North Sea oil platform

look at the talented guy balancing orange on noggin, so centered 

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The build up for Alek’s vogue cover.

i-D Japan 1992 February

and people may use this as proof that the old situation was better for you, proof that you need to go back, and it is not proof that it was better for you or proof that you need to go back

It’s so incredibly common to “fall apart” when you’re finally safe. You no longer need to stay so tightly coiled in on yourself, you can finally leave survival mode and process your trauma. You’re not holding yourself up by sheer terror anymore and suddenly the damage that terror has done to you becomes immediate and obvious. 

Sometimes, it’s contrast to past experiences that makes us realize something was traumatic at all. In such cases, it’s not that we’ve reached a level of safety and can thus begin to process, it’s that we finally have a basis for comparison to know that what went before was unacceptable. 

Day 7: Rat queen

i defy u heart man

Michael Stewart RCA collection shot by Andrew Nuding and styled by Kieran Kilgallon

Eileen Agar - Partners

Topaz Winters, from “Mealtime,” published in Cosmonauts Avenue (via lilstinky)