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Mme DeFarge

@defargeswift.bsky.social

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Vengeful Knitter 🧶🇫🇷 🩷💜💙 Using and abusing my liberal arts degrees.

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · Aug 29

One thing about me, I’m going to keep knitting as I watch heads roll from the gallows. 🧶

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! It’s also Venus’ Belt 🧶

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 2h

🧶

vampia (tone-deaf and hot) 🦇 @upandawayxo.bsky.social · 8h

this feels relevant

I've been thinking lately about how books, videos, and other forms of art need generous audiences. When I first read The Great Gatsby in high school, I ABSOLUTELY LOATHED it.
Looking back, the problem was not Gatsby but its reader, who could not summon the generosity of spirit to imagine the characters with much richness or complexity, despite there being plenty of nuance on the page.
Meanwhile, mediocre art can be made great by a reader/viewer who arrives willing to share their deepest selves with the story. In fact, I think the definition of great art is maybe, "Something made great by the vulnerability and care of an audience."

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 10h

Ok ok, without the murder part 😂

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Auds 𖹭 ๋࣭⭑ @hairpinraindrop.bsky.social · 1d

screaming into the void about how subversive it is to release this album in the midst of the WAG era. this album is her Trojan Horse.

let me repeat.

📣 'THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL' IS TAYLOR'S TROJAN HORSE 📣

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 10h

You are my siren song ❤️‍🔥

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 12h

@lesbianoasis.bsky.social 🧶

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 13h

@lesbianoasis.bsky.social 🧶

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 14h

I bought the damn Salvador Dali hoodie and I don’t want to talk about 😂 BUT I DO

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 14h

Ex Mormon and it FREAKED ME OUT

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 14h

It’s my favorite of all time 💗

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 15h

🪞🧶

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 15h

Dirty wine?? This is where I come in and talk about wine in a Tale of Two Cities/The French Revolution. The climax of the book is in the chapter “The Game Made” I break it down below… (I’ll spare you Greek Mythology of it all 😅)

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 16h

@lesbianoasis.bsky.social the villain wears scents too

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 16h

@leapfromshallows.bsky.social

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Mr. DanPelle @mrdanpelle.bsky.social · 16h

I’m
Spilling wine in the bathtub

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 17h

Bones are also known as the game Dominos

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 17h

oh and THE STARS.

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 17h

knitting the threads 🧶

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 17h

OH MY!

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 18h

The lips look like Man!I Feel Like a Woman! based on Simply Irresistible - complete with lesbian flags and orange belts, guitar playing and synchronized swimmers.

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by Robert Palmer

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 18h

The knits and purls of this 🧶

Material Tangelo ✌️ @materialtangelo.bsky.social · 18h

Great read

protectyourmagic.substack.com/p/youre-hear...

You're Hearing Phantom Copies in Taylor Swift's Music: An Art Historian Explains

You're not crazy, but she's not a plagiarist.

protectyourmagic.substack.com

Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 18h

I also like to mash up 7 and Wildest Dreams as a conversation she’s having with her younger self…and don’t get me started with Folklore + Artemis and her fawn.

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 19h

@weneededtocalmdwn.bsky.social I do in fact need to calm down 😹

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Mme DeFarge @defargeswift.bsky.social · 19h

@freefromfairytales.bsky.social 🎶☘️🏘️