Worship the sun, worship no one

30 year old genderqueer still trying to figure stuff out He/They/Tree. Definitely post NSFW

[thememedaddy]

[loveridden1999]

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

[gardengnosticator]

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[dragonpyre]

[sevastiel]

[rhinco]

i understand that it's unreasonable to expect a band on world tour to play in every country in the world but i do think they should only be allowed to call it a world tour if they play in every continent. we need to make it embarrassing to say world tour and then not even step foot in africa

[frontmansdefender]

[my-dailydreams]

[lipglossuser]

Helter Skelter

ヘルタースケルター

DIRECTED BY

Mika Ninagawa (2012)

[kaiasky]

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

[biggestzam]

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

[kaiasky]

i want you on my team holy shit

[suchsitestoshow]

Slowly developing a headcanon in my brain where Luca ends up meeting a guy and slowly falling for him- maybe they live in different cities or maybe just run in different circles, but Luca ends up hiding that he's a hockey player just to have something in his life that isn't connected to his job. It all seems to be going well, until Luca gets hurt and Ilya goes into his phone to get his family's contact info only to find a contact that is just several heart emojis. One awkward phonecall and a sleepless night later, and Luca's worlds finally collide. If only he didn't have a concussion when it did.

[suchsitestoshow]

"huh." the car was quiet except for the sound of muted vibration, and Ilyas leg that hasn't stopped bouncing for the past half hour.

Shane glanced over to see him frowning down at Luca's phone. "What is it?"

"Someone's calling. I think lover maybe" his words sound slightly nasally- a side effect of the punch he took after Luca went down. If he looked hard enough, Shane could see the bruise starting to form near his right eye in the light of the street lamps.

"Why do you think it's…that?"

Ilya held up the still vibrating phone, which displayed a row of hearts as the caller ID. "I should answer…right?"

"No!" Shanes eyes, darted back to the road "I mean- there must be a reason he hasn't mentioned anything about anyone… it would be an invasion of his privacy, right?"

"Hollander. Are you seriously saying you wouldn't want to know? If I was hurt, and no one knew we were together"

"I did get hurt when no one knew we were together."

"Yes, but I-" The phone stopped ringing, a voicemail notification popping up instantly. Who still left voicemails? Ilya sighed. At least the hospital was closeby, and Luca should be conscious by now. He could talk to whoever was on the other line himself.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[nephis-bow-and-aroace]

always thought the “byu mom” and “byu grandpa” shirts in the campus store were a little cringe but then today I saw a guy skateboarding by wearing a shirt that said “byu grandma” and I realized that I have not comprehended the potential of those shirts

[prokopetz]

Yeah, it's kind of funny that a lot of companies are now re-hiring junior programmers to save on LLM credits, but it's not surprising. From a pure line-goes-up perspective, working people to death is almost always better than automation. That isn't an indictment of LLMs in particular – it's just how this shit works.

[prokopetz]

Like, yeah, joke about the "self-driving car" service that turned out to be employing remote drivers in the Philippines if you want, but it's not only a tech grift; the fact of the matter is that even if the technology was there, making that guy in the Philippines pull sixteen-hour shifts with no bathroom breaks until he dies of a bladder infection is almost certainly cheaper than "real" AI would be, and that's the actual reason they do it. They wouldn't deliver on their promises even if they could.

[literallymechanical]

It’s Survivability Onion Sunday

[ilya-sweetheart]

David ‘from McGill’ Hollander

Enforcer. Alternate captain. 7 concussions and counting. He only lost three teeth but he chipped two so he occasionally lisps

Yuna was their unofficial coach (she just kept showing up and telling them all the things they did wrong)

David fell in love at first sight. He scored twice and kissed his glove at her in the stands

Their first date was at the campus cafeteria where they shared chicken wings and a cigarette

Masters degree in finance. Worked briefly for the Irish mob as an auditor (if the police is reading this no he did not; he bought that rolex with legal money)

He proposed with a detailed laid out financial plan for their future, a house listing in a good neighbourhood, a silver ring he bought (gifted from the irish mob shhh) and a plan to volunteer as local a timbits coach

He’s an avid flight radar app user. This is the only app he has installed.

Occasional train spotter and designated family driver while Yuna reads the maps

Scrabble master. Kindle book reader (he has a wallet phone case for his kindle)

Positivity giddy that his son has a boyfriend and can experience something ‘normal’ outside of hockey <3

Excel spreadsheet lover. Don’t you dare mention powerpoint around this man. He’s a sudoku autism man. Numbers are his friends

Doesn’t keep in touch with his parents after he married Yuna, but he’s close with his cousin Tom who Shane calls ‘uncle tom’

Prefers email over texting and don’t even get him fucking started on zoom

Occasional shitstarter and ragebaiter (yuna likes it) “what is youtube?”

Hobby chef, but terrible baker. Still loves watching bake off though

[macabrevampire]

i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time

[lily-leaves]

I may need this later, for cosplay reasons...