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i am not immune to flower crowns and matching swords 🗡️⛓️🤍🌹

[xenagabrielleforever]

www.whenheartscollide.net

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(via The Winter Lookbook – Drakes US)

Some highlights from the Drake’s Winter 2023 lookbook. If I had the funds, I would want to buy my clothes exclusively from Drake’s. But since I don’t, I choose instead to use their lookbooks to give me ideas on how to use what is already in my wardrobe - oxfords & trousers from Spier & Mackay, sweaters and chinos from J.Crew, shoes from Velasca, Alden, & Allen Edmonds, and accessories including scarves, socks, ties, & hats from all over the map - to create similar looks. Might write a Substack post about this. 

[santillo1970]

Ready to wear corner 📍Piazza Velasca 6 @belloveso_milano #santillo1970 #handmadeinitaly #velasca #belloveso #rtw #collection (presso Belloveso) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzBCN5sbTN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[velascaitalia]

[architecturalcannibalism]

BBPR, Torre Velasca, Milan, 1955-57

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[dlyarchitecture]

[jackofclubs-1]

Typical weekday Fall “uniform” that works for working at home and for when I need to step out to the grocery store, or run to an appointment, etc. 

Clockwise from top left:

Shetland sweater from Velasca Barbour Bedale Waxed Cotton Jacket Spier & Mackay garment dyed chinos Suede Braided belt from J.Crew Suede chukka boots from Velasca Blue & white striped oxford shirt from Spier & Mackay

All items based on items I already own. Some are exactly what I already own, others are similar. 

[maximefauconnier]

Contemporary Living Room - Living Room Contemporary loft-style living room image

[velascaitalia]

[immobiliare-olivati-bergamo]

#CassagoBrianza #villa d'autore firmata Studio BBPR

[girl4music]

It’s interesting to think of Callisto not just as Xena’s arch-nemesis and main foil but also as Gabrielle’s mirror image and parallel because she can’t be much older than Gabrielle is. I mean Xena destroyed Callisto’s village when she was only a child. True, Xena was a teenager herself when she went on her 10 year long period of darkness. But she is obviously older by a good margin of years. I would say maybe 10 years between her and Gabrielle and 7 between her and Callisto. Say Xena was 16 when she began her dark period. That would make Gabrielle 6 and Callisto 9.

Which I think definitely checks out by the time we get to Xena’s army pillaging and destroying Cirra. Xena would be 20. Callisto would be 13 and Gabrielle 10.

So it’s interesting to think of Callisto as what Gabrielle could have been if Xena’s army had attacked Poteidaia instead of Cirra and murdered her family instead of Callisto’s. As I said - Gabrielle wasn’t special. There was nothing in her that would have made any real difference if those things had happened to her instead. Nothing but the love between her and Xena.

Which obviously she wouldn’t have had if circumstances had just played out that way.

If Gabrielle was Callisto and Callisto was Gabrielle.

And I like that Callisto tries to make Gabrielle see this when Gabrielle asks her if she felt anything when Xena confessed her crimes in ‘A Necessary Evil’ to a random village at her request in exchange for her assistance in stopping and defeating Velasca. She basically says: “Think about if this was you, would you be different?”

And Gabrielle wouldn’t have an answer for her…

Not yet. You see, to Callisto… Gabrielle fell in love with the villain. She wouldn’t possibly understand that. But Gabrielle wouldn’t possibly understand how Xena couldn’t be the hero. And it’s one hell of a dichotomy.

CALLISTO: “My goodness, are you trying to figure me out? I’m flattered.”

GABRIELLE: “Answer me. Or are you afraid?”

CALLISTO: “Let’s play a game, shall we?”

GABRIELLE: “All right.”

The way Callisto HITS when interpreting Xena and Gabrielle as a love story is so god damn DELICIOUS.

“You fell in love with the destroyer of my soul. Why would you think I would ever give mercy to you? But you’re no different to me. Circumstances saved you.

Instead of Xena destroying your life, she rescued your life. As my hatred for her grew, your love for her grew.

You could never understand me, little girl.”

But of course we know she does… eventually.

But she still looks at Xena as the hero. And that will always be the delicious striking difference with this.

In Callisto’s eyes - Xena is the villain.

In Gabrielle’s eyes - the hero.

What makes the difference? Honestly… Nothing but the circumstances because Gabrielle is no different.

Gabrielle fell in love. Callisto fell in hate.

Xena refused to let Gabrielle praise her - celebrate her. Nor did she ever ask for Callisto’s forgiveness. Ever.

She told her she was sorry but she didn’t force a narrative that she knew was absolutely impossible no matter how much Gabrielle believed in her goodness.

This show is not about heroes vs villains.

It’s about actions vs consequences.

The circumstances are the only difference between. And storytelling like that will always last because it will always be relevant and resonant for real people.

And once again - I have to highly praise the writers for refusing to let the protagonists off with plot armor. For refusing to sugarcoat the events and situations that happen in this show just because they’re the heroines and they’re a representation of women loving women. Because it’s also a representation of women hating women and that deserved to be just as focused on and just as much respected as the love story there.

Callisto was never undermined and I am so grateful. And great storytellers never have to sacrifice anyway. They can simultaneously tell a beautiful story of love, forgiveness and devotion and tell a compelling story of revenge, hatred and burden. That is great writing because it’s always honest, realistic and authentic.

And Callisto is emphasised xBILLION in a WLW love story because she becomes the main conflict in it.

Then everything that happens suddenly is MORE because the romance in this show doesn’t ruin it.

It only ever makes it more worth watching because the writers knew exactly what they were doing with it because not a single character arc ever suffers for it.

👏👏👏

[helloosmosis]

Barefoot in Velasca penny loafers