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Twenty prompts for the shadow workers among us. Please proceed with caution, and remember to do a lot of self care before and after your work. Also I am by no means a psychologist, if you are in need of psychological help, please seek out a professional. If this post does well I will do more on shadow work. Feel free to send asks. 

1. What cliche makes your stomach turn, and why? Is it the inaccuracy or the accuracy that bothers you?

2. What irrational fears do you have? What sort of blocks do they cause?

3. In what ways are you inauthentic? Why?

4. Do you hold grudges against others that could be let go? What is your motive for holding on to them?

5. Have you ever badly hurt someone unintentionally? Could you been more responsible / compassionate to them?

6. What rules do you intentionally break? What is your reason for breaking them? Are you truly justified to break these rules? 

7. Do you have any fetishes/kinks that stem from issues in your past? Do they liberate or hinder your healing process?

8. Think of a time someone broke your heart. In what ways may have you been responsible as well? 

9. How often do you lie to yourself? In what ways are you in denial? 

10. What is the biggest promise to yourself that you have broken? Do you regret it? 

11. In what ways are you privileged? How often do you take things for granted?

12.Think of past dreams you have done taboo or inappropriate things? What could these dreams potentially mean? 

13. What emotion do you try to avoid (sadness, jealousy, anger…) why are you afraid of letting yourself feel that way? 

14. What has fear hold you back from? Do you blame yourself or others?

15. What fictional villain / antihero do you most relate to? What aspects of your personality is the choice based on? 

16. What friendships / relationships do you hold onto that are unhealthy? Why?

17. In what ways are you hypocritical? Do you break your own rules of conduct? Hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself?

18. What are things you could absolutely never forgive if someone did to you? Have you done any of these to others?

19. What are your “bad habits”? Why don’t you break them?

‘100 Years of the Best American Short Stories,’ edited by Lorrie Moore

‘The Love of a Good Woman,’ Alice Munro

‘The New Woman’s Broken Heart,’ Andrea Dworkin 

‘Her Body And Other Parties,’ Carmen Maria Machado

‘The Hour of the Star,’ Clarice Lispector 

‘Two or Three Things I Know For Sure,’ Dorothy Allison

‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ Edgar Allan Poe

‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ Flannery O’Connor

‘Complete Stories,’ Franz Kafka

‘Dubliners,’ James Joyce

‘Interpreter of Maladies,’ Jhumpa Lahiri 

‘Something Childish But Very Natural,’ Katherine Mansfield 

‘The Garden Party,’ Katherine Mansfield

‘People Like That Are the only People Here,’ Lorrie Moore

‘Good Bones,’ Margaret Atwood

‘Murder in the Dark,’ Margaret Atwood

‘Singing My Sister Down,’ Margo Lanagan

‘Difficult Women,’ Roxane Gay

‘The Lottery,’ Shirley Jackson

‘How Did You Feel About it?,’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘The Melancholy of Anatomy,’ Shelley Jackson

‘The Awakening & Other Short Stories,’ Kate Chopin

‘The Library of Babel,’ Jorge Luis Borges

‘The Daughters of the Moon,’  Italo Calvino

‘Requiem For a Glass Heart,’ Roxane Gay

‘St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves,’ Karen Russel

Surreal Paintings by Paco Pomet

Paco Pomet (born 1970) is a contemporary Spanish artist. His paintings, (my personal favorite) inspired by archival photographs are full of humor, grotesque and strange at the same time. Follow him on Facebook. 

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for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

1) DON’T use your search bar to find and open the Run app

2) DON’T type in services.msc

3) DON’T find Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Services and right-click to get a dropdown menu, and don’t select ‘properties’

4) if you happen to click properties, DON’T use the startup type dropdown to locate the option to disable the program. be sure you DON’T click apply to finalize that change. 

5) DO NOT do the same thing in order to also disable Adobe Genuine Software Monitor 

if you do all of these things, this WILL disable adobe’s ability to monitor the software, and you will be forced to continue using the same older software that you already paid for instead of having to sign up for a newer, shittier version and pay more for it. so if you have lots of cash to spare and are cool with putting it the pockets of racketeering capitalists, definitely don’t do any of these things. 

Unprecedented smoke from British Columbia’s wildfires in 2017 is helping scientists model the potential impacts of nuclear war on the Earth’s climate, a study from Rutgers University says.

The enormous plume of smoke formed the largest cloud of its kind ever observed, which circled the Northern Hemisphere, says the study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed academic journal Science.

The cloud, called a pyrocumulonimbus, formed over the wildfire and sent black carbon high into the atmosphere, said the study’s co-author Alan Robock, a distinguished professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers in New Jersey.

Lion King (1994) Lion King (2019) Cats (2019)

Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):

Shakespeare (1564), Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):

Surreal Food Comps