two planets away

(She/Her)

[lilygoat]

Duaneparknyc we

[vekendra]

[lostpalette]

ig: lostpalette

some uni essentials ☁️

[dropdeadfemme]

there is something inherently calming about looking at pictures of other people’s books and other people’s cups of tea.

[aceademic]

quotes that make me go feral

a list in no particular order

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt

“My dear basil,” said Dorian, “What have you told me? Simply that you felt you admired me too much. That is not even a compliment.” “It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” -The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt

i’ll probably add more to this later but pls add your own too!! i wanna see what other quotes make people go absolutely insane

[m-lemann]

[studyblr]

you change people. your name makes others smile. your work moves people. someone might compliment you somewhere, right now. someone’s heart will beat faster just thinking about you. your friends remember your experiences fondly. someone might see a book in the store and think of you, too. you inspire others to keep going, or you will someday. your presence matters and changes the world every day. 

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

if you’re not ending your emails with “kill me! your slave and enemy,” then what are you doing with your life

[meliohy]

Don’t hide that in the tags @thevastness

[ghostlywriterr]

The Hague, Netherlands

by Alex

[artfoli]

Sea Landscapes by Japanese artist Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943)

The Sea at Sunrise l Oarai l Waves l Sunrise at the Port of Kobe

[profeminist]

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

[villanellethepoetic-deactivated]

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

[that-feral-montanan]

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

[crunchyleaves-autumndreams-deac]

[love]

By Michel Nguie

[blooceline-deactivated20190203]

[iridescentavocado]

Accidentally found this hold trying not to eat shit, not sure what to do with it yet

🦄song is Movement by Hozier🦄

🍭pls don’t delete caption🍭

[ovaadosedonconfidence]

Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

[ifshehadwings]

This is actually called thin slicing. Your brain recognizes patterns from very small “slices” of information by comparing them to things you have experienced before. This all happens very quickly on a subconscious level without our conscious mind being involved. So intuition is actually really fast pattern recognition, and it can be very accurate. So yeah, if you have a gut feeling that a person or situation is not good, get the hell out. Your brain knows what’s up. 

[pyrrhiccomedy]

When I was young - because I’ve always been a big skeptical pain in the ass - I thought that when people were talking about interpersonal “energy,” they were on some Gay Ass Shit.

Years later, after spending hundreds of hours reading studies about intuition and neuroscience and pattern recognition and the processing power of the subconscious mind, I realized that that kind of talk - “she has such good energy,” “you need to read the energy of the room,” “I just got some really bad energy off of that guy” - is a convenient shorthand for the lightning-fast, weirdly-accurate, real-as-fuck subconscious processing of the probability of positive or negative social outcomes likely to result from hundreds or thousands of variables. That “energy” isn’t a tangible thing floating around in the air. It’s your brain updating you constantly with information about your situation. Listen to it. Especially if it’s telling you to be nervous or scared. Your brain is very good at recognizing danger. Let the enormous processing power of your subconscious mind protect you. It’s better at spotting patterns than you are. 

“Bad energy” isn’t some hippie shit. It’s your brain setting off a claxon because it knows something’s not right.

[embyrr922]

Thin slicing is wonderfully helpful, but be aware that if it’s doing its pattern recognition from bad sources, you need to actively override it. We’re raised in a racist society, inundated with racist media, and bombarded with subtly (or unsubtly) racist advice. Thin slicing can save your life, but it’s also the cause behind the unconscious elements of racism (and misogyny/ableism/antisemitism/islamophobia/etc.) that we all suffer from

Trust your instincts, but if your instincts tell you something that seems prejudicial, double check their work.

[vicioushyperbolizer]

A+ addition

[fallingthroughthefloor]

stagnancy looked inviting