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Létizia Le Fur  (French, b. 1973, Saint-Denis, Paris, France), Photography

The X-Files popularity just happened to parallel the birth of the internet. Philes took it by storm with the creation of fan forums, chat groups, and hundreds of websites devoted to the show, characters, and the actors. :)

It’s true! But the corollary is, “And if not Star Trek, probably X-Files.”

by lawrence weiner

Schiaparelli - Spring Couture 2020

Giambattista Valli Spring 2022

Richard Slee - Wipe, 2010

Bonnie Burstow

For many traumatized people, the world is not a safe place- for women, for trans people, for disabled ppl, for BIPOC, for really even the most privileged person under capitalism… this isn’t a cognitive distortion, it’s a truth. It reminds me of being in eating disorder therapy and being told that we’re not fat, it’s all in our heads- but what about those of us who were? Who know what society thinks of and does to fat people? Who have been ordered to and encouraged to develop the exact behaviors that we performed too well or too literally? Even some of the best trauma care wants people to believe that all fear and danger is a product of a diseased or broken mind, rather than a very reasonable adaptive response. I’ve spent so long trying to berate myself for continuing to feel terrified and worthless in a world which is both terrifying and committed to telling me I am worthless. We have to find ways to live and thrive within this danger, to feel out the boundaries of danger and carve hideouts within it, to create livelihoods where we are naming it + confronting it + destroying it, rather than finding a way to slip back into the unconscious illusion of a safe, picturesque American life.

Jū Xiǎowén photographed by Leslie Zhang

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Photographer Gunarto Song captured a remarkable photo of a meteor falling “into” a volcano ( Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia), and the resulting shot looks like there’s a green beam of light shooting up from the crater. (SOURCE)