Jan Provoost (1462 - 1529) - Saint Peter. Detail.
The Fellowship When I was a kid, my folks basically told me I was a hobbit. I cherish the memory of them reading all these books to me--and I turned around and read them to my little siblings and eventually to my partner! I've drawn and painted a lot for The Hobbit but never The Lord of the Rings, and this ECCC seemed like the right time to debut one!
favorite Angus Tully's quotes, The Holdovers (2023) dir. Alexander Payne
have you guys who arent into sports heard about the new baseball uniforms controversy. its bad
mlb changed uniform manufacturers this year to this company that has been making dogshit licensed fan merch for a while (fanatics, may the lord curse their name) and first of all the new jerseys are cheap and have awful stitching and the lettering on player names is abysmal. but second and most importantly the new pants are Extremely Transparent
also apparently they not doing custom tailoring for pants anymore. which is a problem because pitchers tend to have really thick thighs and standard issue pants across the board are not gonna cut it lmao (see exhibit a below)
an article i read in the athletic about this whole thing specifically mentioned the fat ass issue
happy spring training. whatever happens after this happens
I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.
It also almost always comes down to poor research.
Rather than research the ways subversive women really acted, what they really said, what they actually cared about, the very specific ways in which women used to be treated, dismissed, infantilised etc, we get books and TV shows in which modern words, modern concerns and modern ways of being “a strong woman” are awkwardly squeezed into eras in which they make no sense.
It’s a disservice to the real feminists of that time, to the real women who lived and survived in a system of continuous misogynistic oppression, and the real journey we have travelled to get to where we are, and the long long way we still have to go. Worse, it feeds into the ignorance that breeds that complacency which then leads to a lot of the gains we have made being taken away from us.
Moonstruck (1987)
Director: Norman Jewison DOP: David Watkin Production Design: Philip Rosenberg Art Direction: Dan Davis, Barbra Matis
i am so normal about this
inscribed; Je desir vous Ceruir
Siena Rain, c. 1960. Bernhard Wübbel. Chromogenic print
Stock image (no longer available).
in bed absolutely fucked up on pillow and blanky
Head of a Lady in Medieval Costume (detail), Lucien Victor Guirand de Sccevola, 1900
I thought, she's even lonelier than me. She loves as though she is seeking revenge.
La Reine Margot (1994) dir. Patrice Chéreau