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Les sphinx au dictionnaire - Francine van Hove

French b.1942-

would love to see more non-sexualized nudity like this in art. this, right here? this is every woman: just at home relaxing with her tits out. she doesn’t have her tits out to please anybody but herself–she’s lounging around, she’s hanging out with her cat, she has her tits out just because. that’s a whole mood. that’s relatable, realistic, and very human. and it’s so superior to the massive amount of art we have of women frolicking around with their backs arched to appeal to the male gaze. lady just doesn’t wanna wear a bra. just wants to lounge around with a book and a cat and her tits just hanging. respect

banahbanah

So I was trying to figure out what the artist was portraying here or what was going on and I couldn’t find a lot of info but I did find More

Naked ladies vibing with books and food seems to be her thing and I’m here for it.

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This makes an incredible and resounding amount of sense

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I have never fallen in love with an Artist before.

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Dejanira (Autumn) by Gustave Moreau (1872-73)

one of my favorite and most accurate things in media is when set designers go absolutely bananas designing the bedrooms of teenage girls.

i feel seen every time.

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queenlua

one time in high school, i got lowkey sanctimonious at a friend for something along the lines of “well if people really cared about [x], they would’ve taken the time to educate themselves about it.”

the look he gave me was like he’d been slapped in the face, and i realized all at once what a total bitch i was. turned out my friend did care a lot about [x], actually! and just because he wasn’t terminally online and ruthlessly adept at knock-down ideological spats didn’t make him any less moral than myself. basically the reverse, in this case. he’d expressed some curiosity and uncertainty, and instead of meeting his openness with some of my own, i used it as an excuse for some self-righteous dig. ugh!

so whenever i see shit online along the lines of “well if you aren’t actively seeking broader context all the time that’s lazy/immoral/ignoble” i’m always like… bro would you say that to someone’s face? would you really? maybe try it and see how it feels, huh

findingfeather

One of the most EXHAUSTING things for me about disability issues is knowing that so many of the people I deal with DO care but have not only literally not had the opportunity to learn but not even had the opportunity to learn that there’s anything they don’t know.

Like the other day single use plastics came up at work and it was actually super super fruitful! When I pointed out the huge problem with plastic bans from a disability pov, I got a whole collection of startled wide eyes and “I never thought of that!” and willing listening!

And YES it was super frustrating and tiring to explain the same thing AGAIN, and yes it is an issue of privilege that they could get this far without knowing, but also: where would they learn? How would they know there was something TO learn? These are people who DO make effort and they DO care and yet the state of GENERAL knowledge is such that you can do all that and yet not know you even need to learn more.

And right now as we speak there’s SOMETHING that you and I don’t even know we don’t know. And there’s someone out there who’s EXHAUSTED at having to explain again.

bloodraven55

discourse about redemption arcs would vastly improve if instead of always asking “is this character redeemable?” people started asking “what message would it send to redeem this character?” and “would it be logical or satisfying on a narrative level to redeem this character?”

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also i am begging people to realise that redemption is not the only possible kind of development for a villain. they can progress without it being a positive change. it's so boring and restrictive when the only reaction to a new bad guy is debating “will they be redeemed or not?”

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renthony

A lot of people have a super, super skewed idea of what rural towns in America are like.

I grew up on a farm two miles outside a town with less than 200 people. For a short while, there was a queer-owned coffee shop/art gallery on the main highway. It's where I spent the better part of an entire summer, just hanging out with my laptop. The owner would start experimenting with new drink ideas on slow days, and give me free ones in exchange for feedback.

"And he didn't get run out of town?!" Nah, because his mom owned a hair salon and did the hair of all the old ladies in town, and if they were jerks to her son, she would have stopped doing up their hair and they'd have had to drive half an hour into the city to find a new hairdresser.

My hometown isn't some bastion of progressive politics or anything, but like...it's not a two-dimensional caricature, either. I still live in the area. There are queer people. There are a lot of people of color, especially Black elders and Latinx immigrants. There are disabled folks. There's an entire group of found-family queer leftists who bought a farm together. I know of at least two pagan families, and multiple Jewish folks.

If you read "town of 200 people" and immediately assumed that all of them are white, Christian, cis, straight, able-bodied, republican landowners? You're extremely mistaken.

Rural America is more diverse than you think.

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#*farquad pointing* NORTHERNER

I'm from Florida, actually, which you'll recognize as being pretty notably in the South.

The American South has the highest population of Black people in the entire country. The three states with the highest population of Black citizens are Texas, Georgia, and Florida. [x]

Texas and Florida are both listed in the top three US states with the highest populations of Hispanic/Latinx people. [x]

Texas is listed as the overall second-most ethnically diverse state in America. Out of the five least ethnically diverse states, three of them are Northern states--Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. [x]

Six--SIX--of the world's top 50 largest Pride events happen in the American South--Houston, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Charlotte, and Miami [x].

Florida and Texas are both listed in the top five US states with the highest percentage of queer & LGBT people [x].

Of the top five American states with the highest percentage of disabled people, four of them are in the South [x].

I could keep going.

The South is more diverse than you think.