[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[goth-princess-gwennie]

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

[jabbotmohan]

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

[xoxoviva]

Or…

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

[gayvampyr]

a few more artists i love:

deepincision (heavy metal)

zulu (metal)

black pantera (rock, metal)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

erzulie (punk, rock)

youth man (punk)

the 1865 (punk)

crystal axis (punk)

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

shadow age (goth)

saccharin (goth)

the ire (goth, punk)

bastet (goth punk)

here’s a playlist with a good mix of the above genres + some alt & indie from Black artists

[hungercityhellhound]

I should like to add (Also Black Pantera is so awesome)

Stilletto (Glam Metal - I haven't been able to find them on Spotify so EP on youtube)

Mother's Finest (Funk Glam Metal)

People's Choice (Funk rock)

Straight Line Stitch (Nu Metal)

Grace Jones (Disco, Reggae, Rock)

Buddy Miles (Blues, Funk Rock)

Robert Cray (Blues) and the Robert Cray Band

Chaka Khan (Soul, Blues, Rock)

Body Count (Thrash Rap/Rap Metal)

Ghost Hounds (Country Rock Blues)

Thin Lizzy (Hard Rock/Classic Heavy Metal)

King's X (Rock)

Zulu (Nu Metal/Death Metal)

Suicidal Tendencies (Heavy Metal)

Buddy Guy (Blues)

BB King (Blues)

John Lee Hooker (Blues)

Lucky Peterson (Blues)

Skindred (Reggae Metal)

Keb'Mo' (Country Influenced Blues)

Stuck Mojo (Rap Metal)

Overthrust (Doom/Death Metal)

Arka'n Asrafokor (Death influenced Folk Metal)

Dividing The Element (Death influenced Folk Metal)

Fishbone (Ska, Funk, Punk, Rock)

Michael Burks (Blues)

Living Color (Funk Metal)

Prophets of Rage (Punk Rap Metal Supergroup)

Wrust (Thrash/Death Metal)

Vale of Amonition (Death? Doom? Nu Metal)

April Kae (Bassist and singer)

A Band Called Pain (Blues Rock, Blues Grunge?)

Bad Brains (Punk)

Shemekia Copeland (Blues)

Skinflint (Folk influenced Heavy Metal)

Cypress Hill (Rock influenced Hip Hop)

George Clinton and Parliment Funkadelic (Funk)

Ida Corr (Dance, Electronica, Disco Influenced)

War (Classic Rock, Reggae Rock)

Johnny Nash (70s rock)

Or bands like Guns N Roses with Slash (Or Velvet Revolver or Slash's Snake Pit) or Warrior Soul with Johnny Ricco or Sepultura with Derrick Green? Or David Bowie with Gail Ann Dorsey or Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons or Terrance Hobbs in Suffocation? OR WIlliam DuVall in Alice in Chains? Or Lajon in Sevendust?

[bumblesteak]

A necromancer AND a gardener (5 year redesign) 🌸

[henk-heijmans]

Madagascar - by Pierrot Men (1954), Malagasy

[squid----s]

It’s okay

[curlsandstems]

They DID that!!!

[ariestess]

It took me about 15 seconds in to realize what was happening in this vid, but the second I did, I legit came. This is… I got chills and got so much validation for my theories about tap and pretty much any genre of music here…

[telegantmess]

Tap is probably one of the dance styles that gets the least amount of credit four how badass it is

[royalnugget42]

Holy hell-

[enigmatic-mystery-777]

Sorry I don’t get it?

[royalnugget42]

They’re tap dancing, a kind of dancing typically associated with being old-fashioned and kind of silly. Personally, even tap dancing to old music is awesome in my eyes, but this is on a totally new and exciting level

[amuseoffyre]

The thing about tap is that it’s so often seen as a fancy, old-fashioned dainty dance that only posh (and generally white) people do in tuxedos but it didn’t used to be the case.

Way back in the early days, it was where black performers in Vaudeville were legendary for it in Jazz and Jive routines. At about 1:37, this is where the Nicholas brothers go off.

It’s such an expressive and joyful kind of dance and matches so well with hip hop beats and rhythm, which is why the modern reworking of it is so awesome.

[bogleech]

Im sure a lot of people also watch the op video and they assume that “clap” sound is part of the music just because a LOT of modern music samples that sound and in some music it is just the sound of hands clapping, but no that is a sound being made by all their shoes at once.

[meinenaffenhosen]

one of my favorite syncopated ladies routines

[polkadotmotmot]

Davin Watne - Alien, 2023 - Oil on canvas

[prowlingthunder]

.... I... thought this was a photo.

[obsidian-sphere]

Interior art by an uncredited artist from 1922 of a "Flapper Vamp."

[bebs-art-gallery]

“BACK WHEN TIME DIDN’T MATTER” — AN OIL PAINTING BY RIONA

[dykescully]

OIL PAINTING?

[jeniferprince]

I've got a crush on you 💘

patreon // buy prints here

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[starfieldcanvas]

the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

[penrosesun]

I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what “hookup culture” actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call “cruising culture”. His response was “how is that different from dating?” and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: “That’s ridiculous! You can’t expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, she’s not a prostitute, you can’t buy her.” Now obviously there’s like… a lot to unpack there, but I think it’s pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!

Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”

And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.

America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.

[feefal]

Curious pond greets butterflies

[eboneeblak]

Black femme goths

[nyabbycat]

personal favorite theme decor from the aquarium today

[trans-axolotl]

Image description: [An aquarium exhibit set up to look like a fake laundromat with many pink translucent jellyfish in a tank shaped like a washing machine. There are signs that say “Blue Moon Laundromat,” “Drop off laundry Service,” and “Professional Dry cleaning services.” The second image is a gif of the jellyfish moving in the dark blue water. ]

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[silicon-based-life]

update on my latest knitting project…

colorwork in stockinette is so evil but hopefully it will be worth it? i WILL be learning to steek before i knit another vest though

[silicon-based-life]

the long awaited update: i finished it! for notes and things, you can see the project on ravelry here!

and thanks so much to everyone being so nice about this project in the notes!! y’all have motivated me to finally get this vest done 😅

[poppetawoppet]

Holy mother of —this color work is amazing

[grubarchived]

by @/truongsauce on instagram! :)

notes: i used rice wine vinegar instead of sake and tbh…. it is an excellent swap. makes the sauce soo tangy >:) i didn’t have potato starch on hand either so i used cornstarch– still super super good! i suspect that potato starch would make them more toothsome/chewy, but i couldnt find any, and as is i think the super soft smooth inside + crispy skin + sticky sauce is like. god tier food!!!

the potatoes take long enough to steam that it’s plenty of time to make the sauce! i also made mine like ~70g instead of 100g because 100g is So Big and i like to have lots of little ones