#40S&W

[call-me-remi]

In memory of Gaston Glock.

[kulturegroupie]

Hedy Lamarr in The Heavenly Body | 1944

[l0uisebrooks]

Alicia Markova in "The Dying Swan" photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948.

[arthemrys]

GUINEVERE

Merlin 4x03 | The Wicked Day

[scooterscoob]

[a moment of solace]

[genderkoolaid]

some musings on transmasc mulan:

i think the reason why Reflection & mulan as a trans man is impactful to me is the fact that mulan appears as a woman and has the social role of a woman. i love rep of transmascs who are fully transitioned/present masc or male! but ive thought a lot about the erasure & invisibility of transmascs throughout history. the bits of our history we do have tend to be people who had the ability to pass as men, but there were undoubtedly so many trans men&mascs who lived as women, who could not pass well enough to live full-time as a man, who were wives and mothers! and idk i find it really impactful to read Reflection as the pain of a trans man in the closet, or who doesn't even realize that being a man is a Thing they can Do. i love how it touches on the pain of failing to be a woman. i think part of it is how often people want to dissociate trans men from misogyny, or at least control how we are "supposed" to relate to it. again, the mainstream (queer) narrative around transmasc history (and present) is trans men who could/can pass as cis men, who live their lives fully stealth. but there are and always have been many transmascs who live as women, most or all of the time, and who have to struggle with the demands of misogyny to be good daughters/wives/mothers, and the knowledge that to be a trans man would make you such a disgrace and disappointment ("if i were truly to be myself, i would break my family's heart"). i think its important to give a voice to the trans men past and present who live as women and their gendered experiences! i desperately want to give a voice to every trans man throughout time who lived and died in a dress, who had children, who thought they were the only one or who didn't even understand what or why they were.

obviously mulan does crossdress and does pass as a cis man, but specifically "Reflection" to me means a lot because i love how it can be read to be an expression of closeted transmasculinity. with transmascs, the bits of history we do get are constantly scrutinized by everyone; there's an unspoken rule of "cis woman until proven otherwise, why do you want to erase women?" and again! thats just when it comes to "women who crossdress" situations! people are so stingy when it comes to who they will "allow" transmascs to claim, seeing a "feminine cis woman" expressing transmasculinity feels transgressive in a very good way to me. also, i think we need more recognition that there are a lot of feminine women who really wish they were men (because they are), and its important to represent that experience and make it clear that being feminine (while presenting as a woman, or in general) does not mean you can't be a man.

[kimberlyklassy]

Say hi if I can DM you my private pics 👀

[cuntholicism]

in phil's head dan's voice sounds like the adults from charlie brown talking: the sequel

[stripysockxx]

Simple curiosity…tries to take a bite of me…… I think I’m funny

[lewdlemage]

can we see more milf nurs i love that fat old lady

oh now youve done it

[four-pointed-leaf]

why me?

[lostmementomemori]

Frida Kahlo in her art studio (1940s)

[sclappin]

There is a very specific type of character that hurts my heart so, so badly that I have to go lay down if I think about them too hard, and it's whatever Claudia and Laura both are.

I think they should hang out. I think they should scream together. I think they should commiserate. I think they should keep their secrets while sizing each other up. I think they should talk about girls they like.

[comraderoscoes]

Ferrari SF-25 Makes Its Debut

[smokeprettyeve]

Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth at the premiere of Sundown, 1941 ♡

[themitchiemitch]

Hedy Lamarr, Ziegfeld Girl (1941)