fate don't fail me now

Hippies, on the other hand, are everything that conservatives hate. A movement that was built on body autonomy, sexual freedom, anti-war and total liberation is exactly what conservatives are shitting their pants over. Punks are easier for conservatives to hijack and claim, but a conservative wouldn’t touch a hippie with a barge pole.

This isn't antient history - I work at Glastonbury every year, and many of the crews (Mutoid and the Unfairground and T+C especially, but all over the land) still involve people who were there at the Battle, or who helped to care for the wounded and find them new homes in the aftermath. The link between hippies, New Age Travellers, us "ethnic" Travellers, and resistance against capitalism and patriarchy is deep.

(Also, this documentary is a hard watch. If you've got any personal trauma around pig violence, bailiffs, etc, be heavily forewarned. But also, it is a much-needed watch.)

here’s a rocky PHM gijinka !!! this is my first coloured drawing in like actual months now. the power of a nerdy space rock & me really not wanting to miss MBC !!!!!!

1800s Week!

Charles Cordier

African Venus

France (1851)

Bronze, 39.5 cm.

The Walters Museum:

Cordier submitted a plaster cast of the bust of an African visitor to Paris to the Salon of 1848, and two years later he again entered it as a bronze (Walters 54.2664). A young African woman served as the model for this companion piece in 1851. Regarded as powerful expressions of nobility and dignity, these sculptures proved to be highly popular: casts were acquired by the Museum of National History in Paris and also by Queen Victoria. The Walters’ pair were cast by the Paris foundry Eck and Durand in 1852. These bronzes were esteemed by 19th-century viewers as expressions of human pride and dignity in the face of grave injustice.

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One of the things I love most about this piece is that you get something new from almost every single angle.

Photo credits: galeri.uludagsozluk.com, opacity (flickr), The Walters Museum.

According to Cordier:

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"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

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