John Galliano S/S 2004

bella

Thinking about MAG 101 again, specifically the line “He cared for her, he trusted her, and she fed him to me.” Like !!!! The fact that this story is being narrated simultaneously by the monster and the person being consumed by the monster, the fact that you can hear Michael Shelley in that line, and you can hear the Distortion, but neither of them can tell their own story because what they’re describing changed them so fundamentally that they don’t exist anymore in the same way they did at the beginning of it. Am I making any sense?

"MALE NUDE WITH FIVE FLOWERS" HORST P. HORST | p. 2001 [fine duotone photo engraving | 10.5 x 12.5"]

tma is a show which spends the first 100 episodes going "look at these monsters. aren't they fucked up. yeah and they're all so happy being monsters who hurt people monstrously" and then the protagonist who you've spent hours listening to at this point becomes one of those fucked up monsters, forcing you to either dismiss him as evil or you have to fully change how you view all the previous monsters. and then they spend the next 100 episodes dealing with that

Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2000, backstage photo by Juergen Teller

“mary wollstonecraft sent a volume of jean-jacques rousseau's bestselling novel julie, or the new heloise (1761) to her lover william godwin in 1796, with the request that he ‘dwell on your own feelings: that is to say, give me a bird's-eye view of your heart.’

the shrewdest lovers marked up their books by highlighting the passages that they most agreed with, thereby ensuring that they found a spouse with a similar intellect, interests and outlook on life.”

we have loved the same way for centuries.

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