Tom
@twal.bsky.social
Ex Set Designer/Art Director Queer Loves Sci-Fi, Anthropology Archeology, History, Literature, Art and Men
111AD - 130AD Deified upon his premature death by a devasted Hadrian, who also founded an organiszed cult devoted to his worship that spread throughout the Empire.
Picture taken of the Antinous Farnese in November 2025 at Naples Archeological Museum.
Picture taken of the Antinous Farnese in November 2025 at Naples Archeological Museum.
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
111AD - 130AD Deified upon his premature death by a devasted Hadrian, who also founded an organiszed cult devoted to his worship that spread throughout the Empire.
Picture taken of the Antinous Farnese in November 2025 at Naples Archeological Museum.
Picture taken of the Antinous Farnese in November 2025 at Naples Archeological Museum.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Point Reyes Books is among my very favorite bookstores in the world. Every time I go, I find books I have never seen in another shop. It’s lovey and distinctive and suited to its clientele. Totally worth a trip if you are anywhere near.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Point Reyes Books is among my very favorite bookstores in the world. Every time I go, I find books I have never seen in another shop. It’s lovey and distinctive and suited to its clientele. Totally worth a trip if you are anywhere near.
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SCANDALOUS! Victorian critics found William Blake Richmond’s “The Bowlers” (1870) overtly homoerotic and boldly sensual. The physical closeness, soft gazes, and affectionate poses made the scene feel intimate rather than heroic or moral, far too daring for its era.
#gay #art #lgbtq #history #nude
#gay #art #lgbtq #history #nude
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Posted this because I liked it and my freshman college year Russian still leaves me with the origin of this word. "почему", meaning "why". Making it a remembrance of the refrain of 'why' from my youngest step daughter......repeatedly. Grin.
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Posted this because I liked it and my freshman college year Russian still leaves me with the origin of this word. "почему", meaning "why". Making it a remembrance of the refrain of 'why' from my youngest step daughter......repeatedly. Grin.
Borrowed because of self victimization............
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Borrowed because of self victimization............
Nothing like it.....................iconic.
The intricate design at the top of Louis Sullivan's Guaranty Building, downtown Buffalo, N.Y.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Nothing like it.....................iconic.
My imagination tells me he may have been a Selkie.......a beautiful changeling. Though German, perhaps he swam from Ireland and ended up in the Rhine River and switched in his cradle. When you watch his work you know he was a changeling. Sylph.
Udo Keir
“..from way before he made his first film [in 1966]”
I do remember German beaches and pools were pretty loose about personal coverings even then - perhaps especially then
[image from www.ideanow.online/footprints ]
“..from way before he made his first film [in 1966]”
I do remember German beaches and pools were pretty loose about personal coverings even then - perhaps especially then
[image from www.ideanow.online/footprints ]
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My imagination tells me he may have been a Selkie.......a beautiful changeling. Though German, perhaps he swam from Ireland and ended up in the Rhine River and switched in his cradle. When you watch his work you know he was a changeling. Sylph.
Cannot wait to see what Josh O'Conner and Paul Mescal do with these characters. Hermanus directed "Moffie" brilliantly and brutally so I've high hopes for the film. Remembering that Brokeback Mountain was also 'merely' a short story.
@royalblood1.bsky.social If you've not read it, get a copy of The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck. A phrase that is deceptively simple. "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." About his brief love affair in his youth. Never surpassed.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cannot wait to see what Josh O'Conner and Paul Mescal do with these characters. Hermanus directed "Moffie" brilliantly and brutally so I've high hopes for the film. Remembering that Brokeback Mountain was also 'merely' a short story.
@royalblood1.bsky.social If you've not read it, get a copy of The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck. A phrase that is deceptively simple. "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." About his brief love affair in his youth. Never surpassed.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
@royalblood1.bsky.social If you've not read it, get a copy of The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck. A phrase that is deceptively simple. "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." About his brief love affair in his youth. Never surpassed.
Simple and brilliant writing that blew me away.
Hands down: The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck. It starts with a gay love story in 1915 and just keeps getting better. His storytelling is *chefs kiss*
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Simple and brilliant writing that blew me away.
Yes.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Yes.
This is brilliant and heart rending writing. Do not miss it.
if you have not yet, go read this ASAP. The stories are linked in incredible ways. The title story is currently being made into a film w/Paul Mescal&Josh O’Connor. But don’t just read the first- it connects importantly to the last.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This is brilliant and heart rending writing. Do not miss it.
"My grandfather once said that happiness isn’t just a story. So there isn’t much to say about those first weeks." and "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." I wept out loud. .
The title story here is one of the best things I’ve ever read. Writing so beautiful it will make you cry.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"My grandfather once said that happiness isn’t just a story. So there isn’t much to say about those first weeks." and "I don’t think I’ve ever been happier——in the plain, dull way that resists any further articulation." I wept out loud. .
First exposed to Reggae while creating costumes for a part of the Opera Falstaff at the Opera Company of Boston long ago. The Set department where I was concocting party costumes played the music and I was mesmerized and totally carried away. So this is another sad milestone ...............
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
First exposed to Reggae while creating costumes for a part of the Opera Falstaff at the Opera Company of Boston long ago. The Set department where I was concocting party costumes played the music and I was mesmerized and totally carried away. So this is another sad milestone ...............
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Beautifully played
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Beautifully played
We heard by word of mouth iat school he'd been shot. Went to class (Santa Ana Valley High School). Teacher didn't lecture. We heard the classroom phones ring down the long hallway, one by one. Ours rang. Told he'd been killed. School was cancelled; we were sent home. The world changed.........
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
We heard by word of mouth iat school he'd been shot. Went to class (Santa Ana Valley High School). Teacher didn't lecture. We heard the classroom phones ring down the long hallway, one by one. Ours rang. Told he'd been killed. School was cancelled; we were sent home. The world changed.........
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So this scrolled onto my screen elsewhere and is a bit of an antidote to the nasty life so often tosses at us all
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
So this scrolled onto my screen elsewhere and is a bit of an antidote to the nasty life so often tosses at us all
Heard tonight with a Korean series I'm watching which poses questions about tough medical & moral issues. Simple song with feeling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94L...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Heard tonight with a Korean series I'm watching which poses questions about tough medical & moral issues. Simple song with feeling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94L...
Lived in Rhode Island for 30+ yrs and I have to say one of the most apt and honest blurbs is the one for RI.
for reference, one of my favorite memes. Massachusetts, a land of contrasts (heroic alt text effort here) i.imgur.com/bzeiYdA.png
![A meme map of Massachusetts with regions labeled with colorful descriptors. This is going to be a long one so here goes.
Left to right, top to bottom roughly:
- Albany region of New York stretching down to western CT: "Definitely NOT New England"
- Southern Vermont: "Cows" "Gay Hippies"
- MA west of the Pioneer Valley: "Cultured Hill-Folk"
- Southwestern Connecticut: "Annexed Territory of the Evil Empire"
- Pioneer Valley: "Hippie Farmers" "Hippie Students" "Blight & Basketball:
- Central CT: "Questionably New England"
- Southwestern New Hampshire: "Pumpkins and anarchists"
- Central MA roughly Worcester to the Quabbin Res: "THERE BE DRAGONS HERE"
- Eastern CT: "Pretty New England"
-Southeastern NH: "Republican refugee zone" "Tax-free shopping"
- MA south of NH border down to Rhode Island border: "Mill Towns & Methodone [sic]" "Leafy, Liberal, and Loaded" "Snow and long commutes (oh yeah and Worcester)"
- RI: "People who talk weirder and drive worse than us"
- Arrow pointing from North Shore Mainewards: "Vacation & Lobstahs"
- North Shore coast: "Beaches with killer flies"
- North Shore: "Witches, Fishermen, and quaint-ass towns"
- Revere/Chelsea/etc: "Townies & Immigrants"
- Somerville and Cambridge: "Commies"
- Boston: "The Hub of the Universe"
- South Shore: "Irish Riviera(r)"
- Norfolk County (roughly): "Gillette Stadium"
- New Bedfordish (~Bristol County): "West Portugal"
- that area between New Bedford and the Irish Riviera (sorry): "Cranberry Bogs"
- Heading down to the Cape: "Rotaries & Traffic jams"
- Cape Cod of Nantucket Sound: "White Florida" "Wahm beaches"
- Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard: "The White Carribean"
- East coast of Cape Cod: "Wicked cold beaches"
- Provincetown: "Gaycationland"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ooixgtuypuq43ebp42xw2pam/bafkreibruubtate4zh26nqalvd3iwmvpgob4rs5v5ad2jzc2rhcz2ip2oe@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Lived in Rhode Island for 30+ yrs and I have to say one of the most apt and honest blurbs is the one for RI.
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