left to right, top down are my favorite rick owens looks in ascending order. the subtlety of adding billowing fabric that is obviously going to be constantly swept up by the air because of its design quality, the first two looks are from Babel: SS19; a season that also saw him debut certain exotic materials for the first time: most notably ‘apparition leather’ a leather that is actually affected by pressure changes due to natural temperature fluctuation, meaning that in colder climates they actually contract, and in the heat they expand; they breathe, literally. the following looks are indicative to me of what the universe of rick owens is about. the look on the left is relatively unassuming. But it represents a silhouette that is nigh unshakable for someone like me in his clothes, because i’m slender and skinny and the majority of my daily shots are some instance of layering. the look from the right is an all white ensemble, and quite possibly my favorite look in his entire catalog in terms of what i would call ‘wearability’.
the final look is a testament to what brings people into the darkness in the first place, the very striking usage of an exotic leather with-fur in such a way as to be adding to the beauty, rather than merely adding to the price tag or as a gaudy afterthought. the very concept of such a look is the genius manifold that is rick owens’ catalog, because quite possibly one could find an interpretation of almost any silhouette or design-reference-point conceivable. one feels completely free to both be a part of and also remake the idea every time you put on your clothes.
14) Probably... Legs, pits, and tummy. In any order. Gotta kiss em, lick em, love em.
(Maybe even rub my girldick on them too ehehe~)
27) My bf? Probably some cute mesh stuff. A mesh top is amazing on basically anyone, but boys could stand to dress sluttier.
My gf? I've GOT to get this girl in pants again. She's real shy about her legs so she wears skirts all the time, but I've seen her in a good pair of jeans ONCE and I think about it all the time.
I'm actually making a little England desktop pet right now and I'm just designing some of his poses for later when I actually need to add my own sprites. I'm coding his dialogue and stuff rn and let me tell you: at the moment, he's a bit twatty sassy but he's definitely the most entertaining
Yes, I want to make his balls clickable. Also, I really want to put him in different outfits to use the built in dress-up feature but I really can't be bothered right now lol, perhaps when I finish this first.
Well it took ages but I finally finished the main game of Pokémon Scarlet!! It was super fun and as always I wanted to draw my team to mark the occasion! So I’d like y’all to meet Daffy the Quaquaval, Cham-p the Pawmot, Barbie the Tinkaton, Olie the Coalossal, Black Ice the Cetitan, and Girlboss the Salazzle!! They were all great and I’m super excited to dive in to the DLC next!
My queue was in the middle of 1968 India trip posts during the anniversary of Brian Epstein’s death and the statue unveiling, so it got me thinking about the connection of these two events.
It’s easy to forget the link between the two because they’re technically 6 months apart. But it feels underappreciated how much Brian’s specter looms large over the entire India trip. And not just because they delay the grief process several months in the name of Paul’s favorite coping mechanism. But because Brian dies the week they first meet the Maharishi:
Tuesday, August 22: The band’s first recording session since June; they record takes 1-8 of Your Mother Should Know
Wednesday, August 23: Recording take 9 of Your Mother Should Know and Brian stops by
Thursday, August 24: The Beatles first meet the Maharishi at a lecture in London. At the end of the day, they hold a press conference, get a 90-min private meeting with the Maharishi, and plan to go to Bangor, Wales for a 10-day training in Transcendental Meditation (TM) the next day.
Friday, August 25: They travel to Wales, the first time in years they’re traveling without Brian or Mal or Neil, and it’s chaotic; after they arrive, they get a message from Brian saying he will join them on Monday.
Saturday, August 26: Following a day of training, they renounce drugs in a press conference (well, LSD at least). Brian spur of the moment drives back to London from Kingsley Hill after the guests he invited for the weekend don’t make it.
Sunday, August 27: Brian dies from an overdose of sleeping pills the previous night; he’s found around noon, the Beatles are inducted into TM before the news about Brian reaches them. They had a private meeting with Maharishi about their grief (he talks about reincarnation and the need for positive thoughts about Brian to help this process). Then Paul goes back to London while John and George are forced to make a statement for reporters staked outside.
Monday, August 28: Paul presents the idea for the MMT film and convinces them to keep working rather than go to India now.
That’s one week.
Whether you want to look at it as fate, consequence, or coincidence, TM and Brian’s death are linked forever because of this timing. The simple act of losing Brian factors into the disparate grief reactions and subsequent burnout symptoms seen visibly in each band member after India and across the next year. But this timing would haunt anyone. And not just because those around Brian report him feeling jealous about their diverted attention toward the guru this week. Just dumb what ifs that grief can haunt your brain with: what if they hadn’t heard about the lecture, what if they hadn’t gone on the Bangor trip or had invited Brian to join them on the train, what if they hadn’t appeared on camera announcing they were giving up drugs because of the Maharishi’s influence, etc etc etc.
This link between TM and Brian’s death is especially worth considering for John, who I believe is the only one who ever directly expresses guilt over his death. This isn’t unique as he expressed guilt for all deaths around him in an opaque way believing he’s a curse on people he loves. But it also is understandable because he had some warning. Pete Shotton talks about a worrying tape message John receives from Brian a few days before. Brian’s father died only 6 weeks prior, and Brian’s secretary finds a suicide note dated just before that. There seems to be some uniformity among those closest to him at this time that while he may have been actively considering suicide earlier in the summer, he wouldn’t have after his father passed out of concern for his mother. Still, even with the idea it was all just a terrible accident, those dumb what ifs would creep up in a case like this.
When you add in that Bangor is a spur of the moment trip, that it’s the first one they’ve taken in years without Brian’s planning and guidance, and that telling Brian or inviting him to join them seems like an afterthought? Well, it’s not hard to see how that close link and the guilt that it inspires would have factored into John’s desperation for finding that answer in India. And his anger when it doesn’t deliver. It looks like a desperation to make a consequential choice matter. Searching for the answer to life guided by a holy man makes TM and the Bangor trip meaningful. It makes it important. But to a guilt-filled brain, the idea the man is a fraud means Brian died for nothing. It’s a 60 foot drop into the earth, nothing but a deep dark hole of emptiness.
Now add that John shares with Brian more than just a tendency for depression.
There are only 2 modes with her. She either shoves your hand away when you want to pet her, or she melts into the floor (usually when she's tired).
Sometimes she mixes both... 🤦♂️
And sometimes she sits next to you and starts chattering her teeth, which is a sign of discomfort or annoyance, but she stops when I pet her so that's that. She has a bit of a weird way to communicate sometimes. Like if she wants something she just stares at you forever till you get it or she gives up.
I assume it's because she didn't get socialized to other buns the first 2 years of her life and spent that time mainly in a tiny cage (as told by her second owner who got her out of that. I am her third owner).