Delusional Girl Profile: An Interview with Harmony Tividad
We caught up with fantasy pop songstress Harmony Tividad, formerly half of indie rock band Girlpool, to discuss her signature perfume notes and personal philosophies on songwriting.
The Oh de Laval Effect
Ricocheting to Instagram fame in the late 2010s, Oh de Laval has continuously impressed with her glowing aesthetics and uncompromised storytelling. In this article, we break down her creative journey, and how she represents the disruptive yet adorable characters within her work.
On Tabis
Division that revels in divisiveness.
Priscilla & Me: The Sweet Sadness of Codependency
“Isolated from the age of fourteen outside of contact with arguably the most famous musician living at the time, splitting her time between trying to graduate Catholic school and taking pills and trips to Vegas; Priscilla lived a life essentially incomprehensible to the average person. Yet, under Sofia Coppola’s beautifully understated direction, the madness unfolds into making perfect sense. The circumstances were unimaginable. But I’ve been her. The devotion is universal.
The boy I would’ve died over was by most accounts, an idiot.”
Which niche hobby should you pick up? (Quiz)
Let us show you how to fill your schedule for fall.
Post-Modern Sleaze: Chapter 2
Post-Modern Sleaze: A guide to romanticizing romancing your coping mechanisms. - Olive, a disillusioned model, experiences the mundanities of life running parallel to an imagined academic flirtation with critically acclaimed novelist, David Foster Wallace. 2/2
Scented Candles for Twenty-Something Teenage Girls
One solid piece of advice we can give to our fellow twenty-somethings that seek to inch their way into the level of martini-soaked sophistication promised to us á la SATC manifest destiny upon reaching adulthood is to invest in a good scented candle for your space. Luckily for you, we’ve already picked out eight of our fall favorites for you to peruse to your heart’s content.
Post-Modern Sleaze: Chapter 1
Post-Modern Sleaze: A guide to romanticizing romancing your coping mechanisms. - Olive, a disillusioned model, experiences the mundanities of life running parallel to an imagined academic flirtation with critically acclaimed novelist, David Foster Wallace. 1/2
Clean Girls Get Dirty with Djerf Avenue
“The clean girls are cannibalizing each other.” Djerf Avenue’s battle with dupe culture.
Desire & Suffering with Marina Abramović
“The artist filmed herself playing the Russian knife game: every time she cut herself, she chose a new knife and recorded the operation from the beginning. Repetition and replication, history and memory, were all themes that were explored with immediate violence.” Celebrating and examining the life of controversial conceptual artist, Marina Abramović.
Once Upon a Time in Halloween
The evolution of the Halloween costume.
ASK A DELUSIONAL GIRL: NO. 2
The second installment of Delude Magazine’s advice column, ASK A DELUSIONAL GIRL: This week, we answer your questions about navigating forgiveness after you’ve hurt someone & breaking the cycle of childhood academic competitiveness.
Halloween is satanic. (Just not for the reasons you think.)
“Girls will look for Betty to their Veronica, the Cassie to their Maddy. It’s all about Black Swan and Mulholland Drive…” “….Men might not know it, but on Halloween they are all dressed as Archie. And while many women have participated in this kind of dynamic outside of Halloween, those who usually would not feel drawn into this realm of subtle manipulation, are more ready and willing.”
Hocus Pocus: A World of Nostalgia in a Season of Change
Revisiting the Halloween classic that filled our formative years with whimsy and a healthy fear of galivanting through cemeteries at night.
Lolita’s Plight
An examination of the “Lolita Effect”, online subcultures enraptured within it, and the detrimental effects of the male gaze in popular media.
“Can nothing be painful in a woman's tragedy? Does self-harm have to come with pretty filters? Why does the water we drown in have to be filled with lilies like a fancy bath and not just be the water someone drowned in? Why does everything about a girl have to be soft and lovely? I am surprised [that the media has not] tried to turn our blood pink to look prettier when it spills.”
What kind of final girl are you? (Quiz)
Take the quiz and find out which blood-splattered horror movie icon you’re most like…
Fawns Forever
A foray into coquette visual theory: “..And just as camo lingers, so do fawns, for who wouldn’t want to be prey-faced, doe-eyed, spindly-legged, hunted by guys who bought their Realtree pants on Grailed? It’s natural.”
30 Years of The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides is a tale shrouded in mystery, a greek tragedy for the modern adolescent girl. It is a story shaded by loss, it’s written in the detritus of fruit flies which are scattered across the landscape, a jaded suburbia, haunted by the ghosts of mid-century conflict, anguished by the pressures of failing industry. The Lisbon sisters emerge as a product of their environment, at an impasse along the path from girls to women.
Bisous for Sophie Calle
“…Calle is a writer, photographer, and conceptual artist. Her practice explores human identity and intimacy, with voyeurism serving as a compulsory skill alongside her artistic and literary talents. Her penchant for surveillance was first activated by following strangers around her hometown of Paris.”
(A pocketful of…) Poesie’s mystical indie perfume oils, reviewed.
Longtime followers of my internet presence will know I have always gone to bat for the creations of North Carolina based independent perfumers Poesie. I find their cabinet of references to mythology, classical literature, film, and television unique and refreshing, and while I normally don’t spring for perfume oils – finding them limited and made from a formulaic palette of aromatherapy ingredients – the sensibilities of these very affordable pocket perfumes lean far more niche than spa.