organizing everything by the weather is hard

It's November now, which in Chicago means it's winter, which means I'd better wrap up my fall vibes before it's time for Sweatpants Vibes and Hating The World Vibes.

I went to homecoming with friends in my Virgin Suicides dress, gold platforms that made it look like I was floating kinda (one guy said I looked like a scifi hero!), and dead rose petals bobbi pinned to my hair.

For Halloween I was Carrie, kind of? Bloody Mary? Unfortunately my lipstick goo blood was smudged by the end of the night, but I can assure you it will always be in my SOUL! Or something.

Our October theme at Rookie was Secrets. This was the moodboard I made for inspiration...

And the moodboard that ended up as our table of contents calendar thing:

Ah, such visual satisfaction! Here are all the things I did for the October issue.

Wrote my editor's letter! And looked mad with Petra in the process.

Styled a bunch of angsty teen witches, which Petra then shot!

Gave dating tips for middle schoolers! I mean, Chill McChillson did. But I helped him.

Interviewed Elle Fanning! And oh man, it was really sweet and fun.

Attempted to figure out with a few of our other writers how to call people out on their BS!

Wrote a handy DIY on bitchfacing!

Styled some photos Petra took when we went to Salvation Mountain! I am really pleased by these and really hope you like them.

Made a DIY video with Petra for making those crowns that popped up in our Salvation Mountain. More help/fun/inspiration at the post.

Wrote about depression/other people's depression/attention/Good Art/more stuff like that.

Payed homage to the styles of Edward Gorey and his characters.

And lastly, wrote and illustrated a thing on why the 21st century is not as awful as one might think.

I recommend all things I did because if you are reading my blog I write, then you might like other stuff I write and style/illustrate/whatever, as well. But I highly suggest looking at other stuff on the site, too! Highly! There are wonderful contributions from Meadham Kirchhoff, half the Parks and Recreation cast, Autumn de Wilde, Kimya Dawson, and more awesome creative people. We are now in Issue 3, Girl Gang. If you join us, we will reward you with things that will make your head and heart happy. Like chicken soup for the soul. Not the book series of inspirational stories, but the actual soup.

Benim Tatilim Basladi

enjoy bitches

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Pelush, Sydney

bir diger arzu ettigim look ta bu. altini bilemicem ama ustten boyle. cok iyi.

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Yuvarlan

Keskin hatlara son! Olabildigi kadar yuvarlak, yumusacik ve yumos neredeyse.

En guzeli.

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Being Free

lets be free. and lets take photographs all day. while cruising in the streets of Paris.

why not?

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fall vibes part 4

Also, Allison's red dress at the end of Cry-Baby, and red and blue for 3D glasses.

These fall vibes inspired Rookie in September when I made the moodboard...

This is the (crappily made) moodboard I sent Petra for September, and she came up with all this brilliance! (More of the school spirit one at the link, these are just my absolute favorites.) (Which ended up being most of them.)

More of Petra's photos for Rookie are here. And, we change the background photo every day, and the September ones were also basically everything I've been babbling on about, all these vintage photos of weird after school clubs and chatty girls walking to class, and we posted all of those here.

ALL THIS COHESION GIVES ME SUCH SATISFACTION

Most of the real life fall vibes didn't get captured, which I am okay with, because you know what can be kind of nice? Not having to document/share/publish everything and letting some things just be really sweet private memories. It's all in my notebook, which of course is red.

From when I borrowed Miu Miu, with my Twin Peaks necklace and the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.

These are from a day of Twizzlers and Crunch bars and listening to a 50s/60s girl groups mixtape and trying to find parts of our town that don't look like they exist now or here. My little button is a rainbow that says JESUS underneath, given to me by a true Catholic-raised teenager who now resents her father. Anaheed says I look a little stoned in this photo, so I can now add "on drugs" to my list of ways in which my face deceives people by telling them I am: angry, sad, cursing voodoo on them in my head while they are speaking.

And this is me being pensive, like our friend Joey here.

fall vibes part 3

Freaks and Geeks would be impossible to screencap, since the nostalgic parts are basically anything that has their house, their school, or the outside in it? Mostly it's my own nostalgia. I saw both Tenenbaums and Freaks for the first times around the same time, and it was fall, and kind of like this, only I am not as cool as Bill: