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i tend not to take museum photos of things unless i think i can take a good one, and this was in a glass case so it had a lot of glare, but the sargent exhibit at the met has the only know photograph of madame x before he repainted the shoulder strap and seeing that for the first time in my life made me feel like my body was made of static
the met had a photo online. offering this to all of you (with the repainted one for comparison) <3
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If this was a normal romance Daniel saying "prove it" would prompt Armand to kiss him like he means it but because this is a weird freak4freak dynamic Armand just started listing out all the different times he stalked Daniel over 52 years. And Daniel being the freak he is actually looked moved by that confession.
your watermelon?
i don’t think so
Blood of Akasha in me
Blood of Armand in me
Daniel is never beating the nepo fledgling allegations
ngl i was genuinely expecting something like this
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reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way
one of my favorite parts of anna karenina addressed this. as i remember it, a landowner (levin?) basically had a midlife crisis and started working the fields. the farmhands were pretty confused and annoyed at this relatively weak, ineffective guy playacting as a farmhand. he was in the way, had no idea what he was doing, didn't understand their micro culture (esp. things like what they liked to talk about and what they found funny) and most of all, he was...THEIR BOSS.
this is why I get annoyed by people being like "why is the noble heroine in this 19th-century novel lonely? why does she say she's all alone? her maid is there! ugh! so dehumanizing!!!!"
she is the maid's BOSS
they are not FRIENDS
the maid probably does not DESIRE her friendship
the servants are not your confidants in this scenario. IRL, the notion of the Loyal Family Retainer was most common in sentimental literature for the employing class (which btw was like upper-working-class on up, although the lower you go, the more work the family would be doing alongside them) and sometimes weaponized by them to try and get extra emotional or physical labor out of domestic workers
did emotional intimacy develop sometimes? absolutely- and it was often encouraged for upper-class 19th-century children in the US and UK, who could spend a lot of time with their nanny and in the servants' sphere in general. was classism a factor? 100%.
but it's not dehumanizing to be like "my employee is not my BFF"
you also get a lot more of being alone surrounded by others
because your hero might here the maids/valets chatting in the hallway or catch them laughing, or even have a polite exchange about family/friends. it's not like they didn't talk, but you don't have a heart-to-heart with the cashier while there's a line behind you. you can have an exchange while they're ringing you up, sure, and then you let them do the rest of their work (because there is always more work)
however, when the MC says that they are "all alone" but there are one or more servants about, they start sounding like thoreau 'alone' in his 'wilderness'
it really is the exact same vibe as "we think of our employees as family here" in a modern corporation, that's all
which is to say: if your boss says that, you know they're about to ask you to work unpaid overtime
Pratchett did interesting things with this by having Sam Vimes, a working-class boy from the slums, end up as a noble through marriage to Lady Sybil. He tries to go and play a game of cards with the staff one night, but the staff very quietly and politely treat him like their boss and he's made very aware that he's not one of them.
But also he makes the observation that when he first came to that house as a scruffy copper, they told him to go in the back entrance because he clearly wasn't good enough to come in the front door.
who's better in the bedroom. GO.
William T. Riker
Dean Winchester
Alright. Alright. I am trying to find characters that feel semi similar and I am not taking comments at this time. Now. Ahem.
who is better in bed?
Sam Winchester
Harry Kim
you already know the drill.
Q
Lucifer
you understand this poll better than anybody ever
Thinking about what Wolf 359 did to Sisko and Picard
"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.
60 is not old
sir john franklin of the eponymous doomed polar expedition died on the ice at 61. it's never too late.
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sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this
sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there
today’s genre is: x files studies i started a long time ago but only now just finished to get out of an art slump (procreate & heavypaint)
interesting armand tendency i've noticed
when youre reading smut and youre positive you have their entire geometry figured out but then someone grabs a knees that shouldn be there
Daniel Torrent (2025)
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It is the best and the worst thing all at once. It's like the only thing… It's the only thing I've ever felt.
Half Man | 1.02 | 1.06 |
A thought I've had
