Struggling But Soft

“I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.” John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park June 3rd 2020

Ye nan sells tea bags out of her fake leg. Liverpool, August 2017.

not to be fake deep but… there was something in the air that night… the stars were bright… fernando…….

‘Vibrant Santa Monica cottage.’ Alison Kandler Interior Design, Santa Monica, CA. Bret Gum photo for Romantic Homes.

Georges Hobeika | Fall/Winter 2019 Couture

walking around my own house wrapped in a blanket like i'm a depressed victorian ghost. i'm a hooded and cloaked assassin on their way to kill the king. i'm a hardworking peasant on their way to the market. i'm a royal fleeing my palace as it burns down behind me. i'm an ancient greek citizen walking the streets of athens. i'm a liddol old russian lady selling beets. i'm a wizard. i'm a bat. the style... the range... i'm the star of a movie theatre in my own mind

— Paul Verlaine, tr. by C. F. MacIntyre, from 101 Poems; “Sagesses,” (via violentwavesofemotion)