A More Extensive Taste

“Euphemisms for bisexuality included a ‘secret bias’ and a ‘more extensive taste.’”

i do im celebrating my dogs birthday

Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean

Sperm whale breaching: wjaht the fuck

I have a feeling I have already shared this, but please, take the contribution of the northern right whale dolphin.

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

Happy Pride, cave dwellers 🦇

I’ve just discovered my new favorite painter, Vittorio Reggianini - those smarter than myself probably already know of him as an Italian painter from the 1800s who made satin look even satiny-er than satin. I just cannot get over how much he loved painting women who were NOT. HAVING. A. MAN’S. SHIT. 

I love this. Vittorio is throwing some not-so-subtle shade on the misogyny of the era in that last one. Around that time, mass market printing was finally a thing, and people wrote the hell out of some novels, especially fiction. And the people who read the novels were mostly women, because they had somewhat more time on their hands. Middle and upper class men decided they were above reading. They frequently criticized the women for reading novels, saying it was going to corrupt their brains and turn them all into anarchists and lesbians. (Which wasn’t entirely untrue, lots of subversive and queer stuff was distributed in novel form.)