the continual discovery of fresh types of nonsense

Sunday, 18 July 2021

I have an old friend who once said, “God is a Black lesbian who looks like Tracy Chapman,” and after seeing this photo I’m convinced my friend was right.

JEB (Joan E Biren), Leah and Judith (rear), California, 1982, 1982

In 1933, Dietrich crossed the Atlantic in the SS Europa making headlines for dressing in a gorgeous white pantsuit.  The Parisian police warned her that she would be arrested if she wore menswear in the French capital.  In response, Dietrich stepped off the train and onto the Paris platform wearing her most mannish tweed suit, complete with her hair slicked back under a beret and sunglasses fashioned after the monocle, a coded symbol of lesbianism.

Images and text taken from the Dietrich exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington (x)  

Impeccable taste in both clothes and pet names.

Minttu Vesala photographed by Elina Kechicheva for Balenciaga and SSAW Magazine, May 2021

audrey malek and cortney taylor key photographed in adriana pierce’s animals and angels by leigh-ann esty

Harmodius & Hoti, Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, August 1975

Photography by Daniel Nicoletta

Taken from LGBT: San Francisco: The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs

this look was low key a serve

Bruce Springsteen and Tracy Chapman by Dennis O’Regan, 1988

A quick, sketchy tribute to Wesley’s sweaters from the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I started watching the show for the first time last year and am now in the middle of the fourth season. Gimme that space fashion!

Emma Thompson by Annie Leibovitz, New York, NY, 1995

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I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.

King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!

she does look like them

What an oddly specific yet obscure reference

I REFERENCE THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER ON THE DAILY IS THE ELDERLY PERSON ME?

these came to me in a BOLT of inspiration and I couldn’t think about anything else until I made them, so here are a few DS9 characters in those classic wit knit 80′s sweaters. forgive my crapass edits, the spirit is strong.

Edward Gorey, early 1970s, photographed by Bill Cunningham.