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Friends today I’ve been learning about American Impressionist painter Ellen Day Hale, because I saw this painting of her and thought “That is not a heterosexual woman” and obviously needed to drop everything and research.

And look I was prepared for a lot of ambiguity and a lot of disclaimers but what I actually found might officially be one of the queerest paragraphs I’ve ever read:

They’re lesbians, Harold.

Also, this is my favorite painting of Hale’s, and like, LOOK at this woman:

She is reading her OWN damn news. That complexion has never once been plagued by a husband smoking behind his morning paper. Her lover Joan made the coffee and now is changing into a fabulous pair of jodhpurs and heading out to work with the new mare, who tends to be skittish but is responding well to Joan’s firm yet gentle demeanor.

Me: *puts a pot of lil’ red potatoes on to boil*

My brain: what excellent boiled potatoes what excellent boiled potatoes what excellent boiled potatoes what excellent boiled potatoes wHat ExcEllEnt bOilEd potAtO-

Me: YES THANK YOU I GET IT I UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCE.

I’ve read Dracula before but this is going to be my first year joining the listening party and I am So. Excited.

Once again I have to appreciate that on Tumblr the most anticipated event of the year is a 6-month-long book club and/or listening party of the novel Dracula. Just regular old Dracula the actual novel not a retelling or a TV series just the unabridged novel itself

I did it I finished Heaven Official’s Blessing and I’m fine I’m good I’m great I’m fine I’m fine I’m good I’m fine I’m very normal.

idk yet what this is about but he sounds like he's talking about simarils

edit: omg the very next paragraph was this. literally

edit 2: i've listened to the statement and it IS silmarils

I am on Heaven Official’s Blessing book 7 (of 8) and it is taking all my self control not to search the tumblr tags.

Friend who has already read the series: “DO NOT search for fan art until you’ve finished or you will get pregnant and die.”

Me: “…”

She is still on the apple crate

Just remember 60 people signed on to stab Caesar and he only had 23 stab wounds, the real moral of the story is group projects have always just been like that

I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

ive come to the conclusion that much like autism or gender vampirism is a spectrum

“I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay - cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.”

— Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845). (via groot)

Alice Dyer you would have loved the bisexual trainwreck that was Timothy Stoker

i have listened to the first two episodes of the magnus protocol and oooohhh my goodness

delicious absolutely top notch great stuff here, already had a couple of “oh shit” moments and some “surely that won’t come back to haunt us later” lines

i know i’ve only known sam for two episodes but i would protect him with my life

jonathan sims top character of all time. his best friend is his ex-girlfriend’s cat. he doesn’t drink coffee. he lies about his age but everyone believes him because he acts like a 60 year old man. the second he’s faced with death he asks his coworker if he’s a ghost. he later falls in love with that coworker. instead of having a beautiful narrative arc about the importance of friendship and surrounding yourself with anchors he had a meat freak rip out his rib. he’s canonly asexual.

Frodo and Sam walked through an apocalyptic wasteland, holding hands, so that Jon and Martin could

*checks notes*

also walk through an apocalyptic wasteland, holding hands.

Listening to The Magnus Archives for the first time and I think it has altered my brain chemistry.

Like I started it as someone who didn’t have a strong relationship with horror and now 70 episodes in I think I might be in love with a coffin.

quick comix of the little creatures

Let your raven flags fly, folks! Tis the season of bisexual icon John Uskglass.

Wander a frozen moor in a black gown!

Bury your heart in a dark wood beneath the snow, yet still feel its ache!

Spend your nights dancing in the ruins of a fairy court, and your days ignoring Sir Walter Pole!

Imagine the bleakest of November landscapes, but make it camp!

Aragorn: Ok I’ve been having a total Monday but decision’s finally made - we’re going to rescue Merry and Pippin.

Gimli: Aye! Shall we g-

Aragorn: We’re going to call ourselves The Three Hunters.

Legolas: Sounds rad. You ready?

Aragorn: Our motto is We Run! We Fight! We Love!

Gimli and Legolas: *brief eye contact* *blush*

Aragorn: Our song is “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You”

Gimli and Legolas: Should we just start or-

Aragorn: WE MUST BE SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVERRRR

So it turns out that

a queer reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

is literally just reading

Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland are a gothic romance reading, Newfoundland puppy raising, gender non-conforming, queer couple.

They are very happy.

(They have a lot of fun fooling the straights.)

I like to imagine the moment Gimli stands up in the ruins of Khazad-dum and sings The Song of Durin for the company as the moment Legolas first falls hard.

Gimli: But still the sunken stars appear / In dark and windless Mirrormere / There lies his crown in water deep / Til Durin wakes again from sleep

Legolas: Well, fuck. He can wake ME from sleep ANYtime. Wait. What?