do not equate being gay with having a kink. do not equate being gay with just sex and nothing else. do not assume and treat all gay affection like its some filthy sex act just because you personally dont like being around it. that’s a ‘you’ problem, buddy.
Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?
They called the police on this lesbian painting.
The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman & Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity & portrayed in a place of power & control. Realism humanized the female form in art, & removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.
So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.
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Whenever my situational depression comes back – and I mean to the point that my only remotely productive thought involves the desire to go down the street and systematically punch randos in the dick – then I know it’s time to go back to sea.
Ishmael’s intro to Moby-Dick, if it were written in 2018
Saw this on Essence Magazine’s Snapchat and thought it would be helpful💕
Yeah seriously, sex education never told me any of this in school. Little me was panicked seeing the dark coloured bits and i had no clue that’s just the normal colour blood goes when its clotted or dried.
Also keep in mind that it’s perfectly normal for the blood and tissue to be “stretchy” and feel like there’s mucus mixed in.
A.k.a, the fics that keep me warm at night. I’ve been meaning to put this together for awhile, but here are the top favorites, in no particular order. 99% Bagginshield, with some Thorinduil, Thorin/OC, Dworin, and Dwalin/Thorin/Bilbo thrown in. Warning, this list is long and contains some select few Non-con/Dub-con fics as well.
Fair warning, I’m going to be pretty frank about why I find these fics appealing.
– The Sleeping Series – Bagginshield – in particular “And No Rest Shall We Find” and “Moments Before Waking”. Thorin/Bilbo at Beorn’s mostly, with great banter in addition to scorchingly hot smut scenes. My fetish can be best described as “detailed descriptions of Thorin getting off” and goddamn do these fics deliver, as does everything by keelywolfe. Seriously well-written is something you can always rely on from this author, along with lush descriptions and punch-in-the-gut-from-Aphrodite moments of hotness. Basically, if it has Thorin writhing in uncontrollable pleasure, I am here for it.
Death By Catchphrase 