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Today's Document
YOU ARE THE REASON
Sweet Seals For You, Always
PR's Tumblrdome
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cherry valley forever
if i look back, i am lost
Stranger Things
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taylor price
One Nice Bug Per Day
EXPECTATIONS
d e v o n
KIROKAZE
Xuebing Du
$LAYYYTER
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
Misplaced Lens Cap
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@cathagbheag
mol - 29 - scotland
cathag bheag -> little jackdaw
reading: the amber spyglass, seveneves, book of the new sun
watching: his dark materials
listening: our wars have ended
playing: blue prince
twt | letterboxd | my face | my gifs | my dog
I have a disease called if the author tells me this world is good and then doesn’t examine the power structures involved I start looking for the Omelas hole
Man who hates the very concept of life and all living beings: I should design portal websites for colleges and job applications
Art by Ekachai Milintapas
Me as counselor: im sensing that shit hurted for you
when your dog looks back at you on a walk like heh... we are really walking right now man
Bro we are walking!
bro we are walking ^_^
bro we are literally walking
Third drawing of my watercolor triptych. Walking in Tarlak Garden.
A girl’s best friend. Work in progress! ❤️
artfight thingy for @t34-mt. not too good at this stuff but oh well
clearly some of you have not been to the labyrinth of pestilence deep beneath kentucky
alright so when I was a teenager I went to this bug-themed summer camp for socially stunted nerds and on the way back from it I visited the university of kentucky. I met with an entomologist there and while we were touring the department he asked "wanna see something cool?" so he took me down an elevator to what must've been a sub-sub-sub basement on a card-access only floor, and after turning several more corners we went through two sets of (I'm not even exaggerating) 12-inch thick doors, opening onto one long as fuck corridor. each side of this hallway was lined with about 50 refrigerators. and each and every single one of these refrigerators was filled with hundreds of thousands. of live. bedbugs. the very reasonable explanation for this was that they were doing research on insecticides and needed to test them on real samples, but they could not under any circumstances allow them to escape, so they had to be kept under area 51 levels of overkill containment. but reasonable or not that was very much not what I anticipated seeing that day. so yeah. I decided after that I did not want to become an entomologist
absolutely baffled to get to the end of that story and hear you decide NOT to be an entomologist but possibly that's the entomologist in me speaking
as this breaches containment it is vital to me that The People know my problem with the bedbug labyrinth was NOT the bedbugs. that was obviously sick as fuck. the problem was it dawning on me how much entomology research is anti-bug instead of pro bug. weird girl equivalent of realizing how much time veterinarians spend putting down dogs
MAD GOD (2021) dir. Phil Tippett
there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something
take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)
the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it
but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first
comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now
please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection
