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The symbolism of flowers
Flowers have a long history of symbolism that you can incorporate into your writing to give subtext.
Symbolism varies between cultures and customs, and these particular examples come from Victorian Era Britain. You'll find examples of this symbolism in many well-known novels of the era!
Amaryllis: Pride
Black-eyed Susan: Justice
Bluebell: Humility
Calla Lily: Beauty
Pink Camellia: Longing
Carnations: Female love
Yellow Carnation: Rejection
Clematis: Mental beauty
Columbine: Foolishness
Cyclamen: Resignation
Daffodil: Unrivalled love
Daisy: Innocence, loyalty
Forget-me-not: True love
Gardenia: Secret love
Geranium: Folly, stupidity
Gladiolus: Integrity, strength
Hibiscus: Delicate beauty
Honeysuckle: Bonds of love
Blue Hyacinth: Constancy
Hydrangea: Frigid, heartless
Iris: Faith, trust, wisdom
White Jasmine: Amiability
Lavender: Distrust
Lilac: Joy of youth
White Lily: Purity
Orange Lily: Hatred
Tiger Lily: Wealth, pride
Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness, humility
Lotus: Enlightenment, rebirth
Magnolia: Nobility
Marigold: Grief, jealousy
Morning Glory: Affection
Nasturtium: Patriotism, conquest
Pansy: Thoughtfulness
Peony: Bashfulness, shame
Poppy: Consolation
Red Rose: Love
Yellow Rose: Jealously, infidelity
Snapdragon: Deception, grace
Sunflower: Adoration
Sweet Willian: Gallantry
Red Tulip: Passion
Violet: Watchfulness, modesty
Yarrow: Everlasting love
Zinnia: Absent, affection
Jessica Chastain as Lucille Sharpe in Crimson Peak (2015)
Happy Birthday to Lucille Sharpe! (April 1st, 1865)
Look what's just arrived!
The amount of cuteness is killing me 😭
Easy Guide to SharpeCest = BruMira
an as much objective as it canever be guide with slightly incestuous goggles. parallels between a canon incest ship (sharpecest) and a fanon incest ship (brumira).
honestly, it's worth your time of reading it.
--- Jenny <3
Lucille took locks of hair from each of their victims, so lovingly braided each one of them, and kept them neatly in a drawer.
Because she’s just sentimental like that.
What is your Hogwarts house?
The official Wizarding World Site has sorted me in Slytherin. Yeeet, I feel like more of a SlytherPuff.
— Jenny <3
please, know that I would never condone such relationship as incest in real life. this is purely fictional involving purely fictional characters. also, users who spread their negativity and threats in my work will be blocked.
Some Brumira Somnophilia. Please enjoy and also avoid if you're uncomfortable with anything in it 🥰
I just... i just needed to draw them
Red-Handed Jill
It's working!😅
*reylo update will come soon as well 💙
I came in for the Tintin content, but your post reminded me that I saw your Hook art some time ago on my dash as well! Soooo if you're willing, a tiny Hook x Wendy doodle would be wonderfuuuuul 🙊
OF COURSE YOU CAN HAVE HOOK AND WENDY YOU DEAR SWEET WONDERFUL HUMAN ;;__;;
There ya go, my monthly “STILL NOT OVER LUCILLE SHARPE” moment.
You can pry my love for Lucille Sharpe from my cold, dead hands. And even then, I’ll probably come back as a ghost to jumpscare you, so you will have to leave it be. Bitch.
it’s such a shame that the “your fave is a girlboss/malewife” blog is run by an anti
because like
Thomas and Lucille are indisputably malewife and girlboss
Hey guys i know i've been super MIA these past weeks, because I've been having some stressful times ahhh but look I drew this the other day and I wanted to share :D super rushed but it made me happy. i'll try to make some time to answer asks one of these days! Until then i need to study for some exams so hhh see you soon guys !!
Bruno has 100% called Mirabel "mi vida" without meaning to
Probably at the dinner table
stress and anxiety means i just draw draw draw draw all the time whenever i don't have to study until i fall asleep because lately it's been the thing that helps me relax the most. Anyway, idk how this one got as far as it did but I hope you like it, it took me super long and ik i should have been answering asks instead, but I slept like 4 hours last night and I've been feeling all month like I can only study or draw study or draw study or draw and maybe go to therapy but now that it's ready, aaaaaaaaah I think I'm gonna go answer some asks now, I miss answering asks TT_TT y'all are great btw guys i love this fandom sm.
idk the context behind this piece, initially I wanted to change Mira's window door for blinds that were halfway open so you could see the fireworks outside, implying they snuck out during a party to make out, so maybe that's what they did in this timeline as well. Why would you dance and endure a party when you can make out with your hot sister instead? wink wink nudge nudge.
bonus black and white version because I think this one looks nice too, plus I like the texture of Isa's skirt better here :3
Click for better quality.
Ah that scene was so. Hhhhhh
Tfw when your sister comes out as a lesbian so you sing a duet together about being true to yourself and not letting family pressure keep you down and you roll together on a mountain of flowers while longingly gazing into each other's eyes, only for your homophobic grandmother to show up and accuse you - not her - of corrupting your sister and hurting your family, as if you weren't a member but rather an outsider, an external threat, never quite being loved by the people you love, as you hopelessly try to explain it wasn't that it seemed, your sister NEEDED you to ruin her engagement to the heterosexual man down the road and sing a lesbian duet with you on top of a palm tree.
Ahh the golden child × scapegoat child dynamic. I hold it so dear to my heart.
This took me SO LONG but I for one am somewhat proud of how a piece of mine turns out :D
I saw a tag in an AO3 Mirabruno fic that said Mirabel and Bruno are coded as a couple, and this was definitely a thought I also had during my first watch of the movie. Especially considering that in an animated film, any potential chemistry between actors is not going to play a huge role in what’s happening on screen. Rather, any chemistry between characters is going to be due to the choices animators and writers made, which is fun to think about. So I thought I’d try my hand at analyzing what I think so many of us were picking up on.
Now I’m not saying all of these points support romantic coding alone, but I think when put together, we get something significant between Mirabel and Bruno. I would love to hear any possible additions or elaborations to this that I might be missing.
**use the numbered points as the TLDR**
1. Bruno estranged himself from his family to protect Mirabel.
There is a lot to be said about this move. On one hand, Bruno was motivated to do this because he had already developed a bad reputation amongst his family and the townsfolk that his prophecies were bad news and that he was somehow playing a role in them. It can probably be argued for this reason alone, he left to protect himself. But he was also protecting Mirabel because he knew that with this prophecy, she would be dragged down with him. When Mirabel meets/confronts him in Casita’s walls, Bruno says, “no one was supposed to see that prophecy.” Considering how superstitious/paranoid Bruno appears (to the point of probably meeting OCD criteria), I think it is a fair assumption that at some point, Bruno started internalizing that maybe just maybe he was part of the problem and was to blame for the outcomes of some of his prophecies. So, in addition to protecting Mirabel from his mother’s wrath, I think Bruno may also have been trying to protect her from some doomed fate he might have thought he brought upon her. I think his logic was, if no one else sees the prophecy, maybe it cannot come true. I got on a little tangent there, but ultimately, while I think Bruno had a couple motivators for leaving the family after making the prophecy about Mirabel, it seems the main motivator was to protect Mirabel. While not inherently romantic, it is definitely a decision with a lot of love behind it.
2. They defend each other to the family matriarch.
In the final act of the film, both Mirabel and Bruno defend each other to Alma. While Mirabel is defending herself and her sisters against her abuela’s impossible standards, she also leaps to Bruno’s defense, stating that Alma always saw “the worst” in Bruno and that Bruno does in fact love the family.
Likewise, Bruno literally rides on a horse to Mirabel’s rescue to defend her against any wrath Alma may have against her. This is especially important when considering that Bruno previously expressed to Mirabel that he was afraid of facing Alma. In this scene, he shows he is willing to overcome this fear to once again protect Mirabel. He literally tells his mother, “I don’t care what you do to me.” I think the fact that he is riding on a horse just adds to the coding of a knight in shining armor rescuing his damsel in distress, even if Mirabel is perfectly capable of managing conflict.
3. Bruno comes across as younger than his age.
Bruno holds himself in a smaller posture. He appears shorter than his sisters. And frankly, he seems timid and unsure of himself. He often uses more informal language and catches himself and tries to use more formal language, and I think it’s to appear more mature than he feels he is. It doesn’t help that all of the Madrigal adults look much younger for their age, and he’s no exception. Now, I am going to refrain from going into why he may seem younger than his sisters (despite the graying hair). The point here is that Bruno acting and looking younger created a weird dissonance in my mind. On one hand, I knew he was Mirabel’s uncle and was the same age as her mother. On the other hand, his portrayed youth makes it a little easier to interpret their interactions as a little more romantic than familial. Because honestly, if the plot was just a little different and Bruno was just some seer that Mirabel was seeking out, then a lot of their interactions would read as very shippable to me. I’m sorry I cannot elaborate this more eloquently.
4. “After you save the miracle, come visit.” “After I save the miracle, I’m bringing you home.”
No elaboration for this. Just the way they look at each other during this exchange:
5. Bruno is canonically interested in incest romances.
Ok. I know this has been a central point of discourse between us and antis, but I want to look at this within the context of the narrative. Which is to say, Bruno talking about an aunt/nephew romance plot comes across as a foreshadow when considering the fact that 1) it can be assumed Bruno came up with this plot by himself and enjoys it, 2) Bruno started talking about this plot basically unprompted to his niece who he hasn’t seen in a decade, and 3) this was right after he had saved said niece from what he had assumed was death. I think having one of the characters in a shipcest pairing being canonically interested in incest already gives us a lot of shipcest fuel, but more than that, Bruno’s interest in incest and how it is introduced within the narrative very easily reads as a foreshadow in the first viewing of the movie.
6. Bruno is starved for affection and love, while Mirabel is starved for respect.
I think this is what ultimately colors everything between these two as potentially romantic. Bruno has been isolated for ten years, so any positive regard and affection to him is going to be so meaningful. We can see it on his face when Mirabel is reassuring him that she doesn’t think he makes bad things happen and that he just got a bad rap. We can see it in countless other scenes of Bruno receiving affection from other characters in the movie. He is shocked and very clearly doesn’t know what to do with it:
Likewise, Mirabel rarely receives respect from the adults and even children of the family. Tía Pepe and Isabela tend to be annoyed with Mirabel at baseline. Abuela Alma at her kindest is still shutting down Mirabel and telling Mirabel she has very little value to offer the family. Meanwhile, her parents sometimes accidentally support Alma’s opinion of Mirabel in their reassurances that she has “nothing” to prove. From their first interaction, Bruno listens to Mirabel and talks to her like an equal, like an autonomous adult who matters. As the two work together, Bruno continues to demonstrate that he respects Mirabel. He doesn’t talk down to her, and he apologizes for raising his voice at her when she was spiraling about hugging Isabella to save the miracle and reemphasizes her autonomy (“it’s up to you”):
Ultimately, these two unconditionally offer each other what they are both craving—what they each never properly received from the rest of the family—and this is a trope often used in a romantic narrative. Not to mention, they can also relate to each other; they are both misfits and both feel incredibly displaced from the rest of the family. Add to the fact that the two treat each other more like equals and less like uncle/niece, and suddenly, the couple coding seems more evident.
7. The blocking and imagery choices.
Honestly, most of the ship vibes I saw came from a lot of the blocking/imagery choices the animators made, so I’m just going to have to include some screenshots of the most damning ones because I don’t know how to make gifs. They are as follows.
The concern/desperation in Bruno’s eyes when he saves Mirabel from falling:
All the hand holding during the prophecy scene:
This scene in which we see a lot of mirroring between the two, supporting the idea that they see each other as equals:
This scene in which her parents are singing, “and to watch our little girl grow.” Of all the things to pan to in order to demonstrate that Mirabel is growing up, they chose to show her interacting with Bruno. It’s an interesting choice to me:
And then, of course, the last minute or so of the movie where we get a lot of mirabruno eye contact and shared smiles:
And Casita literally brings them together into a pseudo-dance:
Then there is the family picture. The way Bruno is holding/touching Mirabel does not come across as a typical uncle/niece interaction. Look at them. Regardless of the nature of their relationship, there is a high level of physical intimacy shown here:
And of course, the end credits silhouette:
So there you have it. These are the biggest reasons why I think these two are coded as a couple, but I’m sure there are many more that I’m not thinking of. I love these two so much, and I would love to hear other thoughts in support of their coding as a couple.
