Ancient roman mosaics (details) from Herculaneum and Pompeii, Italy
(These are screenshots I took from a documentary. I have not made the slightest alteration to the images, I upload them in the same state in which they were recorded.
The video is in HD, that’s why these screen captures really look like good and large photographs.)
The Count in his Count Mobile.
Really wanna dig thru the ditches and burn thru the witches in this ride.
chadvortex
yea bud! i was on the grind nonstop for a few months until my body said haha watch THIS! and took me out of work for 3 weeks
Sometimes, it will take the rest of your life.
I can’t stress this enough. I wish I could get through to everyone I know. If you try to organise and be productive with every minute of your day, eventually, your body will pull the rug out from under you in a dramatic fashion, and you may end up being able to do very little at all, in a world that has no sympathy for people who need to rest.
So rest now. And work on making sure the people around you know it’s OK to rest.
And don’t feel guilty for resting. Practice telling yourself that rest - quality rest, where you’re not stressing about something you feel you ought to be doing - is actually a productive thing to do for your body.
You are an animal. You need to respect that animal’s needs. That includes laying about doing nothing as much as it does enrichment and running about.
Even your fucking computer gets overheated and slow if you don’t allow it to shut down and update sometimes (which is actually a lot of what sleep does for humans, btw). You eve notice how sometimes your browser just crashes sometimes because you have too many tabs open, or one of the tabs is causing the whole machine to run slowly?
So don’t tell yourself you want to work like a machine because guess what? Machines fucking fall over all the time if you overload them, try to do too many things at once, or don’t let them rest.
Rest knits up the ravelled edge of care.
If you don’t make time for your wellness, you will make time for your illness.
see also this diagram art that I keep coming back to:
’Two Options’ by Britchida
FASHIONS FROM HISTORY’S TOP 10 MENSWEAR LOOKS
(or well at least it’s not another boring suit)
1) Evan Mock in Head of State, Cartier, & Christian Louboutin
2) Stormzy in Burberry
3) Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Thom Browne
4) Lenny Kravitz
5) Stromae
6) Kid Cudi in Kenzo
7) Alton Mason
8) Hamish Bowles
9) Oscar Isaac in Thom Browne & Cartier
10) David Harbour looking like an actual robber baron
heythereratatouille-deactivated
shrek is 15 years old today
heythereratatouille
shrek is 16 years old today
Shrek is 17 years old today
Shrek is 18 years old today
sparkysparkysomething
Shrek is 19 years old today
if-the-world-is-so-good
Shrek is 20 years old today
Shrek can legally drink in the us today
“Censorship has nothing to do with protecting children. It has to do with protecting adults who don’t want to have difficult conversations with those children.”
—Laurie Halse Anderson
TERFs: Everyone agrees with us secretly and are just afraid of the TRA’s “cancelling” them.
Also TERFs:
There’s one lady in the middle who is cutting off a friend because that friend is correctly gendering the commenter’s trans son, and I really hope the kid runs away to stay with that friend.
This actually makes me feel a lot better. Not just in the schadenfreude sense that ‘well, if you’re going to behave in a vile way then you face the consequences’ but in a ‘wow, look! LOOK at all the people who support trans lives so hard they are willing to give up friendships and cut off family to protect them.’ Wow. Look at the people who care about strangers, who care about ME. That’s...comforting. That’s so nice.
Losing friends, losing family, losing entire social circles, being completely outcast... it's a shame trans folk have never had to deal with that, huh??? If only trans people knew the pain of being treated like social pariahs!!!
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"you only like villains because you want to fix them" actually I like them because I want a villain who's absolutely terrifying and ruthless to everyone, except for me, their cute s/o. Get it right 🙄
Anonymous asked:
I've heard that reptiles can't form bonds with people. Idk if that was something from like, pet stores who didn't know/want to care properly for reptiles or what. Is this true? Or is it something that we didn't use to think could happen, but we know more now? Like how we know more now that fish can have fun or play.
it depends on what you mean by "form bonds!"
if you mean "form a pack/clan bond with you using happy brain chemicals", then no. that's strictly a mammal/bird thing.
but, if you mean "recognizes you as an individual and a place of safety, tolerates interactions with you that absolutely would not happen in the wild and even initiates those interactions with you voluntarily" then congrats! fish, frogs, and reptiles absolutely CAN do that!
both of these types of bonding are extremely meaningful to their respective animals and one isn't inherently better than the other, just make sure you adjust your expectations to fit your pet.
It’s infuriating how so many women were (and still are) discriminated against for being female
she also killed and dissected a rabbit so that her peter rabbit would be as ACCURATE as possible. all the magic of countless children’s childhoods was built upon the bones of a single bunny’s sacrifice. how delightful. how horrific. what necromancer could dream of such impact with a single stroke of their blade.
Anonymous asked:
Wait, we (autistics) process trauma differently? I know i compartmentalize more than others but that's promably not all...
I obviously can't say this is true for all autistics.
However, we're not only more susceptible to traumatic experiences, we may put up with more before recognising it as traumatic at all.
- We trust far more easily, leading many autistic children to be bullied from a young age, usually in far more insidious circumstances.
- Example, many autistic children don't understand what a friendship actually entails, so we may view anyone who is kind to us as a friend. This leads to many situations where bullies use cycles of kindness then cruelty to harm us.
- Autistics are far more susceptible to sexual and physical abuse, and that trusting nature can lead to longer terms of silence about the abuse or misunderstanding it's abuse at all.
- We're often isolated from social groups, so may not understand red flags or have anyone to talk to.
- Since we can process information differently, and may not show proper expressions to inward emotions, people rarely notice anything is wrong or they assume we're totally fine and handling things.
- Autistics are naturals at "living in the now", meaning we can easily distract ourselves from the trauma, viewing the now as the true gauge of how we're feeling. This can lead to fear of bedtime, silence or lack of entertainment since rumination and unwanted intrusive thoughts can occur in those times
- Alexithymia can mean we don't understand how we feel about the trauma.
- Ostracism can mean we don't ever learn how to speak out about anything to others.
- Alexithymia can also mean we feel nothing about the trauma at all. Even though we know something bad happened.
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- Autistics are more able to dissociate.
- ABA and similar therapies teach compliance, making autistics less likely to speak up or fight back against abuse.
- Even when we can identify our emotions, autistics may have trouble articulating and regulating them
- Because of things like sensory issues, conditions and experiences that others would consider okay can be genuinely harmful to us
- We can often have, as an autism specialist said to me, "vivid memory recall". This can be very painful but also can be used to help, as positive memories might be more vivid too. On the other hand, there are autistics who have aphantasia, so maybe wouldn't experience flashbacks in the classic visual way?
Let’s not forget that neurotypicals constantly gaslight us into believing what happened didn’t happen, that we read it wrong or it wasn’t really that bad…
…or that we’re being too sensitive, reaching too much, making a big deal out of it, etc…
Medusa and her gargoyle gf
Everyone’s assuming her petrifying gaze would have NO effect here and that’s clearly wrong. It would be a healing stat buff actually. She can regenerate and strengthen her girlfriend by looking at her.
Just like girlfriends in real life
Just like girlfriends in real life.
every day i am percieved™️
There is a reason for this though!
The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply.
significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.
that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).
the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.
Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.
timeywimeywerewolf
I feel understood 🥰
a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥
The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3
The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3
Never forget: Moose are legit Ice Age megafauna that never died out.
He just….just….pet the wild moose…the bravery, the hutzpah
The forbidden snoot!
If I could pet a moose
I would be very happy
Normally I would say you shouldn’t pet a wild animal, but the moose is already right there. If you’re that close to a moose’s snout you might as well pet it. If the moose wants to kill you, you’re going to die, so you might as well.