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the world was severely lacking weird little girl memes so i had to fill the void

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Constantly torn between “my sexuality is none of your business” and “lmao I hope they don’t think I’m straight god forbid”

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details of

Venetian Ladies Listening to the Serenade, 1909, Frank Cadogan Cowper

Sidonia von Bork 1560, 1860, Edward Burne-Jones

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Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.

That's all.

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Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Beatrice Arthur, and Estelle Getty in The Golden Girls episode entitled Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas, originally broadcast by NBC on December 16th, 1989.

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In the end, we’ll all become stories

mirsvisual

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(x)

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Shooketh™

(requested by @canaries)

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Happy Birthday ♥ Michelle Gomez (November 23, 1966)

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oh man i never told you. recently we went to the albertina art gallery and in the contemporary wing we saw this painting, “nacht der skorpione”

and we were fucking blown away by it, like audible gasping from everyone, it’s almost as tall as the room and incredibly expressive and impressive

and after having walked around looking at the work of 99% male artists and their endless studies dedicated to The Female Form for so goddamn long my very first thought upon seeing it was “this was painted by a woman”, so i walk closer and sure enough, i was right, her name is xenia hausner.

and then i look at it for a moment longer and my chest swells because these are intense characters with internal lives and that is what makes them attractive and my second thought is “this was not painted by a straight woman”

and i mean i can’t say anything for sure but i looked her up and

and nobody else picked up on this in the original painting? when i told them they were like “what, why, because of the masculine (???) brush strokes”? they were not shaken to their very core by the authenticity of it? what i’m trying to say is gaydar is extremely real and straight people extremely do not have it.

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Transgender writer, historian, and prolific author Jan Morris passed away last night, on Trans Day of Remembrance, at age 94. She’s absolute legend. Her 1974 autobiography, Conundrum, was one of the first first-person narratives of transitioning. Her life was beyond incredible and deserves more recognition beyond her transition. Here are a few highlights:

- In the span of 46 years, she authored at least 45(!) books. These included Booker Prize-shortlisted novels, 8 memoirs, 6 history books, and over 20 travel volumes!

- In 1953, age 26, she assisted in the first expedition that summited Mount Everest. She invented secret code to communicate with the climbers, who didn’t want their messages to be intercepted. Morris waited at base camp and was the first reporter to hear the news Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit.

- She fought against Fascists in World War II as part of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers cavalry regiment. She later reported on the famous trial of Adolf Eichmann next to Hannah Arendt.

- She was nominated for and won dozens of awards. She held honorary doctorates from the University of Wales and the University of Glamorgan. She also received a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 1999, making her one of the first openly transgender people to receive the honor. In 2005, she won the Golden PEN Award, the highest award given to British writers by the PEN writer’s association.

- Her work and writing are survived by her wife, Elizabeth Tuckniss, and four children. She married Elizabeth in 1949, 71 years ago. She had to travel to Morocco in 1972 to get surgery because doctors in the UK refused to treat her unless she divorced Elizabeth. While they eventually divorced later, they were legally reunited when they entered a civil union in 2008.

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sappho fragment 80 (l-p 126)