JollyVenturer

Just browsin an postin and rebloggin

[mendingandtranscending]

This passage reminds me of the thin line between self-worth and desire. The final questions “Isn’t this worth it? Isn’t she worth it?” both can be taken within the context of sex (which is exactly what’s happening in the passage).

Isn’t it worth it to feel this good? To have someone’s undivided attention on you, IN you. Knowing you’re making them feel good too. Aren’t you worth it?

Sometimes it’s easy to directly connect sex to self-worth. That feeling is like a drug, especially if it’s not getting validated anywhere else.

But desire does not equate to self-worth. Only YOU can decide your worth. This happens through your actions, the choices you make, the choices you don’t make. The choices that were really hard to make but you had to do it, FOR YOURSELF.

This scene hit home for me as I’m someone who teeters between self-worth and desire time and time again. The desire always seems worth it. I’m mentally mature now, I can handle it. I LOVE myself, so long as I’m guarded I can get what I want from this.

Wrong.

I forgot that I’m a romantic. I can’t take my feelings out of anything even if I think I’m pretending. (I LOVE YOU! 😭)

And I get my feelings hurt in the end no matter what.

I know I’m worth it. And there are many ways that aren’t sex to validate that.

So, is it worth it?

[catasters]

[idratherhavefreedom]

[oldrockinghouse]

hayao miyazaki’s hand-drawn concept art for spirited away (2001)

[depsidase]

[neptuniumochi]

nope.

it's closer to "the poor dont want to be exploited"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[lynnimaybe]

People asking why Artemis II matters, lemme tell you

1. First woman to enter deep space, Christina Koch, went as a mission specialist to help test the preventative measures against the radiation that causes cancer in the ships, and primarily affects women. It affects men too but less so. Christina's literally so inspiring to me.

2. This mission and further Artemis missions are testing safety concerns to help push the boundary of what we've been able to explore up to this point. Safety is the primary purpose of the trip. This is the first step to exploring Mars and further planets! Including Europa (my beloved.)

3. Before this, only 24 humans have ever entered deep space. Of that 24, 5 are alive today and they're all in their 90s. We very much needed a newer trip to help confirm or change whatever information we had from years and years ago. Having 4 living testaments of space exploration is a very important part of keeping said exploration alive.

4. Even though it wasn't the primary purpose of the trip, we've gotten so many rare pictures! Including my favorite "Hello, World" taken by commander Reid Wiseman:

It's the second photo EVER to have a fulll illuminated Earth hemisphere, the first being "Blue Marble". All other photos of the Earth have been spliced. Blue Marble was taken during the day and Hello, World was taken at night (the exposure has been lifted for clarity). It's my new favorite photo, it's so beautiful.

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

yup

[integrise]

lessons that I was surprised but happy to take away from the artemis II mission:

STEM cannot survive without the arts and vice versa

The crew needs to publish a book of poetry IMMEDIATELY

Science is unifying and should be funded instead of wars!!

Microsoft outlook and press-to-talk technology is even sometimes difficult for the smartest, most trained humans on (and off) the planet to manage

[voskhodart]

Turning heavenward.

[despazito]

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

[loving-n0t-heyting]

this is how they look

[headspace-hotel]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN.

[headspace-hotel]

my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually

[ceausescue]

this is what im talking about that's fucking horrible. worth noting though that the crustaceans are a broad class of marine animal which include barnacles and such as well as the usual suspects. so the nightmarish vision of a crab evolving into that terrible thing is thankfully not true

[ceausescue]

IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM @velociraptrix BARNACLES ARE DESCENDED FROM MOBILE LEG HAVING NORMAL ANIMALS. hell world hell world hell world

[catadromously]

Oh, it gets better. Barnacles aren't just descended from mobile leg having normal animals, they ARE mobile leg having normal animals! A barnacle larva looks like this:

Waldo Nell, flickr ... and do they ever swim around. Quickly. Effectively. Tirelessly. It's only at barnacle puberty that they stick themselves upside down to a convenient rock and scramble their body plan through metamorphosis. The feeding tendrils (cirri) on adult barnacles are actually the remaining legs! See?

Matt Lau, Point Reyes National Park Yeah... There is in fact a group of barnacles, called the Rhizocephala, that do the ungodly horrorparasite thing. Instead of finding a rock or section of timber, that normal looking larva finds the skin of a host. Instead of turning upside down and growing a shell, it expels a tiny, featureless glob of cells that burrows into the host and begins to grow. And grow. And grow. The resulting animal has no symmetry, no segments, no organs except ovaries. It is a filigreed tangle of thirsty roots, weaving into the host's body, stealing its shape and drinking its life.

And the hosts are?

Conventional crustaceans, like this hermit crab here!! Worst family dinner ever! Yeah if you sequenced the genomes of these entwined bodies you would register kin. There are barnacle relatives that we've only ever seen as larvae because they're parasites and we can't find the host. Hundreds of years of careful documentation and we do not know what they turn into. What a lovely, terrifying mystery!

[bruzum]

[noahverrier]

My oil painting of Gatorade Arctic Blitz

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

This is the modern equivalent of all the paintings of bowls of fruit you see in museums

[depsidase]

[breige]

[wordfather]

i had a twisted dream this morning when my alarm tried to wake me up where jeff goldblum said 'Actually if you sleep a bit Longer you'll have More time to get ready It's called the Goldblum's Law and it works just go back to sleep' and i believed him and i overslept

[wordfather]

hey boss sorry im late. i got Goldblumed

[jbthegift]

Pioneers 😭🚀 🌙

[sharkodactyl]

moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"