#Charles Porter

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Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Autumn Landscape" (1890-1891) Oil on canvas Located in the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

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Hear me out, the bioshock cast but they are all working in a corporation (Andrew's) and it's a "the office" like romcom/sitcom.

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Charles Ethan Porter — Peonies in a Vase. details. circa 1885

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Bioshock characters as Ghost and Pals songs

Jack: Amygdala Rag Doll

“I don't know where the thoughts are coming from pull my strings and swallow ichor”

- Yknow cuz Fontaine had control over him, the whole song just reminds me of him tbh

Tenenbaum: The things I deserve

“The source of misery is infused in flesh and bone and all these horrid mistakes from deep within will be”

- She feels horrible for making the little sisters by the time you play Bioshock and all the pain she’s caused

Eleanor: End World Normapathy

“The core of my design

Your eyes look down at mine

It never truly ends

As metal breaks and bends”

- Eleanor was controlled by Lamb and she was born to become a “savior” and she didn’t want to

Lamb: Colorbars

“And in a moment you will notice nothing’s quite the same when my COLORBARS are mixing frequencies turn the signal down and spin around in the opposite direction and now, will you please applaud?”

- Kinda reminded me of when she started taking control over rapture and people started to “worship” her or whatever

Delta: The Distortionist

“Madness, it’s madness
Oh, it’s sickening
It’s sickening
You know
It’s unfair, it’s unfair

How you distorted my reflection

In all this madness”

- he got turned into a big daddy against his will, therefore “distorting” his reflection even after he got turned back to human

Sinclair: Black & White

“I’m truly sorry, but things have changed
You’re not the girl I used to know
It’s killing me
And in the depths of my memories”

- He was the reason delta got turned into a big daddy and he feels horrible about it that’s why he helps delta get Eleanor back and escape, I dunno that’s what I thought of

Mark: Housewife Radio

“Seven a.m is when the station plays its sounds
Listening to the speaker while the patterns sew into place
Out of misery, he'll return alive”

- this poor man just wanted his daughter only to find out she got turned into a little sister and then he got fucking killed, housewife radio reminded me of him because I’m the song she’s in denial about her husband being dead and in bioshock 2 he is looking for his daughter and then got killed

Porter: Black & White OR Housewife Radio

“I’m truly sorry, but things have changed
You’re not the girl I used to know
It’s killing me
And in the depths of my memories”

Or

“And in the depths of my memories,
your stories echo from the past
Because your fears caught up with you at last”

- Okay sorry for repeat but both Sinclair and Porter reminded me of this song but of different reasons. Porter reminds me of this song because of when he tried making the thinker just like his dead wife pearl

“Out of misery, he'll return alive
His colors ought to show again-“

- Another repeat with Mark and Porter but Porter reminds me of Housewife radio because he did the thing with the thinker because he was sad about his wife and just wanted to at least think he was with her for just a bit- only made things worse

Gil: Rotary Dial

“Time and time again again I’ll only speak to you
And maybe you should give me back the love I gave to you
I’ve given up on any kind of hope that’s left for me
The wires on the telephone are tangled around me”

- He really liked Lamb only to be turned into a monster by her. He sacrificed his life for lamb by going through with the experiments and she left him to die “for the family”

Fontaine: Scapeg0at

“Come forth and kill me

Bow down and worship me

Take your time all we have is eternity

Now with a new start

Broken and torn apart

Nothing in me resembles a human heart”

- He pumped himself with Adam and basically became a god yknow. He was wasn’t human anymore and he made himself like that to kill Jack and take over Rapture

Lucete: The Chattering Lack of Common Sense

Rosalind: “Basically, I bet you'll see
At first, I'm not quite what I seem
Everyday is just the same
Picking names, repeating faces”

Robert: “Nonetheless, we're all the same
There's many things from where we came
Show a smile we're rather bored
Nothing lines up anymore”

- you know that whole thing about them with the different realities and shit, that’s what it reminds me of with “repeating faces” and “nonetheless, we’re all the same”

Grace: Appetite of a People Pleaser

“I need a whole personality
Something inordinately sweet
Order anything you’d like
Nothing’s changing my mind
I don’t care how unhealthy it is
‘Cus there isn’t anything I’d rather be”

- Grace just wanted to be a mother and stuff, she wanted to please the people (mostly Lamb and Eleanor) she just wanted to be approved of by Sofia by watching over Eleanor while she was away but ended up losing Eleanor sometime later

I’m gonna make a list of Ghost and Pals songs that remind me of Bioshock 1 and 2 character (maybe with the Lucete too) because they both infect my brain right now.

I’ll probably put the lyrics that remind me of them, I’m not gonna go by the lore of the song just of what reminds me of them :)

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US Vogue September 1, 1952

Dovima wears a tango dress, of white Alençon lace with a black faille belt, trimmed with flowers. The bodice is lined with yellow taffeta; the skirt, falls to the calf with a seductive back dip. By Charles James. Black clutch, Lujean, earrings, De Rosa.

Dovima porte une robe de tango, en dentelle blanche d'Alençon avec une ceinture en faille noire, garni de fleurs. Le corsage est doublé de taffetas jaune ; la jupe, descend jusqu'au mollet avec un plongeon arrière séduisant. Par Charles James. Pochette noire, Lujean, boucles d'oreilles, De Rosa.

Photo Roger Prigent vogue archive

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Portrait of Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of soprano Madame Maggie Porter-Cole. Printed on front: "Millard, 224 & 226 Woodward Ave., Detroit." Handwritten on back: "Cole, Maggie Porter. Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of Mrs. Maggie L. Porter-Cole."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923)

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Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)" (c. 1890) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally and the only one to specialize in still lifes. The painting's subject—originally an African gourd brought to the New World by seventeenth-century Spaniards and cultivated by colonists—is significant. Porter chose to paint a watermelon, an earlier symbol of American abundance—and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free Blacks—when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping. By reclaiming the subject in artistic terms, Porter challenged a contemporary racist trope.

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US Vogue August 15, 1954

Anne Gunning wears a mustard herringbone tweed coat, belted along a high, curved waist and with a rounded black velvet collar. Designed by Charles James. The beret, a round black beaver felt hat by Emme. Earrings by Castlecliff. Complexion: pale and radiant - the face powder is Caron's "Rachel" scented with Fleurs de Rocaille.

Anne Gunning porte un manteau en tweed à chevrons couleur moutarde, ceinturé le long d'une taille haute et incurvée et doté d'un col arrondi en velours noir. Dessiné par Charles James. Le béret, un rond de feutre de castor noir d'Emme. Boucles d'oreilles Castlecliff. Le teint : pâle et éclatant - la poudre pour le visage est "Rachel" de Caron parfumée aux Fleurs de Rocaille.

Photo Frances McLaughlin vogue archive

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Boy and Book, Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923)

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'Boy and Book' (before 1900) by Charles Ethan Porter  (1847–1923).

Watercolour on paper.

Wikimedia.