#iconic image

[cowboyjen68]

I have been working on playing catch up over here. I spent my day off yesterday resting and recovering from my stuffy head. But I also had to do some work on the insulation in the garage so while I was down there putting my tools away I decided to clean a few totes of photos. That lead to me going upstairs and sorting more photos.

A friend of mine recently told me that I should probably find the original "Three Butches work in my basement" photo and make sure it is safe since it is such an important image. I kinda laughed it off but then thought of all the women, all the young butches, the lesbians and people of all ages who have viewed that photo.

I realized that many people found me through that photo and I have made so many connections, some were quick interactions and others resulted in long term friendships and life changing converstations.

I tried to figure a rough count on the views across the many platforms it has been shared on and I think it is possibly in the millions. I asked the three women to permission those many years ago before I posted it on tumblr and just wanted to share it because I loved the image of my friends so much. Turns out lots of others love it too.

I dug around and found the original. Now I am deciding if I put it in my safe, leave it in the scrap book where it is or seriously consider asking a lesbian archive to safe keep it for me as a lender to their collections.

I am not sure any traditional lesbian archive is going to understand what I am talking about in relation to this photo. But i know how much affect it has had and that makes me happy.

[jinxproof]

© Herb Ritts | Versace (1990)

[ivoryvines]

merry almost christmas

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

hmm… as for the discussion of yandere women as a lady myself…

i think what’s the most appealing for a yandere woman to me would be more of the dom manipulative type. like the trope of “why are you dating him? he’s awful. i’m so much better for you”

like a friend who definitely walks the line of being too close. more intense than bubbly when unhinged. nice to you but apparently can be quite scary

oh or a pirate lady or like a knight (lmao)

I wanna get kabedon'd by a big sister, but I'm too tall lol

Seriously though, that would be a nice change from the typical fem yanderes popular in media.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Perhaps one of the most evocative images of the Titanic disaster is that of the young newsboy outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House in Cockspur Street, London, S.W., holding an Evening News poster announcing "Titanic Disaster Great Loss of Life."

That boy was Ned Parfett, and his short life was no less spectacular. His death just as tragic, as that of the Titanic.

Six and a half years after this poignant photograph was taken, Ned was killed during a German bombardment while serving with the British army in France, just days before the Armistice. He was 22.

According to his great-nephew Dominic Walsh, young Ned enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1916, first serving as a dispatch rider before reassignment to reconnaissance duties.

Youth did not prevent bravery; he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Medal for his gallant conduct during a series of missions at the front.

Ned was one of four brothers from Cornwall Road, Waterloo, to enlist "For King and Country."

One brother served in the disastrous Dardanelles campaign of 1915, surviving to become part of the occupation army in defeated Germany.

Another brother served in the bloody battle of the Somme in 1916, only to be wounded and gassed at the third battle of Ypres in Belgium.

The third brother also survived. Only Ned failed to see out the war.

He died on 29 October 1918, less than two weeks before the end of the war.

Ned was killed near Valenciennes when a shell landed on the quartermaster's stores, just as he was collecting some clothes before going on leave.

After his death, the officer who recommended Ned for special recognition wrote to one of his brothers:

"On many occasions, he accompanied me during severe shelling, and I always placed the greatest confidence in him."

[fortunaestalta]

[californiababylon]