#Farmer George and Venus

[sara25rose]

India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest for Emmy Magazine’s article about “Queen Charlotte”

They are STUNNING 🤩

[venusleontios55555]

King George: Hey, Reynolds! *opens the bedroom door*what do you think of Pomeranians as a gift to Charlot -

Reynolds, lying flustered on the bed, ruffled hair:...Yes your majesty ?

King George:

King George: Is Brimsley under the bed?

Brimsley, muffled: No your majesty

King George:

King George: *takes a deep breath*

King George: I need to learn how to knock at this point.

[petitel]

I don’t care about historical accuracy. If Charlotte and George must die I want them to die like that couple from the notebook and if Bridgerton can’t give me that, they better not touch them

[urfavesim]

i started queen charlotte on monday n like just finished it n yall i was crying like their story is so beautiful yet at the same time so heartbreaking

like i was sobbing yall 😩😭

[the-fairyqueen]

do you wanna maybe go hide from the heavens together sometime

[anonymousailurophile]

Just them holding hands.

[secretandpurplememories]

Ughhh the urge to be Venus of Farmer George and stand between the heavens and earth just to protect him

[aesthetic--mood]

King George III Aesthetic

[and-you-said-it-will-be-easy]

i will stand with you between the heavens and the earth. i will tell you where you are.

[marshymallo]

VERY MUCH SPOILERS IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT:

OH MY FUCKING GOD

charlotte questioning what george is up to but not out loud, just following him where he goes

and not completely understanding what is going on through his head but knowing what to say and do to get him back inside with her

i just- i have no words for how emotional?? this made me

[sara25rose]

More outtakes & photos from the Emmy Magazine article about “Queen Charlotte” with India Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest

[venusleontios55555]

Queen Charlotte : Mother dint raise no whore

Lady Danbury : Smash or pass (points at a shirtless king george)

Queen Charlotte: Mother did raise a whore

Lady Danbury :

Queen Charlotte : Smash

[allgirlsareprincesses]

I am Venus: Folktale Motifs in Queen Charlotte

Adapted from my 2023 Twitter thread

How the love story of George and Charlotte subverts the classic animal bride and groom tales for a new generation:

We begin with clear swan maiden motifs, with Charlotte as the captured bride betrothed against her will. When the dowager princess refuses to allow her to wear the wedding gown she selected, this is stealing the animal skin (or power) of the animal bride.

What’s more, George’s mother insists she wear an English wedding gown. Clothing the bride claims her for the mundane world, separating her from her otherworldly home. In a typical swan maiden tale, she would flee the moment she recovers her stolen skin.

Then comes the first subversion of the tale: George gives her the option to leave, symbolically returning her animal skin and her power. And Charlotte chooses not only to stay, but also to wear her own wedding gown, thus claiming his world as hers.

Next we see Fruit Maiden motifs, as Charlotte is twice prevented from picking her own oranges. In these tales, the prince cuts open two oranges before discovering his true bride in the third. When Charlotte finally picks her own orange, she once again claims her power.

Later, we see hints of Star Lovers. George has already mentioned his interest in astronomy, but now we see his observatory. This fascination with the heavens and his role as monarch suggests that he is a star husband and Charlotte is his mortal bride.

However, Charlotte also originally called him a beast or troll, and as we see more of George’s mental health struggles, we realize that he does indeed see himself as the animal husband, unworthy of his celestial bride.

When she discovers him in the garden calling to Venus, Charlotte explicitly associates herself with the planet and thus with the goddess of the same name. It turns out SHE is the star bride after all, and George is the mortal husband.

In fact, as the king associates more and more with his "Farmer George" persona, even using this knowledge to assist Charlotte in birth, it becomes clear he is the earthly husband, always digging down while gazing up.

He allows himself to be practically buried in the cellar under the doctor's horrible "treatments," and hides under the bed to escape the sight of the heavens. His only light is his wife, descended from the sky of her own choice.

Mythically, the monarch is the conduit between heaven and earth. When Charlotte the Star Bride meets George the Earthly Husband in the middle, two halves become whole, and they are able to rule together.

Swan Maidens, Star Brides, and Fruit Maidens are nearly always captive brides. Their agency is not a factor in most folktales, but Queen Charlotte turns this on its head by making its heroine a goddess, giving her the power and choice to love as she wishes.

This story's thesis is vital in today's world where nothing seems certain: that life is lonely, so if you are fortunate to find your person, you choose to love them even when it's hard and painful. That feminine desire matters at every age. And that love can work miracles.

[abbiistabbii]

Ok so can we talk about how the US Congress funded two art pieces depicting George Washington as a God? Like, fucking seriously?

First one is in the occulus of the Capitol Rotunda dome and it's called the Apotheosis of Washington.

So first off the name: Apotheosis means "the elevation of someone to divine status." Something the Romans did a lot (the Founding Fathers were horny for Ancient Rome) during the Empire days was deify dead emperors, which, you know, is real personality cultish.

This painting shows Washington, being taken up into the clouds in a pose akin to a Greek God like Zeus. Below him is Columbia (a pre-Uncle Sam personification of America) crushing tyrants and kings. Along the edges you have Minerva with Benjamin Franklin, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Robert Fulton, Poseidon and Venus laying a telegraph cable, Mercury giving money to Robert Morris, Vulcan with Canons and a Steam Locomotive, and Ceres helping farmers.

OK, and to stress how much this is "Washington being made a God", the guy who painted this, Constantino Brumidi, started out his art career painting religious shit for the Vatican. The US Congress hired this man who was primarily known for his work painting art for the Catholic Church to paint George Washington being made a God.

Oh, but you know how I said there are two? Well guess fucking what, Congress commissioned another thing depicting George Washington as a God.

This is "George Washington" by Horatio Greenough, also known as "Washington Enthroned" and depicts Washington as a Greek God, clothes, pose and all.

Now this too was made for the Rotunda, but people found it controversial, not because it depicted George Washington as a fuckin' God, but because he was Half naked. People's main issue was the man was half naked, not that he was being depicted as a Greek fucking God.

Now I know you are all going to be all "Aren't you from the UK with the Monarchy and..."

We don't treat any historical figure like this. Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers. Nobody is literally depicted as a God in a serious work of art.

The most any Monarch gets is a statue, or something named after them. The tower containing Big Ben is named after Elizabeth the Second. Winston Churchill is used a lot in Nationalistic shit but even the shaggiest of flag shagger would think depicting the man as a God is too far. We have some big monuments to some figures, Sir Walter Scott has a 61.11 m high gothic tower in Princes street in Edinburgh, William Wallace has a Tower in 67 m tall tower just outside Stirling, but nobody is like depicting them as a God. But here you are, America, depicting Washington as a fucking God like that's a normal things healthy countries do.

Fuck, Mount Rushmore was funded by the Government too, where they saw a Mountain Sacred to the Dakota and was all "Let's carve the Heads of Presidents on that." They saw a sacred site and decided to deify not just Washington, but four other presidents too.

Jesus Christ America.

[stars-and-sugarcubes]

Saturn

The one who endures, it is the Elder.

Saturn is the Greater Malefic, and surpasses the Sun with the other Superior Planets. In a way, it is Jupiter's maligned counterpart, working together as Sectmates in the Diurnal Sect.

Saturn is the other planet associated with the Earth element. Cold and dry in quality; naturally imposing, dependable, and thoughtful.

Saturn rules over the earth sign Capricorn, and the air sign Aquarius. Of the two, Saturn joys in its masculine domicile of Aquarius. In contrast, Saturn finds the domiciles of both Luminaries, Cancer, and Leo (detriment), challenging. In Venus' domicile, Libra, Saturn is exalted and given power. The opposing sign of Aries, Mars' domicile, does Saturn fall, and struggle to perform Saturnine tasks.

Saturn joys in the 12th House, giving that house meaning in the Hellenistic tradition. Keep that in mind when considering Saturn and the 12th House significations.

Old age, elder brothers, fathers and grandfathers, widows, those unmarried, childlessness, orphanhood, cold, slowness, melancholy, dark and downcast, black-clad, grief, sorrows and lasting pain and punishment, mishaps and troubles, chronic complaints, (false) accusations, slander, disrepute, imprisonment, banishments, bondage, captivity, solitary and seclusion, silence, austere, limited emotional expression, deception, distrust, clowns, covetousness, scarcity, neccesity, scavengers and beggars, marginalized people and the outcasted, hard-working, hustlers, (day) laborers, plumbers, gardeners and farmers, herdsmen, agriculter and irrigation, potters and tinners, land and fields, mining, building, hard-working, learning from experience, perserverence, concentration, preservation, antiques, the occult, eccentricity, structures, restraint and control, monks, underground, ditchers, bearers of corpses, death, sickness, sad people, inhibitions, benefits from other's losses, economy, real estate, water property, property renters, property of others, debt, war, ignorance, pessimism, lack of adaptability. Of the body, the thighs, knees, lymph, bladder, kidneys, injuries, and gout.

Traditional 12th House Significations, Saturn's House of Joy

childbirth and labor, enemies, misfortunes, accusations, punishment, imprisonment, prions, great illnesses, death, weakness, sorrows, sufferings, tribulations, toils, shame, loss, fear and anxieties, isolation, exile, foreign travels, beasts and riding animals.

Significations primarily sourced from Demetra George’s Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice Volumes 1 and 2 and planet significations spoken of on the Chris Brennan’s The Astrology Podcast.

Disclaimer: Please do not copy, redistribute, alter, or claim this text as your own...

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2024 reads

as usual i hope to read forty books this year for better or worse. this is a running list of what i’ve read so far and links to my thoughts on them 👍 venture beyond my guardian david byrnes boy.....

tell me i’m worthless alison rumfitt

closer dennis cooper

frisk dennis cooper

try dennis cooper

guide dennis cooper

deserter junji ito

period dennis cooper

the putrescent vein dorian bridges

crash j.g. ballard

jubilee: six film scripts derek jarman

dreamstone moon paul leonard

extremities kathe koja

seeing i jonathan blum, kate orman

lou reed the last interview

the other thomas tryon

the waste land, prufrock, and other poems t.s. eliot

rushing to paradise j.g. ballard

placebo effect gary russell

spaceflight: a concise history michael j. neufeld

the sluts dennis cooper

the liminal zone junji ito

howl and other poems allen ginsberg

we disappear scott heim

exit note dorian bridges

xtc song stories neville farmer

mysterious skin scott heim (reread)

fun home alison bechdel

the happy hooker xaviera hollander

a thousand-mile walk to the gulf john muir

high-rise jg ballard

negative space br yeager

woman at point zero nawal el saadawi

delta of venus anaïs nin

the dream police dennis cooper

equus peter shaffer

blood meridian, or, the evening redness in the west cormac mccarthy

animal farm george orwell (reread)

the trial franz kafka

glengarry glen ross david mamet

fear and loathing in las vegas hunter s. thompson

strange angels kathe koja

the room harold pinter

the indestructible man simon messingham

the birthday party harold pinter