Trayana

A personal blog for my photos and interests; linguistics is one of those. Bulgarian, for better or worse.

[radish-art]

I spent all of January making this 2ftx2ft diorama for a show! I'm so glad I finally made something like this, but also SO glad to be done - everything took a lot longer than anticipated, and I ended up doing some looong hours on this in the final week to get it done in time. Everything except for the cast iron pot, glass jars, and natural objects is handmade. The mice are needle felted with polymer clay parts, I threw actual miniature ceramic dishes and cups for them, I built their home out of so much styrofoam trash and newspaper and air dry clay, I built and upholstered their furniture...

Big shoutout to @prawnlegs and @sheydgarden not only for tolerating the huge mess I made while making this, but also contributing little items: Jey made the brooms, fireplace poker, candle, and spinning supplies, and Ezra made the table and extremely majestic grub!

[scavengedluxury]

Nesebar, Bulgaria, 1982. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.  

[huariqueje]

Unknown -  Teija Lehto, 2022.

Finnish, b. 1965 -

Woodcut

[eightiesfan]

Dual HiFi 1986

[ortut]

César Baldaccini - Expansion au pot à lait, 1989 (Resin and steel)

[byjove]

I guess what I think is that suicide is a symptom of a problem and not the problem to fix, you know what I mean? To stop suicides you have to stop people’s mental health from getting to the point where they consider it, you have to treat the disease, trying to treat the symptom itself is almost completely useless.

For instance, Japan has spent a great deal of money on anti-suicide infrastructure, doing genuinely cartoonishly things like putting rollers on bridge railings so you can’t climb over them and slide right off, putting blue lights in the subway so it’s harder to see to throw yourself in front of a train. It’s not working. Japan’s suicide rate rose again in 2022. They are not addressing the root causes and stressors in their citizen’s lives and social barriers to mental health care and psychiatric medication.

It’s the same with universities in America, many have spent an exorbitant amount of money on turning their dorms into psych ward like environments. Anti-hanging chairs that you can’t stand on, bunks you can’t hang yourself from, slanted doorknobs etc. And yet suicide is still the second leading cause of death for college students. They make no attempts to make college easier, to make pausing and resuming your studies better, to make the pressure of an academic environment feel less life or death. They make no accommodations for the individual. They just make it a little harder to hang yourself in a few rooms on campus and call it a day, say they’re being proactive in terms of mental health.

[themandilorian]

I know this is coming from a good place and I wholeheartedly agreed that suicide prevention needs a holistic approach with mental health support, social safety nets, and empathy. However, saying anti suicide infrastructure doesn’t change anything is blatantly fault.

Studies after studies show that “means restriction”—reducing access to methods people use to take their lives—has a huge impact, as suicide is often a split second decision. In the UK, suicide by gas poisoning went down by a quarter within the span of a few years and that also brought the number of overall suicide down completely from 1963 on. Why? The newer method of gas production stopped the gas stove from being a viable source of carbon monoxide poisoning. And the fact that the overall suicide number stays down also shows that people didn’t seek to end their lives with other tools either.

Similarly, Japan’s suicide rate had been going down steadily since it peaked in 2003. 2022 was a spike likely due to the lasting effects of Covid isolation.

I understand the point this article is trying to make, I truly do, but I want people to be mindful of how statistics and facts can be presented to make us feel a certain way. It’s very easy to agree with things that aligned with our worldview, but we can’t let ourselves ignore facts because of that.

[trayana]

I just finished reading a really hopeful and informative article on this topic:

The Finnish miracle: how the country halved its suicide rate – and saved countless lives

It is now often known as the ‘world’s happiest country’, but Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. From alcoho

[chechula]

Tadeáš, character from my and @yonetee comic that was published this year ♡ Also trashy collage experiment ×_×

( comic was published only in czech, so here is more czech descriptions:

Rok jsem stravila kreslením prašinového komiksu, spolu s @yonetee Tolik prace a nervů nám to dalo a my si ani neuděláme reklamu. Takže tady je Tadeáš, který je přes reklamu. Jeho byznys je vodit turisty za tajemstvím, duchy a mystiky Prašiny. )

[plovdifyme]

Hristo G Danov Street

#Plovdiv

[weepingwidar]

Martin Wong (Chinese-American, 1946-1999) - Nocturne at Ridge Street and Stanton (1987)

[orisnitsa]

Authentic traditional clothing/ Festival of the national costume in Zheravna, Bulgaria

📸 Asen Velikov

[glowcowboy]

i want to be a sweet and friendly girl but there’s all this anxiety. and the horrors

[iremluna]

and rage

[glowcowboy]

yeah and also the rage

[kristina100000]

guten morgen forreal

[riverpiracy]

planet of the bass never had swag like this.. sorry

[scavengedluxury]

The office of the Petőfi farmers’ agricultural co-operative, Üllő, 1971. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[vampmilf]

on todays edition of "we need to legally require people to google words before using them": there is a girl on tiktok doing a diet where she only eats slavic food to "connect with her ancestors" and she is calling it an "ethnic cleanse"

[unhonestlymirror]

@kurhanchyk

[kurhanchyk]

none of these words are in the bible

[trayana]

Wtf is slavic food?

[anxietyproblem]

[hungryfictions]

William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust

[zegalba]

Abandoned phone booth in the Pyrenees, south west of France