The people of France showed up for Palestine!!!! 🔥🔥🔥and defied Macron's undemocratic ban on protests ✊❤️🇵🇸

TOKYO, JAPAN

Part 2 of my modern avatar au, The Gaang (part 1)

[ID: A statue of a person lying on a very plush looking pillow-bed; the sculpture is nude with back to the camera, face turned to the side, lying on a dramatic drapery, with one foot gently raised.]

This is an incredibly compelling work in person for a number of reasons -- to begin with, the raised foot isn't done justice by the photograph, but it's really funny and very human in person. It looked ancient enough, but also whimsical enough, that I was surprised I hadn't seen it in the records yet, so I checked out the placard, which put the date at around 100 CE. I must have just missed it while paging through the records. I'm sorry I did, because it's a gorgeous sculpture. (Its history is complicated but it appears the figure and draperies are ancient while the bed itself is 17th century.)

And it's called the Sleeping Hermaphroditus, because...

[ID: The statue as seen from the side; head still turned away, the torso is visible, and shows both the generous curve of a breast and also a penis and testicles resting on the drapery on which the figure reclines.]

In ancient history, Hermaphroditus was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes, originally male, who was merged with a naiad who was obsessed with him and became both male and female. He's generally represented as a very feminine-looking person (hair in the female style of the time, prominent breasts, female clothing, rounded hips) with male genitalia, often coyly on display. The history is complicated; we don't have good sourcing for the story and we don't truly know how Hermaphroditus was viewed in the ancient world, as far as I know (classicists feel free to correct me on this). Hermaphroditus, generally referred to with male pronouns even after developing a female appearance, may have represented trans women, intersex people, or some spiritual concept that had little to do with human gender expression at all.

Regardless of the complication surrounding the narrative, the sculpture itself is beautiful, and well worth sharing, I think.

it’s understandable that guys kept falling in love with gerard because he has a sweet face and big eyes and he’s so earnest about stuff that even though he’s sometimes kind of a loser it just contributes to making him irresistible but i think guys kept falling in love with mikey because he was like doing blood magic on them or something

Marina Kalinina

It is an old-fashioned bookstore located in Kuramae, Taito-ku, Tokyo.

Kuramae is called the Brooklyn of Tokyo, and although it is downtown, it is a city with a modern atmosphere.

Among them, it was a restaurant with my favorite atmosphere.

東京都台東区蔵前にある昔ながらの書店です。

蔵前は東京のブルックリンと呼ばれており下町ですがモダンな雰囲気を感じさせる街です。

その中でも私の好きな雰囲気のお店でした。

“Autumn Fog” ~ Photography by Christy Hibsch on Flickr

Illuminated

while playing the masquerade event i was hit with the realization that the students from nrc are quite literally the terrible tourists rollo was talking about. and im almost CERTAIN they've been just as bad every other event. like you have ruggie who was about to steal a shops hard earned money, you have epel and deuce that were saying their bread wasn't special before even trying it, you have ruggie AGAIN saying that the historic toys they make are just chunks of wood and don't have any value. these people suck and should not be permitted to travel. all they're doing is making a nuisance of themselves.

OSAKA, JAPAN

Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers, one of my favorite paintings on the planet. When I look at it I think, I see the same beauty he saw. I didn't even know it was here. In person it's even better -- luminous and grey at the same time.

[ID: a painting of three men refinishing a wooden floor; they are kneeling, shirtless, and the gleam of their skin matches the floor's alternating matte and shine. Behind them is a window that lights them; to the right is a bottle of wine for breaks.]

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