the girl who waited

Taylor | 30 | I’ve forgotten how html works

[creatingblackcharacters]

Gaze in glory upon how all of Audra's brown skin did not, in fact, turn white in the bright light! But in fact, began to glow!

[alexandrianlibrarian]

Fun fact! I used to work in lighting design and worked with Audra McDonald when she toured our venue.

Her rider was very explicit about what gels we were to use to ensure that nobody lit her in an unflattering manner. She and her crew were genuinely wonderful people to get to work with, and it was the first time that it ever occurred to me that you had to think about lighting Black people differently than white people, which then took me on a whole anti-racism/pro-equity journey I'm still on to this day.

The point that I eventually got to (about lighting specifically, but it kinda applies to everything) is that BIPOC people deserve to be celebrated for their beauty and lit in a manner that makes them glow.

Just wanted to add that y'all should listen to CBC, it'll only make your art more beautiful and complete.

[notfinancialadvice]

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

[birdsareblooming]

coat bath

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

tag yourselves i'm the GREAT ROOM beside the GOURMET KITCHEN

[pocket-deer-belly]

i remade it in the sims 4

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

You are not immune to getting caught up in the wave. You are not immune to your own internalized biases and bigotries. Yes, even if you nominally consider yourself a transfeminist, or antiracist.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

@habbadax your tags deserve to be on this post

[rylandsgrace]

[langernameohnebedeutung]

AI artists are now having 'prompt stealing' discourse lmaoo

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

they put RFK jr in charge of the agency that most directly affects everything i've been doing in my real life career for a decade so if I start posting like i've clamped car batteries to my nipples it's because i have done exactly that

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

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[monsterfactoryfanfic]

I knew eventually I'd have to make this post but the events of this week have pretty much been the last straw. The CDC is no longer publishing scientifically accurate information about vaccines.

Please do not get health information from the CDC for the foreseeable future. If you are an American, depending on your state, the state health department may have more accurate information. States in the Governor's Public Health Alliance are relatively trustworthy.

I've personally been using Dr. Kaetlyn Jetelina's newsletter as a less-grim way to keep up with US public health news. It's on substack unfortunately, but the information is solid.

Yale School of Public Health's POPHIVE is also a good way to track population health trends in the US.

I know this is not at the top of the administration's crimes. But it is one of them, and it is going to hurt a lot of people. Not much I can say but that I'm heartbroken.

[iheartblondetwinks]

the creature + his leaf Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[rogers-carter]

Lady Elizabeth Harlander + her green gown FRANKENSTEIN (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[darkkittyart]

“I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it…”

🪐🌒🫀

[segamascott]

[meatdiaz]

this is going straight into the greatest hits of my inbox

[lakevida]

cancel your plans we’re thinking about the pale blue dot voyager pic tonight

[danlisreal]

this image of earth from saturn rattles around in my skull at all hours of the day

[yourockthebeatofmyheart]

I need y'all to watch this clip

[yourockthebeatofmyheart]

[riverlarking]

what is this 21st century need for media to be relatable. honestly is it some new kind of mental illness, because i’ve never once stopped reading a book and thought “umm what about me i feel excluded 🥺👉👈” deeply narcissistic way to engage with art

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[a-bungle]

[teawithtrop]