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Lovely mutuals, if you would appreciate a piece of (pretty decent) cross stitch work in your space that you have no time/money/desire/ability to make yourself, please consider this an open invitation to ask me.

There need not be any money involved - I stitch for my own sanity and I love to make things for other people as some of you can already attest. I'm sure my current recipients would appreciate my circle of giftees expanding. ☺️

log6

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

ostolero

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)

lasrina

I've said it before but this is both the Icelandic and the Irish approach:

Of course we're modern educated people who don't believe in fairies

But we're also not gonna fuck with 'em, we're not idiots

rougejaunebleu

Gordon Appelbe Smith Special Green 1967 - 1968 Screenprint on paper 38.1 x 51.1 cm

#art

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite Guillermo del Toro film.

#crimson peak

erotizmas

why is pussy bald in nude paintings that are painted before the 20th century.

tuulikki

I know it’s not the right answer but depilation was a huge aesthetic in prestige parts of the Islamic world for women as well as men

voluptuarian

Depilation was also a huge thing throughout most of ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt. Somehow a whole lot of moderns have the bizarro idea that the ancients were all more Naturally Authentic then us and didn't shave (which is how you get the "how could they call the razor Venus? You think the goddess shaved her pussy??" meanwhile the Romans who invented her loved bald puss puss and portrayed her with one zillions of times.) The aesthetics of ancient art became extremely influential on western art from basically the renaissance on, and in many ways set the standards of "academic" style in 1700s and 1800s Europe that defined what we typically consider "classical" art.

Furthermore, portraying nudes in this academic environment was a fraught process, as anything akin to mere pornography would be not only rejected but scandalous. This could be avoided by creating a remove between real naked human, and "nude art," especially for women. Lack of body hair (which in the 1800s was typically considered sexy and was associated with the sex drive) and vaguely smooth, undefined nether regions on women were part of this standard and allowed representations of the naked form to be presented in an artistically acceptable way.

Of course, some artists didn't care about their art meeting these standards. Pieces painted for a private owner, such as Goya's "Nude Maja," for instance. Or intentionally shocking pieces, like Courbet's "Origin of the World." But even artists who intended to toe the line could find their art deemed not up to par. John Everett Millais' painting "The Knight Errant" depicts an armored knight freeing a naked woman who has been tied to a tree. Her head is modestly turned away from the viewer, her body is hairless, even her loose coiffure trails down to veil her crotch, all of which were means of establishing an acceptably "artistic," modest, remove from reality. But it still caused titters, because Millais was a Pre-Raphaelite, a circle of artists who were rejecting Neo-classical modes and studio staidness in favor of overt naturalism, and applied that naturalism to much of his depiction of the woman in "Knight Errant"— she was recognizably human, even individual, not the safely sylph-like airbrushed ideal removed from humanity and sex, and enough so that even with his bows to academic mores, a lot of people still considered it at least borderline distasteful. (And it wasn't just nudity that was expected to keep an idealized remove from reality in order to be respectable, nor was this the only painting of Millais' that got the side-eye, his depictions of the Holy Family in a warts-and-all, natural, domestically-messy style also caused controversy because it wasn't refined or respectful enough!) This struggle between artistic realism, edification, and "vulgar reality" was a constant (and notably was one of the criticisms that was leveled at the naturalism of the Impressionists as well), and bald pussy has been one of the elements at the center of the debate for a long time.

fatartappreciation

Three Graces, a beautiful tribute to indigenous women, by Canadian First Nations artist Kent Monkman … www.kentmonkman.com

#art

makingqueerhistory

"Anna Christie" starring Greta Garbo by Making Queer History on Patreon. Join Making Queer History's community for exclusive content and upd

Anna Christie is a film adaptation of a play by Eugene O'Neill. The film stars Greta Garbo, a renowned bisexual Swedish film actress known for her work during the silent and early sound eras. We've written about Garbo's work in Queen Christina, but Anna Christie was her first "talkie". Garbo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work as the titular Anna Christie. Anna Christie was also a pre-code film — it was released shortly before the Motion Picture Production Code was established. The Motion Picture Production Code, better known as the Hays Code, was a set of censorship guidelines applied to most motion pictures in the US between 1934 and 1968. The Hays Code is in reference to William Harrison Hays Sr., president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) during the introduction of the code. It was under Hays' leadership that the code was adopted in 1930, but its enforcement became evident in 1934. The code banned "immoral acts" from being shown on film, one of which was any reference to or implication of homosexuality — especially queer people getting a happy ending. Because Anna Christie is a romance, it's very interesting to see something like this released during an era where many acts and implications of love were censored. This is less an endorsement of the film, which is certainly of its time, and more an opportunity to watch and reflect on the harms and implications of censorship, especially in art. You can watch this film and check out more works in our gallery!

#queer history #cinema history