#thekla reuten

[talesofunlikelysapphicpairings]

Someone messaged me on TikTok asking about Thekla and what show she was in and I directed her to Warrior Nun. 😌 She's only one but dAMN, I HAVE SOMEONE NEW TO TALK TO ABOUT WARRIOR NUN AGAIN.

[rxnefairs]

yeah, i’ve been known to share

[ona-na-na]

Mafia Mama

[geekgirlspoetryproject]

How my love for Warrior Nun ended up getting me a published novel

So like many of us, i am a huge fan of Warrior Nun. Like a somewhat smaller number of us, I am a big Doctor Superion shipper. Can't be helped. Mature ladies getting it together is my jam. I have written fic about them and of course a lot of Avatrice and Lilshotgun.

Anyway, I saw this picture of Thekla Reuten and

I thought "oooo, detective!"

Not long after, I encountered this photo of Sylvia Defanti:

And I thought, "ooo, detective wife! Wait no! DETECTIVE EX-WIFE!"

And then I thought, what if ART Detectives?? Picture them chasing an art thief around Europe while bickering and lowkey sniping at each other and falling back in love despite themselves and their whole opposites-attract yin/yang thing?

Plus, you know, Europe:

The more I thought about the idea, though, the more I realized I needed to change the characters too much for it to work as a fic. So because I was writing a lot of screenplays at the time, I wrote it as a screenplay. Let me tell you about these women...

Fleur van Beekhof

So yeah, you can see the shades of Jillian, obviously: cool, pragmatic, strategic and unflappable on the outside. Inside, a total disaster: heartbroken, career stagnating, struggling with a gambling addiction and still not over her ex-wife,

Renata Cellini

Renata quit the bureau after their divorce and went to manage a friend's art gallery in Bologna. She's passionate, sometimes harsh, wears everything out on her sleeve and is 100% in it for the drama, leaping into danger and looking annoyingly hot while doing so. She's Fleur's sole choice for all 3 options of "f*ck marry kill."

The only thing that could bring her back to the bureau is the "Fabulous Gustave," the one thief who got away from them, whose escape precipitated Fleur's gambling problem and the unraveling of their marriage.

What's more, he stole a painting by her favorite painter, the one she did her Master's thesis on: "Susanna and the Elders," by Artemisia Gentileschi.

(Artemisia btw was a badass, a baroque master not fully recognized in her day. She painted women like nobody else... with fury and agency. "Yo check out the head of the Assyrian general who was creeping on me, I just saved my people, you're welcome."

Anyway, ahem.)

So I had this movie written. The thing about movies, is they take forever to get made, if they do at all. And I adore these women and this story too much, so I adapted it into a novel, and on a hail-mary pass, sent it to one of the bigger sapphic publishers I knew of.

THEY SAID YES.

Look! In all its pre-orderable glory!

The women of Warrior Nun have been and continue to be an inexhaustible fountain of inspiration.

And also, if you feel like it, please support my novel.

[sisterdivinium]

Warrior Nun truly is the most fucked up fucking show in the whole fucking world isn't it

Thecla (Ancient Greek: Θέκλα, Thékla; Greek: Θέκλα; Turkish: Tekla) was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.

In one scene, female beasts, particularly lionesses, protected her against her male aggressors.

It is also said that Thecla spent the rest of her life in Maaloula, a village in Syria. There, she became a healer and performed many miracles...

...but remained constantly persecuted.

In one instance, as her persecutors were about to get to her, she called out to God, a new passage was opened in the cave she was in, and the stones closed behind her.

Around AD 280, Thecla features as one of the characters in Methodius of Olympus' Symposium, in which she displays considerable knowledge of profane philosophy, various branches of literature, and eloquent yet modest discourse. Methodius states that she received her instruction in divine and evangelical knowledge from Paul, and was eminent for her skill in sacred science ("Logos 8").

According to some scholars, Thecla's story inspired many later stories of women saints who dressed as men

All of these women were empowered by Thecla, a woman who did things that not many women would ever dare to do

In Spanish-speaking countries, she is also facetiously counted as the patron saint of computers and Internet, from the homophony with the Spanish and Catalan word tecla ("key").[citation needed]

(text on Thecla of Iconium taken from Wikipedia)

[pedroam-bang]

In Bruges (2008)

[juodojimirtis]

"They let us believe we're in... To what end?"

"To destroy him."

Warrior Nun (Isaiah 40:31)

[movienized-com]

Citadel: Diana

Citadel: Diana (Serie 2024) #MatildaDeAngelis #LorenzoCervasio #MaurizioLombardi #TheklaReuten #GiordanaFaggiano #DanielePaoloni Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2024- Genre: Action / Drama / SciFi Hauptrollen: Matilda De Angelis, Lorenzo Cervasio, Maurizio Lombardi, Thekla Reuten, Giordana Faggiano, Daniele Paoloni, Julia Piaton, Filippo Nigro, Marouane Zotti, Maxim Mehmet, Bernhard Schütz, Maxence Dinant … Serienbeschreibung: Das italienische Kapitel des Universums “Citadela”, einer revolutionären Serie globaler Ereignisse von Prime Video…

[lifewithaview]

Thekla Reuten in Warrior Nun (2020) Proverbs 31:25

S1E2

Cardinal Duretti gives Father Vincent a day to find the halo, but Father Vincent wonders if the halo is meant to be with Ava. Mary tracks the mercenaries' bullets to their creator and then to their supplier, and it later becomes clear that the mercenaries are contracted to work for ArqTech. Ava worries that she doesn't fit in with JC and his friends, and they take her to sneak into a party at ArqTech. At the party, ArqTech's Dr. Salvius demonstrates that she can stabilize the Higgs field to create a quantum portal, but Cardinal Duretti recognizes that she has used divinium to do so and demands that the holy relic be returned to the church. Ava is attacked by the tarask, but Father Vincent and the nuns save and capture her.

[talesofunlikelysapphicpairings]

I have been trying to practice more with photo manipulation so here's a Thekla Reuten x Sylvia De Fanti manip.

Which one do you like more?

[healed1337]

British Comedy month 3 - In Bruges

Normally I’m not a big fan of black comedies. Sure, individual dark jokes can be hilarious, but when that’s the main focus of a comedy, well … I’d rather watch something that’s more light-hearted if I’m in the mood for a laugh. That said, a very well done black comedy, or even one that’s mixed in with drama or a thriller, can still be a good watch. Enter 2008’s In Bruges, released by Spotlight…

[ona-na-na]

They gave her a few minutes of screen time and she appeared like she had stepped out of a Ralph Lauren lookbook.

"Are you looking for Daddy?"

Ma'am don't look at me like that (Oh, please do) 🫠

I'm unwell

[geekgirlspoetryproject]

More of Jillian's S1 boss babe energy. I really loved her evolution in Warrior Nun and was actually surprised when I realized that I've written more poems for her so far than any other character.

Natural Born Skeptic

I’m not a mystic,  I'm a natural born skeptic,  I’m not interested in magic –  just give me the metrics. 

My faith is in myself, Not in a god that can’t be measured, And in particles extracted  from your blessed ancient treasures. 

You and I are no different,  I just have more resources And the intellect to interfere  with strange and arcane forces. 

Biblical, you call it. Fine, I suppose.  If you kick a hole in the universe,  someone’s bound to want it closed.

Sin is just a construct,  and comedy’s divine. And I can sometimes be a saint, If our interests align. 

But God and I’ve not spoken, and I don’t expect we will. He hasn’t done the complex maths  or helped me foot the bill. 

Is this a door to Heaven? Or Hell?  Or someplace else?  Go pray about it if you must. I’ll keep believing in myself.

[sisterdivinium]

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[pedroam-bang]

In Bruges (2008)