''c'est la vie'' say the old folks

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[marcusabout]

[alooha]

by howdy_ktom

[artist-dali]

Phantasmagoria, 1930, Salvador Dali

Medium: oil,panel

[love]

TO LIVE ON by Min Jeong Seo, 2005

The stalks of these roses are already dried up but their blossoms are preserved and kept fresh by medical infusin bags. The life-span of every living creature is limited. The infusion bags stand for progress in medicine and the prolonging of human life. They have a mixed meaning as they refer to both life and death at the same time. Both states are immanent. To preserve the beauty of the flowers artificially with the help of the infusion bags points out man’s tendency to repress the inevitable fact that we all have to die, and trying to postpone death.

[freshmoviequotes]

Brother (1997)

[grayskymorning]

[nitrogen]

lava lamp on a train in south korea

[choccyhazelnutspread]

I hate that the main reason for hating feminism is that feminists are ‘pushing for a matriarchy’. It shows that lots of people recognise that we currently live in a patriarchal society but the idea of living in a matriarchy of the same intensity terrifies them greatly.

Effectively, they’re saying that they understand how women are treated in our current society and the thought of being treated in a similar way scares them. And they’re so damn worried by the idea that they actively push away any feminist ideas because they don’t care that women have to endure that shit just as long as they can keep their privilege and stay on the top of the hierarchy they created.

~ terfs stop reblogging this challenge ~

[inkipri]

[sonnywortzik]

“Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

[heartshop]

“How can I teach her some way of being human that won’t destroy her?”

— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II

[gawd-desses]

[tkkatherineblog]

[nobrashfestivity]

[partialboner]

nobuyoshi araki

[lionofchaeronea]

Praying Hands, Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1600

[garadinervi]

Gianni Colombo, Bariestesia, n.d. [Archivio Gianni Colombo, Milano]