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Thinking about the dichotomy of "I feel uncomfortable/triggered in the presence of x/y/z environments I would like to be someplace without that" that I constantly see online and when I tell my therapist I really get uncomfortable when people raise their voices around me even if they aren't actually mad and her response of "you can only control your own reactions and emotions, it's not really fair to police others on how they should exist in your presence" and honestly it sucks to hear but she's right.. it's good to have people be conscientious of what triggers you but really it's up to us to do the hard work of building that emotional resilience. The idea of people around me having to be hypervigilant of what they say and do lest I start getting dysregulated does not sound fun at all, I want people to feel comfortable being themselves around me and that means training my dumb lizard brain to chill tf out. Living in a constant state of avoidance sucks ass for everyone involved.

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Double-Sided Reverse Intaglio Goldfish Earrings. Made by William James Thomas in London, ca. 1870. Each earring is comprised of two crystal dome halves that have been etched/painted with matching goldfish and then mounted back to back with gold settings. From the British Museum collection, museum number: 1978,1002.148

(Source: britishmuseum.org)

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Various Notes & Letters

Found/Collected Between July 2022-August 2023

(Texas, Seattle, and New York)

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birth-day by Lucille Clifton

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Palestine tried to join Eurovision in 2007 but weren't allowed because they weren't recognised as a state by Europe. How different would the last few decades have been if we had watched Palestine participate every year? How different would Eurovision 2024 be?

Russia was banned from Eurovision after the invasion of Ukraine. What would've happened to Israel this year if Palestine had been allowed to join? Well, that's the whole point. If Europe keeps Palestine invisible, then we can ignore Israel's politicisation of the contest and the genocide they're committing against Palestinians. This week the "real villains" are those spoiling the song competition by calling for peace.

This year when Bashar Murad competed to represent Iceland in Eurovision, samples of Murad's parents being interviewed in 2007 were included in the song "Wild West".

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“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

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i wish i had made more of an effort to remember / i wish i had taken more photos / when a perfectly ordinary day turns into / a perfectly extraordinary day / who do you blame for misfiling a memory

UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN

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Sorry not sorry but this year is the real 2018 competitor. Cooked, served, ate and left no crumbs

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what about grade-b jabronis or AAA-grade jabronis?  how are they fallin’ out in all of this

#ppl doing this on the bus....... #it's so loud on the bus like that cannot even be a pleasant video watching experience without headphones

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shoutout to don bluth for creating almost half of this list. also sorry if your favorite isn't on here but also i don't really care because it's my poll. <333

#went w thumbelina but it's it and anastasia

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Vines creeping in through an old skylight in the Verrière de chateau. [1600 x 1067] [OS].

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One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it's the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.

For context here is a picture