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Evening Dress & Matching Spencer, c.1820

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Nyx helps Auntie El bake

Day 6: Passions 🍪

I can absolutely see Elain sharing her love of baking and cooking with Nyx as he grows: letting him add ingredients to her mixes, practice rolling out dough, or making the perfect cookie shape. Baking played a role in Elain’s healing journey and I can imagine that sharing it with those closest to her would be so special.

I know that anytime I commission Oli, I can trust wholeheartedly that the end result is going to be exceptional! This piece will always be near and dear to me and I am so so grateful to @oli_diart for making it happen!

Also, a special thanks to my sweet friend @tswaney17 for allowing me to use one of her commissions as a reference for Elain’s apron!

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Her laughter and incredulity were unexpected.

Had she not gone through with the wedding, then?

But she was married, hopefully to a better man, then Fred Wells. Her asking him to prove it was, in fact, him was fair, as far as his family knew he was dead.

"Fair enough, how would you like me to prove I am who I say I am?"

"That is a very long and complicated story," Michael made note of the wedding ring on Peggy's finger.

"So, you married Fred." He couldn't help but sound disappointed, his feelings on Fred Wells had not changed in the slightest the entire time he'd been presumed dead, he did still very much regret quarreling with his sister the last time they spoke.

Becca sighed, Steve fighting was nothing new, and maybe it was because Bucky had left for Europe this morning, but she felt responsible for Steve now that her brother wasn't here to protect him.

"Come on, let me see. How bad is it?"

@flashbacksech0esash asked: "STEVEN GRANT ROGERS!" (From Rebecca Barnes)

Unprompted asks | Always Accepting

"What?!" He groans, tilting his head back. He leans his head forward and purses his lips together, looking at Rebecca. "What did I do now?" He questions, wrinkling his nose a bit.

"That is a very long and complicated story," Michael made note of the wedding ring on Peggy's finger.

"So, you married Fred." He couldn't help but sound disappointed, his feelings on Fred Wells had not changed in the slightest the entire time he'd been presumed dead, he did still very much regret quarreling with his sister the last time they spoke.

@flashbacksech0es ; "The last time we spoke, we argued. I'm sorry." (From Michael Carter)

The shock that courses through her is is cold, electrifyingly so. For a moment she feels as if she's dreaming. Years -- it's been years. More than that, he'd been...dead. Or -- he'd been presumed dead. She remembers the day her mother had received the letter.

Yet here he is, standing in her office. Years of espionage have made her suspicious, but she wants to believe that it really is him. He looks older -- a decade, at least. She knows that stranger things have happened, but...

She blinks back tears, her throat thick. She reaches out a hand, but it falls before she reaches him. "Michael -- what are you...how are you alive?"

"My Dear," Edmund greeted Thinya warmly, and kissed her cheek.

"How did you two enjoy your honeymoon?" Edmund asked as he led Benedict and Thinya into Aubrey Hall. The rest of their family had already arrived and were waitng for them in the garden, there was already talk of a game of pall mall once everyone arrived.

"You both have been missed."

"Of that, I have no doubt." The song drew to an end, and Edmund politely applauded the musicians with the other dancers and bowed to his future daughter-in-law.

"Thank you for the dance, my dear. I believe my son wants his fiancée back, though."

PERIOD DRAMA QUOTES

ASSORTED ASKBOX PROMPTS featuring the dialogue of films and literature in the PERIOD DRAMA genre, including the works of Jane Austen, Little Women (2019), The Great (2020), Anne With An E (2017), Enola Holmes, and more!

CHANGE gendered words and in-universe phrases as needed

SPECIFY muse for multimuses.

❛ A young woman should be free to follow her heart. ❜

❛ Either we escape tonight or we say goodbye forever. ❜

❛ Your life is still in danger. ❜

❛ You bewitched me from the very first moment we met. ❜

❛ I too have known heartache and betrayal. ❜

❛ My dear girl, don’t you know that I’m in love with you? ❜

❛ You don’t know what it is to be without power. ❜

❛ Actually, for once, I think that there is some small value in what you say. ❜

❛ If I changed at all, it was because of you. ❜

❛ Sometimes, I think you couldn’t possibly be real. ❜

❛ I just can’t live without you. ❜

❛ Just because my dreams are different than yours does not mean that they’re unimportant. ❜

❛ I cannot stop thinking of you. ❜

❛ I am yours; I have always been yours. ❜

❛ A man with charm is an entertaining thing. ❜

❛ It’s alright to have anger, but you can’t let that be the ruling factor over your life. ❜

❛ You deserve everything your heart desires. ❜

❛ Night and day, I dream of you. ❜

❛ Dancing is a trust; it is a union. ❜

❛ Did you admire me for my impertinence? ❜

❛ It is you I cannot sacrifice. ❜

❛ I love crying over a good book, don’t you? ❜

❛ I love you. Most ardently. ❜

❛ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ❜

❛ When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I don’t have an excellent library. ❜

❛ Caring deeply will always be the right thing. ❜

❛ I don’t need friends. I have my own company. ❜

❛ Evil to some is always good to others. ❜

❛ Have a little compassion on my nerves! You tear them to pieces! ❜

❛ No man on earth cares for me. ❜

❛ I forgive what you have done to me. ❜

❛ I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know. ❜

❛ Men of sense do not want silly wives. ❜

❛ I have crossed oceans of time to find you. ❜

❛ How I love being a woman. ❜

❛ You are a wish come true I never knew I was making. ❜

❛ Sometimes, you just have to let people love you. ❜

❛ If you want to be heard, you have to make some noise. ❜

❛ I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all that a woman is meant for. ❜

❛ You’re being emotional. It’s understandable, but unnecessary. ❜

❛ I want things to go back to the way they used to be! ❜

❛ Wait, they didn’t teach you that in finishing school? ❜

❛ Whatever society may claim, they can’t control you. ❜

❛ You’re not rid of me yet. ❜

❛ You have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well. ❜

❛ I’ve always known that I would marry you. Why should I feel ashamed of that? ❜

❛ I don’t want to leave you. ❜

❛ No one should be alone all the time. ❜

❛ Marriage is both a joy and a place where you will be dealt unbearable griefs. ❜

❛ I can’t risk losing anyone else I love. ❜

❛ You don’t believe in me. I’ve spent my whole life trying to get you to … and you just don’t! ❜

❛ You are a befuddling, strange creature. Everything you are saying is ridiculous. ❜

❛ Have you been hiding from me? ❜

❛ If anything were to happen to you, I would never be able to live with myself. ❜

❛ It’s pretty obvious now that for us to stay sane, we have to stay together. ❜

❛ The world is hard on ambitious girls. ❜

❛ Do you truly have feelings for me? ❜

❛ I don’t think there’s any place for me in this world. ❜

❛ How do I look? Do I look alright? ❜

❛ I want a home. And a family. ❜

❛ An I talking too much? People are always telling me that I do, and it seems to cause no end of aggravation. ❜

❛ Oh, isn’t it a beautiful morning? ❜

❛ It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day. ❜

❛ You don’t annoy me; you make me nervous. ❜

❛ You are an unexpectedly dark character. ❜

❛ I have been unpardonably vain and insufferably arrogant. ❜

❛ You have to watch your tongue. ❜

❛ I’m so sorry; I don’t understand what you are saying. ❜

❛ I don’t understand why you’re being so kind to me. ❜

❛ Don’t be defeatist, dear. It’s very middle class. ❜

❛ What is a weekend? ❜

❛ We should see more of each other. ❜

❛ I look like a prized calf trussed up for auction. ❜

❛ Your reputation precedes you. ❜

❛ Ever since I was a child, I felt like greatness was in store for me. ❜

❛ You don’t look as though you’re struggling. You look … radiant. ❜

❛ I will love you until time has lost all meaning. ❜

❛ There are many versions of you, and you know that I’m the only one who sees them all. ❜

❛ You aim to rile me. I like it. ❜

❛ Will you join me for dinner? ❜

➳ siena rosso + my lord

Friends who get into trouble sentence starters

“I called someone to bail us out last time. It’s your turn.”

“We probably shouldn’t do this.”

“See you say it’ll be fine? But, something tells me it won’t be.”

“Okay, but they are gonna be so pissed when they see what we did to this place.”

“We probably shouldn’t have tried to surf on the mattress down the stairs..”

“I can’t believe we just prank called him/her. What are we like twelve?”

“Let’s just tell them that the dog did it.”

“I’m picking the lock. But, I just realized that I’m not a detective and this is a hair pin I found in my glovebox.”

“Do you think that alarm means that we’re caught?”

“I’ll fill the bucket with water and you distract him/her while I dump it on their head.”

“This is exactly what we need–a  night out. Let’s go crazy!!”

“Honestly, I think the car looks better after we crashed it.”

“I rang this guy/girls doorbell and ran away really fast??? And they found me.”

“Why is there a giant teddy bear wearing lingerie in my bath tub?”

“Oh my god, why is there an unconscious man/woman on the floor?!”

“We were supposed to be cooking. But, it looks like a murder occurred in here.”

“We broke the window. I think someone is going to notice.”

“I can’t believe we’re trying to climb through a window to get back a pair of your panties/underwear.”

“Shh, they’ll hear us. This is a terrible idea. You are lucky I love you.”

“That cop did not find it as funny as we did.”

“I told you not to hum the law and order theme song while we were being given a speeding ticket!!”

Michael Carter is awake. Prepare to suffer!

Hearing her own words echoed back at her made Leanora smile.

"Well put, Your Highness." The lady-in-waiting paused taking in the view.

"I should see to my mistress, but I hope to take you up on your offer to look at the stars later tonight, perhaps after dinner?"

"It is a lovely place to live, as I'm sure is your island, the things that make these places beautiful is different, but in the end it's still beautiful." Leanora said smiling, it was not her place to tell the prince of her king's plan to negotiate a trade deal between the two kingdoms, but even Lea could see that this little island was going to be a profitable trade partner.

"What is your favorite thing about your kingdom, Your Highness?"

Siena was usually put together, but the little sigh that left Siena when Allie kissed her was anything but put together.

And she was more than okay with that.

The second Allie's lips brushed hers and her hand came to rest at Siena's neck, Siena melted and chased after Allie's lips for more. This felt so right, and she needed more!

Biting her lip for a second, Siena leaned into the teasing touch along her jaw.

Allie whispering in she ear sent shivers down Siena's spine, butterflies erupting in her stomach at the thought of voicing what she wanted aloud.

"... Kiss me."

Kate hadn't been expecting that, her eyebrows rose before she could mask her surprise.

"Your sister?" Kate quickly scanned the ballroom for a young lady with a passing resemblance to the man she was speaking to.

"Tell me about your sister, what is she like?"

Ah, so that was why he was here, Kate couldn't fault him. He wasn't the first suitor to try to get to Edwina through Kate.

"She is well. Have you been introduced?" Unless Mary or Lady Danbury had made the introductions quickly while Kate momentarily distracted, she knew they had not.

@butlerbarrow continued from here: (x)

Sybbie smiled, though it didn't quite feel right for a dear friend such as Barrow to still call her Miss, he wasn't a servant, at least not her servant.

"Sybbie is fine." She said softly, everyone she loved called her Sybbie, she was only Sybil when her da was cross, or when she was being presented to the king and queen.

"We are friends are we not?"

"I'm not saying it can't be a useful quality." Daphne said with a small smile.

"All I want for you is to be happy, with someone worthy of you, though I think I need to find a better approach, we shouldn't be at odds, we are sisters." Maybe motherhood was helping Daphne see she hadn't always been good to her sister.

"You are amazing Elosie, I'm sorry I haven't always told you so."

"I am sure Simon would appreciate the endorsement." Daphne joked 'isn't so terrible' was a compliment when it came to Eloise.

"Maybe he has found you, he just hasn't approached you yet because he's intimidated." Daphne said, Eloise could be difficult to approach at times.

"Steve, I know you, I've known you nearly my entire life. What did you do?" He wasn't in a jail cell, so that was something.

But Becca was smart enough to know that Steve hadn't come straight home, he'd done something.

"C'mon, fess up."

@flashbacksech0esash asked: "STEVEN GRANT ROGERS!" (From Rebecca Barnes)

Unprompted asks | Always Accepting

"What?!" He groans, tilting his head back. He leans his head forward and purses his lips together, looking at Rebecca. "What did I do now?" He questions, wrinkling his nose a bit.

"I would like that very much..." Sybbie hesitated for a moment and watched him move towards the house.

"Barrow?" She waited for his attention to return to her.

"Thank you... for telling me about my mama... I hope you can tell me some more stories soon."

Sybbie followed his lead, finishing her own cigarette and snuffing it out before pulling the pack of gum out of her pocket and offering him a piece. It would cover the smoke smell on their breath at least a little.

"Maybe I could come visit you in America? I'm so glad you're here, but I don't want to lose touch again."

Another beauteous smile.

"How can I help you, Bruce?" Diana asked, she figured since he knew more about her than most they could refer to each other by first names.

It wasn't every mortal who knew the truth of who she was, who knew about Steve, and Bruce hadn't told anyone else, something Diana was grateful for, anonymity was vital after all.

“ you always look good . ” - Bruce @ Diana @brotherhoodwarlord

Diana couldn't help herself, she smiled.

It was not the first time she'd been complimented by Bruce, and most likely wouldn't be the last time either.

"Do I?" She asked a tinge of amusement in her voice.

"Or are you saying that because you want something?"

Callan pursed his lips.

He didn't quite belive his cousin, but it also wasn't his place to question Lyra, she was the daughter of his High Lord and High Lady, she technically out ranked him.

"... Be careful, that's all I'll say for now."

"Ava is working at the camps. It's different." Callan argued, Ava already had permission to be at the camps, so Lyra's comment about not telling their family did not bode well.

"Ly, what are you doing?" Callan really didn't like this, especially because if anyone found out and found out that he knew about it, there would be consequences.

"And you can play them for your future neices and nephews." Kate smiled, now that they had told their respective mamas and family members, Kate was being more open with her pregnancy, and was starting to adjust to the idea of an impending child.

"Maybe you'll teach them how to play, I taught Edwina but I'm sure you'll be the better teacher."

Not at all, Bon. I speak only the truth." Kate smiled, Francesca reminded Kate a little of Edwina when they were young, it was easy to fall back into old habits.

"Perhaps you and I can work together to put the songs I remember from India down on sheet music? That way you can play them yourself if you want to."

"My sister is not your toy, she is her own person, you have hurt so many Cressida, not just with claiming to be Whistledown, you have spent years hurting my sister Penelope. I hope you enjoy your time in Wales, now get. Out." Daphne's words were a command and held a note of finality.

As soon as Cressida was gone Daphne would forget her, she'd turn around and go pay calls, Cressida Cowper was not her problem.

"That's exactly what I think, you're such an unhappy person that you can never be happy. Not with yourself and not for others. You can claim to care about Eloise but a true friend would not have behaved as you have." Daphne snapped, she hated herself for not warning her younger sister away from Cressida, but now here they were.

"The only person you have to blame for Eloise turning her back on you, is yourself."

Władysław Czachórski, A Lady in a Lilac Dress with Flowers, 1903 (detail)