FrankIero: first day of tour:
i just ripped my only pair of shorts getting out of the trailer and now my balls are hanging out the side.
#sik 👊
[July 20, 2019 | 9:26 PM]
amandaveyart: you really do just smash that ‘send tweet’ button sometimes, huh
FrankIero: it is entirely possible my newly freed testicle swung out and smashed said button. 🤷♀️
[July 20, 2019 | 9:31 PM]
This is how a few months go by --
the summer sun cooks still time
and the days burn at the edges, welded
into each other, leaping
over one another.
I found myself with desires
that needed discipline.
There are too many faces I still
remember the names of.
My senses were getting used to the new
habit of practicing love,
cautious to take it slow, to let it simmer,
but I felt a loss
when he put off the flame,
and it sits with me still,
as if it were a thought I want to finish.
I wanted to ask him about
the opposite of loneliness, about
the loves he knew and lost,
watch his pupils shrink in the sun.
Love is not law.
He let me go first.
The summer continued
and the list of questions grew.
"You guys pointed out to me that this is the thirteenth year of me putting out albums, which is my lucky number and so I figured, like, we've gotta do something. And I was thinking about the concept of it having been thirteen years since my first album came out, and so I thought maybe something… it would be cool to do something sort of retrospective. Sort of looking back at the times that we've had together, and I do a lot of thinking about time, the passage of time, lessons learned, memories… And I think that you know, oftentimes when uh, you live your life and you go through ups and downs and you learn things, when you look back at your past experiences, you look back at them with that insight of like, oh, this happened and I learned this because of it, and we sort of add value… um, or kind of… sort of, insight to our memories, so when we look back on our memories, it's not as… it's not the same as when we actually were going through them.
The only way you can actually have an accurate representation of what it was like when you were going through something, is if you were to have written about it at the exact time you were going through it. And I don't know if uh, if I've really talked to you guys about this, or anything, but I've been writing in diaries since I was thirteen years old, and I've written about pretty much everything that's happened to me, um, and you know, I've written my original lyrics in those diaries, um, just feelings, you know? Uh, lessons, things you go through, and that's been one of my ways of coping with things. I need to either write songs or write something in order to like, process life."
July 23, 2019: In an Instagram Live, Taylor describes how she uses diaries as a retrospective tool to process life. (source)
This is Clear Sky After Rain! Also known as the Monsoon Pack, it debuted in July 2019 for $0.99 USD and was later added to the Secret Shop.
It's very hard to find a breakdown of this suit in YouTube, as it's an older suit and Viv hadn't fully established her channel. It's also hard to look up any details online. I hope this breakdown helps you decide whether you'd like to buy it, should it show up in your Secret Shop refreshes!
This nine-piece suit comes with two moveables, and does not include makeup. The rainbow and the frogs are moveables, but the cloud buddies are attached to Nikki. There is no posed version, and the completion reward is only gold.
Individual pieces after the cut!
I absolutely love the rainbow in this set, even if the Rose Date's rainbow is bigger and arguably more aesthetically appealing. Would you get it?