aisle 5

y. filipina. 21. she/her.

[back-then]

Smoking cowgirl and her unimpressed friend c. 1950s

[sa2ha]

they said lesbian rights

[givemearmstopraywith]

me: why did i not cry about my own trauma until i saw it replicated on a tv show

the tiny simone de beauvoir who lives in my left ear: the fictional woman is a vehicle for the ineffable traumas of your feminine self.

me: thank you madame de beauvoir

[simply-brightly-zee]

Aziraphale threatened by Crowley vs threatened by Uriel

I love this contrast because even right when Crowley first grabs him he never looks scared, not even for a moment. With the angels though he’s terrified before they even touch him. Despite all his talk of ‘opposite sides’ it’s pretty clear through his actions who he trusts, and who he doesn’t. 

[sonnywortzik]

— tim o’brien, the things they carried.

[emlynns]

thought i didnt care about love but it turns out im gay and now it’s my entire personality

[keplercryptids]

one beautiful thing I learned recently is that the origin of ‘coming out’ was that a person was coming out TO gay society. gay men in nyc in the early 1900s would have debutante-style celebrations where they came out and presented themselves (in high fashion ofc) to other gay folks. it wasnt until the 70s/80s that ‘coming out’ meant coming out FROM a hidden place TO cishet people. anyway my point is that I wanna have a belated debutante party.

[keplercryptids]

just because a few people have been wondering (and because i didn’t expect this post to get this popular lol, ya big history geeks) i learned this from Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey. Quoted below:

Like much of campy gay terminology, “coming out” was an arch play on the language of women’s culture–in this case the expression used to refer to the ritual of a debutante’s being formally introduced to, or “coming out” into, the society of her cultural peers…A gay man’s coming out originally referred to his being formally presented to the largest collective manifestation of prewar gay society, the enormous drag balls that were patterned on the debutante and masquerade balls of the dominant culture and were regularly held in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore and other cities…

Gay people in the prewar years, then, did not speak of coming out of what we call the “gay closet” but rather of coming out into what they called “homosexual society” or the “gay world,” a world neither so small, nor so isolated, nor, often, so hidden as “closet” implies.

[great-tweets]

👀

[monkeysaysficus]

They have nine beverages between the two of them

[polychromehana]

i have that painting ai app on my phone so i went ahead and took the liberty…

[jessthecheesewitch]

What they have are five beverages and four waters. Water, by definition, cannot be a beverage.

[queen-rot]

The fuck do you mean water cant be a beverage?

[jessthecheesewitch]

[okwait-deactivated20201120]

[longscarydream]

lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own

[zerofarad]

“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.

[a-mediocre-at-best-gatsby]

big little lies masquerades as a show about the cattiness of upper class women in their literal glass mansions and quickly reveals it’s self as a show about the nuances of domestic violence, the intricacies of surviving rape and sexual abuse, the importance of supportive female relationships, overcoming emotional abuse, women standing up to protect other women, and i’m just beside myself it is so VALIDATING to see that kind of content on HBO a channel infamous for shows that abuse rape and kill women like it’s in style. i am so here for women protecting each other, women standing up to abusers, women overcoming their differences and treating each other like sisters. 

tl;dr big little lies breathed life back into my archaic cynical soul and women helping women is the most important thing in the whole damn world. 

[artmail]

I’ve 👉finally👈 opened my Etsy shop! All five of these illustrations will be available as prints for now but more will be added soon, so if there’s an illustration of mine you’d really like to see as a print let me know! A link to the shop is in my bio!

[022325311517]

me, catching myself wondering how i would look to an unseen voyer and then modifying my facial expression and body position accordingly to make myself more visually appealing despite being completely alone in my room and its 2 am:

[diasporapoet-deactivated2020010]

[crossconnectmag]

Photography by Jason “Ohdagyo” Fenmore

Jason Fenmore is a full-time professional photographer, but as he says about himself he is “just a guy with a camera who loves photographing the ocean with a major focus on waves”. He resides in Newport Beach, California and has been shooting in the water for about five years. Jason is Surfline Photo Challenge Winner 2017 and also Hippy Tree #52WeeksOfNature Photo Contest Winner 2017. Follow Jason on Instagram @ohdaygo.

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[earthangel]

anyone ever experience womanhood in a “i’m a woman around other women but i wanna be seen as a shapeless entity around men” way

[katebushconfidence]

Tfw not even your serial killer dad has the serial killer genes but you do

[r-osehips]

#i hate when i have a concussion and they inflate my bill by decoding my entire genome

[dieaerzte]

#what the fuck is Riverdale at this point

this is RIVERDALE?

[diabeticlesbian]

I need to remake this shirt in a more permanent, less these-letters-are-abso-gonna-fall-off-in-the-wash way

[tchaikovskaya]

This is a video of an Oksapmin woman demonstrating the Oksapmin base-27 counting system. The Oksapmin people of New Guinea use body part counting as a base for their numeral system (which may sound wild and exotic, but is really just a more detailed version of what we do, most anthropologists think base-10 number systems come from humans’ having 10 fingers) starting with the thumb, going up the arm and head to the nose (the 14th number) and going down the other side of the body to the pinky finger of the other hand (the 27th number). It does not matter which side you start counting on, so counting from right-to-left or left-to-right makes no difference. 

And if that’s not the coolest thing you’ve ever heard, I don’t know what to tell ya