[stainedglassjam]

"𝙸'𝚖 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚖𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐☕️"

[bebx]

The Beauty of Moths

— by Pieter Cramer (1721–1776)

[sapphic-nature-witch]

🔮💖Witchy Aesthetic💖🔮

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[levamplestat]

AALIYAH HAUGHTON as AKASHA ↷ QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002).

[meaningcore]

[debelice]

Whale Shark Gliding Through Bioluminiscent Algae _ Mike Nulty

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

SPACE SHARK

[bringbackthehappyendings]

Blurry nighttime pic 👨‍👩‍👧☔

[animations-daily]

You’re just as special as anyone else in this family.

Encanto (2021) dir. Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith

[jewellery-box]

First Born by Gustave Leonard de Jonghe, 1863.

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

[wheeloffortune-design]

i see the younglings post things like "are you still on tumblr at 30?" and "go take care of your kids instead of reading fics"

and i just feel sad

because you have a bunch of young people who are terrified of getting older.

they think age is going to change them, into something boring, something different, something grey.

and i just want to tell them, reassure them:

you will still be the same person.

isn't it wonderful?

you will love the things you love for so many years. you will find joy in the same things, decade after decade. you will feel the same inside, through all this time.

yes, the body will change. yes there's more responsibilities, less time, even less energy.

but there's no magical age where you stop enjoying that specific story, that specific game, that specific hobby.

but you know what also comes with age?

you have less fucks to give.

[nostalgicfun]

What was your first source of portable music? Walkman? CD player with headphones? MP3 Player? iPod? Phone? 

[queerpyracy]

thinking about anti-role models. people you look at like "well whatever i'm gonna be in life it's not gonna be that"

[dsmsix]

parents

[notofagus]

goose

[405blazeitt]

i hate the trope of kids giving their favorite stuffed animal to a younger child as a sign of compassion and coming of age, as if this is something that should be expected of kids as they grow up

im 22 and i dont care who you are you’ll have to pry my ikea shark out of my cold dead hands

[dotdollplushies]

I can’t remember the name of the study, but there was a theory, supported by pretty good evidence, that if you have your comforter, be it blanket, plush, pacifier, whatever, taken away when you’re not ready to give it up, even if you’re a dinky little kid, it can have really long lasting effects. People who kept their comforters into adulthood were less likely to smoke, drink or do drugs, tended to have better family relations and home lives etc, while those that saw their comforter removed or destroyed were more likely to be drawn to more serious “comforts” elsewhere. The more extreme the removal, the more extreme the result. Typically.

We learn at our own pace to make and break connections and emotional ties, and the situation is forced upon us, we seek comfort. But whoa wait, you can’t possibly have comfort anymore, you’re five. You’re a big kid now.

So when parents are forcing you to “grow up” by tearing the only comfort in the world from you, they could actually be messing you up big time.

[star-anise]

In psychology they’re called “transitional objects” and they help the neurobiological process of helping children learn to internalize the experience of being loved and cared for, which is an essential part of learning to regulate your emotions.  They are REALLY important.

[imnotevilimjustwrittenthatway]

I wonder what it means psychologically that I’ve started getting a few more for myself?

[star-anise]

Well, there’s a process we call “re-parenting yourself” where you give yourself the love you missed out on in childhood, and thereby start to heal the pain you’ve carried since then.  And using childhood comfort objects can be part of that.

[bisopod]

there are so many obnoxious shirts for cat/dog lovers but. are there ones for people who keep insects. inquiring minds must know

[bisopod]

ok i didn’t find anything like what i had in mind but these are funny in themselves so i’m subjecting you to them anyway