#chateux

[whitedogblog]

Abandoned chateau, France

[melancholia00]

Sis do you think we will going to get a more complex point of view about colonialism in later seasons?

I do hope so because on how the writers of the show has interwoven colonialism within the universe by having vampires from old houses develop a symbiotic relationship with the human dukes, kings, and nobles. And seeing in Annette's past of vampire nobles enslaving humans in plantations. I have a rather dark theory that vampires and human colonizers worked together in the Atlantic slave trade that benefited the two factions. The human colonizers get an economic boom and free labor out of it while vampires get more abundance of blood to drink from enslaved humans. I hope the show touches upon it more and explaining it to us how white settler colonialism and vampirism works just how they handle Annette's past. I did talk before how I praised how the writers shown Annette's childhood growing up in the plantations without it resulting into slavery torture porn.

I want to see of black resistance of the maroons because we don't see much of black resistance fighting against white settlers. From the many reviews on Youtube it wasn't well recieved with subjects of racism and colonialism and complaints of the show suddenly becoming "woke" because it delivered topics of slavery, racism, and colonialization. I do hope the show doesn't placate to the criticism and just sugar coat anything but keep pushing the narrative of colonialism. I am not voodoo, I don't know a lick about voodoo religion or practice but I heard from voodoo priests and practioners giving out negative criticism the portrayal is wrong. I do hope the writers fix that and hire voodoo practioners and how to portray the practice and religion accurately.

Hopefully the show will touch upon New World Vampires vs Old World vampires. We got a glimpse of it in the show where Drolta was gassing up Bathory to Olrox and he wasn't having it. It shows the difference that between the two. Just because they are vampires and rule over humans there is a fundlemental differences between the two. When Drolta was giving her story about her hey day being a temple priestess and creating a another world. Olrox cheekily says he heard all about it before because during Olrox's long life how many times have he'd heard about white settlers with inflated egos boosting about creating a new world and empire? Cortes? Pizaro? Columbus? Aguirre? George Washington? King George II? The countless of conquistadors and presidents? He has heard it all before of creating a new world that is build on the backs of the already indigenous population. *cough*Palestine *cough* My man is fatigued and which explains why he was so blase about it prior to meeting Bathory.

For his many centuries he lived he can smell white settler fuckery a mile away. With Drolta gassing up Bathory to Olrox, her mistake is that Olrox had already seen his entire culture eradicated in order to create a "new world," And he's obviously not so hyped about seeing another new world being created in the backs of oppressed groups. When Olrox arrives to the chateux he's visibly uncomfortable, it shows just because they are all vampires it doesn't change the fact that he is an indigenous man entering a white space.

Get Out 2017

From the show its been said that vampires originated from the Old World and were brought to the New World by exploration and colonization.

Olrox being a vampire he is a very young and not even 300 yet! So there is a difference in of longevity and experence between Olrox and the Old World vampires along with stagnation in their thinking. The Old World vampires wanting to return back into their glory days and for Olrox, their glory days were his dark ages. And the vampires want to return to a world were vampires are able to rule over humans and govern themselves by blocking the sun. And Olrox who's entire culture is worshiping the sun is horrified and this shows not only the difference between the Old and New World vampires but also culturally. Old World vampires see themselves above the humans the way they use and discard them and talk to them in the most condescending and dehumanizing way.

With Olrox's interactons with humans he doesn't speak to them with the same condescension or talked down to Mizrak as if he's a stupid animal. He's incredibly candid with Mizrak and speaking to him as equals. With Julia when he speaks about her he's never vile towards her even though she took the love of his life and he never mocks Richter for having an anxiety attack and running away from the crypt. Unlike Drolta who mocks Richter and calling him the "boy who ran away."

I pointed out that the difference and this scene blantanly shown when Olrox is forced to bow before Erzsebet and her cultist and guiding her to America. Which is wrong in so many levels. Take out the vampirism, you are forcing an indigenous man to take a white colonizer into his home and enslave everybody to bow down to a white settler colonizer and parade her as a God? And if they don't? She'll starve them and they'd be so hungry they'll have to eat their own vomit. By the look Olrox gave her, she sealed her death warrent.

This immediately brought to toughts of La Malinche.

La Malinche story needs to be taken with a grain of salt. She was sold to Cortez as a child and later became his interpreter and lover and betrayed her people. Its said with her help Cortex was able to conquer the Aztec empire. And this is exactly what Bathory needs Olrox. To guide her to America, to betray his people, and be her interpreter and advisor just how La Malinche was to Cortez.

This will be extremely touchy especially what happened to the Americas during colonialism and how it had effects people to this day. The show has already touched upon it just slightly on the Casta System.

Annette was literally running away from slave catchers and she met Edouard in the concert hall. She was dressed in rags while he was dressed in finary. They are both black but Edouard is mixed white european and many of the mulattos were part of the bourgeoisies. The Haitian mulattos were looked down upon by both the white upper class and the black enslaved class and they would be use to which faction suited them to push out whatever cause.

Historically Edouard and Annette wouldn't be friends because most of the mulattos idenitfied with the ruling French and their culture and also took part of the slave holding. That being said they took a part of the oppression of other black people and as a result they were slaughtered along with the white bourgeosies during the Haitian Revolution.

I am bringing the Casta System because it effected heavily on the Americas as well. Many Latinos have white european colonizers, Native American, and african ancestry. I don't know if the writers are going to focus on the Casta System and latinos and how the erasure of culture has effected them. Olrox talks about how his land had been stolen but it will dive deeper to that on how the next generation has suffered with the slow erosion of their languages, and culture and slowly converting over time to Christianity and Catholicism. Forgetting their tribes, their names, their ancestors. And to be put into these boxes like pedigree.

The violence wil be explored on what colonialism has caused and the result. As of right now with the current events of groups of people being displaced from their own land, erasure of culture, languages, and customs, not being able to practice their own religion. Ethnically cleansing a people and being forced to convert or die. Bringing up subjects of colonialzation has never been more prevelant until now.

[seekingtemporship]

[sadiests]

17th November 2023

sleepless nights at the chateux aka some building in a city

i didn't do too much work today, i ended up napping around 2pm which isn't normal for me, to the point where someone thought i might have rona (i do not have rona)

spicy food down the hatch and an ungodly amount of caffeine in my veins and i'm ready to write at minimum 2k words in a couple hours depending on how fast i go. i'd like to aim for 4k+ but i doubt ill manage that, the adhd brain is restless by that point

here's the view, it's dark, i need more caffeine

edit: i keep forgetting the music ffs, today is AJR with Yes I'm A Mess bc isn't that the truth

[digitalandy]

Pujol, Mexico City

A lot of noise around this restaurant in Polanco which is permanently in the higher part of the top 50 list since some years. The setting is very nice. In the heart of Polanco, in a quiet lateral street of the road with the main luxury stores, the writing Pujol close to the Relais & Chateux sign indicates the place. The restaurant is magnificent surrounded by a lush garden that contrast with the dark brown colour if the one floor building. Through a few steps you enter the dining room that has different spaces. The main room has a beautiful long window facing the garden that makes the atmosphere very precious. A nice ikebana style yard inside the room hosts a small olive tree that is getting natural light from a large hole in the roof.

A long counter offer seating facing the barman. Tables are in wood without clothes

At a first impression, arriving early, the feeling of the atmosphere is superlative and close to perfection.

Unfortunately, as the room gets crowded, you realize how massive the seating is. Very far from a luxury restaurant and close to a chic brasserie. This feeling of crowd is also confirmed by the service that seems more like a canteen than an exclusive restaurant.

The menubis good but not fully surprising. Two diahese are clearly standing out. The baby corn with the rich sauce with big ants and the unbelievable mole combination. The latter is a simple and complex dish at the same time with a center if fresh mole surrounded by a dark aged mole that is continously fed since more than 7 years. The contrast between the two and the depth and richness of the taste is unbelievable.

Nice some of the other dishes that tap into a small selected group of farmers and fishermen. Great shellfish, extremely fresh and flavourful but without any special character.

Wine list quite good but overpriced and service is charming with waiters in nice black scenic dressing and extremely kind.

[exploringuropeadrianachavez]

Exploring Switzerland

The beautiful country of Switzerland is in Central Europe and is known for its cheese, chocolate, and of course: the Alps. The mountainous country is also known for its lakes, most notably, the crescent-shaped Lake Geneva. Switzerland's largest body of water touches both France and Switzerland and you can sightsee both countries by simply taking trains. Railway links connect the towns on Lake Geneva's shore to cities in France.

Hop on a hour long train ride toward the eastern side of the lake to Chateux de Chillon, a medieval castle built on the island of Chillon. You can take a walking tour throughout the grand courtyards, bedrooms, and storage caves.

[adrichavezz]

Exploring Switzerland

The beautiful country of Switzerland is in Central Europe and is known for its cheese, chocolate, and of course: the Alps. The mountainous country is also known for its lakes, most notably, the crescent-shaped Lake Geneva. Switzerland's largest body of water touches both France and Switzerland and you can sightsee both countries by simply taking trains. Railway links connect the towns on Lake Geneva's shore to cities in France.

Hop on a hour long train ride toward the eastern side of the lake to Chateux de Chillon, a medieval castle built on the island of Chillon. You can take a walking tour throughout the grand courtyards, bedrooms, and storage caves.

[lucabyte]

good catch! i completely forgot about chateux castle while typing this up but yeah, very much adds to it! I feel like there's also something to the whole final-chapter reveal of TCoCC being effectively uh, anti-divine-right-of-kings in a seeming theocracy too, though I can't quite put my finger on it?

Something about the change god/head housemaiden's blessing and the way the vaugardian public percieves that information too, re: mirabelle's saviour status being (not!) divinely ordained.

Anyway i love that wording at the end there of love for present/fear of losing the past. That's very nice and succinct!

thinking about the very specific reading of isat i had during act 3 for the most part

anyway yeah ill ramble here about this. since it actually explains my headcanons for what the disappearing island wish was

disclaimer: taken as a whole this is way too allegorical for what i'd consider a holistic reading of isat, but it was part of my running theories at the time.

anyway my guess for the real-world equivalent of the island ended up being French Polynesia by the end of the game. I had initially thrown a dart at siffrin being greek wrt europe, sisyphus allusion, enjoyment of plays and seafairing-- but the moment that little guy started getting real weird about stars and specified they were from an island i switched my guess to him being polynesian. And then that reading only really strengthened from there (and i was pretty close, tbf!)

but yeah during act 3, especially the king plotline, i started thinking about the themes of cultural erasure + lack of identity that the game has and how that plays wrt vaugarde's extremely welcoming and diverse nature.

reading far too much into it but it made me wonder if they are the results of a fallen empire of some kind. somewhere that gathered people from across the globe (as empires are known to do) before dissolving into what seems to be a localised theocracy of some kind?

like. vaugarde is basically the Good End for an empire. Fully demilitarised (they barely have use for police to the point where the defenders are surprised by burglaries, and almost CERTAINLY have zero army), extremely diverse, not caring where one comes from.

(either that or they've been a socialist utopia like, forever? and thus just aquired migrants perpetually... but ka bue is characterised as harsher by odile in a lot of respects so one can assume its not that the whole planet is Niceys All The Time.)

this lines up pretty well with the um. Whole France Thing. Boy do they own a lot of islands still that they maybe shouldn't. Also lines up with bonnie's word-of-god french creole dialect. So Vaugarde as the welcoming, ideal form of former-colonialiser-nation is like. one i vibe with if we're gonna read too hard into the worldbuilding as presented.

Anyway all this to say I did for a time wonder if the Northern Island wish was 'For The Island To Be Safe'. Assuming this world to have any level of inter-country conflict-- Wish craft is powerful stuff, and a singular island might not be able to defend itself against those seeking to take it by force. Hiding the island from the world would protect it.

... though that felt like an unusually cruel read. The implication that cloistering away like that is a 'valid' strategy for a culture to be safe (albeit with the splash damage of hurting any diaspora).

Plus, wish craft is superbly powerful, with evidently its use on the island only becoming more widespread after it was discovered how to make it work Consistently.

(i work here under the assumption that Siffrin's growing cloak is imbued with wish craft, assumedly the same as the king's armour? Since there's no way that was created at that scale...)

So it almost makes more sense, to me, for the wish to be to 'Protect The World (universe) From Us' or to 'Keep The Universe Safe'.

Wish craft being so second nature to the Islanders (See: Siffrin, favour tree), that a wish that breaks the universe is almost inevitable were the knowledge to become widespread and ingrained.

This too is an oddly cruel read, that a culture's rituals can be dangerous to that degree, but ... ? Dunno. Like I said, reading it as hard allegory makes it fall apart somewhat. Symbols can mean many different things at once until you flatten them for direct analysis like this. I don't think it's quite so 1-to-1, and it's honestly slightly too 'no story only lore' for my tastes, so I did push a lot of this stuff out of my analytical mind once I started getting to the back and of act 3 and into act 4.

Anyway. Not the most coherent explanation in the world, but still some thoughts I had mid-game that i figure i should put somewhere at least, even if I don't think they are really what the game is going for.

As a bonus, the discussions on what the island wish were in this context also lead my friend @samhainian to speculation on the colour wish that i really enjoy. Which is....

The wish that removed colour from humans perception of the world being something along the lines of:

"I wish the world was simpler"

ergo, removing colour as an invocation of Nuiance VS Black and White Morality. The world is simpler, easier to understand.

I think it's a fun headcanon! I like it.

Well anyway. A work is more than the sum of its parts and dissecting something so sloppily as this often does it a disservice. So don't take my theorising as anything more than a general rundown of where my head was at mid-game before i had all the pieces. The emotional core of the story is far more where it's at for ISAT sooooo. [Shrugs and scampers away]

[scenetherapy]

[sarahalainn]

Caresse sur l'ocean

Dans l'aube grise du levant

Trouve un chemin vers l'arc-en-ciel

Se découvrira le printemps

⁃B. Coulais et C. Barratier

自然にいつもお世話になっているから、これからはもっとgive backして行きたい。一つしかしない、only oneの星 🌍

At #one with nature

自然と #one 一体化

We owe so much to nature. Always receiving, so time to give back. Now or never. Our one and only beautiful star

Essential: time for self loving

大事で必須なひと時。セルフラブ🫶

[felipehenriquegavioli]

#svizzera🇨🇭 #montreux #swiss #switzerland #switzerlandpictures #igerswiss #svizzera #suisse #mono_styles #stunningbnw #bnw_magazine #blackandwhite #jj_blackwhite #bnw #bnw_life #mono_styles #fineart_photobnw #biancoenero #bnw_igers #bnwmood #chateux #castello (presso Château de Chillon)

[ktimamantilari-blog]

#luxuryvacations #holidaysingreece #holiday #creteisland #privateresort #privatevilla #groupvacation #corsica #tuscany #sicily #crete#familyfun #familytrip #bestvacations#bestvacations #tenuta #chateux #grecia #griechenland https://www.instagram.com/p/ByCiDZDHOym/?igshid=1s6ho65luykto

[handofcolors]

The old heritage house which has been converted into a heritage hotel in the village of Garli, Himachal Pradesh. #Garli is a heritage village, and a walk through the village takes you back in time. Many old, charming houses cry for restoration, many are deserted and forgotten. It's amazing how we let our heritage decay, and we turn oblivious to it's existence. Imagine if government puts in some money, restores buildings, bring in the lost charm, and turn these villages into heritage villages, it can revitalize the economic engines in these small hilly villages. @thejudgescourt #himachalpictures #himachalroads #pragpur #heritagesite #heritagehotels #heritagevillage #himachaltourism #folklores #winding #incredibleindia #chateux #villagelife (at pragpur, Distt. Kangra, Himachal Pradesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/BweobIWJECd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18wfn69gt01e1

[samtpfoteundhasenfuss]

[leodowell]

“A Time Of Grandeur” Vintage style interiors with a modern touch. World-class interiors never go out of style. Timeless interiors feed the soul and have been known to excite the senses. Go back in time with Leo to a time of grandeur. Leo Dowell Designs. #chateux#interiordesign#worldclassinteriors#townandcountry#millwork#magicalinteriors#manorhouses#oldmoney#horsesandhunting#gunandgarden https://www.instagram.com/p/BviKPfrl_rn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yfzl1ctqxhk5

[pontesdelisboa]

Fontainebleau #Chateux #France