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[emmaharwoods]

LUPITA NYONG'O for Elle Magazine — May 2026

[fossilporn]

An opalized jaw of a Cretaceous aged freshwater from Lightning Ridge, Australia.  Lightning Ridge is the main source of the world’s black opals and is also home to some of the world’s only opalised fossils.  From the article, Jenni Brammall on opals, fossils and living in Lightning Ridge

[xanaxfarts]

El Ojo ‘The Eye’ Island Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

First discovered by Argentinian filmmaker Sergio Neuspiller in 2003, El Ojo is an uninhabited circular rotating floating island located within a slightly larger circular lake in the Paraná Delta in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This island is constantly rotating on its own axis due to the flow of the river beneath it. The island was named because of its resemblance to an eye when viewed from above: as the island rotates within its surrounding circular lake, the eye appears to move.

[lacetulle]

Joli Poli | Barcelona Fashion Week

[cair--paravel]

Fairy costume for a 1954 production of Oberon at the Opéra National de Paris, designed by Jean-Denis Malclès (via).

[processedlives]

“I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: “I am only a bourgeois white male, I can’t speak.” … I say to them: “Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?” Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak… From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- “I will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident” - that is the much more pernicious position.”

— Gayatri Spivak (via fearandwar)

[journalofsolitude]

Poetry Is Not A Luxury, Audre Lorde

[zendadya]

ZENDAYA & ROBERT PATTINSON photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen for Interview Magazine (2026)

[lorelai-danes]

ZENDAYA photographed for Vogue Brasil (May 2026)

[newyorkkiss]

SOPHIE for Garage Magazine photographed by Torbjørn Rødland

[chloesevignygf]

mitski photographed by charlotte patmore for crack magazine

[cilceon]

Only thing from the Met Gala that matters btw

[sigynsilica]

I needed some pictures that showcase the full look she's got on and show off her amazing hairstyle here you go ✨✨✨

Incredibly classy and iconic :)

[experienceandobservation]

Anne Hathaway | Vanity Fair | March 24, 2024 | 📷 Norman Jean Roy

[lordwilde]

Elle Fanning for Who What Wear, January 2026.

[iamwizzzzz]

[rxdxct3d-deactivated20260301]

I couldn't find an official translation so forgive me but it says

"Sometimes we have to look at things that aren't cute and make us uncomfortable."

"Because I don't really understand it."

"Because it has nothing to do with me."

"Because it just feels unpleasant."

"If we keep turning a blind eye like that until we can't see anything anymore, then eventually even the cute things will disappear."

[shesgotsourcery]

A closer zoom on the plaque provided by X user suzuki_predat, who seems to be the source of the previous images as well.

Mao Watanabe

A cute mascot that doesn't make you uncomfortable

2026

Styrofoam, resin, clay, cloth

[ymutate]

Stained-glass window and tiled wall section from the Torre Bellesguard, also known as Casa Figueres, designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. The building was constructed between 1900 and 1909 and blends Modernism with Gothic architectural styles.

[gliklofhameln]

Silver binding for an Esther scroll. Italy, 18th century.