#american sunday

[lesoreillesouvertes]

D’Artagnan et Daniel

Vous les croyiez disparues ? Et bien non, elles existent toujours ces pailles. Les tortues n’ont pas fini d’être torturées.

La Floride

Prendre un coup de soleil au mois de mars…

Si pour aller à la plage, on s'arrête dans 3 magasins, c'est pour avoir le bon snack, le bon sandwich et la bonne boisson. Au retour de la plage, c'est pour acheter des trucs pour la maison, des chaussures et une glace évidemment. J'ai pu constater la joie, l'exaltation, que dis-je, l'épanouissement de tous ces gens travaillant en grande surface le dimanche !

[an-american-whovian]

[lvnesart]

pigeon-coded

[oldinterneticons]

Top LYRICS icons posted to @oldinterneticons in 2024

[justletmeramble1701]

"We are in Wales!!!" Yes Doctor, we know... you have difficulties hiding it. Thanks for being honest, at least.

[davidaugust]

Brilliantly done Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide.

via (at)phillyguy25.bsky.social

[daughtersofcain666]

It was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it

[lycazart]

Eli doodle

[divinum-pacis]

Lakota Trinity by the late artist Father John Giuliani

"In this image, the great Father—Wakan Tanka—appears with a full headdress of eagle feathers in a halo of light.

His open hands deliver the Son, a victorious Sioux warrior whose raised arms and open hands reflect a similar gesture of self-giving.

He wears a richly decorated buckskin war shirt—heavily fringed, beaded and painted with the four color circle of the universe as its breast plate.

The eagle represents the Holy Spirit and completes the spiral of trinitarian love and unity."

From the Catholic Extension Society.

[sagradofemenin0]

“Some loser brought a ladder and ripped the pride flag off my local church”, 2023

[seaofthemind]

I’ve been hovering on the edge of the Batman fandom since late 2020/early 2021, but it’s only in the last year that I’ve really fallen into it. As a British Millennial one thing that occasionally bugs me is the attitude towards Dick’s name. Primarily in fan fiction, but also occasionally in discourse.

I make a note of British as this definitely one of those cultural differences between UK and USA…

Dick is a normal name/nickname! Yes, it has gone out of fashion in the last couple of decades (influence of Americanisation?) but it is still around.

I remember two people with the name Dick growing up. Not my generation, admittedly. One was my parents’ age and one was my grandparents’ age. But the older one was a close family friend who we would see all the time. (I do think there was a Dick in first school with me, but I might be misremembering so I’m not technically counting it).

I was also an avid reader as a kid and read a lot of popular British children’s books. Off the top of my head the characters I can remember with the name Dick? Dick Bettany (Chalet School), Dick Callum (Arthur Ransome Books) and Dick (Famous Five). I’m sure there was more. Needless to say this name was still relatively normalised for British kids in the 90s-00s even if it was going out of fashion as an actual name.

I feel like it is a very recent (hello, American internet) thing that the name has become so improper/awkward. Not helped by modern filtering which will recognise it as only a “bad” word.

Anyway, to bring this to a point - in fan fiction it always seems to be “Parents didn’t speak English/didn’t know what it meant”, which is a reason but always feels way overused as a excuse (and where does the idea that his parents’ don’t speak English come from? Have I just missed this in the comics somewhere?).

There are many other reasons for Dick to have the name he does without it getting put down to a “language barrier”: Why not just that they were in a more culturally diverse community and the British nickname was acceptable (especially as much of Europe tends to lean more to British English than American English)? Why not be because a relative/friend also was called that and he was called after them? That his parents liked a book/media character with that name? That “Dickie” as a young child’s nickname is cute but that his parents assumed he would grow out of it as he grew up - but he never did because they died and that’s what they called him? Just that this is what his parents called him and it doesn’t need excuses?

Also Alfred? Would recognise it as a potentially awkward name for modern times but he isn’t going to find anything wrong with it as a name or have problems with using it (other than the politeness of using a nickname vs full first name). With his age & background he probably has known plenty of people in his life that have used it.

In short: let Dick have his name (without that undertone of him apologising for his parents not understanding).

[ifourloveisdead]

Notable bands in emo music history from Alternative Press, November 2017.

[an-american-whovian]

Accurate.

[ennabear]

hey team… consider this: western sevika au… inspired by ethel cain songs (not the actual lore of preacher’s daughter)… fluff and smut and a tiny bit of angst/pining… ends with a happy found family (including caitvi + jinx and isha, maybe some of sevika’s family because she deserves it)… reader and sevika are both scary mean outlaw cowboy butches but they’re soft for each other… yay or nay…

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Mabel Dwight; Sunday Afternoon, 1934. Lithograph.

Photo: Amon Carter Museum,

[thecreativemillennial]