enjoy the little detours

aga | 28 | she/her

[amused-shiba]

I should be able to say 'my hobby is thinking'. stupid and boring people will be like 'oh okay so you do nothing' NO. I'm thinking. it's a full time activity

[sludgebitch]

"🥪" is shorthand for "🍞🧀🍅🥬🍞"

[wizardbones]

we need to be weirder & so so earnest now more than ever

[pierogiy]

guy who says eep

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[collectivenothingness]

the only grind I respect is girls grinding against each other or something. like whatever the mortar and pestle get up to

[coquette-club]

[polartss]

Anne Bonny black sails save me pls

[amused-shiba]

spent the day chilling in my aunt's garden 😎

[end0skeletal]

Ibis Flight Harmony by Sunil

[metropolitanfemme]

This is literally how the shadow girls talk in utena

[amused-shiba]

kill all men

[amused-shiba]

deadbeat fathers will be like 'I literally cannot pay 300 $ alimony for my child' when they earn ten times that and the mother pays for Everything

[amused-shiba]

kill all men

[helicalsymmetry]

8 hours of decent sleep will have you thinking things like 'i am a beautiful horse and i will never die'

[herpsandbirds]

“Adelaide” Rosella (Platycercus elegans), family Psittaculidae, order Pisttaciformes, Adelaide, Australia

The Adelaide Rosella is most likely a hybrid between 2 subspecies of P. elegans, the Crimson and the Yellow Rosellas.

photograph by Jan Wegener

[alientitty]

💀

[summer-oil-inactive]

forced caretaking as a trope i think is like cocaine to people who know they need to be taken care of but have mental blocks in the way like yeah please do gently force me into a state of vulnerability so my body learns it is a safe thing to feel around you

[fluffiest-fox-kira]

This has gotta be a hit with the girlies who have always wanted something terrible to happen to them just so people realize they're in more misery than their outward appearance lets on