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to be fully honest this new trend of remaking and sanitizing not only gothic fiction and its genres (hill house, dorian grey, turn of the screw) and horror movies more generally (carrie, the exorcist) point to much more serious cultural movement than the death of art or the death of horror as a genre in the mainstream. specifically it is gesturing to a sanitizing effect in which cultural authority has now deemed the subversive as worthy of living but only if it is a) commodified and b) divested of all its subversive elements. we can play-act at feminism, trans inclusion, and anti-racism as long as it serves a corporate interest and does not actually challenge cultural authorities. we can adopt its aesthetics as something to be sold without actually inhabiting it ideologically. it is the newest manifestation of cultural authorities anesthetizing effect on anything that threatens it and it is becoming more and more prevalent. anyway i want to beat mike flanagan with hammers

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they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

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Alek Wek for Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2001

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“The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go “off the reservation, into Indian Country.” So what is that messaging that is passed on? You know, it is basically the continuation of the wars against indigenous people. Donald Rumsfeld, when he went to Fort Carson, named after the infamous Kit Carson, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Navajo people and their forced relocation, urged people, you know, in speaking to the troops, that in the global war on terror, U.S. forces from this base have lived up to the legend of Kit Carson, fighting terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan to help secure victory. “And every one of you is like Kit Carson.” The reality is, is that the U.S. military still has individuals dressed—the Seventh Cavalry, that went in in Shock and Awe, is the same cavalry that massacred indigenous people, the Lakota people, at Wounded Knee in 1890. You know, that is the reality of military nomenclature and how the military basically uses native people and native imagery to continue its global war and its global empire practices.”

— Winona Laduke - Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth. She has just published a new book, The Militarization of Indian Country. (via kenobi-wan-obi)

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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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t0uchedbymo

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KYLIE MINOGUE - "COME INTO MY WORLD" (2002) dir. Michel Gondry

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'villa spies, simon spies, töro, sweden, 1967-1969' in my house, my paradise: the construction of the ideal domestic universe - gustau gili galfetti (1999)

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friendgroup call

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Second year of celebrating 'Master Creation' (aka Mother's Day), thank you to my Son for choosing me (2023).

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Athiec Geng, Nyasha Matonhodze, Ajok Daing, Sheila Bawar, and Abény Nhial photographed by Rafael Pavarotti for W Magazine Summer 2005. Styled by Katie Grand. Makeup by Mata Mariélle. Hair by Louis Ghewy.

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Abeny Nhial by Rafael Pavarotti for W Magazine Summer 2025

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telfar fw15

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here is Gil Scott-Heron performing his poem "Whitey on the Moon"

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