Nights Lately

School children singing in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940, photographed by Russell Lee.

Holiday Magazine Autumn/Winter 2017

Freja Beha Erichsen by Lachlan Bailey

Styled by Clare Richardson

nina simone photographed by alfred werthemier, 1965.

80 years ago today, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. #DDay #OVERLORD #WWII #GreatestGeneration #OnThisDay

Imagine watching a movie where a sudden twist happens—a car crash, an explosion, a shocking revelation. In that moment, you’re caught up in it. Your body reacts, maybe your heart races, your breath catches, and for that brief period, it feels like the most real thing in the world. You don’t stop and think, “Oh, this is just a movie,” because you’re fully immersed. But then, the scene changes, and as you keep watching, you naturally shift back into the awareness that it was always just a film playing out exactly as it was meant to, frame by frame. Nothing was actually out of control—it just seemed that way in the moment.

That’s what happened. The accident itself felt abrupt, unexpected, and for a moment, I was just there, experiencing it as it unfolded. There was no time to intellectualize or analyze—it just happened. But afterward, there was this deep, undeniable clarity that everything was exactly as it was meant to be. Not planned in a way that suggests someone sat down and mapped it out, but planned in the sense that everything unfolds spontaneously and perfectly, always. Even the initial shock, the seeming confusion, was part of that.

It’s like how waves crash in an ocean—each wave rises, crests, and falls back naturally, without any mistakes or missteps. It just does. And even if, for a moment, a wave might “forget” that it’s the ocean, that doesn’t change the fact that it never actually wasn’t the ocean. That’s what’s paradoxical about it: in the moment, you can feel like you’ve “forgotten” the underlying nature of everything, but once the moment passes, you see that you never actually forgot—because forgetting itself was just another part of the flow.

That’s why it’s impossible to ever really “fall out” of understanding. There’s only ever this, unfolding exactly as it does, and whether you seem to remember or forget makes no real difference.

Tag Game: How Pinterest Sees You

Thank you so much again for including me @musette22 !💙

rules: search lyric, color, character, place, outfit and quote on Pinterest and show how it sees you.

Tagging (but no pressure at all): @soliddarrity & @thisonesatellite 🤍

I was tagged by the lovely @raven-writes-fanfic & @buckvrogers! Thank you both so much, I loved this <333

rules: search lyric, color, character, place, outfit and quote on pinterest and show how pinterest sees you

Tagging (no pressure) @voylitscope @stevefightmerogerss @rachelica9 @somanywords @vuesfluides @mentalmeles and anyone else who wants to have a go at this 🫶🏻

a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

I know it’s a bit long but I wanted to use the full bridge

It’s on my TikTok too @aria_winch don’t forget to check for more edits like this one <3

Hi! I’ve made these cover pictures for the Not Easily Conquered series by dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, as you can see, and I really liked making them! I thought I could share them online in case anyone’s interested. But if you are interested, please don’t download them from here, the quality isn’t great, instead you can download them in full resolution on AO3, where I’ve uploaded them all.

Joan Baez photographed by Alain Gaveau, 1960s