#( featuring — renee. )

[mirefireflies]

everything I’ve ever written has been about you

@peaceful-poetry / water lilies — claude monet / this is how you lose the time war — amal el-mortar and max gladstone / vanishing interior — suzanne buffam / water lilies — claude monet / and then i tried — rene ricard / i’m writing another poem about you — mira lightner / water lilies — claude monet

[dramaticlacrosse10]

the good, the bad and the gorgeous

[aurorangen]

Knowing Leif Pollock, the famous artist, was here, Nancy could not miss the opportunity to serve her esteemed guest. "Hello hello!!! It's an honour to have you dine with us again Leif and Daphne! And your wonderful guests today," Nancy beamed at everyone and then made introductions with her new visitors.

Soon after, the table was making amiable chatter with the head chef, with Bryce in particular, relishing his surrounding atmosphere. "This place is beautiful chef! How long have you been running the restaurant?"

"Thank you so much! Oh not long actually, it's only been a month," Nancy recalled. "My fiancé's parents recently retired and have passed down the restaurant to us. We had plans to locate in Tartosa and start a business there, but we decided to stay here. To continue our legacy."

Nancy looked around the dining area, enthralled by yet another magical evening due to her supervision. Castillons was where she embarked on her journey as a professional chef after graduating from culinary school. And now she is its proud owner along with her love, Hugo. "It's my dream come true to own a restaurant…and this place, it's quite special to me."

After recommending some specialties for dessert, Nancy wished the party a pleasant night and returned to the kitchen.

Note: IT'S NANCY'S RESTAURANT!! 🤭 Did you see this coming? I thought it would be a clue to say Bistro here, which you could link to Hugo as he is French. The lore is that Castillons is a bistro (first opened by Hugo's grandfather) turned restaurant by his parents! But this post was the first thing I thought of once completing the backstory (we got there in the end). I was like I need to introduce Nancy's restaurant in some way and what better opportunity than this ☺️ It was Nancy's dream to open/run a restaurant, so I wanted to make this a special place by building it myself. It took a while because I hadn't done the interior and lately, I keep on having a lack of motivation. I have so many ideas, just no mood or inspo to play. (I kept forcing myself to make the post or scroll simblr but it always tired me out, making me unproductive. But I gave it time and inspo came itself.)

[advluv4life]

I restarted The King's Men for the second time this week and this moment is always one of my favorites it always takes me back to this moment:

His staunch defense of Allison in The King's Men always makes me happy. Don't get me wrong, I would be the girl crying on the court over a banner. I would definitely be crying (I know, because I tear up just imagining it) but she is literally so strong.

God, I love Neil Josten.

All the women in this series are so strong in many different ways and I cannot help but admire that and I'm so happy Neil acknowledges that, repeatedly. And he doesn't just acknowledge one type of strength either and I adore him for it.

And just the thoughts of comparing Allison and Neil's grief over Seth and his mom and how it's just so unfair that they lost them and the reason why they did and just their relationship and how much progress it's made and how much progress it will make through the rest of the book/series... UGH my hearttttt 😭

[brinacarpcnter]

𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬 → 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐞.

sabrina: missing u bunches rn, my love | @rrcpp

[diegothemenace]

(source)

[scooterscoob]

Hera and Minkowski hanging out!

Girl talk :)

[lesbianspeedy]

hahaha again! hahaha again! hahaha! arrowfam tiktoks again!

[rickchung]

Seeking Mavis Beacon (dir. Jazmin Jones) x DOXA 2024. (via The Independent)

Two women investigate the disappearance of the iconic real-life model behind the popular 1980s educational software while raising pertinent issues concerning our relationship to technology. Jones and her friend, Carribean-American video artist Olivia McKayla Ross, create their own portrait of their image of "Mavis Beacon" while blending the facts they uncover with their own fictional interpretations. Their exercise feels like an experimental detour interrogating our cultural fascinations (like true crime or conspiratorial fare) as they figure out who Renee L��Esperance, a Haitian immigrant model, perfume saleswoman, and the face behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, really is and why she vanished from public life entirely.

Screening as part of the 2024 DOXA Documentary Film Festival at The Cinematheque on May 12.

[tbartss]

my drowned rat son<3

am i the only one who imagines him with an undercut and sharp cheekbones? ok then

[verysmallcyborg]

fornax loves this funky little minion, and she happily bleps back at it

[amaclucky13]

Xena Warrior Princess: The Execution - Review

Xena is basically a cat pretending to hate affection but secretly loving it!

Meleager the Mighty has returned to… be executed? What the…? Also, I just want to mention it, because it’s bothering me, but the math isn’t mathing to make the episode murder occur in the right time. Because Xena said that Gabrielle was at the Bard Academy when it happened. But!!!! Gabrielle hadn’t met Meleager yet. So it would make perfect sense that he wasn’t sober yet. He hadn’t met the…

[a-simple-imagine]

please can you all stop tagging your regina or reneé fics as janis ‘imi’ike or any other auli’i character. she already gets less fics and it’s driving me crazy

[nonhapiupareti]

René Daumal, portrait by Joseph Sima "L'énigme de la face", Galerie J. Povolozki 22 Nov 13 Déc 1930, 13 rue Bonaparte, Paris

René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Roger Vailland et Robert Meyrat : Le Grand Jeu

http://www.barapoemes.net/archives/2019/07/05/37478923. html

https://www.en-attendant-nadeau. fr/2021/12/28/ascensions-initiatiques-daumal/

[graphicpolicy]

The 5 Best Comics Set in Ancient Rome

The 5 Best Comics Set in Ancient Rome #comics #comicbooks #gladiator #gladiator2

With the long-awaited release of Gladiator II this week coupled with the continued decline of a current empire, ancient Rome is back in the cultural conversation. (Plus there was the whole “your Roman empire” TikTok phenomenon in 2023.) There have been many successful films, TV shows (Spartacus is my personal fave.), and video games about an empire that had such an impact on human civilization…

[cassynite]

Sparrow Happy AU please? I'm so simple ;3

Aaaah thank you so much Arrow!! Sparrow Happy AU is so fun <3

This story details an adventure in Mendev featuring Passerene Cygnarus, a young woman who used to be called Sparrow in her youth and who was never captured by slavers. She grew up with her brother Isore in Dehrukani, before Isore finally started his years-long ambition of carving footholds in positions of power to help steer the general cultural and sociopolitical atmosphere of Avistan as a whole. Big plans, and Rene is mildly wary of the fact that her brother has major Evil Guy vibes, but he's her brother and she owes him for the years he sacrificed raising her, so she plays assistant.

Their latest project is to help rebuild a "fuck you mansion" for one Count Daeran Arendae, after his home was destroyed in the demon attack on Kenabres. He was briefly conscripted to the Crusade, before the newly minted knight commander booted him out, so now he's lavishing in Kenabres employing architects to build him a new home.

The story mainly follows Rene following a long an adapted version of Daeran's companion quest, where she figures out he's got a head full of ghosts, befriends him (and maybe more) and saves him anyway <3

See a snippet below the cut!

"And after?" The count gives an elegant shrug. "It was good fun while it lasted, but camping in the cold rain in the armpit of the Worldwound? I can spend my time better in a privy." Rene had done her research on the count long before they accepted the commission, and knows that he's not quite telling the truth. He had been in Kenabres during the demon attack that had incited the current Crusade, though whether he actually helped or not isn't verified. What is verified is that his honorable cousin, Queen Galfrey of Mendev, appointed him to the Crusade as an attache to the newly minted Knight Commander, possibly in response to the alleged heroic actions he took in Kenabres. It didn't matter either way why she did it, because the brand new leader of her armies took one look at Count Arendae and informed him his services were not welcome. Rene winces just thinking about it, the slight and all it implied. Though looking at him now, she understands why a military commander decided against dragging him on a campaign to retake the lost city of Drezen. The young noble hardly seems like the kind of man who would stand mud up his trousers or sleeping on hard ground for weeks at a time. The embarrassment of the rejection might not sting so much when the kind of job he was turned down for was trying to fend off the encroaching demon scourge. But it might also be why he's building this fuck-you mansion to begin with--it would be a way to distract from the recent shame by pointing attention to some new outrageous thing, and also make it clear that the social stumble was not something that bothers Count Arendae one bit.

And a second one, mainly because i like this one a lot but it feels too short to put on its own:

"That was the most haunted man I've ever met in my life." Isore gives her a placid stare. "I found him rather irreverent, personally." Rene snorts. "Come off it, you know what I meant. That man's got a ghost, or a curse, or both. You could feel its fingers on your neck." "And it likely will not kill him until after we are finished building his ridiculous house. Let it go, Passerene. He is not our concern." Isore always had the final say on such things, but then he usually is the one who points them out. "Isn't it strange though? Aren't you the least bit curious?"