[relatablepicturesofscully]

[catchymemes]

[abckaye]

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

sometimes you just gotta lay on the floor

[04k96]

[iambrillyant]

“yes, it’s your time to bloom. don’t worry about who misunderstood your seasons and who stopped watering you before your roots grew strong; your growth was never meant to make sense to those who only admired you when you were easy to hold.”

— billy chapata

[catchymemes]

[abckaye]

“I wrote a list of things that I tried to be clear with myself about what it is I was really looking for and what I really want. And one is someone that I can learn from. But if you can be in service of a vision that you both share, or at the very least, are you willing to honor and give dignity to the work of the other person and whatever their vision or mission is in this world? That to me seems far more sustainable than anything else. And I guess my big hope or wish would be that I met someone who feels like what I want to do in the world—yes, that I’m important—but they also feel that what I’m here to do is important to them, too. And in some way intersects with what they’re here to do.”

—Emma Watson

[abckaye]

Cannonballing into bed >

[abckaye]

All Things Science and Philosophy

Dr. Windsor, my Anatomy and Physiology professor, emphasized the importance of pairing the “how” with the “why,” a thought I’ve carried with me since Fundamentals of Biology in '23. This is where my love for science began, topic by topic: H2O (if found on another planet can indicate signs of life, its unique properties), Carbon (organic chemistry), macromolecules (my favorite).

I'll never forget our short lecture on sickle cell and tearing up in class because I couldn't believe one change, one mere mutation in an entire protein chain sequence alters the hemoglobin structure and means a totally different life for an individual. I wondered if I was the only one awake that morning.

Biology quietly introduces the same pairing as A&P: mechanism and meaning. I see what happens at the cellular or molecular level, and questions can't help but come up: Why this solution and not another? Why is life so redundantly protected in some places and so fragile in others? Why does order keep emerging from chaos? Long before A&P, biology plants the seed that life isn’t random motion—it’s organized persistence. Cells adapt, systems compensate, organisms prioritize survival, reproduction, balance. Even at the smallest scale, there’s intention-like behavior without intention itself. Then A&P comes along and scales it up. Suddenly, the abstractions have faces, pain, breath, and mortality. The “why” gets heavier. It’s no longer just how does a membrane work, but why does its failure change who someone can be in the world.

One of the first things I learned in Fundamentals lab are the three tenets of science: physical evidence, repeatability, and falsifiability. But American neurosurgeon and writer Paul Kalanithi said:

“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”

Science and philosophy aren’t opposites—they’re just asking the same questions at different depths.

[unconditionalstudio]

[abckaye]

“Taking responsibility is liberating because the only person you can really change is you.”

[xvqtyx]

[superkursunaskr]

[rosenkranz-does-things]

been meaning to redraw that Lynn Buckham's painting as Mulder and Scully for awhile, so here it is! the original painting + close-ups are under the cut

featuring my favorite character, Scully's lavender skirt suit

also if you're wondering whether the watermark on my art gets bigger every time: yes it does indeed. I need to add it to the places where it can't be easily removed because I'm very tired of that happening specifically to my x files art

[rosenkranz-does-things]

I do! 👀 here they are

[abckaye]

“If I go, there’s just no telling how far I’ll go.”

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

not waiting for love bc love finds me in all kinds of ways every day