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Ocean at the End

@calcichel / calcichel.tumblr.com

hello! Here you may find art, biology, software dev, hopepunk and/or navel-gazing. use tag 'ink on bone' to filter for my own commentary. Some adult and sex-positive topics discussed here. late-thirties, she/her, occasionally posting my own art over at @kiln-art

i took 3 years of film classes and i still don't fucking understand how the camera obscura works. thats magic to me idc

this? sorcery. they should arrest this guy

people explaining this to me are missing the point. yes i know its a physics thing. i know our eyes work the same way. however. i simply believe light shouldn't work like that

oh hey it's my favorite thing that light does: turns the inside haunted by the outside!

Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”

I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.

Perhaps we all haunt our childhood homes, she thought. When children are afraid of the dark, what they are sensing is their future selves coming back, looking for them.

Heather O'Neill, excerpt from The Capital of Dreams

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I think...you might be right

what the fuck

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Really kind of pissed off that they made me learn all of that checks and balances shit in highschool civics if they were just going to stop using them

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