a dream about dolls
half of it i dreamed, and the other half i fitted on as i woke up.
there’s a girl named marley. she has at the start of things a mother, and a little brother, and they loved each other. her father died but she and her mother and brother had only pulled closer together. they take a cruise that year, on a ship to see the world, and on that cruise they meet a gentleman, a tall pale creepy guy like a vulture who talks to marley, takes her aside, tells her about dolls. her shows her a machine he’s made, all black iron and spines, and talks about ageless beauty, and the power to transcend flesh. he pressures her into changing her corneas for shells of milk glass. when he takes her back to her mother he is charming, and she is lonely. the mother accepts that he indulged marley in a harmless bit of cosmetics, reversible, but much in fashion with young ladies these days
the mother grows sicker the more the gentleman comes to call, each time they have tea and talk of grownup matters, but always he’s looking at marley.
Brings new meaning to “busybody”.
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My engagement surprise and ring from Joey (voidn0ise)
Is it even legal to marry a rat?
LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND PEOPLE WHO DON’T FALL UNDER EITHER OF THOSE CATEGORIES,
this is an elephant shrew.
it’s adorable and i just wanted to shower you with little gifs of it because look at it. look at it’s little trunk thing and its ears and oh my gosh this little creature
that is all. thank you.
take a closer look at that snout
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We can remediate the crippling conditions that accompany autism. Anxiety, depression, seizure disorders, sleep disorders, and intestinal distress are the big ones, but there are more.
We can help autistic people organize their lives, manage their schedules, and regulate themselves in the face of sensory overload. Many of the things we ask for—like quiet spaces or calm lighting—are comforting to most anyone. But for us they are critical.
We can offer engineering solutions to the things autistic people can’t do naturally. Some formerly nonverbal autistics talk through handheld tablets, and make friends with computer assistants like Siri. We’re now seeing machines that read expressions even when we can’t. Computers can improve anyone’s quality of life, but we stand to benefit more than most from applied technology.
We can make life better for the autistic people who have major cognitive and functional challenges that today’s science can’t fix. We have a duty to make their lives better through applied technology. We owe it to our most disabled brothers and sisters to do all we can to ensure their security, safety, and comfort. — We’re Doing Autism Research All Wrong | MIT Technology Review (via brutereason)
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looking hot at work while running on four hours of sleep
If I could offer a young person advice about anything it would be do NOT make life decisions based on your boyfriend or girlfriend. Girls especially. Do NOT stay close to home for him, do not skip opportunities to travel or study abroad, do not pick a safe college to be with him. Expand your horizons. Broaden your own life. He is not the world.
I want everyone who disagrees with this post to come back to me in a couple years and tell me how that shit worked out.
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i make a lot of bird friends
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u dont have to agree shes the best pony, but you DO have to agree she has the prettiest colours
any “start now gonna make a change come around” comments and i will find you and do a bad thing
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