#sanditon aesthetic

[living-for-the-little-moments]

[ladywatereton]

🇬🇧“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them. We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and chrysanthemum. We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers. How could we live without them? It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.”

🇧🇷“Na alegria e na tristeza, flores são nossas amigas constantes. Comemos, bebemos, cantamos, dançamos e flertamos com elas. Casamo-nos e batizamos com flores. Não ousamos morrer sem elas. Cultuamos com lírios, meditamos com lótus, investimos em formação de batalha com rosas e crisântemos. Tentamos até falar a língua das flores. Como poderíamos viver sem elas? Aterroriza-nos imaginar um mundo sem a sua presença.”

💐O Livro do Chá | The Book Of Tea, Okakura Kakuzō (1906).

🎥Films: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987), Howard's End (1992), Pride&Prejudice (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Atonement (2007), Bright Star (2009), Anna Karenina (2012), La Belle et la Bête (2014), Emma (2020).

📺Series: North&South (2004), Anne With an E (2017), Sandition (2019), Bridgerton (2020).

📼Scenes: @greengableslover

🎶Music: Evergreen, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners.

[val-daily]

Sunday, 26 March 2023

Well done:

I was sorrow and hurt, but went jogging. Fresh warmer air, physical activity and Taylor Swift’s eras tour set vitalised me. There is still some grief, but it’s easier to deal with when I’m active.

To better:

As I’ve bumped into my saviour complex, I feel frustrated. I’ve listened to a few podcasts and read articles, but the prime reason for my desire to save the world is still a mystery to me. Is it that I feel wounded by unreachable nature of my dreams, my farther’s death or basic unfulfillment of care and love in childhood. Keep on digging.

Delights:

The first episode of third season of “Sanditon”. Such a delight to know that all stories will end well and just enjoy the picture of life in process.

Jogging at the streets that are almost free of snow. On the way home I met a neighbour’s cat and rubbed him. He’s such a lovely creature.

Spontaneously we started to watch “Cranford”, we mused and laughed the whole time.

Human value:

I took care of my hygiene, used scrubs, oils, mask, creams, and fresh clothes. I’m worthy of care.

In the evening I was tired after cleaning up, so I just sat and enjoyed some period drama. It certainly gave me some warm feelings and sense of safe sentimentality.

[bccksmarts]

Victorian and/or Royal AU Moodboard

Still a MAJOR work in progress, but it's in development! ⤷ Under Keep Reading for length ♡

I wrote a version of this where it's royal AU esq, so I'mma make some lil' notes to add on top of that. ♡

•  Hermione isn't from a noble family per-se, her parents not being anyone of note. Not that she actually knows them. Hermione was left on the doorstep of Minerva McGonagall, a woman of title and poise, though leaving the note of keeping her last name as Granger. A strange request, and not one that could easily be complied with—questions would be asked, accusations thrown... but respects the wishes. •  Minerva raises Hermione as if she were her own, even if the child asks questions as to why her name is Granger and not McGonagall, which gets explained as Minerva is her stand in aunt, raising her as her parents are no longer with them. •  Hermione is raised to be a fine young woman, her hair still rather wild and curly, sometimes even pinned back ( but not too much ). Her dress of choice is that of a blue with pink ribbons to compliment it, flowery patterns decorating it. ( basically Erika's dress from Barbie: The Princess and The Pauper, a heavy inspiration for her look ). •  Though Hermione being raised as a fine lady, she is certainly NOT afraid to put her foot down for what she wants, the things she wants to pursue, even if it makes her image look terrible. She wants to help the world, be it in medicine or government business, not caring that an ideal like that is very frowned upon. •  Hermione is the type of girl who enjoys an independent study. If she's at a place with a library, there is where you'll find her. Even at a gala or ball, where she does love the atmosphere of a good waltz ( she finds it simply mesmerising and romantic ), she'd much rather have her nose in a book than some random bloke take her aside and think her as some future, stay-at-home wife. •  That being said, Hermione isn't against a romantic situation, be it if she does fall in love. Someone who respects her wishes and things she wants to do. To look in someone's eyes and simply know that's it, it's them. Whomever they might be. She might be a bookworm, but she's still a woman, one who'd want to be swept off her feet.

•  And the last point to add onto that, Hermione has a cat. Her pride and joy, a red Persian, which she named Crookshanks. Yes, a funny name for a cat, but she wouldn't change it for the world. If her cat doesn't like you, that's an indicator that you're not the one for his mistress. According to Hermione, he has an excellent judge of character, as if he were a human being—not that you could tell when his facial expressions don't change all too much, but when he likes you, he'll make sure to show it.

[p1325]

“I do not pretend people in general are without imperfections.” ― Jane Austen, Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed

[rosewritersstuff]

January books 📚

[recycledmoviecostumes]

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor’s Regency-esque costumes for 2004’s Vanity Fair, as well as 2012’s Great Expectations, are very distinguishable by the aesthetic of starkly uni-coloured but otherwise mostly unadorned columns of shiny shot or dupioni silks for outer garments. So, even when reused, the costumes are very distinct.

This burgundy red coat-and-trousers combo was first seen -separately – on Gabriel Byrne as a vampy Marquess of Steyne in the 2004 adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.

The coat, originally a long coat, appears to have been altered into a tailcoat for the 2012 Great Expectations. David Walliams wore this particular coat as Mr. Pumblechook. The coat went on to party hard and ended up dissolute on August Diehl in Confessions of a Child of the Century only a little later that very same year. From there, it went back again, so to speak, to Vanity Fair—this time on Jos Sedley played by David Fynn, for 2018’s television adaptation. The tailcoat eventually danced through the London Ball on entrepreneur and showman Tom Parker, played by Kris Marshall, in the sixth episode of the 2019 first season of Sanditon.

Costume Credit: bellcs, carsNcors

Follow: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram

[faeriemarie]

introducing my newest fame dr🌷🌷

name: [ cr name ] eunjae baudelaire

birthday: december 29th, 1995

known languages: english, korean, welsh, french, italian

occupation: uni student, actress, stop-motion animator

best friends: lisa giuliani, jessica lee, jack farthing, lucy boynton

significant other: josh o’connor

movies:

the french dispatch as juliet

emma (2019) as harriet smith

my salinger year as joanna rakoff

romeo & juliet (2021) as juliet capulet

parachute as riley

writer & director of the dollmaker’s daughter

shows:

doctor who as clara oswald

and then there were none as vera

poldark as morwenna carne

end of the f-ing world as alyssa

sanditon as charlotte heywood

theatre productions:

hamlet as ophelia

the crucible as abigail

carrie as carrie

a little night music as anne

our town as emily webb

the glass menagerie as laura

animated short films:

angel! wild! superstar!

la comedienne

fishboy

louise

clothing style:

aesthetic:

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ-

this dr is very near and dear to my heart because i’m using my cr name and my cr face and my cr personality even though i hate my personality. this dr is closest to the cr version of me and i’m trying to grow more comfortable with that

[friedap]

Review: You should be watching Rational Creatures.

Persuasion has always been my favorite novel by Jane Austen. Sadly, there was no Persuasion in the wave of YouTube modern adaptations that started a decade ago with the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Not only did adaptions of Emma (Approved) follow, there were two adaptations of Northanger Abbey (Northbound and The Cate Moreland Chronicles) and an attempt at the unfinished Sanditon, well before it became a PBS series. Mansfield Park became From Mansfield With Love, the very best adaption of Austen’s least popular novel. I kept thinking Persuasion would be next. But after a few years, the YouTube literary adaptation had lost its bloom.

Rational Creatures  debuted in 2019. Its slightly minimalist aesthetic beautifully captures the tight plotting and the melancholy tone of the original novel. The short episodes sometimes feature more meaningful glances underscored with music than actual dialogue. The series is shot as a film rather than a vlog. This makes it possible to more subtly suggest the inner lives of Ana Elías (a Latina Anne Elliott) and Fred Wentworth, who fell in love as teenagers but parted badly. She went to college, he became a famous travel blogger. Ana’s high school YouTube videos provide flashbacks of their relationship and feel appropriately old-fashioned.

The changes to adapt Persuasion to modern times are deftly handled, and the acting across the cast is uniformly compelling. The circle of friends that Fred returns to after many years of travel is queer and bisexual, and thus genders of characters have been changed. Louisa Musgrove is Louis, and Ana’s sister is married, but to a wife not a husband. Missing characters and other details from the novel show up in stray references, inside jokes for those familiar with the original source material. The writing for the remaining characters is perhaps kinder to them than Austen’s often biting satire, though without them losing their core features. Louis, in particular, has a notable new depth as does Ben (Captain Benwick). Fred is not simply a modern version of Austen’s conquering naval hero. He is someone who has traveled the world but finds himself strangely stuck and unhappy. It’s heartening that Ana is not the only one with lingering feelings from their ended relationship and a sense that her life is not going anywhere.

The first season of Rational Creatures had thousands of viewers. Although crowd funding subsidized season two, the pandemic hit, making production impossible. Three long years later, the series has resumed, like Anne and Captain Wentworth’s relationship, finally fulfilling its original promise. Yet sadly, while Netflix’s ridiculously terrible Persuasion generated international attention, a smaller number of viewers are enjoying seeing the YouTube rendition play out. I imagine that they, like the makers of Rational Creatures, are the best company: clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation. You should join them.

Creators of Rational Creatures: Ayelen Barrios Ruiz Pagano, Hazel Jeffs, Jessamyn Leigh, and Anya Steiner.

Above: Ben (Benjamin Mills) and Louis (Derek Quesada); Ana (Kristina Pupo) and Fred (Peter Giessl).

[jo-harrington]

Getting to know me

Tagged by the most lovely @eddies-ashtray. Thank you bestie 🥰😘 You’re such an interesting person, I love that you love all sorts of media; I know you’re in a slump, but it’s nice to have little comforts.

ok onwards.

last song: If it counts, I’m actually listening to the Sanditon Series 1 Soundtrack right now because I’m in a mood and it’s very lighthearted. If it doesn’t count, Honey and Milk by Andrew Belle. Also on a moody playlist.

last show: Santa Clarita Diet

currently watching: Yugioh. Like…the original one. ✨Dan Greene’s Voice✨ Enough said.

currently reading: Bones and All because of @storiesbyrhi’s adaptation featuring Eddie 😍. (if you’re not reading her story, please go now!!!) Also I have a bunch of Sarah Dessen books I want to reread because again. Mood.

current obsession: Actually it’s cemeteries. I don’t think it’s a current obsession short of perpetual obsession. I’m planning this stupid…Dead Girl Summer idea. Where I go to some great cemeteries around Chicago and just have some little aesthetic picnics once the weather is better.

No pressure tags: @thefreak0fhawkinshigh @br0ck-eddie (Chelsea if you’re seeing this I can’t tag you what is happening) and the lovely @storiesbyrhi (if you are up to it of course)

[demarogue]

Get to Know the Blogger

Tagged by @crackinglamb and @serial-chillr​ – thank you for thinking of me! Your answers are much cooler than mine will be. Stealing Serial’s strategy of telling the story with pictures.

Share your wallpaper: I once downloaded one of those “make your whole phone experience feel aesthetic” apps, and it was quite underwhelming, but I’ve kept the background. 

Last song you listened to: I’m on a Bad Omens kick right now, and at any given moment I’d choose a different song from the new album but I think most recent is Like a Villain. 

Currently reading: This range is weird AF, I admit. I’m also listening to ACOFAS and reading CC2 on kindle. Basically my adhd strategy is to have active reads all over the house so if I feel like reading, something is at hand. I had to run around to gather these, ha!

Last movie: John Wick, which...I dunno man, I’m tired. The first one was so good and now there’s just so much action and so little plot that the action feels tedious. Beautifully shot, though!

Last show: Sanditon season 3. LOVE a period drama, even a silly one.

Craving: Like Serial, I am also really craving spring and warm weather and gardening and hiking and and and. This winter has been SO long.

What are you wearing right now: Way more dressed up than usual LOL. Black cashmere sweater dress, leopard leggings, lined black knee-highs, leather jacket. Usually I’m in joggers and a sweater though. I’m trying to inject some mojo into my life with fashun. 

How tall are you: somewhere between 5′9″ and 5′10″ (~177cm)

Piercings: Just ears, and fun fact, they are slightly uneven because I got them done at a mall kiosk when I was 9.

Tattoos: none yet, I have too many ideas and commitment issues. 

Glasses? Contacts? Neither, I have annoyingly perfect vision

Last drink: matcha latte, and I am my own barista ;)

Last thing you ate: I am being extremely terrible about food right now but at least I’ve had a piece of toast with almond butter heh...I guess I’ll go downstairs and make lunch

Favorite color: no. I can’t do it.

Current obsession: I feel like I am too absorbed in my MFA to have an obsession outside of it, so I guess historical trends in architecture and design!?!? I’m digging the module we’re doing on Art Deco a lot.

Any pets: Dog and Cat – Grover and Weasel, respectively

Favorite fictional character: Sybel from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, by McKillip (as you can see I love McKillip with my whole heart)

The last place you traveled: Just got back from Maryland! I was in Baltimore and DC.

Tagging @ultadverb​ @thesistersarcheron​ @soopsiedaisies​ @skjalla​ I could keep going but if you wanna do it, consider yourself tagged by me. I love reading y’all’s answers!

[loz37]

Period drama week 2023-

Lady Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), the absolute queen of Downton Abbey. What more can be said?

Best line: I'm a woman Mary, I can be as contrary as I choose.

Day 6: Favourite characters.

William Buxton (Tom Hiddleston), Cranfords resident dog dad. Have to give a shout out to Sykes, Hiddles may have been my teenage crush but he will forever be my favourite actor RIP.

Best trait: Hopeless romantic.

Elizabeth Butler (Charlie Murphy) she has it all talent to sing, brains to train as a doctor, born into money yet has a heart for those "beneath" her. Truly embodies the spirit of Rebellion, I wish she was in the second series or at least had more than that one line mention.

Best feat: Joined the Easter rising faught and healed, all while looking stunning in her wedding dress.

This is in no particular order appart from definitely number 1.

Best line: Wouldn't dream of it *sassiest head wobble known to mankind*

Captain Declan Fraser (Frank Blake), Sanditon season twos real heartthrob. Them eyes you could swim in with the sarcastic smile, why did any of the ladies look at anyone else? Heroic, intelligent, dry sense of humour and sensitive to boot. Austinesque swoonwodthyness at its peak.

Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), so pure yet so evil, no wonder she is The Favourite. Amazing characterisation, still can't figure out if I love or loath her but I'm here for it.

Greatest feat: Changes the course of a war whilst holding the position of a maid.

Benadict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson). If Colin is the labrador of the family, Benadict is the cat. Appreciative of the finer things in life, values aesthetics, is willing to play by his own rules and is very loving to his family (I especially love his relationship with Eloise, he doesn't understand her struggles but he still wants to listen and share a cheeky cig).

Best line: Poetry is the art of revealing precious truth with words.

[madame-r]

Currently watching Sanditon Season 3 after catching up with the first two seasons.

It’s actually not that easy to find contents or analyzes about this show. If you have some, please send them my way. I won’t dive too deeply into Sanditon myself, but here is my quick take on it.

*SPOILERS*

❤️ What I like :

The Original Soundtrack

Ruth Barrett did an amazing job in Season 1. Here is an interview which dives into her process as a composer.

The Overall Aesthetic

I am not immune to a slick take like Emma (2020) which is visually stunning, but I’ve noticed that my taste in period drama movies and tv shows leans toward a more naturalistic look.

Yes, Pride & Prejudice (2005) atmosphere, especially the cinematography by Roman Osin, ruined me.

Georgiana Lambe x Arthur Parker

It’s refreshing to see a friendship between a woman and a man for once. They balance each other out with one who can’t escape people’s scrutiny and the other being constantly overlooked.

Esther Denham x Clara Bereton

The Frenemies. Somehow despite their antagonistic relationship and their twisted behavior, at the end of the day, they have each other’s back. I want more women’s solidarity in stories.

James Stringer

Second lead syndrom ?

Sydney Parker’s death

Not that I wanted him to die but I enjoy the fact that they didn’t brush it under the rug and showed how this event affected his entourage.

Charles Lockhart

I didn’t see that twist coming. I was sad because I love him and his dynamic with Georgiana and Arthur. But I enjoy hating him while re-watching the show.

They did his character a disservice by bringing him back in the third season. It doesn’t ring true to me. Despite himself, I believe he caught some feelings for Georgiana and Arthur along the way.

Samuel Colbourne

I may have a thing for dark hair light eyes men ? Well, he is definitely less boring than his brother.

❌ What I don't like :

Basically? The romantic relationships.

Charlotte Heywood x Sidney Parker

Alright, yes the sexy low voice of Sidney works on me too. But what’s left when you go beyond physical attraction between them ? A man who belittles Charlotte at every turn.

It’s infuriating how many times she apologizes to him when he just barely apologize to her once.

To put a spin on his love declaration : I do not think that Charlotte is her best self with Sidney.

Esther Denham x Lord Babington

The man wore her down and for him, no means yes. Dude, let the woman become a rich heiress and decides what she wants in life. And the all thing about wanting a baby because it’s what Lord Babington deserves ? It reaaally rubs me the wrong way.

Charlotte Heywood x Alexander Colbourne

Oh the all “let’s hook up with my boss” thing. Charlotte wants to financially sustain herself but tried to be a governess once and then gave up ? Sure, she had to stay in Sanditon for the sake of the show’s name but still...

Also, Alexander is boring because he acts like a male lead, brooding, playing with dogs and riding horses but he is not fleshed out. And how many times can he change his mind in less than ten minutes ? Seriously ?

Too bad, I was really curious about the Colbourne household life. Mrs Weathley is such a mood.

And again : what’s left when you go beyond physical attraction between them ?

[amelierose13]

I was tagged by @lovelikewildness! yay and thank you!

nicknames: I was called Pease on AO3 recently and it had me skipping around the room for a minute

sign: Libra

height:  5′7″

last thing I googled: Regency England jewelry? fic research...

song stuck in my head: “Scrooge” from Muppet Christmas Carol - ‘tis the season, y’all!

number of followers: 25 lololololol - but I know they are all real people, so there’s that

lucky number: I like odd numbers more than even? 31? don’t really have one

amount of sleep: it’s nice to get 7 but my body needs 8+ or everything is horrible

movies and books that summarize you: period dramas (particularly Jane Austen), Rogue One (though mostly the fandom), Wes Anderson and Taika Waititi films for “that kind” of humor

favorite song: not a fair question. but right now? “I’m with You” by Vance Joy and “I Love You” by Spacemen 3 are being played just about every day - though at this time of year, “Coming Home” by Peter Mayer is never far from my mind

aesthetic: autumn & winter, Carhartt and plaid, cups of coffee and hot chocolate, rainy days and a good book to read, a pair of good boots, and Lake Superior in general

favorite authors: also difficult - but Austen and Steinbeck are up at the top, and the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian is my absolute favorite

favorite animal noise: cats purring. and I’m allergic to cats. but gosh if their purrs aren’t something.

random: it’s 118 days until the release of Sanditon season 3. That is not random, but it is in the forefront of my mind. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I tag @wearesuchstuff1, @imsfire2, @spontaniousmusicalnumbers, @cleverlittlejay, @melyzard to do with this as they wish, which includes completely ignoring it should they so choose!

[the-ubiquitous-miss-heywood]

50 ways to Sanditon

Day 03/50

salty breezes

@sanditoncreative

[doomedship]

sanditon

x

daemons

part 1 - heroes

part 1 . part 2 . part 3 . part 4