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Sleeping with You

by Ellen Bass

Is there anything more wonderful? After we have floundered through our separate pain

we come to this. I bind myself to you, like otters wrapped in kelp, so the current will not steal us as we sleep.

Through the night we turn together, rocked in the shallow surf, pebbles polished by the sea.

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John Alcorn 1965

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1925-1927 Dress by Jean Patou

silk, crêpe silk, chain stitch embroidery

(MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp)

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— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

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“Back in the eighties dungeons were becoming a thing in New York. Guys would pay a lot of money to come there and have some dominatrix tell them what to do. I was making leather pencil skirts for a lot of the doms, with holes in the back so that guys could kiss their ass. One day I was fitting a dom named Asia, and I told her: ‘I bet I could make more money than you without wearing stuff like this.’ She bet me I couldn’t. It was all a big goof. But then I started really thinking about it. Asia was making $150 a session, and that was real money. So I did the same thing I always do when I get an idea. I just ran an ad in the back of the Village Voice. Most of these girls were advertising how young they were. So I used the word ‘mature.’ And I figured out how to write ‘Jewish Guys Welcome’ in Yiddish, and I put that at the bottom. It was some of the easiest money I ever made. I never let them touch me. All I had to do was be a bossy black woman. And I could do that easy because my mother had been such a bitch. I’d pretend to be a school teacher, or a nanny. It was the dumbest shit. I just kept inventing crazy scenarios. And the crazier the scenario, the more money I made. One time I heard about a dom on the Upper East Side who charged $3,000 a week to kidnap a guy and lock him in her basement. I didn’t have a basement, but I knew a limo driver named Dean who liked to hustle like me. So every time I got a call from a new client, I’d say: ‘You want to be kidnapped, don’t you?’ And he’d start stuttering like: ‘Duh, duh, duh, duh.’ And I’d say: ‘Listen to me closely. Stand on the corner of 5th and 18th tomorrow at 3 pm. Don’t be late.’ Then I’d call Dean and tell him the plan. It was always easy to spot the guy. He’d be the one checking his watch and looking scared as shit. So we’d roll up in the limo, grab him by the collar, and pull him inside. Then I’d lock the doors and start telling him what to do. Everything went down in the back of the limo. Dean just rolled up the partition and kept his eyes on the road. At the end I’d give him $100, because I was getting $250 for that.”

-Happy 81st birthday to Stephanie 'Tanqueray' Johnson. If you see her wheeling around Chelsea today wish her a happy birthday, and there is a nonzero chance she will give you a glow-in-the-dark dildo eraser. -Humans of New York

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Your goal should be to get weirder with age and im not kidding. Become that odd estranged extended family member that owns a whacky home wherein a powerful magical item is kept that is the catalyst for the story of a children's adventure novel protagonist

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The Dream Keeper

by Langston Hughes

Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.

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You've really got to admire Daniel Molloy and his 150% divorce rate. This man wrecked not only two of his own marriages, but another couple's as well. A king, an icon. None of us should ever aspire to be like him.

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some of my lestat illustrations.

you can get both of them as prints here!

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*evenstar*; commission

I love Arwen ❤️

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Dutch surrealist artist Johfra Bosschart’s Zodiac Series 1974-75 part 1

Original source https://doorofperception.com/2018/09/johfra-bosschart-zodiac-paintings/

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Redhead, 1899 by Teodor Axentowicz (Polish, 1859–1938)

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"All of those things are true."

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What am I, Jesus? ZENDAYA as TASHI DUNCAN CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Eastern greek fluorite carved idol: Owl.

4th - 3rd century BC.

Private Collection.