Class is so ridiculously camp and weird and full of morally ambiguous disasters and bizarre off beats and I’m just really glad it’s following in true Doctor Who tradition by alternating between “hard hitting drama” and “what the hell did I just watch”.
Author: marcythewerewolf
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Cleopatra
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)#i love this picture of cleopatra #because she’s pretty enough but she’s not gorgeous #the art is doing nothing to emphasize her beauty #(there’s no exposed breast #her clothes aren’t sheer and her face is actually partially hidden #and she’s slumped over) #instead the focus is that expression on her face #and it’s not a cruel expression like you see with Lucrezia Borgia or paintings of Lady Macbeth #the emotion there doesn’t exist for the audience to witness and determine her character from #if anything she looks lost in thought #not the dreamy type but like when you’re trying to figure out a difficult problem #because you’re the Pharoah of Egypt and are holding off the Romans as long as you can #I love this picture because I think this is the real Cleopatra #it’s like taking a telescope and looking back in time at who she was and what she was like #a dead-smart girl famous for her political maneuvering and cleverness #not the poster child of evil beauty (via @dark-haired-hamlet)
Emancipated duels. Photo by Pavel Kurmilev
Baroness Lubinska who presided over the famous duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg in 1892, insisted that the duelists remove their clothing above their waists to avoid infection in the event that a sword pushed clothing into the wound it caused. Being a doctor, the baroness had seen many instances of septic infection in soldiers for this very reason throughout her years of medical training.
“The cause of the duel is reputed to be an argument over arrangements for the Vienna Musical and Theatrical Exhibition.” – I like these ladies.
Fight locations, ranked
IHOP parking lot: ridiculous. buffoonish. 3/10
Denny’s parking lot: has a certain dionysian flair. 6/10
Dunkin Donuts parking lot: lots of regional flavor. 7/10
The woods: nice and secluded, plenty of opportunities to use the terrain to your advantage. Just make sure to bring bug spray. 8/10
Any roof: dangerous, but points for style. 5/10
The top of any mountain: much like the woods, but with far more dramatic flair. Almost byronic. Loses points for being less practical than the other locations on this list, however. 7/10
A graveyard: disrespectful to the skeletons. 0/10
An abandoned warehouse: something of a cliche. 4/10
Any liminal space: This category includes town lines, entryways, borders, and crossroads. Is this a deeply symbolic, metaphorically charged fight? If it wasn’t before, it is now. 9/10
Wal-Mart parking lot: Quick question, are you shitting me right now? This is the absolute worst fight location. If youhave any respect at all for the noble art of throwing the fuck down, don’t get in a fight in a wal-mart parking lot. In fact, this also applies to wal-mart checkout lines, roofs, employee break rooms, corporate headquarters, and indeed any space at all associated with the walton family or the wal-mart corporation. Fuck wal-mart. 0/10
The parking lot of an abandoned Blockbuster Video: The cracked and faded blockbuster sign is a potent memento mori, inspiring a keen awareness of entropy and a sharp sense of loss in your opponent. As blockbuster is, so shall they one day be. Are there weedy plants growing up through cracks in the pavement? Oh man, that’s even better.The perfect fight location.
10/10
A Middleground 