Me? Sure, I’m decent.

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Chen Chen

fluffy curls, pink nails, perfumed skin, long lashes, plump lips

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟼 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,

come hither, the dances are done,

in gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,

Queen lily and rose in one;

shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,

to the flowers, and be their sun.

— Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from “Gangrenous Love”

i genuinely have no words right now

there is no fucking way you can have a soul and bomb a hospital and kill 500+ people

if you even try to justify this senseless killing in any way, to imply that any of those people deserved it, i hope you experience the dread and hopelessness felt by the gazans tenfold. its the least you deserve.

worth a read.

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Pan’s Flute — Rosarium Part I

LORETTA YOUNG as EMPRESS EUGENIE "I think she lived in a kind of fairy tale, fascinated by her extraordinary destiny." - Augustin Filon on Eugenie

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1914-1922)

Alexander Pushkin, from The Bronze Horseman; Selected Poems; “A Fragment of Autumn,”

My parents were inexorable, they were forever. They chose each other over and over, sometimes in spite of, sometimes because of. It wasn't always a fairy tale, but I wanted to remember the best, dreamiest, most sublime part, and that part just happens to be true. - MELISSA NEWMAN

we are so obsessed with beauty that we forget that love has nothing to do with beauty. love doesn’t presuppose beauty: love creates it. beauty is a finite thing, love is not. beauty cannot come before love, but love makes anything beautiful. 

im sorry but none of us get to look away from currently ongoing genocide if we are to claim we give a shit about the sanctity of human life. the only people that will benefit from that ignorance are the perpetrators of the genocide that is, again, currently happening. no its not a complex topic. yes it is a heavy one. but knowing even the basics about this situation will go a long way in not helping spread propaganda and inevitable genocide denial bullshit rhetoric the groundworks already been laid for. theres a lot that we owe to those two million palestinian civillians trapped in the gaza strip, their deaths practically signed off by every government that declared solidarity with israel's ceaselessly ongoing ethnic cleansing efforts. and simply knowing general facts on what is going on is the bare minimum all of us should readily give them.