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On today's date, 21 February, the Resistance fighters of the RED POSTER (l'Affiche Rouge), were shot in 1944.

This poster is one of the most important, and most notorious propaganda posters of the entire World War II. In late 1943, the French police arrested 23 members of the Manouchian-Boczov group of immigrant communist resistance fighters. They were tortured, tried, and executed. To defuse public anger over the executions, the German propaganda officials published this poster, detailing the nationalities, etchnicities, and 'crimes' of 20 members of the group, including the leader, Manouchian, credited with 150 deaths, 56 assassination attempts and 600 wounded. The captions read, at the top, "Liberators?" and below, "Liberation! By the Army of Crime".

However the poster had the opposite effect: instead of being condemned as "terrorists", the public admired them as freedom fighters ; posters were frequently graffiti'd "DIED FOR LIBERTY & FRANCE", and flowers appeared beneath them. After the war, a poem, set to song and known as "L'Affiche Rouge", became very popular in France.

Kate Downie（Scottish）

Hill Farm   handpainted steel plate etching   via

The Wednesday Road   Ink & watercolour on Arches paper 101 x 151 cm  via

Lime and Thorn   Watercolour  56 x 77 cm  via

title unknown  via

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GifSet Cameron Monaghan in Shameless 5x10 (1).

Men are weak and stupid, even the good ones. I mean, especially the good ones. SHAMELESS 3.09 ― “Frank the Plumber”

Vivienne Westwood 70s Poem T-Shirts

“Right now he wanted not to be slapped, but to be thrown under the wheels of the DeSoto that was passing. [...] Panic seized him; he waited for the next claused to strike like an ice pick – because you'll never be seeing me again.”

— Thomas Mallon, from Fellow Travelers

By Troye Sivan (in his instagram stories on 18/09)

Captain Inej being all happy :))

Elliott Erwitt     No Way Out: New York City     1950

Rest in Peace Angus Cloud (1998-2023)

“You said knowledge is insurance. Against what? The chance that somebody might turn out to be what he appears to be? That somebody might not own somebody else? I’ll never own you, no matter how many times I hum “You Belong to Me” in the shower. But I belong to you – whether you like it or not. ”

— Thomas Mallon, from Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers Official Teaser

Peter Hujar Public Garden, Taormina, Sicily 1959

“What he would do tomorrow, once he woke up, seemed even harder to imagine. He wished, God forgive him, that he wouldn't wake up.”

— Thomas Mallon, from Fellow Travelers

“Remembering, as the catechism had long ago told him, that despair is a particular affront to God – the rejection of every good He might still have in store for one – he had wished he were rising on the columns of smoke, incinerated but released, upward and gone.”

— Thomas Mallon, from Fellow Travelers

Peter Hujar

Canal Street Piers: Window Paintings

1983

“I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to… expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about…[Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” –Keith Haring

Good for them

Dan attended Rowville Secondary College in his role as an ambassador for Save the Children Australia

Matthias Helvar Shadow and Bone | 2x07

INEJ GHAFA Shadow and Bone, ‘Like Calls to Like’

The Sun, Edvard Munch

1910-1913

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.

Sharp Objects (2018) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée