Rabbits at School postcard by taxadermist Walter Potter, 19th c
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So I’m making up the word, which of course is already a word, “queerage” which has a suffix “-age,” to show condition, function, relation, or action of the root “queer,” and visually, is a portmanteau of “queer” and “rage.”
Thanks, Limp Wrist and the innovator of the inverted dildo cross for the visual explanation of my new word or whatever.
Alex Arnold (Rich Hardbeck of Skins)
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see Ke$ha
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“Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of ‘liking’ a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.”
― Henry James, The Art of Fiction
On Valentines Day in 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s wife and mother died within hours of each other. This was his diary entry for that Thursday.
via LettersOfNote by way of Gene Weingarten.
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The Wild Hunt
The hunters may be the dead or the fairies (often in folklore connected with the dead). The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden (or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer (“Wuodan’s Host”) of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.
Wistman’s Wood, a remnant of ancient oak Quercus robur woodland on Dartmoor, Devon, England.
In Devon, the Wild Hunt is said to be that of hellhounds chasing sinners or the unbaptised. The dogs in the Devonshire dialect are known as Yeth (Heath) or Wisht Hounds.
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IR thermograph of the fluke of a bottlenose dolphin. Warm areas (denoted by white and red) correspond to large blood vessels that traverse the width of the underside of the fluke. Note the comparatively cool peduncle area shown in blue. The colour bar at the bottom denotes 0.1 °C differences in surface temperature per gradation.IR thermograph of the fluke of a bottlenose dolphin. (SR-443)
selfportrait with bacterial cloud 2010
oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm
American Gothic (1930) Grant Wood (29¼ in × 24½ in)
Grant Wood saw a house in Iowa that he decided to paint along with “the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.” He chose his sister, Nan, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby.
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19th century erotica in illustration/lithography by Édouard-Henri Avril
