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ablogformyart · 6 months

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jewelry: bracelets ↳ all time low's full-length albums (oct 2023)

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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According to the mid-century florist Constance Spry, by midday on the date of your party you should have turned “the contents of two tins of turtle soup into a pan”, added a glassful of dry sherry and left it “ready for reheating”.

Your main course, Spry wrote in her 1961 entertainment manual Hostess, sauté of beef with button mushrooms and jellied stock, should be ready. The pancakes for your crêpes pralinées must be “spread out” primed to be baked, smothered with praline butter and rolled “in the shape of a cigar”.

You must have trimmed your flowers to below eye level and shined the silver. The sherry glasses should be polished and ready to quench the thirst of the turtle-soup eaters.

The resulting evening would, in theory, have had the shape and appearance of a dinner in one of England’s finest country houses at the time Spry was writing the book. But rather than taking “a thirty-six person staff” — as it would have in the 1930s, according to butler and writer Arthur Inch’s own handbook, Dinner is Served (2003), this meal could be prepared and served entirely by a lone woman. (There is no suggestion that a man attempt it.)

The years following the second world war saw a slew of such hosting guides, each promising to unlock the secrets to gracious party-throwing. Done right, they tantalise. A party can unlock access to a new milieu and even advance your career. Do parties today still carry the kind of social weight they did back then, or even at the tail-end of the 1990s when another author, Sally Quinn, who was married to the then Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, irreverently dissected Washington’s glitzy social scene? And is there anything we can still learn from these doyennes of entertaining?

The party scene has certainly evolved for women. In Dinner is Served, which draws on Inch’s lifetime experience as a butler serving Churchill and the Queen Mother, and, later, as technical adviser on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2010), he notes that not only were ladies seated for dinner first but that, in the name of chivalry, ladies should actually already be seated “before the men enter the room”.

[Financial Times :: via Scott Horton]

#dinner party #Scott Horton #fine dining #parties #history #social secrets #food #recipes #entertaining #dinner #style #party #the party scene #setting the table

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fragglez · 4 months

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the bloopers from 10 things I hate about you made me realise there's no music when they film dancing scenes

#the party scene #just everybody 💃🕺💃🕺 in complete silence #other than two people talking

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ikyw-t · 7 months

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If no one's got me, I know this album's got me. If there are 100 fans of this album, I am among them. If there are 0 fans of this album, I am no longer on this earth. If the world is against this album, I am against the world.

#helloooooooo thats the best album ever everrrrrrrrrr #atl #the party scene #the party scene my beloved

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magicomens · 3 months

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How to make Merlin's fight or flight instinct kick in

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#bbc merlin #good omens #magic omens au #aziraphale #merlin #comic #art #aziracrow #merthur #talking about boys at slumber parties is for girls #talking about boys while you're going to talk to a dragon is for [REDACTED]#also yall I didn't make up Merlin's outfit it's what he wears in the final scene!!

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queerdraws · 2 months

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Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)

#zolu #luzo #one piece #comic #i love this fic i love this fic AAUUGHH!!!!#this scene exploded my heart #okay so artist note luffy only has forehead bandages in SOME panels in his post-raid outfit #he doesn't at the post-raid party itself but he does on the hillside spectating the momo / marine guy fight #so i guess he just got a knock on the head at the party or something??#his cheek bandage also switches sides between when he's recovering post-raid and the party #u never realize how impressionistic oda is w detail stuff until u gotta place patterns on clothing n bandages on boys #anyways very happy w how page 4 turned out #luffys autism stare n big big smile

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blossoms-and-possums · 4 months

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i had an epiphany

#this is exactly how that scene went right ?#percy jackson #possum’s pjo party

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slumpsnail · 22 days

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Orin as Gale. Tim Downie did not have to go so hard with the lines but he did.

I thought of not posting this here quite yet because I want to do a full color on it, but I'm balancing other work right now so please accept this BW sketch in the mean time.

Inspired by clip posted by Jack @ / ohwonderboy_ on twitter.

#gale bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #my art #wip #never seen this scene before #because gale is always in my party lol #but the scene is so incredible

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talkfastromance4 · 1 year

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Uma Thurman as poison ivy was my sexual awakening

#iykyk #the party scene

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bred-crumbs · 2 years

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I’ve been thinking about this for hours now

#‘four tooth brushes wife is about to enter a mode of party that has never been seen before industrial amounts of toilet paper’#‘shes about to hit the dating scene and it is about to hit the floor’

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eyes-are-mosaicss · 4 months

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goodbye 2013…

hello 2014 !!

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dropoutdottv · 4 months

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It’s a big week over on Dropout - maybe our biggest ever. On Monday, Fantasy High Junior Year BTS with Lou Wilson AND Breaking News (”True Facts About Grant Anthony O’Brien Part 3″); on Tuesday, Fantasy High Junior Year BTS with Brennan Lee Mulligan AND an extended Dirty Laundry cocktail recipe (”Dark & Stormy”); on Wednesday, our first official Dimension 20 music video (”Teenage Rebellion” - Sarah Barrios) AND the PREMIERE EPISODE of Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year; on Thursday, the 1st Adventuring Party for Fantasy High ever, and on Friday, a new Very Important People featuring guest star Lisa Gilroy. Get ready, folks.

#dropout #schedule #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #behind the scenes #don't laugh news #grant o'brien #sarah barrios #adventuring party #very important people #lisa gilroy

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beif0ngs · 4 months

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LUFFY’S DREAM

Huh? Have I never mentioned this to any of you before...? I guess I only told Shanks, Ace and Sabo then.

#One Piece #opgraphics #Monkey D. Luffy #*mine #NOT ME CRYING THE MOMENT THEY STARTED PLAYING THE WE ARE SOUNDTRACK TO THIS SCENE 😭#ok i'm sure many of us already suspect this more or less #that Luffy's aforementioned dream here is to hold a party of the biggest scale after finding the One Piece and becoming the Pirate King #especially with how almost every arc ends with a banquet/party #and everyone in the entire world is welcome #but i really do hope Oda has something less predictable up his sleeve #although i get that this is very in line with Luffy's character #and the party would hold more meaning to it than it simply being a party #but idk for all this suspense and build up to just lead to one gigantic party seems rather anticlimactic :/

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ikyw-t · 7 months

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in the car after my wisdom teeth surgery, waiting for the pain meds to be ready at walgreens, listening to the party scene album ❤️ album of all time forever ❤️

#❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️#the party scene #atl

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luckyfinn72 · 2 years

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idk how bitches in 2005 survived Party Scene -> Lullabies, this is brutal

#AND HUSTLER KILLS ME EVERY TIME #finn drabbles #all time low #the party scene #circles->interlude >>>>>

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5ummit · 23 days

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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