The Northern Lights Have Seen Queer Sights

K. Peruser of the printed word & history nerd. 20something, hailing from New England, the likelihood of whom having run off to sea and/or the Northwoods is equally likely depending on the day. Outdoor educator, sailor, and extra-duties-as-assigned-or. Incorrigible dork. Quite queer. [Find my oddly-specific folk playlists here] [My old-school personal webpage]

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[wizardarchetypes]

Massachusetts Uber, Lyft drivers certify first statewide ride-hailing union amid automation fears

Drivers in Massachusetts for ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft have become the first in the nation to certify a union.

[vidding]

225 Movies Dance Mashup with "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa by Renato Gaiarsa

My favorite moments are the Boogie Nights and Kung Fu Hustle syncs. Killer Syncopations and internal movement.

[periru3]

Landsailor - a Miyazaki fanvid

Headless and faceless, tireless and seamless, behind these walls.

Made for @tiltedsyllogism for @fandomtrumpshate 2025 Related works: Watershed Cross-posted on AO3

[nnebuchadnezzar]

[fromthetombs]

"Fine Dark Stripe" by Rosemary Norman

[mai-col]

Of course I was going to like the snarky dude who leans weirdly against walls and furniture

[blamensir]

Monastery of St. Blamensir

this is my personal interactive worldbuilding project hosted on neocities which incidentally also feeds my medieval hyperfixation. It is everchanging and I have a lot more stuff planned for it.

if you want to see it: blamensir.neocities.org (please access via desktop)

[bossymarmalade]

Decades before the New York City subway cars were lined with advertisements for niche dating apps, personal injury lawyers, prescription weight loss medicines, and alternative internet browsers, the interiors of many of the city’s trains were adorned with editions of the two-toned mock newspaper known as The Subway Sun. Primarily produced between 1936 and 1965 under the artistic direction of late cartoonists Fred Cooper and Amelia Opdyke Jones, the imitation periodical campaign by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) fulfilled a variety of purposes in the subway system for over five decades. It encouraged polite passenger etiquette, but also promoted local attractions as a way to entice New Yorkers to use public transit — from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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[soundoftheirwings]

Extremely tickled by Aubrey measuring snake length by FATHOM.

The Montpellier snake in fact does not usually exceed 1 fathom long (1.8m).

[sesamie]

This jacket is not what it seams...

[sesamie]

@chiropteracupola here's how I do this particular one!! There's a bunch of variations of this type of thing and once you know how to do it you can really play around with patterns and numbers and such and do a ton of cool things. so first I find a seam on whatever I'm working on that has two sides (this will make sense once you see it!) I don't usually use an actually sharp needle (I honestly usually use a plastic yarn darner) because you don't actually go through the fabric at all except for the very beginning and ending to secure your thread and I find I get it caught if it's too sharp. So here's the start:

Come up through an existing hole and then under one side of the seam. Here's the stitch in order after I got a few done on this side:

And you just go like that to the end! Don't skip any stitches in the seam (unless that's how you're deciding to do it ofc! But don't if you're doing it exactly this way.) here's how to do the second color, pay close attention to exactly what thread it actually passes under:

If you want you can play around with this to make it more or less interlinked or more spirally or more spaced apart etc! There's a whole lot of neat things you can do over top of existing seams honestly, this one is just my particular favorite :)

[fluentisonus]

speaking of. illustrations that had a huge influence on me as a kid. these ones by janet & anne grahame johnstone for 'lancelot of the lake':

[emily-e-draws]

Another sharp blow, at his right arm: he blocked it as well, but this time five inches of steel did indeed snap off, scoring a thin line across his jaw before it tumbled away, red-gold in the reflected firelight.

[cidham]

amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)

[cherepashkadrabbles]

This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:

He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.

[onefootin1941]

Two drawings by Dean Cornwell for the Los Angeles County Library Mural.

Mark Andres, Howard Pyle & Co, Facebook

[fibrearts]

Starry Night Microsweater

2022 1.3" x 1.6" ~50,000 stitches, 76 stitches/inch 500+ hours in the making. Over 70 different colors of silk thread including thread combinations

[jabberwockypie]

That’s Althea Crome’s work. You’ve seen her work before if you’ve ever seen the movie Coraline because she did the teeny tiny star sweater and gloves for the stop motion puppets to wear.

She does, however, work even smaller.

[baroque-art-history]

The Butcher`s Shop painted by Annibale Carracci (1560 - 1609)

[twoblogger]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[twoblogger]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh