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think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever

The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where you’re like surely. Surely we can’t get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.

For my own amusement, I have included some even sluttier Sebastians found in the most cursory of Google searches:

I would like for people to know that Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of— of all things —archery and athletics. He is also recognized as the unofficial patron saint of queer people, because although the Catholic Church would never acknowledge it, his story of persecution in particular identified with many queer folks, and the way he was painted throughout history had a number of queer people saying, “oh shit, he’s hot, he’s ours now”

And I love seeing that happen all over again on this stupid website

Day 18: (Doing something together) Archery Lessons!

Touch starvation level: considering taking up archery lessons not to look cool and stuff, but just so that the person will wrap their arms around mine, with my back against their front as they slowly teach me how to shoot an arrow-

#my archer boy is back.

1860s female archery outfit with pocket diary hanging from the belt

(source)

I remember seeing the tweet a few days ago, but it didn’t actually source their info, and I’m leery about random accounts claiming certain things. Anyway, seeing this again, I decided to try to track down a real source (since the link here is to the tweet) and got led to this instagram post from 2017: https://www.instagram.com/p/BcDcTXHFHtl/ talking about donating to help conserve pieces with the Museum of London as part of their Redressing Pleasure campaign, which was indeed a source info I needed. Searching THAT led me to this page: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/redressing-pleasure-inside-costume-store where they talk about various pieces that are included in the campaign. Notably, here’s some more information about this particular piece:

The article also includes several video tweets from curator Timothy Long highlighting each piece discussed. The tweet (and video) for this particular piece showing off more of the outfit and details is here:

Thank you so much for taking the time to find the original source 🖤

Zendaya for Lancôme’s Idôle mascara

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow

things like this have such an energy like straw dolls and roughly carved stumps just human enough to feel like they can communicate with us but still more nature than anything (iztarshi)