This piece is heavily inspired by the paintings of Saint Sebastian, by painters like Guido Reni. But did you know how Saint Sebastian ended up being a gay icon? 🫵🏻
San Sebastian was a Roman soldier who converted to Christianity. Historians believe he may have had a romantic relationship with the emperor Dioclesiano, who asked him to renounce his faith, but he didn’t and he was sentenced to death, tied to a tree and shot with arrows.
Surprisingly, he didn’t die because of the arrows, he met the emperor again and then stoned and thrown into a mass grave in Rome. The artists usually chooses the arrows because is rather more aesthetic ✨ than his tragic death, though you can find some painters who actually portrait his death.
At first he was represented as an old man, but in the renaissance the artists chose to reinvent the image of this Saint, to a young handsome man, showing almost pleasure at his destiny, romanticing the pain. A lot of famous paintings of the Saint were produced by artists who we believe were gay ( Boticelli, Caravaggio, Pontormo, Reni, Bronzino, Donatello, Il Sodoma…) so it’s very reasonable why they keep representing the Saint, as a young beautiful men, with a fit body and mostly nude.
Why would artists do this ? Well in that time church was the main income from the majority of the artist community , so they choose the Saint as a way to express different topics, to have a bit of creativity freedom.This became a problem, the beauty of the saint woke up passions between the men and women who attended the church, to the point they hide some paintings, and the painter Pacheco, the father in law of Velázquez, suggest to level down the sensuality and beauty of the representations, although it didn’t.
Saint Sebastian was also well love in the medieval times when the plague epidemic reach Europe, they use pictures of the Saint to protect their homes. This protective side became popular when the aids became a problem, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, Saint Sebastian popularity became even higher.
The symbolic aspect regarding homosexuality transcends through time, writers like Lorca talked about the beauty of the Saint or Oscar Wilde who used Sebastian as a pseudonym, if you search you can find many references. And till this day the artist keeps using his image as a symbol, becoming one of the more represented Figures of history.
So now you can understand why this is a perfect marriage with Will Graham 🙂↕️ 💖
English is not my first language so excuse me I have any errors, I try my best 🌞☝🏻
It IS true that being on here gives you a tumblr accent. This morning my mother asked me something and i replied “i don’t know i’ve never heard these words in that order” and she nearly choked laughing. It wasn’t even that funny
at my old job i had a coworker who was tired and made a coffee with like 6 or 8 shots of espresso and i just casually went up to them like “are you trying to meet god?” and not only was this absolutely hilarious to them but they brought it up in future conversations they thought it was so funny but to me this was just as casual as saying “woah that’s a lot of coffee”
Being funny on Tumblr and then going to be funny in real life is like traveling to a foreign country and baby the currency exchange rate is biased in your favor
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft’s most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I’ve been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
It’s very easy, even if you’re not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying “ARE YOU SURE?” Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you’ve done that, here’s the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it’s good to double check).
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and “Discover” AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there’s this uncanny valley garbage:
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No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple “smooths your skin” add on).
yesterday I got the “are you a boy or are you a girl” question from a six-year-old, and I told her that some people aren’t boys or girls (like me!) I was expecting her to be a little confused, but she nodded thoughtfully and said, “wow, just like snails.”
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