Victor Vasarely porcelain relief for Rosenthal, Germany (1970-73)

REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀

Nerves, Nerves, Nerves, by @reversibledestiny.bsky.social (with a huge shoutout to @picnic-mag.bsky.social) defector.com/nerves-nerve...

Steely Dan future

A treasure among the dino-pulp-issues in my personal collection.

Featuring a trans woman so prominently at his inauguration like this was an absolutely baller move by Zohran

Sleeping dog, drawn by Hendrick Goltzius of Haarlem, at the end of his day. Good night!

Daily bunny no.3186 says good riddance

Hot gluing sequins to my naked body to really wow the neighborhood with a new years fit (the screaming is celebratory, I swear!)

It is the day of black eyed peas, a cold ocean, and a tentative uneasy hope <3 let's give em hell

The Mamdani swearing in has real Gotham City vibes. Love it.

it's a holiday movie and the holiday is 9/11

I’m fully prepared for the Mamdani administration to implement charcuterie law at midnight (pretty sure that’s what my conspiracy theorist neighbor said will happen)

2025 has been a very rough year for me, and I won't miss it at all, but I have hope that 2026 will be a better year for all of us. Have a happy, safe, and fun New Year's Eve. Cheers to you!

Outlook for the new year ...

barkeep, can i get another activity placemat over here please? (sliding a fifty across the bar) and keep those crayons comin'

Hoping to bring this energy into 2026

2/2 Elegant table, simple table, although both look pretty tasty to me! Including sweet shaped as P for artist Clara Peeters, whose day is today.

A uniquely well-decorated tart surrounded by other delicious and fascinating things, all painted by Clara Peeters. It’s her day.

2/2 Clara Peeters -- a tough cookie. No soap bubble she. Signs her name on the knife handle. Don't mess with her!

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Clara Peeters of Antwerp & Amsterdam. Here in 1618 w/ collection of luxury goods, reminding us that they'd be vain & fleeting (if she hadn't painted them).

My holiday hosts include perhaps the world’s prettiest cat

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

#TurtleTuesday 🐢: Set of Three #Turtle Effigy Vessels Calima culture, Colombia, 100 BCE - 500 CE Ceramic with brown-orange slip, calcareous deposit, manganese oxides H. 9 to 10 cm - L. 14 cm (H. 3 ½ to 4 in - L. 5 ½ in) www.giquelloetassocies.fr/en/lot/11418... #IndigenousArt #AndeanArt

how will he ever learn "God Only Knows" at this rate

One of the greatest things to come out of the late 80s/90s revival of the 40s is the iconic nightclub floozies

You’re all (clearly) free to keep pretending but there must be some kernel that knows this isn’t normal; let some nominative determinism go to work and let Mira be the self named bellwether of: you can and will fucking die from this shit and you will take others down with you. How many more need to?

Does no one notice the sharp uptick of pneumonia in ‘healthy‘ people from two, three, five years ago? The jump in strep, staph, TB, rsv and a ton of other opportunistic, dare I say immune deficiency defining infections? ‘Healthy‘ people dropping dead of flu, heart attacks, strokes, at 40, 30, 20s?

The flu deaths are so bad in (large) part bcuz multi covid infections have destroyed immune response/protection in a ton of folks, part Normalization of being fucking sick constantly, devaluation of vaxes & pretending masks don’t exist, w the public health apparatus being on the side of the viruses

This charming crab is waving goodbye to 2025. One of many marine images around a lost figure of Neptune (a wheel from his chariot survived) under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester. This image was the most popular of my #MosaicMonday offerings this year! #AncientBlueSky 🏺

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

This is a collection of teddy bears dressed and made to look human.

A lot of images of Cybele have her holding up a drum or tambourine like "you want this don't you?"

Here’s to 2026

La fée aux étoiles (1902)

and Tiny Tim, who did not die, actually had been boofing estrogen and has been living stealth as Tina for 40 years.

insider info: we’re doing our first round of artist submission reviews on jan 11th if you’re the type that needs a deadline docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

people are still reposting this even though it’s no longer christmas. i regret to inform you that the time for being gay is over, you can now only reminisce

FTW is such an important text and I hope Mira lives on through her work forever

GNU Mira Bellwether

sorry Mira but I'm not waiting for June

rip mira bellwether

The thing is, and she would tell you this herself, Mira Bellwether wasn’t born fully formed and she had to learn stuff too; she was remarkable but not inimitable, by which i mean if a disabled transsexual from dirt-farm iowa can get out and teach herself about the vagus nerve, you can too

Mira Bellwether is dead; long live Mira Bellwether. 3 years and an eternity to go. www.mirabellwether.com