Jack Arden Rose

She/her 21 art tag is #my art

[evilbjork]

[pjharvey]

taking a nap coiled in on yourself has to feel good as fuck if you are a snake

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

[icteridcorvid]

I feel so lucky all the time that I get to share my world with such amazing talented people who I call my friends they literally make everything feel bigger and brighter they change my life by just existing

[widefuturesss]

I love loving on my friends, be loving dem downnnn, it’s jus in our queerness to love deeper than romance, to really show up for eachother, to really embrace eachother as chosen family, we love beyond domestic ideas of institutionalized partnership, me and my many loves pray for eachother across lifetimes, dreaming magic futures together on our young ho shi jus so full of love

[csny]

eastcoast: we hate our city and it makes us feel bad. but we like feeling bad

west coat: we hate our city and it makes us feel good

chicago: we love our city

[ariesfeed-deactivated20201122]

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's kind of insane how disasterous of an effect it can have on your psyche and development as an adult if people thought you were annoying when you were 8

[icteridcorvid]

My hack for morning getting out of bed anxiety is to turn on my space heater until my room gets to be like 82 degrees and it’s just too physically uncomfortable to be laying down so I no longer care

[calicotisane]

Where is my face

[krasnoarmeyets]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[aberrantceramics]

Large Cicada Sculptures

[jariten]

ホワッツ マイケル？(What’s Michael?), Makoto Kobayashi

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

[gardengnosticator]

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

[dumnslut]

[icteridcorvid]