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the tortured poets department, april 19

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wizarding schools, pt. 2

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With a smile and a song life is just like a bright sunny day♪

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"It is possible that Elizabeth’s cultural influence has been underestimated; the chivalric influence at her husband’s and her son’s court derived from her Burgundian family, and she shared a measure of literary interest with her mother."

Hannah Todd as Elizabeth of York | happy bday @richmond-rex 🤍!!

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WOMEN’S HISTORY † ISABELLE II DE JÉRUSALEM (1212 – 25 April 1228)

Isabelle II de Jérusalem (also called Yolande) was the daughter and only child of Marie de Monteferrat (daughter of Corrado degli Aleramici, marchese del Monferrato and Isabelle Ire de Jérusalem) and Jehan de Brienne. Her mother died shortly after giving birth to her and Isabelle was thus raised by her father in the city of Andria in southern Italy. In 1223, Holy Roman Emperor, Friedrich II agreed to go on Crusade if he was allowed to marry Isabelle and became the new king of Jerusalem. Isabelle and Friederich were married by proxy in August of 1225 and in person on 9 November 1225. Despite having promised to go Crusade, Friederich kept delaying his deperature until Pope Gregorius IX got fed up and excommunciated him. Isabelle was still very young and was kept in seclusion. In 1226, she gave birth to a daughter who died less than a year later. Friederich finally got around to fulfilling his Crusade promise on 8 September 1227 and Isabelle accompanied him. They stopped at Otranto after he fell ill and Isabelle died in childbirth with a son, Konrad, on 25 April 1228. Afterwards, Friederich successfully conquered Jerusalem, much to the Popes’ dismay, and had himself crowned king on 18 March 1229. Konrad’s only child, Konradin, was executed at the age of sixteen on the orders of Charles d'Anjou. He was childless.

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Modern Kida

Designing a modern Kida was an adventure... which ultimately ended with her being dressed as an adventurer. I wanted her to be recognizable so I didn't change a lot of the details, just the clothing. This is a woman who is chasing down archeological sites and possibly enjoyed a number of unnamed 80s movies.

I am the artist!!! Don’t repost without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐧𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 & 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐱𝐞-𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚

During a visit to her maternal relatives at Jugenheim in August 1868, fifteen years old Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna met Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), the second son of Queen Victoria. He was visiting his sister, Princess Alice, who was married to the Grand Duchess’ first cousin. Alfred’s voyage around the world with the Royal Navy kept him away, traveling for the next two years. They saw each other again in 1871. During that summer, Maria and Alfred felt attracted to each other, spending their days walking and talking together. They had a common love of music; Alfred was an enthusiastic amateur violinist, while Maria played the piano. Although they wished to marry, no engagement was announced. Her parents were against the match. Alexander II did not want to lose his daughter, to whom he was deeply attached. The Tsar also objected to a British son-in-law, due to the general anti-English feeling in Russia following the Crimea War. Queen Victoria was also against the match. No British prince had ever married a Romanov, and she foresaw problems with Maria’s Orthodox religion and Russian upbringing. Against all odds, negotiations went under away and the couple eventually became engaged in 1873. The wedding was celebrated in great splendour, at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace on January 1874.

The couple would go on to have five children, including Queen Marie of Romania. With the passing of the years, Alfred and Maria grew apart. They had little in common other than a shared interest in music and their children. He was reserved, taciturn, moody, ill-tempered, and a heavy drinker. The Duke was described as “rude, touchy, willful, unscrupulous, improvident, and unfaithful.” The Duchess resented her husband’s attitude, but kept her marriage going, hiding her troubled married life from her children, providing a happy environment for them. She later confessed to one of her daughters that she felt she was never anything more than her husband’s “legitimate mistress”. She despaired in finding a topic of conversation with her difficult husband as he hated her interest in literature and the theater, while she found his fondness for politics and hunting “dull”. The Duchess was relieved when her husband was away. She wrote to her eldest daughter “if only you knew how easy and comfortable life is without him.”

Maria and Alfred were third cousins once removed. Their closest common ancestor was Duke Charles Louis of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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While I was writing Green Gables my idea of Anne's face was taken from a picture I had cut from a magazine, passe-partouted, and hung on the wall of my room—a photograph of a real girl somewhere in the U.S., but I have no idea who she was or where she lived. I wonder if she ever read of Anne, never dreaming that, physically, she was the original! I lately came across the picture in an old scrap-book and I am putting it here. - L.M. Montgomery's journal entry for November 9, 1934, including the photo of Evelyn Nesbit that served as the original inspiration for Anne.

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Le Moniteur de la Mode

December, 1852 Volume 36, Plate 16 Signed: Jules David; Lamoureux imp.r. st. Jean de Beauvais.12; Réville

Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

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c.s. lewis, 1950

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GET TO KNOW ME ✰ [2/10] Movies ⤷ Frozen II (2019)

"You are lost, hope is gone, but you must go on and do the next right thing."

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The Evermore Grimoire: Celtic Mythology

A kelpie is a water horse spirit that inhabits lochs in Celtic mythology. It is described to look like a horse, but can also take on a human form and is believed to take delight in drowning its victims. In certain stories, it loves the human liver. One of the water-kelpie's common identifying characteristics is that its hooves are reversed as compared to those of a normal horse, a trait also shared by the Nykur of Scandinavian and Icelandic mythology. The creature's nature is either useful, hurtful, or seeking human companionship; in some cases, kelpies take their victims into the water, devour them, and throw the entrails to the water's edge. In its equine form the kelpie is able to extend the length of its back to carry many riders together into the depths; a common theme in the tales is of several children clambering onto the creature's back while one remains on the shore.  Usually a little boy, he then pets the horse but his hand sticks to its neck. In some variations the boy cuts off his fingers or hand to free himself; he survives but the other children are carried off and drowned, with only some of their entrails being found later.

artwork by Helmiruusu

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I didn’t come here to talk silliness about me Rhett. I came because I was so miserable at the thought of you in trouble. Oh, I know I was mad at you the night you left me on the road to Tara - and I still haven’t forgiven you! Well, I must admit I might not be alive now if it weren’t for you. But when I think of myself, with everything I could possibly hope for and not a care in the world, and you here in this horrid jail. And not even a human jail Rhett, a horse jail!

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album moodboards: Speak Now (2010) // Taylor Swift

this night is sparkling, don’t you let it go i’m wonderstruck, blushing all the way home i’ll spend forever wondering if you knew i was enchanted to meet you

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In The Life of Maximilian I, Late Emperor of Mexico (1868),Frederic Hall includes a moving portrayal of the tragic Empress Carlota, born Princess Charlotte of Belgium. She seems to have inherited the intelligence of her father, King Leopold I of the Belgians, the “Nestor of Europe,” combined with the charity and devotion to duty of her mother, Louise-Marie, the “Holy Queen.” Hall includes a touching letter addressed by Carlota to the prefect of Puebla, during her visit to the city on her birthday, June 7, 1864 :

Señor Prefect

It is very pleasing to me to find myself in Puebla, the first anniversary of my birthday which I have passed far from my old country. Such a day is for everybody one of reflection; and these days would be sad for me, if the care, attentions, and proofs of affection, of which I have been the object in this city, did not cause me to recollect that I am in my new country, among my people. Surrounded by friends, and accompanied by my dear husband, I have no time to be sad; and I give thanks to God because he has conducted me here, presenting unto him fervent prayers for the happiness of the country which is mine. United to Mexico long ago by sympathy, I am today united to it by stronger bonds, and at the same time sweeter- those of gratitude. I wish, Señor Prefect, that the poor of this city may participate in the pleasure which I have experienced among you.

I send you seven thousand dollars of my own private funds, which is to be dedicated to the rebuilding of the House of Charity, the ruinous state of which made me feel so sad yesterday: so that the unfortunate ones may return to inhabit it who found themselves deprived of shelter. Señor Prefect, assure my compatriots of Puebla that they possess, and will always possess, my affections.        CARLOTA.

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genre swap: snow white as a gothic horror, requested by anon

the snow is cold, the blood is warm, and snow lives in the crypt with seven ghosts.

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the bonaparte siblings (requested by anon)

"They were not worried about seeming out of place, they did not fear making mistakes or doing something silly; they had no concern for responsibilities; they had a self-confidence that was not even accompanied by a sense of the duties high position entailed. And this self-confidence sustained them despite everything, and so long as their luck held, it made easy for them things that to others seemed simply impossible. […] The audacity to attempt everything, the certainty of succeeding everywhere— in short, all the attributes of genius, except for genius." — Frédéric Masson

J O S E P H's close bond with the Emperor was often tested throughout their political careers, but never broken. He was without question his closest companion but proved to be more successful as a businessman before and after the Empire.

L U C I E N was never offered a crown or a throne, and broke off from the rest of the family as early as the 1800s. He frequently opposed his brothers' views and notably refused to divorce his wife in favor of a diplomatic alliance. Unlike his siblings, his title was bestowed by the Pope.

E L I S A, contrary to her sisters who primarily held consort roles or acted as strawmen, is believed to be the only Bonaparte sister, and only woman, with actual political powers bestowed by the Emperor. She's the only one of the adult siblings to die before him.

L O U I S' frequent conflicts with the Emperor led Napoléon to annex the Kingdom of Holland in 1810, driving him and his family into exile. Louis would go on to become the father of Napoléon III.

Despite a tumultuous relationship, P A U L I N E was considered Napoléon's favorite sister, and proved to be the most loyal of the imperial siblings, liquidating her assets and visiting him in Elba.

Often regarded as the most influential of the Bonaparte sisters, C A R O L I N E was constantly caught in-between her husband and her brother. She was instrumental in the divorce and remarriage of the Emperor. Her political legacy not only didn't survive the fall of the Empire, but effectively predated it through a series of conflicts with her brother.

J E R O M E was the last sibling standing by 1860, and out of them all was the only one to support the Emperor at Waterloo. He would also be the only one to see the re-creation of the Empire and his nephew on the throne.