Im too stubborn to not have hope

johnny \\ he/they lesbian

[cicada-dyke]

swear to god when this damn literature exam i’m taking is over i’m only gonna be reading nothing but feminist sapphic books to detox. fuck you mean the only stories they picked from our entire countries history are ones where the women get treated as objects. all of my loving analysis to be poured into “the woman sits by the stove to represent her role in the rural patriarchal society - of serving and caring for her family”

[literallyandygallagherbtw]

Something that really annoys me is how people will always treat mlm media as a joke. The biggest example I have for this is Brokeback Mountain, where the general audience took a tragic love story and reduced it to a 30 seconds scene where they had sex. That is really something disgusting to do, even more if we consider the ending. They will joke about Brokeback Mountain, that is mlm, but will treat Titanic with the fragility it’s supposed to be treated with(and I’m not complaining, Titanic is my favorite movie), but it’s really homophobic how people see gay people as only a source of entertainment and laughs when they’re so much more than that.

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[venatoris]

i made this image for the express purpose of this

[charlesoberonn]

[jacb]

London tube travel shot and GIF’d by me this morning.

[piedpip3rrr]

Criminal minds but it’s an adult swim show no one can remember

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[sunfloowerlatte-art]

I’m back and still always drawing her

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

it's me and my two sources on medieval strap-ons against the world

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Right, so.

Source One is Burchard of Worms' Decretum, Book XIX. The Decretum was a collection of canon laws compiled in the early half of the 11th Century. Book XIX, or The Corrector, was a penitential: basically a guidebook for confessors. Here's a sin, have u done it, here's your penance.

One of the questions for women was, essentially, "Did you make a dildo, strap it to yourself and fuck someone with it?". The original text is in Latin, and there's a few translations floating around of what it said. Here's one, which I spent the past three days looking for, because I wanted a direct source:

Have you done what women are wont to do: to make a certain device in the form of a male member to the measure of your will, and to tie it to your own or another woman's genitals with some ties, and commit fornication with other women, or others with the same instrument, or with another with you? - Translated from Latin, taken from "Die Bussordnungen der abendländischen Kirche nebst einer rechtsgeschichtichen Einleitung", F. W. H Wasserschleben

Pretty cut and dry re: the use of strap-ons. And dildos, because the next question is "and did you use this device on yourself?"

The second source is from the trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer, specifically Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477) by Helmut Puff, which has an analysis of the trial as well as a translation of the trial texts.

Katherina is the first recorded woman to be executed for homosexuality. There's a lot to be said about her and the way she performed gender but what I'm interested in today is the strap. So, from the court text itself:

...She made an instrument with a red piece of leather, at the front filled with cotton, and a wooden stick stuck into it, and made a hole through the wooden stick, put a string through, and tied it round; and therewith she had her roguery with the two women...

And there we go! Two sources about people in medieval times using strap-ons, one from around 1020 and one from 1477.

[mournfulroses]

Neha Malhokra, from a poem titled "Menaka," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

[milestrumpet1]

Kate Bush, 1978

Photos by Gered Mankowitz

[cicada-dyke]

i think a blood vessel popped in my brain when i want to the museum of imersive art and saw that it was overtaken by bullshit ai projections. genuinely foamed at the mouth at the sight of Judith and the head of Holofernes by Gustav Klimt ( one of my all time favorite paintings ) re depicted with ai to show Judith without the severed head and instead of standing up, looking down at you, lying on her back in an almost sexual manner. besides the obvious fucking disrespect of feeding art into ai THEY JUST CANNOT STAND A WOMAN IN A POSITION OF POWER. A WOMAN CANNOT BE STRONG, SHE CANNOT BE BRAVE, SHE CANNOT USE HER SEDUCTION TO GAIN POWER, SHES SIMPLY AN OBJECT FOR SEXUAL FANTASY LITERALLY KILL ME. what the fuck are we even doing at this point

[do-not-u-dare]

”Explain yourself” followed by “stop making excuses” has always baffled me because the fuck you think explaining myself is????

[emuhlo]

put these guys back in the killjoy jackets please

[livelovelaugh-777]

[hangsawoman]

leave tonight or live and die this way

[batmanego]

i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT

[adhdasfuck]

Map I found showing which states got their names from where. Over half of the states come from Indigenous languages.

[selenekallanwriter]

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.