All About Malaina

Random collection of imaginings, fanlore/love, beauty art, news, space, heavenly bodies, animals, photography, etc.

[trycijacks]

husband come home the kids miss you

[oysters-aint-for-me]

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

[oysters-aint-for-me]

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

[katerynka-art]

My sketch page and illustration for Ukrainian charity zine 'Bloody Waltz' 🩸🦇🩸🦇🩸

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[depsidase]

[phoukanamedpookie]

Oh, I'm not sure. Give me $7,500 for 6 months or so. I'll be sure after that.

[schizoauthoress]

Gotta test it out, yup.

[phoukanamedpookie]

And we must test multiple times. For science.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

An 11-year-old boy wove a spider web hairstyle for his 3-year-old little sister, which keeps her super cool in summer.

[daggersandarrows]

you know, the more i think about it, the angrier i get about how mainstream media and even people in general treated marie kondo when the life changing magic of tidying up got big. it's just so unnecessary and sad to me and i think the vast majority of people would love what she has to say if they just actually looked into it instead of maliciously memeing her to death? i'm not talking about the cutesy does it spark joy stuff but all the things portraying her as some bizarre evil cleaning dictator.

i actually read her book when i was about twelve years old, in the most shocking and probably only example of me ever being ahead of a trend, and even at twelve i really loved everything she said. at that point in time i lived in fear of my mother's threats that she would come and throw everything away while i was school, and my small and very adhd mind simply could not grasp the concept of "have less stuff". have less of WHICH stuff? how? i'd never actually been taught how to clean my room besides being told "pick up stuff" and "be organized", and as she points out multiple times, cleaning is not an intuitive thing. it's a learned behavior and skill.

anyways. her entire philosophy centers on surrounding yourself with things that you love, and only things that you love (or things that you absolutely need). she explicitly says over and over again that it is not about throwing things away, it is not about minimalism, it is not about "what is the smallest amount possible that you can survive on". she literally has a whole section where she talks about how hard it can be to throw things away when you've lived in poverty all your life and you don't have absolute confidence that you can replace something that you really needed if it gets thrown out, even though you're not likely to ever really need it--you've just been conditioned to think that because that's literally how you survive, when you're poor. she talks about how that mindset can serve and how it can damage. she talks about how minimalism is sort of a rich people thing, cause they can afford to throw everything away.

this woman really came out here and said "i want you to be surrounded by things you love and i'm going to validate your fears and your difficulties in getting to that place" and people somehow got mad at her. i don't understand it

[stevishabitat]

👆👆👆

[fandomsandfeminism]

The idea of hers that helped me the most was one of the more...shinto-y ones.

That we are the caretakers of the objects we keep and have an obligation to not only care for them, but also to *use them for their purpose.*

If you don't wear that jacket, no matter how cute it is, it is a disservice to let it rot away in your closet. Let it go on to be worn by someone else. It's not that you didn't love it enough- it's that you love it enough to let it serve its purpose, even if it's not with you.

And I think that's very freeing. It helped me, at least, with the guilt of letting go of "still usable" objects that I just wasn't using.

[thevampirecaspian]

He is always so proud of her

[dinah-lance]

Is God Is (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

[orbitingrook]

[perotovar]

Yesterday was the last, "last job". I did it, I'm done. Fuck you.

PEDRO PASCAL as CLINT FLOOD Freaky Tales (2025) dir. Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden

[lizmitches]

you can be peeling a boiled egg and think to yourself wow. that was so simple. and then you peel another one and it’s like being in the throes of war. shell everywhere. egg mangled. tears in your eyes. that’s how god keeps you humble

[narwa]

[ravioliet]

never kill yourself. you have to fill your mutuals dash with shit they don't care about forever, okay?

[angelstills]

The Woman King (2022)

[deadbeatmaker]

when I grow up I wanna be the old woman at the nursing home who never used chatgpt

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[theweight]

can i say i dont give a fuck if anyone is 'performative reading' bc like at least they are reading at all. people are reading less and less so idrc if someone is reading to cultivate a certain image or whatever the fuck performative reading means