[lowqualityarrogance]

[animentality]

[diegosumbrella]

s1 diego hargreeves.. dreamy sigh..

[pierppasolini]

Birder (2023) // dir. Nate Dushku

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[nobrashfestivity]

Makoto Wada, Anti-war poster for the women and children of Vietnam, 1968

[zanephillips]

Mascarpone (2021) dir. Alessandro Guida & Matteo Pilati

[zanephillips]

Los Fuertes (2019) dir. Omar Zúñiga

[zanephillips]

Tuca Andrada and Diogo Almeida Wandering Heart (2021)

[zanephillips]

Los Fuertes (2019) dir. Omar Zúñiga

[alfiessolomvns]

What a relief. His ego is in check. [insp.]

[lassos-welton]

[fagraklett]

Chinese emperor Ai of Han, fell in love with a minor official, a man named Dong Xian, and bestowed upon him great political power and a magnificent palace. Legend has it that one day while the two men were sleeping in the same bed, the emperor was roused from his sleep by pressing business. Dong Xian had fallen asleep across the emperor’s robe, but rather than awaken his peaceful lover, the Emperor cut his robe free at the sleeve. Thus “the passion of the cut sleeve” became a euphemism for same-sex love in China. — R.G.L.

[jeremyyyallan]

get you a dude who will fuck up his own clothing for you

[pilgrim-soulinyou]

NO OKAY THIS IS REALLY COOL SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN KIDS. Ancient China was super chill about homosexuality okay. Like we have gay emperors and feudal lords, lesbian princesses who were girlfriends with their serving maids, gay ass poets who wrote lots of poems about that one courtesan who played the guzheng so well. In fact homosexuality was so okay that in Shiji, which is basically the Bible of Ancient Chinese history, there is an entire section dedicated to the gay lovers of emperors. What’s the best part? All the laws and criticism about homosexuality in Ancient China were all about shit like prostitution and rape. These laws were  outlawing homosexual stuff were all very specific. For example, there were laws banning male prostitution, but no laws against homosexuality. These laws were passed to stop the spread of prostitution and laws targeting prostitution in general were pretty common in Chinese history. There were also really strict laws about male rape. Rape was punishable by death, regardless of the gender of the victim. Rape a girl, you die. Rape a guy, you die. Have sex with a minor, you die regardless of whether it was consensual. The lightest sentence you could get was slavery where you were bound to the army. Also scholars wrote essays criticising the boyfriends of emperors, saying that they distracted the emperor from work blah blah blah but THEY ALSO DID THE SAME FOR THE CONCUBINES. That’s right - the issue wasn’t homosexuality but rather the hormones of the emperor. They didn’t care about the gender of the emperor’s favourite lover but rather the fact that the emperor was too horny to get shit done. “But WAIT, Modern China is a hardass about homosexuality!!!! How do you explain that!” Yes. That. That’s because of the late Qing years where Western influences entered the country and brought their gross ass homophobic attitudes with them. And the Qing government was so anxious to seem modern and be seen as equals to their Western counterparts. So they adopted Western ways and discarded their previous attitudes about homosexuality. Hence you have Modern China. So the next time someone tries to tell you that being LGBT is wrong because it goes against traditional Chinese values, tell them to go fuck themselves with 3000 years of Chinese queerness. 

[daysofstorm]

Here are all the illustrations of historical gay couples by Ryan Grant https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/artist-spotlight/2012/08/11/ryan-grant-longs-history-gay-love#slide-0

[shapeshifting-cryptid]

This is one of the best things I have ever read.

[nightprompts]

&. 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  sentence  starters  of  various  quotes  that  can  be  said  from  the  villain.  looking  for  the  hero  version?  click  here.  )

❛ i’m the villain of your dreams! ❜

❛ what are you going to do when someone you save kills someone else in the future? ❜

❛ violence only breeds more violence. ❜

❛ you were right. i never did become a hero. ❜

❛ it takes a monster to destroy a monster. ❜

❛ i wonder which will get you killed faster: your loyalty or your stubbornness? ❜

❛ they fear me because i fear nothing. ❜

❛ rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one. ❜

❛ i’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams. ❜

❛ better a monster than an arrogant god. ❜

❛ i am a monument to all your sins. ❜

❛ ugh, spare me the heroic monologue. let’s just fight. ❜

❛ if the world chooses to become my enemy, i will fight like i always have. ❜

❛ i’m standing in the ashes of who i used to be. ❜

❛ how many people have to die because you can’t break your code? ❜

❛ power belongs to those who take it. ❜

❛ i do very bad things, and i do them very well. ❜

❛ i wasn’t given a choice. ❜

❛ i am my own demon. ❜

❛ you don’t know what i’m capable of. what i’ve done. ❜

❛ underestimate me. that’ll be fun. ❜

❛ the question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. ❜

❛ if i cannot bend heaven, then i will raise hell. ❜

❛ but what if i choose the darkness instead? ❜

❛ i have no desire to clear my name in your book of fiction. ❜

❛ you shouldn’t have buried me. i’m not dead. ❜

❛ i am going to be the deadliest piece on the board. ❜

❛ tell the wolves, i’m home. ❜

❛ they’re dangerous? well unfortunately, so am i. ❜

❛ i could set this world on fire and call it rain. ❜

❛ no one notices your tears, or your pain. but they notice your mistakes. ❜

❛ don’t trust my smile. ❜

❛ i am the tall dark stranger those warnings prepared you for. ❜

❛ i may be heartless, but you’re naive. ❜

❛ nothing is stronger than a person with a broken heart and a smiling face. ❜

❛ i win because i don’t know how to lose. ❜

❛ say goodbye to the old me. ❜

❛ i’m only just getting started! ❜

❛ i’ll survive. somehow i always do. ❜

❛ tell lies about me. i’ll tell the truth about you. ❜

❛ i’m not a god. not yet. ❜

❛ i’ll wear your hate like war paint. ❜

❛ don’t bark if you can’t bite. ❜

❛ the deeper you dig, the darker it gets. ❜

❛ i’m everything you can’t control. ❜

❛ i hope you regret giving up on me. ❜

❛ you are losing my interest, and that’s very dangerous. ❜

❛ you call yourself a hero? ❜

❛ maybe i’ve always been more comfortable in chaos. ❜

❛ you already know how this will end. ❜

❛ people pay you less attention to you when you don’t leave a trail of bodies in your wake. ❜

[masonsgooding]

JUSTICE SMITH AND GRAHAM PATRICK MARTIN Query (2020) dir. Sophie Kargman

[brattylikestoeat]

[mellowfishie]

Moms can do that

[some-random-mexican]

Mexico City Pride, June 2017