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Sunglasses: ornaments which add coolness or douchebaggery factors to their wearers (organisms, or just organs), depending on context.
Also, a delightful (if somewhat simplified for Forms’ sake) guide to Relationship shapes, with a more than slight bias (in my reading) towards consensual anarchy.
#non-monogamy, #relationships, #infographic, #shady
Stop sexualizing my body stop shaming my body stop policing my body
holy shit this is perfect. spread this like wildfire!
Every summer...
Normal, What is that? Rules, expectations, constructs
Let’s Redefine them: Challenge the norms Defeat them with Our love.
Be an example Of living outside Arbitrary bounds, Free from definitions other than our own.
50/365
Words like these inspire me; when I can internalise these thought-patterns, I am most alive.
Jigsaw
Looking at Us, objectively, it amazes me how we fit. Not only in the major ways, but the tiny details. How our fingers entwine, the way our lips fit together.
Maybe it’s that surprise of the way we fit like puzzle pieces that make the differences all the more thrilling.
34/365
This is one of the most fitting descriptions of love I know.
Feminism is having a wardrobe malfunction.
Does your brand of feminism remove barriers for women, or simply move them around? Does is expand options for women, or does it just shift them? You don’t liberate women by forcing them to choose option B instead of option A. What is comfortable for you might not be comfortable for someone else, and it’s entirely possible that what you see as oppressive, other women find comfortable or even downright liberating.
Before you think the girl in the middle is a strawman, let me tell you I used to be her, back in my misguided youth. I considered myself the standard to which other people should adhere. But that was stupid. It’s not up to me to tell people how to dress, and it’s much nicer to let everyone choose for themselves.
Some women would feel naked without a veil. Some women would find it restrictive. Some women would feel restricted by a bra. Some women would feel naked without one. Some women would feel restricted by a tight corset. Others love them. Some wear lots of clothes with a corset. Some only wear the corset and nothing else. What makes any article of clothing oppressive is someone forcing you to wear it. And it’s just as oppressive to force someone not to wear something that they want to wear.
pretty much
Someone very dear to me reports having had an excellent conversation on the topic of privilege-checking earlier today. This is one of my favourite I-statement structured illustrations of the practice.
11:11
I find myself wishing, always for the same thing. A touch, a kiss, a caress from you. These moments of wishing, Which you always remind me of, Make me smile, And remember the little Delights.
21/365
I feel it only proper I should share this delightful piece at the time of day I obsessively share with people I like.
For the Olympian inside all of us
Or, more generally (and maybe a little more sincerely), for the sake of recognising that functioning on an everyday level is not always easy. I'm genuinely proud of myself for earning some of these today. If anyone feels like sharing their count, please do: my congratulations can add to your own pride in being You.
As usual, my favourite valentines are anatomical and morbid. I hope You find this humerus.
Carnival of Venice.
And now back to my more favoured aesthetics.
You definitely need a little spooning.
^It seems to be a generally enjoyable thing, my empirical research suggests.
Moving away from living organisms to anthropomorphised objects, I would like to present this delightful piece up for analysis.
First, please note the eyelashes on both parties, and the bow tie. As noted in the Plantae and Fungi exemplars, these are important features widespread among characters who like each other in vintage valentine media. Furthermore, these two add matching gloves and complementary footwear (rather ballet slipper-like). My hypothesis, supported by these observations, is that mutual snazziness matters a great deal to romance.
Typically (in my understanding) spooning is an activity which takes place between two (or more) individuals embodying (even if temporarily) the nesting shape of utensils used for stirring and dosing. These two characters are not both of that shape. Rather, their mode of connection is based in locked elbows -- a feature rather uncommon to spoons and (I think) to human spooners. At this point in analysis, I am tempted to laud the piece as a forward-thinking, cross-objective representation of the fact that affection can span significant (physical) difference, and that points of commonality are easier to find than might be assumed.
However, now I cannot help extrapolating a soonish-future scene in the narrative depicted here. One of these parties is going to have zir head screwed off, so that the other may fill zir own face with the former's pink contents. I therefore conclude it to be a covert piece within the aesthetic of zombie-themed gruesome romance. The white flower I haven't commented upon till now is thus a subtle gesture toward the graveyard humour. At which point I think it's only right to quote the end of Lucy Knisley's "Zombie Girlfriend" from that most excellent album, Pretty/Nerdy:
"Stop moving so fast, we'll be together at last, Your brains and me: just wait, you'll see -- Only you won't 'cause I'm gonna eat your eyes too."
May the happy biology I wished on readers in my last post be accompanied by such visceral expression of appetitive desire for all who wish it so.
Perhaps people other than me are less surprised than I that only a very few v-day cards (none of them vintage) use unicellular organisms to depict romantic narratives. The fact that a Google image search for "Amoeba Valentine" yields as little as it does is frankly distressing to me: I think it's a conspiracy to keep hidden the joys of asexual reproduction and other forms of intense self-loving, on a holiday devoted to pairings of people. So, sorry, dear Protista: no romantic representation for You to share.
[The remainder of this post is likely boring to anyone whose biology/general scientific knowledge is way more up to date than mine proved to be until yesterday.]
However, the process has taught me something important. In my mind, the most current taxonomic model of life divided organisms into five kingdoms (Monera, Protista, Fugi, Plantae, and Animalia). This pretty picture reflect more current understandings, dividing organisms into three domains based on significant differences on a cellular level and six subset kingdoms. Here, Bacteria and Archaea are grouped as Prokaryota according to cell type, glossing over their significant differences. However, I maintain this is the prettiest graphic representation of what I've learned lately.
Whatever your ways of celebrating liking (other) people, and however much those (don't) amplified for the sake of tomorrow's date, happy biology to all.
Stock Photos That Hope To Change The Way We Look At Women
Who run the world? Girls.
Getty Images launched the “Lean In Collection” Monday in partnership with LeanIn.org which features more than 2,500 photos of female leadership in contemporary work and life.
The project began when Pam Grossman, director of visual trends at Getty Images, commissioned a study that would track the changes in the representation of girls and women in the media. The study turned into a presentation which Grossman later shared with Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In team at Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., last fall.
“This is such a big passion project for all of us, and cheesy as it sounds, by showing people powerful images of women we thought maybe we could actually change the world,” Grossman told BuzzFeed.
According to Grossman everyone at Getty Images has been “utterly supportive,” though the process of curating the collection was not without its fair share of debate. The curation team consisted of Grossman, Jessica Bennett, a contributing editor at LeanIn.org, and two other Getty Images art directors (one male and one female.)
The editors were especially attuned to a viewer’s perception of the women in the photos. “The most important thing for us is that you felt like the woman had agency, not like the image was happening to her, but she was the protagonist of her own story— they all should feel like the hero of their image,” Grossman said.
In addition, “we paid careful attention to make sure the images were diverse, not just in terms of race, but also in age, family situation, and career,” added Bennett. Notably, the collection also features men actively participating in what may be seen as non-traditional male roles.
Grossman said she hopes to continue adding images to the project each month.
“My hope is that internally our photographers will see these stories and it will inspire them to create even more [positive images of women],” she said.
For more you can view the entire Lean In Collection here.
Infanta - Coats
I need that first one
Coats... some of the best.
Today's featured kingdom is that of fungi. Oh cremini: aren't they just cute as buttons, these two? Goodness knows, they might be considering hyphae-nating their names before too long.
Potential for punnery aside, I like that bow ties and long eyelashes are consistent features of all characters, even when the intended narrative is a hetero one.
I love these so much! Done by snowwhite-is-high
Coming across this the night I'm switching up some of the other metal in my face to better complement my Jane Lane tribute piece was just perfect timing.
I've decided to attempt to find (vintage) valentines with figures from each taxonomic kingdom. Tonight: plants! So, what does it say about me that it took me rather a long time to realise this wasn't a case of a rather dapper apple admiring their reflection and asking themselves an applarrantly important question to pose this time of year? Perhaps that a good mirror, like a good bonnet, should be golden and bedecked with feathers and a bow.
