Silver Gilded Spines

51.5171° N, 0.1062° W. Beautiful, sobbing high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love.That is all.

[romanceangel]

THE MORE OF YOU / THE MORE I LOVE YOU BY TRACEY EMIN 2016

[wimplewinch]

xavier delroy

[itsnotmetalking]

“The flying Nun” - George O’Dowd (Boy George) at the fun fair on Hampstead Heath, London, 1981 (?) 

Ted Polhemus.

[cockyhorror]

Actually tumblr all my content is sensitive I have a lot of feelings

[kp-ks]

Book Burning Memorial

‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’

[queeranarchism]

Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.

[hallowshorror]

reblogging again for that^

[vodni-deactivated20221111]

realizing ive been here since i was 15-16

[nightmaskart]

Inktober day 1: Coriander: Hidden Worth

[iameverysparklywoman]

literally 24 hour restaurants of ANY kind are the backbone of the liminal space economy

[filmnoirsbian]

Catholic art: god-fearing…but make it sexy

[filmnoirsbian]

Catholic art critic in the 1800s: hmm im liking the overtones of guilt & sacrifice but i think its missing a lil smth…

Belgian sculptor just trying to make enough money to pay a good leech doctor so he doesnt die of consumption: like what?

Catholic art critic: ass

[thefoxhuntingman]

Stephen MacDonald, Not About Heroes

[thefoxhuntingman]

4 November 2018 is the centenary of Wilfred Owen’s death in WWI.

[monstress]

“I have never been allowed to be holy, / I have never been forgiven for wanting.”

— Gwen Benaway, from “Boys,” Holy Wild (via lifeinpoetry)

[closet-keys]

Booty shorts with two QR codes on the ass that lead to a PDF of The Communist Manifesto and a page where you can stream Scooby Doo

[cruciform-solidarity]

[rowansr]

Bound (1996)

Leave it to lesbians to predict future slang 

[literary-structures]

“‘Elite bilingualism’ – that is, bilingualism of the upper and middle classes – was typically presented as a positive phenomenon. This attitude is seen in the encouragement of bi- and multilingualism among the children of the elite, and in European research on childhood bilingualism and second language learning (Epstein, 1915; Pavlovitch, 1920; Ronjat, 1913). In contrast, bilingualism of immigrant and linguistic minority children was commonly associated with mental retardation, moral inferiority, split identity, and linguistic shortcomings.”

— Pavlenko, Aneta (2005) “Emotions and Multilingualism” (p.24)

[kafk-a]

Adrienne Rich, from “Splittings,” 1974

[kafkasdiariies]

Ellen Terry “Choosing” (detail) 1864. George Frederic Watts