Blackswan8043 - Sky And Stars✨️

maybe if you take a hot shower. cook something. eat a little soup. feel a little sunshine. make something with your hands—it doesn’t have to be big. maybe if you stretch your body and draw a silly little picture and get some rest, the world will feel like something your hands can still hold

Some messages left by queer Palestinians who face annihilation by the Israeli government in their retaliation against Hamas. The Israeli government has dropped thousand of bombs, leveled streets, cut off water, gas, and electricity, bombed hospitals, ambulances, mandated evacuation and then bomb evacuees. Innocent people are dying in the mass.

There is no need for this government to employ these acts of collective punishment. The same logic that is used to condemn the acts of Hamas, should be used to condemn the actions of the Israeli government. No one deserves to slaughtered and dehumanized.

And keep in mind, that this terror is not unusual for the Palestinian people, and this is another horrific event in a decades long oppression and apartheid.

I would totally read it!!

Enemies-to-lovers, but instead of featuring a villain redemption arc, the heroic one is getting progressively more corrupt, unhinged and fucked up, and the one who was originally the clear-cut villain out of the two is just like "well mark me down as scared and horny"

㋡🥀

Things I loved about Imagine Me

Been seeing a lot of negative reviews about Imagine Me here but I personally loved it, so to bring some positivity into the tag here are (a lot, sorry) of things i loved about Imagine Me

(spoilers, but that is a given)

- That whole entire fight scene at the beginning, literally the most intense moment in the whole series

- Warner begging his father to take him instead of Juliette because he cares more about her freedom than he does about his own life

- Anderson declining his offer because even though he doesn’t really care for him he doesn’t want that future for his son

- Warner finally snapping at Omega people for being bad friends and abandoning Juliette (and him (but mostly Juliette))

- Seeing the more ruthless side of Warner, I mean this was obviously sad to see but we finally got to see that people weren’t exaggerating about him

*side note but I don’t consider this a “regression” from his part, Warner was never fully the good guy just as he was never fully the bad guy, he exists in a gray area and just does what he needs to do, we got to see his more gentle side with Juliette because he allowed that side of him to show but with Juliette gone that part of him wasn’t useful (in his mind) anymore. He allowed himself to be happy for a little while and that was immediately ripped away from him so it only makes sense that he acted the way he did. His characterization is so unique and complex and I will literally never shut up about it 

- Anderson having compassion, something he never had for his own sons,   & trying to save Juliette at the end, but only because she was useful and obedient to him  

- The fact the the whole series was build up on the idea of Anderson being super smart and stuff and seeing that the other Supremes thought he was a fucking idiot 

- Ibrahim being the one to shoot Anderson / seeing them turn against each other to maintain power

- Warner spending days covered in blood and dirt and then showering and putting a suit on to go save Juliette 

 - Warner thinking that Juliette was already gone but trying to rescue her anyway because that was the only thing he could do 

- Kenji going OFF on everyone and anyone that said that Juliette wasn’t going to make it / that they would be better if they killed her 

- Brendan and Winston finally getting together 

- Winston getting Kenji drunk by putting whiskey on his tea 

- Juliette coming full circle with her skin powers; saying that she would never use them to hurt anyone ever again and her holding up that promise until the very end to kill Emmaline because it wasn’t to hurt her but to free her from her pain

- Juliette struggling with her goddess, being curious, and going against orders despite being brainwashed and being under control 

- Every Kenji/Nazeera interaction 

- Warner telling James that he didn’t tell him they were brothers because he didn’t want to scare him off 

- Emmaline feeling safe in Juliette’s mind and to some extent getting to spend her final moments with her 

- Warner literally stabbing Anderson with a MACHETE 

- Like this man tried to kill his father so many times for what he did to him and never could but the moment Juliette’s life was in danger he did not hesitate to try and kill him 

- The people of 241 basically falling in love with Warner after he saved the day

- Kenji and Warner’s little bonding moment when Warner tells Kenji that he proposed to Juliette and Kenji finally understanding why he was so devastated 

- Warner calling Kenji a clown and that he should seek help 

- Kenji telling Nazeera that Juliette and Warner were engaged just to annoy Warner 

- That whole Warner & Juliette scene just UGH the FLAVOR

- I had been secretly hoping for a Warner/Juliette showdown since the beginning and I can’t believe I finally got it

- “She’s going to kill you” “that’s fine”

- “She’s really going to kill you” “then I’ll die”

- Nazeera being shocked and hurt seeing her father dead despite her knowing it would happen/kinda wanting it to happen 

- Warner taking his coat off while “fighting” Juliette and folding it over a chair, literally the smallest detail but his mannerisms are just so interesting to me  

- Juliette unconsciously recognizing Warner’s traits in Anderson 

- Juliette being SO CLOSE to killing Warner but stopping cause she couldn’t believe how beautiful he was and her literally thinking Warner was fake and that it had to be a test because he was too good looking to be real 

- “Where did they make you?” “So you are in there”

- This whole scene is so good because it’s unlike Warner to do something so reckless and you can just feel his desperation at not knowing what else to do to get her back and Juliette thinking that she has to kill him but being unable to resist when he kisses her and her trying so hard to hold back her emotions, thoughts and memories but her love for him being literally so strong that it snaps her out of the control just UGH 

- “Here,” he whispers, pressing my hands to his heart. “Home”

- Emmaline fucking obliterating Max 

- Warner being unable to hold back his inner fashionista and saying the new wedding dress was ugly 

- Warner being embarrassed at feeling too much when seeing Juliette in her corset and being literally paralyzed (in a good way) at the thought of them getting married 

- Warner having to restrain Juliette from grabbing a plunger 

- Juliette being excited at fixing stuff, learning how to use tools

- Juliette reclaiming her name to not give the ghost of Anderson any power over her

- Warner being the only one to call Juliette Ella the way she’s the only one to call Warner Aaron 

- Kenji destroying the wedding dress

- The dog!!!! They have a freaking dog!!!

 - Juliette being upset that she can’t talk to the citizens cause they almost trampled her cause they were so grateful 

- Those same people throwing babies at her and trying to cut a piece of her hair off 

- Warner’s, who has struggled with depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts, final words (and the last words on a series full of pain and loss for every character) being of happiness at the mere sound of Juliette’s laughter 

Feel free to add any :)

“Renaissance” Vlada Roslyakova by Pierluigi Maco for Vogue China January 2007

Let's be alone together ❤️

I need to stay here alone.

GOSHH.THE OUTFITSS!!!!

Jessica Chastain in CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

Süleymân I and Hurrem Haseki-Sultân’s wedding:

The controversial union had to be announced at some point, and the run-up to the Iran campaign in spring 1534, when the contract of marriage was sealed, was an inappropriate time for festivities, especially given the mourning for Suleyman’s mother Hafsa. Now [January 1536] that Suleyman was safely home, Roxelana may have pressed to have her stature as his legal wife made public. […] The royal wedding apparently caught some in the foreign community by surprise. “This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sultans,” remarked the Istanbul representative of the Genoese Bank of Saint George. “The Grand Signior Suleiman has taken to himself as his Empress a slave woman from Russia.… There is great talk about the marriage and none can say what it means.” […] “At night the principal streets are gaily illuminated, and there is much music and feasting,” […] “The houses are festooned with garlands and there are everywhere swings in which people swing by the hour with great enjoyment.” […] “In the old Hippodrome a great tribune is set up, the place reserved for the Empress and her ladies screened with a gilt lattice,” wrote the Genoese banker. “Here Roxelana and the Court attended a great tournament in which both Christian and Muslim Knights were engaged, and tumblers and jugglers and a procession of wild beasts.” The giraffes had necks so long that to the unaccustomed spectator they appeared to “touch the sky.”

– Peirce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire 

Anyone else haunted by the conflict that comes from living a life?

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) / Keaton Henson / Oscar Wilde (?) / Sweet and bitter magic (Tooley) / Albert Camus / Dead poets society ( Peter Weir) / Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) / The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) / Bukowski / Mahmoud Darwish / Maggie Stiefvater / The Secret History (Tartt) / Sylvia Plath/ Inside (Bo Burnham) / Midnight in Paris / Doc Luben / V.E. Schwab / 500 days of Summer (Marc Webb) / Nora Sakavic / Nora Sakavic / V.E. Schwab / Holly Black / Nora Sakavic / Maggie Stiefvater / Kafka / I was born for this (Alice Oseman) / V.E. Schwab / The starless sea (Erin Morgenstern ) / The starless sea / The starless sea / Dead poets society / Steve McCurry

(thanks to everyone who edited everything, I'm sorry I can't find you and credit your work to you)