just found out that Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s tender paintings of a couple in bed are all of a lesbian couple…. i’ve always loved these paintings but now they’ve just become that much more beautiful to me
one of my favorite pigeon pages slaps HRT over all of their photos which im sure is just the page owner’s initials or something but its funny to think of them as advertising the effects of hormone replacement therapy
I cried at work yesterday because I spent my whole shift imaging lichens from the collection of this one particular German botanist from the 1880s, and at some point in the middle of it the “quiet handing of the baton” nature of it all got to me. 140 years ago, another person across the Atlantic ocean gathered and labeled all these specimens in the name of the great, ongoing story of science, and there I was, using a machine they never could have dreamed of to photograph and file away their work in the latest step to immortalize it for the scientists who come long after both of us as best I could.
I don’t even know their first name, and they died long before I was even born, and yet there we were,
two people united in quiet contribution to the same work despite our distance from each other in space and time – with every chance that someday, another person may look at the pictures I took long after I’m gone, too, and add their own chapter, ad infinitum.
Also, you know, some of them were pretty cool lichens.
