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the new normal

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CELINE - Fall 1998 RTW

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The fact that so many of us grew up undiagnosed autistic and socially isolated to the point where we couldn't have a normal interaction with our average classmate, were forced into learning philosophical and psychological theory just to understand what the fuck was wrong with us, kept having our interests shamed by the mainstream and our natural form of existence being seen as a turn-off for almost everyone in our fucking lives, kept being told that we were being inappropriate and unacceptable because the rules of society were stupid, had our entire life fall apart because everything was harder than it was supposed to be, developed multiple mental health issues in the process and had to cling to the insights we gained about society from the outside and to the things we were passionate about as our only forms of stability and power, only to then be told that we're "not better than everyone else for liking different things" and "should stop trying to win over male approval", just because we also happened to live through all that as girls and God Forbid we let the self-importance of an isolated dysfunctional teenage girl without social support blow out of proportion, will probably continue making me angry for as long as this doesn't stop. And maybe a bit after that too.

What I need some of you to understand is that "haha other girls wear makeup and date guys while I listen to indie rock and have no love life" is not necessarily a takedown of wearing makeup and dating guys. Sometimes it's just attempting to joke around at how terrifyingly isolating it is to be the only one who is the latter and WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE YOURSELF ANY OTHER WAY EVEN IF YOU TRIED, while everyone in your life is the former, and seem to relegate you to the category of "unsociable weirdo". Do you really think that this causes people (and by people I mean TEENAGE GIRLS for fucks sake) to believe they're genuinely better than everyone around them? Do you think people who went through this and made "other girls vs me" memes on Facebook were the ones who left the "other girls" of the world with unresolved personal trauma from highschool? That the outcasts joking about being edgy and cool because they can't get along with anyone are the ones who made gender-conforming girls with mainstream interests and a friend group and a love life feel like they are lesser? Give me. A fucking. Break.

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Azzedine Alaïa - Fall 1987 RTW

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CELINE - Fall 1998 RTW

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Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman

American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron

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"𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞. 𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭, 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝟐𝟎 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧." -𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚

Happy 87th birthday to Academy Award winning screen legend, climate activist, lgbtq+ ally, style icon and best-selling author Jane Fonda, born on December 21st, 1937 in New York City. ❤

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YOU GUYS.

ARE WE EXCITED??!?!?!?!?!?!?

I DID THE SURVEY IM SO EXCITED FOR THE MAGAZINE TO COME OUT. 65 WHOLE PAGES OF THE SQUAD. 65. WHOLE. PAGES. AND MAYBE THERE WILL BE SOME GELATO AND SORBET CONTENT TOO???? THEY ARE ALWAYS NEGLECTED

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Never forget the fact that, because he was roleplaying as his nonexistent lil sister, his twitter account got banned for a while and had to scream publicity he was, in fact, Tatsuki Fujimoto roleplaying as his nonexistent lil sister.

And no one believed him at first.

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CELINE - Fall 1998 RTW

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ARCANE, S02E08 | Mel Medarda

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the dumb sweaty dyke things i experience at work

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For awhile I've been trying to identify an unspoken subgenre of children's fantasy movies with pretty heavy commonalities.

With a few exceptions they all share some pretty obvious and not very rare traits, like most of them are about a live action child protagonist venturing to some whimsical unknown place, Dark Crystal being the exception with a nonhuman puppet protagonist.

But more specific genre traits I've identified are 1. The worlds they visit being mostly dreary, crumbling, and largely pretty hostile. Often not very colorful. 2. Heavy emphasis on special effects, especially with lots of intricate costumes, puppets, and animatronics (mirror mask being a partial exception for its stronger adherence to CGI). And 3. At least one sequence that people who discussed the movie later would describe as borderline traumatizing, and which some have gone as far as to call TOO scary or disturbing for a children's movie.

If anyone has any other movies in mind that they would say fits within this subgenre, or any idea what this subgenre could be called, please lmk.

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...and the Light....

622

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It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift" self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

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Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)

Photographed by Scotty Welbourne, 1941