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Eternity

Take me back to when I was a sweet child, genuine smile and shimmering eyes. Back when morning kisses and daily hugs shadowed the world and it's illness. When the flowers smelt as sweet as summer rain and I didn't understand what it meant to flinch or taste blood. Before my first attempt and the yelling started. Before everyone left. Before I discovered loneliness. If there is a heaven I hope eternity is at the age of 5 in a house full of laughter and hugs.

#sinnedwolf #poetry #childhood #inner child #cptsd recovery

thesunthief

The Amour of Armor.

Painting originally in an Iranian story-book.

kaiju-krew

💙

(Redraw of swatercolour’s lovely work, thats been keeping me positive during some rough times. Credit )

angel-kiyoss

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

fierceawakening

i wonder what they are dreaming about

plum-soup

Changing colors duh

max1461

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.

ast-heljar

@edderkopper

theveryworstthing

the fight is harder each year.

theveryworstthing

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

theveryworstthing

you deserve to be new and whole.

nervosityperson

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

naamahdarling

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another. It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight. It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future. It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf. Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same. We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil. It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior. The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed. They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore. The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist. It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into. The two have changed roles. The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.

naamahdarling

It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again. Love, rest, fight, love.

ex0skeletal-undead

Christmas Tree // Christmas Wonders by Boris Groh

nataliedecorsair

The spirits will find the way https://twitter.com/natalie_corsair/status/1271854114046164997 UPD: added some more arts of them. The middle one is the oldest one