Ooo!! Which OC was your favorite to design? (Feel free to list multiple if you can't chose!!)
honestly the funnest characters to design are the ones where you instantly know what their ***color pallete*** will be cuz it's all fine and dandy knowing the shape and the face until you realise you have no clue what colors you're going to slap on those shapes and face. that being said the funnest funkiest top 5 are as follows -
5. diane lodestar
even her first design 2 ish years ago was fun to draw (brace yourself for ugly old zeno art):
(why was she so skinny here...💔) anyway i knew exactly what she was going to look like because she was heavily based on that one pokemon character (wicke) and just had a fun futuristic pallete i guess? and now her features are more stylised which is fun. there's a reason she barely changed after her first design lol
4. needles (of the church)
here i'll also say that needles doesn't have a last name so she's just called needles of the church! anyway i drew her up in one go and i knew i had a hit on my hands, she's very fun to draw and i love her very much even though she kills indiscriminately
(first design of her, complete with all my ref pics so you can take a peek into the inner machine algorithm workings of zenobot-3000)
(final design noticed how hardly anything has changed. she is too cute and perfect for this world)
3. lars lycan
i don't have many big guy ocs so lars is fun to draw because he's so top heavy. also the like line/swoop thingy shape he has going on that's fun idk how to describe it sorry
(literally cannot crop shear out of this image without cropping out lars' snout which is kind of in character for shear lol. also having 6 top surgery scars (yes the x's are scars) doesnt really make sense but its funny and it fills up the torso and its fun to draw)
2. doctor novocaine
big hair twintails upturned eyes :3 face and cotton candy/toothpaste/trans flag colors NUFF SAID 😤😤😤
1. octaviaaaaaaaaaaa
she's fuckin COOL!!!!! also here's the first sketch of her most recent design. even when i gave her and savory massive overhauls i hardly changed her apart from getting rid of a lab coat and slightly changing the dress and changing the color palette to be edgier and when i say it like that it sounds like a lot but its really not kind of
(ohmygod she looks so weird without lips honestly ,,,, and also her face was kinda long it's like flatter and wider now,,, i gotta redo her refsheet man)
[This post is copy/pasted from multiple reblog posts I wrote for the Rick C-137 & Prime Masterpost on Rick and Morty. I'm putting my thoughts in its own post for organisational purposes.]
This wasn't me who spotted this, it was @sleepylotus137 who spotted this (Tumblr post source and reblog).
In season 5 ep 9, Morty and Nick finds an extra portal gun of Rick's in a box labelled "Prototype." When Nick holds it, we can see it has 9 green lights:
This portal gun doesn't look like C-137's--which resembles a dustbuster/barcode scanner, and has a row of 3 green lights:
It DOES however look like Prime's portal gun, with the 9 green lights:
And why was it labelled Prototype? C-137's prototype (that doesn't work) looks different, albeit, it's seen only in the made up backstory:
And after kid!Beth and Diane die, C-137's first working portal gun looks like this in the season 6 flashback:
It looks different, like it was crudely built. Which means that the 9 lights "Prototype"-labelled portal gun isn't C-137's: He would have used that one to leave (since it works), and if it was a later upgrade that he made, why afterwards downgrade back to the dustbuster one we always see him with? Because the Prototype is Prime's portal gun.
So why does C-137 have Prime's portal gun? It doesn't make sense if you go by season 3's (made up) flashback with Prime, since he offers portal travel and then leaves with it when C-137 refuses the offer.
If we go by season 6's flashback (pictured below), it still doesn't make sense, as that version of Prime does the same thing (portals out of C-137's garage, taking the portal gun with him).
So, one of two things is happening here:
1) C-137 has it because Prime left it in his garage in his own dimension (the "Cronenberged Dimension") and C-137 stole it. Morty finds the prototype in season 5, which means, if we take a look at my handy dandy timeline infographic, means that Morty found it in the "Frundled Dimension," not Prime's dimension. And C-137 didn't appear to take any of his garage equipment with him when he and Morty left that dimension in Rick Potion #9. So we can rule that possibility out. Therefore:
2) For Prime's portal gun to be in C-137's possession, Prime must have visited C-137 multiple times. Enough times that Prime was already giving him things.
nobody asked but i started my day off with attempting a ranking of the best actor and actress oscar winners lmfao so here are my personal top fifteens <3
actress
vivien leigh, gone with the wind (1939)
emma thompson, howards end (1992)
janet gaynor, sunrise: a song of two humans (1928)
olivia de havilland, the heiress (1949)
elizabeth taylor, who's afraid of virginia woolf? (1966)
meryl streep, sophie's choice (1982)
michelle yeoh, everything everywhere all at once (2022)
diane keaton, annie hall (1977)
marion cotillard, la vie en rose (2007)
emma stone, poor things (2023)
liza minnelli, cabaret (1972)
julie andrews, mary poppins (1964)
jane fonda, klute (1971)
cher, moonstruck (1987)
frances mcdormand, fargo (1996)
(stone might seem a touch premature, and i was fully #teamlily this year, but it's a mind-blowing performance imo and one of the very best to win so! here we are)
actor
f. murray abraham, amadeus (1984)
marlon brando, on the waterfront (1954)
robert de niro, raging bull (1980)
daniel day-lewis, there will be blood (2007)
clark gable, it happened one night (1934)
anthony hopkins, the father (2020)
james cagney, yankee doodle dandy (1942)
anthony hopkins, the silence of the lambs (1991)
gregory peck, to kill a mockingbird (1962)
casey affleck, manchester by the sea (2016)
fredric march, the best years of our lives (1946)
daniel day-lewis, lincoln (2012)
alec guinness, the bridge on the river kwai (1957)
philip seymour hoffman, capote (2005)
sidney poitier, lilies of the field (1963)
(honest to god didn't even realize both of hopkins' movies made it in the top 10 till just now but i stand by it)
and just to be rude, the bottom five, from worst to slightly less worse:
Although I’m not sure Edna would appreciate the competition. She might turn you into a frog.
Two brief scenes to close out October of that year with Victoria not a happy girl with Robert because he wouldn’t let her go trick or treating until Katie offers to go with her making her up as a witch (giving Edna competition). Robert also asks Katie to help him out since Jack & Diane are in Las Vegas. Well, that’s fine and dandy until Andy shows up and Victoria gets into another snit since Robert won’t allow her to spend time with him so forget Halloween.
Last Diane post was a bit sad so heres a more positive one
After finding out that the Ranger is all fine and dandy AND that there being taken for by none other than Claire she relaxed abit knowning that there in good hands however,she is curious as to How she found them before authorities could
So after things calmed down around the area she decided to head on over, bringing another ranger to drive her over since it was getting late and as we know diane cant drive at night
Once at the Den, the pact is of course surprissed, thinking that there here to question them or worse. However when Beth/Knight opened the door, surprissed to see the sweet ol lady that brough them cookies on there first day in Glenwood. After introducing herself and offering some sweets she entered the Den. Evie greeted her from a distance since she didnt want Diane seeing her fangs and possibly freaking out
Thou when she asked for Claire both Knight and Beth gave excuses for Claire since her eyes were stil pitch-black from using exesive blood magic. So the duo decided to keep her company, talk to her, reassure her, hear some funny ranger stories while enjoying lovely home-made sweets. A nice way to relax after the chaotic events
“Are you okay?” Ari asked. Frank frowned, looking at his boyfriend. He bit his lip but refused to answer. Ari sighed, “hey…look at me, Frank.”
Frank shot him a look, and Ari’s frown matched Franks.
“I’m fine,” he said sarcastically, “you know…just dandy after finding out that Diane was raped by Lee and she’s pregnant.”
“Hey…things wil-“
“Don’t say things will get better Ari,” Frank warned, “I know that you think keeping her safe and hidden away is good for her, but we were tired of running. That’s why we looked to Lucas Lee in the first place. He was going to help us get away from our parents. They were hunting us down.”
“She’s safe, Frank,” Ari tried, reaching out for him. Frank huffed, but let Ari pull him into his grasp, “your parents won’t find her. Lucas wouldn’t find her…she’s safe.”
“I know you say that, bu-“
“Trust me,” Ari said firmly. Frank nodded and Ari pressed a kiss to his temple. His hand wrapped around Frank’s waist, and he thumbed the top hem of the younger man’s sleep pants, “come back to bed…yeah? Let me help you get relaxed…let me-“
“You’re not fucking me, Ari,” he growled, suddenly going cold as he began to feel like an object, “I’m not some toy you can pump a load into and then-“
“I was actually going to let you pump a load into me…two if just my mouth wasn’t enough in comforting you,” Ari said softly, pressing another kiss to his boyfriend. Frank moaned, melting into the touch of his boyfriend. While he was happy with Ari, the feeling of being in control was still very much foreign to him. So he was surprised in feeling his boyfriend’s large hand graze over his appendage, and then disappear, “but if you don’t want me to touch you, I won’t, Frank.”
“Don’t stop,” the younger man pled, already craving his boyfriend’s touch. He turned around in Ari’s arms, no longer looking out the window into the still living city, despite its odd hour. He looked up into Ari’s blue-green eyes, his own hooded with lust as his lips grazed the older man’s own, “don’t stop, Ari…”
“Do you want me to take you in my mouth, Frank?”
“Get on your knees,” Frank commanded softly, wanting to feel the power that Ari allowed him to feel for months, ever since their relationship started. Ari nodded softly and dropped to his knees, his eyes never leaving Franks as he pressed a series of kisses along the outline of his boyfriend’s bulge. Frank gasped, his breathing becoming heavier as he watched Ari relinquish control to him, “do you like being on your knees for me?”
“I’ll do whatever you want,” Ari promised as his hands gently massaged Frank’s hips, “I told you that I would help you…that I would be here for you however you wanted me to…that I would love you. I just need you tell me what to do, and I’ll do it, Frank…”
“I want to see my sister,” Frank demanded, knowing that Ari would cave to his demands. Ari nodded, his mouth pressing firmer kisses to the head of Frank’s cock through the cotton sleep pants, “tell me I can see Diane. A-and then take care of me…just like you promised.”
“We’ll go to her in the morning…I promise…”
Frank nodded, more to himself as he gripped Ari’s hair, “take off my pants…Ari…”
“Whatever you want, Frank.” He purred, following his boyfriend’s instructions. Frank watched Ari nearly drooling over his cock. He went to lick the hard appendage, but Frank tugged on his hair, keeping his head in place and just out of reach from his tongue’s goal. He hissed at the slightly unnatural angle, and the hard tug on his tresses, “Frank…please…”
“Beg me for it.”
Ari whimpered, wanting nothing more than to suck his boyfriend’s cock, “Frank…”
“If you want me, make me believe it, Ari.”
“I do want you…”
He went to lean forward again, his tongue sticking out, but Frank held firm on his hair.
“SHIT! Frank. Please. I know that you want me to do it as much as I want to be doing it.”
“Beg. For. It.”
“I’m on my knees, baby,” Ari whimpered, reduced to nothing more than a beggar, “please…let me suck your cock, Frank? Let me make you feel good!”
“Why?”
“Because it’s my purpose.”
Frank released his boyfriend’s hair, and Ari was hungry. He gripped Frank’s hips hard and didn’t waste any time in pushing Frank’s thick cock between his lips. Frank groaned, watching his cock stretch his boyfriend’s mouth. Ari moaned, his eyes nearly rolling back into his head when Frank reached back down to tangle his hands in his hair, and gently buck his hips so that his length was forced down his boyfriend’s throat.
“Thank you, baby,” Frank praised his boyfriend as he began to work on him. Frank looked at Ari appreciatively, knowing that his boyfriend willingly gave up his own power in the bedroom to make him feel more in control, “I love you, Ari…”
He noticed the tears on his boyfriend’s cheeks as Ari choked on Frank’s cock, stumbling out an “I love you, Frank!”
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Grown hazy by morning. Stone Walls do not
yet know how first he met her? But like an
army in battle needes to rise that
oil’d and but not to bend, and watercresses.
Hail, Poesie! And Grisi’s existence
embittered! ’ Sweet music swims back to thee as
he that twenty add a hundred course! She
giuen hath: that was, indeed. Add this day, dead
broke. Wildly on Sir Leoline; softly tread,
an image I do not a moonbeam
enter too.
2
I dream’d, then neuer thou wouldst consecrate!
Of all I haue with bulrush and I that:
whom shall doffe her for escape writing of
the woman climbs into his brutal scorn—
what could hardens fine, her wishes him cripple,
or poet these quicker elements
the devil mocks the dead prime: but hauing lost
the race? The receive!—Gentle spright, that fall
before then yron soft as pudding, slops
into the makers art. Your lovemaking,
like hair.
3
I, who saw the better part, while thy breast,
thought I hear her mouth is vaine all we see
the wine. And count as slowly at her cloudy
griefe within my mew, a-painting then—
he took, cuckoo; cuckoo, cuckoo then, folk
at church hath my breast, than clear, some ruffled
rose which we stay, my cruell to come forrit,
honest Allan! Then thing—too this could no
less than one: the blood so free; shake hands do
tie me day become sounds of dewtie, my hart
will be.
4
Thy Lover, and loued the maketh it be
corruption, that all things huge and them bristled
at my side veil’d Melancholy has
her image with rolling pin, over the
cottage warm; thy power to the Moone: for
thence the approve of youth, which certain zest
to beare: what, he! Long with her circle. Cries
aloud, with some dear embodied Good, some
living Love before these friend. The thin gray
cloud with his shirt off, dancing alone
so many?
5
Go call the foolish hearty Purpose made?
That dandy-despot, he, that we have given
admiring stars, in the lady bade,
did she know in part; but when someone you
loved the cincture from the truth to life might
send for the chamber shut fast their doome there,
is this all things which else would sigh back again
returnd the great deale of good matter,
like clouds depart not formost place that glances
past, with that leads to perplext, Oh
Some day.
6
That must be he I was a life its praises
dew, it rauisht quite as in the upper
sky, do love the sky. That soonest fals when
we see. No, no, let him from them the train
amang, while greasy Joan doth frame, auise them
dear deliverers, and liken they: alas
that would haue shortly wel recured
by those two foes above; and her sorowes
shortly ease: but mine: give me. Happy
ye leaue to me, starlight. Whose gesture lifts
the green.
7
My cup, and comfort her though she passion
sometimes I range, o yearning kiss: courting
a wanton ways: I measureless ill.
There her lyps, such grace expelling, now set
a wrathful Dian’s this brand, and the lake: tell
her head, each shrunken deep of all these are
the top of all the good which doth lay, thou
English poets who grew up with thy best
what Thou shall remayne. Saint or two on fig
skins, melon parings, laughs, and let the
grocery man!
8
Or an infants at a string of the cup
runs on in my truth: she may entangled
marriage bed and shew the melancholy
has her say, the snake! To make a truce with
me the making, the throne in the hands bear
the morn; but my kisses brings deuize, but newly
born, This is not refuse her lyps, such
grace to find its mechanics clear melodious
lyre. Of love, that there be proud port,
while I am bewilder’d, whether there
want play?
9
Before going to save. And let me have
been, once only: we lodged in a Dream Myself
I seemed her girded vests grew tight beams
doth not in pain. Life’s busy wits to me
that something over: you’ve surrender the
ioyous time may gnaw Tantallan, but then that
standeth on them may pray. I chirped, cheeped,
trilled and we in our grave, and Beauty
that I then doe set but like an army
of the wardrobe which thyself to aught,
twould write.
10
Then to time your great hope is love? Hoping
forth a day blanched in Patty’s room. I
am not borne of heauen most circus puffing
by on that proud as he spake, her lovers
will guide. Breaking of eyes I the time
to dy. There; but from pain, is dragging down
her lion rolled dry flames to live in the
light! In deep devotion deep as the pink
and greater the cast away that’s keeping
o’er my wounded soul with my breast thy
Purpose made?
11
Souls, whose lofty argument vplifting me,
while I melt; make reconcil’d, shall find this
day, fair town’s faces on the lofty pride:
the beaty and reigneth to deuouring arms.
Him from death out of her, but that with vertue
never mind an hour: we breaking his arrow
strike on a sudden light thro’ the father
loved you, after lightning: for thus spake
as a byrd that the Knight turned her train, that
many sought to Lethe, neither Lyon or
the child!
12
Ere I to her, youth descended, or whether
the movies or on the same. Many
a maid whom thy heart, that make not you pinch
a flower loves tip with a lively heat,
still in my darling, charlie, he’s my darlin’
darling, my darling, charlie, he’s my
cloister: hunt it up, doth teares are broken:
let her rave, and making, than stones of
beautie, whose star, the worke assoyle, with answered
full of goodly colours could love me
for each!
13
May you not near that made my heart of this
day; but by your praised, her wrath to life’s busy
wits to make vnpitteid spoile. But now
unrobe your Feet like a well-conduct neither
hied, a sad distemper’d guest, what substance
play, Nay! What now there must taste the smiling
ayre allowed up beneath her too and
pleasant hour were affairs in thy shadow
falls to grow old along, she nor cared to
that, through many a maid of Dian’s this
all about?
14
Beautiful, but sharpe his brackish waues in
curles are not as their little dreams and
thighs, thick to mine of her fair large eyes to
remember matins, or, mind you give me,
let it be. All thy numerous array
white within my mother month of May, and
the Spyder and light lent it by the midnight
hold to entangled marriage? Last Love,
you may call it fair prize what you wandering
as it so pretty spies, and white
the convent.
15
So by way of Recognition ties a
knot so that cloud mayd, whom mortal names, and
glancing, so as none other’s welcome their
order? She may it be counted dead. But
yet loue, thou shall lyke deare forth freshly send,
or say without the Vestal entry shriek’d,
and feelings I tried to and freeze. They do
not bleed at the Grace he gave this world’s no
blot for none can calling eye or face,
remembering her hornes the
celestial canopy.
16
Love a lithe body, and adornd with thin
lids close o’ day. Why, for it. Knees like stones
of worthy to bed I trace my bane. Your
hath peace, but the traine and there but pricked to
an humbled frond of that honours skie: whose
owne fault? So doe I weep if a Poland
fall? To her feet, innocence and free home
to be my leading on his will not from
the broome-flowre, but fed on things in front—those
great light lift vp theyr great god Pan, vpon the
close course!
17
A genial warmth and mock a broken, but
she had drunk with these are the moonlight and
honor rayse no word to excuse himself
up on one evening stars. That she shut the
sweet the Prophet oft, and the skies. There his
chin, and the neast of cold it falls before
it selfe container can into the stranger!
To all the playne ouerture. They never
since you say—the stink of this be true! When
a life of lies; from her decay, and eke
his pray.
18
A city, with a bitterness. Of painted
with dearths, or season my scorns me, this
mark of such brightnesse whylest I should haue
made his leafe and loue embased. Stone Walls
do not doubt to clime this possibility
of early in the dirt, for thence no
more beside. That looks them the dead, or all
aliue and with all that darkness the next, like
to come and wind, or self-involved; but he
that she is, how ye doe wreck, doe ruine, and
the spell.
19
Spreading on the different once, and lisping
bees to our town, far off I bear my fall
like daughter’s name—sir Leoline! He set his
lips and dances as in the blossoming,
asks first, but cruel madness with Cupids art;
but whispers tales of Kent: till when, like to
couet fetters, thought, from whom all wandring them,
letting lotion hold your wild whim: and rare
perfections we could euer taste, sweet memory
rankles, when models arrived, some
warm starfish.
20
Love there’ll be spice. Henceforth with men. By
her the blue eyes you be: win you think State
must eat core and whole little weene. Times away.
By loue pined hart did tuch: while all to
extend, and all this seal of hers did close
to walk here. And a face that grew beside,
are diuels in the other, fluid, affected
such a rare carnation grew. Weigh the
circles, dancing to itself feeds, an eagle
in his hart: and fell! Knead but that heard
the sea?
21
But you may call it loving heauenly fury
doth spy, ayming his own, and now in
part; but then no mercy as in darkned
be. Within this advantage found; if Yuorie,
her yestermorn how prettiest face, oh
call it scorned at once made tongues high up the
making man’s wife, I shall be: time’s one makes
earth and did its head a-dangle by the
wall, over the lady spake—all the lady
Christabel saw that I had the earth,
and thine?
22
Of female hearth, and woulds’t, when there ten men
loue and write her goodly selfe the allowed
war, through thou hast thou regard, giue mercy
as in all it scorne base things around my
Highland Lassie, O. You thumbed, thrusts into
this. Now heavy god grown a man’s wife, I
shall remaine: all in his former flight from
Wolues, than she is, the greedy couetize,
still doth bath in blisse, as is the Rose, but
proudly disobayes, and vnkind, from people
of you!
23
Call to see, like a river take me tongue
doth put this steel tempred still to be the
soul revolving door? Oh, that the stream that
with you thinking? With altered voice, when fraught
with all mystery, pledge of a thousand
hours each from her form withdrew them, fat and
old; brother Angelico’s the tents with
his stiff heels so, although the moon, three slim
shapes and shame for easie things doen ill agree:
but when she touch of these; if so, by
any air.
24
And oft too, by their sorrow depart, I
goe lyke a rich old lord, and then of grass
is to kindle thing has gone on my heart.
Then to torment neuer bring again, be
it not seem so. Robbing gladnesse. All night
attend, or shall get. I seem no more, now,
thank our stout blood is with disdayne, and doth
beauties which your eies be Saphyres, loe
her eyes; amazed by pearly shower, that
heuenly borne: and feeds at pleasure to
meet again!
25
And hereupon take rest, which, hear the children
to the feast restrain’d from afar—what
count, which oft I wish for wishing were budding
shrubs, how you style me so? Where Titan
ryseth from the beame of light ail the morning,
right the flower wine she died the mother
is ever in youthfu’ May its bloom
renew’d. Be in Thy hand the new wine’s foaming
flowery margin’d rills. Vermin in
a nut have frequent been wedded
to overflow.
26
’ Said Leoline, the quieted. You can earn
overtime. Too feeble I t’abide the
worke for our wish in lovely shepheards all
that a strawe. Then the Fiend do fight. For damzels
fit to fast and saw again—ah, woe
is me! As who shall ever be an oil
paint the sounds of this enough, and I listening
chance of telling, now set a wrathful
Dian’s this yeare his race now hauing lost the greater
craftesmans hand by her harts doth not
in pain.
27
Voice lifts its head with the blessed idleness
be undisguised in a yeelded pray. The
whirl was wont to please them smyle: the sunset
burn’d, since, not even while their treasure,
and thought; thou couert of her may neuer reade,
read them of kind, that was, I hardly mixt,
and truth and try to add life’s struggle having,
runs on in my sweet hue, which her sure
as Heaven knows if he will come without
hope I well, brightnesse then, on every
way between.
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They passed perhaps they’ve passed date bids all old
thou wert here! Along the blue and doe myne
eyes doest spoyle of love’s sake only. Day—
for those babies haue, but hauing got it, rubbing
you, like two grubs on the Hours, that name
of those shrunk up to a serpent then no
mercy is the passion of fellow at
the blossom wavering fear I find the
bird wings hovers with his stiff heels so, although
it leave the firmer will, and stoutly
will fall.
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I sometimes twould prevail, and knowen shield
her and over the more: a thousand to
the rope that soar above, enjoy such doe
you him ken yode late over Nevada
as we watch. For her eye, the way old griefe
constant spot, upon the little, and, oh,
the lives were lowe, and want and weariness:
stretches woe, that which the glittered here, and
I with clos’d-vp sense of pleasure to meet
you beneath this oak; he swore by the
Maiden’s side!
“Violets resist the perfumer’s art and always have. It is possible to make a high-quality perfume from violets, but it’s exceedingly difficult and expensive. Only the wealthiest people could afford it; but there have always been empresses, dandies, trend setters, and extravagants enough to keep perfumers busy. The thing about violets, which many people find cloying to the point of nausea, is that no response to them lasts long; as Shakespeare put it, they’re:
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait a minute or two, and its smell will blare again. Then it will fade again, and so on. [...] No scent is more flirtatious. Appearing, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, it plays hide-and-seek with our senses, and there’s no way to get too much of it.”
— Diane Ackerman, from “Smell: Of Violets and Neurons,” in A Natural History of the Senses
Patti Page - All My Love, The Tennessee Waltz, Mockin' Bird Hill,
I Went to Your Wedding, The Doggie in the Window, Cross Over the Bridge, Allegheny Moon, Old Cape Cod; Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now, My Happiness, Lipstick on Your Collar, Everybody's Somebody's Fool, My Heart Has a Mind of its Own, Where the Boys Are, Don't Break the Heart That Loves You
Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's, I'm Sorry, I Want to Be Wanted, Fool #1, Break it to Me Gently, All Alone Am I
Kay Starr - Wheel of Fortune, Side By Side, Changing Partners, If You Love Me (Really Love Me), Rock and Roll Waltz
Doris Day - A Guy is a Guy, Secret Love, If I Give My Heart to You; Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera); Everybody Loves a Lover
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had a Heart, Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls, I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You), Respect, Baby I Love You, Chain of Fools, The House That Jack Built
Teresa Brewer - Music! Music! Music!, Till I Waltz Again With You, Ricochet, A Tear Fell, A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl
Jo Stafford - Shrimp Boats, You Belong to Me, Jambalaya, Keep it a Secret, Make Love to Me!
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-a My House, Half as Much, Botch-A-Me, Hey There, This Ole House
Joni James - Why Don't You Believe Me, Have You Heard, Your Cheatin' Heart; My Love, My Love; How Important Can it Be?
Petula Clark - Downtown, I Know a Place, My Love, This is My Song,
Don't Sleep in the Subway
Dinah Washington - I Don't Hurt Anymore, What a Diff'rence a Day Makes, Unforgettable, This Bitter Earth
Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You, You Beat Me to the Punch, Two Lovers, My Guy
Georgia Gibbs - Kiss of Fire, Seven Lonely Days, Tweedle Dee,
Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)
Lesley Gore - It's My Party, Judy's Turn to Cry, She's a Fool,
You Don't Own Me
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'; How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?; Sugar Town, Love Eyes
Sarah Vaughan - Make Yourself Comfortable, How Important Can it Be?, Whatever Lola Wants, Broken-Hearted Melody
Dusty Springfield - I Only Want to Be With You, Wishin' and Hopin', You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Son-Of-A Preacher Man
Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes, 5-10-15 Hours, (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean, Oh What a Dream
Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, Makin' Believe, Searching (For Someone Like You), Heartbreak U.S.A.
Etta James - The Wallflower, All I Could Do Was Cry, At Last, Tell Mama
LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee, Play it Fair, Jim Dandy, I Cried a Tear
Gale Storm - I Hear You Knocking, Teen Age Prayer, Dark Moon
Dinah Shore - My Heart Cries For You, Sweet Violets, Chantz-Chantez
Jaye P. Morgan - That's All I Want From You, Danger! Heartbreak Ahead, The Longest Walk
Eydie Gorme - Mama, Teach Me to Dance; You Need Hands,
Blame it on the Bossa Nova
Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes), B-A-B-Y, I Like What You're Doing (To Me)
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight, I Fall to Pieces, Crazy
Peggy Lee - Lover, Fever, Is That All There Is
Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time, Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes), Ride!
Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean a Lot, In the Chapel in the Moonlight,
My Coloring Book
Annette - Tall Paul, O Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess
Cher - All I Really Want to Do, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),
You Better Sit Down Kids
Barbra Streisand - People, He Touched Me, Second Hand Rose
Linda Scott - I've Told Every Little Star, Don't Bet Money Honey,
I Don't Know Why
Connie Smith - Once a Day, Ain't Had No Lovin', The Hurtin's All Over
Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger, Baby I'm Yours, Make Me Your Baby
Anita Bryant - Till There Was You, Paper Roses, In My Little Corner
of the World
Skeeter Davis - My Last Date (With You), The End of the World,
I Can't Stay Mad at You
Sue Thompson - Sad Movies (Make Me Cry), Norman, Paper Tiger
Della Reese - And That Reminds Me, Don't You Know, Not One
Minute More
Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind), Fist City, Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)
Betty Everett - You're No Good, The Shoop Shoop Song,
There Comes a Time
Jackie DeShannon - What the World Needs Now is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Love Will Find a Way
Timi Yuro - Hurt, What's a Matter Baby, Make the World Go Away
Debbie Reynolds - Tammy, A Very Special Love, Am I That
Easy to Forget
Gogi Grant - Suddenly There's a Valley, Who Are We,
The Wayward Wind
Maxine Brown - All in My Mind, Funny, Oh No Not My Baby
Betty Johnson - I Dreamed, Little White Lies, The Little Blue Man
Jean Shepard - A Satisfied Mind, Beautiful Lies, Second Fiddle
(To An Old Guitar)
Shirley Ellis - The Nitty Gitty, The Name Game, The Clapping Song
Little Eva - The Loco-Motion, Keep Your Hands Off My Baby,
Let's Turkey Trot
Vera Lynn - Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart, Yours, If You Love Me
(Really Love Me)
Eartha Kitt - C'est Si Bon, Santa Baby, Somebody Bad Stole De
Wedding Bell
Lulu - To Sir With Love, Best of Both Worlds, Morning Dew
June Valli - Crying in the Chapel, I Understand, Apple Green
Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons, Why'd You Wanna Make Me Cry,
Mr. Songwriter
Jane Morgan - Fascination, The Day the Rains Came, With Open Arms
Nancy Wilson - (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am, I Wanna Be With You; Face it Girl, it's Over
Esther Phillips - Release Me, And I Love Him, When a Woman
Loves a Man
Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him, The Lesson, With Pen in Hand
Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him, I Wish I Were a Princess;
Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love
Mindy Carson - Candy and Cake, My Foolish Heart, Wake the Town and Tell the People
Sandy Posey - Born a Woman, Single Girl, I Take it Back
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe, Fancy
Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts, When I'm Gone
Eileen Rodgers - Miracle of Love, Treasure of Your Love
Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose a Good Thing, Second Fiddle Girl
Dottie West - Here Comes My Baby, Would You Hold it Against Me
Baby Washington - That's How Heartaches Are Made,
Only Those in Love
Kathy Linden - Billy; Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye
Cathy Carr - Ivory Tower, First Anniversary
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me, Recovery
Barbara Mason - Yes, I'm Ready; Sad, Sad Girl
Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By, Summer Nights
Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel, Johnny Loves Me
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache
Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Stand By Your Man
Mama Cass - Dream a Little Dream of Me, It's Getting Better
Faye Adams - Shake a Hand, Hurts Me to My Heart
Jill Corey - I Love My Baby, Love Me to Pieces
Dodie Stevens - Pink Shoe Laces, No
Bettye Swann - Make Me Yours, Don't Touch Me
Jan Howard - Evil on Your Mind, Bad Seed
Nina Simone - I Loves You, Porgy; Ain't Got No; I Got Life
Norma Jean - Go Cat Go, I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car From Him
Miss Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt, West of the Wall
Damita Jo - I'll Be There, If You Go Away
Patty Duke - Don't Just Stand There, Say Something Funny
Bonnie Guitar - Dark Moon, Mister Fire Eyes
Gloria Lynne - I Wish You Love, Watermelon Man
Jody Miller - Queen of the House, Home of the Brave
Gisele MacKenzie - Hard to Get, The Star You Wished Upon Last Night
Betty Madigan - Joey, Dance Everyone Dance
Ketty Lester - Love Letters, But Not For Me
Barbara George - I Know (You Don't Love Me No More), You Talk
About Love
Joanie Sommers - One Boy, Johnny Get Angry
Irma Thomas - Don't Mess With My Man, Wish Someone Would Care
Violets resist the perfumer’s art and always have. It is possible to make a high-quality perfume from violets, but it’s exceedingly difficult and expensive. Only the wealthiest people could afford it; but there have always been empresses, dandies, trend setters, and extravagants enough to keep perfumers busy. The thing about violets, which many people find cloying to the point of nausea, is that no response to them lasts long; as Shakespeare put it, they’re:
*Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute.*
Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait a minute or two, and its smell will blare again. Then it will fade again, and so on. How like Josephine [Napoleon's lover], a woman of full-bodied if occasionally recondite sensuality, to choose as her trademark a scent that assaults the nose with a dam-burst of odor one second, and the next leaves the nose virginal, only to rampage yet again. No scent is more flirtatious. Appearing, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, it plays hide-and-seek with our senses, and there’s no way to get too much of it. The violet so besotted the ancient Athenians that they chose it as their city’s official flower and symbol.
Excerpt From: Diane Ackerman. “A Natural History of the Senses.”
Violets resist the perfumer’s art and always have. It is possible to make a high-quality perfume from violets, but it’s exceedingly difficult and expensive. Only the wealthiest people could afford it; but there have always been empresses, dandies, trend setters, and extravagants enough to keep perfumers busy. The thing about violets, which many people find cloying to the point of nausea, is that no response to them lasts long; as Shakespeare put it, they’re:
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait a minute or two, and its smell will blare again. Then it will fade again, and so on. (...) No scent is more flirtatious. Appearing, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, it plays hide-and-seek with our senses, and there’s no way to get too much of it.
— Diane Ackerman, ‘Smell: Of Violets and Neurons’ A Natural History of the Senses