Clown From Blue World 🦋

Kels. You can find me, out in the wild pale yonder.

[barelysusan]

happy pride month

[notkatniss]

[adas-trashheap]

forget me not

[nikoisme]

i imagine being medicated would feel good as fuck. unfortunately i have to rawdog whatever's wrong with me

[newloverofbeauty]

Francis Bacon: Two Figures (1952). Detail

[miamaimania]

“Neurotic Symptoms” (1947) ψ Boris Artzybasheff — ink illustration

[upthewerewolves]

Watching a being I love slowly die before my eyes and being able to do nothing about it and then I just have to go to work and pretend like my world isn’t crashing in around me. Or whatever. And then also lowkey knowing people would think it’s insane how devastated I am over losing a dog like full offense but I value her life over 99% of you assholes. Oh and also I’m still staying stone cold sober in spite of it all. Worst days of my life. (So far!)

[upthewerewolves]

My beautiful dog

[upthewerewolves]

Watching a being I love slowly die before my eyes and being able to do nothing about it and then I just have to go to work and pretend like my world isn’t crashing in around me. Or whatever. And then also lowkey knowing people would think it’s insane how devastated I am over losing a dog like full offense but I value her life over 99% of you assholes. Oh and also I’m still staying stone cold sober in spite of it all. Worst days of my life. (So far!)

[targetedknowledge]

[sacred-portal]

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[sacred-portal]

[upthewerewolves]

Oh do you want to open the App Store??? I have never wanted to click a link to open the App Store in my goddamn life

[beingincorporeal]

John Cale for Comme des Garçons.

Six Magazine/1990

[qalamoun]

‘Children of Shatila’ (Lebanon, 1998) film by Mai Masri. In this scene the youth of the Palestinian refugee camp interview an elder with a video camera.

[fragodot]

Helmut Newton, 1978

[latinamamiix]

stop with that nonchalant shit and bark for me