always loving always doing always being

lee | 23 | they/them | backwash

[bakedbananners]

Ok I finally figured out how to draw them lol

[tiktokstowatch]

[tim-ee-sis]

Working in retail be like

[shift-shaping]

THIS IS IT THIS IS THE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR

[bgm05]

[dakregor]

[jca-archive]

Michael Whelan, from Illustrators 25 (1984)

[cormancatacombs]

[Image ID: A tweet and its reply, both by user brynismyname. The initial tweet reads, “Transphobic women often claim they were tomboys growing up, as evidence they are GNC, ignoring the fact that it’s a common trope in movies and literature for tomboys to “find their femininity” when they find the right man and get married, a narrative they are echoing.” The reply reads, “The patriarchy permitting gender rebellion in young (predominantly white cishet) women, so long as they give it up when they make the patriarchal bargain isn’t feminism, far from it.” End of description.]

[ephronian]

july is like a second go at new years. u have to treat it as such so u dont spin out

[qochita-remade-deactivated20230]

Sometimes explicit sex is thematically important to a story and sometimes it is not. Sometimes explicit bigotry is and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes violence is necessary to deliver a stories tone and immerse yourself in the characters perspective correctly and sometimes it isn’t

[qochita-remade-deactivated20230]

The inclusion of taboo subjects in a work of art isn’t inherently there as indulgence for the author, even if it is displayed graphically and without censorship. However in the case that it is you have to remember to not find fault in the raw content itself but rather the creators handling of it. When consuming media critically you must always be aware of its creators, first and foremost. There is no analysis without analysis of the brain behind it, because unlike the real world fiction is a product of someone else’s will and cognition

[catchymemes]

[oldschoolteenflicks]

Gael García Bernal & Diego Luna in Y tu mamá también (2001) dir. by Alfonso Cuarón

[remnantglow]

fun discovery from today's internet rabbit hole:

the first lesbian magazine published in the US, Vice Versa (1947-48), was entirely hand-typed by one Edythe Eyde (better known by her pen name Lisa Ben - yes, that IS an anagram for lesbian). she worked as a secretary with a ton of spare time on her hands, and her boss would tell her he didn't care what she was doing so long as she "looked busy"... so she decided to use her free time to type out copies of a home-made periodical for lesbians, writing most of the content - editorials, book/film reviews, poetry, short stories, and more - herself!

overall, the magazine ran for 9 issues, 16 hand-typed copies of which lisa would mail to friends (well, until one of them advised her she could be arrested for sending "obscene" materials) and distribute at lesbian bars :)

[remnantglow]

all issues of Vice Versa are digitized here! (the website also has a scan of a great article on Lisa Ben ❤️)

a lot of the issues of the first widely distributed gay publication in the US, ONE magazine (1952-1967), are also available online on JSTOR. there's also this article detailing the magazine's ups and downs and general history, it's v fascinating!

furthermore, a solid amount of The Ladder (1956-1972) - one of the other earliest lesbian periodicals in the US, published by Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US - is also available for online viewing thanks to the Internet Archive

[sadhoc]

the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way

[sadhoc]

it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter

[vizreef]

Tektronix MDO3024 // Mixed Domain Oscilloscope (US, 2004)

[kuso-leon]

this is literally my favorite video

[bloglikeanegyptian]

illustrated this comic for insider, recounting abdul-azeez sulaiman's journey from being tricked into doing construction at the world cup to becoming an advocate for worker's rights. you can read the full thing here

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[ymutate]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

This photograph was made on a commercial assignment for IBM.

[sapphling]

i don't know how to communicate to you people that socially isolating children and limiting their freedom to learn and form identities beyond the confines of the family has not once ever ever once Ever done anything to the rate of sexual and nonsexual child abuse other than drastically increase it