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[mondfahrt]

Questions About Art

In the last couple of weeks, you've probably seen a few twitter threads like these (or their re-posts on tumblr) about the "decline" of art and architecture. Now, these kinds of posts (and people like The Cultural Tutor especially) have a lot of fascist red flags that other people have pointed out much more eloquently than I ever could, but I'd like to give my own two cents about why this view on art, architecture and their history proposes a lot of problems but also some questions that are worth getting into.

Some of the problems I'll be talking about are directly from these twitter threads, some I saw in the comments of these threads, and some I've encountered in my daily life. I'm not saying these are all fascist! In fact, a lot could just be labelled as "things you learn about art history when you don't spend years studying it". This mindset and this kind of bias are, as you will see, very very old and there are reasons why we still struggle with them today.

I kind of want people to know about arguments I rarely see talked about in non-academic spaces. Diversify the public discourse, if you will. I know some of these things tend to get complicated but I've tried to keep it as simple as possible. But if you have any questions about any of this, please ask! I can talk about art all day every day.

Also, I'm not claiming to know everything. If nothing here seems to make sense to you, that's fine, too. I'd really like to know your opinion, though! And if I've made mistakes and you know better: Please tell me!

(I also really understand that engaging with these kinds of arguments is maybe kind of pointless. People will see and like and think what they will see and like and think. Art has always been devisive. But I love talking about art and I think I do have some perspective on this topic. And the discussion is kind of the point here. Also, if you read those threads on twitter, most comments are actually saying some good stuff. Not everything is mindblowingly wrong. I'm elaborating on some of it.)

Okay, let's get this thing going!

1. What is supreme?

There are several problems here: The choice of vocabulary is probably the least offensive. But this person presents their opinion (and it is simply that) as fact while assigning subjective values to the Pietá. What is extraordinary? What is beauty? Why is it surpreme? Is it because of the assumed value of marble, historically taken as a luxurious material when it isn't really any better than any other stone... Is in fact worse under certain circumstances because it really doesn't like getting wet... But I don't think this person wants to talk about that here. I think what they really mean is: It takes skill to make stone look like flesh or fabric.

Now, the problem with this is: It's a myth. Granted, we'll maybe have to leave Michelangelo out of it, because apparently he did do a lot of the work himself, but... a lot of artists did not. In fact, the artist as this unique genius working on his own, all by himself, is a narrative that's been pretty much established because of Michelangelo and the way art history has literally been built on top of his legacy. But most artists, before, during, and after Michelangelo's time, had whole workshops and teams of people working for and with them. We don't know a lot of medieval artists today because they didn't think it was important who had done the work. They shared their skills and time and resources to make and build and craft. Same goes for artists during the 17th century, because most of them still needed the help of craftspeople to make a bronze cast, for example. Sometimes we still can't decide if something is "by Leonardo da Vinci" or by one of his students or made in his workshop because sometimes an artist had an idea, drew a sketch and let other people do things like the background or details he didn't have the time for because he was busy inventing planes. And no one really cared because it was still from his workshop and having him paint the whole thing would've cost a lot more. Not only money but also time.

What we can see here, over time, is the development of the narrative of the artist as genius, and the devaluaziation of workshops and crafts in comparison to art.

2. What is an artist?

This is funny because idea, concept, and intellectual work in general are initially what seperated art and craft. The male artist as genius who creates something (the Pietá) out of nothing (a block of marble) is an important narrative! Saying that Jeff Koons' works are worse because he didn't do it himself is kind of ridiculous because it's nothing new. Artists have done this for centuries. And devaluing his work because it's only an idea/a concept is even funnier because that's one of the most important aspects of art in the early modern period.

For comparison: This is one of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dogs, mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating (here in magenta), 121 x 143 x 45 inches (307.3 x 363.2 x 114.3 cm), made between 1994-2000.

Douglas Crimp says,

"The extraordinary status that has accrued to the work of art during the modern period is, in part, a consequence of the romantic myth of the artist as the most highly specialized, indeed unique producer. That this myth obscures the social division of labor was recognized by Minimal artists. Traditional sculpture's specialized craft and highly fetishized materials were opposed by Minimalism with the introduction of objects industrially fabricated of ordinary manufactured materials." (1)

Jeff Koons is not a Minimalist. Their works from the 1950s and 1960s looks more like this.

This is Carl Andre's 4 Square 4 Void, installation 2018, 12 unit hollow square on floor, 0.5 x 160 x 160 cm.

Minimalists like Andre intended to completely erase the hand of the artist by using materials that had to be very obviously made with machines. This is where another art myth comes in as well: "I could have done that." Yes, that's the point. Minimal art is supposed to let you reflect on the way we lift artists to higher standards. Why would you treat Andre's metal squares differently than the concrete floor their lying on? You're actually even invited to walk on these! To reflect the way you experience the room around you, with the artwork and your body in it... (The Minimalists had a whole thing going on relationships between art, space and viewer as a critique of the supposedly "neutral" gallery or museum space but that's a topic for another day.)

The Minimalists (Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd...) also did these high finishes like Koons, very shiny surfaces that show no traces of brushes or chisels. You're not supposed to think these have been done by one person. And if they're not done by a person but by a machine, or by a whole group of people working these machines, then who is the artist? What is an artist? And can anyone be an artist?

3. Is it art if you (don't) need to explain it?

They also wanted to make art accessible. Since the kind of art the Minimalists did was pretty much completely new and unheard of in the 1960s, no one understood it, which meant that everyone started on the same level. You're just supposed to feel their art, its position in the room and in relation to your body. Everyone can do that. No academic advantage. Some critics were furious about that.

Of course, this concept falls apart a bit when you think about art historians and critics engaging much more with art in general, talking to artists and other historians, knowing about materials etc. You'll never get a completely even playing field, if you ask me, but at least the Minimalists tried to do something.

In contrast: The twitter post above claims that the Pietá needs no explanation or context. But that's not exactly true, is it? Sure, you can appreciate it without knowing anything about it. Pain like that translates well in any case, I think. But being at least culturally Christian puts you miles ahead of everyone else already. Knowing that that's the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, who's lying in her arms, dead... otherwise these two people could be lovers, or siblings, or friends. It's also placed in a church, you can't really get close to it, which could make it hard to even see that the man in the woman's arms is dead, at first glance he could just be unconscious, even sleeping. Not having this context doesn't make this work less impressive, on a skill-level, but it does add some things.

Context matters.

Which takes me to one point in the discussion on twitter that actually makes me angry.

4. What is context?

The OP says that they don't know what to think about these sculptures. Maybe you don't either, that's completely fair! Let me add some context:

On the left: Veronica Ryan's Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae), and Soursop (Annonaceae), all from 2021. Now, I had to research this but it was fairly easy. I just used Google. The titles suggest that these are fruit. The fact that they are the UK's first public sculpture dedicated to the Windrush generation makes me think that they're probably culturally and historically important to these people specifically. People from the Caribbean, where the artist was born and where these fruits are common, who migrated to the UK.

I like this anecdote from an article in iNews on the day the sculpture was unveiled in London:

"On a wet October morning, shoppers wheeling trolleys nodded in recognition as they passed the work. A mother fielded questions from her young daughter, identifying the soursop for her and explaining what it was as they walked away. As Ryan posed for photographers, a young man sped past, pointed at the marble sculpture and shouted “sugar-apple!” - “That’s right!” the artist shouted back, beaming." (2)

I know what the Pietá is depicting, I've learned about it from growing up as a Christian and studying art history. I had to google what a soursop was, but other people have grown up with them and look at this sculpture, already knowing what it means.

Context matters.

I also think it's important to know that this is the first public sculpture in the UK by a Black woman. And I love that Ryan says she wants these sculptures of fruits to be a part of the community, to bring people together like food tends to do, to remind people of good things, to give them a place to sit or rest or climb on.

The Pietá sits high and mighty, untouchable, holy, and that's for a reason, too. But I like that sculpture like Ryan's, made from marble and bronze just like so many sculptures from the Renaissance, can also be like this, public and warm.

I don't have to understand everything about it. I have never eaten a sugar-apple, or a breadfruit. This is not art made for me. It does not need to be. But I can still find something in it, if I open my mind, do a bit of research, and don't expect everything to be spelled out for me.

Now, the sculpture on the right is a bit more complicated: It's Heather Phillipson's THE END, 2020, and it was placed in Trafalgar Square, London, on the so-called Fourth Plinth. The Fourth Plinth is a public art project intended to diversify the monuments in London. The other three plinths on Trafalgar Square all carry statues of white British men (two generals and one king). The fourth plinth was supposed to carry another general but the funds ran out and it remained empty until the 1990s, when it was decided that it would instead show different works of contemporary art temporarily, specifically commissioned for this place. Phillipson's work is supposed to look playful, joyful, even tasty, but with a darker twist. The drone on top of the whipped cream sculpture is recording a live feed of Trafalgar Square, a commentary on surveillance in public spaces, even - or especially - if those public spaces are places for people to come together and enjoy life and culture. The sculpture is not taking itself very seriously, just as it is poking fun at the seriousness of other (public) art, like the generals and kings surrounding it, or the paintings in the National Gallery behind it, but it's also political. Who does a public square belong to? Do we know who's watching us at any given moment? But also: Who are we watching? Everyone can watch the sculpture's live feed, all the people on the square, but also every statue of a dead white man there.

5. Do you need to be told this is art?

At this point, I do think OP is arguing in bad faith here. I'm not saying you have to like any of these artworks. Or that you have to understand them immediately, or get anything out of them. But they are so much more than just "shock factor". Actually, most of modern, postmodern and contemporary art is about so much more than shock factor, especially public sculptures. I've only talked about those here because the OP on twitter only talked about those but it's also my field of study. And I still needed to research a lot to write this, so I don't expect anyone to understand anything immediately. But when it comes to art, I urge people to keep an open mind. Most artworks are much more meaningful than you'd expect and I bet I could actually tell you a lot about Michelangelo's Pietá you didn't know that would change its interpretation to you.

Here are a few just for fun:

This is the only statue by Michelangelo with a signature. We're not sure why exactly that is. Because he saw this as a great work and was proud of himself? Or because he was only at the beginning of his career when he made it and needed to build a reputation?

Mary looks much too young in this to have an adult son. It's an anachronism that's maybe pointing towards her later ascension. Or towards some kind of "beautiful people are moral and good" metaphor that was very prominent during the Renaissance. Or maybe Michelangelo just didn't want to make an older woman.

This work is a masterpiece of composition: You don't even realise that Mary is much larger than Jesus because she's sitting and because her dress is so voluminous. But it's also only brilliant when you're looking at it from the front. It's placed in a church, in front of a wall, so you can't even see behind it. That means, Michelangelo didn't need to do a full piece that's amazing and interesting from all sides - which is, incidentally, a factor that becomes very popular during the Late Renaissance.

I think that last point is interesting because sculptures like those by Phillipson and Ryan do need to be interesting from all sides, since their placed in an open space. They need to do something with the space around them, not just with one wall in a church.

These sculptures are not random. Not even when you don't know what the artists wanted to do with them. If you get something else out of THE END or Custard Apple, that's fine! That's not random, that's just one way to look at art, it's interaction, it's dialogue.

6. What is the conceptual foundation of art?

We can disagree on this but I don't think the "conceptual foundation of modern art" is to question accepted standards of what art can be. (Setting aside that OP is most likely mixing up modern and contemporary art here.) There are hundreds of movements, styles, and theories in art. Andre, Koons, Phillipson and Ryan are just four artists out of thousands, and each one wants to do something different with their art. Yes, some of them want to question what art can be. Some want to question the assumed neutrality of the gallery. Some want us to think about our bodies in space. Some want to make political statements about surveillance. Some want to see their heritage represented in public.

Some of my favourite artists want to make you think about life and death and all the love we share in between. How we interact with people daily. Or how the world around us keeps moving and changing. Some want to make statements about gender and bodies, or the environment, or colonialism, or capitalism. Some want you to see all the shadows on a white canvas. Some just really like a certain shade of blue.

Art can be so many different things. I love Medieval art, and Renaissance art, and art from the Enlightenment... (I even have friends who study these periods in art history!) No work of art, no period in art history, is superior to another.

OP of the thread - as well as commenters like Mike Brook - assume that contemporary art is only one thing. They argue that idea and concept and meaning trump everything in contemporary art, that form has become meaningless. That's true for some artworks, concept art in particular, or art that can be reproduced again and again. Looking down at that art, criticizing it as meaningless or only interesting because of its shock factor, misses the point, though. And it is - and this is important - incredibly elitist.

7. What is art?

This is an argument we've had since the beginnings of art history - when one of Michelangelo's friends, Giorgio Vasari, published biographies of artists, likening them to nobles and popes and highlighting their unique skills in order to make them out to be geniuses. That meant, in turn, that you couldn't simply become an artist, but that you were born to be one.

Vasari had such an influence on art history - he's actually said to be the "father of art history" - that we still have to unravel these narratives today. Because when Vasari wrote these biographies, these stories, he only included the (in his opinion) greatest artists of all, with Michelangelo coming out on top. He's the reason we have an art historic canon, a set of artists who are considered important and great and worthy of study and admiration and remembrance. Of course, Vasari mostly included Italian artists because most art from north of the Alps was not as great. And anyone before Michelangelo couldn't be as great as Michelangelo because you needed to show progress, that art was moving forward, becoming better and better. Art made by women was always depicted as being less good than that made by men. And so on, and so forth...

The same narrative goes for understanding art. There are several instances throughout art history when people (mostly old white men) cried about the supposed "end of art". It happened with the Impressionists, with the Dadaists, with the Minimalists, with concept art and installation art and so on.

In 1967, art critic Michael Fried published an essay called "Art and Objecthood" in which he criticized Minimal art (especially in comparison to Modernist art) as being literal and theatrical. It is one of the most cited essays on contemporary art in recent decades. You might ask yourself, what about Carl Andre's metal plates on the floor could be theatrical? Literal can be understood: They are literally metal squares on the floor. They don't pretend to be anything else, like how Michelangelo's marble pretends to be Jesus, or how Ryan's bronze pretends to be fruit. In this way, they can be understood by everyone. You don't have to have read the Bible or been to the Caribbean to "understand" a metal square. You are simply supposed to experience your body in relation to it. That also means that the artwork speaks to every person differently and individually, because no one can experience art out of any body other than their own.

"Theatricality" to Fried means superficiality, deception, and emptiness of meaning. If a work of art doesn't claim to be anything else than what it is, it's superficial. If anyone can find different, individual meaning in a work of art, no one can really know what the artist wants to say, so it's deceptive. And if the artist doesn't care about universal meaning being found in their work, it must be meaningless.

Christa Noel Robbins says on Fried's essay:

In catering to each viewer in their turn, the ability of the work of art to transcend atomized taste and enter into something like a community of meaning making is foreclosed. Absent that community, Fried has long argued, a work of art has no real meaning; it is particularized, isolating the viewer in their own individuated field of experience. (3)

If a work of art doesn't transcend to give us some higher meaning, a meaning that's the same for everyone, is it art? Or is it an object?

That's basically what people who question any and all contemporary art, who ask "what is an artist?", have problems with. They don't want to see that a sculpture is just a block of marble, no matter the form. The form doesn't make it any less a block of marble, something very normal, and earthly, and not "supreme" at all. And not everyone will find (or needs to find) higher meaning in that block. Only if someone does find higher meaning in it, does it become art at all - Michelangelo's sculpture needs the viewer, just like the metal squares need the viewer to make them into art. Into more than objects. But this process is extremely subjective, for Michelangelo just as much as for Andre or Ryan.

"Anything can be art," complains The Cultural Tutor in another tweet. But that's not the real problem they have. The problem is: If anything can be art, and I don't like some of that art and I don't even think it's art, who's to say that Michelangelo's Pietá is art? If I can question contemporary art, isn't everything else in danger to be questioned as well?

(1) Douglas Crimp: "Serra's Public Sculpture", in: Rosalind Krauss (ed.): Richard Serra/Sculpture, New York 1986, pp. 40-56, p. 44. (2) Hettie Judah: "Veronica Ryan’s celebratory giant fruit are a lesson in how to do public sculpture well", in: iNews, 10/01/2021, URL: https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/veronica-ryan-windrush-monument-fruit-sculpture-hackney-london-review-1227786. (3) Christa Noel Robinson: "The Sensibility of Michael Fried", in: Criticism 60:4 (2018), pp. 429-454, p. 432.

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Preview: Blade Runner 2039 #4

Blade Runner 2039 #4 preview. Ash, Isobel and Hythe face off against Luv, Niander Wallace's deadly Replicant Blade Runner #bladerunner #comics #comicbooks

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The 44 House members who voted to provide cover for Jew haters:

 Reps. Becca Balint (D-VT)

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Andre Carson (D-IN)

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Danny Davis (D-IL)

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Chuy Garcia (D-TX)

Robert Garcia (D-CA)

Al Green (D-TX)

Jared Huffman (D-CA)

Jonathan Jackson (D-IL)

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[gatabella]

Veronica Lake and her husband, Hungarian-American film director Andre de Toth (1913-2002), in the North American Navion four-seat aircraft which was a Valentine's gift from Lake to De Toth, United States, 1947

#veronica lake #aircraft

[ask-a-w]

Watched Nick Apostolides play Separate Ways and wrote down stuff that caught my attention.

Guests on the stream: Craig (Wesker’s VA) & Andre (Luis’ VA). Andre joins for a short while mid-way through the stream.

- Nick was there when he watched Andre film the cutscene of Luis doing the flamenco. Apparently Andre nailed it in one take.

- Nick says Andre spent months researching the Spanish culture. (Andre talks a little bit more about it later.)

- Craig went to Vancouver three times in 2022 to film RE4R & SW. The main game & DLC were shot together. He couldn’t say he went to Vancouver more than once or else he would give away that there were extra content like SW & Mercenaries.

- Nick was not aware how Ada got infected.

- Craig played RE5 co-op years ago and is trying to play it solo but acknowledged it’s not that fun to play solo.

- Craig’s download for SW took 7 minutes and he was very amused by that.

- Craig can only talk about games that have come out so don’t ask him if there’s gonna be a remake for CV or RE5.

- Craig was not aware who or what he was auditioning for and only knew he was playing Wesker when he was flown to the studio. He asked them if he should play Wesker like previous incarnations or like what he did in his audition. They told him to play Wesker like his audition.

- Craig said when he filmed for RE: Outbreak 20 years ago, the actors only saw stick figures on the screen but now, as you stand in front of the mocap cameras, you can see your entire character model on the screen rightaway and he’s quite impressed how far technology has advanced.

- Craig said he did mocap for Outbreak for 6 months. He did not book a part in Outbreak initially but Alyson Court (Claire’s original VA) actually brought him to work on the game.

- Craig filmed all his scenes together with Lily and only saw Nick 3 times during filming since Wesker & Leon don’t have any scenes together.

- Craig has been a fan of RE for a long time. He played RE1 with his acting classmates and they were happy for him when he booked a part in Outbreak.

- Craig says he has never gotten a copy of any game he has worked on as the people he works with don’t work in game distribution. He only managed to get a copy of the RE4R deluxe edition thanks to an ex-girlfriend who works in game distribution.

- Craig & Nick know both Wesker & Leon are very beloved characters in the franchise and have given it their all for their portrayals.

- Both of them squeed when Wesker says “complete local saturation” and Craig has been waiting for a whole year wondering how fans would react to that line.

- Nick had no idea what would happen in SW since he didn’t get the script for it.

- Craig also had no idea Wesker would be in Mercenaries but put two and two together when he recorded lines for Merc.

- Scenes are filmed out of order. Craig didn’t know if he was filming for the main game or SW. He had to wait till the main game came out to see what scenes were shown in RE4R. Nick also has no idea if he filmed anything for SW.

- While the VAs have their own general idea on how to play their character as they walk into the studio, how they express their lines are based on a combination of what’s requested by Capcom’s Japanese team, how the translator translates Capcom’s requests, and Steve Kniebihly’s (cinematics director) direction.

- Someone asked Craig if he thought when Wesker was a child, would he shine a magnifying glass on ants. Craig said probably yeah and maybe pulling the wings of flies too. (Side note: The Ashford twins did that in Code Veronica)

- Craig was a musician first before he got into acting. In high school, everyone was into music and he made some music with his friends. His then-girlfriend asked him to audition in a school musical and he loved the acting expect of it. He then auditioned in plays before he went to acting school for college.

- Craig applied to both music & acting programmes for college. He always wanted to be a performer.

- Andre joins halfway through the stream. He enjoyed filming the opening flamenco scene even though it took a while to get the steps right. He doesn’t think he can do the dance any more since it’s been a while.

- Andre mimed the reaction to being pulled by a rope in chapter 1. He didn’t have confidence to pull it off and the team also agreed. He doesn’t have stunt training anyway.

- Craig on the other hand, recounted when he was filming being grabbed by a monster for RE Outbreak. He had a rope on his head while filming for that and he didn’t get stunt pay. But things were different years ago.

- Andre said the team took safety really seriously and even for simple things like pretending to fall over, Steve Kniebihly would tell the VAs not to do it and let the stunt team do it instead.

- When Craig auditioned for Wesker, the description was “Villain in a video game”. That was it. All the audition scripts were fake so actors who don’t book the part won’t leak that the game is being made.

- Andre lived & breathed Castellan Spanish culture for months while he filmed RE4R and it drove his family a little crazy. He even spoke with a Castellan Spanish accent for a while too. His family is of Mexican descent and Mexican Spanish pronunciation is different from European/Castellan Spanish.

- Nick was friends with Paul Haddad (OG RE2 Leon VA) before he passed away. He also took some voice lessons from Paul Mercier (OG RE4 Leon VA).

- Craig has not spoken to any previous Wesker VAs. He is long time friends with Alyson and she was his director on one project he worked in before. He has met OG Brad Vicker’s VA before.

- Andre has only met Neil Newbon (RE8 Heisenberg & RE3R Nikolai) in person.

- Craig enjoys playing bad guys since it’s fun to do something he can’t do in real life.

- Nick had to lower his voice for RE4R Leon since Leon in 2004 is a bit “sick of the same shit happening repeatedly” instead of being a newbie cop surprised at everything.

- Craig’s favourite scene to film was the Wesker & Ada confrontation at the beginning of the Island. He had to do the Wesker smirk at the end a few times as the team had to ensure it looked right on the Wesker model.

- Craig has a Guinness World Record for playing in the longest concert which lasted for 19 days, around 437 hours. He was in the planning committee for it and he played 5 times during the concert. To qualify for the record, there were a lot of rules. For example: at least 10 people in the audience had to be awake at all times, each song had to last at least 2 mins, and there can only be a maximum 30 seconds pause between each song.

- Nick got electrocuted in science class when he touched a capacitor with his bare hands. He mentioned that it really freaking hurt and it was almost impossible to let go. He had to force himself to open his hands.

- During the recording of the injury effort sounds for when Leon got electrocuted, Nick clenched his fists and shook them while grunting through gritted teeth.

- For Wesker’s injury effort sounds during Mercenaries mode, the team had to tell Craig to dial back as Wesker responds to injuries in a calmer manner.

- Nick had a lot of fun filming the part where Saddler transforms into his final form.

- Nick mocapped the pilot flying Ada’s chopper.

- Nick was completely mind blown by the stinger at the end.

#crossbow down #resident evil #separate ways #ada wong #leon kennedy #albert wesker #luis serra

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Wow, check out this AMAZING piece by artist Rich Bernatovech! What a great showcase of Wonder Woman's rogues gallery!

Here's a list of villains that I've managed to find among the over 100 villains:

• Adjudicator • Aegeus • Alkyone • Anann • Andres Cadulo • Angle Man • Anglette • Apollo • Ares • Armageddon • Astarte • Atomia • Badra • Baroness Von Gunther • Barremargox • Baundo • Bellona • Blue Snowman • Cassandra • Cassie Arnold • Cat Eye • Cheetah (Barbara Ann Minerva) • Cheetah (Debbi Domaine) • Cheetah (Priscilla Rich) • Circe • Crimson Centipede • Cronus • Cyborgirl • Dark Angel • Decay • Deimos • Devastation • Disdain • Doctor Cyber • Doctor Poison • Doctor Psycho • Drax • Dreadnought • Duke of Deception • Earl of Greed • Echidna • Egg Fu • Eris • Euryale • Eviless • Fausta Grables • Fireworks Man • First Born • Genocide • Giganta • Glop • God With No Name • Grail • Gundra • Hades • Harrier • Hecate • Hera • Hercules • Hypnota • Inventa • Janus • Julianna Sazia • Karnell • Liar Liar • Lord Conquest • Mask • Mayfly • Medusa • Minister Blizzard • Mob God • Mouse Man • Nemesis • Oblivion • Osira • Paper-Man • Phobos • Queen Clea • Queen of Fables • Red Panzer • Savage Fire • Sharkeeta • Silver Swan (Helen Alexandros) • Silver Swan (Valerie Beaudry) • Silver Swan (Vanessa Kapatelis) • Slaughter • Sontag Henya • Stheno • Superwoman • Tigra Tropica • Titan • Trinity • Veronica Cale • White Magician • Zara

#Wonder Woman #Fanart #Rich Bernatovech #Cheetah #Giganta #Circe #Silver Swan #Ares #Doctor Cyber #Queen Clea #Doctor Poison #Blue Snowman #Zara #Hypnota #Devastation #Echidna #Doctor Psycho #Angle Man #Decay #Minister Blizzard #Dark Gods #Villainy Inc #White Magician

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Doubt Comes In - All I've Ever Known Part 2

Is this a trap that's bein' laid for me? (The wind is changing) (Doubt comes in)

Is this a trick that's bein' played on me? (How cold it's blowing) (Doubt comes in)

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I’m not usually the kind of person who doesn’t leave well enough alone, and usually, I’m content to let others have their own secrets. I have other shit to worry about. But every time I try to ignore Maggie, she does something that throws me for a loop. She’s a whiz with computers and physics, which I found out when she came up behind me in class to correct my mathematics. Something that should have set her up for success at her old school. Why is she here? Why is she here now? 

It’s clear the administration was gearing up to slot her into a high rank position with her brother. I’d been thinking it before their interview, but after that it was crystal clear. I was going to lose my chance at number one because of some legacy bullshit. It’s infuriating. She has no qualifications, no experience... she was a mediocre student at a nerd school for two years and all of a sudden she’s a T.A. and a junior in crime fighting? She’s clearly smart.

But of course, I did reach out to professor Park for her application after Maggie so kindly instructed me to do so. And Park said she was “not permitted to share student records without a good reason.” Then, I reached out to Brink, who also gave me the run around. What were they hiding? I went to a third professor, making up an excuse about T.A. duties or whatever, and afterwards, Brink essentially told me if I kept poking around, he’d get in trouble. I burst into my childhood best friend’s dorm, fuming.

“I’m telling you Emma, there’s something off about her. Even Brink won’t let me see her applications.” Emma hummed in response, clearly not listening to me. “Emma, are you even listening?”

“Not really.” She admitted. “So, she’s got a sponsor or whatever. Why do you care?”

“Even the sponsored students have applications. Brink told me straight up that he would get in trouble if I kept pushing.”

“So why are you still pushing?” I sighed in exasperation. 

“Because there’s something fishy going on, and I’d like to know about it before it becomes a problem for me. I thought you, of all people, would jump at a new mystery, Veronica Mars.” She giggled at that, but her face turned serious again in a moment.

“It seems like it’s already a problem for you.” She said honestly, and I didn’t have a response for that. “Look, Jor, I understand why you’re concerned. But do you really want to stick your nose into something that could risk everything for you?” She held my gaze for a long moment, forcing me to get out of my own head. 

“You’re smarter than most give you credit for, Cricket.” I said, ruffling her short blonde hair and smiling. 

“You’re not going to let this go, are you?” She said, the mischievous glint shining in her eyes.

“No.” I said finally.

“Then just remember - this could be anything. It could be nothing, it could be... dangerous. For you, for her...” She seemed uncharacteristically serious.

“Do you know something I don’t, Em?” I said, eyes narrowing, searching her face for information I knew she didn’t have.

“No, but if Brink really won’t pull strings for you, there is probably something fishy. I’ll give you that much.” She said. “Now, can we do something fun before you wind yourself up into a tornado?” I rolled my eyes but smiled, settling in for a night of shitty TV, shitty beer, and not-so-shitty weed.

Emma’s words stuck with me as I tried and failed to put Maggie out of my mind. The way the school was pushing her through the ranks was really starting to get on my nerves, and when she broke the top twenty I talked Emma’s ear off so much she threatened to kick me out of her dorm.

I feel like she’d piss me off less if she didn’t act like she belonged at the top. At least Andre and Luke can acknowledge the bullshit system that lifts them up while leaving me in the dirt. But Maggie walks around like she’s been given the short end of the stick when she’s basically being escorted into stardom and celebrity. I have to get my head on straight. This is junior year - not the time to lose my head over some silly girl with secrets. I have a ranking to maintain, and I will not let her take my place at the top. No matter what the administration is trying to pull. 

-- One Month Later --

But somehow, here I am, riding Tyler’s dick in his tiny ass dorm room, and I can’t stop thinking about her. Her secrets, her smile... Fuck. Who is this girl and what the fuck is she doing to me? I could feel Tyler getting close and I was just glad it was over. Not like I was getting off anyways. He stood up and threw me a box of tissues, which I caught gratefully. Cleaning up quickly, I pulled on my basketball shorts and saw myself out. 

I had been planning on just heading straight to my room to study, but as I approached the kitchen door, I heard someone singing. It was beautiful, low and gravelly, but still distinctly feminine. It had to be Maggie - Cate’s voice is bright and higher. It was honestly entrancing - I was glued to where I was standing like a sailor hearing a siren song. Even when a leaf lodged itself in my ponytail, I was transfixed. But when Luke approached, I shook my head to clear it, making a move towards the door.

“Don’t go in yet, it’s Mags.” Luke whispered, stopping to stand next to me. “She is petrified of anyone hearing her sing. Cate caught her once and Maggie didn’t make eye contact with her for the rest of the trip.” Luke chuckled, but his eyes drifted away, the clear sign that Sam was involved in the story. Luke had always been hesitant to discuss his family, even before Sam died. And now that Maggie was living here, he basically acted as if he’d never had a brother, or any issues in his family at all. It’s a little sickening sometimes, watching him play at a happy family. He kept listening for a little while, and I almost thought I saw a tear in his eye. I shifted uncomfortably, unsure what to do with this information or his emotion. 

Finally, the song ended, and Luke crashed through the back door, purposefully making more noise than necessary. “Oh, hey Mags!” He said, and I pushed my way to my room, keeping my eyes straight ahead as if neither of them were there, making my way to my room.

I caught myself wondering why Maggie didn’t like people hearing her sing instead of studying. She clearly has talent, but as with most things about her, she kept it hidden away. 

But she was always on my mind, worming her way into my thoughts like an irritating pop song that starts showing up everywhere. The first thing I noticed, besides the fact that she’s faker than a Barbie doll, was that she keeps a strict routine. There hasn’t been a day of us living together that she isn’t awake before me, and I wake up at 6am. She’s always back at the house by 6pm, and in her room by 8:30pm. She is always on time to the weekly T.A. meetings, and every class. I keep looking for cracks in her facade, but I haven’t found any. 

I tried looking into her past, her old college - and there’s nothing. It’s clear she did attend the school for two years, but there’s no record of any classes even attended. And without her applications, there are no transcripts, no essays, no papers, nothing. It’s as if two entire years of her life were gone. The only other mention of her is in Sam’s obituary. Another thing that no one wants to talk about or look into.

Fucking Sam. What pissed me off the most about Sam’s death was how much it scared me. Any of us could have disappeared and presumed dead... and nothing would be done. How was anyone supposed to show any weakness at all if it could be used to cover up our own suffering? No body was ever found. No note was ever found. Nothing was ever found. And yet, everyone is so sure he killed himself that there was a death certificate a week later? Practically unheard of, but no one questioned it. They all just posed in fucking black designer clothes and moved on with their lives. No one says his name, no one wonders where he is... it’s almost been a year. What would happen if I vanished? Would any of them care to find me? Lord knows my parents would accept whatever bullshit Vought spewed... was Sam involved in something sketchy? Doubtful, he was so young. Whatever it was, he was a pawn in some stupid fucking game like the rest of us. Best to play along and get your share of the pie. Fuck that whole fucked up family. 

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#jordan li x reader #angst #gen v fic #gen v prime #gen v #jordan li #gen v smut #luke riordan #lukes little sister x jordan li #sam riordan

[writer-ann-artist]

The Devil's Ángel

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"Are you sure it's a good idea for me to come down?"

"Of course, mi ángel, besides, I haven't seen my niñito yet."

"Ok Hiram, I'll see you soon. Te quiero."

"Te quiero, mi ángel."

Yes, I am in a relationship with Hiram Lodge. Yes, Harmine knows about me, Veronica, too. The family has accepted me as Hiram's girlfriend, but now he has asked me to come live in Riverdale with him.

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"Oh mi ángel, I've missed you." Hiram hugs me and kisses my hair line.

"I've missed you too." His eyes rest on the baby carrier.

"Is he awake?"

"Last I checked, no, but you can still see him." Hiram opens the carrier softly and just stares in awe.

"He has your eyes, ángel." I hug his waist, and he hugs me back.

"I was thinking he looked alot like you."

"What did you decide his name would be?"

"Ronnie Hiram Lodge."

"Beautiful."

"Anna, what a surprise. Hiram didn't tell me you were visiting." Hiram moves to hold my hand in his.

"Actually, I had asked Anna to move here." The look he was giving Harmine clearly said it was no debatable.

"Oh well, I'm sure Veronica will be enjoying your company."

"Speaking of, do you mind picking her up after school?"

"I don't want to intrude Hiram."

"Nonsense ángel, besides me and Harmine have a previous engagement."

"Okay Hiram."

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I waited outside Veronica's school deciding to surprise her instead. When I see her I wave and she waves back. She walks over with her friends.

"Anna, what are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry I didn't call, I wanted to surprise you. I even have a surprise for you."

"Oh, is it expensive?" I laugh and open the rear car door.

"Yes, he is." Veronica gasps and awes.

"You can hold him V." She picks him up and cradles him. I turn to her friends and introduce myself.

"I'm Anna."

"Archie."

"Betty."

"Jughead."

"Pleasure to meet you all. Oh, and this is Ronnie."

"Oh Anna, you shouldn't have." We talk for abit and decide on going to a nice little diner.

"Oh, I love this."

"I knew you would." We sit at a booth with Archie, V, and me on one side. Jughead and Betty were on the other side with Ronnie in Betty's lap.

"He's so gorgeous."

"Thank you, Betty."

"Now, I'm curious. Who's the father?" I hesitate, not knowing what to say. V slaps Archie's arm, and Jughead and Betty pay closer attention to Ronnie.

"You don't have to answer that Anna."

"It's fine, though I'm sure you all know the answer already." I look around and see there faces. They definitely know. Betty speaks first.

"We don't want to come off as judgy, but V loves you so we do to right guys." She looks to the boys and they nod agreeing.

"That's very kind of you, I wouldn't want to ruin your group V."

"Anna you could never." We finish lunch and I take V home.

"I'm sorry again for Archie."

"V it's okay, I get it. The boy is pretty but he's not all there." We laugh as we enter the apartment.

"Miss Lodge, and Miss Heart it's good to see you."

"Andre, good to see you too."

"My girls, and boy." Hiram reaches us kissing V's head and picking up Ronnie.

"Your apartment is right beside ours."

"Oh Hiram, you didn't have to. I could settle for a little home in the suburbs."

"But I want you close to me ángel." I can see this comment makes V uncomfortable.

"Let's go put Ronnie to sleep. I had a great time with you V." I kiss V's cheek as we depart.

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In the apartment Hiram is rocking Ronnie to sleep as I prepare for bed.

"Ángel, are you okay?"

"I am, I just. That comment you made downstairs made Veronica uncomfortable. I mean, can you imagine how it feels when your dad is bringing his girlfriend home." He had set Ronnie in his crib and came behind me to hold me.

"It's ok, Mia will understand." I turn in his arms.

"She shouldn't have to Hiram. I'm the girlfriend, I should be the one keeping my distance." Hiram holds my hand in his hands and looks into my eyes.

"I don't want that anymore. I want you in my life, ángel. I want us to be a family."

"You have a family Hiram."

"Who says can't have both?"

"What are you doing to me Hiram?"

"It's alright, now let's get to bed. We know you need the rest."

#🖤🔪🐈‍⬛shyanns #hiram lodge #x reader #hiram x sugar baby reader #hiram x reader #hiram lodge x reader #the other family #The Devil's Ángel #riverdale #riverdale cw #veronica lodge x reader platonic #harmione lodge x reader enemies

[dwellsinparadise]

In 1962, actress Veronica Lake is photographed at the all-women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan, where she was working as a waitress downstairs in the cocktail lounge. She was working under the name "Connie DeToth” [Lake had been married to film director Andre DeToth]. Lake said she took the job in part because "I like people. I like to talk to them.”

Photograph by Duane Michals

#veronica lake

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Blade Runner 2039 arrives in December

Blade Runner 2039 arrives in December #comics #comicbooks #bladerunner

Titan Comics and Alcon Publishing have announced that female Blade Runner known as Aahna “Ash” Ashina will be returning in Blade Runner 2039. The 12-issue series will be the final chapter in the decades-spanning saga of this fan favorite, which began in 2019 with Blade Runner 2019 and continued in Blade Runner 2029. Coming to comic shops in December 2022, the award-winning title’s concluding…

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#alcon publishing #andres guinaldo #blade runner #blade runner 2039 #butch guice #comic books #Comics #junggeun yoon #marco lesko #mike johnson #syd mead #titan comics #veronica fish

[blackcharactertournament]

Black Character Tournament: Left Side!

adding a post break to make this more rebloggable

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Chidi Anagonye | The Good Place vs Bow | She-Ra & the Princesses of Power

Marina Ida | Splatoon vs Youngblood Ra | Roleslaying with Roman

Barret Wallace | Final Fantasy VII vs Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl | Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Lucas Sinclair | Stranger Things vs Gus Porte | The Owl House

Carole Stanley | Carole and Tuesday vs Garnet | Steven Universe

Aisha/Layla | Winx Club vs Carter Kane and Sadie Kane | The Kane Chronicles

Martha Jones | Doctor Who vs Death | Sandman (TV)

Finn | Star Wars vs Oluwande Boodhari | Our Flag Means Death

Leshawna | Total Drama vs Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog

Jodie Landon | Daria vs Helen Brand | Glass Onion

Wolf | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts vs Benson | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Mike Hanlon | IT (Steven King) vs Burton Guster | Psych

Flow | Roleslaying With Roman vs Nasuada | Inheritance Cycle/Eragon Trilogy

Jordan Hennessey | Dreamer Trilogy vs Ava Coleman | Abbott Elementary

Duke Thomas | DC Comics vs Mel Medarda | Arcane

Molly Blyndeff | Epithet Erased vs Michael Burnham | Star Trek Discovery

Neena Thurman (Domino) | Marvel comics / Deadpool 2 vs Nyota Uhura | Star Trek The Original Series

Gregory Eddie | Abbott Elementary vs Kipo Oak | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Elena Amamiya | Star Twinkle Precure vs Simon Aumar | Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Karli Morgenthau | MCU: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier vs Enfys Nest | Star Wars: A Solo Story

Connor Hawke/Green Arrow | DC Comics vs Myla | One Last Stop

Winston Bishop | New Girl vs Khalil Harris | The Hate U Give

T'Challa | Black Panther vs Dr. Charlotte | Falsettos (Revival)

Gigi Thompson | Inside Job vs Isaiah | One Last Stop

Ivan Taylor | The Wilds vs Nathan Byrne | The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself

Miranda Bailey | Grey's Anatomy vs Essun | Broken Earth Trilogy

Agent 355 | Y : The Last Man vs Audacious Opportunity (A.O.) Rooke | Friends at the Table (Partizan)

OJ Haywood | Nope 2022 vs Nubia | Wonder Woman

Mr Nancy | American Gods vs Storm | X Men

Ambrose Spellman | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina vs Louis | The Walking Dead Game

Angela Moore | Boy Meets World vs Hilary Banks | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Junko Saotome | Nana vs Wes Gibbins | How to Get Away with Murder

Turk | Scrubs vs Wallace Fennel | Veronica Mars

Frozone | The Incredibles vs Kendra Young | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joelle Brooks | Dear White People vs Sans | Undertale

Anissa Pierce/Thunder | Black Lightning vs Koriand'r/Starfire | Titans (DC TV show)

Andre Harris | Victorious vs Sara | Over the Garden Wall

Samol | Friends at the Table vs Taion | Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Emerald Haywood | Nope (2022) vs Genly Ai | The Left Hand of Darkness

Sarah Miller | The Last of Us (TV) vs Pinkie Pie | My Little Pony

Muhammed Avdol | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure vs Dr Foreman | House MD

Efi Oladele | Overwatch vs Jason Hauer | We only find them when they are dead

Bram Greenfeld | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda / Love, Simon vs Zélie Adebola | Children of Blood and Bone

Nick Fury | Marvel vs Sam Wilson | MCU

Uniqua | The Backyardigans vs Alexx Woods | CSI Miami

Rue | Euphoria vs Bill Potts | Doctor Who

Nadine Ross | Uncharted series vs Jalil Sherman | Everworld

Baal (Valentine) | The Wicked + the Divine vs Jamal Saturday | Locke and Key (comics)

#black character tournament #poll tournament

[balu8]

Archie #6

by Mark Waid; Veronica Fish; Andre Szymanowicz and Jack Morelli

Archie

#archie comics #archie #veronica fish #mark waid

[amberlynnposts-blog]

Final Blog: Jean Luc Godard

The relationship between Algeria and the film industry is closely linked with propaganda from French colonialism (1830-1962). The French colonial government used cinema and film as propaganda to whitewash its colonialism's reputation and reinforce stereotypes about Algerians. 

Upon realizing the war was won with images and reputation just as much as weapons, the Algerians began fighting French propaganda with photographs showcasing the truth to the worldwide public. The international narrative shifted against French colonialism; New Wave Algerian Cinema inspired people by shining light on France's atrocities, and persuaded some to help and participate in the war effort. The solidarity and internationalism seen during the early years of cinema creation were foundational to Algerian cinema and helped shape the country's themes of war, tragedy, and tales of human strength in many of their films.

Le Petit Soldat (1963), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, is a prime example of the New Wave in Algeria being centered around political drama and strife. Throughout the duration of the film, both sides of the controversial argument regarding the National Liberation Front (FLN) are very present. The politics that were discussed around the time of the film's release are intertwined with the actions that take place in the movie. Sympathizers and objectors to the Algerians have their opinions shown throughout the developing story.

On its eventual release, the movie was seen with plenty of praise. However, because of an infamous torture scene, Le Petit Soldat was held in production for three years after 1960. It was denounced for the depiction of torture on both sides of the French and Algerian methods. Executive creators felt that the time was not right and that viewers could not handle how both Bruno and Veronica were treated in these political times. Nonetheless, the movie saw its release in 1963 to an overall well spread, positive critique. A very decorated critic, the late Roger Ebert gave a coveted 4/4 star review to the film. This was a true honor to the film, as Ebert went on to be the first critic to receive the Pulitzer of Critique in 1975. 

Perhaps the success of Le Petit Soldat is not so surprising when one considers how well versed in cinema Jean-Luc Godard was when he directed it. As a young critic in the 1950s, Godard was one of several iconoclastic writers who helped turn a new publication called Cahiers du Cinéma into a critical force that swept away the old guard of the European art cinema and replaced it with new heroes largely drawn from the ranks of the American commercial cinema — directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks. 

As a boy Godard read plenty of works by Andre Gide and Andre Malraux. He studied many thoughts of Marx and incorporated both sides of the communist argument into his films. Further, Godard was an avid student of all forms of film and sought many influences from filmmakers and critics alike. One critic that redefined cinema for Godard and helped shape all his films including Le Petit Soldat was Maurice Sherer. Through his mentoring, Jean-Luc Godard was able to follow through with the idea of being a director. 

In practice Godard seldom scrambled the timeline of his films, preferring instead to leap forward through his narratives by means like the “jump cut,” which he helped make into a widely accepted tool. Further, Godard never tired of taking apart established forms and reassembling them in ways that were invariably fresh, frequently witty, sometimes obscure but consistently stimulating.

Godard was a prominent influencer of the New Wave Era that swept France and Algeria. In turn, the New Wave helped shape Godard and his works. Perhaps, this is one reason why he helped shape such a significant era in film. 

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[genderflu1dwh0r]

Jade smiled at Tori as she clumsily threw her arms around her, letting them rest on her shoulders. She closed her eyes and tilted her head, giggling to herself. It was midnight and they were in Beck's trailer, everyone was high, and Tori had just gotten there to hangout. She was the last one there. Tori smiled, holding her girlfriend. "Are you high?" She chuckled as she watched the girl in front of her giggle more. Jade shook her head. "I would never." She said moving so she was hugging her, she buried her face into Tori's hair. "You're so prettyyy, like... how? You are just- what?" She stumbled through the sentence, swaying with her girlfriend. Tori giggled as she held Jade and swayed with her. "You are so cute." She said, picking her up and kissing her neck playfully. Jade wrapped her legs around her before she smiled wide and laughed, she was way more ticklish when high, she tried to squirm out of her touch.

Cat laughed, getting up and walking over. She was holding a blunt and she wanted Veronica to get high with them. "Toriiii, here." She said watching as Tori put Jade down. Jade pouted, not wanting Tori to stop holding her, her arms kept still around her neck. Tori just chuckled and took the blunt from Cat. "Thanks Cat," she said before inhaling. Beck threw a pillow at them, smiling wide. "Gayyyy." He said, eyes red. Jade let go of Tori and picked the pillow up from the carpeted floor, she turned and threw it hard and fast at the pretty boy, laughing when it hit him straight in the face. Everyone bursted out into laughter, Tori choked on the smoke and stagged back. Everyone laughed harder, Jade going over to Tori, taking the blunt and puffing on it. Andre smiled, looking over at Tori. "Tori, how was your day with Trina before getting here?" He asked, knowing there was going to a rant.

Tori scoffed, throwing an arm around Jade. "Oh, so so great." She said sarcastically, pulling Jade closer. Andre and Robbie looked at each other, smiling wide. Tori continued. "She made me carry all of her bags at the mall, my arms are so tired. She made a child cry and I got blamed for it. She made me pay for lunch. Just so much." She said taking the blunt back, Jade smirking. "You are her donkey." She chuckled, Tori only glared at her. "Yeah, it's annoying." She said going to sit down. Jade followed, sitting on her lap. Cat sat down, grabbing her purple Giraffe. "Did you know zebras are so evil?" She asked, her features filled with fear. "They are horrible." She added. Everyone just stared at her, Beck starting the chain of laughter. "No, Cat. Why are they evil?" He asked. Cat took a breath before answering. "I shall not say why, too evil." She explained.

#victorious #jade west #tori vega #jori #beck oliver #andre harris #cat valentine #robbie shapiro #jamie writes