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My family does this kind of thing every year before Christmas! We call it the Mid Winter's Eve Ball and it is the most looked forward to event in our family.
We used to hold it at a church building (in my church every church building has a gym/multi-purpose room and we used that) and then my aunt and uncle moved into a house with a legit ballroom in the basement, so we use that.
We don't usually go for the masks unless it's a Summer Solstice ball, but generally all the womenfolk gather together in the morning for coifing while the menfolk are setting up tables and concocting delectable delicacies. (Two of my uncles are basically amateur master chefs and everything they make is divine.)
We get fancy dresses on sale in the summer and sometimes my brother rents costumes from the local theater.
After we've eaten and danced the night away we have a recitation of poems, songs, stories, anything we have worked on over the year. My dad recites "Pyramus and Thisbe" every year because tradition and one of my uncles recites "The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus" or "The Cremation of Sam McGee". It usually ends with my grandmother telling us a story about the fairies who lived in her house and who are the reason for The Ball.
When the hour is late we clean up and return home exhausted and looking forward to next year's event.
Really, what I'm saying here is that if you want a Masked Ball™ you can absolutely find a place, invite the people, don old prom gowns and suits, find or make masks and have the most amazing time of your life.
We all deserve to go to a masquerade ball. I deserve to be anonymous among to aristocracy for one night getting up to general debauchery in a swan-inspired mask that absolutely doesn’t hide my face well enough for me to be half as bold and sensual as I plan to act but everyone else is on board so it’s okay and we’ll all just not talk about it tomorrow.
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“Tale as old as time, true as it can be.”
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)
Ball gowns brushing cool marbled floors
Champagne glasses clink over lilting laughter
The chatter of the evening intertwines with music notes
Delicate trims and breakable hearts
Dance cards filled with the fonts of a dozen possibilities
Glances thrown haphazardly across the room always caught by someone
Always met with a smile that tastes of honeysuckle or moonlight
Bows and brushes of lips tinged in presumptuous elegance over lace wrapped knuckles
Gloved palms and aching fingertips with wild imaginations of their own
We know the steps to half a hundred waltzes
Every movement feels like we’re floating
The chandelier lights refracted in your eyes
Make me dizzy with every spin
Your hands ghosting so gently across my waist,
Whispers of a promise that will be broken with dawn
But isn't it wonderful to pretend
To forget the frays in my stockings the threads of my corset
Breathless youth blossoming into forever
Cheeks blooming bouquets of flush pink roses by the time the night is done
Mid-day tea composed of white porcelain frosted with flowers
Scones and bonnets and strolls in the park
A church picnic by the pond
There is a parasol and sisters giggling softly in the sun
Cherry blossom gossip and apple pie
Inside, someone will ask me to play piano
And I will be able to
Just as I will be able to speak French and curtsey and be desired
The younger girls will sing
And we will all know how to be beautiful
For it is the one thing our mothers will have taught us
I will read aloud
As the women stitch stories into quilts
None of us yearn too much to be remembered
We are all trying to let it be enough
And eventually it is
As the sun sets
We are content with the way we have adequately wasted the hours
Of another day that does not belong to us
A man I barely know will ask my father for my hand
And I will not be afraid
Because I have not been taught how to fear yet
I will think about the boy at the bakery
Warm gaze and maple smile
A childish romance that never even begun
The man I am to marry has eyes cold as ice
My breath fogs when we meet
Within the mist I see children brimming with the bliss of youth and know they will be ours
I know I will learn to love him
With the lessons my mother whispered to me as I slept
I will learn how to turn a cheek toward the sun
And be blinded by a new day
I will learn to mend tears in bedsheets and jackets and hearts
I will learn to let it be enough
Just as my mother has taught me
Just as I will teach
My daughter
We can’t be together
Kim Seungmin one shot
Pairing: Kim Seungmin × Female reader
Genre: Angst, royal au
Warnings: mention of blood
Word count: 1.4 K
Author’s Note: I wanted to write this after I saw Seungmin in gayo daejun, he looked like a prince, then I saw an edit and couldn’t stop myself from writing. Also here's a playlist I actually made while writing this hehe
I saw her walking down the stairs, I could recognize her even in masquerade, her black masquerade mask perfectly hiding her, but her eyes were saying something to me. Her black eyes, which looked like they held my whole universe, her ruby lips, calling me over again. Her beautiful black-maroon gown with a boat neck, her collarbone looking the prettiest. Her red jewelry on her making her look more elegant, my forbidden fruit.
I started walking, and she was coming down, carefully. her black heels were visible. She just looked perfect. Everyone was looking at me, this masquerade ball party is for me. Today is the day I was waiting since the day I fell in love with her and promised her to make her mine. She looked at me and smiled gracefully.
She was finally standing in front of me, I asked for her hand, and she gave it to me, with her smile. I kissed her hand, took her to the center of the ballroom. The music started playing, I kept her hand on my shoulder and pulled her closer by her waist. She looked surprised, “You look so beautiful my love” I leaned to her and whispered at her.
She was looking down, I lifted her chin and made her look at me. She smiled at me, but her eyes searching for something inside me, as if she wanted to tell me something… something big but I was unable to understand her. She was being different, for the first time she didn’t tell me ‘she can’t be with me’ today instead she gave herself in.
We were swaying in the music of the piano, I wanted to enjoy all the moments while I am being her side, who know what will happen next, “thank you so much” she replied and looked at me with another smile, which looked pain...painful.
“Please let me enjoy today and you’re free to love me in your way today.” She said and spun her around. “You asked for it, love”
This time her smile was genuine as if she wanted to tell me, she’s accepting she will be with me. The lights dimmed all over the hall, and I looked at her. She was looking pretty even in the dim lights, it reminded me of how we met, she was practicing her dance for the lantern rite festival, and she was almost about to die by the hand’s soldiers of different kingdom. She was that one fierce lady out of the people who wanted to take those soldiers down, her bravery almost sent her to the heaven. She was saved after my soldiers came there for rescue, who knew we would meet in the market when I dressed as a commoner and sneaked out of the kingdom and almost got caught but she covered up for me.
After that we started meeting, who knew I would fall in love with a lady full of arts, she told me once, twice and then I shut her up everytime, she said she can’t fall in love but she fell, and we can’t be together.
I smiled at her reminiscing our memories, “why are you smiling?” she asked
“I was thinking about us, today you’re here dancing with me.” she looked down again,
“Seungmin…”
“Yes?”
“Kiss me.” she looked at me, “Kiss me, make me yours” she said it.
Her cold hands touched my cheeks, she tip toed and I leaned closer to her holding her cheeks, caressing her a bit and smashed my lips on her, that kiss said it all, how much I longed for it. Her hands resting on my shoulders, and I pulled her closer. Her hands went to rest on my shoulder, we were moving on sync because we were longing for eachother, I could taste her tears which were streaming down her cheeks, I was wiping them off with my thumb and telling her it’s okay. We pulled apart and smiled at each other.
“I love you”
“I love you too, more than you can imagine Seungmin, you mean more than my own life, I can give up on my own life because of you, because your existence and smile mean the whole world to me.” I smiled at her, she has no idea how much her words meant to me, I was waiting for this day when she would accept me and tell me that she loves me. Everything I wanted is happening today, I would tell the world she is mine and kiss her in front of everyone.
She turned around, hurriedly and held my shoulder tight, I looked at her and she tried smiling at me, very weakly. I felt my hand getting wet, the ones which were resting on her waist.
“Maria?”
She was holding my shoulder as if she will fall if she lets go of me, I looked at my hand, which was on her waist, it full of blood, red fluid flowing down her waist.
“MARIA?” I screamed, she was about to fall, I held her by her waist and we fell on the floor. I looked around there were many people who were dancing together with smiles.
“STOP THIS AND CLOSE ALL THE ENTRACES. NO ONE SHOULD GET OUT OF THIS CASTLE. THIS IS MY ORDER.” Everyone stopped whatever they were doing.
“YES YOUR HIGHNESS”
She was in my arms, “I told you, we can’t be together.”
“Stop, I won’t let you go anywhere, I will find whoever did this to you.” I was trying not to cry, never did I imagined this.
“I told you I can give up on my life for you, but you have to live. I am an assassin and the youngest princess of Marengo Kingdom Prince Seungmin and I was here to destroy your whole kingdom by killing you, but I couldn’t, I couldn’t because I fell in love with you and understood that whatever happened to our kingdom wasn’t your fault but they weren’t at fault as well. What happened in past, they were wronged and people died; how am I supposed to choose my own happiness when my own people who believed me; I will take the revenge one day? How am I supposed to be happy when I saw my people dying infront of me, crying in misery because they lost their family. How could I betray my own motherland and be happy here with you? I want peace, your highness. I never brought our ranks when we were together and accepted you just the way you accepted me but today, I request you to do justice and bring peace and I will be happy. Your highness please grant me my request.”
“How could you… do this? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME?I loved you…. I still love you. Please stay with me. I will do everything for you, everything.”
“I love you, but my duty as a princess comes first… please understand” she brought her hand to trace my cheeks, she caressed my cheeks. “I loved you with all of me, thankyou for showing me happiness and a world I wished to live in. Please be happy” my tears started falling down, I can’t let her go, she’s my everything.
“I’m really very happy today, do you know why?” she was crying, she was in pain and I was unable to do anything. “I saved you, today is the day, everything was supposed to end but how am I supposed to sit still and watch you die infront of my eyes, I can’t do that. You know right? Love? Who in this world would see her lover die infornt of her, I knew they were here so… this is my answer to them.” her breathing became heavy.
“Did you think about me? how will I live without you?” I chocked on my own tears, this was paining, everything was painful.
“You can, because I love you…” those were the final words before her hand fell down.
“NO!!!”
“Maria, maria wake up please, talk to me.” I was shaking her body but she never responded to me. everything felt so cold, why am I alone freezing, I am just left alone to cry.
“YOUR HIGHNESS, MARENGO KINGDOM DECLARED A WAR.” I heard our General say.
“WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE WAR TELL EVERYONE.” I declared, unable to forget Maria’s request. “AND WE WILL SAY GOODBYE TO PRINCESS MARIA WITH FULL RESPECT” if only she knew how much it was paining, how did my ending turn to this, how did she leave me alone like this.
“I loved you and will love you Maria, I won’t let our love go in vain like this.” I kissed her forehead…
Snake Ninja @iamsnakeninja - 2018
© Denis Garnier
© Denis Garnier
Snake Ninja - 2018
© Denis Garnier
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❝𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞; 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭.❞ 𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 𝄞⨾𓍢ִ
Also the raven is a reference to his bird Vogel btw (imagine naming your bird the word bird but in another language???(