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until, my love, return from war.

[bronzyglow]

this blog is a museum of my heart

[cosmonautroger]

Alfredo Baruffi, 1905

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I think paying attention to bugs is a legit gateway to animism because these are creatures that we are taught have no real ability to think or feel beyond the most basic instincts. They don't have personalities or thoughts or emotions, they're just bugs. They don't feel fear or pain, they're just bugs.

But even just watching a bug navigate a landscape and react to the things around it shows just how complex they really are, how much thought and decision making is going on in the minds of creatures we're told are mindless. If you make a habit of it, you'll notice differences in personalities too, how a lot of bugs are bold and curious and others are very shy and timid, some are very friendly and others go straight to threat displays.

I make a habit of visiting the resident spiders on my house all throughout the spring and summer until they die in the fall and many of them will start to recognize me, will stop threatening me when I stop by their webs. The wasps that set up their nests on my house will observe me from a distance and then will come out to greet me and hover around me when they learn that I'm a source of water.

And once you recognize that these "mindless" animals are intelligent and deliberate individuals, it's very hard not to start seeing the rest of the world the same way, to not question what we're taught about other animals like fish and about plants. And that doesn't necessarily have to lead to animism but I do think it's a huge foundation to it.

[kurhanchyk]

[kosmogrl]

[bluecherrykisses]

the journal factory blew up

i try to grasp for what’s left of this and it falls through my hands like sand.

[primulaceas]

this gif is like a poem to me

[cascadedreamer]

[trans-ralsei]

[cyberxbattalion]

[semiotextiana]

what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy

[green-algae]

9/19/23 - Lake in Northern VA

[firstfullmoon]

Alex Dimitrov

[aaaangel444]

[zegalba]

Morpho Peleides, with iridescent blue wings and black edges. It’s shimmering blue colour is not a chemical pigment; it is produced by the way the light reflects off the millions of tiny scales on its wings.

[iheartliquor]

[tranquildeath]

born to always mourn the present like it’s already become a memory

[melodicpianist]