aut viam inveniam aut faciam

you come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly

[jesuis-melodrama-deactivated202]

[ssexbug]

i havent died so maybe i wont ever

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[jammerific]

I think this is the first time I've ever been wowed by "this ISN'T a painting"!

[zmpl]

“don🦍t believe anything your brain tells you after 9 pm” wrong. the prime time for decision making is when you🦍re sleep deprived

^example of what life would be like if we used gorillas instead of apostrophes

[mas-o-kissed]

I see a lot of posts on here that are like “what if (kink) but (some subversion of the power dynamic that also happens to make it less fucked up)”

I am sorry. I cannot do this.

[bostondanya]

[catcrumb]

[amanaci]

everybody look at my cat being scuncht about it

[envyami]

Sticker and flash version, typo is not the best but eh

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Ivan Pokidyshev Silence, 2023 Oil on canvas.

[tofusilken]

[ID: Oil painting of a man and woman reaching for each other, intimate, luminous. Their skin glows as if lit from inside; their hair, clothes, and background are dark. The woman, on the right bows her head and reaches one arm over her own head to cup her jaw, covering her mouth and chin. Her other hand reaches for the man's waist. The man, on the left, rests one hand on the woman's forehead, tipping it down slightly so he rests his chin on the top of her head. Their eyes are closed. End ID]

[wvterways]

i will no longer be embarrassed i will no longer be a victim of insecurity i will no longer plague my mind with worries i exist i am allowed to exist i am allowed to take up space i will not let others dictate my experience i will live i will live i will live

[creekfiend]

working on this thang idk

[lakevida]

starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

[115x8]

wait can someone explain what this means to me I really want to know

[lakevida]

if i am candid about how i feel i will die like john f kennedy

[liesmyth]

the children yearn for fandom etiquette

[liesmyth]

this is about many things but specifically. I love to know about fics you enjoyed. I LOVE IT. but also consider telling that to the author too... in a place where they can see it... please

[homoidiotic]

Leather and Lace: Expanded Hanky Code for Lesbians, 1980s

[fixing-bad-posts]

I want you to really think about this. If I'm on a website do you really think it's ok for me to post porn and tag it with tags? Of course ya. Go tag porn. come post porn. In this case absolutely i stan NSFW and sexually explicit content.

[fixing-bad-posts]

your body is perfectly fine and maybe even empowering.

[raptorific]

Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

[raptorific]

Words truly cannot describe how much this is not what this term means

[woodelf68]

The book never came across as being about anything other than being bullied to me. And encouraging kids to eat moldy food because it was green and they might like it. Did normal colored eggs and ham exist in the main character's world? Could he have not simply continued to enjoy food that he already knew and liked and wasn't bullied into trying. I liked the rhymes but I hated the 'message'. Don't force people to try new foods unless they want to. Suggesting it is fine, forcing is not. (Signed, the former kid who was constantly forced to eat foods that made them feel sick and was punished if they refused to do so.)

[roycohn]

i don't think you're merely missing the point, i think you might just actually be dumb.

[raptorific]

Babies understand this book better than this.

[edenavari]

Here's where this analysis fails: "I was bullied and forced to eat foods I didn't like as a kid, therefore Green Eggs & Ham is about bullying and nothing else."

Do you see how we are conflating one's personal experience with the intentions of a story that nothing in the book itself suggests was created to address this experience at all?

Using critical thinking skills also means being able to make abstraction of one's subjective feelings to analyse the matter at hand. If you are unable to do this, you may live your whole life in a reactive state, constantly on the defensive even when there is no threat to your person at all.

This may make you paranoid, aggressive, and unreasonable. It may also make you self-righteous and self-pitying at the detriment of your ability to express empathy/sympathy and relate to other people, which is isolating. It may make it very difficult for you to have productive conversations with other people because being constantly stuck in a fight or flight response may make you self-centered, so you will not be able to relate to other people, understand them, or feel understood. Again, very isolating.

Critical thinking skills are important not just for media analysis, but also everyday life! They make you a more reasonable, empathetic, comprehensive person, and help you connect with other people. This is why it's important to challenge yourself with the media you consume. Not All of The Time, certainly not Everytime you consume media, but at least from time to time.

Go at your own pace and give yourself the right to examine your thoughts and your feelings objectively so that they don't rule your entire life and prevent you from richer and more fulfilling experiences. You can take a break whenever you feel overwhelmed. You can decide a specific piece of media is too challenging for you and that you simply aren't learning from it or don't care for what you're learning from it, and put it aside for a time or forever.

But at least you'll know more about yourself and the world, which helps make life a lot more manageable, and allows you to experience it on a deeper, calmer, and more actualizing level.