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Wait

Something's off about this comic by Shen...

There's no way he didn't intend to do this

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ms paint study from 2021

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no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it’s been twelve years since it happened

it’s such an unreal experience

like

you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face

and

you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is

it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it’s there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing

But You Are Not Seeing Anything

Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no light to put an image on your retina.

But your brain just Fucking Assumes that because it knows where your hand is and what it is doing, clearly it can see it.

So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing.

Brain is like “there’s a hand there”

Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it”

Brain is like “nice”

but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best

Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

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There will be a lot of posts soon from people sharing how much they achieved in 2024. But in case someone needs to hear this, it's okay if the only thing you did this year was just get through it.... It's ok.

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The folds in a chefs hat represent the hundred ways they know how to fuck an egg.

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I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

Source: Anne Carson ("Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera")

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Princess "complex"? Hmph. I suppose it would seem rather complex to a commoner.

Source: Tumblr

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celebrate the wifi you wont have for over a year with...surprisingly not a mouthwash joke?

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POV- Writing for ____x reader fic

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

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you can be depressed but you're not going to get any exp for killing yourself so come on we still have things to fight and people to save so long as something in you can be used i will make sure you use it!! now get up there's a potion seller right down the road ok?? a few sippys and we'll cook some demon meat and scorpion tails by the fire and it'll be ok i promise you're about to level up anyway. i love you you're my brave little butch berserker yes you are

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It’s okay if you’re afraid of the dark. You aren’t failing as an adult if you can’t sleep without a light.

Getting a nightlight was honestly so helpful to me.

It’s okay to do what you need to do to feel safe. It’s not “childish”. It’s okay. You deserve to feel safe and if there are things you can do to help with that (like a nightlight or a stuffed animal), then please do them.