#Nouveau Rich

[mihai-florescu]

it's crazy crazy

Tori coming out as straight in this story would be the funniest thing that could possibly happen

#i assume his goal will be to be respected and seen as worthy both as an idol and leader? since the himemiyas are looked down on as #nouveau rich #ask #yume-fanfare

[female-rappers]

Ty Shaw Hvdes - Nouveau Rich

#Ty Shaw Hvdes #rap #2024 #music video #poledance #club #Nouveau Rich

[salsedinepicta]

Draw the brother, and now the sister: Maren Hawke, repressed mage extraordinaire and fan of political scheming.

Plus some teenage angst:

#what's the point of being 1. a nouveau rich 2. literally named hawk if you don't actually do some hawking #and kudos to myself for having perfect references from real life and forgetting to use them 🤡🤡 #i did try to animate the wisp but the quality was hideous so enjoy the stillness yayy #clip studio paint #dragon age #dragon age fanart #da fanart #da2 #dragon age hawke #da hawke

[seriousbrat]

why I don't think the Blacks were actually that wealthy is this:

"A reasonable amount of gold."

So, Harry inherits ALL of Sirius's money, house, his House-elf. Since Grimmauld Place goes to Sirius after the death of his parents, it's fair to assume that he also got all their money. He also, as we know, inherited a good chunk of gold from his Uncle Alphard. Being in Azkaban for 12 years and later living in hiding/at Grimmauld place, he probably did not spend much of that money. His one big expense is the Firebolt, which, yeah, is expensive but if the Blacks had been uber loaded like they're portrayed in fic, I don't think Dumbledore would have used the word "reasonable" to describe what was left to Harry.

Reasonable suggests to me that yeah, it's a decent amount. But it's not MORE than what Harry already had. It's not an EXTREME amount.

Another thing for me is the matter of Bellatrix's marriage. Narcissa and Lucius seem to genuinely be in love, but I don't think Bellatrix mentions Rodolphus, her literal husband, ONCE (correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly certain) in the ENTIRE series. She was in love with Voldemort. She probably didn't want to marry Rodolphus and clearly didn't care much about him. This suggests to me that the motivations behind this marriage were financial rather than romantic. Even Narcissa's marriage to Lucius was probably financially motivated, even though they were lucky enough to actually be a good match. Walburga married her own cousin- again, this was likely financially motivated.

The other clue is Grimmauld Place itself. Historically wealthy/aristocratic families would have a london townhouse for the season, but reside most of the time in country estates or manor houses. There's no mention of any Black family estate at all, and if there was one Sirius being the eldest male heir would have inherited it, as would Harry later. The fact that the Blacks live only in their London house (which is not even that ostentatious, it's terraced and between Muggle houses. why would they choose this.) suggests to me that any country estate they might have had was sold. I guess you could argue that Cygnus and his daughters lived there, but he was the youngest so i find this unlikely. If anything, it would have gone to Alphard. It might have passed to Cygnus upon his death, but that still leaves Walburga without.

What I think happened was that the Blacks were a typical old money family with dwindling resources. Likely Orion and Walburga did not work, and yet still clung to a lavish, aristocratic lifestyle while burning the galleons they had. Grimmauld Place is in a state of disrepair, and yeah it's been abandoned for 12+ years imo it probably started before that. Kreacher is OBSESSED with Black family heirlooms, which suggests that Walburga probably was too- likely she clung onto them as signs of her family's wealth and status, which was fading away before her eyes.

Personally I think Alphard probably inherited the bulk of what was left of the Black fortune, possibly an estate which he then either sold or gave to someone else- but presumably not Walburga, as she blasted him off the tapestry.

And the blasting of Alphard itself. Yeah Walburga hated Sirius and anyone who looked kindly on him, but imo if had she been rolling in it and money was of no concern, Alphard leaving Sirius some gold might not have been especially noteworthy to her. I believe that she was hoping that either she or Regulus would inherit the gold, and when he left it to Sirius she reacted VERY angrily. Because tbh, it might have just gone to him by default as the eldest male heir if Cygnus was dead by that time, which if this is the case seems likely because Alphard DID leave Sirius money. If it was just about him being fond of Sirius she likely would have blasted him off earlier. It seems to me like it was about the money, and to me explains why Walburga was so bitter and so possessive over her legacy.

#honestly even if they were loaded and it passed to cygnus... that still leaves walburga without lmao #imo the potters were nouveau riche and WERE wealthier #thanks to fleamonts hair care empire #and the existence of this sort of family must have been agonising to walburga haha #I see them as eventually going the same way as the Gaunts. I mean kind of they did. the black surname is gone #ig potentially orion inherited money but again. where is it #sirius #sirius black #walburga black #walburga #black family #meta

[geekynerfherder]

'Poison Ivy' by Frank Cho & Sabine Rich.

Variant cover art for 'Poison Ivy' issue #23, published June 2024 by DC Comics.

#Art Of The Day #Art #AOTD #Frank Cho #Sabine Rich #Poison Ivy #DC Comics #Female #Feminine #Pinup #Redhead #Art Nouveau #Comics #Comic Art #Comic Cover #Comic Cover Art #Cover Art #Variant Cover

[shallowseeker]

Regarding Dean, but especially regarding Rowena, you know?

CATRIONA: Ohhh... Raggedy Ann. ROWENA: Excuse me? CATRIONA: I remember you-- a rag doll all huddled on our doorstep. (then) I swore I could see the fleas nibbling away at what was left of your dirty little body. On ROWENA, eyes lowered. Angrier and angrier as Catriona speaks-- CATRIONA: But still-- still you thought you were worthy of our magic. And when we disagreed... (giggles) Oh, how you begged. How you threw yourself down and...offered yourself to each of us-- Boyd almost took you up on it-- but I told him it would be cleaner with the pigs-- ROWENA: Enough!

Performing Dean is one thing, but we see that Rowena's performance is actually one of the most painful of all. (She's the tanner's daughter, you see, who smells of filth and death, but oh oh how she wants you to see her power and her glitz and her glamor and her prestige-)

12x11 Regarding Dean

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#spn 12x11 #rowena #dean & rowena #spn + class #rowena + nouveau rich #rowena macleod #party girl dean #regarding dean is ABOUT rowena #it's about rowena's pursuit of success #and how she disguises her lack of worth #dean has a lack of love and buries that in booze and hookups #these two in this episode are so-

[shihlun]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche

1996

#kiyoshi kurosawa #Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! #Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself #黒沢清 #勝手にしやがれ!! #勝手にしやがれ #勝手にしやがれ!!成金計画 #勝手にしやがれ 成金計画 #Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche

[mashamorevvna]

gale/gortash are about tangible class warfare in the bedroom and about triangulating the position of a secret, third class that stands in opposition to old educated money and poor as dirt working class, and willing that into existence for the purpose of engaging with it in a sexual roleplay

#bg3 #former dirt poor kid turned nouveau riche + educated young man born into wealth is the recipe for somebody to reinvent the bourgeois #even if its like a 16th century setting. and all so they could nut about it. inspiring

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

ask #2 what head canons do you have about Tom and Mary's relationship

OHHHH A DOWNTON ABBEY QUESTION

Okay okay so i need to acknowledge how feral I am about these two. Also i sorta checked out after the show shoved Mary and skinny chad number 7ish down the aisle (Is his name Henry or something??? the race car driver whatever, fuck him 😆)

(I still dont understand how they expect me to believe that the love of her life dies in a devastating car accident but she would willingly re-marry a race car driver. brain does not compute)

I digress. I think Tom and she develope this insanely deep emotional bond in that first year without their spouses as a result of their shared grief. They each married for love at a time when few others of their social group would have had the chance to do so (Tom is extra isolated on account of he isnt yet accepted into that social group). I think they really heavily depend on eachother in the beginning. someone else who just gets that grief. and also was close to the spouse who died so it's two sides of a coin. they gravitate towards the one other person they feel fully understands them and they help the other A. remember the love who died and B (more in Mary's case) remember what kind of person that love inspired them to be.

And i headcanon that by the time they might be ready for romance again theyve fallen into this inexplicable deep emotional entanglement with the other. it would be incredibly hard to find something more fulfilling. at the same time, transforming that connection into romance would probably be terrifying (would the other want that? would it be a betrayal of Matthew and Sybil to move on together) oodles of grief there.

I think Tom actually goes to Boston at all because he realizes whats happening and it scares him. on the one hand he thinks it isnt fair to mary to hold her back from a romance. on the other hes not quite sure if he could ever move on from Sybil. (And of course be comes back because he cant bear to be away from Mary and figures he can find a way to control the attraction. maybe by committing himself to helping her find new love.)

Which is about where what I headcanon and what the show does diverge. I cant wrap by head around her marrying skinny man number 7. i just cant. Husband material is right there at the breakfast table with her. Why would she go for Henry when she already has Tom?

I also think theyre good for eachother okay! they encourage and empower eachother. She helps him navigate the code switching he needs to do to be a part of the peerage. he helps her find her way out of the constricting box the peerage has always pressured her to conform to. Him being estate agent opens the door for her to take control over it. theirs is a partnership. running the whole thing together. beause he respects her opinion and welcomes her to the table as an equal, it effectively gives her the control over her home shes always felt like she cant have due to her sex.

So in my headcanon she either dumps skinny man or has an unhappy marriage to skinny man that prompts Tom and she to have a conversation about what they really want. And then they would get together And i could frankly read stories about them getting together foreverrr.

#downton abbey #mary crawley/tom branson #also honestly i would love for her to tell him what happened with Pamuk in the pilot #because if anyone was ever going to be able to tell her it wasnt her fault it would be him #Also also also Mary has been pressured to marry for status or money or to secure the line of succession at Downton her whole entire life #even skinny man comes with new money and a kind of nouveau rich prestige that tom doesnt #and so i would love if she finally got to embrace a love that was not thrust upon her from the outside #and i would love for him to have someone who respects every part of him and who has been there for his whole journey #all my other ships are together or open to possibility and then theres THESE TWO AND THE NARRATIVE DOES THEM DIRTY #if Downton werent trying to keep up the drama of Mary's lovelife #Tom and Mary would be married by Season 6

[fauvester]

tcgfau henry clay three ways

#tcgf au #hc #silly little mortal guy. ghost (baby). ghost (nouveau riche ghost king) #loses his charming little flushed cheeks and messy hair in the divorce #tfw your soulmate leaves you to die on the battlefield n you spend 500 years unsuccessfully trying to work thru that #also trying to engineer a handsome alive-looking corpse body. and mostly succeeding! the hair is always a point of issue though. #just wax it flat. less maintenance. corpse hair requires so much upkeep to make it look natural smh #this au’s Webster is so much better at it his human fits and god homunculi are literally insane #he can look effortlessly like anyone. but he chooses to look like a golden era of cinema creature from the black lagoon #HC like Why are you like this. bro #jackson looks like a desert bog body. he looks like jerky

[harlequinfrog]

My DnD group's DM is collaborating with the players on worldbuilding and I'm the only one playing a gnome so she gave me the go-ahead to make up whatever the hell I want as long as it doesn't affect gameplay too much. MY CITY NOW

#i decided all gnomes have tails and long sideburns (but not beards) #my character Meena shaves hers bc she's essentially nouveau riche and growing them out is considered old fashioned and provincial #and now i'm writing an essay about the cultural importance of sideburn styles in gnome communities #they start growing during puberty and having full sideburns is considered a sign of adulthood/maturity #nonbinary people traditionally had particular cultural niches and would style their facial hair according to their job/gender #but traditionally girls in her home region would wear them long and tied or braided in front #and when they got engaged they'd wear them pulled back with either end of a ribbon tied to each 'tail' #married gnome women have special jewelry for the same purpose but older women usually just tie theirs back like a ponytail #and the jewelry is just for show #men usually keep theirs fairly short #the tail thing is less interesting i just wanted Meena to have one bc i think it looks cool #i tried rearranging some of the tags to make it easier to read but they got scrambled even worse 😭 #tumblr mobile i hate you. one thousand laser sword attack

[gothicprep]

honestly, there isn't a more damning argument against the claim that market forces inherently breed innovation than the state of film and television rn. market cap incentivizes safe bets, and those bets don't stay safe forever.

~smart~ refrigerators existing at all argues something similar. that's not innovative! it's bizarre, expensive, and gaudy!

#something about a smart fridge makes me understand the contempt that old socialite families feel towards the nouveau riche #every time i've seen one my mind was on a plane to some non-existent summer home in anne arbor and saying 'how tawdry!' #to the also non-existent oil tycoon husband i betrothed in a lavender marriage

[sadroundface]

it took an hour, some insta photos, a little hand-drawn map, real estate websites, and bouncing back and forth between regular google maps, street view, and satellite view, but i figured out where franko had been living in nyc and my eyes are like bleeding from the photos of the apartment. new york nouveau riche is insane like...i would not like to live in this place but also yes i would

#this will help me Write #i'm a creep!!! #if anyone wants to look at photos of the penthouses...hit me up lol #but i also have to rewrite some shit in my Gay Bar chapter cause this isn't the kind of luxury building i thot it would be #it's like. suuuuuper nouveau riche i would be embarrassed admitting i lived there

[smallpotatoes-dandelions]

Art Nouveau Japanese damascene bat and crescent moon necklace

#i have to become rich just so i can buy this #bat #bats #art nouveau #art nouveau jewlery #bat necklace #bat jewelry #jewelry #mypost #jewellery #art nouveau jewellery

[royrockstone]

thinking abt that script book scene where roman mentions his eating disorder friend named pax

#the nouveau riche names in succ will always be famous #roman incredibly likely to be one of those ppl looking for an ‘ana coach’ on mpa in 2013

[impercre]

Also yes I frequently incorporate Finnish terms, culture into my headcanons about Giedi Prime because I think it's hilarious Frank did this.

#like the countryside outside the cities in my head is finland #and Harko and the big cities have a very soviet/art deco look to them #somehow in my head this fits with House Harkonnens nouveau riche vibe #not in the book [ooc]