Flash painted by the London tattooer George Moss in 1930s.
The image comes from the estate of the folklorist and anthropologist Robert Herbert Bellmann (1903 - 1961), who, as a temporary assistant to the folklorist Adolf Spamer (author of Die Tätowierung in den deutschen Hafenstädten), was involved in building up image collections in the 1930s.
Image is preserved by Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and can be viewed at Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden's website.
he's representing (wearing enchante), he staying hydrated(2 bottles of water), he's getting shit done (laptop) and he's either sleep walking or on a chemical compound that doesn't even have a scientific name
I love how pretty much everyone's reaction to the new mean girls movie is that the musical aspect sucks/doesn't hold up that well but none of that matters because damn is renee rapp as regina george fucking fine
listen i try not to care if someone dislikes bmc because like. it’s none of my business and it’s just an opinion (although it’s one of my hyperfixations so i do get mad lmao) BUT. WHEN I SEE THEM INSULTING BE MORE CHILL BECAUSE ITS WEIRD AND CRINGE. shut up !!! first of all cringe culture is dead and second of all….be more chill is cringe on purpose !!!! it’s about a bunch of cringe high school kids learning to EMBRACE THE CRINGE!!! and may i add how cringe culture is so heavily based on making fun of adhd and autistic individuals !!! and BOY OH BOY i can talk about how why be more chill is an allegory for neurodivergence. i could talk about that for HOURS but i WON’T !!!! because this is a short tumblr post asking people to stop saying bmc is bad because it’s weird and cringe. it’s like that on PURPOSE
Lauren Laverne: What's your next choice, and why are you taking it with you today?
Kate Moss: Oooh, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. I was shopping with Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull, and we were buying last-minute Christmas presents.
I went, "Oh my god, is that George Harrison?"
And he came out of the shop and said, "Is it you?"
And I said, "What?"
And he went, "When I'm not watching Formula 1, I watch Fashion TV. Are you Kate...Moss?"
And I went, "Yeah, I am. Are you George Harrison?"
And he went, "Yeah!"
And I was like, "Oh My God!"
He said, "Come in, come in. I want to buy you a Christmas present."
And he wanted -- he tried to buy me this -- well, I wish I'd let him buy it for me, but I just couldn't let him because it was so disgusting, this jumper.
[laughter]
But it would've been like my jumper from George Harrison --
Laverne: A Christmas jumper, Kate! Sometimes taste has to go out the window.
Moss: I know! But it was cable knit! Bat-wing, cable knit, pink sweater, and I was like, "Please I can't let you buy that for me." But I loved him so much, and My Sweet Lord was released the week he died. And I couldn't stop crying. I cried -- I was sobbing. I thought, "What's wrong with me?" I mean it's upsetting but I could not stop crying. And I found out I was pregnant, with Lila, so that's my song with her and for George.
Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.
Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia
Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere
A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance
Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed
A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play
Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words
SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES
Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals
More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.
I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.
More insane scenes:
Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes
Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding
Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute
Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally
HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!
Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne