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picturebookshelf · 1 year
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Ernie and the Twiddlebug Town Fair (1992)
Story: Liza Alexander -- Art: Tom Cooke
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rosepompadour · 1 month
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HEROINES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE: the maid Enveloped in an aura of nostalgia, she seems to come from the world of fairy tales or from an idealized Victorian epoch, in which women, in the form of Archadian shepherdesses, or country aristocrats, were still granted private spaces and secret gardens. They long to take refuge in hidden places off-limits to men. These qualities evoke an age of innocence dressed in night gowns, and undergarments all in white, with embroidery and applique, ribbons and lace - a timeless look. And, of course, their obsessively brushed hair is inevitably long and curly, held in place with ribbons, bows and combs. This nature-loving romantic heroine loves to walk barefoot on the dew-drenched grass of dawn, to read fables and study music. She can be a free woodland creature or a highly refined damsel. - GIULIA PIVETTA
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luckydiorxoxo · 2 months
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30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Arrivals
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russiawave · 9 months
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What is ur favorite russian literature ?
School made reading classic russian literature feel like torture for most russians (me included) so I'm not a big fan of it.
here's a list of books for the basic school program if you're interested.
"Master and Margarita", "Heart of a Dog", "The White Guard" etc by M. Bulgakov.
"A Hero of Our Time", "The Novice" etc by M. Lermontov,
"Crime and punishment", "The Idiot", “ The Brothers Karamazov”, “The Gambler” etc by F. Dostoevsky,
"Fathers and Sons", "Mumu" (don't read it if you love animals, you'll cry for a week) etc by I. Turgenev,
"Eugene Onegin" and all of the work by A. Pushkin,
"War and peace", " Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", " Anna Karenina" etc by L. Tolstoy,
"Dead souls", "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", "The Government Inspector", "Taras Bulba" etc by N. Gogol,
"Woe from Wit" by A. Griboyedov,
"Oblomov" by I. Goncharov,
"The Cherry Orchard", "Kashtanka", "The Man in the Case" etc by A. Chekhov
"The Garnet Bracelet" by A. Kuprin
"The Storm", "Without a Dowry" by A. Ostrovsky
"Poor Liza" by N. Karamzin
"And Quiet Flows the Don" by M. Sholokhov
"The Lower Depths" etc by M. Gorky,
"The Minor " by D. Fonvizin
+ everything by poets of the silver age such as Sergey Esenin, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky etc.
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unkownbee · 4 months
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Hamliza Wedding Anniversary Quotes: Part 2 ✨✨
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Alexander: Are you an F5 key? Because that ass is refreshing.
Eliza, looking up from the floor where she's playing dolls with baby Angie: Are you a software update? Because not right now.
(She's having play time with the kiddies)
Alexander: Surgery is basically just stabbing someone to life.
Eliza: Please never become a surgeon.
(He would say this. That is an irrefutable fact)
Eliza: Come on Alexander, do it for our marriage. You can't put a price on that.
Alexander: Yes I can, dear. Fifty dollars.
(He's joking, btw. He'd do anything for her. Except take care of himself and have a proper sleep schedule)
Eliza, near tears: Please, Alexander, I don’t speak meme! I don't know what a 'yeet' is!
(This one is just poor sillies and I'm all here for it)
Eliza: You’re an idiot.
Alexander, looking smug and extremely proud of himself: That’s the charm.
Eliza: ...
Eliza: I can't say that that's untrue-
(And she fell for it. She fell for his idiotic charm)
Alexander: Eliza is playing hard to get.
Alexander: Little does she know, I'm a master at playing hard to get rid of.
(You silly little insomniac, you. Why would she ever even want to get rid of you? <3)
Alexander: *Walks to cabinet, removes oreo box, takes half a sleeve, throws empty box out.* Hi, Liza!
Eliza: Hey- what are you doing-?
Alexander, shoving an oreo into his mouth: I am saving space :D
(I love him so much)
Alexander: Did you know you remind me of all 26 letters of the alphabet?
Eliza: What? Like J F K W S Q X-
Alexander: No, like, U R A Q T.
Eliza: Awwww!
(He got that Alphabet Rizz 😏)
Alexander: Dude-
Eliza: No, no, hold up, rewind.
Eliza: My tongue was down in your throat just a second ago and now you're calling me dude??
(Eliza is genuinely baffled)
Alexander: Talk dirty to me, baby~
Eliza: The dishes.
Alexander: Wh-
Eliza: They’ve been there for 4 days and it’s your turn to wash them. You still haven’t cleaned them and I have asked you to do so several times.
(When your wife is tired of your bs and reminding you to do your chores)
Eliza: I have feelings for you.
Alexander: Why? What's wrong with you? Are you sure you're okay?
Eliza: We should be partners.
Alexander: You mean like, partners in crime?
Eliza: Yeah... that’s precisely what I meant.
(Don't worry, guys. He's just a little clueless sometimes. He's just a silly little dense guy 😁)
Eliza: Alexander, how could you possibly have gotten into this much trouble in one day?
Alexander: It... It didn't take me the whole day...
(This is so him)
Eliza: Did it hurt when you fell-
Alexander: From heaven? Wow, I didn’t think you were such a flirt-
Eliza: No, I meant when you fell down the stairs.
Alexander: ...
Eliza: You just laid there for 15 minutes.
Alexander: Can you cut me some slack, Eliza? I’m sort of in love.
Eliza: I’m sorry, but that’s really not my problem.
Alexander: I’m in love with you.
Eliza: *Blushes.* Oh. That brings me in the loop a little.
*Alexander and Eliza are in Paris.*
Alexander: I'm...moved. I...I don't know what it is I'm feeling right now. I feel...destiny?
Eliza: But...
Alexander: I don't know what it is. I feel like... I just never thought I'd see it with my own two eyes. And here it is. It's just there. It's right in front of me, and...
Eliza: This is what you wanted to see? The bridge from Inception?
Alexander: Yeah.
Eliza: But the Eiffel Tower is behind us, babe.
Alexander: Yeah, but this is the bridge FROM INCEPTION.
Eliza: Okay, alright.
(She finds his dorkiness and excitement adorable 😁🥰✨)
Alexander: Relationships should be 50/50. Eliza cooks us dinner while I sit on the kitchen counter looking pretty.
Alexander, throwing his head into Eliza's lap: Tell me I'm pretty!
Eliza, lovingly stroking his hair: You're pretty annoying, that's what you are.
Eliza: Just a minute. I need to go take out the trash.
Alexander: Oh. We're going out?
Eliza: Wh...
(She sits him down and gives him a lecture on why he's wonderful and an amazing person the way he is)
Eliza: I owe you one.
Alexander: That’s ok. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.
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astrid029q · 10 months
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RANGER/HOTSHOT
!all credits goes to @castleaudios for the character and storyline
. They always need something to do with their hands (get ur mind out of the gutter 🤨) Like crochet, loom bands, drawing e.t.c.
.They are a very crafty person, for all of Diane's birthdays they've most likely too made a homemade card to go with a fresh batch of muffins
.Their favourite game is minecraft and u can find them crying at the middle of night listening to that one track (iykyk )😔
.They love lego and have several lego figures on their ranger desk, other rangers have called them childish for this but whenever they catch em syaing stuff about it they give em the glare 🤫
.They are possibly on of the most friendliest ranger you would ever stumble on but everyone is so scared of them (apart from Diane 😊) because their resting face is a grouch, like the grinch.
.They love children and once Claire and Ranger get together, them, beautiful and Genevieve are on babysitting duty with Isla whenever the pack goes on hunts (someone pls create a fanfic about this 🙏 I'll pay u)
.When the 2 slow burner finally get together, whenever Ranger gets nightmares about their past, they feel bad for waking Claire knowing that she gone through worse
.Another point about the nightmares, whenever Claire gets nightmares about this bitch ALEXANDER Rangers always awake making sure Claire's okay
.They were the one to bake the muffins that Claire loved so much when her and her pack moved to the ol' country house, but she thought it was Diane because she was the one to deliver them
.Ranger was Isahai's forgotten friend convince me not
.Ranger is absolutely terrified of Genevieve because of their inconveniences with other vampires (cough cough* RACHELLE)
. Once they're gonna meet Celine, she would scold them for making Claire worry so much and that gonna trigger something, obviously that means Celine ends up comforting them realising there not as bad as they are
BONUS DIANE HEADCANNON (BCS WE LOVE HER SO MUCH)
. Diane lied, her eyes do work at night but she knew that Claire and ranger were long overdue for their daily fued
. Her, Simon, Celine and Liza defo in the future are gonna have a group chat to talk about their adult children. Said children :
Diane : Ranger/Hotshot
Simon : Beth, Knight, Claire
Celine : Genevieve, Sugar, possibly her whole clan
Liza : Abby, Rose, Bud/Wielder
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valen-3o · 9 months
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CLAIRE + RANGER'S HEADCANNONS
*ALL CREDITS GO TO @castleaudios FOR THE PLOT*
RANGER/HOTSHOT
. They always need something to do with their hands (get ur mind out of the gutter 🤨) Like crochet, loom bands, drawing e.t.c.
.They are a very crafty person, for all of Diane's birthdays they've most likely too made a homemade card to go with a fresh batch of muffins
.They are possibly on of the most friendliest ranger you would ever stumble on but everyone is so scared of them (apart from Diane 😊) because their resting face is a grouch, like the grinch.
.They love children and once Claire and Ranger get together, them, beautiful and Genevieve are on babysitting duty with Isla (someone pls create a fanfic about this 🙏 I'll pay u)
.When the 2 slow burner finally get together, whenever Ranger gets nightmares about their past, they feel bad for waking Claire knowing that she gone through worse
.Another point about the nightmares, whenever Claire gets nightmares about the night with Alexander Rangers always awake making sure Claire's okay
.They were the one to bake the muffins that Claire loved so much when her and her pack moved to the country house, but she thought it was Diane because she was the one to deliver them
.Ranger was Isahai's forgotten friend convince me not
.Ranger is absolutely terrified of Genevieve because of their inconveniences with other vampires (cough cough* RACHELLE)
. Once they're gonna meet Celine, she would scold them for making Claire worry so much and that gonna trigger something, obviously that means Celine ends up comforting them realising there not as bad as they are
BONUS DIANE HEADCANNON (BCS WE LOVE HER SO MUCH)
. Diane lied, her eyes do work at night but she knew that Claire and ranger were long overdue for their daily fued
. Her, Simon, Celine and Liza defo in the future are gonna have a group chat to talk about their adult children. Said children :
Diane : Ranger/Hotshot
Simon : Beth, Knight, Claire
Celine : Genevieve, Sugar, possibly her whole clan
Liza : Abby, Rose, Bud/Wielder
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xox000xox · 10 months
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250 Hollywood Celebrities Sign Letter Demanding Big Tech Censor Anyone Who Opposes Trans Surgeries On Kids
Here are the names of every celebrity who wants to mutilate children. Remember them & for Gods sake, stop supporting their products, movies, shows etc.
Abby Wambach
Adam Eli
Aitch Alberto
AJ Shively
Alan Cumming
Alejandra Caraballo
Alejandra Ghersi
Alex Clark
Alexandra Gutierrez
Alisa Ramirez
Allie Leonard
Allison Goldfrapp
ALOK Vaid-Menon
Alyssa May Gold
Alyssa Milano
Amber Ruffin
Amber Tamblyn
Amy Schumer
Amy Landecker
Andrew Polk
Angelica Ross
Annaleigh Ashford
Antoni Porowski
Aparna Brielle
Arden Myrin
Ariana Grande
Arisce Wanzer
Avan Jogia
Barbie Ferreira
Bebe Rexha
Bella Ramsey
Ben Barnes
Benito Skinner
Benj Pasek
Bethany Cosentino
Bethany Leavel
Billy Eichner
Billy Porter
Bob the Drag Queen
Bobby Berk
Bonnie Milligan
Brad Oscar
Bradley Whitford
Brandon Matthews
Brendan Hines
Bretman Rock
Brian Smith
Brigette Lundy-Paine
Brittany Tomlinson
Busy Philipps
Caesar Samoya
Camila Cabello
Camille A Brown
Cara Delevingne
Chani Nicholas
Chella Man
Chelsea Handler
Cheyenne Jackson
Chris Perfetti
Christa Miller
Cleo Wade
Colton Haynes
Corey Jantzen
Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia McWilliams
Cynthia Nixon
Cyrus Veyssi
D’Arcy Carden
Dakota Fanning
Dan Levy
Darren Criss
David Shatraw
David Oulton
Debra Messing
Deepica Mutyala
Demi Lovato
Des McAnuff
Devery Jacobs
Diana Maria Riva
Diane Guerrero
Dylan Mulvaney
Ed Droste
Eddie Ndopu
EJ Marcus
Elegance Bratton
Eliot Rahal
Elle Fanning
Elliot Page
Emily Hampshire
Emily V. Gordon
Emma Hunton
Erin Reed
Estefania Pessoa
FLETCHER
Freddy Thomas
Gabrielle Union-Wade
Gigi Gorgeous
Glennon Doyle
Gottmik
Grace Kuhlenschmidt
Griffin Dunne
Haley Baldwin Bieber
Hannah Gadsby
Harry Lambert
Hayley Kiyoko
Hilary Montez
Ilana Glazer
Indya Moore
Isaac Mizrahi
Jackie Bazan
Jacob Tierney
Jai Rodriguez
Jameela Jamil
James Blake
James Scully
Jaymes Vaughan
Jamie Lee Curtis
Janaya Khan
Janelle Monáe
Janet Hubert
Jazz Jennings
Jenna Lyons
Jennifer Kerr
Jeremy Fall
Jessica Betts
Jillian Mercado
Jinkx Monsoon
Joe DiPietro
Jonathan Van Ness
Jonathan Bennett
Jonny Pierce
Jordan Stenmark
Jordan Firstman
Jordan Roth
JP Saxe
Judd Apatow
Justin Baldoni
Justin Tranter
Kal Penn
Kamar de los Reyes
Karamo Brown
Kate Reinders
Katherine LaNasa
Kathryn Grody
Kellie Overbey
Kelly Devine
Kendrick Sampson
Kevin Harrington
Kevin Cahoon
Ki Griffin
Kimber Elayne Sprawl
Kimberly Drew
Kristin Chenoweth
Lachlan Watson
Laith De La Cruz
Laura Terruso
Lauren Jauregui
Laverne Cox
Lena Dunham
Lena Waithe
Lena Hall
Lilly Singh
Lily Rabe
Liv Hewson
Liza Koshy
Lola Tung
Lorin Latarro
Lovell Adams-Gray
Lucky Bromhead
Mae Martin
Mae Whitman
Maggie Boccella
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Mandy Patinkin
Marc Jacobs
Marc Kudisch
Marieme Diop
Martha Plimpton
Matt Bernstein
Matt McGorry
Matt Walton
Medalion Rahimi
Meena Harris
Megan Crabbe
Michael D. Cohen
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez
Michelle Buteau
Midori Francis
Miriam Silverman
Moj Mahdara
Mona Chalabi
Montego Glover
Munroe Bergdorf
Nate Wonder
Nats Getty
Neila Karassik
Nicholas Ferroni
Nico Carney
Nico Santos
Nico Tortorella
Nicole Maines
Niecy Nash-Betts
Nik Dodani
Ocean Vuong
Olly Alexander
Our Lady J
Padma Lakshmi
Patrick Stewart
Patti LuPone
Peppermint
Phillip Picardi
Phoebe Robinson
Poorna Jagannathan
Rachel Cargle
Rafael Silva
Ramy Youssef
Randy Shulman
Raquel Willis
Richa Moorjani
Rob Holysz
Robert Horn
Rory Dahl
Rosario Dawson
Rupi Kaur
Sam Smith
Sander Jennings
Sandy Rustin
Sara Bareilles
Sara Ramirez
Sarah Ramos
Sasha Velour
Scott Turner Schofield
Shawn Mendes
Shea Couleé
Shea Diamond
Sherri Saum
Sinead Burke
Solomon Hughes
Stephen Kunken
Susie Park
T. Oliver Reid
Taika Waititi
Tan France
Tatiana Maslany
Tess Holliday
Tiffany Namtu
Tommy Dorfman
Tracee Ellis Ross
Travis Alabanza
Tunde Adebimpe
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world-of-wales · 10 months
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FASHION DIARIES
GARTER DAY || The Princess of Wales attending the Garter Day Service at St. George's Chapel in Windsor over the years.
↬ Black Polka Dot Suit by Moschino with Philip Somerville hat - 2008
↬ Buxton Grey Coat by Katherine Hooker with Rachel Trevor–Morgan Fascinator - 2011
↬ White Coat Dress by Alexander McQueen with Jane Corbett Fascinator - 2012
↬ Ice Blue Coat Dress by Christopher Kane with Sweet Delight Lock & Co. Hat - 2014
↬ Red Coat Dress by Catherine Walker with Red Sylvia Fletcher for Lock & Co. Hat - 2016
↬ Liza White Coat Dress by Catherine Walker with Black Tamer Lock & Co. Fascinator - 2019
↬ Blue Coat Dress by Alexander McQueen with Floral Juliette Botterill Hat - 2022
↬ White Polka Dot Dress by Alessandra Rich with Black Slice Philip Treacy Hat - 2023
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publius-library · 2 years
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Why do people say Alexander Hamilton Jr (Alexander's second son) was an asshole? I know he often left the family behind without consideration, but was there anything really else he did that was so terrible?
this is a really good question, and i honestly had trouble answering it. thank you @yr-obedt-cicero for basically doing my job for me GEJSBWMWV
still, there really isn’t much outside of the family that he did that was shitty. he was a divorce attorney so there was that
essentially the gist of everything cicero told me (imma cite the sources they gave me in case you want to do further reading) was that alex jr in general left his family in times of financial hardship to fend for themselves, putting all the responsibility on james to be basically the eldest son (cicero also has a good post on this). he also stole his father’s papers and tried to get an unreasonable amount of money out of e. holly’s will.
tl;dr outside of being a shitty brother, he wasn’t the worst person, but was a really shitty brother
https://deadbishop-blog.tumblr.com/post/86053680832/my-dear-philip-i-hope-you-have-taken-measures-to
As Phil II was writing a calendar and description of every letter and on one he wrote; “… taken by my brother Alexr Hamilton from the House of my sister E[liza] H Holly immediately after her death without any colour of right or authority …,” dated, December 30, 1859 (from my dms with @yr-obedt-cicero bc the link didn’t work)
https://books.google.com/books?id=KL9cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=It+was+my+good+fortune+to+have+almost+the+entire+care+and+management+of+her+affairs.+The+elder+son#v=onepage&q=It%20was%20my%20good%20fortune%20to%20have%20almost%20the%20entire%20care%20and%20management%20of%20her%20affairs.%20The%20elder%20son&f=false
#alexander hamilton#alexander hamilton jr#hamilkids#hamilton family#history#again thanks to cicero for being super thorough and awesome#i dont know jack shit about hamilton’s kids really#like i did one post on them but i haven’t really gotten the chance to go in depth on their lives#im moving very slowly through hamilton’s life its gonna be a while till i get to the next generation GSJWHWJWB#they are interesting to learn about tho#bc most of the boys have parallels with hamilton its really cool to see#also i think this issue specifically is an interesting contrast between alexander hamilton jr and sr#bc ham sr was very family oriented#as a child he really looked up to his mother and sought her approval#(last part is my speculation)#then after he was orphaned he really idolized the family structure ie the stevenses and that one poem about a mother losing her child#and ESPECIALLY after he married eliza and had kids of his own#he really craved closeness in a familial environment#so reading this about aj is really interesting bc he seems kind of cold towards his family??#this may just be my interpretation but he seems to really not have like strong emotional ties to his siblings especially#like they don’t seem close bc if they were james would probably have expressed his stress to him at least#so he seems kind of like the estranged black sheep#this is all in the tags bc its irrelevant to your question but i still think its interesting#my tags are like optional reading HSJSBWK#okay i’ll shut up now
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russiawave · 2 years
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also a literature question lol which books does everyone study in school like what's a typical book people study during high school
"Master and Margarita", "Heart of a Dog", "The White Guard" etc by M. Bulgakov.
"A Hero of Our Time", "The Novice" etc by M. Lermontov,
"Crime and punishment", "The Idiot", “ The Brothers Karamazov”, “The Gambler” etc by F. Dostoevsky,
"Fathers and Sons", "Mumu" (don't read it if you love animals, you'll cry for a week) etc by I. Turgenev,
"Eugene Onegin" and all of the work by A. Pushkin,
"War and peace", " Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", " Anna Karenina" etc by L. Tolstoy,
"Dead souls", "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", "The Government Inspector", "Taras Bulba" etc by N. Gogol,
"Woe from Wit" by A. Griboyedov,
"Oblomov" by I. Goncharov,
"The Cherry Orchard", "Kashtanka", "The Man in the Case" etc by A. Chekhov
"The Garnet Bracelet" by A. Kuprin
"The Storm", "Without a Dowry" by A. Ostrovsky
"Poor Liza" by N. Karamzin
"And Quiet Flows the Don" by M. Sholokhov
"The Lower Depths" etc by M. Gorky,
"The Minor " by D. Fonvizin
+ everything by poets of the silver age such as Sergey Esenin, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky etc.
UPD: forgot to add that studying a poet’s work also includes learning 2+ of their poems by heart and reading them by memory in front of the entire class for a grade. 
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panthersrp · 5 months
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fc suggestions for Ashley, Paige, Emma, Clare, Darcy, Liberty and Esme?
ashley:  antonia  gentry  ,  gracie  abrams  ,  maia  reficco  ,  sabrina  quesada  ,  sonia  ammar  ,  and  sophie  thatcher  . paige:  jennie  kim  ,  khadijha  red  thunder  ,  rain  spencer  ,  renee  rapp  ,  sabrina  carpenter  ,  and  samantha  logan  . emma:  aj  clementine  ,  auli'i  cravalho  ,  jessie  mei  li  ,  kathryn  newton  ,  lili  reinhart  ,  and  madelyn  cline  . clare:  daisy  edgar-jones  ,  haley  lu  richardson  ,  danielle  rose  russell  ,  halle  bailey  ,  maude  apatow  ,  and  sadie  stanley  . darcy:  hailee  steinfeld  ,  jessica  alexander  ,  madison  beer  ,  mimi  keene  ,  chloe  bailey  ,  and  savannah  smith  . liberty:  alisha  boe  ,  jaz  sinclair  ,  madison  bailey  ,  whitney  peak  ,  yandeh  sallah  ,  and  yara  shahidi  . esme:  chelsea  clark  ,  heaven  peralejo  ,  liza  soberano  ,  maris  racal  ,  miya  horcher  ,  and  paris  berelc  .
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bridgertonbabe · 1 year
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I know AlexanderxEliza story is far on the horizon, but could you give us a few ideas or whatever you want to share about them, pretty please?
Eliza is younger than Alexander and is closer in age to William and Violet, so as a child she was closer to them. When she was younger she had always been amused by William's naughtiness and sense of humour and Mr and Mrs Crabtree believed their granddaughter had a fancy for the youngest of Benedict and Sophie's boys. Eliza, not really understanding what a fancy meant, went along and accepted her grandparents' supposition though it wouldn't be until she was a bit older that she fully understood the implication. She had questioned her feelings for William, if she truly admired him in a fanciful and romantic fashion, but it didn't take long for her to acknowledge that as much as she liked William, she saw him merely as a brotherly figure and nothing more.
And upon reflection of who she might hold in her affections, she quickly recognised that the person who she secretly admired was William's older brother, Alexander. All of the Bridgerton boys were good-natured, good-humoured, and good-looking; but there was just something about Alexander that sent Eliza's young heart into a flutter. Perhaps it was because he was considerably quieter than his brothers (when he wasn't play-fighting with them) and enjoyed the peaceful respite of spending hours working on his art, maybe it was his quick wit that he used against his brothers or to amuse his mother, or perhaps it was the way he smiled at Eliza in greeting and acknowledgement; whatever it was, seeing Alexander at My Cottage would make Eliza's entire day.
Whenever Eliza quietly sat with him as they worked on their watercolours, she felt too shy to say much to him for several reasons. He was just that bit older, he was of higher birth than her, and more importantly she didn't quite know what to say to someone she fancied. In spite of her nerves, the pair wouldn't sit in awkward silence but a companionable one. Alexander would speak up every now then, whether to advise her on her painting or ask if she wanted a new brush or perhaps a glass of lemonade and Eliza was just about competent enough not to get flustered and accept whatever it was he attentively offered her.
But a moment with Alexander that stood out most to her happened one afternoon before she was due to return home with her grandparents. Mrs Crabtree had poked her head around the door to her master's studio, informing Eliza they'd be leaving in ten minutes and to get ready. As she had been tidying up after herself, she ground to a halt when Alexander suddenly posed her with a question. "What do you like to be called?" It had stumped Eliza and she looked at him in bewilderment. "Pardon?" she had squeaked. "What name do you like to be called?" he reiterated and shot her an inquisitive look, as if he really wanted to know. She had always been affectionately known as Eliza by her grandparents and as a result the household of My Cottage also called her Eliza. But having been born Elizabeth meant that she could be called a whole host of alternate names. To her parents she was Betty, and to her older sister Tabitha she was Bessie. Mrs Warner from the haberdashery in the village called her Beth (there were several other Elizabeths in the area, and each one she had given an alternate diminutive to differentiate between them) and some of the children in her neighbourhood called her Liza. She went by so many different names but never had anyone ever actually asked her what she preferred to be called. "I don't know." she had replied in all honesty. "Well if you could pick, what name would you want others to call you by?" Alexander had asked gently. She had thought on it for a couple of moments, during which Alexander continued dabbing at his artwork, allowing her the time to consider the question. "Lizzie." she uttered and Alexander lifted his attention up from his watercolours. "I think I like the name Lizzie." she said. It made her think of an older girl in the village, Elizabeth Hayes, who was a noted beauty with the most radiant smile and who was well loved for her compassion and kindness. She was most commonly known as Lizzie, and Eliza thought if there were anybody she could hope and aspire to grow up to resemble, it would be her. "You think you like Lizzie?" Alexander had asked. She had shrugged in response. "I like the name. I just... I don't know if I look like a Lizzie. If Lizzie suits me." she admitted doubtfully as it occurred to her that wishful thinking alone wouldn't make her transform into Lizzie Hayes when she grew up. "I think Lizzie suits you." Alexander said. "Really? You think so?" she asked. "I do. You smile like a Lizzie." And she couldn't help the smile that then proceeded to light up her face in response, nor the blush that coloured her cheeks as she hung on the fact that Alexander Bridgerton had apparently noticed her smile. "Would you like me to call you Lizzie?" he asked her. "Yes." she had beamed at him. "Yes, please." And from then on he'd always greet her and bid her farewell using her preferred name - and it never once occurred to Alexander that nobody else called her Lizzie but him.
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