Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?
I hate this idea people have that if a parent walks in and turns off the tv while their kids are watching or playing something it’s evidence of some unhealthy attachment or addiction to technology if they get pissed off. If you walk up and slap a book out of my hand while I’m reading I’m going to have the same reaction, fuck off you’re not making some great social commentary you’re just being an ass hole.
If you slap a sandwich out of my hands and I get pissed it doesn’t mean I’m addicted to eating it just means I was enjoying something and then you had to be an asshole lmao
See, I totally understand the importance of rejecting the earlier tumblr drove to catgoroze every possible element of someone’s personal identity to the most minute detail, with no room for ambiguity, using an ever widening list of obscure terminology. That has the obvious problem of not accounting for the messiness of real experience, and of submitting to the authoritarian social logic that one must make themselves easily comprehensible to others with defined boundaries for their desires and experiences.
But while we abandoned the terminology, we didn’t abandon the logic. We don’t demand to know if someone is demiplatonic or alloplantonic now, but with the fewer categories we fell back on (lesbian, gay, bisexual, butch, femme, etc) we redeployed the same logic of “these must be clearly defined categories with strict boundaries that are comprehensible to all; anyone who refuses easy definition is some sort of evil trickster and/or reactionary.”
And now we have angsty posts complaining about bi women saying “I’m so gay lol” and rigidly defining butch identity with no regard for historical example or contemporary practices. Its the same demand for standardization and control, just with a smaller vocabulary at its disposal.
you literally captured whats called “ball lightning” which is the rarest form of lighting
its so rare that we dont even know how it forms other than by heat, static electricity, and humidity
storm elemental it is
look guys this is how nature-based deities and spirits come about this is ridiculous
Are you aware that the first-ever video footage of ball lightning outside a laboratory was taken in 2014 and there are only like 3 or 4 videos like this in existence and this might be the most close-up one
There’s probably a German compound word for that feeling you get at 2am when you’re single in your mid twenties and the creeping doubt that you’ve somehow missed your only chance at love because you didn’t meet someone in college and now it’s too late
The german word you are looking for is ‘Torschusspanik’
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“ Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.
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