Silver Light and Stormy Seas

Minerva--- 32, She/Her, Queer Sapphic --- Wildly in love with @herumori 🩷🐇 Appalachian Kitchen Witch. My cauldron bears Cerridwen's name, and Cernunnos guides my path. Drawn to Odin and Freyja 🌼

[artist-polenov]

An Olive Tree in the Garden of Gethsemane, 1882, Vasily Polenov

Medium: oil,canvas

[simena]

DELPHIN ENJOLRAS (detail)

[herpsandbirds]

Ochre-marked Parakeet (Pyrrhura cruentata), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, endemic to eastern Brazil (spotty distribution)

Vulnerable.

photograph by Brazil Birding Experts

[dailyclassicart]

Peder Knudsen - "Surf" (1926)

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

How bad is it?

Actually way better than before!

Its good

It's alright

It's annoying but I'll be fine

It's pretty bad

IM DEAD

worse than death

Nothing changes/results

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

[authorkims]

[heinous-bitch]

you forgot the best one

[timelesstoxicology]

First copper plate etching xoxo

Also here’s my first proof + the plate inked and clean!

[pmamtraveller]

Henri Lévy - Young Girl and Death

[petaltexturedskies]

୭ৎ

[anarchistmemedistro]

[luckyladylily]

I've known a number of non binary people in my life and I think single biggest conclusion I can draw from that is that non binary people are not the same. Like if Men fit in box A and women fit in box B, people really, really want nonbinary people to fit in a theoretical box C, and it just doesn't work like that. They are outside the boxes. They defy any simple categorization because they are not a third way of being, but every other possible way of being.

Being supportive of binary people is relatively simple, they have decided to sort themselves into one of the boxes that we have lots of experience interacting with. Being supportive of nonbinary people can be comparatively tricky, because you have to resist the urge to create box C and drop them all there. That's how we end up with various prejudices like "woman lite". Humans really, really like to categorize things. It helps us think. Unfortunately, sometimes it helps us think wrong.

If you have a non binary person in your life, I think it is important to take the extra effort to learn about them specifically.

[unknownbearing]

[wandirge]

✦Judgement✦

Print Available here: INPRNT

[demadogs]

nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[demadogs]

alternatively: nothing can break the bond between a friend who doesnt read and a friend who just read an amazing book and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[demadogs]

nothing can break the bond between a friend who cannot and will not watch horror but is still interested and a friend who just watched an amazing horror movie and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[summoningspark]

Nothing can break the bond between a friend who is interested in video games in theory and a friend who is neck deep in a new game and needs to tell someone everything that annoys them about it or that they're getting really good at

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[bakurapika]

not to get bogged down in the language but the casual and non-demeaning use of "it" when referencing a child whose gender is explicitly not specified also got an eyebrow-raise.

source appears to be "Hill's manual of social and business forms : a guide to correct writing with approved methods in speaking and acting in the various relations of life" which is on archive.org here. (This edition was 1888 but evidently it was published from 1879 onwards.) nothing shocking about the authorship from what I see - he was the first mayor of aurora IL. he had an amicable divorce w property split in 1878, and i couldn't tell you how normal that was or wasn't. he did write about finances but lost his fortune in the stock market.

[livelovelaugh-777]

[connor6lesbian]

this is actually so funny jackbox said go get jokes

[redpandarascal]

1984

[voice-of-dissent]

Jackbox: