#lpw

This canvas that thou here see'st stretched,

It was of the great Wimsey sketched.

Wherein the painter had a strife,

with Nature to outdo the life.

For if he'd somehow caught the "thwack"

that sounded when old Flim had a crack

at bat, the painting would surely spoil

All else that e'er was daubed in oil.

Since he could not, oh lover of Cricket,

Remember, instead, his defense of this wicket.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, 1890-1918, B.A. '12

Requiescat in pace

Formerly hung at Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk this portrait was unveiled at the '22 rededication of this Clubhouse by Her Grace, the Dowager Duchess and by the surviving members of the '12 Balliol First XI.

Image: Earl of Dalhousie  John Singer Sargent -- American painter   1900 Private collection

women living with HIV face double stigma. their health, rights and dignity are often under pressure from prejudice and discrimination.

key figures for 2023*:

🌟women and girls accounted for 53% of all people living with HIV.

🌟women and girls accounted for 44% of new HIV infections.

🌟36–55% of women with HIV have experienced violence, including domestic violence.

the international LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW**) campaign uses valentine's day as an opportunity to say: “you matter. you are not alone.” as part of the campaign, artists create cards that are sent to women with HIV around the world to express their support and love.

🌟how to join?

artist marina perunkova (https://www.instagram.com/perunkova_marina?igsh=MnczZWtzeGNpb2Iy) created a unique collection of postcards especially for this campaign. you can download them here -> http://perunkova.wfolio.pro/disk/kampaniya-i-love-positive-women

⚡️choose any postcard and share it on social networks in support of HIV-positive women. (don’t forget to mark @perunkova_marina)

let's make the invisible visible, the hushed up audible. the epidemic is not over yet.

🌟🌟🌟

knowing your HIV status means taking care of your health.

* https://www.unaids.org/ru/resources/fact-sheet

1. At the beginning of the movie, the Moore men, Stack wears red (blood, damnation), Smoke wears blue (salvation, justice) and Sammie wears yellow (joy, cowardice [he lies a lot at the beginning but comes to accept himself and stand up for his chosen destiny]). At the end when he’s old, Sammie wears mostly blue and Stack mostly wears red and yellow, though other colors are present.

2. Annie wears blue throughout the film. Mary’s first two outfits* are a VERY pale pink (aka light red), and in the post credits scene, a strong outfit of both Black and White - maybe symbolizing her heritage. When we meet Pearline, she is wearing blue, but then later wears white - which is often a funerary color in West African cultures.

*it’s hard to tell but the behind the scenes pictures do show that at the very least, her outfit at the juke joint was pink and not cream

3. The two people of whom Sammie is truly afraid, the Pastor/his Father and Remmick, are both narcissists (I don’t think I’m using the tumblr definition) who want to use him for their own legacy. I LOVE the flashes between the two when Sammie stands in the church.

4. Ludwig Goranssen also did the music for both Black Panther movies. I guess he and Ryan Coogler have a good working relationship!

5. The only actor out of the main 6 characters (5 actors but still)(Jayme Lawson was Bella Reál** in The Batman) who hasn’t been in a superhero movie is Miles Caton. Let’s fix this! lol.

** I love her in there. If Zoe Kravitz doesn’t return for The Batman Part II, I think Bruce and Bella would make for an incredibly compelling couple.

5. Remmick fucked with those people’s ability to dance. They all did a lot better while in the juke joint, but when he sang that goblin song they were stumbling and unsure. Meanwhile they show they were perfectly capable of moving well despite being injured new vampires. He wanted to shine, so he made his new ‘followers’ dance poorly.

6. (This movie uses stylized coloring so this one is a little rough) At the beginning, Grace is wearing a yellow main dress but three collars at her neck - blue, red, and yellow. Bo also wears all three colors (yellow in the straps under the apron, again could possible just be a shading thing). Later, she wears a dress covered in small tulips, and I can’t get a great read on their coloring**. She is definitely a controversial character (I love her) so if we take the color theory seriously, then the collar of her apron presented a character who is supposed to be unreadable. But in the end, while she does act out of fear and panic for her daughter, she ultimately saves her baby, & dies without even being turned.

** in one shot it looks largely blue, and in another it looks largely yellow. Judging from the changeability, the background is probably white - and white is also a funerary color in Chinese cultures. Notably, the green stems are included and consistent. Let’s just assume in my continued metaphor, she is both yellow and blue.

7. For the record, I don’t think Grace made the worst choice, despite popular opinion. The juke joint crew at best could’ve waited until morning and maybe take a few vamps out from the windows with enough fire, garlic and holy water. But the vampires clearly had the upper hand - they could leave at any time, and they themselves were perfectly capable of setting the building on fire. PLUS she was the ONLY one out of the crew who had known leverage that was within easy reach of the vampires and was actively threatened. Sammie had both his parents and apparently a gaggle of little siblings***. But they’re never threatened. Aside from Stack, there’s a good chance that out of the entire population of new vampires, hardly anyone knew where they lived. Meanwhile,

*** from what I understand during the conversation about child abuse

snow (ashes, ch. 1)