lavender menace

80% tits, 20% ambition

[jkiillem]

Rugby season has begun.. let the real cut begin 😈

[aphroditekallipygos]

me: i am good at speaking german

native speaker: do you want to speak german

me, sweating profusely: güten magen

[ratsimons]

Xiuniang Li Wei SS15

[strangrthings]

Kristen Stewart for V magazine 2017.

[onlytwitterpics]

[legislacerator]

not to be a backwards-thinking assimilationist not-radical gay but as someone who has been out for over a decade and faced a lot of backlash for it i would actually really like to be normal. i would really like to be treated normally by society. i’m proud of my identity and i will never apologize for that, but fuck man. there was a post that went around once that really resonated with me – “being gay is a radical act of defiance that none of us signed up for”.

i don’t exist as a lesbian to “challenge societal norms” and i wasn’t outed against my will when i was young just to grow up and be expected to fulfill a role in some “queer” movement that involves fucking, making kinks seem revolutionary or what the fuck ever

i deserve to want to feel normal and i don’t understand why it’s shocking to anyone that after girls like me grow up ashamed of our own thoughts, abused, and constantly knowing that every straight girl around us is more valuable and loved and sane than we are just to be told it’s “not radical” to want to be treated with respect and normalcy by a society that rejected us

[abyssalhandmaiden]

I kinda feel the same way about being trans nowadays. Like, last night I checked out some pretentious ice cream parlor and the three dudes at the counter were legit trying so hard to avoid making eye contact that I ended up excusing myself by the time one of them acknowledged me. I’ve made some degree of peace with my embodiment and I love the reclamation of monstrosity in trans women’s online culture, but that sucked, lmfao. Yeah, sometimes it’s a thrill living in defiance of cis/heteronormative society, but sometimes it’s just… three scruffy hipsters who wish you didn’t exist more than they want your money. It’s the crushing reminders that you are an Other: strange, ugly, and unwanted. Not queer as in “Fuck you,” queer as in, “Fuck, I don’t even want to look at you.”

We can’t all be skinny cis girls with rainbow hair who like pegging their microbrew-swilling boyfriends. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[abridurif]

Pour rêver, il ne faut pas fermer les yeux, il faut lire. La vraie image est connaissance. Ce sont des mots déjà dits, des recensions exactes, des masses d’informations minuscules, d’infimes parcelles de monuments et des reproductions de reproductions qui portent dans l’expérience moderne les pouvoirs de l’impossible. Il n’y a plus que la rumeur assidue de la répétition qui puisse nous transmettre ce qui n’a lieu qu’une fois. L’imaginaire ne se constitue pas contre le réel pour le nier ou le compenser ; il s’étend entre les signes, de livre à livre, dans l’interstice des redites et des commentaires ; il naît et se forme dans l’entre-deux des textes. C’est un phénomène de bibliothèque.

Michel Foucault, Un fantastique de bibliothèque.  (via abridurif)

[historicaltimes]

“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989

via reddit

[cultural-antifascism-deactivate]

Looks like it’s specifically ACT-UP considering the symbol on the bottom right of the “surrender donald” sign. 

[historyfilia-deactivated2025061]

Arphrodite had the epithet καλλίπυγος ( kallípygos ), of beautifully shaped buttocks, and after reading so many greek myths I cannot be surprised

[fortidogi]

Aphrodite of Dat Ass

[thoodleoo]

okay but you cannot leave of the story of aphrodite of kallipygos, whose temple was built by two sisters having an argument over who had the most beautiful asses after they asked the opinion of some passing son of a rich dude and fell in love with him and his brother respectively

ancient greece is fuckin great

[lesbiancousin]

the fact that straight people so often can only associate same gender attraction to being explicit and to being inherently sexual shows that they still think of being lgb+ as a perversion. i can’t count the number of times i’ve encountered people who think that children should be sheltered from knowing about anything that isn’t straight because they think that means they will have to teach children about same gender sex. this sexualization of lgb+ people dehumanizes us, plain and simple. the assumption that sams gender attraction has to be sexual is so harmful and i’m done with it being used to keep lgb+ kids in the dark and uneducated about themselves and their identities.

[withapencilinhand]

“moonlight”

[vine-blog]

👏👏👏👏

[mapsontheweb]

Barbican Estate overlaid on pre-1940 City of London.

[augustaimperatrix]

so i kind of cosplayed sappho

[blacksyrupbrat]

Sex positivity is flat & overwrought. Casual sex can & will re-traumatize you; teaching young girls to have sex before they are ready will create the first red & heavy chasm of sexual trauma, which they will spend the rest of their lives carrying.

[o-fortunate-adulescens-deactiva]

cool fact: we can track the Modern Greek word for “cheese” (τυρί, turí) all the way back to Mycenaean tablets- Mycenaean is the oldest form of Greek we know, dating to the 14th century BC. In Mycenaean, it’s written (transliterated) as tu-ro, and later, in the Greek alphabet, τυρός. Both of them would have been pronounced as turós. The Greek word for “cheese” has survived, essentially unchanged, more than 3000 years.

in a similar fashion, the Semitic root for “king” (m-l-k), present in the modern Arabic word مَلِك, malik,  can be found in Akkadian, Ugaritic and the Aramaic languages (and more), all of which were already spoken in the 20th century BC. Because Semitic languages operate by a common consonantal skeleton and it’s usually the vowels that change, we can say that it’s remained essentially the same. Thus, the modern Arabic word for “king” carries on its syllables the weight of the time and shadows of all the kings that have ruled, lived and died in 4000 years of human history.

we know of incredibly ancient words. words that were already being said when today’s society couldn’t even be imagined. words older than civilizations, systems and customs. 

 even if sometimes it looks like everything changes too fast, even if sometimes the passing of time and the fear of the future and oblivion becomes asphyxiating, worry not, my friend: words remain.

[biscuitsarenice]

Actress, Miriam Margolyes: When you know your worth, you know your worth.