peoniea:

wetwareproblem:

krismichelle429:

brunhiddensmusings:

ordinaryfruitpunch:

‘agreed’. that’s a funny way to spell ‘were forcibly removed with the alternative of painful deaths’. 

tennantbutt:

theweirdwideweb:

propaganda

Your regular reminder that the first example is Canadian. (The clue is “first nations.”)

Much as we like to pretend otherwise, America doesn’t have a monopoly on racism, genocide, or whitewashing.

also a reminder than australian schools do not acknowledge our own history of slavery, or “blackbirding”. i had no idea 60,000 pacific islanders were kidnapped and enslaved in australia until after i graduated, because no one talks about it. and even what we do learn is watered down. the focus was always on white settlers and how they discovered land, their mapping, their dedication and their struggles; only very briefly do we get to focus on the murders they committed, the generational trauma they caused by stealing an entire generation for the sole purpose of breeding the indigenous blood out of them, the indescribable, abhorrent things they did to indigenous people.

lmaonade:

this is so damn funny

doctorbluesmanreturns:

drvaughan:

Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I’ve got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

ibixii:

Anyways I don’t have new content yet but here’s more from the self shoot; Alecto is like 85% done I just keep having to work on other stuff ),:

japaneseaesthetics:

A wood model of a tiger

Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th century, Japan
Carved from a single block of wood and covered with a brown pigment, worn away on some of the high spots, revealing the wood surface beneath, the eyes inlaid in painted bone
19in (48.2cm) wide, 13 3/4in (34.9cm) high.  Bonhams

secondmoredangerouseyes:

that-house:

that-house:

Try exploring the wizard’s body

Depending on their preferred magic school they can explore yours too

pitbolshevik:

pitbolshevik:

rasputin didnt become a fucked up sex wizard until he was like 30. your life doesn’t end at 25 <3

if you’re in your mid twenties and you’re reading this you still have plenty of time to inadvertently topple a dynasty just by being really fucking weird and horny. don’t worry.

celeryjiaozi:

“Emotional granularity is a bit like wine tasting. Wine experts perceive extremely subtle variations in flavor, even among different batches from the same vineyard. People with less experience might not taste these differences, but perhaps they can at least distinguish a pinot noir from a merlot or cabernet sauvignon. A wine novice is much less capable of making these distinctions—perhaps he can tell dry wine from sweet wine, or perhaps they both just taste like alcohol. Likewise, people who exhibit high emotional granularity are emotion experts. Their brains can automatically construct emotional experiences with fine differences, like astonished, amazed, startled, dumbfounded, and shocked. For a person who exhibits more moderate emotional granularity, all of these words might belong to the same concept, “surprised.” And for someone who exhibits low emotional granularity, these words might all correspond to feeling worked up. Emotional granularity is a key to emotional intelligence. If your brain can construct many different emotions automatically and make fine distinctions among them, it can tailor your emotions better to your situation. You’re also better equipped to anticipate and perceive emotion in others in the blink of an eye. The more emotions that you know, the more finely your brain can construct emotional meaning automatically from other people’s actions. Even though your brain is always guessing, when it has more options to guess with, the odds are better it will guess appropriately. How do you enable your brain to create a wider variety of emotions and improve your emotional intelligence? One approach is to learn new emotion words. Each new word seeds your brain with the capacity to make new emotion predictions, which your brain can employ as a tool to construct your future experiences and perceptions, and to direct your actions. Instead of perceiving someone as generically “glad,” learn to distinguish more specifics. Are they “overjoyed” or “contented” or “grateful?” Are they “angry” or “indignant” or “resentful” or “bitter?” More fine-grained emotions allow your brain to prepare for an array of different actions, whereas more generic emotions (angry, glad) confer less information and restrict your flexibility. The idea that you can increase your emotional intelligence by broadening your emotion vocabulary is solid neuroscience. Your brain is not static; it rewires itself with experience. When you force yourself to learn new words—emotion-related or otherwise—you sculpt your brain’s microwiring, giving it the means to construct those emotional experiences, as well as your perceptions of others’ emotions, more effortlessly in the future. In short, every emotion word you learn is a new tool for future emotional intelligence.”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite”
(via whentherewerebicycles)

bunjywunjy:

blind-the-winds:

blind-the-winds:

Anon, when I first saw this ask, I thought it was going to be one of those mixers of nice, traditional sounds, like rain or a coffeeshop. And it is! And there’s lofi hiphop, my favorite sound to write to! Which means this is legitimately an excellent tool for writers, and I love you for introducing it to me.

But I also want to say. There are some choices here. That I need to point out. Because they’re either fantastic or questionable, and I can’t decide.

Things like …

Couple arguing.

ALT

Medieval battle.

ALT

Beehive, where you can write to a fuckton of bees.

ALT

Crime scene.

ALT

And actually the perfect soundscape for NaNoWriMo.

ALT

(It’s here, for those curious.)

Somebody found this last week and reminded me it existed, so I'mma bring it back to this blog because it’s about ten days until some of you will need that last one. :D

I’m never using any other noise generator ever again.

deathandmysticism:

Wehman Bros, new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games, 1905