Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1799, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Portrait. Mythology. History. Oval. Miss Lange was a talented actress known for her beauty and wealthy lovers. Girodet had painted an earlier portrait of her that she found unflattering. When she refused to pay the agreed-upon price and insisted that the painting be removed from public view at the Paris Salon, the enraged Girodet sought revenge with this second, satirical portrait. Eighteenth-century artists sometimes portrayed people as mythological characters to highlight their virtues. Girodet inverted this convention to defame Miss Lange. Danae was one of the mortals loved by the Greek god Zeus, who transformed himself into a shower of gold and fell upon her. Girodet shows Miss Lange greedily catching the gold coins. All of the painting’s details are scathingly symbolic. For example, the turkey wearing a wedding ring represents a man the actress married for his fortune. The cracked mirror denotes her inability to see herself as Girodet saw her—a vain, adulterous, and avaricious woman. Size: 23 ¾ x 19 1/8 in. (60.33 x 48.58 cm) (sight, oval) 30 3/8 x 25 ¾ x 3 1/8 in. (77.15 x 65.41 x 7.94 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1727/

Diddy's LA house being raided

(Via TMZ bc of course they'd have the video)

Not a dream

Drake Bell is a victim and an abuser himself

Your heart can hurt for him but it should also hurt for his victims

The abuse he suffered is very real, and so is the hurt he himself caused

https://www.today.com/popculture/drake-bell-controversies-rcna143227

You use your incredibly toxic fanbase to hate mob against women who speak out about abuse. You never apologize. You pretend YOU'RE the victim.

I am probably guilty of the very thing I'm about to suggest to other people (in that I am feeling a protective urge) - but everyone needs to look up the term "parasocial relationship" and give you some breathing room. There are many people out there who need replacement fathers, siblings, etc. - you cannot be that to all. Especially (but not exclusively) for those on LGBTQIA+, there can be "found family" - but it must be consentual, better local, and not just one-sided upon nice British authors

I appreciate it.

Camille Vasquez saying a tweet can control the outcome of a court case