To be seen—

In the shadow of your heart.

[thunderstruck9]

Simon Bussy (French, 1870-1954), The Black Panther. Oil on canvas, 132 x 107 cm. The Whitworth, Manchester

[heartwarminganimals]

Miwa and her cub Kohaku

Source on twitter

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PORTO ROCHA

[psikonauti]

Ed Cohen

With all imaginable generosity, 2021

Fluid acrylic on canvas

[spyder-on-the-wall]

[big-catsss]

(by Lisa Antell)

[dominiqueramseyart]

In the still of the night (2020)

[blood-bathing]

the never remembered / let go

artist: Anthony Rondinone

[arlathhan]

panther

[finchwingart]

snapped and caught up with febroary

[aus-yeezus]

[dominiqueramseyart]

BLACK RESILIENCE

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Black | White | Yellow ~

[dominiqueramseyart]

Black cat

[twinkdrama]

human interaction? cringe. who even needs it (me)

[tortiefrancis]

people with personality disorders are still capable of love, affection and caring about others, but it's okay to struggle with those things.

you aren't evil for not feeling love, hating showing or receiving affection or not caring. it doesn't make you a bad person, or less deserving of respect.

[avpdpossum]

the AVPD criteria: “unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked”

what people think: so you just don’t want to talk to people who don’t like you? that’s normal, no one likes trying to be friends with someone and finding out they don’t like you, why would that be a symptom of anything?

what it actually feels like: i am Not Allowed To Speak Unless Spoken To. if i try to join this interaction before someone directly invites me into it, i will break some unspoken rule and they will hate me and i will be punished for it and it will ruin everything. i can’t say anything or do anything until someone tells me i’m allowed to, even if it means i lose this chance at connection that i want so desperately. if i make my existence known right now it will be directly threatening to my safety somehow so my brain has entered freeze mode about it. now i literally have no choice but to sit silently and pray that someone cares enough to invite me in, which i know they won’t because they think i just don’t want to interact with them and i am incapable of speaking up to prove them wrong