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[thewolfgodsblog]

you ever notice how to bureaucrats trans people are whatever gender is most expedient for them? transgender woman gets denied a change of gender, she goes outside topless and gets arrested on public indecency charges that only affects women. not woman enough to change her gender, but woman enough to go to jail. this trans woman veteran from ww2 got married after changing her gender on her birth certificate, and after her husband died she was denied widow’s benefits because social security said gay marriage wasn’t legal in the state they were married in. didn’t matter that legally she was a woman and he was a man. she fought that decision and won, but she still was woman enough for her state but not woman enough for the feds

being trans isn’t always about people deliberately misgendering you, sometimes it’s about them deciding what gender would fuck you over the most at any given time. you’re not a woman until it’s expedient for them, you’re a woman until they’d have to actually give you benefits. it’s a bitch and a half

[thewolfgodsblog]

this is why adding a third gender option to birth certificates and driver’s licenses and passports is pointless; regardless of what letter it is, m, f, or n, you’re going to be treated by whatever authority figure sees you however they decide. it’s far better to simply remove gender from documents like those

[stylekorea]

Kim Ah Hyun for Elle Korea January 2019 Photographed by Ahn Joo Young

[bey]

My favorite thing is when people remember little things I told them. like seriously? you actually listened to me? thank you

[cr1me]

one of my favourite moments is when i’m sitting on a toilet completely drunk and i just smile and nod at myself in silence

[getintherobot]

[sovietpostcards]

Escalator of Leninskiye Gory metro station. Moscow, 1969. Still from the Italian movie Sunflower dir. Vittorio De Sica (1970). It was the first western movie to be filmed in the USSR.

[catchymemes]

[gayaustralian-deactivated201703]

sex is like communism

[qoemedoa-deactivated20170130]

a talking pig told me it was bad

[rabbitsandbears]

Empty promises without promising, more of just the hope of possibility. To delete. I’m weary. And exhausted. Would have slept had I known. Half an hour and then my clock runs out.

[chibird]

Ah friends… it can be hard being so sensitive in a world that’s quick to be tough and cold. Sometimes I wish I were a different person, but most times I don’t really want to change… because being sensitive to my feelings helped me connect with you all, you know? (〃´ ▽ ` ) So it’s okay. I’m still learning how to navigate this world.

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[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

I love locking my door like…you’re not coming in lmfao

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This post is honestly so iconic like every time I lock my door I literally think about this

[hadmeathockey-deactivated201810]

Claude Giroux, a.k.a the stick handling savage

[ofgeography]

turns this is claude giroux being very good at avoiding pucks and not, as i initially thought, claude giroux being VERY bad at stopping even just one of them

[criterioncollection]

24 Frames (2017), the final work from the great Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, has arrived on Blu-ray & DVD. 

For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images—most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife—and digitally animated each one into its own subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignette, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 FRAMES is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.

[poboh]

Class in Leningrad state Ballet Scool, 1965, Inge Morath. Austrian (1923 - 2002)

[glowpop]

my biggest gripe w this whole “symbolism is fake and stupid” shit is that it is so dismissive of the very very very real symbolism that content creators put into their own work intentionally—and sometimes—unintentionally. i sometimes go over my own work and i’m surprised by the themes i put in, the recurring patterns i write without even realizing it, and i’m the one who made that stuff! like sometimes things can MEAN other things so stop making fun of your teachers for teaching basic literary analysis you idiot

[beggars-opera]

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

Oh, my hand

The parchment is very hairy

Thank God it will soon be dark

St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing

Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink

Oh d fuckin abbot

Massive hangover

Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job

Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night

If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral

I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today

Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark

11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again

Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

[branewurms]

what does oh d fuckin abbot even MEAN

[a-spoon-is-born]

an abbot is the head of a monastery so it just means “fuck my boss” basically, an abbreviation of “O damned fuckin Abbot”. this is what it looks like:

Brasenose College MS 7, f.62v 

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Medieval monks say Fuck Work