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by @beetlemoses

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being queer and seeing historical queer love is like a punch to the gut in a good way every time

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The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Posts were made on July 1, 2024.

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Carl Spitzweg, Artist in the Garden

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𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔦𝔯

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云冈石窟，大同，山西省，中国 Yungang Grottoes, Datong, Shanxi province, China © Eric Yang/Getty Images

Today on Bing- February 11, 2025 Yungang Grottoes, Datong, China

历史的守望之眼 The watchful eyes of history | EN-CA, EN-CN, EN-GB, EN-US

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Residential architecture of the Shanxi merchants 山西商人 (also known as the Jin merchants 晋商) in Shanxi province, northern China.

It was during the 18th and 19th centuries that merchants from Shanxi Province really stood out among other Chinese merchant groups, formed an expansive business network that not only controlled long-distance trade between China, Mongolia, and Russia, and accumulated enormous wealth, but also created an empire-wide banking system in China for the first time, known as the piaohao; these were the dominant form of banks in China until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.

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Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Jin

Jin is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken by around 63 million people in northern China, mainly Shanxi and Inner Mongolia.

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Yaodong 窰 (in native Jin Chinese) or 窰洞 (in Mandarin) Is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's northern provinces, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Ningxia.

The history of Yaodong goes back centuries, and they continue to be used. As of the early 2000s, between 30 and 40 million people in northern China still lived in Yaodongs, a number rapidly decreasing as millions move to more modern dwellings nearby or move away as part of urbanization in China.

The Yaodong-style in this post is the Kaoyaya “cave dwellings dug in cliffs” style (靠崖窑) most common in Shanxi province.

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Xiangyu Ancient Castle 湘峪古堡

Originally built in 1614, Xiangyu Ancient Castle in Jincheng, Shanxi province served as both a military fortress and a residential area, protecting local residents from invasion and banditry during the turbulent times of the late Ming (1368-1644) and early Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Today, the castle complex is a popular tourist destination, attracting visitors with its ancient residential buildings, sturdy stone walls, watchtowers and elaborate carvings.

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Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 is a 6th century Buddhist temple in Shanxi province, China.

It’s a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is protected by the state administration.

The temple was featured in the 2024 game “Black Myth: Wukong”

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Yungang Grottoes