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rhaaclaws · 1 year ago

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List five things that make you happy, then put this in the inbox of the last ten people who reblogged something from you, get to know your mutuals and your followers <3

Thank you for this :3 I'm not sure about passing it on since chains sometimes make me want to implode but !

1. My Atlas :3 sooo so excited to visit them in this coming year since I am Not visiting during winter I think I'd actually die from hypothermia. A few days ago I sent him some banana bread and it got kinda soggy from the condensation but ended up really good so woooo

2. Post-Punk Revival aka me and Atlas' ocs. I'm easing myself into drawing again but ohhhhh they're the loveliest creatures that I need to talk more about + finish their toyhouse pages. I have a few art ideas though so that's fun

3. Been going back to listening to this channel called Of Herbs And Altars from Dorian B and sigh. I love listening to all of his goth stories esp since I've recently introduced my roommate to their work so we've been listening to the nostalgia project whenever she's free/not tired from work. Also also finally got to order Dorian's book so whenever it gets here I'm gonna be binge reading it lol

4. Songwriting and such. I wasn't able to bring my bass when I moved so I unfortunately haven't been able to work on basslines and such so I've been focusing on actual lyrics. It's slow esp since I've never made a song before but it's been making me happy

5. Fashion ☝️☝️ I haven't really been keeping up with the fashion weeks but I have seen some real cool runways that I need to check out such as the Jean Paul Gaultier and Sandy Liang shows (and of course. Look at 90s Mugler runways again I miss them so bad). But I've been messing around with using lingerie as outerwear (aka just layering shit underneath slip dresses so my tits aren't completely out) and I can't wait until I can really use some outfits in public :3

Ummm I think that's really it for now that's what comes to mind but I'm always down for a chat (just as a warning. I am a horrific texter and you can ask anyone I'm friends with on that)

#this was nice to just. sit down and think about what makes me happy since ive been feeling Off lately #the joys #rhaa talks #ask game #sorry fkr yhe lack of chain. i just sometimrs get really nervous about them and thats bc my brain sometimes creates saw traps

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onizukasenseisfavouritegirl · 2 years ago

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Hello boys, gals and nonbinary pals, this blog will be mainly about the character Onizuka Eikichi but I will also rant and reblog fan art and memes, feel free to talk to me as well

Heya, a little about me

I am 21 and currently a student looking for a part time job while I study

Onizuka Eikichi seems to be my type even though I never even thought I had a type but the dude makes me blush like a lot, bro is hella ugly and his expressions are sometimes borderline scary but I really wish a guy like that irl can make me feel so hot and bothered

I love GTO, the soundtrack and the life lessons it gives

I prefer to read manga than watch the anime since it gives more detail and insight, backstory into the characters that aren't really explained in the animes or rushed

I like lingerie, and thigh high socks as well as cute things

I love 90/2000s nostalgia and the music from that period

I like plushies, ice cream, philosophy, flowers and dark humour

MBTI >>>>>> Astrology and I don't accept other opinions on this BS fake science, mbti at least uses the cognitive functons of a human

We should bring back the Rococo period and solve problems by debating to death and then fighting with swords

I am somewhat good at DDR but the machine at the mall broke

Strawberries and cherries >>>> any other fruit

Children are not welcome to this blog, thats about it, peace!

You can call me Ophelia or Feli for short, I made this blog since no one on this d@mned site shares their love for old outdated anime characters especially if the anime doesn't get a sequal or reboot, no one cared about Trigun until Stampede came out recently, and I don't even like the new version because Vash and Nicholas look like confused 18 year olds and the IT girl Meryl looks like a 12 year old boy and at least in the old one it had nice soundtrack and it represented tomboyish small chested women, now i feel like Vash is a 18-19 fresh out of high school confuded boy that can't even hold the guns, Nicholas had darker skin and now looks younger and is somehow more pale, I am not hating the new material, I love that people get creative but no one cared about trigun until now, not as far as I am aware. I will cry if they ruin Gurren lagann or Cowboy bepop because I sure as hell know GTO ain't gonna get a reboot ever and maybe that is for good because that is one of the most vulgar animes I've seen, let it rot but also give it attention and proper respect that it deserves-

Sigh, this is a post and not a middle school essay, well at least tumbrl has nice fan art and gifs and isn't full of overly angry people like twitter and reddit and that is what I love about this platoform. I will make edits/posters about GTO mainly but am free to talk to, I will also sometimes share works from other fandoms and rant about music or whatever happens in my life. Yeah thats it - thanks for reading up until now, I honestly didn't think anyone would read it

Here's a reward for you sweet beautiful human being!

#Opheliaposts #Feliposts #hearts #GTO #GTOfanblog #GTOanime #GTOmanga #great teacher onizuka #this man makes me melt #im screaming without the s #onizuka eikichi #gif #hot #minorsdni #minors dont read

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holistic-alcoholic · 2 years ago

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STB Bingo Round 2 Masterpost

I wrote fics! haha. The badges claiming isn't here yet, but I wanted to make a post, so I made a post :D

and I made a fancy stats sheet, so here it is! 20 squares filled, 11 fics written, around 57k words. I'm cool.

Here they are:

A Wonderful Feeling of Friendship — B4, "Orgy". A crackish stuckony get together with established dorks buckytony and oblivious pining Steve.

things best seen from outside — B1, "Brunch". Winteriron, based on @gayspacesprinkles's art, modern au with pining dorks from outsider's perspective.

every darkness has its dawn — B5, "Sunrise". Post-cw winteriron with Bucky recovering, and love and queerness as a force of resistance. (I'm pretty proud of that one even though it hasn't got much attention)

In the Eyes of the Beholder — 6 chapters for: B3, "Corsetry", N5, "Lapdance", I3, "Socks", B2, "Temperature Play", I1, "Picture Frame", and G5, "Covered in Flour". The biggest fic for the bingo, work name for which was "horny gay club 90s au". Features mid-20s Tony, estranged from his parents, who has to work as a waiter in the shady club, and a mystery client James, slow falling in love, dealing with toxic parenting, schmoop and the sappiest ending.

also, lots of love to @aflour for betaing it!

my love for you runs deeper than memories — I5, "Anniversary". A sequel to The Acts of Kindness (also known as the food fic, or the plot twist one, or the one I was the most proud of). Winteriron are married, Bucky has memory problems, but they are super happy anyway. Melancholic at times, but sweet.

funny things are — N3, FREE. Another work from the I'm most proud of list. A suicide romcom. The worst jokes, but not as horrible as that love confession. cw-canon divergent, Tony had depression all his life, Bucky has his own issues, they bond over wanting to kill themselves.

it's a lie or death — G1, "1940s". Bucky hates the war and lies a lot. Platonic stucky.

It’s All About Love — One fill one bingo! O1-O5, "Verbal Bondage", "Frenemies to Lovers", "Coulson Lives", "Roommates", "Dog Park". My 2012 Tower fic, stony. Steve has one friend, not that many interests, is annoyed at the people not letting him yell fuck transphobes, and has the hugest crush on Tony. It all goes well in the end (or: the one where Steve's a himbo, and they get a dog). I was grinning all the time I was writing it.

The Definition of Nice — I2, "Bicycle". Winteriron. Bucky keeps picking up strays and keeps insisting it doesn't make him a good person (it's all lies).

you are the star I gravitate to — G2, "AU: College". Winteriron. Tony is a popular genius who doesn't date and Bucky is a football player with low self-esteem (and a crush). Cute dorks and math (actual math, yeah).

The Subjectivity of Beauty — N1, "Insecurity". Post-endgame established winteriron. Tony has body issues. Bucky has a lingerie kink. It all works out in the end (because they love each other).

#writing #my fic #winteriron #stuckony #stony #stb bingo

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glowfyourself · 3 years ago

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So as some of you know, our house has been a party house for like, ever. I’ve lived here for about a decade and up till covid we had a party here every other day, sometimes for weeks on end. Anyways! The garage used to be used as an art studio and/or rented out to friends who needed a spot for a month or two, or who wanted to visit and have a haunted ass room full of spiders to call home during their vacation, it’s seen some shit. At least 20 people have stayed there, not counting the squatters that followed them and the random friends who just, like, didn’t leave for weeks, some of them are probably still here. I just spent a few hours cleaning it out and holy shit are there some memories in there, 4 or 5 boxes were just lost and found items from the last decade of house parties 😂 a very short run of the list/what I can post on here - Dozens of sketch pads and drawings Lots of ‘sploding stuff A huge box of bones A slightly smaller box of bones Part of an Elk spine Lots of porn, pro and amature Mystery thumb drive Lots of apocalypse weapons that I didn’t make Box of bondage stuff that I can’t account for Party photos that absolutely need to be burned 😂 A bunch of questionable powder in a jar labeled “don’t” Hella lube. Like, a lot a lot of lube Beef jerky from 2017 Cranberry juice from 2016 A lap top that smelled a lot like cheese A bunch of books about magic Various lingerie and wigs that had kinda fused in to one, amorphous, sexy time mound pile, I couldn’t SEE it moving, but I’m pretty sure it was self aware, or maybe a hive mind kinda deal, either I put it under the tree behind the house, if it finds it’s way to me I’m keeping it. Box of kitchen wear from what looks like the 90’s A whole baby crib A miniature baby crib A dvd copy of Time Cop that had clearly been used to chop lines A sexualized poster of I think Denzel Washington, it was way to “gently used” but it has his vibe (and ass) A ton of cbd stuff (lol who does that here) Some wedding dresses A bunch of tarot decks And tons more 😂 Updates soon, let me know if a wandering lingerie mound shows up at your house, now that it’s free it might try to rerun home 😂 (at Jesse Lindsay Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRXPomnYcI/?utm_medium=tumblr

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gethealthy18-blog · 5 years ago

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11 Ways To Wear The Jelly Nail Trend

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11 Ways To Wear The Jelly Nail Trend

Anjala Farahath May 15, 2019

What’s the most prominent beauty accessory that a woman can wear? Nope, it’s not the faux suede heels, or the rhinestone ring set, or the charming layered necklace. Go on, take a wild guess. It’s the nails!

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Yes, you read that right, you’ve got the power in your nails to make even a dull outfit look chic and swanky. Nails are a highly under-appreciated beauty accessory that can be made to look like art. Although, unlike lipstick or hair color, nails aren’t the first thing that’s noticed, they can be used as your secret beauty trick that can be paired with multiple ensembles. Plus, nobody is going to pull you out for repeating it!

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There’s so much that the nails can do. They offer a quick little insight into our personality if paid attention to. Nude colors for the sophisticated ones among you, a bold black for the gothic vibe, a colorful palette for the playful ones, and the list goes on. The thousands of shades, copious nail art designs and templates, and the innovative nail shapes offer a limitless array of nail art designs. So what’s new this season, you ask? Well, it’s something that bought a curious question mark on my face.

Jelly nails are the new trend on the block. Yes, they are actually called jelly nails and before you ask me, no they are not edible, ladies! Cute or not, that’s up to you to decide, but they are definitely a novelty in the world of nail art. Before we present to you the different recreations of jelly nails, let us tell you about who started the trend.

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The leader of beauty trends, Kylie Jenner, took to social media to share a picture of her and her friends’ freshly manicured hands. Need we say more? The trendsetter inspired nail artists across the globe to recreate this colorful art.

Here’s a list of some of the best jelly nail art. If you haven’t heard of the trend before, this article will serve as your crash course to it. Let’s see who nailed it, what say?

1. A Whimsical Look

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If you want to give your nails a whimsical look, with the perfect mix of colors, and yet not go overboard. There are multiple options that you can choose from; you will certainly be surprised to see the kind of colors you can dress your nails in. This look, however, is called the PVC look as it is made from plastic. That’s an interesting take on jelly nails, don’t you think?

2. Let’s Go Vibgyor

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Vibgyor, the colors of the rainbow, is for the ones who love a lot of colors in their life. If you’re someone who sports a lot of whites or likes to add a pop of color to your looks, this variation is for you! You can choose from bold brights or softer pastels. That being said, a jelly manicure makes use of all the primary colors in the color palette, so take your pick, and get yourself a manicure for the summer.

3. Real Flowers To Go With Jelly?

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We understand that some of you don’t really like multicolored things. For you guys, we present the au naturel look that makes use of real flowers. This is an elegantly gorgeous manicure by Mei Kawajiri of Nails by Mei. This manicure has replicated the jelly nails with a natural twist. It makes use of transparent lacquer and some adhesive flowers.

4. Pop The Jelly Colours

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This is the most basic version of the trend. For someone who’s skeptical about going down the jelly route, this could be a good start. Not too bold, not too sober, just the right amount of color and length for your nails. What do you think?

5.The Perfect Mix Of Glitter And Colour

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Be it in her life, or on her nails, a girl loves a little sparkle in her life. This twist to the jelly nails combines the best of color and glitter. What’s more important in this look is the choice of color. The unconventional colors like sea-green, electric-blue, etc offer a good base for this mix of jelly and shine.

6.Ice Cream Candy On Your Nails?

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Remember the good old childhood when we beat the scorching summer heat with bright colored candies? Now that we aren’t kids anymore and candies are old-fashioned, we can paint a piece of our nostalgia on our nails. That’s what fashion is all about, isn’t it? —- bringing back revamped versions of history!

7.For Those Who Like A Little Extra

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What do you want your nail art to have? Jelly lacquer? Check. Stones? Check. Gems? Check? The color of the universe? Check. This nail art is all things sassy and over the top. If you give me the authority, I would say, this piece of work, nailed it!

8.For The Animal Lover In You

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Animal-print lingerie to animal print dresses, we have seen it all. Now, it’s time for animal print nails! Don’t worry, PETA won’t sue you for this one! You can pair these nails with a raunchy outfit or you can go for a red-carpet look, whatever your pick, the animal-printed nails will obey.

9. Glitz, Glamour, and Jelly

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If you are someone like me, who gets bored with one color, this is just the look for your nails! There’s a perfect alternation of nude color, glitter, and a marble effect. You can sport three different styles in one manicure, now that’s a great offer, isn’t it?

10. For The Love Of Au Naturel Look

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This nail art gets big thumbs up for combining the love of French manicure and the love of nudes in one. The dual-toned natural shade of nail paints gives the nails a natural look while simultaneously drawing a great deal of attention to your nails!

11. A Splash Of Colours

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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you see these nails? Popsicle? We think so too. You can sport the jelly trend the playful way. These nails are perfect for your summer dress or for a beach-cation!

The summertime trend is giving people a major nostalgia of the 90s. If you are feeling the fear of missing out, #FOMO, go ahead and get your nails painted with these jelly colors. If you’re afraid that the jelly-like texture can turn you away, don’t worry, the texture and color are as smooth as other lacquers. It’s just the transparency that gives the trend the moniker.

So, would you try this? Post some pictures for us to see!

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kungfubreakfast · 6 years ago

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All The Goddesses

So so so so so many lovely ladies today with nine new sets including three multi-muse sets! Time is going by so fast this year. I’ve can’t believe we’re already halfway in to March. I have a cold this week so that’s a bummer but tomorrow I’m planning on making the journey to Lake Elsinore to see the Super Bloom. SoCal so rarely gets its rain but when it does (plus a few other conditions) like this year then the fields are littered with wild flowers including the poppies. Two years ago I got a chance to do my one and only shoot with Mandee Leslie in the superbloom in Antelope Valley so I’m stoked to do it again. Keep your fingers crossed my cold is gone by then.

First up we have a new set with Sister Bonez. The good Sister has really been one of my absolutely favorite Muses to work with over the past year. She always has killer looks, poses, great ideas, etc. It’s been so rainy here lately that I was a bit worried we might get rained out but luckily the worst we got was a sprinkle during the opening portion of our shoot in Pomona. We shot some cool urban stuff and then Sister Bonez treated me to a cup of a coffee at this cool Mexican coffee place called Mi Cafecito Coffee where we both got marzipan lattes with oat milk. They were seriously to die for. After that we headed to a beautiful botanical garden for the second leg of our shoot. I had never been to this particular botanical garden so it was fun to check out. They had some really interesting structures and art pieces. We also caught some sunset vibes that really brought out our best. Finally we spent the third part of our shoot over at the bartending school where Sister Bonez learned to mix drinks. We shot some photos and a short video of her doing some mixology and then took some sexy photos in their Playboy themed bathroom. As usually we got a lot accomplished and had a blast doing it.

Up next is a new set with long-time muse Lina Savanna and she brought her friend Hollixberri. Lina and I are good friends and text as friends do. She told me her friend Holli was visiting her from out of town so I offered up the idea of shooting with the two of them. I figured it would be a fun, low-key, hang out with the homegirl and her homegirl kind of situation. Of course it was all of those things but also much more! They ladies put together some great looks and really brought the fire. I absolutely loved the energy Holli brought to the shoot and I hope she comes and visits again. We started our day in Chinatown kind of just exploring around. We really hit a highlight when we found this practically abandoned shopping center near where we had parked. After that we travelled to nearby Elysian Park where Lina showed us a part of the park I had never seen before. It was a bit cold and windy but we powered through and even got a shot of a wandering coyote. Finally as it got a bit too cold for shooting we made our way to Holli’s AirBnB where we shot some fun and sexy lingerie looks. Major fun vibes on this shoot.

For our third set I’d like to welcome back someone near and dear to my heart, the lovely Chelsea Hanes. Portland-based Chelsea was in town visiting so we made some plans to catch up and do a little shoot at one of my favorite spots, Stoney Point. Chelsea adorned herself in rose petals and cannabis leaves (courtesy of Aesthetic Cataclysm). Chelsea always brings the Goddess vibes but this was really on a whole other level. We kept the shoot relatively short due to weather conditions but still got in a full set’s worth of amazing shots. Not too much else to say about the shoot other than that it was magical and we found a graffiti sign telling us the point at which no muggles were allowed past.

From Green Goddess to Rock Goddess we have a new set with Alicia Vigil. Fresh off of a European Tour with her band Vigil of War, Alicia Vigil is back with our second set together. I wanted to really switch gears with Alicia from our first set in the woods, so I took her to maybe my favorite spot to shoot, Angels Gate Bunkers. Not surprisingly, Alicia really brought it with some cool looks and a fun interaction with the environment. Going to The Bunkers with a new person is always a wild experience and makes me feel like Hammond on the helicopter turning to the others and say, “Welcome to Jurassic Park.” After the Bunkers we stopped by The Korean Bell of Friendship for a few more dope shots. Really been loving working with Alicia and hoping for another rad shoot in the near future.

Spooky girl love continues with a KILLER new set featuring the lovely Lady Krondor. Lady Krondor have had some of my favorite shoots when we’ve shot in her various homes. In Lady Krondor’s current place we shot our last set in her home photo studio and once again decided to make some work there. Part of the inspiration was that our mutual friend Necro Natalie painted this spooky backdrop for her. We had a fun time playing around and then ventured out to the mean streets of West Hollywood so shoot a bit more. Sometimes the best shoots are the simplest ones.

I feel my heart swelling as honestly this series of sets covers some of my favorite humans including Fablechan. Fable and I have been talking about a new set since our last set but it’s been way a bit too chilly since our schedules really only like up for late afternoon/evening shoots. Luckily we found a slightly warmer day. Once again I headed down to deep Orange County for our shoot. We started off in this cool woodlandish park for a very glamorous look. When we were coming out of the park we met some guy from Arizona that REALLY wanted to show us his photos he had taken of girls in bikinis. We probably would have talked with him more but we were racing the sun to our next spot just outside of a cool drain pipe tunnel. We did a drain pipe tunnel in our last shoot but I will always been down for things off the beaten path. The little area outside the tunnel had some fun graff including a Rick and Morty piece but inside the tunnel was for me where the real magic happened. We finished off the shoot with some nighttime park stuff including a bit of nudie time. I’m sure as the weather gets nicer there will be more nudity for all my pervy followers.

Up next is a mini set with my loves Miss Chaos and Liza. Sometimes I shoot sets simply because I have plans with my friends that are also my Muses and why not? Well on this very evening the three of us headed to Bar Sinister’s newish event appropriately named Wednezdays. We shot some cute photos in the bar, I almost lost my glasses, the night was a little crazy and then we went back to Miss Chaos’ place where she busted out the whip and paddle on Liza. Pretty typical evening.

So when I say all the Goddesses, this next set might take the cake. Brittny Nicole hit me up asking if I’d like to tag along with her on a shoot for her friend Adrienne’s brand Little Black Diamond in San Diego. Of course my answer was yes so we made our way down to San Diego (which means “A Whale’s Vagina”). This wasn’t technically my shoot, which is always a weird situation as I don’t like to step on other’s toes, nor do I allow people to take photos on my shoots, but it was a really chill time. The shoot happened at this cool psychedelic art bar called Kilowatt in the neighborhood of Ocean Beach. There was something like 8-10 girls on the shoot and one main photographer so Brittny and I started shooting in spots while she wasn’t being used and other models that weren’t being used at the time followed. Adrienne and I clicked right away as Brittny had been telling both of us about each other for a while. Adrienne and all the girls were super stoked to have me there and we had a really cool time. I wasn’t sure if this should be a solo set with guests or a multi-muse set but ultimately I decided that this was still Brittny’s journey and if I ever shoot with any of these girls again (which I plan to) then of course this set will be listed on their pages. I really think my story isn’t even doing this set justice so just go check out the photos.

And to wrap things up is a new solo set with Miss Chaos. It seems like every time I post a set with Miss Chaos that it’s actually two sets but she’s one of my closest homegirls. Despite her namesake, Miss Chaos actually really helps me keep my sanity. She’s a loving, supportive friend, a great Muse, and an ear for me to vocalize my thoughts, good or bad. One of our mutual loves is for abandoned places. Back in the Fall she found on Instagram photos of an an abandoned airplane in Ontario, CA (just about an hour outside of my place in Highland Park). It was a little tough for our schedules to get out there until now but we finally did last week and it was WELL WORTH IT. We got some directions how to find the place from an awesome artist on Instagram named Chuck Hodi who had been there before. Once we arrived it was actually really easy to find (like too easy). Not only did we find the plane but there were actually TWO PLANES! We had an awesome shoot and no one bothered us. This was by far the easiest and yet strangest abandoned shoot I think I’ve ever done. I mean two abandoned planes in the middle of a small airport and not one person told us to leave (big ups to Ontario Airport I guess!) After that we found a cool little park to shoot in and Miss Chaos rocked her 90’s No Doubt look while we played on a kids playground. Afterward we stopped for the delicious marzipan coffee at the same Mexican coffee shop that Sister Bonez took me to in the beginning of the set. Everything truly comes full circle. Until next time, enjoy!

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davidoespailla · 6 years ago

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Millennials Are Hiring Consultants to Raise Their ‘Plant Babies’

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Nick Cutsumpas calls himself a “plant daddy.”

The 26-year-old Kips Bay resident, who works for Arianna Huffington’s startup Thrive Global, has turned a passion for agriculture—he claims to have grown tomatoes in his apartment with moderate success—into a lucrative side hustle.

His skills are in high demand. Many millennials, members of the generation born between 1980 and roughly 2000 who have a reputation for being commitment-averse, are opting to raise houseplants. Critics have gone as far as to say they’re forgoing traditional milestones like marriage and children to curate photogenic green spaces in their homes.

But it’s not easy to make a garden grow. So while money may not grow on trees, local millennials’ demand for low-maintenance, Instagram-ready plants means there’s ample opportunity for New York’s green thumbs to earn some greenbacks.

After all, this cohort is viewed as being wary of long-term responsibility. “We are the Tamagotchi generation,” says Eliza Blank, the 33-year-old founder of Manhattan-based plant store The Sill, referring to the egg-shaped digital pet toy popular in the late ’90s. “It’s something cute to take care of that’s kind of low-risk.”

The scaffolding around supporting plant ownership, then, continues to blossom. Blank’s online-turned-brick-and-mortar startup, founded in 2012, draws inspiration from women-owned companies like Drybar and Birchbox as opposed to more traditional emporiums like Home Depot.

Potted plants range from $23 to $66. The Sill markets a collection “easy for beginners” (which can be sent to your home for $35 a month) and offers online classes for newbies like “Watering 101” and “How to Pick a Planter” online for $10.

“People are buying plants now because it fills a void in their lives,” says Blank, who has raised $7.5 million in funding for The Sill since 2017 and is soon adding a storefront in Los Angeles to her two in New York. “We aren’t here just to transact with our customers. We’re here to teach them, to educate them, to create a relationship with them—to give them the tools they need to have a relationship with their plants to fill whatever that void might be.”

Plant-owning novices still need guidance. “Some people want me to go buy the plants for them. For others, it’s like picking out a wedding dress,” says Cutsumpas, who makes an average of $300 per project. “You get your friends to come, you want everyone to be there. It becomes an event.”

After Cutsumpas met Tribeca resident Lauren, 37, at a book launch, she turned to him for mentorship.

“I’ve always wanted to have a lot of plants,” says the health and wellness coach, who declined to use her last name due to privacy concerns. “It just always felt so cumbersome to go out and do it. I would go to the Flower District and feel so overwhelmed.”

She paid Cutsumpas just under $500 to buy and install a fiddle-leaf fig tree, two snake plants, a few potted pothos plants and a microgreen and herb station in the three-bedroom apartment she shares with her husband and 4-year-old child.

“I can kill anything, so I wanted low-maintenance. We have a ton of light, and I wanted air-purifying plants,” says Lauren.

She texts pictures of her ailing plants, like the brown spots on her fiddle-leaf fig, to Cutsumpas when she needs advice, which he dispenses at no extra charge. (It was a case of sunburn.)

Cutsumpas—whose plant-filled Instagram feed @FarmerNickNYC boasts almost 10,000 followers—sees plants as a “transitional step” toward bigger commitments: “You’re showing yourself, your friends and your family, ‘Hey, I’m taking this slow. I’m not ready to settle down and start having a kid at age 26.’ ”

Other New Yorkers gravitate toward plants as a design element, instead of posters or art.

A financial consultant who works from his Bushwick home, Sean Valentine, wanted his flat to have “some life in it.”

Valentine, 28, contacted his friend Maryah Greene, 23, a third-grade teacher who moonlights as a plant consultant. Like Cutsumpas, she finds most of her clients via Instagram (though she and Valentine are childhood friends).

“I became known as the crazy lady who’s always fixing someone’s plant,” says Greene, who posts advice on Instagram about choosing low-commitment flora and treating yellowing leaves. Her account @Greene.Piece, she says, has earned her about 20 clients in the last year. Greene takes home between $50 and $160 depending on a project’s budget and scale. (Her day rate is $250.)

Valentine and his roommates “gave me a $400 budget to ball out,” says Greene. “It was a lesson for me. I was like, ‘I can totally get you this really dope ficus, but the air quality in here sucks.’ ”

Now vines, hanging plants and shoots in pots on shelves line the walls of Valentine’s apartment.

“You can put paintings on the wall, but there’s nothing like having greenery,” says Valentine, who admits he’d never had a houseplant before. “It’s very alive.”

Greene attributes the millennial plant boom, in part, to social media—“the way that we advertise our spaces and our day-to-day” activities. But she tells clients it’s not all aesthetics but practicality, too.

“Everyone likes the look of having a plant by the window. But most of those really pretty Swiss cheese [monstera] plants aren’t meant to be on a windowsill, where it’s absolutely freezing,” says Greene. “Don’t get a massive tree if you don’t have the energy to water it and to fertilize it. You can just get a tiny bonsai.”

It’s not just homes that get spiffed up in this green wave. Restaurants, retailers and runways are putting a premium on plants as design, like Rihanna’s buzzy September 2018 Savage x Fenty lingerie show, staged like a leafy eden.

Brands like Nike, Umbro and Foot Locker have tapped Olivia Rose, the Manhattan native behind plant design studio Bodega Rose, to greenify store installations and workshops. Her signature basketball planter, which starts at $90 ($125 with a pothos plant) is a must-have accessory. Last year, ultra-cool label Gypsy Sport, helmed by Balenciaga alum Rio Uribe, sent models down the runway with Rose’s basketball planters during Fashion Week, making Rose the green-thumbed darling of the hypebeast set, able to marry high fashion and street style. She draped MoMA PS1’s courtyard in the planters for the museum’s first-ever plant installation.

In Greenpoint, hip Michelin-starred eatery Oxomoco features an elaborately designed ceiling plantscape by Rose. And Nike CEO Mark Parker commissioned a work for his office after seeing her Air Force One-inspired resin planters.

Rose thinks of herself “as a plant rock star. I’m going on tour with plants,” and prioritizes the “entertainment element” of her work, adding she knows she’s catering to a social-media savvy crowd: “People want to take pictures.”

“If plants are characters in my life, then how would they live? They would be big, they would wear the coolest clothes, they would dress in the best pots, they would go play basketball,” the 23-year-old, who formally trained as a landscape architect at Cornell, tells The Post.

Millennial mainstays like cacti, monsteras, philodendrons and twisted trunks of tropical trees in Rose’s own Kips Bay apartment provide ample inspiration—and a background for selfies shared with her 19,500 Instagram followers.

The idea for The Sill’s Plant Parenthood Club ($39/year) came from demand from Blank’s customers for advice on care. They even call their leafy dependents “plant babies.”

“It’s in lieu of actual babies,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Oh my god, I could never have an actual baby, but I can have a plant, and that could be my baby.’”

For his part, Valentine is currently experiencing the seasonal roller coaster of plant ownership. “Watching them transition to the fall and the winter, I’ve been a little nervous, because things happen, leaves fall off, and you’re like, ‘Am I doing this wrong?’”

Luckily, when Valentine or his roommates are out of town, Greene is on call to plant-sit.

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The Difference Between Cultural Appropriation And Appreciation Is Tricky. Here's A Primer.

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The Difference Between Cultural Appropriation And Appreciation Is Tricky. Here's A Primer.

Last month, during Couture Fashion Week in Paris, Zuhair Murad became the latest fashion figure to be accused of cultural appropriation.

The Lebanese designer, whose garments have been worn by stars like Jennifer Lopez and Kristen Stewart, created a beautiful collection ― but it incorporated Native American imagery in a way that left a lot of people uncomfortable.

Many of the garments featured details and accessories (like feathers in the models’ hair) that appeared to reference an “outsider’s view of many Indigenous cultures,” as Teen Vogue wrote. Then there was the social media promotion, which included the hashtag #IndianSummer. Finally, Murad’s fashion show set included large painted poles arranged to look like teepees without coverings.

Murad offered a statement in response to the criticism, saying, “The house pays homage to the craftsmanship of an array of ancient tribes, notably the Sioux, the Navajos, the Iroquois, and celebrates their traditional prints, embroideries, and pictograms.”

While Murad credited the indigenous tribes for his inspiration ― something that many brands fail to do ― his statement obviously wasn’t perfect. (More on that later.)

As we gear up for fashion month, with New York Fashion Week kicking off Thursday, perhaps it’s time for a refresher on the difference between appropriation and appreciation. Designers, bloggers, models and everyone else, please take note.

What is appropriation, again?

As HuffPost has written before, the Cambridge Dictionary defines cultural appropriation as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.”

For example, it’s disrespectful to the indigenous community to send a lingerie-clad model down the runway with a feathered headdress. Vogue publishing photos of a white model in geisha-inspired outfits ― in its diversity issue, no less ― probably isn’t the best way to pay homage to Japanese culture. And for everyone’s sake, don’t present a bunch of white models sporting locs, and then apologize for your “lack of sensitivity” by saying “Funny how you don’t criticize women of color for straightening their hair,” a la Marc Jacobs.

LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, associate professor of Africana studies at Williams College, provided a more nuanced explanation of cultural appropriation, telling HuffPost, “It’s actually really hard to define, and I think that’s part of what makes it so complex.”

“I think of it, in the most rudimentary terms, as this very fluid exchange of culture that happens among human beings,” she went on. “But the way that we think about it, especially now, is that it refers to taking someone else’s culture ― intellectual property, artifacts, style, art form, etc. ― without permission.”

When is appropriation bad?

As Fordham University law Professor Susan Scafidi told Jezebel in 2012, appropriation is “most likely to be harmful when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways or when the object of appropriation is particularly sensitive, e.g. sacred objects.”

To expand on Scafidi’s point, look at Kim Kardashian’s recent “Bo Derek braids” controversy. Kardashian, who is inarguably privileged, posted an image of herself wearing cornrows, crediting Derek as her inspiration. But cornrows, a hairstyle very much associated with black culture, have a complicated history that goes back further than Derek.

As Manigault-Bryant pointed out, Kardashian wearing braids “becomes a kind of symbol of beauty in some ways.” But black students have been punished for wearing similar hairstyles. That double standard, she said, “complicates the idea of appropriation.”

Derek responded to the controversy by arguing that cornrows “are just a hairstyle” (which, again, isn’t true for many people) that she wore for a movie, the 1979 film “10.”

However, Derek also acknowledged on Twitter that she’d copied the hairstyle “from Ann-Margret’s backup singer from her Vegas Sho [sic].”

“And we all copied Queen Nofretari. I hope Her Royal Highness is flattered,” she wrote. (Derek’s mother was a makeup and hair artist for Ann-Margret, the Swedish actress, when Derek was young. People magazine notes that “Derek might be referring to the Egyptian Queen Ahmose-Nofretari, sometimes known as Ahmose-Nefertari, who was buried with braids.”)

That acknowledgement by Derek, Manigault-Bryant explained, is “a critical piece” of information when it comes to appreciation vs. appropriation.

At the same time, Derek was late to acknowledge her inspirations ― not unlike Murad, who cited “the Sioux, the Navajos, [and] the Iroquois” in a statement after his fashion show had already happened. “Nobody should have to remind you to say where you got something from,” Manigault-Bryant told HuffPost. “It shouldn’t be an afterthought.”

“Imitation is the best form of flattery,” she said. “Most people believe that and agree with that, and yet if you’re imitating something but you’re not actually giving credit where credit is due, in academic communities we would call that plagiarism.”

Can designers borrow respectfully?

What, aside from not using other cultures as the heart of their collections, can designers do if they face such accusations? In 2018, is an apology enough?

For one thing, designers should be transparent about their inspirations from the get-go.

“We are absolutely inspired by other people all the time ― academics included,” Manigault-Bryant said. “But there’s no way I could make a living and not actually cite or invoke by name the people who inspired me. We should not intellectually or culturally plagiarize. We should truly get in the business of paying honor and homage where it’s due.”

“There needs to be increased diversity of all the various forms to make sure these kinds of things aren’t happening,” she added.

And from a public relations perspective, Ronn Torossian, a PR professional and founder of 5WPR, told HuffPost, “Brands need to be conscious of their audience; they need to be conscious of the political time that we live in.”

There are brands that seem to be doing things right, or at least moving in a positive direction. There’s the Brazilian sportswear label Osklen, which took inspiration from the Asháninka, an indigenous people who live in the Brazilian and Peruvian rainforest, for its spring 2016 collection. Osklen paid the tribe in order to use aspects of their tattoos and traditional fabrics in its collection. With the money, the Asháninka were able to build a school and open a store to sell their artisanal products.

Then there’s Gucci’s recent collaboration with the Harlem designer Dapper Dan (real name Daniel Day). Some accused the Italian label of copying Day, who made a name for himself in the ’80s and early ’90s by repurposing designer goods into new garments. In response, Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele said Day was among his inspirations, and later made him the face of a Gucci campaign. Gucci and Day also collaborated on a store in Harlem to sell made-to-order garments.

“Giving credit is one thing, but being included from the onset is also important,” Manigault-Bryant said.

At the very least, when brands are called out for crossing the line from appreciation to appropriation, they need to own up to their mistakes and offer a sincere apology.

“A good apology is always telling the truth. A good apology is owning up. A good apology is moving quickly. And a good apology is authentic and real and isn’t fabricated,” Torossian said. “It needs to come from the heart.”

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The Difference Between Cultural Appropriation And Appreciation Is Tricky. Here's A Primer.

Last month, during Couture Fashion Week in Paris, Zuhair Murad became the latest fashion figure to be accused of cultural appropriation.

While Murad credited the indigenous tribes for his inspiration ― something that many brands fail to do ― his statement obviously wasn’t perfect. (More on that later.)

What is appropriation, again?

When is appropriation bad?

Derek responded to the controversy by arguing that cornrows “are just a hairstyle” (which, again, isn’t true for many people) that she wore for a movie, the 1979 film “10.”

However, Derek also acknowledged on Twitter that she’d copied the hairstyle “from Ann-Margret’s backup singer from her Vegas Sho [sic].”

That acknowledgement by Derek, Manigault-Bryant explained, is “a critical piece” of information when it comes to appreciation vs. appropriation.

Can designers borrow respectfully?

What, aside from not using other cultures as the heart of their collections, can designers do if they face such accusations? In 2018, is an apology enough?

For one thing, designers should be transparent about their inspirations from the get-go.

“There needs to be increased diversity of all the various forms to make sure these kinds of things aren’t happening,” she added.

“Giving credit is one thing, but being included from the onset is also important,” Manigault-Bryant said.

At the very least, when brands are called out for crossing the line from appreciation to appropriation, they need to own up to their mistakes and offer a sincere apology.

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