Jasper's Wandering Dream

47 years old, lost in the wilderness of life. Whatever beauty catches my eye, or my heart. Might be NSFW, but usually that's another tumblr. Mostly reposts, but sometimes my own photos, words, or photoshopped fine art pinups.

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Weird that this is still here. Nostalgia for better days.

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by Cutiezor

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Lol. Default logged into my defunct account on another machine.

Oops! Switching back to @jasper-dreams.

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1930 Bronze, glass, ivory and marble figure by A. Godard. From Art Deco, FB.

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my grandma embroidered little flowers on her clothes like i do and she taught me how to cook asparagus so it actually tasted good and she wrote about grief so simply that i could make sense of it when i was a child that had just lost a grandfather and sometimes i wonder how much of me is made of her and how much of me is my uncle and how much is my best friend and how much is my little sister. i wonder how much of them is me.

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A few years back, I got really interested in this topic. I read a book by a man named Douglas Hofstadter, who’s the director for the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University. One of the foremost American researchers of the science of cognition, Hofstadter has written a lot of books, but the one I’m most familiar with is called I Am a Strange Loop. Strange Loop’s focus is on determining how, exactly, does consciousness—individuality, thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, desires, a sense of personhood—arise from inert and unthinking molecules? After all, atoms don’t have personalities. But yet people, who are only atoms all told, somehow do.

The crux of his argument is that humans are self-referential feedback loops. We take in information from the world and incorporate it into how we react the next time we receive information. A whole section of Strange Loop is dedicated to Hofstadter’s concern with the memory of his late wife, Carol. She died suddenly and he was left wondering what parts of her, if any, can “survive” in his memory. And he eventually concluded that every human is a combination and response to all the other humans they’ve ever interacted with:

As long as you remember someone—a dead friend, a relative, a beloved pet—your experiences with them, the way their personalities influenced you, in turn affect the way YOU act and interact with others. Personhood is a self-replicating concept. Your actions ripple out in ways that can never be fully seen or understood. In a vast, cosmic sort of way, no one ever really dies–they live on in their friends :-) 

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“We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting other people’s habits and ideas and styles and tics and jokes and phrases and tunes and hopes and fears as if they were meteorites that came soaring out of the blue, collided with us, and stuck. What at first is an artificial, alien mannerism slowly fuses into the stuff of our self, like wax melting in the sun, and gradually becomes as much a part of us as ever it was of someone else (though that person may very well have borrowed it from someone else to begin with).”

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The vein viewer in action. Here’s my original post on the vein viewer. 

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Clever!

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Solidarity

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This blog is shadow banned, toast over a stray nipple someplace. Which makes it a pain to use!

Honestly, I’d just leave but I’ve figured out how to separate things to stave off the censor bots, so I’ve changed the name to -defunct and am reconsituting it in the same place it was before.

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Magical mother nature by supreet_sahoo

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Orange you glad, Eva Woolridge

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2021: black women on luxury trips simply because we DESERVE !!!!

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Charles-Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926) - Dream of the Orient, 1912

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝙱𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚕𝚘 𝙸𝙸 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍.

“𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚋𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝟷9𝟾𝟽 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚢 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 "𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎" 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕. 𝙸 𝚙𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 “𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎" 𝚒𝚗 𝚚𝚞𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝: 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚐𝚎, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎. 𝙸 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚜 𝚎𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜. ”

https://song.link/s/2rznK4awAIgAbeMRrNUcUc

𝙲𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎

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Cʜɪʜᴀʀᴜ Sʜɪᴏᴛᴀ "Pɪᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇ Kᴇʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ Hᴇᴀʀᴛ" 🔑

Part1 Part2 Part3

https://song.link/s/2Y1pFCVB9xP4CF3SNXeNI6

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River God Tyne, 1968, David Wynne, Civic Centre, St Mary's Place, Newcastle

https://song.link/s/7tUXZgLbOCvRJ9FBlairoU

Credits above