#Georgian men

[dadsinsuits]

Ilia Darchiashvili

[blueyellow8green]

You know what absolutely fucks about Austen? Being some little old ladies companion. I just can imagine me and my grandmother waltzing the countryside, chatting shit, I read to her due to her bad eye sight and play the harpsichord or something. People ask when I will marry and my grandmother beats them off with a stick because I'm Her Companion and will not leave her for some Man.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Stock collar, 1830s.

[llendrinall]

Love all the Pride and Prejudice adaptations, but I wish there were more North and South ones because if you like Elizabeth's vexation at Mr Darcy when he proposes, you should see Margaret's when Mr Thornton says they must marry because her love for him is obvious and public and she answers, well, forgive me for not letting you be murdered, but I don't even like you.

Because that's his thinking. Oh, this woman stopped me from being stoned to death by a mob, she must be in love with me. What other reason would anyone have to save someone's life.

[happypuppypuppy]

🇬🇪 Giorgi Chkhikvadze, georgian wrestler of 72Kg & 22yo (credits to United World Wrestling & Kostadin Andonov)

[dance-world]

Levan Gelbakhiani and Bachi Valishvili - And Then We Danced

[thesixthduke]

[daguerreotyping]

Aquatint of well-heeled bad boys Tom & Bob "Catching a Charley Napping" from Real Life in London; or, the Rambles of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his Cousin the Hon. Tom Dashall &c. through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life by an Amateur, illustrated by by Messrs Heath, Aiken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson, &c.

This was a knockoff publication plagiarizing characters from the hugely popular Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan, illustrated by George and Robert Cruikshank, 1821.

See above the frontispiece from the 1823 edition of Egan's Life in London and the corresponding Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, 1871 edition (originally published 1829). And check out the cheery row of dancing grim reaper charleys—night watchmen—at the bottom, having got the last laugh after all.

I could not find Life in London available to read online, but Gutenberg has Real Life in London (1905 edition, confusingly attributed to both Egan and the wonderfully named John Badcock—though Gutenberg notes that the actual authorship is uncertain).

I leave you with "Jerry's admiration of Tom in an 'Assault' with Mr. O'Shaunessy, at the Rooms in St James's St."

[principiumindividuationis777]

[coochiequeens]

Surrogacy exploits women and result in babies being trafficked

Greek police dismantle network exploiting surrogate mothers

17-08-2023

Four newborn children have been taken care of, but their future is unknown. Photo AFP, Nikolay Doychinov

Southern Europe

The Greek authorities dismantled a network allegedly exploiting women as surrogate mothers and egg donors. The clinic involved says it only wants to "help people."

Since December last year, Greek police documented 182 incidents in which women were exploited as surrogate mothers or egg donors. Eight suspects were arrested on Tuesday morning, 8 August, in a nationwide operation that focused on a fertility clinic on the Greek island of Crete. According to the authorities, the suspects were guilty of human trafficking and exploitation. While four have been released on conditions, the other four remain detained for the time being.

The suspects held leadership positions at the clinic in question. According to the authorities, others actively recruited "vulnerable foreign women" to donate eggs and make their wombs available for surrogacy. In some cases, eggs were harvested first, after which the women became surrogate mothers. Thirty of them were found pregnant in squalid living conditions.

According to the police, the clients come from all over the world, including heterosexual couples, gay couples and single men. They would spend between 70,000 and 100,000 euros for a child. According to the authorities, the profit would be around 70 per cent of the amount. Greek daily Ta Nea reports that surrogate mothers received about 300 to 600 euros monthly. "We needed money", they argue, saying that they had not realized the seriousness of the situation and the dangers they were putting themselves in.

Birth

According to the local news website cretalive.gr, four Georgian surrogate mothers recently gave birth to children. They are now in the neonatal ward of a hospital in Chania. A fifth birth is expected shortly.

Wish parents, meanwhile, are panicking. News channel Alpha TV reports that several parents are trying to force DNA tests through the courts to see if any of the four children is theirs. Permission for a test has now been granted; another is expected later this week. Other foreign parents have already arrived in Crete to seek redress at the clinic.

Story

Meanwhile, the suspects stubbornly maintain that they only want to help people. The lawyer of the clinic's founder, a 73-year-old man, tells Ta Nea that his client is "convinced that the real story will come out soon. It will be different from what is circulating in the media now."

However, the Greek Health Ministry is not waiting for that investigation. Michalis Chrysochoidis, the health minister, fired the President of the National Authority for Assisted Reproduction. He oversees all assisted reproduction facilities in Greece and approves licences.

Trafficking

This is not the first time Greek authorities have tracked down a network using children as commodities for profit. For example, Ta Nea wrote about similar practices in 2019. According to Greekreporter.com, the Greek government has stepped up its efforts to combat human trafficking in the country in recent years.

Greece is one of the few countries that have regulated surrogacy. Altruistic deals are allowed if the surrogate mother does not receive more compensation than about 12,000 euros. Heterosexual couples and single women are eligible for this practice. Since 2014, it has also been possible for foreign couples to enter a route.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Doodles I did while watching Pride and Predjudice 1995 with my roommates of very silly self indulgent Second Gen story ( soley made really to drive Mr Darcy to distraction)

George Wickham Jr. is invited to Christmas at Pemberly because Wickham and Lydia are basically on the run from their creditors again and Lizzie isn't about to let her nephew starve on the streets during winter no matter the relations between the parents.

And turns out to be a good thing they did as all the little Bennett cousins go out to skate on the frozen lake and young Silas Darcy falls through the ice, and George being the oldest and strongest manages to save him.

The boys recuperate together during the rest of the holidays and become fast friends--much to the concern of Mr Darcy--and that friend continues into their adult years where it starts to turn into something more...

(I know they're cousins they're also fictional and adults and it was legal then-- even if not for necessarily this circumstance--and they're gay they ain't having any bio kids anyway )

[tricornonthecob]

James Hiller wardrobe rework

I looked at the first wardrobe set I noodled on and hated it so much I remade it. I may have gotten carried away.

Was it also an excuse to draw a slutty 18th-century shirt on adult!James? Always

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Portrait of Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, husband of Marie Adelaide, 1700.

[fashion-plates]

La Mode, 1830

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[happypuppypuppy]

🇬🇪 Givi Macharashvili in action! (Credits to UWW)

[dance-world]

Levan Gelbakhiani in the Film And Then We Danced