Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929). Early gay rights advocate who lived openly with his lover, George Merrill (1867–1928). They had a home in the English countryside, made socks and sandals fashionable, and were pretty much the originators of cottagecore.
George Merrill gave us the greatest and gayest work of art, the book Maurice by patting E.M Forster on the bum.
Additional things I have gleaned from his Wikipedia article:
- was the person to popularize the phrase/concept of "the Simple Life"
- had a kink for manual laborers and the working class, and when I say kink-- "the grimy and oil-besmeared figure of a stoker", "the thick-thighed hot coarse-fleshed young bricklayer with a strap around his waist", etc.
- Not only inspired Forster's Maurice, but also DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
- The socks and sandals thing. Wtf. It is not adequately explained. Can we blame all bad "dad" fashion on one gay man who wanted Indian footwear but fuzzy feet?
- Did refer to himself as a Uranian, so yup, totally identified as the period-equivalent of Super Gay
- ...this isn't stated outright in the article but it does sound like he traveled all the way to New Jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
I begin to ask: who *didn’t* travel all the way to new jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” ..."
Corporate media will not cover the climate crisis.
Then we must boost it!
well we had a terrible run guys. just absolutely godawful. the worst anyones ever done it. i forgot where i was going with this
for anyone whos dash hasnt updated yet:
the fact that they did this the day AFTER the @wip inbox closes so people cant give feedback until next week……….
download the Stylus add-on for Firefox
you can edit the CSS–that’s the visual style code of the page–to your liking!
https://www.tumblr.com/support There’s a feedback option. Fill out the box with exactly why this is not a good choice. (For me, it’s because the sidebars are distracting enough that it makes the site difficult to use, thanks to a medical condition.) I also suggested they make this an opt-in choice, for people who like it.
Add a screenshot if you’re feeling froggy.
Then send it on out. You’ll have to go through another page that’s asking if “labs can fix this” or some other crap, but if you scroll to the bottom and hit the option to send it it will go through.
I love that this post doesn't include the actual text of his tweet, just his impending presence. This is the visual equivalent of a scare chord.
i learned that there was an early 1900s act named “Sober Sue”, who’s draw was she never smiled. A theater offered $1000 to any one who could make her laugh, attracting big comedians. Crowds came out to watch them try, and fail, giving them a free show. Later it came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis (x)
buddy i don’t think she was suffering
hi two homeless trans women still struggling thru unemployment, found a nail in a tire of the van we live in recently and replaced it and that was like 300, and uh we have a gym membership we're late making payments to that's like 100. uh. and electrolysis still isnt free, hopefully it is soon lol. and so on. anything helps
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venmo: nora-esther-rose
hi we've only gotten 35 from this.
Simple question- which couple is your favorite?
Propaganda for Rupphire: "They're one of the first actual canon and not-ignorable lesbian couples in an animated series. They're perfection and so super important."
" These two care each other so much and they can literally use The Power Of Love to change destiny. Plus they fuse into Garnet who also kicks ass, and is one of the best characters in the show (square mom best mom). They're married and had what I believe was the first F/F wedding on a kid's show?"
No propaganda submitted for Madohomu.
my stupid fucking aunt loraine bought us an air friar for our wedding present 🤦♀️ the apartments barely big enough for the two of us now weve got this dumb asshole flying around preaching at us ... every time i get a migraine he tries to give me herbs and poultices 🙄
it's so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you're spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.
It's also one of the first places a lot of people raised in insular, conservative areas meet "the other". People of other ethnicities and cultures, people of other religions, other gender presentations, sexualities, etc. You get to know them and start realizing how much of what you "knew" about them was myth or straight-up propaganda.
It's a lot harder to demonize queer people when the person helping you pass calculus is a trans woman, or your lab partner talks about his boyfriend exactly the same way you talk about yours. It's a lot harder to believe that immigrants are out to get you when your Hindu roommate cheerfully shares a care package of homemade goodies from home, or Malia down the hall covers your lunch because you forgot to bring your wallet to study group. You start rethinking some assumptions when the 6 foot spike-encrusted goth who sits behind you in lecture hall shows everyone photos of his baby niece dressed like a puppy for Halloween with all the pride of a new parent, and you remember when your flannel and camo-wearing uncle did the same thing at work last year with photos of your little sister.
Suddenly all those "others" are just people. They're your friends, classmates, coworkers, and maybe even romantic interests. And that's a lot harder to hate or fear.
'can i copy your homework?'
'yeah just don't make it obvious'
ID: a comparison betwen the mobile twitter and new tumblr menu layouts. They look almost exactly the same with the twitter/tumblr logo at the top followed by: home, explore, notifications/activity, and messages. After that the exact menu options are different but still similar. End ID
I don’t see the point of this. The scenery was already there, and the artist added nothing to it except to show off
no but, most paint colour shifts as it dries, so not only is this artist adjusting for light and weather conditions, but ALSO paint variability, AND the colour matching is absolutely on point, which is hard as hell. This kind of exercise would make for really powerful skill building, and would take a hell of a lot of practice to get to the level in the video.
I cannot comprehend the mindset you’d have to be in to see something this spectacular and think “what a show off”
Anyway, hey y'all look at this amazing testament to artistic brilliance! Ignore the vacuous philistine in the front row.
i made a widget where markiplier informs me of my battery percentage
Being a sex-positive personally-sex-repulsed ace is weird cuz like reading about sex? Awesome. Writing about sex? Not much more intolerable than writing about anything else. Sex is good. Sex is normal. Sex is only as important as you let/want it to be. Kinks are natural expressions of sexuality. Sexual purity is a scam. Bodies are nothing to be ashamed of. Sex work is no more exploitative than any other kind of labor. If you touch me I will throw up on you.
Reblogging for pride month
