Life of the Average Bunhead

Morgan | college student | dancer | neuroscience major | lover of food, theater, nature, and pretty dresses | Bisexual af, demisexual, nonbinary | polya | a princess and faery queen

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[pierrotsoup]

ARMAND VALLÉE POSTING WOOOO #gaypeopleification .

[kristina100000]

jennifer’s body is unrealistic because i would’ve kept making out with my friend

[woundgallery]

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Hearts), incised with the artist’s initials and dated 2006 on a plate, rubber and steel

[womblegrinch]

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890) - Le miroir

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1888.

29.25 x 19.4 inches, 74.2 x 49.2 cm. Estimate: US$20,000-30,000.

To be sold Sotheby’s, New York, 20 May 2021.

[thunderstruck9]

Tomoo Gokita (Japanese, b. 1969), Untitled, 2010. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 11 x 8.25 in.

[ew-lour]

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

[malaesthetic]

@transfagsculine​

#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

[big-gay-bird]

A lot of Jews have been observing what they did is less “white washing” but is still rooted in the same white western European standard of beauty because what they did is make her look less “Semitic.” While Jews can look like any shape or form, there are certain features stigmatized because they are associated with Jews and the original nose shape as well as her thick wavy hair are probably a lot of the difference people are noticing. By removing those features and giving her straight hair and a button nose they’ve brought her closer to the racist, anti-Semitic (as well as homophobic, transphobic, etc.) standard for woman. Regardless of whether or not this is the same person represented in two different ways, if they are intended to be family members, they need to make her this much more goyish looking. (They’ve also taken steps give this frizzle a more “feminized” face in the inhumane Pixar sense. Just to give a little credit to the folks saying homophobia and transphobia. They’re taking a lot of visual cues to make her “attractive” from a cis and hetero normative lens as well.  )

[thisswitch]

Literally

[normal-horoscopes]

[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I REMOVE A SECOND CONTAINER LABELLED "Fairy apples do not eat (Autumn Court)]

[normal-horoscopes]

[I APPROACH THE BLENDER]

[slavicafire]

what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

[slavicafire]

I simply must torment you a bit with these, let us see some of my personal favourites! (part one due to the image limit)

let us start with the kiss on the cheek (eyes averted! oh the pose! these were taken between 1910-1940)

or the nearly opposite energy (how daring!) of the kiss or caress with direct eye contact (1910-1930)

and then the innocent – yet so flirty – classic of the park encounter! (1890-1920)

[slavicafire]

and then the famed kiss on the bare shoulder – what an idea, what a vibe, such intimacy! (1910-1930)

and oh, I am not done, look at this – the adoration of the woman! look at this expression, this pose, this decorum! (1910-1940)

and then some of my favourites from the more playful or direct category, enjoy (1910-1930):

[slavicafire]

and, at last (thank you for still being here and witnessing my recent fascination with vintage polish photography) my three absolute favourites outside of any particular categories (1910-1930)

just look at her. just look.

[knightwithakay]

In which I attempt to style my plate armor for “casual” “outfits”

[starsandskiees]

This is the only tiktok you'll ever need, I've made about 13 of these and I'm not stopping anytime soon

[starsandskiees]

These are how mine are looking so far😌😌

[everythingfox]

Delivery for somebody sad

[wlwvintage]

Postcards of Edwardian actresses who I like to think were having some kind of lesbian love affair.

[figdays]

Fuck Pigeons by Felicia Chiao

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 

[catsbeaversandducks]

“Neck lengths of birds + aggression: a study.”

By @inomnomcom

[glumshoe]

do you think The Mousetrap was any good? do you think Hamlet sat down and wrote a play to trigger his uncle that turned out to be quality writing and stage direction worth performing again, or do you think it was just kind of half-baked drivel that only a guilt-stricken murderer would have any reaction to beyond awkward embarrassment?

[argumate]

Claudius: brb watching a cringe play with my fail nephew

[enbyhamlet]

This is fun jokes, but I do have some input to offer here! Hamlet asks the players to put on a pre-existing play, The Mousetrap, but he requests that they add in a monologue he wrote that is to be performed by the Claudius analogue that emphasizes the specifics of how he’s poisoning the king, in the exact way that Claudius killed the real king. Hamlet considers himself a scholar and lover of theatre, so he is probably very excited to write something that is performed. He probably spent all night perfecting the verse, but the way he wrote the verse still necessitates the mispronunciation of Hecate so that it fits into his meter better. He was trying to give acting notes to the players about how to say the 6 lines he wrote just right, and not overacting it or underacting it. Which I can only imagine was cringe as hell to a troupe of actors that do this professionally, to get acting advice from this prince who’s going to University so he thinks he’s smarter than everyone else.

[argumate]

hey we’ve all had an important task to do, like killing our uncle, that we’ve procrastinated on by obsessively focusing on some other minor task, like staying up all night writing a verse to diss our uncle.

[carnivalseb]

Of course, now there exists another play called The Mousetrap, about another murderer, so I now want to see a version of Hamlet in which Agatha Christie’s version is perfomed by mistake but Claudius is still so neurotic that the result remains the same.

[glumshoe]

Hamlet but partway through the entirety of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is performed with Hamlet’s monologue added in.