[urgetocreate]

John Moore (American b.1941), Magnolia, 2001, Oil on canvas

[myxomycota]

Lycogala epidendrum

by tyrannorasaurus

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“It’s a pattern seen often in pre-Codes. Bureaucrats are corrupt, law-enforcement officials are malicious, and the supposedly respectable people are the least honest of all.”

Mick Lasalle, Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man

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Mariana Enriquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People

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Mariana Enriquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People

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Mariana Enriquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People

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found at my local park on a rare sunny day

[alrobertsphotography]

Dartmoor National Park UK

[urgetocreate]

Albrecht Dürer (German 1471-1528), Hare, 1502, Watercolour and gouache, heightened with white gouache, The Albertina Museum, Vienna

[xphaiea]

Mel Odom

[myxomycota]

Lycogala epidendrum and Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa sharing a log

by Gim Siew Tan

[veneridaee]

He is confessing, you realise. 'I would have helped them, he says again. But how can he say that? Because he did not help them. (...) Later, he says this, he whispers: 'Are you angry with me?' The question makes you feel it. You are detached because of the drinking. You are somewhere deeper inside your body. You feel the touch of him on your skin. You say, 'I love you', because you feel that you need to say it while you still can, while it's still true. You feel the heat of loathing inside yourself, a burn of disgust. How are you here, you think, how is this happening? How can it be that he isn't good?

Mary (short story) from the book Every One Still Here (2025) by Liadan Ní Chuinn

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We All Go (short story) from the book Every One Still Here (2025) by Liadan Ní Chuinn

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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) dir. Boris Ingster

Cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca

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"Pre-Code cinema did find room for overtly gay characters. Though they were usually presented as comic relief—in Fox comedies, for example, a “pansy” character became almost obligatory—at least they were acknowledged to exist and were recognized by the other characters as part of the social landscape. As eccentrics, perhaps, but not freaks."

Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, Mick Lasalle

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Private Rites, Julia Armfield

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Private Rites, Julia Armfield