Adryan Wicked

Remember... the South did not want to end segregation. Or, slavery. They did not want to give black people their constitutional right to vote. They were FORCED to. They're going to go back to the 1940s. They WILL segregate schools again. They've been trying to go back to this.

The whispers of the magical forest... Misty sunbeams, ancient trees, purple flowers, and docile deer in a magical dream.

Jean Giraud, auteur français de bande dessinée, connu sous son propre nom et sous les pseudonymes de Mœbius et de Gir, est né le 8 mai 1938 à Nogent-sur-Marne. Il est le créateur de la célèbre bande dessinée de western Blueberry.

👀Visitando locais icônicos de Final Fantasy (Parte 3): Altissia - Final Fantasy XV Claramente inspirada em Veneza, na Itália. A cidade é famosa pelos seus canais de água, pelas gôndolas que os jogadores podem usar para se deslocar e pela sua arquitetura deslumbrante que mistura elementos clássicos e fantásticos. É em Altissia que ocorrem alguns dos momentos mais impactantes de Final Fantasy XV, incluindo a imponente batalha contra a Leviathan.

"Yemanjá"    Nelson Boeira Faedrich.

Curse (Alexander Rothaug, 1870 - 1946)

She was sold to a brothel at fourteen. By thirty, she had become the first woman in Chinese history to win a scholarship to study art in Paris. By forty, her nude paintings were scandalizing both Shanghai and the Seine—too bold for Mao's China, too foreign for the purists, yet too brilliant to ignore. Her name was Pan Yuliang, and for most of the 20th century, she was a ghost: erased from Chinese textbooks, stored in Parisian archives under "unknown artists," and buried in an attic in suburban Montparnasse with four thousand paintings stacked around her coffin. Today, art historians are finally whispering what they should have said decades ago: she was China's own Matisse. But here's the thing about Pan Yuliang—she didn't just paint nudes. She painted from the nude. From a place of intimate knowledge that no male artist, East or West, could fake. Having survived the brothels of Wuhu, she understood vulnerability as power, the female body not as object but as sanctuary. Her women lounge and stretch and gaze back at you, unashamed, painted in a wild fusion of impressionist color and traditional ink brushwork. Critics called her work obscene. She called it truth. And when China turned its back on her in 1937, she chose exile in Paris over erasure at home, teaching at Beaux-Arts for half a man's salary and quietly outliving every one of her tormentors. We desperately wanted to feature her stunning paintings in this post—but most of Pan Yuliang's surviving masterpieces are nudes, and social media platforms simply won't allow us to share them. So instead, we leave you with this: a woman who painted her way from a brothel to the Beaux-Arts, who died whispering to return her work to China, and whose spirit—as one art historian put it—still waits in a cold museum storage room, calling us to finally see her. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

L’excision pour contrôler leur sexualité et limiter leur accès au plaisir. Le rasage forcé des cheveux en milieu scolaire parce qu’elles seraient une distraction pour les garçons. Le repassage des seins pour ralentir leur puberté et limiter l’exposition au désir masculin. Les mariages forcés et infantiles pour priver les filles de tout consentement. Tout ça, c’est pour les formater à la soumission totale, pour les dresser à devenir des corps dociles. C’est un système esclavagiste qui apprend aux filles que leur corps ne leur appartient pas. À côté de ça, on a une permissivité totale pour les garçons qui n’ont aucune discipline sexuelle. La polygamie est parfois encouragée et valorisée comme un symbole de virilité et d’ego masculin. Tandis que l’infidélité et l’adultère sont banalisés et rarement sanctionnés.

Uma coisa que gosto bastante em Chrono Cross é essa "atmosfera praiana" que o jogo tem. O mar ou elementos aquáticos são vistos em quase todos os lugares.

The season when the deep green is at its most beautiful

Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti

Yoshitaka Amano

A family of South American Indians are taken to Europe to be displayed in a travelling zoo, 1889. Never forget the horrors of European colonialism.

Inferno Canto 25, The Serpent Pit ~ Gustave Doré, 1866.

A donkey skin sells in Kenya for $130. Boiled into a Chinese beauty product called ejiao, it becomes part of an $8 billion industry. Almost 6 million donkeys are killed every year to feed it. The finished products are sold on Amazon. Ejiao is a kind of gelatin made by simmering donkey skin for hours. It's mixed into face creams, anti-aging pills, candies, and tonics. Even China's own health regulator has admitted ejiao is just boiled donkey skin. No clinical trials show that it works. But a hit Chinese TV drama called Empress in the Palace put it back in fashion around 2012. The country's growing middle class started taking it for anemia, fatigue, miscarriage, even premature aging. Donkeys can't reproduce that fast. A female donkey is pregnant for 12 full months and has just one foal at a time. She doesn't start breeding until age two or three. So when Chinese demand exploded, China's own donkey population collapsed from 11 million in 1992 to under 2 million by 2020. The hunt then went global. Africa has roughly 33 million donkeys, two-thirds of the world's supply. Botswana's donkey population has halved since 2016. In Kenya, government-approved slaughterhouses killed about half the country's donkeys in three years. According to The Donkey Sanctuary, 41% of African donkey owners surveyed had at least one animal stolen. Donkeys are walked for weeks across borders, denied food and water, until they collapse. They're hit on the head with sledgehammers. Their throats are slit. Some are still breathing when they're skinned. A 2017 PETA investigation in China found foals as young as 5 months old killed this way. Up to one in five donkeys dies before reaching the slaughterhouse. In February 2024, all 55 African Union countries voted to ban the trade for 15 years across the continent. China is Africa's biggest trading partner. The continent banned this trade anyway. The Donkey Sanctuary still projects demand will hit 6.8 million skins a year by 2027. Within weeks of the ban, donkey theft spiked across Africa. The trade went underground. Chinese companies are now in talks to set up donkey farms in Pakistan instead. A donkey in rural Africa is often a family's only way to fetch water, carry goods to market, and send kids to school. When it gets stolen overnight, the women and children become the donkey. They walk further with heavier loads. The girls drop out of school first. The donkey in this photo is leaning against a wall because it's exhausted. The industry on its back is worth $8 billion.

『とりのつくしま』(2024)

Vagrant Story - Michael Turner & Tim Townsend #Playstation #gameart