#eastern european coquette

[jahodenka-angrestovka]

hey girlbloggers this is kinda specific but i think i may be onto something

i like to call it slavic or eastern europian coquette what do you think?

[souvlakic]

russian ballerina

[folkvisuals]

masha.

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[imvietnamesenotchinese]

My Créme de la Créme MCs -- Ethan & Celeste Dalton

I played CLDC by @hpowellsmith and enjoyed it quite a bit, so I got a commission of my MCs from OyenPaws on IG <3

Spotify playlists:

More info under the cut!

Ethan Dalton and Celeste Dalton are siblings. However, they're total polar opposites. Celeste is bubbly, outgoing, flirty and dramatic. Meanwhile, Ethan is introverted, reclusive, quiet and stoic.

I added lots and lots of headcanons (sorry), so in my mind, their playthroughs happened parallel with each other.

Ethan is very academic and studious. He stays in his own lane, does his own thing, unbothered. Celeste is popular and is involved with everything and everyone. She's a flirt, for sure. Florin Kraemer, eat your heart out.

Ethan decided to pursue higher education at a prestigious university, while Celeste decided to have fun with an art gallery apprenticeship. Her end goal is to become a fashion designer and start her own haute couture house.

In both playthroughs, Gallatin won. None of them ended up married. Lady Renaldt got exposed, and the good Dalton family name was restored.

Ethan got thrown in the mines (yikes!) while Celeste was busy fooling around with her boytoys. You'd think that she'd notice her brother being gone, but it's kind of hard when there are so many guys fighting for your attention :/

I scoured the author's blog to find any clues about the fashion in CLDC. I didn't want to put them in their school uniforms (which would've just been easier honestly), and since the zeitgeist of the CLDC universe is actually... not THAT set in stone (I even looked at other people's MC to make sense of what the fashion should look like) I just ended up taking inspo from dark/light academia, old money and coquette aesthetics. Can you tell that Celeste is very Lana Del Rey coded? :)

Their parents accidentally supported a corrupt political candidate.

Celeste is incredibly arrogant, vain and bold. For better or for worse. Ethan also has a tendency to look down on people he deems to be less intellectual than him.

Celeste had a hate-love thing with Blaise. Ethan wondered why she needed two snarky dark-haired dudes in her life. He pretty much avoided everyone, and the closest thing he had to romance was with Prince Rosario of all people!? So much for trying to be low-profile.

Ethan has to constantly drag Celeste out of dumb situations of her own making. Celeste has to constantly remind Ethan that people, even him, need human interaction.

Honestly the only reason why they managed to save the family's reputation is because Ethan was working behind the scenes and cleaned up Celeste's love scandals.

They're part east/southeast asian, part middle eastern and part european.

Ethan loves birds, especially corvids. He spends more time with birds than he does with people. His earring is supposed to resemble a raven.

Celeste is part of the Prefect Committee. Ethan is a member of the Birchmeier Society.

Ethan is 5'11, Celeste is 5'5.

Their mom is another OC of mine, Darcy Angelis <3

Had to restart the playthrough because of this, but in Celeste's playthrough, she decided to dance with Auguste at the ball. After that chapter ended, it triggered multiple consecutive scenes, one after another, where literally ALL of the characters had the "what are we???" talk with her. Can't believe the harem found out.

[meerawrites]

Share 10 facts about your OC!

I have so many, hmm.. I’ve already done my scandalous sex worker, rococo, late 18th century coquette, Audrey. X

Thank you, @arrthurpendragon. 💞

Here it goes: my first oc, ever, Catherine, also findable… here.

1. Haitian Creole, Black and Eastern European (Polish and Russian).

2. Born June 26, 1804 turned in a winter in the 1830s in New Orleans Louisiana, by a certain French thespian and disgraced bi blonde aristocrat of the late 18th century’s ancien regime. Lilian. (Yes Lilian is based on Lestat de Lioncourt 🤷‍♀️). Move over Lord Ruthven!

3. Fluent in 4 languages, piano forte, dance, a diplomat and should’ve been Princess if her fathers noble title wasn’t challenged by changing times. Prefers diplomacy, can use a sword and a musket/rifle. Stole her fathers cavalry sword before running away with Lilian.

4. Bi-Demisexual (Gray ace)-polyam. Cis female (she/her).

5. Religiously Haitian Vodou, culturally Eastern Orthodox Christian.

6. Turned my self insert Marian in 1922. BFFs with Marian’s ex boyfriend Oscar, a werewolf.

7. An endearing sense of ingenue-ness and hope about her despite 100+ years of vampirism, as juxtaposed with Audrey, for example.

8. Full legal first name is Ekaterina. She prefers Catherine and only Catherine, “Cat” or “chérie” will gain you a haughty laugh and the subtlest of side eyes.

9. An heiress and free person of global majority (colour) through her maman, Noëlle, Nikolai “Kolya,” her father is most substantially broke, but possessing title.

10. My first original character ever and still going. Based of Dido Elizabeth Belle but, shares a handful of similarities with AMC’s Louis de Pointe du Lac, and Anne Rice’s Merrick Mayfair.

Haitian Vodou the short version.

Haitian Vodou Wikipedia.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Polish Haitians.

[unhonestlymirror]

Ukraine: - Jokes about Liet's "used" car are not funny anymore, pass it on.

Ukraine: - There is a golden rule for every comedian. Unless your audience isn't completely high&wasted Elon Musk stans, the joke shouldn't be repeated more than twice.

Ukraine: - Yeah, we got it, his car is USED HAHA, DO YOU GET IT? Someone already USED IT before HAHA. It's like we talk about women: oh look, she divorced that guy a month later because he broke her nose, she's USED now HAHAHA, no one's gonna look at her anymore, and even if they do, she's already USED HAHAHA. Very funny, amazing, please marry my daughter.

Ukraine: - Why tf do you even care about what car he uses? It's his own car. Not yours, not *with pathos* OURS. Союз цей злочинний усім нав’язала комуно-фашисько-імперськая Рууууусь...🎵 Thank you, thank you. My voice isn't completely ruined by smoking and radioactive dust, as you see.

Ukraine: - I would get it if we lived in USA, where your status is directly proportional to your car's mark, where you have to drive for 2 hours for a simple grocery shopping, but we don't! We are Europe, where you walk for 20 minutes and already are in another country!

Ukraine: - Do you expect Liet to change his cars as often as French middle-class coquettes change H&M clothes? Do you know they have horrible amounts of trash piles of "used" clothes that dismay ecologists? Fuck it, who cares about ecologists anyway? Not even French.

Ukraine: - And I'm saying this as someone who, technically, has to thank all of you for such jokes. You bullied Lithuania for "old cars" so much that he started developing his car business - and eventually became an Eastern European magnate who's famous for his awesome cars. In Ukraine, we even have the term "Lithuanian car," which means "a car of Excellent price-quality ratio." If you didn't have a Lithuanian car, you were a loser.

Ukraine: - I'm glad those Lithuanian cars were here to help my people escape from russian invasion and occupation. Even if some of them were shot from tanks and machine guns.

[ruinikaidoexplodedbadly]

i wish i had serbian online friends to practice speaking to before travelling but eastern european coquette cigarette whatever girlbloggers that talk about serb women being the most oppressed people on the planet or some random shit like that are the most evil and annoying users on here

[sweetdaniisovan]

"I thank God that I wasn't born perfect"

[jahodenka-angrestovka]

[sweetlolah]

My coquette movie list:

These are my picks! Feel free to add on your favorites, suggestions, and opinions!!

Lolita will not be appearing on this list because low key it grossed me out though I appreciate the aesthetics.

❤ Valerie and her week of wonders. If you want a confusing surrealistic eastern european metaphor for puberty this is your film. Beautifully shot and acted, this film is incredible. Trigger warning for kanimal death and possibly incest?

❤ Leo the Professional. This one shows up on a lot of lists and for good reason. Mathilde is iconic. If you haven't seen it, a hit man takes a young girl under his wing and mentors her.

❤ moonrise kingdom. This is an adorable, quirky, and funny movie directed by Wes Anderson about a pair of kids who run away together.

❤ nasicaa and the valley of the wind. This movie is so passionate and beautiful. Little to no romance element but a strong anti war environmentalist message.

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author and addendum (for the book-related asks)!

Author: What is a book you really regret buying?

This book is one of the single worst i have ever read, and apparently is only book one (1) in a trilogy. The fact that I cannot find any specific reviews talking about how Bad (bad bad bad) it is both in the anti-black racism, antisemitism, and misogyny ways and in the i-cannot-believe-a-human-being-put-words-together-in-that-way sort of way. 

Basically it is an white anglo man’s Hot Take on a very nuanced middle eastern issue, but told entirely in rhyme. very badly done rhyme, that is clearly an old white anglo man’s idea of what hip-hop sounds like. i literally own an annotated copy in my flat but i can’t find it so some bits i Remember/can find online, which cannot truly capture the abominable quality of prose:

- he describes a 15 year old Palestinian girl as “half angel, half hot coquette”

- describes said girl’s eyes as “almond shaped soul windows” 

- despite the fact that almost everyone in the central cast is isreali or palestinian there is a whole lotta (white guy) interpretation of rastafarianism and much in the way of dreadlocks 

- the amount of weed in this story is unreal 

- so is the fact that the whole thing was clearly googled (he has, in an interview, said he backpacked Afghanistan in the 1970′s which is CLEARLY the same thing) 

- main guy refers to his dick as his “sacred shaft” 

- one african guy at a party is described as “smiling as only africans can” among other things 

Also this is clearly a very very complex topic and so is the literary complex surrounding it but the amount of ridiculously pretentious praise this guy has gotten (i.e. the one review on amazon literally comparing him to Pushkin’s Yevgeny Onegin) is aslkfdsjfldsfdsf. This book is a primary example of why we need to focus on reading and hyping west asian authors.

Addendum: What is a book trope you can’t stand?

IF there is a mixed asian character written by a white author they’re gonna have green or blue eyes. They also almost always seem to come from Broken Homes with a battered, delicate Asian Flower mother and a violent white dad. (often w/ vietnam or korean war stuff tied in). (Altered Carbon Altered Carbon.) 

- Fantasy kingdoms that are always monolingual/usually monocultural  like we get it that’s the lie that european nationalists have been trying to sell for centuries but it’s just patently not true basically anywhere on earth!

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More fosse looks before I post pics from Salem🥰

[sweetdaniisovan]

"You look 100% better when I can't see you."