If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

From Wikipedia:

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the 2000s.

The worship of Santa Muerte is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is increasingly firmly entrenched in Mexican culture.

Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico, since many are considered to be outcast from society. Many LGBT people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.

Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico. The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.

I noticed there’s a lot of people with the headcanon that Cagney hibernates and I love that concept

Original pic

Us:

me five minutes later: actually you know what-

The ROV Tiburon captured this image of a Granelodone octopus perching on a lava pillar at the South Cleft of Juan de Fuca Ridge, off the coast of Washington.

This isn’t the only time MBARI has come across a Granelodone octopus brooding eggs. MBARI first discovered a female brooding eggs, much like the one in this photo in May of 2007. Over the subsequent four and a half years, MBARI returned to the same spot to find the female there, protecting her eggs as they developed.

When they returned in October 2011, the female was gone and the eggs were empty. Brooding eggs is thought to have evolved as a way to increase survivorship of young. More time in the egg results in more fully developed young when they finally hatch.

the past is both retribution and reward now that it has been endured. 

And it is right that we stand in its ruin, among all this longing and decay.