Just Remembered This Fucking Thing Exists Again

still yapping about them

every time I read Venus in Furs again and I come to the part where they arrive in Florence I take it so personally. Leopold what do you mean "Suddenly the door is pulled open and the waiter with a theatrical Italian gesture calls [...]"???? Brother he's opening a door. Also "The people are less serious than we; perhaps, they think less, but they all look as though they were happy." please stop Leopold please I am begging you.

long ahh tangent under the cut

and then we could talk here for hours about how Sacher-Masoch fetishezes (pun intended) different cultures and people. He has done it in these examples with Italy but he does something comparable to it in many of his works about Jewish people. Yes, still he was an advocate against antisemism and we should not take that away from him but we need to address how his works do have some pretty blatant antisemitic tropes, here is a good essay about it (academia.edu link and JSTOR link idk which one you prefer). And then obviously the racism in "Venus in Furs" of having black enslaved women as almost "accessories" to the fantasy and the remarks that are written about them which mix racism and misogyny.

sorry rant over y'all can go on with your lives

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

The Velvet Revolution is, in fact, still not over for some of us

Ferat Vampire | Juraj Herz | 1982

Jirí Menzel, Kveta Straková, Zdenka Procházková

conclave (2024) would be PERFECT for a children's hospital

Jean Paul Gaultier spring/summer 2007

I'm not really having fun rn

quote from Venus in furs obviously

Today I went to Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien so I'm posting the least atrociously photographed art I have from there ^^

Behold! Helena Fourment! (Only real ones know the context) (I am ashamed to admit this painting was the entire point of the trip and even after seeing it with my own eyes I still dislike it lol)

Judith with the head of Holofernes:

1. Carlo Sacareni

2. Simon Vouet. Always a pleasure to see his work in a gallery.

Ancient statue of godess Isis. She's so badass looking and the two colors of marble, breathtaking.

Girl in a fur, Tizian. I have no idea if Masoch ever saw this painting so just in case I am in love with her for him. But genuinely, my favourite from the "new" paintings that I saw today.

Me n who? (Idk who they are ngl)

Apollo and Daphne, Jakob Auer. One of those that impressed me the most.

More Apollo.

Dionysus, good to see you!

Aaand souvenirs:

(Somebody cure me of autism please)

I hope y'all are writing this with the knowledge that by changing what Wanda is wearing you are also changing Severin's fetish

Venus in furs where everything is the same but there are fleas in Wanda's furs and she catches them so she's constantly itching her scalp