#1913-1964

[casualist-tendency]

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[jerrbear508]

Old Photos of my Hometown, Mansfield Ohio (Part 6).

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

[gacougnol]

Emil Schulthess (Swiss 1913 - 1996)

Sunrise at Likiang, China 1964/65

[trippingontheescalator]

Which Classic Novel Should You Read Based on Your Fave Snape Pairing

Snily - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847). Let's see, a low class and abused, brooding Byronic leading man? Check. Madly in love with a woman who ends up marrying a snobbish rich man who looks down on our hero? Check. Obsessed with her even decades after her death? Check, check, and check. Oh, and let's not forget that the child the woman has with her husband shares her eyes. Hm, suspicious.

Snames - Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (1740). So, as a fellow snames fan, let's be honest with ourselves: all of our fics can be boiled down to "I can change him." We want James to be despicable, inhuman, and cruel to Severus, and then we want James to realize how disgusting he is and grovel at Severus's feet, because we are all basic bitches. So basic that one of the earliest novels in the English language is basically this. Pamela originated this trope.

Snirius - Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (1957). Snirius fans are unafraid of dark, toxic relationships and unhappy endings, and, well, here's a book for you! Deep Water is about as toxic as you can get. It's about a man who murders his wife's lovers.

Snucius - Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1913). Alright, alright, so this isn't a novel, this is a play, but fans of this pairing definitely seem to be into the whole sugar daddy/"I can turn this feral street child into an elegant gentleman" kind of vibe, and this is what this play is all about. Audrey Hepburn is fantastic in the film adaptation My Fair Lady (1964).

Snupin - Bear by Marian Engle (1976). You Canadians are probably like, "What the fuck? Is my OTP a joke to you?" The answer is yes, but that's beside the point. Hear me out. The main character is an archivist who is very bad at relationships and kind of shuns society in general. Like our Snape. She ends up in the Canadian wilderness on an assignment going through a dead person's belongings. Also, this dead person kept a pet bear that our heroine now has to take care of. Our heroine begins to yearn for something wild, our pet bear is a literal bear, but also incredibly pathetic and docile just like Lupin. Anyway, the two fuck. Literally, she fucks a bear. THIS BOOK WON THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD. THAT'S LIKE CANADA'S PULITZER I THINK. None of you werewolf-fuckers should act shocked and dismayed by this. We all know how you really think Sirius's prank should have gone (in which instead of James rescuing Snape, Moony makes sweet sweet love to him).

Sorry, guys, no Snarry or Snamione. I don't really read those pairings so I can't give an accurate recommendation. But if you've got thoughts, add to this!

[thefugitivesaint]

Antonio Rubino (1880-1964), ''In Flemmerlanda'', 1913 Source

[fizzyorange-v2]

on not being able to save those you love, even from themselves

“I've been inside his head. That guy's a piece of shit.”

“It doesn't matter. I-I don't want to be someone who leaves people behind. I want to be someone who saves his family. And for better or worse... he's family.”

Credits:

1 - Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body / Virgina Woolf, Final Letter to Her Husband // 2 - Nick Schager, The Boys Recap: Don’t Forget Your Second Wind // 3 - Adrienne Rich, For the Dead // 4 - Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care / The Boys, Assassination Run / Lena Oleanderson, Love in the Thoracic Cavity / Friedrich Nietzsche / @ell-hs, x / unknown // 5 - The Front Bottoms, Twelve Feet Deep / Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human / Walter Benjamin, One Way Street (tr. Edmund Jephcott), Selected Writings, Vol I: 1913-1926 / lillie, via Pinterest // 6 - John Le Carré, The Looking Glass War / Bring Me the Horizon, True Friends / starparkdesigns, via Instagram // 7 - Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart / The Crane Wives, Tongues and Teeth / @neuxue, x // 8 - Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (1964 - 1980) / Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper (Taking Chances, #1.5) / The Mountain Goats, Training Montage / Hael, Who Made You A Monster? // 9 - Bares, Montage // 10 - Aeschylus, Agamemnon / Garth Ennis, Preacher / D.N., excerpt from a book i'll never write #71 / @catradoraism, x / Poor Man’s Poison, Black Sheep // 11 - The Mountain Goats, Up the Wolves // 12 & 13 - Natalie Young, Notes on Earth Life // 14 - Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire / unknown / David Fincher, The Social Network // 15 - Margaret Atwood, "Hesitations outside the door", Power Politics / @theartistichuman, x / Jorge Rivera-Herrans, No Longer You // 16 - unknown

as always please let me know if any links break, any credit is incorrect, or if you’re aware of where a missing piece of media is from :]

[davidhudson]

Meret Oppenheim (October 6, 1913 – November 15, 1985), X-ray of My Skull, 1964; printed 1981.

[random-brushstrokes]

Dr. Atl - Carmen Mondragón (Nahui Olin), ca. 1922

Nahui Olin was born María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca in Mexico City, the fifth of eight children in a wealthy military family. She began writing poetry and prose while living in France, between the ages of four and twelve. In 1914, she became part of Parisian artistic circles when she returned to live in Paris, after she married Mexican diplomat and painter, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1891-1971) in 1913. The couple returned to Mexico in 1921 and remained in an open relationship until 1922. In 1921 she began a long-term relationship with the political activist and painter Gerardo Murillo (1865-1964), better known as Dr. Atl (the Nahuatl word for “water”). Also inspired by post-revolutionary desires to publicly assert connections to indigenous culture and past, C. Mondragón Valseca changed her name to Nahui Olin in 1922, a Nahuatl reference to renewal and the sun’s force behind the cyclic rhythm of the heavens, a symbol of earthquakes and change. (source)

[jnjo]

curled up II Franz Kaindl, 1932 / Edouard Gaspard Castres, 1881-1964 / Angelina Miropolskaya, - / Nazar Hulyn (Gulin), 1970-2003 / Dominique Louis , - / Laurent Marcel Salinas, 1913-2010

[casualist-tendency]

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[gacougnol]

Emil Schulthess (Swiss 1913 - 1996)

Farm workers, China, 1964/65

[website-com]

faceless portraits

Bragan Bibin 2017 | Alex Colville 1964

Jean Beraud 1885-1890

Brita Barnekow 1868-1936 | Zhang Haiyang

Edvard Much 1913-1914

Willi Kissmer | Kolomon Moser 1913

Marcin Cienski 2016 | Willi Geiger 1914

Xie Lei 2021 | Félix Labisse 1942

Julia Santa Olalla 2020 | Julius Paulsen 1926

hurvin anderson 2001 | Michael Tunk

Jonathan Torres 2022

Fabien Boitard | Kim Jacobson

Rae Klein

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics: Gallaplacidia Edition

@bubu0h created beautiful covers for Gallaplacidia's other fics and you can find them here to use for your personal library!

Artworks used (in order):

"The Son of Man" by Renee Magritte (1964)

"Painting with Green Center" by Vasily Kandinsky (1913)

"View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs" by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1824)

"Dining Room on the Garden" by Pierre Bonnard (1934-1935)

view my other covers here

[digitalnewberry]

Lesbian literature & Chicago activism: Valerie Taylor letters, 1964-1975

“It seems slightly satirical to wish anyone happiness in this messed-up world but I hang on to a possibly erroneous belief that personal happiness is still possible, or how has the human race survived so much?”

--  Valerie Taylor to Jack Conroy, December 26, 1969

Valerie Taylor (1913-1997) was an activist and novelist, especially prominent in the lesbian pulp genre of the mid-20th century. She used many names over the course of her life, including Velma Tate, which is how she signed off letters to her friend and fellow leftist writer Jack Conroy. Her wit shines through this selection of twelve letters, which range from 1964 to 1975. Common topics include the difficulties of publishing, leftist politics, and tongue-in-cheek responses to “Chick tracts” (Evangelical comics intended to encourage conversion to Christianity), which were seemingly often sent to Taylor by Conroy in order to poke fun at them.

"It will be so cozy in hell–everyone I know there.”

-- Valerie Taylor to Jack Conroy, January 12, 1975

Scholars have described Taylor as a key figure in the history of both pulp literature and Midwestern gay activism.

“As both an open lesbian and a political activist, Taylor is a unique author in the pulp genre. Taylor centers the Midwest in her novels and illustrates both the vibrancy of gay life and the beginnings of gay activism in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s… while they are still certainly pulps and share some of the issues found in the majority of lesbian pulps, she takes control of the genre and uses it to disseminate information to the queer community in Chicago, consistently challenging the standard. Taylor differentiates herself by inserting references to books, spaces and terms to help illuminate the reality of the Chicago gay community. She also provides a critique of police entrapment and bar raids, the legal and psychological standing of homosexuals and, most importantly, she portrays her lesbian characters as distinctly human individuals.”

-- Midwestern farmers’ daughters: heartland values and cloaked resistance in the novels of Valerie Taylor, by Jennifer Dentel

Taylor was one of many leftist authors who kept correspondence with Conroy, who was himself a significant contributor to the “proletarian literature” of the early 20th century. These letters provide us a window into the kind of relationships he fostered as well as Taylor’s humor and drive.

– Quinn Sluzenski, Digital Initiatives Assistant

View Valerie Taylor's letters to Jack Conroy at Newberry Digital Collections

Learn more about LGBTQ+ archives at the Newberry