He doesn’t want to be an early-morning booty call. He doesn’t want to be a hobby, or a fuck-buddy or anyone’s right hand. He sleeps around because he’s looking, because Max wants to believe that someday, somewhere, he’ll find someone worth quitting for; he wants to believe that someday he’ll stop being the third (or fifth or seventh) wheel and find someone worth keeping around.

Okay, so his methods are a bit fucked. Sue him.

So Maxxie gets around. He gets around with drunken bar paramours who buy him one too many drinks and them press him into corners and suck bruising kisses onto the skin of his throat.

Sometimes they’re kind, considerate; other times, they’re not at all what Max needs. Sometimes he comes out sated, other times bleeding, and none of those times he ever tells his friends about. It’s killing him, maybe, one little death at a time, but it makes him feel so alive.

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So let them call him slut. Let them judge and catcall and jeer until their faces turn blue and their breath runs out. Maxxie doesn’t care. He knows what he’s doing.

Mostly.

Derived from sogneremo: sans parachute – 1/1. (tony x maxxie)

So there are miscellaneous footage from Skins season 4 on Youtube. Abigale linked this on twitter, did anyone notice Effy’s gorgeous blazer thing with the random scattering of badges. Awesome! I will do this look one of these days.

It has always been my belief that dreams are derived from the subconscious mind, so thoughts that dominate my head during my waking hours would turn up in slumber, perhaps even reveal a bit of truth to the chaos by projecting what is the most important.

So it comes as a surprise that I would dream of you, holding me.

What I often see is that people are frightened of fashion and that, because it’s scares them or makes them feel insecure, they put it down.

On the whole, people that say… demeaning things about our world, I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded, or not part of the core group. So as a result, they just mock it.

Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K Mart, it doesn’t mean you’re a dumb person.

There is something about fashion that can make people very nervous.

–Anna Wintour, opening of The September Issue

Is it just me or does Anna come off as, surprisingly, insecure?

He reminds me of you, both tall, thin, pretty average looking. And the way he walks

Yet you are so happy and cheerful, the mental picture I have of you inside my head is of you smiling.

I want to be happy too, in spite of all the downs in my life; heck, you’ve been through so much more shit on a different magnitude altogether, and yet that smile is there.

Confidence seems to radiate from you, despite… well, everything. You write so well.

I think you’re an inspiration.

This is Maxxie, from this awesome british TV series, Skins. Isn’t he adorable? Now luckily for you guys, there are full episodes of it online. Watch now, what are you waiting for?

Thanks to Abigale for pushing me to watch it!

I’ve always been a sucker for Paul Smith’s signature stripes in rich colors. Look at how pretty they look on that clear glass!

Watching this still gives me the shivers and makes me want to tear…

Ever since Just Dance, Gaga has had runaway successes with each of her following singles: Pokerface, Love Game and now, Paparazzi. The story she speaks is a controversial one, full of sexual implications and innuendoes (we all know sex sells), although not so in your face direct like what Katy Perry did with her words. This opens up a whole new market of listeners and fans: people who could care less for the lyrics and what they mean, but listen to music because it sounds good. How many of you really knew what Spice Girl’s “Wannabe” actually meant? The same parallel could be drawn for the equally blind and oblivious people who are crazy about K-pop or J-pop.

My opinion of Lady Gaga has always been a mixed one.

I love her spectacular showmanship, the amount of effort she puts in for each, individual performance that she gives, the amount of preparation and money she gives in to make each and every show she does, a unique and memorable one. How many established artists are actually capable of doing that? Lady Gaga isn’t even established, she’s new.

I started to despise her mega mainstream pop culture, where rabid fans who don’t know the first thing about what makes her great, scream and declare their utmost undying love for her like mindless unintelligent drones seeking to be “cool” just because those who truly are cool, like her.

“oh ya ya ladie gaga she is like best i like her so much ya poker face dance and love games”

Do you understand what she stands for? Do you know where she comes from?

Also the blatantly ignorant, who criticize and laugh at her outrageous outfits, just because she dares to support and wear some of the more risqué pieces legendary designers come out with (her three VMA outfits last night were from Jean Paul Gaultier) means she’s at the forefront of fashion. And where are you?

Fancy some of Lady Gaga’s blood and seeing her crucifixion?

So if you haven’t heard about the whole Taylor Swift/Kanye West/Beyonce drama, here it is in two video parts: Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for “Best Female Video” which was interrupted by Kanye West saying Beyonce should have won, which she did, wining “Video of the Year”. (I’m linking to Mashable because MTV doesn’t allow outside U.S. views– seriously who still does that?)