#THE PINKIE RING??

[darlingjmiller]

OH GOD OH FUCK

#GET ABSOLUTELY FUCKED #IM BARKING #BARK BARK WOOFWOOFWOOF #I NEED TO BITE HIS THIGH #HANDS!!! #THE PINKIE RING?? #THE BOOTS!! #STEP ON ME PLEASE #pedro pascal #met gala 2023 #slaydro pascal #I am drooling #Elle posts

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

#tomgreg #succession #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #shiv roy #roman roy #kendall roy #yeah no im not tagging everyone thats too much #this is me going 'how much implications themes and symbolism can i fit in one painting' #yes i gave rose shivs haircolor. if we ever find out how she looks like and its not like this im just gonna pass away i guess #but yeah i hope yall connect the dots #i put waaay too much thought and work into this. i was googling pictures of all the actors as kids just for reference (sigh) #honestly kinda wanted to make tom and greg link pinkies as like. a pinkie promise. but that was too hard to draw in this angle #at least not without obstructing the view of the ring which is important to see so ya #my fave is actually the tomshiv wedding pic i went off with that. i love them... they should have run away to become sheep farmers fr fr #anyway im so glad im done with this UGH!! finally i can draw smth else without being like oh noooo i need to finish this #i see a lot of you wondering why there is no portrait of logan but one of ewan #it's bc the placement of the painting represent their standing. logans portray would not hang next to the stairs #his present portrait hangs at the end of it. all the way up at the top. alone and withering away #basically the picture you see underneath ewan to the right? its where toms parents would be. the right side of the wall is tom and gregs #and the left one is the roy siblings theirs. since they grew up rich rich. and tom and greg didn't #but ya thats why ewan hangs here and logan does not :)

[mctwinkdom]

Please look at Lando's fingers as he looks at Oscar dead in the eyes.

#lando norris #oscar piastri #mctwinks #landoscar #insane behavior #insert “dirty mind dirty mind d-d-dirty mind* song #pinky ring

[bethanydelleman]

I had tears pouring down my cheeks while I was driving home this morning because I listened to a podcast about the Radium Girls and how hard they fought to hold their employer to account for poisoning them, even though they knew they would die regardless, because they wanted to protect the workers who came after them. Even though their community called them liars and they were in horrible pain, they fought. And then the host started talking about how the Manhattan Project used knowledge gained from the Radium Girls to protect their workers and how the ghosts of those girls and women protected people going forward...

And it made me think of all the ghosts, unnamed and unknown, who in their death protect us: the ghosts of the Titanic, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the Quebec Bridge, and so many others. Disasters that made us change laws and protect people, not just because they were horrific but because survivors and survivors families demanded that we change; kept screaming and fighting and pushing until someone listened and something was fixed.

What a debt we owe.

#the ghosts that protect us #the radium girls #cautionary tales #not jane austen #i don't know how to tag this #the Quebec Bridge was a Canadian diaster and because of it our engineers wear iron rings on their pinky #to remind them of what messing up can cost

[crezz-star]

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#crezztellations #one piece #roronoa zoro #zoro #his tiddies is warm and ready to be held / hug on to for his captain #his third earring is with Luffy as always #his pinky ring is on his other hand aoskdm asikdj #cant be seen but yeeah #this outfit of his lives rent free in my brain #yes #hi #hello #big daddy zo so delicious #i love him #hasubando

[keanuiver]

SEBASTIAN STAN - SHARPER WORLD PREMIERE 

#sebastian stan #sebstanedit #sebastiansource #fysebastianstan #the pinky ring hello?????? #gifs

[codgod]

fellas is it gay to willingly take half of your co-captains damage using an enchanted ring. is it gay to protect another man from harm . fellas

#.png #jrwi #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #jrwi chip #jrwi fish and chips #jrwi fnc #i feel like the prosthetic pinkie doesn’t look steampunk enough but like how do u make #a singular finger look steampunk anyway #anyways i like drawings hands it’s fun :] especially close up like this because i get to actually make them look different #add little details #ik the rings are supposed to be platinum but they kinda just look like steel or silver rip

[keery]

Joe Keery | Glamour, 2017

#joe keery #joekeeryedit #stcastedit #userspree #userallisyn #usersugar #usernaysa #pinky ring!!!!!! #*

[miamiero]

morning shave 🗡 | 🪒

commissions for @Cora__Regina on twitter

#kazumaji #there’s a lot of reversed stuff here #majima wearing their engagement ring bc they’re married vs #ryoma tied the eyepatch like a ring on his pinky because it’s where your power lies in when wielding a sword #majima’s pink gradient robe vs okita’s red gradient haori #they took turn in taking care of each other’s needs shh but also majima is being a lil shit in both #particularly okita saying cmere closer when ryoma is literally holding a sword and was BEING VERY serious on trying not to ruin his face #also just …various hairdos #they didn’t just grew old togetherー they moved on to the next life..together #retirement au #ryu ga gotoku #majima goro #kiryu kazuma #ryu ga gotoku ishin

[cobragardens]

Aziraphale's Ring Is a Queer Symbol

In a previous post I hold forth about the symbolism of the lion rampant on the escutcheon of Aziraphale's signet ring. The upshot is that the golden lion is used by Heaven as a symbol of its threat and its merciless, murderous corporate culture, and I argue that in S3 Aziraphale must subvert this stamp of Heavenly ownership and symbolically redefine the golden lion by summoning the courage to be soft.

Now I've learned some new stuff about how signet rings are worn. Come, sistren, and get nerdy with me.

Aziraphale's ring is one of several we see angels wearing in Good Omens. Here in an indispensably useful post, @indigovigilance lists the known rings of Show Omens angels and those rings' qualities and placement. Note how of the angels who have rings, everyone except Saraqael and Aziraphale wear their rings on their LEFT pinky fingers. There's a reason for this.

Since the medieval period in Britain and Germany, and from there in the U.S., signet rings have been bestowed by professional associations as a sign of membership, particularly at the upper end of society: trade guilds, colleges, hospitals, the Church(es), noble families, and societies like the Freemasons all issue(d) signet rings to some of their members. The traditional placement for signet rings of show professional affiliation is the left pinky finger.

In fact, as it was not socially acceptable in or past the Victorian era for men to wear rings on more than one finger, men who wore signet rings and wedding rings both would have their wedding rings sized to fit the pinky finger below the signet. If a ring had to be moved to preserve masculinity, it wasn't the pinky ring that was going anywhere. Family signets can be worn on any of a number of fingers, but since the Victorian period the men of the British Royal Family (who are from Germany) have been especial sticklers about wearing their signets on their left pinky fingers as well.

So. If you're British and you have a signet ring that's meant to indicate professional affiliation, you wear it on your left pinky.

But Aziraphale wears his signet ring on his RIGHT hand.

Before I offer my opinion on what that means, here's some more fun background on the history and significance of pinky rings in Anglo-American culture:

The Victorian period was when pinky rings started to become associated with queerness.

As fellow members of the Hundred Guineas Club, Oscar Wilde and Aziraphale would likely have been acquaintances.

According to Wikipedia (ibid.):

"During the Victorian era, both single men and women uninterested in pursuing marriage could wear a ring on the little finger of their left hand."

This quickly expanded to a pinky ring on either hand. Here's Wikipedia's picture of farmer and philanthropist Caroline Rose Foster in 1917, the Edwardian era, wearing a pinky ring on her right hand:

Do you smell a euphemism in "uninterested in pursuing marriage"? I do!

By midcentury--so only 30 years after Ms Foster up there--American and British queers, both men and women, were using signet pinky rings specifically to signal queerness to each other.

"For gay men in the 1950’s and 60’s, a way of signaling to others was through the wearing of a signet ring on the pinkie finger."

"During the 1950’s and 60’s signet rings were worn to signify membership of the gay community; both lesbians and homosexual men wore such rings."

The pinky rings @indigovigilance points out Maggie wears may mean she's an angel; they also match her midcentury lesbian style. Devious of the costumers to give her pinky rings on both hands rather than commit to one or the other.

Screenshot by @indigovigilance

To review, there are three reasons a person in Anglo-American culture might wear a pinky ring:

They just feel like it--This can be any kind of ring and can be worn on either hand or both

Professional affiliation--This is a signet ring worn on the left pinky finger

To signal queerness--This is a signet ring and can be worn on either pinky finger

Aziraphale has worn a signet ring on his RIGHT pinky finger at least since he repaired the Eastern "Gate" in the Wall of Eden, so I'm not suggesting that he adopted the 20th-century pinky signet trend to signal his queerness (although as a clockably 'gay' 'man,' Soho fixture, and member of the Hundred Guineas Club, he may well have started it). What I am suggesting is that Aziraphale has been given a ring by Heaven that Heaven intends him to use to show his professional affiliation, but as with the flaming sword he gives away, Aziraphale doesn't use the ring for its intended purpose. By wearing the ring on his right hand, Aziraphale removes the option of interpreting it as a symbol of his professional affiliation with Heaven and renders it strictly a personal ornament. He subverts a symbol of Heavenly menace into an object of beauty and queerness.

I mean queerness in both senses. If a human takes any symbolic notice of his ring, they'll note the signet is on his right hand and conclude Aziraphale is gay. If another angel takes any notice of it, they'll conclude Aziraphale is a bit odd--that he doesn't pay attention to the finer points of how to fit in with the archangels, doesn't do things like other angels do.

In conclusion, pinky signet rings as a queer signal are just the fucking coolest and I vote we bring them back immediately.

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #aziraphale #aziraphale's ring #good omens lgbtq #pinky rings lgbtq #pinky rings as queer flagging #good omens angel rings #saraqael #michael #uriel #sandalphon

[mctwinkdom]

Made it into a gif for reasons

#lando norris #ln4 #f1 #sorry #jen's gifs #???? i won't use that tag a lot #lando being inappropriate on camera idk or me sexualizing men as self-care you choose #pinky ring

[nina-scribbles]

I like to think that being a Black wasn’t all bad.

I like to think that they loved each-other, once.

#harry potter fanart #the black sisters #bellatrix black #Andromeda Black #narcissa black #Nina-Scribbles #young narcissa #young Bellatrix #young andromeda #this one is CHALK FULL OF SYMBOLISM lol #bellatrix lestrange #andromeda tonks #narcissa malfoy #Mostly cause i wanted this to be sweet but i also wanted them all to be wearing something to symbolize how they grow apart #For Narcissa it's obviously her engagement ring. #But Andromeda's is just a simple locket (to show her love isnt pricey or flashy) #and Bella ofc gets the most dramatic stuff including pearls (tradition) #The pinky meaning leadership and self confidence #and the middle meaning individuality #And ofc they're all surrounded by a green room (which aside from slytherin - green dye was made from arsenic back in the day. I.e poison.) #the Black family #Harry Potter art #Malfoy

[solarspiriit]

Toxic doomed old women yuri save me…toxic doomed old women yuri…save me toxic doomed old women yuri

#vat7k #varian and the seven kingdoms #vat7k donella #vat7k ulla #melting point #tangled #tangled the series #tts #haha the promise rings…that neither of them take off… #they make me mentally ill #ALSO. Ulla’s hair. #you guys know pinkie pie #so basically while she’s chilling her hair is all curly and stuff #but when she goes insane? yeah it straightens out #solart ☀️

[f1-birb]

Infour How cool is this HUGE version of Lando's helmet nathansawaya has made for the the artofthebrickexpo? 😮‍💨

#lando down under 24 #lando norris #best side profile on the grid fr #but but but #this is so fucking sick???? #LOOK AT IT #it's lego AND it glows in the dark #also not commenting on the pinky ring

[moncheriies]

all i’m looking at are his hands 😮‍💨

#f1 #formula 1 #lando norris #ln4 #formula one #quadrant #god i want him so bad #the pinky ring

[sneeb-canons]

Headcanon #475: Soul once accidentally had an unopened can of monster fall on his foot. Mind & Heart still make fun of him for having his foot broken by an energy drink of all things.

#do not ask where this idea came from #my foot is fine #chonny jash #cj soul #chonnys charming chaos compendium #okay but its not actually broken #probably #this is canon to me because of how dumb but fitting it is #it was the white can/flavor if you're curious #for the comedy & headcanon. it only like broke his toe probably not the whole foot #it fell top first so there's a cartoonish circle mark on his ring & pinkie toe now #not that I would know