#sara crew

[storyofmorewhoa]

There's a law I understand Against kissing in this land.

A Little Princess (1939) directed by Walter Lang

#the little princess #shirley temple #shirley temple black #arthur treacher #sara crew #cesar romero #ram dass #mary nash #walter lang #anita louise #richard greene

[gotholsentwin]

me if you even care

#a little princess #sara crewe #frances hodgson burnett #1900s #edwardian #victorian #victorian era #victorian fashion #childrens books #dolls #doll #dollette #porcelain doll #vintage dolls #vintage #literature #children’s literature #dollcore

[merciganimard]

Sara from A Little Princess was the patron saint of weird little girls. Passionately telling stories about her special interest the French Revolution and Princess de Lamballe getting her head cut off and carried on a pike

#sara crewe #a little princess #not to be like 'shes just like me fr' but she's just like me fr. there's a reason i felt a kinship with sara #intense little girl using books and imagination to get her through stuff #it's been years since i've read that book but i remember the head on a pike story VERY well #just one of those things that stuck #love that when you're a child you're reading stuff like that and you're just like. ah yes of course. this is regular #but as an adult i'm a bit like ??? #also was there an anime based on the novel? must investigate sometime because i'm pretty sure i used to watch it back in the day

[legends-of-and-juliet]

With OFMD getting axed at HBO, it is time for me to write my HYPER- SPECIFIC list of how Our Flag Means Death and Legends of Tomorrow are actually the same show and NO ONE IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO ADMIT IT. I love both of these shows with my whole heart and I have been working on this list for months. It’s such a hyper fixation I made a little design for it. and a meme

#renew our flag means death #ofmd #renew as a crew #our flag means death #dc legends of tomorrow #legends of tomorrow #avalance #ava sharpe #sara lance #save our flag means death #save ofmd #I’m so serious I will break out my laptop and write the whole thing out #two nickels #co captains

[lemaldusiecle]

Actors from A Little Princess : 1995 vs 2023.

#a little princess #sara crewe #becky #Liesel Matthews #Vanessa Lee Chester #Eleanor Bron #Liam Cunningham #Miss Minchin #Captain Crewe #1990s

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

feminism in princess form

#princess mononoke #barbie #sofia the first #disney princesses #madoka magica #a little princess #sea prince and the fire child #malta #san princess mononoke #princess annika #princess anneliese #princess sofia #princess eilonwy #princess ivy #sara crewe #madoka kaname #madoka is a god therefore qualifies for this list fuck you

[iweon]

A Little Princess (Sara and Ram Dass).

Up: A scene from the film in 1995.

Down: Illustration from Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888)

#A Little Princess #frances hodgson burnett #magic #meeting #sara crewe #ram dass #imagination

[zoevint]

MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIENDS!!!!

~ The Penniless Princess 🥺 oh to be adopted by a British asparagus

#it happens! #very cute book too #the penniless princess #a little princess #veggietales #veggietales art #archibald asparagus #sara crewe #Mr carrisford #cartoonist #artist

[runawaycarouselhorse]

“As to answering,” she used to say, “I don't answer very often. I never answer when I can help it. When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word—just to look at them and think. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it. Miss Amelia looks frightened, so do the girls. They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do. Perhaps Emily is more like me than I am like myself. Perhaps she would rather not answer her friends, even. She keeps it all in her heart.”

#Sara Crewe: What Happened at Miss Minchin's #Frances Hodgson Burnett #anger #A Little Princess #earlier version of it #quotations #verbal abuse

[triviareads]

Can you recommend any books where they get right into the sex?

Either historical or contemporary

Sure! I'm all for an instant gratification moment (and for the purpose of this ask I stuck to early sex scenes between the main couple because there's a decent amount of het romances out there that begin with the hero and another woman..... though predictably not many with the heroine having good sex with another man :/).

Contemporary:

Minx by Sophie Lark: There's some fabulous, very hot sex (and pet play) a few chapters in, after Blake agrees to take on Ramses as a client. And once the ball gets rolling, it really doesn't stop.... and only gets better from there.

Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez: Roxanne basically *mounts* Mateo (if there's one thing Angelina loves, it's a mounting moment) right after their agreement that she'll get her pregnant in exchange for money is finalized. It's very.... economical and Mateo hates it, but gets off on it. He's soooooo conflicted and I personally loved that.

After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez: The other mounting moment sex scene; Alex hops on Jeremiah literally two minutes after arriving in the dead of the night at her family's bar. It's honestly made hotter because Angelina writes a (kinda hilarious) premature ejaculation coupled with Alex getting off after. It works and I'm all for it.

Sherwood by Sierra Simone: Such an underrated book imo; the prologue has our "Robin Hood" (she's a woman here) about to be deployed, and "Maid Marian" tries to dissuade her by eating her out. Very emotional, very hot.

Asking for Trouble by Tessa Bailey: An early face-sitting scene after she's cuffed him in her foyer. Brent puts his "middle-class mouth" to gooood use.

Scorching to the Touch by Ofelia Martinez: There's hate sex about two chapters in; Erica makes Friedrich eat her out in the bathroom of an event and when he whips out his dick and is all "what am I supposed to do with this?", she points to a stall. Honestly, a winner.

The Risk by Caitlin Crews: She's a ballerina pretending to be a stripper-escort who gets her fantasy of being "bought" fulfilled and she and her billionaire have sex pretty much right after.

Crashed Out by Tessa Bailey: Like a couple chapters in, Jasmine sees Sarge's dick and books it to her car and tries to get off, but then Sarge catches her and lends a helping hand all while asserting he's a Grown Man now.

Desperate Measures by Katee Robert: Jafar kills Jasmine's mob boss father in the beginning and within the next chapter, there's a CNC scene where he chasing her down while she pretends she doesn't want it.

Give Me More by Sara Cate: Sara immediately sets up the throuple by having the married couple, Hunter and Isabel, have anniversary sex while listening to their friend Drake have sex with two other women, with Drake also getting off while listening to Hunter and Isabel.

Historical:

The Bride Goes Rogue by Joanna Shupe: A fabulous anonymous encounter with neither Preston nor Katherine realizing who the other person is (right after Preston rejected his arranged betrothal to Kat) and they're pretending to be Louis XV and Madame Pompadour while they get each other off at a French Ball.

Her Husband's Harlot by Grace Callaway: The book starts with Helena following her husband to a brothel disguised as a prostitute, and Nicholas fully doesn't recognize her when he (successfully) has sex with her for the first time.

Passion by Lisa Valdez: An erotic romance; the literal first lines describe Mark groping Passion during the Great Exhibition, and he has her "pinned to the wall like a butterfly" within the next few pages.

The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan: Charlotte is (allegedly) under the influence of an aphrodisiac when she mounts Kingston (can you tell I have a thing for this) in the library in the middle of the night, dry humps him, and runs away. Unironically one of my favorite Sophie Jordan sex scenes.

The Rake Gets Ravished by Sophie Jordan: The story begins with Mercy breaking into Silas's bedroom to retrieve the deed to her family home, and when Silas finds her, she seduces him and fucks him into such a deep sleep that when he awakes, all he's left with is an apology note and her *virgin blood* on the sheets.

#book recs #sophie lark #angelina m lopez #sierra simone #tessa bailey #katee robert #sara cate #ofelia martinez #caitlin crews #sophie jordan #lisa valdez #grace callaway #joanna shupe #historical romance #contemporary romance #romance novels #ask

[storyofmorewhoa]

Your face is most familiar. Were you ever on the stage? I seem to associate you with one of the old music halls.

Arthur Treacher as Hubert "Bertie" Minchin The Little Princess (1939)

#arthur treacher #the little princess #shirley temple #sara crew #hubert minchin #bertie minchin #in younger and happier days #bobbling bertie #i'm pretty sure this role was written for him #he's so endearing #mary nash #cesar romero #ram dass #ian hunter #arthur treacher is 90% of the reason i can get through this movie #knocked 'em in the old kent road #wot cher #the racism and colonialism in this movie...

[autumnrose11]

I brushed through A Little Princess today.

It was one of my favourite books when I was younger, and I still quite adore it! I took it down from my bookshelf today and skimmed over it. It was lovely to meet them all again because I’d forgotten the little things, like Melchisedec the rat, Ermengarde, and Lottie. It has been a while since I last read it, and I noticed so many things I didn’t before!

One of the more heartbreaking moments is Sara finding out her papa is dead on her BIRTHDAY. Imagine the pain of an eleven-year-old having to deal with her world turned upside down and losing the only family she has left on her birthday :(

Much as I hate to say it, some parts of the book are a tad racist, although I suppose it’s reflective of the time period in which the book was written (1905).

  “It’s a’ Nindian gentleman that’s comin’ to live next door, miss,” she said. [...] He worships idols, miss. He’s an ’eathen an’ bows down to wood an’ stone. I seen a’ idol bein’ carried in for him to worship. Somebody had oughter send him a trac’. You can get a trac’ for a penny.”

Sara is really good with languages (she is shown to be multilingual), which is a trait I adore because I love learning languages too! She speaks both French and Hindi, and it shows up in two very different situations in the book. One to Monsieur Dufarge, the French teacher, and the other to Ram Dass, the Indian servant. The descriptions of both men’s reactions to hear a child speaking their respective languages are strikingly similar.

“Monsieur Dufarge began to smile, and his smile was one of great pleasure. To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land - which in dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed worlds away.”

“She thought she had never seen more surprise and delight than the dark face expressed when she spoke in the familiar tongue. The truth was that the poor fellow felt as if his gods had intervened, and the kind little voice came from heaven itself.”

As someone who speaks passable Hindi and is currently studying French, this is so sweet and touching! To be in a foreign land and feeling like an outsider, hearing someone speak the same language as you must be so inexpressibly comforting, like you have a comrade and a friend.

Miss Minchin is literally abusive and has a heart of stone. She puts Sara through hell. She also shows severe insecurity and covers it up with projecting her feelings of inadequacy (on a 7 year old!) The scene in Chapter 2 where she concludes that Sara does not know French is especially telling.

“One of Miss Minchin’s chief secret annoyances was that she did not speak French herself, and was desirous of concealing the irritating fact. She, therefore, had no intention of discussing the matter and laying herself open to questioning by a new little pupil.”

I have met quite a few adults like this, who are in the wrong and know it, and unwilling to admit it. They are nice and willing to praise kids and make them their golden child as long as things are going well. The second they are contradicted or called out in the slightest, they turn NASTY. So Miss Minchin, horrid as she is, is written very realistically. Excellent characterisation, and I always like reading the bit where she gets her comeuppance at the end.

My absolutely favourite passage in the book is:

“If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. There was Marie Antoinette when she was in prison and her throne was gone and she had only a black gown on, and her hair was white, and they insulted her and called her Widow Capet. She was a great deal more like a queen then than when she was so gay and everything was so grand. I like her best then. The howling mobs of people did not frighten her. She was stronger than they were, even when they cut her head off.”

This is off topic, but I read this book right around the time we were learning about the French Revolution in school. So I’d come across Marie Antoinette, but she was portrayed in a very negative light in my history textbook, with the infamous quote: “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake.” So my initial notion of her jarred completely with what I read here. And that was how I ended up reading and researching more about Marie Antoinette, and got to know that she was an Austrian princess married off very young to a French prince, and mocked for her foreignness. She had several miscarriages and fertility struggles, and she loved kids and adopted a few! True, she did spend rather extravagantly, but she was not quite the villain I took her for. That’s when I realised that history textbooks, more often than not, show only one side of the story.

#A Little Princess #Sara Crewe #Miss Minchin #Frances Hogsdon Burnett #Books

[thebarroomortheboy]

"I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."

THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939) | dir. Walter Lang and William A. Seiter

#the little princess #a little princess #walter lang #william a. seiter #classic film source #filmgifs #old hollywood #filmblr #classicfilmblr #classicfilmedit #shirley temple #ian hunter #1930's cinema #circa 1939 #1939 films #sara crewe #captain crewe #captain ralph crewe #period drama #drama edit #father and daughter film

[adobongsiopao]

Some official artworks from "Princess Sara" anime LD Box edition covers Part One.

#a little princess #princess sara #princess sarah #a little princess 1985 #shokojo sara #frances hodgson burnett #sarah crewe #anime

[lemaldusiecle]

Autumn in A Little Princess (1995) 🍂🍁

#a little princess #sara crewe #1995 #liesel matthews

[july-19th-club]

s2 spn said ultimately the film industry is silly and stupid and insincere BUT we have a lot of fun here and there's something charming and real under the surface of all the unreality. when we walk off into the sunset the sunset is fake but the feeling is still pretty damn good

s6 spn said ultimately film and tv industry is bullshit! and only assholes and idiots work here and if they all got sliced to ribbons or made fun of in real life we could not care less. if the author is dead, and the performers are nothing, then why are any of us still here???

#and then they went on to continue to be there . for another nine years. ONLY show #but the VERY funniest spn meta episode is actually the episode of legends of tomorrow where they inexplicably cut through the spn set #on their way to whatever its they're doing. specifically for sara to engage in a bit of light deancoded deangirlism (which i love for her) #and for them to make the joke that the entire cast and crew have been killed by the monster so...who's filming the finale? #spn #q #sara we would also like to know that