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english-history-trip thejgatsbykid
konansgirlfriend

Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting

konansgirlfriend

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Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”

08-plaza

the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”

cheltenhambolditalic

More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.

He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.

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Painting titled "My Loved Ones"

[in reference to his career] "the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."

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dduane

bekdontraz asked:

This isn't as eloquent or deep as the others have sent. But the Romulan Way helped reignite my love of what Star Trek is. In all its campy glory, I grew up on the TOS movies with my mom and it was just nice to read something that brought my childhood heroes back in there prime. Also big scooby doo fan, thank you for helping that along!

(chuckle) It’s not all widely known that writing for Scoob (and Scrappy: he and I appeared on the animation scene around the same time…) was what financed the writing of So You Want To Be A Wizard. …I do keep telling people, but maybe the cognitive dissonance that comes with associating the two properties is too much to allow the info to really stick. :)

But I’m glad that RomWay worked for you (and I’m pretty sure @petermorwood will be too, when he sees this). …I am very, very fond of the TOS characters. They got me through some bad times… so it seemed only fair to pay the favor forward in creative mode. And that choice has paid off in my life in so many different ways, it just floors me sometimes.

…Also, writing ST:TOS is just plain a lot of fun, but I can’t be blamed for that. :) …But in any case: you’re very welcome.

ST:TOS So You Want To Be A Wizard Scooby-Doo
prose-n-scripts katebishopofearth
t4t-lover

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

saltedsapphicly

Once, back when I worked in an LGBTQIA dungeon, I encountered a significantly older person who remarked to me that they hadn’t been to “this type of place” in decades. They struck up a conversation with me and told me how amazing it was to see an openly transexual youth such as myself. I asked them about their experiences with gender and they said “oh, well, I’m a bit male and a bit female. Men’s and women’s clothes, sometimes makeup in a suit, sometime fresh faced in a dress when I’m at home. You know, bisexual” Obv this puzzled me at first until I realized this person was using bisexual in a very, very, literal and old fashioned sense, as in, dual-sexed. Non-binary.


Y’all gotta understand there are generation gaps in the language we use and you open yourself up to a LOT of very interesting stories if you stop blocking off the past.

ittybittytatertot

One of the biggest problems with modern community is the idea that (white) western, post 2000s LGBT vocabulary is the only correct way to speak about sexuality and gender.

Like the freak outs under pictures of protests from the 70s-90s because signs and shirts say faggot and dyke and queer, as if these words weren’t a key part of identity and activism.

Beyond just English, I saw a couple people making fun of the term “gender x” in an anime…but why would a Japanese production adhere to English standards?

Or the way people talk about pronouns as if every language uses pronouns the same way as English.

It’s just…it indicates a mindset that these words are objective and written in stone and western youth culture is always the most correct in a way that…feels icky. Diversity in people includes diversity of language.