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fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

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Model and Photographer: @nudity.slip

(via Julia for Nagu Magazine – NAGU Magazine)

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Hi everyone.

This is your One Week Alert Post. In one week sign up will begin! The sign up period will last from July 1st to July 22nd*, plenty of time to decide if you want to sign up and to go on and do it.

*From the moment the post goes up which depends on your humble event runner's personal schedule, to July 22nd at 23:59 GMT -5. To be specific.

As a reminder, the list of 95 96 prompts will be provided in the sign up post, under a cut in case you don't want to be spoiled. I'll also post an example bingo card in case you're curious to see what you'll be getting.

In the meantime, be sure to check the logistics posting tag here, or send an ask if you haven't had your question answered yet.

Okay, bye. Get hype etc!

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Portrait of a young woman with her hair pulled back, wearing suit coat, vest and turned down collar with small bow tie. Printed on photo back: "Revenaugh & Co. successor to Geo. C. Gillett, photographic & art studio, Kelley's Block, East Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich., negatives preserved, old pictures enlarged to any size desired, and finished in ink, oil or watercolors in a superior manner."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Getting together items for a shop drop. I'll be updating the shop this weekend. If there are any pieces I've made that interest you that do not make it into the update, please feel free to reach out about purchasing it - I can likely either add it to the stop or if it has sold previously can talk about making a custom one with my patterns I create for my stitch posts.

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adulthood is for realizing that being gay and weird is actually really cool

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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reading poetry forces you to ask wrenching, necessary, impossible questions, like "is the author stupid? or am I?"

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And the final batch of Plein Airpril paintings. I made it to 28 days out of 30, so close…

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Male impersonators and women who performed in men's clothes of the later 19th and early 20th century in America and Europe

Gladys Bentley - a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance and out lesbian who brought her own unique spin to male impersonation

Vesta Tilley - a music hall performer and was England's highest earning women in the 1890s

Josephine Baker - first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture – Zouzou (1934) and was bisexual

Renate Müller - famous actress in the 1930s

Marlene Dietrich - stage and film actress and singer who helped Jewish people escape during World War 2 and was said to be bisexual

Jackie 'Moms' Mabley - one of the first gay and female stand up comedians, performed her lesbian based stand up routines in a suit and tie

Ella Wesner - a popular Vaudeville performer during the Gilded Age

Bessie Bonehill - one of the most wealthy performers during her time, a Vaudeville performer and singer

Anne Hindle - the first to do male impersonation in the United States

Those whose sexuality is not listed were assumedly straight, which was not uncommon of the women doing male impersonation, though the audience they attracted were largely lesbians

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So I work at an 18th-century historical site, and my work uniform is 1780s: shift, stays, stockings, shoes, two petticoats, pockets, kerchief, short gown (which is like...hip-length jacket, I guess?), cap, the whole nine yards. Today it was like 95 degrees, and as I was sitting there waiting for visitors to come by my station, I was thinking:

Why do authors and television writers confine themselves to "my corset is too tight and I can't breathe" when there are so many other minor inconveniences of eighteenth century dress to choose from?

(btw I am aware that they are most often called stays in this period, not corsets! I am very aware! -- the necessary disclaimer)

A laundry list of my hot-weather issues today:

- I just starched and ironed my cap but it's so humid my pleats have fallen out

- I'm so sweaty my (linen!) shift won't stop sticking to my legs

- my stays were laced exactly the way I like them but the heat has made them wilt and they're not supportive anymore

- I chose the wrong second petticoat to wear underneath today and it's too warm and I should have picked the lightweight linen and not the heavy linen

- my stockings got sweaty and keep sliding down

But like...

Yes, these were minor annoyances. Honestly, though, I wasn't any hotter than I am on any other 95 degree day where I'm outside all day. The hottest part was the polyester gym shorts I was wearing underneath everything.

In other words,

NO, VISITORS, I AM NOT ANY HOTTER IN THIS THAN YOU ARE

and I'm tired of answering the question. But I can't say that to real people, so here I am on tumblr.

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You think you will take up a nice artistic hobby. FOOL! It is maths!

Crochet? Maths.

Knitting? Maths.

Drawing? Maths.

Sewing? Maths AND Ironing!!!

Everything is maths!

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Leif Engström (b. 1992), PÅ OMVÄGAR, 2024

Oil on canvas, 191× 150 cm

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Feel free to use this whenever someone tries to start an argument with you but they're clearly uneducated on the subject

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"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain and my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.