pupating bastard

s1d | 18+ | repulsive

[severmyneck]

paranoid

lasher of out

killing and maiming

[weepingwidar]

Naudline Pierre (Haitian-American, 1989) - For I Will Strike and I Will Soothe (2022)

[weepingwidar]

Didier William (Haitian-American, 1983) - Dezabiye 2 (2022)

[weepingwidar]

Ariana Papademetropoulos (Greek-American, 1990) - Titania (2022)

[astrono77153462]

[thepoisonroom]

Icarian Series: Reliquaries

In the late 1980s the well known San Francisco gym The Muscle System began disposing of many of its leather exercise bench covers. For decades the gym had been a social nexus for the gay male population that would later be decimated by HIV/AIDS. Daniel Goldstein saved almost all of the leather skins of the gym’s workout machines which over the years had been worn smooth and imprinted with the human shapes of the thousands of men who had worked out on them. Icarian II and Angel are two of 28 pieces in this series, named for the Icarian exercise machines from which the leather coverings were taken.

The friction and sweat on each of the leather skins over the years had left markings both indelible and mysterious. Seeing these ghostly images one is reminded of the numinous Shroud of Turin or the Sudarium (literally “sweat-cloth” in Latin), the legendary Veil of St. Veronica that bore the face of Christ. Goldstein lovingly mounted each of these pieces of leather as reliquaries. Icarian II and Angel are both document and memorial to the unique social situation at The Muscle System gym. Here gay men had come together to create communities of erotic love and brotherhood. As HIV/AIDS began to take its toll on many men’s bodies, the regimes of weightlifting and exercise allowed them to maintain a sense of control over their physical well-being.

[tamamita]

The whole "Key to Heaven" concept that Satrapi talked about in her memoir is probably the most disgusting piece of propaganda that was co-opted West, because I know a bunch of Iranian Shi'as, some of whom are veterans of the Iraqi-Iran war, and none of them have ever heard of it.

[tamamita]

The Key to Heaven was a myth where Iranian child soldiers were wearing a key around their neck, so that, in their supposed martyrdom while fighting the Iraqis, the keys would grant them access to heaven.

Not only is this a myth, but it has no religious basis.

[severmyneck]

pretty hungry but im just like glued to my floor mental health is looking good ig

[severmyneck]

oh it thundered outside which gave me enough serotonin to peel myself up great<3

[tamamita]

The whole "Key to Heaven" concept that Satrapi talked about in her memoir is probably the most disgusting piece of propaganda that was co-opted West, because I know a bunch of Iranian Shi'as, some of whom are veterans of the Iraqi-Iran war, and none of them have ever heard of it.

[tamamita]

The Key to Heaven was a myth where Iranian child soldiers were wearing a key around their neck, so that, in their supposed martyrdom while fighting the Iraqis, the keys would grant them access to heaven.

Not only is this a myth, but it has no religious basis.

[severmyneck]

pretty hungry but im just like glued to my floor mental health is looking good ig

[2560x1440]

[evillesbianvillain]

Never ask a man his wage, a woman her age, marjane satrapi what her thoughts on israel were

[qsycomplainsalot]

Come at me with your shit takes I've heard them all.

[not-sal]

“play dead” as a sex command

[keepasteadyhustle]

A lot of yall don’t go on daily walks. That’s why you feel the way you do

[sustancy]

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[severmyneck]

grow native plants

its literally the only solution that matters

if you're growing butterfly bush (buddleja) in the pacific northwest fuck you. it's highly invasive here. rip it out now and replace it with native stuff.

i dont really know what hypothetical plants are butterfly heavy but would "poison" caterpillars? like maybe theyre incompatible and the adults just wouldnt lay their eggs on it for food because they don't recognize it. because its not a native plant. doesn't really matter though because if they cant use it for food they will starve which is effectively the same end result, death and less bugs.