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poststructural analysis of pop culture, renaissance art history, feral dante scholarship, hellenisticish astrology, philosophical and esoteric ramblings about alchemy/ pop culture crossovers no one is free until we are all free! *millennial * she/her*

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · Sep 2

thread of threads (trying to group my thoughts and theories by theme /symbolism for easy reference/additions since many are ongoing)

a spiral galaxy with a blue and orange colored center

ALT: a spiral galaxy with a blue and orange colored center

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 20m

another similar painting by the same artist (georges de la tour ) that shows the jewelry thing more clearly

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 21m

particularly significant because this specific painting (vanitas of mary magdalene ) is shown in ariels cave in the little mermaid

whats a fire and why does it whats the word??? BURNNNN

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 24m

another part of the vanitas tradition is that jewelry/ accoutrements of vanity are literally cast aside (the person shown is often codified as mary magdalene who forsook worldly vanity in order to devote herself fully to spirituality (in one view of the lore )

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 33m

Raphael’s Villa Farnesina, peaches nestled alongside phallic gourds, their ripeness hinting at carnal indulgence. The peach’s cleft also evoked the female form, a metaphor later echoed in the emoji’s modern use for buttocks."
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The Lingua Franca of Lust: Fruit Symbolism from Renaissance Canvases to Digital Screens

The Symbolic Evolution of Fruits: From Renaissance Eroticism to Digital Emojis

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 33m

"The Peach: Virtue and Vice

Peaches symbolized duality: their velvety skin and succulent flesh represented virtue, but when bruised or half-eaten, they signaled moral decay. In Giovanni da Udine’s garlands for

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 34m

also maybe to reference the peach lyric in tloas the song
"sweeter than peach but you dont know the life of the showgirl babbbbe"

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 36m

but i digress -> back to the painting
we also see a peach (taylor mentions there should be 'some grapes with the bread'
but they changed it to a peach (similar, fruit that will rot etc but less overtly dionysian/christian)

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 37m

where st longinus stabs jesus to and creates a magical wound that is so clearly appropriating goddess symbolism (the key that opened my thighs etc) )

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 39m

as you can see this still life features her infamous bread (eucharist etc) which she mentioned that she scored very carefully (to let the steam out but also since im deep into christian iconography here (shout out to my undergrad degree)
i will mention that there is a moment

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 42m

this is often show through a variety of coded symbolism ( a chain! a crown ! a vine! etc )
chains less so but crowns of heaven/ grape vines that symbolize wine/eucharist/appropriated dionysiac rebirth imagery

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 43m

a subset of christian art that is Already thinking about that ( pretty much all paintings of baby jesus etc prefigure (aka foreshadow) his crucifixion/death and its theological implications etc

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 45m

(im not retyping that lol)

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 45m

vanitas is kind of painting that is meant to make the viewer reflect on the transience of life and the inevitiability of death

Vanitas[a] is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires. The paintings involved still life imagery of transitory items. The genre began in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is a type of allegorical art representing a higher ideal. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period (c.1585–1730).[1] Spanish painters working at the end of the Spanish Golden Age also created vanitas paintings.

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 45m

the art historical concept of 'vanitas'/'memento mori' and the showgirl era

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taylor (taylor’s version) @auroras-sadprose.bsky.social · 8h

YYAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL

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Butterfly 🦋 @mourningbutterfly.bsky.social · 8h

“Have the Gaylors been right this whole time?”

Yes.

taylor (taylor’s version) @auroras-sadprose.bsky.social · 8h

YYAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL

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loverofthesun.bsky.social @loverofthesun.bsky.social · 7h

“I think it won’t be appreciated until after it’s time”

“So ah we were born in the wrong time”

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Ally 💙💜💖🌈 @thinkaboutmelor.bsky.social · 8h

Save me siren roan

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stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 2h

oh and btw

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Lark @larkinspurs.bsky.social · 14h

In my head it’s “hey, thank you for the lovely wordplay” rn

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 14h

my mom listening to this album : i dont understand ANY of these songs except opalite

a woman with a flower crown on her head says what does it mean what does it mean ahhhh

ALT: a woman with a flower crown on her head says what does it mean what does it mean ahhhh

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 16h

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starlight braidlor slut! ✌️ @lesbianoasis.bsky.social · 18h

The emphasis on perfume with all of this Elizabeth Taylor talk, and also with the sourdough and baking of it all, is so interesting to me in that scent and taste are the two senses of Taylor‘s audience that she cannot penetrate with her art without being there in the room with them

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the7wivesofRH⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥 @the7wivesofrh.bsky.social · 16h

🩵🪞❤️

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 17h

if not finished honestly

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