Strolling Along

Anders Zorn - Head of a Veiled Woman

Ardnamurchan Lighthouse.

I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I’m thinking this could’ve been a bowl meal but nobody gets it

it's the start of the week, there's still time!

Nocturne III - Dimitri Desiron, 2024.

Belgian, b. 1971 -

Oil on panel ,  40 x 40 cm

Havnabakken - Marianne Wiig Storaas , 2023

Norwegian, b. 1972-

Oil on canvas , 160 x 120 cm.

Yellow Dragonfly Ripple - Nicholas Harding , 2021.

British , b. 1956 -

Oil on linen , 51 x 61 cm.

🎶Vacuum mass extinction! Robot powered!🎵

it's okay, it'll die quickly. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Cover flowers. Anemone special offer. Bob Anderson nursery. 1954. Catalog cover.

Internet Archive

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life

Morning Conversation - Olesya Dzhuraeva  , 2016.

Ukrainian , b. 1982 -

Linocut , 21 x 29 cm.

I always feel kind of uneasy when people who are apologizing say, "I don't even know who the person who did that was. They feel like a totally different person from who I really am."

Sweetie, I'm sorry, but you have to get to know that person. If this person you apparently detest on every level just occasionally hijacks your body and does something awful, your understanding of how and when and why that happens is essential to your ability to promise anyone else that they won't be on the receiving end of that.

It might sound a little backward, that the key to avoiding destructive behaviour is not forcibly repressing that detestable energy inside yourself. You can deny those feelings and force them into exile, but they're going to come back and take over sometime in the future when your defences are down.

If self-loathing actually got shit done, I'd still be in favour of it. Unfortunately, it's only good at satisfying emotions in the short run, so you can really feel like you're putting in serious effort. It's not a winning strategy if you want to genuinely change your behaviour or thought patterns or emotional responses.

Self-reflection is not supposed to be a lesson in flagellating yourself. It is more brutal and gentler, because it rakes over the twisted shards of what happened in your mind with the dispassion of an engineer assessing a bridge collapse and says, "What really happened here? How can we prevent it from happening again in the future?"

It's possible to get to know your shadow, but not be consumed by it. You could eventually feel able to turn over the rocks in your brain, and catalogue and understand all the things squirming beneath. The shame won't kill you.

And being able to understand your triggers and tells, spotting your brain taking off before it's completely left atmosphere, is an incredibly important part of that.

It's September. Have a sword.

Description: An illustration of a city street at night. In the foreground is a car on fire. Shadowed by the flames is a person holding a sword, walking on top of the car.