Your Local Valerie

i don't want to sound like a whore, but i'd really like to know how you feel and how your day was

August 29th, 1982. Photographed by Ron Galella.

Anna Trochim — Hot Summer  (oil on canvas, 2020)

uh oh 🐯

Capitalism didn’t give Americans cars and smartphones though. The people in most of those cars are probably still paying off their loans, and their phones are likely on contract. Capitalism just lends Americans money, so it can make more money when they pay it back. And they don’t complain because they get to enjoy the illusion of prosperity and drive a car they don’t really own, while paying other people for fuel and insurance.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. The only real part is the smoke.

capitalism didn't give me a phone. it forced me to buy one if I wanted to do literally anything. homework, school, jobs, interviews, family, friends, relationships, banking, taxes, insurance, medical stuff, etc. I need a phone to do any of those things. and it's pretty much the same deal with a car.

capitalism doesn't give you things. it doesn't create things. it makes certain expensive things necessary for survival in modern society. and if you can't afford those things, then you're just fucked.

like it’s hard to overstate how much sophie’s passing means. she was a literal musical genius and an icon for trans and queer people. imagine being just 34 and you’ve released one critically acclaimed album, sixteen singles, and produced for madonna, kanye west, charli xcx, lady gaga, and a host of other stars - and you’re still underground. that’s incredible. imagine “bending music production so far that things stop sound like synths and start sounding like physical materials”. she was a visionary and laid the foundation of hyperpop and pc music, and the pop/musical landscape of the decade would honestly not have sounded the same without her. she was the blueprint! she inspired so many lgbtq+ people to become comfortable with themselves and to come out and live unapologetically. it’s so upsetting and such a loss.

if cats are mean to you, consider the fact u might deserve it

imagine stickin ur dick in a freshly poured cup of mcdonalds sprite

me trying to retain consciousness as my dick sucks up the sprite like a small elephants trunk

you can post most anything on tumblr and expect results

biting the next cis man I see

YOURE RIGHT. i deserve it they don’t

a lava lamp is one of the most things of all time

doctors hate her! This woman is experiencing symptoms that might point to a health problem and wants doctors to do something about it

Trombone squid

Old God Clippy

okay, who tf put this monolith in my toilet?

When you’re in the middle of procrastinating and suddenly the Will to Work™ hits you

THIS IS SO FUNNY I CANNOT DEAL