good evening to deadbeats burnouts drug addicts junkies and scholars only
some women w prominent eyebags/dark circles as a feature bc it’s so attractive
- Anna Magnani
- Tyra Banks
- Sylvia Sidney
4. Diana Taurasi
Darkest dark circles of all time + freckles + scars
Before Lady Gaga’s brief and short king alter-ego, Jo Calderone, was made famous for performing Yoü and I at the 2011 MTV music video awards, he made his public debut in the “Elegant Mechanics” feature Vogue Hommes Japan just a year before, shot by Nick Knight. Here we learn the little origin story of this humble car mechanic from Sicily, who loves Frank Sinatra and working for his dad’s business, when he’s not getting busted for pissing in public. Wonder what he’s up to now? We miss him. Thx to ladygaga.fandom.com for the scans.
sometimes i think abt how if a man from 1942 saw me vaping on my little e-cigarette he would think i looked impossibly futuristic and also like a haunting allegory for humanity's progressive alienation from itself by technology. "where's the smoke? the fire? where's all the goddamned romance?" he'd demand, impassioned
Ernestine “Tiny” Davis and Willie Mae “Rabbit” Wong, members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, in Europe on the USO Tour in the 1940s. There were several lesbians in the band, including Tiny Davis (no mention of Wong as lesbian) but love this pic so much! Tiny on trumpet, Rabbit on baritone sax ✨ #lesbianculture #internationalsweetheartsofshythm #qpoc #blacklesbians #tinydavis
Davis sang with the band, too — check out this clip featuring her vocals and trumpet stylings!
(This alternate version is kind of out of sync but contains the end of the trumpet solo.)
After playing with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Davis opened a lesbian club in Chicago with her partner of 40 years, pianist and drummer Ruby Lucas, called Tiny and Ruby’s Gay Spot.
Here’s a shortened version of a 1989 documentary short about the two of them, Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women — featuring Davis jamming on the trumpet with her grandson!
I couldn’t find as much on Wong, but she actually survived until June 2016. She was 95.
For more info, check out this cool 2011 Smithsonian interview with some other surviving members of the band.
I unironically love both abortion and divorce. Every mother willing, every child wanted.
I LOVE lesbianism. So happy I get to do this every day for the rest of my life for free :-)
Well, gyns. Looks like I've got some Classical literature I need to read.
we need to destigmatize dropping out of college I am so serious. like dude if u realize that is Bad For You then you can just Leave. I am so fucking serious. just stop. there are other options and you don’t need to force yourself through shit you can’t do and go into debt. i promise you can just Not.
continuing with the goth-ification of fairytale illustrations... this one is inspired by this: (Dugald Stewart Walker "The Peacock and the Wishing Fairy and Other Stories" 1921)
I enjoy being a detrans woman. There are downsides, of course, but they're mostly about how I look.
Want to share some of the things you enjoy the most?
I enjoy having experienced radical changes in my worldview and knowing I'm fallible yet capable of learning.
I enjoy having gained so much perspective on the world, on my thought processes and on my emotional processes.
I enjoy the self-knowledge.
I enjoy knowing I have always done my best to free myself, with the means and knowledge I had at the time.
I enjoy the connection to other women like me.
I enjoy contributing to the narrative we collectively build around this kind of female experience.
I enjoy being a woman.
I enjoy being the woman I am today, my personal values and choices enabled by living several years inside a male-looking cocoon in which I had the freedom to discard everything I had learned about womanhood, one thing after another.
I enjoy rejecting the patriarchal idea of womanhood.
I enjoy learning to accept loss, imperfection, and regret.
I enjoy shifting my perspective from monitoring myself and my looks to interacting with my surroundings.
I enjoy learning what it is to be an animal, a living body.
And I dare to say, I enjoy the stigma, the attempts to silence women like me, I enjoy the potential for societal change we hold in our hands because we are the ones to contradict both the new definition of womanhood and the old oppressive idea what women are supposed to be: we are trans and not-trans at the same time, we are or were dysphoric yet cis, we are "masculine" yet women. We don't fit the categories we're supposed to. We will raise questions just by existing. No one would hate us like we are hated if we didn't hold the power to change the narrative.
I'm gonna use this post to recommend good (in my opinion) video games with female leads and little to no misogyny.
Feel free to add your own prefered games if you want as well.
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1. Hellblade, Senua's Sacrifice
This game is dark, brutal and emotional. It won't be everyone's cup of tea because it is a strange game and sometimes scary. But I absolutely loved it.
Our main character is a warrior on a quest to save her lover's soul. He has died and she believes she can bring him back by confronting the goddess who guards the underworld, Hela (who looks terrific by the way, but I won't spoil it).
To do this she has to fight northern gods and other dark creatures, but mostly her own mental illness and grief.
She suffers from schizophrenia and through her we experience all the symptoms which can be disturbing. Is it mythology or insanity? You're never really sure. She also has to overcome her father's negative influence. But she is determined and nothing can stop her.
The game won 5 BAFTA awards for best acting performance, best audio, most impactful game, best british game and best artistic achievement.
Hellblade 2 is currently being produced.
2. A Plague Tale: Innocence
The story is set in France, where our main character Amicia is on the run with her little brother, Hugo, whom she barely knows because he was kept isolated by their mother for mysterious reasons.
The two of them are trying to escape the Inquisition while the world is being invaded by a plague of demonic rats. Little by little our heroine learns alchemy, meets new allies and her personality changes as she gets more confident.
The game looks great, with a very unusual storyline and gameplay as well as a very effective OST. Still, it is a story about the Inquisition so expect gloom and doom and blood and gore and creepy church leaders.
This game has won multiple awards as well and A Plague Tale 2: Requiem is coming out very soon.
Gris
I think Gris might be the most beautiful game I've ever played.
What happened to our character, we do not know. But it changed her into stone, it broke her, and she took refuge in a beautiful fantasy world that you get to explore. Little by little, you bring back the colours into this world, you develop your powers and take back your voice.
Peaceful gameplay and delightful music and sound effects (ASMR worthy, seriously), gorgeous and poetic design, relaxing and thougtful story, I absolutely loved it. Plus I played it when I was feeling really down and it helped me feel better so it'll always be in my heart.
I LOVED Gris and Plague Tale!
Two of my favourites (both PS4 exclusives):
You don’t need to have played the other Uncharted games to enjoy ULL, imo it’s the best of the series plot-wise, it’s a short game but can be picked up for cheap! Set in India and with two WoC leads, you play as Chloe, who’s on a mission to recover a lost treasure. Really fun gameplay and excellent character writing, and it made gamerbros Big Mad when it first came out, so you KNOW it’s gonna be good.
HZD is a LONG game, but the gameplay is excellent (with difficulty options if you want a challenge/not a harcore gamer), you play as Aloy, a young woman who explores a vast, beautiful prehistoric/post-apocalytpic wasteland. The sequel just came out so this can be grabbed for cheap too!
Okay if we’re talking about good games with women leading, Control is my all time fave. It’s a suspense filled game where you play Jessie, a washed up young woman who has been searching for answers to her twin brothers disappearance for years. I don’t want to spoil the game but you become a fucking god! Seriously, I’ve never felt that video game powers genuinely made me feel powerful. The early game mystery and suspense had me flinching here and there at a few jump scares but the game lore and storyline really draws you in.
Control is so good. The visuals (absolutely stunning and strange and very distinctive), the music (especially the music in one of the hidden rooms), the level design and the way you get to explore more and more as you get more abilities, the documents and perks you get from exploring, the story, the characters, the fast-paced battles.
Also low-key feminist. I don't think the devs actually intended to get across the message that men ruin everything and shouldn't be given too much power, but they kind of did anyway. They almost certainly intended at least some of the feminist undertones of Jessie's story.
Absolutely incredible and immersive and exciting. I'd recommend it to anyone, the difficulty is hard by default, but very adjustable so you don't have to be an expert gamer.
Sayonara Wild Hearts
A rhythm/quasi-bullet hell game about a young woman with a broken heart who becomes a champion for the tarot-themed deities that watch over the universe.
All female cast (plus narrated by Queen Latifah), non-sexualized designs as seen above, and a killer soundtrack that might make you cry if you've had your own heart broken recently.
It's on the shorter side and can be finished within a night, so would definitely recommend checking it out.
@ayaycheff hey I just want to thank you for recommending Sayonara Wild Hearts I played it last night and it was fantastic.
Loved the visuals, the music, the animation, the retro vibe and how everything is synchronised with the music.
I also think the enemies are her former girlfriends, with the broken heart theme and the butch styling.
But I think the last one she kisses is supposed to be herself? Like maybe she learned to love herself?
Well anyway, it's been a while since I had so much fun playing a game so thanks :)
