you were brave. you were strong.

Violet Butterfly Pea Tea Soda / Dream Ball Parfait

There's no minimising of the clockwork, as in auteur blockbusters that regard “illusion-breaking” HUD tricks with heavy disdain. With their cutaway cinematics and title cards, special gauges and turn order bars, JRPGs want you to revel in the battle system as an explicit form. One pay-off is that repeating the form becomes a kind of celebration, or at least a more obvious kind of celebration - not just an enjoyable thing you do to progress, but a kind of spell you cast on yourself and the game, where playing with the repetitive elements is part of the magic. In more experimental works such as Cataphract OI, it can also become the excavation of a theme.

A couple of tulips from my garden this year. They’ve all bloomed so well! 💖

Old Growth by Mitch Epstein (2021–2023)

pollera dancers with swords... is this anything

Dazed Magazine June 2022

really good text from my sister in law

solid perfume necklace in the shape of a mussel from estée lauder, 1974

barcelona

Teeth of the Valley