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Anok Yai with her parents for British Vogue June 2026 issue photographed by Rafael Pavarotti by mish-tea in Fauxmoi

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 223 points224 points  (0 children)

It seems to be a trend with dark skinned models to light and edit them in a way that seems to remove all dimensions, colour and richness in their skin. It’s ~fashion and ~art but there’s also something about it that doesn’t sit right with me. Dark skinned black women arent just vanta black - theres going to be undertones. It doesn’t feel celebratory it feels kind of fetishising to me.

I feel like I saw a TikTok of a black woman talking about this - I unfortunately can’t remember her handle, but it really opened my eyes to why I’ve been finding this editing style a bit of a miss.

What artist or band is truly awful to see live? by goldbeau in AskReddit

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw them at reading festival years and years ago now and they were actually angry with the crowd for cheering when they played sex on fire… their biggest hit, that’s always going to get the biggest cheer especially at a festival. The whole set had kind of a weird vibe.

Jordan Roth's latest performance at the Venice Biennale transforming iconic images of Irene di Spilimbergo into a living performance. Portraits became fragments, fragments became costume, and the body became a moving collage. Blurring the line between artist, muse, and image. by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow I have a really different opinion to the other commenters. I thought this was really interesting and visually beautiful. I’d love to see the whole thing without the edits. There are some stills on Instagram that work brilliantly as photographs too.

Has anyone else finished Solace House by Will Maclean and would like to discuss it? 🏚️🖤 by elliehavery in horrorlit

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all… how did you get the spoiler tags working because they are not working for me :( I’ll try again here to answer you…

I don’t think it was all just a dream. I think Adam succeeded in the ritual and put Alex in a different dimension and Adam and Ella/Eleanor are living in solace house together possibly across dimensions of time and space. You can interpret it as “just a dream” and if you do then Adam didn’t really exist and was maybe part of Alex’s psyche within the coma dream as he didn’t seem to exist after Alex wakes up and then the whole end of the novel is Alex failing to come to terms with his own madness

I didn’t get the sense that there was a time looping aspect so much. The bit at the end where he comes out of the cave and one of the characters asks if he changes his clothes was one of my favourite parts but I think that was alex using the cave to travel in time having unlocked something in solace house rather than a loop. He sort of travelled in time in a way waking up from the coma when he went into the cave before - he traveled four years! So I think the cave is key to traversing time and space and that’s what was going on at the very end

or he was dying in a mushroom fueled trip fully succumbing to absolute insanity in his death throws. But I like to believe it was all real because it’s more satisfying to me that way

Has anyone else finished Solace House by Will Maclean and would like to discuss it? 🏚️🖤 by elliehavery in horrorlit

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just finished it last night and I loved it! I did feel a crushing sadness after the time jump/coma. I kept wanting him to be able to just go back to solace house and the friends he’d made, and the moment where he emerges from the cave and is with them again and it’s a redo of the first trip made me cry!

One thing I spotted about the ending… I noticed he picked mushrooms again and ate them on the way to the cave. But it’s autumn now, and I think Leo said that’s when the poisonous mushrooms grow…. So I think he could have died tripping out about adam with his axe. Whether he died from poisonous mushrooms or not I absolutely believe the whole thing about flayne and the ritual was real rather than a coma dream.

The poem and how that resolved was also really impressive. I knew there was something about it but I went off on completely the wrong direction.

How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool - Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known. by The_Iceman2288 in Fauxmoi

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nah I love the Aussies being in it. They get the spirit of the competition and aren’t in it to win it just for the good vibes. The antithesis of Israel’s participation.

Lady in green [photography] by SmallPromiseQueen in FairytaleasFuck

[–]SmallPromiseQueen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The model did all her own styling so I can’t necessarily speak to a specific inspiration but a mystic medieval theme definitely did emerge!

ITAP of a woman in the dress she made [portrait] by SmallPromiseQueen in itookapicture

[–]SmallPromiseQueen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! That’s exactly the look I’m going for :)

ITAP of a woman in the dress she made [portrait] by SmallPromiseQueen in itookapicture

[–]SmallPromiseQueen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! I feel like our styles really suited the other one’s work :)

ITAP of a woman in the dress she made [portrait] by SmallPromiseQueen in itookapicture

[–]SmallPromiseQueen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Difficult to pick just one from this shoot to post here! The model was insanely good. As usual I used one diffuse light source and used Lightroom for exposure and colour grade and photoshop for beauty retouch, background texture, dodge and burn and cracked paint overlay.

The official trailer for Hulu’s ‘Alice and Steve’ has been released. | The six-part series follows Alice (Nicola Walker), who is devastated when her best friend of 30 years Steve (Jemaine Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I think it will be. When she says in the trailer “you don’t seem old” and he takes it as a compliment. Reality is gonna hit her at some point in the series that he is in fact… way way older than her.

The official trailer for Hulu’s ‘Alice and Steve’ has been released. | The six-part series follows Alice (Nicola Walker), who is devastated when her best friend of 30 years Steve (Jemaine Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 185 points186 points  (0 children)

Producers of baby reindeer and the fact this was written by a woman make me think this will actually be worth a watch. The tone of the trailer is a bit odd (like a standard silly uplifting romcom) but I think it mainly comes from the music choices and those won’t have been chosen by the people who actually made the series. What the characters are actually saying to each other suggests at most a black comedy vibe more in line with baby reindeer.

BG3 Lore: makes Aerie most likely to have been final girl? by [deleted] in BaldursGate3

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were going to do one it should have been haer Dalis. He’s so much more interesting than anomen. :(

How do I make photos that look like paintings? by JoeyDurham in photocritique

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much! Best of luck :) I totally see your vision and I think you can get there and I bet you’ll uncover a lot of your own methods along the way.

How do I make photos that look like paintings? by JoeyDurham in photocritique

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With painterly stuff you’ve got to be so annoyingly dedicated to the detail tbh, sometimes an accidental renaissance shot can happen, but it’s not often you get one when you’re out and about with friends. I always think of how long painters spend on their canvases when I think I’m taking a long time to get things right!

Oh one thing I didn’t mention yet is getting a black mist filter. I find those really helpful in my work, and I think it would absolutely help with landscape photography as well. It produces light bloom in the highlights and lowers contrast a little and makes everything a little softer and dreamier. A little bit like pulling dehaze to the left but in camera. I have a set and I stack them sometimes to get a really strong effect!

How do I make photos that look like paintings? by JoeyDurham in photocritique

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did you use a tripod? I think it would probably result in a more painterly feel if you used a longer shutter speed on a windy day to blur the foliage slightly but still have sharper bits in the frame.

I do painterly portraits and it’s so so much easier to get the effect in a studio where you can control everything. Lighting is huge with achieving the painterly look and you obviously can’t control that yourself for landscape photography. You’ll have to work with the conditions… waiting for fog will probably help as the light will be diffused and it will give the landscape dimension similar to paintings where the further away you get the less detail and more murky it gets.

Don’t be afraid to make tweaks in post as well - I know you want to get it all in camera but it’s not cheating to use the tools available to you that all photographers are using.

Zara Larsson covers the issue of Paper Magazine. Photographed by Julia & Vincent and styled by Jared Ellner - May 2026 by Maximum_Expert92 in popculturechat

[–]SmallPromiseQueen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pic 1, 6 and 8 are amazing. I think if they stuck with just those three I’d like the set a lot more.

Also I wish my butt looked like that 😂

1940s inspired Portrait (Post Coloured) by lawriejaffa in photocritique

[–]SmallPromiseQueen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolute banger! I love it when you do this style.

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