Baronesse d'Cheese

a.k.a. the Hedge Lady

[rettaroo]

In case you're wondering what raising a kid in a polyamorous family looks like, our kid just has. Zero concept of monogamy. Like we've explained it to her many times but she just like. Forgets it's a thing and the assumed cultural norm. We're showing her Lord of the a Rings and she was very confused when Aragon rejected Eowyn.

"Wait, I thought they liked each other??"

"She likes him but he's already with Arwen."

"So?? He could just be with both??"

Anyway enjoy this meme I found about it

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[sepdet]

There's a van Gogh of an old pair of shoes in the Met. It's not a big painting and it doesn't have his usual vibrant colors, but every time I see it I just love it to death.

Photos taken with my shitty iPhone to try and capture the brushstrokes:

The Met website's version which I assume is color accurate (although I feel like it was a little cooler? It's so hard to tell, between different lighting and camera sensors):

Once I understood that he started in pen and ink, and he was figuuring out how to adapt ink's techniques of hatching, stippling, and linework for brushwork in paint, I saw all his art in a new way.

And then he was working out how to use specific colors and complementary color combinations to evoke different moods/emotions.

At first glance, it looks loose, impulsive. But as the saying goes, there is method in his madness.

You were brilliant, Vincent.

[sarasa-cat]

Hatching like a boss, in color. Absolute FUCKYEAH.

Vincent Van Gogh, Two Crabs - 1889

I always spend time with this one in the National Gallery

[landsccape]

[alex51324]

I like when there is a series of animals doing similar behavior and one of them is our good friend Household Cat.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

generally speaking, the cooler and better your offline political activities are, the more important it becomes that you do not post about it on your personal social media acconts

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

[footlongdingledong2]

vomits

[luxiomahariel]

[important-cat-pics]

[tweetingukpolitics]

[ravioliraz]

[catasters]

[wizardshark]

Unmute for CHMPCH CHMPCH CHMPCH

[roaldamundsen]

never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

[roaldamundsen]

?

[roaldamundsen]

can people stop saying insane things on this post

[stanlunter]

I hate it when people are trying to give their evil fav characters the stupidest excuses ever to make them look better, but what I hate even more is when people are trying to take away the depth and the motivations of the villain characters and turn them into a caricature cartoon pure evil with no motivation either bc they hate them or bc they love pure evil characters way too much

[pangur-and-grim]

see her loud

[pangur-and-grim]

now see her quiet

[certified-cervid]

now see her bowling pins

[roostercrowned]

DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”

[roostercrowned]

take my hand

the most important rule of medieval fantasy fashion is

1. have fun and be yourself

the second most important is

2. make those pants tighter

[lillathelegend]

[thememedaddy]

[tokyoproxy]

snow princess

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[wintersoldierfell]

girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text