The fantasy version of “I stopped giving my dog his phenobarbitol because he hadn’t had a seizure in months! I don’t understand why he started having seizures again!”
Bonus points when this is the 4th time you’ve had this conversation with the same owner
changing elves from being assholes with a superiority complex and recharacterising them as just sort of weird guys that have an entirely different set of social behaviours to harken back to the days when people thought autistic people were a kind of fae for having odd behaviours. the entire reason why they dont particularly enjoy gatherings of men or dwarves or whatever is because they tend to be loud and the average elven social gathering is just a bunch of them sitting in a room in silence ignoring each other
like theyre still kind of mean but its more of them being blunt and lacking empathy rather than being condescending or purposefully malicious
my elven ass after spending 45 minutes in the pub with my dwarf friends:
I GROW WEARY OF MIMICKING YOUR OBNOXIOUS MANNERISMS TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THIS ENVIRONMENT. I WISH TO RETURN TO MY CHAMBERS TO REST AND SO I MAY PLAY SPLATOON 3 ON THE NINTENDO SWITCH. WE SHALL GATHER AGAIN NEXT HALF MOON AND I SHALL TELL YOU OF MY VICTORIES.
Here’s another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we’re making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!
For more context, this is an image depicting “El baile de los cuarenta y uno”. It happened when Porfirio Díaz was president. 21 men were in suits, 21 men were in dresses. All of them were part of the upper class and Ignacio de la Torre y Mier (son-in-law of the president) was there too. This dance was a scandal that they tried to cover up, for obvious reasons. Even when there were 42 men, only 41 were arrested (and abused by the police, as always) –hence the name “El baile de los 41”.
There’s a movie about it, which I highly recommed titled “El baile de los 41”. And here’s the Wikipedia article about it. This event is an important event in México history, both in terms of how queer and homosexual culture/community was/is in the country and how fucking damn awful the porfiriato was.
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