#c: elizabeth

[ithinkitscami]

closed starter for: @thelizaxlevin // location: the sweet nothings booth // praise the desserts

For once, Camille was happy that flowers were being provided by someone else and in this case—it was the botanical gardens. There was no stress on her behalf and she was forever thankful as that would soon change in about two weeks. She had been exploring the booths at the festival when she came across Sweet Nothings. Happy to see her friend, Camille was astonished at the designs of the sweets she had cooked up. "Liza!" She quickly laughed as she hadn't meant to be so loud. "I can't believe you made these." That's not what she meant. "Well, I mean I can believe you made these, but oh my god." She looked over the desserts as they stared at her in person. "These look so good. How long did they take you?"

[peachynoon]

[anghraine]

Speaking of the social context of P&P and Austen in general, and also just literature of that era, I'm always interested in how things like precisely formulated hierarchies of precedence and tables of ranked social classes interact with the more complex and nuanced details of class-based status and consequence on a pragmatic day-to-day level. I remembered reading a social historian discussing the pragmatics of class wrt eighteenth-century English life many years ago and finally tracked down the source:

"In spite of the number of people who got their living from manufacture or trade, fundamentally it was a society in which the ownership of land alone conveyed social prestige and full political rights. ... The apex of this society was the nobility. In the eyes of the Law only members of the House of Lords, the peerage in the strictest use of the word, were a class apart, enjoying special privileges and composing one of the estates of the realm. Their families were commoners: even the eldest sons of peers could sit in the House of Commons. It was therefore in the social rather than in the legal sense of the word that English society was a class society. Before the law all English people except the peers were in theory equal. Legal concept and social practice were, however, very different. When men spoke of the nobility, they meant the sons and daughters, the brothers and sisters, the uncles and aunts and cousins of the peers. They were an extremely influential and wealthy group.

"The peers and their near relations almost monopolized high political office. From these great families came the wealthiest Church dignitaries, the higher ranks in the army and navy. Many of them found a career in law; some even did not disdain the money to be made in trade. What gave this class its particular importance in the political life of the day was the way in which it was organized on a basis of family and connection ... in eighteenth-century politics men rarely acted as isolated individuals. A man came into Parliament supported by his friends and relations who expected, in return for this support, that he would further their interests to the extent of his parliamentary influence.

"Next in both political and social importance came the gentry. Again it is not easy to define exactly who were covered by this term. The Law knew nothing of gentle birth but Society recognized it. Like the nobility this group too was as a class closely connected with land. Indeed, the border line between the two classes is at times almost impossible to define ... Often these men are described as the squirearchy, this term being used to cover the major landowning families in every county who were not connected by birth with the aristocracy. Between them and the local nobility there was often considerable jealousy. The country gentleman considered himself well qualified to manage the affairs of his county without aristocratic interference.

"...The next great layer in society is perhaps best described the contemporary term 'the Middling Sort'. As with all eighteenth-century groups it is difficult to draw a clear line of demarcation between them and their social superiors and inferiors. No economic line is possible, for a man with no pretensions to gentility might well be more prosperous than many a small squire. There was even on the fringe between the two classes some overlapping of activities ... The ambitious upstart who bought an estate and spent his income as a gentleman, might be either cold-shouldered by his better-born neighbours or treated by them with a certain contemptuous politeness. If however his daughters were presentable and well dowered, and if his sons received the education considered suitable for gentlemen, the next generation would see the obliteration of whatever distinction still remained. The solid mass of the middling sort had however no such aspirations, or considered them beyond their reach.

"...This term [the poor] was widely used to designate the great mass of the manual workers. Within their ranks differences of income and of outlook were as varied as those that characterized the middle class. Once again the line of demarcation is hard to draw..."

—Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth Century England (29-34)

(There's plenty more interesting information in the full chapter, especially regarding "the poor," and the chapter itself is contracted from a lengthier version published earlier.)

[jeannepompadour]

Stained glass with the image of Queen Elizabeth I at Sudeley Castle

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Drinks up for the Christines who really feel up Erik's deformity during the kiss

1. Beth Southard (w. Gary Mauer, 2006 US TOUR)

2. Meredith Braun (w. Scott Davies, 2000 WEST END)

3. Kristi Holden (w. Anthony Crivello, 2008 LAS VEGAS)

4. Joke de Kruijf (w. Henk Poort, 1993 HOLLAND)

[massiveladycat]

"confirmed there was a slaughter of the TA demigods." I've read the books post TLO. No there wasn't.

actually, in the demigod diaries, it was stated that hundreds of demigods that fought by kronos's side were killed !! we even got a perspective from alabaster, the lone survivor. the demigod diaries isn't one of the MOST read of the pjo series, but they are completely canon.

[aarontveit]

RANDOM GARETH RITTER GIFS: 115 / ∞

[erik-christine]

“erik, the phantom of the opera, is the sexiest man of all time,” I say into the mic.

the crowd boos, saying that him being ugly was a plot point. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

"she's right, you know.” I look for the owner of the voice. there in the 5th box stands: christine daae

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of august

marge piercy circles on the water: selected poems of marge piercy: "for the young who want to"

marilyn chin fruit études

lisa olstein radio crackling, radio gone: "the hypnotist's daughter"

elizabeth willis address: "the witch"

jana prikryl the after party: "to tell of bodies changed"

diane seuss backyard song

alison c. rollings original [sin]

gerard malanga cornelius...cornelius gurlitt

todd boss rocket

beyza ozer to summarise a galaxy

john foy night vision: "woods"

clodagh beresford dunne ford galaxy

dorianne laux smoke: "heart"

anthony madrid like a cloud above the ravine

pascale petit swamp deer

frank o'hara maurice ravel

adonis selected poems: "desert" (tr. khaled mattawa)

sonja johanson three deer in oquossoc

melissa stein terrible blooms: "lemon and cedar"

w. s. di piero having my cards read

thomas hoagland bible study

peter campion big avalanche ravine

alberto ríos the smallest muscle in the human body: "rabbits and fire"

lena khalaf tuffaha water & salt: "mountain, stone"

josephine miles desert

jeanne murray walker invocation to convince a baby already more than twelve days overdue to come out of the womb

andrew hudgins the imagined copperhead

robert carr stargazing while sedated

mary ruefle among the musk ox people: poems: "blood soup"

jack collom red car goes by: selected poems 1955-2000: "bald eagle count"

mahmoud darwish to a young poet (tr. fady joudah)

kofi

[blackliiight]

liz afton

and some Fredbear's exclusive merchandise :]

[ID: an ball point pen, acrylic marker and coloured pencil drawing of elizabeth afton from five nights at freddy's. she has a head of large, red unwieldy curls, tanned skin, and green eyes. she is wearing a magenta bow in her hair with a matching puff-sleeved collared blouse under a blue flared overall dress. the background consists of complementary green and white stripes. she is inquisitively looking at a plushie of spring bonnie, who appears to be looking back at her.]

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

TTC au where Dr. Thorn grabs Percy instead and Annabeth is the one who meets Rachel on the Hoover Dam

[chiropteracupola]

Sovay, Sovay, all on a day / She dressed herself in man's array...

[mia-nina-lilly]

I just finished Dark Heir, and I'm freaking out. My God, what do you mean? Like, does it really end like this? Oh, Lord... My babies... I'm gonna cry... I'm crying at this moment

[natlacentral]

avatarnetflix: Will be talking about the premiere of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER for the next 100 years.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

stop calling c//a an enemies to lovers trope challenge. it's an abuser x victim relationship.

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Drinks up also for the Christines who go for a full embrace

1. Lisa Vroman (w. Brad Little, US TOUR)

2. Elizabeth Welch (w. Ted Keegan, BROADWAY)

3. Samantha Hill (w. Hugh Panaro, BROADWAY)

4. Olivia Safe (w. Ian Jon Bourg, HAMBURG)