POE PARTY VALENTINES!
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, we thought you might want some Poe Party Valentines to express your literary love. Perfect to share with that guy or gal down the street who never appreciates all the poems you write about them and all the ravens you send their way.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party NOW ON KICKSTARTER!
Finally, the perfect valentines for the literature lover in your life.
Engaged couple sees themselves aged to 50, 70, and 90. 😭😭😭😭😭
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us.
What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again -
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
GLORIOUS
cool.
Hayley Atwell hitting people and breaking things on set
Natural sculptures by Andy Goldsworth “Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in superb colour photographs.”
My favorite naturalist artist
That’s how many speaking roles in Hollywood hits are going to Latinos. For the record, Latinos make up 16% of the U.S. population. Representation matters. (via micdotcom)
“Even more alarming is that, when Latino actors are cast, they are by far more likely than any other group to be sexualized, either by revealing clothing or by being defined in the screenplay as attractive. Indeed, 36% of Hispanic actors are displayed in some sort of sexualized attire, the highest of any group looked at in the study. Hollywood seems to think America is not interested in stories about Latinos, unless they are taking their clothes off.”
Let’s talk about this. Let’s talk about how most of those roles are to be hypersexualized maids, spicy armcandy love interests, and exotic criminals. Let’s talk about how many of these roles use stereotypes to make these characters as the butt of the joke. Let’s talk about though how most of those roles go to light skinned and white Latinas. Let’s talk about how shitty the representation that Latinxs do have is pretty much restricted to bullshit and biopics. (via wocinsolidarity)
We stayed and looked and waited for Oliver to come back, as if our love was a beacon that he could use to light his way home, to crawl up the sides of the earth and back through his front door, his shirt tag still sticking up in the back.
After a while, though, after years passed and pictures changed and false tips fell through, it started to feel like the beacon wasn’t for him anymore. It was for those of us left behind, something to cling to when you realized that scary things could happen, that villains didn’t only exist in books, that Oliver might never come home.
Until one day, he did.
When Oliver is seven years old, his father kidnaps him in a custody dispute, spiriting him across the country and away from his family and his best friend, Emmy. Ten years later, Oliver is found and returns home, reuniting him with Emmy once again. But is their story still meant to be? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles—impossible to fit together?
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The cover for my new book EMMY & OLIVER is finally here and I’m so happy! It’ll be available June 23, 2015 from HarperTeen and you can pre-order it from your fabulous local indie, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon…
…or you could win an ARC now! Check out my blog for more information! (And for photos of Hudson, because of course.)
"Hey Pete, is there any way you can make this next shot look like a low-budget adult film?"
"You got it."
Canterbury Cathedral, Choir, north aisle, north window (Second Typological Window)
The Queen of Sheba Before Solomon
England (1178-1180)
Measurements 69 x 70.5 cm
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain
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This is PERFECT. I hadn't thought to look up "Medieval England" instead of just "England." If this book gets published, I'm linking to this blog. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this blog. I'm wondering, though, do you have anything from the 12th century in England or Western Europe? When I searched your archives I found late-medieval resources, but none for the setting of my book. I have a Middle Eastern Jewish family, but I'd like to have resources to help me "justify" having more POC. Any ideas of where I can start looking? I've been scouring through tapestries with no luck. Any answer is appreciated; I understand if you don't give one. Thanks!
First of all, the problem isn’t with the lack of “evidence”, the problem is the fact that you feel like the presence of people of color in your work needs to be “justified”.
That being said, what you want can be found by searching the “1200s” section quite easily:(The De Brailes Hours, England c. 1240s) or looking at the FAQ:
I’m looking for something specific, do you have anything on it?
First, check this:
Then, check these:
Are there other tags that you use that might help me find what I’m looking for?
Common tags and searches linked for your convenience!
Themed Weeks/Other Eras:
1800s Week, Ancient Art Week, Contemporary Art Week, Fiction Week, Best of 2013
Nation, Country, Culture or Region (or just type in search bar):
England, Spain, Italy, Scotland, Al-Andalus, Ireland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Greece, Castile, Japan, Bohemia, Mongolia, Ethiopia, China, India, Vikings, Portugal, Finland, Etruscan, Sweden, Russia, Mali, Benin, Asia, Africa, America, Egypt,Rome, Ancient Rome
Medium or Subject:
Music, Sculpture, Textiles, Tapestry, Illuminated Manuscript, Portrait, Print, Engraving, Jewelry, Cameo, Ceramics, Theater, Film, History of Fashion
Topical:
Accessibility, Essays, Education, Critical Thinking, Historiography, Representation, Gaming, Academic Racism, Scientific Racism, Critical Race Theory, Discussion, Media,Counternarrative, Academic Jargon
"Historical accuracy" doesn’t necessitate a default white starting point.
I put "justify" in quotes because I don't have to justify POC to myself, but I want to be prepared when the inevitable happens and readers—including the people I want to publish my book—start freaking out over it. I searched both 1100s and England but there was nothing tagged with both. I'll refer to your 1100s posts in France and Spain, though. Thank you so much!
