aziraferals
aziraferals
37K posts
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit
58K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
An ad for your deepest desires :)
226K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Aliens abducting a Paleolithic horse 🐴✨🛸
36K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Betsy Morningstar, Ceramic Notebook.
10K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
16K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
100K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
wonky self-portrait for tdov this year. stay alive i love you 💉✨🐛
7K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
The only truly effective way to avoid internalizing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience is to inoculate yourself against them by learning how to recognize them when you see them, which includes learning their history, their tropes, and their overall characteristics. It also includes learning information literacy and strengthening your critical thinking skills. Trying to avoid encountering them at all does nothing to inoculate you, which leaves you vulnerable to internalizing them from an unexpected source. You cannot give in to lazy/reactionary thinking on this one.
(In case you need it: here are resources.)
8K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Danny Lai Lai (Chinese, based Beijing, China OR HangZhou, China) - 来巡视人间的猫猫神 (The cat god comes to inspect the human world), Paintings: Digital Art
3K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)
You're the Top by Ellen Bass
Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy
Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker
Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley
Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland
Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller
At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey
In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr
Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Midsummer by Charles Simic
Today by Frank O'Hara
Naturally by Stephen Dunn
Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang
Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck
The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander
Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley
A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill
On Coming Home by Lisa Summe
G-9 by Tim Dlugos
Five Haiku by Billy Collins
The Fates by David Kirby
Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason
Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin
Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young
Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown
Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck
ASMR by Corey Van Landingham
A Welcome by Joanna Klink
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay
You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
We Were Emergencies by Buddy Wakefield
To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably In the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio
Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
The City Limits by A.R. Ammons
There Is a Lake Here by Clint Smith
12K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 2 months ago
Text
“Obesity is defined as a height/weight formula. Height and weight are bodily characteristics. By saying an obese person is diseased, you’re saying all people with a certain height/weight ratio are diseased. That’s like noting how light skin and light eyes correlates to melanoma, and saying all people with light enough eyes and skin are diseased, regardless of whether they have (or ever develop) melanoma.”
— -artetolife on the AMA classification of obesity as a disease via ThisIsThinPrivilege.
468 notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
(mixed textile and embroidery)
reanimator (1985) • cat dead, details later
7K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
149K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
It’s crazy to me that people read Sherlock Holmes’ obsession with Irene Adler as romantic when it is so clearly the same kind of obsession that gay men have for Lady Gaga
11K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
3K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
shine normal like a plain rock
17K notes · View notes
aziraferals · 3 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
16K notes · View notes