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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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I splurged on an expensive tea. It is strawberry sarsaparilla green tea, tastes amazing both hot and iced. The world is still terrifying right now, but tea is good for the soul. Hang in there, friends.

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Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 – 1911)

art details of headpiece jewelry

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I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

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I love rdr2 nature

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a short project I'll be working on some time soon

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Little girl in pink regalia does a Blackfoot & Plains Cree dance celebrating the Prairie Chicken, Source unknown.

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✨my etsy shop is open again!!!✨

Please note, unfortunately I am not currently able to ship to the EU, though I hope that will change! Also for some reason Etsy in the UK doesn't have an easy way to toggle shipping on and off for different regions if you don't ship everywhere which means I'm having to add countries individually, so if you're from a non-EU country and you find Etsy won't ship to you let me know and I'll fix it!

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I'm an art conservator, though I rarely talk about that on this blog. I was recently a guest lecturer for a chemistry class studying and synthesizing blue pigments and dyes from history, and I made this timeline of the most significant ones. There's a bonus of Perkin's mauve because it was the first synthetic dye in history, so it marks the beginning of all synthetic dyes on the timeline, way too many to name.

By the way, pigment = solid, does not dissolve in liquid. Dye = liquid, or dissolves in liquid. A lake pigment is a dye precipitated onto a solid to make it a usable pigment (eg crimson lake.) Indigo is a dye that can be used as a lake pigment.

Some of the dates were variable, but I did my best to go with when they were being used by artists and artisans, so the students could use the timeline while looking at museum artworks.

Please don't dox me or cyberstalk me. I'm trusting you guys not to be weird. And please don't steal and claim my work as your own.

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most homoerotic arthurian texts

Lancelot and the Hart with the White Foot

its got everything. lancelot trying to avoid getting married, a DOG, greek mythology gay people parallels, gawain rescues him and cares for him homosexually, gawain freaking out when lancelot is gone for 48 hours while guinevere looks on, corn? for some reason,

look the dutch went off with this one they really did.

the galehaut section of the lancelot section of the vulgate lancelot-grail cycle. here is the first part scanned by valentine lanzelet

honorable mentions go to:

–the second half of chretien de troyes knight of the cart

–the first half of the stanzaic morte

–bisclavret (gay werewolf knight gay werewolf knight)

and finally, who could forget gawains classic christmas kiss exchange, told in the famous–

greene knight, an alternate, gayer version of sgatgk knight that exists. is the poetry worse yes is it gayer also yes. god speed

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I come with a proposal to the Ace Council. A group of asexuals, including me, have designed a new flag.

We stole the purple from the bi flag for the bottom stripe and used the purple from the ace flag for the dragon, which is taken from the Welsh flag. We humbly suggest that this be our new flag /hj

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Sometimes it is fun to play around with a looser way of sketching

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how it feels to have no social media presence as an artist

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Relaxation picture done. Took about 6 hours.