It takes a lot of energy to look after yourself

but i'm not giving up what i've got now

[trickingperson]

[bedupolker]

How to tell people (and birds) who wear all black apart

[official-europa-deactivated2021]

You: seeing six crows is bad luck and an omen of death

Me, an intellectual: seeing six crows is great luck because you get to see six crows

[cheskamouse]

[milsae]

Wolf and a crow, yes it’s my fav combi prints / stickers

[kitty]

[sixthrock]

the little claw marks on the ice omg

[llovinghome]

[glazecake]

[toothemporium-deactivated201807]

@ciervobizarro

[cute-baby-animals]

[cumaeansibyl]

human: *gentle “owl” hooting*

actual owls: *tiny velociraptor screams*

[i-gwarth]

You’re welcome

[thesporkidentity]

[Narrator: A scientist in Peru [pause for peep] captured this, escaping from the tiny body [pause for peep] of a sleeping hummingbird. [pause for peep] A high-pitched [pause for peep] but unmistakable snore. [pause for peep] Hummingbirds are loved for their beauty and speed [pause for peep] but this one was behaving a little bit like a human. [pause for peep] The perfect cute-response trigger.]

[continuants]

[pause for peep]

[maureen2musings]

[i-can-only-bliss-out-deactivate]

insanity

[smexytroll-deactivated20180826]

If i lived here I would have to stay inside most of the time because going outside would cause my heart to explode and i think i speak on behlaf of most people too

[apricitic]

this is gonna be kind of a longer post but i think an important one so here goes

the thing about recovery sort of regardless what stage you’re at: you probably feel some pressure to be a concept before a person, but you’re a person, and that’s okay.

what i mean is i remember when i first became a huge outspoken activist who had ‘recovered’ from rape and abuse, and for months i felt like i wasnt allowed to have bad days or bad thoughts or even imperfect reactions because i suddenly felt like my job was to be… recovery personified. i blinked and suddenly i had a few thousand people staring at me needing me to prove a happy ending and it was terrifying in a way i hadnt considered, and then a friend of mine looked me in the eyes when i was talking about not feeling like i could breathe and said, “you know you’re a human being right?” and as stupid as it sounds i just said “oh” and fell silent for a while because honestly no id forgotten i was more than just what people wanted me to be or even saw me as

and i remember at my all-time lowest low, before id even tried recovery and when everything was at its worst, even then i felt like i wasnt allowed to be a person but instead brokenness personified. it was sort of the flip, where i couldnt have good days or good thoughts or react to things well because then i wasnt doing as badly as i thought people needed to think of me doing

i remember this feeling cropping up randomly through recovery of having to have a consistent X Y or Z because i was meant to be something not someone, when in reality i was just a person

i suppose what im trying to say is sort of a duh moment but: you’re a person. whatever you’re doing, however many bad days or good days, regardless of how erratic or uniform your progress/feelings/journey are/is, it’s okay. you dont have to be doing something different to be what you are. 

whoever you are and whatever stage youre at, its not your job to prove to yourself or anyone else that you are at that stage. you dont have to embody what you think that stage means, either to you or society, because you are much more than that stage and youre going to live beyond it just like how you lived before it

[everythingsjustw0nderful]

Before telling yourself "I wish I was dead"

Can you replace it with

I wish I was somewhere else

I wish I didn’t have to do that thing

I wish I was a different person

I wish that thing didn’t happen

I wish I was stronger

I wish I had the ability to get over that

I wish I would feel better

I wish I could change that situation

I wish this person wasn’t in my life

I wish I didn’t have to handle that

I wish I was asleep

I wish that thing would be behind me

I wish I didn’t feel this way

We use this phrase way too often. We tend to go to there before thinking of the simple options. And I think that sometimes, this thought is standing in our way. So before telling yourself you wish you were dead, think of what you really wish for.

[chicken-fluff-butts]

anyway i have pledged fealty to the neighborhood crows and if they are in trouble i am sworn to protect them

[sixpenceee]

Anthropomorphic sculptures made of mud and algae, Homo Algus is a creation of Sophie Prestigiacomo. @sixpenceee

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

I would have a heart attack and die if I saw that out of nowhere.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

adulthood is a scam i want to be a crow

[crossconnectmag]

Drawings and Paintings by Sam Yong

Sam Yong is an emerging self-taught artist and illustrator based in Melbourne. He works primarily with pencil, color pencil and recently has delved into oil painting. Yong’s recent works present the delicate balance of life and death in the natural world in an unfamiliar way. The intricately detailed graphite and color pencil illustrations depict both flora and fauna intertwining with one another; reflecting on the complex relationships between all living things in nature and how they affect each other. His Twitter.

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[blushingcheekymonkey]

early 20th century crow pull toy

[ayellowbirds]

this absolutely looks like something that would start talking to you at either the worst or best possible time.

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

me aged 15: laid in bed wondering why I’m thinking about titties

this crow bitch, in a thick brooklyn accent for some reason: hey kid, youse a lesbian