riverrunning

[frostedmagnolias]

Thousand & One Nights Inspired Evening Gown

c. 1910

Augusta Auctions

[mahgnib]

Carl Huns, “Portrait of a Lady in Blue”, 1873

[frostedmagnolias]

Ivory Silk Evening Dress with Loopy Ribbons

c. 1903

Hopkins Costume Trust

[the1920sinpictures]

1918 c. May Bradford. From The Historian's Den, FB.

[shamebats]

"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

[cardassiangoodreads]

#fandom needs this one

[twasjane]

God there really is a Terry Pratchett quote for everything

[queerautism]

Hey so as the economy continues to get worse in the next few years, gambling companies are going to go extra hardcore predatory as people become more desperate. Yes, even more than they already are. You have to promise me right now you're not going to fall for it. No gambling, okay?

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it's already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

[zorin-os-official]

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS

GAMBLING IS NEVER PROFITABLE

RESIST THE URGE

[rudeboimonster]

#i cannot overstate they will make the horse girls gayer to get your money#im sorry thats just literally what it is#japan knows about yuri money

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”

[cephalopodvictorious]

Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.

The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie

You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19

[moosepower]

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

[clytemnestraaa]

like we laugh we joke we jest but at the end of the day. shane is so jealous of ilya for being bisexual. and they’re both not talking about the fact that if shane could pick he would not be gay. and so shane’s really confused about why ilya, who can “pick”, is choosing this.

[xinqi-newstart]

i'm bi. at the end of the day I don't pick a gender. I pick a person who makes me feel good, a person who brings out the best in me. and for ilya, that person is shane.

to my perception, shane's confusion isn't based in biphobia, but rather it's based on an underdevelopment of queer imagination. for most of the show, he can't allow himself to imagine a queer life with ilya. so to shane, I imagine it could feel like "why would you give up a cishet future for a life spent in hiding?"

it isn't until shane offers the cottage getaway that he begins to plan for the mid-distant future with ilya. it is the first time that he allows himself to imagine the joy and pleasure of a long-time, devoted queer relationship. season 1 of heated rivalry therefore shows shane's transformation from queer nihilism to queer futurism.

and how beautiful it is, this queer metamorphosis, even through its many difficulties and pangs of pain. thank you Jacob Tierney for your beautiful loving portrayal of queerness not as just a label or a punchline but as an evolution over time, shifting in relation to the rest of our identities.

[romanceyourdemons]

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

[romanceyourdemons]

here she is!

[ID: a sculpture of a chinese cabbage carved from a piece of two-tone white-and-green jadeite, resting on an intricate wooden stand /end ID]

[escapepodding]

The miscommunication in Heated Rivalry is because they're living in different romance types to begin with:

Shane: In some sort of Austen-esque existence where hjs ill-advised flirtation with a notorious rake goes too far. Scandalised by the intimate use of first names he flees, concerned what society and his goodly parents will think, his reputation at stake. He tries to find a proper marriage prospect but alas his heart is lost to the rake! But he finally follows his heart and invites Ilya into his home too (and accepts first name usage!)

Ilya: Smoldering in mirrors and out of windows and getting emotionally wuthered screaming Shane's name on a moor. My man is byronically going through it gothic style

[wanderlustfuldays]

Chapel Ruins, Monserrate Palace Gardens Sintra, Portugal

[frostedmagnolias]

Ball Gown 

1880s

by Lewis and Allenby

The Frick Pittsburgh

[riverrunningblr]

good morning I've officially hit the melancholy stage of this whole Heated Rivalry mass delusion we're all having Happy Tuesday!!

Specifically. I'm thinking about the closet. What it means to be closeted, because of concerns for your safety, or your relationships, or your job prospects

Shane and Ilya could not come out without causing the biggest hullabaloo of all time and I just wish for the version of the world where everyone could just...be Out, as a matter of course, without concern for any negative impact from others' reactions

The version of the world where people can just *exist* as they are the moment, and have that be accepted, without the need to shrink or diminish or otherwise contort oneself out of shape to please other people or to prove oneself worthy of something *that would otherwise be denied to you*

not that everyone needs to put out a "hello internet I'm gay" vlog like millennials did in the 2010s (tho those were honestly a formative part of the culture. Love those guys, doing the Lord's work)

but whether the closet is not being able to come out to your professional sports league because you're secretly in love with your arch-rival, or you're just evading the use of pronouns in a conversation with your boss, it just. Sucks.

Because being queer is an integral part of one's personhood (among many other integral parts of one's personhood!) and to feel that one cannot express that *as and how and to the extent that one might ideally wish to and one's own terms* because of...homophobia and stereotypes and prejudices of other people is just...not cool! Not fun

To be able to both just exist in public, whatever that looks like for you, *and* not be subject to homophobia: the dream. A concept

[eastofshane]

supporting the shane as snoopy agenda

[ilya as woodstock], [ilya as woodstock pt. 2]

[femaustinpowers]

david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.

[figachilles]

I know he’s like a hot rich pro athlete that could land anyone but I’m still screaming at the fact Shane had no fewer than five people hanging off his every word last ep. Rose, Miles, the bartender, Hayden (I’m right) all down bad for a guy that canonically Does Not Know how to hold a baby. Ilya “you’re boring” Rozanov undergoing levels of psychological torment banned by the Geneva conventions for a man that wears a plain white t-shirt to the club. Boy is absolutely dripping with autistic rizz and is too repressed to know it. Me and the bad bitches I pulled by being well-mannered and Canadian.

[shut-up-gwen]

Ilya: this guy is cute, I should start a stationary bike race so he knows I want to get sweaty together

Ilya: that didn’t quite work. Maybe I should just give him the eye? While I tell him I hope he likes his new city?

Ilya: okay. But surely if I make him drink from my water bottle and brush his fingers when passing it over…?

Ilya: call him pretty. To his face. No way he can miss that

Ilya: desperate measures, I’ll have to tell him I orchestrated this whole ad campaign just so I could see him again

Ilya: WHAT IF I STARTED JERKING OFF IN THESE COMUNAL SHOWERS?

[kiramisuuu]

Shane, 7 years later: I have figured out that you like me.