a second-rate romanticist

jeremi | they | 30 | bad polish rep

[allerod]

this is mostly my personal diary. i polishpost a lot, i love prl and soviet cinema, and i'm a proud lekturki enjoyer. i have a passing interest in both the french revolution and napoleon, i believe in toxic salieri/mozart yaoi supremacy, and there's a portrait of kościuszko hanging above my desk.

other things that you can expect to see sprinkled here and there on this blog: musical theatre, lawrence of arabia, pathologic, ace attorney, house md, sherlock holmes, les mis, stirlitz jokes, longing posts about the sea, art for media i have never in my life interacted with, and various text posts of the complaining and/or funny type

you can always interact with me and my posts in whatever way. just like a spider, i am more afraid of you than you could ever be afraid of me

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[blazeofbones]

Happy Pride Month

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[gondwana]

The enemy's parasociality vs our diva worship

[limesade]

emergency

[catchymemes]

[cheddarchaser]

you could log off and drink 8 ounces of salt water right now but it’s not recommended

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

[airplaner]

Clean line/color version of the cavalier drawing

[eightynineforever]

AMADEUS (1984) | dir. Miloš Forman

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[dogpuppy]

[allerod]

also, the mobile signal has been horrendous today, and it mostly hasn't been here at all for the last few hours, so please everyone appreciate the lengths i am going to just to post hate on tumblr dot com

[allerod]

the thing about xix century writers is. if there are simply no mention of women at all in their books, one can shrug and go "oh well. that was the era, right". but if there are mentions, but all of them are in the for of monologues on how stupid women are, and what horrid creatures they are. and then there are female characters in the book, but all of them are caricatures made to prove the point that women shallow and overemotional and fake. well, i think the author might just have had a very low opinion on half of the population. and maybe that is something that should be discussed, alongside calling his work a queer masterpiece? perhaps?

[allerod]

everything oscar wilde attempted to do in the picture of dorian gray, robert louis stevenson already had done in the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, and he did it ten times better too

[allerod]

and less misogynistically as well 👍

[allerod]

everything oscar wilde attempted to do in the picture of dorian gray, robert louis stevenson already had done in the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, and he did it ten times better too

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?