The Panama Canal

The idea that becoming a better person and unlearning oppressiveness is always painful and difficult is a kind of punishment-ideology. You were 'bad' and therefor the transformation has to hurt. If it feels to easy, you must not really be changing.

This is bullshit and in the worst case scenario it leads to educational work that is deliberately harsh and punitive towards the person that is learning, which is counterproductive.

Realizing you were shitty before and learning how to do better now can be painful - you might encounter some rough stuff to work through - but that isn't always inherently the case and education isn't less effective if it's compassionate and supportive.

finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)

Oh my god this is a painting

Guys its a painting

GUYS THIS IS A PAINTING

Me: This is not a painting at all I don’t believe it even though everyone is saying it and the artist themselves said it

*clicks for better quality and zooms in*

Oh my goodness this is a painting

holy shit they weren’t joking this is a painting

Mistakenly touched my weenor after crushing up a chili pepper for my Ramen honestly not as painful as one would expect more of a gentle heat much like the pleasant burn of cayenne in a spiced coffee or even much like . A chili crushed up in a bowl of delicious Ramen. Much food for thought

I hate this website

Like come on dude, you couldn't torture this information out of me

And does the honeybee begrudge the cow its willingness to part with its milk? Our differences enrich our experience of this beautiful world.

"I masturbated with a pepper"

"Wtf"

[Socratean poetry]

I don't need to take this from you tumblr user collaredbottom

And I’ll meet you in the graveyard With the winter trees and stars Oh, we could open up This suitcase full of sparks - Suitcase Full of Sparks, Gregory Alan Isakov

lets give it up for pleasures of the flesh !!

I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

Why do the Christians always get to have the cool cosmic horror stuff in games… let the Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and everyone else join in on the fun

i need to eat a food. none of the food in the house is The Right Food. what is the right food? only god knows. and we're not on speaking terms right now.

boys with their face burried into the mattress. boys with their back arched and their ass up. boys with their holes exposed, begging and whining to be touched. boys that softly moan as they pant. boys that stick their tongue out and let the saliva drip freely down their chin. boys that are unable to form any cohesive sentences once they feel that first finger slide in. boys boys boys.

As a fat person, one thing that would be awesome is if thin people could just get over it. People are fat sometimes. It's fine. Chill. We're not a problem you need to solve, we're just a bunch of people who deserve social equality.

I'm not saying you should be all "I don't see size", just that I'm tired of being met with some form of "but I can't just let you be this way". Yes, you can! I can be fat all day and you can just not worry about it! Look at us go!

As a whole I think if you identify as submissive and you don't have an aftercare plan for your dom the way we have aftercare plans for you, you are not safe to play with. I fully respect and encourage subs to talk about the risks they have as subs in a power dynamic but not enough subs hold the same space for doms. Yall need to understand that domming is emotionally taxing and there needs to be recovery for it. If you're agreeing to a Dom/Sub relationship you as a sub are taking responsibility for the emotional aftercare of EVERY KINK you ask for in scene. If you can't do that and/or that's not appealing for you stay the fuck out of kink spaces. Yall are fucking up Doms amd putting them in positions where they have no outlet and everytime I talk about this the tags of doms talking about how they have been hurt this way break my heart. I cannot fathom how a d/s relationship can be healthy if your sub has such a blatant disregard of your humanity that way.

Origami knight made from a single piece of paper with not cuts or tears.

Video of how it was done below

[looking at the photos]:  ‘yeah i could probably do something like that in about six sheets of paper. Maybe as few as four. One square is straight up impossible though, at least without cutting it.’

[watching the video]: ...OH.

"you need to let it go" that would be really cool, unfortunately I'll take it with me to the grave

"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?

"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?

"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!

Having someone who knows you on such a deep level that they see past your mask, or sense you need a check in is such a deep satisfying fantasy. It's up there with living in a cottagecore farm, or buying all your friends houses when you win the lottery. But you have to make peace with the fact that this is also a fantasy. It is unfair to expect people to "just know" when to respect your boundaries or to push them.

Being cared for is not a fantasy. But you have to let people know you need it. And you have to understand that sometimes they will let you down. Just like you totally could live in a cute farm, but you still have to shovel shit, and the crops sometimes die anyway. Or maybe you win the lottery, but you still have to manage your money and learn real estate law.

The fantasy isn't the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work. And it sucks. It's embarrassing. But like the meme says, it's not rotten if it's YOU. So do it for yourself.

"The fantasy isn't the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work"! Thank you for that addition. Because it's not a naive expectation to want someone to care to treat you right. But it requires communication and mutual effort to actually get there