The Bee's Knees

Elle. For the most part this blog is run by the queue, but there are times I cannot contain my enthusiasm and I will reblog. Sorry for the spam. That's what you're getting into if you follow. My art blog Fic rec blog/collection

[hayworth-rita]

BETTE DAVIS as Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[unanuvola]

FELIX×CHANGBIN // STRAY KIDS • RACHA LOG EP. 22

[youdontgotoparties]

[fenppaliini]

I love bi Steve ok

[championofdogs]

saw a post about this earlier but it made me think: tumblr really is the only social media site where I go on and have a good time and then carry on with my day. I know it's completely curated because there are some awful people here but that (the curation) in itself is a privilege of the site. Every other social media site is designed to make you angry for more engagement

[cleolinda]

David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died

David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.

He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies.

But Hockney’s six-decade career cannot be defined by a single era. He produced perspective-shifting portraits using photo-collage, experimented with abstract landscape painting and, in later life, investigated the possibilities of creating artworks out of emerging 3D technology.

[...] While working on one of his LA paintings, Hockney took a series of reference photographs on a Polaroid camera and accidentally stumbled on the next stage of his career: photocollage, or “joiners” as he would term them. Through assembling multiple photographs together, Hockney could explore his fascination with perspective. The portraits he created of his mother and the British art dealer John Kasmin exhibited a strong cubist influence that drew comparisons with his idol, Picasso.

In later years, Hockney experimented in many new areas including set and costume design for operas and ballets. Developing technology fascinated the artist: as his career evolved, his art made use of the photocopier, the fax machine, the printer and the iPad – the latter allowing him to create reams of digital paintings that he would excitedly email friends and acquaintances. But his technological interests always came back to one thing: “I’m really only interested in technology that is about pictures,” he told Interview magazine in 2013. “I’m interested in anything that makes a picture.”

[puppyms]

Evil and cruel thing to do to a lil puppy dog

[infectiouspiss]

cool so when does he die

[sebastiansource]

SEBASTIAN STAN For ESQUIRE Photographed by Chuck Reyes

[linolinoing]

[prokopetz]

John Wick style rampage-of-revenge film about a housecat that got dumped on the side of the highway by a negligent former owner coming back for vengeance. Live action. All practical effects. The cat has no dialogue. This is played 100% straight.

[hayeseveryone]

I imagine it'd be the cat equivalent of this

[straykidsmedia]

[bisexualityjunkie]

[elision]

"So, what would fandom etiquette for journalists actually look like?

At the very least, it means asking permission before embedding fan art or linking directly to fan fiction in coverage. It means thinking twice before asking actors or artists to react to ships or explicit fan creations. It means considering whether a fan reasonably expected their work to stay within the community it was made for. Most importantly, it means treating fandom spaces like real places inhabited by real people, many of whom seek out these spaces precisely because they offer a sense of belonging they may not find elsewhere.

Fandom does not need to remain in the margins to deserve respect. But if journalists are going to cover this subject, and we should, we have to be willing to approach these spaces with the same care, ethics, and nuance we would bring to any other community. Because behind every fic or piece of fan art is someone saying, 'This mattered to me.' Did it matter to you too?"

Crystal Bell - "The Pitt" fans aren't happy with journalists. We need real etiquette when reporting on fandom" Teen Vogue, April 9, 2026

[polkadotmotmot]

Sonya Sklaroff - Rainbow Flag, 2017 - Oil on panel

[lestatfag]

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

[unanuvola]

FELIX×CHANGBIN // STRAY KIDS • RACHA LOG EP. 22

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.