im so normal and then "i was born a man so that's who i became, trading death for money, fearing only change" and "you must understand that my life, it is cursed, i have lived all my dreams, i grew gold from the dirt and yet still there's an emptiness inside my chest" and "i hope you fucking know you treat your daughters like shit and then they come to me and cry cause they have to live with it" and "we are the promises that we didn't keep" and "i don't text, i don't call and i certainly don't write, masochistically watching people burn out like stars in the night" and "a smile bigger than andromeda" and "you are a lithograph, sketching my history, under the floodlights you look more like god to me" and "but oh, it's not so simple, is it? when the fog comes rolling in, please know i didn't desert you i saved you from seeing the pain of the blinded" and "the sistene chapel of your collarbone, the david of your eyes, it has all been lost to history and why am i surprised?" and "it's time to grow old away from the people who tried to care for me, i'll die in bed alone" and "these sterilised walls make me wanna give up and the beds are all full of people who need them more than me and more than you, and we've still got dreams to live and lose so come on, let's go, get out of your bed, for once, i will not accept an end" and "there was a wanderer who found his way to god or maybe it was lucifer under some false facade" and "so leave me my liver and leave me my skin, leave me the way all those other homes did but leave me a soul, only by definition, i don't want to feel anything" and "if i can't have justice i might as well join the unjust" and "turns out that the god he found was just a little girl, sitting on a swingset, just a little girl, she said mister, you look tired, i will let you go, but first i think that what you're asking for it just might make things worse" and "oh, why'd they all have to go and leave us? is hope our cross? but if this is the cross that we have to carry let's finish the job" and "doomsday sirens will be the vows at our wedding"
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
One of my favourite mundane weirdnesses about Edinburgh is that we set the big clock visible approaching the station to be 3 minutes fast to make sure people are on time for their trains. My Favourite mundane weirdness of Edinburgh is that we check this by firing a cannon.
‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’
“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.
1- NASA: GOODS-South.
2- NASA: NGC 1850.
3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.
4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.
5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.
6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.
7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.
8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.
9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.
I think the invention of the term "traumadump" has done discussion of mental health a lot of harm. I keep seeing discourse vs whether or not it's okay to talk about heavy topics with your friends, and like... I feel like there is a very big and important difference between my definition of traumadumping (ie. Frequently and habitually diverting your conversations with others towards your own misery, often with the goal of focusing attention and sympathy towards yourself at the expense of those around you, and without recognizable effort to reciprocate your empathy towards those you are speaking to or to ensure their comfort) VS the mere act of having heavier conversations with those around you. I've seen a lot of backlash to the idea of traumadumping as a concept lately (they paywalled human connection etc etc) but I think it's worth recognizing there is absolutely a kind of behavior that can create a negative feedback loop with this stuff. Especially if you navigate a lot of spaces in social media, it's not uncommon to find people dropping really heavy stuff on complete strangers unprompted. Idk, I think there's a degree of nuance to be had that's maybe getting a bit lost due to everyone having different definitions of what it means to "trauma dump."
because obviously the doctor is about to blame donna for spilling the coffee, but he catches himself, backs off and apologizes. and it's not him catching himself in a "this is a pointless argument because i'm right and you aren't getting that so i give up" sorta way- because in that beat after, he isn't irritated, he doesn't start trying to figure out a way to reiterate his point. it's him catching himself in a "that was the wrong thing to say and i regret that" sorta way.
it's him catching himself becoming another one of the voices in donna's head calling her a screw up.
yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.
(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)
In any case.
BEHOLD!
A wool coat!
The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.
Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.
This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.