The Cosmic Egg / The Egg of the Universe Hildegard of Bingen

Portrait of Helena Roo    -   Jan Heyse , 1941.

Dutch,  1882-1954

Watercolour,  39 x 29 cm.    15.35 x 11.42 in.

When I was on anonymous venting sites, I came across a homosexual guy and a homosexual girl who had both been sexually abused as children, and who both had female perpetrators.

Both of them discussed a deep sense of shame regarding their homosexuality, and how they were mortified of the idea that others would attribute their homosexuality to the fact that they were child sexual abuse victims.

It was the first time I really noticed that homosexuals can never simply be recognized as victims of sexual abuse in the same, uncomplicated way that heterosexuals are. For homosexual people, it seems that whether their abuser was of the sex they're attracted to, or the sex they're not attracted to, the sexual abuse will always be blamed for either making them gain or lose attraction to the sex of their abuser.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Traubengehänge

On All Souls’ Day, 1839 by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller  (Austrian, 1793–1865)

I’ve stumbled across an online community of women (mostly) who alter those Precious Moments figures

And I’m obsessed

I love everything about it

Pfamgasse in St. Wolfgang painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 - 1865)

Christen Købke - Frederiksborg Palace seen from Jægerbakken. Evening (1835)

Stray cat breaks into Lynx’s enclosure at zoo

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which is definitely not an omen

Carl Moll - Master Schindler's window (1886)

Washing Day, Carl Moll

Carl Moll