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Joanna Newsom, 2006. Darkroom print by Jim Newberry

#joanna newsom #people

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finished Jane Eyre! very good! one of the morals is that you should never marry a Catholic man because he wants to fuck Jesus more than he wants to fuck you. good moral.

#st. john definitely not catholic but yeah #jane eyre

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

#natalie díaz #poetry #words

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“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

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bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

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Day 4: Lobotomy

#art

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see I can’t be on dating apps bc I’m like I’m only interested in the whimsical but soul-shattering but easy but ring-fingered sort of love btw we also have to have known each other for years and also going to the grocery store has to be as exciting of an experience as a fancy date and also I’m irrationally jealous and we have to have the exact same sense of humor oh and also I’ve read and written myself into a thousand unreachable corners and  

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i <3 murder & cannibalism & toxicity & depravity

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bless whoever is watching this scene for the first time and getting their trajectory of life changed

#the handmaiden #film

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im not interested in glory through combat anymore. i do not want to be a part of this shit.

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“too much love” - photo sequence by katja kemnitz

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Vasiliki Halastaras

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Another favorite wedding look of mine is Victoria Lockwood to Charles Spencer in 1989. Loose hair! A medieval silhouette! No makeup! And the intrigue of a super thick veil.

The dress is by Tomasz Starzewski, made from antique French lace and trimmed with Russian sable. I love a nonwhite dress, buttons, and fur trim, so it’s no surprise I love this. I think the champagne color suits her better than white would’ve, and the burgundy in her bouquet compliments it well.

“I designed my wedding dress. I scribbled down the basic design and gave it to T. Starzewski, who was pretty unknown at the time. I met Tomasz when I was modelling for him and asked him, as a friend, to do my dress. I knew I wanted something very romantic with a period feel.” - Victoria in 1998

It’s been lambasted and reviled for years, sadly. Both the dress and Victoria’s appearance ruffled feathers at the time. It’s unusual as far as weddings of the time go. But that’s what I love. It’s different, it’s inspired.

For both her dress and the bridesmaids and pageboys, Victoria took inspiration from actual portraits hanging in Althorp House, the ancestral home of the Spencer family. Above are two portraits of Countess Lavinia Spencer by Joshua Reynolds.

Even her antique ruby and diamond engagement ring was inspired, a clear reference to a ring given to Queen Victoria by her sister on her wedding day in 1840.

#fashion

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Patti Smith

#people #patti smith

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I know we’ve all seen “everyone is beautiful and no one is horny” but I would like to propose the corollary “everything is pornographic and nothing is erotic”

#words #audre lorde #essay

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I know we’ve all seen “everyone is beautiful and no one is horny” but I would like to propose the corollary “everything is pornographic and nothing is erotic”

#words #audre lorde #essay

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Mary O'Hara

#people #mary o'hara