#daughter of crawfish

[iceemoondemon]

TW: horrifying as hell

Ah jeez, its been a while since i drew Crawfish's daughter Well guess what guys SHE'S BACK BABY!!

Also i did this for @bunnies-n-bowties / @planet-poptropica 's Inverted colors AU -3-

B O N U S

Here is Octi and her scary as fuck self XD

#crawfish's daughter #octavia crawfish #poptropica #poptropica oc #daughter of crawfish #my oc #oc #inverted au #my ocs #ocs #tw: horror

[sbrown82]

Not sis having a crawfish boil for her daddy. This is so Black!!! 🙌🏿🦞🤣 #crawdaddy

#karis jagger #happy birthday #mick jagger #the rolling stones #daughter #marsha hunt #black women #black girls #black culture #biracial #african american #food #cuisine #soul food #crawfish #rock & roll #rockstar #photo #sbrown82

[moistmailman]

Adachi: You celebrate pride month, Ichiban?

Ichiban: Of course I do. I have a lesbian daughter after all.

Nanba: What?!? Who?!

Ichiban: Nancy-Chan.

Nanba:….who?

Ichiban, pulling out Nancy the crawfish: Nancy-Chan. She has a girlfriend name Olivia.

Nanba:….the crawfish is your daughter?

Ichiban: Duh.

Nanba:…..I don’t think that counts as being a father, Ichiban.

Ichiban: *visibly offended*

#yakuza like a dragon #like a dragon infinite wealth #ichiban kasuga #koichi adachi #yu nanba #like a dragon infinite wealth spoilers #yakuza like a dragon infinite wealth

[lullabyes22-blog]

Snippet - Forward, but Never Forget/XOXO - A Fine Line

Vi slowly wins over Caitlyn's parents...

Forward, but Never Forget/XOXO

Snippet:

The kitchen is a modest sunlit geometry. Vi gets started on breakfast. Caitlyn handles the tea-brewing and the clean-up. After moving in together, they've developed a system. Vi has taught Caitlyn how to hang her towels, do the dishes, fold the laundry. Caitlyn has taught Vi how to pick wines, deposit a check and write 'Thank-You' cards. The slow ramp-up of domesticity is sweetened by a shared sense of novelty.

It’s a freedom neither of them has enjoyed before.

Cracking two eggs one-handed against the bowl, Vi begins whisking. Into the silky saffron froth, she sprinkles a pinch of sea salt and a dash of cayenne. Poverty and pickles go hand-in-hand—that's the saying belowground. Yet Piltover is the real loser when it comes to zesty cuisine. All the premium produce in the world doesn't compensate for their lack of spice.

Since moving in together, Vi has shown Caitlyn a dozen ways eggs can be served. There is no wrong way to cook one, so long as it's flavorful. Ditto for stews, soups, sandwiches.  Her sump-vole fritters—a barbarism to most Topsiders—have won the highest praise. Since then, Caitlyn has sampled all the dishes in Vi's repertoire: a charcuterie board of pickles, rice and onion pilaf, crawfish stuffed with cheap macaroni. 

Last week, she'd invited her parents on a tentative dinner. Their first together in a month.

Councilor Kiramman had stared at her plate with polite revulsion. But as the wine flowed and Mister Kiramman proffered genial compliments on every dish, the matriarch began to thaw.  Midway, she'd tasted a forkful of Vi's sump-vole fritter. A startled smile had softened her severe face. In that moment, the resemblance to Caitlyn was uncanny.

"Where did you learn this dish, child?"

"Down-low, Councilor," Vi replied, smiling.

"Is it always so spicy?"

Vi cocked her head. "There's a fine line between good flavor and a hole in your gut. You gotta walk it."

Caitlyn had stifled a snort. Mister Kiramman hid a smile behind his handkerchief. The Councilor was less amused. But the food had woven its magic, and by the time dessert was served—a tart berry crumble, the only dish Vi could make without setting off smoke detectors—she'd unbent so far as to ask Vi directly for the recipe, instead of addressing Vi obliquely through her husband.

Vi had given her the recipe: a personal gift.

Afterward, Caitlyn grinned with unabashed pride, Vi's hands clasped in hers. "I think she's warming to you."

"Like mother, like daughter, huh?"

Caitlyn's kiss was all the answer Vi needed.

#arcane #arcane league of legends #forward (never forget)/xoxo #forward but never forget/xoxo #arcane vi #vi #arcane caitlyn #caitlyn kiramman #caitvi #caitlyn x vi #vi x caitlyn #cassandra kiramman #tobias kiramman #snippet

[adarkrainbow]

Aulnoy's famous fairytales: The White Doe (1)

Do you remember the reblog I made about the giant crab attacking fairies? Well if you recall it, be happy for this is the fairytale I am about to talk today - and if you don't, you're in for a wild ride.

"La Biche au Bois" (The Wood Doe/The Doe of the Wood) is one of madame d'Aulnoy's most famous and renowned fairytales, still present in fairytale collections of the 19th and 20th century. It was notably included in Andrew Lang's Orange Fairy Book as "The White Doe", and it received several alternate English translations - The Hind of the Forest, The White Fawn, The Enchanted Hind, The Hind in the Woods and many more... Today I am here to talk about the original fairytale, the true story and the true meanings behind it. For the sake of convenience I will use the common English title "The White Doe" - but know that this isn't the actual French title, and rather an English invention. Know also that this fairytale is not part of madame d'Aulnoy's first fairytale book - but rather her second one, "Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées à la moe", "New Fairytales or Fairies in fashion".

In this post, what I will do is simply summarize the fairytale in an (I hope) easy way - all the subtle meanings, cultural allusions, literary twists and turns will be talked about in a different post. So get ready for one of d'Aulnoy's most famous story.

THE DOE OF THE WOOD

Once upon a time, there were a king and a queen who had a perfect couple, loved each other dearly, and were beloved by their subject. There was only one thing missing for their absolute happiness: a child. The queen desperately wanted one - not only did the couple had no heir, the queen was certain the king would love her more if she had a child. For five years the queen tried to have a child, with no success, and she regularly visited miraculous or curative waters at various "fountains" (in the French language at the time, "fountain" also meant natural springs, but frequented and used enough to become more "civilized" than wild streams only frequented by beasts - so in the text, the queen visits a wood with several "famous fountains" in it, these aren't our modern fountains, just water streams and springs). As the queen sat near one of the fountains, and asked her servants to leave her alone, she complained out loud about her not having any child - and suddenly a big crayfish appeared out of the water, and talked to her (which surprised her). I insist: in English translations you will find the words "crab" or "lobster" but in the French text, it is an écrevisse, aka a crayfish or crawfish.

The crayfish tells the queen she will obtain what she seeks, and informs her of the existence nearby of a palace where fairies live - it is hidden from "mortal eye" by magical clouds the fairies created. But if the queen agrees to follow the crayfish, it will guide her towards the palace. The queen agrees but worries slightly over the fact that the crayfish can only walk backwards - and suddenly the Crayfish transforms herself into a "pretty little old lady". She leaves the fountain without being wet, beautifully dressed - the good-looking old woman is actually the Fairy of the Fountain. The Fairy of the Fountain takes the queen through a path that is usually blocked by thorns and briars - but on their path roses, orange-trees, violets and all sorts of other plants bloom, and birds sing. They arrive at a shining palace made entirely of diamonds, and in it live six beautiful fairies. The fairies announce to the queen that she will give birth to a daughter, that she will named "Désirée" (Desired), because she was a desired child - they also give her a bouquet made of six different flowers sculpted in precious stones. Each flower corresponds to the name of one of the fairies, and they explain that when the baby is born, the queen will merely have to invoke them while holding their flower, so that they may come and give the baby their gifts. They then let the queen visit their palace, and its wonderful gardens with abnormally large abricots and cherries, before the Fairy of the Fountain escorts her back. Her servants were in panic because, not finding the queen anywhere, they thought she had been kidnapped - but she returns fine, and in fact she returns eight more day to visit the Fairy of the Fountain and the six fairies' palace, before finally settling back home.

The queen became pregnant and gave birth to the little Desired, as the fairies had predicted. Immediately, she used the precious-stone bouquet to invoque the six flower-named fairies, who arrived on chariots of precious materials (ebony for one, ivory for another, cedar for a third) dragged by birds (the ebony chariot has white pigeons, the ivory one has black crows). This is explicitely described as a sign of the fairies coming "for friendship and alliance", because when a fairy is angry or vengeful, she rather travels on a chariot dragged by dragons, fire-breathing snakes, lions, leopards or panthers. The fairies offer the baby all sorts of impressive fairy-crafted presents - cloth that can't be worn out even after a thousand years of use, lace in which was embroidered the whole history of the world, bed covers in which are depicted a thousand types of games, a craddle with four little Cupid statues that animate themselves and rock the babe whenever they need to be put to sleep or quieted down... The fairies even touch the ground with their want to summon a nurse out of thin air when the baby starts crying for milk. Finally, the fairies give their six gifts: 1) virtue 2) spirit (intelligence) 3) miraculous beauty 4) happy fortune (good luck or good fate) 5) a strong and good health 6) that she may succeed in everything she tries.

But of course, as one expects in fairytales, this is where things go wrong. A gigantic crayfish, so big she barely goes through the door, appears in the bedroom - it is the Fairy of the Fountain, angered that she was disdained and not called upon, despite being the one that allowed the queen to discover the fairy-world in the first place. The angry fairy even says that she had a feeling the queen would be ungrateful, and this is why she took a crayfish form in the first place - to hint at her that "her friendship would go backward". The queen begs for her forgiveness, to no avail, but the other six fairies (referred constantly as her "sisters") manage to quiet her down. And that's because the Fairy of the Fountain is actually pretty vain - and by flattering her (for example begging her to leave her monstrous and dreadful shape so they can admire her natural beauty), they manage to calm her down a bit. The Crayfish Fairy decides that she won't harm the baby as much as she originally intended to... But she will still harm it. So, she declares that an unspecified misfortune would happen to the princess if she ever saw the light of day before her fifteenth birthday, and that this misfortune might lead to her death.

Once the Crayfish Fairy leaves, the queen begs the six good fairies for help. Their solution is to create by magic a beautiful palace with an underground entryway but no door nor window, and lit by so many candle-lights that there is as much light in there as if it was bright day. Desired is forced to live in this palace, shielded from the light of the sun, until her fifteenth birthday. Hopefully for her, her life in there isn't too boring or dreadful - the fairies made sure she has a thousand different beauties around her, and that she gets to learn in a fun and entertaining way the completely history of the world ; and all sorts of teachers on all the subjects possible are sent to her. She notably grows so beautiful that "if her mother didn't have to be by the side of her husband, she would have stayed with her daughter all day long". The fairies also regularly visit the princess, offering her all sorts of gifts. But one fairy in particular loved Desired more than the others - it was the fairy named Tulip, and she kept insisting that the queen must be vigilant and protective, because the Crayfish Fairy is a vindicative one and might do great harm to the princess. The queen promises her many times that Desired will not be exposed to sunlight before she is fifteen... But the queen does something that ends up dooming it all: she prepares the portraits of her daughter and has them sent to all the courts of the world, as one usually does to prepare a princess to enter the world of royalty.

And so, the portrait reaches the hands of a prince named Prince Guerrier (Prince Warrior, a name given to him because he won "three great battles"). Prince Warrior falls in love with the portrait of Desired. He falls in love so much that he refuses to be parted from it, he locks himself in a room with it to speak to it as if it was alive - and of course, people immediately start thinking the prince has gone mad. The king his father summons him for a stern chat, because he won't have his son just turning mad for no reason and speaking to furniture. We learn here that prince Warrior is engaged to princesse Noire (princess Black), an arranged marriage - but he says he has fallen in love with princess Desired and wants to marry her, he is even ready to die if he can't be with her. To appease his father who doesn't understand his son's passion, Warrior brings to him Desired's portrait, and when he sees it, the king is just as charmed as his son, and he immediately agrees to break off the engagement with Black and have his son wed to Desired. He says he is even ready to fight off a war with princess Black's kingdom, that it would be worth having Desired as his daughter-in-law!

To be sent as an ambassador to Desired's court, is selected a man named Becafigue (it is a type of fig-eating bird), an eloquent courtier, a young lord that was known to "dearly love the prince" and always be ready to pleae him. Becafigue goes to Desired's court with an enormous amount of golden carriages and magnificent horses, and a thousand gifts of diamonds and precious stones and rubies, all engraved with love messages or shaped like hearts - as well as a portrait of the prince, "painted by a man so talented, the portrait could speak and make compliments". Before this whole ambassy can arrive to the court, the fairy Tulip appears to the queen and warns her of the arrival of Becafigue - she insists that the queen must NOT let Desired out of the palace, because she isn't fifteen yet, and she warns her, no matter what Becafigue says or does, do NOT allow Desired under the sunlight. The queen promises again to follow Tulip's warnings...

But unfortunately all the incredible riches of Warrior's courts, and Becafigue's mockery of the "useless and ridiculous warnings of fairies", and the impressive talking portrait of Prince Warrior, all make a great effect on everybody. The queen shows her daughter the portrait and the gifts, which makes Desired fall in love with the prince, and the marriage is quickly accepted - but given Desired is only fourteen, her parents send back Becafigue without her, insisting that the prince must wait three whole months, until her fifteeneth's birthday, to actually see her. And this news... doesn't please Warrior. He falls for the typical thing of 17th century romances: this sort of "love-sickness". He is so sick and sad to not see and be with his love he stops eating, he stops sleeping, he stays sleeping or lying down on a sofa all day long, only writing to Desired and speaking to her portrait, losing his strength... The king is very alarmed at seeing his son's health deteriorate, and the doctors are clear that it is a love problem with no actual remedy beyond the prncess herself. So the king decides to go see Desired's court himself, in person, to beg her parents to rush the wedding - the problem is that the king is actually old, and as it turns out he can't do such a long travel himself. So he sends again Becafigue, with very touching letters, to try to bend the king and queen to their will.

Meanwhile, princess Desired is also in love, constantly looking at Warrior's portrait and constantly worrying about him and her wedding (though she doesn't fall sick like him). We are here introduce to the two personal servants/company ladies of Desired. One is Giroflée (Gillyflower) who loves her mistress dearly and was her faithful servant ; the other, called Longue Epine (Long Thorn) is actually secretly jealous of the princess. It is noted that Longue Epine's mother was the governess of the princess and that, after raising her, she should have loved her too... But the governess loved even more her own daughter, and so seeing Long-Thorn's hatred of Desired made her hate too the princess.

WARNING! OBLIGATORY RACIST MOMENT OF OLD-TIMEY TEXT!

So, we catch up to the famous "princess Black", who we learn is actually an Ethiopian princess - and "the most vindicative being in the world". She is furious at being tossed away like that by having her engagement broken, and she argues to the ambassador that she has the two things a prince would want from her 1) she is VERY rich and 2) she is beautiful. This is the most racist moment, as the princess describes her "beautiful" feature - "the flat nose, these big lips, this dark skin". Which are indeed in this story beautiful features for Ethopians themselves - but which are meant to be taken as a mockery here, since these traits, thought at the time to be typical of Africans, were at the very opposite of the beauty canons of 17th century France. At the time, to be beautiful, a woman needed to have 1- a thin mouth, with thin lips, almost nothing at all 2- a small nose, the smallest the better and 3- a pale skin, not just "white" because even a white skin can be ugly if it is tanned, but a truly paper white, chalk white skin. Of course, as a result the description of "Ethiopian beauty" becomes an "ugly portrait" by French standards. The Ethiopian princess is also shown to be very cruel - as she almost "begins her revenge" by killing the ambassador that brings her the bad news, and it is only because he flatters her and praises her that she accepts to spare his life.

The thing is that, to make sure her revenge is complete, princess Black goes to visit (on an "ivory chariot dragged by ostriches") her best friend and godmother... the Crawfish Fairy! The Fairy of course shares the pity of her goddaughter, and quickly searches why the prince Warrior might have rejected her... Only to find that it is all because of Desired. And the Fairy, who until this point had actually forgotten almost everything tied to Desired, saw her desire for revenge re-ignited. The narration even points out that, without princess Black's fury, the Crayfish Fairy might not even have done anything against Desired is she saw the light of the sun - meaning her own curse would have not been activated. But princess Black convinced her to rather unleash all of her fury against the princess... [Note that this is the last time we see princess Black, she had her revenge, she is satisfied, she returns home after gifting Crayfish with flowers and fruits].

Back to the main story! Becafigue arrives at Desired's court, and again does a very powerful plea, once again accusing a "too great credulity in little fairies", and explaining how the prince might die of heartbreak due to thinking the princess hates him and doesn't want to see him. When Desired learns her beloved's prince bad states, she herself faints - and ultimately she decides of a solution, a way for her to see Warrior and have a happy wedding (without the bethroted dying first), while tricking the "wicked fairy of the Fountain" and avoiding her curse. She convinces her mother the queen to prepare for her a shielded, windowless, pitch-black carriage for her to travel into - to undergo a journey where they will only stop and rest when night falls, so that she can reach Warrior's castle without ever seeing the rays of the sun. This is all promptly done - and that despite Tulip's earlier warnings that the princess should not leave her palace and not follow Becafigue to the prince's castle.

The travel goes its way, with Desired inside the pitch-black carriage with her two ladies-in-waiting, the faithful Gillyflower and the jealous Long-Thorn. Long-Thorn has also fallen in love with the prince upon seeing his portrait, and so she, alongside with her mother, hatched a devious plot to take the place of the princess... As they arrived in sight of Warrior's city, and when it was high noon, Long-Thorn brutally opened the carriage, letting the sunlight flow in. The second Desired saw the sunlight, she turned into a white doe and ran into the woods. Her servants split in two - one group running after her, another running to the city to warn Warrior. But the Fairy of the Fountain was nearby, and caused such a huge thudnerstorm and all sorts of disorienting charms, that neither group could reach their goal and they all ended up completely lost. The only ones spared were Long-Thorn and her mother. Long-Thorn promptly stole the clothes, jewels and belongings of Desired, her mother acting as lady-in-waiting, and decided to march to the city, pretending to be Desired. (There is even an humorous section where Long-Thorn realies that the jewels of the princess are a bit too heavy for her, since they include a crown with diamonds "big as fists", and a sphere "bigger than her head" to be held in her hand - but her mother insists on her carrying it all so she doesn't get mistaken for a fake princess)

Long-Thorn and her mother end up meeting the carriage of Warrior and his parents, who were rushing to welcome Desired. The royals are very surprised to learn that Desired is walking to their city, all on her own, outside for one servant - and when they see "Desired" they are horrified because Long-Thorn doesn't look at all like the portrait Warrior fell in love with. Long-Thorn is so tall, that the clothes of the princess barely reach her knees. She is extremely skinny, to the point the prince calls her "a skeleton" and a "mummy". Her teeth are black and they don't line up in any kind of order - and finally she has a hooked nose shining of a "bright red", making her look like some exotic parrot. The prince and his parents, outraged and disgusted at having been deceivedby a fake portrait, and thinking the whole "We hid her from the sunlight" was just a scam, decide to imprison Long-Thorn and her mother in a castle as hostages (and later we learn that Warrior's father decides to go to war against Desired's father, despite his old age).

Warrior meanwhile is broken - completely broken. His dreams and hopes were crushed, and yet he is still in love, madly in love - but only with what he thinks is a portrait of a person that doesn't exist. Despaired and unable to stand living at the court anymore, he decides to secretely escape his city (with the help of his faithful servant Becafigue), and to exile himself into some lonely place far away from humanity so he might spend there his "sorry life". They traveled for three days inside a deep, vast and dark forest, but filled with fresh herbs and fresh streams.

Back to Desired, now turned into the White Doe, she worries about a lot of things - she worries about finding what to eat (and is quite surprised when she naturally starts eating grass and feels satisfied by it) ; she worries about the various "wolves and lions and bears" that haunt the forest ; she wonders how long her metamorphosis will last, and if there is a remedy to the curse... For several days she flees and hides throughout the woods. Now, the fairy Tulip is still around, and despite being angry at everybody ignoring her warnings, she still cares about Desired (earlier in the text, it was explicitely said that, when she spoke to the queen about Desired, she called her "our daughter" as if she was her mother too). So, since she is too angry to help her directly, she rather guides Gillyflower towards the Doe, so that the two can help each other. Unfortunately Gillyflower isn't much help, since all she does is also cry a lot, recite all the dangers they face, and be blatantly unable to find food or shelter. Gillyflower cries for her poor mistress, the White Doe cries because Gillyflower cries - and because the White Doe cries, fairy Tulip is also saddened and decides she will forget her anger, and help her goddaughter.

Tulip promptly appears in front of the two lost girls, and she explains that she cannot undo the Crayfish Fairy spell because she is more powerful than her - but she softens the spell, by allowing Desired to return to her human shape every night. She also points out a path and says the girls will find there shelter and help. Indeed, at the end of the path, there is a nice and cute little house, with in it a nice and helpful old lady, who agrees to shield them ina two-person bedroom, "simple but cute and clean", and giving them excellent food to eat.

And would you look at that! Prince Warrior and Becafigue also arrive near the old woman's house, and she also gives them shelter - but she gives them a different bedroom, and she doesn't talk to them about her other guests, and since the two groups keep going in and out of the house at different times, they never actually meet or realize they share the same house. (This is part of the humor of the fairytale). The following day, to distract/entertain himself, Warrior goes hunting in the woods (which is one of his main pleasures), and he finds the White Doe that he immediately starts to hunt. Given Warrior is a talented hunter, he would have called the Doe if it wasn't for Tulip's protective spells that made sure the transformed princess wouldn't be harmed. They both lost each other and exhausted themselves in the hunt. When she returns to her bedroom in sweat, Desired explains to Gillyflower what happened, that a "young hunter" almost got her killed. Gillyflower tries to convince her to not leave her room anymore when she is under her doe shape, but Desired explains that the curse forces her to "do what the deer do" - aka, leave for the woods every day. Meanwhile Warrior explains to Becafigue that he doesn't understand how he couldn't capture "the most beautiful hind I ever saw", and he decides to return hunting for her the following day.

However said following day, after looking everywhere for the white doe and finding her nowhere, he eats some apples and falls asleep on the grass. The doe passes by and takes the opportunity offered by the hunter's sleep to study him - and she immediately recognizes him as prince Warrior. Forgetting any survival instinct, she decides to sleep near the prince. This however wakes up the prince, which in turn makes the doe flee. The prince, who thinks the doe has something "lovely" and "familiar" to her, runs after the animal - and after running several times around the forest, the exhausted doe gives up, lets the prince catch her... Only for Warrior to pet her, hug her and feed her some grass, making clear that he doesn't want to kill her anymore but rather make her some sort of company animal. Desired is very pleased with this... But upon seeing the sun going down, she forces herself to escape the prince, fearing too much what would be his reaction if he saw her transform.

Desired tells her story to Gillyflower, while prince Warrior tells his to Becafigue (he is especially angry that the doe tricked him to flee, despite him doing all he good to make her happy and content. Becafigue mockingly advises the prince to "punish" the doe for her "infidelity", and the prince decides to do so before leaving this house and the woods. The following day the doe and the prince meet again, and after some joyful petting the doe tries again to escape discreetly from the prince - but the prince, knowing what would happen, shoots an arrow through the doe's leg to prevent her from leaving. (The narration points out that the reason the prince acted in such a way was because of the evil influence of the Fairy of the Fountain, whose spell was supposed to put "in danger" the transformed princess)

After making sure the doe can't run anymore, the prince starts putting bandages and all good things that heal on her leg, but at the same time makes clear he won't let her escape anymore, and will take her with him in his next travels. He takes back the doe in front of the house and ties her to a tree, before preparing with Becafigue. While the prince is away, Gillyflower sees her mistress wounded and tied up - she promptly unties the knots and frees her, only for the prince to return. "That's my doe!" he says. "No that's mine!" Gillyflower replies, and to prove this, Gillyflower keeps giving specific orders to the doe (like "kiss me on the right cheek, put your hoof on my heart") that the doe of course obeys. The prince is saddened to see his new pet already has a mistress, but he lets Gillyflower leave with the doe... Only to discover to his surprise that the two return to the old woman's house!

Confused, he asks the old woman who basically answers "Oh yes, that's a lovely girl and her doe who have been living in the room right next to you all this time. Isn't it funny?". And Becafigue recognizes Gillyflower as one of the personal servants of Desired - since he saw her at Desired's palace when he acted as the ambassador of the prince! Deciding there is a mystery to unveil, Becafigue doesn't hesitate to create a hole in the wall between their room and the room next door - and what a surprise he has upon seeing Gillyflower tend to the wounded arm of the real princess Desired, who complains about the evil spell that forces her to become a doe each night! The prince also looks through the hole, and in a burst of mad love just kicks down the door of the girls' room and puts a knee on the ground before Desired, giving her a passionate love declaration. Their love exchange continues all up until the night, and by the miracle of love, Desired doesn't turn into a doe anymore - the curse is broken!

Wrapping it all, Desired and Warrior understand the full story and the treachery of Long-Thorn. The old woman of the house turns out to have been the fairy Tulip in disguise all along: she heals the princess' wounds, and gives her and Gllyflower all sorts of beautiful dresses and jewels (as well as strong horses) so they can all return together to the castle of Warrior's father, in time to prevent the upcoming war. Once there, Desired actually asks for Long-Thorn and her mother to be pardoned instead of severely punished, her charity going even as far as to allow them to leave to go wherever they want to be. Of course, such kindness makes the old father praise her even more.

There are great festivites for the wedding of Desired and Warrior, and the six benevolent fairies are all invited - as a gift, they decide to offer the newly wed couple their own palace, the one Desired's mother visited regularly. The fairies even move by magic the palace on a beautiful meadow near a river, so it could be more reachable by humans. Becafigue ends up marrying Gillyflower, with who he fell n love ; the Tulip fairy gives four gold mines to Desired "so that her husband might not claim he was wealthier than her", and it is said that the "adventures of the White Doe were sang throughout the world".

THE END

#french fairytales #french fairy tales #literary fairytales #madame d'aulnoy #madame d'aulnoy's fairytales #d'aulnoy fairytales #the white doe #the doe in the woods

[snapthistiger]

exercise 04082023

bike ride to the gym

6 x 10 incline sit ups

6 x 10 pec machine

3 x 10 lat raise

30 minutes on the step mill

3 x 10 cable row

3 x 10 cable press

bike ride home

the gym workers received Hershey kisses and Reeses

bottom = Ariel doesn't trust that Easter Bunny

top left = color run in the park getting started

finished Google OS course last night

started Google Sys Admin course this morning

Peanut slept most of the day yesterday with the rain and cool weather. Last night she didn't want to sleep and she woke me up at 1am. i put her outside and she stayed out until morning. today she wants to be inside so bad to try and get some rest. staying out all night is for the young cats.

youngest daughter and her husband are boiling crawfish and shrimp this afternoon so will planning to go over there to eat later

hope you have a peaceful afternoon and evening..

#exercise #fitblr #rfm

[freeaustinbutler]

What's the point of it all!?

What’s the point of kaia being in a PR relationship? Since Kaia was born, she was destined to be thrown into the spotlight. In an interview she spoke about how modelling, fashion, and tabloid is all she’s ever known, due to her mother being Cindy Crawfish. (yes I know it’s Crawford) Kaia’s mother is a smart business woman and has thrust her daughter into the spotlight and knows how to sell her child. She linked her daughter with Pete Davidson the second she turned 18, and this generated buzz! Magazines were going wild and the general public turned heads. The PR relationship did what It was supposed to do. After the break up, Pete later came out with an interview stating “I felt like a sick person” when describing being linked with Kaia. he felt uncomfortable being an a relationship with such a huge gap.

Kaia’s connection with HBO’s Euphoria star, Jocob Elordi also turned out to be a hot mess, with Jacob himself coming out stating the relationship was indeed fake! Euphoria was hot at the time, and kaia being seen linked with the lead actor, boosted buzz for herself! The reason she needs to be in a PR relationship? to stay relevant. to stay in the headlines, to be seen. Even fans and non fans have realised EVERY picture with Austin screams “please be seen with me Austin” and is quite apparent. She is also LOOKING at the paparazzi when they arrive. What we have here is an insecure woman who needs tabloid. having a famous mommy doesn’t do too much to STAY relevant- it helps with everything else. but having an academy award nominee as a “boyfriend” does wonders!

#austin butler #kaia gerber #fake relationship #fake #pr relationships #fypage #tumblr fyp

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Which villains have family me

Eh? Family members is what you mean to say?

Betty Jetty has Ned Noodlehead as her brother

The Shogun has Basho as his brother

Zeus has... a whole bunch of people

The Baron has these people

Myron Van Buren has these people

Maybe I'm forgetting some villains

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Bonus: Some villain headcanons

These people might be Dr. Hare's family:

Governor Ridley might be related to Captain Crawfish:

His picture in Crawfish's dream, on the bottom right

I once made a joke that Blinked was related to Gretchen Grimlock (even though he's a parody of a YouTuber)

@sylunisart once told me that Samuel Brains had triplet daughters, Sandy, Candy, and Dandy, but they were cut out or something XD

Also Sir Howard Diggery could be this kid's father

Myron's sister is Daphne Dreadaught's mom

Oh, and Awantagi is somehow related to Joe Puddy

OH! And this Master of Coin guy from Arabian Nights Island is Mordred's dad

#ask #betty jetty #ned noodlehead #super power island #the shogun poptropica #basho poptropica #red dragon island #zeus poptropica #mythology island #red baroness poptropica #the baron poptropica #myron van buren #fairy tale island #survival island #dr. hare #24 carrot island #captain crawfish #skullduggery island #gretchen grimlock #cryptids island #samuel brains #zomberry island #sir howard diggory #jade scarab island #daphne dreadnaught #ghost story island #awantagi poptropica #joe puddy #binary bard #astro-knights island

[direwombat]

Oh the urge to write a no cult au fic where syb and jacob have their honeymoon in New Orleans (from Jacob’s pov because syb is a native and I am just here for work). Highlights include:

Jacob being a baby about the humidity (his ass is acclimated to Montana dryness)

Jacob being a baby about getting sunburned

Jacob falling in love with syb all over again watching her brutally rip into some crawfish

Jacob falling in love with her all over again watching her take a moment to genuflect and cross herself when they visit st. Louis cathedral

Jacob shitting himself because syb's mama (who lives in this au) wasn't able to make their wedding (complications due to illness) but wanted to meet the man her daughter married

Syb blushing and burying her face in her hands because the photo album came out and she's sooooooooo embarrassed

Honeymoon sex

#whining wombat #fics wherein me myself and i are the sole target audience alsjfjdjd #anyway. files the idea away ....

[iceemoondemon]

Aaay new reference sheet for Octavia lets gooooo!!

#poptropica #my oc #ocs #my ocs #oc #octavia crawfish #poptropica oc #bisexual #medic #poptropican oc #crawfish's daughter #daughter of crawfish #poptropica islands au #poptropica au #poptropica islands #my au

[aaronburrdaily]

June 7, 1809

Note from Laing, the Russian merchant, to remind me of the dinner to-day at Albino—Cravi Tiske or royaume des ecrivisses.¹ Walked, being about two miles; a most beautiful and picturesque promenade. Y: About twenty, i.e., ten of each sex. A very expensive and splendid dinner. Baron Stedingk, late minister to Russia, fem, and two children. U’s² 10 and 13 and leur gouvernante³; the elder fille⁴ intelligent and well educated. La gouvernante M’lle ——— jol. et interesting. Madame ———, two daughters and a son; the daughters both handsome; belle embonp.⁵ Mr. Phillipson et ux.; a very amiable woman, 30; the secretary of Stedingk, a well-informed young man; Dr. Domcier; his singular position that in England there were 3,000 to a square mile; Mr. Foster, the British charge d’affaires. Tro. bu and stole off alone at 9. Note: The wife of the vice-admiral, Stedingk, has several sisters of much renown.

1  Kingdom of the crabs. Burr's words Cravi Tiske may represent the Swedish word Krabbtaska, Crabs. The restaurant may have received that nickname from the fact that a specialty was made of crawfish. 2  Jungfrus. 3  Their governess. 4  Daughter, girl. 5  Fine looking, plump.

#Aaron Burr #The Private Journal of Aaron Burr

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: National Reading Group Month

In honor of National Reading Group Month, here are some titles featured in our book club kits that you can check out to share with your own reading group! 

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Quin

In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories - as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself - the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day.

Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp. Companion volume Outer Space, Inner Lands includes Le Guin's best known nonrealistic stories. Both volumes include new introductions by the author.

My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh

In the summer of 1989, a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom is rocked by a violent crime when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson - free spirit, track star, and belle of the block - is attacked late one evening near her home. As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.

In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.

#fiction #book club books #book club pick #national reading group month #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #tbr #to read #TBR pile #library books #booklr #book tumblr

[jezabatlovesbats]

My Beanish Fan Characters

Made some Beanish characters, too!

Red Beatrice Anrise is a shy young lady who lives and works in Gwarhar Crawfish, a restaurant owned by her father that is one of the most famous food establishments in the Beanbean Kingdom. She is quiet, bashful, and usually doesn't speak unless she is spoken to. She is easily embarrassed, and she is afraid of disappointing people and rejection. When meeting someone new, she gets flustered and nervous, but she will warm up to them if they are nice to her. While she doesn't like to draw attention to herself, Red will want to help if she sees something bad going on. Red has a big soft spot for children. She was oddly born on the same day at the same time as Prince Peasley. She even looks almost exactly like him, except she is a girl and has red hair that she curls. In the restaurant, Red cooks the food, waits tables, and cleans. While Red does love cooking in the restaurant, she’d like to try doing other things, too. (She originally had twin drills, but then I got sued by Vocaloid. Just kidding, but my friend suggested that I change her hair.)

Maizee Chickpea is one of Red's two best friends. She is enthusiastic and polite, although sometimes, she doesn't know what to do or how to respond to her surroundings. She is also helpful, as she gives Red moral support and helps her clean the restaurant sometimes when she visits her there. Maizee enjoys dressing up and photography; she can't seem to live without her favorite camera. She actually wants to be a professional photographer like Kylie Koopa is. 

Velvet Mucuna is a velvet bean and Red's other best friend. Velvet is calm and poised for the most part, but in certain times, she can get overly excited or scared. It is very hard to make her cry and to make her mad. She is a pretty down-to-earth person, and she helps her friends make sensible choices. Her skin often gets itchy, and that is very hard for her to deal with. Velvet likes to sew, act and dance, and she wants a career in anything related to theater.

Garbanzo is the Beanish royal scientist. He was a top student at Woohoo Hooniversity and is one of its most notable alumni, but he has never laughed in his life even once. He is aloof, he is reclusive, he is unemotional and flat, and he is much, much more of a realist than Velvet. He is good at staying calm when dealing with things that make him uncomfortable, like laughter, which explains how he was able to graduate. Garbanzo can get so focused on something that it becomes impossible for him to get out of the zone. His full name is Garbanzo Garbanzo.

Brodi, Barkley and Bessie are Prince Peasley's three younger cousins. They are triplets in second grade who go to live with him and their aunt Queen Bean in the castle from time to time. Brodi is often dressed in red. He is self-assured and confident, and he could be a bit crazy. He is usually not aware of what's going on. Barkley is often seen wearing yellow. He is the smartest of the three and acts as their ringleader. He is a bit of a perfectionist. Bessie often wears blue. She's plucky, she's pretty short-tempered, and she has no impulse control whatsoever. She is quite desperate for attention from her brothers and her classmates. What the triplets have in common is that they like to be together, they have a need for friends, and they can get frustrated over little problems. Try as he may, Peasley doesn't find himself interested in hanging out with them, so he has a pretty rocky relationship with them. 

Snip is Red's father and the founder and owner of Gwarhar Crawfish. While Snip has great communication skills that come from talking to his employees, he is somewhat impulsive and impatient. He feels very strongly about the idea of his daughter taking over the restaurant someday. He clings onto his thoughts and ideas pretty tightly, so he has a little bit of trouble learning to let go. Snip is canonically neurodivergent. Hari is kind and humble. She supports her daughter's interests, helps her family handle new things, and acts as a voice of reason to her husband whenever she notices that he is going too far. She encourages conversation and open communication.

Gwarhar Crawfish was founded from Snip's aspirations for cooking and the inspiration he took from his family's recipes for Cajun cuisine. The name comes from the time when Snip realized how much he loved cooking. At that time, he was fishing in Gwarhar Lagoon when he caught a lot of crayfish. This was impressive to its residents to because the crayfish were hard to find and hard to catch. He decided to boil it for lunch for them like his parents would for him, and they came out great to the residents.

In my version of M&L, Peasley is actually quite a rocker and he's in a band, so I thought I'd draw out his bandmates. The main reason I made them is because I wanted to create some best friends for Peasley to expand on his life more.

Barkley is part of a boy scout troop called the Navy Bean Skippers, and Peasley brings him to their meeting place on Tuesdays and Thursdays after Barkley's school day. While Barkley does activities with his sailor-themed troop, Peasley goes to meet his friends in other room to play Beanstalks & Banshees with them. They're there because they also have smaller relatives who are scouts. The Adamantine Conquerors is the name of their band, which was started by Jacklin, who also usually acts as the Beanstalk Master. Peasley's class is a paladin.

Jacklin is a lima bean, so his skin is noticeably a lighter shade of green. He is easily excitable and encouraging, but he's also too openly honest and can sometimes be timid. Fantasy is what he claims to be his reason for living; he goes to the library to check out fantasy novels often. He owns all of the group's B&B stuff, and he's written most of their adventures. He is the bassist and founder of the band. I ship Jacklin with Red, who will eventually meet him and fall in love with him. His name is based on Jack and the Beanstalk. He first started playing B&B as a bard because he also loved music. 

Soren is a kidney bean who is interested in fortune telling and learning about magic, but hir main career path is working as a tattoo artist. Ze's pretty clumsy, shy and sometimes lazy, but ze's still smart, and ze really knows hir stuff when it comes to storytelling. When Jacklin doesn't feel like the story he's got is working, Soren often helps him improve it. Ze doesn't like too much technology. Ze is dating someone named Basil. Ze is named after the Eye of Sauron, and ze plays the lute. Ze identifies as genderqueer. Hir class is a wizard. 

Reese is a black turtle bean who mans the "Days Without Peasley Making It All About Him" chart. It doesn't like disrespect and can blow up at people who are hateful towards it or its loved ones. It's a peaceful person; it would be a good Christian child who goes to church every Sunday if it was real. Reese plays the flute for the band, and it is also part of a marching band called the Marchers of Mirth. Its name is Reese to rhyme with peace. It identifies as androgynous. Its class is a cleric. 

Misty is a black-eyed pea. That's not makeup or eye contacts; that's the way her eyes naturally look. She likes to act mysterious and cool, and she's pretty funny, but she is a little bit insecure and doesn't always know what she's doing. She works in a clothing store; she aims to become a fashion designer for everyone who wants to freely express themselves. She is the band's drummer. Her class is a rogue. 

#Mario franchise #Mario & Luigi #oc #ocs #my ocs #Red Anrise #Maizee Chickpea #Velvet Mucuna #Garbanzo Garbanzo #Brodi Bean #Barkley Bean #Bessie Bean #Hari Anrise #Snip Anrise #Jacklin Stemheight #Soren Heehara #Reese Ohojo #Misty Blagues

[cyberthot666]

hot girl autumn is in full swing bitches. bout to get on this man’s motorcycle and go to his place for a crawfish boil and boat. my friends say they know him and that he has a lesbian daughter. ally!

[snapthistiger]

exercise 05092022

bike ride to the gym

8 x 10 incline sit ups

3 x 10 lat raise machine

3 x 10 row machine

3 x 10 pec machine

30 minutes on the step mill

bike ride home

the gym workers received mini Reeses

left = live crawfish available for a few more weeks

~30 minutes push lawnmower aerobics = mowed the neighbors front yard.  they have 4 young children and both work so trying to help them out

2nd swim class tonight

riding my bicycle to Lowe’s for a part for daughter’s toilet.  still having trouble with the drain valve leaking by

summer time weather here

hope you have a peaceful afternoon and evening..

#exercise #fitblr #rfm

[some-wierd-clown-i-gusse]

It's time for the final member of the tulips, fish sticks, she based off of Thalassophobia Aka the fear of the ocean.

she is the adopted daughter of captain catfish. In which one of members attacked her, permanently breaking her back, ripped off her leg and left eye. Captain catfish had to take her to X, to make her a new back and leg, she also made the eyepatch. Fish had to stay with X until her stitches healed. In which fish as a little crush on X. After fish left X painted a picture of fish and hung it right in the middle. But anyway, fish has the ability to cast hallucinations ( kinda similar to crawfishs ghosts in super villain island ) she also has a ship .

#poptropica #poptropica oc #I'm going to make thia a joke with X loving fish sticks