midnight desires

'The Hours'. Edwin Austin Abbey. C. 1904.

Gustav Klimt Sketch for the frieze of the Palais Stoclet, Brussels 1905-1912 tempera and paint on wrapping paper Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kuns

‘Danaë’ by Gustav Klimt, c. 1907-1908.

Glorifying the American Girl (Millard Webb, 1929)

Mad Men

Joan's bloodstained dress 3.06 Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency

Girl talk turns Toni Riddleberger’s phone call into the acrobatics familiar to all U.S. homes

Gordon Parks, “Wow, Quel Babes!” Life, Jan 7, 1952

Kristen McMenamy in Philip Treacy hat for Atelier Versace, Vogue Italia Couture 1993. Photoshoot by Steven Meisel

The Butter Rose In Bloom Gown | Selkie

Mushrooms releasing spores into the wind. Captured by Paul Stamets

This is fine, Deon D'Souza

i’ve been having terrible back ache for a week now, but i just did this and i heard a loud POP!!!… back ache is gone folks

i have this on my office wall and gave a copy to the front desk staff who also put it on their wall.

everyone look at my seal rolls

No-fault divorce is actually very recent. That is, a divorce just because you wanted to get divorced and not because they were guilty of some provable transgression. California’s no-fault divorce law was 1966; the latest US state, it was 2010. When I was in Catholic school, we were taught to believe in and promote anti-no-fault-divorce positions. This is very recent history, and you cannot take even this for granted. Stop being “edgy” about feminism and its flaws. Every movement will have some flaws. But do you not think that this, and the risk it represents, is significant to women as a class of all backgrounds?

it’s literally as simple as “if you are against no-fault divorce, you believe that men should be able to own women like property”.

Oh hon, no. Hon. Spells LOVE happening when they’re not in your best interest. Its like catnip for them. Spell enrichment. Thats a big part of spell experimentation, I think. The “fuck around and find out” part. You cast something, you get it, you realize that you should not have cast for that particular something, you learn from that, and you do it different or don’t do it at all next time.

(Disclaimer, most of this book is good, I just keep running across a few things like this. Overall, I still like it so far.)