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Dovima photographed by Richard Rutledge for Vogue 1952.
*The Justice League apprehends the Joker*
Joker: So—does Batsy talk about me?
Wonder Woman: Why would he talk about you?
Joker: Why, because I’m his arch nemesis, that’s why! His worst enemy! His most dearly detested!
Wonder Woman: You flatter yourself.
Superman: Some mom at a parent-teacher conference once told him that his daughter wouldn’t be selectively mute if she wasn’t vaccinated. He spends at least an hour each week ranting about that woman.
Wonder Woman: You can only dream of reaching that level of contempt.
Flash: Yeah, last week he spent twenty four minutes just talking about where exactly he was going shove her organic, vegan, sugar-free muffins if she tells him how to “fix” his children one more time.
Green Lantern: Not to mention what he was going to do if her unvaccinated children come anywhere near his immunocompromised son.
Superman: I don’t think you come anywhere close to being his worst enemy.
Joker: :(
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In the future disease will become aspirational and perfect health will come to be seen as a condition for peasants. Artisanal viromes and chancres will be rolled out by lifestyle gurus and Goop will sell autoinjector vials of bubonic plague and tuberculosis. Runway models will appear with perfect constellations of iatrogenic pox scars, eyes pinkened by staph drops. The beautiful people will measure their beauty by the weakness of their bones and the sallowed gray of their shocked skin. Get ready for allergies to come back in a big way: The “30 Under 30” list will be replaced by a carefully curated list of bubble boys, famous on post-Tiktok social media for their delicate constitutions. The rich and famous will also develop and perfect mental illnesses that have previously been the province of insane commoners, but rarest and most coveted will be the glass delusion, in which sufferers believe they are a perfect commodity, too valuable to live a normal human life, prone to shatter at the merest touch
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The exquisite and elegant braided hair of the Caryatids. 421-406 BC. Erechtheion/Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
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tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva:
it’s always funny when someone’s like “why can’t we have a serial killer that targets awful people like abusive ceos” because like…the thing is serial killers are generally not great people who want to make the world a better place . this can be seen in the killing and torturing.
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Crochet bread cloth from the French-Canadian community in Manitoba, Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library
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Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I’m going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.
You don’t have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it’s also really not your business.
This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying ‘but I think it’s gross and makes them bad people’. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.
“but Jaz, how would they enforce it”
Easily.
People would report you to the police for any hint of it. Whether real or imagined. You held hands with someone of the same sex. Someone started a rumor that they saw you kissing. You bought a sex toy and the vendor automatically reported you. You clicked a web page or picked up a magazine that had a different suspected deviant on it and the shop owner or internet service provider automatically reported you. You had certain mannerisms. You hung out to much with a specific friend. You seemed too close to a family member. Literally anything.
In some cases people would literally peep through windows, listen at the door, even wait across the street for your guest to come over and then call the police to kick the door down and catch the two of you in the act.
Never forget that the Stonewall riot was started by one such raid where police stormed a gay bar looking to arrest as many “sodomy” and “public indecency” suspects as possible.
That’s how. By encouraging people to barge into other people’s private, consensual sex lives and make reports to the authorities. By encouraging people to lay traps so unsuspecting gay people could stumble into them. By encouraging people to stalk and harass anyone who showed any sign of 'being a pervert’ in the name of 'protecting neighborhoods from predators’. By weaponizing the real concern for predatory behavior against people who were engaging in consensual intimacy in a way they happened to not like.
By doing exactly what I’ve been continuously saying is bad behavior that has gotten countless LGBT people jailed and killed.
We’re not turning this against our own community. Homophobes and transphobes have already made it plenty clear they don’t care how good or respectable we are, they just want us all dead.
“how would they enforce it”
well in 2012 a guy named snowden let us know they’re basically wiretapping us at all times and have gigantic collections of all our metadata and we have been living in a nice little surveillance state since 2001’s patriot act
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