it's going to be all right

scenes from Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Leigh Wells

So you don’t remember dialling this number? You just sort of woke up with the phone pressed to your ear, ringing on the other end? Or maybe you thought you’d dialled a different number, but your digits betrayed you. Or there’s a faulty connection somewhere out there in that spiderweb lattice of phone cords that covers all of creation…

Cossaks leaping an obstacle (full scale model of a house) as part of their military training. Russia. 1910s

Ferns and Fiddleheads Knee High | Mod Sock

These socks bring your toes to the shadowed, lush loveliness of the forest floor, resplendent with ferns and unfurling fiddleheads.

These are sock size 9-11, and should fit US shoe sizes women’s 6-11 or men’s 4-9, but we think they’ll be loose for folks with feet smaller than a US women’s shoe size 7 / men’s 5. The cuff stretches to 17 inches and the calf stretches to 15 inches.

Here’s an interview from 2014 with CM Ralph, the developer of the first known LGBT game. Caper in the Castro was a Macintosh HyperCard game from 1989 about “a lesbian detective investigating the disappearance of a transgender woman in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco.”

(Unfortunately, there’s currently no known surviving copy.)

You can read more at the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, which has a copy of an article about the game from The Washington Blade from 1989. According to an ad from the Blade, in exchange for the game Ralph asked that you donate to an AIDS charity.

here’s their society6 if you want to buy prints from them!

“The Death of Cleopatra”