#like if you're not into that lifestyle and just follow me for aesthetic stuff i can see how it may come across as preachy

[katolicki]

i may need to make a sideblog for specifically religious or marriage-related posts because any mention of being a traditional housewife seems to alienate a lot of people on here

[elextricbeauty]

Hello!!!

This is an updated version of my introduction, which will unfortunately replace my original one since I have a lot more followers. Feel free to skip it.

Welcome to my blog!!

I often post about stuff on my mind or when I'm bored, meaning my blog doesn't have a certain aesthetic at the moment. 

More often than not, I post about Lana Del Rey, but I still love other movies and may make references too.

Harry Potter 🪄

Melanie Martinez 🧚

Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children 🏚️

Fear Street 🪓

The Hunger Games 🏹

The Tudors 🗡️

The Virgin Suicides 👑

Scream 🔪

Priscilla 💄

Thirteen 🚬

Along with that, I often just use most words, and I very recently started making mood boards. 

Now for more details about me.

I am 15 years old

I am Bisexual.

My MBTI is ESTP.

I do like fan fiction so feel free to message me snippets of any work you are working on, and I will judge it fairly.

With that also said, I will not be reading any fan fiction with pedophelic relationships; this includes any universe where a person is originally 18 or older but, due to time travel, is aged down to a minor. 

I will also not be reading NSFW content, and any of that content will result in you getting blocked.

I won’t be having any of my social media accounts in this area due to the creepy men and women on the internet, but I do have Pinterest and TikTok with some of my pins and fun reposts. 

So if you're interested, please message me, and I will give you my username.

But I also recently found a master post with every unreleased Lana del Rey acapella, cover, demo, instrumental, monologue, music video, album, and song. 

Message me if you're interested. 

I also have two Spotify playlists for just-released Lana and Mel music that I have been listening to lately, so message me if you want the link to that.

My blog is supposed to be a safe place for everyone of any race, gender identity, or lifestyle. 

So please dni if you are racist, transphobic, or homophobic. 

Please don't bash ships in my comments or show hate to those who support them in my comments. 

Feel free to ask me any questions you have, and I promise I will answer them. 

I also love getting messages from people, so don't hesitate to message me if you're upset about something or just to say hi.

Anyways, thank you for reading all of that have a great day!!

[papirouge]

My faith based opinions that would have be arrested by chronically online christian bloggers are that you can be feminist and be a christian, that Christ wanted women to follow him and women have always worked outside of the home and it wasn’t unbiblical. That being a pro life feminist means that we ensure the safety of women and children. That also, if your “godly” husband thinks that you dying in childbirth or from any complications in your pregnancy is something he is ok with - you need to leave him. He is demonically possessed. Demonic possession isn’t always like in the movies, you have to listen and trust god when he is guiding you and telling you to be safe ie, our gift of fear. Also christian women need to stop consuming the content from this new wave of neo trad girls when all do is say they’re anti feminists and have a mostly male audience. It’s not spiritually enriching or productive. Our faith is not a trend. It used to be edgy “anti sjw atheists” making this content, now it’s “new age traditional conservatives” using our faith as an aesthetic. It’s false and it will change again to something else.

I think I’m just talking from experience because my little sister is consuming this type of content. She changed from the ‘anti feminist anti sjw atheist’ to a ‘crystal healing reiki student using astrology and essential oils for any injury’ to finally, the ‘anti women’s rights trad wife’ despite not even having a boyfriend. I’m engaged but I’ve gotten a lot of hurtful things told to me by for wearing pants and having a job. I really hope one day she sees that all these people she watches and follows online are either grifting for money or so chronically online that they’re mentally ill and aren’t participating in society. But having a relationship with God is eternal, it will never change because he will never change.

Yeah I never understood why Christians where so defensive against "Christian feminist" but had no issue with "Christian nationalists". I mean if you think feminism has no basis on the Bible because women have to be submissive, so does nationalism because we Christians are supposed to claim only one nation that is the kingdom of God. Same for the Christian conservatives who will mock queer/LGBT Christians over the fact that homosexuality is a sin and them making a whole personality/pride around their identity, when their are themselves building their entire personality around hating the self and entertaining a whole load of sin (violence, constantly cussing people, picking fights, etc.)

There was an AITA with a woman asking if she was the asshole for shutting down her husband to have a delivery at home and without painkillers just bc his mom & sisters did it. He argued it was the only for them to "respect her" I-

Maybe it's just me but I don't consider those trad pickme as actually Christian?? like to me, they are comedians larping as Christians. They are the Christianese washed version of the girl boss. There's nothing "soft Christian girl uwu" in putting out whole videos every day. That stuff is A LOT of work and logistics. What they won't tell you is that they also have a team (editing, copywriting, social media managers, etc) which doesn't fit with the "I don't want to join the workd force and stay at home all day uwu" narrative. Just bc you're not in an office doesn't mean you're not working nor help the corporate world running - especially by hiring people. As someone who's doing vlog on the low, unless filming /editing it all day, it's impossible to regularly update video (~weekly basis) without having a team. And since those women braf about taking care of their house and child this is unlikely they are in fact filming & editing all their videos by themselves.

IDK most of those girls come off as highkey deceptive, bored and just want to flex their lavish lifestyle. In a society when accesss to work is a privilege, not having to even work seems like a luxury. Those chicks are capitalizing off of it.

That being said, I love the irony of those "anti female rights" girls. They've been to school (isn't there a middle aged trad guru who tells girl to not pursue university when she herself has a PhD? 💀), most likely own a bank account, opened their social account without asking for any male permission, wear make up..... but they will swear up and down that females rights and feminism is pointless.... Yeaaah.

I'm 100% convinced most of the girls looking up this content will grow out of this phase though. That's why I'm not too bothered by that. This trend is just the natural consequences of the millenial #girlboss thing - the girls just want to rest for a while lol You can be that in ~10 years, the pendulum will come back in, and a whole new generation of girls who had witnessed the fall from grace of these trad redpill pickme (divorced, single mother, DV, etc.) will revive the girlboss thing as a defiance to the system responsible of that situation ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[fxirybun]

too damn true!!! i also feel like with ur last point that ppl dont seem to remember as easily compared to previous times? for instance whenever theres a "new" tiktok trend i look at it and realise its not actually "new" just something that the newer generations seem to think they created or made it new again.

its like kids or teens nowadays are so focused on their online life that they forget things have been done before in a less than new way so to see aesthetics that have been around long before thenselves come back as an aesthetic more than a lifestyle baffles me. particularly with y2k, not only do the 00s feel too long ago ngl we had so much good stuff but its like if you search it on youtube all ppl say is how trashy it was just because they didnt live in the era of it or they put an importance of aesthetics without realising they really wouldnt cope without the internet but its more so they prefer how something looks from that era, than anything else, i dont think anyones whos chronically online (myself included) would realistically want to have zero internet in current times it really gives fomo honestly its so bad.

if u arent doing what everyone else is doing its so bad making us feel further behind bc time aint slowing down for nobody. we 30 somethings had a lot too but i feel that gen z just dont realise the difference in society between then and now and it seems vastly different i cant explain it? thats why i feel like we were in some sort of time alteration device in or around 2019 cause nothings felt normal since then and even ppls behaviours and just the way they "think" has been altered so much and it always has to accomodate to whatever is going on both online and irl, the fact we have to try to mentally separate the online version from our physical selves is bonkers. thats whag i mean its totally different and idk if its a good kind of different or bad. im even seeing this crop up with new generation kpop groups and my faves ultimately they still are very much chronically online even if they are on a break. its actually hard to keep up with this stuff going on all the time hbu?

that reminded me of the whole baggy jeans & flared jeans trend and how my mom told me that these jeans used to put a chokehold on them back in the 90s lol. we be following the 3 Rs rules 😆 : reduce , reuse , recycle.

well.. if the shoes fit , fits them ��‍♀️ and the majority of teens are usually in their experimenting phase wherein they get to try new things that they're curious about. been there , done that ◔_◔ an example would be my little brother who's in his mid-teen years. he's experimenting with some clothes and would mix n match them cuz it's "trendy". i find his fashion questionable because of the layered tops and pants he's wearing 😭 like bro it's freakin hot outside and you're going to wear that ?? tho i'm not gonna stop him , letting him explore and find his niche (˘̩̩̩ε˘̩ƪ)

you know the whole "emo phase" back in the early 2000s and how people would throw shade on it ? well surprise surprise cuz tara yummy , johnnie guilbert , and jake webster are trending , and how their goth / emo fashion is making its way on trends.

gen z's are individuals who aren't afraid to express their opinions and are pretty much self-aware as to what's going on in this world. i find it admirable because their voices are being used to change the current societal expectations of what the govt or any politician had established.

i do feel that the whole pandemic was a major catalyst for all of us and how everything seems to be happening too fast. but i kid you not with this one cuz some of the millennials and gen x peeps i know irl has been noticing how we gen z's have no presence in mind and that we have short attention spans 😭

well , they're right with that one cuz i noticed it from my blockmates , the younger students , and my skibidi toilet siblings. and you shouldn't feel bad about not being able to catch up cuz i'm on the same page as you lmao ( T_T)＼(^-^ ) i had no idea what a "fanum tax" meant not until my little brother who's a gen alpha told me its meaning 💀 there's a new wave of slangs too and how i was left in confucius at first but i got a hold on it over time.

[vampirecatprince]

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)

Hell yeah! 👏 spreading 👏 positivity 👏

It may cause me some strife sometimes, but I really do like how creative I am. I like that you can see how much time I've put into my art, even if I really don't care about making anything off of it? I'm proud of my works and I like sharing them with others!

I can be very fastidious, detail oriented and analytical if need be? Like- my current job has a lot of problem solving aspects that I really enjoy and I instinctively see patterns in data pretty easily because of The 'Tism ™️ and it can be soothing to organize it all 😅

I like my fashion sense a lot? I've only just started putting effort into it over just "am I clothed socially appropriately" and it's just been so nice? It takes some effort trying to balance what you will actually end up wearing, what you enjoy aesthetically, and what fits your lifestyle (ESPECIALLY when you're trans and basically have to relearn your style from scratch) but it's been nice wearing stuff that I like.

I like my hands? I have pretty large and long hands for the size of my frame and because of how much crafting, music, and drawing I do, they're quite strong and I have a lot of dexterity.

I can be a very good cook when I put in the effort! Most of what I make for myself is very simple, but when I'm cooking for others I love pushing myself and seeing what I can come up with.

[zerofuckingwaste]

The thing is, it's very easy to have great style without trying to keep up with the Joneses, i.e. without always trying to get the next best thing.

Many things are timeless, in a way that's generally fashionable in society- think a nice classic timepiece, tailored wool suits, silk blouses and shirts, a good leather jacket and briefcase, etc, the kinds of 'investment pieces' that will last if not a lifetime, then several. I still have several such pieces that were owned by my grandmother, and I'll likely end up passing them on to the next generation in my family. This extends to stuff around the house, too; I have a cast iron pan that no one knows where it came from because it belonged to my grandmother's grandmother, a sewing machine that's nearly a century old, pruning shears that will outlive my trees. All have a beautiful aesthetic to them, one that is just as beloved now as it was a hundred years ago. You can follow trends with a sustainable lifestyle.

Many things are also timeless in a way that isn't necessarily generally accepted as fashionable in society, but instead in a way that you individually might find fashionable. I have a bright yellow abstract carving of my dog that my sister made for me, and it will outlive the three of us. I found an old painting of a hot air balloon on a page of the dictionary and framed it up on my living room wall- which, btw, is 70's knotted pine, a style everyone else seems to loathe. Instead of a grass lawn I'm planting wildflowers and native plants to create a friendly habitat for the bees. You can defy tradition and trends while living a sustainable lifestyle.

The rich are able to be lazy. They're able to ignore things like reusability and lifespan of objects and their materials, in favor of whatever is easiest and most accessible, regardless of waste. They have the money not to care about all that. When every dollar counts, it's much harder to ignore needless waste- and, it's harder to spend money on things that you don't actually enjoy, that you don't actually like to look at.

If you're rich, you can buy plastic cutting boards and toss them out when they get too scratched up. If you're not rich, you might instead opt for a long lasting wooden board, taking care of it so you never have to buy a new one as long as you live- and since you'll spend your whole life with it, why not make sure it's one that matches the wood finish of your bread box your mother left you?

If you're rich, you can buy the McMansion in that ridiculously overpriced neighborhood, for the prestige of owning something like that. If you're not rich, you may spend years searching for the perfect starter home, and when you get it, spend even longer gradually bringing it to the state you want, painting the walls, planting beautiful things in the flower beds, getting furniture that's not just comfortable, but beautiful.

If you're rich, you can buy whatever, because you can always buy something else later. It doesn't matter. If you're not rich, you have to be mindful of every purchase, and consider not just its purpose and sustainability, but its aesthetics, because you might not be able to afford a second purchase tomorrow.

All that being said, rich people are in a unique position to act more regarding sustainable practices. Those who don't take advantage do so out of laziness. It's infuriating. Eat the rich.

oh also i apologize for long text posts like talking about the “rich people have no style” thing but i think when phrases like that crop up its important to dissect them and try to understand where theyre coming from. it can be very easy to dismiss stuff like that with “well im not rich, so that cant be me” without reflecting on the thing that is being shamed is mindless consumption and disposal without reflection. i think by doing that we are able to reach the real problem instead of fixating on the labels assigned to those often repeating the problem. if that makes sense????

[winslowat3am]

Advice for anyone going through an ugly phase? Someone who doesn't necessarily feel particularly good about their appearance or health? I swear my face breaks out every week and partly because my diet is crap. I wanna have a glow up and redecorate my house to be more appealing and fit my aes but I can't afford expensive clothes, skin or teeth treatments, supplements, vitamins, or any of that aestheticy appliance stuff, and I gained weight that's hard to lose mainly because I can't afford a good diet because I'm poor as dirt. You make it look easy but fr why is this so hard? Literally I wanna cry and lack motivation to get up because I have nothing interesting to look forward to.

Okay, here's the thing, you don't really have to have tons of money to be healthy. Inside or out. Of course people who are more fortunate have better options available to them because they can afford to spend more. But you're trying to achieve all of this at once, which isn't realistic & that's why you're frustrated. All those "aesthetic" vids you watch & IG posts you see, those people either have family that bought those things for them or they acquired it/wealth - if they have it - over a period of time. So, that being said, I think you should focus on the things you can achieve right now, step by step. I recommend starting with your health/appearance. If you're not happy with the way you look, set goals for yourself & change some habits that aren't benefiting you. Skincare/vitamins: there are some affordable brands you can purchase at Dollar Tree, Walmart etc. Expensive skincare products & vitamins do not always = good quality. (If you have sensitive/oily skin like me I could help you find some good brands to start using & help you pick out the right products with ingredients you should use). Eat cleaner foods, that you can afford. Try portion control. Drink more water & slowly build an exercise routine. Try to lessen stress. Sleep when your body is tired & when you should. Basically, just work your way up. Start with the easiest obstacle to tackle & then move on to the toughest ones. Try to save up money to be able to afford the lifestyle you want little by little, network, follow business people online, learn helpful tips for the job you want, take business courses. Research, research, research. I never said it was easy. It's okay to not have your life together right now. We all have to start somewhere. & you're not ugly, don't say that, you're just having a hard time & that's okay.

[your-ace-cousin-clover]

Sure @surenado .

This is the explanation of my ideal Met Gala Outfit for Americana.

So that's the basic sketch.

Let me take you layer by layer.

Part 1 : Head.

So I'd like it to be an imitation of the Statue of Liberty's headpiece, an American Icon. But I'd like it to be as gimmicky or plasticky as possible, sort of representative of the commodification of American's ideas that become a souvenir, rather than a valued ideal of the nation. Also emphasise on our importance of symbols for values of history and country.

Part 2: Torso

So it's gonna be a cotton button up either barcodes printed all over (like the one on left) or shopping bills overlapping each other, whichever is better to press upon the idea and behaviour of consume, consume, and consume.

The choker should be red in colour with blue and white stars on it to be reminiscent of the flag. It being around the throat sort of presses on the person's neck, giving the idea of how blind patriotism can shut down critique, but at the same time, it is the same country which gives you the right to speak. A balance between slight choking and letting you speak.

And I lovee Cl's hanbok inspired denim gown? I feel like it would be a wonderful addition as well, because denim, duh. Very American. But even more than that there is something very alluring about such a coarse fabric being gracefully draped like a more luxurious and high end fabric like silk.

And the belt is a simple brown leather belt. Stuff you'd see usually workers wear, like a good, sturdy belt.

Part 3: Lower Half

So first layer is straight cut blue jeans. Very American and very simple.

Now, on top of that, I'd like a layer of mesh / tulle wrapped around the jeans loosely. I want it to decked with brand symbols and bejewelled as well. It's going to be very impractical and over the top, but I want to get the idea out about how branded stuff is essentially stupid? You're just paying for the brand, something when taken away leaves a generic piece of clothing behind. Again with the idea of how we're interested in symbols.

And finally Docs, now this is interesting cause Doc aren't American. But I'd like to focus on the aesthetics that we adopt regardless of whether we follow the lifestyle or now. In this case, Doc were shoes made primarily for workers, cause they're supposed to be hardy and last for a long time. But currently, you'll mostly see people wear them for the aesthetic of the shoe itself contrary to its true purpose. Stuff like cottagecore and dark academia is simply the romanticisation of aesthetic over the purpose which is farming or academics.

Part 4 : Cape

And finally, I want a cape with the "I shop therefore I am" by Barbara Krueger. For me, this quote stands to present how our inherent worth lies in our consumption. It's kind of tied to economics as well, you have a get a job to spend, you're given unemployment benefits so you can spend. Everything for us is centered around buying and spending ultimately tying our value to it. Capitalism essentially reduces us to spending machines and it becomes the only symbol of our consciousness.

So yeah, that's it. It's probably not very fashionable. But dude, it's so much better than black tuxes.

[toonformers]

Design number two, Optimus and Sentinel Prime, complete with height reference chart!

I redesigned Optimus but lets say for lore purposes, the technology for compressing Cybetronians to look humanoid has been developed even more and basically perfected.

But I wanna talk about Senti here, cuz there's some stuff to unravel here lol! So you may or may not remember (for those who don't know) when Naturae's life was destroyed, Sentinel scavenged the planet for survivors. No luck, he only came back with a seed and a note for Optimus from his lover, Shira, saying to take care of it and love it as Oppy loved her.

Sentinel wasn't very...keen to the idea of Optimus having an organic lover. However, he would help him go out with Shira and not be seen. He was willing to keep a secret, with the mentality of "This won't last long." And that mentality stuck with him, even after the news of Shira's death. Ultra Magnus' new law for all Autobots...

[Inside Fortress Maximus]

*Optimus is staring at the seed from Shira, and the note. He'd just compressed his body for the organic appearance and put on a vest with pants*

Sentinel: *slams door open* Optimus!

Optimus, surprised: Sentinel. I see you got the news.

Sentinel, angered: Yeah, I got the news. What have you done to your body? Why is everyone else supposed to do it?

Optimus: Ultra Magnus thought it would be a good way to appease the grief of others over the loss of Naturae and its people.

Sentinel, angered: Don't lie to me. I know you did this to mourn your little romance. What I don't understand is why you're making the entire planet do it!

Optimus: It's not my decision what Ultra Magnus passes as a law and you know it.

Sentinel, angered: But you very clearly influenced him. Don't deny it!

Optimus, annoyed: Fine, I won't. Happy?

Sentinel, angered: You still haven't answered why you want everyone to do this.

Optimus: ...The Naturians...they saw the world differently compared to us. Down to creation. They don't see machines or technology. They don't see sparks of energy or metal. They see life. What life is. What it can be. How it all connected. I want our culture to have that.

Sentinel, annoyed: Optimus, we are machines. We don't have reproduction or flesh or a fragile nature. We're beings who are forged. Built to last eons without a scratch. What differences us from any other machines is our sparks. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Cybertronians. The ability to have an AI so complex it's basically a soul. I for one and happy with that.

Optimus: Well, I'm not. I don't like this idea of "we're machines so we're better than everyone". Because we're not better. We have so much to learn. You especially.

Sentinel: *takes the seed away from Optimus*

Optimus: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Sentinel: This is the problem. You spent way too much time around those organics. I should've separated you two as soon as I suspected your little fling.

Optimus, furious: It's not a fling, Sentinel! She was the one! Shira was the one I wanted to spend my life with! I loved her!

Sentinel, angered: You're judgment has been blinded! You didn't love her!

Optimus, furious: Oh, what do you know about love?! How could you know how it feels to have finally found the being you're going to spend the rest of you're life with, only for them to DIE and you living with the guilt FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY KNOW HOW THAT FEELS?!

Sentinel: *stares in shock and slowly gives the seed back*

Optimus: Thank you. Now please leav...Sentinel?

Sentinel, whispering: *approaches Optimus* How that feels? You mean how it feels to fall in love in the Autobot Academy? How you planned to confess your feelings after completing a mission that you were sure you were gonna succeed. Primus, with your baby brother and friend by your side, it's a guaranteed success. Then...she dies. Because the organics who lived in the planet you visited were hostile and numerous. You blame your brother for not letting you go back for her but deep down, you know. And you have to live with the fact it's all my.... *voice cracks* fault.

Optimus: Sentinel?

*Sentinel walks away silently*

[Hours later, with Ultra Magnus]

Optimus: ...and I haven't seen him after that. I thought maybe he'd gone to see you.

UM: No, I haven't seen him. It's strange. Sentinel is not usually the emotional type. I wonder where he could have gone.

Guard: *bursts through the door* Commander! An emergency! In the medbay! It's Sentinel Prime!

[At the medbay]

UM: Perceptor. What happened?

Perceptor: Sentinel Prime had locked himself in the room and repeatedly used the appearance compressor. I estimate he went in 6 times before collapsing and loosing consciousness.

UM: Primus.

Optimus, worried: Why would he do that?? Where is he?

Perceptor: He's undergoing some repairs. Unfortunately there have been some complications. Normally the compressor can be used once, twice for aesthetic purposes. More than that can damage the exoskeleton. Sentinel having gone in 6 times has caused himself severe internal injuries. Among them...his T-cog.

UM, worried: What's wrong with it?

Perceptor: It's been crushed to a scrap. And as you know, T-cogs are irreplaceable, due to its technology being mostly unknown to science. We've not yet mastered how to build replacement cogs. Unfortunately...Sentinel Prime's transformation ability...has been terminated permanently.

Optimus, shocked: No. Magnus!

UM, sad: Sentinel...

Perceptor: It seems he wanted to fully commit to the organic lifestyle. He didn't explain why. He only said "He needs this."

Optimus: I need to see him.

UM: Take us to him.

Perceptor: Very well.

[Sentinel's med room]

*Ultra Magnus and Optimus enter to see a thin Sentinel, trying on clothing. He turns and stares at his brothers*

Optimus: Sentinel! *hugs Sentinel, Ultra Magnus joins*

Sentinel: Heh. Didn't think you'd want to see me.

UM: Are you joking, you malfunction? What have you done?? Do you realize what this has done to you??

Sentinel: I know.

Optimus: Sentinel, why did you do this? You could've gone offline! Now your T-cog is gone! You'll never transform again! Why?? Why do this?

Sentinel: ...remember what I said earlier? About...the thing with...

Optimus: Yeah?

Sentinel: After that happened, I continued my studies like normally. And it's one of my biggest regrets, because I didn't take the time to mourn Elita One. I never fully recovered from the pain. Now you're going through the same thing I did. And instead of helping you during this time, I was mocking you. I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry. And...to help you get through this, I decided to follow Ultra Magnus' rule. While taking it to a much...further extent.

Optimus, surprise: Sentinel....

Sentinel: Let's make this clear. I....dislike organics. A lot. But if you think this is what Cybertron needs to progress and what you need to feel better, I'll do it.

Optimus: Senti...come here, you idiot! *hugs* Thank you. You look great.

Sentinel: I know. *smirks*

[topconfessions]

TOP's latest IG updates are so crazy. is he officially losing his mind? what abt the picture with photoshopped rainbow-colored hair tho...

Nothing new. It's always this way. If we take his word for it and it's not a lie, a fan supposedly made that rainbow edit and he found it / was tagged and noticed it.

These dumbass fans need to fucking stop.

Its encouraging and entertaining strange behavior. It's not cute. If top was a nobody and doing shit like this he would be avoided and folks would say he has a problem you know it and I know it. We all know it. His fans are annoying me now. There was no need for that stupid ass edit and now he took it further with pasting animal heads on himself. There is a difference between abstract interests with comedy and sheer bizarre behavior. He needs therapy or needs to stop drinking / smoking weed. He doesn't have any true friends in his life and that white man Mark is a horrid influence.

This is what happens when your father abandons you leaving a mother to raise you by yourself in you a rich artsy lifestyle and you're brought up in the entertainment industry.

Exactly what happens.

Top is someone I would sleep with but never seriously date and even then with all this shit I can't understand I don't even think I could make it far enough for a date. Ugh. The fans ruined this. The denim post and the mask & glasses was enough. Just when he is about to look normal shit like this happens. I can't even follow him for art anymore cause the art he is into looks like art someone who has severe mental illness or emotional issues would attach to other than for aesthetic purposes.

Now I feel like I've gotten excited for nothing.

Im starting to see the obvious in that Top dyed his hair just to do it and not for a comeback. He has that energy about him where he has to channel it into things like his appearance or style or art to expend it. Top has a posting pattern and if you notice he withholds normal photos from everyone now posting art or random objects or weird stuff then randomly bomb drops a photo of himself with a 1 million likes no matter how he looks in the photo.

I'm over it. I was briefly excited but that excitement wore out fast and I haven't looked at his insta since.

[hotshotshitshow]

Your posts about goth shit are so legit. One thing that angers me the most though /is/ kind of this war between those who are into old school trad goth/have been around a while vs the occult nugoth tumblr pastel crowd. On one side, yeah shit can evolve. Goth music and fashion have evolved in many different ways, but that doesn't discount the roots of it all, whether you're talking about the music or even going back as far as gothic literature and shit. I don't really like when people (cont.)

(cont.) completely disregard the history of something just to make it suit whatever phase or aesthetic they want. Or relabel something or w/e. Like people can be into pastel goth or cybergoth or steampunk if they want but they shouldn't forget where those things came from (I honestly can't even get mad at steampunk since it has roots in literature. The subculture is pretty shit though). And as far as pastel goth, to me it seems more closely related to J-fashion instead of goth. Idk so much stuff

sorry it took me this long to address this sldkmfmds

like yeah i get u like for me the big thing that bugs me is like. i dont care if you wanna get into a subculture. you go be punk. you go be goth. i dont give a shit. more people come join so the subcultures stay alive for a long time. what bugs me is when people dont bother to actually learn anything about the subculture they claim they wanna be a part of and just get into it bc its a cool edgy costume they can put on to be Unique N Badass just like everyone else who has decided to follow that trend and then take it all off when it suits them and be like “lol i had a goth phase for a month bc i wore some black lipstick!!!” bc then thats how everyone thinks it works

and like you said, theres lots of history behind subcultures that so many people ignore or dont even bother to try to be aware of when they do shit like this and act like its nothing more than a trend and it makes it easier for people to just like idk see them as a joke or a simple costume. 

like lol for fucks sake the other day i saw a post that implied that victorian goth was a very new phenomenon that evolved from scene and mall goth kids like how do u even begin wrap ur head around that lol like u dont get to just learn the vague definition of something and then start calling every dark colored thing you see goth and start making up ur own shit abt it when people have literally lived a very dedicated lifestyle revolving around it before you were even a twinkle in your mothers womb

[duanecbrooks]

Media Impact     It's time to once again let you in on what is My All-Time Favorite. And to remind you once again that I am not nor have I ever been a high-culture maven nor an aesthete nor even a real and true intellectual but am and all during my adult life have been a geek of the Meghan McCain stripe.       Got all that? You do? OK, so My All-Time Favorite Media is...Heart and Soul magazine's 2003 cover story on my girl Robin Givens.               Literally everything about said article shines. The cover of this particular Heart and Soul issue features Robin sporting an especially dazzling smile and is emblazoned with a particularly ingratiating headline: "Robin Givens: On Mike [Tyson], Money, and Being Misunderstood." Open up the magazine and flip through a few pages and there's Robin again, again wearing a notably uplifting smile and bent over rightward in a quite fetching manner, with the words "Robin Redux" on the bottom of the page. Flip through a few more pages and on the "Contributors' Page" there's a pic of the (as shall be demonstrated, very talented) writer of the Robin piece, Janice R. Littlejohn, who is shown to be a not-bad-looking woman, probably (then) in her early-to-middle-40s, herself equipped with a highly beguiling smile. In her space she engagingly compares meeting Robin to "[c]oming face-to-face with the most popular girl in high school. 'It was like meeting up with the girl who you thought you knew everything about, but [then] realizing how much you have in common.'" We're then let in on the fact that Littlejohn is "[a] freelance television, entertainment, and lifestyle writer in California" and she appealingly reveals that she's attempting to make her life more pleasurable with "food, travel and trying to find the perfect couch for my new house."             Now to the Robin piece.               Let it be said first off that my lady looks positively stunning throughout, first giving yet another stunning smile while lying upon her stomach with her legs up in the air and outfitted in Maroon pinstripe pants, a beaded Chaiken tank top, and metal Mare olive heels. Turn the page and there's Robin again, this time wearing a L'impasse white floral gown and a Elisabetta bracelet. Turn the page once again and there's my woman once again, this time decked out in an Anja Flint olive jersey dress, a Stephen & Co. gypsy-like necklace, and a Barry Cord cocktail ring. And in all--all--of the photos Robin has an enticingly cheerful expression.           Here's where we come to the actual Robin article.             The aforementioned piece begins with a rather appealing quote from the subject herself ("I feel okay now. I know what I want instead of what you think you're supposed to have. I know what makes me happy"). Then Littlejohn paints a sensitive picture of the two of them agreeing to eat at this one restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and her expectation that "[s]ince the media has been less than flattering to Givens [that's a considerable understatement]...I expected her to be guarded." (As it turns out, she was all the while "relaxed and friendly"). Eventually Littlejohn deftly captures, as the two of them walk along, "fans [of Robin] beginning [sic] to take notice--gawking, waving and doing random drive-bys, yelling, 'You look good, girl!'" From there Littlejohn skillfully depicts where Robin was at that point in her life ("At 38, Robin Givens is a woman reborn, clearly revelling in a new sense of self outside the Hollywood spotlight--a nascent inner tranquility that comes from embracing life's simpler things. She divides her time between Maryland, Kentucky and New York...fancies herself a connoisseur of fine Italian and French food, frequents American diners and loves chitlins and pig's feet"). Littlejohn proceeds to stylishly sketch where Robin was professionally (the latter "is no longer defined by the trappings of a box-office-driven career. Acting is simply what she does") and offers up some insightful words from Robin's Boomerang/Head of State co-star Chris Rock ("I'm clicking through channels and see Boomerang and think, 'Hey, what's Robin Givens doing? Haven't seen her in a while.' When I met her for lunch, I said, 'You should get back out there.' It was kind of a pep talk. 'Get out there. You can act'").               Littlejohn's article continues. She elicits from Robin some admirably searching words from her subject concerning how it was like for her growing up without a Dad ("[Y]ou just feel this sort of unworthiness, and the pattern begins there...If you're not good enough for the first man in your life to stay, then why should any of them stay?"), incisively delineates what was Robin's public image pre-Tyson ("Givens has long been known for her love life, beginning with a romance with a Saturday Night Live comic named Eddie Murphy. She's had public romances with Brad Pitt and tennis pros Murphy Jensen and Svetozar Marinkovic, whom she married and quickly separated from") and draws from Robin some telling observations regarding Tyson's words during that infamous 20/20 interview they did by Barbara Walters, which was responsible for Robin's 20-year reign--especially, sad to say, as crowned by blacks--as The Most Despised Woman In America ([Tyson told Walters] "'The best punch I ever gave, she went from that wall to that wall...and she was out.' I thought. 'This is definitely not going to be acceptable.'"). Following are some intensely perceptive words from Robin's good buddy Tiffany McLinn, one of the Lifetime network's Intimate Portrait executive producers ("[Tyson] was really popular, and people were completely on his side...[A]t the time he was married to Robin, and so people really vilified her...She didn't have any rep before [hooking up with Tyson]--it's just because of that marriage [emphasis mine]"). From there there is a deftly-done sketch of my lady's professional standing during that period ("She starred in TV projects such as The Women of Brewster Place and The Penthouse, and she was on her way to box-office stardom with critically applauded roles as Imabelle in 1991's A Rage in Harlem and the next year as Jacqueline Broyer in Boomerang").           Going forth: Our portraitist gets Robin to present some genuinely moving recollections concerning her then-emotional/psychological life ("I had gone through hurt, and I mean it really hurt, and it hurt me and it hurt everybody close to me and it was serious for me, the pain that I felt. So it was interesting to have agents going, 'Yeah, but you're on the cover'"). After pointing out--and this is a fiercely individualistic statement, considering the fact that it's being made by a black writer about a black celebrity/entertainment figure in a black-oriented magazine--that Robin realized "that she was just another cog in the Hollywood machine," Littlejohn's probing gets Robin to freely acknowledge: "At that point I realized I wanted to be a healthy, happy human being, not just have a successful career. That's what I realized was the most important thing to me." Littlejohn, to her great credit, also gets Robin to own up to the fact that "I'm not looking for vindication. I'm not looking for people to go, 'Aha!'"                 And there's more. Littlejohn, with laudable journalistic professionalism, paints a picture of Robin as an absolutely hands-on mother, quoting her as asserting: "Nothing makes me happier," then quoting McLinn as contending that Robin and her sons are "like the Three Musketeers...[Being a single mother is not without] its challenges. But [Robin] is first and foremost a mom, not an actor." Robin then movingly tells of her renewed spirituality ("[Y]ou can call it anything. I mean, I now have a relationship with God") and in time laughing and "carefree," (Littlejohn's description) claims: "I have no ambition for a career." (To this Littlejohn adds: "At least not a career outlined by Hollywood's terms," going on to delineate the sporadic work Robin had done around that time [periodic television series like Courthouse, periodic independent pictures like Book of Love, her then-current work producing the Uninvited series for the Heritage Networks]). Following is a quite sprightly portrait of Robin doing a photo shoot, wherein she's "wearing jeans, flip-flops and a white tank top under a black salon cape" and "[h]er hair is in spiral pin curls, and she's wearing no make up." Littlejohn effortlessly captures Robin's admirable good humor during this shoot ("I think we shoot me just like this, whaddaya think?").                 And the conclusion to the article is honestly uplifting. Littlejohn makes the exceedingly perceptive observation that "while Robin Givens may not have always been in fashion, she has always been popular. Now with age and life experience, she has an outlook that matches her newfound confidence." (Robin afterward shares said outlook: "I know that if you hang in there, He'll work it out for you"). And the absolute end of the piece is outright heart-melting. Here Robin "smilingly" says: "I've been through enough to know some stuff, but [I] still have a lot of living to do. You know when little stuff would bother you? Now it's like, 'This is me. Take it. Leave it.' It's feeling comfortable in your own skin. As a woman."             In sum, Littlejohn's Robin profile certainly, definitely proves the aptness of the title this one IMDb-message-board-post writer bestowed upon Robin: "The sexiest black woman in entertainment" (actually, she shares that title with Paula Patton)--and proves that she's a highly articulate, intelligent, thoughtful person to boot.               Heart and Soul magazine has long, long, long since stopped doing cover-making celebrity interviews. Too bad. Janice R. Littlejohn's Robin Givens article should have won the aforementioned publication a National Magazine Award. Hands down.