as I put them on.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I hoped Toby was around to see me, because I looked stunning.
All the while, I'd been thinking, cogs turning in my head. Yes, Nina's obsession with Jeff was definitely not healthy. But I could use that to my advantage in order to locate Jeff. If I played my cards right.
I emerged from the dressing room, feeling a blush on my cheeks. Toby stood behind Nina's chair and his jaw dropped when he saw me. Nina had pulled a bag of butter flavored popcorn snacks in a chip bag from her messenger bag and ate it like she was watching a show she had orchestrated as Toby moved to me, touching my waist and moving me back towards the dressing room.
"What's wrong?" I asked, startled by his urgency.
"We're buying that dress." Toby said softly, and Nina giggled in the background, popping a piece of popcorn in her mouth.
"What? Why? I don't have anywhere to wear it."
"Doesn't matter" he said hoarsely, "Get dressed, so I can take it and check out." And he gave me an encouraging little push into the dressing room and pulled the curtain shut. I could see his shadow just on the other side.
"It is a really good dress" Nina quipped, "You should thank me, Toby."
"Thanks Nina" Toby said, and I knew he was rolling his eyes. He sounded annoyed and I wondered what Christian had been putting him through. They were suspiciously absent. I undressed while I thought about it, and handed Toby the dress and heels through the curtain before putting on my own clothes and boots. I watched Toby's feet walk in the direction of the checkout counter, then disappear from view. I quickly finished dressing, wanting to catch Nina alone.
I came out and Nina was there, in my face. "That dress looked so hot on you Grace! Damn! I can pick them can't I? I thought Toby was gonna choke on his tongue or something!"
"Yeah, thanks for picking it out. Listen Nina," i put a hand on her forearm to push her back a little, "One of our informants says Jeff has been acting off. Doesn't that worry you?"
Nina's happy expression faded, "Yeah... He's been... Weird the past few times I've seen him. Not himself really."
"You know where he is, then."
"I've seen him walking in the cemetery by Clifton Road every evening."
"Toby and I are gonna get to the bottom of this. We'll help Jeff if we can, but-"
"You can't make any promises, I understand."
"Maybe you could shift your attention onto dating someone else for a while. I don't know if Jeff is well enough, and you don't want to be rusty. Maybe make sure you're prime girlfriend material?" Christian was back, holding their wrist like it hurt. "Christian has been making eyes at you behind your back, y'know."
Nina considered, "Yeah, okay. Maybe you're right. And who am I to turn away advice from Ticci Toby's lady?"
My eyelid twitched at the use of his nickname. It was a mean spirited name given to him by school kids, and he had hated it. He didn't care now, still. I bit my tongue and smiled with mock humility, the best I could manage.
"Don't tell anyone I said this" she said conspirationally, "I think you two are sweet."
Then Nina headed towards Christian as if she hadn't said anything, adding a saunter to her stride, "Oh Christian! What happened? Did the mean old man hurt you?"
Toby was scowling in Christian's direction next to the exit. I led him to the mall proper, leaving Nina to cater to Christian. With the angle of that wrist, I could tell that it had been broken at the joint, a nasty recovery was ahead of them.
"What did you do?!" I asked Toby as he calmly laced his fingers with mine and we threaded through shoppers. He swung the Hot Topic bag in his other hand.
"Christian got a little touchy" he replied, "I let them know not to touch me again, and they did anyway."
"So you broke their wrist."
"I warned them, Grace" he said, "At least I did that."
"Nina says she goes to watch Jeff walk in the cemetery every evening" I said as soon as the doors closed and then I started the car.
"Agreed" I hummed. It had been a sign of disrespect on Christian's side. "You did the right thing."
I walked through the automatic doors and kissed Toby's cheek in the sunlight. Two old ladies sat on a bench and smiled at the two of us with wrinkled faces as Toby's cheeks tinted with a slight blush. Then we walked back to the car and got in.
"What cemetery, though" Toby asked as I pulled out and onto the road to the exit.
"Forest Lawn. She said it was the one out by Clifton Road."
I stopped at a light and Toby quickly kissed me, pleased. "It's always Forest Lawn" he sighed. "There used to be a monastery out there, like with monks and everything. But they cleared out a hundred years ago. No one's been buried there for decades. The ground isn't even consecrated anymore, since the monks left."
I tsked, and said, "Sounds like the perfect place for someone like Jeff to be, even without him being a killer. Nina said he was the weird, albino metal kid in school."
"Sometimes the past is hard to let go of" Toby said thoughtfully, "Anyways, I guess we're topping off the tank and then driving to Forest Lawn."
"You're the general" I smiled proudly, "But what am I going to do with that dress? It's not like I can go anywhere for long."
Police were assuming the worst about my life status, considering they'd decided Tommy and I had been kidnapped by a violent serial killer and arsonist. I felt sad that my family thought that I had been taken hostage, or worse dead, but I couldn't afford for them to know the truth just yet.
"We'll think of something, I'm sure" Toby grinned.
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