Tony Ward | Spring/Summer 2025 Couture

What makes Poor Things so ultimately triumphant for me is the way that Bella Baxter is, despite it all, her own creation. She came into the world in an experiment that violated the autonomy of both Victoria before her and Bella herself, but she steps beyond the parameters of the experiment and into the world, to learn from it. The intentions of men may be to possess her or use her or take joy in despoiling her vulnerability, but their intentions do not determine her experiences. She decides. She explores. She looks at a world full of sorrow that could render her helpless and chooses instead to do what she can about it and then sleep easy at night. She listens to the call of her curiosity before all else, her happiness second, her compassion third. The family that she makes for herself in the end is unconventional, but it's ultimately hers and allows her to flourish as a doctor with an experimental nature and a heart of patinaed silver.

And I don't think it could be that particular kind of triumphant if the movie wasn't so fucked up.

RUGRATS 3.13 “Angelica's Birthday”

The Tudors 3.07

“Protestant Anne of Cleves”

the last tudor queen

hello

☀️ Summer bucket list

🧺 Have a picnic with freshly sourced ingredients  🤿 Go for a swim  🌕 Discover the pleasure of sun moonbathing

PLEASANTVIEW FAMILIES THE SIMS 2 (2004) dev. Maxis

Every mf town in Massachusetts has someplace called the Brave Lion Fucking A Boar's Head Inn that's been open since 1796 and their specialty is the "Autumn Clusterfuck", a cocktail made of 6 varieties of hard liquor mixed with hand-crushed local apple cider and served with a hockey-stick shaped stirrer.

Wildlife in North Carolina. July 1972. Illustration by Ken Pendleton.

Internet Archive

Hair, makeup, & nail tutorials from Japanese mook “Gothic Lolita Patterns Vol.1”, 2004

I wanted to do one of the makeup looks for reference, but I am neither pretty nor good at makeup, sorry T-T