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I haven't had a pinned post on here. For those visiting this tumblr page, hello there!
I'm Sophie, currently this blog is being used to log my attempted studying for med entry, amongst a bit of life romanticism and travel, studyspo and that sort of thing!
31 May 2026 βοΈ
I did some studying today but first and foremost I ironed a pile of clothes bigger than my entire self. June starts tomorrow (what) and I'm less than two weeks away from the first final of the semester (WHAT)
On repeat today: Eat My Dust!, Dead Pony βͺ (what else is new I'm obsessed with this song)
It was my birthday this week!
I got my exam results too - I passed! My score is a bit low, so Iβm not sure Iβll get any offers for unis this time, but after that horrible exam that Iβm sure that I failedβ¦passing feels good
Itβs hot in London and I am determined to enjoy the little things!
Gloomy Saturday. The 1975β²s new album, coffee, freelance work, some writing, maybe some reading later
The spring blossoms make me sooo happy πππ
April Days of Productivity - 3/30
Todayβs goal was to chip away at a uni assignment about comparing two different schools of therapy. I chose to broadly investigate psychoanalytic therapy and CBT, since one is prominent in France and the other in Ireland. (My two countries!) Iβm actually surprised at how much contemporary psychoanalytic therapy appeals to me. Today I only had time to read & annotate my pdf prints, but now I have enough info to write up the 1500 word essay this weekend π«‘
Another day another opportunity to get stuff done! Today is a beautiful day and on the way to the library I saw so many tourists from all over the world, hearing all kinds of languages while walking the streets and it was very nice. A lot of them have been visiting the library too ever since I got here
π§song of the day: Vienna - Billy Joel
rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:
This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesnβt actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.
TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)
Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue
Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, includingΒ time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about whatβs happening when your eyes saccade, whatβs happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you donβt know itβs happening because it doesnβt aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.
The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.
Letβs have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.
You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we canβt see it.
βSorry, what the fuck?β
What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have lightΒ receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: thatβs why yellow things donβt just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.Β
Some animals have eyes that canΒ perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldnβt be able to understand it.
What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:
We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we seeΒ βyellow,β we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we donβt have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistentΒ guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guessΒ βyellow.β We canβt imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.
Hereβs the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just oneΒ photon of light at a time. Something likeΒ 2*10βΈ photons per secondΒ are hitting your retina under normal conditions.Β Your brain doesnβt individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes,Β βyeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.β
Thatβs how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we callΒ βyellow.β But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.
So how does magenta factor into this?
Well, as weβve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If itβs more red than green, weβll call thatΒ βorange.β Literally who gives a shit, weβre trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and itβs so scary.
What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? Whatβs the centerpoint of that line?
Fucking green.
Hey, thatβs not gonna work?Β We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means itβs either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.
So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. Weβll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.Β
And so it made up magenta.
So, physics-wise, is magentaΒ βreal?β
No; thereβs no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But youβre rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:
Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but Iβve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch theΒ βoutlineβ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isnβt special.
Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?
Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, itβs just as real as most of what we see. Itβs what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we donβt. Because itβs not green. Light thatβs green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff thatβs magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.
The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.
So I googled Stygian Blue andβ¦
Yall.
FORBIDDEN.
HOW TO SEE THE FORBIDDEN COLOURS
Hyperbolic Orange is the color my soul is
Dark tumblr show me the forbidden colors
FORBIDDEN COLORS
F O R B I D D E N C O L O U R S
30.03.26. planning my literature review for my upcoming progress exam is killing me but at least there is always earl grey and a hot cross bun to get me through
Springtime is here! Spring flowers make me so happy πππ
Iβm spiralling about my exam. I feel like I really blew it. Trying not to let it completely crush me.
eight in the morning feat. a weather warning and a chill in the air π§£
In the living room, the Italian limestone floor with marble border, cathedral ceiling defined by the hand-carved plaster, accessories such as the hand-carved marble frieze and muted colors help achieve the sense of elegance the client desired for formal entertaining.
Designing with Tile, Stone & Brick, 1995
21.3.26
I sat my exam - it was hideous tbh. I will be really surprised if I passed it. I was also battling an infection the whole 6 hour stretch so thereβs that too!! How did I get so unlucky right at the last minute? I hope I make it this time.
The sun was out this weekend. I visited liberty London after coffee with a friend. I was very tempted to get some beautiful spring flowers. On Sunday I relaxed a lot and read some more wuthering heights - now i donβt have to study, I have time to read more books!
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What my room looks like with all the books Iβve bought and still havenβt read
Popped in on my lunch break to look at poetry, left with a long wishlist of new fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks and art books I want to read over the summer
