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Jensen Ackles as Mark Meachum in Countdown S01E03

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CLEMENTINE in THE WALKING DEAD GAME (2012-2019)

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sexyback is a good song but the idea of justin timberlake being sexual disgusts me I don't even register him as a human being let alone a person or a man he's more akin to an old blind dog who pisses everywhere

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PLAYING THE WALKING DEAD FINAL SEASON. Clem x Louis.

Oh that’s, uh, that… that’s a potato? It’s a heart, yep, I see it‘s a heart. That’s… super cool. Really cool.

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CESARE BORGIA & LUCREZIA BORGIA MARK RYDER & ISOLDA DYCHAUK IN BORGIA 3.08

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let's be evil with Mama

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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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i'm a stranger to this fandom and hardly know any of these characters but i must say your blog is of great intrigue to me. i can't look away. who the fuck is tim.

KING YAOI HAS NEVER ENVIED SOMEONE SO FIERCELY IN HIS LIFE.

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"About your portrait of Madame X, with her loose strap falling away from her naked shoulder?" - Bertha Russell, The Gilded Age Season 3: Episode 1

When John Singer Sargent's Portrait de Mme *** (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) debuted at the 1884 Paris Salon, it caused a huge scandal. The public's reaction was so negative that Sargent moved out of the country, and his high-society model’s reputation was ruined.

The portrait initially showed one of the dress straps hanging from Gautreau’s shoulder, and some people criticized it for being 'lewd'. But Parisian society's main issue with the portrait was that they found it 'tacky'.

Madame Gautreau was derided and jeered - people believed the painting hinted at her 'loose morals'. The married Gautreau already had a reputation as an adultress - it was rumored that she had affairs with French statesman Léon Gambetta and diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. (Though some people sympathized with her alleged cheating since her husband was twice her age and said to be very unattractive.)

Apart from Gautreau's 'revealing' clothing in the portrait, the appearance of her very pale skin was also derided. Like some fashionable women of the day she may have used arsenic or maybe rice powder to lighten her skin. But people generally thought her skin's paleness was way too exaggerated and 'ghostly' looking in the portrait.

"Gautreau’s mother was furious. According to the Tribune article, she lamented to Sargent, “All Paris is making fun of my daughter... She is ruined. My people will be forced to defend themselves. She’ll die of chagrin.” Melodrama ensued. Gautreau never recovered from the shameful incident and retreated from Parisian society for the rest of her life. De Costa cites a letter in which she moaned, “I will try to get over the sadness which for several days has overwhelmed me and which makes me depressed enough to die.’” Sargent was meanwhile concerned with his own reputation. Critics so lambasted the canvas that the artist opted to make a crucial change to the composition: After the exhibition ended, he repainted Gautreau’s strap to fall properly on her shoulder. In 1886, he escaped his infamy in Paris and lived the rest of his life in London, never again taking such a risk with his practice. He did also take a major step to limit Gautreau’s notoriety: When he gave the painting to the Metropolitan Museum in 1916, he insisted the institution continue to disguise the subject’s identity. And thus, “Madame X” has, instead of adopting the far more banal Portrait of Mme. Pierre Gautreau, retained its teasing title." Why Madame X scandalized the art world - Alina Cohen