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Tyson Beckford and Naomi Campbell

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DELAINEY HAYLES for Cosmopolitan UK (January 14, 2025)

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SEBASTIAN STAN & ANTHONY MACKIE attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globse Awards.

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SATURDAY NITE…..STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY!!! Savoy Ballroom Dancers, Harlem NY. 1930s-40s

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Tyla x Tems x Ayra Starr

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My Fic Writing 2024 "Wrapped"

I'm doing this in lieu of the AO3 wrapped (writers edition) ask game.

I have 2 AO3 accounts and posted 2 works on each in 2024; 2 for Sambucky and 2 for IWTV. I'm most proud of this one: Théâtre Revue.

It has the most hits for my 2024 fics and the most kudos of ALL my fics. It's gotten the most feedback and it's my favorite title. But it's not my favorite pairing. While I don't have an existential issue with Lestat and Louis being together, their fans piss me off and that includes the showrunner and writer's room.

No pair beats Sambucky for me. I think of them the most so I write them the most. Take the above young Mackie and young Sebastian and that gives you late 20s Sambucky in First. It was the quickest fic to write for them. I started it in 2022 or 2023, tweaked it over a day or 2, then posted it. It got WAY more feedback than I expected and from readers I'd never even seen leave me a kudos. So that was great. I'll be taking Psych into next year because it, along with me having a job that requires a lot of writing, are kicking my ass this year.

Next year, I swear I wanna stop writing fic but if I don't, I'd like to explore this couple: Detective Alex and Elle.

It'll be my first het ship but I enjoyed the bits we got of them in Cross and need to work on writing a het ship for my personal writing.

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PIER KIDS (2019) dir. Elegance Bratton The lives of Black, homeless queer and trans youth who call the Christopher Street Pier in NYC their home. Filmed over five years, taking place mainly in 2011, 2012, and three years later in 2016. The youth are interviewed over these years to show how time and experience changes, shinning a light on how queer people of color utilize spaces to create a chosen family, as well as highlighting the police presence in a community that relies on sex work for their main form of income. (link in title)

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Me?! Oh,no! I'm fine!!! Just making lock screens of Beyoncé! Let me know if y'all use these!

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DESTIN CONRAD - IT'S ONLY YOU (2024) easily one of the prettiest things ive ever seen

Directed and edited by ZEV DP: Brendan J. Boyle AC: Isaiah Walk Gaffer: shawnmarpemedia Grip: biggs.riggs PD: Sellin Anna Spühler PA: Kianah Rene, Holly J Barrett Styling: Sophia Nieser Mgmt: David Ali, Dre Choreography: Kassidy Bright Asst. Choreography: Macy Swaim Talent: Robert Green, Shonny, Bernard Bell

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New Orleans, 2023

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Fun Fact ✨

Madame C.J. Walker was the first Black person in the US to own a swimming pool 🙂

Fun Fact Part 2: Madame CJ Walker didn't buy this house pre-owned or just get some white company to build Villa Lewaro. she hired the FIRST African-American architect in New York, to do it. His name was Vertner Tandy... one of the 7 founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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They have been in rotation for a minute!!! Including Isaiah Mustafa and, not really related but, Patrick Dempsey.

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𝙏𝘼𝙆𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙋𝙀𝙊𝙋𝙇𝙀 𝙋𝙄𝘾𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀𝙎! 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙋 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙈 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙒𝘼𝙉𝙏! - IWTV 2X02

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Joyous Kwanzaa! Today marks the first day of Kwanzaa, a weeklong celebration of Black Americans’ ancestral roots in Africa. The name of the secular holiday is derived from the Swahili phrase meaning “first fruits of the harvest.”

“Unity,” 1995, by Louis Delsarte