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Exploring art, history, science, law, nature, astronomy, animals, sci-fi tv, Lover of non-conformity, lover of dispassionate facts and fairness in life, law and play. No abuse given or tolerated.

[bellefoxs]

#invented enemies to lovers

[thunderbirdxart]

Lower Decks is about friends supporting each other.

[rallamajoop]

So just how gay was Bram Stoker?

So here’s the thing: Vampires – at least the vampires of western literary tradition – have always been a little queer.

They’ve never just been queer (though they’ve certainly always been sexy). The vampire literary canon of the 1800s is thick with mysterious, dark strangers, sadistically fixated upon some innocent, young maiden – and not at all short on naïve young men falling for the charms of seductive vampire ladies either. Dracula is no exception on either count.

But the very first literary vampire, Lord Ruthven of 1819’s The Vampyre, was modelled on (and sort-of-stolen-from ‒ it’s a long story) the real and famously bisexual poet, Lord Byron ‒ Mr. “Mad, bad and dangerous to know” himself. And it’s not just women this vampyre threatens – ultimately, his chief victim is a young man called Aubrey, whose starstruck-admiration becomes disillusionment and horror as he realises just what Ruthven really is. Though largely forgotten today, The Vampyre was a sensation on is publication.

And then there’s Carmilla: the prototypical lesbian vampire, from a tale about as explicit on that front as anything from 1872 could have gotten away with. It’s not for nothing that Carmilla is second only to Dracula as the most referenced and adapted vampire tale ever told. Next to Carmilla and Ruthven, Dracula – whose best-known victims are Lucy and Mina, and who mostly leaves his entourage of voluptuous vampire brides to scandalise their menfolk – looks positively hetero.

But then there’s that one passage. You know the one ‒ Dracula Daily sent it to us all on May 16. The one where – just as Dracula’s three “brides” are on the cusp of stealing “kisses” from poor, innocent Jonathan, in a scene sizzling with sexual tension – the Count himself swoops in, enraged, to claim his young guest for himself.

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[ltwilliammowett]

Here you can see and hear a broadside from HMS Victory. Just wanted to share this so you can get an impression of what it looked like when a first-rate ship of the line fired its guns.

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[not-wholly-unheroic]

Super cool! Imagine the Jolly Roger doing this…

[dankxsinatra]

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[godshideouscreation]

[erebus0dora]

#finally a lord of the rings joke that has some damn good sauce

@abz-j-harding don't you DARE LEAVE IT IN THE TAGS

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Pair of Eagle Owls, 1927 painting by Paul Jouve

[updownsmilefrown]

Two steel workers enjoy a cigarette while on break, November 1942

[writernotwaiting]

Read all of the posts by medievalartresearch on Medieval Art Research

Polonsky Foundation England and France, 700-1200: Manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library

A new project is underway to open up further the unparalleled collections of illuminated manuscripts held by the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In a ground-breaking new collaborative project the national libraries of Britain and France will work together to create two innovative new websites that will make 800 manuscripts decorated before the year 1200 available freely. The Bibliothèque nationale de France will create a new bilingual website that will allow side-by-side comparison of 400 manuscripts from each collection, selected for their beauty and interest. The British Library will create a bilingual website intended for a general audience that will feature highlights from the most important of these manuscripts and articles commissioned by leading experts in the field. Both websites will be online by November 2018.

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[autistic-af]

Source ~ Neurodivergent_Lou

Alt Text added to each image.

Note: these are different ways these can show up. They can also show up in a stereotypical way. If you've met one autistic, you've met one autistic.

[teaboot]

REALLY

FUCKING ALL OF THEM??!?!?!!

[dionysiaproductions]

[orbitalyear-deactivated20230513]

old gods are waking

[dragon-in-a-fez]

idea:

[day-time-dream]

[theoreticaltrek]

I don't know. Anyone want to write a love story between Hope and The Odds and see how they get along?

[femsolid]

I was watching a youtube video of a trial in the US: a young man who killed his father because he'd been raping him ever since he was 6. He got sentenced to life in prison because either the jury didn't believe him or they didn't believe he'd acted in self defence, whatever. I watched him cry as he was being questioned by the lawyers about what he'd endured and I genuinely felt bad for him. I believed him and was moved by his pain. I checked the comments and everybody was being supportive and saying he should be freed, but there were also dozens of comments with thousands of upvotes saying: "if he'd been a girl he would be free right now", "people never believe men", "this is why men don't come forward" and "if he was a girl it would be a whole different story." Men and women, repeating the same thing over and over again, like some rehearsed performance: women are believed more than men and they get a free pass for murder. Basically, that the justice system favours women and hastily punishes those accused of rape. Which is a blatant lie. So why do people believe it? Why do they feel the need to say it every time a man is abused? My empathy for the guy slowly vanished as I remembered that a man would never feel the same way about a woman and that men literally use other men's pain to oppress women further. There's an underlying message with it too: that men rape women so frequently that everyone believes it, which is a privilege. Female privilege. Women and girls are privileged for being assaulted so frequently that it can't be denied. And yet it is.

I looked at the corner of my youtube screen and saw the next recommended video: "Camille Vasquez's Cross of Amber Heard." In the video, Amber Heard cries much like the man I was watching just before, about being raped. The top comments all call her a liar, an evil psychopath, a bad actress and a woman who tried to ruin a man's life with false rape accusations. They're all laughing at her. You really can't make this shit up.

[captaincrusher]

Attack of the flying, farting pancakes. I love this show.

[captaincrusher]

Here we go again

[cannibalchicken]

[catgirl-techsupport]

This is a sign of a good hotel. Housekeepers are paid enough to care about small details and have enough time per room to goof around a little. If you have your stuffed animal tucked into bed you know there was enough time to pay attention to all the details of the room and that the rooms are cleaned well.

[lemonsharks]

Housekeepers having both the time and physical & emotional energy to be a little silly with your room is a good sign