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‘Moonlight’, Barry Jenkins (2016) — Running around, catching a lot of light. In moonlight, black boys look blue. You’re blue. That’s what I’m gonna call you: ‘Blue’. — Is your name ‘Blue’? — Nah. At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you’re going to be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.
“You fool – you are afraid of being alone with you own mind. You just better learn to know yourself, to make sure decisions before it is too late. Your room is not your prison. You are.”
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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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Truly iconic.
inspired by a dream I had
I hope love finds you in 2018
I hope health finds u in 2018
I hope wealth finds you in 2018
I hope happiness finds you in 2018
I hope success finds you in 2018
I hope self-love finds you in 2018
I hope wisdom find you in 2018
i hope nut finds you in 2018
please remember that in a healthy, adult relationship (romantic or not), you should be able to talk about things that are bothering you. if you are bottling up your emotions and holding it against someone when you haven’t told them what is wrong, you’re not engaging in healthy behaviour. but also, if your friend/significant other makes you feel as though you can’t talk about what bothers you- i.e. has made you feel guilty/gotten extraordinarily angry when things were brought up in the past- they are not engaging in healthy behaviour.
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
Lupita Nyong’o photographed by An Le for Grazia UK November 2017
Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976)
First & Last Shots Wind River (2017) Dir. Taylor Sheridan
men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly.
narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.
Narcissus wrote this
I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.
i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me
Female Psycopaths in Film
“Isn’t it time to acknowledge the ugly side? I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.” - Gillian Flynn




