#antoinette byron

[fitsofgloom]

"While other girls make dates, you make license plates!" I hate schmaltzy sitcoms about giant families and wacky workplaces, but this one is about women in prison. And it's even called "Women In Prison," one of the first series to air on Fox back in 1987. It's a personal dream of mine realized for a whole thirteen episodes. The titular ladies include: a rich ditz framed by her hubby for shoplifting, a bank robber, an abused wife who beat her husband to death with a bat (!), a computer fraudster, and a Cockney-accented working girl. This makes the clink look like summer camp. The inmates have furniture and leopard print bedspreads, everyone wanders through hallways with their cell doors open, and instead of regulation jumpsuits the ladies traipse around in mini-shirts, high heels, midriffs, acid wash denim, spandex, and studded punk cuffs. It's sheer, shameless trash with some really likable players, and I'm guilty, guilty, GUILTY! of digging it.

[duchesssoflennox]

ÉLISABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN 🥺❣️🎨

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was a remarkable woman and a talented painter who lived in a turbulent time.

- élisabeth was painting portraits professionally by her early teens, and became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc at the age of 19.

- She married an art dealer, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, who helped her exhibit her work and gain access to the nobility, but also cheated on her and exploited her financially.

- She was a favourite of Marie Antoinette, and painted more than 30 portraits of the queen and her family, often in informal and intimate settings. She also painted a great number of self-portraits, in the style of various artists whose work she admired.

- She fled France during the Revolution, and travelled across Europe and Russia, painting portraits of royal patrons and influential figures. She was elected to art academies in 10 cities, and was praised by Catherine the Great of Russia.

- She returned to Paris in 1801, but did not like the social life under Napoleon. She moved to London, where she painted portraits of the court and Lord Byron. She also visited Switzerland, where she painted a portrait of Madame de Staël.

- She wrote her memoirs, which provide a lively account of her life and times. She died in Paris in 1842, at the age of 86.

[phantomlover04]

No Trust

Summary: King Byron said many times that he does not let others sway his decisions, but what if the ones closest to him are the reason there is a strain in his relationship with the Princess

Warning: Angst, tears, breakups, bad guys and fluff at the end

The sky was black, and the rain was pouring, Antoinette sighed softly as she looked out the window. She wishes that she didn’t say anything, but she couldn’t keep it in anymore, but he needed to know how they were making her feel, how he chose their point of view instead of hers, how even though he mentions many times he values her input he would never accept them and only took the advice of them. And now because of what was said, she returned the ring and he left, she told everyone that she doesn’t want to be disturbed for any reason, not even for King Ronold.

She couldn’t help but to dream of him and how much she wanted to be back in his arms while she cried herself to sleep. Back in Stein, King Byron was no better, ever since he returned from Wysteria with the ring heavy in his pocket, at first, he didn’t see what she was talking about and few days later he noticed how much Albert was slightly pushing his own agenda and trying to get a new princess for him or how Albert put it a “REAL” princess with TRUE noble blood. Byron didn’t say anything at first until a few days later when Albert and Nico were at it again as always when he suddenly stood up “Enough, now I see what the Princess was talking about, you both have influenced my decisions and especially you Albert, no wonder she didn’t felt at ease here and why she called off the engagement. Nico write to the Princess that and say that I am sorry for what I said to her and would love to see her again.” After that Byron left his office and went to the stables. He took a ride to clear his mind and prayed that Antoinette could forgive him.

It took a few days before she was able to get out of her chambers, Giles was kind enough to listen to her and one of the maids made a cake that her own mother always baked when she was upset. It was a month before a letter came from Spinner, the letter was from Nico that King Byron was sorry for what said and would like to talk to her. Antoinette gave some food and water to Spinner and while he ate, she ripped the letter and put inside a pouch with the necklace she had received from him long ago and she tied the pouch to Spinner’s leg before he flew away. “I do not want to know about anymore personal letters from Stein and Giles. You can take care of the official letters that we receive from them.” With that Antoinette got up from her desk and went back to her room for the rest of the day.

When Nico came back with the ripped letter in a pouch, he understood that it would take some time before the Princess could forgive him but when Nico pulled out the necklace that is when he felt a pain in his heart. Dismissing both of them, he took off his patch and began to cry, whispering to the necklace that he clutched in his hand for his love, his Antoinette to forgive his stupidity. Over time the mood of the Princess changed, once all cheerful to one of somber mood and never with a smile on her face. Even though she was trying to forget him she couldn’t, the love she has for him was too great and the pain of their separation was ever more that she cried herself to sleep every night since the first letter arrived and true to her request, Giles made sure that any letters from King Bryon was swiftly returned unopened. Bryon would see the returned letters, sighed and tried his best to get back to work. 

This is how it went for the next few months and everyone in both kingdoms felt the sadness from both of them and guilt was eating Albert the most that he did the only thing he thought he would never do, ask Nico for help. Nico didn’t say anything because he felt terrible as well and was more than willing to help get the Princess and King Byron back together. So when a quick dispatch was sent to Giles requesting help from them on trying to get them back together and quickly sent a response back while getting Alyn and Leo to his office to discuss the plan. A few days later, Giles arrived at the Princess’ office “What seems the problem Giles” Antoinette asked “King Ronold has requested for you and Alyn to go to the forest to investigate some disturbing reports that children have been dumped due to being illegitimate. He would have gone himself but he felt that this situation needed a delicate touch.” Giles told the lie like it was the absolute truth, when he came to the King a few days ago, asking for help, The King was more than willing to help and came up with the ruse, knowing that Antoinette would not be able to refuse to help children in need. He was right, because right after she finished the report she was working on, she quickly changed and went to the stables where Alyn was waiting for her with a horse and Hedwig ready to go.

Albert and Nico came to King Byron’s office with reports of poachers in the forest, putting his papers that he was reading down and out the door. Once at the stables he summons Spinner to fly ahead.. Antoinette and Alyn were the first to arrive at the forest and she gave Alyn a look before asking why they were at the forest near the border of Stein. “I am sorry but this is where the children are rumored to be dumped.” he shrugged as he got off, “Why don’t you go ahead and see if there is any truth to the reports, I will be there is a second,” she gives him another look before making her way into the forest. At the same time on the other side of the border, King Byron and Spinner arrived in the forest and he made his way into the forest. Unfortunately they were not the only ones there at the forest, indeed there were two poachers and were about to kill a wolf and her two pups when out of nowhere they heard the Princess call out for the children and make her way to where they were.. They were not the only ones who heard her, Byron thought he was dreaming and shook his head and continued to where he thought he heard her voice. Arriving at where the wolf family were, she was shocked and then quickly went to try to free them when she heard a dark laugh “ I would not do that if I were you, it is a wild animal you don't know when it will destroy that pretty face of yours.” Antoinette stood up and stood between the wolf and them and the wolf growling at the poachers and out of nowhere two flashes of white nose dived and attacked them, it was Spinner and Hedwig trying to protect the Princess. One of them came towards her and tried to attack her but with help of the owls she was able to use one of their weapons against him and killed him but the other one got behind her grabbing her by the neck and was about to stab her when he let go and fell to the ground dead. Antoinette turned around, dropped her weapon due to seeing Bryon with his sword out and panting because he heard everything and ran as fast as he could due to seeing the owls’ nose diving to protect his Queen. It took her a minute to register what had happened and forgetting what happened in the past, she went running into his open arms, he kissed her passionately, not letting her go and she returned his kiss with equal passion. A few minutes later Alyn arrived and got to work on healing the wolf before they left, not before howling in gratitude. When they returned to the castle, everyone from King Ronold to Albert and Nico were waiting for them.

After dinner, Byron and Antoinette went to the garden to talk. As they made their way to the garden, Byron took off his eye patch because he wanted to truly see his love, his Antoinette. Taking a seat close to the fountain, he began to apologize and explained that he now understood what she was talking about. “For now on, as God as my witnesses, I promise that you and your opinions will come first.” Looking into his eyes she knew that he was telling the truth and smiled sweetly at him. Out of nowhere he stood up as Spinner swooped down and dropped something in his hand, and Byron got on one knee “Would you do me the greatest honor and say yes on becoming my queen, my love” he places the sapphire ring on her finger “Yes, a thousand times yes” she whispers as he rose up and gather her into his arms kissed her like he never kissed her before. For the rest of the night, he proved to her that he never stopped loving her and he will never break his promise.

[eucatastrophicblues]

a brief list of things that have happened on 19 April:

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were married by proxy

Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco

Lord Byron died

Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail on an obscenity charge for her play Sex

the battles at Lexington and Concord ended with a colonial victory and the American Revolutionary War began

the siege at the Heaven’s Gate compound in Waco, Texas was ended thanks to a fire breaking out and the hostages dying alongside other members of the cult, including David Koresh

The Simpsons first appear on the The Tracey Ullman Show

Christina, Queen of Sweden, dies

Charles Darwin dies

Daphne du Maurier dies in 1989.

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

Slightly changed common forenames

Aaron Ada Adam Adrian Adrienne Agnes Alan Albert Alberta Alberto Alex Alexander Alexandra Alexis Alfred Alfredo Alice Alicia Alison Allan Allen Allison Alma Alvin Alyssa Amanda Amber Amelia Amy Ana Andre Andrea Andrew Andy Angel Angela Angelica Angelina Angie Anita Ann Anna Anne Annette Annie Antoinette Antonia Antonio Antóny April Arlene Armando Arnold Artúr Ashley Audrey Barbara Barry Beatrice Becky Belinda Ben Benjamin Bernadette Bernard Bernice Bertá Bessie Beth Betsy Betty Betány Beulah Beverly Bill Billie Billy Blanca Blancé Bob Bobbie Bobby Bonnie Brad Bradley Brandi Brandon Brandy Brenda Brent Brett Brian Bridget Brittany Brooke Bruce Bryan Byron Calvin Camille Candace Candice Carl Carla Carlos Carmen Carol Carole Caroline Carolyn Carrie Casey Cassandra Cathy Catérine Cecelia Cecil Cecilia Celia Chris Christian Christie Christina Christine Christopér Christy Cindy Claire Clara Clarence Claude Claudia Clayton Clifford Clifton Clinton Clyde Cody Colleen Connie Constance Cora Corey Cory Courtney Craig Cristina Crystal Curtis Cyntûa Cád Cárlene Cárles Cárlie Cárlotte Célsea Céryl Céster Daisy Dale Dan Dana Daniel Danielle Danny Darla Darlene Darrell Darren Darryl Daryl Dave David Dawn Dean Deanna Debbie Deborah Debra Delia Della Delores Denise Dennis Derek Derrick Desiree Diana Diane Dianna Dianne Dixie Dolores Don Donald Donna Dora Doreen Doris Dorothy Douglas Duane Dustin Dwayne Dwight Earl Ebony Eddie Edgar Edith Edna Eduardo Edward Edwin Eileen Elaine Eleanor Elena Elisa Elizabeth Ella Ellen Elmer Eloise Elsa Elsie Elvira Emily Emma Enrique Eric Erica Erik Erika Erin Erma Ernest Ernestine Essie Estelle Estér Etél Eugene Eula Eunice Eva Evelyn Everett Faith Fannie Faye Felicia Felix Fernando Flora Florence Floyd Frances Francis Francisco Frank Franklin Fred Freda Freddie Frederick Gabriel Gail Gary Gayle Gene Geneva Genevieve George Georgia Gerald Geraldine Gertrude Gilbert Gina Ginger Gladys Glen Glenda Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Greg Gregory Gretcén Guadalupe Guy Gwen Gwendolyn Ian Ida Inez Irene Iris Irma Isaac Isabel Ivan Jack Jackie Jacob Jacqueline Jacquelyn Jaime James Jamie Jan Jana Jane Janet Janice Janie Janis Jared Jasmine Jason Javier Jay Jean Jeanette Jeanne Jeannette Jeannie Jeff Jeffery Jeffrey Jenna Jennie Jennifer Jenny Jeremy Jerome Jerry Jesse Jessica Jessie Jesus Jill Jim Jimmie Jimmy Jo Joan Joann Joanna Joanne Jodi Jody Joe Joel John Johnnie Johnny Jon Jonatán Jordan Jorge Jose Josefina Joseph Josepûne Josúa Joy Joyce Joánna Juan Juana Juanita Judith Judy Julia Julian Julie Julio June Justin Kara Karen Kari Karl Karla Kate Kathleen Kathryn Kathy Katie Katrina Katérine Kay Kayla Keith Kelley Kelli Kellie Kelly Ken Kendra Kenneth Kent Kerry Kevin Kim Kimberly Kirk Krista Kristen Kristi Kristie Kristin Kristina Kristine Kristy Krystal Kurt Kyle Lana Lance Larry Latoya Laura Lauren Laurie Laverne Lawrence Leah Lee Leigh Lela Lena Leo Leon Leona Leonard Leroy Leslie Lester Leticia Lewis Lila Lillian Lillie Linda Lindsay Lindsey Lisa Lloyd Lois Lola Lonnie Lora Lorena Lorene Loretta Lori Lorraine Louis Louise Lucia Lucille Lucy Luis Lula Luz Lydia Lynda Lynette Lynn Lynne Mabel Mable Madeline Mae Maggie Mamie Mandy Manuel Marc Marcella Marcia Marcus Margaret Margarita Margie Marguerite Maria Marian Marianne Marie Marilyn Mario Marion Marjorie Mark Marlene Marsá Marsáll Marta Martin Martá Marvin Mary Maryann Mattie Mattéw Matéw Maureen Maurice Max Maxine May Megan Megán Melanie Melba Melinda Melissa Melody Melvin Mercedes Meredith Micáel Micéal Micéle Micélle Miguel Mike Mildred Milton Mindy Minnie Miranda Miriam Misty Mitcéll Molly Mona Monica Monique Morris Muriel Myra Myrtle

Nadine Nancy Naomi Natalie Natasá Natán Natániel Neil Nellie Nelson Nettie Nicole Nicólas Nicóle Nina Nora Norma Norman Olga Olive Olivia Ollie Opal Ora Oscar Pam Pamela Pat Patricia Patrick Patsy Patti Patty Paul Paula Paulette Pauline Pearl Pedro Peggy Penny Perry Peter Phyllis Priscilla Pûlip Pûllip Racáel Racél Rafael Ralph Ramon Ramona Randall Randy Raquel Raul Ray Raymond Rebecca Regina Reginald Rene Renee Ricardo Rick Ricky Ricárd Rita Robert Roberta Roberto Robin Robyn Rocélle Rodney Roger Roland Ron Ronald Ronnie Rosa Rosalie Rose Rosemarie Rosemary Rosie Ross Roxanne Roy Ruben Ruby Russell Ruth Ryan Rónda Sabrina Sadie Sally Salvador Sam Samantá Samuel Sandra Sandy Sara Sarah Scott Sean Sergio Seth Sidney Silvia Sonia Sonja Sonya Sopûa Sopûe Stacey Stacy Stanley Stella Stepánie Stepén Steve Steven Sue Susan Susie Suzanne Sylvia Sáne Sánnon Sári Sáron Sáwn Sáwna Séila Sélia Sélley Sélly Séri Sérri Sérry Séryl Sûrley Tabitá Tamara Tami Tammy Tanya Tara Tasá Ted Teresa Teri Terrance Terrence Terri Terry Tiffany Tim Timothy Tina Todd Tom Tommy Toni Tony Tonya Tracey Traci Tracy Travis Tricia Troy Tyler Tyrone Télma Téodore Téresa Tómas Valerie Vanessa Velma Vera Verna Vernon Veronica Vicki Vickie Vicky Victor Victoria Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Virginia Vivian Wade Wallace Walter Wanda Warren Wayne Wendy Wesley Willard William Willie Wilma Winifred Wûtney Yolanda Yvette Yvonne Zacáry Ánnah Árold Árriet Árry Árvey Áttie Ázel Éatér Éctor Éidi Élen Énrietta Énry Érbert Érman Ólly Ópe Óward Úgh Ûlda

[coppolesque]

Book list

Miss peregrine 5 / Let it snow / Histoire de Lisey / Le seigneur des anneaux 2 / + LSDA 3 / Twilight 1 / + Twilight 2 / + Twilight 3 / + Twilight 4 / Running man / Rêves et cauchemars / Le fléau / Insomnie /Différentes saisons / Orgeuil et préjugés / Emma / Raison et sentiments / Histoire de la Russie / Suzon / Claire / La Voleuse de Livres /Histoire de L'Europe / La Couleur des Sentiments / La servante écarlate / + Les Testaments / Alias Grace / Effacée / + Brisée / + Fracturée / Summerset Abbey / Olympe / Roméo et Juliette / Voyages de Gulliver / Anna Karénine / Le roi fantôme / La guerre et la paix I / + La guerre et la paix II / Dictionnaire de la mythologie / La mythologie Gréco-romain / W ou le souvenir d'enfance / Journal d'Anne Frank / Le monde de Sophie / Find me / Divergente 2 / + Divergente 3 / Carpe Diem / The Great Gatsby / The Virgin Suicides / Marlena / Girl, interrupted / The language of thorns / The Picture of Dorian Gray / Voyage au centre de la terre / Le Fantôme de l'opéra / Madame Bovary / Marie-Antoinette: femme réelle, femme mythique / La fille du train / The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Les contes des frères Grimm / Contes des particuliers / Les contes de Beedle le Barde / Traité sur la Tolérance / 20,000 Years of Fashion / Gravity Falls: Journal 3 / Oliver Twist / Tout savoir sur les vampires /Amour et Autres Enchantements /Atonement / Picnic at Hanging Rock / Macbeth / Hamlet / Lolita / Carrie / Frankenstein / L'histoire de l'art en BD / The Bell Jar / Valley of the Dolls / The Little Dictionary Of Fashion / Le monde de Charlie / The song of Achilles / Narnia 1 / + Narnia 2 / + Narnia 3 / + Narnia 4/ + Narnia 5 / + Narnia 6 / + Narnia 7 / A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 / + ASOUE 2 / + ASOUE 3 / + ASOUE 4 / + ASOUE 5 / + ASOUE 6 / + ASOUE 7 / + ASOUE 8 / + ASOUE 9 / + ASOUE 10 / + ASOUE 11 / + ASOUE 12 / + ASOUE 13 /The Secret Garden / Anne Of Green Gables / Black Beauty / Heidi / Percy Jackson 1 / + PJ 2 / + PJ 3 / + PJ 4 / + PJ 5 / Harry Potter 4 / + HP 5 / + HP 6 / + HP 7 / The Secret History / Le siècle des excès / Little Women / Histoire de l'extrême droite en France / L'Iliade / L'Odyssée / The Oxford Book Of Japanese Short Stories / D'une / Sense and Sensibility / The Complete Sherlock Holmes / Dracula / 1984 / Da Vinci Code / Don Quijote De La Mancha / Romancero Gitano / Le Monde selon Flaubert / La gauche en France / Histoire des États-Unis De 1492 à nos jours. /Manifeste du Parti communiste (Karl Marx) / Pensées pour moi-même (Marc Aurèle) / Le socialisme en France et en Europe: XIXe-XXe siècle / Sans raison (Mehdy Brunet) / L'Ami Prodigieuse 1 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 2 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 3 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 4 /Middlemarch / I'm thinking of ending things / Bunny / Then She Was Gone / The Silent Patient / Evelina / Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy /The Works of Lord Byron / The Four Fondamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis / The Night Circus / Circe / All the light we cannot see / The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / Turtles All The Way Down / Renegades / The Starless Sea / Legend Born / To Best The Boys / Stalking Jack The Ripper / The Betrayals / The furies / The woman in cabin 10 / Lovely War / Cruel Beauty /Luckiest Girl Alive / Some kind of happiness / Le diable s'habille en Prada / Vengeance en Prada / Sharp Objects/ Black Butler/ Valkyrie Apocalypse/ Les paradis perdus/ Le goût de Marie-Antoinette/ Coraline/ Rebecca/ Nevermoor 1/ N2/ N+7/ spirou et fantasio (55 tomes) / dents d'ours x 6/

[birdshall]

Tiktok scripts from history

Rosa Luxemburg giving us a run-down of her favorite internationalist spots in Berlin. 

Book recommendations by Martin Luther. Including a shameless plug to buy the lutheran bible. 

A twitch stream of the vikings invading the british isles. 

Dungeons & Dragons play along with Julius Caesar.  

Get ready with me to go to lunch with my toxic sister by Elizabeth I. 

What I eat in a day during the french revolution with Marie Antoinette. 

10 things I wish I had known in my 20s with Socrates.

Thrift flip of Versailles by Louis XIV.

Dating tips with Lord Byron. 

This tik tok filter tells me my green and red flags with Margaret Thatcher, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky   

Am I the asshole? Story time with Judas, played over subway surfer video. 

But also showing an outraged comment section. 

Haul of everything I got on my recent holiday, the crusades, with Pope Urban II

Gym video and body check with David (and a second tiktok stitched (response) by Goliath)   

5 psychological tricks I use in job interviews with Cicero. 

Helena of Troy using tiktok beauty filters to figure out what hair color she would look best in to launch 1000 ships. 

My duolingo progress after 1 year of trying to communicate with my fellow Babylonians, by random persian girl.  Girldinner with Emmeline Pankhurst, Judith Butler or Simone de Beauvoir.

[loveboatinsanity]

[peri-helia]

I’m interested, who would be your ultimate squad goals if you could have any person real or fictional?

[rosepompadour]

DISCUSS YOUR HISTORICAL OTPS PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP ♥

Allons-y!

Giuliano de’Medici and Simonetta Cattaneo. Probably nothing happened, but I have a massive sweet tooth for displays of courtly love, and if some Renaissance golden boy wants to crown me his Queen of Beauty at a joust as he carries around an image of me painted by Botticelli, which is basically the 15th century equivalent of wearing your sweetheart’s picture in a heart-shaped  locket, then I say let���s do it. 

Fanny Brawne and John Keats. I find his love letters to her to be very guilt-trippy and borderline emotionally abusive, but they’re also romantic as fuck, which is a very odd but potent combination when you’re John Keats. I’m also a sucker for the girl-next-door aspect of it. Also, they were both so small. Something about two tiny pocket people tripping around England in ribbons and cravats, hand-in-hand. just makes me smile. C'est trop mignon.

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. The prom queen and the loner! Strawberry cream kisses! Romeo and Juliet-style love declarations from the Petit Trianon balcony! Choosing to die together rather than risk an uncertain separation! I honestly do not get the Fersen myth that refuses to die when the real romance has been right in front of us for 230+ years.

Marie Duplessis and Romain Vienne. The glamorous party girl and the boyish writer - like a nineteenth century Holly Golightly and Varjak, Paul (in person). I feel like he was the only one who saw past her frivolous & fancy persona. He knew that wasn’t really her. He was the boy who could have broken the spell she was under. It sounds adorable, except Prince Charming was too late to wake his princess with true love’s bisou and she literally died an hour before he got to her. As the French say: Quel bummer.

Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend. In my head Peter is Joe Bradley walking away from Princess Ann for ever at the press conference. Tell me I’m wrong.

Anne Frank and Peter van Pels. This one is tricky, because they were thrown together in the worst way possible and I don’t think they would have ever gotten together under everyday circumstances. They were just normal kids, and they were trying to live normal lives and have a normal teenage romance in a world that was hostile to them. There is a bit of an element of “because-he’s-there,” but I don’t think that makes it less touching. The entry where she’s just YELLING at her diary wondering why he hasn’t kissed her yet is delightful proof that teenagers have been consistent down through the ages.

Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain. When he buys her pink roses and she pins them to her dress and he just dreamily sighs, “Yes!” That’s it. That was my main takeaway from my initial high school encounter with Testament of Youth.

Napoleon and Josephine. The image of Josephine on her deathbed, clad in pink ribbons and rubies and whispering his name in front of her grieving children fucks me up real good.

Roberta Maioni and her mystery Titanic dreamboat. Meet me at the clock, you jump I jump, etc. etc.

Pietro Bembo and Lucrezia Borgia. Again with the courtly love! There was some romantic nonsense in the air in renaissance Italy, and I am here for it. Their love letters are swoon-worthy. Byron called them “the prettiest love letters in the world,” and he was right. (He then proceeded to steal a lock of Lucrezia’s hair, which is just...a Very Lord Byron Thing for Lord Byron to do.)

[phantomlover04]

Second Thoughts

Summary: On thinking he's a burden to his princess, Giles makes the ultimate sacrifice.

Warning: Angst, tears, breakups, Giles thinking crazy, fluff at the end

“So what is the point of us being together and planning on getting married if you don’t know if you love me.” Antoinette looked on the verge of tears as she waited for an answer from Giles. When none was given she just got up from her seat and went to the door. Before leaving his office “After all we went through to prove to everyone that you were the only one I would choose as my consort, you are going to throw it all away just like that.” And with that, she left his office and made her way to her chambers, with tears running down her face while he stayed where he was looking at the ring that she had left on his desk.

Giles couldn’t go after her, everyone knew about his illness including the Princess. So when it was coming to plan the wedding he couldn’t help but remind himself that he was being selfish by putting that much burden on her and he thought that she would be better off without him but his heart was breaking in half as hers when she left his office.

Antoinette did not leave her room for the rest of the day and bright and early the next morning she got ready and went to see King Ronold before anyone. After explaining what had happened between them, she requested that Giles no longer be her chamberlain\tudor and really didn’t want to see him in the palace at all. The King understood her feelings and assured her that he would take care of it and that her new tudor would be Leo and would have a word with Giles. As she stepped out of the King’s chambers, Giles was about to knock on the door, They both paused before out of nowhere she punched him so hard that the documents went flying and he landed on the floor, his eyes were in disbelief that she just punched him and with that, she left without a second glance at him but a tear silently fell down her cheek. It took him awhile to get up and when he finally did, Leo was just arriving at where he was to speak to the King as well, he helped Giles but didn’t say anything because he had just seen the Princess slam the door to her office and he felt like he was about to find out what had happened between them. Giles went in to see the King first, King Ronold just shook his head at him before letting him know that the Princess had requested for him to step down from his position and Leo would be taking over from now on. “Giles please tell me that this isn’t because you feel like you are a burden with your illness to Princess Antoinette and that is why you called off the wedding?” Giles didn’t respond but King Ronold just needed to see in his eyes that was the reason. “Fine, you leave me no choice. I know Leo is there at the door, let him in.” An hour later Giles stepped out of the chambers and went to his room, he passed the Princess’ office, put his hand on the doorknob before letting it go, and went to his room to pack up.

The King thought it best for Giles to go away for awhile until he got in his mind that he was not a burden to anyone, so the King sent him to Laurelia to see an old friend of his that has a son who has the same illness and to show that he can live a good life without anything terrible happening. Princess Antoinette was told that he had a new job as ambassador at Laurelia and would be gone for many months at a time so there was no risk of having him near. The first few weeks were painful for both of them, she cried every night with an article of clothing that was left in her room from the last time they were intimate, and for him, he had a handkerchief of hers with a bottle of her favorite perfume. After some time the Princess stopped to cry every time Michelangelo came into the room that she was in, and with Leo’s help she was a little more cheerful whenever King Byron or Rayvis came over to visit, the group from Stein was told by Leo what had happened between Giles and the Princess so that is why they tried to come as much as they could or Spinner would always bringing Antoinette a gift. As for Giles as soon he got to Laurelia he had another episode but his host, the king, and queen of Laurelia knew exactly what was going on and had their physician come and check on him, After a few days Giles was better, and with the help and the physician he was now able to control the attacks to bear minimal and was able to meet the crown prince and saw that he was also suffering the same as him gave him hope for the future with his princess.

Because she was extremely busy, the months passed by, and her birthday was around the corner. King Ronold and the rest of her friends wanted to bring Giles and her back together, so a letter was sent to the Royal family of Laurelia to bring him back Giles all the while not letting Princess Antoinette get any hints of his return. To make sure that she was distracted Rayvis made an unannounced, to her, with Rook to celebrate her birthday. The staff of the palace made sure that dinner ran without a hitch. After a wonderful dinner, even though she had a great time she couldn’t shake off that bit of sadness that Giles was not her, and when blowing out the candles of her cake she wished for him to return even if it was for a moment. Sadly making her way to her room she didn’t notice that everyone was looking at her with care to see if what she finds next will make her happy again. When she got to her door, she noticed that her favorite kitty was at her door dressed with a purple kitty tie and a purple rose in its mouth “Michelangelo, did you get all dressed up for me?” Michelangelo drops the rose with a meow and leaves, She picks up the rose opens the door, and makes her way in, but as she closes the door she looks up stops suddenly, and drops the rose. There in the middle of her room in a purple rose petal heart shape stood Giles, A mix of emotions came to her but she ran to his open arms, and with tears running down her face she kisses him with all the love she still has for him. After what was an eternity, Giles breaks the kiss “My love, my Antoinette I am so sorry but the reason I left was because I was selfish, I didn’t want you to suffer due to my illness. But this trip has shown me that my worries were baseless” Breaking away from her embrace, he gets on one knee and pulls out the purple star sapphire ring and puts it on her ring finger “I Giles, offer my love and my life to thee, for better or worse, for all time. Will you accept me, the good and the bad, and become my Queen once and for all?” “Yess, a thousand times yes” she whispers before getting on her knees and kissing him again with all the love she has for him. For the rest of her birthday, Giles made her feel like a Queen he sees her every day.

[cto10121]

I normally like to write published fanfic from classics because I like new takes in stories or different POVs... But god I detest how Wide Sargasso Sea has completely fucked with people's perspective of Jane Eyre and make it all about how Betha was the misunderstood Woke Queen and that Bronte was apparently racist. I remember thinking the same when the discourse was harder a couple of years ago and then I went around writing my own Byronic heroes and thought: Nah, Rochester was fine.

I tried reading that book but I got bored of it after a couple of chapters, it felt so slow and never ending. Ironically, the original Jane Eyre... Wrote nearly 200 years ago, felt more modern than the prose of that book.

It was assigned reading for my Modernist Fiction course, which was frankly laughable since the whole novel is completely unintelligible without reading or at least knowing what happens in Jane Eyre, which was not assigned (fortunately I had read Jane Eyre by then, but I still cringe in pity for the other students). It was a forgettable experience of essentially bad writing—two-dimensional characters, no development, piss-poor voice (Rochester’s POV was indistinguishable from Antoinette/Bertha’s), a poetic style without the substance, no proper realization of its themes (colonialism, women’s autonomy, etc.) the works. Even the connection with Jane Eyre was weak; I’ve read fanfics more true to the canon and lore of the original works than WSS. And yes, Charlotte Brontë’s prose was much better and more accessible than Rhys. (I’ve also heard that Brontë-is-racist thing—something about Bertha’s description in the attic? I really haven’t read the book in a long while, so I can’t say if the criticism is valid).

But I won’t lie, I personally have many, many problems with Jane Eyre—the way the narrative can’t decide whether it wanted to be a Bildungsroman or a Beauty-and-the-Beast modern retelling and ended up being half and half, the heavily Christian morality that just drags Jane’s character down, Jane overall awful seesawing between meek little 19th century proper young lady and “I am no bird; no net ensnares me” proto feminism, Rochester beginning as one of the few believable characters in this thing and yet doing weird OOC shit like disguising himself as a gypsy (?) to find out whether Jane likes him, and of course the whole Bertha debacle. But Rochester’s treatment of Bertha ain’t it—actually, he was more than generous with her, even risking his own life to try and save her (!!!) and the fact that he raised Adèle even though he was not entirely sure he was hers is commendation enough. Yes, it is a little pat, Brontë making sure that the love interest’s dick behavior is justified, but I have no problem with the writing on that regard. Guy is fundamentally fine, he just has awful social graces.

My problem actually lies in Jane leaving Rochester. I haven’t even heard anyone critique that plot point, but to me it’s always been such an awful, conventional decision; it drags the rest of the book down into milquetoast Gothic melodrama. Especially since Jane just acted so rashly, without even planning her departure, and almost lost her life because of it. I honestly don’t see why she couldn’t have just accepted being Rochester’s mistress. She would have been in the same position as if she were really married and she could have helped Rochester with Bertha. If she were so worried about her reputation or Rochester growing tired and casting her off, then marriage would have been far worse, because that was practically forever. It’s pure 19th century chopped logic, and it ruins the realistic Dickens-esque social realism of the first half and even in the Rochester section. And that awful Jane-hears-Rochester’s-voice-conveniently-as-St.-John-proposes magic realism never fails to make me laugh/stew in bitter frustration. Homegirl had no problem leaving Rochester on a dime and only now she hears his voice??? Twilight did it better, even freakin’ Shadow and Bone set up the tether thing better. Also, way to undo Jane’s supposedly feminist/strong principled decision of leaving Rochester and being true to her ideals/honor/independence blah blah blah. If you’re just going to have her end up with the guy, then what was the point of the whole Diana and St. John plotline? (Oh, yeah, that’s right, the secret windfall by the dead uncle so now Jane is rich and also Diana et al. are her cousins!!! Smh).

So yeah. Jane Eyre. It’s readable, and it does have its strong points—the Beauty and the Beast elements of the love story are done well and the first half with a feral young Jane is great in its gritty social realism, but I can’t really take it seriously. Wide Sargasso Sea is stale try-hard lit fic for the critical theory crowd, though, and should not have been canonized to begin with.

[nellygwyn]

BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot 

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

[freddiekluger]

Do you think that if the ghosts sees period dramas set in their time, it will reignite memories of their life?

i think it definitely depends on the accuracy and style of the drama- if they're too poorly researched, any attempts at reverie would be totally disrupted by the historical and visual inaccuracies (think: thomas yelling about the 'roccoco legs' during the byron shoot). of course the other big thing is setting: it's all well and good to watch to a movie set in your time period, but if it's based in a country you've never been to (especially for the older/less privileged ghosts like mary and robin, who probably didn't have much knowledge of the world outside of their continent when they were alive), it's not going to feel particularly familiar.

working on the assumption that we have at least partial historical and geographical accuracy, here's how i think each of the ghosts would respond to

robin: considering how little we actually know about early human history, i don't think robin would be that fussed by any attempt to put that on film- he'd still appreciate a good caveman joke, although he's not a big fan of how stupid every movie assumes they would have been (it's not like they had omega-3 tablets back then!). robin's unspeakably old, and for the most part he seems to have processed through all the parts of his past that he possibly can, and is now committed to enjoying his time at button house as much as he can (a big part of this is his prankster spirit and frankly underrated friendliness), so it would have to take a lot more than a stone age movie to rake up serious conflict.

mary: given her incredibly traumatic death, mary avoids virtually anything that hints of fire or witchcraft which is where things become difficult. i think mary could really enjoy a film set in her time if it follows a working family not dissimilar to her own- it could help her remember some of the positive things from her life, and probably help her feel a lot more seen as she often ends up misunderstood or ignored by the other ghosts (pat initially dismissing mary's advice about the camera work because he didn't think she properly understood what was happening; the ghosts focusing on correcting her speech more than what she actually says). the problem is, almost all movies set in mary's time that follow people from her class end up focusing on the witch trials, which is a BIG no no for her.

humphrey: i think humphrey could really enjoy watching some tudor set films. like mary, he often gets ignored (and straight up left behind), so watching a period film absolutely gives him the opportunity to feel a bit more seen and stew on those long forgotten memories like post-meal games of cards with friends, or the occasional hunting trip when the king came to visit (the trips themselves were more stressful than anything, but mouthing off about them with the king's entourage after he went to bed was always a highlight). humphrey would definitely have a keen eye for inaccuracies, but i don't think they'd bother him. it's just nice to have things be about him for a change (if by him, we mean having all the ghosts watching something that is vaguely related to his alive-period and actually looking to him with questions instead of just using his head as their personal football/security camera/magic 8ball).

kitty: kitty is one of the ghosts who accesses her memories pretty easily- she has no problem with thinking about her life, even when the anecdotes are screamingly sad to anyone listening. so a period film would naturally bring some memories, but i don't know if they'd be anything radical or new- kitty's real growth and drama would come from her leaving behind the rationalisations of what clearly was severe neglect. actually on that note, while not quite kitty's environment, i think she might get a lot out of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. something about the themes of the loneliness that comes with growing up in high society and only being valued for what your status and your biology can give to your family and your husband (who you likely didn't choose), along with feeling like an outsider and being visibly othered, even by those you outrank, no matter how friendly and approachable and like them you make yourself (while not necessarily linked to the broader themes of familial neglect kitty's character touches on, i think her experiences as a georgian noblewoman of colour would have to have impacted her growing up and also socially- i'd love to hear any thoughts on this from fans of colour, as i'm white and so any theories i could come up with would likely be a poor approximation). and she'd definitely like the pretty dresses and stunning rooms of versailles, and for that i can't blame her.

thomas: most of thomas we sort of got to see in Free Pass- the detail nitpicking, the excitement until a specific trigger from his life (in this case, lord byron, the man thomas considers his greatest enemy, although i’d be curious to know whether byron acually had any idea of thomas thorne’s existence) causes him to go into a full thomas hissy-fit. sure, the emotion is real to him, but he absolutely plays it up, even trying to get humphrey’s body to fetch alison so she can see how ‘upset’ he is (thomas reminds me of a child in this respect).  there’d probably be less of the tantruming for a movie that had already been made, although i’m not so sure about the memory point. The Thomas Thorne Affair sort of brought out thomas’s big Unresolved Life Mystery, and now i think all that’s left for him to work through has got to be a lot more internal. sure, he’d be reminded of a few good old parties, and maybe any romance scenes might trigger some of the sad isabelle/general lost love emotions, but i don’t think they’d be anything particularly spectacular. 

fanny: now fanny would be a real stickler for accuracy. she would be calling out every makeup, decorative, hair, wardrobe, architectural, and lingual failure with the classic lady button judgement in her voice. this is probably half because she can't help herself, but half a measure to distract herself from actually having to pay proper attention and relive her life. i think fanny struggles a lot with no longer running her own household (along with the shifting morals, and fashions, of the modern world), and so to be reminded of everything she can no longer have would be tough. i'm not saying she would long for a time when women didn't have a lot of rights, but she went from a wealthy society woman who held a lot of power in her own sphere to a ghost, unable to touch anything or even be seen by the living (save for the photo glitch), and stuck spending her days with a motley crew of equally frustrating ghosts whom she doesn't always feel respected by (noting that 'respect' to fanny is much the same as deference). she could have it a lot worse, but i think fanny would much prefer to not have to think about her old life.

the captain: the captain is an interesting one. he's one of the few ghosts who actively seeks out media related to his time, although that's within the impersonal war documentary which focuses on facts and mechanics as opposed to day to day realities and feelings. on the one hand, any war film for the captain would be sure to rake up memories of wartime (even if he never made the front- that remains unconfirmed), and the immense grief that comes with watching the people around you slowly stop returning home. the captain is a war fanatic, and has no problem talking about the great battles, victories, and tactics, so i think the heightened emotional states that a film presents would be the key to unlocking the captain's inevitable wartime trauma and going beyond the surface level facts. for that reason, i'd really like the captain to see Peter Weir's Gallipoli. i know it's the wrong war and the wrong country (although the australian's were technically part of the British forces), but i think the overarching themes of the idolisation of the military, the deconstruction of the glory of war, and the intense (bordering on the homoerotic) although never quite realised relationship between Archy and Frank (which, spoiler alert, ends in tragedy), could give the captain a lot in terms of food for thought and unlocking some of those deeper experiences. on the other hand, the captain watching a period film set in the years before his war could be equally interesting- i think they'd play on some his is insecurities and general issues surrounding the difficulty he may have had fitting in with day-to-day life (not just due to his homosexuel répression, but due to his broader issues with fitting in socially which we see through his interactions with both the ghosts and his own forces- some particularly valid fans have used these to headcanon cap as autistic). in short, films would unlock a fair few memories for cap, but even more EMOTIONS.

pat: with pat and julian it gets interesting because while yes, technically any movie set in a non-current time period is a ‘period piece’, you also have to deal with the fact that they’re going to have less impact on their respective ghosts because you also have actual movies from those periods floating around. for this reason, my answers for pat and julian are relatively similar: they wouldnt have any more memories appear than for any film coming from while they were alive. for pat, this means he’d get pretty excited about ones that came from his childhood (pat would be a giant sci fi fan don’t @ me he loves technology), but i think anything that came with too strong a family attachmet, or that he watched in the weeks/months/year leading up to his death might bring out the angry pat we saw in Happy Death Day and Perfect Day. anger is how his inherent death trauma (and the additional loss that comes from the world moving on without you) manifests, so i definitely think that would come out here, even if he isn’t quite able to put his finger on why specific movies make him so angry/irritated. for pat, childhood memories would abound, but the closer we get to his death, there’s less memories but definitely more unresolved emotion.

julian: see my point above about the whole period-film-vs-regular-film thing. julian doesn’t really strike me as a movie person, and i definitely think he wouldn’t give much care to the influx of 80s/90s set british political media (think The Iron Lady etc). in his words, “i don’t really care for politics, and they’re all too busy trying to push their labor propaganda”. he just makes a captain-inspired noise when alison reminds him that he WAS a politician. julian is another character who accesses his memories pretty easily (although they’re usually either horny or at least slightly morally bankrupt), and i honestly find it hard to give a tory emotions so i’m very excited to see how the christmas special manages. julian is a self-centred bloke though, so i think only things that are directly about him could have the power to rake up buried memories and feelings. now i really want to see julian watching a documentary on himself and just getting outraged.

thanks for this one, sorry for the delay!!

[selena-snape]

Sexta Generación:

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle y Julian Cameron Gray

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters y Sky Aurelius Peters

¤ Hazel Opal Peters y Magnus Roman Watson

¤ Theodore August Peters y Meredith Mavis Monroe

¤ Aaron Christopher Weasley y Verena Michelle Dyer

¤ Joshua Stephen Weasley y Esther Amalia Holt

¤ Charles Samuel Weasley y Ruby Stephanie Saffron

¤ Iris Aurelia Weasley y Marshall Everett Conrad

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardson y Henry Oliver Brooks

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson y Flynn Milo Wolf

¤ Willow Cosima Levin y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford

¤ Fern Violet Levin y Marie Honoria Ollivander

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin y John Florean Palmer

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin y Elladora Eloise Gibson

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