[afrotwilight]

2026 <3

[afrotwilight]

return to self.

[docpile]

cdg shirt ad, spring 03

[angeluary]

🪷👼🏽🎀🪽 - katseye for their allure cover.

[achillesinhighheels]

[rosenbraut]

I’m sure others have said this but the absurd part of having perfume as a hobby is that you are interested in something material (scent), which in itself attempts to create or capture something ephemeral (memory, an impression, a certain moment in history the scent is tied to — or, in other words, the scent of history itself). The material object is also ephemeral in a sense, since it diminishes (very slowly) and decays (also slowly. Also not quite the right word, but you understand). In worst case scenarios, you start collecting and buying these bottles of scents, building this slowly decaying library of captured moments. Perfume itself is, in a way, a paradox, an attempt to capture something that can’t quite be captured (and which also slips away). But collecting it adds something to it.

(There is also, of course, the aspect of people who just hoard whatever perfume is trendy right now, or make ‘investments’. Different aspect)

[julytrees]

Photos taken of Marsha Hunt at her home in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, ca. 1998.

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it

[calebsane]

digital blackface

[achillesinhighheels]

[robynthebird04]

And yk what she was onto something

[kitties-of-flickr]

kitties hugging

2004

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[filmnoirsbian]

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

[likemonalisa]

Flo Milli, Paper Magazine, 2020

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[innerchildabortionclinic]

this is how all high protein dessert vids look to me

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

How about Other people start worrying about how I perceive them

[cmjournals-blog]

I crave one of this t-shirt rn cause it’s so fucking real guys 🎧