The One Who is Powerful

A blog about women. History, photos, art. Fictional, real. Authors, warriors, scientists--women.

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i got my tablet back!! celebratory kamala!

kamala khan for the inhumans 2k18 let’s do this

[toherrys]

February ended 5 hours ago where I live but nevertheless…!

Sif and Thor for Femslash February.

[peppermonsterofficial]

weeeeelllllll….i wouldn’t say nay

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[tastefullyoffensive]

Video: 100 Years of Beauty in 1 Minute: Episode 3 - Iran

[rosalarian]

I was re-reading my own comics today, and was reminded how much I love this panel.

[fyeahsailormoon]

AeonisPi serving Sailor Mars realness

[prismatic-bell]

Holy shit, she slays. Beautiful costume and a fabulous way to cosplay a “magic weapon”!

(I love that she went for the purple rather than black wig, too. It adds some really great color.)

[evilauthor]

That’s such a cute idea!

[ileftmyheartintokyo]

girl anachronism. by the_indigo_blue on Flickr.

[thefrockchick]

Madame Vastra

I fall over now. 

" I can sculpt fast? I can sculpt a two part head prosthetic and full face in a week yeah? And mold each separately, and clean them and to a test/clean out cast (pull- because you literally pull them out…technical jargon right there) and the actual wearable piece."

"And I can make a venue safe katana and sheath yeah?"

Oh and that is my authentically patterns and assembled c1890s hunting outfit :) One of my simpler but really clean works :)

And Maleficent bootcovers over Docs. So happy I went for them and not high heels. Let me get close to kids because oh boy did a lot of people like her :)

[kelslk]

miss america

[darkskinnedblackbeauty]

She’s not black but she’s a dark skin Indian woman who wants to inspire other dark skin girls/women.

[darklovelyandsouthasian]

Lydia Marsha is a Kuala Lumpur-based model who is of Indian ancestry. She says, “I always wanted to inspire dark-skinned women out there to show them how gorgeous they actually are. I had a passion for modeling since I was young. It has always been something I want to do. I’m hoping that meeting and working with new people in this industry will help me expand my dreams and help me extend my arms to my ladies of colour. I want to inspire and be inspired. I believe that this is what I am born to do, to model, as it completes me. I aspire to be the next best thing, to walk the runways of Paris and to be a professional Indian dark-skinned model. I don’t just want to be a model, I want to be a role model.”

Submitted by Ami

[sgtbuckysbarnes]

Silk 001

[urban-golgothic]

Sailor Moon by Jacquelin Deleon

[beatnikdaddio]

admiring the stockings. 1940’s.

[romanimp]

#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS

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Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)

[helium-argon-co2]

wait but also lesbians in the WAC were so common and often had hierarchies of popular lesbians; more traditionally butch women were considered super hot and often formed cliques where they’d wear men’s suits and cut their hair to look like sideburns and smoke cigars in the mess (there was also a lot of terrible profiling done to butch women during gay/lesbian witch hunts later in the military but at least this part is fun) 

also when they finally tried to crack down on lesbian relationships in the WAC it proved to be incredibly difficult because of male officers’ inability to distinguish friendly female behavior from like.. couples’ PDAs (“gal pals????” they all thought. “lesbians????” they couldn’t tell. “these women are all holding hands with each other and kissing each others’ cheeks what is going on,” they thought. “men don’t do this?”) and this wasn’t at all helped by the fact that the women would often intentionally mess with the people questioning them; they’d pull the gal pal card and they’d pull it hard. “do you two sleep in the same bed?” “well of course, we’re best friends!” 

and when the military tried to profile more butch-presenting women, who often (but not exclusively!) filled more industrial jobs such as mechanics and technicians etc. they found that they were losing some of their best people who were replacing “”“male”“” homefront and reserve jobs and therefore couldn’t discharge them 

another great book to read is Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Berube; it specifically addresses lesbian and gay climates in WWII, with a heavy focus on the WAC and on drag culture in the men’s army/navy

[suldrunsgarden]

transientterritory, it got better. ^_^

[changan-moon]

;D Chinese girls wearing hanfu of Tang dynasty style. Photos by Qinghuige(清辉阁). This is breathtakingly beautiful. Wanna know more about hanfu? see: X

[eurydice-rising]

Love between girls, they say, is soft. with our soft hands and voices and bodies that yield. I think maybe they have never loved a girl, known a girl. How else can they say such lies. The heart of a girl beats dark. Our blood is deep. The world cuts at us, little by little. From a young age we learn to bleed. We grow up warriors and witches. We are full of wildness and yearning. You are the lightning that splits me open. My love has teeth. I will ripen my heart for you, grow it full on the vine of my bones. Tangle your thorns with mine. I want you to bury your bad ideas in the rich soil of my flesh. They do not know the things that I want. My mother says it will rot my soul. She doesn’t even know. You will rot my soul like candy, ferment my blood like wine. Maybe I want it. Maybe I’ll like it. Maybe I want you to make me like it. Hold me closer.

Girl Love

by michi

dedicated to my bae on her birthday

(via traumachu)

[unbeatablesquirrelgirl]

GURIHIRU’s special cover for our issue 3 is THE BEST EVER, AHHHH.  

See more Women of Marvel variants here!

[ryannorth]

This has been my wallpaper ever since I got a sneak peek at it.

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Flower Seller, Varanasi, India, 2011

[gunrunnerhell]

Can Can Concealment

A line of specialized concealment holsters for women who carry. They come in different colors and trims for both the waist and thigh models. The red and black “Valentine’s Special Heart’s” version is their newest one available. The holsters can hold various items; from smart phones, pocket pistols + magazines, to knives, to dual-pistols and even a larger version that can accommodate full size handguns. (GRH)

Source

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Someone get this for me.. Any of them work really

[arseniccupcakes]

I don’t own or know if I would ever want to own a gun but these are really intriguing to me

[snowhyte-blog]

some times I feel iffy about guns but I think women empowerment and self protection is so key these are sexy and well concealed wow