[rianphin]

still not xs in 04 mcqueen / still gonna wear this

[zegalba]

Moschino: 'Words' Maxi Dress (1999) Designed By: Jeremy Scott

[ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

i need these so bad but they're sold out everywhere nooooo

[9e978e]

via

[sevenincheels]

[hxrdt]

[evilrashida]

Versus/Istante by Gianni Versace Fall/Winter 1995

[ceevee5]

[officialbabymetal]

why are white people so weirdly dramatic when they compliment poc. what is it that ur trying to compensate for. please

[blackmalibubarbie]

Amerie 1 Thing (Remix) ft. Eve (2005)

[mesyman]

[peaceoutgirlscoutzzz-deactivate]

me unprompted

[peaceoutgirlscoutzzz-deactivate]

[peaceoutgirlscoutzzz-deactivate]

[huffylemon]

[shesnake]

an ocean vuong text was part of this year's HSC English exam (Australian university entrance tests) and he's got students @'ing him 😭😭😭😭

[copperbadge]

I was super curious about this writing that was Really Fucking Up Australia’s Youth and so I went and found the book it was taken from, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and read the generous sample Google Reads offers.  

The book is described as nonlinear and “challenging”, and I know I’m an adult with two arts degrees but it’s....not that challenging. It’s a super compelling book from what I read. It’s written as a letter from a Vietnamese-American man to his illiterate mother, who works in a nail salon and is the daughter of a former survival sex worker and an occupying American soldier during the Vietnam War. 

The passage they had to read is in the sample text; it describes the narrator as a child, pulling grey hairs from his grandmother’s head at her request, listening to her tell stories as repayment. It’s written in evocative but straightforward prose, though admittedly you don’t get the immediate context that his grandmother’s story of her beautiful purple dress is actually her telling him about finding clients to sleep with. Still, his responses to these comments are frequently more impenetrable than the text they were looking at, which is hilarious to me. Not to slam these kids, I’m sure they’re doing their best and I don’t know how well I’d do with this passage in a high-stress environment at their age, but it’s not like...James Joyce or Ralph Ellison levels of what-the-hell. 

I’m glad that Vuong seems mostly amused by all the attention and that most of the DMs seem pretty good-natured. I hope it helps him sell some books! I’m definitely going to buy it when I’m done with my current library queue. 

[polkadotmotmot]

Edith Waddell - Sacred Heart, 2019

[needfulthings1]

Ai Weiwei, “Chandelier” (2015)

[bellasouto]

spellbindingly beautiful