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prettybabylee

PART 2

Joshua Homme for GQ Mexico.

📸 Emilio Valdés (@/emiliovaldes55)

facts-i-just-made-up

What does it LOOK like when doves cry?

Like this:

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It has come to my attention that this is not the picture of Prince eating a bird that I spent so long on. I cannot actually find that picture now and have no clue where or even if I saved it. I also have no idea what this is or why I saved or made it. I leave it here for posterity sake, that they might understand the madness of the internet. It's also probably funnier this way tbh.

the-big-mood

ruinedchildhood

ladymonstrous

HERE WE ARE, IN THE OUROBOROS, DOING IT AGAIN. HOPING SOME DAY THIS DANMED CYCLE ENDS.

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Hiroo Isono, 1982

70sscifiart

My favorite work from this artist and my current phone background

leicadiary

chinesefortuneteller

Saigon, Vietnam

just-shower-thoughts

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

cynopansy

They do actually!

mauve-moth

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

hotmolasses

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

wrote-my-own-deliverance

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

urbanfantasyinspiration

Humans are so fucking fascinating

facts-i-just-made-up

Guillotines often backfired, leaving the victim's head even more strongly attached than it was before the attempt.

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Facts-I-Just-Made-Up: Befouling the collective consciousness since 2012.

traaashhhhkat

some chill positivity from a 1998 Sesame Street book about the letter F

iseenoev1l

It's taking you a little longer because you're not lying, stealing, manipulating or selling your soul & that is okay.

non-ducor-duco-woman-deactivate

LOUDER!!!

turtlesandfrogs

Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

moonwaterandrain

i wish it were as easy as it sounds

turtlesandfrogs

And that's the thing of it, isn't it? Failing and accepting a failure is itself a skill.

And it can be very hard to learn, especially if you come from a family where a failure is a sign that you are a failure instead of a sign that you are learning.

You're going to fail at failing well. There are going to be times when it hurts, times when your brain is telling you that you should just give up and you'll never get it. Times when a failure is going to frustrate you to no end.

And you can still learn to fail well. You can learn to see it as a sign that you're learning, you can learn to give a little chuckle and say to yourself, well, everyone screws up sometimes, I'm just learning.

It is not easy, but it is important.

moonlit-positivity

recomvery

Good advice for changing things when you're batteling depression is to go outside for 20-30 minutes each day. Get a chair outside and read a book, sit down on a bench and enjoy the sun, walk around and listen to music, workout, paint something outside, garden, do Yoga, breathing execises, just try to go outside every day, it's super healing and healthy.