George Barbier, In early Art Deco style: Dix-sept dessins de George Barbier sur Le cantique des cantiques - Traduction française de 1316 (Seventeen drawings by George Barbier on The Song of Songs - French translation from 1316), Paris: La Belle Édition, 1914.
“For he was their Victor Hugo. And his Paris, the Paris of Esmeralda and Jean Valjean, would live forever.”
― Mary McAuliffe, Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends.
Hi! I'm doing a new survey on Dark Academia for my university research on aesthetics, if you like it or know what it is I'd appreciate it if you could fill in the survey: https://forms.gle/xZRvM5pxF62bhDyn7 (Copy and paste the URL, otherwise it won't open)
🇬🇧“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).
I'm rewatching Jean Cocteau lately so I'm sharing a vid I made ages ago.
Temptation
source: La Belle et la Bete (1946)
pairing: Belle/Beast
song/artist: "Temptation" by Diana Krall
length/size: 3:20 / 40MB / mp4
Summary: Temptation.... I can't resist.
download: right-click save ty to @ars-amatoria
A 2010 festivd treat for dualbunny!
youtube
original vid notes + lyrics under the cut
I don't have many notes about this particular vid except that I love the source so much. I've adored Diana Krall long before I started vidding but I can't even remember how I thought to pair her with the film. I actually had this vid idea the longest of the three vids I did for festivids--I was contemplating it back in November and had messed with enough of the timeline that I felt it came together in a very pleasing way. It's a much more relaxed POV than I'm used to doing for such limited source but I think it helped with the flow. There was so much excellent footage to choose from. Jean Cocteau is nothing short of marvelous. Truly.
YAY festivids and yay vid for dualbunny !!!
"Temptation" - Diana Krall
Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
Everything is made from dreams
Time is made from honey slow and sweet
Only the fools know what it means
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
Well I know that she is made of smoke
But I've lost my way
He knows that I am broke
But I must pay him
Temptation, oh temptation, temptation, I can't resist
Dutch pink and Italian blue
He's there waiting for you
My will has disappeared
Now confusion is oh so clear
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
Temptation, for love, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
Everything is made from dreams
Time is made from honey slow and sweet
Only the fools know what it means
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
Well I know that she is made of smoke
But I've lost my way
He knows that I am broke
But I must pay him
Temptation, oh temptation, temptation, I can't resist
Dutch pink and Italian blue
He's there waiting for you
My will has disappeared
Now confusion is oh so clear
Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
Temptation, for love, temptation, temptation
I can't resist
at first, i just wanted to make some plain character posters. but eventually, i changed my mind. i created these gifs to honor my beloved kids. here, you can see all of my wizarding charas that are part of the lgbtq+ community. 🌈✨ i would like to thank Gryff for creating and hosting this event. i’m really sorry that i couldn’t post every single day, but i still did have fun! i hope you also had a wonderful pride month, @gaygryffindorgal
What is the worst thing you have put your OC through story-wise? Music!Ben
{ 🫀 You broke and bought: Music!Ben }
He brought it on himself. He brought the whole house tumbling down.
A listicle of the infamous tumbling downs:
Got cosy with a singer with the sole ambition of stealing her songs for First Order Records. Then he fell in love with her. Then he broke her heart. Then he broke his heart.
Deliberately drove a car he knew would crash, physically debilitating his bandmate and best friend, Devon (Dräede (Music!Verse Knight OC)).
Kicked out of the band that was his life- and family, too.
Destroyed by Snoke.
The other public break-up with another singer.
(Not invented by the mun at all, mun is loving and kind, and Music!Ben…
Music!Ben: pff, I was a fucking sweetheart in 2020.
K: Why you little—
He was.)
And the long inciting crawl before the drop:
He was picked up by First Order Records, a mega-famous, albeit notoriously abominable, bloodsucking label, at Snoke’s behest. Snoke has a lot of power in the industry, a big string-puller, surrounded by goons and lawyers and goons who are lawyers. Legend has it, they didn’t want the rest of the band, at least not initially. Just Ben.
Ben accepted and signed a contract with profoundly shitty terms and not only urged but successfully convinced all his mates to do the same, you know, so that the band could stay together. To be fair, he didn’t know any better at the time. Later on, however, when certain strictures became clear, ‘Kylo’ shrugged off the band’s concerns. Things got ugly even before they got ugly
(Apparently, he never apologized to any one of them. And there were nine members at one point.)
Various incidents where this poor boy (nobody loves him) was a victim of sexual assault by gnarly, old Hollywood men. All horned-up aggressive men, at parties, you know, locker room behavior on designer drugs. Men who’d grab at him and tell him it was a good thing he was so big. Some women, too.
(Ben denies this. He’s also denied the existence of TMZ when they’re right in his face, so go figure.)
Some women threw broken Guinness bottles at ‘Kylo’ during a live performance in Michigan. Women with strong throwing arms. One bottle hit him in the pelvic belt… that was during a low-rise jean phase everyone went through. Probably would’ve been a nothingburger if he got offstage treatment. Everyone thought it was so cool the way this kid kept playing. A few shards got into his eye area, though. Then they had to take him down. And that was before the masks and uniforms.
Born in New York and raised all over the world. They really liked that line. It wasn’t Ben’s, but he wore it after a while. He would hate anyone to know, but if you asked someone from before the Knights of Ren, they’d tell you he grew up in North Wetyin, which never existed on a map, ever. He got the shit kicked out of him in school, too. He dressed kind of like maybe he was gay? Sure, he was a tall tree, but he looked weird and talked funny, and you could see how sad he was. It’s mean; kids get mean in middle school, but those kids he went to school with just didn’t like him, and they seemed to want him to know it.