#christian eckart

[thunderstruck9]

Christian Eckart (American, 1959), Sacra Conversazione #1305, 1991. Lacquer on aluminum, 69 x 66 in.

[libraryofjoy]

Books I read in December 2023

Assyria by Eckart Frahm. Nonfiction. I realized that I didn't actually know all that much about Assyria, so this was a helpful find! It was fun to have the familiarity of a Hebrew Bible reference now and then.

The Apology by Jimin Han. Fiction. This book follows a 110-year-old Korean woman in the days after her death as she tries to prevent a disaster caused by a terrible secret she's kept for decades. For how heartwrenching this book could be, it was also incredibly funny! The narrator character is really interesting and made this book enjoyable. Content warning: familial trauma, war, unplanned pregnancy, incest.

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker. Fiction. A multiracial necromancer seeks to pass an imperial alchemy exam in a reimagined Tang-dynasty fantasy setting. I really enjoyed the necromancy/alchemy in this book. Other elements of the plot felt messier. The ending felt very sudden, shocking, and not quite complete. But I did find it enjoyable enough that I'd probably read a sequel. Content warnings: murder, gore, body horror.

The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler. Nonfiction. This book was just excellent. The two authors are Jewish biblical scholars: Amy-Jill Levine does New Testament, and Marc Zvi Brettler Hebrew Bible*. They discuss key passages and their interpretations from Jewish & Christian communities, and also offer some historical-critical insight. One issue I've wrestled with as a deconstructing Christian (who is still trying to remain a Christian) is how to approach messianic prophecy in an authentically Christian way while also respecting Jewish interpretations of the same passages which might conceptualize a messiah very differently, or might not even read the passage in question as messianic at all. This book gave me some helpful perspective for that.

*"Hebrew Bible" is, like "Old Testament", an imperfect term. This book has useful discussion of the flaws and merits of these and other terms for this body of literature.

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader. Fiction. A young woman makes vows to take on the vocation of an anchoress, separating herself from the world to live a life of penitence and prayer. But even locked in a small dwelling, only seeing her maids, her confessor priest, and villagers requesting prayer, she finds that her world is still very insistently present. I found the concept of an anchoress's life fascinating but not very plot-rich, but this book pleasantly surprised me! I also appreciated how this book portrays celibate characters. Content warning: sexual assault, domestic abuse, pregnancy, hallucination, Christian mystic eroticism.

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman. Nonfiction. This book traces the religious influences (mostly Protestantism) on influential writers and doers-of-business from Adam Smith to recent years. I did listen to this at 2.7x speed while dazing off on my plane ride home, so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a lot of it. But what I heard of it seemed worth reading!

Fiction:3

Nonfiction:3

Total fiction this year: 50

Total nonfiction this year:50

Total books this year: 100

And that's a wrap! I'm planning to post a full list of all this year's books tomorrow. I've really enjoyed this series, and it definitely motivated me to get through more material, which has been great for my mental health. I'm planning to keep posting updates about what I read next year, with some adjustments to target the books my current arrangement deprioritized.

[mugasofer]

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

This is the only part of this post I disagree with - it's only sort of true.

Let's start with the parts which are true, though:

The majority of Nazis were conservative Christians; not atheists or pagans.

The Nazis frequently "spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism".

In fact, although the OP doesn't mention it, there was some (relatively mild) discrimination against atheists in Nazi Germany; they were not allowed to join the SS, for example.

However these parts are much more dubious:

The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons.

It's certainly true that some Nazis were Protestant partisans, especially at lower levels. Protestantism was a strong predictor of Nazi affiliation.

The Nazi party encouraged people to leave the established majority Protestant denomination of Germany in favour of identifying simply as non-denominational Gottgläubige (God-believers). Only a minority (about 3.5% at their peak) ever did so; Protestants remained the majority and were never persecuted in Germany the way Catholics were (who in turn were better off than smaller religious minorities.) But this increased substantially at higher levels of the Nazi Party; for example, 70% of SS officers renounced their previous denomination and identified as gottgläubig.

Officially, the Nazi Party platform claimed the Party "represents the viewpoint of Positive Christianity without binding itself to any particular denomination". They built up this "Positive Christianity" as increasingly distinct from mainstream Christianity, rejecting the Nicene Creed, divinity of Jesus, Jewish heritage of Jesus, etc, as well as all previous denominations as "negative Christianity". But this was less than successful. By the end of the war, 18M Germans (out of 65M) were members of the state-run German Evangelical Church which used heavily revised Nazi Bibles (with references to Jesus being Jewish etc. removed), and it seems unlikely even a majority of those were true believers given it's near-total disappearance immediately after the war.

I would characterise the Nazi Party's dislike of Catholicism as part of a general dislike of anything they did not control, not Protestant ideology. Even a Nazi-run Protestant state Church was not Nazi enough for them; it represented an external locus of power filled with ideological commitments outside the Nazi Party. So they resolved to replace it with gottgläubig and "Positive Christianity" as much as possible, and seem to have regarded even that as something of a stepping-stone.

Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

It depends what you mean by "fringe", "occultism" and "paganism".

Many high-level Nazis were explicit internally that they regarded Christianity and Naziism as incompatible, and it's abolition as an ultimate goal. Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg, Martin Bormann, Reinhard Heydrich, and Heinrich Himmler along others were outright in favour of its replacement; Hitler's own exact views are a little more controversial but he also seems to have squarely fallen into this camp. Not all did, and this fell off dramatically at lower levels - some lower (but still important) figures seem to have believed Christianity had a long-term future, including Dietrich Eckart, Hans Schemm, Erich Koch, Bernhard Rust and Walter Buch, and some high-ranking Nazi officials' views are unclear.

Rosenberg is particularly notable here; in addition to his several other simultaneous positions (such as head of the Office of Foreign Affairs), he was the Beauftragter des Führers für die gesamte geistige und weltanschauliche Erziehung der NSDAP ("Führer's representative for the entire intellectual and ideological education of the Nazi Party"). His book The Myth of the Twentieth Century attempted to lay out a unified Nazi worldview for the public, and was loudly praised and promoted by Hitler.

Claims from the Myth include:

Aryans originate from Atlantis

Aryans have an innate "ancient Germanic idea of god" which was expressed by Odin and "all great men"

Jesus was half German on his mother's side, a member of an Aryan minority in Galilee. (He was a Roman on his father's side.)

Jesus' original teachings were a fusion of Judaism and pre-Christian Aryan beliefs

These pre-Christian beliefs were further watered down by Jews, Freemasons and Catholics. (Luther partially restored them but did not go far enough, and also introduced some foreign, un-German ideas.)

I think it's fair to describe this as a kind of Christian-Asatru syncretism, but it's kind of it's own weird thing.

However, it's not clear to what extent this was "genuine". We now know that most of the highest-level Nazi leaders, including Hitler, were internally dismissive of the book. Even Rosenberg himself may have been cynically making a lot of it up, it's hard to tell. Rosenberg, incidentally, was the only former member of the Thule society to actually make it into the Nazi inner circle.

Rosenberg, as the one in charge of the Party's cultural wing, was the one drawing up the Nazis' long-term plans for the German state church. These promptly got leaked to the Allied press and became a major point of contention, although they were publicly denied by the German government.

Were these plans "pagan"? Sort of. They were very explicitly not Christian, but they weren't particularly neopagan either. The first stage was a simple abolition of all non-Nazi religion; the Bible and cross was to be banned in favour of "our most saintly book, “Mein Kampf,” and to the left of this a sword" and "the symbol of invincible Germany—the swastika", and leadership was not to include "who today or in the future attempt by any means to perpetuate the Christian faith, for they are not only liars to themselves but also to the German people". But it was vaguely Deist; "in the National Reich Church German men and women, boys and girls must recognize God and his eternal work" - even the New York Times of the era was forced to admit that

The [planned] Nazi religious concept is founded not on the worship of Wotan and Valhalla, dear to the memory of General Erich von Ludendorff, but surprisingly enough, in view of Dr. Rosenberg’s past attacks on Christianity and its teachings, on a partial worship of God, whose works are “eternal.”

Rosenberg was not the high-ranking Nazi most concerned with the "occult" and "paganism"; that would be Himmler. Himmler had his own plans for replacing Christianity via the SS and the Gottgläubige movement (which he heavily promoted.) I assume there was some cross-pollination; however, unlike Rosenberg's plans, Himmler's were overtly neopagan. They had solstice rituals, neopagan symbols, etc. In one speech to his followers, Himmler proclaimed

We must settle accounts with this Christianity, this greatest of plagues that could have happened to us in our history, which has weakened us in every conflict. If our generation does not do it then it would I think drag on for a long time. We must overcome it within ourselves. Today at Heydrich's funeral I intentionally expressed in my oration from my deepest conviction a belief in God, a belief in fate, in the ancient one as I called him—that is the old Germanic word: Wralda.

(Wralda - literally, All-Father - isn't actually an old Germanic word. Himmler believed in a pseudo-historical version of Asatru in which that was the name of the father of the gods.)

I think this is worth stressing, since it's in direct contradiction of the OP's depiction: Himmler was literally a Germanic neopagan of the Asatru school (although with a vague deist conception of a "higher power" that guided the German people being involved), and he literally anticipated this replacing Christianity as the primary religion of Germany.

However, like all the Nazi approaches to replacing Christianity, these plans were very much long-term (though less long-term than those of the other inner circle members) and faced a lot of setbacks. Himmler only ever succeeded at getting 70% of SS officers and a little over 20% of the SS rank and file to identify as Gottgläubige. Even those were, for the most part, unlikely to take the neopagan angle any further than going through a few ceremonies at Himmler's direction - and even those reportedly got him chewed out by Hitler on one occasion for damaging the Nazis' reputation with the churches.

I don't want to seem like I'm cherry-picking. Of the inner circle - let's use Encyclopedia Britannica's list - you've got Goebbels (lapsed Catholic, claimed "insoluble opposition between the Christian and a heroic-German world view"), Göring (sorta Protestant though somehow without believing in Jesus), Himmler (neopagan), Von Ribbentrop (converted to Christianity shortly before his execution), Bormann (either atheist or race-based deist), and finally Funk (probably Christian, attended services in jail).

There are exactly two people on that list who were Christians of any sort; Funk (by far the most junior one on it, so junior they didn't even bother executing him) and Göring - Göring being (by his own rather self-serving account) the only member of the inner circle to defend Christianity to the others, and he didn't even believe in Jesus! Hardly the group of "deeply committed Christians" described in the OP.

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[alexlacquemanne]

Aout MMXXIV

Films

Le Gendarme en balade (1970) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre, Christian Marin, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Claude Gensac, France Rumilly, Nicole Vervil et Dominique Davray

Ali (2001) de Michael Mann avec Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright et Nona Gaye

Les Enchaînés (Notorious) (1946) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin et Reinhold Schünzel

Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman) (1948) de Max Ophüls avec Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Art Smith, Leo B. Pessin, Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, Howard Freeman et Sonja Bryden

Lucky Jo (1964) de Michel Deville avec Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Françoise Arnoul, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Darras et André Cellier

Borg McEnroe (2017) de Janus Metz Pedersen avec Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, Scott Arthur, Robert Emms et David Bamber

La Vérité (1960) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Louis Seigner, Ren�� Blancard et Colette Castel

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) de Zack Snyder avec Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons et Diane Lane

La Chèvre (1981) de Francis Veber avec Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Robin, Corynne Charby, André Valardy, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. et Jorge Luke

Piège de cristal (Die Hard) (1988) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason et William Atherton

Le Samouraï (1967) de Jean-Pierre Melville avec Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy et Jacques Deschamps

La Piscine (1969) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard et Steve Eckart

Forfaiture (1937) de Marcel L'Herbier avec Louis Jouvet, Lise Delamare, Ève Francis, Sylvia Bataille, Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa et Lucas Gridoux

The Batman (2022) de Matt Reeves avec Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis

Plein Soleil (1960) de René Clément avec Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore et Billy Kearns

58 Minutes pour vivre (Die Hard 2) (1990) de Renny Harlin avec Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Fred Thompson, Art Evans, John Amos, Tom Bower et Sheila McCarthy

Mort d'un pourri (1977) de Georges Lautner avec Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Daniel Ceccaldi, Julien Guiomar et Klaus Kinski

The Layover (2017) de William H. Macy avec Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn et Molly Shannon

Une journée en enfer (Die Hard with a Vengeance) (1995) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene et Colleen Camp

Séries

Le Coffre à Catch

#179 : Le festival de Kane ! - #180 : Jack Swagger repasse par la ECW ! - #181 : Les adieux de Tommy Dreamer (Colby en fil rouge) - #182 : Bret et Shawn font la paix et on termine le Homecoming!

Castle Saison 7

Sans relâche - Montréal - Une force invisible - Un problème enfantin - Un buzz foudroyant - De parfaits inconnus - Les Mystères de l'Ouest - Chevalier blanc - Action! - Un Noël dans la mafia - Castle, détective privé - L'affaire est dans le sac - Devant mes yeux - Résurrection - Règlement de comptes

The Durrells : une famille anglaise à Corfou Saison 3, 4

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6 - Episode 7 - Episode 8 - Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Biography: WWE Legends Saison 3

Paige - Yokozuna

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Le Prisonnier du château d'If - Le Revenant - Les Scélérats - La Vengeance

Maguy Saison 7

Suzanne désespérément - OPA comique - Hallali conjugal - Qui l'eût "crue" ? - Dernier de Corday - La mégère à prix Boissier - Absence unique - Un monde chou, chou, chou - Flamme fatale - Le déchargé de mission - Ice-cream et châtiment - L'âge de déraison - Un ome peut en cacher un autre - Maguy rock - Direction assistée - La vie en roses - Le bazar et la nécessité - Le salaire du rappeur - Pas commode d'emploi - Maguyvaudages - Sauve qui puce - SOS vampires - Il est 5 heures, Maguy s'éveille - Certains l'aiment faux

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Petite Hantise - Cent mille soleils - Affectation spéciale

Commissaire Dupin

Une famille endeuillée - La morte rose

Affaires sensibles

Bambi, vedette de cabaret et femme ordinaire - Simone Weber, "la diabolique de Nancy"

Spectacles

Adele at the BBC (2015)

ABBA : Live at Wembley Arena (1979)

Bénabar : Live au Grand Rex (2004)

Eddy Mitchell : Ma dernière séance (2011) à l'Olympia

Livres

Les Disparus de Trégastel de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Nota Bene, tome 6 : La Vie au Moyen Âge de Benjamin Brillaud, Phil Castaza, Christian Paty et Mathieu Mariolle

Les Schtroumpfs, tome 11 : Les Schtroumpfs olympiques de Peyo

Astérix, tome 12 : Astérix aux jeux Olympiques de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

[maykl24]

The Shadow of Nazism: How Global Anti-Cultism Fueled the Rise of Nazi Germany

The roots of Nazi Germany's horrific reign run deep into the poisonous soil of global anti-cultism. In a previous article, I began to shed light on how, under the influence of Martin Luther's worldviews, National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945) took shape and developed.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), founded by Anton Drexler and Dietrich Eckart, aimed to restore Germany's imperial glory and create the Third Reich.

(Pictured: The early members of the group that was renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1922)

The NSDAP's 25-point program, presented in 1920 by the young and charismatic Adolf Hitler, outlined a vision of a racially pure and ideologically homogenous Germany. In this vision, religious minorities and dissidents posed a "threat" to the German people and their aspirations for world domination.

"We demand freedom for all religious denominations in the state, on the condition that they do not threaten the existence of the state and do not offend the moral sentiments of the German race." The party as such advocates for a positive Christianity, but does not bind itself to any particular confession," - read point 24 of the program.

However, this supposed recognition of freedom of religion was merely a facade. The NSDAP and its ideological allies quickly moved to suppress any religious expressions that did not align with their racially-infused vision of Christianity. The "German Christians" movement, founded in 1932 and led by Ludwig Müller, gained significant influence and even seized control of the Prussian church in 1933.

They believed that Jews were "Christians in the sense of the New Testament, but not German Christians," and even advocated for the exclusion of the Old Testament from the Bible.

What is their symbol? A Christian cross with a swastika at its center - a chilling fusion of religious imagery and Nazi ideology.

(Pictured: The symbol of the “German Christians)

Such suppression of religious freedom, disguised as a fight against "cults" and "heresy," is the hallmark of global anti-cultism. This is a dangerous model that repeats itself over and over again, from the persecution of religious minorities under the Stalinist regime to the suppression of dissent in modern China.

The horrors of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and millions of innocent lives lost were not isolated events. They became the tragic culmination of a long history of anti-cultism, a history of manipulating fear and intolerance through shared hatred.

The documentary film "The IMPACT | Groundbreaking Documentary - EXPOSING ANTI-CULT TERRORISM" actfiles.org - is so important. It reveals the true nature of the anti-cult movement and its destructive consequences.

That is why I urge you to understand the true nature of this global network of influence. It is time to recognize the patterns, historical precedents, and dangers. We cannot afford to be silent. We must stand against the ideology of anti-cultism before it claims more victims.

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible and be sure to support the article with likes, reposts, and comments and thunderous applause!

#GlobalAnticultism #Антикультизм #НацистскаяГермания #Холокост #РелигиознаяСвобода #TheImpact #EgonCholakian

[christomythopoesis]

This is Baldur, from Johan Egerkrans's book Nordiska Gudar.

In 1925, Dietrich Eckart wrote

In Christ, the embodiment of all manliness, we find all that we need. And if we occasionally speak of Baldur, our words always contain some joy, some satisfaction, that our pagan ancestors were already so Christian as to have an indication of Christ in this ideal figure.

Norse God by Johan Egerkrans

[lizpurr]

Christian Eckart, Forest, 2019

[lafilleblanc]

Christian Eckart 

White Paintings, 1990

“...The White Paintings began as an exploration and interrogation of the tradition of the white monochrome as a trope in 20th c. art. The primary informing motivation driving the production of the White Paintings is to create a literal icon of a strategy and/or solution that has, over time and through repetition, become iconic and emblematic...”

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[havg02]

Villains Are Destined To Die modern fanfic headcanons

-In this modern au, Ivonne gets found shortly after the Duke adopts Penelope from the streets instead of being missing for 6 years and grows up with Penelope together so Derrick and Reynold don't hate Penelope or torment her for long but Penelope still resents them, and swore to them she would never call them her brother with heart.

-The imperial empire is still a royal thing so the Eckarts are a famous noble family still, and everyone attends this grand academy school only for the richest and talented students who have a special future ahead of them.

-Penelope grows up to be the prettiest girl school and is everyone's crush. Is the Queen Bee, popular with so many friends and followers, known to be Ice Queen, Snow princess or Snow White bc of her icy eyes, elegance, gracefulness and pretty face--overall looking like a ice queen.

-She's a girl with both beauty and brains, a nerdy bookworm who is studying archeology while so talented; She's the captain of the cheerleading team, is in the school aerobic gymnastic team so she's very flexible and aerobic, does fencing, plays the piano, loves figure skating, ballet and singing.

-Is super fickle, especially coming to food and her skincare. Hates the sun so she constantly carries around a parasol and sun cream to keep in the shade. Is mostly vegetarian, only eating fish, vegetables, fruits and yogurt (blueberry yoghurt icecream is her favourite), making her skin constantly glowing and healthy.

-Has a type of style that she only ever wears to define herself (she's a girl boss); only wearing Spring and winter themed clothes bc winter is the symbol of grief and spring is the symbol of moving on, in spite since she was only adopted and viewed as a replacement for Ivonne to not make it her weakness but her pride as fashion and aesthetic.

-Is very classy+feminine so she mostly wears lots of lace, tulles, dresses, skirts, frills, floral, cute, stockings, heels, coats and handbags. Also always wears turquoise or pale lavender eyeshadow with cat eyeliner but sometimes leaves her face alone since she has natural fair glass skin, rosy cheeks and baby pink lips that make her look like a porcelaine doll which get her a lot of compliments.

-Most of her clothes are designer too since she's a girl adopted by an elite wealthy royal Duke who is an absolute fool for his talented daughter so she's a fashion iconic at school as well~ she loves to shop at Chanel, Laduree and Christian Dior for cosmetics and perfume. She's a literal fashion icon to everyone.

-Not only is she famous in school but also around the world as well. The Duke has her perform songs at balls as the image of the Eckarts and she is alway busy with being a figure at donating charities or opening new buildings, and her modeling career (because again, she's a fashion icon).

-She has also made her own perfumes and fashion before which everyone is crazy about, and her instagram pics has millions of likes and followers. Penny also often goes out to luxurious parties or dinners with her friends so her insta is full of her having fun and living the bougie life. Has so many admires that she has her personal maid to come to school and clear out her locker that's full of chocolates, flowers and letters at valentine days.

-Is literally a mix of Elsa from Frozen, Marinette Dupain Cheng and Chloe Bourgeois from Miraculous Ladybug. Loves France and parisian lifestyle, and dreams to go back and live there again as it fits her standards perfectly bc of the amazing cafes, cuisines and beautiful architecture. Goes there during holidays on her own.

-She adores violets and orange blossom flowers so she wears them as the main notes in her perfumes and potpourri which she always has it made in her bedroom for her smell them. Has a very detailed bath and skincare routine with products specially made for only, her scared beauty secret that she can tell no one bc she always wants to look her best as a lady. Is known to leave the room smelling like spring.

-She's a bit of a daddy's girl since she was a child in fear of being kicked out when Ivonne was found safe and sound so she constantly acted wonderful and affectionate to manipulate and win the Duke's heart which turned out to have worked too well. She's the most talented member of the family so the Duke pays more to her than his sons and Ivonne.

-When Penny is around everyone she's graceful, sophisticated and glamorous but when she's around the Duke she's lovely like a doe, angelic and so adoring with shiny eyes that the Duke can't help but do anything for her and hang several pictures of her around his office while not so subtly bark at his own sons like soldiers.

-Callisto is the royal prince of Ioka and is the biggest, hottest guy in school but everyone is scared of him bc he grew up as a bully until he met Penelope. He's the captain of the football team and the best jock with a tense relationship between his step brother who is equally popular but only because he is that spoilt rich kid, so the whole school is divided into two factions; Callisto's team and his brother's team.

-His mother is the Queen of Ioka, trying to kill him by sending hitmen or poisoning him so Callisto is a pretty good fighter--mostly a fist fighter or a knife fighter so you can imagine how hot he is, all roughed up with bleeding nose and a fiery smirk.

-Everyone drools over Penelope but ofc are afraid to look at her bc Callisto is super possessive and easily jealous of anyone being around her, constantly around her like a ghost despite her repetitively turning him down. Everyone still thinks the two are the iconic power sweetheart couple that everyone strives to be like and admires.

-You bet there are bully girls who hate Penelope like Kellin and her side kick Dorothea who are super jealous of her and tried to bully her in middle school, only for Penny to grow more popular. Penny used to do fencing too so the losers are too scared to fight her except bark from a distance.

-Penny just rolls her eyes at them and casually says something to embarrass them in front of the whole school, and send them running away with red faces. Kellin and Dorothea are definitely those mean girls whose boyfriends end up having a crush on Penny anyway.

-The Eckarts are a royal elite wealthy family and the children attend a famous high school. Derrick is the heiress so he is a top student along with Penelope, working hard to graduate and take over his father's place. Reynold is a jock and part of the football team like Callisto, and they're both super popular for their handsome and princely looks.

-Ivonne is actually a 'stubborn but cute, good girl' and a 'younger twin-sisterly' type of girl who is kind of weak and super empathetic yet has very strong enthusiasm. She loves animals and children so she volunteers to work at shelters and orphanages with Vinter who she is great friends with.

-She likes to take care of the garden that her mother who passed away in the past grew, which was precious to her since it was the only thing left of her mother. Also loves to watch Disney, Pixar and Netflix Disney live action films bc she likes lovey dovey things like fairy tales no matter how painfully cliche they are as they're so dreamy to her.

-Even though she's super rich, she likes to wear just casual and simple clothes because she wants to look normal and fit in with the crowd, just so they won't feel intimidated by her. Like overalls over t-shirts or sweaters and shorts with sneakers.

-Ivonne and Penelope have a really good relationship; Ivonne admires Penelope as her cool and admirable sister while Penelope is protective of her, constantly concerned for her since Ivonne is clumsy and can hardly protect herself despite having a chihuahua-level scary bark that could scare anyone off.

-Derrick is brotherly to Ivonne, making sure she's happy and providing her with everything while he has a strained relationship and a big crush on Penelope ever since they were children. He never shows it since he's in denial that he likes her and just acts indifferent when she treats him like a stranger in private until one day she said she was moving to France to go to a different school best for her.

-He mans up and makes a rough decision to at least look at her as his sister at the moment so he could tell her not to go at the last minute, using the pathetic excuse saying their reputation would fall out of interest if she wasn't here and she shouldn't go to live by her own as an 'underage' girl. He definitely looks at step sister porn, this derdick.

-Penny thinks he hates her but he actually really admires her like everyone else and wants to be close to her by her side that he gets jealous and sullen when she's with someone else and showing more liking to them, and he can't be affectionate with her as he wants to bc she pushes him away coldly so he spitefully turns to Ivonne 'since she's his only sister' but always goes back to her at the end.

-Reynold is teasing and tsundere yet caring and brotherly to Ivonne and Penelope. Only except he feels jealous and left out when it comes to Penny who he also has a strained relationship with ever since he treated her cruely, which he dwells on and thinks he should have treated her nicely as his sister anyway even if Ivonne were to never return back home.

-He's the one trying to act like they don't have tensions between them to desperately make them seem like they were good siblings, because he wants to and doesn't like that she has so many friends and hardly has any time to talk to him, feeling like she's slowly dragging away and he has no rights to ask why she never spends much time with him.

-When she is about to move to France, he panics while trying to figure out what to do and ends up stammering while forcing himself to swallow his pride and asking her not to go. He has the audacity to wish that Penny would drop what happened at the start and just forgive him so they would get along. At least he thinks better when it comes to Penny than Derdick creep.

-Penny gets confused a lot as to why he and Derrick do anything to show they care about her but she doesn't want to be looked down on again so she continues to treat them like they're strangers to her and ignores them bc she still hates for how they treated her back then.

-Both Reynold and Derdick regret being mean to Penelope, and try to make up for it while the Duke and Ivonne are disappointed, deadpanning at the two. Ivonne is the one always on Penelope's side and backs her up whenever Penelope argues with the two idiots because she thinks they're both idiots too.

-Vinter is an already graduated student and works at a orphanage that he made himself, and secretly looks after illegal children bc he cares so much about them. He's also from a royal wealthy family, and has a talent of doing magic tricks which he does for the orphanage children at their birthdays and has a cute white bunny as a pet that he takes with him from home.

-He looks at Ivonne as a little sister and has a crush on Penelope when he first met her, after Ivonne brought her here for a school project Penny needed to do. He falls more in love with her, even though she constantly treats him coldly bc the way he speaks to her annoys the hell out of her and thinks he's a strange silly man, but he thinks she's so beautifully pitiful at the amount of stress she does through everyday due to the pressure of being a superstar which he could see everytime he sees her.

-He feels bad that he can't help her because he's always blocked by everyone around her and she doesn't have any time to talk to him with her busy life so he does a favour by leaving her alone.

-Iklies is an immigrant boy (originally a prince) rescued from an illegal black market but made a reputation of being a really good fighter so the Duke hired him to be part of the private military police that he owned, becomes a security guard before beings friends with everyone. On the way he gets a crush on Penny who he feels so sorry for.

-Penny doesn't mind him but she often cooes over him (bc u know, he looks like a puppy) and plays with his hair a lot during his breaks since she can't stop feeling the fluffiness of it. Iklies is also the only one who she can talk to truthfully unlike her friends so they like to chat together in private out of eyes about everything, since they both feel sorry for each other.

-When Penelope graduates, she becomes a socialite leader of the women's society group of their town that she formed to do good things like donating charity and volunteers while studying at university. She kinda got depressed after graduating so she keeps herself busy like this.

-Ivonne loves the new group she made and is one of her follower, participating in the activities as well so Penelope gives her a particular role as her vice president and through this, Vinter with his orphanage gets connected with Penelope's group so he and Penny get close together as well with Vinter gladly doing so even though Penny doesn't want to but Ivonne insists on choosing his orphanage in particular for one charity project.

-Callisto still sticks around Penelope, trying to get her to date him or form a relationship. She still doesn't find any interest in him and is busy continuing on modeling, going to meetings for her group and going to special places with her father as the memorable member of the Eckarts, which thankfully helps her to have less time to see him around.

-Callisto is annoyed on top of his problem with his brother who is on the verge of turning into an adult and be crowned as the King. He's pretty busy as well, getting ready to be a king himself while constantly having assassins up his ass and after him and trying to pick off hungry men off his pretty lady.

-A few years later when Penelope finishes university and finally gets to go to France to work at a museum as a special job offer there that was sent to her, she leaves the women society group to Ivonne to make her the leader. Duke, Derrick and Reynold are hesitant to let her go but they do at the end since she's an adult with her own decision.

-Meanwhile Callisto decides to drop being the prince and follows her to France much to Penelope's annoyance. Iklies does as well to be her guard bc he doesn't want to be far from her and he lowkey is yandere and childish to keep her to himself only.

-Ivonne starts questioning if she could ever find a lover like a princess in a fairy tale like Penelope since she for all her life she was the one being overshadowed by Penelope and not really getting any attention as much as her, and she secretly had a crush on Callisto but never confessed because he loved Penelope like everyone else which was fine with her.

-But she ends up single as most of the time it's always creeps that try to flirt with her and she gives up on the idea of finding love like her sister, wishing she could scare them off with one glare like Penny.

-Someday in the future the Callisto wins and takes over the throne as well, kicking his brother and mother out of the emperor who did something good for once by making him be the king instead as he was more suitable so there is a large crowning ceremony that everyone in Ioka attends.

-Duke finally retires and Derrick becomes the next Duke. Penelope would come back home after so long to attend the celebration for the Duke only, who says he wishes that she came home more often with a lonely look. Penny would feel awkwardly guilty and ask him to come to France with her since he was retired and live there with her at Paris to make up for it.

-Penny also finally agrees to get into a relationship with Callisto as well after almost 7 years so the news of the duchess of Eckart and the prince of Ioka getting into a relationship goes viral and they become the most popular couple in the world. Poor Iklies but he grows up to understand over the years with respect, a much happier ending for him.

-Reynold is in disbelief, thinking she's crazy and Derrick gets jealous that she's with someone else and tries to tell her not to be with Callisto which she finds him hilarious and gross for liking her but she demands him to make up his mind about her before she cuts him out of her life so he ends up making the full decision to view her as his sister and apologizes.

-Penny is still busy being a girlfriend to a clingy boyfriend, working as an archeologist, traveling, going to special events and dinners, looking after her father, going to interviews and modeling. It's tiring until she and Callisto get married with the most biggest wonderful wedding like princess Diana and Prince Charles's wedding, then they have Judith.

-Cue Reynold dying inside and the Duke crying angrily at how Judith resembles Callisto more. But I could imagine Penny and Callisto having another girl and one boy but they have Penelope's looks, which the Duke and Reynold would probably appreciate better although it would be strange for Derrick. They would still both treat all three children nicely though.

-The Duke would pick on a hobby gardening and babysitting the children for her in the quiet countryside of france. Ivonne, Vinter and Iklies would love to baby sit the children too, as everyone treats them so wonderfully. Judith would become the Queen while Penny's second daughter or son would become the heiress of the Eckarts next.

[that-one-pretty-bitch]

𝑀𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉, 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒~

I do not write full on NSFW content. Slight hints to NSFW is okay, but I don't write full on smut.

I rlly dislike angst but I will do my best to write it for you~

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Jacqueline

 She/her

Bisexual

19 yrs old

𝙊𝙗𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙚! 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚?

I will write for:

Demon brothers

Lucifer

Mammon

Levi

Satan

Asmo

Beel

Belphie

Undatables

Simeon

Solomon

Luke ( STRICTLY platonic )

Diavolo

Barb

New charactersss

Thirteen

Mephisto

I’m not very sure on Rapheal since I don't understand him that well

𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚

Note: LGBTQ is supported and I will write LGBTQ content, so if that makes you uncomfortable please click off my blog.

Medea Solon

Psyche Callista

Eros Orna Vasilos

Helio Niccolo

Perion Sob Vasilos

𝙒𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧

Black Agriche family

Roxana Agriche

Jeremy Agriche

Lant Agriche

Maria Agriche

Sierra Agriche

Ashil Agriche

Dion Agriche

Grizelda Agriche

Charlotte Agriche

Blue Pedilian family

Cassis Pedelian

Sylvia Pedilian

𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨

Royal family of Obelia

Claude de Alger Obelia

Diana de Alger Obelia

Athanasia de Alger Obelia

Ex- royal family

Penelope Judith

Jeanette Margarita

Anastasius ??

Male leads

Lucas ( 1st male lead )

Ijekiel ( 2nd male lead )

Other side characters

Felix

Lily

Rosalia

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚

Literally JUST

Cayena

Rezef

Rapheal

Bcz the other characters were too complicated for me to understand.

𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙙𝙮

Inoden family

Hilise Inoden

Ricardo Inoden

Gabrielle Inoden

Vergette family

Axion Vergette

Parvenon family

Christian Parvenon

Calacia family

Lady Calacia

Margaux ( STRICTLY platonic )

𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨

Western empire

Heinry

Navier

Duke Ergi

Eastern empire

Sovieshit

Trasha

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙪𝙣 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣

Lelien

Lucas

Cassion

Javier ( Platonic unless aged up )

Friedick ( crown prince )

Irbitch ( Crown prince’s fiance )

𝘽𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨

Melissa Podebrat

Yuri Elizabeth

Nine Forton

Ian Basilios

Jake Podebrat

Yona Whitefall

Jack Forton

 𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙

Florentia ( Platonic unless aged up )

Perez ( Platonic unless aged up )

Gallan ( someone pls request him ily )

 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨

Penelope Eckart

Reynold Eckart

Derrik Eckart

Ivonee Eckart

Crown prince Callisto

Eckles

Winter

 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤’𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡

Claudia 

Irene

Felix

Benjamin

Lucas

 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧

Phileo

Leonia

Regina

[bm-contemporary-art]

New O.D. Painting #1703, Christian Eckart, 1992, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Christian Eckart Size: 78 x 45 x 12 in. (198.1 x 114.3 x 30.5 cm) Medium: Acrylic urethane on aluminum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/164692

[eilidh-art]

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who is well known for his sculptures and large scale installation work. In many of his works he uses elemental materials such as light, water and air temperature to enhance the viewers experience. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was then awarded a travel budget which he used to fly to New York and work as an assistant to artist Christian Eckart.

Algae Window is an artwork made up of different sized glass spheres in the form of an algae called diatoms, which remove large amounts of carbon from the air. Each sphere holds an inverted image of the scene in the window behind the piece. The installation overall creates a strong contrast between light and dark. The glass spheres appear very light and stand out from the pitch black surroundings creating a very dramatic image instantly grabbing your attention.

[h-o-l-o]

Iridescent art!

Top left: Cloud Field #4 by Christian Eckart

Top right and bottom left: Capturing Resonance by sculptor Soo Sunny Park and composer Spencer Topel

Bottom right: Future Materiality by Citymakers and designed by “Pravda” architectural bureau

[moodoofoo]

Christian Eckart Waterfall 2, 2019 unique archival digital print on unstretched canvas 66 1/2 x 45 inches

[mattsabourin]

Christian Eckart

http://www.christianeckart.info/