When life gives you oranges 🍊 ✨

She/her 🏳️‍🌈, UK 🇬🇧 Queer history, film, TV & literature geek Millennial girl kisser ❤️🧡🤍🩷 Women’s football ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

[reemillustrated]

[fadeintoyou1993]

"not to be a lesbian but-" Wrong. Intending to be a lesbian. With lesbian intention. In lesbian ways

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— octobersfilm on substack (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[22-ellie-87]

Happy lucy in nz 😄

[friendofbetty]

Now, admittedly I have not picked these poetry books up for a while but one fell off my shelf and basically on my head today so I skimmed through it looking at my previous notes. I’m not sure I ever made it all the way to the final page. But this is the second to last poem in the lavender haze by june bates

Man, it’s been a while… (I knew it I knew you?)

[bergerandcarter]

UEFA might boycott the Women's World Cup (2027) if FIFA goes ahead with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors.

from germanfootball_dfb (the official account of the German football association) on insta. July 30, 2026

[femini-nomenon]

I don’t think I’ll be mentally recovering from this summer transfer window any time soon… 🙃

[leah3477sblog]

[friendofbetty]

😢🏳️‍🌈

[22-ellie-87]

😮‍💨😮‍💨

The photographer knew what they were doing 😂

[stillgotscars]

the concept of thinking aaron dessner would sit down and help gracie write not one, but two diss tracks about taylor is not only completely ridiculous, it’s also laughable. some of you need to spend less time perusing snark subreddits and more time sharpening your comprehension skills.

[friendofbetty]

Now that can’t be true that people actually think that. Surely not 🙄

Am I just being obtuse in thinking it’s really obvious what this song is about in the context of the whole album? Walls built out of teenage dreams, light of a million suns that burns through people and a breath of your air that is a death wish. A bright glittery place that is actually a prison and whoever dares to breathe the air must have a death wish - that’s the music industry for me but sure, pitch women against each other…

[friendofbetty]

One of my favourite lines from Daughter from Hell because it’s another one of those ‘change one tiny word and it changes the entire meaning’ phrases. Like how falling to one knee means proposing but falling to your knees (plural) means begging.

Losing someone IN the crowd means losing sight of them in a busy environment, and I bet a ton of people take it to mean that. But losing someone TO something describes the cause of their death. Like ‘we lost grandma to cancer’. So Gracie saying you’ll lose me TO the crowd means the crowd will be her cause of death. Which I guess shouldn’t be surprising given that the first song we ever got from this album made reference to a psych hospital (a room full of doctors and an ink blot) after attempted violence. Now in the light of the closing song being Cold Goodbyes and looking back on ‘a note addressed to no one left for somebody to find’ and imagining what people might say after she’s gone, I certainly picture a certain scene that I’m not going to spell out but please tell me if you have a different interpretation. Made me think of Chely Wright again and her Borders bookstore interview.

I would have just been one of those you read about and wonder ‘what happened to her? Why did that girl kill herself, she seemed so happy.’ I would have been just another celebrity sui**de and you would never have known why I did it. Pay attention.

[2truthsand1lie]

https://www.tumblr.com/2truthsand1lie/822940771428777984/i-feel-like-no-one-wants-to-cheat-they-just-do

Wait, what is the obvious reason you’re Irene and Vix and Purple are the others?

because alexia/jenni and vix/purple are all out here living hot girl summers 😅

meanwhile irene and i are living tired mama summers 🫩

[friendofbetty]

Raise your hand if you’re having a tired mama summer 🙋🏻‍♀️

[sugar-petals]

anyway time for real sports in a real football country. the women's brazil world cup 2027 just dropped the sickest trailer of all time

[lucybronzeefan]

Campeones del mundo, Vamos España!!! 😊🇪🇸

First Nation to win both men’s and women’s World Cup 💪

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[friendofbetty]

Not that I need another reason to be obsessed with her but the vans are doing something to me 🫣

[fox-thread]

never getting over bronzey dragging the lionesses to victory while wearing the rainbow captain’s armband round her wrist because her biceps were too big for it. the queer icon we deserve. absolute legend behaviour. happy one-year anniversary of this moment to all who celebrate.