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art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament · 9 months

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Behold, a bracket!

Text form below the cut because trying to copy all the 256 into the alt text sounded.... horrifying. Warning for 128 matchups, seriously, this list is long, and so I've avoided adding the artists until the polls.

a note: the pinned post has started misbehaving, so only open polls will be directly linked. closed polls instead have the results page linked in the set header, all the polls are linked from there

Set 1

The Lament for Icarus (Miao He) vs The Lament for Icarus (Herbert Draper)

The angel came to me in a fever hallucination, perched upon my bed as I returned from the bathroom. vs Sweet Brown Snail

Figures vs A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

Happy Shoppers vs Hubble Deep Field

Lovers Painting vs Bath Curtain

Dr. Helen Taussig vs Une Martyre

Orangoutang étranglant un sauvage de Bornéo (Orangutan strangling a Borneo savage) vs Can’t Help Myself

Rape vs Technicolor Hiroshima

Set 2

A Walk at Dusk vs Based on “Autoportrait with the Model” by Maria-Rayevska Ivanova

Diary Page vs Les Jours Gigantesques (The Titanic Days)

Dead of Night vs You Won't

Christina's World vs Bobby

Untitled (I’m Turning Into A Specter Before Your Very Eyes And I’m Going To Haunt You) vs Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

Sharecropper vs Lustmord

The Parca and the Angel of Death vs Untitled (Zdzisław Beksiński)

Stress vs The Fallen Angel

Set 3

Device to Root Out Evil vs Travelling Light

Diana vs Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire that Consumes All before It

The Plains, from Memory vs Exotic Bodies

Doubting Thomas vs Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror

Empty Nest vs Somebody Fell From Aloft

Anguish vs If I Died

Cat in Obsolete Bath vs You're Not Boring Anymore

Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) vs Untitled (billboard of an empty unmade bed)

Set 4

There Will Be No Miracles Here vs Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace

Fox Hunt vs Tarpaulin

Khajuraho Group of Monuments vs Ranakpur Jain Temple

ปราสาทสัจธรรม (The Sanctuary of Truth) vs Grande Panorama de Lisboa

Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais vs The Weather

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit vs If this is art

Statue of Vincent and Theo van Gogh vs Jeanne d’Arc écoutant les voix (Joan of Arc listening to the Voices)

Fountain vs Judith Slaying Holofernes

Set 5

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands) vs Cave of El Castillo

Chauvet Cave Bear vs Uffington White Horse

Laocoön and His Sons vs Winged Victory of Samothrace

Crouching Aphrodite vs Statue of Taweret

Guardian Figure vs Kūya-Shonin (Saint Kuya)

Ancient Greek doll vs Arena #7 (Bears)

Enbu (炎舞) (Dancing in the Flames) vs Yearning Shadows

Belfast to Byzantium vs Freedom

Set 6

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayan vs Portraits

The Blood Mirror vs Nighthawks

Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers): Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate vs "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw vs Forgotten Dreams

Saint Bride vs Pixeles (a group of 9 works)

War Pieta vs The Sunset

The Handmaidens of Sivawara Preparing the Sacred Bull at Tanjore for a Festival vs Ajax and Cassandra

Nāve (Death) vs Abstraction

Set 7

Yes vs Meeting on the Turret Stair

Hacked to Death II vs Stańczyk

Closeness Lines Over Time vs Voice of Fire

The Maple Trees at Mama, the Tekona Shrine and Tsugihashi Bridge vs Portrait of Sir Thomas More

Survival Series: In a Dream You Saw a Way vs Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre

Death blowing bubbles vs The Kitchen Table Series

Painting 1946 vs In the Grip of Winter

Untitled (Black and Gray) vs NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

Set 8

Blue Plate Special vs Red Cedar

Palace of Fine Arts vs Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba

Le Château des Pyrénées (The Castle of the Pyrenees) vs Susanna and the Elders, Restored - X-Ray

Moby Dick vs Viva la Vida, Watermelons

Venus Envy Chapter One (Of the First Holy Communion Moments Before the End) vs how to look at art

St. Sebastian vs Untitled #12

Carroña vs The invincible one

Untitled (Two Dogs) vs The Dog

SECOND HALF

Set 9

David (Donatello) vs David (Michelangelo)

The Other Side vs The Temptation of St. Jerome

Seated Woman with Bent Knees vs Starry Night

Headdress - Shadae vs Untitled for the Image Flow's Queer Conscience exhibit

Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind) vs Les Amants (The Lovers)

Siroče na majčinom grobu (Orphan on Mother's Grave) vs You Make My World a Better Place to Find

Fighting Against SARS Memorial Architectural Scene (弘揚抗疫精神建築景觀) vs Fallingwater

Resting vs The Hull

Set 10

Olive Trees vs Worship

Glow vs Wheatfield with Crows

Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X vs Untitled (He Plays Very Badly)

D.I.Y. by John Wiswell vs The Tragedy

Judith and the Head of Holofernes vs Beethovenfries (Beethoven Frieze)

The Memory of Me (How Could I Forget) vs oh god i had a really big epiphany about love and personhood but i’m too drunk for words

I am happy because everyone loves me vs 瀕危形態 (Endangered Forms)

Three Scaffolders vs Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan

Set 11

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk vs Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow

The Grief of the Pasha vs Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park

Passion vs Space Diner

Hamlet and Ophelia vs Two Earthlings

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth vs Seer Bonnets

Photograph from "SNAP OSAKA" Collection vs Clytemnestra after the Murder

“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) vs The Lovers (TIE)

Kedai Ubat Jenun vs Orange Store Front

Set 12

The Apotheosis of War vs Portrait of the Dancer Aleksandr Sakharov

Julie Manet vs Mouth

The Icebergs vs Kaleidoscope Cats III

Maman vs Caza Nocturna (Night Hunt)

The Book of Kells Folio 188r: Luke carpet page vs Ardagh Chalice

Yusuf and Zulaikha vs Dome of the Rock mosaics

Rowan Leaves and Hole vs Untitled (prisonhannibal)

Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man) vs The Dedication

Set 13

Deimos vs Dog and Bridge

The Mocking of Christ vs Prudence

The Broken Column vs Siberian Ice Maiden shoulder tattoo

Transi de René de Chalon (Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon) vs Head of Christ

The Day vs Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 vs Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন (National Parliament House)

Juventud de Baco (Bacchus Youth) vs Barges on the Seine

Oath of the Horattii closeup vs Visit hos Excentrisk Dam (Visit to an eccentric lady)

Set 14

Christ Crucified (With Donor) vs St. Francis

Thunder Raining Poison vs Piazza d'Italia

The Grove vs Among the Waves

Pintura Mural de Alarcón vs Sagrada Família stained-glass windows

Noonday Heat vs La Dame à la licorne (The Lady and The Unicorn)

Matroser i Gröna Lund (Sailors in Gröna Lund) vs Gielda Plakatu

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks vs The Garden of Earthly Delights

Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death) vs Haavoittunut enkeli (The Wounded Angel)

Set 15

i've wasted a lifetime pretending to be me vs da oracle

minus #37 vs Panel from Fun Home

Excerpt from illustrated edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner vs La Mort de Marat (The Death of Marat)

The Veil vs Düsseldorf 4 (Museum Kunst Palast)

Capriccio vs Zodiac calendar for La Plume

The official imperial portrait of empress dowager Cixi vs José y Maria

Blooming Lilacs vs Lágrimas De Sangre (Tears of Blood)

An Interlude vs Boy Staring at an Apparition

Set 16

Mermer Waiskeder: Stories of the Moving Tide vs The Gran Hotel Ciudad de México Art Nouveau interior

Unfinished Painting vs To Arms!

Memorial to a Marriage vs The Island

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn vs A Few Small Nips

Saturn Devouring His Son vs Guernica

Fairy Princesses vs Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Mummy with An Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth vs Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party

Agnus vs The Cup Of His Murders Is Flowing Over And In His Coat Shall Be Many Curses

#art that fucks you up tournament #announcement #links are in the read more!

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lands-of-fantasy · 1 year

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Pride and Prejudice

Classic and loose adaptions from 1940, 1967, 1980, 1995, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019

The second of Jane Austen’s novels, first published in 1813, is the most often adapted, inspiring various different takes on it. The ones pictures above are detailed below:

Pride and Prejudice (1940 Film)

This black and white film departs from the original novel in some (or should I say many?) points

Written by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin, adapted from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome; directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Starring Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet, Laurence Olivier as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Edward Ashley Cooper as George Wickham, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane Bennet, Bruce Lester as Mr. Charles Bingley, Ann Rutherford as Lydia Bennet, Melville Cooper as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1967 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 24min. Black and White footage Written by Nemone Lethbridge, directed by Joan Craft

Starring Celia Bannerman as Elizabeth Bennet, Lewis Fiander as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Richard Hampton as George Wickham, Polly Adams as Jane Bennet, David Savile as Mr. Charles Bingley, Lucy Fleming as Lydia Bennet, Julian Curry as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1980 Miniseries)

5 episodes x 54 min Written by Fay Weldon, directed by Cyril Coke

Starring Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet, David Rintoul as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Peter Settelen as George Wickham, Sabina Franklyn as Jane Bennet, Osmund Bullock as Mr. Charles Bingley, Natalie Ogle as Lydia Bennet, Malcolm Rennie as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1995 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 54 min Written by Andrew Davies, directed by Simon Langton

Starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet, Colin Firth as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Adrian Lukis as George Wickham, Susannah Harker as Jane Bennet, Crispin Bonham-Carter as Mr. Charles Bingley, Julia Sawalha as Lydia Bennet, David Bamber as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (2003 Indie Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Utah, USA Written by Anne Black, Jason Faller, Katherine Swigert; directed by Andrew Black

Starring Kam Heskin as Elizabeth Bennet, Orlando Seale as Will Darcy, Henry Maguire as Jack Wickham, Lucila Sola as Jane Vasquez, Ben Gourley as Charles Bingley, Kelly Stables as Lydia Meryton, Hubbel Palmer as William Collins, among others.

Bride and Prejudice (2004 Film)

Bollywood-style Musical. Loose adaption set in modern India and England. Written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha; directed by Gurinder Chadha

Starring Aishwarya Rai as Lalita Bakshi (Elizabeth), Martin Henderson as William "Will" Darcy, Daniel Gillies as Johnny Wickham, Namrata Shirodkar as Jaya Bakshi (Jane), Naveen Andrews as Mr Balraj Uppal (Bingley), Peeya Rai Chowdhary as Lakhi Bakshi (Lydia), Nitin Ganatra as Kohli Saab (Collins), among others.

Pride and Prejudice (2005 Film)

Written by Deborah Moggach, directed by Joe Wright

Starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rupert Friend as George Wickham, Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennet, Simon Woods as Mr. Charles Bingley, Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet, Claudie Blakley as Charlotte Lucas, Tom Hollander as Mr. Collins, Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet, Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, among others.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012–13 Webseries)

160 episodes x 2-8 min, available on Youtube Loose adaption set in modern US, told in a vlog format

Created by Hank Green and Bernie Su, from Pemberley Digital

Starring Ashley Clements as Elizabeth Bennet, Daniel Vincent Gordh as William Darcy, Wes Aderhold as George Wickham, Laura Spencer as Jane Bennet, Christopher Sean as Bing Lee, Mary Kate Wiles as Lydia Bennet, Julia Cho as Charlotte Lu, Maxwell Glick as Ricky Collins, among others.

Lizzie’s videos amount to 100 episodes + 10 Q&A, but shorter series enrich the story by offering other characters’ perspectives, most notably Lydia’s (and also Georgiana’s). A playlist at Pemberley Digital’s Youtube channel features them all in order.

The series has also been adapted into a book, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet (2014), and spawned a sequel novel, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet (2015).

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016 Film)

Loose adaption inspired by the 2009 novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, which adds zombies to Austen’s original story. The movie makes alterations from the zombie book as well.

Written and directed by Burr Steers

Starring Lily James as Elizabeth Bennet, Sam Riley as Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jack Huston as George Wickham, Bella Heathcote as Jane Bennet, Douglas Booth as Mr. Charles Bingley, Ellie Bamber as Lydia Bennet, Matt Smith as Parson William Collins, among others.

Orgulho e Paixão (Pride and Passion) (2018 Telenovela)

Brazilian telenovela in Brazilian-Portuguese

162 episodes x 30-40min (original version) Loose adaption set in 1910s São Paulo state, Brazil

Created by Marcos Bernstein, directed by Fred Mayrink

Starring Nathalia Dill as Elisabeta Benetido, Thiago Lacerda as Sr. Darcy Williamson, Pâmela Tomé as Jane Benedito, Maurício Destri as Camilo Bittencourt (Bingley), Bruna Giphao as Lídia Benedito, Bruno Gissoni as Diogo Uirapuru (Wickham/Willoughby), among others.

The story takes inspiration from all 6 of Austen’s major novels (plus Lady Susan), but mostly from Pride and Prejudice. Others stars include Chandelly Braz as Mariana Benedito (Marianne Dashwood) and Anajú Dorigon as Cecília Benedito (Catherine Morland).

Features 100 episodes in the International cut. The telenovela has been broadcast in other countries and languages (such as Spanish) but as far as I know, not in English.

Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta (2019 TV Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Atlanta, USA. All-black cast. Written by Tracy McMillan, directed by Rhonda Baraka

Starring Tiffany Hines as Elizabeth Bennet, Juan Antonio as Will Darcy, Raney Branch as Jane Bennet, Brad James as Charles Bingley, Reginae Carter as Lydia Bennet, Carl Anthony Payne as Rev. Collins, among others.

*****

Personal favorites: 2005, then 1995. But also: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Orgulho e Paixão

I also enjoyed Atlanta and, while it’s been a while since I’ve seen Bride and Prejudice, it’s got Indian musical numbers so c’mon, one gotta watch it.

Back to the closer adaptions, despite its age, 1980 is also good! 1940 is...very different, but fun in its own way.

In fact, while I find some of these versions weaker, I could find enjoyment in all of them - but maybe that’s cause I’m a sucker for P&P.

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice 2005 #pride and prejudice 95 #orgulho e paixão #period drama #the lizzie bennet diaries #jane austen adaptations #pride and prejudice atlanta #bride and prejudice #pride and prejudice and zombies #jane bennet #charles bingley #lydia bennet #mr darcy #mr bingley #I'll post about the other novels later #pep2005

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stitched-mouth · 9 months

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List of Every Brandon Rogers Characters Ever

I don’t know why I did this. It took 4 hours. I haven’t seen ever Brandon Rogers video (shocking, I know) so some are missing. I purposely didn’t add any parody characters (the Kardashians, Annabell, M3GAN etc), but if you notice any BRCU characters missing, please comment so I can add them.

And obviously the characters not credited are played by Brandon Rogers.

David July is credited as David Burton on this list. I’m not sure when they changed their name, as they are credited as both on Brandon’s videos.

I can’t remember who Debbie and Doyle are but I must of put them on this list for a reason

Main Characters

Sam

Bryce Tankthrust

Bobby Worst

Blame/Sebastian/ Grandpa

Elmer

Cathy

Karen

Helen Brownstein

Stuff & Sam

Donna Phitts (Paulette Jones)

Damien (Onision)

Ms Cunney (Monique Parent)

Blame the Hero

Young Donna Phitts (Alariza Nevarez)

Duke Tuggler (Anthony Padilla)

Coach Best (Jack Plotnick)

Skinny Bitch (Kornbread Jeté)

Dill Flippo (Jonathan Hinman)

Family Doctor Office

Dr Gupta

Nurse Kavi (Nandini Minocha)

Lipschtiz the Clown (Paulette Jones)

Surgeon Miller (Jude B. Lanston)

Nurse Hole (Georgina Leahy)

Patient (Adam Neylan)

Another Patient (Jonathan Hinman)

Daniel (Jess Weaver)

Daniel’s Mother (Christine Sydelko)

Mad tea party

Mad Hatter

Cheshire Cat (Bazil)

White Rabbit (Benjamin Alexander Hall)

The Jabberwocky (Natalie Hawkins)

Flower (Jordan)

No one was credited in this video and most were personal friends of Brandon’s and not content creators so are nearly impossible to find. I had to stalk Brandon’s Insta to find these people.

BTW, Bazil (who plays Cheshire Cat) is a trans man who goes by he/him. Just letting people know because people are misgendering him and I assume it’s because they don’t know his pronouns.

Theatre Class

Alex Rimmer

Mason Lucas (Salim Razawi)

Oliver Hamilton (Stephen Weighill)

Linda Starford (Janet McCarroll)

Karen Shou (Karen Fokes)

Jamie (Adam Neylan)

Marlena Lewton (Rachael Ferris)

Dean Shaft (Tony Rogers)

Trump’s Emotions

Joy

Anger (Stephen James)

Disgust, Fear and Sadness were not credited in this skit and I can’t guess with all the makeup or find them.

Fashion

Jurgen Klausvonschwitz

Damien Ditsin (Logan Bubar)

Gretchen (Paulette Jones)

Sookilah (Judyth Brooke)

Dolorio (Devyne Carr)

Cheap Skate

Luxy

Lost Boy (Adam Neylan)

Chick Flick (the first Brandon Roger’s Video I ever watched)

Ashley

Ashley’s Best Friend (Vincent Marcus)

Ashley’s Crush / Cop (Jon Cozart)

Ashley’s Mom (Christine Sykdelko)

Teacher (Jude B. Lanston)

Doctor (Jonathan Hinman)

The Real Patient/ Dick’s Owner (Skye Williams)

The Real Patient’s Wife (Adam Neylan)

5 Year Old (Paulette Jones)

Since this video is now restricted on YouTube, I did this one from memory. I can’t believe I remember all these characters and actors. Thank God I rewatched it like a billion times when I first found it.

Mad funhouse

Mr Marbles/ Arlo

Dave (Jess Weaver)

Cliff (TJ Smith)

Sacha (Elise Christian)

Jimmy (Alex Diehl)

Manjusha (Nandini Minocha)

Mr Chronis (Jude Lanston)

Nuclear family

Barbara

Frank

Daniel/ Echo Noir

Unnamed Daughter

Devontay (?) (Devyne Carr)

The Office

Dorian Ditsin

James Shaft (Stephen Rezza)

Vishalam Rangan (Natalie Hawkins)

Jimmy Rustler (Benjamin Hall)

Craig Dildon (Stephen James)

Ernie (Seth Munson)

Diesel (David Burton)

Kevin (Davis Benz)

Regina (Georgina Leahy)

British Family/ The Mingeworthys

Lord Mingeworthy

Lady Mingeworthy (Georgina Leahy)

Cockwaddle (David Burton)

James (Davis Benz)

Blood & Makeup

Blah Blah the Clown

Whoopsie Wendy (Elise Christian)

Dumb Bitch Linda (Kornbread Jeté)

Blonde Bitch (David Burton)

Percy the Pervert (Adam Neylan)

Christmas Family/ The Hendersons

Patty Henderson

Paul Henderson (Stephen James)

Shelby Henderson (Caleb Shorey)

Unnamed Daughter (Elise Christian)

Spike (Logan Bubar)

The Devil (Paulette Jones)

Uncle Frank (Gabriel Gonzalez)

Notice how often Brandon forgets to name the daughter in his skits 👀?

Silly Cat

Clifton

Lenny/ Daddy (Jon Cozart)

Dr Williams (Sky Williams)

Wild West

Lucius Cowpussy

Vivian Delonprix (Georgina Leahy)

Map Maker Milton (Logan Bubar)

Lesbians

Darlene

Kathleen (Adam Neylan)

Power (David Burton)

Rock (Georgina Leahy)

Damien (?) (Logan Bubar)

Cheaters

Trina

Delilah

Gustavo

Unnamed Husband

Sleep Paralysis Demons

Felix

Iris (Paulette Jones)

Chad (Gary Nohealii Neil)

The Laundromat

Clyde Can

Bart (Joel Haver)

Debra (Mitsy Sanderson)

Barbara Ditliminor (?) (Adam Neylan)

The North Pole (included this group for fun)

Santa Clause

Mrs Clause (Christine Sydelko)

Gingerbread Man (Jude B. Lanston)

Female Elf (Georgina Leahy)

Male Elf (David Burton)

Head Elf (Kornbread Jeté)

Jesus (Jess Weaver)

Rudolph (Paulette Jones)

Tiny Tim (Jack Plotnick)

Characters I Didn’t Know Where To Put

Suck (Dominiq Badiyo)

Swallow (David Burton)

Beatrice Brownstein (Paulette Jones)

Judey Patoody (Jude B. Lanson)

Gloria Goopty (Kornbread Jeté)

Courtney (Liam Krug)

Ryder (Kassius Marcil-Green)

Barbara Worst (Katie Johnson)

American boyfriend (Ben Furney)

Ignaolo (Gabriel Gonzalez)

Debbie (Trevor Wallace)

Doyle (Trevor Wallace)

Carol Cox

Japanese Girlfriend

Deeno

Flint Dicker

Delmar Lysol

Humanoid Simulation XL-57692/ Simian

Double Licker Leroy

Paisley

Hole Bros

Rafał Sanchez Dimelo

Noah

Bryce is my favourite

#stitched #stitched talks #stitched writes #brandon rogers #bryce tankthrust #bobby worst #mad tea party #theatre #helen brownstein #stuff & sam #blood & makeup #Jurgen Klausvonschwitz #blame the hero #elmer #cathy #mom making a difference

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marzipanandminutiae · 10 months

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Alright. I'm doing it. I'm finally gonna watch Crimson Peak. Here we go

Doing your three asks about this in one go, with responses in between (assuming all of them are from you?)

Okay both as a fan of the movie and as a fashion historian WHAT is Mrs McMichael wearing at the evening party??????

Her party dress feels very John Singer Sargent to me- and, like a lot of the clothes in the movie, heightened and artistic without being historically implausible

Lady Helen Vincent (Sargent, 1904)

Mrs. McMichael being ScandalizedTM.

The asymmetry is different, but the style is very similar. Quite avante-garde for 1901, but then, Edith's daywear is Artistic 1895, so. We can let it slide.

The sound design in this *chefs kiss* and I LOVE the woven bathrobe thing Edith has

Everything is chef's kiss. The whole movie. One enormous perfect chef's kiss. And yes, that bathrobe is Very Good! I only wish she hadn't put it on after her bath apparently without drying off, which makes me wince every time. It's going to get all damp and stick to your skin, and you'll spot the silk lining...!

#crimson peak #ask #anon #long post

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you-have-made-a-fatal-error · 6 months

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Stay Tuned for Danger Art - Part II (Part I here)

1- February in the Isle of Wight by John Brett, 1866

2- Still life (primroses, pears and pomegranates) by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866

3- Young Girl Reading by Jean Honoré Fragonard, 1769

4- Fringed Gentians by John Henry Hill, 1867

5- Irises by Vincent van Gogh, 1890

6- The Road to Castel Gandolfo by Andre Derain, 1921

7- Fruit and Flowers by Paulus Theodorus van Brussel, 1789

8- A Lady Reading a Newspaper by Carl Larsson, 1886

9- By the Cottage Door, Redlynch, Wilts by Helen Allingham, probably late 19th c.

10- Vase with flowers on a marble table, a Chaffinch and grapes near a bird's nest by Cornelis van Spaendonck, 1824

#stay tuned for danger #stfd #nd art id #an inconvenient number of images but hey #also re: the van spaendonck i once again say I LOVE YOU RKDIMAGES #BEST ART DATABASE OMG; EVERYONE ELSE GET ON NETHERLANDS/RKD's LEVEL #<3<3<3 RKDimages <3<3<3 ilu

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chandelyer · 2 years

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who are your top 5 favorite artists (painters) and your fave of their works?

Hello!

Whenever I get asked to pick favourites I always find it so hard, because I simply refuse to understand the concept! Most of the paintings I love are from lots of different artists, and it's hard for me to find a painter whose entire collection I fully enjoy. I don't think I can pick five artists, BUT here are a few by whom I like more than one or two paintings.

And since asking me to choose one favourite only is like torture to me, you’re getting a full set of pictures!

Edgar Degas

Swaying Dancer (Dancer in Green), Two Dancers on Stage, Ballerinas in Pink.

Andy Dixon

Christie’s (Five Private Collections), Christie’s (A Golden Age), Ship Painting.

John Singer Sargent

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose; Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Poppies.

#answered #anonymous

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collarbonekissesandasylumwitches · 1 year

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hello hi, hope y'all are doing ok :)

this is just my take on this aesthetic, my personal brand if you will, so please don't come at me if it isn't completely accurate

(i do not know where a few quotes are from so if you do, please lemme know so that i can list them)

poetcore // chaotic academia // downtown girl

vibes: grocery stores, existential poetry, psychology/english major, iced caramel lattes, old bookstores, anatomical heart emoji, thunderstorms, wired earphones, art museums, dyed hair and a nose ring, vintage posters stuck on bedroom walls, blue hour, ink stained hands, latin curses, 3 am showers, voice notes, smudged eyeliner, cocoa lotion, choco chip cookies, silver rings that clink against ceramic cups, native language nicknames, annotated books, commentary videos on youtube, forehead kisses, candles, love letters, lullabies, sunlight through curtains, libraries at night, homoeroticism, angry girl music, pressed flowers, coffee cake and coffee eclairs, glitter pens, lipbalm, dog cuddles, super specific playlists, daily outfit pictures

fashion: small shirt big pants black nailpaint mismatched earrings signature perfume hair sticks black turtlenecks cardigans fingerless gloves nose rings high waisted jeans linen shorts lipgloss cotton dresses waist jewelry heart shaped locket moss coloured bralettes bandanas tank tops crystal necklaces white eyeliner oversized earth toned sweaters cargo pants vintage band tshirts charm bracelets and anklets crop tops smudged eyeliner harem pants claw clips fairy earrings tote bags doc martens with everything lots of antique rings

songs:

ribs - lorde

coffee breath - sofia mills

movies - conan gray

how long - hadestown

sunflower - post malone, swae lee

i want you to want me - letters to cleo

bookstore girl - charlie burg

sappho - frankie cosmos

achilles come down - gang of youths

girl from the bookstore - jack jones

poet - bastille

all too well 10 minute version taylor's version - taylor swift

artists: mother mother, bon iver, girl in red, arctic monkeys, daughter, florence + the machine, hozier, the neighborhood, taylor swift [folklore and evermore in particular]

movies: shutter island, dead poets society, lady bird, 10 things i hate about you, five feet apart, potrait of a lady on fire, kill your darlings, fleabag, perks of being a wallflower, all the bright places, loving vincent, call me by your name, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

books:

crush - richard siken

a little life - hanya yanagihara

the song of achilles - madeline miller

ode to aphrodite - sappho

the bell jar - sylvia plath

and then there were none - agatha christie

envelope poems - emily dickinson

the secret history - donna tartt

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

a room of one's own - virginia woolf

the robber wife - margaret atwood

the yellow wallpaper - sam vaseghi gilman

quotes:

what we love, we mention. - Marie-Helene Bertino

you said i killed you. haunt me then. - Emily Bronte

loneliness is still time spent with the world.- Ocean Vuong

let me stay tender hearted, despite despite despite.

that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman

i love you. i can't tell you. the sun on your face will do it for me. - tumblr user tturing

i will love you if i never see you again, and i will love you if i see you every tuesday. - Lemony Snicket

someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story. - Richard Siken

nothing ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was always just red. - Kait Rokowski

love is real. i saw it once outside my window and it stopped to look at me but kept on walking and i thought it'd come back but in the end maybe it was just passing through.

in ten years' time, i want to live in a house with big windows, i want the house to be large enough to have a kitchen table with four chairs but not too roomy to ever feel the depth of my aloneness. because i'll probably be alone. but i think aloneness won't feel so all-consuming with windows that protect me from the world but still let me watch it. - Maeve Wiley, Sex Education

male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of vour own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. you are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. you are your own voyeur. - Margaret Atwood

take care, love love >3

#poetcore #chaotic academia #downtown girl #please add other tags i am exhausted after writing this whole thing 😭

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Lady Helen Vincent at Prince's Skating Club, 1910

#1910 #1910s #20th century #mdpcostume #costume #photography #20th c. costume #britain #20th c. britain

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𝙑𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙩

“𝘼 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙣. 𝘼 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙣𝙩.”

BASICS

Name: Victoria Augusta Somerset

Birthday: 26th of March, 1858

Zodiac sign: Aries

Weight: 62kg

Height: 1.57m

Religion: Anglican

Eye colour: Blue

Hair colour: Black

Faceclaim: Emily Blunt (especially in The Young Victoria)

FAMILY

Mother: Helene Somerset, neé Greengrass

A squib from the pureblood family of Greengrass, Helene was named after Helen of Troy, for her beauty and wit was incomparable. Her family bashed her for her ‘shameful status’ and at 16, she changed her name to Catherine Donovan and started serving as a lady’s maid in the famous household of the Somersets at the service of Lady Olympia Somerset. They even eloped and married in secret with Olympia as their witness and the one to pay everybody involved to shut their mouths in December 1856. The new year was rocky, for William and Olympia’s parents tried to annull the marriage, but Olympia’s auspicious marriage made it possible for them remain married in exchange for an heir. That year, in 1857, George was born. In 1858, they’d have Victoria, named after the queen so they’d be back in favour. Helene quickly gained popularity and, with the help of Olympia, she became yet another fellow socialite of the era, the ton quickly moving on from that.

Father: William George Somerset, fouth of his name

The firstborn son, he was named after King William IV and was a sweet, but authoritarian man who always knew he’d be viscount. He was engaged to Evangeline Beaumont, the daughter of a broke earl. Three months into the engagement, he met his sister Olympia’s lady’s maid and fell in love with her intelligence and beauty and soon dumped Evangeline for her. They eloped and married in 1856 with the help of his sister and Helene conceived George during that time. His parents didn’t approve of their marriage and tried to send her away and marry him to Evangeline, but he revealed that she was pregnant with their son and heir and the parents gave them a chance, not wanting the family to be stained with a bastard situation. In 1858, they had Victoria.

In 1873, William died of gout and didn’t get to see the tragedy befalling his son and his daughter becoming the second viscountess in her own right.

Other relatives: Olympia Somerset, aunt & godmother

Olympia is Vcky’s idol and has always admired her beauty and wished to be more like her. She once aspired to be like her: to marry someone wealthy and with titles and was for a long time her protegé. Olympia was the one to defend her when her Hogwarts letter came and the one who made sure her parents stayed married. She was her rock for years, supporting her as the rightful heir of Winbourne over their own son.

Friends: Alina Mikelova (sister-in-law)

Alina came into Vicky’s life during her engagement and eventual marriage to her brother George, and became her rock and best friend after Olympia passed away, taking her under her wing, for she was a foreigner and didn’t know the customs of the time. They soon became best of friends apart from sisters and Alina, even in her grief, was happy to accept Victoria as her successor for viscountess. They loved one another dearly and their tombs, as well as their husbands’, are buried in the same crypt.

Significant Other: Vincent Joseph Gray

Victoria and Vincent met at Hogwarts. He had heard that an important lady of high society would be coming. By this time, it was a rare thing. She was sorted into Ravenclaw and he was in Slytherin. They hanged in different groups and didn’t see each other much... until fifth year, when Vincent bluffed that a woman like Victoria (who was present) wouldn’t match his duelling skills. She calmly smiled at him and stupefied him, slamming him against the wall and told him “A fool plays the game to win. A wise one plays their opponent.” She then whispered “Do not doubt my prowess or skill. I am match for any man like yourself, Mr. Gray.” Ever since, Vincent became smitten with such an intriguing and ardent woman, falling head over the heels. By that time, Victoria had remained in Hogwarts to escape an engagement to a much older man, and Vincent declared his love and went as far to ask permission to her parents to court her. Seeing an escape of a wealthy man who wouldn’t annex Winbourn to any land, they accepted, wanting her married before her 20th birthday.

They married in June 1877, and both had a close and loving relationship. Sadly, Victoria miscarried a child early into 1879. In 1881, they had their first and only child, Primrose. By law, she got his name, and wasn’t expected as the heir. They lost another four children of miscarriages and the doctor told off Victoria on getting pregnant no more, or else it’d kill her. Though he was afraid of getting her pregnant again and killing her, they got up to stuff and remained close until 1898. Victoria fell ill with cancer and wouldn’t survive for long. In August 1899, Victoria passed away, and Vincent was devastated. He went on a trip for a secret business he never revealed and found out too late that the Duke of Buckingham had seized Winbourne and Alina hostage and would marry her by any means unless Primrose, who was just 17, surrendered to him and marry him in Alina’s stead. She did neither, and after a night’s ride in a stolen Abraxan, got Winbourne back with the help of the village with a motivational speech in which she said “I am aware that I am young and feeble still, but my heart and will are a Viscount’s one, and most certainly of a Viscount of Winbourne. I’ll have you know I’ll happily die before I am submitted to a tyrant’s will.” She duelled him and won, which made him extremely proud of his little girl. This action would always be remembered by everybody for years to come. Vincent joined her in eternal peace in 1923 of old age.

PERSONALITY

Overall personality: Victoria is lady-like, well-read, polite, passionate and stubborn as they come. She also has a bravery and temper of a thousand fires, which was passed down to their daughter.

Positive traits: Kind, polite, well-read, lady-like and brave.

Negative traits: Stubborn, proud, haughty and a bit entitled.

Guilty pleasure: French goods

HOMETOWN

Winbourne Estate, Leeds, England (1858-1899)

Vicky grew up in the lap of luxury and with everything handled to her, dressing the best clothes and best tutors and education. At the age of eleven, she received a letter from Hogwarts and went there despite many of her family members’ oppositions, and she thrived there.

She lived her whole life there, and died there as well. Her bedchambers and goods were passed down to her daughter and heir. To this day, these chambers are used by Viscountess Diana, her greatx4granddaughter.

BACKSTORY:

Victoria Augusta Somerset was the daughter of William Somerset and Helene Greengrass. She grew up spoiled and as a Lady of the house, training to be the wife of a upstanding man of wealth and lands. All that changed when her Hogwarts letter came in her eleventh year and she went there against all opposition. In 1873, her father died whilst in negotiations to both his children’s marriage. Victoria was but fifteen at the time, while George was sixteen.

During that time, she courted fellow student Vincent Gray and fell in love with him. In 1876, George married Alina Mikelova, and they became close friends. Sadly, tragedy befell upon Winbourne in 1878 when George was killed in battle while Alina was pregnant. The baby was born dead and it was clear that, with no other Somerset males that could step up and marry Alina, Victoria became viscountess alongside her husband, Vincent, whom she had married the year before (1877). Sadly, the following year, she gave birth to a stillborn daughter. She was determined to have an heir, and in 1881, she gave birth to Primrose Sabrina Gray, whom, after many miscarriages throughout the decade of the 1880s, would become the heir. In 1890 she started her exquisite education before she entered Hogwarts as well, and she thrived there as she had done all those years ago.

She was a fair and loving viscountess, and it’d remain so until 1898, when she fell ill. In her last moments, she drew up a will where she allowed her daughter to retake her maiden’s name so the Somerset line still continued after her then 17 year-old daughter were to marry. She also begged for her engagement to be over by any means so she could marry for love. She passed away in August 1899, and her daughter would be the most powerful and rich viscountess of her time, and in the history of Winbourne.

MISC

Due to her upbringing, she knows how to read, recite poetry, modern and ancient languages, sew, play the piano, dance and sing.

During her stance in Hogwarts, she polished her skills with help and was able to develop some duelling skills, though she was more interested in history and charms

She was the one to uncover that her ancestor, Henriette of Wessex, had possessed magic but was erased from the history books by her successsors who had been born squibs

Challenging Victorian motherhood, which was cold and left to other people, Victoria raised Primrose herself, breastfed her and was close to her own child. If this hadn’t been the case, Primrose’s story would be different

She was some sort of mother fugure to Henry of Alderly ( @gaygryffindorgal ) and though often judged by them, she was well-liked by high society

She met the Queen in 1874 and again in 1880, and introduced Alina and Primrose to her when their time came, and was liked by the Princess of Wales, who was the future Queen Alexandra of Denmark. She didn’t live to see her crowned, or see her daughter become one of her favourites at her court.

She, like Henriette, challenged misogynstic views and hired a fencing tutor for Primrose. Little did she know that this skill would be critic for the history of Winbourne

She is the second most cried viscountess, after her daughter Primrose

#hp victorian era #side character #character profile #victoria somerset #hp legacy era #oc: primrose sabrina gray #vincent gray #victoria x vincent #somerset family

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AMORA

FULL NAME: Amora Incantare ALIAS: The Enchantress, Christine Collins, Helen Eve, Amora Lorelei, Leena Moran, Valkyrie OCCUPATION: Sorceress ORIENTATION: pansexual SPECIES: Asgardian FANDOM: Marvel

PHYSICAL

FACECLAIM: Michelle Pfeiffer ALT: Merve Boluğur PRONOUNS: she/her AGE: Immortal HAIR: blone EYES: green HEIGHT: 6'3″

RELATIONSHIPS

MOTHER: Freya*** FATHER: Unknown SIBLINGS: Lorelei CHILDREN: Alvi and Iric Brorson (sons; Earth-616), Balder Blake Thorson (son; Earth-9811), Vincent von Doom (son; Earth-9811), Magni Thorson (son; Earth-3515) AFFILIATIONS: Dark Council, Astonishing Avengers, ally of Loki, The Sisterhood, partner of the Executioner, Masters of Evil, ally of the Mandarin, Arkon, and Power Man, Lady Liberators; has also aided Thor on several occasions, allied with the Lost Gods MARITAL STATUS: single; married in Earth-3515

PERSONALITY

MBTI: ENTP ALIGNMENT: chaotic neutral TEMPERAMENT: choleric ENNEAGRAM: type 3

Amora is famous for her aristocratic behavior. She lives a luxurious life, owning several mansions throughout the nine realms, and even endowing herself with the power to make gold and diamonds with her tears. She often spends time searching for the finest clothing.

She has shown to incredibly ruthless, torturing a water nymph to discover more about the Beyonder, however, this was fuelled more by fear than cruelty. Unlike most Asgardians, she does not underestimate mortals, despite her disdain for them, due to her experience dealing with them. Amora is not above fleeing a pointless battle, believing such expenditure is only required when there is something to gain. She is incredibly quick-thinking and pragmatic and is not overconfident in her abilities.

Amora has a habit of seducing men, hence her gaining the title of Enchantress. She is known for her cruelty with men, making them feel important and loved while only using them. Her seduction of men is fueled more by her fear of being alone than control, however, and she has been known to become depressed should a male ally of hers become injured, and she easily falls in love. Despite her many years of pining after Thor and manipulating The Executioner as a tool, she genuinely grieved for him after he died.

Amora has shown to be quite vengeful. She often throws a parting shot at her enemies when and if fleeing, and is more than willing to stab an old enemy in the back in the name of revenge. She once cursed the entire planet in retaliation for her necklace being destroyed

POWERS

Superhuman Strength: Amora is superhumanly strong, possessing physical strength roughly average for an Asgardian woman. At her peak, she is able to lift about 25 tons.

Superhuman Speed: Amora can run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

Superhuman Stamina: Amora's Asgardian musculature is considerably more efficient than that of a human being. Her muscles produce considerably fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than human muscles. At her peak, she can exert herself physically for about 24 hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in her blood begins to impair her.

Superhumanly Dense Tissue: Amora's bodily tissues, like those of all Asgardians, possesses roughly three times the density of human bodily tissues. This contributes somewhat to her superhuman strength, her durability, and her weight.

Superhuman Durability: Like all Asgardians, Amora's body is much more resistant to conventional physical injury than a human being. She can withstand great impacts, exposure to temperature extremes, and powerful energy blasts that would severely injure or kill a human being with no injury to herself.

Regenerative Healing Factor: It is possible for Amora to sustain an injury, despite her body's resistance. In such an event, Amora's superior metabolism enables her to heal injuries much faster and more extensively than a normal human would be capable of. However, she is unable to regenerate missing limbs or organs without the aid of powerful magical assistance.

Superhuman Longevity: Unlike some other god pantheons, such as the Olympians, the Asgardians do age, though it is at a pace vastly slower than a human. Although she is several millennia old in age, Amora has the appearance and vitality of an Asgardian woman in her prime. She is, however, immune to all known Earthly diseases and infections.

Superhuman Agility: Amora's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

Superhuman Reflexes: Amora's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.

Allspeak: Thanks to the Allspeak Asgardians can communicate in all of the languages of the Nine Realms, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.

Sorcery: The Enchantress' magical powers are among the most powerful of all Asgardians. The Enchantress's strength and proficiency with magic is second only to Karnilla, with enough power even in the Earthly realm to cloud the sight of Agamotto through his Orb for hours from the view of Doctor Strange. The Enchantress' powers derive from two main sources: her innate capacity to manipulate ambient Asgardian magical energy (of power-objects and entities found therein or merely Asgard's natural magic) honed through practice, and her acquired knowledge of spells and enchantments of Asgardian origin.

Spell Casting: Amora is an exceptionally powerful sorceress capable of casting complex spells. She once cursed the entire earth, causing it to rain blood across the entire planet and animate every human corpse. Even Odin seemed incapable of reversing it (although he cared little for it). She has also shown capable of casting spells that slow down an opponent's reactions and also cast a spell that prevented a small army from fighting.

Energy Projection: Amora can use her sorcery to generate powerful blasts of concussive force, heat, or light.

Teleportation: Amora can teleport within a single dimension, or across the various dimensional places of the Nine Worlds of Asgard.

Levitation/Flight The Enchantress can levitate and fly.

Disguise/Illusions: Either through illusion or physical transformation, the Enchantress can also alter her appearance, taking the shape of other humanoid beings, or change the appearance of her clothing.

Transmutation: Amora can turn men into trees or statues with a kiss, or spell. This power is effective even from other dimensions.

Gold and Diamond Tears: Much like Freya who produced golden tears, the Enchantress' tear turned into gold and diamond.

Paralysis: The Enchantress can paralyze multiple enemies with a spell.

Energy Shields: The Enchantress can summon incredibly powerful force fields. She has withstood blows from the likes of Thor and the Hulk, and even the force of a small nuclear bomb going off.

Life Force Absorption: The Enchantress can absorb the life force of other beings to temporarily enhance her own powers. For conscious beings, she requires consent to perform the act, however to those of lesser intelligence she can do so at will. It is unknown as to whether there are set boundaries, as she required Volcana's permission, yet could affect the Lizard at will.

Time Disruption: The Enchantress can manipulate time with a subtle spell. She can reverse time, so as to prevent events from ever happening. She can protect others from the power of this spell at will.

Telekinesis: Amora can magically move objects with the force of thought, without the aid of a runic or vocally-casted spell, though the limits of her abilities are unknown.

Telepathy: The Enchantress can read minds, project her thoughts onto others, exchange her mind with another, perform mind control, sense when a telepath is trying to read her or her allies thoughts, and shield her and others' minds from telepathic intrusions and attacks, which are so powerful that even Charles Xavier could not penetrate her defenses.

Hypnosis: Amora's gaze and voice are hypnotic, and prolonged focus on both can send mortals into a deep thrall, under which they are susceptible to any suggestion placed by her. A trained hypnotist, Amora can force her subjects to do or think anything she commands through verbal or telepathic suggestion, as well as placing post-hypnotic suggestions that can be unconsciously triggered by her even after the spell is lifted.

Astral Projection: Amora can project her astral form from her body. It is not affected by the laws of physics and can combat other astral beings. She can also simply project her voice.

Mystical Senses: Amora can sense the presence of magical energies nearby, impending danger, and others' inner feelings of love.

Resurrection: Amora has also showcased to have the ability to revive the deceased from the dead. Despite Amora admitting that such magic is some of the darkest and trickiest to use, she was able to successfully revive the Black Queen after her death and later, again successfully revived Madelyne Pryor after Arkea provided a suitable body for her.

Seduction: The main focus of the Enchantress' powers has been the enhancement of her natural beauty and allure so that men, mortal or otherwise, are overwhelmed with desire for her. Her powers are so great she could even affect beings as powerful as the Red Onslaught simply by speaking to him. She has enchanted her lips so that a single kiss is sufficient to make virtually any man a slave to her will, obedient to her every command, for about a week. Subsequent kisses enable her to enthrall someone's will indefinitely.

Abilities

Amora has amassed a great deal of mystical lore that rivals that of Loki and Karnilla, is an expert in the art of seduction, both natural and supernatural.

Weaknesses

Amora's spells derive their potency from Asgardian sources (such as power objects or entities) and thus are most potent when used in the dimension of Asgard itself. A prolonged absence from Asgard tends to diminish her powers altogether, though they never fade completely. Although she has a superhuman physique, Amora has little to no experience in hand-to-hand combat, typically relying on minions to fight for her. The Enchantress cannot access her spells with her hands bound and her mouth gagged. Previously cast spells like her enhanced aura of seduction, however, can continue to function. She was once able to seduce a Frost Giant with her gaze alone while bound and gagged.

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BACKSTORY

The Enchantress' parentage is unknown, though it is known she was born in Asgard and has a sister by the name of Lorelei. Amora began learning magic as an apprentice of Karnilla, Queen of the Norns, but was eventually banished. She continued learning magic on her own, notably by seducing others well versed in magic and learning their secrets. In time, Amora became one of the more powerful magic-wielders in Asgard, with her magical arsenal focused on (but not limited to) charming and mind-controlling people. Her by-then well-renowned beauty did not hinder in this.

In her first appearance, she is sent by Odin to eliminate Thor's human love interest, whom Odin sees as a distraction. She also hopes to have the thunder god for herself. She is assisted by a powerful minion — Skurge, the Executioner. The Executioner loved the Enchantress, and she strings him along with her feminine wiles, using him as her muscle. She aids Loki by attempting to seduce Thor in his Don Blake identity and by sending the Executioner to kill Jane Foster. Although the Executioner traps Foster in another dimension, Thor is able to bring her back by giving Skurge his hammer. When the Enchantress begins to turn Skurge into a tree (for returning Foster) Skurge releases Thor from the pact in exchange for his help. Amora then tries to change Thor's hammer into a hissing serpent, but it is immune to her magic. Thor then transports the two back to Asgard.

The Enchantress and the Executioner are exiled to Earth by Odin.

Supervillain Alliances

In the following years the Enchantress also allied herself with Loki, Baron Zemo, the Mandarin, and Arkon in pursuit of her goals of power and vengeance upon her enemies. During her stint with Mandarin Amora and Skurge attempted to conquer Asia with an army if rock trolls. Although creating a giant to destroy her enemies, Amora and Skurge were defeated by Hercules and the Scarlet Witch. She was among the many menaces assembled by Doctor Doom to disrupt the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm. She and Skurge kidnapped the Hulk to use him and her army of rock trolls to conquer Asgard but they were defeated by the Green Goliath. In retaliation Amora killed him, but this act was almost instantly undone by Odin. Her most frequent adversaries during these years were Thor and the Avengers. She used one of Zemo's machines to transform one of the Baron's mercenaries into the first Power Man. She temporarily lost the Executioner to her rival Casiolena but defeated her with the aid of the Defenders.

Secret Wars

The Enchantress was one of the villains abducted by the alien Beyonder and forced to battle an assemblage of heroes on a patchwork planet he had created known as Battleworld. Early on in the conflict known as the Secret Wars, Amora clashed with the She-Hulk but was easily overpowered by the heroine, who was far stronger and more experienced in fighting. The unconscious Amora was captured by the heroes and placed in an alien medical device to heal her injuries by Reed Richards. Seeking a fellow Asgardian's perspective on events, Thor freed Amora from the device and she teleported them away to another part of the planet, where she attempted to seduce Thor, further enchanting her lips to enthrall him. An alien creature emerged from the pool beside which they sat, however, and Amora was unable to defend herself temporarily, having focused her power on seducing Thor. Thor saved her from the beast, and Amora transported them back to the heroes' headquarters, which in their absence had been laid waste by her villainous allies. Vastly outnumbered, Thor wondered if Amora would aid him against the other villains, but she turned her back on him, and he was apparently killed, though he had actually caused a distraction with his lightning before escaping. Amora later admitted that she regretted not helping Thor, and losing her chance to be with him. The Enchantress also attempted to seduce the villains' leader Doctor Doom, even offering to heal his scarred face, but he rejected her, knowing from his experience of magic that such a deal would come with a price.

Later in the conflict, the Enchantress was approached by her fellow villainess Volcana, who begged the Enchantress to teleport her to the side of her injured lover the Molecule Man, offering the Enchantress anything she wanted in return. Volcana would later regret this, however, as the Enchantress attempted to use Volcana's life-force to transport herself back to Asgard. Through a telepathically-induced hypnosis, she was able to lure Volcana out to syphon her life-force, but was interrupted by both the Molecule Man and the Lizard. The Lizard slashed the Enchantress across the face with his claws. The Enchantress tried to kill the Lizard in retaliation and managed to transport herself home, apparently healing her face soon afterward.

Short-Lived Heroism

The Enchantress' crimes earned her Odin's wrath, and she suffered exile from Asgard in the past. However, she and the Executioner both came to Asgard's aid in its recent war with Surtur and his legions from Muspelheim. The Enchantress and Executioner joined with the heroes of Asgard and earned the right to stay in Asgard once again. Amora also became involved with the guardian of Asgard's Rainbow Bridge, Heimdall. In retaliation for her younger sister Lorelei's rude refusal to join her in battling Surtur, the Enchantress used sorcery to make Lorelei fall in love with Loki. Despite those examples of heroism, the Enchantress basically remains an opportunist seeking her own ends. She came close to destroying and remaking reality in her image using the harmonica of destiny, but her plans were foiled by the Thing.

Death of the Executioner

Finally tiring of the Enchantress's contemptuous treatment of him, the Executioner nobly sacrificed his life on a mission with Thor into Hel, the realm of the goddess Hela. Despite the fact that Amora had always led the Executioner on, she did genuinely grieve for him. On several occasions, Amora enchanted mortals with the power and armor of Skurge to form new Executioners.The Enchantress also sought to make the hero Wonder Man into her pawn and lover. However, she overreached when she attempted to raise him to godhood, inadvertently making him strong enough to cast off her controlling spells. He was also able to resist her charms in the end on her second attempt.

Search for the Asgardians

Amora was captured by Frost Giants during the chaos of the psychic menace Onslaught. She eventually used her magic to escape and returned to Earth. Discovering Thor was missing (he had presumably sacrificed himself to defeat Onslaught), Amora searched for the Asgardian gods, who had at this time been turned into mortals by Odin's magic. Amora soon helped the gods to reclaim their former glory by defeating the machinations of Set.

Death & Return

Amora returned to Asgard and also restarted her relationship with Thor. During Ragnarok, she was killed during the initial attack by Loki's forces.

Recently, Thor himself returned from beyond death, to once again take up the mantle of Earth's protector, this time as the Lord of Asgard. He restored the city of Asgard (currently located in central Oklahoma) and awakened many Asgardians, who were sleeping within various mortals scattered across the world. It was Thor's intention to awake only those Asgardians whom he deemed noble and trustworthy while leaving others (such as Hela and Loki) in their mortal state, unaware of their true nature. Apparently, he felt that Amora, despite her previous heroic acts (and their romantic liaisons) fell into this 'untrustworthy' category, and he made no particular effort to seek her out. Loki, however, having gained some awareness of his true self despite being locked within the form of a mortal woman, managed to manipulate Thor into waking many, if not all of the remaining Asgardians. Amora was brought forth, and promptly departed for some far corner of the earth.

Amora's death

Amora began manipulating reality by attacking the World Tree, Yggdrasil, in order to resurrect Skurge and end her loneliness as she finally realized how much he meant to her. She was ultimately thwarted by Thor, Loki, and Balder, who convinced her that she was hurting the other Nine Worlds with her magic and would only dishonor the death of Skurge by resurrecting and releasing him from Valhalla.

Hela

More recently, after the destruction of Asgard by Norman Osborn and his forces, Thor, Steve Rogers and Iron Man were transported through a portal and scattered through the Nine Worlds. The Enchantress appeared in what appeared to be Vanaheim, where she told Thor she would have vengeance upon him, setting a group of minions upon him. As Thor fought back, however, the Enchantress revealed that Vanaheim and other parts of the Nine Worlds had been combined and transported into Hel, the realm of Hela. As Thor began to fight Hela, Amora looked on. When Thor was knocked unconscious during the fight with Hela, he was surprised on coming to his senses to see Amora battling Hela to help him. Hela defeated Amora in combat.

Later, when Thor and his allies marshaled an army to attack Hela, Thor was stabbed by Hela with the Twilight Sword, which she had stolen and used to alter the Nine Worlds. Before Hela could finish Thor off, a cloaked figure appeared and magically healed Thor before teleporting him away. This turned out to be Amora, who had transported him to his hammer Mjolnir, which he had been separated from. Hela tracked the two down, and they pressed the attack on her - Thor with his lightning, and Amora with a devastating magical blast that destroyed part of Hela's face. With some help from Iron Man and Fafnir, Hela was defeated, and Thor won back the Twilight Sword. Thor used the sword to return the Nine Worlds to their previous state, and thanked Amora for her help, assuring her he would not forget her change in allegiance to help him. After joking that Thor could give the Twilight Sword to her, Amora transported Thor, Iron Man and Steve Rogers back to where they had been taken from, and their waiting friends. Thor then entrusted the Twilight Sword to Amora's former lover Heimdall.

Keep

When Thor died at the end of the Serpent's invasion, Donald Blake found himself on his own. With a lifetime of false memories and robbed of the Odinson, which had been the center of his life, Blake faced an identity crisis. He found Amora in a bar and made a deal with her, hoping to become a god once more. She pampered and pleasured him, and then fed him a Golden Apple, after which she cut off his head.

Blake's still-living head looked on in horror as the blood that spilled from his body turned into the monstrous Keep, who Amora took as her lover. They then traveled to Hel, where they found Hela subdued by the Mares. Keep freed Hela, who then allowed them into Asgardia. They confronted Thor, Amora taunting him with Blake's head, but were defeated and banished for good.

Sisterhood

Amora was sent to Norway by Thor, powerless and alone. When Lady Deathstrike and Typhoid Mary went to Norway to recruit Amora onto their new team, their plan broke the Odin-Force keeping her powers from her and she agreed to come with them.

AXIS

Amora was recruited by Magneto - due to Loki's help - to join his group of villains that would fight the Red Onslaught and his Stark Sentinels in Genosha. Amora was able to charm the Red Onslaught with her magic but was soon interrupted by a Sentinel. She disappeared along with the other villains after the Scarlet Witch and Dr. Doom cast a powerful inversion spell which defeated the Red Skull but also inverted the moral axis of those in the island.

She rejoined the (now-inverted) villains to stop the inverted X-Men from detonating a gene bomb which would've killed everyone on the Earth who was not a mutant. When a reinversion spell was cast, the Enchantress returned to her normal morality.

War of the Realms

When the Dark Elf king Malekith the Accursed set out to wage a realm-spanning war, the assembled a sinister cabal called the Dark Council to orchestrate this War of the Realms, and the Enchantress was one of his allies. During Malekith's assault on Alfheim, the Enchantress used magic to brainwash the Light Elf queen Aelsa, forcing her to accept Malekith's hand in marriage. Afterwards, Amora attempted to use the then-current new Hulk, Amadeus Cho, to steal large amounts of Uru metal, but she and her army were eventually defeated by him.

After Malekith recruited Sindr, the queen of Muspelheim, into the Dark Council, the Enchantress and the Rock Troll Ulik oversaw an invasion of the fire realm's forces into Nidavellir. Their effort was thwarted by the Asgardian Volstagg, who had been turned into the bloodthirsty War Thor.

When the Dark Council's army invaded Midgard and divided its continents between its different factions, the Enchantress became the would-be ruler of South America, dubbing it the Dusk Lands, and used an army of the Draugr to fight for her. When Earth's heroes mounted a counter-offensive, the Enchantress was hit with a vision of defeat at the feet of Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange. In an attempt to stave off fate, she used magic to make the two heroes switch bodies, hoping to incapacitated. Despite the hurdle of switching power sets, the two heroes managed to defeat the Enchantress, fulfilling her vision. Following Malekith's defeat and the end of the War of the Realms, the Enchantress was imprisoned in the Root Dungeons of the Watchtower Tree beneath Asgard. While there she was visited by her estranged son Iric.

Strange Magic

Having escaped from Asgard, the Enchantress fled to Midgard and secluded herself in British Columbia. She was tracked down by Captain Marvel, who had resorted to Amora after Doctor Strange had the magic community bar her from learning magic, which she intended to familiarize herself with in preparation to confront Amora's future son Ove, arrived in the present from the dystopian future of Earth-20368. Deciding instead to help Captain Marvel gain immunity to magic, Amora directed the hero in retrieving from an underwater coliseum a potion named the Heart of the Serpent, which made whoever ingested it permanently resistant to magic. After obtaining the Heart of the Serpent, Amora decided to use magic to probe Carol's mind and learned of Ove and Carol's intention to kill him. The Enchantress turned against Carol and contacted Ove to meet him. During a subsequent confrontation, Ove noticed Carol trying to reach out to the Heart of the Serpent. Assuming it to be a time-travelling potion, Ove drank it to taunt Carol before Amora could warn him of its true effects. Ove lost the ability to access magic, and Captain Marvel left him to be tended by Amora, who swore revenge.

Death of Doctor Strange

When her twins, Iric and Alvi, were babies, the evil wizard Pulsari, with whom she had made a deal with years before entitling him to the firstborn son she never thought she'd have, kidnapped them in order to make good on their deal. However, he didn't know which of the twins had been born first and, before he could figure it out, Amora summoned Doctor Strange, who turned Pulsari into stone, promising he would stay that way as long as he lived. Unfortunately years later when Doctor Strange died, Pulsari returned and continued his plan, kidnapping the now teenage Iric from his room at Strange Academy and taking him to Weirdworld. Alvi met with his mother and told her off for making a deal involving them. Though dismissive, Amora offered to help with the situation, and the two traveled to Weirdworld where they met Goleta the Wizard Slayer. They were attacked by her at first, but eventually they convinced her to join their cause and slay Pulsari instead. When they got to the Crystal Kingdom, which Pulsari had taken over, he presented them a worn-out and barely alive Iric, who had been drained of his magic to be used as a battery for Pulsari, to make him strong enough to conquer the Kingdom. The trio managed to destroy Pulsari's necklace, striping him of his power and returning Iric to normal in the process.

#{ muses }#holy shit this one took A WHILE #long post

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