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Agnes Pelton, Day, 1935. Oil on canvas. 

Sea Change, 1931. Oil on canvas.

Mother of Silence, 1933. Oil on canvas.

The Fountains, 1926. Oil on canvas.

Light Center. 1947-48. Oil on canvas. 

Winter, 1933. Oil on canvas.

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Trevor Paglen - They Watch the Moon (2010)

“This photograph depicts a classified ‘listening station’ deep in the forests of West Virginia.

The station is located at the center of the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometers in West Virginia and parts of Maryland.

Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.

The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called moonbounce.

Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.

The photograph is a long exposure under the full moon light.”

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Bedroom desk with wall mounted mirror -> to make it a make-up desk. Like it when closed - acts as artwork.

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Carlo Farneti.

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I know unicorns in modern media are kind of regulated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.

The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.

So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.

Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.

A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.

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Louise Bourgeois Tits 1967 

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protect yourself

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Papa V Perpetua my beloved 💜

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Does anyone else see different US regions as “coded” as specific seasons?

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Gonna kms why does this go so hard

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for ever for him, a psalm of the second kind—heaven, you have found me and know me / you know me as i sit, as i rise. you regard my thoughts from afar. / you fan my path and my rest. you are familiar in all my manners. / you know even the speech in my mouth, heaven. / you hem me in, rear to front. you set your hand on me. / such knowledge is too much for me, to much for me to have. / how am i to follow your ruaḥ? how am i to flee your face? / if i neck heaven, you are there. if i rest in sheol, you are there. / if i rise to the end of the morning, if I settle to the farthest sea / even there your hand has me—your right hand holds me fast. / surely, i utter, the night hides me—the shine is night for me. / yet night is not night for you. night shines and night shines for you. / you formed my viscera. you knit me in my mother’s uterus. / i revere you. and i am fearfully and holy made. these things, your things, i know, i know. / my frame hid not from you as you knit me, in secret, from the pit of the earth, / your eyes held my unformed flesh—all of my moments set in your missive and formed from the first. / how heavy are your thoughts, heaven? how vast their sum? / i relate them, as many as sand. i arise and i am near you still. / oh that you, heaven, slay the harmful for me. free from me these hungry men, / they that invoke you for harm. your enemies take you in vain. / have i not hate for them? i resist them, those that rise against you. / i hate and i hate them. they are my enemies. / search me, heaven. know my heart, try and know my fears. / see if there is pain in my path, and show me something new

—my rendering of ps 139

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favorite tobias pics

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*staring sternly into the mirror* you've had a wild week, you haven't eaten today, you've barely interacted with people today. do not trust the Vague Sense of Unease

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Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment. 

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions. 

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements. 

Hope this answers your question!

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What's truly horrifying is that people actually believe this? Just another example of the brain rot that happens when your only source of information is the Media

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My day job is analyzing wildlife photos, and I've been getting this strage creature on camera recently... can anyone tell me what it is?