STARWOMAN

dream boy/grrrl patron-saint of burning™

[strrrwmn]

Hi, I'm Starwoman aka Vladimir Sophus Rivera. Vlad for short. I am an 18-year-old queer, multi-disciplinary artist bred, born, and raised in the Philippines. I am a published author and filmmaker.

My pronouns are he/she/they.

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I love to write, take photos, graphic design, dance, play guitar, make 'zines, and paint — among other things. I work at multiple indie magazines as a literary editor, submissions curator, book club manager, writer, and graphic designer.

I love leather, marlboro blues, the color red (770303), listening to music, reading, queer erotica, and fashion. I am a punk at heart. Art is my religion, rock is my dogma, film is my favorite worship song.

Some of my favorites are:

📽️

House MD

I Saw The TV Glow

Lady Bird

Conclave

📖

The Secret History

A Spot of Bother

The Fairyland Series

🎶

Talking Heads

Angel Olsen

Ethel Cain

Ayesha Erotica

Liminal music

Scent Notes

Vanilla

Musk

Woody

Bergamot

Lavender

I also like menthol, sun-soaked picnics, three-inch Mary Jane box heels, big sunglasses, fuckass bobs, leather, leaving kiss marks, breaking book spines, and kissing my friends.

I am your dried spit on your pillow and the wet sludge on the railing you hold onto after rain.

Bisous,

Starwoman

This is a portrait of me made by a friend

[strrrwmn]

Do you all just ever wanna fucking not

[vyva-melinkolya]

idk i just feel like if someone else had my life, they would do a much better job living it

[rigorwhoretis]

[sevaria]

Perverts

[strrrwmn]

[lilyeliza]

when you saw the big, long table

[sylvanyowl]

I am scared to go to bed

[harkovluh]

god will let you near but he won't let you stay

@tankhall

[strrrwmn]

[chewedcorn]

My mom got tired of me making fun of her “Live Laugh Love” sign and modified it.

[strrrwmn]

This is actually a lot better

[strrrwmn]

I had a cowboy just tell me "if nobody likes you, then maybe... you're just not likeable."

[strrrwmn]

Paranormal Activity is basically just a fanchise built on stupid fucking Americans being stupid fucking Americans. No survival skills whatsofuckingever. Fucking liars and grownups who are unable to communicate well. Oh my fucking god. DUMB. FUCKS. I have been staring at a screen trying to empathize and understand these people but GOD this sht just gets to a POINT. Just awful selfish fucking people. And don't get me started on horror movue boyfriends. I NEVER want to have a horror movie boyfriend. I'd rather die.

[mothercain]

ethel cain for enfant riches déprimés

[vexwerewolf]

I think the most fucked up thing about intrusive thoughts is it's really difficult to discuss them without discussing their content, because without a discussion of their content it's impossible to get across just how distressing and debilitating they are. "Oh, you have unpleasant thoughts sometimes? Yeah we all have that, I guess."

But if you discuss their content there's this huge risk of people just pulling away in disgust. "Oh god, you have THOSE sorts of thoughts? They should lock freaks like you the fuck up!" As if they think people act on every single thought they have.

[gayoticmess]

This is also why the distinction between impulsve and intrusive thoughts is so so important, because how the fuck are you ever supposed to talk about how damaging your thoughts can be if every other person keeps saying their "intrusive" thought is to cut their hair short or break the glass plates??

[starsandgoodness]

im a queers queer (like a girls girl) as in i may not like u personally but we're in this together at the end of the day

[vyva-melinkolya]

does anyone else feel like the kind of person who would be groomed into a cult or is that just me. I just feel like, given the right circumstances, i could be vulnerable to that

[strrrwmn]

Give me love, food, nature, an extremely indulgent and Dionysian lifestyle, a dirty secret and I'm all yours