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my beautiful newly adopted son. hard to photograph bc he kept getting closer for cuddles

Chappell Roan – performing at the Syd for Solen Festival

the eise eisinga planetarium in franeker, the netherlands, the oldest working planetarium in the world. located inside the former home of eise eisinga

CHAPPELL ROAN photographed by Ryan Lee Clemens for "Red Wine Supernova"

Greek Kitties #9, 2026 by Timothy Adam Matthews (British); Oil on canvas, 16x20 in

Fujio Akatsuka: I’m KIKUCHIYO! (1982)

Ron Wolf

ISA BRIONES via Instagram, June 2026

Kelly Pringle

Pan American Airways, 1966

I’m really glad you raised this as well! Was touching on it in the comments but this is another notable aspect to it; the weird girl is a usually-thin, usually-cis, and usually white creation - the name evokes an infantilized fragile outsider that fits ‘Tim Burton’s aesthetic’ in all senses of the phrase, who curbs and defangs her aberrances from social norms (usually, her reaction to patriarchy) via the concessions of fitting these standards, via still being pretty and palatable and privileged, and it’s no mistake - patriarchal infantilization of women is of structured around notions of innocent white womanhood. The literature by and about woc and their experiences is relegated often to being simply novels About Race and not gender as well no matter how that factors into the narrative from what I’ve seen