SO I HAVE NEVER ONCE SEEN A POST LIKE THIS. AND OBVIOUSLY TATTOO ARTISTS AREN’T GOING TO MENTION IT. BUT I FEEL LIKE THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
IF YOU ARE A RECOVERING SELF HARMER AND ARE PLANNING ON GETTING A TATTOO, YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR THE HEALING PROCESS TO BE VERY SIMILAR TO THAT OF CUTS. WHICH CAN BE EXTREMELY TRIGGERING.
THE SCABS ARE SUPER SIMILAR ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE GETTING WRITING OR FINE LINES. AND IT ITCHES JUST LIKE HEALING CUTS DO. I FEEL LIKE THIS NEEDS TO BE MENTIONED. NO ONE REALLY TOLD ME AND I GOT A HUGE REALITY CHECK THIS MORNING.
THAT IS ALL
I don’t usually share stuff like this, but as someone who also struggles with mental health issues, it’s understandable how sharing this could help someone out.
A strange thing happened to me. I work in a retirement home (in the kitchen.) Every day we have to process orders for the residents. We switch spots occasionally but for the most part I’m on the end of the line, where I check over the trays to make sure the order is correct and then I add the drinks. People generally get the same thing every day, so it’s a pretty easy job most of the time. Yesterday we were moving along as normal when there was a short burst of light, like during a storm. I looked at my coworker, who serves the food, and I said “what just happened?” She said, “I don’t know it looked like the power flickered.” We kind of shrugged it off and got back to work. A few trays down the line I noticed that one of the ladies that normally gets three orange juices had marked three cranberry juices instead. I pointed it out to my coworker and said “Is this right? She’s never gotten anything but orange juices.” She said “It’s a mistake, send the oranges.” So I did.
Well, today that same lady had marked cranberry juices again, and highlighted them, so I assumed she had just changed her mind. I jokingly remarked that she must be tired of orange, but my manager overheard me and said “What are you talking about? She has always gotten cranberry.” Of course a discussion ensued in which everyone except me and the server insisted that for the four years the lady had lived there, she’d ALWAYS gotten cranberry juice. Now, I do this job five days a week and I know for a fact that prior to yesterday, this woman had gotten THREE ORANGE JUICES every single day. We went and pulled her tickets and there was cranberry on all of them. I know it doesn’t seem like a huge thing, but when you are so certain of your reality that you’d bet your house on it, and it switches in the blink of an eye, it’s incredibly confusing and not a little scary. Only me and the one coworker have any memory of the orange juices. And we were the only ones who saw the flash of light.
Lewis Carroll’s haunting photographs, including the ‘real’ Alice in Wonderland (1856-1880)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as “Lewis Carroll,” took up the
then new art-form of photography in 1856. Over 3000 photographs were
taken by Dodgson, but only 1000 have survived due to the passage of time
and deliberate destruction. Fifty percent of Dodgson’s surviving work
is of young girls, but he also photographed buildings skeletons, dolls,
dogs, families, statues and trees.
Charles Dodgson quit photography in 1880. Apparently running a studio was too difficult and time-consuming for him.
The girl pictured with the short brown hair and bangs is Alice Pleasance Liddell. She was the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Source)
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