Beauweevil

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[mysticskyes]

I get the playgrounds at night because I walk to one that’s near my house at night sometimes and hang out. I always feel like I’m being watched or followed, or rather something out of the ordinary is happening

[catmask]

by the way. it never is too late to decide you want to be happy. the woman who helped me get hormones didnt start hers until she was 70, and i met her at 73, beautiful and smiling - and told me that the last three years of her life had been her favorite. your favorites might be ahead of you too. why not hang around and find out?

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[theswanqueen13]

“When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy.” - Griffin McElroy

Every single goddamn time I read or hear that quote I cry.

[galaxycepheus]

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[galaxycepheus]

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

[omgthatdress]

I've talked about this before, but if anyone out there is looking for body-positive workout material, Richard Simmons remains unparalleled.

It's all low-impact aerobics, meaning it's for fat people- people who aren't naturally athletic and aren't seeking to get super toned and super jacked but still want to move and be healthy.

that, and they're FUN. Like srsly his workouts are so FUN to do. There's a lot of his stuff in free low-res versions on Youtube and I can only hope that some day soon his estate releases his stuff for streaming at a higher res.

[beauweevil]

My favorite comic had a tribute to this wacky lad!

( also check out breaking cat news it's cute and positive)

[venusmage]

Is there anything better than drastically changing and/or embracing your personal style and getting complimented by older women. I’ll answer for you: no there isn’t

[beauweevil]

getting complimented by little girls is a close second.

[chrispypineappleburger]

Saw this and thought of sharing it because it is very beautiful

[the-haiku-bot]

Saw this and thought of

sharing it because it is

very beautiful

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[transbutchsupreme]

Hey kids! Don't smoke. Just don't do it. It affects your body in the worst ways possible, even if you never get cancer.

Hey kids who smoke! You are still fucking worthy of love, dignity and respect and anyone who mistreats you because of your addiction alone is a fucking cop.

[moniquill]

Real advice: if you are addicted to nicotine, make every effort to move from an inhalant delivery method to absorption - patches, gum, etc. smoking/vaping is disastrous for your lungs. Chewing tobacco/pouches are less deleterious than smoke but still raise risks of oral cancers, so avoid those if possible.

This goes for weed too, btw. Keep particulates out of your lungs.

[beauweevil]

My mom started smoking as a teenager and did her entire adult life. She was able to cut back significantly when she was able to get medication for mental health issues so she wasn't just self medicating with cigarettes, but she still couldn't completely quit. She hated how addicted she was and she made sure her kids new that once you get addicted smoking becomes such a burden, neither me or my siblings ever started.

My parents were building the house they would retire in, my mom vowed she would never smoke inside her new home, only outside.

She never saw it built, she died suddenly of a stroke in her sleep. Just took a nap and never woke up. Apart from smoking she took good care of herself, ate well, walked everyday but her Dr wasn't surprised.

She was terrified of slowly dying of lung cancer so I tell myself the sudden way she died was small blessing . I still miss her

If you haven't started smoking yet, just don't.

[theconcealedweapon]

With socialized healthcare, you pay for other people's healthcare.

With capitalist health insurance, you pay for other people's healthcare AND rich people's profits.

There's an easy solution that keeps everyone happy. Just have socialized healthcare, with the option to set aside additional money to give to your favorite rich person. Then, those who only wish to pay for other people's healthcare can do that, and those who wish to pay for other people's healthcare and rich people's profits can do that too.

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[mtf-the-gathering]

"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable

"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox

[thebookewyrme]

Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)

[xxemo-hubrisxx]

why your sewing machine is acting up: - tension is wrong - wrong needle size - thread bit stuck somewhere - tension again - needs a deep clean and oiling - you said something and now its offended and refusing to cooperate until you realize your error and beg forgiveness

[becherdireinen]

what a privilege it is to come home to a little animal that loves you like you're their whole world.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

1882

Cincinnati Art Museum

[marzipanandminutiae]

to clarify, this isn’t a wedding dress in the modern sense of “immediately recognizable as a wedding dress and exclusively for a wedding.” it’s probably a dress worn by the original owner for her wedding, but people wouldn’t have known it was her wedding dress and not just a nice day dress, unless she told them

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[assignedmale]

[beauweevil]

Here's to a good man who made the world a better place. He deserves to be remembered for the name he gave himself