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Saw some TERFs spreading these images of @degenderettes and actually everything here is awesome and needs more love.

MARGARET ATWOOD x WALTON FORD

‘Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women’, Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994);

A beautifully tiled 90s public washroom.

Bathrooms, Collins Design, 2004 📚

Phases of the “mewn”

“The passing of legends”

Perhaps the most famous of the Southern Resident killer whales, J1 ‘Ruffles’ and J2 ‘Granny’, leisurely swim through a kelp forest. Ruffles, long thought to be Granny’s son, was well known by whalewatchers for his enormous waved dorsal fin that gave him his name. Last seen in 2010, the big bull is considered deceased. At the time of painting this piece Granny still had several more years to go. But late 2016 her time was done, and she quietly disappeared. And so the ‘passing’ in the title is a double one: not only do these whales pass by in the image, both of them have sadly passed away as well.

On a more technical note, I tried my hardest to get all markings (down to the last rake mark) correct, which was quite a challenge. Not in the least because neither whales were frequent breachers and both had the harrowing tendency to be photographed from their right side instead of the left. Even so all markings, except for Ruffles’ flank patch and fluke undersides, and the latter half of Granny’s flank patch, are true to the real whales. The kelp in the painting, bull kelp, a species that occurs in the Southern Resident’s home range.