Drawing from life at the Royal Academy (Somerset House). Colored aquatint by J. Bluck, after [Augustus] Pugin and [Thomas] Rowlandson, published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1808.

MS Hyde 76 (3. 6. 463)

Houghton Library, Harvard University

The guy on far left is enjoying the view.

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Once again, thank you everyone for reading, enjoying, and sharing this comic.  Not just sharing in the sense of re-posting this comic, (which you should totally do) but also sharing your stories with me, letting my know how my comics have touched you.  It means so much to me.  Love ya! Stay tuned for more comics! <3

It gives me tremendous joy to see people still reading this comic, and especially when they get something out of it.

Over the years I have faced many ups and downs, just like everyone else. Sometimes it really gets to me how mean people can be to each other. How mean I can be to myself. But for all the Level 1 Trans Fighters out there please know with acceptance, mindfulness, and self compassion I did in fact find my balance. Not a fast process. Basically a complete lifestyle change. Sometimes I lose that balance, sure. But when I choose to present my authentic identity? I’m objectively drop dead gorgeous. Here are a hand full of my looks. You’ll notice none of them are 100% masculine or feminine. Peace be with you. Thank you for reading. Thank you for being you. -J

You deserve to feel comfortable, so don’t push yourself to go at a faster pace. It’ll hurt you more.

Reblogging both for stellar comic and wonderful mustache

always reblog! I love this comic, so very much. *offers all the kudos* Thank you for this, it continues to help a lot. You look amazing in those lipstick shades, by the way.

French lead-glazed earthenware, late 16th century.[3811x3049]

Things I would like to have, immediately:

A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

Toilette du soir in La Mode, 1830. Engraving after a drawing by Paul Gavarni (Rijksmuseum)

— Georges Vigarello, “The Nineteenth Century: From Artifice to Anonymity,” in Fashioning the Body edited by Denis Bruna.

Toilette habillée in La Mode, 1830. Engraving by Truebe after a drawing by Gavarni (Paris Musées).

1837 Johann Nepomuk Ender - Portrait of two boys

(Moravian Gallery, Brno)

@rowzien Do you think that Collar is supposed to be a normal upright Collar?

It is a normal standing collar! That’s what they look like folded all the way down by the base, since it’s just a big square. I’ve had to dawn that look myself when the heat becomes too unbearable in summer. It’s unusual to see, but it’s shown in portraiture as a summer or artistic look. It seems he has it for both reasons, but probably more artistic since he also has a notebook and pencil. Lord Byron popularised the style (see last image).

"Ja z Foką i rewolwerem"/ "Me with Seal and revolver"

1899

This is a perfect example of why we need things designed for a variety of body types.  Far too many plus-sized clothes are skinny clothes just made bigger, which rarely (if ever) have the desired effect.  Not only do things not look the same in this context, it’s fair to say they were not designed (or redesigned) to look good on these different body shapes.  The options are often mumus or things not really designed for you.

This man has come up with a variety of amazing outfits that look fantastic on his body. We need more of this.

I love you sir. You are gorgeous and we should say so.

Miklós Barabás, Portrait eines Herren vor einem Landschaftshintergrund, 1831.

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i hope your god has asked you for mercy and i hope you've refused to forgive him

is so insanely powerful. that's gonna be seared in my brain for a long time. fuck.

"Free the nipple?" No, no, I'm from the imprison the nipple movement. Essentially, we believe that nipples of all genders must never be seen. The male chest, in particular, must be covered with a shirt AND undershirt for decency. If a man finds that his nipples are conspicuous he should try wearing another layer or perhaps lightly padded clothing.

【 Pokémon Fanart / Vaporeon 】

“Just we two” Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1907, mailed 1909.

HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.

seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.

they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.

sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.

I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.

This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.

I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out. 

Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club. 

I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.

Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.

This is the exact reason I started my #ace positive and #aro positive tags. I remember learning about asexuality and thinking it was cool, but not for me (yet). I remember ace visibility day where people would post selfies with an ace card to signify their orientation like in the original post. I remember going through the tag and following every ace blog I could find, turning notifications on and scrolling through their blogs endlessly to learn more about it. I haven’t gotten a notification for any of those blogs in ages.

Going through all those blogs and seeing validation, learning more things about my newfound orientation was so incredibly as a questioning and unsure 15 year old. It’s devastating to me that this community has fallen quiet so much. So I started my tags, hoping to spread some more positivity and maybe inform people. This community is full of incredible people and the fact that so little of them remain, it heartbreaking.

Check out my tags if you ever need to. Maybe I’ll add more tags to my list to do whatever I can in support

I remember seeing the start of ace exclusionary rhetoric only a few years ago… I can’t believe so much of the ace culture got lost to it so quickly.

Please, if you want to start exploring an identity for yourself (especially one exclusionists will try to tell you doesn’t “belong”), consider finding and talking to older people who’ve been in the community for a while - preferably IRL if that’s safe, or on dedicated community forums. 

Diversify your research and look outside of socmed, which can be a hive of exclusionist rhetoric and flat out misinformation.  Ask around about old publications or websites (the ace community has been developed and discussed in queer spaces for pretty much as long as those spaces have existed)!  Check out the sources in wikis!  Do your best to learn the history - because there is history.  Share what you learn with your peers!  Every queer identity has an older and richer culture than the exclus want you to think, and you all deserve to be a part of it.

friendly reminder that this blog is a safe space for aspec people! unfriendly reminder that if you’re an exclusionist, Fuck You!

I should start using the ace of diamonds symbol.

Miwackulous Tye Monday

HOW THE DOOSE DOES HE MANAGE IT ?

Twuer words have never been spoken. I give the whole of my mind to it

Weapons-grade disappointment. Ca. 1860. Source.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.