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Sir Geraint and the Lady Enid in the Deserted Roman Town by Walter Crane

#arthuriana #art #illustration #walter crane

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this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

#sexism

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@itsallwearecalledtodo

"bUt i tHiNk mAKeUp is fUn" that's nice. i would like to be allowed to exist without it without being socioeconomically punished for that choice but what's important to focus on here is that you're just having the funnest time ever

#sexism

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So you know how at the end of Nona the Ninth, Harrow doubts that John is god and goes off into the River to find god, who is maybe Alecto?

It turns out we had a clue right at the beginning that John is not the metaphysical engine of the universe of The Locked Tomb...

When Teacher gives the assembled scions at Canaan House a highly selective history of the OG Lyctors, he says:

Those eight necromancers were first after the Lord of Resurrection; they have spread his assumption across the blackness of space.

Remember that John is, in the theology of the Nine Houses, the "God who became man and man who became God." It's never entirely explained what this means to them, but it's clearly intended to riff on Jesus, the 'Word made flesh' (John 1:14), "born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:7).

But here's the thing if you're going to be a Catholic-flavoured god: Catholicism has some quite specific terminology for leveling up in terms of heavenly power.

Jesus, who is God, goes up to heaven after the resurrection. This is described as his "ascension" - it's an active process. He is ascending, going to his heavenly throne. He can do that, because he's God. He *is* the rules of the universe and metaphysics. If he wants to fly up into the sky and transcend into another dimension, he can do that, because he's God.

But there are three other people who are understood to have gone up to heaven bodily: Jesus' mum Mary, and the prophets Elijah and Enoch - for all three of them, this is described as their "assumption": it's a passive process, which they aren't doing under their own steam, it's being done by God. In art, this has historically been depicted by showing them being propelled skywards by a writhing mass of cherubs.

So let's get back to Jod.

You know, the man who became god, etc etc etc? The one who resurrected his Lyctors who then "spread his assumption across the blackness of space"?

Either John wasn't paying quite enough attention when going through Catholicism for Dummies or Teacher is being a bit sly here.

So this is a nod, right at the beginning, to the fact that John isn't actually the metaphysical power of the universe that he claims to be.

#the locked tomb #john gaius #theology #meta

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i love gideon the ninth because i think readers will naturally take what a narrator says at face value, because that is what we are conditioned to do. but gideon says so many blatantly incorrect things confidently because she doesn’t know better, or is outright lying, and it makes for SUCH an interesting reading experience.

#the locked tomb #gideon nav

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25 aprile 1945, Liberazione d’Italia dal nazifascismo

#history #world war ii #italy

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Buona Festa della Liberazione a tutte le mie mutuale italiane!

#history #world war ii #italy

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#animals #this too is animorphs

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‘Katerina Rosa Botsaris’ Joseph Karl Stieler, 1841 

#art #joseph karl stieler

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RIVERDALE (2017 - 2023) Season 6, Episode 16: Blue Collar

#riverdale fandom fandom #gif

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hot & vintage movie women round 4 masterpost

notes -polls that are especially close (defined as "46%-54% or closer as of whenever i last updated this") are denoted with a ✨ -the cutoff i used to determine what day a poll ends on is midnight eastern daylight time because it seemed as good as any other, but be aware that some of the polls end in the wee hours of the morning - i.e. the ones ending friday start ending on the cusp of late thursday night/early friday morning, so get your votes in early

ending friday 4/26

Judy Garland vs. Natalie Wood✨ Ava Gardner vs. Dorothy Dandridge✨ Suraiya vs. Yoshiko Yamaguchi✨ Sara Montiel vs. Marilyn Monroe Marpessa Dawn vs. Irene Papas Lupe Vélez vs. Greta Garbo Sophia Loren vs. Pola Negri Katharine Hepburn vs. Gene Tierney Barbara Stanwyck vs. Setsuko Hara Hedy Lamarr vs. Gina Lollobrigida Lena Horne vs. Jane Fonda Elizabeth Taylor vs. Nutan Audrey Hepburn vs. Jean Seberg

ending saturday 4/27

Kim Novak vs. Marlene Dietrich Gladys Cooper vs. Joan Crawford Tallulah Bankhead vs. Anna May Wong Madhubala vs. Linda Darnell María Félix vs. Julie Andrews✨ Lauren Bacall vs. Carmen Sevilla Vyjayanthimala vs. Gloria Swanson

ending sunday 4/28

Glynis Johns vs. Eartha Kitt Josephine Baker vs. Anne Baxter Rita Morena vs. Angela Lansbury Xia Meng vs. Anita Ekberg✨ Toshia Mori vs. Veronica Lake Deborah Kerr vs. Keiko Awaji vs. Hazel Scott Chelo Alonso vs. Ingrid Bergman Cyd Charisse vs. Mbissine Thérèse Diop✨ Nancy Kwan vs. Rita Hayworth Devika Rani vs. Diahann Carroll Shima Iwashita vs. Grace Kelly Anouk Aimée vs. Pearl Bailey

#fuck that old woman

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"you gotta respect your roots"

my roots have never been sasunaru or any m/m ship. they've always been shit like yorusoi or sachiyumi.

#yeah. #fandom #get off my lawn

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The Changing of the Seasons By Saint Hildegard

#art #middle ages #hildegard von bingen

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Kiiiinda think. Controversially. Maybe Christian culture has kinda made an idol out of marriage.

#'kinda'? #theology

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It's part of their Holland M. Smith Collection, so I looked up who Smith was. He was a World War II general and amateur photographer who, at this time, was a student at Auburn University in Alabama. Classmates goofing around, perhaps? Auburn went coed in 1892, so it was still something of a novelty to have women students on campus during Smith's time there.

Unidentified women c. 1900

#history

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The people’s princess 😔😭🥰

#yellowjackets #jackie taylor #fanart #THE jackie outfit

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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

#l'amica geniale #my brilliant friend #elena ferrante #monstrousgourmandizingcats reads l'amica geniale #nino sarratore hate blog