you must fix your heart

The life cycle of a cherry.

Also, fun fact, the flowers that include both pollen- and seed-producing structures on the same flower are called, among other terms depending on exact structure, perfect bisexuals. Moving away from the sexes terminology, they're often just called perfect.

Logging on just to say Rest In Peace, Jennifer Finch. One of the coolest women in 90s music and a longtime staple of this blog. Let's all blast some L7 in her honor today

GOOD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

Fabiano Senk - Brazilian Dream, 2025 - Acrylic on canvas

Rear View, Sunset by Jenny Bloomfield

Courtesy Alain Truong

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