#queen of sin

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Diana Rigg - The Avengers (1966)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

The Avengers (s4 e21, "A Touch of Brimstone") / Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel as the "Queen of Sin"

Fittingly for Leap Day, this costume is the odd one out in this month's group: it's the only one from the 1960s and also the only one from television rather than a movie. The costume, supposedly designed by Diana Rigg herself, was considered a bit too spicy for American TV--well, that plus the situation she finds herself in, which is infiltrating a club of thinly disguised S&M enthusiasts.

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Saw this today and thought of the whole Queen of Sin thing in Avengers, where the male fans drool at Emma in that outfit and make rude comments, and then justify their behavior by going “but ... but she’s empowered!”

The fuck she is not.

Get over yourselves and look at what the world is actually like for women. And it’s like that because too many men make it that way.

There's actually a reason that the trope of making a female assassin or female warrior in a video game or comic or action series scantily clad but justifying it as "but she uses it to distract her male enemies!!" is mostly something you only see from male writers and artists and also something that's long been denounced by feminists as misogynistic and objectifying regardless of what "reasoning" is given.

Other feminist writers who actually hold doctorate degrees on feminist subjects and are actually published writers have written on this better than I ever could, but it's a patriarchal myth that women secretly hold so much power and control over men by using sex and seduction. Turning yourself into a sex object will never grant you any access to any real power

The myth that women secretly hold a lot of power and control over men by using sex and seduction is a patriarchal myth that needs to die already. It's a myth that men use as a justification for their misogyny, men who buy into that myth use it at best as a justification to be suspicious of women and at worst to be outright violent towards women.

It's also blatantly false that using nudity or sex appeal to distract men would work in IRL combat because we know that IRL men have no issue with violently murdering nude or partially nude women. Women are murdered by their boyfriends or husbands while she's not wearing any clothes all the time, her nudity sure didn't save her or 'distract' him from violently murdering her. Also think of the high rate of violence and murders against women in the sex industry, most of the women murdered in the sex industry are nude or partially nude while they're murdered by clients or pimps, and their nudity or partial nudity sure doesn't save them by being from being violently murdered by being 'distracting' to the heterosexual men who murder them.

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Family trip to the market 🍎🫖🍦

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some dribbys feat. haTSUNE MIKU????

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my queen dizzy and her roided toddler

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Sometimes i forget that HB and HH share the same universe... can you imagine how the Hazbin hotels season 1 finale looked like from the perspective of the characters of Helluva Boss? Are you really telling me that while those funky little red demons were dealing with their drama and angst there was a damn battle between Heaven and Hell? AND NONE OF THE OTHER SEVEN DEADLY SINS SHOWED UP TO FIGHT? Like, okay i get why they didn't, but seen Ozzie and Bee kill some angels could have been really cool.

(half of me in tempted to believe that The Sins have never seen Lucifer, their sweet dork of a boss, get angry or lose his cool and watching him beat up Adam terrified them. But the other half of me also believes that he has beaten the shit out of Mammon at least once, while Satan and Ozzie cheered for him).

I NEED to see Blitzo's reacion to all this mess, i bet it was hilarious.

[nyxofdemons]

okay so the main criticism i've been seeing against episode 8 is that beelzebub (among other things) is "too nice" to be the sin of gluttony, because she's an attentive hostess, because she expresses worry over blitz's excess drinking, etc., and i wanna talk about it.

the thing is, i feel like this complaint is rooted in the most basic, somewhat cliche idea of the sin of gluttony, and a somewhat boring approach to bee's character in general. the idea is that, as the sin of gluttony, bee should be encouraging over-indulgence, excess, and the self-destructive aspects of party culture and drinking.

but she's the queen bee. she clearly explains that she can feel the "energy" of everyone at her party, and i think that's very important to analyzing exactly what gluttony means to her. instead of indulging in food and alcohol and drugs and being selfish (as gluttony is generally expected to be about), bee feeds on the ENERGY of the demons around her. and in order to get the best energy she can, she needs to be making sure everyone is actually having FUN and having a good time. gluttony, in this sense, is about EXTRAVAGANCE, having the best quality of everything, rather than just everything in general.

i also think this is why she was so put-off by blitz's actions. when he chugs the entire barrel of alcohol and then is absolutely wasted beyond all reason for the rest of the party, he's NOT actually engaging in her sin. he's not being gluttonous; he's not drinking to have a good time or to indulge or to have fun - he's drowning himself in alcohol because he's trying to forget and ignore all his problems, which is a sin much more akin to pride. his energy feels bad to bee because he's not having fun, he's deeply hurt and trying to distract himself by being self-destructive, which is NOT what her sin is about.

(also, remember, this is supposed to be part TWO of the finale. meaning, this episode (and the introduction of bee's character) directly goes hand-in-hand with the introduction of asmodeus, who's entire club IS about indulgence and depravity and everything you'd expect from the sin of lust. bee and the gluttony party are meant to be a direct foil to the energy of ozzie's.)

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OFFICIAL BEELZEBUB ART!

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petunia before she became a lil skelly

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The city may be run by the mayor, but everyone knows that it's really the "Sins" and "Overlords" that rule this gaff!

Introducing Human Mammon and Bee!

Big Mamm runs pretty much every industry that makes him cash, he's a simple man with simple needs and his one and only true love is money.

Queen Bee is a guru in food and cosmetics, she's an influencer with a heart of gold and can usually be seen tearing it up in The Hive, her nightclub in the Gluttony District.

[Bee's up close design!]

Thank you once again @blitzy-blitzwing for designing these guys!

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"Queen Bee doesn't look like a properly designed Beelzebub! There's nothing on her design that says Glutony!"

Ok... so we're talking about the sin about over self-indulgence, about seeking satisfaction through something you ingest, waste of food, eat or drink stuff that is bad for your body, waste money on overly expensive food....

I wonder is there is a type of escenario where all that happens at once.... oh yes. PARTIES.

So.....

A party queen. One with hair and tail made of the HONEY SHE MENTIONS DON'T STOP ON HER THEME SONG.

A belly that I bet can digest everything so she's NEVER EVER FULL of food or drinks. Also, works as another big clue.

Offers food and drink non-stop, is always up to get something in her, and has a pool full of what seems to be magical honey that she can turn into sweets.

.....nope. Not a convincing Glutony Queen at all. XD

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Soulsborne Villains

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Sheltered from the rain

Sorry for the kydiz there will be more i got too many ideas atm

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Something I’ve been thinking about when listening to ‘Crooked’ is how Ozzie seems to really relate to Fizz with lines like ‘I think you’re messy but I’m messy too’ and singing about his own ‘crooked heart’ and how he finds Fizz’s imperfections beautiful.

And I think this could get really interesting if Asmodeus and the rest of the Sins are fallen angels just like Lucifer. I mean imagine what Ozzie’s sense of self-image is like if he was an angel who left or was expelled from Heaven and took on this new form in Hell?

Like we’ve always wondered why the Sins look the way they do, particularly in contrast to the demons they seem to rule over. Asmodeus rules over the succubi and incubi yet is this multi-headed fire-rooster, Beelzebub rules over the hellhounds yet is some mashup of a fox/canine and a bee, and now Mammon rules over the shark-demons yet is some weird spider/pine-tree thing.

What if the reason they all look like this is the RESULT of them being Fallen Angels? Specifically, the result of their expulsion from Heaven? What if this is the whole reason for them being ‘embodiments of sin’ in the first place? What if it was all originally intended as a PUNISHIMENT by Heaven for whatever transgressions they may have committed? Something meant to ‘curse’ them when they fell.

In which case, I think it’s all too easy to imagine why Ozzie empathizes, relates and connects so much with Fizzerolli and his struggles. Because Fizz is going through a struggle likely all too similar to one that Ozzie may have gone through, what ALL of the Sins likely went through after their fall. Expelled from their home, having their bodies massively changed and told it was BAD. And I think Crooked shows how Ozzie coped with it: By embracing what he had become and finding the beauty in it, something that he now uses to help Fizzerolli, showing that there is no shame in all their crooked, messy imperfections, and that there is even beauty in them.

And I imagine that ALL of the Sins did more or less the same: They embraced and OWNED this ‘curse’ Heaven sought to ‘punish’ them with. Embraced these ‘sins’ they are supposed to embody and made them their own. It’s why Ozzie and Bee are able to express this very positive interpretation of Lust and Gluttony respectively. As a way of making a new life for themselves and also probably a big ‘fuck-you’ to Heaven.

Now that’s not to say that ALL of the Sins were able to do this in a positive manner, Mammon being a clear example. I imagine that as we are introduced to the rest of the Sins, we’re going to see more of a range of positive and negative ways they’ve chosen to express the ‘sin’ they embody. Like even Asmodeus has been shown to have had his hang-ups on Lust and Love being exclusive, leading to him keeping his true relationship with Fizzerolli secret.

Though it’s clear over the last couple episodes that Ozzie isn’t worried about that anymore.

And I think that in particular is REALLY interesting, because it implies that the Sins aren’t actually bound to a particular way of indulging. Rather, the way they express their ‘sin’ is not by compulsion but by CHOICE. Which I think puts all of the Sins’ actions in a pretty interesting light.

Like it means that Mammon being this petty, skeevy, manipulative asshole isn’t some grand, nebulous ‘Embodiment of Greed’ thing, but rather simply a Mammon thing. The product of his own personal issues and hang-ups. Which also weirdly enough implies that there’s hope for Mammon. The possibility that he doesn’t HAVE to be this way. Admittedly it would almost certainly take a (pardon the pun) HELLUVA family intervention to have a hope of making that happen, but you never know. It would certainly be in keeping with the themes of the show.

All in all, I’m finding more and more the possible backgrounds of the Seven Sins to be VERY compelling. Not just for ‘The Lore’ reasons, but because it further develops the Sins as characters. It takes these monstrously powerful and ancient beings and shows them to be far more grounded and, for lack of a better word, human than we might give them credit for.