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De placeres optimistas y bajas pasiones, harto en cosas lindas, falto en cosas propias, en ocasiones doy pena... facebook flickr

[frequencebariole]

Charles Burns - drawing sketch

[nevver]

Newton Cenotaph, Etienne-Louis Boullée

[pappubahry]

[pizzzatime-deactivated20210414]

pappubahry: Neptune, seen from the Keck Observatory in the infrared (wavelength 1.17-1.3 microns), 11 August 2004.  (Program ID N19N2.)

[sukme]

[notational]

“Meanwhile the opposition is merely ridiculous. “The Resistance” became a term of immediate assumed derision before it had a chance to become a cliche. They told you you were a people’s army; you are a podcast guest. They told you you’d have comrades in arms; you got people writing “kompromat” on Twitter over and over again. They told you that this would be a time of great renewal too, that punk would be reborn, that artists would recognize their new sacred duty, that we would have a rebirth of our aesthetic imagination. “Can you imagine the anti-Trump music?” they said. I’ve heard it. It sucks. No great protest writing has emerged, no infant school of writing that shuns the sclerotic habits of the old cliques in favor of the anarchic and the new. There has never been an interesting essay written about Donald Trump, not once, not ever, not at all. Such a thing cannot exist. The great Trump-era art is not coming; we have made a fetish of banality and traded transcendence for the same tired pantomime of cleverness. We didn’t get Guerrilla Girls and Minor Threat. We got Logan Paul and Fortnite.”

— Fredrik deBoer (via azspot)

[nicolasbrunet]

Collages du 13 avril 2018, numéros 2 et 3.

[virginiachance]

[jiitters-deactivated20190221]

Language and Mind

[jeanne-crains]

Josephine Baker in Zouzou (1934)

[masprozac]

[vintageeveryday]

Boy watching TV for the first time in an appliance store window, 1948.

[mydarkenedeyes]

Taylor Urrea

[mydarkenedeyes]

James Zucco

[70sscifiart]

Gojira tai Hedorâ soundtrack, 1971

[questcequecestqueca]

[millionmovieproject]

No cut-aways, one take.

Crew members threatened to quit and begged him not to do it.

The cameraman looked away while rolling.

A six ton prop.

It brushes his arm as it comes down.

And he doesn’t even flinch.

[nitrateglow]

Will always reblog

[gaaf]

Stop Making Sense / Jonathan Demme / 1984

[kendrajk]

Informative Ancient Egypt Comics: BROS

Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.

[samandriel]

I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were. Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together. And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.

[aeacustero]

On the last note, I was walking around the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and there is a mummy on exhibit. It caught my attention because the panel that was describing it was talking about how it was a woman’s body in a male coffin and wow, the Egyptian working that day really screwed that up. My summary, not actual words, sorry I can’t remember verbatim but it basically said that someone screwed up.

They claimed that the Egyptians screwed up a burial.

The Egyptians. Screwed up. A burial.

Now I’m not an expert in Ancient Egypt but from what I know, and what the exhibit was telling me, burials and the afterlife and all that jazz DEFINED the Egyptian religion and culture. They don’t just ‘screw up’. So instead of thinking outside the box for two seconds and wonder why else a genetically female body was in a male coffin, the ‘researchers’ blatantly disregard the rest of their research and decided to call it a screw up. Instead of, you know, admitting that maybe this mummy presented as male during his life and was therefore honorably buried as he was identified. But it would be too much of a stretch to admit that a transgender person could have existed back then.

(Sorry I can’t find any sources online and it’s been like 2 years but it stuck in my mind)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

There’s a lot of bigoted historian dragging on my dash these days and it makes me happy.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Once again, more proof that we queers have ALWAYS been here, and it’s a CHOSEN narrative to erase them.

[fozmeadows]

No Homo: A History

[shooketh-aghdashloo]

Let’s not forget those fuckboys who were clearly gay but had wives and ignored them