raised behind the altar, under oak and ash

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

Lanvin - Fall RTW 2019

Walter Crane

guess who just got ✨dommed by the narrative✨✨✨

DOOMED I MEANT DOOMED

"whose name was writ in water", from john keats last poem | middaia silver engraved heart pendant .

Fanny Cornforth Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) The Fitzwilliam Museum

House of the Vestals, Forum, Rome

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Maud in “Tennyson: Poems”

@sankta-lucia 🥀

Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento

The First Omen (2024) dir. Arkasha Stevenson

Margaret Atwood, from ‘Crickets’, The Door (2007)

Pamella Roland Fall 2024 RTW

nice art, but there are actually two women in this painting:

the black model in Manet's 'Olympia' was called Laure and her presence in the painting has been famously overlooked by critics until fairly recently. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (screenshot from article above!) even suggests that Manet's work deliberately responds to anti-slavery sentiment in france in the mid 19th century, using Laure to criticise her white mistress' reliance upon her. others have suggested it just replicates an existing tradition of using black people as basically accessories, secondary subjects who are the property of their white counterparts (and by their darkness highlight the whiteness of those counterparts), but critical opinion is quite mixed as to what Manet's painting is doing here to either contribute to or complicate that legacy. in many ways it's not surprising that she's been omitted here, but i thought i'd use the opportunity to highlight her existence if people want to find out more!

inevitabile fatum 🫀🌿

I love a good eerie happenstance.

Precious Tear ear cuff by Alan Crocetti