not near enough

23 - they/them

[mccleans]

for example nothing

[nonlynear]

[suddenly disillusioned] my illusions..

[katiehomophobia]

The library

[jame7t]

Currently unclear if today is Wednesday, or if it’s another Wednesday mimic ❓

[cinemuki]

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

[oasisbreakup]

how it feels to have a job

[hardyscal]

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[burneracct69]

[littlesnowpeep]

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot (1958)

The Peek-A-Boo Soufflé Dress by Orry-Kelly for Some Like It Hot

[charlesoberonn]

[log6]

big problem on here is a lot of people seem to think just being transgender makes you a sensible political theorist

[juneberryjammin]

being transgender doesn't even make you a sensible gender theorist

[iconsghost]

[solomon-revisited]

"In my nursing days I worked with people who got lost. Lost to their families, lost to themselves, lost to the world. At a forty-hour job you get to know these people well, and to see fhrough their eyes a little, if you're paying attention. We err when we consider life as a continuum headed one way or the other—every life has seasons, or stations; the narrator here isn't doomed. He needs help. Everybody on Get Lonely is in need of help. The nylon-string acoustic is played on the track by Franklin Bruno, who also, I think, fleshed out the song's chords to have the sevenths that give it the character it needs—I think I sang live as he played; the original version was an up-tempo shuffle. We tried it some in studio. Thank God for producers like Scott Solter who'll tell you to your face when you're not doing justice to the song."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[oilpalette]

Grounded, 2024 by Alex Garant (Canadian, b. 1982); Oil on canvas, 65 × 55 cm

[theresatreeofmanyone]

The Cell︱2000︱Tarsem Singh + Costume Design

“I’m always standing on the tip of my toes, at the edge of a cliff. I feel like that often. If you’re careless, you’ll fall and die, but that’s when you take a stand and survive; I had many moments like this. That’s the essence of creativity.” ~ Eiko Ishioka

[filmreveries]

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh