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nurse

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They had a little lapel pin (?)

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this quote from not the life it seems is making me violently fucking ill

what in gods name am i supposed to do with myself after reading this with my own two eyes

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they're best friends <3

(image credit: Vicky Pearson)

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Frank Iero’s “Love Letter” to Alternative Press:

To whom it may concern,

Peace has been lost and found around and around too many times to count. The world is a complicated place, and people are complicated beings. All we truly long for is to love and to be loved in return.

Cover the earth.

If there is something out there more important than affecting one another positively through love and acceptance… I hope I never find it. “Find what’s good, & make it last.”

Live forever through your actions and the impressions you make on others. Like a footprint on the moon, such is a fingerprint on a heart. May your heart stay full and the overflow soak the miles you roam. XO

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‘Surrender the Night’ @ Eden Project; St. Austell, UK, 2022

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I wanna keep talking about Kiki Layne's Met Gala look & *why* it's so brilliant....

*sigh*

This silhouette is not only a bunch of checkmarks for all the gilded age girl fashion staples: the color pink, the corset buttons, the opera gloves, the close to the neck -necklace, the heavy halo of hair framing her face... But what it subverts given Kiki's immaculate face card (honestly the best face there, argue with your momma) and her being emphatically black, not just by being a black woman, by how she is styled especially the fro!!!... See, there was this "feminine ideal" in the gilded age called The Gibson Girl:

As drawn by Charles Gibson in the 1890's which lasted up until WWI, this was the feminine ideal of the era... Pure, beautiful, etheral, the right class, perfect. ...and WHITE. One big signature is the huge pile of hair that formed a heavy halo on the head. Anne, in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables, reached for this look in the concert scene here (note the pink sash, flower in her big red hair, neck hugging pearls, frilly detailing empasizing the clavicle and shoulders, and opera gloves):

and other "Gibson" girls taking the hair to pretty big halos:

even the middle-class Booker T. black women of the era adhered to this:

I mentioned the fros were *also* of the era... the exoticifed ideal of the Circassian woman:

These women were exhibited in traveling shows and given exotified backstories of having been kidnapped and sold into white slavery... from the Caucasus Mountians region, in the country of Georgia and regions south of Russia in Europe. They were exotified as "perfection" in beauty and known for their afro-textured hair.... but again WHITE. Now, the stylist for Miss Layne said she specifically chose the Afro as a purposeful nod to blackness within the opulence of the gilded styling... but KNOWING ALL OF THE ABOVE, her look goes well beyond just that into the startlingly subversive. Again... Kiki is soft, she's princess pretty, she's pure, ethereal, she's feminine, delicate, all of those things usually ascribed to whiteness.... while checking off the gilded style reference points AND being a black woman. And as we know, when it comes to the rareity of black women being seen as soft...

*every.*

* thing.* from the delicate way she is holding herself in this style, -she's wearing it, it's *not* wearing her (posture immaculate, hands delicately crossed) to again... Just her BEAUTY and her BLACK beauty in that Halo of Afro hair... She just stomped all over that Gibson aesthetic and proved she can best that ideal with emphatic blackness....soft fro, perfect face card, and all... all while hitting the assignment pitch perfect. And that, my friends, is why I LOVE THIS LOOK.

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Andrew Garfield presents the Stephen F. Kolzak Award to Michaela Jaé Rodriguez at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles

Bonus: 

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Andrew Garfield about grief

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LUCA MARINELLI as DIABOLIK in DIABOLIK (2021) dir. The Manetti Bros

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Penelope (2006)

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New post from Sebastian’s IG

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With all the "Charlie Cox comeback" talk ramping up, it'll be a good friendly reminder to know how much he did deserve to be given the chance to reprise his role again.

Besides the fact that he acted his ass off in every scene, he was very respectful of how he approached playing a blind superhero and spent hours on hours with a blind consultant to observe his mannerisms to get it as accurate as he can for the show.

His portrayal was so faithful that the American Foundation for the Blind honored him with the Hellen Keller Award in 2015

Plus the absolute masterclass turn he did during the scenes in S3 where he had to portray a blind person pretending to be a sighted person. The layers, the nuance.

Or when he still managed to maintain the no eye-contact even during fight scenes?

There's plenty more to say about my favorite Marvel performance, but I really wanted to highlight the best part, which is Charlie making sure his portrayal of the disability was respectful and as near realistic as possible.

BONUS: A cute picture of Charlie with a guide dog 🐕

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TED AND REBECCA IN EVERY EPISODE - 1.01 - Pilot

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Marwan Kenzari photographed by Carlyn F.

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andrew garfield saying, “i hope this grief stays with me because it’s all the unexpressed love that i didn’t get to tell her” about his mothers passing is so gut wrenchingly beautiful because we rarely talk about the love we want to express but can’t, not because you’re not brave enough to say it out loud but because they’re not here to listen to it anymore. calling grief the love you never had the chance to share makes it less of a burden and more of something you want to keep and not something terrible you want to move on from. i love love how everything about grief always comes down to “what is grief if not love persevering?”

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I was just so angry at him. ‘Cause he was always going to work and just out with friends or something like that and then he was gone. And I knew right then and there that I was never gonna let anybody get by me without understanding they might be hurting inside, you know. ‘Cause life is hard. It’s real hard.