it was an APRICOT !!! NOT A PEACH !!!!!! AN A P R I C O T !!!!

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it was an APRICOT !!! NOT A PEACH !!!!!! AN A P R I C O T !!!!
I just found out I turned half the male population gay
Story goes, a couple of years ago I digital painted this accursed image:
I don’t visit tumblr all that much these days but today I did, and I found a comment that said something along the lines of “Is this the original Ricardo Megamind meme?” and I was like “WHAT MEME?”. So I googled it and:
MY NAME IS MARLENA SIDOR. I AM (or was until my tools broke) A FREELANCE DIGITAL ARTIST FROM POLAND. AND I PAINTED THIS SH**
I don’t mind it being a meme. It’s a fanart. I painted it for fun and because I really like that movie. I see this entire thing as a form of flattery. Also, you’re welcome, since this may be the closest you will ever see of a “live-action” Megamind (and considering how all the recent remakes of old classics are, it may be for the best).
I only want to know one thing, WHO THE F** IS THIS RICARDO?
i am indifferent towards your shoelaces
thanks. i obtained them through entirely legal means wholly unrelated to any country's head of state
‘bi people can pass as straight!’
anyone can pass as straight, if they silence themselves enough.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
“Silence themselves” implies people hide it. How about they just don’t feel the need to advertise their sexuality? At the end of the day, no ones sexuality ought to be their defining feature (unless they want it to be), and if people aren’t like “oh hey, nice to meet you I’m [insert LGBTQ+ identity]” that doesn’t mean they are silencing themselves.
Every person I meet, I have to assess. Is it safe to out myself? Will they get judgey? Will they get violent? Should I lie?
Do I really want to come out to my Uber driver?
If mention my fiancee, in casual conversation, what pronouns do I use? Most cishets won’t read “they” as queer, and she doesn’t mind me using it to keep myself safe. She has a gender neutral name. I’m lucky she has a gender neutral name. Cishets hear her name and think I’m engaged to a Christopher.
(I’m safer if they think my wife is to be my husband. I wish that I could give her the same gift, the same cloak of plausible deniability, and I hate myself for it. We are both bisexual; we would both be “gold star lesbians” if not for that inconvenient fact.)
My grandmother, who had for 22 years called me her soul-sister, proclaimed us kindred spirits, disowned me for not being straight enough. My father has not spoken me since he found out I’m marrying a woman.
I live in Chicago. I live in a queer neighborhood and work in a queer industry and visit a queer practice for my medical needs. I can clock other queers like a goddamn rainbow swatch. I eat breakfast at a queer cafe and I feel absolutely aglow when I see a cis-looking beardy dude wearing a he/him/his pin so the man I’d misread as a woman can wear that same pin himself and feel normal doing it.
When I was younger, I made a big deal about how my sexuality didn’t DEFINE me. (Because I’ll find a nice man and settle down and be safe and no one will know. Then it might go away.)
But as I’ve grown older I’ve come to understand that who we love and how we love are fucking important.
It’s not a privilege to be read as straight, it’s an insult.
This isn’t passing. It’s hiding.
And I desperately long for the day I don’t have to do it anymore.
“It’s not a privilege to be read as straight, it’s an insult.”
As a bisexual woman dating a man, I find it very insulting to be assumed as straight. That’s not who I am. It will never be who I am.
Whenever Teddy doesn’t feel well, he will (only) ask Harry but not grandma Andromeda to bring him to his favourite healer, his uncle Draco who works in St. Mungo. Harry suspects Teddy might know about his crush on Draco.
Art request on Instagram for Draco’s Birthday : Draco as a healer, gentle and caring + something with Draco, Harry and Teddy
We’ve all heard of Betty Boop. But how many of you knew that she was based off of a BLACK woman.
Yes Betty Boop was based off of Ms.Esther Jones known by her stage name “Baby Esther”. She was an African-American singer and entertainer of the 1920’s. Her singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop” hence the name Betty Boop! She performed regularly at the cotton club in Harlem,New York.
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I googled to make sure this was true, and it was.
wholetime..
I’ll reblog every time this comes on my dash.
I need you all to know that that photo is not of Esther Jones, it’s a Russian woman named Olya from a Betty Boop inspired photo shoot she did in 2008/9. Here’s another photo:
And here’s the photographer’s Livejournal page where they posted the photos. Not a mysterious, forgotten black woman from the 1920s, but a Russian model who probably finds it really weird that people keep posting this photo of her and saying she’s Esther Jones, who was a young black child.
Yep, Esther Jones / Baby Esther was a child star, not an adult, and looked like this:
And yes, she was probably indirectly the inspiration for Betty Boop’s voice; a white woman named Helen Kane sued the Betty Boop creators (for $250k!) and said they copied her singing style for the character, but then it turned out that she had been to one of Esther’s shows a few weeks before Kane adopted the ‘baby’ singing style. Other singers who had a similar singing style to Kane also testified that Kane was not the originator of the style, and she lost her case.
This is Helen Kane, who probably looks pretty familiar:
Despite being the basis of Betty Boop’s voice, Esther was not the source for Betty Boop’s look, which was modelled on the popularity of Clara Bow and generic ‘20s/’30s fashion trends (hence Helen Kane’s similar appearance):
This post, I think, tries to make it look like Esther was the inspiration for both Betty Boop’s voice and aesthetic, which isn’t quite true (not that it makes much difference; she was still exploited.) Esther’s career essentially ended when she was about 15, and no-one knows what happened to her after that.
You can and should read about Esther’s life and career here. (Be aware there are lots of photos of newspaper articles from the ‘20s and ‘30s, including racist caricatures of Esther.)
Another photo you often see which is touted as Esther Jones is this one:
But that’s not her either; some sources claim it’s probably another singer named Esther Bigeou, but there’s no concrete valid source I can find which says who she is, so I’m not going to claim to know who it is. It’s not Esther Jones, though; there’s very little information as to what happened to Esther after her career ended in about 1934, when she would have been around 15.
This is Little Esther Phillips (real name Esther Mae Jones), who also sometimes gets mistaken for Baby Esther / Esther Jones on account of their incredibly similar stage names and birth names. Esther Phillips was also a singer, but a completely different person and was active in the ‘40s-’80s, not the ‘20s-’30s:
This post is Kind Of Bad, Actually because it proclaims to be giving a black woman (except actually a black girl, because Esther was a child) back her voice and historical importance, and then takes a huge dump on that by using an unsourced, disingenuous photo of a white woman instead of literally typing ‘Baby Esther Jones’ into Google and finding a photo of Esther herself (after going through the sources and checking for validity, obvs.) It’s already bad enough that she had her voice stolen. Let’s not erase her face, too.
plz do my survey
if i want to get a good grade on my digital technologies assessment i need to have a survey that has been completed by many people, and so far i only have 14 entries :/
the survey is completely anonymous and it would mean a lot to me if some of you did, it only takes an average of 59 seconds to complete. thanks !!
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fred: i have an idea
fred: it’s very uncool, but it’s not illegal. technically
fred: but it is a dick move
george: i love it
It’s a breezy summer day and the rustling from the leaves outside sound like whispers from my small apartment. I’m sitting in front of my laptop, silently studying the 1.6 billion faces speaking simultaneously in front of me. It’s Monday, the day of the weekly conference call between all Muslims. We have been required to attend this Skype meeting from the the tender age of fetus, but I had never spoken in one of them before.
That changes today.
“Hey guys, what if…” I start to say.
Nobody hears me, but I refuse to be silent. How could I show my face again on Tumblr if I couldn’t even save my mayonnaise friends from death? How could I expect to earn their respect? Anon was right; why hadn’t I done this before? Thousands of lives had paid the price for my ignorance, but not anymore.
“What if you guys….. stopped killing people.“
Suddenly, silence.
1,643,398,023 pairs of eyes are on me. My heart is in my throat as the ISIS leader gives me a blank expression.
A single tear rolls down my cheek. "Please.” I say with a broken voice.
He is moved.
“Aight”.
My fingers are almost shaking as I carefully type in the ten digit phone number I have had memorized my entire life. The buttons on my home phone seem to glow a bit more dull, and even the ringing of the phone from the other end seems to be agonized, almost as if the world is telling me to hang up. But I refuse to give up; I can’t let my lily-white friends down. Not again.
The phone rings once. Twice. Three times. Still no answer. Just as I am about to hang up, there is a click.
All I can hear is heavy breathing.
“Hello….” I say quietly, my voice shaking. “Is….. Is this Muslim?”
There was a long silence before I heard a voice answer “ya lol.”
“I was thinking………..” I begin cautiously. “Maybe murder is…………bad.”
“Habibi, I…..I don’t understand. What are you trying to say….?” The voice seems shaken.
“What if…….world peace is good and killing people is…………not good”
He lets out an audible gasp. “Are you saying ISIS is…….bad?”
“Maybe death is…….not good.” I continue. My heart is racing. I remind myself that I am saving thousands of lives, and inhale.
The silence from the other end of the line is almost deafening. He seemed to be thinking, as if he had never considered this idea before in his life. Truly I had opened his heart and his mind. This…. This could end terrorism.
“Muslim….Please.” I whisper.
I hear a tear roll down his cheek, with my Muslim Communication Hearing™, and hold my breath as he finally breathes out his next words.
“Kk.”
The best part is the fact that out of the two of them Martha Stewart was the one who went to prison.
Wait…what?
Wiiiiild. He did commit murder (in self defense - no judging) and America‘s Best Housewife was sent to jail because of insider trading, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. This is wiiiiiild 😄😄😄
also he has every right to make fun of kanye west considering snoop has had a successful career for about two decades including his own cookbook and appearing in movies whereas kanye is a flat earther who had to crowdfund another album because he ran out of money despite kim kardashian being with him, not having the money to produce another album should be the metric when you know you can tell a musician has failed somewhere in either money management or actually being a musician rather then a famous trainwreck
snoop dogg is a good man who loves cooking, nature, and supporting the dreams of young children in poverty. kanye west helped get trump elected.
How fucking strong must those suits be for the guy to view crashing as a mild inconvenience
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“OH POOP!”
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The second to last guy straight up doing a meme pose but I can’t find it
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like to save the austrailians, reblog to let them be crushed by pluto
let us die
me whenever someone on tumblr ask about my chemical romance: