a cloud fairy

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) Nøkken (The Water Sprite) (1904)

Like, this makes it pretty clear that it's every house. Systematically. Can you convince yourself that Hezbollah was in EVERY house? For real? Or is it time to start facing that the IDF is deliberately going from house to house destroying a civilization?

ice on grass / jennifer bolande

Rainy day in Kyoto // 김영민

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

Especially after the stupid Olympics decision to ban trans and intersex women from competing in women's sports. It's been frustrating me that there's all this bullshit push for transphobia under the guise of "making space for women in sports". That's really not what it's about and at the end of the day, this strict policing hurts cis women too. If any woman is too good at her sport, or too tall, or too built, ah well surely she must be Not A Woman somehow. That's completely absurd! (And notice how the reverse is never scrutinized for men?) Especially for super high level sports that are full of exceptional people, including genetically so. Yet the image of a very specific (cis white) woman keeps grtting pushed instead of reevaluating why we separate sports by sex instead of something more relevant like ability or size.

elitrea fry jimenez, photographed by chloe sherman in the 90s

Next month! It won’t be long now.

Morocco (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg

I’m gonna grill up some brats. I got a microbrew chilling in my wet bar, and I was gonna warm up some ziti. Why don’t you come by if you got some, uh, triple-fried pizza dough or some kind of frozen meatballs or whatever it is? You can warm it up in my microwave, or you can warm it up back at home, bring it over piping hot. But if you want to bring over a vegetable medley, a crudités, figure out how much lunchmeat you can spare. Maybe bring over a pound and a half, two pounds of black forest ham, maybe a dijon-mustard spread. Any kind of dessert. Maybe a german chocolate cake or something like that. I tell you what would make you a big hit with the dudes is get some key lime pie a la mode. I’m talking about ice cream on the side. And you have got to have a bite of my homemade ziti. I’m just gonna warm her up. She’s been in the freeze. You know what I love are those hot mozzarella sticks. Cube ‘em up, put ‘em in some marinara sauce. You have them on standby. ‘Course, you can’t go wrong with some sour cream and onion, so long as you bring ridged chips.

The magic of a scorching summer evening

— Mary Oliver, from I don’t want to be demure or respectable

December 7 to 8, 1912 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

"A Grim Fairytale" — Lucy Ferry, Damian Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser, Cecila Chancellor, Christina Loder, and Lady Vivian Haig, photographed by Deborah Turbeville for Vanity Fair, December 1984.