If I Were a Goddess Challenge
"If I Were A God..." -challenge! from Kaino, Caramea & Mademoiselle Parapluie
(which I'm going to do here instead of my regular blog, because I'm somehow worried that I'm going to alienate readers who read my regular blog for insights on the ecological impact of clothing business).
Rules are as follows:
1. Tag back to the person who tagged you.
2. Answer the questions.
3. Add a question if you come up with a good one.
4. Challenge five other bloggers.
1. The global warming thingy will kill lots of stuff. You get to save one species and have to kill another. Which ones and why?
Instinctively, I'd love to choose carpet beetles for extinction, since I really hate them and also I don't think they occupy any important ecological niche. But on the other hand I want to keep them to punish wrongdoers. Well, I'll send moths to the wrongdoers, and let's kill carpet beetles. I'm going to save humans and langusts (panulirus angus, they are so pity-inspiring!).
2. Ok, since you are playing god, make a prayer your worshipers would have to pray every evening.
In my flowy lace-encrusted night-robe,
in my pretty, chintzy and flowery bed-room,
where everything is arranged nicely
from the embroidered bed-linens to the antique flower stand (<--they can replace this with whatever they have prettiest in their room)
mirroring the eternal beauty and refinement of You, o Rinna
I pray to continue on my path to the Superb Elegance.
What is ugly shall be obliterated
What is beautiful shall be fostered
Good night.
3. Nice and poetic that one. Now, any sacraments you would want to have?
Oh, many of them! My truly devoted followers would in fact spend their entire days proceeding from one sacrament to another, from the Heavenly Elegant Breakfast to Blessed Embroidery Hour to Putting on Chic Apparel&Neat Gloves&Stylish Hat, until in the evening Descending into Finest Embroidered Bed-Linen. As a consequence, I'd have the most sophisticated followers! All their movements would be made in consideration of propriety and beauty, even blowing their noses (in Finest Lace-Edge Handkerchiefs).
4. I like this theme. Three annual ceremonies that would be held to celebrate you?
* Festival of Finest Laces in Midsummer, when bad lace is burnt in bonfires and my faithful dress in prettiest long and flowing antique lace robes and dance themselves into abandon.
* Ceremony of Choosing the Spring Wardrobe in Spring, very happy and festive mood, plenty of champagne and petits-fours, everyone in their most extravagant flowered hat.
* Ceremony of Choosing the Autumn wardrobe, which is also a festival of harvest and mushroom-picking. Plenty of hearty good food, garden parties with colourful lanterns, and mixing summer and winter clothes in a way that's no-no for the rest of the year.
* Also any slightly formal tea-party all around the year, especially if held in over 100 year old buildings or botanical gardens.
5. Just in case you become a god, what sacrifices we mortals should offer for you for a good weather and such benefits?
I don't know about weather, but good luck in flea-market hunting could be obtained by sacrificing flowers and fine madeira, and perhaps some silk tulle. I imagine my divine self lounging in a slightly wild conservatory or orangerie on a rattan divan overlaid with plenty of white-embroidered cushions, sipping unending madeira from a tiny crystal glass and granting good fleamarket luck with a little flick of my wrist.
6. Since there are the five of you playing gods, check each others blogs and tell us what kind of gods you think the others would be like according to their blogs.
Kaino would be the goddess of puffins and pastries, and thus welcome to every divine party or gathering. Also, she is the protectress of cosy evening s spent knitting.
Mademoiselle Parapluie would be mysterious goddess of night, somewhat scary, but definitely chic. Also, any drop of blood from needlepricks suffered during sewing and especially embroidering is sacred to her.
Caramea is magnificent but somewhat unstable goddess of inexhaustible wardrobe (a massive wardrobe being just fine for a goddess, who has fairies to take care of the cleaning and ironing, but for mortals it is a blessing and a curse at the same time). Her blessing of inexhaustible wardrobe can turn into a disaster and avalanche of clothes in an instant. Also, she oversees bunnies, which mellows her down a little.
Elfie is certainly the goddess of dancing and cats.
And I think cavefelem will be the goddess of love and literature and those who wear very small gloves.
7. With which god of the other four would you most likely ally yourself with if needed?
I should think Kaino, since she would bring tasty baked goodies anywhere.
8. Since there are five to choose from to worship, why would your supporters choose you?
Because my faithful followers will always find a wonderful antique treasure (mostly of lace, but also other things according to their needs) whenever they visit a fleamarket, and cheaply too. Any good quality lace item, even if it was impractical or frankly weird, would always be just the right thing to wear, from job interview to walking in forest (and never get snatched in branches). They could also pack any amount of lace collars and gloves in a small box, one that could fit in a handbag, and yet take them out as needed in prefect condition and well pressed. Also, I'd bless anyone who has a very peculiar, unusual and nit-picky obsession, particularly regarding historical things.
On the other hand wrongdoers would suffer moths in their wardrobe and mysterious unremovable stains on shirt fronts.
9. Tempting! What rules should the followers of your cult follow?
a) Only the best lace may be worn or allowed in the house (bad lace be burnt)
b) Hat and glove etiquette must be followed
c) All the daily sacraments should be at least attempted to be adhered to
d) Nothing in excess but everything best possible quality
e) Good manners, respect all aroudn and fairness please me
f) Make something more beautiful every day
g) Every mealtime should be regarded as a little festival
H) There should be a ceremony, chic party or some festivity every week in my honour
10. How would you end the World when the time comes? Your take on the apocalypse?
When all bad lace is finally purged, a rainbow-coloured sun will rise and bathe everything in her shiningly beautiful rays. Many beautiful moons appear. Everything that is ugly or boring is transformed into beauty and charm, which in effect is the end of the world for quite many things.
11. Ok, the World is ending, what will you offer as the after life? The whole world is one big garden, and animals frolic together with people among flowers (or among snow in northern regions). Days are filled with tea-parties and culture, nights with star-gazing and love in fragrant gardens.
Also I would like to add that I really want a sort of elegant convent for my most ardent followers, where they would spend their days seceded from the banality of the current world, and only occasionally go out in search of more lace and silver spoons.
(which I'm going to do here instead of my regular blog, because I'm somehow worried that I'm going to alienate readers who read my regular blog for insights on the ecological impact of clothing business).
Rules are as follows:
1. Tag back to the person who tagged you.
2. Answer the questions.
3. Add a question if you come up with a good one.
4. Challenge five other bloggers.
1. The global warming thingy will kill lots of stuff. You get to save one species and have to kill another. Which ones and why?
Instinctively, I'd love to choose carpet beetles for extinction, since I really hate them and also I don't think they occupy any important ecological niche. But on the other hand I want to keep them to punish wrongdoers. Well, I'll send moths to the wrongdoers, and let's kill carpet beetles. I'm going to save humans and langusts (panulirus angus, they are so pity-inspiring!).
2. Ok, since you are playing god, make a prayer your worshipers would have to pray every evening.
In my flowy lace-encrusted night-robe,
in my pretty, chintzy and flowery bed-room,
where everything is arranged nicely
from the embroidered bed-linens to the antique flower stand (<--they can replace this with whatever they have prettiest in their room)
mirroring the eternal beauty and refinement of You, o Rinna
I pray to continue on my path to the Superb Elegance.
What is ugly shall be obliterated
What is beautiful shall be fostered
Good night.
3. Nice and poetic that one. Now, any sacraments you would want to have?
Oh, many of them! My truly devoted followers would in fact spend their entire days proceeding from one sacrament to another, from the Heavenly Elegant Breakfast to Blessed Embroidery Hour to Putting on Chic Apparel&Neat Gloves&Stylish Hat, until in the evening Descending into Finest Embroidered Bed-Linen. As a consequence, I'd have the most sophisticated followers! All their movements would be made in consideration of propriety and beauty, even blowing their noses (in Finest Lace-Edge Handkerchiefs).
4. I like this theme. Three annual ceremonies that would be held to celebrate you?
* Festival of Finest Laces in Midsummer, when bad lace is burnt in bonfires and my faithful dress in prettiest long and flowing antique lace robes and dance themselves into abandon.
* Ceremony of Choosing the Spring Wardrobe in Spring, very happy and festive mood, plenty of champagne and petits-fours, everyone in their most extravagant flowered hat.
* Ceremony of Choosing the Autumn wardrobe, which is also a festival of harvest and mushroom-picking. Plenty of hearty good food, garden parties with colourful lanterns, and mixing summer and winter clothes in a way that's no-no for the rest of the year.
* Also any slightly formal tea-party all around the year, especially if held in over 100 year old buildings or botanical gardens.
5. Just in case you become a god, what sacrifices we mortals should offer for you for a good weather and such benefits?
I don't know about weather, but good luck in flea-market hunting could be obtained by sacrificing flowers and fine madeira, and perhaps some silk tulle. I imagine my divine self lounging in a slightly wild conservatory or orangerie on a rattan divan overlaid with plenty of white-embroidered cushions, sipping unending madeira from a tiny crystal glass and granting good fleamarket luck with a little flick of my wrist.
6. Since there are the five of you playing gods, check each others blogs and tell us what kind of gods you think the others would be like according to their blogs.
Kaino would be the goddess of puffins and pastries, and thus welcome to every divine party or gathering. Also, she is the protectress of cosy evening s spent knitting.
Mademoiselle Parapluie would be mysterious goddess of night, somewhat scary, but definitely chic. Also, any drop of blood from needlepricks suffered during sewing and especially embroidering is sacred to her.
Caramea is magnificent but somewhat unstable goddess of inexhaustible wardrobe (a massive wardrobe being just fine for a goddess, who has fairies to take care of the cleaning and ironing, but for mortals it is a blessing and a curse at the same time). Her blessing of inexhaustible wardrobe can turn into a disaster and avalanche of clothes in an instant. Also, she oversees bunnies, which mellows her down a little.
Elfie is certainly the goddess of dancing and cats.
And I think cavefelem will be the goddess of love and literature and those who wear very small gloves.
7. With which god of the other four would you most likely ally yourself with if needed?
I should think Kaino, since she would bring tasty baked goodies anywhere.
8. Since there are five to choose from to worship, why would your supporters choose you?
Because my faithful followers will always find a wonderful antique treasure (mostly of lace, but also other things according to their needs) whenever they visit a fleamarket, and cheaply too. Any good quality lace item, even if it was impractical or frankly weird, would always be just the right thing to wear, from job interview to walking in forest (and never get snatched in branches). They could also pack any amount of lace collars and gloves in a small box, one that could fit in a handbag, and yet take them out as needed in prefect condition and well pressed. Also, I'd bless anyone who has a very peculiar, unusual and nit-picky obsession, particularly regarding historical things.
On the other hand wrongdoers would suffer moths in their wardrobe and mysterious unremovable stains on shirt fronts.
9. Tempting! What rules should the followers of your cult follow?
a) Only the best lace may be worn or allowed in the house (bad lace be burnt)
b) Hat and glove etiquette must be followed
c) All the daily sacraments should be at least attempted to be adhered to
d) Nothing in excess but everything best possible quality
e) Good manners, respect all aroudn and fairness please me
f) Make something more beautiful every day
g) Every mealtime should be regarded as a little festival
H) There should be a ceremony, chic party or some festivity every week in my honour
10. How would you end the World when the time comes? Your take on the apocalypse?
When all bad lace is finally purged, a rainbow-coloured sun will rise and bathe everything in her shiningly beautiful rays. Many beautiful moons appear. Everything that is ugly or boring is transformed into beauty and charm, which in effect is the end of the world for quite many things.
11. Ok, the World is ending, what will you offer as the after life? The whole world is one big garden, and animals frolic together with people among flowers (or among snow in northern regions). Days are filled with tea-parties and culture, nights with star-gazing and love in fragrant gardens.
Also I would like to add that I really want a sort of elegant convent for my most ardent followers, where they would spend their days seceded from the banality of the current world, and only occasionally go out in search of more lace and silver spoons.