🎃 David From The Blackwood Lagoon. 🎃
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Pronouns: He/Him Adjectives: Obdurate/Inscrutable Adverbs: Recalcitrantly/Clandestinely Nouns: Cloak/Dagger Verbs: Sleep/Read
![1. Choose an original name — Thea, Belkis, or Mareva.
2. Confide to men under strict secrecy that you are the niece of a revolutionary executed in prison, or the natural daughter of a Balkan king [from Phrygia, for example].
3. Although you may have taken your M.A. at Oxford, speak English with a Russian accent, slightly flavoured with Bulgarian and just a suspicion of Hungarian.
4. Have a favourite flower — a red lily or a Brazilian cowslip — that you won the first time you were kissed on the lips by a Cossack general at the age of sixteen.
5. Introduce anecdotes into your conversation. Remark casually, for example: “‘In summer it is warmer than in winter,’ as the great Lao-Tze has said.”
6. Always live at a hotel. An adventuress has no use for a kitchenette.
7. Wear an antique ring on your little finger — one that used to contain deadly poison and was used by the Florentines in the days of Lucretia Borgia.
8. If you happen to be spending a few days at Margate [surely Dekobra didn’t write Margate in his French original], say to the man who is paying you attention, “My dear, I have just arrived from Stamboul.”
9. Procure a number of leading Continental hotel labels and stick them on your new luggage. An adventuress who does not travel is like a panther without teeth.
10. An adventuress does not eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. She takes snails on toast, six olives, half a pound of caviare, and an aspirin tablet in a glass of absinthe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bddrejoiuxrqztzx6py3zng7/bafkreih6r7ltnla47a3cvm33pnqnzqqs5xn3lygi4ijrxk4fuilkeadcqa)
![A screenshot of a wolfpupy post on that other site that we don't talk about anymore.
me: [wearing my cool goth clothes]
some guy yelling from a car: halloween was yesterday
me: halloween is forever bitch
5:36 AM · Nov 1, 2014](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bddrejoiuxrqztzx6py3zng7/bafkreidy3ddgz6wrtr4iddn2nay5irliptmyldhldpzhnsagcu2edj3fee)
