Zesty Lemon Tart

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 lesbian, she/her, almost a librarian, kind of an archivist

[bethfuller]

the lady and her knight

[arinewman7]

Self-Portrait

Marguerite Burnat-Provins

[freeartzombie]

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

[aftertheacidrain]

fuck i love not being a mother

[cyberglittter]

tokyo pride 2026

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of suspicion

[ispyspookymansion]

its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

[catilinas]

Please Stop Calling Things Archives – AHA

What do historians mean when they say "archive"? One archivist makes the case for a more precise use of the word.

It is a shame to fight over terminology, especially when there is a perfectly accurate and precise term that could be used: personal collections. Not only is “personal collections” more accurate, in my experience it also draws students’ attention to a number of questions that they don’t ask about the term “archive.” When I discuss personal or special collections with students, they begin asking questions that “archive” does not inspire, such as: Collected by whom? Collected why? For what purpose? These are the questions we are trying to teach as historians.

As many historians currently use the word “archives,” they seem to imply that an archive is the natural state in which primary sources arrange themselves after being discarded or left by their creators. It creates the false impression that there is little to no work that goes into making primary sources available to researchers, and—more dangerously—that archives are even a neutral or unmoderated space. When archives and the historical record are used interchangeably in this way, we are unable to see what might be missing.

[iamjapanese]

Yoko AKINO （秋野 暢子 Japanese, works in Ireland,  b. 1967）

White Camellia   aquatint, etching   20 x 20 cm   via   more

[xanaxfarts]

[enchantedbook]

"Shrouded Figure at Tomb's Entrance", 1913 by Kay Nielsen

[evilsanlang]

I wish "I was pressured into being a lesbian" was a real phenomenon and not just something weirdoes on twitter use to wokely demonize lesbians. can you imagine

[evilsanlang]

society if systemic pressure to be a lesbian was a thing

[shelfperson]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "the kennedy-pallister family" 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i can feel the ever-present ghost of The Father in these woods. like even two gay moms can't beat the patriarchy that's crazy.

my buddy niall pacing: i have destroyed and betrayed myself for nothing

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

No one is doomed to abuse people. There isn't an "abuser gene" or "evil chromosome". There aren't "cursed bloodlines".

There's a culture that frequently enables, romanticizes and eroticizes abuse, and individual human beings who choose to take advantage of that, or not.

Even someone who has abused others in the past has a decision about whether or not to continue that harm. Further abuse isn't inevitable, it's a choice.

The idea that abusers can't help it just further enables abuse culture. If someone is abusive, they are making a choice.

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[kira-kui-n]

"get him pregnant" well thats not my thing but to each their own

"get her pregnant" *takes up my sword and shield* i wont let you do that to her. ......................

[whatkindofnameisella]

ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:

it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

sci-fi is important