Amber Sparks

Yup 100 percent

We really really were

A horror movie where the gorgeous older star of a horror movie about society’s obsession with women’s youth and perfection becomes obsessed with youth and perfection and ends up looking like a horror movie

Ha yes!

Lol yes, WHERE is the duct tape

So glorious! I wore my dad’s old college fraternity sweater with moth holes and a pair of pants I got from a costume sale that were once the Scarecrow’s in a Wizard of Oz production and it was GREAT

I know every generation co-opts fashion from other eras but my god, that’s supposed to make it MORE interesting, I swear if I see one more influencer in the same baggy beige shit and perfect hair I will lose my mind

Have you seen the way they’re celebrating Demi Moore when she literally looked like she was going to pass from existing? It’s awful - I’m so sorry about your mom - and it’s so scary!

And also they can’t even tell the difference between the 90s and the 2000s, which were polar opposites in fashion!

People now think they’re doing 90s fashion but they’re actually just emulating boring rich people from the 90s. They’re not capturing anything that was fun or interesting about the era, not the punk or grunge influences, not the heavy 70s and 30s call backs. Just boring rich people

Minimalism was for rich people and models. Calvin Klein was for rich people and models. Anorexia was for rich people and models, and was sold to us consistently so we could supposedly look good in clothes we could never afford

You wore a scarf because your hair was dirty and we didn’t obsess over hair influencers and products. You wore Docs because you could only afford one pair of boots and they were the most utilitarian. You dyed your hair your favorite color. You didn’t give a shit about rich people like the Kennedys

Okay. 90s style was cool not because every looked the fucking same, but because you could actually express your OWN SENSE OF STYLE. Most things were thrifted, so you picked out your own skirt, your own giant flannel, your own weird message tee. You wore your mom’s old bell bottoms.

YEEEEEUUUUPPPPP

They go hand in hand! No need to worry about hips when you’re starving

Women in their 40s JUST got okay with ourselves and our bodies, we will not be doing this again nor will our daughters, opt us the fuck out please

Everyone is too skinny and it is giving me heroin chic ptsd, I cannot do this bullshit again you guys

I really do feel bad for millennials more than anyone because of this. We Gen Xers didn’t believe in anything, except that we’d probably be dead by 35, so we’re not disappointed by much and have no real ambitions. But millennials were raised to achieve shit and care, and that sucks for them

😭😭😭

(And yes I know this was as much about her depression as it was about WW II, and ditto)

With all apologies to Woolf and all the casualties of both world wars, “I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times”

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

This is exactly it - but worse, because we have a Mad King AND we have the ability to REMOVE him from power - and GOP Congress won’t do it

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

5 Calls can help you make the call:

5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

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Aw, thanks, Corey! I love to be in weird company

Oh my god

I love this book so much and I wish more people would talk about it!

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

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I didn’t know I wanted this until you said it! Now I need it