Strange Little Girl

Kayleigh, 29, she/her (kayleigha.weebly.com). Writer-in-training. Nerdsbian, Whovian, Warehouse Agent, Team Valkubus, Little Red, Clexakru, Earper, and member of a whole bunch of other cool fandoms.

[agentromanoffsir]

some carrie fisher tweets to brighten your day

[leesh]

she really wasn’t kidding about johns underwear

[leesh]

the saga continues

[green78]

New Redbubble Product...

Yes, I’m going to hell. No, I don’t much care at this point.

@raedmagdon, @kendrene, @bitterbones87, I will personally gift y’all shirt versions, if you so wish. xD

https://www.redbubble.com/people/green78/works/34481237-alpha-beta-omega?asc=u

[straightpeoplereceipts]

don’t you love when you’re gay and you, go for a walk and see a rainbow. it’s like… that’s for me, damn! anyway the straights can’t see this particular shade of orange so here’s the tea fellow gays: Dark Pride is gonna take place halloween night under the old mausoleum. it starts at 6pm and runs all night. please come in costume. the code phrase to get the coffin to open up and let you access the stairs is “heterosexualis renouncis”

[twilightoftheapprentice]

Joanne Kelly, Bering and Wells panel, Dragon Con, 2018

[redlance]

*furiously waves the flag of our captain*

[tantedrago]

Jaime Murray and Joanne Kelly: [attending dragoncon]

Bering and Wells fandom:

[ferrarer17]

I cannot express how much it means that this cast continue to raise awareness of something which a lot of people remain so silent about. Let’s get talking… it matters. You matter.

[ithelpstodream]

[gayvetforlife]

but… they’re not. Trans is short for “transitioning” which is to say you go from one gender to the other. Non-binary people are not transitioning to another gender. They’re just not moving from one to another.

[baroquecourse]

trans is not and has never been short for transitioning you dumb hoe

[gaydiskhorse]

trans is short for transgender dumbass

[underwaterarchived]

also for those who don’t get it, the creator of the trans flag herself (monica helms, to be exact) has stated verbally, herself, that the white stripe in the flag was for nonbinary individuals + that nonbinary ppl are absolutely trans

if you exclude nonbinary folks and tell us we’re not trans go fuck yourselves

[m--ood-deactivated20181217]

Steady hands.

[flammablewhale-blog]

What in the f u c k

[cell113]

MOTHER F-!

[conways]

something that people really dont understand about ADHD is that we dont “jump from one idea to the next”

we have very fast, very associative minds that connect ideas. we have a train of thought, it just goes WAY faster than yours!

example: im thinking about dogs. that makes me think of pitbulls, which makes me think of an animal planet show i enjoy. the show connects to tv in general, which makes me think of my favorite cartoon. i associate my favorite cartoon with art and animation, and i wind up thinking about shading techniques.

TL;DR: having ADHD is kinda like playing a lifelong game of 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

[gazztron]

…WHAT THE FUCK

[daggers-drawn]

I am plagued by this but also that associative learning makes it really easy to be a hyper-generalist in terms of skills and knowledge.

[rptheturk]

This is how my brain works….

[reassambled-dragoon]

The downside is, very few people can keep pace with these jumps, and I’ve actually been told my “mind leaps” are annoying.

Yeah.

Let that sink in.

Being told that the way my mind makes connections between Point A and Point D while seemingly bypassing B and C is “annoying”.

[inyri]

… this.

It drives my husband absolutely NUTS- we’ll be having a conversation and in a lull between sentences I’ll have jumped ahead six topics, pop back in with a “Yeah, and-“

Meanwhile, he’s looking at me like I’ve grown another head. To him, whatever I’ve just said is a total non sequitur, but I can track EXACTLY how I got there… it just doesn’t make any sort of sense to anyone but me.

[real-istik]

Finally seeing this in words is very therapeutic for me

[c3rvida3]

Someone told my ex-dad (not a sex thing; he just disowned me) that I’m trans and now he’s threatening to come to work and make a scene, and I know I should be upset, but like. What’s he gonna say exactly? And to whom? Because imagining a haggard and likely shitfaced Pennsylvania construction worker barging through the grocery store like, “HEY!!! THAT BROAD-HIPPED 5'3” EFFEMINATE KID WITH THE CONSPICUOUSLY BIZARRE NAME WHO SPEAKS IN A CARTOONISHLY AFFECTED CARICATURE OF MASCULINITY AIN’T GOT NO DICK!!! YOU GONNA BUY SCRATCH OFF TICKETS FROM SOME KINDA DICKLESS ABOMINATION??“ is wild. What’s it going to accomplish? Or is he gonna call my manager? “HELLO, I’D LIKE TO REPORT A FRAUD IN YOUR DELI DEPARTMENT. THERE IS NOT SAUSAGE AS ADVERTISED.” What the fuck.

[c3rvida3]

Odds are he’s more embarrassed of having a trans ex-kid than I am of being outed at work, so what if I go to his job and tell everyone I’m trans first? What then, coward?

[musashi]

Dick or no dick, this post has some of the biggest dick energy I have ever seen.

[1o9]

[sorcererlance]

[jammerlee]

[nuttyrabbit]

GOD DAMMIT

[somaddicouldscream]

[tiny-librarian]

A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.

Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de'Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.

Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.

The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.

Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de'Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.

Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.

After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.

Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.

Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.

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[drst]

Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.

[explorerrowan]

Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”

[no-discourse-onlywrites-archive]

Carnegie Museum! :D  That’s right downtown. You rock, Ellen Baxter!

[brideoflister]

There’s an excellent video about the restoration and you can hear the disdain for the cover up dripping from the conservators words.

[adhd-anti]

We almost impeached a president for cheating on his fucking wife but we can’t even impeach Trump for putting children in fucking cages

[adhd-anti]

Y'all are fucking annoying

[randomslasher]

It’s worse than that. We didn’t almost impeach Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was impeached–the senate just ruled to keep him in office.  

And what we impeached him for was perjury and obstruction of justice. 

Aka lying and getting in the way of official investigations.

You know. The things Trump has been doing since day one. On live TV and twitter. Where we have fucking proof of it. 

Yet here we are. And there he fucking still is. 

This is why we have to vote this November, guys. We have got to take back congress. Trump will almost certainly be impeached if we can get enough seats back. 

Please please, I beg of you. Even if you don’t love your democratic candidates this November; even if they’ve done ‘problematic’ things in the past–please vote. The people who sat it out in 2016 because they didn’t love Hillary, or were bitter about Bernie, or fucking voted third party–they are the ones who carry the weight of this administration. The republicans went in undivided. The democrats went in split. And now children are being torn from their families, legal citizens are being deported, and we have fucking Nazis on the rise again.

I get that you want your politician’s views to align perfectly with yours. I do. But sometimes in politics you have to chose the lesser of two evils. We didn’t do that in 2016. 

I beg of you. Do it this year. 

[violetfaust]

You may not be able to find a progressive candidate whose ideas precisely align with yours…but I PROMISE you that the fascist racist misogynist white supremacists have candidates whose ideas EXACTLY align with theirs.

[lesbianlenas]

And you said…? I said that you are the only luscious, funny, hot as hell baby I need.

[lauraholliis]

Even though you were in the thrall of a powerful super evil demon and her unearthly baked goods you said…