"From the pit of men's fears"

It's like learning about commodity fetishism and suddenly seeing hundreds of strangers in the products that surround you. Once you learn how the land was destroyed for profit you'll never look at the miles of fields or the cracks in the concrete of buildings built on wetlands or the stench of now obsolete canals built solely for a once boat-dependent economy with no care for the environment the same.

Different from the Others was co-written by Oswald and renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, who also played a role in the film and partially funded it through his Institute for Sexual Science. The film follows a doomed gay relationship between a successful concert violinist and one of his students and explores the impact of homophobia, conversion therapy and the threat of being outed. The film was intended to rally against Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code, the 1871 law that criminalized homosexuality.  Different from the Others is considered one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay men in cinema, and it was praised by audiences. But conservative Catholic, Protestant and antisemitic groups protested the co-writers’ Jewish identities and the film’s thesis that homophobia, not homosexuality, was a social evil. Different from the Others was censored throughout Germany in 1920 following claims that the film would endanger public safety or turn impressionable young people gay. By October of 1920, only doctors and medical researchers were able to view it via private educational screenings.

pink ulysses (1990) dir. Eric de Kuyper

FELIX DE BOECK (Drogenbos, 1898 - 1995)

In contrast to yesterday, I have almost no time to draw today lol. Daily drawing 2473.

Switzerland by _marcelsiebert

june 2026

What are some of y’all’s favorite exclamations that aren’t about god?

first submission and we're already off to a fantastic start. absolutely love this one thank you

ok its time for the challenge round now we want nominations that arent about sex either actually

Absolutely not letting you leave these in the tags.