manuscripts don’t burn

used to be eastern-bloc-party. moving to a new blog.

[citree]

Study of a Ukrainian girl 🍒 

[facts-i-just-made-up]

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

[elizabethanism]

From DEAF REPUBLIC by Ukrainian-born poet Ilya Kaminsky

[sacredwhores]

Jean Rouch - Moi, un noir (1958)

[folkfashion]

Choctaw woman, United States of America, by Katie Hadley Photography

[jensreuter-deactivated20221211]

"You crucify freedom, but the human soul knows no shackles" Timofey Radya, 2016

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

I only blog to impress my EE mutuals. The rest of y’all, however…

[melkors-4th-silmaril-deactivate]

Can we please have Numenor but in the style of the historical Byzantium? 😃

[melkors-4th-silmaril-deactivate]

The Numenoreans fighting over whether it is okay to have icons of the Valar or not

[mryousiff]

[beauxenfantsdumonde]

[chickrockguy]

By Daniel Torrent

[harveyguillensource]

“He’s so fine, he can’t be beat!” Harvey Guillén serving disco sweetness. Photos by Fausto J B.

[popculturediedin2009]

Harry Whittington apologizes for being shot by Dick Cheney, February 2006

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

She was jailed for losing a pregnancy. Her nightmare could become more common

Chelsea Becker, prosecuted for murder after her stillbirth, spent 16 months in jail: ‘Why did the hospital call police?’

[maxknightley]

picturing a roman empire equivalent of reactionaries who say "if you don't like it here then move somewhere else"

[maxknightley]

you actually do this but then the romans conquer the place you moved to and now you're stuck in the roman empire again

[assiraphales]

the nascar fandom is in shambles rn bc the official account posted #yascar with a link to pride merchandise and a real life reply was ‘smh no longer supporting nascar has been going downhill since they banned the confederate flag’

[assiraphales]

like fr fr

[je-blauge]

Man, I kinda wanna be like Silence Brand! but unfortunately "Yascar" is like really, really funny

[aleriehightower]

Aubrey Plaza and Alia Shawkat (x)

[actuallyasisterofbattle]

“When you’re a trans woman you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody and if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you’re accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideas of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement. We trans women are made to teeter on this tightrope, not because we are transsexuals, but because we are women. This is the same double bind that forces teenage girls to negotiate their way between virgin and whore, that forces female politicians and business women to be agressive without being seen as a bitch, and to be feminine enough not to emasculate their alpha male colleagues, without being so girly as to undermine their own authority.”

— Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, p 28-9 (via goth-gallus)