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Reblog with your favourite fictional villian in the tags 

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925, American) ~ Study of a Seated Man, 1895

[Source: nga.gov]

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inspired by a VERY excited tag someone left on a pic of a minoan-style squid

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”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

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what they don’t tell you about online relationships is how easy it is to ruin them by simply having nothing to say. i like you so much but i don’t know how to hang out with you in silence. i don’t know how to text like a person so now you think i hate you. aaaaaaaaa

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For #InternationalCatDay on a #FabricFriday: 🐈

Ready-to-sew Tabby Cat doll, Arnold Print Works, MA, USA c.1892.

“This roller-printed heavy cotton ready-to-sew doll was one of several patented by Arnold's.”

The directions on the cloth read:

“Sew up the sides and head and stuff cotton, then sew on the oval piece. Stuff flat at the bottom so the cat can stand up.”

On display at Fashion & Textile Museum’s “Textiles: The Art of Mankind” exhibition

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The Resident Patient

“I was weary of our little sitting-room, and gladly acquiesced, muffling myself nose-high against the keen night air. For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand.”

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Chocolate guy... What the fuck!?

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"Pear Against Striped Wallpaper with Circles" by Ana Buzzalino, in Quilting Arts Magazine Summer 2025.

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This is in Ontario! I could go see this!

Went bird watching, saw this by the overlook

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Call her tiramisu the way she’s full of espresso and lady fingers

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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in this dark age of censorship, remember that if ovid managed to stay a pervert during the moralising tyranny of the augustan age, you can do the same now. don't worry about what happened to him next

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#Caturday 🐱:

Mariska Karasz (USA, born Hungary, 1898–1960)

Embroidered Picture, Victoriana, 1945–47

Wool; H x W: 71 x 69 cm (27 15/16 x 27 3/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt 1977-45-1

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August Queer Movie Challenge #10:

Filibus (1915)

The world is being terrorized by the mysterious air pirate Filibus, who descends from an airship to commit the most daring robberies. Filibus, in truth the Baroness Troixmond, is being chased by the detective Kutt-Hendy, and decides to mess with him by making everyone believe that he is Filibus. In order to do so, she assumes the fake identity of a Count. In this identity, she gets close to the detective and flirts with his sister, then frames him for the robbery of two priceless diamonds. The movie is Italian. There is no spoken language.

Sometimes, I run into some older queer media that is so good, that I couldn't even have wished for it. Filibus is definitely one of those. It is by far not the best science fiction or action movie that I have seen from the silent era - it completely lacks the incredible stunts and crowd scenes that to me make this era stand out so much, and doesn't have any technological marvels beyond the airship, either. But it IS a full-length queer science fiction movie from 1915, that has many tropes that I love in the pulp-/superhero genres, and it feels like the first of many in a series of battle of wits between the air pirate and the detective. One can easily imagine an alternate reality, in which the Filibus stories have been serialized, and where she is a cultural icon on par with the other gentleman burglars of her time.

Yeah. I'm not done with this movie yet.

Many thanks to @celluloidrainbow for letting me know of the existence of this movie, and for providing a high-quality English version.

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