nuditea:

nuditea:

lana del rey posted a picture of herself and marilyn monroe hanging out on a beach and i will accept no theories that ruin my image of her opening photoshop at midnight and just sitting there for a couple of hours in the dark meticulously cutting out and colour-co-ordinating

this was just meant like “don’t suggest anyone else made it bc this is funnier” but it sounds kinda like i’m saying “don’t even fuckin tell me she travelled back in time and actually hung out with marilyn monroe because i will NOT believe you”

I appreciate my colleague to the north’s perspective, but let us parse the narrative of the photo for the truth, shall we? Monroe is clearly somewhat tired—she has had a long journey. Perhaps a journey to the future? And look at Lana. She is looking forward, shielding her eyes somewhat. Obviously what has happened is not that Lana went back to meet Monroe, but that Monroe came forward to meet Lana. And now Lana is looking to the horizon, wondering who she might meet on her journey.* 

Or, the photoshop thing.

*All of this only works if Marilyn built the time machine, not Lana. Something I learned about time travel (really!) from a physicist who studies it: People from the future can come back to you, and you can go forward, but no one can go back to before the machine. So if Marilyn built the time machine, Lana could find it in our time, and go back to Marilyn, and bring Marilyn forward to our time. But if Lana built the machine, only people from Lana’s future could appear. SCIENCE.