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I am going to have a very controversial opinion but the last season of Bridgeton is a struggle to finish and the writing is the worst that is has ever been?!

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i put all the extra lgbtia+ i had lying around in my big cauldron to make a queer soup, people are furious, but I will be winning the potluck once again this year

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This is an excellent reading out of the whole portrait campaign I have been silently thinking about in my head (and also: the portrait is beautiful, because of all of this, imo) but I’d just like to come in from a legal/political pov on the last line of the post:

The British Monarchy in its current constitutional setting is hardly ruling. The king/queen constitutionally holds the position of head of state and acts as the last safety check in case everything else were to go to hell. But they hold very little actual power against the mother of all Parliaments (Westminster), except an advisory one.

Which is also, incidentally, why I find the portrait so beautiful and apt actually: old power fading. Washed out, a remnant ghost of something past, lingering somehow.

I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

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Red Letter No. 8 by Jen Mazza

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“You’re so quiet, what’s wrong?” I’m creating my own fantasy world to escape from reality so shut up.

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Virgil really was onto something when he said non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa; the more I deal with people at work the more I think just look and move on is solid advice fr

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i do enjoy a courtroom drama i must admit but unfortunately none of them measure up to “bravo bravo. noi condividiamo. ma ora siamo davanti alla corte d’assise e lei è imputato di 16 omicidi”

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the pope’s silence on lewis hamilton to ferrari is deafening

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My problem is that while I love waking up early, I also fucking hate going to bed early. It's unreasonable, 24 hours is simply not enough time to get everything done each day. I'm a busy man with plenty to do, I should be allowed to go to bed at 2 am and wake up at 5 am and get a solid 8 hours of sleep in the middle. Like why is that too much to ask.

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Details: Saint Sebastian, by the painters: Jusepe de Ribera and Guido Reni.