Bronzina.

This is what I think you should know about me-- This is what I look like-- These are my Study Abroad adventures-- 818 | +44 LA & London. Born and raised in the Valley, so yes all my sentences end in questions. I like the ladies and I love my partner. Vegetarian, cheese lover, feminist, arts fanatic. I'm a Xanadu enthusiast with a Rosebud Salve fixation. I don't know much about wine and I love napping. I take too long to get ready. I love the feeling of sand between my toes and I sleep on beaches as much as possible. I'm obsessed with politics which automatically makes me a better liar than you. I prefer Pilates over yoga. I'm an Apple fangirl through and through. I have two tattoos but I think about getting more often. I love to love and I love tea. I'm obsessed with art history and museums are my safe place. I moonlight as an academic but my true passion is glitter.

[achrayes]

When a Skype call that was only meant to last 5 minutes turns into 2 hours because friendship is beautiful like that and when someone knows you, they know that "just 5 minutes" at 4.00AM means "I need to talk for 2 hours."

I love that.

[seabois]

I’d try to explain that it’s not really negativity or sadness anymore, it’s more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can’t feel anything about anything — even the things you love, even fun things — and you’re horribly bored and lonely.

[ifoughtthewallandthewallwon-blog]

Even though he tried to sleep with my ex girlfriend…gotta love this guy…

[achrayes]

^ Such is my "Diplo story" for anyone that knows me <3 sorry, B.

[notyourordinaryghost]

Pi(1998)

[achrayes]

The closest people that have the most intimate knowledge of who I am know exactly why I adore, fucking adore, this film.

[kngshxt-deactivated20180831]

every black family got a plastic bag full of plastic bags

[achrayes]

Ditto for brown families. 

[achrayes]

Got my visa, moving to London on the 23rd...!

:)

I

can

not.

[achrayes]

Sometimes I think the worst thing I've ever put myself through is being in a long distance relationship (and that's counting having to be awake when a chest tube was inserted between two of my ribs.)

There's just a certain pain that goes along with being in a relationship that doesn't feel tangible that just rips you apart. Night time is the worst for me; there's a genuine heartache attached to having to say "good night" over text and not being able to whisper it, to feel the comfort those words elicit in another person. 

I only talk to her for 15 minutes every single day when we Skype in her morning and I try to go to sleep immediately after so her voice is the last I hear and pretend she's next to me.

[achrayes]

I try really hard not to judge people for their actions and try even harder when their situations or choices are not ones I have been faced with or had to make. I would hope most people felt this way, but I can see that's not the case...

...and I'm only thinking about this because of all the PLL commentary since Tuesday re: Ezra being a pedophile. Like...I get it and I understand where that comes from. But, again, unless you've been in an Ezria situation I can't stand to read the commentary that's been popping up!! It is not as black and white as everyone makes it out to be. 

I cannot believe I'm taking PLL commentary on Tumblr this seriously, BECAUSE IT.IS.A.TELEVISION.SHOW but I literally cannot handle it.

[achrayes]

Give it to the universe, and it will give back.

New life motto. 

[achrayes]

Reblogging because this motto is still applicable. Especially now. Especially now, it has to be.

[achrayes]

I constantly reblog this post. This is my third time. It is still every bit relevant and I (apparently) still haven't learned to just let things be and become as they will.

[madeinchelsea]

[achrayes]

22

Happy Birthday!

I've never felt so loved in my life. Thank you to everyone that was apart of this SECRET PROJECT, and special, special thanks to my love for making this. Happy 22 to me <3

[cliffpantones]

[achrayes]

WHEN IS SEASON 2 COMING. WHEN.

[explore-blog]

A museum is an institution dedicated to creating connections … a meeting point between two arrows of time, the past and the future, and two arrows of complexity, greater and lesser, that originate at the point we call us, and now. In other words, museums are the fourth dimension.

Joe Hanson offers a beautiful definition of what a museum is. Pair with Stephen Jay Gould, the greatest science writer of all time, on why the sparking of connections is the key to creativity.

Meanwhile, to the brilliant Neil deGrasse Tyson, a museum is a soundbite:

A soundbite is useful because it triggers interest in someone, who then goes and puts in the effort to learn more.  And that’s all a museum can really be.

(via explore-blog)

Cosigned by a museum professional working in her field.

[teenboypopstar]

how do you feel about queer-identified people who only have heterosexual relationships?

i mean there are important things like internalized homophobia and passing privilege and all kinds of fun stuff that make this a really fucking complicated subject and something that we can’t just sum up in a neat little answer

the one thing i can say is that i do sometimes feel uncomfortable with people like this if they don’t check their privilege re: passing as heterosexual, specifically cis heterosexual*.  i have known people like that and…it usually makes me pretty uncomfortable being around them. i know that person is inherently not going to understand struggles i go through and shit i have to deal with, and that makes me not want to open up or talk about certain things, which is also just me having massive trust issues and needing to know that spaces are 1000000% safe and 10000000% places where i will be 10000000% understood. i need really specific circumstances to be trusting and open. i am much less likely to be open about shit that i deal with as a visibly queer person who is never ever going to pass as a cis hetero person, not on my own and not in the relationships i have, with someone who has not that experience. because of who i’m attracted to, my relationships are always going to be visibly queer, there are spaces i will never be comfortable or safe in for that reason. and seeing someone talk a lot about how queer they are but knowing they’ve never experienced specific types of oppression and seem pretty unwilling to check that privilege or acknowledge the differences between themselves and other members of the community is…well, it’s hard. so, my final thoughts on all this are that i think it’s complicated but if you’re passing as cis heterosexual while identifying as queer, please just remember to be respectful of experiences you haven’t had…

…just like i’ll never understand what it means to be invisible to the queer community. i would never assume to know what it means to be invisible to your community or have the validity of your identity questioned based on your partner history. i would never enter a safe space designated for people who have had those experiences.  i have the privilege of always being recognizably a part of my own community, and (almost) always finding a safe space there if i need it. if you’re not recognizably queer (or present in a way that is “acceptable” to the bullshit queer heirarchy) then you’re not going to have that experience. and that’s a privilege i absolutely positively have. i have the privilege of having never had a partner who was cis male and thus being considered a “gold star” which is some sort of fucked up trophy in the queer community. i have a lot of privileges within my own community that people who have a different partner history than me don’t have, even if we share the same identity.

i have no idea why you guys ask me these questions because i am not The Queer Authority. no one is The Queer Authority! we are all our own authorities, woo!

bottom line: intersectionality! yeah!

* (note: if you are trans* and pass as heterosexual with your partner, i am definitely not referring to you in the “check your privilege” thing. if you’re being read as heterosexual, that’s definitely an erasure of your identity and an act of misgendering and that is not a privilege and you do not need to check any privilege and people who say otherwise are fucking assholes they are 100% ASSHOLES)

[achrayes]

Yes to this whole answer I don't even know where to start.

[nevver]

Paris, London, New York

[achrayes]

I need these in my future abode with Rucifer.

[indefenseofart]

A melancholy yet poignant photoseries capturing a long distance relationship between two photographers—Silva in Venice and Freddy in Bergamo.

[achrayes]

Ruth.

[alxkhrtn-deactivated20160117]

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin (via eunikang)

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP x forever