#maker: Jeanne

[leonhrt]

i really have just been getting back into things i was into as a kid recently

#well. i was still a fan of them i just havent revisited them in a while #i replayed u.ndertale and various rpg maker horror games #s.ailor moon reread #t.okyo mew mew reread #cant forget p.hantom thief jeanne

[craftdiscoveries]

(via An Artist Studio | With Sandi Hester - Jeanne Oliver)

#artist #art #studio #sandi hester #jeanne oliver #art studio #crafts #makers

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Robe de Style.

Date: 1927

Designer/Maker: Jeanne Lanvin

Medium: Silk moiré, glass beads, pearls, metallic thread.

#fashion history #history of fashion #dress #fashion #robe de style #jeanne lanvin #1927

[foxgloveprincess]

Pairing: Cole Turner x Female Reader, Curtis Everett x Female Reader [Second Person Narrator]

Summary: You always try to be your best at your job.

Word Count: 919

Attic Wives Anonymous Masterlist

Warnings: Dark, Dubious Consent (Sex Toys, mild Overstimulation), Manhandling, Clueless Reader, Cages, Pet Names (pup, lamb, etc.). Minors do not interact (18+).

A/N: Time to meet the contractor/handyman and his business partner, the toy maker. It’s a side story for A.W.A. that I just wanted to peek into. Don’t know if there’ll be any more parts to this. But Enjoy!

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This is unBeta’d, so all mistakes are my own.

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Things you now knew were stupid: answering a sketchy ad on the side of the road for a job in product testing. Apparently not your brightest idea. As Jeanne would say, you’re a dumb bitch. At least you were cute. 

It hadn’t seemed that bad. Cole and Curtis were pleasant, though they made you well aware of your deficient resume. You didn’t have marketable skills. It was something people said a lot. 

But that didn’t stop them from hiring you. They wanted you to start right away. And the benefits? They said they’d be comprehensive. 

What they didn’t mention was what exactly that meant. You were just happy they’d chosen you. With job after job firing you for ‘incompetence’, they’d seen your potential. Had said so, in exactly those words. You’d been on cloud nine, smiling wide. 

Before they opened the door to your office and had you test the first product. 

“Just turn your head toward the camera,” Cole coaxes, his sweet words dripping over you like honey. 

Your feverish body slumps over. The machine between your legs continuing its torturous thrusts and vibrations. 

A warm hand falls to your lower back, the other tilting your head up to meet stormy blue eyes. 

“She’s had enough,” Curtis says. With a flick of a switch, the machine beneath you turns off. 

“Come on, man,” Cole whines, “just a little longer. She’s so fucking adorable when she breaks like this.”

“We don’t want to break her.” 

Bundled into strong arms, you’re pulled off the toy and laid out on a nearby cushion. Your limbs melt into the plush fabric, twitching from overstimulation. Not an ounce of strength to move of your own volition. That’s all been fucked out of you. 

“It’s half the fun,” Cole mutters under his breath, starting a routine of cleaning off the toy. Though he complains, he won’t go against his partner outright. They work too well together for that. 

A quiet moment passes, Cole cleaning up and Curtis rummaging through some drawers. He produces a blanket a few moments later and carefully wraps you in it. You hum and lean close to his gentle touch. 

“By the way, Ari’s got me making a tail for his girl,” Cole says, joining Curtis in putting you away. He tilts your chin up with a finger. “How do you feel about that?”

You blink slowly and let incomprehensible mumbles fall past your lips. Mostly in the affirmative, not quite understanding how they’ll make you a tail. Isn’t that something animals are born with? Or sometimes like your cousin Courtney? Your brow furrows as you try to think.

You shiver and grip at the quilt over your shoulders, tucking it closer to your face.  For one night you wish they’d let you sleep here. Not that you’d complain about your normal accommodations. They could always fire you, and then where would you be?

“Don’t go falling asleep on us now or you’ll forget your form,” Cole reminds. He tucks a pen and paper into your unsteady grip and presses a kiss to your forehead. 

You blink to clear your eyes and look at the short form. Five questions and a comment box. 

“Do you need help?” Curtis asks, a hand on the cushion by your head, close enough to touch. 

Despite the urge to stretch into his touch and accept his generosity, you shake your head. It’s your job, you’ll do it yourself. Dragging your body from the cushion, you sit up and place the paper on your leg. Scrawl the product description on the top line. All five questions stare up at you, a scale of 1 to 5 beneath. 

Is the product enticing to potential customers? 

Is the product innovative?

Does the product seem high quality?

Is the product different from other products?

Does the product fulfill our customer’s needs and wants?

Though sluggish, your brain processes each question and makes a thoughtful rating for Cole’s new machine. The comment box proves more difficult. Words harder to scrawl while your hand lacks its usual strength and dexterity. But you jot down a few notes—about the vibration and the fit, you think? 

A yawn cracks your jaw and you stand on wobbly legs. Holding onto different bits of furniture about the room, you hobble to place the paper in its usual basket. They’ll look at it at the end of the month and determine what to do with it. 

Legs like jelly, you steady yourself a moment too long. Your bosses preparing your next task. You glance over and sigh. Still trying to perfect that thing. They’ve been working on it since you started working for them. 

“Come on, pup,” Curtis beckons, voice gruff, holding the door open. “Time for some shuteye.” 

You nod and bend your knees, ducking into the small metal cage. They finally got the cushion on the bottom thick enough that you don’t feel the bars digging into your side as you lay down. And they added some personal touches—a few pillows, your favorite blankets, a stuffed animal—to ensure the space still allows comfort to fit a full-grown human. 

Another yawn breaks free of your lips. Your head falls to the pillow and you let your eyes flutter shut. 

Fingers caress your cheek through the bars. You peek open your eyes to see Cole, a soft look of satisfaction on his face. 

“Time for a little nap, little lamb,” he whispers, “then there’s a few more things we need to test.”

#curtis everett x reader #cole turner x reader #dark #dark fic #dub con #tw dub con #attic wives anonymous #18+ #minors dni

[fashionbooksmilano]

Women Dressing Women

Morgan Stanley

The Met, New York 2023, 212 pages, 24x30,5cm, ISBN 978-1-58839-720-1

euro 49,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

The Costume Institute's fall 2023 exhibition will explore the creativity and artistic legacy of women fashion designers from The Met’s permanent collection, tracing a lineage of makers from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day by highlighting celebrated designers, new voices, and forgotten histories alike.

Women Dressing Women will feature the work of over seventy womenswear designers, spanning ca. 1910 to today, including French haute couture from houses such as Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet, to American makers like Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designs by Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha.

A catalogue, published by The Met and distributed by Yale University Press, will accompany the exhibition 4 Dec 2023- 3 March 2024

25/12/23

#Women dressing Women #fashion exhibition catalogue #Met New York 2023 2024 #women fashion designers #Jeanne Lanvin #Schiaparelli #Vionnet #Isabel toledo #Rei Kawakubo #Hanae Mori #Zandra Rhodes #Miuccia Prada #fashion books #fashionbooksmilano

[docteur-vanitas]

She presses the button. She presses it again. Press… Press. Press.

Jeanne couldn't send her message anonymously. He definitely did this on purpose (specifically for her). However, she still decided to send one anyway. 𝐼𝑓 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛, he would answer…

❝Ahem. Would you rather: (a) someone accidentally sees you showering? or (b) someone accidentally sees you sitting at les toilettes?❞

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Of course it could have been a trap, but Vanitas had the answer ready.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀❞ You weren't careful, 𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯 . I can keep my promises, but you know I want something in return ·̲·̲·

And in that case, the doctor would guarantee her privacy, but first he wanted to know what he was supposed to keep for himself, the object of a kind of blackmail disguised as a pact, the knot in a rope that tied the makers of the deal, where each, at this point, was trying to pull the other's end into his own fist as well. Apparently, the burly vampiress was trying to rebel against the human's monopoly, but her peculiar defiance was not enough to deter him, on the contrary; this became the amusing manifestation of a feeling of irritation dug deep into his delight, annoyingly stinging her and pushing her in a desperate attempt to confuse him, to upset him: practically an irresistible invitation to persevere, for the executioner, a facet that added to the game, making it lively, never still and boring, even more exciting, fuelling Vanitas' curiosity, which he shamelessly makes no secret of.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀❞ I am very intrigued. Let me see how long you are able to resist ·̲

⠀⠀⠀An annoyingly provocative sensuality as such, inherent in the blatantly natural behaviour of everything Vanitas possesses, now finds its climax in the tilted skull, all the rest of the body soft to release, into the upper block, its seductive energy, which corrupts the face, drenched in a disrespectfully flirtatious smile.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀❞ You could have been more direct and made an explicit request. Do you like water shows ͟?

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

#vanitas no carte #vanitas no shuki #the case study of vanitas #les mémoires de vanitas #vanitas vampire diary #vnc #vanitas x jeanne #vanijeanne #vnc rp #vanitas rp

[mollyjeanne615]

Could you please write a song adapting Ted and Charlotte’s conversation/flirting/argument in The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals before he leaves her alone with Sam?

Like… there’s the genuine love between them; their respective issues, fears and unhealthy beliefs getting in the way of it; their regret that they can’t just be happy together while also not taking action to make that happen; the stress of being stuck in an alien zombie apocalypse; Charlotte’s grief over and Ted’s resentment of Sam; and their difficulty actually communicating all the previous things. And of course, the sexual tension. I just think that all of those layers interplaying would make a really good song. Especially since their dynamic wasn’t explored much in the show.

There could even be a coda where Ted, after leaving, muses that he could have done better, but he’s been very careful to never give her reason to expect better from him, so she’ll get over it. They’ll be back to their version of normal soon enough (messy as it is). So he doesn’t need to go back in there and apologize or say some heartfelt shit or anything. Then the final notes are the first ones of “You Tied up My Heart”.

I say this every time but holy SHIT this was fun

So I tried to get as much of this prompt into one song as I could - it doesn't cover the entire scene, so there would be a little bit of dialogue between this and "You Tied Up My Heart," but I think it captures a lot of their relationship and connection. There could also totally be some underscoring from this going into the next song in a full production. (Also this wouldn't be in a full production cause they wouldn't be singing, but I dream.) I also cheated a bit with the orchestrations - I've been trying to make them as playable by the original bands of the shows as possible, but for this I switched out the bass part for a second guitar cause why not. There's a little bit of "Time Bastard" in the opening synth part, and there's a pretty big motif/reprise/stolen chord progression in the bridge of the song - I was trying to think of other Hatchetfield songs relating to Spankoffski stories and sexual temptation and all that, and I think this one did the trick lol. I'm super proud of the demo for this one - it came out somewhere between "Dead Girl Walking" from Heathers and "D.O.A." from The Lightning Thief, and I'm really in love with it. Hope y'all enjoy!

In the Worst Way

CHARLOTTE: Ted!  I can’t believe you’re thinking about that at a time like this, the whole world could be coming to an end!

TED: Yeah.  Exactly.  The whole world’s gone to shit and you’re worried about what someone else might think about you?

CHARLOTTE: Well, when you put it like that…

TED:

You think you’re such a good, good girl You pick your nails, you hide your stress But it’s the end of the fucking world So you can afford to decompress

You put your image on a throne You crumple underneath the crown But you need to grow a backbone Before it breaks you down

You’ve been in bed with a scumbag But baby, can’t you see You have a chance to upgrade To a sleazeball like me

So if I’m dying tonight I’ve got a great way to cap off my life I’ll be going out doing the thing I love Screwing around with another man’s wife Maybe there’s better things I should worry about today But I’d rather be here with you So let me say I want you in the worst way

CHARLOTTE: Oh, you’re such a horny bastard.

TED: Always have been, always will be.

CHARLOTTE:

My body’s telling me to run My mind is saying you’re no good But I need something just for fun So I guess I probably should

I’ve wished upon so many stars To be more confident and crude So I’ll embrace the love that’s ours With a badass attitude

TED: Okay!

CHARLOTTE:

There’s something in my gut that says You might still be alright Cause I need someone to love me Before we bite the dust tonight

So if I’m dying today I’m gonna let you lead me astray I might be meeting my maker pretty soon So I’ll get down on my knees and pray Maybe there’s better things I should worry about today But I’d rather be here with you So let me say I want you in the worst way

TED:

Ooh, I want you in the worst way, yeah

TED AND CHARLOTTE:

My happiness is coming first, I won’t be on my own Let all those without sin cast the first stones I’ll do all I can so you’ll never be alone At least until we kick the bucket

CHARLOTTE:

But should I just stick with the devil I know

TED AND CHARLOTTE:

Well, you know what, fuck it!

They make out passionately as a rocking electric guitar solo backs them up.

TED AND CHARLOTTE:

So if I’m dying right now I’ll spend this moment breaking a vow There’s nowhere else I need to be And I needed a little break anyhow Maybe there’s better things I should worry about today But I’d rather be here with you So let me say Yeah, let me say I want you in the worst way

TED:

Let’s let the chips fall where they may

TED AND CHARLOTTE:

I want you in the worst way

CHARLOTTE:

My husband’s brains fell out today

TED AND CHARLOTTE:

I want you in the worst way Maybe there’s better things I should worry about today But I’d rather be here with you So let me say I want you in the worst way

They kiss again on the button of the song.

#team starkid #starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #ted spankoffski #Charlotte sweetly #most of the time when I write these I'm like “it would be cool if people from starkid saw this eventually but I don't need them to” #but HOLY SHIT I want Joey and Jaime to sing this

[tetsunabouquet]

Joco's Jokes: How He Describes His Cast Members Headcanon

A/n: I made one of these about KNB's Izuki Shun who has a similar type of terrible pun-related humor a while ago. So I hereby decided to do a Shaman King version.

He has a point. - Ren Tao

She Legendary Left our conversation once. - Anna Kyoyama

This girl thugged her way to the top. - Tamao Tamamura

He arose from cat-astrophy. - Matamune.

The maker of some Horoble candy. - HoroHoro Usui

This holy maiden cries like Bloody Mary. - Iron Maiden Jeanne.

He who has mastered the art of sticks and stoners. - Yoh Asakura

The one that puts the flambé in flamboyant. - Ryu

He Bonds with the right people. - Lyserg Diethel

He dwarfes our courage. - Manta

-He CULTivated justice. - Marco Lasso

-The kid that follows Hao like a sheep. - Opacho

-His sword is bigger then yours, -Amidamaru

-He blew his chances to reconcile. -Luchist Lasso

#sk #shaman king #joco mcdonell #puns #horohoro #yoh asakura #ren tao #hao asakura #lyserg diethel #tamao tamamura #iron maiden jeanne #marco lasso #luchist lasso #anna kyoyama

[batensan]

If the heroines in MO were isekai'd into our Real World, what do you think their favorite video game (or anime, if they wouldn't play video games) would be?

this is whatever came first to mind!!

Ciel: Princess Maker and other stat raisers

Anholly: Cooking Mama and Kirby

Iris: Ring Fit and Animal Crossing. likes turn-based combat

Melanie: is in various gacha hell

Parilyne: VR stuff (Beat Saber master) and rhythm games

Aster: getting emotional over VNs and otoges (also somewhat in gacha hell). also anime games

Erythr: for some reason i imagine her playing Disco Elysium

Jeanne: Animal Crossing, Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc (a true gamer)

Pailou: out here clearing NES games and other retro stuff. likes arcade machines

Marie: SRPG games!! not great at fighting or action games. she'd prefer the really hard stuff like old school FE

#ask #moon observatory

[phoenixcatch7]

Just finished bayonetta and honestly it was SO GOOD. FanTASTIC game. Final thoughts:

The final boss fights were both a million times easier than expected but they were over fast enough the hype hadn't had time to run out (and the manic pixie dream girl style bayonetta playlist I had blasting didn't hurt either XD. Hard to be irked when you've got Bling Bling firing at twice speed while you fight a giant hair tentacle lady with face missiles IN SPACE).

Also going in knowing the bayo 2 ending is so much worse because you can see how 500yrs of loptr has just eroded him into a shell of himself ToT. This weapon flailing peacock wearing ash white lunatic is so far from the righteous, devoted warrior who loved his family above all else 😭. He's still wearing his wedding ring!!! And he dotes on tiny cereza whom he never got to hold, but that's it. That's all that's left...

Bayo 2 did the sequel plot twist thing so good, because you can see so much more of loptr in him than balder. The speech rhythm, the weirdly crooning faux polite monologuing, the rippling blue of his eye and outfit despite all his magic (both in this and the next game) being gold?? Yeah!!!

The peacock feathers in his boss fight though,,,,, sooooo pretty. They moved so beautifully, it really had so much elegance and grace, even when I was chopping him up 😍

Him and Jubileus were kinda cheese though. Like, the final Jeanne boss fight was a million times harder and with so much high stakes (having to redo the missile section again). I died like THREE times, and one was because I was curious as to what would happen if I threw Jubileus into a planet (spoiler - she did not in fact take damage but instead shook herself off with an evil grin and one shotted me, boo).

The dance video was so much better than I expected! She moves so fast lmao. There's a lot of repetitive moves but she does it at such speed!! It looks like such a fun dance too lol.

And!! I unlocked the gallery and stuff!!! 100/10 it was an absolute blast to look through and listen to the music, I literally examined every single model and every single piece of concept art. Bayonetta's designs were all amazing but no one told me how feminine every SINGLE character was posed!!! Crying laughing. Everyone had their legs like a meter apart apart from balders 'rich new widow meeting the police at her door' energy.

New drinking game: go through the enemy/demon models and take a shot for every face/human skull you see. It's so creepy lol. Phenomenal character design on all fronts!

Got 10,000 halos for finishing the game and immediately spent it all on the super outfit maker thing. I deserved it!!

Also apparently I got an achievement for using 20 wicked weaves with dodge offset, which is hysterical given I still don't know how to do dodge offset. Still don't know any combos either! It's a miracle I made it this far XD.

The characters are great, even the bosses have little interactions with bayonetta (mostly her cutting them off and shooting them lmao) and the found family energy the bayo/cereza/luka trio had was off the charts, but I'm so glad they didn't go through with it like every male/female leads ever. It has a way of flattening everyone involved :/.

The final cutscene totally happened because bayonetta and Jeanne got together with rodin like 'okay the angels probably think she's actually dead. This is our only chance to do something SO funny' like Enzo and poor luka fully thought she was dead. Jeanne called her nun outfit cosplay. Rodin stole enzos cig and lectured him while he accidentally protected him from falling coffin lids XD. With the intermittent fight scenes in the credits, the dance video, the amount of unlocks I got, what a way to end the game!!

In conclusion - this was definitely a game I'm going to replay and try to 100% (maybe not platinum style, but everything else lol), and it's so obvious how much thought, effort and love was put into it. A masterpiece but also very clearly an older game (the lack of save points and a good place to practice combos, combined with the painfully long chase segments both attest to that). Something I've thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of and something I'm most definitely going to come back to for a while to come.

Kinda want to get bayo 2 now... Do you think they still sell it on cd?

#bayonetta #cereza #video games #videogame #absolute nonsense of a game I love it

[april-is]

April 14, 2023: Spring Poem, Colleen O’Connor

Spring Poem Colleen O’Connor

It’s April again. Which means I’ve lost interest

in months and days and sons. Which isn’t fair. Sons

are born but they are made men, made tangible

by their makers, by their makings. It isn’t their faults.

What is it then that I’ve lost? My interests, flitting from me

in the dark, obnoxious wisps. Which isn’t fair. I’ve lost

interest in days and now the nights are all flitting wisps, bright

as daylight and just as thin, my interest in them waning like some

bored, listless moon. It’s April again. I want to leave it all.

Which isn’t fair. Neither am I. I abandon

my wisps. I leave them to their mothers.

--

Today in:

2022: Red, Mary Ruefle 2021: Bathing, Allison Seay 2020: A Small Moment, Cornelius Eady 2019: You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again, David Welch 2018: Henry Clay’s Mouth, Thomas Lux 2017: When Your Small Form Tumbled into Me, Tracy K. Smith 2016: Eve Recollecting the Garden, Grace Bauer 2015: from I Love A Broad Margin To My Life, Maxine Hong Kingston 2014: Gift, Czeslaw Milosz 2013: This Be The Verse, Philip Larkin 2012: We Did Not Make Ourselves, Michael Dickman 2011: Happiness (3), Jean Valentine 2010: When I Think, Jeanne Marie Beaumont 2009: The Poem, Franz Wright 2008: Morning Poem, Robin Becker 2007: Supple Cord, Naomi Shihab Nye 2006: Wish For a Young Wife, Theodore Roethke 2005: The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy, Jeffrey McDaniel

#who put this brain inside of me? #april #national poetry month #napomo #poem #colleen o'connor

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Woman's Wedding Ensemble: Dress, Slip, and Headpiece.

Date: 1925

Designer/Maker: Jeanne Lanvin (French, 1867–1946)

Medium: Dress: silk georgette and tulle with silver lamé appliqué and silk and metallic thread embroidery; Slip: silk satin with metallic lace; Headpiece: silver lamé with wax orange blossoms.

#fashion history #history of fashion #dress #fashion #vintage clothing #vintage fashion #vintage #vintage dress #wedding ensemble #wedding dress #jeanne lanvin #headpiece #1925 #1920's fashion #1920's dress #1920's

[megraen]

Little guy maker

Tagged by @cassietrn for this picrew

Tagging @socially-awkward-skeleton @ladykatie512 @glitchinginthegarden @miss-jennifer-cormier

Abigail Fehn (Farcry 5) I Jeanne Gardner (Jamestown)

Johanna Lynn (RDR2) I Sara Briggs (Uncharted)

Fiona Leask (The Witcher) I Dr Cassidy Ellen Frost (Walking Dead)

#oc: johanna lynn #oc: abigail fehn #oc: sara briggs #oc: jeanne gardner #oc: fiona leask #oc: cassidy frost #tag game #wip: the taste of poisonous gold #wip: ideals of the different #wip: how the knight holds me #wip: what we're hunting for #wip: correlation of survival #wip: more than a quick shot

[achy-boo]

The Arrival of the DollMaker

Tsukii: *braiding Minako’s hair*…Night is sure gone for a while…

Minako: Really? She should’ve came back soon since Vil had been secretly kissing a picture of Night

Jeanne: Simp! Ahaha!

Yukiharu: Vil-san did that?

Tsukii: In private.

After two hours, everyone was summoned to the mirror room

Minako: Hey bird! Why are we here?

Ace: We are all just minding our business

Dawn: *nod with a hum.*

Crowley: students, Lady Nightshade is coming back with the new…guest..

Deuce: Guest?

Night: *gets out of the mirror* Okay..come in. Ah be careful!

???: *crouch down and stands fully in front of the students*….

Everyone: ….

Amara: I see most of you all take care of those doll versions of you all. Oh where are my manners? My name is Amara..I am the doll maker.

Night + Dawn: She’s the one who made the dolls!

Ace: *shock at Amana’s height* How tall is she?

Tsukii: 6’3 ft

Ace:…Hey mom-

Night: *chokes Ace.*

@anxious-twisted-vampire @marrondrawsalot @yukii0nna @yumeko2sevilla

[mystacoceti]

okay I'm sort of knee-deep in this personal reading project that's been spurred by the latest Phonetics vs. Whole Language Reading War, this one that was kicked off by the covid lock down. like I'm reading fucking Bush Jr. era think-tank and academic journal publications, trying to track down some older books with the access granted by my wonderful, wonderful college library card. and one thing that I'm noticing about the current (c. 2017 to present) brouhaha is that much of the journalism — the Emily Hanford podcast, the New York Times articles — are all pushing a narrative, with greater or lesser subtlety, that teachers across the country have rejected the Science of Reading.

this term though is actually somewhat obscure. what people are referring to is sometimes the whole field of literacy science starting from about the 1960's or 70's in the United States; or to eye-tracking experiments and MRI readings that have been done since about the late 80's onwards; or occasionally, in a few confusing cases, to historians, policy-makers and other non-scientists. the gist though is that is that whole language is bunk and phonetics is the gold standard, and the field of the science of reading came to a consensus about this sometime in the 90's, not too long before Bush Jr.'s first time and the adoption of the No Child Left Behind act

but as far as I can tell there is no such consensus, and that the earliest overview of research into literacy actually comes in 1967 from Jeanne Chall, ie that there was already enough of a body of literature to merit an overview by the 1960's, decades before much of the literature people are citing as a beginning. then, after Jeanne Chall, there have been multiple overviews and multiple executive inquiries into literacy, the earliest of which I've so far heard of dating from Johnson's war on poverty. and more damning, no academic publication I've seen so far has described phonics as the sole fundamental. instead there are much more measured calls for mixes of focus like "phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension". the hard consensus, if anything, is that whole language is bunk but only in the regard that it is fundamentally based on the belief that children are natural readers to the exclusion of more basic mechanical instruction like phonics, and so ignoring research that shows most children do not make the cognitive leap to basic literacy without phonics instruction

#I feel... hmmm how do you say... #ungood. seeing sensational muckraking being lauded by rich people who have the time to do a little more looking

[marieantoinetteposting]

Voici, All the Drama!!

You're going to want some maïs soufflé for this one because this scandal is crazy.

So get this. These two Parisian jewelers made this gorgeous diamond necklace with the intention of selling it to King Louis XV to give to his wife Madame Du Barry. Ironically, they finished the necklace when my husband exiled Madame Du Barry following the death of Louis XV. Now these jewelers were left with a costly necklace they could not sell so they tried to sell it to me! Why would I ever want to wear a necklace intended for Madame Du Barry of all people?

This drama also involves Cardinal Louis de Rohan, a womanizing scumbag that both my mother and I agree is completely immoral. He fell for a scheme put together by Jeanne de la Motte. Rohan must not think very far because Jeanne has been scheming and lying before this incident, she has fainted for money and attention before!

So because Rohan cared so much about our relationship, Jeanne's plan revolved around patching up Rohan's troubles. She has never spoken to me before but Rohan believed her when she said she could fix what has happened. Jeanne, her husband and her pimp, Villette put together a way to trick Rohan into getting Jeanne the diamond necklace through me, which by the way I have not had the necklace in my possession throughout this entire ordeal.

Firstly, Jeanne got Rohan to meet with who he thought was me but was secretly a prostitute (how insulting) at midnight. The darkness covered the prostitute, Nicole d'Olivia, so that Rohan would think she was me. When Nicole d'Olivia made it seem as if I forgave him, Rohan was more than ready to do anything for me. Jeanne convinced Rohan to purchase the diamond necklace with a forged letter I had sent to Jeanne telling Rohan that I wanted him to buy the necklace for me.

Rohan bought the necklace for me and was ready to give it to me. Jeanne's pimp, pretending to work for me, took the necklace to give to me. He ended up taking it with him to Jeanne and her husband to take apart the jewels within the necklace to sell for a large amount of money. Not knowing this, Rohan was expecting to see me wear the necklace. Being unable to wear smashed up pieces of jewels I never owned, Rohan was never able to see me wear the necklace.

Upset by this as well as payments that went unpaid, the jewel makers revealed to Madame Campan that they had been dealing with Rohan and that he had not yet paid for a portion of the payment process. Madame Campan told me about the situation and my husband, Louis the XVI called Rohan to Versailles where he would explain his side of the story and realize that he had been a part of a scandal.

This is a part of the story I truly do not understand, me and my husband as innocent bystanders became the bad guys! Rohan was arrested and sent to Bastille where the public would start to side with him. Jeanne and her husband, Villette and Nicole d'Olivia were arrested as well. Villette was exiled from France, Jeanne's husband became a slave and Jeanne was publicly whipped and sent to prison.

After all of this, it's my reputation that's been stained forever by this scandal!! People have always been making up rumours about me and spreading lies across the world. "My" little midnight meeting with that awful Cardinal de Rohan became one of the largest spreading rumours about me. Isn't that terrible? The people who did this to me were arrested but all the people still believe I was the one who was there. >:(

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