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museum-groupie · 2 years

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SS1: The Spectacularly Bold Queer Portraiture of Romaine Brooks

Hello world!

As part of my own learning journey and the joy I get from sharing interesting art facts with others, I’ve decided to jumpstart a series called Sunday Studies, in which I dive a little deeper into the stories of lesser known artists and movements.

For the first edition of Sunday Studies, I want to bring attention to the sophisticated practice of Romaine Brooks, known for intimate gray tonal portraits of fellow artists, writers, and scholars. Brooks openly identified as a lesbian and had a long-term open relationship with writer Natalie Clifford Barney until the end of her life. Barney owned a literary salon in the Left Bank of Paris, where Brooks met most of her subjects - who were often also queer and gender nonconforming. Notable individuals Brooks portrayed include fellow painter Gluck, sculptor Una Troubridge, performer Ida Rubinstein, and musician Renata Borgatti. The American novelist Truman Capote - best known for penning Breakfast at Tiffany’s - referred to Brooks’ studio after a 1940s visit as "the all-time ultimate gallery of all the famous dykes from 1880 to 1935 or thereabouts.”

Aside from her artistic practice, Brooks cultivated an elegantly androgynous sense of style. She opted for shorter haircuts and men’s clothes, often accessorizing with top hats, ties, and gloves. The circle of women at Barney’s salon could be found wearing similar fashions, playing with the notions of gender by wearing both men and women's clothing. While these fashion choices offered an alternative method of expression, it was also a wider practice in the early 20th century lesbian community of Western Europe to adopt non-conventionally feminine styles to signal one’s sexuality. Brooks not only captured herself in more masculine dress for her self-portrait, but also rendered Gluck and Troubridge in tailored men’s finery. The portraits stray far from the standard feminine representation of the time, which often focused on themes of domesticity, vulnerability, and sexual submissiveness. Instead, in Brooks' portraits of fellow queer femmes, she highlights direct gazes, commanding poses, and confidence.

Image I: Romaine Brooks, Self-Portrait, 1923, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (source).

Image II: Perou, Romaine Brooks, ca. 1910, photographic print, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. (source).

Image III: Romaine Brooks, Peter (A Young English Girl), 1923-1924, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (source).

Image IV: Romaine Brooks, Una, Lady Troubridge, 1924, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art, Washington D.C. (source).

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cinthgarden · 26 days

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For the sake of “harmony”.

#Sunday #Sunday hsr #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr sunday #I hope he explodes.#color study ish?

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why-the-heck-not · 1 month

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the saturday-sunday night diabolical "life is falling apart"- to do list followed by a mad scramble

#in the middle of said mad scramble bc ohmygod I have 30+ things on that to do list that I'd like to get done by Tuesday at the very VERY #latest so like eeee it's a uhh something something #my sunday's have been starting on saturday evenings lately time's getting more condensed !! yikes #no one ask me when I'm planning on sleeping if I'm here drinking coffee at 1:30am I don't know I'll cross that bridge when I get to it #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #april 2024 #2024

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st4rrth0ughts · 2 months

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Aventurine character study that I spewed at my friend posted here bc I despise whoever portrays him as a useless blonde 24/7 horny twink as his canon self (i will throttle you through the fuckin screen)

A/n: I think the 2.1 trailer is helping me regain my writing motivation, expect inbox asks from Jan- Feb to be coming out soon :)

WRITTEN BEFORE 2.1 This post will contain leaks, 2.0 Trailblaze quest spoilers, world quest spoilers, Aven's slave life in canon, disgusting people saying Aven's a sex slave, under the cut! Please proceed with caution if any of these trigger you. Thank you, and enjoy my yap session on one of the best characters in this game.

Aventurine's story is much more than just looking and acting like the typical rich blonde playboy, as much as he gives off those vibes. Looking at his child self in the 2.1 trailer compared to all of his current models, its very obvious that many, many things happened that caused all the light to poof from his eyes.

First, his homeland, Sigonia. Aventurine's home planet's is uninhabited, and perhaps even destroyed completely. Aventurine is the last of his kind left. His parents, his sister, his possible friends and relatives, hell, even all the people he doesn't know have all perished. The IPC took him in, I presume, but most definitely not out of kindness. In fact, it may not matter that Aventurine is one of the Ten Stonehearts, he is not a person to the company. He is just a asset, a piece for them to dispose if he fucks up.

In the 1.4? Belobog quest where Topaz goes to Bronya about Belobog's massive debt to the IPC, and at the end, we get our first crumbs of Aventurine's character. A important thing to note in this dialogue between the two of them is that he asks Topaz to the project manager on his project in Penacony, because if he knows better than everyone that if he fails to get Penacony back into the IPC's grasp, he'll die. There's no way around it, unless he gets someone he has a somewhat close bond with, Topaz, to lighten his fall.

The tattoo on his neck, is a symbol of his slavery to the IPC. How he's bound to them. How no matter how hard he runs or hides, he will never escape their grasp. In fact, he knows damn well, if anyone gets wind of this alongside his Sigonian history (Sigonians are notorious for being wolves in sheep's clothing, bad people in most eyes'), it is very well possible that his rivals and enemies will use his past to their advantage. Thats why he freely shows it to the world. So that no one can dig it up and use it against him, because how do you use something that he so freely proclaims to everyone he meets?

Aventurine is a man who gambles as well. Not just simply gambling for the thrill of it or his earnings. He says it himself, he sees the world, life itself, as a gamble. High reward, high stakes. Even going back to his conversation with Topaz, its only shown on how he tells her he warned her about taking Belobog as her project because it was high risk, but low return. Aventurine wants the best outcome not just for himself, but because if he doesn't get a good outcome, the IPC has no use for him.

Aventurine is a man who knows how to get what he wants. he knows how to take risks, get out of high stake scenarios with him being the winner. Its obvious in his lightcone, 'Final Victor', his conversation with Dr. ratio in the Penacony 2.0 Trailblaze quest, and his conversation with Himeko and Welt about giving up his room for the Trailblazer. He's confident, cocky, if you will. But for good reason.

In the lightcone, its implied it doesn't matter for Aventurine dies or lives. He will always be the winner. Every move is calculated, precise, carried out with clockwork precision and most importantly, planned so well that whether you like it or not, you're letting him win. He manages to get the Nameless, the widely regarded faction, in his debt. He knows damn well how to play his cards. It is extremely impressive. But he is the Aventurine of Stratagems. He knows what he wants and needs, and he will go any length to get it.

The lightcone, again, also shows just how far Aventurine risks, just for him to gain Dr. Ratio as a asset for him to benefit from. He could have gone any route, but what does he go for? Thats right, Russian goddamn roulette. Just for the (I assume) slim chance of Dr. Ratio's trust, or at the very least, cooperation. "I will always be the final victor." I am repeating, but just bear with me here, this just solidifies the fact he is confident in his skills. He doesn't flinch at all when he shoots 3 blank rounds right into his heart, even though there's the 1/6 chance he'll die. He takes risks. Its his character. He doesn't have anything or anyone, much less his own life, left to loose.

The lightcone is also not 'haha funny gay story', as much as it is funny, i wont lie, the memes are fun to look at, but it is not that. Its a story where Aventurine's suicidal tendency shows through, perhaps not so clearly, but its very much there if you look past the story and read into it. Again, Russian roulette, he could have gone for anything else, like a contract or smth, but he knows he has to go through extremes, and this just solidifies the fact of how Aventurine will do anything for assets and trust in him, so his plans can come to fruition.

Aventurine's personality is complicated, like a intricate, deceiving web of lies and emotional barriers to keep him safe. He hides behind the facade of smiles and is unreadable, and his past is all but cheery. A slave, (not a sex slave, twitter+Tiktok users need their brain fucking reworked i will cry) a man branded by the IPC, bound to the till his death is what Aventurine is. The IPC is ruthless, evident from multiple world quests, such as the Aurum Street Alley quest, Belobog's debt quest, Chadwick's quest in Penacony, paints them as bad people, a bad organization in general. Hell, even though Topaz isnt like the assholes we've seen, she's far from an angel herself.

Aventurine has gone through many things to have lost the sparkle in his eyes. Take Childe/Tartaglia from Genshin Impact for example, whom fell into the abyss for months, seen all the horrors of it, had to learn to fend for himself because I'm very sure Skirk did not care for him in a healthy sense. We can either assume Aventurine been through something on the same level during his younger days or perhaps, worse.

And no, he is not Dr. Ratio or Sunday's sex slave, I'm looking at a certain artist on Twitter (fuck off I'm not calling it X), its disgusting. Whoever genuinely enjoys sex slave Aventurine is sick in the damn head, no he would not enjoy that kind of Roleplay, as much as i am downbad and indeed filthy with some of my fics with him.

Aventurine doesn't have anyone he can truly call a friend, ship him with Dr. ratio, Sunday, Boothill (yes, its a thing), Caelus/ Stelle, whoever, but in the end, you cannot say he (as of 2.0, this may change) has any true friends he can trust, not even just a bit. Bonds he forms are transactional, maybe not too much on Dr. Ratio (as evidenced by his dejected his looks after Ratio leaves, either from the insult or bc he truly though Ratio cared) and perhaps on the Astral Express's part, but his bond with Sunday? Yeah, its transactional, 101% unless it changes in 2.1.

All in all, Aventurine is my favourite character, i have never wanted to read, write, understand, watch, hell, I've never wanted to farm and pull for a character as much as him. He is a complex, heavy and deep character that I do not believe many can grasp upon properly when writing stories, headcannons or even smut/nsfw works with him in it (shoutout to those who does tho, I love y'all <3).

Draw or write his fanon self, make him a himbo, tsundere, a rich man who's just a playboy, or a blonde with a pretty face, but you cannot say that is him in canon. I may despise some fanon interpretations, but fuck those who merge fanon and canon. He will never be any of the fanon interpretations i mentioned above, and he never will be in canon. Hoyoverse put their whole soul into this man, i can see it, and its brain damaging on how so many people fetishize his past and water him down.

In speculation of 2.1 and 2.2, if Aventurine does live (he prob will, its unlikely he'll be killed before release, Tingyun is a exception because she released before her death), maybe he'll learn how to start to open himself up again, start to fully trust, starting with Trailblazer as his first true friend. Its cliche, typical protag power bullshit, but it will no doubt, be a huge step in shaping Aventurine back into the man he could have been if his planet wasn't enslaved.

Conclusion: He deserves better, both in- game and how the fandom treats him. I love him, he's my adorable pookie wookie shmookie <33

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thelvadams · 4 days

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moffat saying for seven years that he has no more ideas for doctor who and then returning to drop another 10/10 episode

#dw spoilers #doctor who #boom #steven moffat #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday #ncuti gatwa #millie gibson #this series is off to such a good start it actually needs to be studied

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chalkrub · 5 months

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quick doodle of the guy

#my art #oc #mendel #anthro #furry #illustration #this pose is SO anime do u get me. when i was doing it i was like wow....mendel is late for school and is about to fall over #in front of his crush. and he hasn't even eaten his toast yet #i've been drawing a LOT but nothing i really want to post here. it's mostly like studies and things for me #and art trades too. but i will try to do more stuff. i want to make a print shop this christmas AND open comms soon so #much to do #anyway picking up scrumpy on sunday ghhhhhhhhhrrr cant wait. cant wait

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eddis-not-eeddis · 11 months

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In my early twenties I know more theology than most men in the churches I've attended who are twice my age. This isn't a boast, I am no scholar. I say this in abject horror and despair.

#i know more theology than half of the sunday school teachers i know...#i don't have a degree and i haven't studied it in a university #i am not someone who reads theology endlessly #i'm actually pretty lazy about it--to my shame #and yet i know more about church history and more about the core beliefs of our faith than most of the men in positions of authority #it makes me kind of sick

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notetakingnonsense · 4 months

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Okay so: you had your zero day. Now it’s time for a reset.

Get in the shower/bath. Clean the previous week off of your body.

Do some skincare if that’s something you do. I like to use an oil cleanser with some facial massage tools.

Clean your desk. A tidy space is a clear mind.

Look at your assignments for this week so you know what you’re doing.

Organize your schedule on a physical or online planner. Write down due dates.

Set your alarm for tomorrow morning so you don’t wake up late.

#studyblr #studying #study motivation #study resources #reset day #reset #sunday reset