The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe

The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe

5:21 AM EST February 11, 2023:

The Psychedelic Furs - "Sister Europe" From the album The Psychedelic Furs (February 1980)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Postpunk

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Unlike Jo, Amy embraces her budding womanhood, which she feels empowers rather than diminishes her. At sixteen, she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman” and has “learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.” Although not a natural beauty like Meg, the blonde, blue-eyed Amy easily succeeds at making herself into a fashionable work of art, gaining first the attention of Laurie's college friends, then Fred Vaughn, and finally Laurie himself. It is not only with men that she succeeds, however. She wins over her fellow art school students, the mean girls at the fair, and then her aunts, one of whom takes her to Europe. Once abroad, Amy blossoms further. “Always mature for her age,” she now becomes “more of a woman of the world.” She enjoys her power over men (including Laurie) and tears around Nice in her own carriage, taking the reins herself and yelling out to Laurie in the street, her “free manners” scandalizing a French mother who hurries her young daughter in the opposite direction. Amy was the daring American girl abroad ten years before the publication of Henry James's Daisy Miller. In the end, of course, Amy wins Laurie and decides that she won't be an artist after all (because she possesses talent but not genius, something Laurie also discovers about his music). Readers often forget that Amy wants to become a famous artist because she gives it up so easily. She will become instead, as the wealthy Laurie's wife, “an ornament to society.” To many readers, Amy has seemed to be the clear winner among the four March sisters. In her New York Times essay “Amy Had Golden Curls; Jo Had a Rat. Who Would You Rather Be?” film and book critic Caryn James wrote that favoring Amy over the other girls was a "no-brainer." Pretty Amy went to Europe, had adventures, and married the dashing boy next door, while Jo lived in a dumpy boardinghouse in New York and married a boring professor. - Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters 

Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (French, 1766-1828) Portraits des demoiselles Duval, 1814 Musée du Louvre

The word for 'sister' in European languages.

by Oysteib

Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, 2017

People will ask "why did lestat buy the Fairplay for louis? Does show!Louis not have his own money" as if 1: either Tom Anderson or the other one would sell it to him outright (they literally gave him horrific terms for a business deal in ep 1 because they wanted to take him down a peg) or 2: Lestat doesnt explicitly love spending money on Louis and what he wants

Not episode 6 casually reaffirming my stance that what if is the best thing marvel has ever made

I keep forgetting that the first Ace Attorney game takes place in 2016 and not 2001, and to me, that makes it even more likely that Ema's "intellectually attracted" comment isn't that this sixteen year old doesn't know what gay people are but specifically that in her head Lana Does Not Date, Lana Has Never Dated Duh

literally wanna dieeeee I realized belatedly that not only was down bad written for me due to being an alien abduction metaphor song but it perfectly describes my situation w/my ex who dumped me 3 days into our second vacation in his country

5:24 AM EDT March 31, 2024:

The Psychedelic Furs - "Sister Europe" From the album The Psychedelic Furs (February 1980)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Postpunk

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masha.

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) A Little Coaxing, 1890

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I was thinking (and this is not a thingy against the happiness of my ac milan moots bc I don't support napoli either it's just a casual thought)

it's poetic and romantic and everything that is good in football right now that napoli is leading serie A. I say this as a supporter of that stupid club from the north who also lives up north. Napoli is south italy, and south italy has had quite a terrible history of discrimination from northeners: from being poorer, from being just...more mediterranean? more distant to "europe" ? closer to africa?

just think: some ugly inter milan, ac milan, juve, atalanta or lazio supporters (etc) still love to chant about people from napoli deserving cholera. And Naples went through a terrible cholera epidemic back in the 70s, something unreal when you think of a european country, right? When people from the south migrated up north to find jobs, it was even difficult for them to find houses to live, because nobody wanted to rent to them. financial exploitation of the south from the north it's what italy was built upon. And that discrimination is still very true today, with half of the country way much poorer than the other.

And if you look at serie A only THREE clubs out of TWENTY are from anywhere under Rome. And this is why Napoli is very much into football and the whole city is already celebrating. You might say this is just a sport but it's not and never will be.

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