#paul suit discourse

[myersesque]

i like to imagine that paul suit discourse happens in-universe too. it's like one of those "blue and black or white and gold" things - every new CCRP employee is interrogated on what colour they think paul's suit is, and then unknowingly dragged into war based on their answer. if CCRP ever has company bonding paintball games, the teams are always split by what colour they think paul's suit is. one day, ted asks him directly, and when paul 'disagrees' (it's his suit and it's brown, god damn it. it says it right there on the label, see!) he insists the poor guy must be colourblind or some shit.

#this is not a serious headcanon at all this is just a silly haha joke #og #horror tag #fav #hatchetfield #paul matthews #starkid #starkid productions #starkid musicals #nightmare time #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #paul suit discourse

[carbuckety]

Amidst this paul simon turkey suit discourse does anyon wanna see a cool picture i took for my photography homework

#it was an emulation of an andy warhol photo and i am edie sedgwick obviously

[denimbex1986]

'In the end, Peaky Blinders got the send-off it deserved. The sixth season paid tribute to the late Helen McCrory, rounded off the ongoing war between Tommy Shelby and brother Michael – we can talk about how convinced anyone was that Tommy wouldn’t win, but anyway – and landed on a final shot of Tommy doing Tommy things having realised he wasn’t actually dying after all. It was a plot! Possibly involving Hitler!

There were some loose ends that never turned into much, like that whole storyline with the American bloke who stabbed a guy in the knackers and then melted away, and it might have been nice to get to know wee Ruby before she carked it. But it did most things it needed to, and did them while having one eye on the long-promised film too.

Now though the Peaky gears are creaking into motion again. There was the not particularly cryptic statement from showrunner Steven Knight on the 10-year anniversary a couple of weeks back. “It hardly seems believable that it’s 10 years since Tommy Shelby first rode that black horse through the streets of Birmingham,” Knight wrote. “The phenomenal global success of the show is down to the brilliant and hard work of the loyal team that makes it happen. Ten years on and the story is not yet over. Watch this space.”

And, if you’re on Instagram, you’ll perhaps already know that Paul Anderson, who played Tommy’s brother Arthur, has started his own Peaky-themed Instagram broadcast channel called ‘By Order Of…’ and administered by Anderson and his digital manager Nav Salimian. (Salimian also appears to have founded a clothing brand making some quite – ahem – zhuzh-y suits.) The channel isn’t really doing much breadcrumbing at the minute, just a picture from Anderson’s grid of Arthur lighting a gigantic cigar, then a contact sheet of headshots, and the message “Wishing you all a blessed day” with a saluting emoji. It’s cryptic.

Rounding off a series then coming back for a one-off story is a very, very hard thing to pull off. Usually these things need a few different factors to click if they’re going to work. Most obviously, it needs a reason to exist. Plenty of TV series have farted out a movie for the sake of it, and Peaky really shouldn’t be one of them.

It also needs to run pretty hard on the heels of the main series. That’s partly because of the third thing the movie needs: a motivated fanbase who are going to razz up the whole enterprise. To anticipate it, interpret it, and possibly get into arguments with other fandoms over it.

The fandom aspect is the bit that now makes a show or movie feel like it’s actually happening and has some purchase in the world. But the Peaky fanbase is quite different to the ones that follow Succession or Game of Thrones or The Last of Us. There’s an enthusiasm in those fandoms for drilling right down into characters’ psyches and mining the information we’re given from camera moves, editing choices and production design to navigate how each individual character is feeling and reacting to what’s happening in the story-space.

That is not the experience of being in the Peaky fandom. By and large, it’s not one which tends to produce fan theories or take apart scenes frame by frame; it’s more vibe-based TV fandom, and one more inclined to follow the story wherever it goes rather than throwing around counterfactuals and second-guessing what Knight has in mind.

Most Peaky fans seem happy to sit back and be taken on a rollercoaster ride, albeit a rollercoaster ride which is 30 per cent slow-motion. It’s actually quite a pleasant throwback to the way in which people used to discuss TV and film before the Redditification of fan discourse. It is not serious business. It’s people posting pictures of their ‘BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS’ mug or some quite derivative artwork of apes wearing three-piece suits captioned ‘Monkey Blinders’, plus occasional innocent enquiries as to why Tommy was having seizures if his tumour wasn’t real in the end.

The reason I raise this is that even those relatively chilled-out fans seemed a bit perturbed by the ponderous pace of the middle of the last series, and consider the whole thing pretty much cauterised. The Peaky kids who were introduced in season six aren’t being weighed up and played off against each other in feverish previews of where the film might go. There is no Duke Shelby hive. The idea of Tommy Shelby going to war – he’d be about 50 by the outbreak of conflict, so he ain’t going to be parachuting into Market Garden – was a popular one, and a showdown with Sam Claflin’s Oswald Mosley at the direction of Tommy’s occasional M figure Winston Churchill seems the most likely route into that.

But these are not things that anyone in the fandom is really talking about at the moment. There’s no real whirl of excitement or speculation right now. And Peaky Blinders really needs that to crank back up again if it’s going to make this movie, which we’ve known about for absolutely ages now, land with the impact which really befits it.

It’s got Cillian Murphy as its lead, for heaven’s sake. Drop a teaser. Leak a behind the scenes snap. Let Knight be a little bit indiscreet about it in an interview. Give us a crumb of something soon, before the last of the momentum runs out. Because if this is the last we ever see of the Shelbys and the Peaky Blinders gang, they ought to be swaggering into the sunset.'

#Peaky Blinders #Cillian Murphy #Sam Claflin #Oswald Mosley #Winston Churchill #Helen McCrory #Tommy Shelby #Steven Knight #Paul Anderson #Instagram #Arthur Shelby

[astercontrol]

So, sometimes I'm nervous about what will happen in upcoming Canon for my fandoms, because of what it might do to fandom discourse and the overall dynamic of who's a fan and how they interact…

BUT I am… pretty apathetic about it from an in-universe perspective.

because… Canon is, in my mind, just as fictional as fanfiction. Bad Canon means, to me, that a really popular big-name fan wrote a fanfic I don't like. If lots of fans are treating this writing as having More Authority on everything in the made-up world than the fanfics I like… well I'm just gonna ignore that and keep reading the ones I like, ok?

the oldest and most natural form of fictional storytelling… the form that our minds are arguably best suited to engaging with… is the in-person, spur-of-the-moment making-shit-up-for-the-hell-of-it. Children pretending. Elders telling tales around the campfire.

Grandpa tells the story of Paul Bunyan and says the Great Lakes were formed from the footprints of Babe the Blue Ox. Dad retells the story and says no, the ox is even bigger than that, the Lakes are its sweat drops. hell yeah! the kids each pick which version they like better. neither is The Truth.

honestly if you try to find this form of storytelling in Tumblr fandom, it's in Goncharov, and it's in the space adventures of Stabby the Roomba.

there's a person who was the first to introduce Stabby the Roomba! we can find this person's tumblr account with only a little digging! but do we run to that account's askbox to confirm whether each new story about Stabby's adventures is true or not?

NO. we do not. It's STORYTELLING.

[junebugwriter]

Galatians 3:28 is Transgender Affirming, Actually

An exegetical exploration of the text

I used to be a pastor. That occupation affords a position as a lot of things within the church, an opportunity to be “all things to all people” as Paul would say. 1 Perhaps the one that I was most well suited to and excelled at was being the neighborhood theologian in residence and academic in practice. Now that I am an academic full-time in my graduate studies, I am practically drowning in research, but remarkably, little of it is explicitly biblical in nature. This is something I quite miss, and so I began this blog partly to fill that missing piece of my former life, because I believe that as a Christian, drinking deep from the well of scripture is generally good practice and ideal to work towards.

So, call me surprised when a few weeks ago, I heard a murmur of a discourse on the site formerly known as Twitter, discourse revolving around Galatians 3, specifically Galatians 3: 28: “There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”

Now, let me say this up front: this passage has meant a lot to me most of my life. It is a message that is designed to unify, to build community, to embolden us to set aside differences for the common good of the Christian community. But also, it has meant a lot to me personally, as it signaled to me that God simply does not regard my being transgender as something to be used against me, that in the end it does not matter to God, because God is beyond all of the binaries and dividing lines we might draw here on earth.

However, this is not exactly consensus. (Not that Twitter is at all an engine for consensus-building—in fact it was engineered to be the opposite!) For every person who argued that Galatians 3:28 was an affirming passage as regards people of the transgender experience, there were perhaps dozens more who said that interpreting it that was robs the passage of its context, and goes against the sacred word of Paul of Tarsus.2

This naturally got my pastor engine burning, because to me, it seems obvious, even with context, that Galatians 3 would be affirming for transgender people. Yet, most likely, there are many that would not see it so. Therefore, allow me to make my case for a queer, trans reading of Galatians 3.

(Note: though I am a trained pastor and theologian, I am NOT an expert in New Testament studies or biblical Greek. Additionally, though I am a queer theologian, Queer Theology as an area of

focus is not my exact specialty, not as much as disability or ethics is. This is my own exegesis and interpretation, make of that as you will.)

The Text in Context

Paul’s Letter to the Galatians is a text with a fraught history, which makes sense considering the letter was written to a problematic church. If Paul was going to write to a church, there was usually a significant enough problem at stake for the foundling churches of Asia. Moreover, if the letter was to be included within biblical canon, it meant that the issue was significant enough for the leaders of early church to have found it essential for the spiritual formation of the church itself. That issue was nothing less than a question of inclusion and discrimination within the church.

Paul was faced with the question: Who is to be included within the church? Who is to be given salvation? It’s a soteriological question with social implications, and to erase the second facet is to do a disservice to the first facet. Paul relates as much in his discussion in earlier chapters regarding his disagreement with Peter, Cephas, and James. To be a follower of Christ, did one need to be a Jew first? They had agreed, and sent Paul with their blessing, that the correct answer is no. One did not need to be a Jew in order to be saved through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. One could be a Gentile or a Jew, and this pivotal decision set in motion the course of the church for the rest of history, one which would ultimately spell final division with our Jewish siblings.

But I digress. The point was, there was confusion among the church as to who was included in the family of God, and Paul emphatically declared in Galatians that this entire line of questioning was out of order. Paul was of course chiefly focused on the Jewish/Gentile divide, but he was not blind to the hierarchical realities of the society in which he lived. The statement he makes in 3:28 is a threefold formulation, one that approaches the chief dividing lines in society as he saw it: Jew and Gentile, slave and free, male and female.3 This entire letter was birthed by inequality and division occurring socially4, and Christian communities are reflections of their societies and communities. Jim Reiher puts it like this: “...human ‘horizontal’ relationships were not reflecting the ‘vertical’ equality we all have in Christ with God.”

Thus, in response to these divisions among the people of the church, Paul’s response is that it is in the waters of baptism in Jesus Christ that we are given common salvation. Jennifer Slater states that in a post-Christ paradigm, “both men and women share equally in Christ and so become equal members or participants of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.”5 This is not in ignorance of the realities of division, nor a collapse of identity. People remain distinct, and so do identities within the church. To ignore such would

be to ignore reality. Rather, it’s instead not a dissolution of distinction, but rather a negation of difference as a basis for exclusion. 6

In Paul’s day, and in ours, it would be the height of foolishness to state that difference did not exist. Yet despite that, we as the church are called to not necessarily bless the structures that divide us in our society, but reflect a different reality in which those differences do not deny any of us citizenship in the Reign of God through Jesus Christ. Christ did away with those when he took on human flesh and was resurrected from the dead. When we undergo the waters of baptism, we are initiated into that reign, that new reality, and offered salvation through faith.

That Paul knew what he was doing here seems obvious. There was a very strict codification of gender binary within Roman society in that time, with a clear advantage given to men over women. Women had less social status than men, often could not hold property, and even were seen as property of men in every arena. To state “there is neither male nor female” is a direct contradiction of the social order as it stood, and different gender roles were proscribed by society. As such, this disregarding of gender as it affects life in the church is a radical statement indeed, and thus worthy of modern interrogation.

Queering the Text

This is, of course, where the fun begins. I needed to get through that background to get to the question at hand: how is Galatians 3:28 a trans affirming passage?

I am going to state here that queer theory and queer criticism is a relatively new field of criticism, doubly so for theology. Though the interrogation of the text as a gender-inclusive statement can be seen to go back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, queerness as a subcategory of theology can only go back a few decades. Therefore, the scholarship is scant on the matter of Galatians 3:28, but not impossible to find. For a more in-depth analysis, I’ll recommend an excellent paper by Jeremy Punt, full citation in the footnotes.7 His work is excellent, yet it is mostly focused on establishing a basis for a queer reading of Galatians 3, not as much the specific queerness that being transgender poses.

In claiming that in Christ there is “no male nor female,” there is an androgynizing effect to the passage that poses a danger to the male audience, much more than the female one.8 Men stood to lose much in the categorical collapse of gender: social status, privilege, and legal rights. In the bargain, women stood to gain much more than men would lose, and thus this was a radical proposal for 1st century church members. Yet, one could argue that this collapse was potentially less dangerous than the difference collapse between rich and poor, slave and free, and most especially for Paul’s interest, Jew and Gentile. The presence of salvation through the work of Jesus Christ was a radical proposition, and to separate social reality from soteriological would be folly, especially since the social aspect seemed to be the chief problem that was being posed to salvation.

This naturally leads to a significant question for the interpreter: what do we mean by salvation? Is salvation simply something that happens in the great by and by? Is it simply a reality relegated to existence after death? Or does salvation mean something in the present, the here and now? I would argue that for Paul, it absolutely matters. Salvation was a social issue, because the material reality with which the church was faced was affecting their theological prejudices and division. Thus, when Jesus saves, Jesus does not simply save us for later, but saves us right now. When he first speaks in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus says “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”9 That’s not a promise of the reign in the future, in some far away time or place that is immediate and urgent. Thus, salvation only makes sense if we frame it in the present, material reality of the listener.

Jeremy Punt wisely stated that “...queer theory is not so much about bestowing normalcy on queerness but rather queering of normalcy.”10 If one takes that task seriously, it is then a very queer thing indeed for Jesus to have proclaimed the arrival of the Reign of God. It very much queered the normalcy of the people he preached to, and Paul is very much queering the normalcy of the people of Galatia in this broad, unifying pronouncement. He is blurring the divisions between ethnic groups, economic groups, as well as gender groups, something that is usually believed to have been an unreconcilable divide. After all, did God not create the two genders in the Garden of Eden? ”Male and female, he created them?” Yet in Christ, we see that this division need not be maintained so strictly, because the things of heaven, the Reign of God, does not seem to care about these divisions all that much.

The case for gender inclusion in Galatians seems straightforward, then. Women ought not be barred from anything within the church itself. The social dimension directly affects this salvation issue, and God is freeing us from division within salvation and society. But this leads to the crucial question:

Does this include transgender people?

The T-shaped Hole in our Text

Our beliefs and understanding about gender, sex, and the social constructs around them have changed in the intervening millennia between our us and our text. There was no way for Paul to have talked about what we now understand as transgender people, because that category did not exist for him in that context.

That does not mean that we did not exist back then, mind you. The existence of transgender people in history is being uncovered on a daily basis. Our journals, our records, our stories exist, but on the margins of social consciousness. The truth of the matter is, we did not simply appear in the last few years, when people started making more of a fuss about us in the public sphere. We simply have learned more about how gender works, and that is a concept and topic that is expanding each day. So, while Paul did not consider transgender people in his writing, that does not mean that we did not exist in his day and age, and that does not mean that this text doesn’t have something to say about us.

If one had to boil down the entire text of Galatians to a single point, it would be that our divisions do not stop us from receiving the love of God through Jesus Christ. Quite the reverse. Jesus

Christ does not care about our divisions. God’s love does not end at an arbitrary dividing wall of our own creation. That love is shared among God’s children equally; how could you make a holy parent like God choose among their creation? Likewise, God does not contain within themselves division. God may be triune in nature, but that triune aspect of God only heightens the communal aspect of love, and the love that God shares within God’s selves is only stronger when it is shared with God’s creation.

When I was a child, I was baptized into the life of the church. There is not a day that goes by where I did not know God’s love for me. It has been a constant throughout my life, and I cherish the fact that I have always had assurance of God’s love for me. God does not suddenly stop loving someone like me when I learn more about myself, about my mind, my identity, and my manner of expression. If, as Paul says, “There is no longer male and female,” then why get hung up on whether or not God’s love is extended to transgender people? You can hop that binary divided at any point, and God’s love for you would not change. You can ride that line all day long if you want! You may say, forget the line! Because the line is only there because we say it’s there.

In the end, male and female are simply categories, and if God is any indicator, categories are meant to be defied. God does not have a gender, because God is beyond the binary. God is beyond every binary, in fact. This isn’t a controversial statement, it simply has been the understanding of the church going back to antiquity. That we call God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and use predominantly masculine pronouns is because of how language works, and how God through Jesus Christ revealed themselves to us. That is the language they used, but any language we use is provably lacking when talking about the divine, because it is a construct of human making, and therefore flawed and fallible. Our understanding of biology is simply what we have so far observed and tested, backed up on documentation, and is liable to change as more information is gathered. Furthermore, gender is different from biological sex, and while both are important—fascinating, even!--they are also more malleable than we might imagine.

Christians are also a people of change. We believe that Jesus came to change the world from how it is to how it will be under the Reign of God. Jesus calls us to repentance, to change ourselves, and be transformed by the love that God has for us. You are changing every day in small, unnoticeable ways. Transgender people are just people who have observed an interior discrepancy in how we are perceived by the world, and work to change that in our lives to better reflect the person that we always were inside. That’s not dishonesty or delusion, it is simply how humans work! It's the height of honesty to be transgender, because the most intimate part of ourselves, our identity, is important, and God honors that. Because of that, God does not really care if we transition. Because God shows no partiality. Man, woman, something in between, something outside the binary completely—there is no longer any division, because all are one in Christ our Lord. If you belong to Christ, you belong to the promise that God will always love you, no matter what.

Conclusion

To me, a theologian and one deeply called to teaching the truths of our faith, are deep truths that cannot be denied. Paul does not want there to be any division among us, as division only sows injustice, infighting, and chaos. Jesus came to both men and women, slave and free, rich or poor, Jew and Gentile. This is a text that is designed to free us from our interior divisions, to work towards a reality in which those divisions do not matter anymore.

The context of the text recognizes the social reality of our world, and then subverts it. The message of Jesus Christ, then, is a revolutionary attitude of inclusion, love, and support. It goes beyond gender divisions, to the very cores of our being. God loves us, God includes us, God celebrates us. God wants us to live in truth and love with one another—and being transgender is a truth that should not be denied.

Look, I have tried to deny it for decades. I tried to be what I was assigned at birth, and have found so much freedom in acknowledging the truth of who I am inside. Ask any transgender person, and they will tell you the same. If it could be denied, we wouldn’t be honest with ourselves, or with God. God wants us to be free, loved, and honored in our communities, especially in the church.

So yes, Galatians 3:28 is a transgender affirming text, actually. It is a text that unbinds us to binaries and reveals a vision of a community that has progressed beyond division to true unity, solidarity, and love. Go therefore and act like God has freed you from your interior divisions. Live in truth, and the truth shall set you free.

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Footnotes:

1- 1 Cor. 9:22 (NRSV).

2 -I quite like Paul, by the way! But he was a human being, and as a human being, his words bear the stain of human frailty and fallibility. Therefore, it is more than acceptable to criticize and/or examine his work as such. He was an excellent writer and theologian, and demands that his work be taken seriously as an academic; I imagine he would want nothing less

3- Slater, Jennifer. “'Inclusiveness’ - An Authentic Biblical Truth That Negates Distinctions: A Hermeneutic of Gender Incorporation and Ontological Equality in Ancient Christian Thought.” Journal of Early Christian History 5, no. 1 (2015): 116–31. Pg. 118.

4- Reiher, Jim. “Galatians 3: 28 – Liberating for Women’s Ministry? Or of Limited Application?” The Expository Times 123, no. 6 (March 1, 2012): 272–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014524611431773. Pg. 275.

5- Slater. Pg. 119.

6- Ibid. Pg. 122.

7- Punt, Jeremy. “Power and Liminality, Sex and Gender, and Gal 3:28: A Postcolonial, Queer Reading of an Influential Text.” Neotestamentica 44, no. 1 (2010): 140–66.

8- Punt. Pg. 154.

9- Mark 1: 15, NRSV.

10- Punt. Pg. 156.

#transgender #theology #christianity #exegesis #bible #scripture #lgbtq+

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Five weeks from Tuesday, Kentuckians will vote and decide whether to send Senator Rand Paul back to Washington or to replace him with his Democratic challenger, Charles Booker. But voters will likely not get the chance to see the two candidates go head-to-head on the debate stage.

On Monday, KET's Kentucky Tonight hosted what was scheduled to be a debate between Booker and Paul. However, KET says Paul did not respond to their invitation. So, Booker took the stage alone.

Before he went on air, Booker told LEX 18 that Paul's decision to not show up is "disrespectful" to voters.

"It's an affront to the democratic process. If you are running for office, you should make your case about why you believe your vision is best suited for the people," Booker said. "That's what I'm doing. That's what we're doing across the Commonwealth. That's why we're organizing. That's why I'm here tonight. He should be here too. He's not entitled to this Senate seat. It doesn't belong to him. It belongs to the people of Kentucky."

Last week, Paul told LEX 18 that he is worried about political violence taking over civil discourse.

"I think that debates should involve civility and should involve parties that are actually willing to address questions," said Paul. "And I think that there's been a certain tenor, so far, that really involves more accepting of political violence - that I think worries me and makes me concerned."

No other U.S. Senate debate has been publicly announced, meaning Paul and Booker will likely not take the same stage to answer questions before voters cast their ballots.

#us politics #news #kentucky #lex 18 news #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #charles booker #sen. rand paul #ket #Kentucky Tonight #debate #vote blue

[thecalendarwomen]

As both maker and muse, avant-garde fashion designer Emilie Flöge’s influence weaves through the history of Vienna and contributes to its allure as a cultural destination today. Born in 1874, Flöge advanced from seamstress to boutique owner at a time of rapid societal change. As she inspired—and was featured within—masterworks by the acclaimed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, she also pioneered liberation for women through corset-free clothing with flowing silhouettes and ornate decorative motifs.

The fact that Flöge is better known for her collaborative relationship with Klimt neglects her exquisite craft and independent entrepreneurial success in Vienna during the fin-de-siècle. Flöge’s style was part of an international discourse that included French couturiers Paul Poiret, who removed bodices from his creations in 1906, and Coco Chanel, who introduced comfortable but elegant two-piece women’s suits. Though Poiret’s developments were primarily aesthetic, Flöge’s and Chanel’s were ideological and fanned attention to a sense of rebellion.

Flöge, with sisters Pauline and Helene, opened the salon Schwestern Flöge (which translates to “Flöge Sisters”) in 1906, four years before the first Chanel boutique opened in Paris. Being owned and operated by three women was an uncommon undertaking at the time, but its lively location on Mariahilfer Straße welcomed bourgeois women who became regular patrons. It was here that Flöge contributed to the expanding “rational dress movement” of reformed shapes, also known as the “Reformkleid,” where generous cuts with wide sleeves draped playfully over the wearer. Flöge embellished these dresses with patterns that drew inspiration from Eastern European embroidery, which imparted the smoke-like garments with a glamorous Viennese-bohemian spirit. This was radical, unrestricted fashion.

Schwestern Flöge was a predecessor to what we today refer to as a concept shop. Designed by architect Josef Hoffmann (who also imagined Klimt’s studio), it was uniquely furnished with geometric wooden chairs, checkered tables, carpets, and adjustable mirrors. It was also peppered with objets d’art and luxury items, crafted from tortoiseshell and lapis lazuli, that couldn’t be purchased. With the store’s detailed logo, which paired art nouveau text with a checkered border, a fully-formed brand captured the attention of Vienna’s high society.

Flöge’s role as creative head required everything from broad, trend-setting decisions to hands-on production work with clients. The studio expanded to 80 seamstresses at its height, and operated for 30 years. Both feats were a testament to Flöge’s acumen, as was her success beyond Vienna with a curious international market. At home, Schwestern Flöge became the leading fashion destination of its Viennese society—and this innovative venture paved the way for shopping in contemporary Vienna.

Today, concept shops and boutiques abound, from the hybrid fashion, art, and design store SONG, to Park, which highlights established and emerging Austrian designers. While Mariahilfer Straße is still a celebrated destination (especially with locals), Margaretenstraße plays host to the exhilarating boutiques Samstag, Unikatessen, Wolfensson, and more. Walking through the historic city center, as well as the Goldenes Quartier, provides ample access to items beyond clothing and accessories, too.

As fashion is ingrained in Vienna, so too is art. This is due in part to Klimt’s legacy, and his work appears in museums throughout Vienna—especially at the Schloss Belvedere, an acclaimed institution with a detailed Austrian art collection that also includes pieces by Egon Schiele and Koloman Moser.

In his time, Klimt purchased fashionable items from Flöge, but that isn’t how they knew one another. Their lives were intertwined long beforehand, with their first known correspondence taking place in 1895. Though it has been presumed they were in love, both were discreet about anything beyond friendship, which has been observed through nearly 400 written documents that they exchanged.

“Her intricate fashion was very much sought after and, much like Klimt’s paintings, a must-have among the fashionable and artistically minded.”

Sandra Tetter, director Gustav-Klimt-Centre on Lake Attersee

It’s her role in his art that has led to further assumption—from the “Portrait of Emilie Flöge,” where Klimt depicts her with shimmering splendor, to “The Kiss,” which is arguably his most famous work (and on display at Schloss Belvedere). In the former, Klimt displays the revolutionary golden style that will define him. With the latter, a couple—arguably Flöge and Klimt—passionately embrace, adorned with mesmeric attire that resembles her fashion.

In addition to painting Flöge, Klimt worked in collaboration with her. Together, they explored color and form, and she even produced designs that he made. In these, they were photographed together around Lake Attersee, a pristine destination (then and today) with exquisite panoramas. They regularly summered together in various villas along the lake, which today can be toured through the Klimt Artist Trail, organized by Sandra Tetter, director Gustav Klimt Center on Lake Attersee art center, which transports visitors to the artist’s time at the site where he created over 40 landscape paintings.

When Klimt died in 1918, part of his estate went to Flöge, and his purported last words were, “Get Emilie.” Klimt imbued Vienna with a golden luster that mirrors his own artistic achievements. For this, he has become a ubiquitous figure in the arts world, whereas Flöge has fallen into relative obscurity. Her legacy does live on, however, from an honorary grave in the Wien-Simmering cemetery to the global revival of attribution occurring today. Even Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli referenced Flöge’s “Reformkleid,” through liberated shapes and opulent patterns, with their Fall/Winter 2015 collection for Valentino.

A dazzling contemporary cultural attraction for its art history, grand café culture, extravagant ball season, and sheer natural beauty, Austria’s charm parallels that of Flöge’s—and to think of visiting Vienna or Lake Attersee means looking to her future-forward values and what they mean today.

#Emilie floge #Emilie Flöge #gustav klimt #art #art history #women in history #women in art #vogue #fashion #fashion designers

[oxiosa]

Hi Oxi! I'm here cause through the years our fandom has discussed and explore the BrArg rivalry a lot but I feel we don't talk enough about them playing together. (Been watching some football youtube and I'm sentimental now). 1/3

I feel these two could work so well (Looking at Ney/Messi and Dinho/Messi). I dare guess this could be how the sexual tension from their rivalry could culminate in some scenarios. With their undeniable chemistry together in and off the pitch.  2/3

I'm not even an expert about football or anything but I've even been thinking what possitions they'd play, who their style would be the most like? For example, I think Tincho would be great but I don't think he'd play just like Messi or even Diego (I don't think I see Tincho being left-footed and him being tall may also be interfering lol). Maybe more like Batigol? IDK, I do think he'd be a 9 and Lucho the 10 maybe? 3/3

Hello, dear! Aaahh thank you for the messages, love getting (new?) people join our little brarg discourse.

Before getting into some football discussion, I wanna disclaimer that even if I’m a hardcore Argentina NT fan, I don’t care about National Leagues and that makes me a little green in general terms. So, hablemos sin saber, anon, HERE GOES NOTHING.

I think you made a very interesting point with the player positions. I agree and I do think Luciano is a perfect 10; he’s deviously smart and sneaky and you know he’s the kind of prayer who’d infuriate defenders as he breaks havoc among enemy lines, dancing around them and always finding a way to slip through and shoot towards the goal.

But I've always struggled a little with Martín’s position. I think Tincho is 10 material, ngl. Dinho is even taller than Tinchito and he’s a legendary 10, so don’t count Martín out just for his height, anon! But I see where you’re going suggesting a 9, especially if we’re indulging in a scenario where both Lulu and Tincho are playing together and can’t both be the 10.

I personally don’t like a 9 for Martín - it might be my football inexperience speaking but I feel it lacks a little bit of agency over the game as a whole. Lacks charm and magic to me, I don’t think Martín’s just a striker, yk? And here I’d like us to entraint what will probably be a bit of a controversial idea: how about Martín being a midfielder? You say Batistuta and Di María, but how about Mascherano or De Paul?

Here, allow me to make my case with the help of wikipedia: “Midfielders provide a link between defense and attack. They offer an additional line of defense when the team is under attack, and they have a key role initiating attacks as they can be sometimes described as ‘playmakers’. Midfielders are always busy in a game and are often therefore described as the engine room of the team.”

I think this restless flexible role really fits Martín, who he is overbearing and domineering and downright restless. Martín would totally be the sort of player who’s all over the field trying to get the game to go his way. He will be pushing forward always on the attack, but I think he would fall back and go after a lost ball as well. Martín is aggressive and competitive, lethal and perfect for attack, but he also is very fierce and doesn’t give up which are traits I think make him good defense. He attack, he defend, but most important he makes sure the ball goes wherever he wants it to be. I like this flexible role that just allows him to do whatever the hell he wants, I feel it suits rebellious loose-cannon Martín very well to be a little bit of everything and all over the place and not have just one defined role. He’s free to just be wherever he feels he is needed.

I also really like this “playmaker” role for him. It allows him to be strategic and creative, traits shared with a 10! That’s where true magic happens; the thing with big players isn’t just about their footwork but also their quick clever minds. Additionally, this concept of “engine of the team” really fits him, yk?

Now, as perfect as I think he’s for the role, here my problem with midfielder!Martín: no matter how good a midfielder might be, they don't take the spotlight the way strikers do, and I do think that's an issue for someone with Martín's ridiculous ego. Knowing him and how dangerous his football skills are and how much of a diva Tincho is, I think he needs to be a striker, a showman, the star of the team.

So now I’m back at where I started: I have no idea where to put Tinchito if I’m not giving him the 10 :D

#funny that you ask me about them playing together anon when I do have a wip about them being professional players on the same team #even funnier you bring up ney/messi when its heavily inspired on their story~ #loved getting a lengthy message anon! always happy to have more people join our little corned with discussion topics and hcs :3c #brarg #latin hetalia #rambling

[mickmundy]

Are there any other tf2 ships you really like/would ever write about?

honestly....? probably not lol. medic/sniper and heavy/spy are my favorite tf2 ships and while there are other ships i like/appreciate, i don't know that i'd be able to like... Write Fics about them ykwim? and i wouldn't want to put out writing that's "mediocre" just for the sake of writing for other ships... so i'm not Swearing It Off but at this time, probably not.

also i Personally navigate shipping under the basic philosophy of "none of them are romantically compatible until 'proven' otherwise" LOL as in... i think ships Are Good because the works people make for those ships are Compelling ykwim... not by default of the characters just being pushed together (though this isn't me knocking those who do this. i do it sometimes too! i'm talking about when it comes to like... Writing Full Fledged Pieces with Character Development etc!). with tf2 i feel this especially since there is not a lot of lore and all of the characters get along on a pretty even playing field... also i don't take every single voice line or canon crumb as like. The Gospel, either... sldflksjfd.,., mostly because i don't really care about canon and i think that if you're so entirely obsessed with Everything Being Canon then why even engage with transformative works in the first place lol... i don't care if you make the mercs "ooc" or whatever by expanding on their personalties and making them deeper than their voicelines... in fact i encourage it!! as long as you aren't making them Objectively Shitty [racist, homophobic, r*pists, transmisogynistic, n*zis, p*dophiles etc] i really don't care what you do with them lol.

i've never filled out a shipping chart because i think Antagonistically talking about stuff you hate (ie ragging on Harmless Ships and putting it where fans of Said Harmless Ship can see it) is just kind of lame and any time a shipping chart comes up it just invites stupid discourse that i don't care about lol. i prefer just talking about stuff i like! like this:

anyway. getting it out of the way to say that pyro, scout and sniper are all Grown Adults (27+ years old) and Very Capable people. ships with them are not Problematic unless you make them that way. people who baby them catch an instant block from me lmaooo. but anyway!

my Favorite tf2 ships are Probably:

god tier: bushmed and spoovy (<- or the 4 of them as a polycule. or medic/sniper/heavy! HEHE) i adore you immensely: admin/pauling, spy/scout's mom, sniper/spy, engie/spy/sniper, demo/sniper Cool because my oomfies and friends like it and i trust their interpretations Basically Exclusively: everything/anything else

and the only one i Hate is spy/sc*ut for obvious reasons lol. the rest... go have fun/good for you/yippee/that's awesome!!!!!!!!! hehe!

so i guess if i did make content for other ships it would probably be for these? but it would involve a lot more research/energy than i'm currently willing to devote to fics that aren't spoovy or bushmed :'( i might be open to answering lil ask memes about other ships but for the most part i think i'm content to leave other ship stuff to the suits in washington (my huge brained friends and mutuals)!

#asks #WHEEE THANK YO UFOR THE ASK I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE ;-; <3333 #it's mostly about the fact that i don't know that i could produce the kind of Quality that i'd expect from myself yanno! #dutchfoolery

[qdc-anna]

Hello and Welcome to my Shit Brain Fungus Blog!

🚧 Warning! This blog is still under construction!  🚧 

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Introduction!

Anna’s the name (29/F) and I’m your friendly neighborhood internet weirdo!!

- I love to hang out with my friends and simping over fictional characters, may it be here or on Discord. I’m also enjoying shitposts of all kind, the weirder and louder, the better. 

- My Husbandos are one of my biggest hyperfixations. I don’t have actually a “type”; anyone can end up as a Husbando, it goes from the animes from the 80s to 90s, over video games of all kind, even to cartoons meant for preschool kids (more about that later)!

- I’m trying to curate my own internet experience, so I'm not really fond of hanging out in fandoms and communities. I also tend to be really picky when it comes to follow people back, so please don’t be dissappointed if I don’t follow you back, no hard feelings.

- I will absolutely not engage into discourse about everything that happens IRL and online, but if I do, I pack out my popcorn and laugh about the bitchfights with my friends. Also I live under the rule of “It’s okay to not like things, but don’t be a dick about it”. Hate the thing, but not the people who love the things you hate.

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Husbandos!

Primary Husbandos:

-  Albert Harebrayne / Benjamin Dobinbough (The Great Ace Attorney: Resolve)

- Fireman Sam (the CGI one, yes)

- Dr. Livesey (Остров сокровищ)

- Jean-Paul Rochina (Armored Trooper Votoms)

Secondary Husbandos:

- Scott and Virgil Tracy (Thunderbirds)

- Aloysius Parker (Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015))

- Bobby Fulbright (Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)

- Inspector Gadget

- Top Hat (TUGS)

- Helmut J. Lecoque (Fang of the Sun Dougram)

- Kotsett Memura (Combat Mecha Xabungle)

- M’Quve (Mobile Suit Gundam)

- General Dagon and Captain Ram (Space Battleship Yamato III)

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Boundaries!

- I tend to get very uncomfortable looking at ships involving many of my Husbandos (that’s one of many reasons why I don’t hang out in communities). Sharing many of them with other selfshippers (with a very few exception) is also difficult for me! 

- I used to be a hypochondriac, which I have under control. However, posts listing symptomes of deadly diseases makes me feel very queasy.

- I’m trying to escape reality on the internet, since I’m also work on a full-time job. Posts about the happenings around the world IRL stresses me out.

- Otherwise, I’m tolerant to almost anything!

[ntriani]

OQM Playlist : Life during quarantine #12 Listen to Life during quarantine #12

BEWARE THE SECOND WAVE As we enjoy this heatwave in Finland and relax with each other, literally sharing the same spaces once again, we must realise the temporary nature of our new freedom.

HEADSTART I became an obsessive fan of The Jam at around the age of 13 – I even had a photo book of my favourite press clippings of the band. This love for The Jam also ignited some kind of realisation that political discourse actually exists within the confines of pop music. What was astonishing about records like ‘Going Underground’ or ‘Town Called Malice’ going straight into the #1 spot on the national pop charts was the potent message those singles possessed. Of course, as I got older, I realised a lot of my contemporaries despised The Jam’s Paul Weller, finding his political songs too simplistic and dismissed them as nothing more than sloganeering. For me Weller’s lyrics hit home because I could fully relate.  When singles such as ‘Funeral Pyre’ also went straight in at #1 you had to admire the sheer gall of releasing  such uncommercial music and then seeing it hitting the top of the charts. The Jam remain one of the great British single bands.

CHANGING MAN Once The Jam ended there was a dramatic change from Weller with what came next; The Style Council. In came a mix of cappuccino drinks, Euro Euphoria and a committed  focus on style –  the political intensity and focus on living in Thatcher’s Britain that so defined The Jam disappeared. Weller, always a modernist in the truest sense, was now increasingly becoming a foppish clothes horse, enjoying not being the voice of a generation and even more so enjoying being a pop star and having some fun. It’s astonishing to think that Weller was still only 25 when he formed The Style Council, but the sense of relief from Weller is evident in the freedom of the music The Style Council initially released. One could surmise that Weller had simply had enough carrying that political lyrical torch. It felt like he was more enthused by singing songs relating to matters of the heart and looking good in some sharp vintage threads and tailor made suits (which he still does) than plotting any further political music movement.

I FOUND YOU AGAIN For me,  I lost interest in Weller and his music for a long time after those first couple of Style Council records. The band descended into a bland pastiche of soul and trying to keep up with some notion of modern pop trends, which by the end saw Weller struggle professionally. I was late picking up on Weller’s increasingly successful solo career and kind of resented his honorary status amongst the Britpop community (Weller was always so much better than that.) But then the 22 Dreams album pulled me back into his orbit. Mostly absent was the dad rock replaced by a wide palate that took in a myriad of influences backed by solid songwriting and wilful experimentation. And ever since it’s been mostly great stuff from Weller.  His voice has matured, his records remain eclectic and interesting and his songwriting still delivers. His politics still appear in his music from time to time but it’s more subtle and more grown up. The bright spark of political anger that so defined his youth has mostly gone but musically Weller remains a contender.

#the jam #paul weller #OQM Playlist

[econosurancee]

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Constructed in 1759 for John Vassall Jr., a prosperous Loyalist, the Longfellow House, initially known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, tells a tale of historical transformations. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Vassall was forced to abandon the house, which was then requisitioned by George Washington as his military headquarters during the Siege of Boston from 1775-1776.

Transition from Craigie to Longfellow

After the Revolutionary War, the house was purchased in 1791 by Andrew Craigie, a prominent apothecary of the Continental Army. Following Craigie's death, his widow rented rooms to boarders to make ends meet, one of whom was a young professor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Fascinated by the history and architecture of the house, Longfellow ultimately purchased it as a wedding gift for his wife, Fanny Appleton, in 1843.

The Longfellow Era

Longfellow's time in the house marked it as a hub of intellectual discourse and literary inspiration. The renowned author, celebrated for his works like "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawatha," hosted numerous literary and cultural icons such as Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oscar Wilde.

Following Fanny's tragic death in a home fire in 1861, Longfellow channeled his grief into his work, producing his acclaimed translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy" within the house's walls.

After Longfellow's death in 1882, his descendants preserved the house and its rich contents. It was donated to the nation in 1972 and is now a National Historic Site.

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[tiannasdndjournal]

September 13

Today I was able to listen to NPR politics, consider this, NPR now, and NPR code switch. I listened to one episode of each, and 3 for the code switch one. The NPR code switch episodes were about pell grants as well as Whiteness. The NPR politics podcast episode today was about political incited violence as well as nuances and discourse around Biden's "unity" campaign. each episode is ranges from 20 to 30 minutes about. I believe that these podcasts continue to educate me, and possibly influence the way I will be voting during midterms even though I don't have a lead at the moment. I was listening to this while working on my typography homework, something I yet again consume much of my time doing. I also use adobe suite, which I paid 140 dollars a year for since I got a nifty deal from a connection, but something I still yet consume and use often due to my occupation as a design student and work purposes.

I have also spent a good portion of my time listening to "Mandopop hits", which are pop songs in mandarin. I have been meaning to relearn my mother tongue, listening to these songs helps somewhat when I am multi-tasking, but what would be more helpful is if I were to pull up the lyrics as well, which I did for a little bit today in an attempt of a self karaoke session.

I also drank another chinese herbal drink today, I got it from my friend Andy while dropping something off at his apartment. I unfortunately threw it away before taking a picture of it, but yet again something I consume based on an offering and proximity.

I yet again used the same bottle of sunscreen this morning, and applied makeup but no mascara because I knew I would be extremely sweaty walking outside all day since it was so hot. Speaking of modes of transportation, I also spent about an hour on public transportation today, going from my house in St. Paul to my journalism class in the Minneapolis campus (20-25 minutes). Then from Fresh thyme (as I was doing grocery shopping and spent 25 dollars there to buy some produce, pesto, and pasta), back to my house again (30-35 minutes). I spend a small portion of that time waiting for public transportation as well, which consists of bus and light rails in my routes.

[nullians]

There’s something that makes me wince whenever somebody says that Paul is ‘cruel’....

#d0 stuff #personal #about favs #uh look I dislike the term because #he is harsh #distant #not very affectionate #but?? #other than the Chimchar case.. #he was bever really shown as cruel #maybe I’m having feelings again but the word doesn’t suit him imo #paul tag for discourse

[awigglycultist]

Starkid tumblr really be like *has discourse over how the fandom needs to treat the actors better or how the fandom needs to appreciate starkids of colors more* and then immediately after be like *has discourse about what color Paul's suit is*

/j

#starkid #team starkid #starkid productions

[mooooooosicals]

I feel like nowadays on tumblr I am not known as an artist but as that one person with a shit ton of Paul screenshots and a whole lotta suit discourse.

#tgwdlm #the guy who didnt like musicals #starkid #Hatchetfield #but- #can we get back to me being an artist #it seems people give more shits about me doing stupid shit than the shit I actually work hard on #damnit