Bound (1996)

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

“I was very, very emotionally avoidant. I strictly emotionally avoided everything my whole twenties. I was catching up with my sister the other day, and I was like, ‘I think from the way that we were raised, I think we were taught that we have to earn love.’ Instead of it being an unconditional thing or that being an unconditional entity. I’m not saying it is that. I don’t know whether that comes from that African upbringing, that strict upbringing: get your grades, get into a good uni, become a doctor, become a lawyer. Start overachieving. It was like you have to prove why you’re lovable. We’re trained to be like, ‘If I’m not exceptional, I won’t be loved.’ Certainly, I think that was my thing. So, yeah, I think I’m just learning now like, ‘Oh, you are allowed to be loved.’ You don’t have to be excellent or aspire to that term, ‘Black excellence’. What the hell? There’s so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway. So, I’m slowly training myself out of that and being like, ‘No shit. You deserve love just for existing.’ And that has taught me to be a lot more loving as well, in a weird way.” NCUTI GATWA photographed by Melanie Lehmann for Attitude Magazine (May/June 2024)

As pride month begins, let us not forget our Palestinian brothers and sisters.

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

Lupita Nyong'o in Us (2019)

Keke Palmer in Nope (2022)

Extremely good paragraph from an article exploring the concept of sentience in invertebrates

by Karsten Mielenz

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) dir. Rose Glass

PLOT TWIST: dry healing is good??? i may want to this every time now. only took ~a week to finish peeling, and it wasn’t half as itchy as i expected!!

in the middle of a 4-5 hour tattoo session and i am fighting for my LIFE trying not to fall asleep on the table, pray 4 me

the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........

lizpop_art

Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild

Sabrina (1954) dir. Billy Wilder

#when fixing things is your love language 😭🥰 HOLES (2003) | ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (3x14)

Louise Moillon (1610-1696) "The Fruit and vegetable Costermonger" (also known as "At the Greengrocer") (1631) Oil on canvas Baroque

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) dir. Sidney Lumet

Overlord (2018) Directed by Julius Avery