Happy Birthday, Halle Bailey!🧜🏾‍♀️🌊💋🐡

loving the bombello × concetta video! Best that could have been... sigh...

Thank you very much, my dear. This couple has entered my "hall of tragic romances" along with Edith and Thomas from "Crimson Peak" (I really have a soft spot for this kind of plot).

What makes me most indignant is how Concetta, who was offered the proposal by her own COUSIN, Tancredi, to be his LOVER and she is still in love with him! He even had the nerve to ask "how were they?" as soon as Bombello set foot outside... MY SON, YOU ARE MARRIED! LET CONCHETTA BE HAPPY AND MARRY THE ONE WHO REALLY LOVES HER. And Bombello was not just a man who loved her, no... he was the MAN who LOVED her regardless of the Corbera's financial situation not being so good, even though the Corbera family did not approve of their union and wanted him out of there. He waited 2 years to marry her, swallowed his pride and lost her to a man who didn't "want her enough and wouldn't let anyone else want her".

Even though I had read the book and knew that this story would go nowhere, I was disappointed. In the end, Concetta is the Leopard and "reigns" through her brother Francesco, a Puppet Prince, and parades through the family's plantations at sunset as if they still had some power, lost due to the decline of the monarchy and a false speech of freedom and that she had finally built something "hers".

It would have been better if she had become a Nun, that way she would contribute more since she wanted to have a role in society.

Anyway, in my head, Concetta and Bombello meet again years later, get married and have lots of babies🥹💖

I live here

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🎥 Barbie Fairytopia (2005).

🎶 Slow living (a quiet live), Ophelia Wilde.

I thank everyone who accompanied me this year and those who resisted my absence. Happy New Year!🥳💖🦋💐🍰

(My Readings and Best of the Year)

(Happy New Year in Brazilian Portuguese)

October 1st: Spooky Season!

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🎥 Labyrinth (1986), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Addams Family Values (1993), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Van Helsing (2004), Cinderella (2015), Crimson Peak (2015).

📺 The Vampire Diaries (2009-17), Dracula (2013).

🎶 Balder, Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis.

📹 Lester Van Der Bel (YouTube), Sbrenn (YouTube), MovieClips (YouTube), The Phantom of the Opera (YouTube), Movie Thread (YouTube), Fear: The Home of Horror (YouTube), Sora4277 (YouTube), DelenaFcs (YouTube), Screen Bites (YouTube).

Chapter 1 of The Prisoner's Throne is revealed by Gizmodo:

Gizmodo

A Captive Prince Plots in Holly Black's Stolen Heir Sequel

Read an exclusive excerpt from The Prisoner's Throne, the second book in the duology from the best-selling fantasy author.

🇧🇷 “[...] Uma trágica história de romance, paixão e assassinato a sangue frio.” Feliz Dia das Bruxas!🎃🧙🏼⚰️🐈‍⬛🧚🏻‍♀️🏚️🔮 | 🇬🇧 “[...] A tragic story of romance, passion and cold-blooded murder.” Happy Halloween!🎃🧙🏼⚰️🐈‍⬛🧚🏻‍♀️🏚️🔮

🎥 A Noiva Cadáver | The Corpse Bride (2005).

🎶 Born to Die, Lana Del Rey.

Today is not the 13th, but it is Friday. Would you pass by this kitten?🐈‍⬛

1 year of The Little Mermaid🧜🏾‍♀️🌊💋🐡

🎥 The Little Mermaid (2023).

🎶 Meet me Halfway, Black Eyed Peas.

Child is Not a Mother!

This may be coming from an initially selfish point of view, but that's also what I think as a woman (I'm just feeling tired and totally exhausted).

So, let's talk about men! There is no institution more illusory and disgraceful than that of MEN. Currently, my country (Brazil🇧🇷) is going through a situation that disgusts all socially and politically conscious people. Men are voting to establish that RAPE victims, whether children, teenagers or women, continue with their pregnancy. And in the case of abortion, the MEN who are sitting in their fancy FUCKING chairs have determined that they should be IMPRISONED for up to 20 YEARS, while their ABUSERS will only be imprisoned for 8 YEARS (if they are convicted or never get out again or early for good behavior).

I just don't know what else to say about this other than just barely being able to express how disgusting this is! It's getting harder every day not to hate men just for breathing. I personally have no desire to start a family with a man who can possibly brutalize me in every possible way! I keep thinking about the novels I read, the novels I write, that the majority of the period romance community idealizes men and I feel disappointed. Sometimes, I just want to continue living in this fantasy world, romcom's etc.

Is it so wrong that I want this, when men should just be taught to be men? Respecting your mothers, sisters, girlfriends, daughters, co-workers?

So may God protect all of us who are somehow powerless under a society that glorifies violent criminals.

Holly Black reveals snippet of sequel to The Stolen Heir:

“Oak!” Hyacinthe shouts. The prince lets his arm with the dagger in it sag. Somehow being yelled at by Hyacinthe brings him back to himself. Maybe it is just the familiarity of his scorn.

When he isn't hit again, he lets himself lie there, breathing hard.

“She wants you to sit down to supper with her,” Hyacinthe says. “I'm supposed to get you cleaned up.”

“Wren?” Oak's sense of time is still very unclear. “I thought she was going to have me punished.”

Hyacinthe raises both his eyebrows. “Yes, Wren. Who else?”

The prince looks at the guards, who are glaring at him resentfully. If he'd been thinking more clearly, he would have realized he had no cause to try to murder them. They weren't necessarily working for Valen nor Bogdana, weren't necessarily leading him to his doom. He probably would have figured that out sooner, had his head not hurt so much. Had Bogdana not come and threatened him.

“No one mentioned supper,” Oak complains. One of the guards, the one with the club, snorts. The other two wear scowls that remain unaltered. Hyacinthe turns to all of them.

“Find something else to do. I will escort the prince.” The guards depart, one spitting on the stone floor as he leaves.

“I warn you,” Oak says. “If you are also planning on hitting me, it will have to be quite a blow to have any effect on the swelling and bruises already coming in.”

“Is there no situation where you might bow to wisdom and keep your tongue between your teeth?” Hyacinthe asks, reaching out a hand to pull Oak to his feet. For a moment, the prince is certain he's going to open his mouth and say something Hyacinthe will not think is at all funny. Something that probably won't be all that funny.

“I haven't found one yet, but we can both live in hope,” Oak manages as he lets himself be levered up.

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