junk of the heart is junk of the mind

queenofsunspear: Basil Soda | Spring-Summer 2013

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:20:40 -0500

queenofsunspear:

Basil Soda | Spring-Summer 2013

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stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:44 -0500

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stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:56 -0500

Carice van Houten by Marc de Groot

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:59:24 -0500

Carice van Houten by Marc de Groot

fuckyeahhotactress: Carice Van Houten

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:44:19 -0500

fuckyeahhotactress:

Carice Van Houten

voguelovesme: Givenchy Couture S/S 2007

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:04 -0500

voguelovesme:

Givenchy Couture S/S 2007

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stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:46:52 -0500

hellogiggles: We all struggle sometimes.

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:14 -0500

hellogiggles:

We all struggle sometimes.

unhistorical: May 21, 1979: The White Night riots begin. On...

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:32 -0500

Moscone and Milk

unhistorical:

May 21, 1979: The White Night riots begin.

On November 27, 1978, Harvey Milk - San Francisco’s first and one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials - was shot and killed by San Francisco supervisor Dan White (also killed in the attack was Mayor George Moscone). White and Milk had served together (and often clashed on issues while serving together) on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors under Dianne Feinstein for around ten months before White, citing his disgust at the corruption of city politics and his need for a higher salary, resigned his position as supervisor. After Moscone declined his request for re-appointment to his position at Milk’s (and others’) urging, White assassinated both men at San Francisco City Hall.

White’s trial officially began on May 1, 1979. The jury announced its verdict three weeks later after 36 hours of deliberation — White was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to seven years in prison; his defense team had successfully argued that, because of White’s spiral into depression (as evidenced by his change in diet from healthy foods to junk food), he would have been unable to premeditate murder, therefore making it impossible for him to be charged with first degree murder. Instead, White’s assassination of Milk and Mayor Moscone was defined as third degree murder, a “heat of passion” crime, and the least severe conviction White could have managed to leave the courtroom with, despite the fact that White had admitted to planning the assassinations of Carol Ruth Silver and Willie Brown.

The “White Night riots” began in the Castro District (where Harvey Milk began his work as a gay rights activist) as a gathering of several hundred people, mostly members of the Castro’s LGBT community. Enraged over White’s light sentence, thousands of protesters erupted into violence, and riots broke out near City Hall. By the end of the incident, during which policemen indiscriminately attacked rioters and vice versa, sixty-one policemen and around 100 protesters were hospitalized. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, tensions between San Francisco’s conservative elements and its growing minority populations increased as the latter groups gained political and economic influence - this hostile divide was apparent within the Board of Supervisors, in the conflict between White (who was relatively conservative) and Milk, and in the White Night riots, which pitted the city’s police department, which had raised money for White’s defense, against the city’s gay community, which had been revitalized under Milk’s leadership and by his election.

In 1985, Dan White committed suicide. Harvey Milk was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

unhistorical: J.M.W. Turner → ships

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:24 -0500

unhistorical:

J.M.W. Turner → ships

abigaildonaldson: Kate Moss in “Le Noir Partie 3” by Mert &...

stormlanders — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:40:29 -0500

abigaildonaldson:

Kate Moss in “Le Noir Partie 3” by Mert & Marcus for Vogue Paris September 2012

Cape. 1912, French. House of Worth. Source: Met Museum.

stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:20:27 -0500

Cape. 1912, French.

House of Worth.

Source: Met Museum.

c0ssette: Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence...

stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:40:57 -0500

c0ssette:

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI (c.1910) by Frank Cadogan Cowper.

Goddess of Depression

stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:59 -0500

Goddess of Depression

history meme. seven pairings: queen victoria and prince...

stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:13:29 -0500

history meme. seven pairings: queen victoria and prince albert.
She was an 18-year-old young woman who had just become Queen of England in 1837. He was her cousin and they married in 1840. Queen Victoria was most pleased with her new husband. She wrote to her uncle Leopold thanking him “for the prospect of great happiness you have contributed to give me in the person of dear Albert. “He possesses every quality that can be desired to make me perfectly happy.” Berkshire historian Jane Walton says: “He had actually been her right-hand man, he had helped with all the business, he’d taken the load of monarchy off her shoulders to a certain extent. “He devoted himself to sorting out the Royal finances, so much so they could afford to buy Osborne House - a home of their own that was their private residence.” For 21 years they lived in close harmony and had a family of nine children, many of whom married into the European monarchy. Prince Albert died of typhoid at Windsor on 14 December 1861. Victoria was overwhelmed by grief and remained in mourning until the end of her life. Cliveden in Berkshire offered some peace and quiet during political difficulties, such as when the Second Reform Act was going through the House Of Commons in 1867. She would arrive at Cliveden with a 90-strong entourage and a huge portrait of Albert, which she positioned on an easel at the end of the bed she stayed in, and a smaller portrait by her pillow. Jane says: “The one by her pillow was actually a portrait of Albert sleeping, so when she woke up it was as if Albert was still there.” (x)

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stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:20:35 -0500

debugr: Monks on a Rollercoaster.

stormlanders — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:40:36 -0500

debugr:

Monks on a Rollercoaster.

"A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On Feminists do not want you to..."

stormlanders — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:20:37 -0500

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A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On

Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to have to make alimony payments. Alimony is set up to combat the fact that women have been historically expected to prioritize domestic duties over professional goals, thus minimizing their earning potential if their “traditional” marriages end. The assumption that wives should make babies instead of money is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want anyone to get raped in prison. Permissiveness and jokes about prison rape are part of rape culture, which is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want anyone to be falsely accused of rape. False rape accusations discredit rape victims, which reinforces rape culture, which is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to be lonely and we do not hate “nice guys.” The idea that certain people are inherently more valuable than other people because of superficial physical attributes is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to have to pay for dinner. We want the opportunity to achieve financial success on par with men in any field we choose (and are qualified for), and the fact that we currently don’t is part of patriarchy. The idea that men should coddle and provide for women, and/or purchase their affections in romantic contexts, is condescending and damaging and part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to be maimed or killed in industrial accidents, or toil in coal mines while we do cushy secretarial work and various yarn-themed activities. The fact that women have long been shut out of dangerous industrial jobs (by men, by the way) is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to commit suicide. Any pressures and expectations that lower the quality of life of either gender are part of patriarchy. The fact that depression is characterized as an effeminate weakness, making men less likely to seek treatment, is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to be viewed with suspicion when you take your child to the park (men frequently insist that this is a serious issue, so I will take them at their word). The assumption that men are insatiable sexual animals, combined with the idea that it’s unnatural for men to care for children, is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want you to be drafted and then die in a war while we stay home and iron stuff. The idea that women are too weak to fight or too delicate to function in a military setting is part of patriarchy.

Feminists do not want women to escape prosecution on legitimate domestic violence charges, nor do we want men to be ridiculed for being raped or abused. The idea that women are naturally gentle and compliant and that victimhood is inherently feminine is part of patriarchy.

Feminists hate patriarchy. We do not hate you.

If you really care about those issues as passionately as you say you do, you should be thanking feminists, because feminism is a social movement actively dedicated to dismantling every single one of them. The fact that you blame feminists—your allies—for problems against which they have been struggling for decades suggests that supporting men isn’t nearly as important to you as resenting women. We care about your problems a lot. Could you try caring about ours?

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- Autostraddle (via notaprincessdestinedtobeawitch)

Guys. You need to read this.

(via abaldwin360)

operationkino: The Japanese sometime refer to it as tetsu no...

stormlanders — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:40:37 -0500

operationkino:

The Japanese sometime refer to it as tetsu no ame, rain of steel, but Americans have almost always called it by its name: Okinawa. The eighty-two day battle, that spanned from 1 April 1945 to 21 June 1945, for a piece of sand in rock—the first that was considered to be apart of the Japanese mainland—that took more than twelve thousand American lives, and left more than thirty-eight thousand wounded.

The bloodiest battle of the entire Pacific Theater, Okinawa was also the single most deadly battle the US Marine Corps had ever fought. They weren’t the only ones to suffer during Okinawa though: The US Navy suffered 4,907 killed or missing aboard 34 ships sunk and 368 damaged; in the end 763 aircraft were lost. If we’re to included non-battle casualties there were 26,000 of those, with 48% of men succumbing to “battle fatigue” or PTSD. Commanding generals of both sides were killed at Okinawa: American general Simon B. Buckner by artillery fire, Japanese general Ushijima Mitsuru by his own hand.

Nobody has ever been able to calculate the exact number of Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians killed in that campaign, but the numbers that spoken of are astronomical. Most historians agree that 100,000 or more civilians were lost during the eighty-two day campaign and upwards to 100,0000 Japanese died for the island. Even after the surrender, small pockets of Japanese went on fighting, just as they had on Peleliu.

It’s no wonder the US Marines referred to the Pacific campaign as being the Islands of Hell.

Times Square following the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt...

stormlanders — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:27:28 -0500

Times Square following the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States, November 3rd, 1936

Winning nearly 99% of the Electoral College and receiving 60% of the Popular Vote, the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election was one for the record books - despite many political analysts predicting a much closer contest through a flawed sampling system (this election was also the election wherein George Gallup, creator of the Gallup Poll that has been used to determine the sway of the nation during election season ever since, first created his method and correctly predicted the Roosevelt Landslide).