no more false heavens

I was an angel, but they made me leave

[hautescouture]

alexander mcqueen f/w 1998

[centuriespast]

David Octavius Hill Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake)

RISD Museum

[agirlnamedbone]

Hi I’m in abject terror of getting kicked out this Saturday from the hotel I live in. I just am living minute to minute trying to make it until I can go to school and get the healthcare I need there; otherwise I live minute to minute and sometimes I just can’t make it. Please, anything helps.

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[threemothers]

Aya Takano Space Ship EE

[marypickfords]

A Dream Longer Than the Night (Niki de Saint Phalle, 1976)

[luhaoliang]

Joan Chen.

Sketch by her brother Chase Chen, during the shooting of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks

[gusvanscant]

'Sound of Falling' (dir. by Mascha Schilinski) [2025]

[uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

‘Wonderful Wonderful Times’ by Libby Rothfeld, 2021

[bienenkiste]

"Sisters". Achol Becky and Ateta Jok photographed by Alessia Gunawan for Scheme magazine

[koolthing0]

[bienenkiste]

"Red Room". Photographed by Matilde Corti for Ladygunn Magazine

[silk-fleur]

Mirror Palais showroom in New York, designed by Natalie Stein

[likemonalisa]

Mia Goth, Miu Miu, 2015

[doll4everz]

BOOK ”S2” / Haesun Lee

[foxconfessor]

Serena Motola for Ashley Williams ph. Daria Kobayashi Ritch

[ladamedusoif]

"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to continue wanting to look like girls."

Susan Sontag, "The Double Standard of Aging" (1972). Full link to transcribed version here.

[nemfrog]

“Sinking his claws into the wool and cawing delightedly.”  In Berkshire fields. 1920. Walter King Stone, illus.