It Is Shining

Sophie. 20. Not goth and certainly not depressed :) I cry an awful lot sorry about that.

[rockabillywife]

Maybe it’s the weather or something like that

[otterjpg]

Clay Butler for the Sidewalk Bubblegum comic strip, 1997.

[saltoncity]

met gala theme fat and in jeans

[toiich]

Wong Kar-wai with his camera, 1970s

[kropotkindersurprise]

September 9, 2025 - The Hilton hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, has been burned down by protesters against government corruption and nepotism, angered at the fact that the child of a government official had a majority stake in it. According to reports, protesters evacuated the hotel before burning it down. [link]/[link]

[woolma]

Great egret at the beach this morning, I walked very slowly to the edge of the shore to take this picture — it flew off just a second later

[huariqueje]

On the Green Table - Kenne Grégoire , 2024.

Dutch ,b. 1951 -

Acrylic on linen , 120 x 50 cm

[funeral]

Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided

[thesilliestpotato]

I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

[kilsie]

So it turns out I actually have to build the life I want to live

[epiphainie]

isa briones @ variety's power of young hollywood

[autoenucleate]

ROLLER DERBY KISSES, Acrylic on MDF and leather, Riikka Hyvönen

[autoenucleate]

bonus: here's my favourite title out of the series

[sorrowsofwerthertheyoung-deacti]

“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian

[halfsey]

[thesunnahthebetter]

[goryhorroor]

“horror movies of the 1980s exist at the glorious watershed when special visual effects finally catch up with the gory imaginings of horror fans and movie makers. technical advances in special effects (animatronics, liquid and foam latex) meant the human frame could be distorted to grotesque new dimensions on screen. 1980s horror movies delivered the full colour close-up, look-no-strings-attached, special effect in a way that previous practitioners of the art could only dream about. everything lurking in the shadows in older horror movies was now dragged into the garish light of day. the monsters were finally out of the closet.”

[bongjoonhoe]

Mysterious Skin (2004) dir. Gregg Araki