the art of licking wounds

lina, she/they map commissions

[queer-stilinski]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[theultmarvelfan]

Rabbot truthers, come get your food 🙂‍↕️

[the-big-mood]

[nemfrog]

Red sun. The mysterious universe. 1930. Endpaper detail.

Internet Archive

[oil-eclipse]

1: Untitled (Crucifix), David Lynch

2: Crucifixion Study, Francis Bacon

3: Crucifixion, Rico Lebrun

4: Flesh, Antony Gormley

[pmamtraveller]

Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos - El Brujo (The Wizard), oil on canvas, 1971

[pmamtraveller]

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

[worldsandemanations]

Breezy Swathes of Fabric Dance Amid Landscapes in Thomas Jackson’s Photos

[lamignonette]

[hollowboobtheory]

surprisingly difficult pill to swallow: most people are not playing 8 dimensional mind chess and can be taken at face value

[bestiolin]

alissa levy

[minhamemoriasuja]

"Presque Rien" captured by Alexander Yantyushev

[da-pitt]

[xanaxfarts]

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[callmemeursault]

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Jigoku dayū (Hell Courtesan), 1874