James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), better known as James Tissot was born in Nantes, France. Tissot studied in Paris and spent the years 1871–1882 in England. He occupies a place in the British 'Modern Life' genre movement, as well as a position on the fringes of French Impressionism. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé.
Sources: ArtUK and Wikipedia
The Confidence • c. 1857 • Private collection
The Ball • 1880 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Fan • 1875 • Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Tea • 1872 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Two Figures at a Door (The Proposal?) • 1872 • Cleveland Museum of Art - Cleveland, Ohio
The Parting • 1872 • National Museum, Wales
On the Thames, a Heron • c. 1872-73 • Minneapolis Institute of Art - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Holiday (also known as The Picnic) • 1876 • Tate, London
Caricature of Charles Darwin for Vanity Fair magazine, 30 September 1871.
Two Sisters • 1863 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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My favourite thing about Alastor is his hoard of gal pals!
He’s just a cool and charming dude that women feel comfortable around…And is also a power hungry eldritch horror.👌👌👌
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Thinking about old men and women. Specifically the ones who frequently wake up at 3 am soaked in sweat and/or blood.
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megan thee stallion is the perfect example of unbothered energy. nicki has repeatedly vagueposted about her, gone on unhinged rants about her, gone so far as to mention her dead mother (such a classless low blow), threatened her on live, and has now released the tackiest diss track in history. and what has megan done? literally nothing. she straight up ignored her, aside from that one ig story where she posted herself laughing (which was perfect btw). she is the epitome of “i will not dignify that w a response.” i love it.
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Theo van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862-1926) • Portrait Of A Woman Said To Be Sarah Bernhardt • n/d • Unspecified location •
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I think what really bothers me about fanon!Astarion isn't just the woobification. That happens to every problematic white boy. It's annoying, but not news. It's that almost every trait that the fandom assigns him is something that is already explored through a different character in this very game
You want a character that's too focused on the task at hand to want to stop and help innocents? That's Lae'zel! Astarion is cool with dicking around, but Lae'zel spends most act 1 actively in a panic about the tadpole and pushes you to just find a cure already
You want a trauma survivor that is mostly self-serving but can't help but care about people in a similar situation? Well, Astarion disaproves of you helping slaves, but Shadowheart really wants you to look out for kids! Even when she gets tortured for it!
You want someone who is prone to sympathizing with the monstrous? Despite being a monster hunter, it's Wyll that has that covered! Astarion doesn't even like you sympathizing with a recently orphaned goblin kid
You want a proper courtship with a prince charming? That's literally Wyll's romance!
You want a character that tries very hard to be bad, but deep down enjoys doing the right thing, and starts to accept that over the course of the game? Shadowheart again! A massive part of her story is just that
You want the angst of a character still having been a minor when entering their abusive situation? That's the case for literally everybody except for him and maybe Karlach! He was an adult with a job
None of this is meant to be an attack on Astarion as a character, but pushing all those traits on him does the game a massive disservice. All these character's storylines exist in conversation with each other, they all benefit from the existence of the others. To instead pretend all those things apply to one character, is just
Well, it's incredibly boring
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requiem of fallen leaves
find me on twitter @/driftwoodwoof
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