Lysimache

Portrait of Rose Caron, Auguste Toulmouche. 1880.

Georges Chakra

fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

@millenniallust4death

*sobs* BOOP!

@d0n-d13g0

Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing

they’re just vibing yknow?

porcupines do this too :)

i have excellent news about the manul cat

Manul cat is an automatic reblog from me.

I am porcupine.

Pretty much most cats that spend any time in trees, tbh

Honestly tho, in terms of lazy chill I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat this bear:

look at this squirrel

by inaturalist user gregslak

@rhythpo

And let’s not forget the time an entire pride of ten lions decided to take a nap in a single tree

Yes these photos are real

A snow rose

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

this is actual ancient Roman graffiti! It is from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii

^ rufus est

Roman glass cup with partridges, 25-50 C.E. Museo di Antichità di Torino (alias Museo Archeologico Nazionale del Piemonte), Italy. Photo by Dan Diffendale.

you get an invite to a gay wedding

you open the card

“WARNING: SHONEN-AI, YAOI, BOYXBOY, THAT MEANS BOY KISSES!!! LIME/LEMON LATER. DON’T LIKE DON’T ATTEND, RSVP PLZ”

File this under posts from 2012 that deal immense psychic damage

happy 10th birthday to one of the posts of all time

Sorry it’s early but you really can’t use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me there’s an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol

sorry op this is kind of a tangent but this is why i hate how booktok has not only affected how ppl talk about their fave stories, but how it's basically gnawed its way into how publishing companies promote books. it basically encourages authors to build their entire story entirely around marketable tropes so that they turn more of a profit

"it has enemies to lovers!" "it has friends to lovers!" "this is a slow burn!" WHAT IS THE PLOT??? what makes your story unique?? why should i read it??? describing your story entirely in tropes and fanfiction terms makes your story sound extremely uninteresting lmfao.

Fanfiction is for when you want to read familiar characters in a setting where you already know what's going to happen. I care about this coffee shop au because I already love these characters and just want to see them in fun familiar situations

Books are original content for new stories new characters in new situations. Why should I care if it takes place in a coffee shop? Give me a reason to love these characters!

reblog if its friday and you made it

Happiest place on earth

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

Unpopular opinion: Only long term viable/optimal solution for pronoun identification discourse is to eventually shift culture to a model where we use they/them for every stranger until they introduce themselves (if they choose to), or until we are otherwise made aware of their pronouns.

This would include cis people, it would include "obviously" cis people, it would include people who seem to be clearly presenting in a gendered way. It would piss a lot of people off on both sides of the gender fence at first and would take sustained cultural influence for decades to pull off but I really do feel like it's the only solution that works for everyone in the end.

I like how this works as a twist on those little rituals in cultures with a t-v distinction. You know, when you first meet you call each other "you" (the plural pronoun) and after some time when you get familiar enough they tell you "please, call me 'thou'" (letting you use the singular pronoun), and maybe you take a drink together, and afterwards everyone can tell how close you are based on pronoun usage...

#this shift is already occurring in some demographics (supportive but confused middle-aged cis parents of transgender people)