#cakes and ale

[iridescent-witch-life]

@paperwitchco

#litha #ostara #beltane #yule #imbolc #manbon #lammas #lughnassadh #autumn equinox #spring eqinox #summer solstice #winter solstice #sabbat #wiccan sabbat #witches sabbat #wheel of the year #cakes and ale #witchblr #witches of tumblr #witchcraft #wicca #pagan #witchy #witchy things #baby witch #kitchen witch #kitchen witchcraft #hearth witch #hearth witchcraft

[shakespearenews]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #shrove tuesday #pancakes #cakes and ale #twelfth night #stationer's company #early modern #tudor #history

[hopecomesbacktolife]

can’t stop laughing about this quote from this book I’m reading:

-from Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

#cakes and ale #book quotes #this like quite literally made me audibly laugh out loud while reading it #personal

[enagismos]

I do not know if others are like myself, but I am conscious that I cannot contemplate beauty long. For me no poet made a falser statement than Keats when he wrote the first line of Endymion. When the thing of beauty has given me the magic of its sensation my mind quickly wanders; I listen with incredulity to the persons who tell me that they can look with rapture for hours at a view or a picture. Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose : you can smell it and that is all: that is why the criticism of art, except in so far as it is unconcerned with beauty and therefore with art, is tiresome. All the critic can tell you with regard to Titian’s Entombment of Christ, perhaps of all the pictures in the world that which has most pure beauty, is to go and look at it. What else he has to say is history, or biography, or what not. But people add other qualities to beauty—sublimity, human interest, tenderness, love—because beauty does not long content them. Beauty is perfect, and perfection (such is human nature) holds our attention but for a little while. The mathematician who after seeing Phèdre asked: “Qu’est-ce que ça prouve?” was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Pæstum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty. Beauty is a blind alley. It is a mountain peak which once reached leads nowhere. That is why in the end we find more to entrance us in El Greco than in Titian, in the incomplete achievement of Shakespeare than in the consummate success of Racine. Too much has been written about beauty. That is why I have written a little more. Beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied? It is only to the dullard that enough is as good as a feast. Let us face it : beauty is a bit of a bore.

— Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale.

#reading this rn and had to highlight the whole passage in my physical copy #because yes yes yes! beautiful is boring! perfection is death! #somerset maugham #cakes and ale

[biboocat]

Cakes & Ale by W. Somerset Maugham.

I enjoyed Cakes & Ale by W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham says in the introduction, “I am willing to agree with the common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work. It is the kind of work that an author can only write once. After all, he has only one life. But the book I like best is Cakes & Ale.” Despite Maugham’s disavowals, the general opinion is that two principal characters, Alroy Kear and Edward Driffeld are drawn from Hugh Walpole and Thomas Hardy respectively. It’s an entertaining satire of Victorian class prejudice, social propriety, and pretentiousness. It has the intrigue of a mystery novel as the narrator gradually recounts his memories of the celebrated author Edward Driffeld & his wife, Rosie Driffeld. I loved the literary motif, trenchant observations of the narrator writer/Maugham, and the moments of humor. And there’s Rosie, a most unusual character.

Some quotes:

“It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.“

“As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings…”

“Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then?”

#w. somerset maugham #cakes and ale #book review

[outxfmymind]

dream Al Pacino birthday cake

#al pacino #cake #coquette

[mud-muffin]

The Best Birthday Present

#dick grayson #nightwing #I'd like to believe that Al tried his best to get DIck so nostalgic that at least on his birthday he would allow a visit #despite still being mad at bruce and wanting to start fresh in Bludhaven #first he would send a package later on he would arrive unanounced with cake 😏 #dcu

[emtrobarasalaplatja3]

#al os #black speedo #them cakes

[chane-vel]

What if...

Nakdl ellos ya tuvieron una pelea pero en ese momento Simón estaba loco por la corona, ahora, si conservara la conciencia en su totalidad podría llegar a ganar fácilmente una pelea(?

Asi q me imagine esto..

#adventure time #simon petrikov #ice king #hora de aventura #doodles #adventure time fanart #fanart #flame princess #art #hice esto porque me vi un edit bien épico de ellos dos peleando 🤑 #mi teoría es que ahora Simón no caera en la locura al usar la corona #99% de fé 1% de probabilidades #fionna and cake

[alecz-obssesionz]

Yesterday, I fell in love. He's everything I could ask for...

#fionna and cake #adventure time fionna and cake #scarab fionna and cake #scarab beetle #scarab #LIKE HE GOT AL BOXES CHECKED #GOOD VOICE #FRUITY #THOSE HIPS DON'T LIE #BUG-LIKE #RED #SUIT #that stare...... #I LOVE HIM #srry not hk #alecz'makingz

[catfindr]

#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #food mention #cake pop #spotted tabby #al #alabama

[iridescent-witch-life]

Milasapothecary

#kitchen witchcraft #cakes and ale #kitchen witch #green witch #moon witchcraft #moon witch #lunar witch #lunar witchcraft #green witchcraft #moon phase #moon phases #crescent moon #full moon #crescent moon cookies #pastel witch

[luxthestrange]

Cakes Yuu has given to Scarabia Part 10

Kalim Al Asim:

...Kalim JUST happened to walk in at the wrong time you threw Jamil out the door as your finishing move after you had a FRIENDLY sparring match with him...after what he did to Kalim

Jamil Viper:

Jamil was SO ready for a horny cake or a horrible meme cake....or even a threat cake but he was NOT ready for a compliment cake...he is currently being comforted by Kalim...you gave him too much feels-

Part 10 of:

#disney twst #twst #twisted wonderland x yuu #twisted wonderland x reader #twst yuu #twst scarabia #scarabia x reader #kalim al asim #kalim al asim x yuu #kalim al asim x reader #jamil viper x yuu #jamil viper x reader #jamil viper #protect the sunshine boy #red slytherin #twst cake series

[dabna]

. PARQUE KITANOMARU

a lo largo de su excesiva vida, dana conoce dos caminos: llorar y pretender que absolutamente nada había pasado. segunda opción ha sido su estrategia desde que su corazón dejó de latir, y esta no sería la excepción. su diestra toma uno de los mechones que molestan en su panorámica, mientras que la izquierda se aferra al borde metálico que la separa del lago que aún tiene un par de botes andando. ' ¿ya te subiste alguna vez a alguno? ' interroga con cantarina vociferación, y su mirada traviesa se termina por posar en tercero en escena. ' porque de ser un no, ahora lo harás ' confiada, como siempre, no es capaz de aceptar ninguna negativa. ' ¿o dejarás a una chica con su sueño? ' sus pestañas aletean con falsa inocencia, ya se había subido más de una vez.

#declaro a cake enemiga de estado #al final conté también los likes; así que si lo tenían guardado y pusieron like contestes con confianza!

[nicoscheer]

Happy 38th Birthday to our silly idiot Alex Turner

#06/01/2024 #alex turner #happy birthday #to the wonder of you #I can’t with the childlike joy in his eyes #to many many more years of our wonderfully weird grandpa #thank you for making the past one so incredibly wonderful #may he get the biggest cake and wonderful presents #it looks like there’s a pic of just Al before a background on his cake

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

honestly. half the fun of fantasy aus for me is the Food Descriptions

#why yes i WILL spend entire paragraphs going into great detail about characters' meals #ovens and campfires and magic-roasted and festival vendors and cauldrons and- #meats... cheeses... fruits... bread... mead... ale... onions... egg... pastries... stew... pie... cake... etc etc #i could go on forever #i live through writing and one of my greatest and most favorite delights in life is Tasty Food #it shows. it very much shows at every available opportunity #i always get so excited when im reading something and theres Descriptions hell yeah #yes it makes me hungry in a way that i cannot satiate! #because most of those things are Beyond My Grasp! #oh to sit down at a table laden with high quality deliciousness.... allowed to go Hog Fuckin Wild... #absolutely unprompted #im gonna go butter a plain white bread slice and dip it in canned soup #thats as close as i can get! #i need to make a big soup again... i crave Vegetables... #or ohhhh a nice thicc stew... yeah... throw some turnips in... nice soft shredded meat... Spices Galore... #wailing wailing wailing #its a shame that i Do Not Enjoy Cooking!