#Blasio

[dadsinsuits]

Bill de Blasio

[archduchessofnowhere]

Sorry to bother you again, but can you elaborate the "Maximilian and Charlotte may not have ever consummated their marriage" thing? Because I don't know that much about those two and I always thought one or both of them just had some sort of fertility issue (which really wasn't that uncommon even back then, see Max' own mum before Franz was born).

Hello! Tbh I don't know exactly when the rumor started, but basically one of the theories as to why Maximilian and Charlotte never had a child is because they just weren't even trying to have one. This usually comes in hand with the theory that Max was either impotent or gay, and therefore he simply couldn't or didn't want to sleep with his wife. While we just can't know what truly was happening in their bedroom, I find hard to believe they didn't even try to consummate their marriage.

Now, probably the idea that they never had sex became popular because it seems that during their time in Mexico they indeed weren't sleeping together - in the literal sense, since they had separated bedrooms. This surprised many of their contemporaries, as Max's Mexican secretary José Luis Blasio wrote in his memoirs:

The Emperor made his triumphal entry into Puebla at six minutes to nine in the morning; it was his second visit to the city. After breakfasting, Maximilian visited the rooms which had been prepared for the Empress and manifested his satisfaction at seeing the magnificent double bed, with its canopy of fine lace and silken ribbons, which was waiting for the imperial pair. But as soon as the host was out of the way His Majesty ordered the servants to find a room at a distance from the bedchamber and set up his traveling cot there. He did this almost angrily.

Being completely new to the court, and not having confidence in any of the servants, I was unable to let any of them know how strange Maximilian’s conduct seemed to me. What conjugal drama was concealed by the Emperor’s action? Why was it that two young married persons, who in public seemed to love each other, at the age of vigor shared no marital life, and the husband appeared irritated at the prospect of sleeping in the same bed with his wife?

Later I was completely convinced that some estrangement existed between them, something the nature of which for the moment I was unable to decide; whether it was created because of reasons of state, because of the Emperor’s infidelity or because of some organic defect in Maximilian. For neither in Puebla, nor in Mexico City in the palace, nor at Chapultepec did they ever sleep together. This could not escape the servants’ notice, for the attendants of the Empress slept near her and those of Maximilian in a room adjoining his. (1934, p. 16)

It should be noted that it was common for royals to have different bedrooms, so that isn't really that surprising (although in Mexico it was definitely seen as odd). Now, as Blasio remarks, the servants should've noticed if they were visiting each others rooms - and it seems they didn't. Also because of Maximilian's trips they actually spent a lot of time separated in Mexico, and if we add to that all the stress they were going through, I don't think it's that strange if they just didn't have much energy to get intimate.

But yeah, I also believe it's more likely that they had some sort of infertility problem rather than solely not having sex. In fact among the Wittelsbachs there had been a lot of cases of infertility in the last two generations: Sophie suffering several miscarriages before having FJ; Caroline Auguste, Elisabeth and Marie of Bavaria never had children, as neither did Otto of Greece nor his sister Mathilde (all of them were married for decades). And I also can think of some of Max's Wittelsbach cousins who had one child but then never again were able to have another. I'm not saying it was the same cause for all these cases, but simply pointing out that not being able to concieve was relatively more common than people seem to realize, and even more so in a family were this had happened often. Max for instance seems to have already resignated to not being a father by the 1860s.

Thank you for your question, if I find something else I'll let you know!

SOURCE:

Blasio, José Luis (1934). Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico: Memoirs of His Private Secretary, José Luis Blasio (translated by Robert Hammond Murray)

[still-searching-for-something]

New York City elect a halfway decent fucking mayor challenge (impossible)

[serenabenson]

have the live coverage of the gracie mansion raid minimized in the corner of my screen this morning while working NOTHING can harsh my vibe today

[woman-for-women]

But... you are bisexual. It doesn't matter if you like the label, if you are attracted to both sexes you just are bisexual. Sexuality labels are descriptive.

[thelesbianthespianposts]

Happy 10th Anniversary of Mayor Bill de Blasio dropping Staten Island Chuck, killing him. Truly a Groundhog Day to remember.

[peterfeld]

Ten years ago today: Greeting Mayor Bill de Blasio in City Hall following his Jan. 1, 2014 inauguration, via NY Times.

[jccheapalier]

Watch "The Tragedy of Jordan Neely" on YouTube

[princemeowmers]

The groundhog emerges from his burrow into the February air at dawn, and the news crews crowd around him. Their breath ices the air, billowing about the little rodent. He does not feel the cold, insulated in his frosty coat. Like every year, he has awakened for a purpose. 

A hush falls over the crowd. The groundhog opens his mouth, revealing incisors like ivory knives. He begins with a long, low groan, louder than it should be: the tortured sound of human speech channeled through inhuman anatomy. At first, the whines and grunts are unintelligible. 

Then words begin to congeal out of the noise. The groundhog speaks in the voices of the long dead, in hisses and squeals that tremble the bones. "Dark shadows on the horizon," the groundhog wheezes. His body begins to twist and writhe under the skin.

"War! War! The horned ones shall return, raining fire," the groundhog screeches. A cameraman wails and falls to his knees, sobbing. One of the reporters drops her mic into the frozen mud and covers her bleeding ears. Another reporter doubles over, spitting up bile. 

A buzzing fills the humans' minds, threatening to split open their skulls. "Pestilence will devour the people! Death will glut herself on the blood of the slain! All will be ash!" The last word is wrung from the groundhog with a violent jerk and he falls limp. 

The sobbing cameraman faints. Someone begins to retch, the only sound in the stillness. The sun is rising. The groundhog's nose twitches in the morning light, then his tail. 

The groundhog gently lifts himself from the ground, blinking in confusion. He glances around once before scurrying back into his burrow, already forgetting. 

Slowly the humans right themselves, wiping their vomit-stained mouths and bloody-ears, reviving the fallen with smelling salts. A few weak chuckles of embarrassment ripple through the crowd and they forget their vulnerability like dogs shaking themselves dry. 

Finally a single voice pipes up: "So six more weeks of winter, eh?"

[retelabuso]

Materiale pedopornografico sul telefono di un sacerdote, le dichiarazioni del vescovo Mazzafaro

È ancora un volta l’inchiesta sulla pedopornografia condotta dalla Procura di Torino a puntare il dito sul Sannio. Dopo il caso di don Nicola De Blasio, questa volta a finire sotto al mirino degli indagati è don Guido, sacerdote che opera nella comunità di Sant’Agata de’ Goti, originario di Gioia Sannitica, accusato di materiale pedopornografico sul proprio telefono cellulare. Il sacerdote…

[spunkeater]

[dadsinsuits]

Bill de Blasio

[suetravelblog]

Beau Soleil Piano Quartet Hermanus Civic Auditorium South Africa

[accessible-tumbling]

ID: A screenshot of a news article, with a photo at the top showing a photo of Bill De Blasio, a white man with grey hair speaking to the right, titled: "De Blasio: 'Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?'"

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they finally indicted our dumb as hell plainly corrupt mayor, eric adams, who was siphoning all public money into the NYPD for the last few years

[marcogiovenale]

'between': esce il nuovo numero: "other possible worlds"

https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/issue/view/216 Ed. by Alessandro Cifariello, Emanuela De Blasio, Paola Del Zoppo e Giovanna Fiordaliso.Cover illustration: © David Czupryn, Lo spazzino, 2021@The artists courtesy.Published: 2024-05-30 between, Vol 14 No 27 (2024): Other possible worlds (theory, narration, thought)

[erikahenningsen]

Were you ever in theatre? 

No. I only like to Watch.

Sleepover Saturday