This is my favourite ancient meme ever and I’ve been dying (haha) for merch of it for ages, but luckily I am an artist with the power to make my dreams come true. Be cheerful and live well with this delightful skeleton reminding you of the transience of life, in apparel, or homeware, anywhere!
A blessed image. Super Chill 2000 Year Old Skeleton is genuine beauty.
my femme girlfriend: [hour and a half later] ok I’m ready to leave the house
me: [throwing on shorts and a tank top] okay baby i love you and you look so pretty
My overdressed butch ass: [hour and a half later] ok I’m ready to leave the house
My femme girlfriend: [throwing on a sundress and head scarf] okay baby I love you and you look so handsome
Me: [after spending 6 hours on my hair and makeup] Babe I’m ready to head out now
My femme wife: [who has also taken 6 hours] Okay babe I love you I’m ready and your highlight is poppin severely but you need to blend that contour in a little bit
9 Jan 2016 WSH vs NYR, Nate Schmidt and Braden Holtby work together to make a crucial save, resulting Ovechkin getting possession and the chance to score his 499th goal.
There are a ton of gifsets of Ovi’s epic celly already, but I really wanted to get in Schmidt’s and Holtby’s big hug too.
Reminder that Braden Holtby and Nate Schmidt are buddies!
On team bus rides, Schmidt began sitting with goaltender Braden Holtby, by nature a quiet teammate and therefore the perfect audience for soliloquies about finance, history or wherever else the mind sprinted to next.
“He’s got that energy to learn,” Holtby said. “He can’t sit still. Usually on the road, we get off a plane and he wants to go for a walk. He wants to see the city. Most guys want to go sleep. He drags me out of the hotel room, gets me out there, see different cities.”
For example?
“The best was Phoenix, when we had a couple days there. He was on cloud nine the whole trip.”
Emotions are not innately programmed into our brains, but, in fact,
are cognitive states resulting from the gathering of information, New
York University Professor Joseph LeDoux and Richard Brown, a professor
at the City University of New York, conclude in the latest issue of the
journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“We argue that conscious experiences, regardless of their content,
arise from one system in the brain,” explains LeDoux, a professor in New
York University’s Center for Neural Science. “Specifically, the
differences between emotional and non-emotional states are the kinds of
inputs that are processed by a general cortical network of cognition, a
network essential for conscious experiences.”
As a result, LeDoux and Brown observe, “the brain mechanisms that
give rise to conscious emotional feelings are not fundamentally
different from those that give rise to perceptual conscious
experiences.”
Their paper—“A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional
Consciousness”—addresses a notable gap in neuroscience theory. While
emotions, or feelings, are the most significant events in our lives,
there has been relatively little integration of theories of emotion and
emerging theories of consciousness in cognitive science.
Existing work posits that emotions are innately programmed in the
brain’s subcortical circuits. As a result, emotions are often treated as
different from cognitive states of consciousness, such as those related
to the perception of external stimuli. In other words, emotions aren’t a
response to what our brain takes in from our observations, but, rather,
are intrinsic to our makeup.
However, after taking into account existing scholarship on both
cognition and emotion, LeDoux and Brown see a quite different
architecture for emotions—one more centered on process than on
composition. They conclude that emotions are “higher-order states”
embedded in cortical circuits. Therefore, unlike present theories, they
see emotional states as similar to other states of consciousness.
interesting! kind of a slippery distinction, isn’t it? i mean from the end-user point of view. from the neurological point of view it’s pretty significant.
This is just a very short article based on an abstract, so it’s difficult to assess it. Typically emotions are thought of as a response; an event happens, your brain is hardwired to respond to it with a specific, autonomic biochemical and anatomical reaction, which we label “emotions”. But what they’re saying is that emotions are how particular inputs, particular sorts of experiences, are processed by the brain using a single cognitive system. I’m going to talk this through for myself under the cut.
i. you will never love them any way new enough to be novelty.
they’ve been adored, adorned, admired, doted on, devoted to—they’ve had
sacrifices of life&death done in their name, do you really think your gifts
of trinkets and cream are all that impressive? you might be amusing,
temporarily entertaining, but that is your talent appeasing their vanity, not
their hearts. poems to them bolster their ego, not warm their affections to you.
your love for them will only make Taking you easier, not make them love you
back.
ii. if they do love you back, know they have different
definitions for that. know they are not always nice, not always pretty, not
always safe. more look like a mouth too-full of too-sharp, dripping,
stalactites/stalagmites-not-teeth than golden warm mornings, basking in their
(many) arms. be ready for this: their obsessions are more likely to burn out
than to bloom.
i. they will not appreciate all your gifts, will akin them to
a cat bringing dead mice to their feet. this is fine. everything else you give,
they will find gorgeous. if you are vain enough, give them something of yours
to wear. if you are rash enough, give them something of yours to wear. they
will find it beautiful and every Other will know you’ve claimed that one. be
sure no one else, such as Not-Cat or even the crows, have done the same yet. a
human, no matter their talents, would be worth such a war. you must remember
this, if you see them keeping feathers-blacker-than-night in their
hair/pockets/pouches. you might be able to fool them from another Fair, but, if
the birds have gotten to them, there is no return. best to pick another that
can catch your attention. any of them would start pleased with that.
ii. to appear human while first wooing them is best. you will
need two ears, two eyes, a nose with (only!) two nostrils, 32 teeth, 206 bones,
and about 640 muscles that do not slide or slip or slush. both halves of your
(singular) face must react together, but not mechanically, robotically,
stiffly, or in any manner similar to plastic or silicon. one side of your mouth
must not be higher or lower than the other unless it is a facial expression, of
a half-smile or frown. your eyes must not be too close together, or too far
apart, your ears must be even, the spacing of your
nose-to-eyes-to-ears-to-forehead must all be within a certain ratio. if you
must, watch a good artist space faces to see the estimate. but you must not be
too perfect, either: your teeth not too straight or too white, your nails not
too clean or pristinely cut or without variation, your skin not too
blemish-free. you need some faults in order to appear human. you must maintain solid form at all times.
still, it’s likely they’ll know, regardless. at least, they’ll probably
appreciate the effort. (remember, being seen without protection is even more
telling. keep sugar and pewter/tin/aluminum with you at all times; these will
look enough like salt and iron. it is also advisable you carry ‘offerings,’
even if you never leave them anywhere. creamer cups are most popular.)
My favorite two photos probably in the world. Why does my cat look like she’s about to go off on the roast to end all roasts? Why is my boyfriend holding a glass that says “ghouls just want to have fun”? Modern art
Why do you have cardboard cutouts of obama and Bernie in your living room and why did I think they were random people and that this was a picture of a party
just moving along like everyone else 