alexandra

friendly femme

[gardenoflovenotes]

♡ she/her, 21yo literature student, new englander, and lover of tea in all forms

♡ fandom side blog: @covenlesswitches

♡ fuck terfs, free palestine, fuck ice

[banhmigoddess]

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you

[zendadya]

ZENDAYA "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" premiere in London (July 29, 2026)

[stonelionhearts]

how many times in the long histories has a person sat with a dog asleep next to them, dreaming (toe-twitch, tail-wag), and wondered softly, what are you dreaming about, little beast? what does a little beast dream?

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[aidashakur]

It's very important to remind people that there was life before them and there will always be life after them.

[xoxsaramari]

[whenwebothfell]

i love her. i’m so glad she said something.

[whenwebothfell]

[kosmogrl]

we got august this week

[calamity-bean]

In a world of instant gratification, requesting materials from the library is a pleasantly slow experience to me.

I want to read this book, I want to watch this movie. I don't need to right now, though. Just sometime. There are 0 copies available and 4 people ahead of me in line. I place a hold anyway. Weeks, maybe months later, I've all but forgotten I placed any request in the first place when suddenly, surprise! Your book is ready! You get to read a book! What a beautiful surprise! Or maybe I didn't forget I had a hold placed, maybe I've been looking forward to this book for weeks, eagerly checking the status in my library portal like a kid waiting to open Christmas presents, and now, finally, it's ready!! It's time!!!

Often I place several holds at once, and sometimes they trickle in steadily, and sometimes they fall on me all at once like a waterfall. I don't want to be selfish by keeping things for too long, so I actually sit down and read these books, too, rather than letting them collect dust unread on the shelf. And I hear about more books or movies that sound interesting, and so I place more holds, and when I come in to the library to pick up the new materials or return old ones, I may as well browse while I'm there, y'know? And so the rhythm of checkout-return continues, this peaceful ebb and flow continually bringing me new stories to enjoy.

I love you, library. Your emails telling me my holds are ready for pickup are perhaps the only emails that do indeed find me well.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed at her apartment by Philippe Halsman, 1952.

[that-one-idiot-11]

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

[probuccalfat]

men used to deal with loneliness by writing shit like catcher in the rye or the death of ivan ilyich but now they go right to manosphere podcasts and peptides

[logofflolita]

♡ pretty little detail ♡

[longseasons]

when your coffee tastes good today and you start thinking god has forgiven you

[7pleiades7]

Lesbiennes (Lesbians) (1907) by Louis Marie de Schryver (French, 1862 – 1942), signed 'L(...) SCHRYVER' (bottom), signed a second time and dated 'Louis de Schryver. 1907.' (bottom right), pastel-on-paper on an oval, 36 x 31 cm, Private Collection

[paperclip6]

Dont ask me whats up i have done nothing since we last talked 3 years ago