alphonse mucha's four seasons / akira toriyama's chrono trigger
(i love the ladies of ct so much i redrew my favorite art nouveau series with them)
“Ninth was my name,” said the new arrival. “Ninth was my hearth, and my homeland. Here have I come at your calling. None may return from the River unless he be bidden by blood-rite; tell me, why have I been drawn here?”
when i read gideon the ninth the first time id been putting it off for ages bc everyone just kept telling me it was about lesbians and thats why i should read it. and its like. man. we've gotten to the point where, while absolutely there is still an astounding lack of lesbian positive literature, theres enough where im not desperate to read something just becasuse it has lesbians in it. i have options.
and i think what got me first (there was lots later, but first) was that while its a lesbian book it isnt a book written for the sake of having lesbians. the fact that the people are queer is intrinsic to the story and their characterizations, but its not a book you read because the characters are gay. every person recommending the locked tomb series with "lesbian necromancers in space" is missing the point.
im just so sick of being told i need to consume a media on the sole basis that its queer. its actually actively put me off from some media forever because ive gotten so fed up. ill never watch she-ra, ill never finish stranger things (actually that ones also just bad but), and if one more person tells me i need to watch utena just because its gay ill never pick it back up again (i didn't love it when i first tried it but i always meant to come back again). its just - cmon. i love a shallow fun queer story as much as the next person but, like,
anyway thats the first thing that got me to love gideon im very very tired
ok i DON'T think the tower princes actually had sex, nor do i want them to, but i DO find them conceptually hilarious as a sexual dynamic. like. what if your rebound girl accidentally said the wrong name during sex. but you couldn't be too mad about it because you did too. also both of you said the same name. because you are rebounding from the same girl. who neither of you actually dated. what would you do.
Young Guinevere of Arthurian Legend By Jeff Stanford, 2023 Inspired by Gustav Klimt
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My friend shocked me yesterday by saying she didn't learn to swim until she was 11 because she grew up in a landlocked state and in an area where pools weren't common either. For the purposes of this poll, let's say being able to swim counts as you being able to jump into deep water (pool, lake, river, whatever) and easily get out to dry land on your own.
And of course, if you learned later in life, I'd love it if you added why in the tags.
#i live in a state with over 11000 lakes and spent large amounts of time in water throughout childhood and young adulthood in summers#i was a short walk away from a public pool i went to regularly#and yet i couldn't fulfill this definition of swimming in the post here until maybe 14-16? i still cant do it comfortably#<- prev tags mentioning swim units in PE : bold of u to assume i went to any kind of school with enough money for pools
#girl in one of my masters classes was stressing bc the theme of an art gala was like 'colorful' or something#and she went i dont have any colorful formalwear only simple stuff like my sleek black dresses and ill be miserable in too many colors#and i said 'oh just grab a fun scarf or some statement jewelry from a thrift store. youll find something fun#and you wont be paying a lot of money for smthn youll never wear again' and when I tell you she looked at me as if id just#suggested she eat puppies#the sheer disgust and horror#'i dont go into thrift stores' she said and did a very startlingly 2000s teen movie bully hair flip 'theyre gross.' and then she never#talked to me again#but that look she gave me haunts me#like listen ive had worse experiences (like the classmate who told me shes never bought store brand in her life) and some wilder ones but#that look#it haunts me
Dragonite – Toshinao Aoki
wanna go on a date not for the DATE but so i can dress up fancy and someone can spend way too much money on me in food and alcohol and flowers #gayrights
How is Link getting the Tony Hawk effect while Zelda is acting all creepy from a distance and everyone’s like ‘yup that’s her’
#feminism#less funny but also: real zelda IS just kinda creepy and off. she just spent 100 years soul-locked with the incarnation of disaster and hate#shes the vessel for a goddess#zeldas adorable and sweet and very weird so yeah sure shes singing at the bottom of wells asking for your weapons and chasing ur goats
THE BANANAS ARE GAY
THESE BANANAS
THE BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE GAY
BELATED HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE
Oh my god they were roommates....
really this calendar bit of 17776 like. one of the best openings of any scifi story i have read. feeling emotions about ut.
