[likeful]

nobody nobody nobody no body noo body nobody nobody nobody nobody nobody nobo

[cursedcatimages]

everyone gangster till the cat starts walking

[de4thdiary]

[vladtheunfollower]

[arterialtrees]

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, no. 36 of 36, from the series, The Fragile, 2007

[okaybutch]

Me Dec 31 2018 11:59 pm:

Me Jan 1 2019 12:00 pm:

[jareckiworld]

Karolina Jabłońska  -  Bad Cats II   (oil on canvas, 2015)

[decaymart]

girls night

[charlotteagerillustration]

you can hope for something until you don’t want it anymore

[violentwavesofemotion]

when simone de beauvoir said “i’m reliving it, neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. that’s not easy. it’s at once painful and poetic.”

[ovaadosedonconfidence]

Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

[ifshehadwings]

This is actually called thin slicing. Your brain recognizes patterns from very small “slices” of information by comparing them to things you have experienced before. This all happens very quickly on a subconscious level without our conscious mind being involved. So intuition is actually really fast pattern recognition, and it can be very accurate. So yeah, if you have a gut feeling that a person or situation is not good, get the hell out. Your brain knows what’s up. 

[pyrrhiccomedy]

When I was young - because I’ve always been a big skeptical pain in the ass - I thought that when people were talking about interpersonal “energy,” they were on some Gay Ass Shit.

Years later, after spending hundreds of hours reading studies about intuition and neuroscience and pattern recognition and the processing power of the subconscious mind, I realized that that kind of talk - “she has such good energy,” “you need to read the energy of the room,” “I just got some really bad energy off of that guy” - is a convenient shorthand for the lightning-fast, weirdly-accurate, real-as-fuck subconscious processing of the probability of positive or negative social outcomes likely to result from hundreds or thousands of variables. That “energy” isn’t a tangible thing floating around in the air. It’s your brain updating you constantly with information about your situation. Listen to it. Especially if it’s telling you to be nervous or scared. Your brain is very good at recognizing danger. Let the enormous processing power of your subconscious mind protect you. It’s better at spotting patterns than you are. 

“Bad energy” isn’t some hippie shit. It’s your brain setting off a claxon because it knows something’s not right.

[embyrr922]

Thin slicing is wonderfully helpful, but be aware that if it’s doing its pattern recognition from bad sources, you need to actively override it. We’re raised in a racist society, inundated with racist media, and bombarded with subtly (or unsubtly) racist advice. Thin slicing can save your life, but it’s also the cause behind the unconscious elements of racism (and misogyny/ableism/antisemitism/islamophobia/etc.) that we all suffer from

Trust your instincts, but if your instincts tell you something that seems prejudicial, double check their work.

[topcat77]

Jean Cocteau

[seaf0amgreen]

Angel In The Snow - Elliott Smith

Bones

[gracebabcockwrites]

what if there are words
inscribed on my bones, 
a delicate filigree 
of everything I shape
myself into? what if
my magnum opus 
is being written 
by me, unknowing,
and what if it would
be bleached away
by any light 
that touched it?

Grace Babcock © 2017

[evilbuildingsblog]

Stairs to Nowhere [unknown location]