“Back Off Boys, They’re Butch!”
10 themed pin-up intaglio prints, each ~2”x3”
if you were a teenaged transmasc on tumblr betwixt the years of 2013-2015 your only name options were dave newt or alex thats it. nowadays you open a he/they/its bio and see anything from ebenezer to jpeg. and i think thats beautiful
the fact that no one can actually vote on this not even me is really funny actually. to purgatory you go little shit
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I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954
The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.
His son will never come back to the farm.
I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006.
Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.
Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.
And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”
Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.
Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.
As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.
When you gotta get rid of all the marble penises in your house
why are grandmas so homophobic :(
Motherfucker is this about the Andes miracle
there is no heterosexual explanation for this.
What happens!!?? I want this romance…. so cute
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Ummm im here for vintage lesbians
i’m sure someone probably commented on this post already but this is calamity jane, they eventually move into a tiny cabin together and sing a song about how “a woman’s touch” can fix anything. i watched this movie daily when i was about 7 and now i’m a dyke
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my butch lesbian professor who is well into her sixties had told me that this was her first real exposure to the concept that a woman could not only be attracted to other women, but be butch while doing it. she said this movie propelled her into her sexuality with a sense of pride and remains a cornerstone of her coming-out journey. in short, representation matters and always has.
Reblogging for Calamity Jane, actual lesbian disaster.
Communication is so wild though like you can spend hours thinking someone is mad at you and then when you ask what’s up they’re like “yeah my mom really pissed me off earlier” and it turns out you were just assuming it was about you. And now you don’t have to carry that stress anymore
Or you could finally work up the nerve to be like “hey I’m not a huge fan of this thing we do together” and the other person is just like thank god I also don’t like that thing. And then neither of you have to do it anymore
OR even crazier, you can be like “I’m having this problem and idk what to do about it” and they’re like “what about this?” and they just solve the entire thing and you realize again how smart and clever your friends are
Mindblowing every time
obsessed with how often women describe falling in love with other women as a quieting, a moment of stillness and calm where before there was noise.
Kathee Muzin on the first time she fell in love with a woman, from The Montreal Gazette, 1991
Poetry published in Come Out, 1972
First Love Poem in Recent Memory, Julien Baker
A tasty summer treat!
are y’all okay???
take the day off from being the bigger person and choose violence, you deserve it