Perfect and Poisonous

Elegance walking hand-in-hand with a lie.

[tura23]

I bought every ingredient for my salad and forgot the grape tomatoes.

Everything is ruined forever and I am a complete failure as a human being.

[gothiccharmschool]

Since I'm in the depths of eldergoth nostalgia, here: the Ye Olde Spooky Club 1995 playlist! If you went to the Catwalk in Seattle during that era, this is what you'd hear.

Oh, and have a photo of @tura23 and me from Back In The Day at a World Horror Con that WotC sent us to. Sure, have the two big-haired goth girls share a hotel room, leading to questions such as: "Is this your black skirt or mine?", "Have you seen my ankh necklace?", and "Did we pack enough AquaNet?"

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[tura23]

This Pride month I am encouraging everyone to focus on protecting trans people.

If the LGBTQ community can get thousands of people together for parades, parties, and drag shows, then surely we can unite for the members of our community who are under attack right now.

[the1920sinpictures]

1914 Colorized photo of the Austrian Imperial Train, salon car, of Emperor Franz Joseph. From Steampunk Tendencies, FB.

[420technoblazeit]

louis' narration: it was dusk. the smell of petrichor still lingered in the air, greeting me as i woke and pondered my new existence as a vampire, a creature of the night. as the sun set and gave way to new darkness, so too had something awakened in me, a bloodlust that could not be sated. was i now man or monster? or something in between, a perversion of even the natural order in which all other beings reside?

lestat's narration: yeah so i drained someone at my concert and almost overdosed on LSD and MDMA but that's just another tuesday amirite? so i fucked her in the elevator and killed a bunch of vampires with daniel (ugh, i hate him though what a loser 🙄) i wish louis still loved me

[ambatya]

[victusinveritas]

"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.

Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"

Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

From another obituary:

He served valiantly in every way.

[shabbytigers]

happy 125th birthday to bunny roger

[victusinveritas]

Found this color photo:

And this in-memoriam piece.

[tura23]

Pride!

When I say "I do drag" or I am friends with drag performers - people think I'm talking about the kind of queens they see on Drag Race. Perfect make-up. lace front-wearing, lipsynching divas.

Meanwhile my drag friends...

[petaltexturedskies]

I think we desperately need to return to analog culture and slow life. Handwritten letters, seeing movies in the cinema, taking pictures and frame them or put them into physical photo albums, reading physical books, in-person visits and interacting, and time spent outdoors. Our lives weren’t meant to be entirely online. The simple joys of tangible living are irreplaceable and can never be taken away from us. No screen can replicate the weight of a book in your hands, the smell of it, the warmth of someone’s voice without lag, or the way time slows when you’re fully present. Memories feel different when they’re not curated for an audience. The most meaningful moments were never meant to be documented; they were meant to be fully lived.

[theinternetarchive]

rudolf nureyev's mosaicked tomb in sainte-genieveve-de-bois near paris, designed ezio frigerio and executed by a workshop in ravenna, unveiled may 6, 1996.

[chantssecrets]

According to his last wishes, Rudolf Nureyev was buried in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-bois, near Paris. 

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[suonko]

by Aliriza CAKIR

[beastliness]

can't think because my head is too full of floor to ceiling fake cobwebs, rubber bat on a string, possums, armadillos, inexplicably a jerusalem cricket in a tiny coffin

[unfuckablebogtroll]

Sometimes you log on to tumblr dot com and see your beloved mutuals thirsting over unrisen sourdough men and you have to say a very very quiet ‘pass’ to yourself and let it go because inevitably the flat circle of time will bring around your turn to go gaga over some butterface dude or bug eyed girl and you must know that your beloved mutuals are saying a quiet ‘pass’ to themselves and leaving you to your moment of insanity in peace.

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

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[acebender]

"Yeah, he's been completely competent! By the way, yeah, he might be a ninny and a nonce. And yeah, he might be pretty pathetic. And yeah, I think he has IBS. But he really risked his life to be here and continues to do so. So be nice to him."

[vincekris]

Max Dupain - Doll’s head and goat’s skull . 1937