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[bizarrebazaar13]

does anyone know where I can find good reference images of victorian-era wheelchairs? I want to draw the jovial contrarian but all the wheelchair art refs/tutorials I can find are for modern wheelchairs

[thedeafprophet]

okay so here's a few photo's i have on hand for ref

Here is an article on the history of the wheelchair, which has some info on the victorian era ones

Image from that one, circa late 1860s.

Another from the science museum, late victorian era:

This one in particular is noteworthy as :
"unlike a typical bath chair, the wheels are fitted with an extra ring to allow the chair to be driven by the passenger. " so perhaps keep that in mind for drawing too

So i usually go off of the old picture + combine some facets of modern wheelchair for Fallen London, since i think The Neath could have some of it own technological advancments

Hope these are helpful!

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[lliyin]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[spaghetti-trek]

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

[roach-works]

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

[actualaster]

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

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[lavenderlion]

The whole bi lesbian backlash is just ridiculous at this point.

I can't think of any other situation where the people I follow/ed fully embraced a small subgroup's shitty interpretation of an identity that's been around for decades, and just completely ostracized the entire group, regardless of their actual beliefs.

Lesbian is an umbrella term, and it's a specific identity. Just like gay. Some bi women are going to call themselves lesbians. This is not a threat to the lesbian community, and it's definitely not transphobic.

At a certain point, the people enthusiastically playing gatekeeper are going to have to realize that they put too much stock into a purely online phenomenon. You were gullible. You took the bait. You became a bully and told yourself it was for the safety of the community, just like any other conservative. The threat isn't real. You're just behaving like an asshole who wants to control other people.

[cold-czars]

"You became a bully and told yourself it was for the safety of the community, just like any other conservative."

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[friendshapedhole]

Today (June 26, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the most important Supreme Court case in gay history. It finally ruled that consensual sodomy cannot be a crime and all state laws criminalizing it are invalid.

People don’t realize how recent it was that cops could arrest you solely for having gay sex, in the privacy of your own bedroom. It was slowly decriminalized state by state, but like 1/3 of all states still had those laws in place until 2003.

It didn’t get nearly as much fanfare and recognition at the time as the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. But I think it established a far more crucial right.

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[thelvadams]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS - Those Old Scientists

Given a longer time frame, I might be able to brute force a solution. But as of now, there is no way to track the Orions.

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[marisatomay]

tumblr is cool and works so well. for instance, i just checked my mentions and tumblr is telling me that a mutual tagged me in a post yesterday. i clicked on it and it took me to a post she made, where she did in fact tag me, in 2015. good work everyone. hit the showers.

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[myxomycota]

Elaeomyxa cerifera by Sarah Lloyd

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[zoe248]

It me

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[dagny-hashtaggart]

That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

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[sirfrogsworth]

Well, I'm sold.

[thefrogman]

I keep watching all of these things that are supposed to turn me gay and so far the only tingle was when Captain America bicep-curled a helicopter.

I'll keep trying I guess.