in the countdown to motr, here are a younger betty and griz engaging the historians favourite game of gals being pals:
cannot WAIT to see what you make of the romance scenes in mask of the rose gang
one week to go!
the va of shadowheart is gay???? and met her girlfriend while making bg3???? gays we won again
guy who does astrology-type stuff but instead of the stars he uses sum of gravitational and centrifugal potential energy. the british (and papua new guineans) are self-important and arrogant because they are born in places with high geoid undulation. india is prone to outside conquest because its low geoid undulation attracts invading armies. people born in the middle of the north atlantic ocean are destined for greatness.
what does he think about people from the poles
the north pole has slightly higher geoid undulation, but it’s pretty low still. thus the circumpolar cultures are destined for mediocrity, like the people of egypt and central australia. south pole is slightly below average, which is why penguins are on the whole rather indolent and have no cultural achievements of note.
Thought this could fit in well here
Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”
And she’s doing fine
