skirmish

Art by Ray Lederer

my experience with being transgender

to say its a "native version of nonbinary" is not just inaccurate, it's a complete erasure of a massive part of our community

ɪᴛ ʟᴏᴏᴋꜱ ꜰᴜɴɴʏ, ʀɪɢʜᴛ?

also I realised my perisan erik and black christine headcanons hadn't been given art yet so. two birds one stone

brown bears ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

A comic adaptation of Zoe Leonard’s “I want a dyke for president” (1992) 

The Dead Lovers by Edvard Munch / Vienna Cemetery / Lovers of Valdaro / The Lovers of Modena / Hasanlu Lovers / Monumento Rossi / Dave Navarro & Carmen Electra by David LaChapelle / A Memorial to Marriage by Patricia Cronin / Monumento Scarneo / Olavi Lanu / Bronze Age Scythian Couple / The Life & Death of a Relationship - Sue Law / Lovers of Turuel / New Orleans Botanical Garden / Etruscan Sarcophagi / Gravestone commissioned by widow for deceased husband - Mt. Macedon Cemetery / Eternal Love - Frank Kunert / Meant To Be - Bruno Caesar / Roman Sarcophagus / Sarcophagus of the Spouses

An Arundel Tomb, by Philip Larkin

What gets me is how well Carlini captured the difference between the dead and the living person and how, rather than following the old saying of Christian origins intended to comfort grieving people that the dead "watch over" their loved ones from above, it is Joseph who gazes down at Caroline, unable to take his eyes off her after 33 years of marriage, even in death. And continues to do so, even now.

“There is a lack of representation of butches and studs in all aspects of mainstream society. I think the reason for that continued invisibility is linked to consumerism, that our identities are not seen as marketable.”

This isn’t the final edit but I thought y’all might like to see what I’m working on for @yellowis4happy 🫶

This was the pervious piece I did!

Let’s fuckin GOOOO

Breaking to go eat dinner but hey!

I’m literally so stoked about this piece I’m so mad I keep having to take breaks bc whenever I concentrate for too long my jaw clenched up again and I start getting pain in my faceee

But here we are!

✨⚾️ BASEBALL YURI ⚾️✨

Hiccups and delays aside, here it is. Xena is equipped as an early hoplite; (my headcanon is that, owing to her immense, perhaps semi-divine strength, the bronze is between 4 and 8mm thick- too much for any muscle powered weapon to handle from any angle) packing an early Doru, a Boeotian shield, and a Makhaira sword. Gabrielle’s Amazonian outfit is a composite of Scythian grave finds; she wields a composite bow and Akinakes sword, wears an elaborate phrygian cap, and the trousers and moccasins of a culture seriously weird to Greeks. Other avenues are still waiting to be explored! Don’t forget to reblog, and tell me what you think. I’m absolutely willing to defend my questionable use of snarling Gorgoneiona. Fight me.