Corsage (2022)

“Queer dharma, or that Buddhist dharma as experienced by queer and trans people, challenges every one of these heteronormative codes. Even the notion that you are a gay man, or a lesbian, a trans man or trans woman, is challenged by both dharma and transqueer experience. Your female partner that you thought was a woman is now transitioning becoming a trans man; the gay man you are dating also performs as a drag queen and goes about as a woman in certain social contexts. Nothing is fixed or permanent; nothing can be pinned down for long; everything is impermanent; everything changes. This experience of profound impermanence is common to queer and trans people. It is the pattern of our lives; it is our lived experience. And it is one of the gifts that we have to share with the greater sangha. We know, perhaps more profoundly than heterosexuals, that there is no fixed “self,” that all facets of identity are ascribed, learned, performed, negotiated, discarded, transformed, and mutable.” - Shaun Bartone in Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices

Forest Lake with Water Lilies in Bloom and Numerous Insects, c.  1869.

Anthonore Christensen, (Danish, 1849 - 1926) 

horrible news: you have to practice to level up your skills because it's unrealistic to think you'll be good at everything first try

Jean-François Portaels (1818–1895), Sweet flowers (detail)

FLAT FORM / Penthouse -B by naf architect and design // Hiroshima Prefecture, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Japan

Pride Angels 2024 - Part II

Here are the second half of my new Pride Angels designs! Featuring the following flags:

Lesbian, Lesbian (Alternate), Lithosexual, Neptunic, Nonbinary, Nonbinary (Alternate), Omnisexual, Pangender, Pansexual, Polyamorous, Polysexual, Queer, Queerplatonic, Queerplatonic (Alternate), Questioning, Rainbow/Progress Pride, Sapphic, Toric, Transgender, Transgender (Alternate), Trixic, Unlabeled, Uranic, and Voidpunk.

Additional flags in Part I and Part III. You can go to each flag's post for transparent images, flat colors, and lineart. Read the FAQ and follow the campaign here: Pride Angels🌈

Magpie On The Fence

A real beauty!

Photographed in november in germany

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