To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.
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"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"
edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying "uh huh"
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Bruges la nuit, c.1900 by Edith Vaucamps (Belgian, c.1860--c.1930)
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Heeeey!!! Slay the Princess is 20% right now wowww!!!
AND this sale also coincides with a fun little content update that adds a bit of extra pizzazz to the end of the game, INCLUDING a few tracks that have been updated to the live orchestral versions. That's right! A real orchestra!!
And we also just launched a "Cabins in the Woods" bundle with Inscryption and What Remains of Edith Finch which is kind of wildly exciting to me because they're both such good games, and I am absolutely delighted to be spoken in the same breath as either of them tbh.
Anyway, big day for Slay the Princess!! We're still working on the Pristine Cut, so expect news on that later this year, but for now, we hope you enjoy our spring update ^_^
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new OC! her names Edith ^^
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Edith Gerin. Immeubles démolis, 13th Arrondissement, Paris. 1954
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The many uses of a Byronic Hero
chair ( Jane & Edward - Jane Eyre)
Pillow ( Christine & Erik - Phantom of the Opera)
Car ( Catherine & Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights)
Water dispenser ( Edith & Thomas - Crimson Peak)
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Mia Wasikowska on the Crimson Peak set, photo by clionafurey
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Beautiful things are fragile…
CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
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Art by Edith Ballinger Price,
(1897 - 1997)
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Edith Sitwell, from "Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell"
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Edith relaxing in a meadow ^^
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