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vintage poster for a 1908 opera about the Chevalier d'Eon.

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Happy fall! Any sooky recs, bonus points for sapphic vibes? Thanks for all you do! 🎃🩷

oh hell yeah, we’ve got several lists up for the month - full lists linked, with a few sapphic titles pulled out below;

A Touch of the Gothic:

A Dark, Cold Touch

The Wicked & the Willing

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Queer Horror:

Paradise Rot

Green Fuse Burning

One Bloody Thing After Another

Queer Horror (YA):

The Scapegracers

The Dead and the Dark

The Grimrose Girls

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A drawing by Paul Gavarni, 1838, in his series Les Petits malheurs du bonheur (Little Misfortunes of Happiness).

The caption reads: Pour ne pas afficher ses amours, sortir précipitamment par une porte dérobée et rester pris au traquenard. (In order not to show off your love life, you rush out through a back door and get caught in the trap.)

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after eight years, I finally updated my huge Historical Fashion Reference & Resources Doc! Now in the form of a MUCH more easily updated Google Doc with better organization, refreshed links, and five more pages of books and online resources.

I know tumblr hates links, but it’s worth it for a doc that I can now update with far more regularity going forward! RIP to the original, you did your duty for far longer than you should have. 😔🙏🏼

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Dreams can come true, kids

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

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I just finished reading Triple Sec and it was so good for so many reasons! The characters are just so sweet and I love them all. Especially Kade whose awkward confidence and straightforward kindess I adore. I am definitely a bit starved for poly romance and I was so happy to find this today!

thank you so much! If you're looking for more queer poly book recs I believe the @queerliblib has some in their Ask tag. I would personally recommend Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender, which is a YA fantasy/adventure with a pretty nuanced eventual triad romance as part of the main plot.

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

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Limestone, in particular, has long been a geology of burial–in part because it is so common globally, in part because its erosive tendencies create so many natural crypts into which bodies may be laid, and in part because limestone is itself, geologically speaking, a cemetery. Limestone is usually formed of the compressed bodies of marine organisms–crinoids and coccolithophores, ammonites, belemnites and foraminifera–that died in waters of ancient seas and then settled in their trillions on those seabeds.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Robert Macfarlane

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academic papers about black sails

Jones, Clint, "Black Sails as Philosophy: Pirates and Political Discourse"

Myrvang, Olav Kjetil, "Because I don’t want to be a pirate" - A Contextual Study of the Representation of Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Black Sails

Carcas, Leyres, “HETEROBAITING”: BLACK SAILS AND THE SUBVERSION OF QUEERBAITING TROPES

Schneider, Elisabeth, "RECLAIMING QUEERBAITING: A CALL TO ACTION"

Friedrich, Kathrin, "‘Evil Heroes’ in Black Sails – A Case Study: How Character Complexity and Nonverbal Actions Invite Positive Viewer Responses"

Razman, D. C. (2020) “Black Sails, Rainbow Flag: Examining Queer Representations in Film and Television” [click for pdf]

Srividhya Swaminathan, (2017) “The New Cinematic Piracy: Crossbones and Black Sails” (in ‘The Cinematic Eighteen Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation’ (2017, 1st ed.) edited by Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven W. Thomas)

Dirksen, S.J. (2019) “Constructing the Identity of the Popular Pirate: The Outlaw, Marginal Identities, and Utopia in Black Sails (2014-2017) and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)”

Min-Chi Chen (2024) “Weaponizing Monstrosity: Starz’s Black Sails and the Power of Monstrous Narrative” (in Chapter 2 of ‘Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability’, 23, 2024, edited by Yeojin Kim, Shane Carreon)

Jessica Walker “Civilization’s Monsters: The Doomed Queer Anti-Imperialism of Black Sails” (in ‘Pirates in History and Popular Culture’ (2018) edited by Antonio Sanna) [entire book in pdf]

“From Dogs to Kings” https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1332062/FULLTEXT01.pdf

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The actress Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett as Cornet Fitzherbert Fitzhenry in 'The Married Rake', 1830s (NPG).

The standard critical framework used to explain and interpret breeches roles has been that of the male gaze and the sexualised – or in Kirsten Pullen's terms ‘hypersexualized’ – display of the actress's legs and body. The repertoire of Louisa Nisbett suggests instead that female-to-male drag is a potentially more valuable critical lens through which to view many such performances. Drag, with its connotations of de-naturalising, reifying, and parodying gender norms, fits neatly with the recurring challenges to masculine complacency in Nisbett's cross-dressing repertoire, within which Nisbett repeatedly undermined male authority, mocked the totemic male ritual of the duel and disrupted notions of gender hierarchy.

— Eltis, S. (2023). Is She A Woman?: Alternative Critical Frameworks for Understanding Cross-Dressing and Cross-Gender Casting on the Victorian Stage. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 50 (1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727221148852

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Verified Ways to Donate to Gaza Directly

(updated Sep 2024)

Donate to a Palestinian family directly:

GazaFunds.com - Spotlights 1 stagnant/struggling GFM each time you visit the page. Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical treatment or basic necessities. Site run by Palestinians, all campaigns verified.

(*If you can't decide who/where to donate, simply go to GazaFunds.com. They take the decision out of your hands.)

Masterlist of 200+ verified Palestinian families' GFMs: Operation Olive Branch

eSIMs: (*urgent!)

Guide to buy + send eSIMs to Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza: Donate any amount to this team of volunteers who pool funds to buy + maintain eSIMs for Gaza regularly (see their financial accountability document).

Food:

Cruelty-Free Meals for North Gaza: 4 Palestinian friends on the ground in Gaza distributing vegan-friendly meals & water to displaced families in North Gaza. Proof of their work found on their GFM page. (gfm)

We Feed Gaza: Palestinian volunteers in the heart of Gaza distributing food & water to 344+ families. Details & proof in their gfm. Vetted & promoted by LetsTalkPalestine on IG. (gfm)

Other reliable campaigns by Palestinian volunteers on the ground in Gaza distributing food & necessities to displaced families: Care for Gaza, Direct Aid for Gaza

Water: (*urgent and crucial)

Gaza Municipality: The Municipality of Gaza needs funds to rebuild the water pipes in Gaza City to restore access to clean drinking water & waste management. Crucial in combating the spread of infectious diseases e.g. polio.

Help provide tents:

The Sameer Project: Provides tents & transport for families in Rafah who urgently need to evacuate. Has a team on the ground in Gaza who successfully supplied tents to 1% of the displaced refugees in Rafah. Run by Palestinians. (paypal, venmo) (chuffed)

@helpgazachildren: Funds go directly to Hussam, a Palestinian in Rafah who hosts a refugee camp. Funds will cover the cost of tents & transport fuel. Managed by a Palestinian @fairuzfan. (gfm)

Medical Aid:

Gaza Wound Care: Palestinian doctors in central Gaza treating injured/sick children & mothers in neglected displacement camps far from hospitals. Severe shortage of medicines, equipment, & medical supplies. Raising funds to treat diseases in refugee camps. (gfm) (paypal) (gogetfunding)

international charities: Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians

How to help if you can't donate:

Share + amplify Palestinian fundraisers in your irl + online circles

Organize or help to run an online/irl event to raise funds for Palestine

Boycott

Get involved with a protest/strike/direct action in your area

Contact your reps

Educate yourself + others, irl + online

Daily clicks on Arab.org

(Longer masterpost of all ways you can help)

These links focus on Palestinian-run grassroots initiatives that will reach Gazans on the ground, so all of these except eSIMs, PCRF, MAP, OOB are by Palestinians. Donating to international organizations is currently not ideal, as aid is still being stopped at the border. Please focus on Palestinian-run initiatives on the ground in Gaza instead.

Remember, small donations always add up. Any amount counts, even $1!

If you are unable to donate yourself, you can even adopt a fundraiser campaign to regularly boost and make materials promoting it online, or print posters and flyers about Palestinian fundraisers to encourage others to donate.

Poster/graphic about gazafunds.com

Flyers about eSIMs

Flyers about GazaFamilyFunds

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too many vampires who have ancient and eminently trustworthy law firms managing their inexhaustible wealth. i want a vampire paying rent with a venmo credit card

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Hi there! I just wanted to pop in here and say how much I loved your book. I felt so seen by how you wrote Mary and the rage of not being taken seriously for things out of your own control. And also the gay panic, that was pretty relatable too. Thank you for writing it and for giving me a better understanding of why people love paleontology and more empathy for all the angry girls before me.

Thank you so very much!! That's lovely to hear, I'm so glad it resonated with you - and so glad I could spread some love for historical paleontology too, ha! Thanks so much for reading 😊🖤🥰

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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

¨ANTEDILUVIAN¨ gifs

Antediluvian is a short animated film in commemorative homage to Classic Paleoart and the earliest Paleontologists. Exactly 200 years ago was the first dinosaur formally described.

Full short film now available at Youtube/MarioLanzas.

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Youtube channel

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Prints and more paleomerch

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hello everyone, hope you enjoy this lab mouse adaptation of Frankenstein; I am completely exhausted